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Icarus: Dos and Don'ts

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2023-12-21 10:11:43

Note

The following section is intended for new players. If you are not a new player, then I would recommend you don't read the following section. This guide will slowly cover more advanced tactics as you get deeper into it. More will be added to this guide the more feedback I get. Feedback is both taken into account and appreciated!

How To Start Playing

You'll want to make a character then head to the missions tab. Under "Olympus" click the first mission, "Beachhead Recon" and load in. I would recommend following the objectives, although it is not necessary, as you get the 13 ren regardless, all you must do for the reward. (To answer your question yes, you can cheese this to get infinite ren, although it will be very slow going.) Begin by picking up some plants, stone and sticks.

I would recommend reading through the keybinds quickly to see what they all do. "I" opens inventory, "C" opens crafting, and "Tab" opens the last open menu pane. "Y" picks up placed buildings, and holding "R" when placing down a building lets you select the style you wish it to take.

TL;DR: Open character pane with "Tab"

The HUD

Your HUD consists of several main parts. Each one will be covered

Top Center/Compass: Shows you the cardinal direction you are heading as well as objective's direction relative to you.

Left Center/Objectives: Shows you what the mission requires you to do for you to get the rewards.

Bottom Left:

O2: Oxygen. Oxite can be mined and then consumed to increase this stat. Slow drain rate.

Fork and Knife: Hunger which is refiled by eating food, primarily fruits and veggies early. Medium drain rate.

Water Droplet: Water, refilled by drinking from any body of water. Fast drain rate.

Thermometer: Your core temperature, if the white stick touches the red or blue zones you get a debuff, and if it hits the edge you get a chance of a super debuff, such as hypothermia.

Five Bars/Volume: A meter that shows how loud you are. The higher it is, the more likely you are to attract predators and scare away prey.

HP Bar: Shows how much health you have. If this hits zero you die.

Bottom Right: Currently equipped item

Top Right:

World Temp: What temperature the world around you is. Affects your core temperature.

3-Day Forecast: Shows what severity the weather will be in the next three days. See the "Weather" chapter for more info.

Storms: Only visible if storming. Shows how bad the storm is and is going to be.

Leveling Up

When you level up you will have three kinds of points. "Blueprint", "Solo", and "Skill". First up are blueprint points. Under the tab "Tech Tree" learn the stone knife, the wood bow, and the stone arrows. Some people recommend fire whacker, but we will cover fire shortly. Over time you will learn what weapons you like, and then you can take those, but I strongly suggest bow and knife for starters.

As for solo points, these only apply if you are playing solo. If you are playing multiplayer, don't worry about them at all. For solo players, I would recommend your first four points go into "Marathon Runner", "Fleet Footed", and "Healthy Maverick", in any combination of your choice. These will help you work harder and live longer, as well as traversing missions faster. After these, the points are largely up to you, although I would recommend taking points down the damage tree into the weapon of your choice as well as into "Lone Wolf"

Talent points are very important in regard of where they are placed. I recommend not taking any points into weapon trees until you have figured out what you like. I highly recommend "Ready to Work" under the Habitation/Repairing tree. This is a great boost early for the extra stamina regeneration.

The biggest thing with points is what you like to do. Like killing and skinning animals? Go down the hunting tree. Like mining? Go down the left half of the Habitation/Tools tree and the second from the right part of the Survival/Resources tree. You may have the question of "What if I dislike my choice? Can I change it?" The answer is complicated, and in the next chapter.

Respec Points

The game gives you thirty "Respec" points when you start. These points can usually completely remove you from about two trees. To get more you can either use the intended method or unintended method. Each of these are listed below.

Intended: Pay 150 ren for any and all points you wish to have beyond the initial 30.

Unintended: Close Icarus if it is open. Push windows key and type "%localappdata%" (without quotation marks) into the search bar. Navigate to "Icarus" and open the folder. Then open the folder "Saved" then the folder "PlayerData". The only folder inside of "PlayeraData" should be a long string of numbers, your ID.

Open it, and inside of it open up the JSON file "Profile". You will see a bunch of mumbo-jumbo, but we are looking for a line that says:"MetaRow": "Refund",

"Count": ##

In your file a number will be displayed instead of "##". Change that number to however many respec points you wish to have, and then close and save the file. The game should show that many the next time you get on.

Source: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3118501350

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