Icarus Dev Tracker

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25 Aug 01:31 Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

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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24 Aug 16:42 Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

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.

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24 Aug 15:38 Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

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.

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24 Aug 15:15 Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

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.

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24 Aug 14:26 Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

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.

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24 Aug 13:52 Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

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.

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24 Aug 11:55 /u/ on Steam - Thread - Direct

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

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24 Aug 11:54 Shamm on Steam - Thread - Direct

Icarus: New Frontiers, the first expansion of the Icarus experience, has landed. It brings with it a new map, with all new biomes, mutated alien creatures, narrative missions (known as Operations) that further unveil the story and can are integrated into your Open World game, craftables, exotics, and more.

New Frontiers Expansion

Icarus: First Cohort dropped prospectors into safe Earth-like terraformed zones. Icarus: New Frontiers will take you deep into new regions of Icarus where alien creatures and habitats survived but were altered by the terraforming process.

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24 Aug 04:59 Icarus on News - Thread - Direct

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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24 Aug 01:17 Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

This will be fixed in the NF build.

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24 Aug 01:16 Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

yep thats correct!

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23 Aug 13:22 Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

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

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23 Aug 10:16 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.

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22 Aug 23:52 Icarus on News - Thread - Direct

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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22 Aug 16:15 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.

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22 Aug 12:59 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.

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22 Aug 06:08 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.

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21 Aug 23:43 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.

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21 Aug 23:37 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.

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21 Aug 23:35 Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

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25 Aug

SHIPPED | Hotfix may be deployed in the next five to six hours

24 Aug

Icarus worth playing in 2023?

new dlc

Character reset?

Do both players need to have a dlc or just host?

new dlc

Icarus Week Ninety Update | New Frontiers

Icarus Week Ninety Update | New Frontiers

New Frontiers: Available now

Aluminium buildings

DLC release at Midnight NZ Time??

23 Aug

New content is cool, but...

DEVS any news about DLSS 3 implementation?

22 Aug

Icarus: New Frontiers Available Now

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

How much is New Frontier DLC Will cost ?

Open World with missions to earn currency?

21 Aug

DEVS any news about DLSS 3 implementation?

Open World with missions to earn currency?

How much is New Frontier DLC Will cost ?

When do they post?