How to Change Max Players on Your Icarus Server

Set the player limit on your Icarus dedicated server. Hard cap is 8 players per session.

Icarus has a hard cap of 8 players per session. This is a game design limit and cannot be increased.

Change the Player Limit

In the XGamingServer Panel, go to Console and stop the server.

Click Files in the sidebar and open Icarus/Saved/Config/ServerSettings.ini. Set:

[/script/icarus.dedicatedserversettings]
MaxPlayers=8

Valid range: 1 to 8.

Click Save Content and start from Console.

The game is processor-intensive, with each additional player increasing CPU strain.

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