Icarus Dev Tracker

Thank you for seven fantastic Beta Weekends.

The Beta Weekend format of unlocking new features, quickly fixing bugs and optimizing every two weeks has worked really well for our team and the health of the game.

That also means there are some features you haven’t experienced yet: Outposts, more Missions, Tier 4 tech, mining Exotic Matter and Orbital Workshop tech.

Launching 4 Dec
Icarus will launch worldwide on Steam this weekend at:

• 2pm Friday 3 December 2021 PST
  
• 10pm Friday 3 December 2021 UTC
  
• 11am Saturday 4 December 2021 NZT

Depending on your timezone your Steam Store might display a slightly different date, but ignore that for now.


Launch Content Loaded
At launch Icarus will have 64 square kilometers of terrain to explore, over 35 missions ranging from days to weeks in duration, over 240 talents, 6 different building materials, over 95 building pieces... Read more

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

Thank you for seven fantastic Beta Weekends.



For us, a key purpose of the beta weekends was for you to stress-test Icarus’ core gameplay systems and balance. Elements like session-based progression rather than a persistent world, destructive storms in a game about building, or mission objectives in an open-world game are calculated risks for a survival game. But if we don’t try some new things out, the genre won’t evolve.

It’s equally important that we exit Beta and begin to treat Icarus as a live, evolving game. The core game design has now been tested and solidified, a mountain of launch content is loaded - we now begin building on it.

The Beta Weekend format of unlocking new features, quickly fixing bugs and optimizing every two weeks has worked really well for our team and the health of the game.
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