Icarus News

This week we’re sharing some of our plans for the future of Icarus plus adding several Quality of Life features that you, our player community, have suggested.

By sharing our development Roadmap for Icarus, you can see what features and new systems to expect over the next year and more in addition to our regular weekly updates.

This week we’ve also added several helpful tools such as a Search Bar for the Tech Tree, Pinnable Compass Marks and a Add to Stacks button.





In this week’s update we have added several popular Quality of Life suggestions that you have submitted via our Feature Upvote tool.

• We’ve added search bars to the Talent, Blueprint, Workshop and Mission screen which will highlight any item searched for
• We’ve added an ‘Add to Stacks’ inventory button which adds whatever items are in the player's inventory into any container if they match an item already present in the container
  
• We’ve added ‘Compass Mark’ pins to the compass which can be placed on the map, making it easier to navigate
• Fixed ‘Fog of War’ so it is correctly saved locally during multiplayer games
  
• Screws and Nails will now show how many will be crafted in the tooltip
  
• Added the ability to search for icons when adding text or icons to small wooden signs

Icarus has become well-known for producing weekly updates, which we’ve done every week for over a year. While this has helped to improve the game consistently, add new game modes and add fresh content, it has lead to many players asking for more visibility about what to expect in future.

Here is our Development Roadmap highlighting the key features and new systems we plan to add to Icarus over the next one to two years.



We have ambitious plans for these new features and plan to invest more time into them than a typical weekly update. We expect to release these as bigger patches containing several new features every 2-3 months.

Naturally, we expect you’re hungry for details and we’ll share more in weekly posts and on Discord closer to release. The first three features (which we’ve already begun work on) are a Fishing system, a Bestiary system and Achievements.

These larger feature updates will contain new content, large re-balances and substantial improvements that we’ll be able to spend more time refining, finalizing and polishing internally before release. This will let us deliver complete features in their best form rather that splitting them up over several weeks, a win for the players and our team.

Generally, these updates will take between 2-3 months with flexibility if needed. The Roadmap itself might change based on feedback, too.

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What About Weekly Updates?

In addition to the large milestone updates detailed above, we will continue to publish Weekly Updates. Each week we will continue to add things such as new items, optimizations, Dedicated Server improvements, missions, bug fixes and translations. These will not contain the larger pieces of content being retained until the milestone updates, but we want to get things like bug fixes and optimizations out to players at a much higher frequency we’re known for and this gives us a mechanism to continue to do so.

The first of these larger patches we have codenamed 'Galileo', we expect it to be ready in 2-3 months. We plan on having a section with information about the work on this patch during in each of these weekly updates. So make sure to check the patch notes weekly as we talk about the next upcoming features from the roadmap (and some that aren't) that will be included in Galileo.





Those of you who read the Future Content section of our weekly Changelog have seen that we’ve also been working away on the next chapter of Icarus. This is completely separate and in addition to the Roadmap published above.

Icarus: New Frontiers will feature a new map, new biomes, new creatures and missions that continue the story of what happened on Icarus. It will be paid DLC and we’ll announce more details soon.

We’re really excited how the features unveiled on the Roadmap will deepen and expand Icarus. We believe the adjustment in the cadence to have larger patches as well as weekly updates is the right move for Icarus and for the community.

We truly value your support and feedback, so keep sharing your thoughts with us on Discord and Feature Upvote.

Thank you for playing Icarus.

Best regards,

The Icarus Team





New Content

• Added ability to search for icons when customising wooden signs
  
• Map Icons are now displayed on compass by default.
  
• Compass icons will share the same icon as the map-space counterpart but this can be overridden in D_MapIcons.
  
• Can set MaxCompassDisplayDistance (D_MapIcons) to have compass icons fade out after a certain distance
  
• Made compass function that checks for map icon updates more performant.
  
• Added Tusk to Crushed Bone recipe to Material Processor
  
• Add the ability to search and highlight talents in blueprints, player, prospects and outposts
  
• Add the ability to search and highlight talents in the workshop
  
• Fix for fix for crash after running out of reconnection retries
  
• Map exploration fog is now used with open world prospects
  
• Added more logging to track the cause of bad voxel states on dedicated servers
  
• Minor visual tweaks to search bar
  
• Add button to containers (UMG_Chest) that transfers all items in players inventory of the same type of items already in the destination inventory
  
• When items are transfered to a destination inventory with 'transfer like' button, sort the destination inventory by tag
  
• Change the label on 'Transfer Like' button to 'Add To Stacks'
  
• Hide the search filter from UMG_Sort. Users assume it is related to new talent searching and will search the inventory
  
• Added compass icons for other players
  
• Adjusting Search Bar locations and widget visuals so its clearer
  
• Permit 'Add To Stacks' button on processors
  

Fixed

• Renaming 'Metal Miner' -> 'Iron Miner' to better reflect its effect
  
• Fixed bug where compass icons wouldn't show up if they were using the default colour
  
• Fixed issue where compass icon visibility wasn't updated to the correct state if the linked map icon hadn't been rendered yet.
  
• Dropship map icon now waits for valid ownership before initialising, and is only initialised on the local owner
  
• Fixed Dynamic Collect mission not stopping audio for clients when the ID tag is collected
  
• Explored map fog is now correctly loaded on clients. This data is now moved into the appropriate PlayerData folder on load and should then be backed up by cloud saves
  
• Fixed rare crash caused by invalid building pieces on dedicated servers
  
• Fixed issue that would cause log spam during tutorial mission on dedicated servers
  
• DYNAMIC missions: Slightly reduced maximum range of all missions, further reduced this range on harder difficulties.
  
• DYNAMIC Grow, Mine and Tools missions: Greatly reduced spawn range of mission collection pods
  
• Updated Dynamic Collect mission method for stopping audio
  
• Fixed bug where fully destroyed items weren't being repaired by repair bench
  
• Added new SpawnCaveVariant check box to BP_DeepOreDepositSpawn to allow manually switching to cave-type ore deposit
  
• Removed the option to salt spoiled food items at the salting bench.
  
• Updated Salting Station UI text for Food Already Salted to say Food Salted and show as a warning instead of an error
  
• Moved Flatbread Dough T4 placement to Marble Kitchen Bench instead of Chemistry bench as it is a food item
  
• Update experience event text for skinning a Jaguar to correctly say Jaguar instead of Cougar
  
• DYNAMIC Collect: Fixed Dead Prospector in-world tooltip not appearing until after the tags are collected
  
• Thumper event duration now updates dynamically during fight, meaning voxels mined while event is underway (or paused) contribute to overall event duration
  
• LandShark now has a maximum distance it can travel when deciding on a new combat target, should prevent cases where players are killed by LandShark and it teleports to the player's bed when they respawn (provided player's bed isn't within maximum target distance).
  
• Fixed LandShark not being able to find valid emerge locations within some larger caves
  
• Fixed bug where IsOpenWorld bool on IcarusGameStateSurvival wasn't being set correctly
  
• Added additional logging to voxels to identify issues
  
• Player dropship spawn points now prefer flatter areas
  
• Fixed bug where new missions wouldn't automatically have a difficulty selected on the UI. Open World / Outposts now use 'Medium' as their default selected difficulty
  
• Fix an issue with salted food spoil duration reverting to non spoiled duration when a stacked salted food item is consumed from the hotbar
  
• Fix an issue with search talents highlight where an exact match did not highlight (search is fuzzy)
  
• Fix Take All button is no longer visible on corpses etc (broken only in experimental)
  
• Removed stats on Polar Bear cubs that were incorrectly copied over from standard Bears; Polar Bear Cubs can no longer mine voxels or cause deep wounds
  
• Remove the 'Fuzzy Search' when highlighting, instead use an exact match (longer search strings mean more false positive)
  
• When searching player talents and blueprint talents are searched for highlighting, include the tooltip description in the search.
  
