Icarus News

• Fix invisible materials for various assets including the Fishing Bench and Creature Deterrent
  

Welcome to Week 164.

This week, we’ve enabled the Lava Hunter World Boss on Prometheus to spawn outside of its specific mission. This will allow you to fight it over and over again without having to start new prospects.

We’ve also done a quality-of-life pass on the rest of the world bosses' spawns to address their regularity so you can engage them more.

Jump in and have a read.

• Fixing the Cold Screen Space Effect, which was applying incorrectly on and persisted unintentionally
  
• Fixing the Achievements ‘Styx & Stones’ & ‘Zero to Hero’ so they are correctly tallied and granted on Steam and in-game
  
• Fixed Black Wolf Boss Spawners not begin present correctly in Olympus Open Worlds, the Black Wolf Bosses will now spawn correctly
  
• Removed Textures and Materials that where not used resulting in a smaller client pack size
  
• Texture Optimization which results in lower video memory and client pack size, will help on graphics cards with lower memory
  
• Fixed an issue where world stats and difficulty stats where being removed on open worlds when loading into a game with an operation in progress
  
• Fixed an issue where bunk-beds would unintentionally duplicate every time a prospect was loaded
  

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We have enabled the Lava Hunter World Boss on Prometheus to Spawn outside of the Mission.

Like other World Bosses, this can now be encountered randomly in the Volcanic Biome, and the timer for it to respawn will persist after you defeat it.

The Prometheus Mission 'FRACTURE' does not need to be completed for the Lava Hunter to spawn in open worlds.

This was mainly done so people could tackle the Lava Hunter outside specific missions which may be important in the coming weeks.

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World Bosses in Icarus are giant creatures that appear in open worlds and on missions when traversing Icarus. These large creatures can be quite tough to deal with if not properly prepared.

The current world bosses in Icarus are the Black Wolf, Sandworm, Giant Scorpion and now the Lava Hunter. Each map offers different word bosses that naturally spawn. There can also be mutiple world bosses of the same type present on the map at the same time, for example on an Olympus open world a maximum of three sandworms can be present at any one time.

World bosses can be tracked on the map via the 'World Boss Module' module purchasable from the orbital workshop. When equipped into your suit this will display map icons over every world boss currently active map wide.

This week, we have modified the way all world bosses naturally spawn as with the introduction of open worlds there where some side effects which meant they spawned far less often that originally intended.

In the past, every time you started or finished a operation in open world, the world boss timers would restart and not persist, meaning that world bosses would spawn far less often in the world. This has been corrected so that respawn timers now persist, so it will be far easier to encounter these creatures in the wild.

Let us know your feedback on this change and if you’re finding yourself encountering these foes more often in your Open World sessions.


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We will be introducing a brand new world boss to Prometheus next week. This is the Hammerhead slug, found in the Swamp Biome and sporting a deadly splitting attack.


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• Lava Hunter now acts as a world boss and can respawn
  
• World Bosses can now start on a respawn cooldown instead of immediately spawning on prospect begin
  
• Added Lava Hunter spawn point to PROM
  
• Lava Hunter mission now waits for player to get slightly closer to spawn location before boss emerges
  
• Removed invalid world boss configs from PROM prospect list entry
  
• Lava Hunter World Boss no longer starts on respawn cooldown
  
• Existing prospects now update when new world bosses are added, fixes issue where people wouldn't have the new Lava Hunter World Boss in the existing PROM save games
  

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[h3]Fixed[/h3]
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• Project-wide asset optimization pass and cleanup
  
• Project-wide asset optimization and cleanup
  
• Bunk beds pending cleanup no longer attempt to spawn top bunk actor on begin play
  
• Fixed bug where bunk beds were duplicating on prospect reload
  
• Fixed a typo in bunk bed tooltip
  
• Fixed bug where bunk bed couldn't be picked up after game was reloaded
  
• Updated Skeletal meshes for SK_PIC_Obsidian and SK_ITM_Sickle
  
• When rate limiting damage numbers, always emit the first damage number immediately if there are no other damage numbers currently being processed
  
• Added a fix for recently introduced edge case where the hot/cold post-process screen effects would sometimes persist on screen even after player corrected their temperature
  
• Fixed Attachment Slot availability not being shown on ranged weapons
  
• Fixed issue where radars couldn't be activated
  
• Fixed bug where prospect world/difficulty stats for dynamic missions (operations) were being cleared on reload
  
