Passage of ICARUS 2021

First you need to create a character. Here I will not talk about the creation process, everyone there chooses to their liking. Next, we are transferred to the game start screen and select our first exploration.

In the game Icarus, the initial exploration grid looks like this:

To start a survey, you need to click on any available on the screen above. If you have just started playing, only the first exploration is available to you. After you pass any research, others will open, connected with it with the help of lines.

Separate guides for each task:

• How to replenish oxygen in Icarus
• How to install a door in Icarus
• Interactive map in Icarus
• How to level up fast
• Beachhead: Recon
• livewire: Terrain Scan
• Strange Harvest: Bio-Research
• Headstone: Geo-Survey
• Kill List Extermination

What is research in ICARUS?

Each exploration has a goal, as well as a timer for the duration of this goal. Let's look at the example of the first survey. To select it, you need to click the image on the survey grid.

Now when we clicked it, the exploration menu appears:

1. Biome, lore quests and general recommendations, I strongly advise you to always read this information.
2. The general meaning of the survey task, more specific subtasks will be given after landing.
3. Research timer, please note that this shows the real time for a specific survey.
4. The complexity of the research, according to my personal observations, does not really mean anything, and some easy (easy) research may turn out to be more complicated than the research marked normal (normal).
5. The button brings to the screen the equipment that you will take on this research:
6. Research start button.
7. For notthat research, there are rewards that can be obtained for completing the task and successfully returning to the station. Rewards can be used to create high-tech equipment at the station.

What should be done on the surveys?

And so, you landed on a survey, the sun is shining, beautiful graphics are everywhere, low FPS, in general, everything is fine and then the question arises what is all this for? The exploration mode in the game Icarus is not aimless, in each exploration there are tasks that must be completed in order to successfully complete the exploration of returning to the station and discovering new explorations.

Let's analyze the basics of completing tasks using the example of a starting research called BEACHEAD: RECON .

We see such a picture after landing:

1. The name of the survey, in this case BEACHEAD:RECON.
2. The main task to explore, in this case RECON: FOREST ZONE (Intelligence: Forest zone (biome)).
3. Exploration sub-tasks that must be completed to successfully complete the main task.
4. An empty subtask square means that it has not yet been completed.
5. A filled subtask box indicating that the subtask is completed.
6. After everythingsubtasks are completed, the main task is considered completed.

Now you can complete the survey, as will be discussed below.

Game map, how to find markers, your shuttle, etc.?

Let's use the example of finding your own shuttle to work with the map in the game. You urgently need to find your shuttle, but you forgot exactly where it is.

To do this, a map will help us, in which there are also several modes:

1. The general legend of the map, it indicates the player or players, each with its own color, the shuttle, as well as various subtasks of your research.
2. How the location of the player on the map looks like in the screenshot above, different players are marked with different colors, and a marker of their nickname is also visible above them.
3. The shuttle icon, an important note, if you play as a group, then each player has his own shuttle that is not visible on the map for others, but visually in the game you will still see them.

Map modes:

• The usual photographic mode as from a satellite, without marks of the contours of rocks and biomes.
• The mode of the contours of rocks and biomes, any marks are very clearly visible on it, including players, a shuttle and survey tasks. The most convenient mode, refined for subtasksand I.
• Normal mode + contour mode, the most cluttered mode, it is very difficult to notice anything.

How to complete research?

In order to complete the survey, you need to return to your shuttle, on which you originally arrived. After interacting with it, the following menu appears:

1. Button to complete the survey and return to the station (the main thing is the progress of the game).
2. Slots in the capsule for curiosities (the second currency of the station) and in order to return the equipment crafted on it to the station and repair it, if you do not return it, it will disappear and you will have to craft again.

IMPORTANT !!! If you play online with friends, the host (the creator of the exploration session) should be the last to leave, otherwise the task of other players who did not leave may not be counted. Perhaps at the time when you are reading this, the developers have made a change and this paragraph is not relevant.

Passage of surveys in the ICARUS forest

BEACHHEAD: REACON.

The first exploration and of course the easiest, the main task is to scout the forest biome, subtasks include:

1. Craft, hunt, collect.
2. Get a level, distribute a talent?? and learn the drawings you need.
3. Create a bed and any shelter.

After completing the subtasks, leave the survey on the shuttle.

For research, you will not receive any rewards other than progressing to the next research.

LIVEWIRE: TERRAIN SCAN.

The main task of this survey is to scan using the discarded equipment of the Forest biome.

The subtasks of this research will be the following.

1. Find scanning equipment.
2. Scan location 1.

During the scan, you will be attacked by 2 bears at the same time, which are serious opponents at the beginning of the game, so I advise you to make at least advanced bows. If you run far from the point during the scan, the bears will interrupt the scan by breaking the equipment, so you have to kill them.

3. Scan location 2.

During the scan, you will be attacked simultaneously by 3 wolves at once, wolves are not serious opponents in the game, the very first spear will easily cope. If you run far from the point during the scan, the wolves will interrupt the scan by breaking the equipment, so you have to kill them.

4. Scan location 3.

During the scan, you will be attacked by 3 cougars at once, cougars are slightly stronger than wolves, but much weaker than bears. If you run awayfar from the point during the scan, the cougars will interrupt the scan by breaking the equipment, so you have to kill them.

5. Pick up the scanning equipment and return to the station.

This research is your first test of strength in the game, preferably a level and technology of at least rank 2, do not let the bears farm you.

After the successful completion of the exploration, you will receive your first currency in the amount of 100 units, as well as exploration for exploration of other biomes.

STRANGE HARVEST: BIO-RESEARCH.

