Icarus Dev Tracker

If you shoot someone they will take damage. So in that sense, there is "support" for PVP in that players will take damage. But the game was not developed with what is needed to handle anti-social behavior, as it was designed to be a PVE experience in coop.

To make a proper and acceptable PVP environment for players we would need to make a lot of things "server authoritative". This means if a player wants to do something, we would either need to do that on the server and broadcast to clients, or have the server vet (and correct) things that are wrong. This involves a lot of complexity and a performance cost.

It was something we had discussed, but currently I would not recommend or advocate the game as a PVP experience, unless you trusted the people you were playing with to not use hacks or mods, or to cheat their experience.

From the beginning of the announcement of ICARUS, the New Frontiers expansion was always going to be paid for. In fact, Supporters Edition customer have already purchased the New Frontiers expansion and the Dangerous Horizons expansion. So it is actually the opposite, if we gave away the New Frontiers expansion not only would we not be able to afford that, but we would be doing a great disservice (and need to refund) all those customers who purchased it.

What we did do, was make an entire mini-expansion called "Styx", which we gave away for free to all customers who had purchased the game in it's first year.

Additionally, a free major update is coming soon as part of our regular updates (which we have done 90 of so far), that brings even more content, for free, to all parts of the game including the base game.

I understand that you are upset over the discount and/or the price of the expansion - but please note that making up details about New Frontiers ... Read more

There is a major performance optimization in the experimental branch this week - read the Week 90 News Post for more details. Many people have been reporting good results from it, and when it is fully tested we'll add it into the base game.

All of the rewards can be earned soio or in multiplayer. But you have to be present for the reward to be offered, because it is triggered and recorded on your client.

There is an icon on items that require the new resources to build.

I personally think it could be yes or no. I would encourage reading some negative reviews, and a few positive ones. Then if convinced, try the game for two hours and refund it if it doesn’t make you want to play it.

We would rather you got a refund than ended up with a game you did not enjoy.

Originally posted by koren: heck how Rust is doing, similar genre, similar price,

I actually know the team at Facepunch quite well.

Note Rust is one of the greatest selling games of all time now. It's a little difficult to compare. Additionally, note that Icarus not even as successful in reach as Conan. While it may be tempting to make comparisons - product reach really can be dramatically different.

Additionally, note that:
* Only the host requires our DLC
* We don't include any DRM
* It is as easy as changing a boolean value in settings to be able to access our content

We made these decisions to not fracture the game base.

Additionally, we promised (and sold) the two major ... Read more

Originally posted by Siamese55: That's great to hear! Snow maps are my favorite, so I am glad I haven't missed it or something. Looking forward to when it releases.

I cannot agree with you more!

They are my *favorite* by far. I have a lot of feedback myself for the team on monday to discuss about improvements to arctic. And we are planning to expand the New Frontiers map, with a special arctic zone being part of that.

I'm going to do some play sessions myself with Arcticus first to make sure it's really special. We didnt really expect the outposts to sell as well as they did, so we are bit surprised. So we will look to do all we can to make sure they get focus as well.

We've "done" it but it's not ready for release yet. It didn't pass testing. Which was unfortunate because it is far and away the coolest one. It will launch once we have fixed it up.

All the outposts have been more popular than we expected, so we will release an update as soon as we can to improve issues with them.

There is a solo talent tree. The quests/missions scale based on player numbers present.

I would recommend reading a few negative reviews, and a few positive ones. Maybe watch some streamers/content creators. If you are not totally convinced, maybe just try the base game for two hours and if not satisfied, you could refund.

Note you can't refund DLC on steam pretty much at all, which is kind of a shame. You might be able to try the game for under 2 hours, and refund it no matter what. Then if you liked it, you could rebuy it using this package:

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/34431/Icarus_New_Frontiers_Edition/

But that package only works if you *don't* own the base game. But that would allow you to get an additi... Read more

Originally posted by Lucius: Hi Rocket, Is this hotfix available on the experimental branch? Sorry if this is a dumb question. Thanks.

It's a good question actually! I will edit that into the main post.

Yes it is, the experimental branch contains these fixes *and* the performance fixes.

Very sorry - shouldn't have performance that bad. We have a beta branch called "experimental" that we are trialing some extensive performance and hitching fixes for. Would you be able to try this out and let me know if it improves things for you? Additionally, could you list your system specifications?

Originally posted by Ich: i play on "geforce now" (streaming service for gaming) and the game crashes every 3 to 4 hours with the "low on video ram" error message.

I would definitely raise a support ticket with Nvidia about that. That’s most likely a settings issue on their end. Note that GeForce now is a cloud service so we don’t have any control over how their service is configured.

This thread has details of a recent experience and solution

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1149460/discussions/2/3818543331792472890/

I recommend verifying files, and if that doesn’t work. Uninstall the game, check the steam folder and delete any left over files, and then reinstall.

On the forums here a number of users found steam had resulted in corrupted download of game files, which caused crashes as described.

Hotfix to be delayed to incorporate another fix: ETA 12 hours
There are two known issues with maps, and we have fixes prepared for them but it takes some time for them to build and deploy. Additionally, many users on steam have corruption issues and download speeds mean it can take a long time to update. Therefore we don't want to do two hotfixes at once, instead - we are going to roll both fixes into a build that will deploy tomorrow morning to main branch. We will, however, deploy them immediately when we can to experimental - which also contains the performance fixes we are testing.

This build will be deployed in roughly 12 hours, with the following fixes:
* Fixed 'FRACTURE: MANHUNT' when you kill the boss, the quest step does not complete
* Fixed 'NOMAD: EXPLORATION' if you tell 'Daisy' to wait she will sometimes get stuck and will not move (you can kill her to skip the escort ... Read more

Hotfix may be deployed in the next five to six hours, if so it would trigger a new download

We have identified a blocker bug (meaning: a bug we consider imperative to fix and deploy asap) we want to fix in one of the final NF missions (spoiler: Killing Lava Hunter is not progressing quest) . We have a fix for this and will be mastering a new build. We will need to deploy this to main branch. This will, unfortunately, trigger a download for people which will be problematic for people on slower connections. I will look at making a special branch if people don't want their game to download, and provide more information before a build is deployed.

More to follow.

EDIT: This has been pushed to both the main game branch and experimental beta branch. See post here for more info:
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Originally posted by MrWhiskers: In terms of performance, the game is still super janky. STILL lots of bugs. For me, the most unforgivable bug is ore nodes will spawn in rock that can't be mined (cave wall/floor).

Have you tried the new build on experimental? We are trialing some very significant new fixes that have solved hitching and stuttering issues for many players - myself included.

If that happened, best to contact steam support. We can't see any individual owner data, and even if I could, we have no ability to issue you a refund or a product etc... Only steam can do that.

We migrated to being local save, so that we were not storing peoples data.

Note that if you try do a mission on Prometheus, or Styx, the game will offer to give you automatic level advancement to compensate.