Icarus News

Welcome to week 143

This week, we introduce a new growable plant: Sugarcane, which can be purchased as Seeds in the Orbital Workshop. Fully grown Sugarcane can be ground down in the Mortar and Pestle to make the newest ingredient on Icarus, Sugar.

With the addition of sugar comes new recipes and Candy, a new food group that doesn’t count towards the total active food buffs but provides small situational buffs for escaping dangerous situations.

We’ve also got a quick snapshot of what’s to come next week, and where you’ll find it nesting.

Jump in and have a read.

• Aluminum buildables have received a LOD pass, meaning there are no more black lines that ascend when viewed from a distance
  
• Added a new master glass material and reworked all the current glass BLD materials, to reduce the excessive amounts of fog that could be seen through the glass
  
• Adjusted the weight and curve of throwing a grenade to a more accurate motion. We’ve also balanced this against other throwables for cohesion and synced it better with the audio speed
  
• Turrets will no longer attempt to shoot a target if they don't have a line of sight (e.g. behind solid walls)
  
• Upped the stack size of kiwifruit to 100 to match most other harvested small fruits/veggies
  

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Sugarcane seed packets can now be purchased from the Orbital Workshop, and subsequently grown on the surface of Icarus. Fully matured sugarcane can then be harvested and ground into sugar using your Mortar and Pestle.

Sugar allows us to expand our food choices in the game, providing different alternatives with new buffs that facilitate new ways to play, just as the previous addition of salt did.

The beauty of adding Sugar is that it also allows us to explore other chemical applications and how food groups behave with this compound. The obvious area we may experiment with in the future is fermentation.


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We have added a few new sugar-based recipes: an Energy Bar crafted on the player, Salted Caramel Pastry and Caramel berry Tarts craftable on the Biofuel Stove, and Chocolate Chip and Coconut Cookies craftable on the Electric Stove.

All of these sugar-based recipes provide a boost to the charge speed of bows and the reload speed of guns, making them an excellent choice for enhancing ranged combat.

We’ve also added two new recipes for Strawberry Hard Candy and Watermelon Lollipops, which give you a short buff to movement speed and penalty reduction for being over-encumbered, respectively.

Candy won’t take up any food buff slots, allowing them to be used on top of other foods, countered obviously by the shorter window of effectiveness. Think of them as a get-out-of-jail-free card for those sticky situations when you need to hot-foot it.


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As mentioned in previous weeks, the NullSector (our Free Prometheus Expansion) will include new Operations, a new exploration mechanic, new mutated creatures, and one new giant creature.

We are still actively working on the NullSector, with some big mission revamps in the works, more narrative, more dialogue, and more missions to provide the experience it deserves.

This region is not for the faint of heart. All the adjustments and differences are geared towards this being a hardcore survival challenge, so make sure you enter it prepared.

If you are interested in reading about what we plan to do with missions in the future, click here.


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Next week, we plan to introduce a new creature that emerges from nests in Arctic zones. This creature will come with its own trophy, bestiary entry, and new resource type that will offer an alternative to some existing recipes.



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[h3]New Content[/h3]
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• Unlocking Sugar Recipe
  
• Unlocking Sugar Cane Seeds, Workshop Packs and Sugar Items
  
• Sugar now requires a blueprint and is craftable on the marble kitchen bench
  
• Adding new sugar food recipes and Item setup
  
• Sugar is not only craftbale on the mortar & pestle and material processor
  
• Fixed Sugar Cane crops having too low seed drop chance
  
• Fixed Sugar Cane seed rewards
  
• Added Sugar Cane seeds to dynamic quests rewards list
  
• Increase the water requirements for cookies and candies, working around a bug with processors turning off at low water requested
  
• Adding crunch default food to crunchy new edible candys instead of soft sounding chewing
  

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• Added second batch of aluminium buildables with improved LOD pass
  
• New master glass material, rework of all glass BLD materials
  
• Railings place with less of the railing underneath the floor when snapped, and some of the railing buried when not snapped. This looks more natural and has railings appear as a more similar height on stone floors particularly
  
• Fixed a typo in quest step for heal device
  
• Fixed a typo in item flavour text
  
• LOD and material fixes for various windows and doors, art deco and stone fireplace meshes
  
• Fine tuned the throwable curves to be in line with each other so the grenades dont fall right on the floor at a light tap.
  
• Adjusted weight and curve to feel like a grenade. Balanced against other throwables for cohesion and synced better with the speed of the audio
  
• Turrets will no longer attempt to shoot a target if they don't have a line-of-sight (e.g. behind solid walls).
  
• Did an optimisation pass on Turrets to reduce the cost of their target selection and status/material updating
  
• Fixed texture errors on glass door, added tempered glass variant materials for window and door, added texture tiling controls to MA_GLS_BLD to adjust scale of reinforcing
  
• Shields durability now reduce based on total damage rather than mitigated damage
  
• Increased shield durability maximums to reflect damage intake change, higher tier shields will have the same or higher durability
  
• Fixed issue where beehive upgrades would collide with player even if they weren't visible or attached to hive. Added additional inventory slots to Larkwell meta backpack (shotgun), previously gave none. Upped stack size of kiwifruit to 100 to match most other harvested small fruits/veggies
  
• Fix character talent weapons are not repairable at bench. Add a validator to pick this up in future
  
• Fixed incorrect material assignment on scoria trap door floor
  
• Fix typo in IDs on dynamic collection mission
  
• Slightly offset refined wood halfpiece floors so they line up correctly
  
• Adjusting smoke grenades bounce audio from feeling like its bouncing on the spot. Adjusted friction to prevent continuous sliding of grenade triggering constant annoying audio
  
• Adding grenade bounce impact event for spacial awareness of grenade proximity. Setting up for new boss grenades etc
  
• Added additonal aluminium buildable LOD Improvments
  
• Added batch of aluminium buildables with LOD pass done
  

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[h3]Future Content[/h3]
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• Ice Mammoth Arena - biome overide added
  
• Fixed bug where exotic infused creatures weren't getting their particle systems initialised with the correct colour.
  
• Fixed bug where exotic infused creature particle systems would reset when switching from NPC -> corpse on death
  
• Re-added Itemable row that was lost in DT merge
  
• Remove (editor only) AtmosphereController_Spawner as is causing a crash for world builders edit time
  
• Fixed dev transform tool not working on actors with static mobility
  
• Altered text for living weapons as they are tbc
  
• Added item text for ape, cat, and hornet boss drops
  
• Added text to lava hunter boss drops
  
• Added text for Slug boss items
  
• Added text to Rock Golem items
  
• Fixed issue where opening bunker medical cabinet in-game rotated it
  
• changing light source to be a warm light, range and intensity of the lantern
  
• changing cone angle and alighnment of spotlight for the flashlight
  
• STRANDED: ASHLANDS - The timer has been increased by 1 hour on each difficulty, added another optional step for food & water
  
• changing intensity and range of the flashlight
  
• Ice Mammoth Arena - additional lighting at ice falls
  
• Ice Mammoth Arena - placed initial lighting under ice as night time lighting
  
• Added new developer tool to fine-tune actor transforms in-game
  
• Adjusted ice shader for armor/items sss base opacity
  
• Added text for Marrowraith items
  
• Removed emissive and replaced the shader for the ice crystals with ice mammoth icicle shader for the ice mammoth shield
  
• Added text for new boss vestiges and trophies
  
• Added text for boss biomass items
  
• Deal with (internal editor/tools) issues with instanced levels and the atmosphere controller. WITH_EDITOR gates
  
• Deal with (internal editor/tools) issues with instanced levels and the atmosphere controller. Engine divergence mod (WITH_ENGINE gates)
  
• Deal with (internal editor/tools) issues with instanced levels and the atmosphere controller. Engine divergence mod
  
• Deal with (internal editor/tools) issues with instanced levels and the atmosphere controller
  
• Added Ice Breaker Footstep Decals Prototype
  
• Added cheat to temporarily disable deployable placement collision / stacking rules
  
• Adding New Function for retrieving utility item data so it can be queried from different places in the code base
  
• Added SK_GUN_Rock_Golem
  
• Add viewport blocker for instanced levels (for the player that is entering + loading)
  
• Cliff Placement Pass and Riverbank Pass, Outpost 11
  
• Changed flicker to prevent escessive flickering
  
• Added meshes, materials, mask textures for Inverted Concrete Ramp and Floor
  
• Teleport mounts to instanced level exit when instanced level is being torn down
  
• Adding hornets throwing knives audio and data table setups. Fixed flying audio sounding a bit fake
  
• Added and replaced ice crystal material for the ice shield
  
• Added a tag water.NoShow to disable an objects mesh from being displayed when slotted into a water purifier.
  
