Guns Of Icarus Online
Main => General Discussion => Topic started by: Mr. Goggles on March 19, 2015, 11:21:42 am
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What are some of the things in GoIO that you absolutely hate–that you might leave the game for? What kinds of things are awesome enough to keep you here day after day? Be descriptive. Maybe tell a story or two.
For me:
Hate >:( How appealingly overpowered Carronades are. Not only because of their direct damage, but also because of their ability to increase crew ineffectiveness by constantly pulling engineers away from other tasks. Also, the people that don't use mics. It can be a bit frustrating at times.
Love :) The wonderfully humorous crowd of GoIO. The atmosphere of the game creates an environment in which people's humor can be the only thing keeping us all sane when the explosions are recking the hull and a flamer is setting everything alight. Also, the dedicated dev team working to satisfy every member of the community to the best of their ability. I've only been here for a few weeks, and already I can see how caring the Muse team is. It appears to me that GoIO is their baby–their only baby, and that makes me happy. I can rest comfortably knowing that I can come back to a game each day that is still watched over and worked on.
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Hate: 100% Unrealistic Airships. In real life these things could never even glide.
Love: Interesting Airship structures. The Mobula may be unrealistic as can be, but it's a super fun take on Zeppelins.
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Hate: 100% Unrealistic Airships. In real life these things could never even glide.
Love: Interesting Airship structures. The Mobula may be unrealistic as can be, but it's a super fun take on Zeppelins.
Haha, true! But I love how ridiculous it is. I think that is what makes it enjoyable. The idea of just finding some old pirate ship and hooking a giant balloon on it sounds absolutely ineffective. But who cares! It looks wonderful.
Couldn't agree more.
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Hate: people.
Love: people
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Hate: incompatent crew
Love: Spire (And the competetive community)
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Hate: silent players, not just no mic, but those who wont use voice commands or text
Love: the terror of an ally when someone brings in a munker
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Hate: People who trash talk in lobby
Love: Making people who trash talk in lobby rage quit
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Love: When everything is nice.
Hate: When everything isn't.
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I agree with you goggles.
The carronade should be effective at killing balloons like it does now, but the constant engine kill and gun kills are just making the weapon the best solution to counter 80% of the game.
my hate: I hate players who doesnt listen.
my love: players who listen
some more content relevant. fucking love spires and mobulas
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I agree with you goggles.
The carronade should be effective at killing balloons like it does now, but the constant engine kill and gun kills are just making the weapon the best solution to counter 80% of the game.
Yeah, I just wonder what ship they would make the beginner ship if they nerved it.
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Love: The *thonk* sound and feel of a heavy flak killing a target. MMmmmm.
Hate: Getting stuck with a second gunner in the middle of the game and refuses to change.
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Love: The *thonk* sound and feel of a heavy flak killing a target. MMmmmm.
Hate: Getting stuck with a second gunner in the middle of the game and refuses to change.
Oh man, agree to both of those points.
H.Flak = Most satisfying gun in the entire game. It handles well, the effects are great, and dear lord does it FEEL like you're firing a shell full of muderous death.
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It's the reason I play gunner. One of the things that keeps me playing is the genuine feel and sounds of the guns. The *thonk* of the heavy flack, the explosions from the hwatcha, the *thomp thomp thomp* of the mortar... even the reload sounds are really awesome.
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Love: Moonshine
Hate: Those that question moonshine.
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Hate: Muse's design decisions
Love: Muse's design decisions
That sums up everything perfectly.
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Hate: People who trash talk in lobby
Love: Making people who trash talk in lobby rage quit
This. ^
Also:
I love: How close knit and friendly the community is!
I hate: That the community is not as big as its heart which is surely deserves to be.
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I love: most things before 1.3.8
I hate: most things after 1.3.8, with "worst shit ever" award to GLORIOUS MATCHMAKER
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Love: Moonshine
Love: That feel when you execute a perfect maneuver followed by a perfect strip/H.Flak
Love: When I pull of a perfect engi cycle
Love: The gatling and everything to do with it- Noises, what it does, how it does it... Delicious gat. Everything can ALWAYS use an extra gat.
