Memorial Day Weekend Giveaway

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!

New Content:

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!

Changes:

[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)

Event:

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 feedback@musegames.com 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).

Fixes:

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

PS4 specific (version 1.06):

• 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.

[ 2018-05-24 17:21:36 CET ] [ Original post ]