• Fixed Visibility on the Prospect Widgets so that players can select them when searching
  
• Tweaked visual of Player/Blueprint talent highlight
  
• Fix an issue where outposts were not selectable when highlighted by search (experimental branch only)
  
• Tweaked visual of remaining talent search highlights
  
• Made wooden sign icon search less fuzzy, slightly increased visibility of player talent widget search highlight
  

Future Content

• Quick cleanup pass on folder structure for Olympus. Moving 2000 assets out of the root folder and into organized subfolders
  
• Adjustments to new biomes cave entrances volumes and new biome caves ambiences
  
• Added music track state change trigger component which can be added to world or quest objects to trigger track state parameters on music tracks in their group
  
• Set Up More Shots For Trailer DLC
  
• Added Updated Volcanic Level for Cinematic Shots, DLC Trailer
  
• Adding exotic tree device start audio and event and notify
  
• Removed various empty references from the tundra sapling and bush destructible meshs
  
• Generated and cleaned up splines for lava lakes/rivers in P2 LC Area on Purple,DLC
  
• Set music quest conditions to only replicate to owner
  
• Test event for new music
  
• Build fix for previous commit
  
• Renaming fmod parameter to fix previous commit
  
• Fixed Burnt Dead Prospector blueprint having errornous cube mesh added
  
• Added ITM_SW_Mushroom_Shelf_A
  
• Geothermal banks - material edits, fixed incorrect texture saturation, adjusted sulfur texture to reduce tiling
  
• LC Terraces - material adjustments, added terrace rocks 03-07 for bottom of pool
  
• Consistency pass on Cave mesh shadow settings. Ensured roof/wall meshes and large meshes cast Far Shadows and that all cast Contact Shadows
  
• Modify CavePrefab logic to take Shadow settings from source mesh and apply them to processed Cave mesh to ensure not every cave mesh has blanket applied shadow settings which are costly and may not provide best visual outcomes
  
• fixed incorrect navmesh settings on LC Cliffs 12-16, Lrg_08, RiverCliffs
  
• fixed incorrect navmesh settings on Cliff_04, Cliff_11 (GL, SW, TU variants)
  
• Adding exotic tree device gripper events, arm events and rotating events and all anim notifiers. Yet to be tested in game
  
• Added Spines to the Lava Rivers in purple quad, Prometheus
  
• Added LODs to Volcano mesh
  
• Added LODs to glacier mesh
  
• Set Up Lava Hunter Shot For Trailer & Added Rocks to Deep Water Swamp on Green/Blue/Yellow Quad, DLC Map
  
• Updated shadow geometry for Prometheus
  
• Added several assets for Wood Buildable Rework Investigation
  
• Force save on Terrain016 to trigger build of level assets to test cave changes (CL 107887)
  
• Added spline points and terrace rocks in geothermal pools, cleaned up lava river splines in pt2, Purple, DLC
  
• Added ITM_Salt
  
• Fixed LOD materials on MACTOP_05 (SW, GL, TU variants)
  
• Adjusted color of MI_Water_SulfurPool_02
  
• Adding in exotic plant harvest sounds and event and blueprint info
  
• Adding ice borer events, ice crack audio and adding to the blueprint
  
• Removed Large Water Flow Points and Fixed Edge Splines On Lava Rivers, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Added Cave to Grassland & Polish on Green, DLC Map
  
• Added art asset for T4 aquarium foliage to the project
  
• Adding obsidian tool pickaxe impact audio event and sounds
  
• Trailer Sets and Sequencers
  
• Added ability to trigger dynamic faction missions through T3 communicator device
  
• Lava Hunter Trailer Shot, Lava Lakes & River Replaced
  
• Lava River Replaced on Cinematic Level and Edited River Splines on Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Adding obsidian pickaxe data table entry
  
• Finished up the last of the Lava River Splines on Purple Quad and Cliff pass in the swamp, Prometheus
  
• Removing extractor sounds from blueprint of exotic tree harvester. Sounds will play off animations when hooked up - not automatically off BP
  
• Polish Grassland Cave, Add Ferns/Mushroom to Mega Tree Roots/Hollow Trunk & Polish Rock in Deep water Swamp on Green/Blue/Yellow Quad, DLC Map
  
• Adding obsidion axe audio, events and data table entries
  
• Adding 16 New Fish items, fish setups and fish spawn zones and adjusted fishing bench recipes
  
• Added dynamic faction mission UI to T4 communicator device. IcarusGameStateSurvival now has a replicated bool signifying whether or not we're currently playing an Open World prospect
  
• Adjustments to obsidian axe to balance between other axes
  
• Adding additional layers to harvest exotic plant to give it slightly more of a point of difference to standard harvestable plants. May adjust after testing in game
  
• Add actor BP for lavafall base VFX
  
• Fix physical material setting on sulfur pool material instances so that complex collision queries will correctly see them as water. Fixes incorrect footstep audio on geothermal terraces
  
• Added art asstes for T4 Aquarium, T3 Aquarium, and T3 Aquarium foliage
  
• Polish Grassland Cliffs, Fix Deep Ore RVT in Hand Made Caves & Landscape Painting on Green Quad, DLC Map
  
• Replaced Template Cave, Added Waterfall VFX and General Polish on Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Update to exotic processor loop audio sound
  
• Adding Base Logic for the Fishing Traps and completing Item Setups
  
• Adding exotic processor start loop and end audio and events and blueprint implimentation. BP still needs more fine tuning for best playback
  
• Added destruction assets for T4 and T3 aquariums
  
• Added ability for EnvQueryTest_BoundsMask to specify a test radius, meaning items can choose to only succeed if the surrounding area is also valid
  
• Adjustments to exotic processor BP logic and also update to the sound loop
  
• PRO_Story_5 additional setup
  
• Implemented basic fishing functionality and fixed bug within the 'catch fish' function where it always returned false
  
• General clean up around lava biome, added more stalagmites around geothermal pools, Purple Quad, DLC
  
• Adding Lava Broodling SK mesh and base anim set for implementation
  

Week Sixty Four introduces our newest mineable mineral - Salt. Found around the map on the sides of cliffs and mountains, Salt can be used to preserve food items twice as long.

This comes with a new bench, the Salt Station, where you can place any food item along with salt to give it a ‘Preserved’ buff.

We’re also introducing a Tier 4 ‘Deep Freeze', which preserves food while it is powered, and have kept improving dropship landing zones and dynamic quest locations.






There is a new mineral to discover and mine on Icarus - Salt. Salt can be found in the wilderness in similar areas to Sulfur, Oxite and Silica.

Salt can be used in preservation, doubling the time it takes food items to spoil. This can be done on the new Salt Station crafted in Tier 2, and providing alternatives to using ice boxes and fridges.

The Salt Station works by putting any food item on the bench with Salt in the other slot. This will produce the salted version of this item for you instantly.





To provide even more preservation options, we’re adding a new ‘Deep Freeze’ recipe and item in Tier 4 on the Fabricator.

This is a high-tier item and provides unlimited preservation of items inside. It requires a lot of power to keep temperatures below freezing, so a strong power source and consistent stream of electricity is critical.

Due to the incredibly low temperatures, the Deep Freeze will also slowly accumulate Ice, providing another source of Water on the go or to fill Ice Boxes taken on adventures.





Last week we spoke about our ongoing work on dropship landing locations,dynamic quest spawning and drop pod locations, and we wanted to give an update on our work here.

The feedback received on our changes was constructive and showed signs of improvement on the previous iteration. We’re continuing to build on this work this week with more tweaks and improvements, aiming to provide dropship landings unobstructed by the environment and closer, easier-to-access mission-reward drop pod locations.

