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Author Topic: Let's conquer the skies in Guns of Icarus! Join the Steam group! Blow things up!  (Read 34964 times)

GreatJustice

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The Spire is great fun to pilot, especially with a good group of gunners, since you can effectively cripple a ship by concentrating massive amounts of fire on it without having to do much in the way of turning. However, I discovered that it is totally useless against an annoying 2 Pyramidion double ram attack, because they will catch you, and when they do you will be destroyed. The optimal way to beat a close range Pyramidion, so far as I can tell, is to use a long range Pyramidion; two Mercury guns on the front to pound them into oblivion, then a flak gun and gatling to finish off anything that gets close. A bit boring, but absurdly effective.
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CognitiveDissonance

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From what I've been reading, here and on the wiki, it seems that spire rewards skilled piloting and an organized crew. I really should try it sometime, see how it stands up. Or floats up. *shrug*

In terms of double pyramidions, I've had the best luck with a goldfish. It feels more spritely, and the frontal gun can disable a pyramidion. Or maybe it's because I'm most used to my neon *shrug*
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If you're facing an enemy Spire, keep your distance with a Squid or Junker and use a frontal/side field gun. My crew and I were able to take out an enemy Spiral outside of their Manticore's range by doing so. They were actively repairing their hull, so it's just a case of the Spire having just poor enough hull for it.
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LordSlowpoke

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remember to acquire additional footage and construct the pylons

the shenanigans of bay12fleet are exceptionally moderately entertaining to watch
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CognitiveDissonance

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We ran into a rocket carousel mobula today; it was quite painful. I still feel like there's more to that weapon than meets the eye...

Hurray for all who showed up, more tomorrow!

How was the European event?
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Ozyton

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Sorry I came on but didn't join, my friend gpot his friend the game today and we were just showing him how stuff worked.

Maybe sometime I can convince them all to join us? We'd be on our own ship though.

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Sorry I came on but didn't join, my friend gpot his friend the game today and we were just showing him how stuff worked.

Maybe sometime I can convince them all to join us? We'd be on our own ship though.

That would be just fine, glad you got more people in! Next time, you can get a ship to yourself; winning is awesome, but I believe everyone is okay with helping others learn.
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tryrar

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Oh yeah, that rocket mobula was pretty nasty, I was screaming for fires to be put out it seems every 2 seconds. What pisses me off though, is every time I use a rocket carousel, I can't hit anything at less than point blank range(and even then, I miss a lot!), which doesn't help with setting things on fire....
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No. I suppose there are similarities, but I'm fairly certain angry birds doesn't let me charge into a battalion of knights with a car made of circular saws.

Ozyton

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I've been using the coolant chemical instead of the fire extinguisher in our last games. Spray the most important parts of a ship as you pass by them (hull, balloon) and every once in a while make sure it's all cooled up. Never have to worry about fires again as long as you have access to those parts every so often.

You do kinda get in trouble when a nasty fire does break out. The only consolation is that once you chemical spray something with a fire greater than 3 then it can't catch any more stacks of fire, as far as I know.

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I've been using the coolant chemical instead of the fire extinguisher in our last games. Spray the most important parts of a ship as you pass by them (hull, balloon) and every once in a while make sure it's all cooled up. Never have to worry about fires again as long as you have access to those parts every so often.

You do kinda get in trouble when a nasty fire does break out. The only consolation is that once you chemical spray something with a fire greater than 3 then it can't catch any more stacks of fire, as far as I know.

If you're on for today's event, we should definitely try some kind of a ship with the carousel.
I've tried a junker with rockets/carousels and it worked quite well; but I remember the gunner not liking the carousels.
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GlyphGryph

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They really do just feel terrible to use. Probably the least pleasant gun to man.
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CognitiveDissonance

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They really do just feel terrible to use. Probably the least pleasant gun to man.

I humbly request to gun on a ship with carousels. I must do this for !!science!!.

On related topic, I probably will miss tonight's event. Trying to pretend I have a social life o.O
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Guys, event's on, but nobody's here! Come on, let's start playing!
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This fort really does sit on the event horizon of madness and catastrophe
No. I suppose there are similarities, but I'm fairly certain angry birds doesn't let me charge into a battalion of knights with a car made of circular saws.

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I was on, I played with some guys, but then everyone left so I left.

Edit: And there's still no one here.
« Last Edit: August 08, 2013, 08:48:47 pm by GlyphGryph »
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Greiger

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I'm afraid I had a prexisting commitment and could not join you guys.  Earlier in the day I was playing with pugs and wished I was playing with you guys.
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