Developer posts and news about this game.
Welcome to Week 257. This week we're taking a fresh look at one of the earliest missions in the Olympus Region, giving it a major rework. We're revisiting the mission's content and overall experience, bringing it up to a better standard while retaining its place in the early Olym
Welcome to Week 256. This week focuses on a range of quality-of-life improvements, including search functionality in the Tech Tree, quick-access buttons in the Field Guide, and an important creature spawning fix. We've also made adjustments to the Bestiary, reducing the number of
Welcome to Week 255. This week, we’re introducing a brand-new addition to the end of the Tier 4 tech tree: the Rifle Turret. Joining the existing Pistol and Flamethrower Turrets, it gives you another option for bolstering your base defenses. We’ve also made some improvements to t
Welcome to Week 254. This week brings a major overhaul to fishing on Icarus, giving you more ways to make use of your catches. We’re introducing a range of new fish-based recipes, each with unique bonuses, alongside alternative crafting paths for several essential items. We’ve al
Welcome to Week 253. This week, we’re updating the radiation effects found in radioactive zones on Elysium, as well as those caused by radioactive items placed in chests or dropped on the ground, to provide a clearer and more consistent experience. These places will now look as f
Welcome to Week 252. This week, we’re delivering a large update to the Field Guide, adding sub-categories to help with the organization, comparison, and searching of items within the guide. We’re also introducing a brand new item that can be acquired by hunting one of Icarus’ lar
Welcome to Week 251. This week we are introducing a long-requested feature that some passionate community members have been asking for for a long time: the tameable Kiwi. Meanwhile, the team is busy putting the Great Hunts Elysium content through its final rounds of testing and p
Welcome to Week 250. This week we are adding a brand new deployable to the T4 Tech tree - the Electric Seed Extractor. This new deployable will help farmers harvest seeds from plants at a much faster rate than its T1 equivalent. We also have a quick peak at next week where we hav
Welcome to Week 249. This week we’re adding a brand new item to the Workshop: the Inaris Powerbank. This allows you to bring a pre-charged power bank down with you, giving you a portable way to charge items on the fly. We’ve also updated the Volcanic Stomper, giving it a more sub
Welcome to Week 248. This week, we’re introducing Scoria Deep Ore Veins to all maps, meaning they will no longer be exclusive to Prometheus and can now be found across Icarus. We also cover a fix for a long-standing issue where fire could appear to never extinguish for clients, e
Welcome to Week 247. This week, we've updated 11 existing Saddles to work with the Slinker, bringing the total number of Saddles available for the Slinker to 14. We've also made a range of optimization and cleanup improvements to Elysium, which will reset Foliage and Voxels on th
Welcome to Week 246. This week, we’re adding a new Metal Weapon Rack, giving prospectors a stylish new way to display their tools. We also go into a bit more detail about the power cut that occurred in the studio during last week’s livestream, which affected our development work
Welcome to Week 245. This week, Tuskers are getting a major expansion with the introduction of breeding and new phenotypes to discover, collect, and breed into your herd. We’re also taking a sneak peek at the Tier 3 Metal Weapon Rack, giving you another option for storing and dis
Welcome to Week 244. This week we're making the waters of Icarus more diverse, with fish now accurately represented in the world based on their fishing locations. Alongside this, we're introducing the Carbon Fishing Rod to help you catch them. We're also bringing the Dedicated Se
We've released a number of hotfixes this weekend to address important issues and get improvements into players' hands as quickly as possible, rather than waiting for the next scheduled update. Thanks for your patience and continued support while we continue working to improve the
This hotfix address issues encountered in the following missions. These will fix both new missions and missions in progress once updated. Contains the Following Fixes LIVEWIRE - Fixing issue if you kill the wolf pack before triggering the travel event the mission cannot be progre
Contains the Following Fixes Fixes for many missions involving prebuilt structures, where the structures would not spawn preventing mission start Fixes for many missions involving prebuilt structures, where the structures would not cleanup on mission complete (this abides by the
Welcome to Week 243. This week we're revamping one of the very first missions ever created for the game: Livewire on Olympus. Our goal is to continue revisiting older missions like this, bringing them in line with the quality and design standards of our more recent content. We're
Icarus is free to play this weekend and to celebrate we are enabling a double experience weekend! Not only this but all of our DLC is on sale with a special 'Free Weekend Bundle' which packs the base game and all our major expansions into a single bundle with a additional discoun
ICARUS FREE Weekend & Double XP Event So grab some friends and jump into the game, with Double XP which lasts throughout. ICARUS 80% Off & Special Discounted Bundle Icarus and all DLC are on sale, with a special limited time 'Free Weekend Bundle' that contains our major e