Icarus Dev Tracker

There is only one that matters, which is if the game looks interesting to you. I would recommend reading a few negative reviews, and a few positive ones. Then if it looks interesting try it out. If it doesn't "wow" you in two hours, refund the game. If it was close, maybe check back later, if not, don't check back on it again.

While I hope you love the game, not everyone game is for everyone and that's okay. If you don't enjoy the experience, at least refund the game and hopefully check out other games we make in the future.

After the next time the game is on sale, Icarus and Styx will likely receive a price increase.

Date change for what? If you are talking about DLC launch, there have been zero changes to that

It is okay to not like something, even to do something passionately. It is acceptable to criticize the game, things you don't like about the game, and things that have changed about the game or your experiences in it.

It is not okay to direct that towards people, including developers. It is strictly against steam community content rules to attack people, whether developers or not, and whether it is a joke or not.

Comments and posts that do this may be removed and warnings given, and repeated instances or serious instances may involve permanent or temporary bans.

In this case, i am locking the thread. Hopefully it will serve as a reminder to fol... Read more

Originally posted by Bulletforsam: Hard, Hardcore is the best way to play this game. People die on Icarus all the time.

I mean personally, yes, this is how I play ICARUS and also how I play most games. But that's very much my personal way of playing the game, not necessarily what I think allows us to have a successful game.

But, as they say "the customer is always right when it comes to matters of taste". The game has to adjust somewhat to what the market wants, otherwise the game and the studio wouldn't survive.

You're absolutely not downloading 56GB of data every update. The downloads themselves are quite small, but due to how the games data is packaged and how Steam likes to handle storing and updating this data it can result in a lot of files being moved around on disk. On slower hard drives this can take a while - it's likely if you have a look in the download page in Steam you'll see it goes from 'Updating' to 'Patching' then to 'Installing'. Only this first phase is the actual download.

Things can be adjusted at our end, but any improvement to install time will be to the detriment of either download size, game load time or several other factors.

Unlocking Exotics in open world will come with the Hypatia update, due sometime after the expansion (New Frontiers) launch. Unfortunately, timing them both together would have significantly increased testing risks as well as pushing the launch of New Frontiers back to collide with Starfield's launch.

Originally posted by WarNerve: Please don't see my post as a complaint.

Did not come across like that at all, and many have this issue - occasionally even myself. So discussing it is good. While some might get a bit annoyed as it has been discussed before, it can be very hard to know if information is current. So discussing it and continuing to look at options to deal with it are well worth it.

Originally posted by WarNerve: I really appreciate you taking the time to give us all such ...

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Originally posted by Grand Forks: love that response @Rocket "highly optimized binarized data" I had to giggle a bit.

Sorry I don't quite understand what you mean?

Perhaps you misunderstood me; but the phrase "highly optimized binarized data" is just a descriptive way of saying "packing" something. It's just a factual statement describing how the files are packed.

Take for example if you took your whole computer hard drive and "zipped" it up. By saying its binarized and highly optimized, I wouldn't be necessarily saying its the best way to work on those files, but it is the most efficient way of storing it. Additionally, if when zipping it, the packing process looked at what files reference what others, and ... Read more

It is a very frustrating issue for us. Note that we have zero control over how patches are applied on steam. The way delta patching occurs on steam causes this issue, especially on highly optimized binarized data. This means steam reserves a whole bunch of new sectors, copies the data across, and cross references.

We get many complaints about this, but the only thing we could realistically do would be uncompress the data completely, which is what games like Ark do. They don't pack the data and leave it all unpacked, and uncompressed.

If we tried to do this with Icarus, it would very dramatically increase both the load times and RAM used by assets during loading, as well as filesize very dramatically.

Unfortunately it seems following the best practice guidelines for packing data for Unreal, which we did, triggers big problems for steam downloads. I raised the issue with valve who told me to get customers to raise tickets, which I passed on. However, valv... Read more

Originally posted by Diedel: And i personally am very happy for this, being able to mod games is a HUGE extensions to the lifetime of many games for me.

It's a shame we aren't, currently anyway, better able to support mod integration as well. There are some truly outstanding mods, but because it is not quite as easy as visiting the workshop it means many miss out on seeing some amazing creations. When you look at what life games like KSP and RimWorld have gotten from mods, it really shows what they do for a game.

Currently we have our hands so full with the current roadmap it can be difficult for us to look for time to rework what would be needed for more streamlined mod support.

This person is creating multiple accounts after being banned. Their behavior has escalated to other concerning behavior that is being taken further.

I will leave this post here so people are aware of their username, until the matter can be dealt with properly by steam and authorities.

We specifically changed the game to better support people to get into the game files and mod/adapt the game to what they might want to do with it. Defining the difference between a cheat and a mod is pretty much impossible.