The main objective of this survey is to collect biosamples in the forest biome.

This task is extremely simple and does not even require the construction of a base and any additional tools; you can hide from wolves and bears in the forest without defending yourself from them. The main thing is to take care of the replenishment of food, water and oxygen.

The subtasks of this research are as follows.

Examine 3 samples.

First you need to come to the task area, which looks like a yellow circle on the map (easier to see in the outline mode of the map). After you get close to the sample, and even if you can’t see it visually (for example, it’s behind the trees), the task on the map will be updated and a new icon will appear.

After that, you need to visually find a sample of the plant and use the interaction button on it, while you will receive the poisoning status, which, according to my observation, is notkills, but only lowers the health of a very low, visually sample plant.

Next, you need to find 2 of the same plant samples in the search zones localized on the map. The task is completed, you can return to the shuttle.

The reward for this research will be 100 currency and this is even too much for a 15-20 minute walk through the forest.

HEADSTONE: GEO-SURVEY.

This survey, as it is written in the title, proposes to engage in geological exploration of the territory, which includes the following subtasks:

1) Geological exploration of the Alpha point.

It will pass without complications.

2) Geological exploration of the Beta point.

It will pass without complications.

3) Geological exploration of the Gamma point.

It will pass without complications.

4) Geological exploration of the Delta point.

And here it will be fun, the animals will start attacking you non-stop until the completion of exploration to 100%, there will be about + -10 bears and 20+ wolves, therefore you need to seriously prepare for this battle, the animals will try to break the geological equipment.

The reward for completing the task will be 75 station currency, which is not enough, given its complexity.

KILL LIST: EXTERMINATION.

The first possible boss fight in this game, the main objective of this exploration is to hunt down and kill a particularly powerful wolf. Subtasks include the following:

1. Examine 3 beast attack locations.
2. Find the beast's lair at night and kill it.

This is a very difficult research and goto?you will have to approach him thoroughly, the beast has a huge amount of hit points and high damage, the best option against him would be a firearm or, in extreme cases, a crossbow / composite bow with good bolts / arrows using the landscape, trying to block it with stones, your buildings, etc. .p.. He will also periodically summon his pack of ordinary wolves, which will have to be killed.

The reward for completing the survey will be 125 station currency, which is very small and not comparable to the complexity of the task (I'm talking about doing it honestly, without using exploits of course).

Southern Glacier (Southern Glacier biome).

ICESTORM: EXPEDITION.

The main objective of this research will be to stop catastrophic storms in the Southern Glacier biome and consequently open it for research. The subtasks of the research will be as follows:

1. Collect 3 parts of the dropped device.

They will have to be collected in conditions of extremely low temperatures and constantly going snowstorms that kill your characters very quickly, the presence of polar bears, which are ten times stronger and more survivable than their brown counterparts in strength and vitality, will also be a significant obstacle to completing subtasks, fortunately there are no mandatory battles with them and they can simply be avoided.

2. Build a device, install it in the Southern Glacier biome zone in the hideout, and turn it on during snow?oh storms.

It is advisable for this subtask to take building material from a stone house with you, build a minimal shelter, install a device in it and wait in it until it turns off the snowstorm, there will be no aggressive animals, of course, if you are not lined up in their spawn zone.

Upon completion of the main objective, the constant snowstorms will stop, and upon returning to the station, the player or players will receive 125 currency and the next research in this biome.

SEARCHLIGHT: SCAN.

The main objective of this research will be scanning the Southern Glacier biome.

Subtasks similar to scanning the Forest biome:

1. Pick up the device.
2. Carry out a scan in location 1.

When scanning, the device will be attacked by a polar bear, how to deal with it is up to you, this is an extremely dangerous creature and the best solution would be to use firearms.

3. Scan in location 2.

When scanning, the device will be attacked by an ordinary wolf, for some reason he attacked alone, I don’t know if the developers intended it that way, it’s too easy.

4. Scan in location 3.

When scanning, the device will be attacked by a cougar, the cougar will also be alone.

The exploration is quite difficult, given the long hike throughout the Southern Glacier biome and the constant skirmishes with bears, which are up to?High stealth can of course be avoided, but the fight with the bear when scanning location 1 cannot be avoided.

Upon completion of the exploration, the player or players will receive 150 station currency, as well as access to the rest of the explorations of the Southern Glacier biome, as well as the exploration to enter the new biome.

canyons

DRY RUN: EXPEDITION.

One of the most elementary explorations, despite the declared difficulty of Hard (difficult). The main task of this research is to pass from the Forest biome through the caves to the Canyon biome.

To do this, you need to perform several subtasks:

1. After dropping off the shuttle in the Forest biome, you need to find 2 containers, the location of the containers will be marked on the map with fairly large search areas, they will have a solar battery, a coil of wires and a drill.
2. After you find both containers and take 3 items to your inventory, the task is updated and a cave marker will appear on your map to which you need to come. Cougars will spawn in and around the cave, which are not serious opponents.
3. After you approach the entrance to the cave, the subtask is updated again, now you need to install a drill on a rock inside the cave, put a solar battery at the entrance of the cave, stretch wires to them, in sunny weather the battery will generate energy, which will activate the drill and quite quickly drill a hole. After that, ordinary cave worms will appear, whichwill need to be killed. Next, you will need to install the drill on the rock a little deeper in the cave and connect it in the same way. Worms will appear again, and after the drill makes a hole and you go out into the Canyons biome, the task will be completed, you can return to the ship or explore a new biome.

As a reward for completing this research, you will receive 125 units of station currency, as well as access to the new Canyons biome and research in it.