Keep providing feedback on these improvements, and specific details if you do run into any blockers such as dropships landing in trees so we can address these quickly for you.





New Content

• Adding Salt item and setup
  
• Adding Salting Station setup, Talent, Recipe and Functionality
  
• Adding 'Salted' Alteration which increases spoil time by 200% (subject to change)
  
• Adding Salting Station UI and setting up Functionailty to Salt Items, including various errors
  
• Adding salting meat crafted audio and event and data table entry
  
• Added DEP_Bench_Kitchen_Salting
  
• Small increase in volume to salt bench craft audio
  
• Removed animation in Salting Station UI which referenced object that doens't exist and clean up BP logic. Removed second Close button that did nothing
  
• Fixed Salting Bench DM not referencing materials correctly
  
• Add Salting Station icon
  
• Remove Salt from Salting Bench recipe
  
• Fixed Salting Bench meshable entry not referencing Deployable context
  
• Fixed weight on Salting Bench itemable
  
• Adding Salt to Voxel Distribution, hooking up textutes, materials etc
  
• Fixed conifer outside salt spawn weight
  
• Test Salt Commit
  
• Reduced amount of food preserved per piece of salt to 1 per from 5 per.
  
• Lowered spoil time reduction on preserved items to 2x from 3x.
  
• Halved the frequency of salt in the world
  
• Set Salt Station to Core
  
• Added salt icon to itemable datatable
  
• Preserved Food Spoil Item Visualisation now incorperates stats into visualisation
  
• Updating Inventory Item Widget to fix spoilage time
  
• The 'Salted' Alteration is now Called 'Preserved'
  
• Adding Deep Freeze
  
• Added Deep Freeze icon to Itemable table
  
• Added text for Deep Freeze item
  
• Fixing Deep Freeze Talent
  

Fixed

• Fix several dropship spawners being located too close to trees on Olympus and Styx
  
• Added tool to detect and select dropships with trees too close
  
• Added more logging to identify which UMG the game thinks is open when it isnt, thus stopping mouse input on death. Also refreshes when you open a new menu
  
• Improved the fireplace chimney smoke effect, increasing the thickness and height of the plume and distance it can be seen from
  
• Increased stack size of pickled carrots to match other items stored in glass jars
  
• Fixed bug where ores regenerated using thumper weren't requiring the correct tier of pickaxe to be mined
  
• Fixed hang when incorrect password is entered when joining a server
  
• When player dropship topples trees, make the spread of toppled trees more radial
  
• Fixed a few small typos in item names and descriptions
  
• Fixed a typo in cooking bench description
  
• Fixed offset of Concrete Frame destructible mesh, so it does not move position when swapping to the destructible mesh
  
• small update to dropship textures
  
• Fixed bug where LandShark world position wasn't updating for clients when it went undergound and resurfaced somewhere else. Fixed bug where LandShark spit/melee attacks were being dealt to clients who weren't able to see the worm
  
• Fixed cause of some error 65's. This was being caused by a malformed packet being received by the net connection during level transitions on dedicated servers
  
• Change the EQS query for collection, retrieva and delivery pods to bias closer to the querier (quest, deployable etc.) but to still factor player distance
  
• Change the EQS query for reward pods to select between player distance and querier distance
  
• Tweak the min/max distances for EQS queries on some quests so that pods spawn closer
  
• Fix an issue with sentry report submission
  
• Increased many dynamic quest location minimum distance as they are now correctly biased towards the active objective
  
• Rotate the shape used by drop ship spawn probes by 45 degrees to allow more room for players to get out
  
• Slightly extend the radius from drop ship for trees that will be blown over by drop ships
  
• Extend drop ship spawn query rather than using point traces
  
• Added search area for Dynamic Hunt mission, kills outside this area still count toward the objective but this gives players an area to search for additional spawns
  
• Added new dedicated server commands for debugging voxels (/DumpVoxelStates and /DumpVoxelTarget)
  
• Changed replicated voxel data to be grouped together. This should prevent desync if data is received out of order due to packet loss
  
• Further increase the EQS query geometery radius when spawning player drop ships to allow more room for player to get out, perform more sparse probes over a greater area
  

Future Content

• Added Volcano Landscape Mesh on Red Quad, DLC Map
  
• LC Red grass - enabled terrain blending in materials
  
• Added textures, material, foliage type for LC_PlantDebris_02
  
• Tundra Rocks - material parent changes on cliff mats
  
• Increase in initial footstep sizzle in lava to add a more dangerous feeling to the audio
  
• added bone armor materials,ml, textures and mesh pack
  
• FT_D_LC_Plant_Debris_02- edits to textures
  
• Started painting new LC red grass decal down in P2 Area on Purple Quad, DLC
  
• Polish Pass on the rivers in Green Quad, Prometheus
  
• Started painting Dragon trees around sulfur pools, Succulant trees around red grass areas and Joshua trees around saplings, P2 Area on Purple Quad, DLC
  
• Commiting Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Volcano - added emissive details to albedo map for better distant LOD generation
  
• Adding bone armor audio loop and fmod param entry
  
• Added final assets for Prometheus Generated levels first pass. Minor tweaks to tooling
  
• LC Rocks - improved LODs for cliffs, improved collision for Cliffs 12-18+ mac 03A, material edits and parent changes for cliff and macro mats
  
• LC Rocks - texture missed in last commit
  
• LC Rocks - parent change and edits to cave entrance materials
  
• Painted New LC Red Grass & Painted Plant Debris 02 decal down in P2 Area on Purple Quad, DLC
  
• Added rock formations ontop of cliffs and Landscape painting on rivers, Green Quad, Prometheus
  
• Painted Joshua Trees, New LC Red Grass & Painted Plant Debris 02 decal down in P1 Area on Purple Quad, DLC
  
• Changed title card description for Prometheus on String Table
  
• Adding in extra lava hunter anims
  
• LC Rocks - LOD optimization and normal map rebaking for cave entrance meshes
  
• Adding lava hunter super heavy attack movement event and notify
  
• LC Rocks - parent changes for LRG, MED, SML rock mats, overall color and saturation tweaks to master LC mat
  
• Painted New LC Red Grass & Painted Plant Debris 02 decal down in P2 Area on Purple Quad, DLC
  
• Added rock formations ontop of cliffs and Landscape painting on rivers, Green Quad, Prometheus
  
• Painted New LC Red Grass & Painted Plant Debris 02 decal down in P1 Area on Purple Quad, DLC
  
• Added Brick overlay icon
  
• Adding lava hunter quick egg lay deposit sound, event and notify. Also adding vocal to swipe attack
  
• More lava hunter movement sounds and additions to most animations
  
• Added DefaultPhysicsVolume to WorldManager ignored classes list
  
• Moved Macro Cliffs from Persistant Level to Developer Levels, Green and Blue Quad, Prometheus
  
• Volcanic Rocks - added Macro 01A
  
• Updates and additions to the lava hunter animations using movement audio events
  
• Added rock formations ontop of cliffs and Landscape painting on rivers, Green Quad, Prometheus
  
• Painted New LC Red Grass & Painted Plant Debris 02 decal down in P2 Area & Cleaned World Outliner on Purple Quad, DLC
  
• Splitting some 1.3.0 dialogue into more appropriate chunks
  
• Fixing audio routing for new dialogue clips
  
• Second pass on Prometheus Generated assets, cleaning up artifacts. Tweaks to tooling
  
• General cean up around swamp biome of cliffs, foliage, resources in Purple Quad, DLC
  
• Adjustment to lava hunter notify timing and adding shake splatter sound for lava h out
  
• Adding Variables to the weather and atmposphere controller for Ash, Hail, Embers, Acid Rain and Smoke, so they can be included in new weather events
  