Love: The noise of a Hades and also that feel when you land a whole clip of greased Hades...
Hate: Munkers (On both teams, because somebody has a Munker, they give no shits about you or anybody else.)
Hate: When my engis complain about Moonshine
Hate: Carronades countering everything
Hate: Crew that don't listen
Hate: The fact that I have never been able to successfully fly a Spire
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Hate: The fact that I have never been able to successfully fly a Spire
HAHA. YES. I share this difficult. They always seem to break too easily for me. And when I do a long range spire, I always get poo gunners:/
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When in doubt brawler spire, never works, but it can.
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Hate: The fact that I have never been able to successfully fly a Spire
HAHA. YES. I share this difficult. They always seem to break too easily for me. And when I do a long range spire, I always get poo gunners:/
No, whenever I try my crew goes brain dead. They don't fire main guns, they shoot nothing but flare... Half the time they stand by the broken hull staring at it, range finder in hand. They don't talk, they don't listen...
It's like, I get the crews everyone complains about when I even TOUCH the Spire, but rarely with other ships.
When in doubt brawler spire, never works, but it can.
I figured Hwacha Spire would work- Dual Gat/Kill Hwacha. But nope, like I said, brain dead crew.
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No, whenever I try my crew goes brain dead. They don't fire main guns, they shoot nothing but flare... Half the time they stand by the broken hull staring at it, range finder in hand. They don't talk, they don't listen...
It's like, I get the crews everyone complains about when I even TOUCH the Spire, but rarely with other ships.
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I figured Hwacha Spire would work- Dual Gat/Kill Hwacha. But nope, like I said, brain dead crew.
Repairing too much can be a big problem for spires, but it sounds like your problems extend beyond that. Once you have a good crew you trust then switch to the spire. Crews like spires because everyone gets a gun and repairs are relatively easy.
I'm not a fan of double gat hwatcha because it relies on your disable weapon for the kill. Since you don't have any other disable you need a very quick kill when their armor breaks which hwatcha can't always do. Unless you're against a Pyramidion, double gat hwatcha is too risky for my taste.
The classic brawl spire is hwatcha gat mortar, which even works well with AI. The hwatcha disables them for long enough while gat mortar works its magic. Have the mortar upstairs with lesmok. When I do this I have a spanner mallet buff burst engi on hwatcha. The gat engi brings wrench buff chem and heavy clip and pre loads hwatcha depending on circumstance. Having a gunner works too.
There are many other brawl spire loadouts that work but be careful when up against ranged enemies. A spire's biggest adversary is range. Getting blended from above is also a problem. To deal with lots of balloon popping use hydro before your balloon is popped. I like bringing both hydrogen and drogue chute to deal with blender fish.
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Ah the eternal use hydro before the blender gets in range, a lot of the time the hydro just wrecks the balloon for me, i seem to have trouble gauging it, also what button did they move the tar to?
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Ah the eternal use hydro before the blender gets in range, a lot of the time the hydro just wrecks the balloon for me, i seem to have trouble gauging it, also what button did they move the tar to?
To activate tar select the tool and click. It has a cool down so test it out in practice.
I hope you're not using tar on a spire! You should always have your guns turned on the opponent which is easy on spire due to the high turning speed.
Fighting blenders is a lot about instinct and practice. It's a pity that blending is so easy and many players have probably left because of it.
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blending is indeed too easy and it is interesting how most of the killing is done by metas and blenders. Yet I do believe people leaves a match mostly because of flamers and disable. I don't know personally, I always stick to the end.
I flew a spire with carro hwacha hades flare lately and I must say the ship is hard to master but very very responsive
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i've only ever left a match maybe 2 times, and that was because i had so much lag i was a hinderance
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I meant players leaving the game... But yeah carro and flame are very frustrating for newer players. The engineers and pilots don't know how to deal with it and it's not fun dying that way. Easy to use hard to defend against.
