Rocket

We chose the uniforms based on sales data, and then added NZ because that is where we are based (NZ sales are very low, tiny country).

We would like to do more, but it might get costly. The team does want to, so we will see how sales go for the DLC. We try and be careful because it is easy for us to spend more making the DLC than we make, which then means we are taking money away from developing the game.

Another thing to check is if you have any mods installed.

There may be a bug if you have windows set to some languages. Is your OS set to english? If not, we are working on a fix for that.

Originally we had a vision of doing a PVP mode as our third major expansion. But it is very expensive to do, because to do PVP properly you have to deal with antisocial behaviour such as hacking. That means rewriting a lot of systems to be server authoritative, and integrating a lot of checks and balances.

Icarus has built a great community and done well, but not sold enough for us to be able to invest in developing that without sacrificing on the work we want to do to improve the base game.

So we have focused our efforts on improving the base game, our PVP ambitions might have to wait for another game. We don’t want to do PVP survival unless we can deliver a really good experience.

It is chosen to differentiate our significant content updates from hotfixes and other updates. This makes it easy for players to see what the actual content updates are for the game, versus the hotfixes.

This was the standard chosen during the beta weekends, when we had not planned the break-neck pace of weekly updates. The weekly update cadence would only be adopted later.

This is also standard for our other games at the studio, it is just only Icarus that currently does major updates every week.

The custom world button will be removed, it shouldn’t still be there on beta.

You can make custom worlds still but they must be as an actual new world mod.

Note this has been changed in beta to be more in line with what you would expect. Creative is now a difficulty. Difficulty settings are also fully moddable

We identified some issues that would cause this, and recently put a major change in to fix some of the causes for this on beta

We did look into what it would take to upgrade to UE5.

Unfortunately many of the things we are doing are custom additions we made to UE, and some of those would need to be redone. Additionally, a lot of our art work would need to be redone to make use of nanite, etc...

This would be very, very expensive - probably 25 to 50% of the cost it was for us to make the game.

No problem at all, and you posting helped me fix the bug. Only feedback is it’s great to make a new thread (like this) as then we all see it easier and not think it’s an old bug.

It was a serious bug and important to fix, so thank you for helping us find it!

Note this is a beta bug. Please don’t post the same thing in multiple places and in different threads, that aren’t relevant to the issue. A fix is being deployed to beta now. The beta updates very often, so for a stable experience best to play on main branch

We have been completely redoing rockets, so you will build them completely in a similar way you build other structures. Additionally we have redone and fixed a number of other problems and bugs.

You can read through the coming changelog on discord.

It’s a very big update!

Note in a future update we are planning to add more advanced suits, which will have the ability to have seperate cooling tanks with (for example) liquid cooling tank instead of the game trying to use gas to do so

The beta branch had been quite unstable, and had game breaking bugs. However it is now getting quite stable as we stopping adding features and started just bug fixing. I just finished about six hours on the beta branch with no game breaking bugs, though a few fixes I will be putting in tomorrow

I was sad to see it go to

But we have been thinking about improving the “hardcore” mode and I thinking bringing this back and making it even tougher for that could be in the cards

you can also mod your own difficulty settings, but you need to do this by adding a difficulty setting as a mod to the main game.

Im guessing you are on beta?

Beta has significant changes as to how world settings are handled. More info is on discord and documentation will be provided in the patch notes.

Add/Edit the following in your save:


To make it a creative world

It is a serious issue for us.

We will be releasing a survey, posting the details here and on Discord, to ask the community which action they recommend we take, and how we should take it.

We are open to migrating the game to an alternate engine.

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.