Icarus Week 169 Update | Tree Regrowth and free Great Hunts content

Welcome to Week 169.

This week we have added a long-awaited feature: Tree Regrowth. This comes with the new Localized Terraforming Device which activates regrowth in a radius around it.

We’re also taking a deep dive into the massive free patch that will debut alongside the Great Hunts. This patch will offer a ton of new content for all players, regardless of whether they purchase this new DLC or not.

But first, we’re excited to debut the full-length trailer for Icarus: Great Hunts.

Notable Improvements:

• Fixed issue where non-boss versions of the Black Wolf that spawn as part of the enzyme geyser were not counting towards geyser progress
• Fixed an issue where the Sand Worm's health bar wasn't initializing correctly for clients
• Fixed Durability on railings to match their buildable scaling: Reinforced increased 500->750, Clay Brick increased 500->1000, Concrete increased 750->1500
• Updated textures of the German Shepherd for higher quality
• Re-imported the Titanium Crossbow mesh with correct vertex normal settings
• Update Wood, Interior Wood, Reinforced Wood, Clay Brick and Concrete Railings to have more accurate collision so projectiles can be shot through them

This Week: The Localized Terraforming Device

We have added a tree regrowth system to Icarus.

The Localized Terraforming Device operates in the same vein as the Thumper, but instead of replenishing ore it replenishes trees in the surrounding area.

The device needs to be powered and it consumes Condensed or Synthetic Enzymes to charge. When interacted with, the Device will fire a burst of terraforming enzymes into the air that trigger tree regrowth in a surrounding area.

Condensed Enzymes can be obtained by placing Vapor Condensors on top of Geysers, which condenses the vapor into exotics and condensed enzymes.

Synthetic Enzymes can be obtained by unlocking and crafting them on the Chemistry Bench. They can all be purchased in a workshop pack via the Orbital Exchange Interface.

This Week: Tree Regrowth

Icarus was designed initially as a session-based survival game in which players drop-down, complete a Mission, and extract from the planet. Over the last few years, due to your feedback, we added the Open World game mode which allows operations and missions to be completed in a persistent world. With time-limited Missions there was less need for a tree regrowth system, so it wasn’t in our original plans. Tree regrowth required us to rework some of our existing systems to implement, hence the amount of time it’s taken.

We decided to introduce a Device for tree regrowth, rather than a system where players plant their own trees, as it was less complex and would help optimize performance.

Coming Soon: Great Hunts

Last week we announced the Great Hunts Campaigns DLC.

If you haven’t seen the full length trailer, it’s at the top of this page.

The Great Hunts are three separate campaigns included in the expansion, each containing branching missions that affect your persistent open world sessions. You’ll be able to launch and play these Great Hunts from the surface, each culminating in a brand new boss encounter.

Alongside the three Great Hunt Campaigns included in the paid expansion, we’ll also be dropping a massive free update with even more content. All existing world bosses will receive their own unique legendary weapon which can be upgraded multiple times, with up to 81 combinations of attachments. There will also be an assortment of brand new items to craft on planet, including vestiges and armor sets.

For a look at the lengendary weapons (paid and free), and how the biolab works, check out this video from our weekly Twitch stream, below:

Next Week: More Olympus Missions

Next week, we'll be converting more Olympus missions to Operations, which can be played in Open World, as part of our larger project to convert as many over as possible.

More details next week.

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