Time flies when you’re having fun! Or should we rather say “time floats…” cause we’re talking about a space action game here? One way or another, the launch of Supernova, the extensive new story add-on for our popular sci-fi shooter Galaxy on Fire 2, is getting closer and closer. Scheduled to be released simultaneously in SD (for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod 4G and iPad), HD (for iPhone 4S, iPad 2 and the new iPad) and Full HD (for Mac) on August 30th of 2012, the upcoming expansion pack will add tons of new content to Galaxy on Fire 2, including new ships, systems, missions, characters, gameplay modes and… WEAPONS! Yeah right, in Supernova you will of course be able to mount all kinds of powerful new lasers, blasters, missiles, turrets and other guns and explosives to your ship. And today we’d like to introduce some of these deathly devices to you in the course of our 9th developer diary for GOF2 – Supernova. If you’re more of a pacifist, who would rather go down in flames than fire back at the trigger-happy squad of space pirates that approaches him, you’d better skip this article entirely and come back in two weeks when we’ll (probably) be dealing with a less militant topic. But if you savour to give the scum of the universe some serious hell and if you relish to feast your eyes on the burning remnants of destroyed enemy vessels, you’ll surely have a lot of fun with the things we’re gonna show you in the following paragraphs.
The mighty Blue Fyre launches a swarm of cluster missiles at a defenseless freighter in GOF2 - Supernova, the upcoming sci-fi epic for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
Some of the coolest new weapons in GOF2 – Supernova are definitely the cluster missiles. Once they’re fired off, a handful of these destructive little buggers storms out of the ship’s launch pad and approaches their target like a swarm of angry hornets. I’ve never heard of a space pilot who lived to tell what it really feels like when such a spiralling vortex of highly combustible explosives comes up to you with lethal speed, but I’m pretty sure that this is exactly what it must feel like to look death straight in the eye. One missile heading into your direction is bad enough, but half a dozen of them will make even the most hard-boiled fighter pilot quiver with fear and agony. Especially those among you, who would like to be able to fire all their secondaries at once in order to inflict maximum damage upon your enemy, will surely consider the new cluster missiles a more than worthwhile addition to GOF2’s well-assorted arsenal.
The sentry guns are one of the spectacular new weapon classes we're gonna introduce in Supernova, which is scheduled to hit the App Store on August 30th, 2012.
In the comments to some of the older developer diaries, quite a few of the GOF2 fans asked for some kinda combat drones to be added to the game. Well, we won’t exactly have combat drones in Supernova, but we’ll have something that comes pretty close, namely Sentry Guns! These particularly sneaky devices are launched like mines, however, they do not simply explode upon collision, but rather do they have cannons of their own installed and if an enemy comes into firing range, the sentry guns shoot at him with all guns blazing. As most weapons in the GOF2 universe, the sentry guns are available in various forms and designs, with some of them being even more powerful and dangerous than others. According to our game designers and developers, the sentry guns were brought into existence simply by adding one and one together. Since we already had mines and turrets in the game, they figured it would make sense to combine them and create a device that teams the autarky of the mines with the firing range of the turrets – and voilà, that’s how the sentry guns were born!
The Matador TS is the strongest turret in GOF2 - Supernova. Here's a comparison of its HD model for iPhone 4S, iPad 2 and new iPad (on the left) and SD model for older iOS devices (on the right).
For the fans of heavy ordnance, Supernova also holds a nice little tool in readiness. Though it doesn’t contain an automatic firing mode, the Matador TS might still be pretty interesting for the turret users among you, simply because its penetrating power is absolutely unrivalled in the entire universe. With impressive 90.0 damage points per second, the projectiles of this “tech level 9” turret rip through your target’s armour plates like a knife cuts through butter. And with a range of 6.600 metres, it can already pump the first couple of rounds into the enemy’s hull while he is still little more than a small got on the horizon… if there’d be a horizon in space, of course.
With four new lasers installed, the Amboss will blow just about any vessel in the universe to pieces within seconds!
