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

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Just realized I did not read your reply properly :D I need more coffee today!

Totally understand where you are coming from, but I do I want to be very clear, it is not a "if you don't agree with me", it is this:

If you direct criticism towards or attack an employee, no matter how "legitimate" your criticism, then we will take action. This also extends to moderators, and to developers of other games as well.
This is a hard line stance, and has nothing to do with agreeing with me or not. And that includes products that I do not like, or developers that I do not like. This is simply not the place to discuss concerns with other products. And if you do so, you will be warned, the posts may be deleted, and you may be banned - regardless of the veracity of what you post.

This is a forum to discuss Stationeers, and that includes criticism of Stationeers. But it is not a space to criticize other developers, as much as it is not a space to criticize employees.

I hope that provides some clarity.

Even if the criticism is true, it is very inappropriate for that to occur on another developers forums. Even if people were to be critical of game companies I do not like here, it is just very unprofessional and inappropriate.

I'm okay with, so long as it is done respectfully, criticism of Stationeers here. But criticism of other game developers is unfair and unprofessional for us to wade into.

My purpose of the post, was to highlight the work of developers that I respect. Making games is really hard, especially nowdays as an independent. I have been fortunate to meet many developers and it helps me immensely.

I realize people would rather I didn't lock threads like that, but I cannot tolerate attacking other developers in this forum, in the same way I can't tolerate people attacking our employees.

Respectful criticism of our project is fine, and in many cases, even so far as valued.

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.

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

I personally think it could be yes or no. I would encourage reading some negative reviews, and a few positive ones. Then if convinced, try the game for two hours and refund it if it doesn’t make you want to play it.

We would rather you got a refund than ended up with a game you did not enjoy.

Originally posted by koren: heck how Rust is doing, similar genre, similar price,

I actually know the team at Facepunch quite well.

Note Rust is one of the greatest selling games of all time now. It's a little difficult to compare. Additionally, note that Icarus not even as successful in reach as Conan. While it may be tempting to make comparisons - product reach really can be dramatically different.

Additionally, note that:
* Only the host requires our DLC
* We don't include any DRM
* It is as easy as changing a boolean value in settings to be able to access our content

We made these decisions to not fracture the game base.

Additionally, we promised (and sold) the two major ... Read more

Originally posted by Siamese55: That's great to hear! Snow maps are my favorite, so I am glad I haven't missed it or something. Looking forward to when it releases.

I cannot agree with you more!

They are my *favorite* by far. I have a lot of feedback myself for the team on monday to discuss about improvements to arctic. And we are planning to expand the New Frontiers map, with a special arctic zone being part of that.

I'm going to do some play sessions myself with Arcticus first to make sure it's really special. We didnt really expect the outposts to sell as well as they did, so we are bit surprised. So we will look to do all we can to make sure they get focus as well.

We've "done" it but it's not ready for release yet. It didn't pass testing. Which was unfortunate because it is far and away the coolest one. It will launch once we have fixed it up.

All the outposts have been more popular than we expected, so we will release an update as soon as we can to improve issues with them.

There is a solo talent tree. The quests/missions scale based on player numbers present.

I would recommend reading a few negative reviews, and a few positive ones. Maybe watch some streamers/content creators. If you are not totally convinced, maybe just try the base game for two hours and if not satisfied, you could refund.

Note you can't refund DLC on steam pretty much at all, which is kind of a shame. You might be able to try the game for under 2 hours, and refund it no matter what. Then if you liked it, you could rebuy it using this package:

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/34431/Icarus_New_Frontiers_Edition/

But that package only works if you *don't* own the base game. But that would allow you to get an additi... Read more