(EDIT: How to restart a mission with full vitals and get a Spoiler-Free-Tutorial?) How to pause the game, how to save and load, any kind of tutorial?

[Doc✪Hollywood]

(EDIT: I'd like very much to get a spoiler free tutorial. Going to Youtube is usually the last thing I do, because you get 20% of **game mechanics** , and a whopping 80% of spoilers)


just on my first mission (solo), esc does not stop the game.

1) How can I pause when going to cook, eat, ... ?

2) I also do NOT see a save and load menu point.

3) Any kind of in-game-tutorial??


Even when writing here my vitals drop ...

[Rekal]

Game is auto-saved all the time with a 60 second heartbeat save and when you return to character select or exit the game it is saved as well.

There is no pause unless you install a mod, so when you need to be away from the game returning to character select is the best you get.

The first mission on Olympus is the closest thing to a tutorial. If that's not enough, I suggest watching some youtube videos of others playing the game, reading some of the steam guides, or simply asking for more specific details here.

[Doc✪Hollywood]

Originally posted by Rekal:

Game is auto-saved all the time with a 60 second heartbeat save and when you return to character select or exit the game it is saved as well.

There is no pause unless you install a mod, so when you need to be away from the game returning to character select is the best you get.

The first mission on Olympus is the closest thing to a tutorial. If that's not enough, I suggest watching some youtube videos of others playing the game, reading some of the steam guides, or simply asking for more specific details here.

Thank you.

I began with Beachhead. No explanation, nothing.

So which one is the "first" mission? Argos?
https://gyazo.com/8046662593a610b3a4cb1c35ddb4ecb8


You said I can anytime return to character select and then go back to the mission and proceed where I left it. Can I also play another Mission, or play OpenWorld and then return to that mission and proceed where I left?

[Rekal]

Originally posted by Gordon✪Gekko:

I began with Beachhead. No explanation, nothing.

Yeah that is the one. It doesn't hand hold you through anything really. Just gives you objectives to complete that are the basic of the basics.

Originally posted by Gordon✪Gekko:

You said I can anytime return to character select and then go back to the mission and proceed where I left it. Can I also play another Mission, or play OpenWorld and then return to that mission and proceed where I left?

Yes you can switch between missions, outposts, and open world as much as you like - each of the maps is independent from each other and called a Prospect. RESUME will return you to the last prospect you played while LOAD is what you would use to switch between active prospects.

Leaving a mission prospect by riding your dropship back to orbit will delete the prospect permanently. Leaving an Open World or Outpost prospect by riding your dropship back to orbit turns it inactive and you can still LOAD It anytime to rejoin it.

[КрендельФигов]

0.0) The first thing you need to do is go to Openworld, not missions. (Hello! Is the Satisfactory ‘audience’ really starting to ‘move’ to Icarus)
Here you first need to build your ‘anchor’ base as in Satisfactory in OpenWorld mode = ‘persistent world’(for example Olympus) and only then, if you want, you can go to Missions ‘aka challenge’ or ‘travel the world’.
0.1) In Icarus there is no ‘pause’, here there is ‘class real-time’. If you don't want to be killed, then climb somewhere higher; get into your house etc and then do what you need to do.
0.2) Saving occurs when you exit to the main character selection menu or every half hour automatically.
First (including everyone reading this): always regularly save your Icarus progress to a separate folder on another partition of the drive (or flash drive). (disable Steam clouds, otherwise, when you manually return your saves, there is a chance that Steam cloud will return the original saves.)
-------->! You need to save the entire directory c:\Users\”name your windows account”\AppData\Local\Icarus\Saved
0.3) As a tutorial, here is the first introductory mission of map Olympus. You will appear in an area where there will be no one worse than wolves.

A set of tips for beginners.

1) How can I protect myself from a forest fire? Cut down all trees 10-15 meters away from your house and also gather grass. The fire will not be able to spread to your house.
1.1) Or simply save by exiting to the main menu and load the map again. The fire will not be saved. (this is the most efficient way)
1.2) Always go to stone buildings first. Even stone buildings will have to be repaired periodically.
1.3) In this game you must have doors installed in doorways and they must be closed during storms. Otherwise there will be at least 'one cell' damage from an open doorway (I checked). In Icarus the damage is 'calculable'. The same goes for windows and window openings.
1.4) You will get all the blueprints quickly enough, and there will be hundreds more.