• Fix biome and storm music not playing correctly. Needed to fix broken BP node exec connections caused by a WeatherController function being made const and defaulting to BlueprintPure
  
• Adding cave entrance for the volcanic biome
  
• Adding the rest of the cave entrance events for new biomes
  
• Added New Level for Cinematic Shots and Added Water Points and Edge Splines For Lava Lakes, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Updated Enzyme Cannon textures and skeletal meshs to version 2. Added open and close animations for the Enzyme Cannon Arm
  
• Lights are now added along river splines based on distance rather than spline points for more consistent lighting/performance
  
• Add LavaLight preview support to WT_RiverSpline tooling
  
• Set Up Shots For Trailer & Added Sea Grass to Deep Water Swamp on Green/Blue/Yellow Quad, DLC Map
  
• Generated and cleaned up splines for lava lakes/rivers in P2 LC Area on Purple,DLC
  
• First pass to prepare music system for dynamic music features:
  
• Refactor location music conditions to be data-driven, and add quest music conditions
  
• Refactor quest-related notifications from PlayerFeedback subsystem to new QuestNotification subsystem, and add QuestStarted notify
  
• Add concept of MusicTrackStateGroups which can be assigned to music tracks and used to set a state parameter on the FMOD music event
  
• Split Promfractureevent17 voice lines into three events for better delivery
  
• Very small micro adjustments to overall mix. Music up a tiny bit, slightly more compression / limiting / biome ambience level balance for more consistency
  
• Fixed a typo in desert anomaly mission
  
• Navmesh generation removal from IMPs and MACs in Prometheus (set as dynamic obstacle, NavArea_Null)
  
• Navmesh generation removal from distant volcanic and glacier landscape meshes
  
• Adding test commit to force teamcity update
  

Week Sixty Three brings improvements to last week's new deployable, the Thumper, and some small QoL fixes to crop plots, dropships and more.

A hotfix addressing a mission blocker caused by changes to our voxels was pushed Monday, and we’ve followed that up with changes to map icons, audio, exploits and more.

We’re also seeking more feedback and examples of dropship respawning occurring in voxels, trees and other locations that prevent you from being able to move.

Jump in and have a read.





We’ve focused this week on making some tweaks and changes to the new ore-regenerating Thumper device.

The first of these fixes was included in the hotfix we pushed Monday, which addressed the mission ‘Deep Vein: Extraction’ being blocked. Because of the change to how we ‘destroy’ voxels, the mission was interpreting this data incorrectly, leading to a mission step being assumed ‘incomplete' and preventing players from completing the mission. This has now been remedied and the mission will progress as intended.

Other fixes include a tweak to the map icon to make it more readable and a cleanup when logging in again.

Thumpers deployed in caves will now also trigger worms correctly, and more audio has been added. We’ve also added an option in the menu to disable screen shake, as some players found the effects too disruptive.

In order to correct a small exploit some players discovered, we’ve now prevented the Thumper from being able to be turned on while in water. While very clever, this removed any risk associated with using it. Additionally, the weight will also mean it is too heavy to be placed on top of any building pieces and will destroy them when placed there.





We’ve also added some other small Quality of Life improvements, with more work to do on some others.

Crop Plots previously were not detecting outdoors/greenhouses correctly and therefore provided incorrect buff/stat values. This has now been fixed, and Crop Plots should act as intended when provided with the right environments.

Mission Reward Dropships will now attempt to spawn closer to players also, as the current spread was outside our intended range. There are a bunch more fixes you can also find in the detailed change log below.

One of these improvements is to Dropship Spawner positioning, where we’ve had multiple reports of players landing in trees, voxels or on cliff edges. This prevents them from being able to leave the dropship and blocks their progress. We’re expecting this week’s changes will have alleviated those issues, but we’re still wanting feedback and examples/screenshots of where this has failed, so we can address them and implement more robust fixes that eradicate the cause.





Fixed

• Updated in-world tooltips to show the fillable resource color (eg blue for water, green for fuel, white for oxygen)
  
• Explicitly clear the frost affect when Cold and FrostBite modifiers are removed rather than running the blend weights again
  
• Force two decimal places on UI temperature display
  
• CARAPACE: Added unlock flag to mission (in addition to currently being granted during mission steps), so it will show the indicator on prospect selection screen
  
• Fixed a typo in mission dialogue
  
• Fixed a typo in mission dialogue
  
• Re-setting the local selected character before attempting to retry joining session. This should fix the issue with auto-retries failing
  
• Added logging within the User Interface to see whether or not menus are recorded as being shown when they're not visible, thus disabling the mouse input on death screen
  
• Fixed the logging so it doesn't spam every frame
  
• Fixed error caused by player leaving during an AI spawn check
  
• Fixed combo widget crash when the selected value doesn't exist
  
• Actors outside the world bounds during generation will now be assigned the closest generated level as their owner
  
• Black Wolf Knife is now correctly repaired by Black Wolf Teeth
  
• Add ProjectionLocation component to Caveworm loot drop sack to fix the widget being offset due to initial spawn offset
  
• ICESTORM: Fixed visual bug that would reset the mission progress of the device activation step
  
• Improved drop ship spawn point selection (tied to large AI navmesh, custom EQS with 5 point trace)
  
• Fixed Roasted Vegetables modifier using ProjectileDamage instead of BaseProjectileDamage
  
• Add DT Validation to modifier states to catch non-Base stat usage
  
• Fixed logging always showing as white colour instead of colours based on error codes
  
• Remove Durable trait from Shengong Canteen to match other water vessels
  
• Fix Shengong Canteen weighing 100g when it should be 1000g
  
• Fixing missing Fillable Type data from Larkwell Canteen
  
• Adding initial color selection functionality to Portable Beacon. Disabled while UX is being worked out
  
• Spawn mission reward ships closer to players
  
• Zero post process blend weights for cold/heat to when dead
  
• REMNANT: Fixed case where scans could be marked as incomplete after a relog
  
• Fixed issue where unmined voxels that had been regenerated weren't updating for clients until mined/damaged
  
• Added new gamplay setting to disable camera shake
  
• Decrease opacity of Thumpers search area map icon
  
• Fixed Thumper SearchArea map element not being cleaned up correctly after a prospect reload.
  
• Tweaked colour of Thumper Map Icon.
  
• Thumper now uses correct map icon row
  
• Added VFX and placeholder audio to Thumper damage deactivation event
  
• Reversing sizemograph animation so it spins the correct way
  
• Added UnsupportedDeployable weight option, which ensures the deployable is not supported by any building pieces by setting a very very high weight. - Changed Thumper deployable weight to UnsupportedDeployable
  
• Prefer dropship spawn point closest to the drop ship beacon when calling dropship via beacon
  
• Fix an issue with cursor focus in the Report An Issue popup (irony) when retroactively editing
  
• Prevented Hedgehog defense structures from having their mesh set to their destructible mesh if it wasn't configured, this prevents them turning invisible below half health
  
• Updated OLY level blueprint to remove references to old persistent level data in WorldData struct
  
• Fix an issue where crop plots placed on a floor did not register as outdoors
  
• Ensure orbital transport pod spawn position is correctly replicated to clients
  
• Fixed error message popup on title screen not appearing
  
• Added loading screen to show when attempting to auto-rejoin a server after losing connection via error 65
  
• Fixed error message popup on title screen not appearing
  
• The thumper now doesnt allow activation when within a cave or water
  
• Adding thumper electric shutdown audio, warning alarm and sonar pulse and blueprint info
  
• Re-enabled Thumper activation in caves. Thumper should now correctly spawn cave worms and land sharks within caves.
  
