pvp

[TheOnlyOneChamp]

hello thinking about buying the game... is this pvp also?

[JB-emmanuel-Zorg]

hello, nope.

[saltensea]

There is frendly fire active. So, PVP is possible.
But icarus should be a PVE game.

[Rocket]

Originally we had a vision of doing a PVP mode as our third major expansion. But it is very expensive to do, because to do PVP properly you have to deal with antisocial behaviour such as hacking. That means rewriting a lot of systems to be server authoritative, and integrating a lot of checks and balances.

Icarus has built a great community and done well, but not sold enough for us to be able to invest in developing that without sacrificing on the work we want to do to improve the base game.

So we have focused our efforts on improving the base game, our PVP ambitions might have to wait for another game. We don’t want to do PVP survival unless we can deliver a really good experience.

[TheOnlyOneChamp]

Originally posted by Rocket:

Originally we had a vision of doing a PVP mode as our third major expansion. But it is very expensive to do, because to do PVP properly you have to deal with antisocial behaviour such as hacking. That means rewriting a lot of systems to be server authoritative, and integrating a lot of checks and balances.

Icarus has built a great community and done well, but not sold enough for us to be able to invest in developing that without sacrificing on the work we want to do to improve the base game.

So we have focused our efforts on improving the base game, our PVP ambitions might have to wait for another game. We don’t want to do PVP survival unless we can deliver a really good experience.

Good… dayz is the pvp experienced game you all developed. :)

[TheHellKat]

Personally I'm happy that Icarus isn't PvP, it just doesn't have that PvP feel to it.

Some games lend themselves to either PvP or PvE, Icarus is the latter.

[JB-emmanuel-Zorg]

Originally posted by Rocket:

So we have focused our efforts on improving the base game, our PVP ambitions might have to wait for another game.

Really PEEEERFEEEEECT! 😁 👍 Keep up the good work!
Edit: and, for me, the game is not perfect, but... the "sounds" in the game are incredibles! For me, they are the bests sounds i ever heard in a video game! 10/10 on that!

[Egavas]

A simple toggle option when creating a prospect to activate solo talents, hide player position markers, and maybe disable watching other prospectors after death would be enough for a great suedo-pvp option. The ranged combat in this game is just too good.