Guns of Icarus Online News

• Four Team Brawl: Test your skills in our new PvP game mode! This unique experience is a departure from our other game modes in that more than two teams can compete for dominance! Join in and master new engagement styles with Brawl Deathmatch mode!
  
  • Two new teams join the fray. Yellow and Purple!
    
  • Deathmatch: First team to 9 points wins.
    
  • Default lobby size is 2v2v2v2, but can be force started by Captains with 2v2, 2v2v2, or 1v1v1v1.
    
  • Note: All ships with any crew must have captains, and all captains must agree to Start Match via button vote. Empty ships will not spawn in. Point limit automatically reduced to 5 with 4 ship lobbies (2v2 and 1v1v1v1). Mismatched teams such 2v2v1 or less than 4 total ships are not permitted.
  • ‘Leader’ spotting system. Auto-spots teams that are ahead by ⅓ total score, and marks them as leaders while displaying a message to all players to indicate when a team takes the lead.
    
  • 2 corner home spawns for each team, plus 8 shared spawns.
    
  • Hazard spawns: Spawns that have an enemy within 500m will glow.
    
  • Three maps adapted for Brawl Deathmatch.
    
  • Brawl at Blackcliff
    
  • Battle Hazard
    
  • Brawl on the Dunes (no sandstorm)
    
  
  
  

• Alliance War: Sanguine March vs. The Halcyon Cartel - The world has tipped over the boiling point and alliances have been struck, new orders have come down and the match to demonstrate world supremacy has begun, which league of factions will you join in the fight?
  
• 4v4 Canyon Ambush: Long requested and awaited, Canyon Ambush has passed stress testing and joins our growing number of 4v4 maps! Enjoy the chaos of never knowing where your next enemy will appear amongst the cloud-shrouded bluffs.
  

• Adjusted clouds on all Oblivion-based maps to use Downfall Departure clouds.
  
• Canyon Ambush
  
  • Red spawns adjusted for all map sizes
    
  • 3v3 and 4v4 map expanded North and East
    
  • New map image
    
• Spotted ship names now use team colors (all modes)
  
• Colorblind adjusted (spots only)
  
• Drop shadow added for contrast on light backgrounds
  
• Renamed ‘Chute Vent’ to ‘Balloon Vent’ to avoid confusion with ‘Drogue Chute’
  

• Stormbreaker: Feedback from the previous trial has been analyzed, and stats have been adjusted accordingly. 65% of survey takers felt that the trial version was more balanced and should be the direction taken with some modifications.
  
  • Lateral (side) Drag: 0.4 (from 0.75)
    
  • Armor: 420 (from 320)
    
  • Gun 2: 53° port (from 40)
    
  • Gun 3: 37° starboard (from 90 Port) Moved to right of ship.
    
  • Gun 4: 102° port (from 110)
    
  • Speed: 32 m/s (from 30)
    
• Galleon
  
  • Hull: 1500 (from 1400)
    
  • Armor: 820 (from 800)
    
  • Longitudinal Speed: 36 m/s (from 30.02)
    
  • Acceleration: 3.2 m/s^2 (from 2.10)
    
  • Turn Speed: 8 deg/s (from 8.02)
    
  • Turn Acceleration: 6 deg/s^2 (from 5.06)
    
• Junker
  
  • Vertical Speed: 14 m/s (from 13)
    
  • Vertical Acceleration: 5.5m/s^2 (from 3)
    
• Pilot Priority (Captain’s Spot) Target Duration 20s (from 10s)
  
• Mine Duration
  
  • 1200s (from 240s)
    
• Drogue Chute
  
  • +250% Vertical Drag (no change)
    
  • +250% Longitudinal Drag (from 0)
    
  • +500% Lateral Drag (from 0)
    
• Removed Engine Force Alteration (from -60%)
  
• Impact Bumpers
  
  • +350% Angular Drag
    
  • +500% Lateral Drag
    
  • Removed Engine Force Alteration (from -60%)
    
  • -30% Impact Damage (from -25%)
    
• Pipe Wrench
  
  • -1 fire per repair (from 0)
    
• Hwacha
  
  • Rate of fire decreased: 7 shots per second (from 8.33)
    
  • Direct (Explosive) Damage: 15 (from 24.66)
    
