Icarus Week 155 Update | Go big with the new 20-round Light Automatic Carbine

Welcome to Week 155.

This week is all things firepower as we add the first automatic weapon to Icarus, the Light Automatic Carbine.

This packs a punch with a 20-round magazine, using small caliber (pistol) ammo.

We’ve also got some details about our 3-year anniversary celebrations next week and how you can share some virtual cake with us.

Jump in and have a read.

Notable Improvements:

• Allow basic fertilizer to be crafted on the chemistry bench
• Updated Ashlands sidequests so the NPCs and Trucks will attempt to spawn on reload if they've accidentally been removed as part of the quest cleanup steps
• Doubled the range at which chickens look for a nearby coop to automatically place eggs after laying (from 10m -> 20m)
• Removed Ice Mammoth Great Hunt Arena Entrance from Prometheus (Congrats to those who found it)

This Week: Light Automatic Carbine

The odds have been flipped. The Light Automatic Carbine has been added to Icarus and is unlockable and craftable at T4 on the Fabricator. This automatic firearm has a mag consisting of 20 rounds and uses small caliber ammo (pistol ammo). Because it’s automatic, however, plan to carry more reserves than you would for a single-fire pistol.

As stated last week, this is the second in a series of new weapon types (the first being the flamethrower) that we are introducing before adding some new unique foes and events that will require the extra punch.

As you would have seen last week we mentioned that this week we were going to be releasing an assault rifle. When we first designed this weapon it was going to be that, an automatic rifle. During the testing phase we found that using the rifle ammo made this weapon way too powerful, even for where it sat in T4 and we decided to test with the pistol small caliber ammo. It felt a lot better, still providing the damage to sit at T4, but much more in line of where we wanted it to be. So we decided to commit to this and to help avoid confusion we renamed the weapon the Light Automatic Carbine, removing rifle from the name and having the description state that is uses pistol ammo. This leaves room for a true assault rifle in future too. Jake Dodunski - Project Lead

Next Week: Icarus 3 Year Anniversary

Next week, we are celebrating Icarus' third Anniversary, a milestone we are absolutely chuffed to reach with you all. It's been a long journey, and we have fixed, altered, adjusted, and added a lot over the years. We will be doing a full-day live stream with a bunch of different developers from all the different teams starting at 10 a.m. NZT

We will also be adding cake to the game so you can eat and be merry with us, even if we can’t send you a slice of the real one.

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