Icarus Dev Tracker

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Hey Prospectors!

Beta Weekend 2 has been a wild success with thousands of you testing your skills, growing your legacies and giving us the valuable feedback and insight we needed.


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Along the way we did encounter some unfortunate errors that we have worked quickly to address, delivering four hotfixes during the weekend to address a range of connection issues and gameplay balances.

With all this going on, we decided it was best to extend our play window as a once-off, to allow players who didn’t have the opportunity to experience these new features to get down to the planet.

We have extended for a full 24 hours, with the new end-time being:

• 10pm Monday 13 September PDT
  
• 5am Tuesday 14 September UTC
  
• 5pm Tuesd...

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Some minor changes and fixes that were not in the previous hotfix, but we felt were important nonetheless.

Detailed Changelog

• Extending bounds sliightly into arctic for Ice collection. This means you will be able to go deeper into arctic biomes for most of the arctic biomes entrances on the map - to get a taste for BW3!
  
• Increased speed of medical consume action.
  
• Adding charcoal to medical recipes
  
• No longer required to unlock animals on skinning bench, they are automatically unlocked
  
• Upped Yeast yield harvesting yield, each yeast plant will give 1-4 yeast.
  
• Moved floor torch to be craftable on Character
  
• Fixing item duplication bug which occurs when splitting a stack which is currently focused by the player on their hotbar when holding Shift
  
• Adding a dehumidifier to talent tree as it was missing.
  
• Splitting up Melee and Projectile Damage W...

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

Beta Weekend Two is continuing to prove popular! To keep the momentum of the Beta Weekend going strong we have a bunch more improvements we wanted to add so you can have the best experience possible this weekend.

It is also a good chance for us to show you, through our actions, that we want this project to be about quick and fast iteration. We aim to listen to the community and implement feedback and ideas that we feel fit with the game quickly where possible.

Bodies will now drop items in a bundle This allows you to recover your items when you die, if you reach the bundle before it despawns. This has been a very popular feature request. We were planning on adding it for Beta Weekend 3 (BW3), but we have decided to add it right now for this Beta Weekend. When you respawn, if you return to the place you died there will be a bundle you can pick up with your previous inventory.

Living in Caves We have added a Dehumidifier that clears the underground cave buff... Read more

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

Thank you for your fantastic feedback on Beta Weekend Two so far! We've been watching your streams and reading your chats on Discord and social media with great interest, and the occasional laugh.

This hotfix has some changes that will greatly improve the gameplay balance. We felt these were safe to make, and also important enough for you to play so we can confirm our approach before we refine Beta Weekend 3 content.

Normally, we won't do hotfixes during the weekend to try and keep the experience stable. Additionally, we like to let the team have a well earned rest after a busy few weeks. However, we want to make a few balance changes so we can verify our broader approach to experience and animals - before we start opening up other areas.

Try out the Beta Weekend risk free right now! Want to try these out? Pre-order Icarus to get access to the Beta Weekend right now. You can play the beta as long as you like and refund at an... Read more