Welcome to week 100, a century of Icarus weekly updates! This week brings the XENON backpack, a new hunting backpack with unique buffs and perks such as skinning speed boosts and reductions to knife wear.
We’re also one week away from Hypatia Part II, which will add Operations and Exotic Spawns in Olympus Open World games.
This week's new item is the XENON Backpack, the first in a series of new backpacks we’re working on with unique benefits and buffs for different play styles.
The XENON Backpack is for the hunter and taxidermist and allows you to be able to harvest vestiges from animals without needing to use a taxidermy knife.
Alongside this, it also gives you a 33% boost to skinning speed, 6 inventory slots, a -50% wear rate for knives when skinning and a +50% chance to find additional Rare Meat while skinning.
The XENON Backpack can be purchased from the Orbital Workshop after being researched, and we’ll have more backpacks in the future that’ll cover other areas of gameplay.
Next week’s update is a big one, as we bring you Hypatia Part II: Olympus Operations.
We’ve been talking about the testing of this project over the last few weeks, and we’ve now reached the stage where we are getting final passes done for any bugs or blockers that have slipped through.
We’re also looking to release the Open World Exotic Respawning as part of this update, and this is also in the final phase of testing as we balance the numbers.
We are in the process of closed community testing and open community testing will be opened this weekend for players on the experimental branch.
We’re also one week away from Hypatia Part II, which will add Operations and Exotic Spawns in Olympus Open World games.
Notable Improvements
- Chamios & Tusker Vestiges now drop as intended, and the Wooly Zebra trophy now looks like a Wooly Zebra
- The Decorations Bench received a visual upgrade to reflect that it will be used for decorations other than just the basic rustic set
- Fixed an issue where respawns could be limited while doing Operations in open world, this was only supposed to be active during Missions
- Removed the Biolab button in the Orbital Workshop menu. It wasn’t supposed to be there yet
- Added UI on Drills and Extractors to display ore per minute
- Fixed a Fish spawn in the Pillars region of Prometheus, it was set to a rate of zero making it impossible to catch
This Week: The XENON Backpack
This week's new item is the XENON Backpack, the first in a series of new backpacks we’re working on with unique benefits and buffs for different play styles.
The XENON Backpack is for the hunter and taxidermist and allows you to be able to harvest vestiges from animals without needing to use a taxidermy knife.
Alongside this, it also gives you a 33% boost to skinning speed, 6 inventory slots, a -50% wear rate for knives when skinning and a +50% chance to find additional Rare Meat while skinning.
The XENON Backpack can be purchased from the Orbital Workshop after being researched, and we’ll have more backpacks in the future that’ll cover other areas of gameplay.
Next Week: Hypatia Part II: OLYMPUS OPERATIONS
Next week’s update is a big one, as we bring you Hypatia Part II: Olympus Operations.
We’ve been talking about the testing of this project over the last few weeks, and we’ve now reached the stage where we are getting final passes done for any bugs or blockers that have slipped through.
We’re also looking to release the Open World Exotic Respawning as part of this update, and this is also in the final phase of testing as we balance the numbers.
We are in the process of closed community testing and open community testing will be opened this weekend for players on the experimental branch.
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