  • Reload: 13.5 (from 14)
    
• Nemesis
  
  • Jitter: 1° (from 2)
    
  • Velocity: 375m/s (from 400)
    
  • Zoom: 2x (from 1.75x)
    
  • Shell Drop: 9.8 (from 13)
    
  • Range: 1770m (from 800m)
    
  • Horizontal turn speed: 30deg/s (from 60)
    
  • Vertical turn speed: 40deg/s (from 60)
    
  • Rate of fire increased: 0.6 (from 0.5)
    
  • Reload: 6s (from 5)
    

Show your loyalty and prestige with 12 new unique faction costumes! Complete one of the 6 following missions for your respective faction:

• Keeper of Eden
  
• Serene Magnate
  
• Virtuous Autocrat
  
• Industrial Technocrat
  
• Majestic Sovereign
  
• Wayfaring Vagabond
  

Completing the mission for your faction by committing 10,000 coins unlocks a new male and female version of the faction costume.

• Fixed issue with multiple boss ships appearing
  
• Fixed a typo on a profile picture name
  
• Removed collision errors on Thornholt Crest.
  

During this Memorial Day weekend, in honor of everyone who served and sacrificed, we’ve partnered with Steam to offer a limited-time giveaway event. It starts today at 1pm US eastern time and lasts until Tuesday 5/29 1pm US eastern time. Get the game for free here!





Corsair: Command the skies against other players in a new combat-ready skyship! Presenting the Anglean Corsair, the latest addition to available ships in the PvP!



New PvE Map: Crown Summit, the newest Blockade map in PvE available for teams of 2-4 ships. Navigate through new hostile environments as you battle to defend your refineries from the waves of enemy bomber fleets!





[Steam] New costume bundles. PS4 bundles and deals coming soon.

Balance Changes from Experimental Crew:
Corsair -

• Forward speed: 30 (from 34.74)
  
• Forward accel: 8
  
• Turn speed: 10
  
• Turn accel: 9 (from 7.45)
  
• Mass: 250t (from 500t)
  
• Vertical speed: 15
  
• Vertical accel: 4
  
• Armor:650 (from 1200)
  
• Hull:1200 (from 1800)
  
• Light gun (4 and 5) angles: 75deg off center (from 60)
  
• Moved helm forward to railing to increase view.
  
• Added armor to front blade of balloon to avoid 'free' balloon rams.
  
• Moved light engines forward to match mounts.
  
• This is an attempt to get as wide a spread between turning and forward acceleration, with turning acceleration being higher, while keeping around 34% of the total engine force on the light engines. Previous Corsair had 0.5% thrust on light engines.
  

Mobula -

• Vertical accel: 7 (from 5.5)
  

King of the Hill -

• Capture Point radius increased from to 200m (from 150m)
  
• Capture time reduced to 15 seconds (from 30)
  
• Decapture time reduced to 15 seconds (from 30)
  
• These are the same changes previously made to Crazy King capture points.
  

Desert Scrap -

• Capture and Decap time to 15 seconds each.
  
• Capture point radius to 180 (from 150). Area has to be a little smaller than the other KotH maps to keep it inside the wreck.
  
• Points increased to 450 (from 400).
  
• Point moved slightly to compensate for increased point size and keep the capture area inside the wreck.
  

PvE Skills -
Air Horn

• Cooldown: 40 seconds (from 200)
  
• Duration: 60 seconds (from 120)
  

Engine Stabilization

• Cooldown: 90 seconds (from 200)
  
• Duration: 20 seconds (from 15)
  

Combustion Dampener

• Cooldown: 90 seconds (from 200)
  

Component Disruption

• Cooldown: 90 seconds (from 200)
  
• Range 800m (from 600)
  
• Note: Damage has falloff from 100% at 0m to 0% at 800m, so will have 50% damage at 400m range.
  

