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It's extremely frustrating for us, and I have personally reached out to both Valve and Epic about the issue. Unfortunately, we are the ones who get blamed. I will keep putting pressure on.

In the meantime, I suggest that any game you have this issue with, raise a steam support ticket. They might close it, but perhaps the quantity might make them look at it.

The only option we really have is to abandon the use of the content packing system Epic provide as part of unreal. But this would mean the data is entirely unpacked, taking up enormous disk space and increasing load times by an incredible amount.

This situation represents a concern I have, that engine manufacturers and digital stores aren't blamed for issues with their part in providing products - and therefore, they aren't incentivized to solve the issues.

Welcome to Icarus.

Also - this will change soon. In the week 49 update we mention that with the upcoming 'data decentralization' change mission rewards will be granted upon the completion of objectives, rather than the completion of the prospect. So no more waiting for all players to leave the mission before you get the reward, or losing it all to a bear on the final stretch.

Thank you for identifying this hiccup! Team is on it, and you get a gold star (in theory, I am all out of actual gold stars but it's the thought that counts)

Originally posted by DocAceZ: This alone is most likely one of the WORST ideas to date for this game. You activate the "most requested change" in the game since its release and you make it a local save so the ONLY way you can play with another person is if the ORIGINAL CREATOR OF THE WORLD is online. It's bad enough that this STILL does not have dedicated servers (*ya, ya I know you're working on it) that we can host and/or play on BUT you make open world survival mode A LOCAL SAVE to the original world creator's PC. So when PLAYER 1 has to get off to eat his din-din, player 2 has to get off as well and can NOT go back into the world because it's on PLAYER 1's DAMN COMPUTER! And when Player 1 is at work, player 2, 3, 4 can't play the stupid game, why - - BECAUSE IT'S ON PLAYER ONE'S HARD DRIVE. Who in your planning department came up with this little ditty - FIRE THEM. We re-installed this game based on the new mode and th...

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We haven't announced a date for Open World Mode, but I can confirm that it is not next week's update. Probably a few more weeks away.

However, it will have a choice of dropship landing locations.

This doesn't seem right, I'll pass it on to the team.

Yup we are addressing the gold requirement in an update shortly, we have it on our list.

Originally posted by Spaceminnow:

Originally posted by Pach: From this week's patch notes:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1149460/view/3282583269806207197

Just so I understand,
So if you don't play, idle Icarus account, for about 90 da...

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Icarus is a terraformed Earth-like planet and the 'First Cohort' of prospectors were purposefully dropped in the most familiar zones to begin with. Check out https://surviveicarus.com/lore/

Have you come across the giant sandworm and scorpion boss yet?

However, the next DLC chapter expands into new biomes and more alien creatures.

Was this the geysers horde mode? And was this on a prospect or outpost?

Prospects only provide exotics 3x then it should provide enzymes. Outposts should only ever provide enzymes.

Also if you let the Vapour Condenser take too much damage it is destroyed and you need to start again. If you all log out mid wave you need to start again from the start.

Was this on an outpost or prospect?

Note there is no current system that deletes prospects after 90 real-world days.

We have, however, issued a warning that at some point in future prospects might be deleted after 90 real-world days of inactivity so that, in future, we don't have to store data indefinitely as data storage is not free and the project was not intended to have very significant amounts of data stored indefinitely.

So to confirm, the 90-day is simply an indication that at a future time it is possible that prospects not accessed outside 90 real-world days are not guaranteed to always be on the server forever.

As another poster noted, with decentralization even this potential issue will not exist.

Yeah we are currently down at the moment, we are investigating right now. A bunch of us are currently in Discord and have a member on the phone to providers currently tracking down whats gone wrong. Will keep you all updated!

https://discord.com/invite/surviveicarus

This odd indeed, the slots should prevent the items from ever doing that. Please let me know if you figure out how it occurred.

We do have plans to address this and will be be addressed we have pushed out the data dencentralisation patch.

Originally posted by chinchilla25: Happened to my wife and I this morning....I am orbiting the planet in space (lovely view) and my wife got tossed about 15 sectors without her equipment.

We worked hard to fix this a while ago - can you let me know what mission and creature launched you?

Originally posted by Rastlaff: maintain R and as crazy as it seems triple left click ... that's absurd ? I do agree

This doesn’t seem right I’ll check it out.

I believe this has been fixed now

Most of our team works on performance optimizations, as well as working with Intel and Nvidia directly so their drivers can be approved. Some tasks take longer than others, so some weeks will have more performance optimizations than others.

Note that this weeks update actually includes quite a few optimizations. You can read the specific details of this in the latest steam announcement, which details what is in the weekly update.

Originally posted by MadPike: doesnt matter if i launch via the client or a shortcut the game starts and then when the 3 dots in lower left corner appears the game crashes every time

This might have been related to a weird bug where Icarus was trying to launch in VR mode, which we fixed in this week's patch. Give it a try again.