Icarus Dev Tracker

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18 Sep 07:46 Icarus on News - Thread - Direct

Icarus has always been a good-looking but deadly environment, but now it will kill you faster.

Working with our friends at NVIDIA we have upgraded Icarus to support DLSS 3.0. The result was a 2.6X on average increase in performance enabling max setting, ray-traced gameplay on many GeForce RTX 40 Series systems.

If you are running Icarus in Direct X 12 mode and have a GeForce RTX 40 Series GPU, turn on Frame Generation in the Graphics Settings to take advantage of the improved frame rate.

NVIDIA DLSS 3 is the next revolution in neural graphics. Combining DLSS Super Resolution, all-new DLSS Frame Generation, and NVIDIA Reflex, running on the new hardware capabilities of GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs, DLSS speeds up frame rates while still providing image quality similar to native resolution.

Benchmarking in NVIDIA’s labs found a that DLSS 3 boosted Icarus’ performance by 2.6X on average.

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15 Sep 05:43 /u/ on Steam - Thread - Direct

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

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15 Sep 05:42 sknightly on Steam - Thread - Direct

This week’s update sees some love for Outpost mode, although these new features (such as Shields and Resource Packs) are also useful in every game mode.

Notable Improvements

Added a fix to prevent prospectors falling through the terrain around crevasses in arctic biomes
Exotic Resource spawning has changed. Now at least one Red Exotic Vein is always guaranteed on Prometheus
Fixed an issue which was causing giant or tiny prospectors after interacting with the Terrenus mount
SMPL3 Quests now grant some Ren as a reward
SMPL3 Quests are now triggerable on Outposts

This Week: Outpost SMPL3 Quests & Ren Rewards One part of the launch of our Icarus: New Frontiers expansion we’ve been pleasantly surprised about is the popularity of Outposts. Outposts are smaller c... Read more

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08 Sep 07:52 Heightmare on Steam - Thread - Direct

Week Ninety Two is here and brings the Terrenus mount to Icarus. Slotting in between the existing mounts (Moa and Buffalo) in terms of utility, the Terrenus can be found across all three maps and tamed just like its predecessors.

We’ve also released the Bone Armor Set. This was originally set aside for a Twitch Drops campaign, but we decided to let everyone have it rather than keep it in reserve. We’ve also added DLSS 3 support for those playing with DX12.

On top of this, we have updates on Hypatia, some changes to modules and a performance improvement that was supposed to be included last week.

See the full details below.

Notable Improvements

The Dynamic Nav Mesh was re-enabled. The lack of this was causing poor creature pathing and preventing Creature Deterrents from working.
Fixed a case where players would not get mission rewards if they weren't present for the start of a mission after they had previously...

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08 Sep 07:52 /u/ on Steam - Thread - Direct

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

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02 Sep 06:22 Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

Steam is often corrupting the game files while downloading updates. Note that verifying game files does not seem to fix this.

You need to go to the install directory, then uninstall the game, and ensure all the files are deleted. Then reinstall the game.

It is a very annoying bug we see quite often with how steam is applying game updates.

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02 Sep 06:21 Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

A temporary ban has been issued to OP.

Threatening to spam the forums unless you receive a response will result in temporary or permabans.

Topic is locked.

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01 Sep 13:24 Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

Apologies, it was set to "must by together". I have changed it to "Complete the set". Let me know if this works for you.

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01 Sep 07:42 Shamm on Steam - Thread - Direct

This weeks update we release the work we have been doing towards performance improvements. We have been working on these improvements for some time, and they represent a major change in how a number of assets and parts of the map are loaded. Most specifically these are targeted to address hitching and stutters caused by level streaming and asset loading when moving across the ma, but in many cases they also give modest general FPS improvements as well.

We’ve done a big write up to explain the changes we’ve made and our logic for it also, to give you an idea of the background work that’s going in to improving the experience for all players as we add more content to the game in the future.

This week also brings the long awaited wind power system, with new wind turbines giving you a third sustainable power source, and a sneak peek at our next improvement to the electricity system, batteries.

We’ve also got an update on Hypatia, our next big free update, and ev... Read more

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01 Sep 07:42 /u/ on Steam - Thread - Direct

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

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01 Sep 03:41 Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

Note the experimental branch contains major fixes towards this issue. It will be deploying to main branch sometime in the next few hours.

