[2023] pvp

Originally we had a vision of doing a PVP mode as our third major expansion. But it is very expensive to do, because to do PVP properly you have to deal with antisocial behaviour such as hacking. That means rewriting a lot of systems to be server authoritative, and integrating a lot of checks and balances.

Icarus has built a great community and done well, but not sold enough for us to be able to invest in developing that without sacrificing on the work we want to do to improve the base game.

So we have focused our efforts on improving the base game, our PVP ambitions might have to wait for another game. We don’t want to do PVP survival unless we can deliver a really good experience.