• Added the tag to water jerry can and t3 water can to fix mesh clipping into the purifier
  
• Add implementation of inverted concrete floor and ramp
  
• Setting up player audio component and FMOD parameter to play audio when container is full VS empty
  
• Adjustment to medical scanner audio. Shortened it since the UI is instant. Also adjusted truck in same mission PM to be metal since its metal. Was set to plastic which we dont have footstep layers for
  
• Cliff Placement Pass and Riverbank Pass, Outpost 11
  
• Adding blueprint information and FMOD event volume adjustments to adjust the audio balance of emtpy container vs water sloshing dpending on water fill state
  
• Fixed BP material overrides for inverted concrete floor and ramp pieces
  
• Adding deploy audio for swamp ape trophy
  
• Added on animation and emissive for DEP_Cooler_T4
  
• Adding hornet wing pickup audio and event and data table
  
• Fix Ape trophy preview mesh
  
• Adjusted LOD distances for Portable Generator
  
• Trunk Merge
  
• Enabling ASHLANDS: RESCUE, adding quest markers and adding Small Mission Fixes
  
• Enabling ASHLANDS: RESCUE, Fixing mission flow - fixing mission markers, fixing mission droppod so it actually drops at the correct location
  
• Adding Action Promp to Empty Stasis Bag when focused
  
• Empty Stasis bags are now consumed when you use them on injured NPC's
  
• RESCUE: ASHLANDS - adding new mission, adding new recipe, quest flag and new items for stasis bags, adding new NPCs for the quest, adding new medevac ship, adding full quest steps and tag queries
  
• Making adjustments to quest objective enteries so that we can display 'info' quest information
  
• Adding new Prospector map marker
  
• Adding new Rich text style for quests
  
• Adding new modifier for near death
  
• Adding new Prospect Row & Talent for RESCUE: ASHLANDS
  
• Added some subtle spine rotation in new NPC lookat ctrlrig. All attached skeletal components are now correctly highlighted on mission NPCs
  
• BP_Mission_NPC_Base::ShouldLookAt is now replicated
  
• Added first pass AnimBP for mission NPCs and simple LookAt control rig
  
• Adding unique cave mission audio, event and scatter ambient rocks
  
• Adding in NPC Skeletal mesh and Anim states to use for NullSec mission
  
• Added textures and materials for first kit of the Wood Beeswax building tier
  
• Updated skinning on ITM_Backpack_FoodPrep_or_Chef
  
• Cliff Placement Pass and Riverbank Pass, Outpost 11
  
• Fixed Scyther bolt recipe output
  
• Outpost_012 - rivers, riverbank and cliff placement, terrain adjustments
  
• Added dev tool cheats to the Field Guide UI
  
• Cliff Placement Pass and Riverbank Pass, Outpost 11
  
• Demoved dev-lock on transform tool so it works on test builds
  
• Enabled skeletal component update rate optimisations on deployables
  
• Blockout Split of the Volcanic/Arctic Outpost
  
• Tag items for Field Guide placement
  
• Add Husbandry category to Field Guide
  
• Adding appropriate ice mammoth audio setups
  
• Added inverted concrete ramp and floor icon image
  
• Splitting quests up [CRISIS: ASHLANDS] - Finding Location and Healing the Crew, [STRANDED: ASHLANDS] - Helping the Crew Resupply, [RESCUE: ASHLANDS] - Saving the 2 crew members who where off scouting
  
• Adding concept for persistent mission actors that are spawned as part of missions but can exist and be retrieved outside of missions if required
  
• Adjusted logic for CRISIS, STRANDED and RESCUE to retrieve persistent actors rather than spawn and delete every time
  
• Fixing issue with RESCUE where the stasis bags did not mention where they where crafted
  
• Cliff Placement Pass and Riverbank Pass, Outpost 11
  
• Adding deploy sandworm wood building tier audio and data table setup
  
• Added remaining textures and materials for the Wood Beeswax building tier, including adjusting data table entries for the skinning, as well as tested each piece
  
• Fix Rimetusk head trophy mesh
  
• Added Sandworm frame/pillar to beams set
  
• Additional checks and logging for Foliage Instance Actors in WorldGeneration job
  
• Added line to dry atmosphere modifier that the temperature will fluctuate throughout the day
  
• Adjustment to sandworm wood deploy audio volume and fixing workshop grenade not having correct trigger audio setting for impact event
  
• Cliff Placement Pass and Riverbank Pass, Outpost 11
  
• inital lighting pass, adding far shadows
  
• Added implementation of reinforced glass doors and windows
  
• Lowered the price of glass window types
  
• STRANDED: Dev locked mission as this is not yet available
  

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This week's update continues our trend of introducing small improvements and new content from our recently concluded project clinic.

Two features deserve special mention - our new corner stair pieces and changes to crafting shotgun ammo.

Our NullSec work has also progressed since the conclusion of the project clinic. We also have a small update on this below.
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• Improved performance by removing tick cost from spline networks and reducing building base tick.
  
• General lighting optimizations have been implemented to improve performance
  
• You can now drop items into the Medical Satchel, Seed Pouch, and Farmers Bag by dragging an item on top of them
  
• When a Medical Satchel, Seed Pouch, and Farmers Bag is in your hotbar, you can right-click to open it
  
• Updated the Icons for fuel slots so that if it accepts any container with a specific resource, a new symbol will be shown (this includes new icons for all resource types)
  
• Added a new exotic exchange button to convert Red Exotics into Ren at a rate of 7:1
  
• Added a new Portable Biofuel Tank that holds 150L of biofuel
  
• Updated the reinforced & basic glass textures to remove some of the unintended fog effect shown in various situations
  
• The Upgrade function on repair hammers now include ‘reinforced glass’ in their list
  
• Adjusted Explosive Ammo Crafting to use 1 Volatile Substance per 5 ammo instead of 1:1
  
• Battery Powered Lanterns now will stay lit underwater
  

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These stairs allow for vertical traversal using the same space as a half piece but in an L formation. This new piece should offer multiple new ways to build bases, allowing for more intricate designs.

These are available in refined wood & stone options as variants on the existing ramp and half-piece kits as part of the existing research sets.

Expect more material options for corner stairs in the future.


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We have also revamped the way shotgun ammo is crafted. Instead of all shotgun ammo requiring general ammo casings, a new item - shotgun cartridges - has been added in their place. These are crafted with 1 Copper Ingot and 3 Epoxy to produce 5 shotgun cartridges.

The shotgun slug recipe has been split out, so now you don't need to craft it using a buckshot round. This change eliminates an unnecessary crafting step and streamlines the process of creating the ammo.

The higher-tier ammo (Obsidian, Cold Steel, Miasmic, Incendiary) is still crafted using buckshot, as it is fired as a buckshot round with an added effect.


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As mentioned in previous weeks, the NullSector will include new map areas, new operations, a new exploration mechanic, new mutated creatures, and one new giant creature for owners of the New Frontiers expansion.

This region is not for the faint of heart. All the adjustments and differences are geared towards this being a hardcore survival challenge, so make sure you enter it prepared.

If you are interested in reading about what we plan to do with missions in the future, click here.


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[h3]New Content[/h3]
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• Open world drop selection UI changes
  
• Added the ability to add a color to the storm fog. Increased the clamp of fog density
  
• Lightning rods will now divert all nearby lightning strikes - previously it only diverted strikes that were targeted against players and buildings (leaving trees and bushes).
  
• Basic Lightning Rod is now destroyed after 3 hits instead of 1, and affects a radius of 50m (from 30m).
  
• Platinum Lightning Rod is now destroyed after 9 hits instead of 4, and affects a radius of 80m (from 30m)
  
• Added new hexagon modifier icons
  
• Removed Player Tracker Module from workshop
  
• Added Exotic Red to Ren image. Changed colour of exotic red button
  
• Do not list existing prospects when New is clicked (confusing people - use Load)
  
• Update starter torches to be repaired with sticks instead of wood (as wood is not in the recipe)
  
• Did a pass on building piece resource cost ensuring half size pieces cost half the amount as their full-size counterparts (Wall Angled, Half Piece, Half Pitch, Roof Corner)
  
• Adding Exotic Exchange Button so Red Exotics can be Exchanged for Ren
  
• Add upgrade hammer functionality for Reinforced Glass building tier
  
• Added Salt and Water to pickling recipe requirements
  
• Added Half Stairs to all Half Piece variations
  
• Added Corner Stairs for Interior Wood and Stone to Ramp variations
  
• All doors, windows, trapdoors, and fence gates now used a fixed bounds size, should prevent assets from flickering when on the edge of screen
  
• Adding new Resource 'Shotgun Casing'
  
• Shotgun Ammo Recipes now use the Shotgun casing as the base instead of the 'Ammo Casing'
  
• Splitting out the Shotgun Slug into its own blueprint and changed its recipe so it no longer requires Buckshot for Creation
  
• BP_IcarusSplineNet no longer ticks
  
• Changed modifier background icon shape and added medic backpack modifier icon
  
• Added grazing behaviour to mounts and tames (enabled via talent)
  
• Adding Concept of Positive & Negative Auras and setting up code so that Modifier backgrounds can be easily changed
  
• Modifying the medic backpack to only provide one aura and one aura effect, its a combination of the 3 from before
  
• Set Player Dropship icon's max compass distance to 100m
  
• Set default grazing behaviour to 'None' to prevent animals from grazing until told to
  
• Battery Powered Lantern now does not go out when you are underwater
  
• Update shotgun casing to be craftable
  
• Add Railing functionality to half stairs
  
• Adding in Water Container and Jerrycan Recolor materials for biofuel and petroleum
  

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[h3]Fixed[/h3]
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• Replaced old hunter chest piece with the new one in the D_Armour
  
• Removing light buzz from trail beacons to stop excessive use of virtualizing audio events if the player is using hundreds of beacons
  
• Lowered the opacity, as well as height detail and roughness, for the wire grid in the tempered glass textures/material, as requested by Dean
  
