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29 Nov

I just realized something. The release date is the Dec 4th or 5th? Steam Doesn't Release Games on the Weekends.

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    sknightly on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Nope, just tachyons and exotic matter disrupting the time-space continuum

RocketWerkz’s Icarus Launch Date and Recommended Specs Confirmed

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Dean ‘DayZ’ Hall’s new survival game launches on Steam on 4 December

 

RocketWerkz’s session-based sci-fi survival game Icarus is confirmed to launch on Steam on 4 December (UTC).

Originally scheduled to launch in August, Icarus instead opened a series of Beta Weekends for players who pre-ordered the game. The beta became Steam’s top-selling game during its first beta weekend and has had over 200,000 pre-orders and beta test players. The game has resided among Steam’s Top 10 Most Wishlisted games since August 2021.

“After three months of beta testing and feedback from one of the most engaged gamer communities I’ve ever seen, Icarus is ready for launch,” says gamerunner Dean Hall.

“We believe the key to making a great survival game is listening to community feedback and being able to rapidly iterate. We deliberately built our architecture so we ...

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28 Nov

Odd lack of news a week before Launch

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    sknightly on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
We just thought we'd give you a rest for Thanksgiving and other game launches ;-) Don't worry - we have a bunch of news coming this week and this weekend.

Remember back in April how we delivered a 7-minute long short film? There's another one of those coming, but longer. Plus announcements about drivers, what's in 1.0, maybe some Twitch streams.

spanish?

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    sknightly on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Yes we are translating Icarus into Brazilian Portuguese and Latin American Spanish for launch.

Our translators are furiously adding words to the game as we get ready for launch this weekend. But then our developers add new features and they have to play catch up ;-)

You'll also see that one of the Governmental factions on Icarus, União, and the space engineering company Inaris LLC are both from South America.

Controller support

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    sknightly on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Yes, this is on our roadmap for future.

We've already got some of it implemented in our developer's build, but making it work properly for 100% of the things you do in game (eg, menus, building commands) takes a bit longer.

I just realized something. The release date is the Dec 4th or 5th? Steam Doesn't Release Games on the Weekends.

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    sknightly on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
The date is displayed differently on different timezones.

Icarus will launch on Sat 4 Dec UTC, which will be Fri 3 Dev afternoon/evening PST.

26 Nov

Beta Weekend Seven Competition Winners

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Hey Prospectors!

Beta Weekend Seven was the grand send-off we had hoped for, celebrating our fantastic community and all the contributions you’ve made to this game over the last few months.

Our Photo Competition, Building Competition and 3080 giveaway were all massive hits, absolutely exceeding our expectations in the number of entries but also the quality. We saw 1000+ entries into the photo competition alone, and it was incredibly hard to even narrow the entries down to our finalists.

But there has to be a winner, so without further ado, here are the winners in each category of our Photo competition.

Note: You can find all the other finalists further down this blog.

Best Environment Photo - the best beautiful but deadly with beautifully-lit scenery
Winner: Bruce


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Beta Weekend Seven Competition Winners

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    /u/ on Steam - Thread - Direct
A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

25 Nov


24 Nov

Just awesome!

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    sknightly on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
In general, always update to the latest drivers - but just prior to launch we expect NVIDIA to update their game-ready drivers to include Icarus. We'll let you know when they're available.

gamepad

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    sknightly on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Not yet, but it is on our roadmap to add.

23 Nov

pack français

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    sknightly on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Oui, nous traduirons le jeu en français pour notre lancement le 4 Décembre.

Yes, we will translate the game into French for our launch on 4 December.

Delayed by another day?

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    sknightly on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
It's a timezone thing ;-)

Yes Icarus will launch on Saturday 4 December UTC. If you're in the USA that may even mean the afternoon/evening of Friday 3 December.

I never managed to finish my Castle :(

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    sknightly on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
We shared this around the studio and I can say that many of the devs are very impressed!

22 Nov

Singleplayer, can I play the game offline?

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    sknightly on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Good news! If you only want to play singleplayer there is an offline mode that will store all your progress on your local harddrive with no need for an internet connection.

Do developers plans to add npc with guns?

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    sknightly on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Not in this chapter.

The corporate and governmental factions operating on icarus are rivals but are doing their best to avoid any diplomatic incidents for now.

Deluxe.

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    sknightly on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Yes!

But we have a 10% discount if you pre-order, but it will continue as a 10% discount for our entire launch week.

We've changed the name from Deluxe to Supporters Edition too, to better show that it's for people who want to support the long-term development of Icarus. We'll also add a few little things to it in future.

this game make zero sense!

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    sknightly on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Well, it is a video game.

There is more backstory on how Icarus came to be here.[surviveicarus.com]

21 Nov

Deleting the thread about fraud from Steam/Developers...

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    sknightly on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Originally posted by Würger GER: Seriously? He bought the deluxe-edition and refunded it, while Steam did only refund the cost of the base version to him and you really deleted his post (where he rightfully complained)? So, in other words, you stole around 70 bucks of him? And you delete his rightful complain?

I can't wait the game to get released, so I can give your game a negative review.

No, we did not delete that thread. The original poster did, after we answered his question ;-)

He had an issue with a refund, we replied, and suggested he contact Steam support directly.

There are many threads here that discuss both the pros and cons of how the Icarus Beta Weekends have gone. They're useful conversations for us developers to read and we don't censor them. We do censor (or move) posts which breach Steam's Rules and Guidelines for things like offensive language, abuse or insultin... Read more



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