Icarus Week 242 Update: Free Weekend, Double XP, Workshop Flashlight, and Elysium Great Hunts Preview

Icarus is free to play this weekend with double experience enabled. All DLC is on sale, and a "Free Weekend Bundle" containing the base game and major expansions is available at an additional discount.

Over the past year, 52 free weekly updates were released. Major updates include:

• Mendel Update: Overhaul of creature husbandry with genetics, bloodlines, phenotypes, inheritable traits, new farm animals, expanded talent trees, and improved tame commands.
• Kepler Update: Tier 5 technology, new weapons, tools, building pieces, and quality-of-life improvements for all players (released alongside Dangerous Horizons).
• Copernicus Update: Introduced Legendary Weapons with unique abilities.
• Mounts and Tames Updates: New tameable creatures (Forest Wolves, Ubis, Boars, Gribblers), carts, saddles, and rideable Mammoths.
• Timber Extraction Unit: Legendary harvesting tool that gathers wood and doubles as a ranged weapon.
• Single Barrel Grenade Launcher: First weapon of the Launcher archetype.

The Inaris Flashlight is the first Workshop-purchasable light source, found in the Gadgets category. Compared to the planetary-crafted T4 Flashlight, it has a maximum range shorter by about 15 meters but a 15% larger battery lasting through the first two nights on Icarus.

Content in development for the Elysium map includes:

• A new branching narrative mission chain.
• A new world boss called "The Malformation."
• A new two-person hoverframe.
• New creatures, items, and more.

The Olympus Operations update continues with a revamp to the Livewire Operation. The mission will be adjusted to improve the experience, similar to other early Olympus Operations being updated.

• Double Experience Event Banner and XP enabled.
• Workshop Flashlight renamed to Inaris Flashlight.

• Increased health and damage of Irradiated Mutation (Wraith).
• Fixed Sandworm Lifecycle Poster display (was showing corkboard).
• Added giant roach zapper audio event.
• Item Popup Widget weight number now includes items within its own inventory.
• Fixed shadow artifacts from DF meshes on Simple Building Shadow settings.
• Beachhead improvements: Easy XP penalty reduced from 25% to 0%; new quest tip for crouch stealth/damage bonus; creature movement speed baseline reduced from -10% to -15%.

• Mission RAD_E second half of quest steps now playable.
• Radboss mission: boss no longer sits still after 3 attacks; added roar break at 10% health; fixed melee attack double damage.
• Livewire updates: fixed quest flow; reduced Terrenus spawns in final stage; added prepare weapon and optional armor subquest.
• Correctly tagged aluminium building pieces (were tagged as iron).