Hello Everyone,
We’re going to use this as a weekly platform to explain what’s happening in the Guns of Icarus world, events you should be looking out for, and our Player of the Week.
As always you can hear the latest news and the best sneak peeks straight from the office with the Dev Fireside Chat on Twitch at 3 pm eastern. Come join us and we’ll answer every question that you have!
Follow the jump to see the team, the events, and the player of the week!
On the event front hats off to the Storm Ryders for taking first in the Blood and Brass tournament. Team Predators came second and the Bard Revival group got third. A big thanks to all the teams that came out and we can’t to wait to see what next competitive comes our way.
In the meantime check out the Sunday Community Skirmish and Iron Fork of Friday which happens in game every Friday at 4 pm eastern!
As for what the team has been working on:
Alex:
Some shader features for a new map, in particular giving us ground fog (demo image above, though this is just a test scene right now)
Also laying groundwork for improvements to how we handle networked data on the client. More better smoother things.
Howard:
– Prepping for OGDE talk this weekend
– Some sprint planning follow ups
– Reviewing player ideas
– Setting up a new community trello Q&A system
Tom:
Working on the new Tutorials.
George:
– Some more features to boss ship destruction
– Fixed some Ship creation tools bugs
– Fixed in game bugs.
Matthew:
New planning for the community side of things to keep things organized for devs and interns
For our player of the week:
Thank you, Gene sis!
For being a generally awesome person you get a free item!
Some of the applauds read:
“Super friendly, all that and a bag of chips”
“I bet you don’t even read these. If you do I will eat my hat. If it is edible.” (looks like it’s time for you to find an edible hat)
“Being awesome”