Icarus Week 138 Update | New Semi-Automatic Pistol and Crude Ammo in Tier 2

Welcome to Week 138.

This week continues the expansion of the Icarus weapon tree. To make pistols more useful, and avoid only adding onto the end of the tech tree, the current One Shot Pistol is moving to Tier 2, along with a new a cheaper ammo recipe. This makes space for the new Semi-Automatic Pistol on the Machining Bench at Tier 3.

The Free Prometheus Expansion is progressing well as we implement feedback from closed play testing. We explain more about how you'll use Beacons to explore the ‘Null Sector’ dark zone below.

This Week: New Pistol & Rebalance

We’re adding a new Semi-Automatic Pistol this week at Tier 3.

This comes with a rebalance and restructure of the pistol tiers to clearly differentiate the different weapons.

Here are the core details about the new pistol:

• Crafted in Tier 3 at the Machining Bench
• Fires six rounds before reloading
• Takes any pistol ammo

The existing pistol, now named One Shot Pistol, never held its own against the other weapons craftable in Tier 3. As such, it now is accessible at Tier 2 via the Crafting Bench, and is accompanied by a new simpler ammo type, Crude Pistol Ammo.

This new ammo is cheaper but deals less damage, being crafted only from Iron Ingots and shaped as a small iron ball, similar to what you would see in flintlock pistols. This ammo can be used in any ranged weapons. It acts as a universal cheap ammo, but without the stopping power of the higher tier specialized ones.

The Orbital Workshop CHAC Pistol's ammo capacity has also been increased to take the Semi-Automatic Pistol into account.

Coming Soon: Free Prometheus Expansion

The Prometheus update will introduce the ‘Null Sector’ - an area to the south of the map that not shown on our satellite imagery and is blank on the map.

Instead you’ll have to map the sector yourself using two new items. With the Trail Beacon Tool (craftable at the Machining Bench) you can place Trail Beacons and link them to other Trail Beacons nearby. These act as ‘breadcrumbs’ for you to create a pathway across the map or to mark key features to return to later.

Coming Soon: Prometheus Expansion Testing

We planned on bringing out the free Prometheus Expansion next week, but we’re holding onto it for a bit longer as we found a few bugs and received good feedback from both internal and external sources for us to address.

Our focus is that this is a good and challenging experience, and a lot of our work is in finding this balance and making sure it is enjoyable for those who want to push themselves to their survival limits.

We are playtesting this internally at the moment and are doing some closed external testing in our Discord community.

Next Week: The Dribbo

Next week, we’ll be introducing a new creature to Open World that was recently first discovered in a quest on Styx.

The Dribbo can be found around water in desert locations and spawn in groups. There are three variations to this creature each with its own quirks, which you can find out about next week.

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