Icarus Dev Tracker

Cooperating as a team is integral to everyone’s survival on Icarus, especially towards end-game content. Assigning specific duties or roles to each player with their relevant skill set could be the difference between dying from thirst, starvation, exposure, spontaneous animal attacks -- or a majorly successful Prospect where everyone reaps the rewards and makes it out alive.

Preparing your team for a triumphant Prospect
The value of a well thought-out Talent and Tech Tree can be everything when playing in a crew. Having an array of unique skills across each player in your team will benefit everyone!

Depending on how many people are in your cohort, “gathering as you go” is always a safe option to ensure everyone can cover themselves in the event of a tight-squeeze or surprise. Allocating the core tasks like Mining, Hunt... Read more

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UPDATE: Read the breakdown of our beta weekends HERE



Prospectors, we have an important update
We’ve made the decision to delay Icarus’ launch until November to ensure the game is the best it can be for our players, and we’re introducing a longer Beta which you can play from Friday 27 August at 5pm Pacific Daylight Time.

Our team is committed to providing the best experience for our players at launch. We’ve been keeping a close eye on the state of our development builds and have decided that we want to give Icarus more love by delaying the game, and improving upon our Beta process by spreading it across multiple weekends, with each having a specific focus. A plus side of this a... Read more

Hello again, Prospectors!
Welcome back to another Community Update. It's been a great month as we continue to develop Icarus. Our private beta branch is up and running, we’ve had some guest streamers and journalists play it recently and we're busy making improvements around the clock.

We've reached over 5,000 members on our Discord! Our server is thriving and is a wonderful place to just hang out with friends, post memes, talk about our Twitch streams and YouTube videos. So here's to the next milestone of 10,000!

CREATOR SPOTLIGHT
Introducing Viktoriahhh!
Viktoriahhh is a content creator based in Australia growing her YouTube and social channels around horror and survival games, one being Icarus! She's charismatic and to the point, providing her community with "spicy" information found across our... Read more

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Greetings, Prospectors!
As we continue to cover many facets of Icarus’ systems and features, this week we are taking a closer look at the brooding weather that dictates your movement and strategy on the planet.

The core functionalities of Icarus' weather system
The weather cycles in Icarus boast both beautiful and frightening visuals across a single day. As your drop ship settles onto Icarus’ soil in the early hours of the morning, you can expect to cast your eyes on stunning clear skies and sunshine that touches the trees, lakes and mountain tops.

You are given ample time to forage for resources, craft early tier weapons and build shelter prior to your first storm encounter. There is no rhyme and reason for which storm you will experience first, meaning the more prepared you are, the better.

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What is the Talent Tree?
With over 250 combined talents to choose from, Icarus' Talent Tree gives you the ability to reflect your unique play-style inside three primary archetypes: Survival, Construction and Hunting.

This time around we will cover Survival and Hunting, with Construction coming in its own separate post.

Survival Tree
The survival tree is designed for general character survival on the planet, storm detection and weathering, resource gathering and consumption, farming, and anything to do with a character’s basic needs.



Resources
Do you like collecting materials? If so, unlocking the talents in this branch of the survival tree will ma... Read more

What is the Planetary Tech Tree?
When you first land on Icarus as a poor prospector you bring nothing with you. As you start gathering stones, sticks and flora with your bare hands, mine rocks using your newly crafted pickaxe, chop down trees and collect wood with your stone axe, you’ll earn experience points (XP), level up and earn points to unlock items to craft in the Planetary Tech Tree.

The items you choose will help you customize your own play style and increase your chances of staying alive longer!

The first two tiers of Icarus’ planetary tech tree have over 150 items for you to unlock and craft.

Tier One
Tier One provides the foundational tools to survive as a prospector. These items are fast to craft, use easily found resources and set you up with the basics to survive on Icarus.

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Following on from our latest Community Update, in this week’s episode we are talking about our performance testing regime, particularly leading into our upcoming beta!

Icarus needs its players for the final stage of development before launch. Find out why by watching the video!

Join our Discord and chat with us! https://discord.gg/surviveicarus

GREETINGS PROSPECTORS!
It's been a jam-packed week following our announcement of Icarus launching on August 11! During this time we've seen an influx of folks in our Discord[discord.gg] (also looking at you, Rust community!) and a bunch of new wishlists and pre-orders.

Thank you for your support, we are in very high spirits and are eager to get our game into your hands. So now that Icarus has a launch date, what's next? In July, we begin our "staggered" beta! Yes, you read that correctly, we are having a BETA!

THE STAGGERED BETA PROCESS
Gate One: Under NDA, RocketWerkz developers' close friends and family get to play.
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Will new players enjoy a short drop and or a long session? As we stress test Icarus we’ve learnt a lot about what players prefer.

In Episode 9 we look at character progression in our meta-game and our character talent trees.

Lorii talks about our passionate community and how being transparent and honest can be tricky to navigate.

Watch all this and more in this week's The Making Of Icarus!

Join our Discord to chat with us https://Discord.gg/surviveicarus

Another episode is here!
What challenges did we face when deciding to self-publish Icarus? Find out what Dean has to say about this, and why we veered away from its original free-to-play model.

Learn how Icarus: No Rescue our unique live-action trailer came together, and how it answers many questions the community has about our lore! Bonus points if you find the hidden stick figure ;)

Find out more in this week's episode.
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Icarus was showcased at The PC Gaming Show! What a stellar event with many new and upcoming games being announced alongside us.
Our new trailer featured Icarus' three biomes, Forest, Snow and Desert, and we also provided a closer look at our Bears who were in hot pursuit of the player. There may also have been a Mammoth... Somewhere.

Did you manage to watch it while it was live? Let us know what you thought!

Developer Stream is Scheduled for 6 PM PT Today (1 PM NZT) Dean and Lorii are back at it again with another live stream. We are expecting a bunch of new folks to make their way in and watch some Icarus gameplay. We're ready to answer any questions from our community so make sure to come and join us over on Twitch!

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Mark your calendars, Icarus is releasing on August 11th!
Did we say we were launching in Fall? Well, we decided to do one better. Whether you decide to play alone or as a group of eight, you are now one day closer to surviving on Icarus!

PRE-ORDER NOW!
Standard Edition

• Icarus

• USD $29.95

Deluxe Edition

• Icarus

• First Cohort Enviro-suit (features a water slot)

• DLC Chapters (launching from 2022 onwards): New Frontiers and Dangerous Horizons

• Artic Biome Outpost 1km x 1km

• Forest Biome Outpost 1km x 1km

• USD $99.95

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"We've built the house, we've got everything in, now we need to move in and tidy everything up." Dean says as he speaks about rounding-out Icarus in this week’s episode Paint The Walls.

After many attempts, we've finally got Brian Hicks on camera! The ex DayZ Creative Director chats about the psychology behind Icarus' game loop, and what drives the player to come back time and time again.

We also touch on Animal AI, Character and Concept Art processes plus a mention of future biomes!

Watch now to find out more.

Join our Discord, we're now over 4000 members! https://Discord.gg/SurviveIcarus

Keen to set your eyes on some fresh content?

Icarus will be showcased alongside new and upcoming titles during The PC Gaming Show this weekend! Including new content from our Senior Director Dave Oshry's own studio New Blood Interactive!

This year's event will run for 90 minutes airing at 2:30 PM PT on Sunday June 13th (that’s 9:30 AM NZT on June 14th). You can expect to see Icarus in the second half of the show.

Where to watch:
https://www.twitch.tv/pcgamer
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