Icarus - Extracting Exotics

[@farmerrabbit]

For someone like me who are just starting out with Icarus with about 95 hours game time. Your videos are brilliant and love to see more from you.

[@benny9]

Really appreciate it! I try to get one Icarus vid out per week as well as one other survival game, so def more to come! If there's something specific you want to know more about, let me know!

[@farmerrabbit]

@@benny9 Anytime I know the struggles :)... I had Icarus sitting in my Steam library for two years and only played 35 hours before I picked it up again last week. So far over the last 5 days I have accumulated 60 hours of game time, Icarus have really sucked me in, and I love all the updates that have since been released when I stopped playing 2 years ago.

[@benny9]

@farmerrabbit A ton of changes yeah, and I really like the direction it's taken. New update every Friday too.

[@brianscott.]

Liked and subscribed. Thanks Benny!

[@benny9]

Welcome to the channel! Much appreciated!

[@lalev1242]

Nice! I do spirit walk for grind exotics, I still get the same range of exotics on easy vs normal. For just grinding exotics, easy is the way to go :)

[@benny9]

Absolutely. Getting exotics can get really grindy when things start to get expensive. The faster and more efficient the better.

[@itsmeagain1745]

There are another 5 possible exotic vein locations within about 1/2 km radius. 1 on the island in the L12/L13 lake. 2 further by the L11 lake and 2 more in M11 - these 2 are not near any obvious landmarks on icarusintel.

[@benny9]

Yeah I used to check them all, or pop down a radar but to me it seems quicker to just check that position and go back up if it's not there. Seems to be there more than half the time. The island is very rarely closer though depending on your drop location. In that case I would check both. But I won't claim my way is the the most efficient, just that's how I do it.

[@itsmeagain1745]

@@benny9 It was just a suggestion. You are not doing anything while the extractors are working - just thought it might be worth a quick look-see. I seem to remember there was a prospect that had 4 possible locations. They were usually split up in pairs, so either both to the 'north' or both to the 'south' were active. Land, sprint to the nearest pair, if they were active life was great. If not, the other pair were active.

[@benny9]

@itsmeagain1745 I'm going to look into doing that. Thanks for the suggestion!

[@hughtrain]

Follow up question: Do I have to do the Deep Vein mission in order to get this thing to spawn?

[@benny9]

A very good question. Things have changed a lot since I started playing Icarus. Originally I know you had to yes. Now? I'm not certain. Next time I play I'll test it.

[@benny9]

So it does indeed look like you still need deep vein extraction. I created a new character and did 10 drops without a single spawn. I'd say normally I get a spawn at least half the time. It's hard to just look things up with games like this that have evolved so much over time.

[@hughtrain]

Hey... So this mission is repeatable right? Sorry, noob(ish) at this game. Played it years ago and just came back to it

[@benny9]

Yep, all the missions are repeatable as far as I know. This was actually my 2nd take, my recording software crashed during the first. Total from two runs was almost 600 exotics counting what I found in the caves. Welcome back to Icarus, just started again myself about 2 weeks ago.

[@redzorogaming]

theres no exotic to farm for me in that spot 14:15 is that rng position?

[@benny9]

Yeah, it's an rng spot. But that mission only has a small number of possible locations for exotics to spawn so it's going to be in that spot pretty often. I normally just check that spot then if it's empty I just launch back up and then drop back down again until it's there.

[@redzorogaming]

@@benny9 thank you🫡

[@benny9]

Any time!

[@itsmeagain1745]

If you are only interested in exotics try looking at icarusintel. It shows the possible places for exotics.

[@benny9]

Yep, the Intel map is really useful for a lot of things including exotics, deep or veins, and mission objectives. Unfortunately I don't think it's being updated anymore or at least it isn't at the moment. Still, very useful. Thanks for posting the suggestion!