Icarus Dev Tracker

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Week Ninety-Six brings the Brown Bear Armor to Icarus, a new Tier 2 set crafted from the pelts of your favorite Icarus foe.

We’ve also got an update on Hypatia, and some news around our planned release for Part 1 - Styx Operations.

Thank you everyone for their feedback last week on the building system improvements, we’ve taken your ideas on board for future updates.

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Notable Improvements

• Increased Ashen Drake spawns in Lava Areas and added additional Spawn Zones
  
• Small improvements to building placement logic to make it more intuitive
  
• Orbital Exchange Pods when launched grant exotics to your account immediately rather than waiting till the end of the launch sequence
  
• Adjustments to the Lava Hunter Broodling Creature so it targets correctly with its leap attack and reduced damage to take into account its burn modifier application

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This week's update features the third batch of Carved Wood Decorations, adding a complete lounge suite to craft and decorate your base with.

We’ve also adjusted our building placement system, adding more options and variations to expand the creative options for builds. This will be an ongoing piece of work for us, so we’re looking for your feedback on it.

Finally, we’ve got an update on Hypatia and next week’s content.

Notable Improvements

• Fishing traps and other water deployables no longer work in lava rivers, only real rivers
  
• You can now right-click food buffs to remove them
  
• Fixed a bug where sprinting while swimming in the water would not use stamina
  
• Fixed a bug in Cactus and Everbank outposts where aluminum shells sometimes spawned over top of voxels

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

Week Ninety Four brings the new C0NT4CT device to Icarus, merging the Short Range Radio, Infrasonic Relay Device and Encrypted Satellite into a single device.

This is a big step towards our Hypatia update, where we’ll be adding Operations (missions you can complete from your Open World session) to both the Styx and Olympus maps so they can be activated from your Open World sessions, just like in our New Frontiers expansion.

We’ve also added a new pop up which will allow you to check your file state after each patch, which aims to reduce bugs or crashes caused by outdated and leftover files from Steam’s patching process.

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Notable Improvements

• A checksum file check has been added which shows a message on the title screen if you have mods installed or your pak files from the patch are in a bad state. This will be helpful in figuring out if Steam’s patching process has accidentally corrupted the project...

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Icarus has always been a good-looking but deadly environment, but now it will kill you faster.

Working with our friends at NVIDIA we have upgraded Icarus to support DLSS 3.0. The result was a 2.6X on average increase in performance enabling max setting, ray-traced gameplay on many GeForce RTX 40 Series systems.

If you are running Icarus in Direct X 12 mode and have a GeForce RTX 40 Series GPU, turn on Frame Generation in the Graphics Settings to take advantage of the improved frame rate.



Benchmarking in NVIDIA’s labs found a that DLSS 3 boosted Icarus’ performance by 2.6X on average.

When we were developing ICARUS we reached out to many publishers, manufacturers, and platform owners but were unable to really get any traction with nearly everyone... except NVIDIA.

Despite being a massi...

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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.

This week’s update sees some love for Outpost mode, although these new features (such as Shields and Resource Packs) are also useful in every game mode.

Notable Improvements

• Added a fix to prevent prospectors falling through the terrain around crevasses in arctic biomes
  
• Exotic Resource spawning has changed. Now at least one Red Exotic Vein is always guaranteed on Prometheus
  
• Fixed an issue which was causing giant or tiny prospectors after interacting with the Terrenus mount
  
• SMPL3 Quests now grant some Ren as a reward
  
• SMPL3 Quests are now triggerable on Outposts

This Week: Outpost SMPL3 Quests & Ren Rewards One part of the launch of our Icarus: New Frontiers expansion we’ve been pleasantly surprised about is the popularity of Outposts. Outposts are smaller c... Read more

Week Ninety Two is here and brings the Terrenus mount to Icarus. Slotting in between the existing mounts (Moa and Buffalo) in terms of utility, the Terrenus can be found across all three maps and tamed just like its predecessors.

We’ve also released the Bone Armor Set. This was originally set aside for a Twitch Drops campaign, but we decided to let everyone have it rather than keep it in reserve. We’ve also added DLSS 3 support for those playing with DX12.

On top of this, we have updates on Hypatia, some changes to modules and a performance improvement that was supposed to be included last week.

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Notable Improvements

• The Dynamic Nav Mesh was re-enabled. The lack of this was causing poor creature pathing and preventing Creature Deterrents from working.
  
• Fixed a case where players would not get mission rewards if they weren't present for the start of a mission after they had previously...

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

This weeks update we release the work we have been doing towards performance improvements. We have been working on these improvements for some time, and they represent a major change in how a number of assets and parts of the map are loaded. Most specifically these are targeted to address hitching and stutters caused by level streaming and asset loading when moving across the ma, but in many cases they also give modest general FPS improvements as well.

We’ve done a big write up to explain the changes we’ve made and our logic for it also, to give you an idea of the background work that’s going in to improving the experience for all players as we add more content to the game in the future.

This week also brings the long awaited wind power system, with new wind turbines giving you a third sustainable power source, and a sneak peek at our next improvement to the electricity system, batteries.

We’ve also got an update on Hypatia, our next big free update, and ev... Read more

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

This is an urgent hotfix we are deploying to fix two issues with missions in New Frontiers. Please do read below, we have to be very careful doing hotfixes as we know they are disruptive and steam downloads are occasionally corrupting for some users. We apologize for the inconvenience for triggering these downloads on launch weekend, but we didn't want to wait on these are they are progression blockers for players.

Steam Download Issues causing crashes Over the last two years we have noticed a number of users experiencing crashes related to steam downloads. Sometimes the game files are becoming corrupted when steam downloads the files, and this causes very unstable results ranging from crashes during startup, through to crashing opening chests or other things.

Note that we can't do anything to fix this directly, as it is a mixture of how steam downloads work and sometimes compounded by leftover mod files. We no longer recommend using the "verify files" for solving th... 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.

Icarus: New Frontiers, the first expansion of the Icarus experience, has landed. It brings with it a new map, with all new biomes, mutated alien creatures, narrative missions (known as Operations) that further unveil the story and can are integrated into your Open World game, craftables, exotics, and more.



New Frontiers Expansion

Icarus: First Cohort dropped prospectors into safe Earth-like terraformed zones. Icarus: New Frontiers will take you deep into new regions of Icarus where alien creatures and habitats survived but were altered by the terraforming process.

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Week 89 is here and - with only one week until New Frontiers - we’ve decided to do a week of focusing on Quality of Life improvements and introducing some new benches that allow for all the new content to come next week.

A bunch of QoL improvements recommended by our community have been added, including new keybinds and adjustments to blueprints.

On top of this, we’ve added three new benches - a Tier 3 Masonry Bench, a Tier 3 Forge and a Tier 4 Foundry (which are the higher tier versions of the Tier 2 Anvil).

These provide a more streamlined progression for the items previously on the lower tier variations of these benches, and allow for simpler consolidation to save floor space as you progress through the levels.

Finally, the New Frontiers Gameplay Trailer premieres this weekend on YouTube, and you can sign up to watch with us at the link below.

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