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24 Aug

New Frontiers: Available now

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AUCKLAND, New Zealand — 24 August, 2023 — Icarus: New Frontiers, the relaunch of the popular survival game developed by RocketWerkz, is available now on Steam. New Frontiers is a major expansion set in Prometheus, a merciless new region where terraforming has failed and hostile alien lifeforms abound. Players are challenged to solve a sinister mystery while establishing a base in the open world and fighting simply to survive.

“This is our original vision for the game,” says gamerunner Dean Hall. “By combining the mission-based gameplay with a huge open world and the aliens that the community has been asking for, New Frontiers is a tense and thrilling survival experience.”

 

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Aluminium buildings

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    Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
This will be fixed in the NF build.

DLC release at Midnight NZ Time??

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    Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
yep thats correct!

23 Aug

New content is cool, but...

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    Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
We are currently testing an internal fix for some of the main causes of this issue.

DEVS any news about DLSS 3 implementation?

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    Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
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.

22 Aug

Icarus: New Frontiers Available Now

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        Top-selling survival game relaunches in a brutal open world swarming with alien lifeforms

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — 24 August, 2023 — Icarus: New Frontiers, the relaunch of the popular survival game developed by RocketWerkz, is available now on Steam. New Frontiers is a major expansion set in Prometheus, a merciless new region where terraforming has failed and hostile alien lifeforms abound. Players are challenged to solve a sinister mystery while establishing a base in the open world and fighting simply to survive.

“This is our original vision for the game,” says gamerunner Dean Hall. “By combining the mission-based gameplay with a huge open world and the aliens that the community has been asking for, New Frontiers is a tense and thrilling survival experience.”

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Will New Frontiers be an extension to the current open world map?

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    Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
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.

How much is New Frontier DLC Will cost ?

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    Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
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.

Open World with missions to earn currency?

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    Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
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.

21 Aug

DEVS any news about DLSS 3 implementation?

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    Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
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.

Open World with missions to earn currency?

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    Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
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.

How much is New Frontier DLC Will cost ?

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    Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
I deleted a post that breached the steam community guidelines. Please do not post things that are objectively false, as it derails the thread topic and incites flame wars. Please see the steam community guidelines and note that posts that breach these will be removed, and warnings or even bans might be issued.

give me 27 reasons why to buy this game

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    Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
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.

20 Aug

How much is New Frontier DLC Will cost ?

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    Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
After the next time the game is on sale, Icarus and Styx will likely receive a price increase.

19 Aug

Jesus

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    Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Date change for what? If you are talking about DLC launch, there have been zero changes to that

Icarus: New Frontiers | Gameplay Trailer

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    Icarus on YouTube - Thread - Direct
See transcript

THUMPER - I WANT MY MONEY BACK

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    Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
It is okay to not like something, even to do something passionately. It is acceptable to criticize the game, things you don't like about the game, and things that have changed about the game or your experiences in it.

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.

Comments and posts that do this may be removed and warnings given, and repeated instances or serious instances may involve permanent or temporary bans.

In this case, i am locking the thread. Hopefully it will serve as a reminder to fol... Read more

18 Aug

Unlock Exotics in open world?

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    Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
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.

Sick of HUGE "Patches"

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    Heightmare on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
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.

Unlock Exotics in open world?

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    Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
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.



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