Guns Of Icarus Online
Off-Topic => The Lounge => Topic started by: C r o w on February 07, 2016, 09:04:05 am
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I still remember it, after one of my last novice matches where me and some friends ended up against a full-Russian galLion, I took that exact same design (4lionguns and 2 gats) and started wrecking shit for some time.
I really fell in love with the galleon then.
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I played a lot of flame gat pyra. Gunner on the flame and greased gat. It's a ramming build and in those days extinguisher was useless and flamethrower OP
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Everytime I see a low level player flying galleon I want have that superpower of punching people in the face through internet connection.
My first ships I flew after leaving novicehood were either pre-nerf blenderfish, pre-nerf pyramidion or gloriously glorious mobula (mobula OP). I wrecked some shit with junker back in novicehood, until suddenly one day a patch came, and my levels 3-3-3 in old, pre-matchfaker system suddenly turned into 7-10-8. throwing me away from novicehood instantly.
Edit: But it was long, looong time after leaving novicehood, because I though I don't actually know shit about the game, and I wanted to get better at both engie and gunner first.
I hate galleons. They are truly embodiment of 'MURRICAN spirit: big guns, enormous fat piece of shit. The inertia of this ship is just fucking unbearable, to stop in place in order to fire weapons steadily one must go full backward and moonshine for a second, and then reduce it to stop. It's bloody annoying, especially that I'm used to mix bravado charges with careful positioning, and just the inertia of this ludicrous fuckload of shit makes it almost impossible to pull it off, or retreat behind cover, because when you try to cover behind building in Paritan galleon's ass emerge against your will from the other side of the building. #trueStory
I played a lot of flame gat pyra. Gunner on the flame and greased gat. It's a ramming build and in those days extinguisher was useless and flamethrower OP
Good times. I remember going full flamer pyra against low level unwielding chemspray players. Looking on match chat was fun with all the whining.
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When I piloted after novice I liked to fly a pre-nerf Pyramidion with a Hades and light flak up front. Decent mid to long range build. Then I started flying a Squid.......
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Everytime I see a low level player flying galleon I want have that superpower of punching people in the face through internet connection.
I hate galleons. They are truly embodiment of 'MURRICAN spirit: big guns, enormous fat piece of shit. The inertia of this ship is just fucking unbearable, to stop in place in order to fire weapons steadily one must go full backward and moonshine for a second, and then reduce it to stop. It's bloody annoying, especially that I'm used to mix bravado charges with careful positioning, and just the inertia of this ludicrous fuckload of shit makes it almost impossible to pull it off, or retreat behind cover, because when you try to cover behind building in Paritan galleon's ass emerge against your will from the other side of the building. #trueStory
You truly need to want to know and like the ideal a ship expresses, to drive it well, slow and bulky is something for some people, while glass cannons are for others, while racing airships are for other more.
Just, if you want maneuverability, don't take the galleon. Schwalbe, from what I read of you in the forum, you like mines, maneuverability and speed, the galleon is just the opposite of you,
As much as I hate mankind, I rely VERY much on my ally to fly the galleon, I give him cover, he protects my blindspots, I disable, he kills. Moreover, when both my bottom-deck engineer and my gunner have a good aim, hearing both hwachas firing at the same time, with also the left side gatling, is just truly a beautiful sound.
I also never balance the continuous movement of the galleon, I just roll with it and keep slowly moving, and never stop.
And I have your same reaction when I see new player driving the Goldfish, imo, the newbies capable of driving well a Goldfish are a rare breed.
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Honestly, my favorite style of playing is either sniper mobula, gat-artemis pyra, sniper spire or hwachafish. When I need to vent myself I bring more funny builds, like full-banshee/full-flamer mobula, double gat pyra or munker.
Well, we have quite the contrary feeling about ships indeed, but I can say, that my hatred towards scrub galleons is backed with huge and unpleasant experiences.
Also from what I see around forums, I can tell I like your attitude. I can teach you something when I'll pop in game, y'know. ^^ Though I'm not omniscient about this game, so some of my teachings might prove wrong. :P
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Junker, flamers on lower deck and harpoons on upper deck. Mercury on the front for chasing enemies and sniping engines.
2012 was a good time
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Carrofish. I still fly it.
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While Novicehood wasn't a thing when I first joined, I think the first ship I ever flew after my first couple of matches was a pyramidion, don't remember the loadout exactly, but I think it was double flak front pre-arming time.
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Like Piemanlives, Novice matches were not a thing when I joined. The first game I ever played was as an engineer on a spire. They had me camp the hull back when it was down by the bottom engines. I didn't get a good look at the ship. The first game I played with a competent captain was on a flame squid. The first game I a played as a captain was on a gat flack metamidion (back when that was meta).