• Fixed ensure that was being triggered by Lava Flyer having a stat re-applied on tick
  
• light optimizations
  
• Creature Deterent map areas no longer show on compass
  
• Fixed issue where cats wouldn't appear to sleep on beds properly (for clients)
  
• Added a more generic way of serialising prebuilt structures - electricity/water networks should now be supported as well as more complex deployable/container/foundation configurations
  
• Reduced tick frequency of BP_Building_Base::DirtyTickEvent, added random offset to ensure building pieces don't all tick on the same frame on game reloads
  
• Nativised BP_Building_Base::GetHardStability
  
• Hooking up Portable Biofuel Back Mesh
  
• Fixed a number of typos
  
• Tempered glass - adjusted material settings and albedo texture to mitigate fresnel fog effect
  
• Removed wood rag torch and wood flare repair materials, as these should not be possible to repair
  
• Fixed faction mission radar not being able to be activated on dedicated server, added some IsDedicatedServer checks to prevent cosmetic-only logic being run on the server
  
• Fixed wrong BP material id for the destructible mesh on BP_Building_RoofCorner_L_Wood
  
• Fixed radar not being able to be activated on dedicated server, or when host wasn't looking
  
• Resaved Mounts DT
  
• Increased initial delay variance on first BP_Building_Base::DirtyTick
  
• Added data and widgets for new mount/tame grazing behaviour
  
• Prevent some items that aren't repairable from being initially listed when 'Repair All' is clicked on the Repair Bench
  
• Any objects that run off fuel / hydrazine / water / oxygen as a resource in a container, now have new icons to show the resource type, the tool tip has also been updated so it is more readable (it was using the default UE4 tooltip text)
  
• Allow dropping of items onto the bags (Seed Pouch, Medical Satchel) to place them inside
  
• When the bags (Seed Pouch, Medical Satchel) are focused, right click to open
  
• Increased desert tames heat tolerences (moa, zebra and hyena)
  
• Fix charging station lights being lit when device is turned off
  
• Styx: Shifted an alpha wolf spawner slightly to avoid clipping with rocks
  
• Increase temperature leniance on arctic tames slightly to allow use in forest biomes
  
• Adjusting Explosive Ammo Crafting to use 1 Volatile Substance per 5 ammo instead of 1:1
  
• Unlock field guide by default on development builds
  
• Adding new pass on broken windows to move into more mesh based approach, 5 variants included
  
• Wild animals no longer attempt to drink from water bodies with creature deterrent radius
  
• Fixed bug where the 'How Many Shots Did You Count' talent was granting ammo to the wrong player on dedicated servers. Fixed bug where the 'How Many Shots Did You Count' talent was refunding the current amount of ammo player had in their loaded weapon instead of a single unit
  
• Replacing jerrycan water backpack sound with a more generic tub container sound rather than water sloshing. Until water level within BP can be worked out
  
• Adding correct deploy audio for biofuel and water tank.also correcting other wrong deploy audio sounds for new items. Lowered jerrycan pickup audio slightly
  

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[h3]Future Content[/h3]
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• Adding LC_Ledge_01-03, LC_MAC_05 meshes and materials
  
• Material for ledges - missed in last commit
  
• Added destructible mesh for the ape trophy display case and added to the blueprint
  
• Outpost_012 - water, riverbanks, cliff placement. Added moss variant material for LC Cave Entrance 01
  
• Added ape boss balloon trophy to project in three parts
  
• Adding in electric motor to use with Null Sec mission, currently just a backpack item that can be picked up / dropped, no additional functionality
  
• Added more new biome modifier icon types and colours
  
• Fixed pins poing to previously named rows that have now been renamed. (Fixing build)
  
• Fixing Modifier State Compile Error
  
• Adding Mission_NPC_Base and interactions for dialogue
  
• Stopping the aerosol emitter from playing if its deployed. Hacking FMOD event to solve auto start - stop BP behavior. adjusting deploy audio to be more appropriate for Aerosol
  
• Added GRE_Golem_Caltrop_Grenade
  
• First checkin of flag assets, has base setup for ground and wall based flag that works with the weather system, NZ flag texture setup, mesh swap for correct pole coming in part2
  
• Adding New Prometheus NULL SECTOR Mission - STRANDED: ASHLANDS
  
• Added whiteout values to the weather actions. Resaved weather actions to fix build break
  
• COMPOSITION: Initial swap to powered aerosol device
  
• Correcting hammerhead slug Medium and Small still using large animation montages within some of the BT. Now uses all correct small and medium versions for all attacks and roars
  
• Fix black dist fog plane on Ice Sheets/re-added fog color on Ice Sheets on AtmosphereController
  
• STRANDED: ASHLANDS, adding ability to interact with various elements of the truck, adding new recipes for alternator & radiator, adding new quests steps to fill up biofuel & water containters and deliver alternators and radiator, adjusted npc's so they play dialogue using the correct system, added new quest session flag for recipes, setup various truck elements and spawned them in as part of the quest, added new interactables for filling biofuel / water from held items
  
• Added new Base Common quest for filling up an objects fillable
  
• Reverb adjustments to hammerhead bosses to avoid drastic sounding reverbs in some biomes with different reverb settings. Applying some additional reverb to the worm explode event
  
• Replacing earthquake audio from rock golem with a version with less close rock falls to leave more impact and intensity for the actual close rock falls
  
• Added whiteout to PlayerEffectComponent and InGameWeatherman, twead NFX to improve windy behaviour and look at diff lights
  
• Added hornet torn wing art assets to the project
  
• Added hornet stinger art assets to the project
  
• Updating Iron Bucket to be consistent with other water hauling devices
  
• Adding in mining truck and texture pass to use in null sec mission
  
• Added fuel resource icons
  
• Saved missing json file (fixing build)
  
• Added beeswax wood and tempered glass into the buildingfunctionlibrary switch statement and building lookup. added new tag query for beeswax wood and a tag along with it
  
• Adding appropriate PM to Ice Breaker bones so they play the right footsteps when walked on
  
• Adding in wall mounted whiteboard, as well as finished part 2 of flag checkin for custom flagpole mesh
  
• Adding in Radiator and materials to use for Nul Sec mission, also hooked up contexts to D_Meshable
  
• Changing UMG_modifier state widget to orange modifier circle texutres from Blue
  
• Cliff Pass and Landscape Painting Pass, Outpost 11
  
• Adding Portable Biofuel Tank
  
• Fixing Truck Map Icon Build Validation Fail and Alpha Value rendering it invisible
  
• STRANDED: ASHLANDS, adding animations to the NPC's Adding new Truck Map Icon, Updating Medical Scanner UI, Mission is now completely playable, Setting up radiator & alternator, taking item icons, setting up truck and truck parts / interact points, removing all the accidental quest markers from the quest
  
• STRANDED: ASHLANDS, adding quest flag so you can craft the Alternator & Fabricator
  
• Affing new Radiator Image & Mesh Setup
  
• STRANDED: ASHLANDS, added missing prebuilt structures
  
• Ice sheet mission dialogue edits
  
• SMPL3 dialogue hookup, line added for staging before Null sector and post entry
  
• Dialogue edits for Ashlands story
  
• Updated DEP_Swamp_Ape_Attractor
  
• Cliff Pass, Riverbank Pass and Landscape Painting Pass, Outpost 11
  
• Small adjustments to the hammerhead slug Small volumes
  
• Fixed Exotic Infused Ignari spawning in Ashlands
  
• COMPOSITION: Missed file commit
  
• COMPOSITION: Further changes to mission flow
  
• Made a few changes to the medical scanner UI
  
• Increase Dressing Kit cost
  
• A few small adjustments to ice breaker falloff distance. Slightly reduced the total length of the audio now that there's more fog, feels more appropriate. increased intensity in close proximity footsteps. More reverb
  
• fixed incorrect material assignments for sandworm roof pyramid L piece
  
• Removing dialogue entries for build fix
  
• Outpost_012 - river adjustments, bank placement
  
• Concrete BLDs - removed trim from angled wall pieces, fixed skin table entries for limestone, added empty material slot to most base SMs to enable the correct limestone fracture material
  
• Replaced Ice Mammoth Shield icon with new model icon
  
• Fixed issue where opening bunker locker in-game rotated it 31d
  
• Removed limit for amount of bunker lockers that can be placed side by side
  
• Adding in bunker Locker setup and materials, supports snapping to eachother to place multiple in a row, rotation bug with anim to fix
  
• Fixed BP node compile errors after changing native variable type
  
• The new method of serialising prebuilt structures now supports being spawned at a generated world location
  
• STANDED: ASHLANDS, the timer only now counts down until you have provided aid to all the crew members, Fixing Initial Quest Step to include preperation phase, New NPC's will not longer consume extra medicine / food / oxygen / water if they don't need it, increasing interact distance on the medical device, adding prompts for the medical device, adjusting quest steps text for consistentcy, adjusting NPC food / oxy / water values so they require more to stabilise
  
• Adding in various signs to use for Null Sec mission, as well as multiple variants of the large base sign, one completely clear to use as a player sign if needed, added in medic cabinet with animations and setup, added in large variant of the flag pole, locker mesh to follow
  
• Fixing Water Can showing the Radiator Mesh
  
• STRANDED: ASHLANDS, Updating Scanner so you can scan other prospectors, adjusting truck interact points
  
