update · July 17, 2025
Icarus Launches Free Copernicus Update, Great Hunts Campaigns, and Double XP
Icarus expands with the free Copernicus content update, the paid Great Hunts Campaigns expansion, and a weekend-long Double XP event.
Icarus receives its Week 189 update, introducing the free Copernicus content drop, the premium Great Hunts Campaigns expansion, and a double XP event running through the weekend.
Free Copernicus Content and Endgame Gear
The free Copernicus update adds 5 legendary weapons, 8 workshop consumables, 36 crafted items, an armor set, a building set, and a new epoxy recipe alongside 78 achievements. Players can now gather Legendary Biomass from world bosses to craft customized legendary weapons in the orbital Biolab. These weapons feature four upgrade slots with three options each, creating 81 possible upgrade permutations. Accessing these weapons requires a Legendary License purchased with Ren, and blueprints are unlocked by replaying missions across Olympus, Styx, and Prometheus.
Great Hunts Campaigns and DLC Access
The paid Great Hunts Campaigns expansion introduces three open-world narrative campaigns featuring 34 new missions, cinematic instanced boss arenas, five new armor sets, and unique creatures. The Quarrite Campaign on Olympus features underground cave combat and the Mining Armature gauntlet. The Garganutan Campaign on Styx tasks players with tracking escaped experiments and unlocks the Anti-Materiel Rifle. The Rimetusk Campaign on Prometheus sends players after terraforming enzyme experiments to unlock the Tactical Bow. Players who do not own the DLC can still join friends who host, granting access to missions, items, and planetary unlocks, though direct purchase of the three top-tier weapons requires owning the expansion.
Combat and Balance Adjustments
Recent adjustments cap Scorpion Carapace and Sandworm Scale on-hit drops to once per second to balance against high-fire-rate weapons. Damage types are standardized across Melee, Projectile, Collision, and Explosive, removing redundant checks. Biomass conversion ratios are adjusted to 25 per 1 biomass. Arena adjustments prevent network performance drops by disabling inventory components on specific cave worms, having them clean up after 30 seconds of inactivity, and moving the Garganutan boss out of its initial cave once dens are cleared.
Quality of Life and Bug Fixes
Mounted players now correctly receive account flag rewards and blueprint unlocks when missions end, and AIcarusPlayerCharacter::GetIcarusPlayerState no longer returns null while seated on a mount. Mission communicators now correctly display boss respawn timers and local map presence. Fixes also address invulnerability loops on juvenile creatures, missing collision blockers, drone spawner quest tracking failures, and first-person armor rendering clipping while aiming down sights with the Legendary Sniper.
Why this patch matters
Week 189 delivers a massive injection of endgame depth, new multi-phase boss encounters, and extensive quality-of-life adjustments that reward returning players.