ICARUS

SEARCHLIGHT: Scan Mission Walkthrough – ICARUS

In the SEARCHLIGHT mission, you’ll be surveying the Arctic for the Lagos faction, who naturally are hoping to find exotics. This guide will first list the relevant details of the mission, and then provide a step-by-step walkthrough. Prospect Details Rewards…

Orbital: The Workshop & Currencies – ICARUS

In ICARUS, you leave your technological progress on the planet behind when you finish a drop, and the true progression comes from unlocking missions — and new technologies in the Workshop. In this guide, we’ll cover the basics of how…

STRANGE HARVEST: Bio-Research Mission Walkthrough – ICARUS

In the STRANGE HARVEST mission, you’ll be helping the Sinotai faction collect valuable bio-samples. This guide will first list the relevant details of the mission, and then provide a step-by-step walkthrough. Prospect Details Rewards Variants Modifiers Prospect Notes To complete…

How to Get Rid of Flickering Shadows in ICARUS

For some reason, ICARUS renders shadows in a way that causes flickering for many users. Fortunately, there’s a quick and easy way to fix this: That should do it! Turning DLSS mode off does seem to cause some performance issues…

ICARUS Hunter Build

Nothing is more important to a hunter than the element of surprise. On Icarus, situational awareness is a prized commodity. Hunters are masters of their surroundings and use the natural resources in a biome to ward off the dangers of…

How to Play ICARUS With Friends

Survival crafting games are almost always easier (and more fun) with other players, but it can sometimes be tricky to figure out how to get your friends in the game with you. In this guide, we’ll show you how to…

ICARUS Solo Build

Surviving alone, with no backup and nothing but an envirosuit to start with, was a calamitous experience for many prospectors during the Beta Era of missions to the surface of Icarus. As a result, the powers in control of the…

ICARUS Ranged Combat Archer Build

One solid piece of survival advice shared among Icarus prospectors is to address problems before they overwhelm you. Sometimes the problem is an Arctic glacier packed tight with carnivores, or a bear camping a cave entrance rich with ore. If…