• Adjusting biome modifier image to use a new shape and colour
  
• Outpost_012: Flushing grass cache
  
• Small adjustment to hammerhead slug axe equip volume
  
• Set player/cargo landing pads decay to do not decay
  
• Adding new BP for High Yield Deep or Veins, we now have a modifier for time on the BP itself so it can be adjusted in future
  
• New Hail Weather FX Prototype
  
• Cliff Placement Pass and Riverbank Pass, Outpost 11
  
• Outpost_012 - rivers, lake, riverbank, cliff placement
  
• Setup Beeswax reinforced wood item setups
  
• Prevent player/cargo landing pads from showing damage numbers
  
• Updated frozen lake collision profile to fix NPC IK making them clip through the ground when walking on top
  
• Cliff pass, Outpost 11
  
• Added a combined mesh for the ape boss balloon trophy to be use for placement
  
• Possible fix for unity build include compile error on build agent
  
• Adding Mesh and Icon for Ape Grenade
  
• Setting up Ballistic Asset for Hornet Throwing Knife
  
• Removing regualar Hornet throwing knife item
  
• Setting up Meshes and Icons for Hornet Throwing Knife, Hornet Stinger, Hornet Wing, Ape Hide, Ape Trophies anmd Ice Mammoth Armor
  
• Setting up Ice Mammoth Armor so it can be equipped
  
• Setting up Ape Fishing Trap, Recipe & Blueprint
  
• Setting up Ape Rug Trophy, Recipe & Blueprint
  
• Update exotic creatures color to purple from blue
  
• Added new CL param to force enable RTX
  
• Knobble FLODActorComponent for rocks and voxels in instanced levels
  
• Lava Flyer Nests are no longer valid AI targets
  
• Cliff Placement Pass and Riverbank Pass, Outpost 11
  
• Added first pass of whiteout storms for Ice Sheet
  
• Adding press medical scanner audio. Currently playing off medical scan UMG in 2d. Need to check it doesnt play for all players
  
• Added first batch of reworked aluminium buildable LODs
  
• Collision pass and PM pass on the mining truck for accuracy
  
• Adding Ice Mammoth Feet Armor Icon and Mesh setup
  
• Adding back new SMPL3 lines for nulsec entry
  
• Added cooling weather events to Ashlands
  
• Change Hail VFX to new one, updates to collision and shader, optmization pass
  
• Adding in progress light fuction material for Abyss cave triggers
  
• Fixed null skeletal mesh error in editor
  
• Added SK_CHA_MAL_ARM_IcemMammoth_feet
  
• Outpost_012 - riverbanks, lake adjustment, cliff placement, moss variant material for Cave_LC_Entrance 03
  

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Welcome to week 141

This week, we continue our project clinic.

Originally posted by author

We are working on some big changes with the ‘Nullsector’ (the Prometheus Free Expansion). We are aiming to provide some very different (but good different) experiences not seen before with Icarus. Some of these changes are a bit spicy and we are doing lots of rapid balance iteration at the moment, this includes overhauling the quests for a more narrative focus. The Nullsector will be released when the experience hits the mark it deserves.

- Jake Dodunski, Icarus Project Lead

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Our Project Clinic has resulted in an array of adjustments, enhancements, additions, and refinements.

[h3]Performance Optimization to Skeletal Meshes[/h3]

All objects in Icarus use meshes. Some of these meshes include bones that can be moved to perform animations. These are called skeletal meshes.

In this update we’re introducing an optimization on many skeletal meshes so the frequency of when their animations are initiated is drastically reduced. We have achieved this by implementing certain limitations, one being that these updates occur less often the further they are from the player. The other is that if the skeletal meshes are not visible, they will not play their animations at all.

This reduces the amount of time your processor spends calculating animations, which in turn affects the framerate. From internal testing on a large prospect, this has caused a 75% reduction in CPU cost relating to skeletal mesh updates.

Expect more improvements in the future.



[h3]Map, Compass and Beacon Improvements[/h3]

The compass has become quite busy with all the icons, search areas, map markers, and beacons, causing a lot of clutter while playing. We are looking at various ways to reduce this clutter and possibly enable some custom user options in the future. Some of our early improvements are:

• Portable Beacons have received a quality-of-life update. When you interact with them, you can set a distance at which they will appear on the compass. You can now name the beacons, which can be seen when you hover over the icon on the map
  
• Mount Compass Icons will now only appear on your compass if you are within 50m, and you can hover over your mount's icon on the map to see its name
  

We plan on improving this more in the future.


[h3]Tier 3 Water Can and Tier 4 Portable Water Tank[/h3]

Our upcoming introduction of the new ‘Null Sector’ will provide a different experience from what people have encountered on Icarus before. You will need to prepare and plan resource usage in a truly resource-scarce environment. This week we are introducing two new bulky items that can only be carried in your Utility Slot or on Mounts in preparation.

• The T3 Water Can is craftable on the Machining Bench and can hold 50L of water
  
• The T4 Portable Water Tank is craftable on the Fabricator, can hold 150L of water, and can be deployed and connected to a water network
  

[h3]Mount and Tame Updates[/h3]

Mounts and tames will now be affected by temperatures in different biomes, similar to the player. This means that if they get too hot or cold, they will get modifiers relevant to their current state. To help manage that, the various animal feeds now provide heat and cold resistance to animals.

In rare cases where mounts and tames disappear from the world, we have added some automatic logging so we can fix problem map areas.


[h3]New Gates for Railings[/h3]

We have introduced new railing gates for each railing type. This allows the construction of enclosed areas using gates that match your railings. These gates are unlocked with the base railing in each building tier trim set, so they do not require any additional blueprint points.


[h3]New Reinforced Glass Buildings[/h3]

The current Reinforced Glass crafting process requires a water network to be connected to the glassworking bench, which provides an alteration to any glass crafted. Unfortunately, this ‘reinforced glass’ looks and feels exactly the same as the base glass building pieces, which can cause confusion.

We’ve taken this on board and decided to adjust how the whole system works.

As of this patch, there is a new ‘Reinforced Glass’ Building tier that is unlockable on the tech tree. The building pieces look different and have different recipes than the standard glass tier. They also have the same level of storm protection as their reinforced alteration counterparts.

Any existing Glass buildings with the Reinforced alteration will still exist and function as they have in the past but can no longer be crafted.

Unfortunately, the upgrade hammer will not allow upgrading to the new Reinforced Glass until next week.


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One thing that has been identified through our playsessions has been that we have the opportunity to change how we approach missions. Through fixes, improvements, developments, and better processes - we have the opportunity to fundamentally change the kind and quality of the missions and operations in the game. So we are taking the time to redo the nullsector missions and be bold, try out new ways of making these.

This means it make take some time for us to redo these, but if we can get these right and achieve a better experience it means we can apply that to other missions.

It is a big change for us, so players should expect that our missions in future may be quite different. We also are looking at information applied to players. We want to ensure the players are better supported, in most cases, for what to expect for a mission. Not everything needs to be surprise twists, that can end up just frustrating the player to the point of Alt+F4.

We are also linking these changes with bold changes and new features that support new or improved ways to play. This is already somewhat obvious with this weeks additions for managing the transport of water. There is a new content work for new (and more exotic) animals as mounts and companions, but we don't want to just rush these out either. The delay with NullSector is about using this as an opportunity to "level-up" the product completely, rethinking how we make missions especially those that are not on the main chain. We want you to enjoy the missions so much that you simply have to do them all, not just suffer through the side ones because you want the Ren.

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As mentioned in previous weeks, the NullSector (our Free Prometheus Expansion) will include new Operations, a new exploration mechanic, new mutated creatures, and one new giant creature.

This region is not for the faint of heart. All the adjustments and differences are geared towards this being a hardcore survival challenge, so make sure you enter it prepared.



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As we continue to make iterative changes and work on the Nullsector, you can expect more improvements and quality of life improvements to the base game similar to this week.

[hr][/hr][h2]Your support makes these updates possible.[/h2]

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[h3]New Content[/h3]
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• Added Aluminium crafting options for Aluminium Ore recipes for gates
  
• Fixed issue where mount minimum/maximum temperature values weren't being set correctly
  
• Enabled logging for mounts/tames that fall out of world
  
• Disabled ticking on all ASkeltalItem root skeletal mesh components when not rendered. Now, mesh components will only tick when rendered, or when a montage is playing
  
• Adding pickup water tank audio to portable tank as well as jerrycan water
  
• Fixed being unable to drink from Water Jerry Can
  
• Fixed Crop Glasshouse Modifiers not recognising Reinforced glass for greenhouses
  
• Adding new audio for picking up jerrycan water. Audio, event and data table setup
  
• Fixed portable water barrrel emptying on pickup
  
• Added ability to fill containers and water storage from many water containers
  
• Fixed Water Jerry Can being unable to water mounts
  
• Fixed crafting time on portable water storage and water jerry can
  
• Added popup that warns user of increased loading times when enabling RTX via the settings menu
  
• Fixed issue where beacon name wasn't showing on tooltip. Increased portable beacon name max character length
  
• Portable Beacons can now be named. Portable Beacons now have hover tooltips on map screen that show name, owner, and distance. Portable Beacon icons on compass can now be configured to fade out at certain distances on a per-beacon basis
  
• Replaced workshop horse icons to the correct ones
  
• Added the two missing hair colours for the white and black horses, so all three horse colour have appropriate, distinct hair colour. Icons will still need to be updated
  