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When came out of novice I actually had my pilot level highest and engi lowest. I still love piloting my Junker today - I was using front banshee, left hades & artemis and right double gat - It was actually very nice non-meta build and I played it very aggressively. You probably won't see anyone else doing Junker like I do.
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I remember my brawl junker - left side flamer + carro, right side banshee + gat. I had quite a blast with that back in the day.
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During Novice, I was all about that metamidion. I came from the youtuber promotion, so naturally the only ship that seemed to get reliable kills was the one I went for. Once I left novice, I tried a brawly galleon set up and immediately realised how more guns does not equal a better ship.
Then we discovered dual gat-mortar-hwacha spire and fell in love.
It's funny, these days spire is my absolutely least flown ship. My most is probably a double gat mortar ambush mob, because I haven't sold my soul to hades double art yet (quite possibly my least favourite thing in the meta and present).
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hades double art
(http://i.imgur.com/PijcGEU.gif)
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I was an engineer on a pyra. The pilot rage quit on first death and Silverst who at the time was the highest level player I had met told me to take the helm, we won and he played on my ship for hundreds of matches after...
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Meta Pyra because I was smart and knew it was the right counter for that given match of the time.
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First game I played I piloted a Mobula with the default load-out on raid on refinery, got 2 kills died once and won. There was no such thing as novice matches back then. =)
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After novice when I lost Its title, for me the metajunker was the masterrace of GoIO (well, not really). It was basic.
Gatlings on bottom side guns, mortars on top.
I started off by having a merc on front gun, since I had an odd playstyle of snaring a ship from a remote distance to later on bring the wrath of starboard/port side. Which in this case worked surprisingly effective, until I realized it was a stiff build because it had a lack of arcs. But still I remember. I had a ton of fun with that build.
I left the junker in the junkyard and moved on with a flakspire that I used when I was maybe at lvl 15-20 as a pilot. Damm, it was a beast. Merc and gatling on top deck, and flak with artemis on bottom deck. I assigned one engineer on bottom on artemis, one on mercury. disable and crush the armor of a ship in a distance and wipe it off the board using a flak. Close range engagements: Top engineer would ignore merc and move to gat on right side. It was effective until I reached the level where players found out the strategy to counter it.
What I fly now: Pretty much squid and spire. Maybe occasionally junker and/or galleon.
Sadly I've never been hooked on mobula. When I've first flown it after novicehood I found that ship pretty stiff to fly with and couldn't find any fun strategies and builds to squeeze from it.
I came from the youtuber promotion
Even if I find all of them annoying now, I can't fully blame them since they were the ones enticing me to play this game in the first place.
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I came from the youtuber promotion
Even if I find all of them annoying now, I can't fully blame them since they were the ones enticing me to play this game in the first place.
Agreed Thank you Yogscast!!! My first ship That I flown out of novicehood ,was the spire. Didn't end too well haha :D
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I came from the youtuber promotion
Even if I find all of them annoying now, I can't fully blame them since they were the ones enticing me to play this game in the first place.
Agreed Thank you Yogscast!!! My first ship That I flown out of novicehood ,was the spire. Didn't end too well haha :D
Every sale brings in toxic milk, with just a little cream on top that stays around. I came from last year's May-ish time promotion, and am rapidly approaching 1k hours, with 1.8 matches under my belt. Obviously not much to a lot of vets, but still. Maybe the fact that the reason I got this game is a source of extreme prejudice from an unnamed few within the community, is why I make it almost a duty to be twice as patient with struggling newbies as some others.
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I came from a youtube promotion in Summer 2014.
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No novice when I started. No Hades. Spire and Mobula were brand new.
I joined with a few friends. I was pilot. My first ship was the Forty Five Special, a Pyra with Merc right, Art left, and a Flak Banshee side. We did quite well, easily crushing all the medamidians around. I still fly that exact build once in a while. My friends left over the next week, liking games more like ARMA and such. Going solo, I created Jeeves, a Galleon with double Hwacha/gat left, double Carro right, and Art rear (to be changed shortly to another Gat). I flew mainly Jeeves for the next few months, learning exactly how to throw his weight around and do crazy shit nobody expected out of a Galleon.
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The first ship I ever flew on, as a raw novice, was a goldfish. Standard-issue Hwachafish.
The ship I learned on was a metamideon with a friend pilot I met in-game. He was a solid pilot, and we won way more fights than we lost.
The first ship I piloted properly was a blenderfish, complete with ramming all day, every day. (Mostly on purpose)
The ship I really learned to love to fly is my mobula.
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Psst. Since when do you RAM with a blenderfish?