• All prospects (open world and missions) should now have the same number of world bosses that spawn (with a few exceptions). Previously each mission and open world would individually specify the minimum and maximum number of world bosses that could spawn, now this is done on a per-map basis to reduce confusion
  
• Fixing Mission Achievements, after the rework the total number of missions to complete was incorrect so they achievements could not be completed successfully
  
• Fixed issue with the Mission Achievement Trackers as they where not counting the first mission in every tree - like they should have been
  
• Fixing issue where the Exotic Item was not correctly tagged which means it could not be collected and added to the transport pods and sent to orbit
  

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• IMP pass blockout in the swamp on Orange/Purple Quad, Elysium
  
• Implemented Homestead Cabinets
  
• Implementing Alternate Fire on the Legendary Flamethrower and Stat which govens if the alternate fire occurs
  
• Lava Hunter Flamethrower has 2 Alternate Fires now (Fireball & Flame Burst)
  
• Cliff Pass in Arctic, Green Quad, Elysium
  
• Adjustments to ape gas cloud timing and adding wave whoosh
  
• Hammerhead slug - fixed niagara effects only playing on cocoon start and not end. Lowered base slug hp. Removed tusks from the ice mammoth
  
• Foliage pass in Tundra and Cliff Pass in Arctic, Green and Yellow Quads, Elysium
  
• IMP pass blockout in the swamp on Orange/Purple Quad, Elysium
  
• adjusted light source on flamethrower
  
• Adding short roar and volume adjustments and crit hit timing adjustment for better audible notify
  
• updating GH mission images to source
  
• Deleted tree meshes under developer folder
  
• Adding in riccochet hit indicator event for new hit zone for the Rock Golem. Data table setup
  
• Critical hit areas can now conditionally apply for only some damage types
  
• Ricochet area now only applies to projectile damage
  
• Pickaxes now do 5x damage to golem armour instead of 10x
  
• Adding rock golem roar audio, event and notify
  
• Added new 'long jump' montage for RockGolem that has the Golem in air for longer
  
• Added new quick variant of RockGolem roar montage
  
• RockGolem now waits for player to get near enough into cave before jumping out and roaring to start the boss fight
  
• RockGolem's face plate armour now always ricochets incoming projectiles
  
• additional slope rocks, tweaks to PFS_LC_Slope_Rocks, 2 new cliffs + textures/materials
  
• Added anim BP, control rig, NPC BP and mount BP for the Raptor creature. added entries in the AI setup data table
  
• Added art assets for the Raptor creature
  
• Adding unique legendary flamethrower audio to child actionable. Added flamethrower actionable to the data table to point to correct item
  
• Added new ballistic mechanic that allows projectiles to ricochet off certain strong points
  
• RockGolem in final phase now attacks at least once after each jumping attack
  
• Increased minimum time between separate collision damage events on RockGolem roll, less chance to be double-hit
  
• Hits on rockgolem armour plating now ricochet bullets, dealing no damage
  
• Add DT validation for ItemTemplate entries that don't point to an ItemsStatic. Remove 2 entries
  
• Added DEP_Bird_House_Standing_Wood and DEP_Brid_House_WallMount_Wood with materials, textures and DMs
  
• Adding completely new fire audio for the glob gun which turned out to be more of a grenade slug goo launcher than a goo gun. data table setups, audio and events
  
• adding GH mission images to source
  
• Adding Missing Lava Hunter Biomass
  
• Initial Pass for Boss Resource Drops
  
• Initial Pass for Boss Resource -> Biomass Conversion
  
• Initial Pass of Legendary Weapon Costs
  
• Resized boss currency icons and added slight gradient to them
  
• Updated Wet materials for DCO_Planter_Box Wood
  
• Re-hide weight of items stat (as this is shown in item tooltips)
  
• Updated slime creature, materials, textures and static meshes
  
• Reparent BP_InstancedCaveEntrance mesh, so scaling the mesh doesn't scale the teleport placement disc
  
• Fix Processor Recipe for Condensed Exotic pointing to wrong meta resource entry (was testing)
  
• Added Elysium additional Ridges voxel pools for all biomes
  
• Fixes for EDS rounds
  
• Fix Ice Mammoth Great Hunt O2 steps
  
• Fixes for ape bossfight music, with additional cleanup on RockGolem and Ice_Mammoth
  
