Icarus News

The first few hours of any survival game present a real challenge. Starting with nearly nothing you've got to quickly gather resources, hunt for food, defend yourself from threats, build a base, and keep yourself fed and hydrated at the same time...
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Icarus launched on Friday, the new survival game from Dean 'Day Z' Hall and Rocketwerkz, and has been steadily climbing up the Steam and Twitch charts ever since. It's not all plain sailing: the reviews remain mixed and there's been grousing about various performance issues and glitches but, for the most part, folk seem to be enjoying it...
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If you want to breathe easier on a hostile alien planet, try the Icarus oxygen bladder. This craftable item can be filled with air and equipped in your spacesuit, giving you a steady air supply that will last several in-game days while you're exploring and hunting in survival game Icarus...
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• Significantly optimized rendering of distant terrain, allowing the effect of increased performance from higher FOV settings to be applied generally.
  
• Updated instances of envirosuit variants having an incorrect physics material set.
  
• Improved functionality of electronic wire placement around structures.
  
• Improved ability to place electrical wires on the Desert Exploration mission.
  
• Improved collision on the Riverlands Expedition path blocker.
  
• Updated character level limit to 99.
  
• Updated translated game text for multiple languages.
  
• Increased detection area for 'Make your way over the Rock' in the Riverlands Expedition as it was not always possible to trigger the next quest step.
  
• Fixed issue where after being revived by another player, you could lose items stored in slots provided by backpack and module slots.
  
• Fixed issue where players could unlock the extractor blueprint outside of extraction missions.
  
• Fixed issue where Antibiotic Medicines did not always remove Food Poisoning.
  
• Fixed issue where Antiparasitic Medicines did not always remove Dysentry.
  
• Fixed issue where dead players could have duplicate envirosuits.
  
• Fixed issue displaying tooltip information for items granted by talents.
  
• Fixed issue preventing some players from completing the Arctic Expedition Faction Mission.
  
• Fixed issue where Cave Distance Travelled accolade was being awarded incorrectly.
  
• Fixed Workshop Shengong Knife that pointed to incorrect variant.
  
• Fixed issue where Avalanche: Expedition mission could not be completed at the powering the laser step.
  
• Fixed issue with Creamed Corn providing a +75% Max Stamina instead of +75 Max Stamina.
  
• Fixed issue where several talents had identical names.
  
• Fixed issue with the Deployable Engineering talent providing a slower crafting speed rather than a faster one.
  
• Fixed description on Well Laid Fire talent which was poorly describing the fuel usage of campfires.
  
• Fixed issue with stats on the Ghillie suit pieces which made players more attractive to animals instead of less visible.
  
• Fixed issue with text on the backpack description.
  
• Fixed issue where the XP reward message on killing a Buffalo incorrectly called it a Cougar.
  
• Added some missing mission dialogue to several missions.
  
• Fixed issue with Arctic: Expedition mission where after clearing the obstacle, moving beyond it wouldn't progress the mission.
  
• Reduced extractor fuel usage. It now requires 3 biofuel cans to mine 100 exotics.
  
• Fixed issue where extractor generator/effects would continue even once the deposit was exhausted.
  
• Fixed issue where the extractor would continue to try start, even if no fuel was available.
  

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Need to craft some Icarus tree sap but don't know how? There's quite a lot of stuff on the Icarus tech tree, and it can be difficult to tell exactly what every item does. So when you see a recipe that includes tree sap, it's not entirely clear how to find or make the sticky stuff. Tree sap is an ingredient for crafting epoxy, which is important for upper-tier crafting recipes like a machining bench—the item you use to make guns, armor, and steel tools. Yep, you need tree blood in order to make military equipment. But where do you find it?..
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