Icarus Dev Tracker

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hey Prospectors!

Beta Weekend 2 has been a wild success with thousands of you testing your skills, growing your legacies and giving us the valuable feedback and insight we needed.


Photo Credit: Drew43

Along the way we did encounter some unfortunate errors that we have worked quickly to address, delivering four hotfixes during the weekend to address a range of connection issues and gameplay balances.

With all this going on, we decided it was best to extend our play window as a once-off, to allow players who didn’t have the opportunity to experience these new features to get down to the planet.

We have extended for a full 24 hours, with the new end-time being:

• 10pm Monday 13 September PDT
  
• 5am Tuesday 14 September UTC
  
• 5pm Tuesd...

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Some minor changes and fixes that were not in the previous hotfix, but we felt were important nonetheless.

Detailed Changelog

• Extending bounds sliightly into arctic for Ice collection. This means you will be able to go deeper into arctic biomes for most of the arctic biomes entrances on the map - to get a taste for BW3!
  
• Increased speed of medical consume action.
  
• Adding charcoal to medical recipes
  
• No longer required to unlock animals on skinning bench, they are automatically unlocked
  
• Upped Yeast yield harvesting yield, each yeast plant will give 1-4 yeast.
  
• Moved floor torch to be craftable on Character
  
• Fixing item duplication bug which occurs when splitting a stack which is currently focused by the player on their hotbar when holding Shift
  
• Adding a dehumidifier to talent tree as it was missing.
  
• Splitting up Melee and Projectile Damage W...

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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Beta Weekend Two is continuing to prove popular! To keep the momentum of the Beta Weekend going strong we have a bunch more improvements we wanted to add so you can have the best experience possible this weekend.

It is also a good chance for us to show you, through our actions, that we want this project to be about quick and fast iteration. We aim to listen to the community and implement feedback and ideas that we feel fit with the game quickly where possible.

Bodies will now drop items in a bundle This allows you to recover your items when you die, if you reach the bundle before it despawns. This has been a very popular feature request. We were planning on adding it for Beta Weekend 3 (BW3), but we have decided to add it right now for this Beta Weekend. When you respawn, if you return to the place you died there will be a bundle you can pick up with your previous inventory.

Living in Caves We have added a Dehumidifier that clears the underground cave buff... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Thank you for your fantastic feedback on Beta Weekend Two so far! We've been watching your streams and reading your chats on Discord and social media with great interest, and the occasional laugh.

This hotfix has some changes that will greatly improve the gameplay balance. We felt these were safe to make, and also important enough for you to play so we can confirm our approach before we refine Beta Weekend 3 content.

Normally, we won't do hotfixes during the weekend to try and keep the experience stable. Additionally, we like to let the team have a well earned rest after a busy few weeks. However, we want to make a few balance changes so we can verify our broader approach to experience and animals - before we start opening up other areas.

Try out the Beta Weekend risk free right now! Want to try these out? Pre-order Icarus to get access to the Beta Weekend right now. You can play the beta as long as you like and refund at an... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Beta Weekend 1 was a huge success!
Welcome back, Prospectors.

We topped Steam’s Global Top Sellers chart for our first Beta Weekend, which blew us away for a two-day Beta. Thank you to everyone who pre-ordered, joined us and gave feedback!

Message from Rocket (Gamerunner)

Originally posted by rocket2guns: For us Beta Weekend 1 (BW1) was primarily about testing the core of the game, both in a gameplay mechanics sense as well as architecturally. Our servers held up, and the game held up pretty well too. The base survival mechanics were generally solid, but it was clear we needed to develop more on the exploration and survival aspects of the game, even beyond our original schedule. So we did. One of the key lessons I have from past projects is the importance o...

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Skalgrim - Icarus Discord

Hello Prospectors!
Wow, what a fantastic first Beta Weekend!

Not only did you get to play Icarus for the very first time, you also gave us your important feedback so we can make the game better, thank you! We will provide updates on the state of Icarus and our plans for the next Beta Weekend in another post.

Many of you chose to stream and create content on Icarus for your online communities, and it was an absolute pleasure for us at RocketWerkz to watch! We saw you hunt, swim, mine, build homes, cook, make armour, and more. We also witnessed a large majority of you setting yourselves on fire and deciding to run into the forest, as well as your homes. No judgement from us, Prospectors! We have been there too (it was very entertaining).

Alongside the joyful laughs that w... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

The first Beta Weekend has begun and will be live until August 29th @ 10pm PDT.

All pre-order buyers can begin playing NOW!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1149460/ICARUS/
We're also celebrating by doing a giveaway thanks to our friends at Logitech
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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Greetings, Prospectors!
In this update, we’re going to talk about expectations around our first Beta Weekend, discover who is in this month’s Creator Spotlight, and how to enter our exciting Gleam competition to win some sweet Logitech G gear and Steam Wallet funds!

Stay confident in the beta process!
From 5pm 27 August PDT you will touch down on Icarus’ soil for the first time and explore the Forest Biome! The surrounding areas are blocked off by invisible barriers where you will be warned if you get out-of-bounds. Storms will come and go, but are purely cosmetic in nature.

Check out our ... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

So you’ve got Icarus on pre-order? Here’s what you need to know!
Everyone who has pre-ordered Icarus on Steam will gain access to our Beta Weekends!

The Icarus Beta app will appear in your Steam Library for you to download once the first weekend goes live.

Which timezone are the Beta Weekends being based in?
Pacific Daylight Time (US) 5pm Fridays through to 10pm Sundays This means that each Beta Weekend will span across a period of three days. We wish to reach and accommodate as many time zones as possible! If you try to play Icarus outside these times, you’ll see a message explaining that our servers are switched off - in which case, wait and come back for the next scheduled Beta Weekend.

For real-time updates and when you can play, please follow our Twitter ... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.