Besides the new turrets and secondary weapons mentioned above, there will of course also be a couple of new primary weapons in our upcoming sci-fi epic Galaxy on Fire 2 – Supernova. Most of them will be extraordinarily strong models of pre-existing weapons classes, such as a new laser called M6 A4 “Racoon” or new auto-cannon called Mass Driver MD 12. I guess the more experienced GOF2 players among you won’t have a lot of problems figuring out on which earlier models these new items are based on. In addition to the weapons just mentioned, there will also be a couple of other pretty cool instruments of destruction that you can use to blast your enemies to pieces. But we’re not gonna reveal too much about ‘em yet… after all, it couldn’t hurt if there’d still be a couple of surprises left in the new add-on for the trusty readers of our blog. Nevertheless, we’d surely love to read your guesses in the comments alongside your feedback for the weapons already shown in this week’s behind-the-scenes featurette. So keep your posts coming!
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@Ilikepie
You’re welcome:)
Also, I think that http://www.fishlabs.net/en/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Fishlabs-GOF2-Supernova-Troopcarrier.jpg is http://www.fishlabs.su/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/galaxy-on-fire-2-supernova-3D-space-action-shooter-iphone-ipad-SENTRY-GUN-02.png
Can anyone confirm?
@Ilikepie – I think that’s actually a Terran troop carrier. (Though I may be wrong).
Also, I think that the Blue Fyre would look 10 times better if the engines were blue like terran ships. Just a thought.
forget everting i said about it being a nivelien troop carrier.its actually just a terran trooop carrier. the sunlight in the pic gave the ship a blue color. i wonder if we can escort it for missions justlike how you escort freighters
If you guys look at the pic that tank put up it looks like the one ilikepie put up and I see yellow strips on the sides and look at the bridge of both ships in the pics they look alot alike so it must be Terran.
@ tony muller- i think youre right
and id like to know what hapened to the idea of flamethrowers that was floated a month or so back
Thanks tankcrusher now I know what to do if I ever have a random container I can’t get rid of again, that worked perfectly.
I’m happy that there is the Terran carriers, and I’m also glad I was right about the pic, but I was also so excited about battlecrusiers for all factions. Tobi, will there be those? Or later, possibly in the next addon?
You know what I just realized? It’s definitely Terran, most likely the carrier, since, in the the background, there is a Terran jumpgate. So the ship must be Terran. The pirate ships can be pirates attacking the station, and the player put down the sentry guns. But the ship is a Terran carrier, since a nivelian battlecrusier wouldn’t be in a Terran station.
@Ilikepie
You’re welcome!
Can we land on the carrier? That would be pretty cool.
With there being Terran Carriers, does that mean that station fighters will laugh from the carriers too and not just from the station?
If so, will destroying the carrier (if you can), prevent fighters from launching from it?
I just downloaded the stupid 1.1.5 update for the game and it freaking reset the game and all my progress. I put over 70 freaking hours into the game, earned kaamo club for 30 mil. credits and 50t buskat, got every ship in the game, all the best equipment and weapons, every achievement, and currently had about 70 million credits. And I download a free update that’s supposed to help. Instead it just pisses me off. Now I’ll have to pay another $5 for Valkyrie as well. Thank you, Fishlabs, for this helpful patch to the game. It definitely helped.
All right, I’m sorry for that rage. Your game is great fishlabs, I really enjoy it. Ive put more time to it than any other mobile game, and close to how much played a console game that costs $60, vs. this $10 game. I’m just angry that it deleted my save file after I put so much time into it. Now, is there a way I can get my save file back? I really don’t want to keep using this stupid Betty with the worst weapons and 0$. I don’t know why the update would do that, but I’m pretty frustrated about it. Please help if you can. Thanks.
