Icarus Dev Tracker

Originally posted by TheKushDaddy

Don't understand, why vehicles work in other games, but not in Icarus.

Icarus seems to have problems with graphical rendering. I have a RTX 3090 and Icarus can bearly do 60 FPS on 2k Mon, while I game Dayz on 120 FPS on High settings. It seems that all Area (even if not looked by the player) is rendered in full detail or sth. And even then, when you enter a cave or sprint in a new chunk, the area is not loaded fully.

As an enthusiast of Icarus, I am really curious, if the development is working on bettering the graphical rendering, and furthermore planning to add vehicles, later, when rendering is fixed?

Originally posted by LadderChoice610

Not sure If you still monitor this post but would really like the UE4 character files. I exported and scaled them and tried to add custom animations for new items and there is always an issue with scale or sockets. Dont need the materials but just the Skeletal meshes(first person, third) and maybe a default animation so we can see the method used. Most other issues Ive had i solved with my mod manager/mod editor. I feel from my Bear mount to my windmill Ive figured everything else out except custom animations.

Originally posted by Kyuiki

That’s really sad to hear given Dean’s post stating it may have been Steam who did it.

Edit: I’ll just add that I really liked this game. I can see the frustration having to deal with balancing people like me with people who wanted more out of it. But staying positive and relying on your community will bring much better continued success if not with this project but the next. Turning on community members though, that’ll leave a bad taste in anyones mouth regardless of their opinion on the game design direction.

Originally posted by Kyuiki

Are you saying that Steam doesn’t show you — a developer of a game who has to manage a community — who it was that performed the ban? If that’s the case how can you even claim that it’s Steam doing it and not some developer on your team that is simply getting upset and lying to you? “No, sir! I didn’t ban anyone today!”

If Steam is truly such a poorly built system that gives you no username reference at all as to who performed the ban, I think you should hire a community manager that moderates the existing ban list and makes sure Steam staff isn’t for some reason going rogue on your community. Because outside of racism, discrimination, and / or misinformation Steam shouldn’t be touching posts from your community. Doing so makes you as a lead developer look really bad. They’re pretty much attacking your reputation.

This post wasn’t constructive but it was in no way harmful. Your analogy is also so horribly delivered. You’re pretty much saying that eating at a restaur...

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Originally posted by falloutfan1987

The post was polite, voicing his own personal issues with the game to you, the devs, while being polite and courteous. There was nothing with malice or intent to insult. The fact that you and the rest of your team are attempting to censor this kind of feedback is absolutely appalling. I am not saying that you deserve to be mistreated or insulted, but people including myself have bought the game and would at least like a standing as to what is in the works.

Everyone knows that the forums are "not a right" but you guys definitely need to adjust how you accept feedback and healthy criticism. It is not a good look for you to come in and be delivering backhanded comments on a post on reddit like this.

Then you remove Munnky from the discord and block him on twitter. This is someone with a personal vendetta against Munnky for voicing his opinion. Shame on you and the rest of the moderators. I have already left the discord, uninstalled the game, and unfollowed you all on...

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Originally posted by Munnky78

While I appreciate the ban lift it clearly says "a developer banned you". It seems i am also banned from Discord and Twitter so that would imply it was not steam. I submitted to steam support to confirm this. I have worked with customers and clients all my working life. While yes, you can tell a customer to go elsewhere, it's not in the better interest of the business to alienate concerned or frustrated customers.

My opinions are valid. I come to the community with them to discuss in a civil manner. I even held off on a review as while I can't recommend the the game I didn't want it adding to the score. I was holding out for improvements. I'm not sure I will ever be able to recommend it at this point but who knows.

However the previous replys have worded it better than I could so I will leave it at that.

Originally posted by FuzzyWuff

if you look at wemod, they already have all kind of cheat enabled anyway, so it wouldnt really impact anything at this point.

the majority of the games are played with either friends or people asking help from the discord server.

At least until public lobbies become a thing.
but then again, even csgo with the huge budget valve have cant stop hackers to be around.

the modding community will bring more people in than trying to prevent some hackers imo, like bethesda and such, so many good ideas would arise for the game

Originally posted by authorizedscott

I am a complete beginner when it comes to coding and software development and often have no idea what some of my fellow modders are talking about, but I've been enjoying making mods for Icarus since the beginning of this year (Critical_Fail on Discord). There are currently a couple of modders trying to put together a functional mod-loader and associated stuff that could really use access to a PDB (which I don't know anything about, but they're smarter than me!).

Me personally, I've been trying to work on some mods that make the game more difficult, but haven't had much luck with seeing any noticeable (or significant) changes when adjusting files pertaining to things such as: weather and time of day, AI spawn counts (outside of increasing the pop. of bears) or other AI-related data such as significantly increasing their levels to beef up health/dmg. Changing the values for AI level rang doesn't seem to do much in-game. Likewise, increasing the value for weather frequency in ...

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Originally posted by CrystalFerrai

One thing I know the modding community would benefit from is debug symbols (pdb files) for game builds. See https://icarus.featureupvote.com/suggestions/313452

Originally posted by CrystalFerrai

One thing I know the modding community would benefit from is debug symbols (pdb files) for game builds. See https://icarus.featureupvote.com/suggestions/313452

Originally posted by drumstix42

Note that I was not talking about the team being slow, I was specifically talking about the deep mine drillers. They they mine very slowly. I edited my comment to reflect this.

I appreciate your response. I'm looking forward to a lot of the changes that are coming out on the newest experimental branch this week.

I will say however that it's been a bummer that it's taken as long as it has to address things like seeing in a cave. The torch slot will be a big help. But up to now players have been resorting to using Low shadow settings. Things like this that are such core gameplay components of the game, and are where my frustration towards play testing manifests.

Originally posted by thedeanhall

I have learned (at great pain) that you cannot balance a game by yo'yo'ing it. You make very cautious changes.

We are very aware of the balance issues and in many cases we might agree with the existence of a problem. But a short term focus is not always the best; sometimes the better solution for balance issues is to take out or change a mechanic entirely.

That also doesn't mean that we don't balance it in the meantime, but that does mean we have to design the changes, develop them, and test them.

I know it can be very frustraiting - but remember games are made by people! Things take time. I certainly wholeheartedly disagree that:

• things are not playtested
• the team is laughably slow

We even put together a team (myself included) who worked through the holidays.

I totally agree we have a lot more balance work to do - but I absolutely disagree that the team isn't committed and working extremely hard to fix bugs, add...

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Originally posted by aaspider

Sorry to hear you are disheartened sometimes but in this instance I think you misunderstood. The OP was referring to the drill being slow, not the team.