#ICARUS SERVERS DOWN FULL#
The first time I had to leave my house full of stuff behind I felt genuinely unhappy about it. What helps is that there's a wide selection of talents to choose from that can make your character more efficient at harvesting resources and need less oxygen, food, and water to survive, which makes the entire process much easier and quicker. On my third mission it took me even less time. I was genuinely surprised at how quickly I was able to build a base and start stocking it with supplies and crafting benches. What took me several in-game days to accomplish on my first mission I finished before sundown on the first day of my next mission. After the early grind of levelling up, unlocking new blueprints, and building everything, starting over on my next mission was nowhere as severe as I expected. My other concern, about the repetitive nature of starting over for each mission, is pretty much gone, too. That's what I look for in a survival game-I enjoy tough scrapes and tense moments, but it's nice to have time to enjoy a bit of comfortable living and not constantly be hanging on by my fingernails. Otherwise, the generous mission clock means I can take my damn time, spend entire days just gathering, cooking, setting up my base, and stocking up on everything I need for when I have to leave my base and actually complete my objectives.
It was a tense five minutes of slowly crabwalking to safety while trees went up in flames all around me. There are plenty of oh-shit moments, like when lightning sets my house on fire, when a bear romps out of the trees at me, when cave worms pop up and spit poison in my face, and then there was the time I broke my leg falling off a cliff with a bear, a wolf, and a boar all in close proximity during a lightning storm and I didn't have the resources to craft a splint. With the exception of the first couple days of my first real mission, where I was desperately grinding XP to unlock crafting blueprints, I'm finding a lot of my time in Icarus genuinely relaxing. But I'd happily trade that drama for a more leisurely experience, and I'm finding Icarus to be pretty comfy.
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