Icarus Dev Tracker

We are preparing a hotfix with:
* Some fixes for connection issues some are experiencing (those who don't seem to be able to make a new prospect, but can join their friends)
* Lowering the bear spawn rate a bit (a lot of bears were spawning)
* Nerfing infected/festering wounds, as they were extremely punishing for lower level players
* Increasing the ladder "stack" size - how many ladders you can stack on each other
* A lot of other small little balance tweaks.

Will be testing internally, then deploying. Target is within two hours of this post, but subject to change.

Hey all! Please find below a shortened version of our overall patch notes for Beta Weekend #2. This will provide a more detailed breakdown of some of the other changes we've made.

Many bug fixes and optimizations:

• Fixed mineable voxel rocks (metals, oxite etc) respawning when you reload a saved prospect.
  
• Fixed a bug so animals can no longer see through cave walls or structures.
  
• Fixed an issue where characters could become locked out of a prospect due to incorrectly being flagged as having left via dropship.
  
• Fixed an issue where it was impossible to place items or structures on ground previously occupied by broken building pieces.
  
• Animals will no longer attempt to walk through space occupied by player dropships.
  
• Fixed a problem where characters could end up in a ‘bad state’, preventing them from starting new prospects.
  
• Fixed an issue wher...

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This will be a thread of known issues for Beta Weekend #2, with possible solutions, workarounds and status updates.

1 - You may encounter error 037 during this beta weekend! Don't worry, you do have friends and this error is lying to you. What is actually happening is your character is failing to initialize when joining a drop, this is on us and is a known bug. Simply trying again until it works is the best way to solve this one.

Update: WE HAVE A HOTFIX INCOMING FOR THIS BUG.

Originally posted by DrDr !: 1. Crossbow working with its sighting

Confirmed fixed in BW2. We also checked the Hunting Rifle and Shotgun (both are currently in BW2, barring a catastropie).

Originally posted by DrDr !: 2. Fixed air bladder with the interface , ( oxite machine related)

Confirmed fixed in BW2.

Originally posted by DrDr !: 3. Fixed server logic, preventing Death or lock outs without fair reason. AKA bugs

Much improved. We fixed the things we know about, with one or two "ahhhh" bugs that we have been unable to reproduce - but think are still out there.

Originally posted by DrDr !: 4. Optimization of shadow visuals, ( not complaining , just a hope)

A huge amount of optimizati... Read more

Originally posted by Jayson Phoenix: *cough* dont forget to add the feedback link to the q&a thread as promised in there :P
or even better make an own thread to make everybody see and use the feedback link right when entering the forum instead of having to look for it

Done. This was the last place I didn't update it, thanks!

Originally posted by Church.exe:

Originally posted by SmashT:
None of the deluxe things (enviro suit, outposts etc) are available throughout the beta anyway so I'm assuming it will just be there on launch regardless of whether you upgraded/refunded/repurchased or purchased deluxe initially.

Can someone confirm if this is true or not? (I agree it seems likely but I want to be sure)

Can confirm this is true, the exclusive envirosuit and 'outposts' are not planned to be... Read more

Hello everyone!

I want to start off by saying how encouraging and humbling it is to see so many passionate players and members taking to these forums to chat about all things Icarus! We see all of you who are contributing constructively, openly, positively and helping answer other players’ questions too.

Having said that, we are noticing some unnecessary, harmful, disrespectful hate speech and criticisms across our discussion channels and forums.

We are and have always been open to conversations around where we need to improve Icarus - that’s the point of our Beta Weekends. A solid and strong community should feel they have the room to provide us with both criticisms, affirmations and everything else in between. However, some of these newer posts and comments (and particularly personal attacks on individuals) just have no use for us as a company, and are debilitating for our wider community who support Icarus and our RocketWerkz team.

For absolut... Read more

I can certainly understand the frustration.

From a development perspective they have been very useful, because:

1. It reduces the "beta fatigue" of the players, but exposing small parts of the game instead of all of it at once - with each of the parts not having the benefit of time to address any faults.
2. Allow us to focus feedback into specific components in isolation, with time between to address that feedback before getting feedback on the next piece of the game.
3. Let us have focused development time without distractions, we're not "rushing to fix a bug" or trying to help customers out with the game and problems - we observe in the weekend and then have two weeks of focused work.

Originally posted by Malphas⚡⚡: That's a really long winded way to say you have no patience.

I think that's a little reductive, they gave a detailed overview of some important key points. I think we could differ in interpretation, but I would certainly agree that:

* The character customization is severely lacking
* The Beta map area was very small
* Much of the beta mechanics felt a little... boring?

I suppose though that was somewhat of the intention of the beta, to focus on the ground of the game and build from that.

I just think its vital we don't dismiss concerns raised like this because its "only a beta". We need to acknowledge them, and then hopefully address them in subsequent beta weeken... Read more

Originally posted by SKnAVEN: It was refunded after another request! Thank you again.

That's great - and remember you can refund at any time during the preorder, no matter how long you have played the beta. And once the game releases, your playtime will be zero so you can get two hours of playtime then as well to see if you like it, and it runs well.

Also: for BW2 please check you have the latest Nvidia drivers, and that DLSS is turned on (I would recommend "balanced" setting). This will make a *massive* difference to performance and visuals.