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Info => Feedback and Suggestions => Topic started by: -Anakin- on July 19, 2015, 11:44:45 am

Title: #bringbacktheflares
Post by: -Anakin- on July 19, 2015, 11:44:45 am: The new flares are weedy and pathetic and distressingly not green. Also, from a gameplay perspective, it's hard to tell when you've been flared.

BRING
http://i.imgur.com/yFeO66h.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/yFeO66h.jpg)
BACK
http://i.imgur.com/jjUypUz.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/jjUypUz.jpg)
THE FLARES
http://i.imgur.com/GnJXqmY.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/GnJXqmY.jpg)
Title: Re: #bringbacktheflares
Post by: SteamyNoodle on July 19, 2015, 11:46:21 am: To provide a quick counterpoint, don't. Please don't.

Old flares gave me a 30 fps performance hit playing on my laptop, and the new ones do not. I don't know if this change was intentional or not, but please keep it.
Title: Re: #bringbacktheflares
Post by: -Anakin- on July 19, 2015, 11:46:58 am: On the other hand, the new ones are rubbish.
Title: Re: #bringbacktheflares
Post by: Tfaltys on July 19, 2015, 11:55:59 am: I do feel pretty nostalgic for the old flares, it was quite fun at times to muse over them. That and the green was spectacular... Not that I know any of the techy bits and how they work but perhaps there's a compromise between frame rate, visual appeal and gameplay to be had by putting some more work in it?
Title: Re: #bringbacktheflares
Post by: Omniraptor on July 19, 2015, 12:07:52 pm: I think we should bring back the radiant flares (before they had visible beams coming from them), but remove the eye-bleeding green flood. Or make it much subtler.

p.s. does anyone else miss how clean the old ui looked? The new one isn't as bad but still a far cry from what we had.
Title: Re: #bringbacktheflares
Post by: -Anakin- on July 19, 2015, 12:25:59 pm: I am a reasonable woman and I am willing to compromise.

LOL JK #BRINGBACKTHEFLARES
Title: Re: #bringbacktheflares
Post by: SteamyNoodle on July 19, 2015, 12:46:14 pm: Apparently the flares have already been changed back on the dev app.

Clearly the campaign was a smashing success, I will commit sudoku in shame of my political failure.
Title: Re: #bringbacktheflares
Post by: -Anakin- on July 19, 2015, 12:53:07 pm: WE DID IT GUYS
Title: Re: #bringbacktheflares
Post by: DJ Logicalia on July 19, 2015, 07:12:16 pm: I'm very proud of all of you
Title: Re: #bringbacktheflares
Post by: Steve CZ on July 20, 2015, 03:10:46 am: The game would be so empty without the old flares. They always brought a tear to my eye, sometimes even temporary blindness.
Title: Re: #bringbacktheflares
Post by: The Mann on July 20, 2015, 03:13:12 am: Flares were like the pyrotechnics on my Pyra when playing requested music to my crew :'(

In my head, my ship looked something like this:

(http://www.mancunianmatters.co.uk/files/mancunianmatters/IMG_0120.JPG)
Title: Re: #bringbacktheflares
Post by: Tfaltys on July 20, 2015, 10:49:32 am: (http://i.imgur.com/2KXZmTZ.jpg)
Title: Re: #bringbacktheflares
Post by: MightyKeb on July 20, 2015, 04:25:48 pm: Quote from: Tfaltys on July 20, 2015, 10:49:32 am
(http://i.imgur.com/2KXZmTZ.jpg)

My word, those flare launchers...

"The Three musketeers, now with neon green."
Title: Re: #bringbacktheflares
Post by: greendra on July 20, 2015, 05:52:45 pm: Now I cant blind my ally ship with green. What will I do? :'(
But do not fear! I have tweeted Muse! I have prayed to the Guns of Icarus Gods. I have even taken moonshine when playing engi. #MoonshineForFlares ~~#TotallyNotCopyingCutsForBever~~
Title: Re: #bringbacktheflares
Post by: Indreams on July 20, 2015, 11:56:29 pm: If we can have the old flares, without that 5-flare Mobula troll clan blowing up my graphics card, that'd be great.

The new ones? I don't think I've even noticed we had new flares. Just figured that people weren't using them...
Title: Re: #bringbacktheflares
Post by: Byron Cavendish on July 21, 2015, 02:05:16 am: We call it the flarbula
Title: Re: #bringbacktheflares
Post by: MagKel on July 22, 2015, 08:34:16 am: All-Flare-Mobula is a prime example of asymmetric warfare: If your PC crashes, we win.

Also once upon a time there has been a 3v3 all flare pyramidion game, on Dunes. Offered by 404 with my commentary, it lasted about an hour. Even today, if I gently whisper to my computer the word "flare", it shutters and try to switch off.
Title: Re: #bringbacktheflares
Post by: Ashunera on July 22, 2015, 01:00:33 pm: Quote from: MagKel on July 22, 2015, 08:34:16 am
All-Flare-Mobula is a prime example of asymmetric warfare: If your PC crashes, we win.

Also once upon a time there has been a 3v3 all flare pyramidion game, on Dunes. Offered by 404 with my commentary, it lasted about an hour. Even today, if I gently whisper to my computer the word "flare", it shutters and try to switch off.

Ah, as one person said when we took a 4 gunner (with 2 crew members drunk and one, myself, pretty much delerious from lack of sleep) 5 flare mobula and managed to get a kill, "so you used the old Lag them out strategy?" It backfired of course, my FPS dropped like a wingless bird.
Title: Re: #bringbacktheflares
Post by: macmacnick on July 26, 2015, 05:29:09 am: I once spectated in a 4v4 match of all flare mobulas on Dunes (one of the grand finale matches before matchmaker). I have screenshots... SPRING GREEN EVERYWHERE.
Title: Re: #bringbacktheflares
Post by: MightyKeb on July 26, 2015, 09:40:03 am: Quote from: macmacnick on July 26, 2015, 05:29:09 am
I once spectated in a 4v4 match of all flare mobulas on Dunes (one of the grand finale matches before matchmaker). I have screenshots... SPRING GREEN EVERYWHERE.

Is that a threat?!
Title: Re: #bringbacktheflares
Post by: macmacnick on July 26, 2015, 07:10:04 pm: Maybe. However, as a testament to how amazing flares are, not to mention how delightfully CPU intensive they are, they dropped my FPS to about 15 compared to my usual 60. I'll post pictures when I get home.
Title: Re: #bringbacktheflares
Post by: -Anakin- on July 28, 2015, 08:01:38 pm: We officially did it!

https://gunsoficarus.com/community/forum/index.php/topic,6702.msg114646.html