• Added cheat to mine all voxels in a radius around player
  
• Added Thumper map icon to datatable
  
• Adjustment to thumper warning and placement. Re adding sounds to BP
  
• Set durability on Orbital Exchange Interface (now correctly takes damage and can be repaired)
  
• Removed incorrect FactionMission.Blocker gameplay tag from communications boards
  
• Fixed scan mission radars acting like normal radars.
  
• Fixed an issue with water pump components not activating correctly sometimes
  
• Clamp greenhouse benefits for crops to +50%
  
• Changed the way greenhouse buffs and indoor debuffs are applied to crops
  
• Fixed short range radio tooltip not appearing when highlighted, also fixed tooltips for other future communication deployables
  
• Dynamic quest "Crazed Creature" now teathers to its spawn point so it doesnt stray far from its icon.
  
• Fixed auto-retry join server load overlay not appearing
  
• Fixed auto-retry join server crash
  
• Fix some wall torches do not show as sheltered when inside
  
• Player dropships now topple any large trees in the way when landing
  
• Added settings option to change display gamma / brightness
  
• Reduced radius in which dropship topples trees in landing zone 500->275
  

Future Content

• ADDING lava hunter flinch vocals, event and data table entries
  
• Added missing DMs for SW_Blackberry_Bush variants
  
• Polish pass on GL macros, cliff and rock materials
  
• Adding lava hunter death audio event and data table entries
  
• Set WT_RiverSpline to generate frozen rivers, added PM to Frozen Materials
  
• Added new material for base of scoria and obsidian nodes to blend better with LC biom
  
• Transition Cave P1-P2 Set Dressing & Placement of Voxel Transition Cave in on Purple Quad, DLC Map
  
• Foliage pass on Blue and Green Quads and Added Rocks on Cliff Edges, Prometheus
  
• Added art assets and animations for DEP_Enzyme Cannon to the projec
  
• Generate LODs for several Prometheus Generated sublevels
  
• Add utility widget for deleting certain actors from generated heightmaps for LOD generation process
  
• Painted FT_Aloe_Vera in Swamp biome and replaced breakable Scoria and Obsedian in vulcanic biome pt.2, Purple Quad, DLC
  
• Adjusted tesselation on landscape material and LC landscape decals
  
• polish pass on SW, TU, GL CanyonWall materials and textures
  
• Expose Lava Lights bool on WT_RiverSpline for WBs to use to enable lava lights on specific rivers
  
• Setup FT_LC_Stones, Added Deep Ore And Cave Clean Up in P2 on Purple Quad, DLC
  
• Cleand up and re-painted breakeable Obsedian closer to lava and Scoria more in-land around p2, Purple Quad, DLC
  
• Added DEP_Bench_Fishing_T2 with selectable meshes
  
• Adding Lava Hunter aggro state vocalisations and event and Data Table Entries
  
• polish pass on swamp rock materials, added new texture for moss breakup
  
• Added Exotics, Turned on Lava Lights on the Lava Rivers & Spawned LC stone FT in Lava Area on Purple Quad, DLC 1
  
• Placed respawn ships and did some general clean up of resources, decals and cliffs, p2 Purple Quad, DLC
  
• Lowering spawn rate for all swamp creature idle sounds to accomodate for large amounts of creatures spawning
  
• Tundra Rocks - polish pass on TU macro materials
  
• GL Rocks - material parent fixes to GL stalagmites
  
• Swamp Rocks - material polish, plus parent fixes for cave floor mats
  
• Generate some more LODs for Prometheus generated sublevels and tweaks to tooling
  
• removed and replaced CF meshes in tundra biome, blue quad
  
• Updates to the lava Hunter anims
  
• River Cleanup and Polish on Green Quad, Fixed Ponga Trees on Megatree Prefabs and Flushed Grass on Yellow, Blue and Green Quads, Prometheus
  
• Add Lava Flow Points to P2 LC Area & Flushed Grass on Purple/Red, DLC
  
• added volcano landscape mesh, material, textures
  
• Adding lava hunter vomit loop start and end splat to trigger when event starts and ends
  

Week Sixty Two introduces our largest deployable yet, the ore-regenerating Thumper.

The Thumper allows you to regenerate harvestable Ore deposits in its vicinity. Standing at 16 feet tall, the Thumper is a large and powerful item, and provides a lucrative payoff for those seeking more Ore for their endeavours.

Jump in and have a read.





The ‘Thumper’ is a new deployable device we’re introducing to tackle the problem of resource scarcity, especially in Open World mode. This is the first of two items we’re adding, with this one focusing on Ore resources (but not Stone or Deep Ore Veins). In future, ways to regenerate trees are planned.

This is one of the largest deployables in the game so far, standing at over 16 feet tall, so it’s a sight to behold and truly earns its name. You can craft the Thumper in Tier 4 at the Fabricator, with a high production cost but potentially endless rewards.

The Thumper requires an electrical connection to activate, currently 1500W. It’s best deployed in an area where you have previously mined all the available ore, and can be activated and paused at your leisure with no cooldown on it being used multiple times.

On the interface, you can see the expected regeneration output from the Thumper's deployment and what kind of threats you might expect to face by using it. Did we say threats? Well understandably, a 1980 pound device slamming an extremely heavy weight into the ground and disturbing the surrounding environment will draw unwanted attention and the immense noise and vibrations will spur retaliation - so be on your guard.

The more Ore available, the bigger the impact on the surrounding environment, so expect more opposition when taking on lucrative deposits in densely populated areas.

The machine itself won’t damage players, but will disrupt the environment with dust clouds and more that could impair your vision and hearing.

The Thumper will regenerate nearby Ore nodes, but won’t regenerate Stone deposits or Deep Ore Veins. The reason for this is that we implement Stone voxels and deep ore veins differently than Ore voxels, which you can see in the different visual design of them. This meant that technically this system wouldn’t work on them as well as ore voxels, but also wasn’t required, as the sheer volume of available Rock deposits dwarfs that of Ore deposits, and deep ore provided a consistent stream of resource.





Ore Regeneration has been highly requested by the playerbase for a while, especially from those who have large bases in Open World mode or are investing in Tier 4 technology. We asked for patience as we didn’t want to include it as a ‘standard feature’ or automatic process in the game, but rather add it as a well designed new feature and a new planetary technology.

Environmental terraforming is a key part of Icarus' lore, and having resources refresh quietly in the background didn’t sit right with us when you consider the large scale impact it can have. Besides, UDA scientists would never miss an opportunity to mess with the planet some more if they could.

Associating respawning with a machine that you craft and deploy is important for the player experience too. We felt this provides a sense of control and some tactical choices to where and when you respawn resources, rather than it being automated or something you didn’t actively notice happening.

Like so many decisions in Icarus, adding a 'risk/reward' factor to using the Thumper involves a strategic tradeoff. Is the risk of disrupting the environment worth the effort and are you prepared for it?

As mentioned above, we’re also working on ways for plantlife to respawn in a future update.





We are seeking motivated and passionate individuals to join our volunteer localization team to help bring Icarus to more countries.

Right now we are only seeking volunteers for German and Russian, but other languages may be considered in future. By volunteering you will be helping us to make our game accessible to a wider audience, and contribute to the growth and success of Icarus community as a whole.

Furthermore, you will have the chance to connect with like-minded individuals and form new relationships in a supportive and collaborative environment. You can translate as little or as much as you want, whenever you can.

So, if you are fluent in English and German or Russian and have a passion for language and gaming, we encourage you to apply today and become a part of our localization team! You can find the link here: Icarus Translation Team Application Form

Please ensure that you have joined the Survive Icarus Official Discord when applying.

Only successful applicants will be contacted.

• Fixed issue where DEEP VEIN Extraction mission progress was locked due to latest voxel regeneration changes. Mission_Meta_Voxel and Mission_Research_Voxel can no longer be regenerated.
  