• Adding Orka vocals attack and spot events and vocalisation table setup. Also adding V2 pistol muzzle shot for testing - possible use and adjusted shotgun V2 to be slightly less
  
• Further break up the screams when Great Ape is throwing rocks
  
• Fixes for ice mammoth bossfight music
  
• Great Ape now performs different screams when throwing rocks
  
• Adding intro briefing to the dialogue data table
  
• Optimized Raptor textures. Fixed missing Physical Material defines. Added 4th LOD. Delete StaticMesh
  
• Fixes for rock golem bossfight music
  
• Fixed wrong cave ID in ape and golm Great Hunt Instanced Levels
  
• Resaved data table with moved muzzle flash location into correct folder
  
• Resaving FMOD to try and fix banks breaking
  
• Adding test VFX smoke with reduced size, opacity and time for potential use
  
• Added art assets for the weather vane
  
• Fixed the material for the wet version of the planter box
  
• Hammerhead Slug - Fixed slugs not being spawned at the correct % hp after recombining then dying again
  
• Adding impact audio for slug grenade ballistic
  
• Project-wide asset optimization pass and cleanup
  
• IMP pass blockout in the swamp on Orange/Purple Quad, Elysium
  
• Adding fireball audio for flamethrower. Explosion, and travel audio
  
• Hammerhead Slug - Fixed incorrect scaling of slugs. Fixed slug manager cleaning up after all slugs are dead
  
• Many Rock Golem Great Hunt Fixes: Weakness poison tracking fix and add damage leeway, final hunt travel step location set, rebuilding biofuel mission assignment fixed, prototype progress clamped, mission selection lockout fixed, elimination mission numbers and tracking fixed
  
• Fixed Great Hunt device objectives list not clearing on reset
  
• Adding quest markers, location markers and blockout for DH mission 1
  
• Split RPC calls to show damage numbers over mutitlple reps rather than flooding in one frame (clients and buckshot)
  
• Adding quest markers, location markers and blockout for DH intro mission
  
• Dummy prospect adjustment to see if it fixes FMODs error
  
• Replaced crystal mesh to black plain in Great Hunt Instanced Levels
  
• Commit to try fix FMOD
  
• Adjustments to volumes and spacial of ricochet hits on rock golem
  
• Remove an empty section form JuvenileApe_Attack_Montage
  
• Point the Juvenile GOAP anim actions to JuvenileApe_Idle_Montage
  
• Fixed issue where ballistic ricochets weren't using the correct logic to spawn damage numbers, meaning audio wasn't played correctly
  
• SpawnFloatingDamageNumbers no longer fires off a reliable multicast containing damage information for debugging purposes unless verbose damage logging is enabled on server
  
• Adding flamethrower fireball fire audio and event, data table setup
  
• Implemented Bird Feeders
  
• Fix instanced cave entrance assets after parent class modified
  
• Added DEP_Bird_Bath_Iron, DEP_Bird_Bath_Gold and DEP_Bird_Bath_Water, as well as their Materials, Textures, and DM's
  
• Adjustment to volume of crit hit hit volume adjustment from rock golem
  
• Removed cave entrance from BP_CavePrefab25 and Replaced with static mesh. Green Quad, Olympus
  
• Adding air release audio to eds canister and deploy audio
  
• Adding GH Radio Device / Talents / Recipes etc
  
• Voxel Pass, Green Quad, Elysium
  
• Modifying QM locations for the RG Great Hunts as they were in the wrong locations
  
• Applying distance scaling to ape audio threat override
  
• Applying distance scaling to ice mammoth audio threat override
  
• Fix Rock Golem A Great Hunt, quest initialization was unhooked for testing
  
• Applying distance scaling to rock golem audio threat override
  
• Adding Forbidden Talents so that missions are locked out when choices are made for the Ice Mammoth Great Hunts
  
• Feature Locking the Ice Mammoth Great Hunt Mission Talents
  
• Adding Great Hunt Images to the Project and Setup as part of the Missions
  
• Enabled Ice Mammoth Missions so they can be played
  
• Added missing DT changes to fix build
  
• Stormwall material WIP
  
• Added first implementation actionable behaviours for various RockGolem gauntlet actions
  
