Icarus Week 183 Update | Map Fixes + Great Hunts Update

Welcome to week 183.

This week, we’re doing a large pass on all three maps, cleaning up over 2 million instances of inaccessible and buried foliage and voxels, and as a result, making small performance improvements.

We’ve also got an update on the progress of the Great Hunts expansion and what we’re currently working on internally to get it ready for release.

Finally, we’ve got some information on next week's update and what you can expect.

Notable Improvements:

• Improved creature hitbox accuracy
• Fixing issue where on reloading some quest objectives where not collapsing like they should
• Fixed Hammerhead Slug duplicating itself at 0hp and cause repeated VFX

This Week: Map Updates

Over the last few weeks, some of our team has been undertaking a massive map clean-up, addressing a whole stack of issues reported by the community covering things like gaps between rocks/cliffs, floating objects, clipping, cave issues and more, across all three maps.

More than simply a quality pass, the tools used to cover the map with as much visual detail as we see in Icarus can often paint with quite a broad brush, meaning it can wind up placing things like foliage under the ground or in areas where they cannot be accessed or even seen. Unfortunately these still have a performance cost, so cleaning these up can be a nice win in the ongoing battle against performance bottlenecks which we try to put work into with every update.

We’ve also cleaned-up thousands of mineral voxels across all three maps that were also buried or inaccessible. Again, these should help with performance, with little to no impact on players due to them being inaccessible in the first place.

Since last week's announcement of these fixes, we’ve received and actioned more reports. We prefer to do these in bulk, as it minimizes the impact on players' existing prospects, so all of these are being collected and collated for a future date.

Please keep these reports coming - with the size of our maps, many hands make light work, and your reporting helps us cover more ground, more efficiently.

Coming Soon: Great Hunts Release

We planned to release the DLC this week in tandem with the PC Gaming Show at Summer Games Fest. However, we’ve decided to delay this release as after lots of playing, we still weren’t entirely satisfied with the legendary weapons and rewards available.

While the missions, bosses and encounters feel fresh and interesting, the rewards you would receive didn’t meet this same level. While we hadn't announced a release date yet, we know many people are wondering how development is going and transparency is something we firmly believe in. As gamers ourselves, we know how frustrating it is when you get mixed messages from the developers of the games you love.

We don’t have a release date for Great Hunts, as we will work on the legendary weapons and rewards until they are at a level we're happy with.

We appreciate your patience and hope you understand why these tough decisions must be made.

Next Week: Mission Reward restructure

Next week, we’re doing a pass on mission rewards, particularly how these are divided amongst prospectors, and making them account-based rather than character-based for a more seamless experience.

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