• Added new Tempered Glass Icons
  
• Fixed material UV issues with the Tempered glass building
  
• Add mount and pet temperature affects. Most mounts have talents to mitigate temperature, while all pets have base talents that mitigate temperature
  
• Arctic/Desert/Volcanic feed have cold and heat resistance for mounts. Base animal feed has a small amount of cold and heat resistance
  
• Fixed multiple material mismatch issues with the Tempered glass building tier, all through Data table entries
  
• Setting crude ammo to 100% break chance
  
• Adding slight bleed chance to crude ammo
  
• Adding and unlocking Reinforced Glass Talents / Items / Icons and removing water to craft reinforced modifier on glassworking bench
  
• Adding ability to add modifiers to players, mounts, objects when they are within certain biomes
  
• Unlocking Railing Gates for all Trim Sets
  
• Adding Water Jerry Can T3
  
• Adding Portable Water Tank T4
  
• Adding Water Can (t3) and water barrel (t4)
  
• Soups and Stews now give a small amount of water when consumed
  
• Added descriptions for anti-parasitics explaining they affect dystentry
  
• Increase Survival Kit cost by adding rope, organic resin and charcoal. This better reflects the tech and prep level of the kit
  
• Increase decay time of pies, pastry and rolls
  
• Update Glass durability row to have its own row (no gameplay change)
  
• Initial setup of Tempered Glass reskin blueprints
  
• Mount icons now only appear on compass when within 50m of mount (instead of all the time). You can now hover over mount icons on the map to display the Mount/Tame's name
  

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[h3]FIxed[/h3]
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• Switched BP_DeployableBase's VisibilityBasedAnimTickOption to OnlyTickPoseWhenRendered to ensure no ticks happen when not rendered (pose was still being ticked even when montages weren't playing)
  
• Correcting the jerrycan water outpost to SFX bus. Reduction in volume of footstep carry water sounds
  
• Returned savory pies and rolls decay rate, updated decayable name to sweet pie and only increased spoil time of sweet pies
  
• Making player movement with water jerry can more subtle until I can figure out how to get the fill amount to work
  
• Fixed cases of items being deployed with out of date stats
  
• Volume adjustment to portable water tanks
  
• We now immediately force a terrain anchor re-evaluation whenever a Mount/Tame starts falling
  
• Thumper now switches to updating AnimBP every frame when active (fixes bug introduced with recent animbp optimisation pass)
  
• Updated deployable actor AnimBPs to disable re-initialisation of StateMachine nodes when going from not rendered -> rendered
  
• Adding audio for carrying jerrycan water or portable tank. Footstep carry audio and drop audio. To be adjusted based on if the container is empty or full
  
• Also made deployable main SK meshes not tick when non-rendered
  
• Fixed Vegetarian buff not applying to Smashed Avocado
  
• Added icon to indicate when needler is performing it's relocation move
  
• Made the signle shot deploy audio for trail beacon even more subtle to account for people putting multiple down in small area
  
• Fix Swamp Water escalation
  
• Add additional escalation to Sulfur Water
  
• Fixed bug where buffalo couldn't walk from stone stairs up to connected stone floor. Mount head blocker components now affect cloth physics (leather curtain doors)
  
• Fixed DNT typo
  
• Change in lighting to the wood rag torch to be inline with other early light sources
  
• Fixed Glassworking Bench indicating a water connection is required for crafting Reinforced Glass (as this is now a seperate recipe)
  
• Fixed issue where internal minimum temperature for mounts was above defined minimum comfortable temperature
  
• Fixed BP_BiomeOverride not correctly applying biome modifiers to mounts when entering
  
• Plough Cart no longer creates empty dirt mounds when you run out of seeds to sow
  

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[h3]Future[/h3]
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• Added KNI_Hornet_Throwing knife
  
• Adding in new nul sector assets to use for mission as spawnable items, all prefixed as Bunker in item template
  
• Added White Out VFX Assets
  
• Fixed issue where animals weren't spawning above level 50 even if their spawn area had a higher level specified
  
• Added Vertex Animated Flags asset pack to project
  
• Cliff Placement in Outpost 9, on Red Quad
  
• Outpost_012 - cliff placement, new moss material variants for LC macros and cliffs
  
• Merge Ashlands temperature curve (must have been squished in merge)
  
• Fixing Modifier State Compile Error
  
• Cliff Pass and Landscape Painting Pass, Outpost 11
  
• Fixed Ice Mammoth Chandelier wrong deployable setup
  
• Fixed compile error inside UMG_Beacon_Customisation
  
• Adjustment to scyther pickaxe
  
• Added warning line subtitles for Ashlands mission
  
• Adding second version of Needler Albedo and carcass to use in Nul Sec
  
• routing scyther events correctly and also rebuilding banks to help fix bankshiz
  
• Added larger modifier background icon frame and a cyan version
  
• Added tainted sulfur water icon
  
• 'Dry_Atmosphere' modifier is now 'Extreamly Arid' and no longer has a spoil timer increase
  
• Adding new biome modifier enum type so biome modifers are displayed differently to bring attention to them
  
• Adding initial setup for New Promtheus Missions
  
• Adding in Null Sector props to use for the bunker, various broken items and decorative props to use in the room / mission
  
• Adding new dialogue for Ashlands Story Mission
  
• Remove small herbivores from Ashlands and Ice Sheet, lowered spawn density of creatures in these areas
  
• Made deploying trail beacons even more subtle to match the removal of the beeping
  
• Reimported Apex Meshes and Fixed Mat Pyramid Hip Roof Pieces Beam
  
• Removing secondary layer from deploying trail beacon
  
• Removing beeping from the trail beacons
  
• Added dirty variant of the scyther tank trophy and added it to the blueprint
  
• Updated the scyther trap animations to have the arms extended out further
  
• Adding in branch base swing and idles for tree movement implementation, extra anims to follow
  
• Cliff Placement in Outpost 9, on Red Quad
  
• Cliff Pass and Landscape Painting Pass, Outpost 11
  
• Outpost_012 - cliff and macro placement
  
• Adding scyther spear audio whoosh and impact flesh event etc
  
• Adding appropriate audio for scyther pickaxe and spear etc
  
• Fix Stretched Texture Pyramid Hip Roof Pieces Beam
  
• Added smaller basalt columns around the arena based on feedback, Rock Golem Arena
  
• Fixed slugs trying to use goap montage and freezing when spawned in water
  
• Adding separate event for lava flyer nest egg with different eq / spacial settings
  
• Cliff Pass and Landscape Sculpting Pass, Outpost 11
  
• More fine tunes and tweaks to distances and reverb and spacialisers / volumes of all 3 sizes of the hammerhead slug. Improved hammer Small death audio
  
• Fixed up Alpha issues in terrain 19 spawn map
  
• Adding Meshes for Scyther Pick, Scyther Aquarium, Scyther Trophy, Scyther Bolts & Arros, Scyther Spear
  
• Adding Talents for Sycther Aquarium
  
• Adding Scyther Bolt item setup
  
• Adjustments to hammerhead slug. Added unique hammerhead slug death taunt audio and notify adjustments
  
• Moved Basalt Columns based on feedback and changed biome to cave, Rock Golem Arena
  
• Updated sandwom saddles with improved skinning and combines both UV sets so the textures are displayed properly
  
• Fixed missed decay change
  
• Fix a couple of modifier typos
  
• Updated ITM_Shield_IceMammoth
  
• Updated Croc Skin Saddle skeletal meshs with improved skinning
  
• Added DEP_Swamp_Ape_Attractor
  
• Deep Freeze will no longer produce ice in the Ashlands
  
• Increasing ashlands biome modifier water concumptio to 500%
  
• Adding Dry Atmopshere Modifier which increases water consumption and spoil rate
  
• The Ashlands now provides the Dry Atmosphere Modifier
  
• Cliff Pass and Landscape Painting Pass, Outpost 11
  
• Adding slime PM to poison spot to play correct footstep audio
  
• Adding spit sound to hammerhead slug ballistic. Adding hammerslug taunt medium death asset etc
  
• Outpost_012 - macro and cliff pass
  
• Updated swamp and lava lakes to have higher chance of dysentary and increased water and food usage, when drank unfiltered
  
• Small additional tweak to gas cooker sizzle audio
  
• Lots of updates and tweaks to the hammerhead slug audio. Adding unique slam montages and audio for each size variant of the hammerhead. Was previously using slug montages. various other changes to accomodate for different size versions
  
• Adding correct spit ballistics to the hammerhead slugs and also adding medium and small attack montages to the medium and small BT blueprints so they paly appropriate audio for both
  
• Reduced the overall fur length on the mammoth trophy slightly
  
• Switched off the physics on the mamoth trophy Gfur and replaced it with groomed splines
  
• Added all materials and textures for all assets for the Tempered Glass Tier of buildables. Also removed test assets that are no longer needed for the Sandworm Building Tier
  
• adjusted flicker for fire source lights
  
• Added Lava Flyer autonomous spawners to some of the new Ashlands areas
  
• Cliff Pass and Landscape Painting Pass, Outpost 11
  
• Cliff Placement in Outpost 9, on Red Quad
  
• Adding hammer slug projectile item data so it uses the correct hammer slug projectile audio
  
• Outpost_012 - water body placement and landscape sculpting
  
• Updated Ape_Boss_Hide asset with new design
  
• Adding hammer head death taunt audio events and notifys and unique ballistic travel and impact eventsfor more control etc
  