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After I got out of novice I went through several stages of Galleon-ing with friends. We worked well as a team and soon enough we were unbalancing matches.
First I flew your basic Hcarro Hwacha Gat brawling galleon.
Then I put 2 lumberjacks and a hades on the left side. Balloons cried and died.
And now I take metagalleon.
I threw in many different mobulas into the mix too, but my favorite mob was the fast-action dual gat mortar mob.
Still, my favorite ship was and will always be the Galleon.
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My first ship I flew was back during release where we had no novice games. It was the pre-nerfed Flakfish with flamethrowers on the side. Thing was deadly back then where one stack of fire disabled guns and the flak can strip armor and still kill.
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My first love was Mobula. Good old Merc, art, banshees. It ended up being easy to start flying, difficult to master dodging effectively. But really what it did was give me the confidence I needed to try flying other ships. For that, the mobula will always be my favorite ship.
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Technically, the first ship I flew on was a Junker to learn the different ammo types on in practice mode all by my lonely self...I learned what Lesmok and Heavy did (and back then, heavy was a good clip...oh and 1 stack fires bumped you off your gun, so heatsink was a need for gunners.)
My first crewed ship I ever played on was a Hwatcha Spire (and this is before you could get 4 guns pointed at anyone.)
I was a gunner...I don't know who the person piloting was but they said something like "woah....you're pretty good, 'cause I was able to hit from a distance 'cause I used heavy clip (it worked for spread on gatling gun, so why not hwatcha?)
The first pilot I remember was NateDawg and his Squid.
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First ship I ever decided to use was a Pyra.
It had a Mine launcher on 1 and a Flamer on 2.
I decided to name it Nautilus Mk 1 - (Nautilus was the name of my Pyra before I renamed it recently to Hippie Van)
The ship was mainly useless... Well, to the crew that is. Pyra's used to kill ships virtually instantly when rammed.
We rarely hit another ship with the mines... We normally hit ourselves... 8)
On a different note, the flamers used to be poorly optimized so the crew of the enemies used to be frozen when rammed into...
Good times :'(
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The first ship I ever flew was the brawl spire.
Despite coming out of novice, I didn't fly a ship until I was a level 25 engineer and a level 12 gunner.
Since then, I "picked" up some things from flying with good captains, ship builds, flight tricks, friendly banter.
Now I fly a variety of things. Though I will never fly a mobula or junker.
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Now I fly a variety of things. Though I will never fly a mobula or junker.
Well, what can I say - you are missing out much. :)
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If the topic was first ship we piloted
I can't remember
It was either a Goldfish, Galleon, or Junker...I want to say Galleon because I remember Captain Roy giving me a verbal chastise because I was flying it...and not treating it like a gun platform..
...I learned fast..
(I hated the Pyramidion...I still hate the Pyramidion. I felt dirty when I piloted the Pyramidion...I still feel dirty when flying Pyramidion, so that's the reason it wasn't my first ship..)
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The first ship I ever flew was the brawl spire.
Despite coming out of novice, I didn't fly a ship until I was a level 25 engineer and a level 12 gunner.
Since then, I "picked" up some things from flying with good captains, ship builds, flight tricks, friendly banter.
Now I fly a variety of things. Though I will never fly a mobula or junker.
Need more Bants,
Join my mob crew xD you wont regret it
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Novice didn't exist when I started playing, but I remember some of the events of that match.
I was a level 9 engineer in the lobby waiting around, but no one was willing to take the helm so I decided I would give it a shot. I flew a fairly standard Hwachafish with gatling right/flare left. The people who happened to join my ship were Yukimuri(level 10 gunner) and Taxed(level 8 engineer). They were pretty good and very nice people that were able to handle the situations we were in while giving general advice. At the end they even complimented me, saying that I flew like a level 10 and it was one of the happiest days of my beginning captain experience.
My first crewing games were less than exciting since none of the guides written at the time went into clans and notable people. My first bunches of games consisted of going into lobbies labeled "Ryders in the Storm" or "Duck Pond" and being on ships of people who neither communicated or also had an idea of what they needed to do since everyone who has played the game for a while knew what the lobby names meant and either didn't join or left when they weren't on the stacked side. That went on until I almost quit.
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I used to pilot a Pyramidion back in the beta then didn't buy the game for a year after release before I came upon it again. Bought the game and ended up playing and loving the pyra all over again :p.
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Probably a Pyra. Back when it was a tanky arrow.
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When I first started out I was engineer on a Junker. Captain Valhallen's My Junk, which he used for ramming mostly. I had a heck of a time keeping his engines up when he was moonshineing, but had fun anyway. As a result, my first ship was a Junker. I was stupid at the time, so I had gats on top deck, banshees on bottom, and a merc on the front.