• Living weapons can now specify multiple default meshes instead of just one per slot
  
• Added a function to query if given living weapon has a particular upgrade
  
• IMP pass blockout in the swamp on Orange/Purple Quad, Elysium
  
• Foliage and Landscape Painting Pass on Tundra, Green Quad, Elysium
  
• Ape Great Ape D2 fixed mission descriptions
  
• Adding orca flinch vocalisation, event and data table setup
  
• Added new alien tunnel meshes, textures, material
  
• Garganutan A Great Hunt now grants craftable lab equipment account wide
  
• Fixed Garganutan B Great Hunt map marker and steps description to clarify
  
• Dummy dialogue adjustment to try fix dialogue lookup bs
  
• Hammerhead slug - Fixed physical damageon slug spit
  
• Hammerhead Slug - Reduced duration of slime. Reduced poison damage and increased physical damage
  
• Adjustments to orka vocal levels and adding to data tables
  
• Updated ITM_Ape_Hide textures to a better quality version
  
• Hammerhead Slug - Added missing bool from proj component and reenabled health override on slug projection components
  
• Deleting profiling session that was committed. Also adding missing cave context eq to some of the dropship layers causing some layers to not be muffled
  
• Fix missing translation entries in orbital exchange and damaged ship mission interface
  
• Allowing WorldTalentManager to always be relevant and replicate to clients, this enables clients to interact with the great hunt device
  
• Fixing Mission Cheat to Allow for Correct Setup of World Stats, Weather, Boss Spawning and other Dynamic Properties
  
• Adding snapshot to reduce volume of ambience when big boss music is playing. Helps declutter busy mixes. also slight reduction in other players assault rifle volumes and reloading
  
• Add Intro when first interacting with NOVA station
  
• Fixed feature lock on EDS Canister
  
• Added some cheats to debug inventory subcontainers
  
• Hammerhead Slug - Added projection health bar to each version of the hammerhead slug. Added override to allow any creature a health bar with a checkbox. Slugs will no longer try to merge with other slugs that are in a cocoon state
  
• Fix EDS Canister (mission item) physical material and client side effects
  
• Garganutan Great Hunt: Added audio triggers to wave defense mission objectives
  
• Fixed waterfall swimming and looking the wrong way when entering the ape arena in Great Hunt Instanced Level
  
• Update Garganutan Great Hunt kill progress missions to show progress percentage, O1 to have a progress stage indicator, mission E to have resupply, fix EDS Rounds typo
  
• Fix Drill Arrow and T3 Cleaning Device material opacity being 100%
  
• Splitting dialogue into two events as requested. Adding events to dialogue table
  
• Deployable Decals (dev facing) are now swapped with world objects on load to improve performance
  
• Updated Garganutan Great Hunt prebuilt lab to reduce deployable count
  
• Ensured Bunk Bed top bunks are cleaned up if their lower bunk is cleaned up
  
• The Sandworm Crossbow now fires Spears as intended
  
• Adding Norex Weapon Crate Mesh for the Legendary Weapons, so when they are dropped they appear as the box and not their core pieces
  
• Further increase the chance that Great Ape will produce noxious gas when low on health
  
• Fixed waterfall not showing up in ape arena Great Hunt Instanced Levels
  
• Changed colour scheme on NOREX Great Hunts Radio
  
• Updating the ape fx to not use its own unique one rather than scorpion burrow. Adjusted values for better visibility and to be more appropriate
  
• Fixed phys material on base meshes of Great Ape den entrance
  
• Project-wide asset optimization pass and cleanup
  
• Added Great Hunts Interface Assets
  
• Redone oasis at the start of desert on Yellow Quad, Elysium
  
• Voxel Pass in Tundra, Green Quad, Elysium
  
• Garganutan Great Hunt Black Market mission: Revamped to require construction
  
• Balance pass over lots of the legendary - boss weapons. Reducing some third person volumes and volumes etc
  
• Added ITM_GreatHunt_Radio, with new materials and textures
  
• Added ITM_WeaponCrate_Norex
  
• multiple new cliffs kitbashed from existing assets, new alien tunnel segments + entrance
  
• Hammerhead Slug - Slug now stops aggro when 100 meters away and no one else close
  
• Further reduction in volume of the ambience when big boss fight music is playing. Also faded the snapshot with the music fade param
  
• Added Sandfalls to Rock Golem Arena, Rotated player entrance and added a cliff to block a seam
  
• Toggle GreatHunts EntrancePlane blocker + PP volume based on existing actor visibility logic
  
• Fixing issue with the Rock Golem and Ice Mammoth Missions referencing the wrong Terrain and thus spawn group making arctic animals spawn in the desert on Olympus
  
• Add text wrapping to bonus rewards from missions
  

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• Fixed issue where radars and scanners couldn't be activated which could block both exotic scanning and various mission progress.
  