• Fixed bug where dirt mounds would lose their 'wet' material when you moved too far away
  
• changed poison box collider to full encapsulate the mesh. added proper bestiary table to hammerhead slug
  
• Blocking OEI from working in the Nullsector Biomes
  
• Outpost_012 - final adjustments to height/weightmap imports, map setup
  
• Adjustments to rock golem blocker spacializer and other small adjustments
  
• Rock Golem wall destroy BP
  
• Adding rock Golem destroy blocker event and blueprint imp. adjustments to roll velocity volume etc
  
• Updated iron bucket physical material
  
• updated deplayable setup data table with scyther trophy
  
• Changed incorrect row in spin attack for hammerhead slug
  
• Added destructible meshs for the Scyther trophies
  
• Added several ranged attacks, slug now more prefers ranged as it gets smaller. Spin attack shoots projectiles in all directions and then leaves a pool on the ground
  
• Added scyther boss trophies to the project
  
• Adding missing anim notifys and BP logic for golem attack roll
  
• Adding rock golem BP logic to account for velocity of roll. Removing continuous audio playing when cre is rolling
  
• Cliff Placement in Outpost 9, on Red Quad
  
• Cliff Pass and Landscape Painting Pass, Outpost 11
  
• Outpost_012 - landscape adjustments, weightmaps, first pass placing lakes
  
• Updated trophy deploy audio for the standing Ice Mammoth
  

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[h3]Contains the following Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed bug causing operations to break if you click to start them before the audio narration has finished playing. If you have a stuck mission that is affected, you may need to cancel it and can start it again after a short cooldown.
  
• Fixed bug preventing players from starting a new SIMPL3 mission at the terminal.
  
• Adding missing saucepan proxy mesh for cooking devices
  

Welcome to our 140th weekly update.

This week we are introducing a battery-powered ice box backpack, which offers a new way to keep your food from spoiling while on the go.

We also have a heap of updates including new workshop items, new battery-powered equipment, numerous small tweaks and fixes, and even a new main menu screen.

These are the result of a “project clinic” our team conducted while playing the upcoming free expansion to the Prometheus map. We do these deep dives every now and then, and you can read what a project clinic involves in this post from earlier this year.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1149460/view/4201372129447834069

Originally posted by author

[h2]CEO's Forward[/h2]

We left some of the Prometheus map empty so we could develop it further, which we were planning to release as a free expansion for that map this week. However, as we played through it we ended up doing an intensive "Project Clinic" and are taking an extra week to add even more content - both to the base game and this map.

A key aspect of our studio development is for our senior leadership to do full playthrough runs with no cheats, experiencing our games just as our customers do. This is incredibly time intensive, but is extremely important for our aim of making better games, and it has been instrumental in driving ICARUS forward.

We've talked in the past about doing “Project Clinics”, where we use these intensive playthroughs to highlight issues, missing content, or Quality of Life changes. We then rapidly iterate to solve as many as we can. So we used our Prometheus playthrough week for this purpose and want to get these additions out before we release our expansion to Prometheus.

Once these two updates are out, our focus will move onto the next installments in ICARUS as well as our next free major updates. If you have enjoyed what we do, please consider leaving a review and picking up some of our DLC. Our studio spends all the money we make on developing the game and does no dividends, so all our income goes into making our games.

Dean “Rocket” Hall, CEO

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This week’s featured new item is the Ice Box backpack, crafted at the Fabricator. This backpack adds six new inventory slots - like most backpacks - but it also chills everything carried in your inventory, drastically extending their spoil time. Our design intent with this backpack is to provide a specialized solution for long expeditions across the map when adequate freezer storage isn’t available.

This backpack does require stored electricity to operate, meaning you must charge it between uses. This can be done at the Charging Station introduced in week 127.


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Our Project Clinic has resulted in a massive array of adjustments, enhancements, additions, and refinements - all designed towards the kind of gameplay that we want to emphasize more. This includes survival and general infrastructure setup for more longer-term missions, that are part of the expansion to the Prometheus area.



[h3]New Main Menu Flow[/h3]

When opening Icarus this week you will no longer see your character on the main screen. Instead, you will see our redesigned main menu. We felt the old design did not clearly convey the different game modes available to you and added an unnecessary extra step in the process to getting into a session. This new update aims to simplify this process and get you into game faster.



[h3]Hydrazine - A New Workshop-Only Resource[/h3]

Hydrazine is a new gaseous resource collected from space and compressed into canisters for you to purchase from the orbital workshop. These are a one-time use item that cannot be refilled.

Two new items have been added to the workshop that are powered by Hydrazine:

• The MXC Cooker - provides all the same recipes as a pot belly stove but does not require shelter
  
• The MXC Heater - provides substantial heat for a small device, making it perfect for night or arctic crossings

Expect more items to be added in the future that use this new fuel.



[h3]Portable Biofuel Generators[/h3]

To help with power needs on the go, we have added portable biofuel generators. These provide 2000W of power and are very light to carry. They are also considerably cheaper than the other larger biofuel generators and are ideal for powering electric deep mining drills.



[h3]Battery Powered Equipment[/h3]

This week, we've introduced some new equipment that can be charged at the charging station, enriching the tech tree and offering alternatives powered by batteries instead of biofuel or electricity. All of these items are craftable on the fabricator at T4 and sit next to the Charging Station on the Tech Tree.

• Battery Powered Lantern that provides an alternative to the flashlight with a different illumination
  
• Battery Powered Spot Lights that can light up large areas
  
• Battery Powered Cave Lights that are ideal for what their name suggests
  

[h3]Item Mesh Updates[/h3]

• Some of our meshes for existing items were substandard and in need of a refresh:
  
• The Ghillie Suit has had a complete overall with a new up-to-date look
  
• The Hunter Armor helmet has been refreshed
  
• The Biofuel Generator has received a new mesh that better fits its size
  
• The Charging Station has been updated to reflect the new equipment that can be charged
  

[h3]Workshop Balance / Price Adjustments[/h3]

• Some minor price adjustments were made to ensure consistency among items of similar quality. Additionally, we’ve introduced minor balance adjustments to more accurately reflect the current status of items in the game and, in certain instances, their readability.
  
• Reduced the Workshop Repair Kit price to be the same price as repairing in orbit
  
• Adjusted the Larkwell Bolt Price and reduced replication cost from 50 -> 10, bringing it in line with workshop arrows of the same tier
  
• Adjusted the Larkwell Sickle Price as it was far costlier than the actual value to a player
  
• Reduced the Workshop Biofuel Canister replication cost as it no longer felt appropriate with the introduction of Hydrazine
  
• Updated the Workshop pickaxes so they have only a single stat for mining yield, which helps avoid confusion when comparing them
  
• Made slight tweaks to Workshop Hammers stats
  
• Reorganized the workshop bow tab to have a clear progression of arrow types, and reduced the Inaris arrow unlock cost
  
• Buffed the Larkwell Knife attack speed to make its high cost appropriate for the benefit it provides
  

[h3]New Stove Proxy Meshes[/h3]

The Potbelly Stove, Biofuel Stove, and Electric Stove, along with the new MXC Cooker, have been updated with proxy meshes and effects. This means that when you are cooking something, pots and pans with ingredients will appear based on what is currently being crafted. This was done to better reflect what is going on with the devices in the game world. We want to do more of this in the future.



[h3]Lighting Updates[/h3]

We have spent time adjusting the lighting on many of our light sources. Deployables with a flame, such as the standing torch, candles, and campfire, have been adjusted so they feel more atmospheric when playing. Due to some of the changes made, these items are also a little more performant.


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[h3]Sale on New Frontiers now, for a limited time[/h3]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1648532/Icarus_New_Frontiers_Expansion/

As we wrap up our internal play sessions of Null Sector, we can now begin finalizing the free update.

This expansion to the Prometheus map - available with the New Frontiers DLC - includes five new Operations, a new exploration mechanic, new mutated creatures, and one new giant creature.

This region is not for the faint of heart. All the adjustments and differences are geared towards this being a hardcore survival challenge, so make sure you enter it prepared.


[hr][/hr][h2]Revenue and our DLC Strategy[/h2]

We have tried to setup our DLC in the most permissive way possible. We give away all the key features for free, rather than bundling them in the DLC. We also made it so only the host needs the expansions, and removed DRM so that it is easy to bypass the DLC restrictions when hosting local servers.

We generally take home about 50% of the retail price, after deductions for Steam, cost-of-sale, and Epic. After these, our typical outpost DLC has around USD 50k net revenue, on a budget of roughly 5-10k per outpost. Making them is very profitable, which surprised us a lot. However from what we can tell, most people buying outposts are doing so via the complete the set - mostly as a way to help us fund future development (thank you!). As these do well, we are looking at doing more of these in the future.

Our major expansion (New Frontiers) was a big portion of income, gaining about USD 1.5M net the above deductions. It probably cost us roughly USD 1M to make, although it is complex to budget for as we pulled out many of the things we planned to include to give away with the free update that went with it. Overall, New Frontiers seems to be a major factor in driving general sales of the game and other content and has been pretty much essential to the survival of the game and maybe even the studio in the current market.

The content packs give us about USD 75k - 100k after deductions, on a budget of roughly that. So they tend to break even, but seem to have quite a long tail. In the long run they add just a little bit on top which we can use to continue with further development.