2) You can follow the link to yours and at the bottom of each page there are pictures.
https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Olympus
https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Styx
https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Prometheus
One of these pictures will be labeled something like this (Creature spawn zones with levels and ratios.).
On it you can see approximately where some animals spawn and at what level they will be. It also doesn't hurt to determine where you shouldn't go at early levels or you can see where there will be a lot of them.

2.1) All Maps with caves https://www.icarusintel.com/
Ore Occurrence Frequency Olympus + Styx (approx.)
Platinum: 5.38%; Titanium: 5.38%; Iron: 53.76%; Gold: 4.30%; Copper: 16.13%; Aluminum: 4.30%; Coal: 10.75%
Prometheus has its own frequency of occurrence
https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Prometheus
https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Prometheus?file=Pro_Voxels.jpg

2.2) Passive defense against wildlife
https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Creature_Deterrents
2.3) In Icarus, stamina is the most important amount of HP.
2.4) Do not go on missions before level 30-40.
2.5) Skip the platinum tools, there from steel to titanium.
2.6) Your building of 2-3 floors on the contour of the building strengthen stone beams from the bottom of the ground to the roof. If the building is higher, it will be impossible to play without reinforcement.
2.7) If I were you, I would level up in Openworld to level 40, better than 50, to understand the mechanics of the game, to level up the talents, especially the Solo branch (this is the main thing).
Personally, I would advise going on missions only if you are confidently able to kill a bear. (as a kind of marker that you have completed the ‘young fighter course’)

4) First you need to level up to at least level 30-40, and preferably up to 50. In this game, the levels run faster than in other games and are purely formal.
HINT: the easiest way to level up experience is to kill predators and skin them, at the initial levels it's a wolf, but not a bear. They don't give much for herbivores.
Also a lot of experience is given for collecting resources, cutting down trees. (do not cut trees near the base)

You will need to understand all the mechanics of the game so that there are no ridiculous situations later; understand how to do something faster; how much strength, resources, equipment you need to do this or that task in Missions or kill this or that monster.
Most importantly, you will need to upgrade the Solo Talents branch. (Necessarily )

4.1) For a stable Solo game:
a) Solo talent ''TIS BUT A SCRATCH' level 3 + 15% physical resist https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Talents
b) Workshop Xigo 'Hark' S5 Envirosuit + 10% physical resist
https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Xigo_%27Hark%27_S5_Envirosuit
+ set tanned leather armor (minimum)
https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Cured_Leather_Armor
As a result, 63% physical resist = that is, 63% of the damage is absorbed and the actual damage received is reduced by almost three times
->>This is the minimum set so that you do not get killed around every corner.
MAIN TALENT: https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Talents
HEALTH MONITOR (in Solo) or HEALTH BARS (in HUNTING)
Can see Creature Alert Level and Health (this will actually highlight all animals through all kinds of items) Personally, I took this skill from the Hunting tree to save points in the Solo tree.

4.2) Then switch to Composite Armor as quickly as possible
https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Armors

4.3) The main weapon is a titanium rifle (+attachment Sniper 2);
A composite bow, for example, for the desert, because you can’t just shoot there, otherwise all the cougars from the immediate vicinity will come running for shoot;
There is always a ‘standby’ fully loaded shotgun in the hotbar which has saved me more than once (+ attachment ‘expanding attachment’ +40% base damage), but I never carry shotgun cartridges with me.

4.4) Titanium Knife https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Titanium_Knife
+ Advanced Attachment (level 2), mod (Electroshock) which stunned everyone after 3-4 hits.
You can start by putting this attachment on a steel knife as well.

4.5) Against bosses this is ‘spear build’
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1149460/discussions/0/4029094770947084476/#c4029094770947151708

5) Doomie Gaming Youtube channel with missions hints (playlist) {three spaces to prevent auto-conversion of the link}
www.youtube.com/ watch?v=oTLCQKMRcEM&list=PLE7yQAzBjupYyA0wGMCU7eXFufjuSsrIS

List of missions, but now you can do some of them as Operation without leaving Openworld
https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Prospects

5.1) Everything you need to know about Exotics https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Exotics
Everything related to Enzyme Geysers https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Vapor_Condenser
A similar defensive structure will be required
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3056503208

5.2) Everything related to fishing
https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Basic_Fishing_Rod
https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Fishing_Zone

[Doc✪Hollywood]

Thank you very much for the answers!

It was said that I continue a mission where I left it. What is if I left a mission with vitals already half down and want to restart the mission with full vitals, what do I have to do?

[Mr.D]

Originally posted by Gordon✪Gekko:

Thank you very much for the answers!

