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Just to note: from a legal perspective calling someone unethical is could be considered a statement of fact, compared to something like calling someone lazy, which would be considered an opinion

If you cannot prove that a statement of fact are true, you could have defamation exposure.

I would like to say, categorically - that referring to our company or our staff as unethical is totally inappropriate if you can't back that up.

I've given this thread a bit of leeway, to give you the benefit of the doubt. But regardless of you how you "feel" - making a statement of fact about conduct with no proof beyond you "feel" that way, is not acceptable in our forum. This is because that doesn't represent a genuine communication.

Think of the forums here as "front of house" in a restaurant. if you walked into a restaurant and shouted that you think the place is unethical, you would be asked to leave.

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This is really cool. Is there anything missing from the IC system you can think of as you went through this? I'm always on the lookout for features or instructions to add.

A discord bot posts every review to a channel in the discord.
This is so people coming into the discord and asking "I am thinking of buying the game, what do you think?" can instead see a live thread that is all the latest reviews of the game.

We do this for all our games, so that customers can easily see what other customers think. This also provides a way for us to aggregate reviews from other potential stores in one place, which is not possible on steam.

Originally posted by JeanDeaux: What I'd really like to see brought in from Icarus is the multiplayer hosting. It's MUCH better than Stationeers host.

Stationeers and ICARUS use the same steam API method for Steam connections, so I am not sure what you are referring to.

Using Steam's API is not recommended, where avoidable, for either game - as SteamP2P has many issues and has been deprecated by valve themselves, in favor of Steam Relay or Sockets. These new API elements, though, are still not as efficient as native RakNet support as Stationeers has.

What is the aspect of ICARUS you think is missing? It may be a bug or other issue?

Steam changes a lot of their systems, so the best way to guarantee you have the version you want (and for steam to not try update it) is to make a copy of the game. We ship the game with zero copy protection or DRM, so you can copy the game anywhere on your computer and it will never update.

We have reached out to steam previously regarding download issues and other issues such as corruption with steam cloud. However we have not had a response. As such, we recommend copying the game somewhere.

Originally posted by JTHM: I asked this same question back in 2019. Is the end in sight?

On the steam page there are tags regarding the early access state of games. If you click on the store page there is a blue box that appears for early access games. This is only displayed while the game is in early access, once it goes "1.0", then this box will disappear.

In this box is the following:

We're committed to delivering these consistent and substantial updates to the game until both we and our community consider the game ready for a v1.0 release.

We still have substantial updates we would like to make to the game before we think it is 1.0. The game has been updated regularly through the period, including a patch today.

There is some concern in our studio that going "1.0" will indicate to many we consider the game "finished", so therefore we wa... Read more

Agreed! Thats the idea really behind the terrain rework. We need to make it actually practical, and have good reason, to have multiple bases. Then you also have a reason for a rover!

The maps arent going to be "small". The current rough plan is for 8x8km2, which is as big (for example) as the ICARUS map. That is the largest sized map you generally make in engines like Unreal under default settings.

Currently, it is not actually possible for your games to be limitless, as the terrain system is so non-performant and memory heavy - that you can't really effectively go that far from the origin anyway.

This will also allow us to give reasons for exploration, such as making deep miners work better in certain locations etc...