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General Discussion / Re: How to fix lobbies of Icarus and maybe the game
« on: August 04, 2017, 08:42:29 pm »
I think another cool feature would be for players to indicate how inebriated they are.
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Feedback and Suggestions / Re: Single/Coop Story Mode for Alliance - And Health Bars for PVP
« on: July 27, 2017, 12:14:53 pm »Healthbars in PVP: ...not having them is forcing you to actually learn to assert how much health the enemy have based on the model and forces communication with your ally to have proper info...
Pretty true.
Many times in a match its communicated how many shots from X gun went into the enemy ship's exposed armor. With time and recognizing the damage models of the ship, a player can get a general idea of the percentage of health remaining. Many many times have I had adrenalin fueled matches where I was telling the gatling gun to keep firing and they will get a gatling kill. They had to trust that call because I made it based off my knowledge.
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Community Events / Re: Sunday Community Skirmish #162 (Signups for Sunday July 23rd)
« on: July 23, 2017, 02:37:50 am »"Chef xedeon's" won't be able to attend,other things got in the waywe got girlfriends, so we'll have to sit this one out!
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Gameplay / Re: The Meta is dead, long live the Meta.
« on: July 22, 2017, 05:23:28 pm »
Have two identical ships at a set distance fire opposite greased at each other while aiming at the same point and swapping ammos each round. Screenshot armor and repeat until results are consistent. Retest at more ranges and with other ships
we did those sorts of tests with practice dummies to get the range/spread/damage down. +33% was unnoticeable.
the game is not played with two stationary ships only firing one gun while aiming at the same point at each other. in an in-game battle conditions, +33% jitter was unnoticed by all testers.
Also +1
Its called controlled and field tests. Need both.
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Gameplay / Re: The Meta is dead, long live the Meta.
« on: July 21, 2017, 08:14:49 pm »
Have two identical ships at a set distance fire opposite greased at each other while aiming at the same point and swapping ammos each round. Screenshot armor and repeat until results are consistent. Retest at more ranges and with other ships
If this kind of test is too difficult or time consuming then don't test at all!
+1
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Feedback and Suggestions / Re: MKII Heavy Carronade testing candidate
« on: May 03, 2017, 12:45:52 am »
I remember on the Discord that there was a discussion about changing the model to three barrels or having it two shots because of the gun model and overall a few individuals being concerned about the model of the gun and its reflection of two shots.
But, you load a different ammo and suddenly that aspect of the lore is out the window.
The Hwatcha, for example, benefits the most from burst. The overwhelming majority (if not, literally everyone) of people that use the gun (besides the unknowledgable - newbies) load burst. But, burst gives it 24 shots. The Hwatcha only has 20 rocket spots.
This same rule applies to the mortar, banshee, light flak (to an extent since it uses two magazines and those magazines don't change shape or size with different ammos) am I missing any?
I don't see the issue with the model misrepresenting the shots.
My point is to please not concern yourselves with the "lore" of the gun and the model.
But, you load a different ammo and suddenly that aspect of the lore is out the window.
The Hwatcha, for example, benefits the most from burst. The overwhelming majority (if not, literally everyone) of people that use the gun (besides the unknowledgable - newbies) load burst. But, burst gives it 24 shots. The Hwatcha only has 20 rocket spots.
This same rule applies to the mortar, banshee, light flak (to an extent since it uses two magazines and those magazines don't change shape or size with different ammos) am I missing any?
I don't see the issue with the model misrepresenting the shots.
My point is to please not concern yourselves with the "lore" of the gun and the model.
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Feedback and Suggestions / Re: Disable mine friendly fire for team mates
« on: April 30, 2017, 05:43:29 pm »I was just killed by an ally who was intentionally trolling me with mines, trying to kill me. If you arent going to put in a punishment for that kinda of behavior, besides i assume some kind of slap on the wrist, then please disable that particular method of trolling.
I would actually be okay with them reducing it to only knockback effects. I know it can still troll but I feel some sort of punishment is needed for stray mines.
I think this goes into the high risk high reward thing though and it might make it semi-inbalanced to not do damage. Very often in every level of gameplay from casual to competetive does an ally mine connect with their teamate - despite the lack of purposeful intention.
I feel in this case that the real problem is trolling and not the mines themselves.
Which brings up your point about punishments.
You can mine an ally to death and it will count as "A Harsh World" death.
There should be punishment for shooting teamates or at least some kind of something.
But again, a troll will troll and a punishment for shooting teamates cannot be too harsh when literally the only weapon that actually does something is the mines.
Would it be fair if mines did not do damage or knockback to teamates? I really don't think so. I can't think of a valid solution to this problem except for maybe introducing the ability to replay games in order to better utilize the report system.
Why don't we have a replay system?
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Community Events / Re: Sunday Community Skirmish #150 (Signups for Sunday April 30th)
« on: April 30, 2017, 12:48:21 pm »24
Feedback and Suggestions / Re: Free roam game modes
« on: April 30, 2017, 03:01:40 am »that looks really cool thank you! i did not have information about the kickstarter, but that sounds fair enough.
Yea, no problem. That game seems more exploratory / free roam. One of their selling points is no XP and no grinding. Simply explore, collect, create.
Come back to this game if you want something more structured - especially for pvp.
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Feedback and Suggestions / Re: Hey here's an idea
« on: April 26, 2017, 08:39:18 pm »Since you guys decided to turn alliance (death be upon it) into a cash grabHey, here's an idea. Go post this on a forum where you will get support instead of a place where the overwhelming majority of visitors that see it will think you're being silly.
Goodluck finding one of those, though.
Why don't you bring back the not-a-total-sack-of-vile-unusable-excrement UI to the real GOI?
I actually like the newest U.I.
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Gameplay / Re: New Player - need some help with understanding weapons.
« on: April 24, 2017, 04:40:06 pm »
I always wondered why my encyclopedia was empty. I think I have like. . two guns in it.
I thought it was a glitch / unfinished project since some people have told me they have the entire thing.
I thought it was a glitch / unfinished project since some people have told me they have the entire thing.
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Community Events / Sunday Community Skirmish #150 (Signups for Sunday April 30th)
« on: April 23, 2017, 05:15:09 pm »
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Community Events / Re: Sunday Community Skirmish #149 (Sign Ups For April 23rd 2017)
« on: April 23, 2017, 02:02:43 pm »
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