For the game itself, the last year has seen strong sales - much stronger than the preceding year but below the original launch. This is quite unusual for a video game, when you generally have the vast majority of your revenue at launch and then maybe a small amount continuing on. This is probably due to several factors, the most notable being us improving the game. The community feedback iteration has been essential in us bringing the game back from its mixed launch. People often say “why don’t studios do a No Man’s Sky and improve their game?”, but the reality is this is very expensive and many studios that wish so, simply can’t afford to try. And even where they do, they don’t have the exposure for anyone to notice. We have been incredibly fortunate to be able to continue to develop the game, but it is expensive. We have only been able to do such regular updates through very hard work, heavy community engagement, and a top-level commitment for a better game rather than a profitable one.

This information is provided because game studios tend to be very opaque when it comes to financials, and many gamers end up thinking that DLCs end up being “cash grabs”, when in fact most DLCs don’t tend to make a lot of money as attachment rates are quite low. Our target, and we suspect most studios are the same, is that a DLC will break even over the course of a year.


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[h3]New Content[/h3]
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• Icebox Backpack is now crafted on planet on the fabricator, it now has a charge and needs to be charged to be active, when active will lower the external temp of the player by 5 Celcius and slow food spoilage drastically, added item recipe and blueprint for the icebox backpack as well as new modifier and icon, feature locked out for now
  
• Added DEP_Powered_Charger_v2
  
• Updated Marked Target modifier to be unable to be triggered by creatures/players that can mark targets. Notably this means the base Dribbo and tamed pets with the relevant talent do not deal extra damage without other targets attacking
  
• The Icebox backpack can now be charged on the charging station
  
• Adding Portable Biofuel Generator and Replacing Mesh of Biofuel Generator
  
• Adding Battery Powered Latern
  
• Swapping Ghillie Suite to use new Meshes
  
• Adding new portable generator audio and BP. Updates to Ghillie armor to suit the new mesh - more foliage vibe, adding battery lantern on / off switch audio
  
• Fixing Portable Generator Scale
  
• Setting up Ice box backpack, talent / recipes
  
• Adding ability for small batteries to be recharged at the charging device
  
• Adding proxy meshes to rechargin station for icebox backpack, flashlight, battery lantern, lava hunter backpack and small battery
  
• Adding fallbacks for cleaning Open World Mission history
  
• Adding Additional Safety checks when triggering missions so old / failed / abandoned missions are cleaned up
  
• Adding Iron Bucket
  
• Fixing Ghillie Arms in First Person to use New Mesh
  
• Adding Hydrazine as a new resource type
  
• Adding new Hydrazine workshop canister
  
• Adding new workshop cooker & heater that run off Hydrazine
  
• Added iron bucket art assets to the project
  
• Added text for new MXC items
  
• Adding audio for workshop cooker and heater. To be tested once power behavior is working
  
• Fixing Battery Lantern not consuming power
  
• Updating Battery Lantern ON / OFF State so that the bulb lights up when ON, Setting default mesh material to OFF
  
• Adding bucket fill audio. Not currently hooked up
  
• Updating Battery Lantern to new Mesh
  
• Adding New Battery Lantern & Cave Light Meshes to Charging Device as Proxy Meshes
  
• Added Off material state for ITM_Battery_Lantern
  
• Added ITM_Battery_Lantern
  
• Updating Hunter Head Icon
  
• Adding Battery Cavelight Item / Blueprint
  
• Adding Iron Bucket Mesh Hookup & Icon
  
• Adding in second version of cavelights on a stick, wall and floor version, fixed up material on first cavelight version, added campcooker proxy mesh
  
• Added Battery Light Deployable base
  
• Battery CaveLights Wall & Floor are now one item with variations
  
• Battery Spotlights are now one item with Variations
  
• Hooking up new Battery Cavelight lights & Meshes
  
• Added Proxies for Workshop Cooker & Heater
  
• Lighting Updates on CaveLight & CaveSpotLight
  
• Adding small vial trophy deploy audio. Small eq adjustments to events. Data table deploy audio setups for all bigger trophys
  
• Adding in campcooker proxy and combined meshes for placement hologram for the cooker and heater
  
• Adding new component for recipe proxies when items are crafting
  
• Adding new recipe proxy for the workshop cooker
  
• Cave Flashlight and Spotlight can now be charged at the charging station
  
• Adding Descriptions for New Cave Light and Spot Light
  
• Fabricator now accepts a water connection for recipes
  
• Hydrazine cooker now uses a green flame effect
  
• Tagging all cooked items with Fruit / Vege / Egg / Gain / Meat / Fish / Chicken etc
  
• Added version 2 of the t3 kitchen bench without the pots and pans
  
• Adjusting cave spot lights, and cave omni lights
  
• Adding new component for recipe proxies when items are crafting
  
• Adding Proxies to Kitchen, Potbelly and Electric Stoves
  
• First iteration of new space menu screen
  
• Swapped the icons for customize button and character create button to make more sense
  
• Changed sizes and font sizes for main menu and open world
  
• Fixed main menu buttons disappearing on startup
  
• Fixed 'close' and 'back' button appearing on DS when selecting mission. Fixed first playthrough popup temporarily making the 'new game' menu dissapear
  
• Changed the menu button layout to match each other
  
• Changed the backgrounds of each map on the open world and missions main menu.
  
• Changed the corners of the buttons to be thicker and animated them a little faster
  
• Reduced Portable Biofuel Generator power efficiency.
  
• Lowered cost of Stone Brick building pieces by ~25%
  
• Changed velocity and eventually disabled particles from NS_Hydrazine_FX
  

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[h3]Fixed[/h3]
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• Fixed weight on many half pieces (were 100, now tiered appropriately)
  
• Removed proposed boss 'heath bars' after backlash about feeding animals candy
  
• Fixed if you attacked boars from a distance then walked away they would just walk to your previous location because they couldnt see you same as the hippo. Readded stat to hippo that was removed for testing
  
• Attacking a dribbo now angers its family and sets its current aggression to max
  
• Fixed any epic wolf counting toward wolf boss kill accolade
  
• Fixed Portable Generator itemable setup, tweaked crafting time of both generators
  
• Update Wheat to Biofuel recipe requirement
  
• Fixed an issue with the sizing of the Portable Generator
  
• Changed the Mesh and Icon for the Charging Device so it can fit larger items
  
• Hitching ropes now stack. Removing one animal from a hitching post no longer removes all animals on that post. Removing multiple animals from a hitching post now grants the correct number of hitching ropes. Fixed bug where only one animal was left attached to a hitching post when game was reloaded
  
• Tweak light of advanced versions of light slot items to have slightly increased brightness
  
• Drastically Increased weight on biofuel generator (2kg -> 40kg)
  
• Slight Adjustment on workshop Deployable costs
  
• Adjusting Larkwell Bolt Price, reduced replication cost from 50 -> 10
  
• Adjusting Larkwell Sickle Price, reduced replication & Unlock cost dramatically
  
• Reduced Workshop Biofuel Canister replication cost
  
• Increased bee aura radius by 50%. Bee aura now affects dirt mounds.
  
• Dirt mound now stacks to 10, increased weight to 250g
  
• Reduced size of dirt mount deployable collision, should make them easier to place next to one another (similar to direct placement with shovel).
  
• You can no longer deploy a dirt mound directly on top of another dirt mound (intersecting edges is still okay).
  
• Fixed CalculateDamageTaken() crash when damage causer was null
  
• Fixed null controler crash on PIE exit
  
• Replaced old Ghillie armor set item icons to new ones
  
• Fixing Workshop heater referencing an old resource that was removed
  
• Fixed bug where food trough / water trough allowlist behaviour wasn't working correctly if set up by a client
  
• Fixing Workshop heater & cooker from not running off hydrazine correctly
  
• Swapping hunter helmet to use the new mesh
  
• Fixed resume button animation
  
• Added bucket asset to meshable data table
  
• Setting up new cave spot lights
  
• Adjustments to lantern audio
  
• Fixing Hunter Helmet unintentionally hiding the undersuits helmet when equipped
  
• Update Workshop pickaxes so they only have a single stat for mining yield
  
• Rescale Workshop hammers, Tatsuo now grants movement speed but lower tier hammers repair slower overall
  
• Reduced Workshop repair kit price to be the same price as repairing in orbit
  
• Reorganized Workshop bow tab to have a clear progression of arrow types, reduced Inaris arrow unlock cost
  
• Buffed Larkwell Knife attack speed
  
• Mounts/Tames will now immediately stop current animation or movement when hitched.
  
• Fixed bug where Mounts/Tames wouldn't return to their previous movement state upon being released from a handheld hitching rope.
  
• Players can no longer release mounts hitched to a post while leading another mount with a hitching rope
  
• Fixing charging Devices CaveLight & CaveSpotLight PRoxy Meshes
  
• Fixed aspect ratio scaling issue on new buttons. Added subtle zoom-in/out effect to new button images.
  
• Sped up OpenWorld/TerrainSelection background image fade in/out, added background blur
  
• Flashlight can be held in your hand again
  
• Fixed cave spotlight wall variant deploying a cave light
  
• Fixed cave spotlight wall variant material assignments
  
• Fixed character buttons being overlapped on main menu
  
• Fixed equipped item shadow not being attached to hands while in first-person perspective
  
• Fixed bug where changing from 1st -> 3rd -> 1st person perspective could cause the light in player's light slot to be positioned incorrectly, causing shadow artifacts.
  
