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Feedback and Suggestions / Re: We don't need new art, we need a working game.

« on: August 01, 2014, 04:11:16 pm »

Do I expect a patch for an indie game with a small developer team to have some bugs?  Yes.

Do I expect it to be so severely bugged that it is actually UNPLAYABLE?  Nope.


The past two days have been awful.  My framerate drops to as low as 3 (yes, three) FPS in combat, especially when fire weapons, carronades, and hwachas are used (though most everything affects it to some extent), and my audio sounds like it's been run through dBlue Glitch.  This is clearly not an isolated problem and one that should have never made it out the door.  It makes me wonder what kind of testing was done on this patch before its release, since quite a large number of people are reporting the same issue occurring extremely consostently.  This isn't some minor bug that occurs in some rare random scenario; this is most combat being broken entirely all the time.

I love ya Muse, but as Niet said... fix your fucking shit.  O_o

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Feedback and Suggestions / Re: Store: Clothing and Accessory Wishlist!

« on: July 27, 2014, 11:03:40 pm »

Dyeable hair for women!  Men can have spring green hair but I can't. 

I think you may have gotten your request across in the 5 different posts/threads, sparky 

I will continue to post it in any relevant threads. 

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Feedback and Suggestions / Re: Store: Clothing and Accessory Wishlist!

« on: July 27, 2014, 05:35:25 pm »

Dyeable hair for women!  Men can have spring green hair but I can't. 

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Feedback and Suggestions / Re: "Character Cosmetics Wishlist" - new topic?

« on: July 27, 2014, 04:56:17 pm »

Um, I just wanted to just discuss making such a topic but.... yeah, sure

EITHER WAY.  I want it. 

So you're making a thread to discuss making a thread?

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Feedback and Suggestions / Re: "Character Cosmetics Wishlist" - new topic?

« on: July 27, 2014, 04:04:18 pm »

Any sort of dyeable hair for females, like the Khovansky hair for males.

Need spring green hair.

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Feedback and Suggestions / Re: Gender-neutral accessories

« on: July 26, 2014, 11:18:32 pm »

There should be a male version of the ridiculous tribal stripes/wooden panel bra.

^^^^^^^

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Feedback and Suggestions / Re: Map achievements

« on: July 25, 2014, 04:48:22 pm »

I like the idea of making the map achievements unlockable out-of-order. But of course if we did that, we'd finish all 15 in a couple of months. Thus, maybe make the numbers bigger or find more challenging things to do on those achievements. Like, don't just break 30 parts with ramming on Dunes. Make it 150-300 parts. Or switch it to 50 or more 1500 meter kills. Or Both. That way you're likely to actually finish all 15 map achievements in line with the rest of the achievements, you might actually learn something about playing that map and force everyone to crowbar new techniques into their repertoire.

I don't think that would be the case on 3v3/4v4 maps.  I'm not in-game at the moment, but I'm pretty sure there are some maps that I've really only played a handful of times.  Like I think I've probably played Flayed Hills 10 or so times.  That's not many in 1400 matches.  Even if I'd been working on it all along, I wouldn't have completed the achievement for that one yet.

For the 2v2 maps, I'd be fine with making the achievements harder if they were all unlockable at once.  God only knows how many times I've played Dunes.

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The Gallery / Re: I'm your Captain. (Mildly NSFW)

« on: July 25, 2014, 04:33:31 pm »

This is awesome.

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Feedback and Suggestions / Re: Gender-neutral accessories

« on: July 25, 2014, 03:59:22 pm »

Did they say specifically who to e-mail?  I would be satisfied with just a female equivalent of the Khovansky hair.  ALL I WANT IS SPRING GREEN HAIR -__-

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Feedback and Suggestions / Map achievements

« on: July 25, 2014, 03:55:17 pm »

Ah, map achieves.  Widely regarded to be the most obnoxious of all achieves, and the most likely to be completed by straight cheezin'.  Why?  Because they are ridiculous.  GoI is simply not a big enough game to support many of them, especially the 3v3 and 4v4 maps.  It's hard enough to get a 3v3 lobby to fill, let alone get the option to vote for the map you need AND get enough people in the lobby to vote for it.

So, for suggestions:

1. Place the achievements in order of difficulty.  Have all the 2v2 maps first.  After struggling for hundreds of matches to get my Raid on the Refinery achievements, I was surprised to see Duel at Dawn next, which took me about two days to complete.  Most other achievement categories start with the easiest first and get more challenging as they progress; why not do the same for the maps?

2. Have them all accessible at once (i.e. you don't have to complete them in order to progress and can work on them all at once), similar to the "challenges" achievements.  Since some maps come up so rarely, it seems this would be a fair way to have an actual chance of achieving them without cheesing at all.

3. Make the achievements easier.  Right now they are difficult not because they require skill, but just because they don't happen much.  They don't challenge you to play the game better, they encourage you to sit in a locked lobby with friends surrendering until the map you need comes up as an option.  The achievements could be modified to require a smaller number of matches on 3v3/4v4 maps.  In my over 1400 matches I've played Fight over Firnfeld about 20 times (and I think a couple of those were to help a friend cheese their achieve).  This is not because I'm bad at the game; it's because the maps simply aren't common enough.

I'm not sure what the best solution is, but I do know that the map achievements are by far the most difficult, but not difficult in the way an achievement should be.  They don't test your skill at the game, just your patience.

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General Discussion / Re: Captain-speak

« on: July 24, 2014, 03:48:06 pm »

"Tactical bounce": any time I crash into anything for any reason.

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General Discussion / Re: Music in Lobby

« on: July 24, 2014, 03:46:26 pm »

I'd like to thank Muse for the feature of being able to block people, but it also means if they're in a lobby I'm in, I have no idea if people can hear me because I don't know if there's distracting music playing.  It also means I can't communicate with them if they are on my ship or are co-captain on my team.

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Q&A / Re: Map scales

« on: July 23, 2014, 01:21:42 pm »

Ryders gift to you ^^

Battle on Dunes/Desert Scrap 1000m

Canyon Ambush 900m

Duel at dawn 300m

Fight over Firnfeld/Anglean Raiders 1000m

Northern Fjords 700m

Paritan Rumble/Labyrinth 400m

Raid on the Refinery 900m

Red Sepulchre/King of the Flayed Hills 900m

Water Hazard 900m

YAY!  Thanks a lot! 

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General Discussion / Re: Captain-speak

« on: July 22, 2014, 07:39:08 pm »

"I'm getting on aft guns!" voice command.

Used on ships that lack aft guns.  For teh lulz.

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General Discussion / Re: Captain-speak

« on: July 22, 2014, 03:43:21 pm »

It's not specific to me captaining, but I call a component buff a "sparklejob" because they get all shiny and sparkly afterwards.