Icarus Week 170 Update | Seven new Operations, and six new recipe alternatives

This week’s update completes the conversion of Operations in Open World mode and expands your cooking options by adding six new alternative resources for crafting ingredients used in high-tier recipes. This gives you options if certain key resources are scarce in your area.

This week also features a breakdown of all the free content coming with the massive free update alongside the Great Hunts DLC when it releases.

Jump in and have a read.

Notable Improvements:

• Fixed Light Automatic Carbine being unable to be repaired
• Added potential fix for 'BPQ_Travel_C SuperStruct' crash that sometimes occurs
• Fixed killcams on Stryder causing players to be locked and the projectile not hitting.
• Optimization and quality increase on water troughs

This Week: More Olympus Operations

We’ve converted the final selection of Missions to Operations this week, so you can play them in Open World mode on Olympus using the CONT4ACT Device or Radio.

These include:

• INFLUX
• RESURGENCE
• SANDY BRIDGES
• FIRE WALK
• PAYDAY
• STATION TO STATION
• DUST UP

BEACHHEAD and SPIRIT WALK weren’t included as they don’t suit Open World mode well, but they are recommended as tutorial Missions to help you learn the basics before diving into an Open World map.

This brings the total number of Operations up to 54 on Olympus, 24 on Styx, and 24 on Prometheus.

This Week: New alternatives to common recipes

We’re adding a bunch of alternatives this week for commonly used consumables in high-tier recipes, giving you multiple ways to craft them if certain raw resources are limited in your region. These are:

• Corn -> Flour
• Potato -> Flour
• Soy -> Vegetable Oil
• Avocado -> Vegetable Oil
• Kumara -> Sugar
• Honey -> Sugar

We have also renamed Seed Oil to Vegetable Oil to more accurately reflect the resources used to craft it.

Keep giving us feedback on other recipe changes you might like in Feature Upvote.

Coming Soon: Great Hunts Free Content

A massive free patch will be added to the Icarus base game alongside the upcoming Great Hunts Expansion. We thought we’d go into some more detail this week breaking down everything you’re going to get as part of this update.

All current World Bosses are going to get a substantial upgrade, with their own legendary weapons and new currency to earn.

These new currencies are:

• Sandworm Biomass
• Black Wolf Biomass
• Scorpion Biomass
• Lava Hunter Biomass
• Hammerhead Slug Biomass

These will drop when the respective World Boss is slain, and can be used in the new Biolab to craft the new applicable Legendary Weapon and its numerous attachments.

Sandworm World Boss | Legendary ‘Sandslinger’ Sandworm Crossbow

The ‘Sandslinger’ is a gigantic crossbow with an impressive four-second reload time and up to 81 combinations of attachments to the Jaw, Plate, Spine, Barb, and which fires Javelins instead of Bolts. This includes a spine attachment called ‘Pheremone Spine’, which grants a high chance to spawn a friendly Sandworm to fight alongside you.

The Sandworm also has new recipes for Trophies, Attachments, Modules, and even a Building Tier.

Black Wolf World Boss | Legendary ‘Bloodmoon’ Black Wolf Pistol

The ‘Bloodmoon' is a snub-nosed revolver that packs a powerful punch with an extra +15% weak point damage as its base bonus. There are 81 combinations of attachments including one called ‘Lupin’s Fang,' which grants you dramatically increased reload speed, allowing you to shoot so fast that your bullets catch fire and deal extra fire damage.

The Black Wolf also has new recipes for an Armor Set, Shield, Modules, Traps, Attachments, and Trophies.

Scorpion World Boss | Legendary ‘Clawfire’ Scorpion Rifle

The ‘Clawfire’ is a curve-stocked prototype rifle with multiple ways to personalize it, including attachments that allow for multiple spread projectiles, ricocheting projectiles, and even homing projectiles. There are 81 combinations of attachments, including ‘Replenishing Stinger, ’ which allows for self-sustaining electric damage to be added to the projectiles that recharge while in use.

The Scorpion also has new recipes for a Fishing Rod, Modules, Attachments, and Trophies.

Lava Hunter World Boss | Legendary ‘Magma Surge’ Lava Hunter Flamethrower

The ‘Magma Surge’ is a prototype Flamethrower with a lethal 25 fire damage dealt at 140 bursts a minute with a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it 0.9 second reload speed. With 81 combinations of attachments, you can personalize this arsonist dream to your heart's delight including ‘Persistent Cocoon,’ which creates lava puddles when you fire it at the ground.

The Lava Hunter also has new recipes for Mines, Turrets, a Backpack, a Sickle, a Fuel Source, Modules, Attachments, and Trophies.

Hammerhead Slug World Boss | Legendary ‘Slugger’ Hammerhead Slug Grenade Launcher

The ‘Slugger’ is a modified Grenade Launcher that shoots toxic slime projectiles with devastating impacts on your foe. With 81 combinations, this can be upgraded to launch corrosive slime puddles, projectiles that slow and poison your foes, or impact explosives to quickly dispatch groups of enemies. For group play, the ‘Rejuvenating Cephalon’ instead heals on impact and leaves healing zones for you and your teammates.

The Hammerhead Slug also has new recipes for Grenades, Epoxy, Axes, Attachments, Modules, and Trophies.

Next Week: Massive FPS improvement on light deployables

Next week, we’re implementing a sweeping change to over 100 deployable items that either directly emit light or have a light source as part of their design.

In some cases, this has led to 2x FPS improvements, thanks to DistanceField shadows.

We’ll have many more details next week, but this should improve the frame rate for most players in large bases with multiple deployable items.

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