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General Discussion / Guns of Icarus Online will very likely be $1 (with some other cool games!)

« on: February 10, 2014, 02:16:14 pm »

http://groupees.com/bm11

Guns of Icarus Online will be unlocked as the last bonus when 25,000 bundles have sold. So far, the bundle has sold some 21,000 in four days, and it ends in 10 days. So it's very likely that the bonus will be reached.

Buy the bundle for $1.00 to get all of the games and their Steam key (all but one game are on Steam), including GoI when the bonus is reached. If you've been looking to get your friends into GoI, this is probably the cheapest it's going to be for a while.

Again, GoI is not unlocked at the moment, but it is extremely likely that it will be in the next couple of days.

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Feedback and Suggestions / Ability for everyone to watch competitive matches

« on: January 31, 2014, 11:17:00 pm »

Sometimes I'm browsing the server browser and I see scrims or other competitive matches I want to watch. Sometimes if I'm lucky, the match is being casted and I can figure out who's casting by asking around on global or just checking all of the GoI Twitch streams I know of.

Other times, I'm not so lucky.

I'd love to see a way for more people to watch these games within the client. Maybe competitive matches could have more spectator slots than usual. Maybe there could be special lobbies that are dedicated to spectators. I don't know what the best implementation will be - I just know that I'd appreciate a way to watch ongoing scrims without having to rely on Twitch or Youtube.

Potential upsides:

• Promote competitive play
• Help players improve by watching good teams play
• No more threads like this

Potential problems:

• Lag and server-related issues - We all know that GoI is laggy for some of us. Maybe having a lot of people connected as spectators will make that worse.
• Ghosting (cheating) - This can already happen with the livestreams, but if it ever becomes a problem, you could approach it like CS:GO does: have the spectators watch version that's delayed by a couple of minutes so by the time the spectators see something, that information is already useless to the people playing.

Thoughts?

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Q&A / Gatling fire rate?

« on: August 30, 2013, 02:46:54 pm »

Does anyone know the exact rate of fire of the gatling? I want to crunch some numbers regarding the hull armor and gatling, but I need this statistic. I've tried searching through the past patch notes, but nothing. 

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General Discussion / Do you use any custom keybinds?

« on: August 25, 2013, 11:22:19 pm »

Do you use any custom keybinds? If so, share them here!

For me, I have:
PushToTalk set to Left Control - Lets me talk without having to move my middle finger away from the WASD keys
Map set to Left Shift - Lets me check the map very easily without having to move my hand

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Feedback and Suggestions / Black hair

« on: July 05, 2013, 05:41:58 pm »

This probably isn't a priority in terms of gameplay, but it still annoys me.

You can customize your character to have blonde hair. Or red hair. Or white hair.  Or four different shades of brown hair. But there's no black hair. The darkest shade of brown comes nowhere near black.

And it's not like people with black hair are a small minority, either: "Black hair is the darkest and most common of all human hair colors globally."

I don't know how much work it will take to implement a new hair color, but I'd definitely be happy if black hair becomes a reality in GoI Online.