Icarus Dev Tracker

Originally posted by wrex: Is this confirmed? Can I play New Horizons with friends who have not yet purchased the DLC?

Correct. It is studio policy to put as little DRM in our games as we can, and to make DLC as permissive as possible.

Everyone who purchased the upgraded edition receives it for free. They do not pay for it, in fact, steam will not let them pay for it as they already own it.

This will be fixed in the NF build.

yep thats correct!

We are currently testing an internal fix for some of the main causes of this issue.

Some possible good news - Nvidia reached out to us with a possible reason for the crash. So this is FANTASTIC news and I'm so pleased. We thought they had forgotten about us, but they had not! I'll update more when we can.

New Frontiers, for the first time, allows all its missions to be played either in open world directly, or as the normal mission mode. You can take existing prospectors into the world (Prometheus) in the New Frontiers expansion.

Note that until the next big update, Exotics currently cant be earned on these missions. We just wanted more time to test, to make sure everything works fine with the missions before exotics are turned on for open world.

Originally posted by turk0gamer:

Originally posted by Rocket: After the next time the game is on sale, Icarus and Styx will likely receive a price increase.

Hey will the increase with the sale or after?

Will be after the sale, we cannot increase the price before sale as that would be illegal - and for good reason otherwise people could increase the price and then immediately putting it on discount.

We will wait until after the next sale to adjust prices.

You’re welcome! I have been doing a big play session in New Frontiers to make sure it is ready for you all. I have been really enjoying the open world, and being able to do the missions like that.

It is a shame that Olympus and styx will not have the story missions in open world until Hypatia, which comes later, but it is a necessary evil due to us needing time to test them all and make sure they are okay.

We attempted to add this and spent considerable time, however we can an unspecified crash that we cannot debug. We escalated as high as we could at Nvidia to provide more information or help in solving the problem. They sent us another 40 series card to help, but the crash is non-specific and points to the API without any specific information we can use to solve the issue.

Unfortunately they have not helped us, so we can blocked at providing support for this. It is disappointing as we spent considerable developer time trying to support DLSS3. In future when nvidia update their API we might be able to try again, but it not cheap for us to keep trying as we have to stop doing other tasks.

We will also keep putting pressure on nvidia to see if they can dedicate some engineers to help us identify the issue.

I have heard rumors that we may get missions with persistent worlds

It has been confirmed in multiple announcements and updates that exotic earning will be coming to open world with the Hypatia update, that is due after the launch of New Frontiers.

Currently New Frontiers will contain, for the first time, full missions done inside open world. With Hypatia will be back-port this to Styx and Olympus and allow exotics to be earned in open world.

We have to add some content and functionality to support this so it needs more time in testing before we can release it, which is why it is not in the new frontiers update.

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There is only one that matters, which is if the game looks interesting to you. I would recommend reading a few negative reviews, and a few positive ones. Then if it looks interesting try it out. If it doesn't "wow" you in two hours, refund the game. If it was close, maybe check back later, if not, don't check back on it again.

While I hope you love the game, not everyone game is for everyone and that's okay. If you don't enjoy the experience, at least refund the game and hopefully check out other games we make in the future.

After the next time the game is on sale, Icarus and Styx will likely receive a price increase.

Date change for what? If you are talking about DLC launch, there have been zero changes to that

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It is not okay to direct that towards people, including developers. It is strictly against steam community content rules to attack people, whether developers or not, and whether it is a joke or not.

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Originally posted by Bulletforsam: Hard, Hardcore is the best way to play this game. People die on Icarus all the time.

I mean personally, yes, this is how I play ICARUS and also how I play most games. But that's very much my personal way of playing the game, not necessarily what I think allows us to have a successful game.

But, as they say "the customer is always right when it comes to matters of taste". The game has to adjust somewhat to what the market wants, otherwise the game and the studio wouldn't survive.

You're absolutely not downloading 56GB of data every update. The downloads themselves are quite small, but due to how the games data is packaged and how Steam likes to handle storing and updating this data it can result in a lot of files being moved around on disk. On slower hard drives this can take a while - it's likely if you have a look in the download page in Steam you'll see it goes from 'Updating' to 'Patching' then to 'Installing'. Only this first phase is the actual download.

Things can be adjusted at our end, but any improvement to install time will be to the detriment of either download size, game load time or several other factors.

Unlocking Exotics in open world will come with the Hypatia update, due sometime after the expansion (New Frontiers) launch. Unfortunately, timing them both together would have significantly increased testing risks as well as pushing the launch of New Frontiers back to collide with Starfield's launch.

Originally posted by WarNerve: Please don't see my post as a complaint.

Did not come across like that at all, and many have this issue - occasionally even myself. So discussing it is good. While some might get a bit annoyed as it has been discussed before, it can be very hard to know if information is current. So discussing it and continuing to look at options to deal with it are well worth it.

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