• Added physics to new battery lantern. Increased temperature of battery lantern's lights. Slightly adjusted position of lantern lights in light slot.
  
• 3rd person body no longer applies spline pitch rotation when looking up and down in first person.
  
• Increased battery capacity of flashlight and battery lantern by 30%
  
• Increased battery light maximum placement angles
  
• Reduced stack size to 1 for battery lights
  
• Fixing initial battery charge status of lantern and flashlight
  
• Reduced Portable Biofuel Generator power efficiency
  
• Further adjustments to lighting, namely fire based sources
  
• Further adjustments to lighting, namely fire based sources
  
• Swapping Exotic Voxel Material over to a new one
  
• Fixing Tag Queries causing issues with the build
  
• Fixed Hydrazine returning to orbit, this is one time use item
  
• Fixed Hydrazine not appearing in dropship/OEI
  
• Fixing Tag Queries causing issues with the build
  
• Swapping out bucket focusable to use a modified version of the lantern one, added in tweaked 3rd person Idle
  

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[h3]Future Content[/h3]
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• Adding appropriate audio for waterlogged spine item
  
• Adding ice armor fragment pickup audio added to data table item audio and items static
  
• Added animation, changed some font and sizing colour to Main Menu Screen
  
• Lots of adjustments and improvements to Rock Golem audio. Removed aggro state and made it an aggro 1 shot that plays on various animations to avoid state complications with burrowing etc. updated all aggro state audio layers and death layer etc
  
• Added destructible meshs for the lava hunter trophies
  
• Update Prometheus bounds map visibility for full map view
  
• Added lava hunter trophies to the project
  
• Removing Spawning of World Talent Manager for GH, until I have time to fix
  
• Reimported and regenerated Prom fishing map texture and temperature map texture for corresponding setup for the expansion
  
• Fixing muzzle flash on T4 Pistol by adding corresponding socket to skeleton
  
• Updated texture group for RockGolem and Ape textures so they show in 4k
  
• Cliff Placement in Outpost 9, on Red Quad
  
• Landscape Sculpting Pass and Landscape Painting Pass, Outpost_011
  
• Ice Mammoth Arena - Added ice chunk meshes + textures, set dressing
  
• Adding more rock golem layers. Flinch and death audio etc
  
• Painted new fishing zones and temp map for Prom expansion
  
• Cliff Pass and added stalagmites, Rock Golem Arena
  
• Added Ape_Boss_Sack to the project
  
• Added ape boss hide asset to the project
  
• First pass rock golem vocalisation audio for attack and aggro state
  
• Ice Breaker is now always relevant for clients, should fix issues where Ice Breaker was popping in and out
  
• Added initial item setup of Sandworm building tier
  
• Ice Mammoth Arena - set dressing and polish
  
• Added ITM_Backpack_LavaHunter
  
• Added ITM_Biomass_LavaHunter
  
• Ice Mammoth arena - added BatNest meshes 02-04, set dressing
  
• Added ITM_Sledgehammer_Rock_Golem
  
• Adding mission source files
  
• Cliff Placement in Outpost 9, on Red Quad
  
• Landscape Sculpting Pass and Landscape Painting Pass, Outpost_011
  
• Balances and updates to the rock golem. Added more aggressive angry vocalisations to burrow in and out and other tweaks
  
• Resaving datatable
  
• Ice Mammoth Arena - material work on ice, set dressing with ice chunks, cracks, landscape filler meshes (snow on lake)
  
• Cliff Placement in Outpost 9, on Red Quad
  
• Added rock golem fight specific actors into new arena map. Arena_RockGolem now uses one-file-per-actor saving
  
• Added the first two Boss_Ape trophies to the project with blueprints
  
• Setting up Skeleton for Tier 5 Technology Tech Tree and Items with Oil Extraction, Refining and Production creation through a Polymerizer
  
• Fixed flying cheat not working on clients
  
• Adjusted description of flying cheat
  
• Added 'Toggle Flight (Fly)' cheat to enter flying movement. Use mouse scroll adjust speed
  
• Added a tag to all biomass and added a 'hide biomass' option to currency widget. Added back button to open world and mission selector. Made the size of mission and open world buttons uniform with the other buttons
  
• Update Null Sector prospect weather forecast to be harder patterns
  
• Added static to Null Sector area of Prometheus map
  
• Increased maximum spawn distance on Ice Breaker's manual spawn point
  
• Removed RockGolem row from D_WorldData
  
• Disabled world composition for Arena_RockGolem, migrated all actors to Persistent Level
  
• Datatable fix
  
• Updated the pants in the swamp ape display case trophy to not be effected by wind
  
• Added collision for ape boss rug and made slight adjustments to the gfur splines
  
• Added in Basalt Columns and Geothermal lakes, Rock Golem Arena
  
• Cliff Placement in Outpost 9, on Red Quad
  
• Consolidated SwampApe arena map
  
• Adding earthquake audio and event. Not currently hooked up to BP
  
• Remove the generated levels from the test base instanced map as build server regex having issues (this is just an example level anyway)
  
• revised meshes/textures for basalt columns, added cluster mesh (WIP)
  
• Iteration on the Terrain and Mission Select Screens
  
• Lots of updates and additions to the rock golem audio. More notifys, events and adjustments to spacial and reverbs etc
  
• Prevent overflowbags from spawning when an instanced level deployable is cleaned up
  
• Swamp Ape Arena - Added & Setup New Tree Var5, Mesh, Material & Level TREE_SW_Mangrove_005
  
• Cliff Placement & Added Snow Material for Cliffs in Outpost 9, on Red Quad
  
• More instanced maps WIP
  
• Basalt columns - WIP meshes/textures
  
• Changed visuals for boss healthbar and armor
  
• Added Ice mammoth armor sk meshes, textures and materials, plastic and ice material functions
  
• Added more columns and moved some floor pieces around based on feedback, Rock Golem Arena
  
• Basalt columns - material adjustments, cluster meshes w custom collision added
  
• Added fuel properties to hardened magma (upcoming item)
  
• Updates to rock golem earthquake and other events. added reverb to footsteps so it can feel echoed at a far distance
  
• Added Water Scyther Spear, Arrow, Bolt and Pic
  
• Adding in remeshed highpoly base model for plantboss for review
  
• Adding in Scyther base mesh and first set of animations, textures to follow
  
• Adding in base mesh for Camping cooker and camping heater as well as texture tweaks to suit, proxy meshes for cooker to follow implementation
  
• Adding in Rock Golem earthquake event to burrown cycle. Adding new rock fall travel audio, rock fall impact audio, new earthquake snapshot override and implimentation. Adjustments to rock gol reverbs and volumes etc
  
• Various instanced level bring up fixes
  
• Swamp Ape Arena - Added & setup New Tree Var6, Mesh, Material & Level TREE_SW_Mangrove_006
  
• Rock Golem Arena Polish Pass and Lake Spline Setup
  
• Added DEP_Trap_Scyther to the project with skeleton and start, loop, and stop animations
  
• Removed remaining arenas from D_WorldData
  
• Setting up Mesh and Icon for Ape Sack
  
• Setting up Mesh and Icon for Lava hunter Throne & Feature
  
• Setting up Mesh and Icon for Rock Golem Sledge
  
• Setting up Mesh and Icon for Lava hunter backpack, adding new aura and related stats
  
• Setting up Mesh and Icon for Lava hunter mine
  
• Added Transparent Basalt Columns to Arena
  
• adding in smaller version of the scyther to use as an enemy fish, custom material and diffuse tweak and material import for the scyther, need to make an alpha mask input for base creature shader too
  
• Adjustments to earthquake. More distortion to make it feel more intense. Adjustment to falling rock ballistic travel spacial to make it feel less whooshy around the player
  
• Added GRE_Swamp_Ape_Grenade
  
• Adding Cheats for Clearing Open World Mission History
  
• Cliff Pass, Outpost 11
  
• Cliff Placement in Outpost 9, on Red Quad
  
• Adding more sickle layers to be used for lava hunter sickle
  
• adjustments to crystal material, new meshes and maps for crystal columns
  
• Additions and updates to the golem. Adding eating audio and destroying crystals. General balances, adding notifys to all eating cycles etc
  
• Cliff Pass, Outpost 11
  
• Added support for future shovel and shield attachments
  
• Added new material for crystal columns in Rock Golem Arena
  
• Adding rock golem sledge hammer impact flesh and rock audio and events - data table setups
  
• Added Outpost_012 with temp terrain
  
• Swamp Ape Arena - Added & Setup New COL Mesh for TREE_SW_Mangrove_005 and TREE_SW_Mangrove_006
  
• Cliff Placement in Outpost 9, on Red Quad
  
• Cliff Pass, Outpost 11
  
• Removed hardened magma from fuel sources for now
  
• ASHLANDS and ICE SHEET: Increase trail beacon craft requirements
  
• Outpost_012 - landscape iteration
  
• Added updated textures for the Sandworm Wood Building tier, including fixing mismatched meshes and materials in the data table ofr the Sandworm Wood tier, plus assigned the correct kit versions of the meshes to BP_Building_Wall_HalfPitch_Lower_Right_Wood
  
• Added lava hunter warming icon and aura icon
  

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