Icarus

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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AUCKLAND, New Zealand — 24 August, 2023 — Icarus: New Frontiers, the relaunch of the popular survival game developed by RocketWerkz, is available now on Steam. New Frontiers is a major expansion set in Prometheus, a merciless new region where terraforming has failed and hostile alien lifeforms abound. Players are challenged to solve a sinister mystery while establishing a base in the open world and fighting simply to survive.

“This is our original vision for the game,” says gamerunner Dean Hall. “By combining the mission-based gameplay with a huge open world and the aliens that the community has been asking for, New Frontiers is a tense and thrilling survival experience.”

 

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        Top-selling survival game relaunches in a brutal open world swarming with alien lifeforms

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — 24 August, 2023 — Icarus: New Frontiers, the relaunch of the popular survival game developed by RocketWerkz, is available now on Steam. New Frontiers is a major expansion set in Prometheus, a merciless new region where terraforming has failed and hostile alien lifeforms abound. Players are challenged to solve a sinister mystery while establishing a base in the open world and fighting simply to survive.

“This is our original vision for the game,” says gamerunner Dean Hall. “By combining the mission-based gameplay with a huge open world and the aliens that the community has been asking for, New Frontiers is a tense and thrilling survival experience.”

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Our partnership with NVIDIA has been integral to Icarus’ development, and we’re excited to bring NVIDIA Reflex to the game. NVIDIA Reflex improves games’ responsiveness to inputs, reducing latency and delivering a better experience for all our players using NVIDIA.

When enabled in ICARUS, NVIDIA Reflex reduces system latency by up to 49%, giving you the edge over the hostile creatures resisting your exploitation of their planet.

Have a look at the comparison analysis from NVIDIA’s lab, showing the improvement in latency with NVIDIA Reflex enabled.

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As a thank you to our players and fans, RocketWerkz has made its new DLC Map ‘Styx’ available.

This new 64km² map doubles the size of Icarus’ playable area. With it come new missions, new creatures and fresh regions of Icarus to explore.

What to expect:

• An entire new 64 square km map
• 16 new missions
• New creatures including crocodiles, Komodo Dragons, Kea parrots with more to come
• The entire map unlocked and able to be explored including locations such as The Wall, Ring Lake and The Great River
• Missions that effect the map and unlock shortcuts to new areas

 

This new territory is centered around a long braided river which prospectors named Styx, after one of the rivers of the underworld... Read more

Watch the 20-minute documentary ahead of Icarus’ launch this weekend

RocketWerkz has released an epic twenty-minute long documentary-style short film “Icarus: Fatal Sky,” blending live action and game footage to welcome players to the universe of its sci-fi survival game Icarus.

Icarus launches on Steam this Friday 3 December at 2pm PST or 10pm UTC.

You can watch “Icarus: Fatal Sky” on YouTube here.

Developed by DayZ creator Dean Hall’s studio RocketWerkz, Icarus takes a session-based approach to survival games. Players take limited-time drops onto a terraform-damaged pla...

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Watch the 20-minute documentary ahead of Icarus’ launch this weekend

RocketWerkz has released an epic twenty-minute long documentary-style short film “Icarus: Fatal Sky,” blending live action and game footage to welcome players to the universe of its sci-fi survival game Icarus.

Icarus launches on Steam this Friday 3 December at 2pm PST or 10pm UTC.

You can watch “Icarus: Fatal Sky” on YouTube here.

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