Proximal Detonation

• Cooldown: 90 seconds (from 200)
  
• Duration: 20 seconds (from 15)
  
• AoE damage: +30% (from +0%)
  

Concussive Blast

• Cooldown: 60 seconds (from 200)
  

Stormbreaker: Trial of the Skies -
Modifications have been made to our Arashi combat ship, the Stormbreaker. Let us know what you think about these changes and how they feel in both PvE and PvP. This trial period will last for two weeks to allow you, our community of aviators, to push the limits of these changes and judge for yourself! Let us know what you think by clicking on the survey link below. You can also find the link to this survey in our ‘Community’ section under the ‘Events’ banners with the name ‘Stormbreaker Trials’. Click ‘Sign up’ to be taken directly to the survey in your default web browser.

This new design may be changed back and tested further, or they may stick around! Let us know what you think in the survey, email to [email protected] or Discord http://discord.gg/gunsoficarus in the #experimental-crew channel!

Survey link found on the game's start screen and in-game event banners.

Stormbreaker Trial Stats -

• Gun 2 angled 60° port (left) (from 40°)
  
• Gun 3 moved to starboard (right) and angled 45° to starboard (from 90° port) (reference image in survey)
  
• Added more armor hitboxes (reference image in survey).
  

• Fixed a bug which may cause game to crash when receiving voice chat.
  
• Fixed networking performance issues caused by accidentally shipping debug libraries
  

• Improved text chat: players may now long hold touchpad during matches to start text chat.
• Players with USB keyboard can use space to start chat, arrow keys to switch channel, space to start typing, and Esc to cancel.
  
• Fixed a bug where you may skip an item in header menu with L2/R2.
  

Starting today, Steam and PS4 players would be able to play and TALK in the same match, for the first time ever. With it, we’re also adding more contents and special, exclusive items to celebrate the PS4 release and cross-platform play.

Also, a special thanks to everyone who supported us during the Daily Deal sale and giveaway! For those still wait for keys, they’re coming! Thanks for being patient!

• Derelict Deception - PvP Deathmatch based on the northern third of the PvE Oblivion map. 2v2 through 4v4. Take part in epic battles in close quarters, under the shade of the skeletal remains of a gargantuan ship.
  
  
  
• Relic - PvP King of the Hill based on the northern third of the PvE Oblivion map. 2v2 through 4v4. Claim ownership over the ruins of this downed behemoth. Dive into its belly to hold the point from enemies.
  
  
  
• Raid in the Abyss - PvP Crazy King based on the PvE Sunken Reach map. 2v2 through 4v4. Weave in and out of the twisting pipes and fend off your opponents as you fly from one end of the map to the other, but try not to get stuck!
  

• PS4 Launch Limited Special Item:
  To celebrate our launch we are offering a limited stock of the “Cult of the Abyss mask to the first 10K number of players who log in!
  

• PS4 Referral system:
  With the release of Guns of Icarus Alliance on PS4, players on this platform will now have a referral system to recommend exceptional players on their ships and teams. Each tier earns both players a unique costume!
  

• Added Playstation 4 cross-play and voice support!
  
• 2v2 VIP removed
  
• New gun view background added to Library
  
• Removed transparency from chat panel
  

• Fixed issue of team commendations not working
  
• Fixed match option for matchmaker selections
  

The Daily Deal sale and giveaway has ended! Thanks everyone so much for the overwhelming support! It's been truly amazing, and we can't thank everyone enough. We still have a large pile of requests to respond to (over 7,000 has been responded to so far!), so thanks in advance for your patience. We're still waiting for the next batch of keys from Steam, and as soon as we get them, we'll resume sending them out to everyone.

Guns of Icarus Alliance is going live on PS4 on May 1st!

It’s the first seamlessly cross-platform Steam and PS4 game. Not only can you play with PS4 players in the same match, but you can call out commands or chat about life via voice chat as well!

In celebration, we are going ALL OUT!
- Get the game now for -85% and grab 3 free copies for a full crew of friends!
- Simply activate the game and send your Steam Receipt to [email protected]! It’s that easy*

Tell your friends! This is for players and friends only, no key resellers please*

Fly safely,
Your Muse Games team!


Pre-Order PS4 US link: https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0456-CUSA09099_00-GUNSOFICARUSALNC

PreOrder PS4 EU link: https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/product/EP0453-CUSA11511_00-GUNSOFICARUSPODR


*Acquisition of the additional keys are, in whole or in part, not available for resale. Free game copies will be distributed when you email us a screenshot of your purchase receipt. Please allow up to seven days time for distribution of game keys.