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31 Aug 05:33 Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

(got the video replying here)

Note we deliberately have not encrypted the files so that, if people want, they can easily award themselves the DLC. This is in line with our studio policy of not including DRM wherever possible. It is very easy to bypass our DLC restrictions, and this is intended.

This is also why we were so confused with the tone of your other thread, as we believe we do everything we can to be consumer friendly.

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30 Aug 12:27 Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

Originally posted by MorePopPunkThanPizzaTTV: Is there any word on more tamable animals atm?

Yes, in fact we have a new animal almost ready to go. We plan to significantly iterate on how mounts are in the game, as well as introduce new mounts. A new mount might be next weeks update (not this week, but the week after). Note this plan might have to change.

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29 Aug 09:49 Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

We are testing a performance update on the opt-in experimental beta branch. If you could try that and let me know if it helps, that would be amazing.

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29 Aug 09:48 Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

We are targeting 1 - 2 months internally. I must stress though this is subject to change. Currently we believe the remaining work is relatively straightforward, but it will depend quite a lot on how our testing goes.

Regardless are really excited we will be able to bring the missions inside of the open world experience for Olympus and styx. I think styx is underrated, and this I think will really bring that beautiful map out.

We will include additional estimates and updates in each of our weekly update posts as we proceed with the work.

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29 Aug 07:22 Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

If you shoot someone they will take damage. So in that sense, there is "support" for PVP in that players will take damage. But the game was not developed with what is needed to handle anti-social behavior, as it was designed to be a PVE experience in coop.

To make a proper and acceptable PVP environment for players we would need to make a lot of things "server authoritative". This means if a player wants to do something, we would either need to do that on the server and broadcast to clients, or have the server vet (and correct) things that are wrong. This involves a lot of complexity and a performance cost.

It was something we had discussed, but currently I would not recommend or advocate the game as a PVP experience, unless you trusted the people you were playing with to not use hacks or mods, or to cheat their experience.

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29 Aug 06:41 Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

From the beginning of the announcement of ICARUS, the New Frontiers expansion was always going to be paid for. In fact, Supporters Edition customer have already purchased the New Frontiers expansion and the Dangerous Horizons expansion. So it is actually the opposite, if we gave away the New Frontiers expansion not only would we not be able to afford that, but we would be doing a great disservice (and need to refund) all those customers who purchased it.

What we did do, was make an entire mini-expansion called "Styx", which we gave away for free to all customers who had purchased the game in it's first year.

Additionally, a free major update is coming soon as part of our regular updates (which we have done 90 of so far), that brings even more content, for free, to all parts of the game including the base game.

I understand that you are upset over the discount and/or the price of the expansion - but please note that making up details about New Frontiers ... Read more

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27 Aug 09:14 sknightly on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

There is a major performance optimization in the experimental branch this week - read the Week 90 News Post for more details. Many people have been reporting good results from it, and when it is fully tested we'll add it into the base game.

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26 Aug 15:34 Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

All of the rewards can be earned soio or in multiplayer. But you have to be present for the reward to be offered, because it is triggered and recorded on your client.

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26 Aug 14:42 Rocket on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct

There is an icon on items that require the new resources to build.

18 Sep

Icarus gets a DLSS 3 performance boost

15 Sep

Icarus Week Ninety Three Update | Outpost: Resource Packs, SMPL3 Quests & Shield

Icarus Week Ninety Three Update | Outpost: Resource Packs, SMPL3 Quests & Shield

08 Sep

Icarus Week Ninety Two Update | New Mount, Bone Armor & Fixes

Icarus Week Ninety Two Update | New Mount, Bone Armor & Fixes

02 Sep

patch seems to have broken the game for me

i need my items back so i can play!

01 Sep

Outpost Bundle, help?

Icarus Week Ninety One Update | Fixes for hitching, stutters + new wind turbines

Icarus Week Ninety One Update | Fixes for hitching, stutters + new wind turbines

Game chops terribly when running

31 Aug

How Do I Get in Touch With the developers or Someone in Charge?

30 Aug

Hypatia date?

29 Aug

FPS loss

Hypatia date?

PVP?

I May Get Banned for This But I Have to Have My Say About the New DLC.

27 Aug

How is performance these days?

26 Aug

Open World "Rewards" + Friends

You cant get prometh gear unless you buy the dlc even though it shows you can unlock it

When do they post?