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30 Nov

What’s coming in Icarus 1.0

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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

29 Nov

is this game coming out on the 5th or is it just another beta?

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    sknightly on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
It's our 1.0 launch this weekend.

Icarus will launch worldwide on Steam 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 time and date confirmed

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    sknightly on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Gamerunner Dean just posted a 'Thank you for the Beta Weekends' post including confirmation of our launch time.

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.

End of the Beta, Start of the Game

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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.

End of the Beta, Start of the Game

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

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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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.



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