This new 4-round magazine pistol is quick to both fire and reload, making it great for a tight situation where you need a get-out-of-jail-free card.
We’re also introducing a new ammo type - the Jacketed Pistol Ammo. This can be bought from the Orbital Workshop in boxes of 25.
Jump in and have a read.
This Week: Workshop Pistol
This week brings the new Workshop Pistol - the loser of our Discord poll two weeks ago but still, an exciting new item for players to purchase and use in their missions.
The CHAC ‘Sentinel’ Pistol has a 4-shot magazine that reloads as a magazine (rather than per individual round) and uses standard pistol ammo.
Compared to the standard pistol, it has +25% damage and +25% critical damage. It also can fire 115 shots per minute, which is nearly double the speed of the hunting rifle.
To pair with the quick trigger, it sports a 2.65s reload time, which when you consider means reloading four rounds as a magazine rather than a single bullet, is a substantial difference in efficiency.
The CHAC Pistol costs 1000 Ren/500 Exotics to research, and 500 Ren/250 Exotics to craft in the Orbital Workshop.
The CHAC Pistol is overall, a steady and reliable weapon. While it provides lower damage per shot than a rifle or high-tier bow, it compensates with a fast fire rate and even faster reload speed for situations that require quick reactions.
This Week: Jacketed Workshop Pistol Ammo
Alongside the new CHAC Pistol, we’re also introducing a new Orbital Workshop Pistol Ammo.
The new Jacketed Pistol Ammo deals a meaty 200 damage per shot, over 50 more projectile damage than the pistol ammo you can craft on planet.
This can be bought in boxes of 25 in the workshop and brought to the surface to be used to be unpacked and used. It’ll cost 250 Ren to research, and a subsequent 100 Ren per box to craft.
Next Week: STYX OPERATIONS
Next week, we’ll be converting over the first three Styx Operations we’ve completed in our ongoing conversion project.
These will be Rendezvous: Delivery, Abyss: Research, and Remnant: Extraction.
IMPORTANT: If you are currently in progress on any of these missions, the progress on these may be impacted. This is due to the quest logic changing to support the conversion. We recommend you complete these before next Thursday PST.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1995690/Icarus_Styx_Expansion/
Performance Improvements
We are working on optimizing our level streaming internally at the moment, but we are not ready to release it just yet. If you are interested in one of the last optimization efforts which fixed one of the big the late game hitches, you can find the information in the link below.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1149460/view/4170974735559885080
Your support makes these updates possible.
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/40692/Icarus_Pets_Bundle/
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/35727/Icarus_Complete_the_Set/
Changelog v2.2.7.12366
New Content
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- Unlocked CHAC Pistol for release
- Unlocked Jacketed Pistol Ammo for release
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Fixed
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- Increased turret max pitch to 50
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