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Community Events / Re: Sunday Community Skirmish #26 (Signups for Sunday 2nd November)

« on: October 30, 2014, 11:07:39 pm »

The, currently under government surveillance, duo of Star Bubble Epidemic and The Bards, Starbard is signing up

STARBARD!      To boldly go where some people have gone before, but we kinda wanted to see it too

Also, the return of "The Starbard" now ft. Howie Mendel

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The Signal Tower / Re: Puns of Icarus

« on: October 30, 2014, 10:43:58 pm »

Hwacha lookin' at? Hawch out. Hwacha doin'? *hwacha puns intensify* (k̜̱̥̩̅̐̂ͬi̜̺̬̭̘͂́ͪ͊̌͞l͇̄͆̔̍̋͞l̷̬͎̍̚ ̯͎̠͚̣m̥̩͓ͤ̈͛ͭ̅e̵͎̩̲̔ͬ)

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Guides / Re: Guns of Icarus Ships Graph

« on: October 30, 2014, 04:29:48 pm »

This is super rad, thanks

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General Discussion / Re: Question For Pilots

« on: October 30, 2014, 04:18:42 pm »

Main engi, because ramming.

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Feedback and Suggestions / Re: Your Clan Is Your Friend

« on: October 28, 2014, 04:03:43 pm »

+1

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Release Notes / Re: Version 1.3.8 Hotfix Release Notes

« on: October 27, 2014, 04:38:40 pm »

How many of you (I mean, Muse DEVELOPERS) played your game?

Literally, nearly all of them. I don't mean to be a jerk here, and you being, as you claim, a game designer have some inside info on how the creation of the a game goes, but you're new to Icarus. You can't just jump into a community and make claims like this. The Devs are very active, at least more so than any other game I've played, in the environment. As far as the veterans making big claims, that's another thing. I appreciate the current change in tone from everyone. The yelling and ad hominem attacks and the memes(? Come on guys) weren't condusive to any sort of forward progress.

For the record, I see a lot of the new changes to be a little silly, but I don't know the ins and outs of what precisely goes on behind the scenes. Do I miss the match list? Very much so. Do I think hiding levels isn't good? Yeah. Do I think the new lobby design and the going back to crew form is dumb? Yes. BUT. I know that every single employee at Muse wants what's best for our game and our community. I trust all of the changes you make are for the best or at least have good intentions.   Thanks Muse

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Gameplay / Re: Dual @ Dawn Spawns

« on: October 24, 2014, 12:17:56 pm »

I haven't played Duel much since the update, but I see how this could be a major issue. I second reverting back to the old spawn points.

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Gameplay / Re: Poor Squid

« on: October 23, 2014, 12:19:17 pm »

I saw some of the [PLRS] guys the other day running a Merc, Mortar squid and cleaning up with it. I guess the strategy is to come in from far off with the merc and then put the side on them. It was super badass, but I can't get it to work my self.My pal SlicedAndDiced had it going a few times, but it's pretty difficult, and seems way to impractical for any sort of competitive match

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Gameplay / Here come the Banshees

« on: October 20, 2014, 09:31:29 pm »

So this new update did a ton of stuff. Like. A ton

I think my favorite thing that happened was the Banshee buff. Objectively the  most underused not-joke gun is now totally viable. From my nonscientific testing (also take into account, I have no idea how well Banshees did before), it seems a Banshee with one clip of standard rounds will take out ~1/2 of balloon health, and do on average of 9 fire stacks. One standard clip can also take out ~1/3 of Galleon armour and permahull. Today I ran a dual Banshee Pyramidion and won. I also ran a triple Banshee Hwacha Spire and that did really well.

So, this raises a couple questions:
1) Is the Banshee overpowered and
2) How is this going to impact ship builds from here on out.

I'm glad that such a formerly terrible gun is now a thing, but I'm curious about the positive and negative impacts on the future

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Community Events / Re: Sunday Community Skirmish #24 (Signups for Sunday 19th October)

« on: October 16, 2014, 12:38:27 pm »

The combination of Star Bubble Epidemic and The Bards is back! StardBard returns!

STARBARD!       To boldly go where some people have gone before, but we kinda wanted to see it too

Logicalia is still contact

Also we have totally legit not made by me in 10 minutes on gimp professional art

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The Lounge / Re: Introducing the new CAs!

« on: October 14, 2014, 05:07:26 pm »

As I've just recently been approved,

Hey everyone! I'm Logicalia, current leader of The Bards. I've been playing GoIo since I bought it in the 2013 Winter Sale, and it's currently my favorite game on PC. I used to play exclusively with my IRL friends (who I bought the 4-Pack for, cheap losers), but then, one day, I found The Bards and my life was considerably better. Our founder recently stepped down, and promoted me to leader, so, hi! I love all kinds of music, and you can seem my specialties on Message 2 of The Bards' clan page

  Anyway, a little about me. My home is Philadelphia, but I'm currently in college as a Psych Major/ Philosophy minor (which might be obvious if you've ever seen my ship names) and planning on going to grad school once I graduate. If you want to talk about the purpose of life or discuss metaphysics, or music, or ask me questions about this game, I'd love to help you! This community is so great, and I'm really exited to get started helping it.  Some of my best gaming memories have been on this game, and C.A.s have always been there to help, and I'm glad to join the ranks


I Logicalia, before the presence of the Holy Whale of the skies, do hereby declare my unwavering faith, fealty and service to the community of Icarus.
I pledge to follow the orders of all Muse staff appointed over me, and field all the questions, great and small, difficult or annoying, addressed to me be they by the person, or the mob.
I will keep myself mentally sane, reasonably sober and regularly available as is necessitated by the Community Ambassador agreements and forms to which I have pledged my unconditional adherence. 
So say we all

Hit 'em with the finest beats! Hope to see you in the skies

-Logic

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Community Events / Re: Sunday Community Skirmish #23 (Signups for Sunday 12th October)

« on: October 11, 2014, 01:47:14 am »

*Edit to the StarBard submission, cause I'm a fool who doesn't remember things like "Contact Info", and it's also too, not to. I'm so bad at life*

Contact Logicalia on Steam or DJ Logicalia in game

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Community Events / Re: Sunday Community Skirmish #23 (Signups for Sunday 12th October)

« on: October 11, 2014, 12:30:17 am »

The not so legendary combination of The Bards and Star Bubble Epidemic, StarBard, is signing up!


STARBARD!    To boldy go where some people have gone before, but we kinda wanted to see it to

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Gameplay / Pyramidion Side Guns

« on: October 04, 2014, 05:49:20 pm »

I've been trying to figure out how to make the Pyra's side guns actually useful. On basically every build I have, on 3 I have a flamer for emergencies (i.e. we get surprised on port side) and a Flare on 4. But the goal, even if side guns are temporarily usable, is to get the front guns back on target.  The best I've come up with is a dual gat and a flak/mortar on the side, but that basically turns it into a slightly more risky MetaMidon. Is there anyone who runs a Pyra with useful side guns, or are 3 & 4 doomed to forever be emergency Flamer and Flare holders?

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General Discussion / Re: The Bards have Cracked Boarding

« on: October 02, 2014, 11:44:09 am »

There is no point for boarding other than braking the game completely.

Personally, I thought it was pretty fun. It doesn't serve a practical purpose, but I've never see or heard about it before and it seemed pretty interesting to me. I've been able to walk on terrain, but I figured it just wasn't possible with ships and was pretty psyched when I found out. Sorry it bothered you so much