New Content

• Adding in pass on landshark tweaks and swapping out thumper mesh for proper version, adding in entries for unique projectile for landshark with modifiers to be hooked up
  
• Added power connection requirement to thumper. Set up animations and placeholder VFX/Screen Shake on thumper
  
• Adding audio to the thumper
  
• Updating Thumper Name and Description
  
• Adding Talent for Thumper and Unlocking Recipe
  
• Adjusting Thumper Minimum Time and adding ability for players to Pause the Thumper
  
• Added Thumper icon to D_Itemable
  
• Adding back context for Thumper device and hooking up to D_Meshables
  
• Adjustments to Thumper VFX, add working and final thump NS
  
• Adding in unique modifier for the landshark spit poison and adding in telegraphing for the dive attacks
  
• Added new in-world tooltip for Thumper
  
• Added ability to override default tooltip widget class
  
• Increased recipe cost of Thumper device
  
• Increase carry weight of the Thumper Device to do its size justice
  
• Added retreat death animation to LandShark. Added 'risk level' info to Thumper tooltip that gives an indication of how difficult the process will be. Added Thumper-related UMG text to ST_UMG. Doubled health of LandShark. Thumper now cleans up dead worms
  
• Thumper device no longer affected by weather
  
• Fixed bug where regenerated voxels would need to be manually updated by mining them to force their mesh to update to the 'reset' visual state
  
• Increased initial connection timeouts for all net drivers to 3 minutes to reduce potential connection issues with joining dedicated servers
  
• Increased initial connection time out to 3 minutes. This should reduce cases of error 61's when trying to join a server
  
• Fixed bug where a prospector dying in one prospect then beginning a new prospect would cause the prospector to drop in an already dead state
  
• Updating landshark dive attack audio to be more appropriate for an attack
  
• Fixing normal issue due to Unreal Computing normals instead of manually importing then with the Skeletal Mesh
  
• Added a reset to the DBNO logging on death
  
• Making unique asset for the Landshark death to use correct audio, upped the damage of its projectiles slightly and added in stamina action cost to the poison modifier
  
• Increase radius on Thumper screenshake effect from 10m to 15m
  
• Changing the Landshark ranged modifier to be cured with antibbiotics and added a modifier to the dive attack
  
• Adding unique landshark death movement event to sync up with new death animation. Adding notifier
  
• Optimize Thumper GroundImpact effect
  
• Adding heavy metal deploy sound to Thumper
  
• Added more logging and fixed another case where auto-retry joining was failing during an error 65
  
• Increased thumper effect radius.
  
• Added map icon and radius to indicate thumper location & effect radius.
  
• Thumper tooltip now displays voxel count instead of raw resource count.
  
• Increased maximum thumper event duration.
  
• Increased maximum LandShark spawn count per event.
  
• Fixed bug where LandShark dive attack could a target twice.
  
• Thumper is now deactivated when it takes 20% total health damage (since last activation)
  
• Fixed extraction mission progression blocker UI presentation and detection steps.
  
• Fixed hidden sort UI to not hide title of container.
  
• LandShark dive now has a chance to apply a new modifier debuff.
  
• Increased resource count to reach maximum thumper difficulty again, increased maximum number of land sharks at highest difficulty.
  
• Added new pulse material effect when first placing thumper down
  
• Added a more suitable specific soundset and event for the landshark dive.
  
• Adjusted timing of notifiers
  
• Added a more suitable specific soundset and event for the landshark dive. Adjusted timing of notifiers
  
• Fixed issue where AI running on behaviour trees (LandShark, ScorpionBoss, SandWorm) weren't correctly removing their attack stats after attack animation finishes
  
• Land Shark boss melee attack: Fixed blood thinning paste not applying to the debuff duration
  
• Land Shark boss spit attack: Lowered the movement speed and physical resistance penalties, increased the stamina action cost penalty
  
• Thumper: Removed glass from recipe cost
  
• Fixed a typo in the Thumper description
  

Fixed

• Fixed issue where deployables in pre-built structures wouldn't load in correctly
  
• Fixing all affliction trigger percent chance stats and affliction triggers so that resistance reduces the chance of getting an affliction instead of increasing it (Cave Dwweller Alteration is now Fixed)
  
• Adding Cheat for Triggering Afflictions
  
• Fixes for client-side replication of regenerated voxel rocks. Voxels that have been regenerated into a new resource type now have their new type replicated to clients correctly. Re-enabled support for reinitialisation on mineral voxels
  
• Fixed bug where venomous fish would continue to be able to attack the player after they had left the water
  
• Added temporary logging for testing if camera movement is being allowed on death
  
• Fix an issue where the weather forecast would reset the pattern index if saved, then loaded, then saved, then loaded after the initial forecast, past the first block and save/load/save/load during the same block
  

Future Content

• Painted Yeast Plant and Reed Flowers in Swamp biome, pt2 Purple Quad, DLC
  
• Adding Ponga Audio, event and data table entry
  
• Fixed GeothermalSplines 2nd layer being generated multiple times
  
• Finished Leveling Out Landscape Under Lava Rivers/Lake on P2 Area Purple Quad, DLC Map
  
• Small adjustments to lava hunter notify timings
  
• Tonal adjustments to a few of the lava hunter layers
  
• Update Prometheus map image textures to reflect world changes and fix missing lava rivers. Texture settings fudged to alleviate dark image output prior to final art pass
  
• Update Prometheus heightmap image textures to reflect changes to world layout. Ensured settings match Oly/Styx
  
• Collision, LODs, optimization of SW, TU, GL Cliff meshes and materials
  
• UnPainted Yeast Plant and Reed Flowers, Added Mushroom on Hollow Trunks Purple Quad, DLC
  
• Foliage pass on Blue and Green Quads and Added Multiple New PFS Prometheus
  
• Painted Green Tea in Swamp biome, Wild Tea and Cocoa in Lava biome, pt2 Purple Quad, DLC
  
• Adding Lava Hunter vomit start sounds, event and notify
  
• Update GOAPDebugger to output Relationship data
  
• BatDogs are no longer hostile towards other AI types
  
• Adding lava hunter vomit loop, event and anim loop notify
  
• Transition Cave P1-P2 Set Dressing & fixing bugs on purple on Purple Quad, DLC Map
  
• Foliage pass on Blue and Green Quads, Prometheus
  
• Remove ProjectionLocation component from Flax BPs
  
• Correct LOD settings on numerous Prometheus foliage assets to fix meshes from billboarding way too soon
  
• Adding additional vomit throat gargle layer for lava hunter
  
• convex hull collision for SW, GL, TU Macro Top meshes
  
• Painted Beans and Cocoa in Lava biome, pt2 Purple Quad, DLC
  
• Cleand up and re-painted breakeable Obsedian closer to lava and Scoria more in-land around p2, Purple Quad, DLC
  
• SW Cliffs - re-imported Cliff_03 (SW, GL, TU) to fix positioning in map
  
• Initial partial pass for Generated LODs for Prometheus. Still very much WIP
  
• Fixed fishing trap using an invalid inventory id (none)
  
• Polish pass on thumper audio
  
• Added ability to collapse the log window with the Escape key and added Logging to the server lobby window
  
• convex hull collision for SW, TU, GL macro meshes
  
• Weather Device VFX Prototype
  
• Adding Lavahunter Roar sounds, event and data table entry
  
• Transition Cave P1-P2 Set Dressing & Decal Pass in P1 Area on Purple Quad, DLC Map
  
• Adding Lava Hunter Attack sounds and data table and anim notifys
  
• Reduced The Amount of Aloe Vera On the map and Continued With Foliage Pass, Blue and Green Quad, Prometheus
  

Week Sixty One focuses on correcting issues that arose from our Week Sixty update, something our community was vocal about and helped us to act on quickly.

