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Gameplay / Junker Novice Preset Builds

« on: January 06, 2014, 05:11:35 pm »

The Junker was the most recent ship added to novice matches with 3 preset builds.  The other novice ship builds (pyra and goldfish) are equiped with guns I would see in normal matches but these Junker builds are different to the Junkers I see flying around in non novice matches.

Do you think these loadouts are:

• Effective?
• Teach the novice players which guns work together?
• Prepare the players on how to fly Junkers in non novice matches?

Also, do these 3 builds give a wide enough sample on how to build a Junker loadout?
What different Junker builds would you suggest for novice matches and why?

Build 1:
Gatling front and both sides on top deck
Mortar both sides below



Build 2:
Artemis front and top left
Flak on bottom left.
2 Gatling guns on the right



Build 3:
Artemis front.
Gatling both sides on top deck
bottom Deck is left Mortar, right Flak

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The Gallery / Find the snowmen!

« on: January 04, 2014, 04:53:24 pm »

Snowman Spoiler Alert!

In a recent Fireside Chat Tim from the art team said there was around 8 snowmen hidden across the world and there may be some that haven't been found yet.  This thread is here to document their existence.  Here is the most obvious snowman found near the shipwreck in B4 of Northern Fjords:



There are many others, but where?

Please provide screenshots and descriptions of their location as appropriate.

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Feedback and Suggestions / Holiday Season Festive Adornment Requests

« on: December 31, 2013, 03:35:07 am »

Here is a request for festive Christmas / New Year decorations ideas for next Christmas.  I would personally love to see the world dressed up a bit for the holiday season.  Get your xmas orders in to request a bit of Holiday cheer for next year.  But remember you have to be good ALL year or Santa will send us Hwachas full of coal.

Here are some things I would like to see next xmas:

• Tinsel draped over ships similar to the birthday celebrations
• Holly hanging over the helm of ships
• Much more snowmen
• More [AI] Jesus appearances
• Mines decorated like Christmas presents.  We have been giving out lots of xmas presents but this year they look like they are only wrapped in brown paper
• Capture points all have giant Christmas trees in them, so when you lay mines around a point they look like presents waiting to be unwrapped

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Feedback and Suggestions / Block all PMs while streaming

« on: December 27, 2013, 02:32:17 am »

I believe there should be a feature to block all PMs.  There have certainly been at least a couple of times where I have, errrr. ummm, sort of accidentally PM'd people while they were streaming.  Primarily this would help prevent disruption or trolling of streams, but also prevent PMs from senders who would not expect their messages to be made public.

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Website and Forum Issues / Community Standards Doc: update the Naming Policy to include char rename UI

« on: December 25, 2013, 06:23:21 am »

The Naming Policy Section of the Community Standards contains old information on user renaming which became incorrect when the implementation of in game user renaming was added to the game:

We generally will change names only when they violate this policy or our User Agreement. We will not change names on request.*

*A renaming feature is in the works, please bear with us!

Please update this documentation to state that it is possible to change your user name in game.  You may also consider adding detail about the 2 free renames and there are costs associated with further changes.

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The Pit / Happy Holidays to the user above you!

« on: December 24, 2013, 06:29:42 am »

This is completely opposite to the Ban the user above you game.  Here you send a quick Christmas/New Year Greeting to the user above you.  Try to keep it positive yet a bit superficial, this is how the Capitalist society we live in wants it

Since there is no one above me: HAPPY HOLIDAYS to everyone at Muse, and thanks for all the tar!

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Feedback and Suggestions / Bounty status should be reflected in the forum

« on: December 23, 2013, 12:54:40 am »

Active bounties should have either red names or a position of Bounty instead of Member right here in the forum.  Why?  Because why not, that's why.

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Feedback and Suggestions / Climb back Aboard Ship Animation

« on: December 21, 2013, 12:36:27 am »

It's one of those Icarus mysteries how players materialise back on the ship after falling off.  I would love the characters to have an animation for climbing back aboard.

Here is what it looked like in the original Guns of Icarus:

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Feedback and Suggestions / Able to spectate or join Novice Matches as a Training progression unlock

« on: December 20, 2013, 07:48:11 am »

I was talking to a level 8 player today who wanted to be able to spectate a Novice match today to help out some friends who have just bought the game.  I think it is sounds like something that should be allowed.

It might need to be unlocked

• Reach a certain Training achievement and you are allowed to spectate novice matches
• Aquire all Training achievements and you can play in novice matches

This may require new achievements in Training such as 'Receive commendations from Novice matches while spectating' and 'Receive commendations from Trainers while spectating novice matches'.  You could also add achievements for things like participating in an organised training match.  The achievements would have to be good enough to not be gameable and also towards conduct and skills that a trainer should possess.

A Trainer would be classed as one of the current Trainers that participates in and organises training matches as well as players who have completed all Training achievements.

This would be very hard to get right, so does anyone have any ideas or thoughts about how this could work?

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Feedback and Suggestions / Moving through floating flares do fire damage

« on: December 17, 2013, 08:01:23 am »

If you fly through a flare floating in the sky, it does 1 or 2 stacks of fire damage to the component it flies through.

What do you think?

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Feedback and Suggestions / Search for Practice Match regardless of ship count

« on: December 11, 2013, 08:12:02 pm »

When you click the 'Practice' button it shows the screen below to select how many ships:  1v0, 1v1, 2v1 or 2v2 (below).



After you hit start though it searches for existing matches of that size.


If its going to search for existing practice matches though, I don't really care what size match it is and would like to see that first.  I would rather it changed so that when you hit the 'Practice' button it shows you a match list but with only practice matches showing.  You could also have 'Create New 1v0 Match' etc. in the match list in this list.

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Feedback and Suggestions / New Game Mode: deathmatch with alternating ships on respawn

« on: November 14, 2013, 02:44:13 am »

A deathmatch where each captain picks two ship loadouts, the first ship is the starting ship and after dying you respawn onto your alternate ship.  You cannot pick two of the same ship e.g. Pyramidion for both starting and alternate ship.

So each of your ships should compliment ALL of your teammates ships.

In a quick 2v2 scenario say your start off with a Mobula and a Junker and your opponent is Galleon and Spire.  You rush in and focus on the Spire.  You take it down and start to pick on the Galleon.  You may think you will be off to a 2/0 lead when OMG a Pyramidion appears out of nowhere and rams your Mobula to death from behind.  Here your opponents start off with a Galleon/Spire sniping strategy which failed, their alternate ship was built for speed though to rush in and try to recover in case the first encounter was lost.

Thoughts?

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The Gallery / Down to the wire Anglean Scorecard

« on: June 17, 2013, 09:20:34 am »

A game so close I had to post it.  Congrats to red for an epic comeback, and GG to all who played!  This is definitely the closest game I have played.