Icarus Dev Tracker

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I'll leave the thread open for now, but low effort posts don't help your "arguments" nor help anyone discuss them.

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Originally posted by :): 1. Optimization (Urgent task)
-Too much frame drop and disconnection make it difficult to play the game.

2. Consideration for solo players.
-It's too hard for a solo player to film all these characteristics.

3. A bug when hunting animals while swimming.
-If you catch a swimming animal with a headshot, the screen is full of water as if I had submerged after the kill cam came out.

4. The unnaturalness of tools.
- Using the C key, it's good to take out the tool in the third person, but when you put it back in, the tool disappears.

5. Oxygen furniture.
- The first oxygen bag to be constructed has the same number of oxygen stones randomly. It doesn't go in at 40, it doesn't go in at 30.

6. Korean version. (Korean)
- Expectations for this game are very high in Korea.
If Koreanization is too hard, ask for help! Many people will help yo...

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Originally posted by danderskoff: Hello,

Here is why I am refunding the game:

Major bugs have not been fixed after 3 beta weekends. Major bugs being - Dropping an oxygen bladder makes it disappear forever, you can't fully mine ore without it being stuck in the ground, deer and other animals spawn inside of your house and often get trapped in the door, wood often drops through the ground and disappears, any fire on any point of the map makes the hills to be alive with the color of fire, animals often spawn but do not react to you and are not able to be interacted with - so basically ghost animals

Major gripes about the game - iron is scaled to be way too important in the game - you need somewhere around 600 iron ore to build one gun from the beginning of the game and that's NOT including making iron tools or stone architecture for base building, a lantern should not take 12 sheets of glass to make, a...

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Originally posted by LittleDog:

Originally posted by loriipops: Hey everyone, please try to be respectful when talking about topics such as this. There are median earnings in each country, but there are still those that earn more or less than that.

I might be wrong but I believe we put in our price for Icarus in USD and let Valve's pricing tool calculate all other foreign market prices. Their tool is what most developers use and is recommended.

This tool then works horribly wrong.
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Originally posted by Nadine: It is going good so far. It runs quit stable, nor crashes, not many lags. Did not see a bear or wolf so far, which is finde, so I can build up my base in peace.

Happy to hear this! :D

Hiya!

No dedicated servers on the horizon.

All prospectors can log-off during a prospect by pressing ESC and exiting to character select or quitting to desktop. The first person to re-join the empty prospect will become the host. Everyone can join back as they wish. Everything will remain as it was :D

The only way someone will not be able to join again, is if they "settle" their prospect by leaving in their dropship. This would mean they need to start their own new prospect or join another.

Hope this has helped!

Hi there!

Currently there is no way to "reset" your skill points - you would need to start a fresh new character to begin to put them where you want! Sorry if that isn't the most convenient for you, but it is the way we are doing things at least in the beta

I have warned both Mulcan and Malphas for your disrespectful and inappropriate language. Please consider being respectful during conversations in the future, thank you.

Hey everyone, please try to be respectful when talking about topics such as this. There are median earnings in each country, but there are still those that earn more or less than that.

I might be wrong but I believe we put in our price for Icarus in USD and let Valve's pricing tool calculate all other foreign market prices. Their tool is what most developers use and is recommended.

Patch Notes

• Buildings constructed on cliff-faces will no longer destroy themselves when players reload into the prospect
  
• Animals will no longer try to path through dropships
  
• When placing a full Oxygen Tank into a hotbar slot, it will now fill the player’s oxygen to 100%
  
• Left clicking the Oxygen Tank in the hotbar now consumes oxygen
  
• Lightning can no longer destroy items inside caves
  
• Arrows will no longer duplicate when they are recovered from skinned corpses
  
• Players can no longer be struck by lightning while inside a house
  
• Logged out players no longer show as a dead prospector
  
• Logged out players no longer show as a dead marker on the map
  
• Players no longer fall through the world when reloading their prospect into a cave
  
• Animals can no longer attempt to path through cave voxel coverings
  
• Animal cor...

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Originally posted by Malphas⚡⚡: I hope I'm wrong, but I don't see this coming out Nov 20th. They'll probably extend the beta until Q1 2022.

We are closely tracking our beta development which will determine whether we need to shift the needle or not! Whatever the outcome, it has always been in our best interest (and the community's) to ship Icarus when it is ready!

Originally posted by The Unknown: ok so its only 20 quid...

WOW SOOOO CHEAP (for a game we can only play on the weekends!!!!) Which is why i have not... and will not purchase it until release in november (don't you know it was listed to release end of september/beginning of october?)

But we can only play once a week.... >.> should be a demo due to this *rage moan shout sware moan rage....*

Hey The Unknown,

People have paid for their pre-order. The bet access is an added benefit, not only that, it allows us to listen to our community (you!) and make the game better before launch day. It's an important stage of video game development.

If participating in our beta weekends isn't for you, that's okay! I hope you have fun playing Icarus if you do decide to purchase on launch day or beyond.

Originally posted by ranmas:

Originally posted by rocket2guns: ...

For beta we are trying to assess all the mechanics and systems that we can, so we can verify things work really well for our development. We are trying to keep things as consistent as possible to help us identify issues and bugs.

You will be able to open your visor in future. But it might be dangerous, due to gas composition changes. So don't expect to have your visor closed (or open) all the time.

We have been discussing these possibilities, it's something we will consider later when we have the current version of the game running well.

Agreed - we are doing a lot of balance adjustments for each beta weekend. Hope you see some balance improvements for the next beta weekend!

We are working with AMD to optimize the game for AMD users, will be something we try and get better for each beta weekend.

We will be implementing full ultrawide support. For next beta weekend as a minium we have increased max FOV to 140, investigating the additional aspect ratio supports as well.

What resolution are you playing with? If I can get that info, I will check and make sure we have font size options for that resolution. Controller support is planned for the future.