One thing you might wanna try on a spire especially with a top hades is a right side mine. Against charging pyras and fish you as the pilot can put a mine right in front of them. Or are you using greased for the hades to complement the carro?
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yup, greased hades for short range and some spectacular switching between the two engis of the bottom deck since they have burst and heavy one each. It goes down to this:
Spanner mallet spray heavy (fires heavy hwacha when in long range, fires heavy carronade when in close range)
Pipe hammer ext burst (buffs when in long range, fires bursts hwacha when in close range)
Spanner mallet spray greased (hades all the time)
Spanner kero claw hydro heatsink (fires flaregun at enemy's balloon or skywhales)
what i love most how less effective the metas and blenders are if we face them. Gat/mortar? so cute, let me take it from you while i busy your engi on the balloon
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I like your loadout because it all makes sense. Because gun buffs last 90 seconds they can top off bottom deck buffs at longer range. The pipe buff can also get the carro buffed and ready for the swap.
On spawn the heavy clip guy starts hwatcha reload, starts and finishes carro load, then finishes hwatcha load while the buff guy buffs. Sounds like good solid spire fun.
Although I like heatsink for flares, heavy clip is fun because you can snipe components. My life has been saved many times from flare snipes.
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On spawn the heavy clip guy starts hwatcha reload, starts and finishes carro load, then finishes hwatcha load while the buff guy buffs.
You have no idea how much time it took me to explain this to the random crews with which I tested it just for the sake of it. But then they got it and we murdered.
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this has turned into a "how effective can a spire be" thread
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Love: how informative this forum is
Hate: how off-topic every thread goes after a few posts
^^
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Love: how informative this forum is
Hate: how off-topic every thread goes after a few posts
^^
All the good forums go off topic. When overly moderated it's not really natural human discussion.
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indeed, look at the pit for example :D
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Hate: Munkers (On both teams, because somebody has a Munker, they give no shits about you or anybody else.)
*Creepy maniacal laugh* He He he he he he hehehe hehehehehehehe
(https://i.imgflip.com/ihuts.jpg)
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indeed, look at the pit for example :D
The pit is my favourite.
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indeed, look at the pit for example :D
The pit is my favourite.
I only just realized that pit posts don't show up under new unread posts. I've been missing out all this time.
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indeed, look at the pit for example :D
The pit is my favourite.
I have literally transpired to basically only posting in the pit (excessively too) about two weeks after I got on the forums.
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indeed, look at the pit for example :D
The pit is my favourite.
ALL HAIL THE PIT!! that beautiful seductive mistress
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Hate: Munkers (On both teams, because somebody has a Munker, they give no shits about you or anybody else.)
*Creepy maniacal laugh* He He he he he he hehehe hehehehehehehe
(https://i.imgflip.com/ihuts.jpg)
I was waiting for you to resoond, you dirty bastard! *shakes fist*
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ah munkers, its been to long since i gave into the mine madness
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indeed, look at the pit for example :D
The pit is my favourite.
ALL HAIL THE PIT!! that beautiful seductive mistress
Pro tip: Have the pit on your favourites bar.
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This deserves a Necro.
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Love: Pancakes
Hate: Everything that is not pancakes
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Love: Pancakes
Hate: Everything that is not pancakes
What about music?
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Love: Pancakes
Hate: Everything that is not pancakes
What about music?
Music is pancakes, obviously
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Love: The Lumberjack, sniping out a gun with a carronade, the....you know what...it might be able to list what I hate....
Hate: ........okay so I guess I was wrong.
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Love: Pancakes
Hate: Everything that is not pancakes
What about music?
Music is pancakes, obviously
and mines?
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Love: Pancakes
Hate: Everything that is not pancakes
What about music?
Music is pancakes, obviously
and mines?
And waffles.
And french toast.
And Hwacha.
And Loch H.Flak.
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I mean come on, who doesn't love a successful heavy flak loch shot. But mines! Oh the glory of 200 mines in one match, its quite the site.