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Author Topic: Gimbal: MP space shooter with player-built ships (now on Steam!)  (Read 36744 times)

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Re: Gimbal: MP space shooter with player-built ships
« Reply #225 on: September 20, 2013, 10:45:40 am »

Here's the changes from the three updates since the the expansion (naturally in chronological order):

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The netcode related ones are:
Fixed the main cause of sync errors and possibly all sync errors
Improved load times slightly
Added server drain feature

Not a ground breaking improvement, but solid steady progress. Depending on how long it's been since you've played, there are a bunch of other fixes as well, but there are way too many patch notes for me to list here. In recent 2 vs 2 with excessive packet spamming there was no noticeable lag for me, crazy amounts of light guns will still lag a server, but nobody really uses 30+ lightgun ships anymore (and they are less powerful now as well as being on the boring side of silly). 
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Re: Gimbal: MP space shooter with player-built ships
« Reply #226 on: September 20, 2013, 11:08:58 am »

aaaaaaaaaaaaaa

So I got this game from a humble bundle ages ago and upon update it demanded the key again insertwhale

I've long lost that thing due to silly causes. What do.
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Re: Gimbal: MP space shooter with player-built ships
« Reply #227 on: September 20, 2013, 11:13:50 am »

Either email support@gimbalgame.com or check through your emails for the humble bundle one, the key should be there somewhere.
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Re: Gimbal: MP space shooter with player-built ships
« Reply #228 on: September 22, 2013, 04:39:27 pm »

Has anybody had this issue where Gimbal gets absolutely no input from keyboard or mouse? Wanted to get back into this. Sent an e-mail to support, waiting response, will post solution if there is one :)

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Re: Gimbal: MP space shooter with player-built ships
« Reply #229 on: September 23, 2013, 09:28:51 pm »

Just a heads-up - for some reason the game was recognising numlock as being always pressed. Pressing that a couple of times eventually made it work. It was hogging all the input :) Now it's working!

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Re: Gimbal: MP space shooter with player-built ships
« Reply #230 on: November 11, 2013, 10:09:43 pm »

Haven't played for a long while, though I might pick it up again when I'm not busy with a ton of other stuff.

Reason I stopped was mainly because I sucked at the game. I mean, the idea of building your own ship is appealing and all, but in the end, ability to turn and move is not fast enough to make it plausible to dodge anyone else's shots, so combat becomes somewhat dull. I kinda got frustrated with my light ships being completely incapable of avoiding murderous railgun tank-ships....
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Re: Gimbal: MP space shooter with player-built ships
« Reply #231 on: November 11, 2013, 10:13:00 pm »

I stopped because there was never anyone on but bots, but that's a vicious circle. :P
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Re: Gimbal: MP space shooter with player-built ships
« Reply #232 on: November 11, 2013, 10:20:54 pm »

Maybe we could all get together and play a game every once in a while? It'd be easy for us to simply make rules that disallow certain strategies like autotracking railgun heavydoom stations or superfast missiledeploying jets, etc.
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Re: Gimbal: MP space shooter with player-built ships
« Reply #233 on: November 19, 2013, 08:59:14 pm »

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Re: Gimbal: MP space shooter with player-built ships
« Reply #234 on: November 20, 2013, 01:37:31 am »

i got this today. I suck.

How does online play work now that it is in steam? Easier to find games/more players?

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Re: Gimbal: MP space shooter with player-built ships
« Reply #235 on: November 20, 2013, 06:35:14 am »

I saw about 15 servers, most of them had from 10-20 players on. Though from what I can tell, the games seem to just be zerg-fests with each team just rushing and shooting, mostly anyways.

I guess you would need voice-coms and play with friends.
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Re: Gimbal: MP space shooter with player-built ships
« Reply #236 on: November 20, 2013, 05:13:07 pm »

I saw about 15 servers, most of them had from 10-20 players on. Though from what I can tell, the games seem to just be zerg-fests with each team just rushing and shooting, mostly anyways.

I guess you would need voice-coms and play with friends.
Anyone up for steam voice and total domination of a particular server?  I figure if we're working together, we could really utilize some heavy, slow, armored ships in formation...

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Re: Gimbal: MP space shooter with player-built ships
« Reply #237 on: November 20, 2013, 06:54:00 pm »

CTF is pretty interesting once you realize what to do with the flags. (Gadzooks! The tethers are actually useful!)

(Sadly, steam won't import my player level (4 stars x 3), so I went back to non-steam play. Leveling up again would be fine if I'd be 4 stars x 4, instead of 4 stars x 1. :V)

Edit: Reinstalled the steam version because girlinhat's idea is interesting. This happened:
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All of my what.
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Re: Gimbal: MP space shooter with player-built ships
« Reply #238 on: November 21, 2013, 07:29:22 pm »

Edit: Reinstalled the steam version because girlinhat's idea is interesting. This happened:
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All of my what.
Yeah, when I saw that, it kind of annoyed me, because the video they have there on Steam hardly shows any gameplay; it's essentially the devs saying a bunch of random stupid things.
Not very convincing.

The title of the game doesn't help either. :P
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Re: Gimbal: MP space shooter with player-built ships (now on Steam!)
« Reply #239 on: November 24, 2013, 04:51:49 pm »

Ignoring that particular bug, and the less than spectacular game page, this game is incredible.  The sheer variety of ships you can make makes it worthwhile. The only thing holding this game back is a lack of players.
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