It was said that I continue a mission where I left it. What is if I left a mission with vitals already half down and want to restart the mission with full vitals, what do I have to do?

I may be mistaken but you would have to return to base (if you don't have food and meds on you), heal up and continue the mission if time allows or abandon it completely and pick a different one. Abandoning a mission puts a 10 minute cooldown on picking another but this can be negated by returning to character select screen

[Doc✪Hollywood]

I dont have a base

I had to make a decision:
Either take care of my alter ego and get him some food and water or do the same for myself. When I came back to the game vitals where half down. I went then to the forum to ask how to pause the game, got the answer I have to leave the mission - next time I will continue it where I left it. When I returned to the game my vitals where down to 1/3.

I would like to restart the misson with full vitals, instead of fighting a lost war. I don't know the game and 1/3 of vitals is not a proper way to learn it.

[StormRangerX]

Just kill an animal and cook its meat, mine some oxite, and drink some water. You should be in the forest which is a very easy and relatively safe zone. You can restore all your vitals very easily.

[Doc✪Hollywood]

I am new to the game. I cant kill an animal with bare knuckels and make a fire out of nowhwere, when my vitals are already down to 1/3 and I have to find out how the GUI works, how the steering works, how everythign works. Also would be nice to have a few minutes to explore the map. The rabbits will not hop from alone into my pan.

As beginner all this is challenging enough. I dont want to be stressed out to do all that with just 1/3 of my vitals left. Because obviously I wont have enough time and inevitably die. So why fight a battle already lost.

[StormRangerX]

How else are you going to learn?

[Doc✪Hollywood]

Originally posted by StormRangerX:

How else are you going to learn?

Finally an easy question:

I am going to learn with full vitals. That is what a game is meant to begin with. You dont start a game with 1/3 of vitals becaus you had to eat something and the game was not pauseable.

If developers would have wanted that people start with 1/3 of vitals, they would give 1/3 of vitals in the first place.

[StormRangerX]

Damn bro, why are you so mad? You're going to struggle a lot with this survival crafting game if you're that averse to learning how to survive and craft.

[КрендельФигов]

1) Icarus is designed a little differently. You will die here a lot of times, that's normal.
If you already have a Bedroll and have made an 'anchor point' on it, then you will simply respawn on the bedroll (all vitals will be restored).
https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Bedroll
If not, then disembark on the capsule again (all vital signs will be restored). (at medium difficulty the number of re-landings is not limited)
1.1) If you are inflicted with a ‘deep wound’, it will remain.

2) You will really die many times, and even when I started playing, I died for the first time at level 4 when I met a bear (you can’t escape from it). And then I was gored by Moa... and then I fell off a cliff...

3) You can restore life only by eating; having a drink; restore 'breathing' through Oxite or bags of converted oxite. This is the “beginning of the game” to understand how to survive here, and then it will become much easier.

4) {EDIT: How to restart a mission with full vitals and get a Spoiler-Free-Tutorial?}
Enter the capsule; the mission will be completed. If the goals are not completed, the mission will fail (this does not affect anything). You can start it again (unlimited); some so farming Ren.

5) You won’t succeed here without spoilers.

[Doc✪Hollywood]

Originally posted by КрендельФигов:

1) Icarus is designed a little differently. You will die here a lot of times, that's normal.
If you already have a Bedroll and have made an 'anchor point' on it, then you will simply respawn on the bedroll (all vitals will be restored).
https://icarus.fandom.com/wiki/Bedroll
If not, then disembark on the capsule again (all vital signs will be restored). (at medium difficulty the number of re-landings is not limited)
1.1) If you are inflicted with a ‘deep wound’, it will remain.

2) You will really die many times, and even when I started playing, I died for the first time at level 4 when I met a bear (you can’t escape from it). And then I was gored by Moa... and then I fell off a cliff...

3) You can restore life only by eating; having a drink; restore 'breathing' through Oxite or bags of converted oxite. This is the “beginning of the game” to understand how to survive here, and then it will become much easier.

4) {EDIT: How to restart a mission with full vitals and get a Spoiler-Free-Tutorial?}
Enter the capsule; the mission will be completed. If the goals are not completed, the mission will fail (this does not affect anything). You can start it again (unlimited); some so farming Ren.

5) You won’t succeed here without spoilers.

Thank you very much, Sir.

This is very helpful and exactly what I needed!

[Doc✪Hollywood]

I just begun a game that has an option called "pause on focus lost".

It pauses the game whenever you alt-tab somewhere else

As solo player such an option would be nice. But I guess the game is designed to be all the time in multiplayer mode.