Weather events and the system that operates them have been scaled back and improved. We haven’t scrapped the changes altogether, allowing us to keep the positive elements and strip out the ugly parts.

The irony isn’t lost on us that only hours after releasing this update, our home city of Auckland was hit by the worst storm in its history and promptly flooded.

Thankfully our team is OK and this week's update also includes a large performance optimization focusing on ‘ticking’ (described below). We expect this improvement to be more noticeable on lower-end PCs and large Open World bases.

Have a read, and stay dry team!





We’ve spent a week adjusting our new weather systems with all the feedback you have given us. This has been incredibly valuable, and we’re grateful for your constructive suggestions and candor.

• Weather now generates one event per weather block
  
• Weather ‘Blocks’ are now longer (often twice as long or more)
  
• Reduced frequency of weather events to a more reasonable and manageable amount
  
• Weather events are now picked again via the ‘weighted list’ system, rather than a rolling queue
  
• The Weather Forecast has been extended to three days
  
• Reduced and rebalanced the severity of weather in various prospects
  

These changes aim to provide a balance between reverting overwhelming elements of the new system, while still improving the new system with feedback so features such as the Weather Forecast and storm severity are kept.





We’re introducing some new performance optimizations that our team has been hard at work, looking at some of the areas we discussed in Week 59.

One word you’ll see a lot through these optimizations is ‘tick’ or ‘ticking’.

Ticks are an action that game objects perform, typically multiple times per second. Reducing the number of things done by each object every tick, reduces the strain on the CPU and therefore improves performance. Likewise, reducing the number of objects that tick also means better performance.

• Fixed the loading of certain assets during gameplay that could cause hitches. These were being loaded, used, and then released for garbage collection every few seconds
  
• Optimized the 'atmosphere controller' to rely more on cached data
  
• Optimized building pieces to cache several ‘commonly-accessed’ data table values
  
• Weather events now use cached building data, reducing hitches when the system is calculating which building pieces to damage in storms
  
• Building pieces no longer ‘tick'. Any ticking logic that they previously had (such as updating stability), is now controlled by their 'owning grid’ and has their calculations spread across multiple frames. When loading prospects with large amounts of building pieces these operations would previously sync up and cause noticeable hitches multiple times per second
  
• Nativized (converting Unreal Engine Blueprint code into C++ to improve efficiency) several building grid background tasks, which are now managed by an ‘owning system’ that evenly spreads these tasks between all building grids. This evens out performance with large numbers of different building grids present in the world
  
• Optimized the spline system used by electrical/water pipe systems
  
• Optimized deployable objects and benches. Deployables now have a custom ticking system that groups all of the deployables together to reduce CPU overhead
  
• Removed the tick process from almost all 'trait components' that were present on items in the game
  

An upcoming feature that some of you have seen in the detailed changelog is our resource respawning options. While this is not releasing this week, we are working on the behind-the-scenes technology for deployable items that will respawn various resources.

Firstly, we have upgraded and optimized the way we create and render caves. We are also re-running our entire world generation, which will ultimately add regeneration capabilities to voxels, trees and plants.

In the coming weeks, two new items are to be introduced that will allow players to respawn voxels and flora.

This has been a highly requested feature ever since the release of our Open World game mode. We’ve put a lot of thought into introducing this feature in a way that adds to the experience without detracting from performance. We can’t wait to share it soon.





Fixed

• MAELSTROM: Added respawning to explosive loot container
  
• Improve shadow settings validation for FLOD. Fix FT/BP assets to make sure their shadow settings match (disable shadows in AC assets as it is too harsh). Unified settings on lots of FTs back to default
  
• AVALANCHE: Increased size of travel location for preceeding through pass step. Updated highlight text for placement location of laser
  
• FORSAKEN: Fixed Damaged Gyroscope tagging to ensure this goes into the ship's gyroscope slot. Removed additional inventory slots, preventing items from being placed in inaccessible slots
  
• First pass at optimising weather audio system. Create a weather audio subsystem to manage weather controller events centrally and distribute updates to weather audio components much more efficiently
  
• Fix Flashlight and Biofuel Lamp being extinguished when the player is submerged
  
• RESURGENCE: Updated last quest step to require returning to the dropship, rather than the original ship location. Updated other quests steps capitilization
  
• Fix several issues which were causing tree fall sounds to behave incorrectly for clients on dedicated servers, and fix cypress tree landing sounds sometimes not playing the correct surface for clients
  
• Update voxel final hit audio behaviour to work with voxel re-initialisation changes
  
• Added a few more cases for the shield to delete itself on the off chance that the shield is not being deleted
  
• Tweaked storm prediciton timings to reduce frequency of back to back storms.
  
• Added additional initial storm steps and applied to specific missions
  
• Doubled the likelyhood of cosmetic storms appearing. This is mainly for Tier 0 / easy difficulties to have a significantly increased likelihood of cosmetic storms
  
• Fixed multiple async load warnings
  
• Fixed loading of certain assets during gameplay that could cause hitches
  
• Optimised deployable objects/benches. Deployables now have a custom ticking system that groups all of the deployables execution together to reduce CPU overhead
  
• Optimised atmosphere controller to rely more on cached data
  
• Optimised building pieces to cache several commonly accessed data table values
  
• Building pieces no longer tick. Any ticking logic that they previously had, such as updating stability, are now controlled by their owning grid and are processed across multiple frames. When loading prospects with large amounts of building pieces these operations would previously sync up and cause noticeable hitches multiple times per second
  
• Nativised several building grid background tasks which are now managed by an owning system that evenly spreads these tasks between all building grids. This evens out performance with large numbers of different building grids present in the world
  
• Removed tick from almost all trait components that were present on almost every item in the game
  
• Optimised spline system used by electrical/water pipe systems
  
• Weather events now use cached building data, reducing hitches when calculating which building pieces to damage in storms
  
• Multiple other small optimisations
  
• Swapped Flash Storm and Storm weather event tiers.
  
• Reduced Tier4 storm building damage during chaos events (still damages the same types of buildings, but for less damage)
  
• Range check and curve check when using SetTimeScale cheat (internal dev only/editor only)
  
• Updated Weather Generation based on adjusted design and feedback, reduced frequency of weather events back to a more reasonable amount
  
• Weather is now picked again via a weighted list
  
• Weather now generates one event per weather block
  
• Weather Forecast has been extended to 3 days
  
• Weather Blocks are now doubled in length
  
• Removed unused functions and variables after WeatherForecasting refactor and added more logging
  
• Fixed new modifiers moving across the screen, blocking reticule at 6 modifiers
  
• Fixed crash caused by components being removed from Deployables before they have unregistered with the deployable manager
  
• Tweaked storm frequency, adding in longer periods of quiet and more varied durations on weather forecasts
  
• Fixed potential issue with Error 65 reconnection and added additional logging around fail states
  
• Reduced default logging level of LogModifierState to reduce spam
  
• Reduced the severity of many early game missions in Olympus and increased some midgame missions that were using the easiest forecast.
  
• Tweaked ABYSS storm timings to help provide windows of opportunity
  
• ModifierStateContainers within MountInterface and Player Inventory now have a subtle pulsing animation when modifiers are added, instead of playing the normal animated transition
  
• Move to system that loads/saves all weather events at the forecast block level
  
• Weather forecast will reset for existing saves
  
• Fixed bug where mission-specific out-of-bounds mask would override map-based out-of-bounds mask; This would cause issues where player dropships could land out of playable areas on certain Olympus missions
  
• Fixed several crash bugs caused by optimisations to buildings and deployables
  
• Added an extra null check when displaying debug data about loading a bad data table row as this could cause a crash if it was in a really bad state
  
• Final tidy up for Weatherforecasting
  
• Fixing Extractors and Drills not ticking and extracting resources
  
• Fix an issue where the weather forecast would reset the pattern index if the game was saved+loaded at the exact start time of a weather block
  
• Fixing Crop Plot Glasshouse buffs being multiplied everytime they are checked
  
• Fixing Crop plot glasshouse percentage increase not being presented on clients correctly
  
• Reduced tier of the initial rough landing forecast.
  
