We have a Christmas miracle for you today, something we’ve been quietly working on for the past few weeks in response to one of our most sought-after player requests.
You may be surprised to see any characters that were abandoned on a drop have reappeared in your Character Select screen!
We have revived 22,000 characters and 42,000 dead characters that were left behind on prospects after time ran out. Icarus may be unforgiving, but we are not.
There are a number of ways you could have lost your character and your hard-earned XP, talents and blueprints, such as bugs that trap characters (hopefully since resolved in our hotfixes and updates) or server downtime. We may not have been clear enough to new players learning the game that unless you return to your dropship before the timer expires, then you lose your character permanently - abandoned on the planet surface. While these issues don’t affect all players, when you lose a character unfairly it hurts.
So, this week we worked on a tool to restore everyone’s characters that had been left behind on a drop.
As of last night's hotfix, the Character Select screen can show more than three character slots. Your restored characters may take you over this limit, but you cannot create any new characters until you delete some old ones.
If you have any questions about this process, or about character loss in general, please feel free to come chat to us in our Discord. We have a helpful community along with a team of passionate developers who would love to help.
If you deleted your character normally, those won’t be restored.
This restoration is a one-off event to acknowledge the inconvenience for anyone who lost a character.
Thank you everyone for your support and constructive feedback since Icarus’ launch. It means the world to us that we have a community so passionate about the game and what we do.
Merry Christmas Prospectors, stay safe out there.
- Shammgod