@ilikepie
Every time before i download a new update i back up all my files on my computer so that if something happens i can always get my files and game progress back
@Ilikepie: Damn, that’s horrible! Sorry to hear about the problems you had with the latest update. Did you save your game online via Open Feint or iCloud at one point or another? If so, you can get it back without problems. If you didn’t save it online, I’m not sure if there’s anything we can do to get the original save game back. I’ll ask our developers about it when I’m back at the office tomorrow. Until then, do not use any of the save game slots you’ve used for your previous game! In the past, we once had a bug where the current save games weren’t displayed properly. They were still there on the device, but not shown in the save game menu. Hence, a lot of players thought they were gone and accidently used the same save game slot again for their new game. If we can’t get your save game back, we’ll provide you with a new one and a couple of credits. We can’t restore everything like it was before, but at least it’ll be easier to continue from there on. Sorry again for the complications… I’ll let you know more as soon as I’ve talked to our developers tomorrow.
@tobi
All right, thanks. I unfortuneatly didn’t save it online but hopefully you guys can help. I’m glad that you’re trying to help and will still play the game and am sorry for the rage message earlier. Thanks for any help you can give.
When I entered the app to play it today it didn’t have the resume button and none of the load game slots had anything in them. It was like I’d just bought it.
@tobi
What is the name of the green ship on the top of the page?
@Tobi
When a sentry gun kills an enemy, does that count as one of your kills?
@Ilikepie
D:
So sorry to here that.
@ TANK CRUSHER
the ship on the top left of the page is the stealth fighter underbelly. i truly hope the developers will allow us to buy and fly it. if we can i bet like the nemesis or typhon has a pre installed khador drive the stealt fighter will probably have a pre installed yin co shadow ninja installed cause its name is the STEALTHFIGHTER
SORRY TANKCRUSHER
I ment to say @ austin
Hello Ilikepie, I just got an email from our lead developer HCK. He said that usually that error shouldn’t have occured unless you’ve updated a version older than 1.1.4. to the new version 1.1.5. If you’ve skipped one or more updates inbetween and went from 1.1.2. straight to 1.1.5., for example, it might have caused problems.
You should also be able to re-install Valkyrie if you are logged in with the same Apple ID and if you’ve activated “In-App Purchases” on your device. The information about the in-app purchases you’ve bought is linked directy to you Apple ID, so it should definitely not be lost. If it still doesn’t work, just let me know and I’ll see if there’s anything else we can do (though in this case it might be that there is no other way to fix the game than re-installing it).
HCK also told me that he’s gonna prepare a save game for you in which you’ve already finished the story and got Kaamo and a nice sum of credits at your disposal. I don’t think we can restore everything you’ve earned in the many hours you’ve played the game but at least it’ll be easier and more fun to pick it up again from there instead of starting completely from the beginning.
In order to get the new save game, you need to sign up to Open Feint and create an account. Once that has been done, please make sure that “account retrieval” is activated and then send us the login data to community@fishlabs.net. We’ll then upload the save game for you via Open Feint and you can download it via the Open Feint save game slot. Also, please let us know what difficulty you’ve played on.
Next dev diary tomorrow!
I wonder what tomorrows dev diary is going to be like. we have covered al the basics like equipments and weapons. maybe tomorrow isa in depth view of the new ships…
@tobi
Thanks. My biggest game that I’d put the most time into was on normal. The restore purchases button worked, I’ve got Valkyrie and already seen mines in the shop, so I’m good with Valkyrie. I’ll go open the open feint account now.
hope tomorrow is a bit more insight of the new ships
GOF2 is awesome!
Is it true that lasers such as M6 A4 “Raccoon” are useless without scanner?
. Still I want to achieve Destroyer Destroyer.
I’ve tried to destroy astroids and void, but it seems I never hit them. The beams go straight without damage.
I did achieve as “Blindfold Killer” which is so much fun doing it with 4 Icarus Heavy AS.
Now. I feel like I want to destroy every thing in space blindly
Greets
hello I accidentally sold my racoon gun, i went back to Shima and there was nothing left, how do i get more of these guns? please help