• Reduced duration of the initial middle ground and mini-ramp forecasts, this will result in slightly quicker storms for those prospects
  
• Temporarily removed building stability queue optimisation as it causes stability to behave erratically
  

Future Content

• Setup 3 new caves for Inital Testing, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Adjustments to spacizliser settings of T3 / T4 communicator
  
• Volcanic Rocks - disabled complex collision on LC_Cavefloor 01-03
  
• Adding T2 Communicator audio and adjusting BP implimentation for all communicators audio
  
• Small communicator audio tweaks
  
• Adding new Notifier to Deployable Base / Deployable Subsystem
  
• Adjusting Promethus Story Mission 1 to work with Audio and Quest Steps
  
• Adding an LC_GrassB set of Red Grass assets that are more sparse than the GrassA variants, for better blending of grassy areas
  
• Adding more bones to data table for some creatures death fall and small adjustment to better reflect various creatures death fall size
  
• Added skeletal mesh for the exotic tree device as well as a starting animation and a looped harvesting animation
  
• Swamp Rocks - LOD materials, convex hull collision on SW, GL, TU CanyonWall meshes
  
• Building Transition Cave from P1 to P2 Area on Purple Quad, DLC Map
  
• Started New Small Lava cave and Did a Foliage Pass On Green Quad, Prometheus
  
• First pass generation of Prometheus Landscape LODs
  
• Voxel placement pass, added and edited cliffs, p2 Purple Quad, DLC
  
• Adding correct creature in AI table for the swamp quad mount and zebra mount. Adjustments to the footstep layers
  
• Further fine tune and adjustments to quad footstep layers. Balanced mud vs dirt etc
  
• Added placeholder thumper item. Previously mined Voxels now support reinitialisation to original, unmined state
  
• Adding correct harvest sound to green tea leaf bush
  
• Added water immersion parameter to creature audio world movement sound, to help with soundset of low creatures moving through shallow water
  
• Adding needler water immersion movement sounds
  
• Transition Cave volumes added, added cliffs around macros & added voxels to P2 on Purple Quad, DLC Map
  
• Added New Small Lava Cave and Did A Foliage Pass On Both Blue and Green Quad, Prometheus
  
• Swamp Rocks - LOD materials, convex hull collision on SW, GL, TU Cliffs 10-12
  
• Added first pass thumper mechanics to deployable BP
  
• Added first pass of LC_DragonTree_Var1, including FTs and BPs, as well as Chopped and Burnt versions
  
• Added DEP_Thumper with animation
  
• Voxel placement pass, added and edited foliage, p2 Purple Quad, DLC
  
• Added split log meshes for LC_DragonTree
  
• Added Tomato plant highlight text
  
• Added ActorPrefab and ActorPrefabAsset classes to set up the new prefab system for replacing cave templates
  
• Added BP_ActorPrefabFunctionLibrary which will handle all coversions from prefab data to world actors
  
• Added CavePrefab to replace the current CaveTemplate implementation
  
• Converted all cave templates assets to prefabs
  
• Replaced cave templates on every outpost and Olympus/Styx levels
  
• Added support for prefab generation during the world generation process
  
• Leveling Out Landscape Under Lava Rivers/Lake on P2 Area & Cave Template Fixes Purple Quad, DLC Map
  
• Foliage Pass For Swamp and Grasslands and Fixed Some Broken Deep ore Deposits, Blue and Green Quad, Prometheus
  
• Replaced cave templates with prefabs on Terrain 019 Red/Yellow quads
  
• Added Mega Tree Prefabs to be used in Terrain 019
  
• Converted all tree levels to Mega Tree Prefabs
  
• Cave template utility now supports creating tree prefabs
  
• Flushed grass on Outpost 008
  
• Placed breakeable Obsedian and Scoria around p2, Purple Quad, DLC
  
• Replaced cave templates with prefabs on the rest of Terrain 019
  
• Added missing cave prefab for Terrain 019
  
• Added LC_SucculentTree with 3 variants, including FTs, BPs and Data Table entries
  
• Promethus Mission 2 Cave worms now do not continue to spawn and adding a quest step to clear them out
  
• Promethus Mission 2 Fixing Dialogue Ordering on Quests, and Adding Interaction Quest Step
  
• Fixing Initial Quests not always calling QuestStarted as they should be doing
  
• Adding in inital Lava Hunter assets, anims and rig
  
• Initial pass for tooling to find floating world objects
  
• Added new LandShark creature with first pass of behaviour set
  
• Leveling Out Landscape Under Lava Rivers/Lake on P2 Area & Swapped Out Tree Template Purple Quad, DLC Map
  
• Foliage Pass On Green Quad and Swapped BP Mangrove Trees for Prefab Trees , Green Quad, Prometheus
  
• Added BP_MegaTreePrefab to the list of approved actors
  
• Placed breakeable Obsedian and Scoria around p2, Purple Quad, DLC
  
• Cleand up breakeable Obsedian and Scoria, foliage and cliffs around p2, Purple Quad, DLC
  
• Increase Thumper Albedo textures to 4k as device is huge and needs the increased texel density. Add 'On' material variation and removed emissive setup from base material
  
• Fixed generation issues on 2nd layerof Geothermal Splines
  
• Resaved datatable to resolve build validation
  
• Adding Lava Hunter bite attack movement audio and event and anim notify
  
• Deleting old cave template assets
  
• Removed IsEditorOnly from ActorPrefabFunctionLibrary since it had strange warnings during cook
  
• Adding Lava Hunter out of lava movement audio and event and anim notify
  
• Resaved datatable to resolve build validation.. again
  
• Adding lava hunter death anim notify and lay egg audio and notify
  
• Added LC_JoshuaTree with 3 variants, including FTs and BPs and Data Table entries
  
• Adding Lava Hunter general move sounds and event and heavy slam event
  
• Leveling Out Landscape Under Lava Rivers/Lake on P2 Area Purple Quad, DLC Map
  
• Moved Super Kooled ice from all non iced surfaces and Foliage Pass on Blue and Green Quads, Prometheus
  
• Added various scaling mechanics to Thumper spawn events. Thumper spawning is now scaled by the amount of resources that will be regenerated. LandSharks will now spawn at high Thumper event difficulties. Fixed Unity build issue with WorldStatsSubsystem.h missing include. Added extra validation check inside ProspectSubsystem.h to prevent crash when accessing during game init
  
• Painted Reed Flowers and Yeast Plant in Swamp biome, pt2 Purple Quad, DLC
  
• Fixed mega trees generating at 0,0,0
  
• Move BP_MegaTreePrefab from approved class to ignored class so spawned trees in the world aren't doubled
  
• LC Terraces - adjusted material to better blend with surrounding rocks - WIP
  
• Adding lava hunter unique whoosh and unique stabber attack events and sounds and anim notifys
  
• More lava hunter attack sounds and footstep notifiers
  
• Thumper event can now change the resource type of regenerated voxels, but only to resource types that were already supported at that location
  
• Adding Lava Hunter unique lava footstep audio and event
  
• Leveling Out Landscape Under Lava Rivers/Lake on P2 Area Purple Quad, DLC Map
  
• Swaped The Final Megatrees into the Prefabs and Did a Foliage pass on Blue and Green Quads, Prometheus
  
• Geothermal banks - added material and duplicated spline meshes for use at the bottom of the terrace pools
  
• Fixed voxel-related crash when trying to reload old prospects
  
• Made Thumper recipe Dev-only