Icarus Dev Tracker

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Really sorry all - working as fast as we can to fix this.

Will keep you updated. apologies.

I will post live updated here. Please try keep the memes in this thread, so that we don't clutter up the forum too much.

3:26 AM Seeing a lot of errors in the logs. No clear idea of what cause is yet. SQL showed a sudden spike preceeding event. Then returned to normal. Not outright down, but degraded to the point everything times out. More to follow.

3:33 AM Im giving the engineer space to work, but he told me he has restarted everything and that might help things while he investigates the problem. I'll give him the space he needs, report to you when I can. I have now loaded successfully into a prospect.

3:38 AM okay im kicked from the prospect, like others, after loosing connection. Engineer is investigating. Restart didn't fix it, so needs to take a close look at it. Tough work for him so I'm giving him space - sorry folks - only can be patient now I know thats not easy.

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Originally posted by Vilor: Fantastic! I'm trying hard to like this game and embrace the session aspect of it. I like that you guys are trying something a little different. The real time aspect is another issue. I am going out of town for the week and have to hurry up and finish my session before I leave if I can! :)

We are still only scratching the surface of what "session" can mean, as we learn about the game and what its capable of being. Session doesn't have to mean "short". it's about choosing world parameters and (maybe) a purpose.

Originally posted by ddrei: I am glad you have it on your radar!

One of the five pillars of our game is: "its fun to play alone".

We want to substantially expand (and maybe rework how it works) the solo tree so that is many different trees, and improve the ability for players to complete the missions solo. Maybe even missions that are ONLY solo. Etc...

Originally posted by Godking: Can we PLEASE have the ability to respec our skill points with some cost?

We want to do this, but its complex for balance. So we will def be doing that, its a very highly requested feature. But we need some time to carefully implement it.

Agreed - the solo play needs work. It is absolutely something we want to expand upon a great deal more. Hopefully with some of the updates coming this week.

Originally posted by RealPain: Will there be an update to the Tech Tree and Talents? It seems to have a very bad balance for points/level or points/skill tree. One example is the ghillie outfit. How come we have to waste points in the Tech Tree AND the Talents section?

Absolutely - we had planned to do these kinds of changes this weekend. But a number of users have had a lot of problems, so we have been focused on trying to help them. We will continue to rebalance and adjust and consolidate the tech tree etc... and add requested features.

A great question around this was raised by a customer. To do so, would break the game entirely. We have enough things to balance, without destroying the reason for playing the game. We plan to substantially expand the items you can purchase with exotics ... carefully... so we can rebalance them cautiously. But we will NOT make exotics purchasable with real world money. You are prospectors - your reward is the exotics to spend on your future missions.

There are no plans, nor mechanism, for us to offer the "exotics" currency for purchase. It would break the entire premise of the game, and remove the whole point of doing the missions. So you can rest assured, we are not allowing you to purchase exotics directly. You need to complete missions to get it.

Notes - some items were missed from the changelog. I will update shortly.

We will be working hard to fix the mission and connectivity issues experienced. Another update will follow this one.

Patch notes and discussion here:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1149460/view/3142946404918753061

Originally posted by penis lord: so when can we see/join other peoples games? this has been an issue since beta idk what the deal is

This one we have fixed! A fix will be deployed this one in under two hours

Really sorry for the trouble folks and the rocky launch. We will have this update out in 2 hours, maybe less. It takes a long time to build and deploy to steam. We will keep pumping out updates to fix bugs, we're sorry for disrupting things for you.

There is a fix for some of these issues on the Experimental branch, and we will be pushing an update shortly to fix even more of these issues. Sorry!

Investigating this - have received multiple reports. Will let you know.

But you keep anything from the Orbital Workshop, and Exotic Matter when you get to mining that.

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More localization updates are coming for players who don't play in English.

The backpack was something we'd been thinking about for a while, and was a popular request on Feature Upvote too. Only 1-2 days ago we started work on it, so we're pleased we got into the game pretty quickly.

Fabricator rebalance, shadow fixes on foliage and mountains, and a backpack!

Our first patch is out. We are focused on being just as responsive as we were during the beta weekends now we have transitioned into a live game. We have big plans with what we want to do, but these require us to continue to fix the game and implement things - and we appreciate the community help in doing this.

Version 1.0.3.87891
- Fixed issue where the First Cohort Envirosuit or Fur Armor may displayed incorrectly during the skinning animation.
- Fixed issue with shadows being displayed incorrectly on the distant mountains.
- Fixed issue where some of the new foliage for wild crops could have their shadows display incorrectly at a distance.
- Fixed issue where some translated text was not displayed in the correct language.
- Reduced colour saturation on wild crops so they better blend in with their surroundings.
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