Welcome to Week 163.

This week's theme is bug fixes and QoL. Thanks to feedback over the holiday period, we have addressed a number of issues. We have also fixed an issue that was limiting client performance.

We also have some details on what is to come next week involving the Lava Hunter present on Prometheus.

Jump in and have a read.

• Coconut Trees grown in crop plots now provide Wood when harvested
  
• C0NT4CT Radio will now find the most upgraded C0NT4CT device to connect to, rather than the closest
  
• Modifiers (Buffs / Debuffs / Auras) have been optimized so they will not perform updates every frame
  
• Fixed various issues with Crop Plots as they would sometimes take damage when sheltered, but not in greenhouses
  
• Made adjustments to SMPL3 quest rewards not to include outdated items as rewards, and added new items where applicable
  
• Did a balance pass on all fillable objects (Canteens / Water Troughs etc). In general, they have received a greater maximum capacity
  

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This week, we are releasing a number of smaller bug fixes and some small quality-of-life improvements that have been requested in the past. With the new year, we thought we would take the time to address some of these issues.


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In the past, we have spoken about ‘occlusion optimizations’ regarding buildings (week 153). Recently, we performed the same treatment on deployables (benches / trophies / decorations, etc) and came away with some performance improvements.

When we pushed this live a few weeks ago, we made a mistake: it was only active on servers or single-player, so players connecting to others or a server would not receive any of the improvements. This has now been enabled so that all players will receive the improvements.


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Next week, we will enable the Lava Hunter to Respawn on Open Worlds so that it can be fought again once the operations have been completed.


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• Hot and cold post-processing effect blending is no longer done via multicast, it is now entirely client-side
  
• Damage number spawning is no longer a reliable multicast
  
• Hot and cold post-processing effects are now gradually eased in and out when applied, should fix bug where effects would pop in and out if player moved quickly between cold/normal/hot areas
  
• Tooling to detect buried voxel brushable actors so they can be adjusted. Added actor transform manipulation tools
  
• Add overlapping/duplicate actor detection to Prefab tool
  
• Update Crocodile crit setup to be more accurate and provide more predictable hit-reactions
  
• Significantly increase weight of rifles and shotguns. Rescaled pistol weight (T3 reduced, T4 increased).
  
• Reduced weight of pistol rounds, increased weight of shotgun shells.
  
• This will better differentiate firearms and have weights be more reflective of the weapon size
  
• Fixed a typo in the kiwi mission
  
• Fix crops taking damage when sheltered but not inside a glasshouse
  
• Shrink thickness of Floor weather culling mesh to prevent weather leakage when jumping into the piece from below
  
• Adding updated destructibles for Turrets
  
• Fixed mission explosive (used in Zephyr and new missions) using an unessecary skeletal mesh instead of static mesh
  
• Updated Turret destructibles
  
• Tweaked Light Assault Carbine gunplay to be a little more tame (animation, screenshake), improved muzzle VFX
  
• Modifying the Contact Radio logic so that it always finds the most upgraded closest mission device, this will mean it always finds the most upgraded mission device rather than just the closest
  
• Adding IM_A prebuilt structure
  
• Moved Seed to the Resources section of the Field Guide so it shows the recipes it is used in
  
• Fixed Turret Stand DM material. Add logic for spawning additional turret DM pieces upon destruction
  
• Rename actors in Olympus from StaticMeshActorXXX to actual mesh name for readability/organization
  
• Remove HLOD texture/material setups for underwater rocks causing additional texture loads, no MIP biasing and poor visuals for no performance gain. Upped DFAO bias to remove artifacts
  
• Fixed Medic Cabinet collision to ensure shelter is correct when the cabinet is inside
  
• OLY: further level actor cleanup
  
• STYX: Remove empty mesh actors, clean up Outliner folder structure
  
• Increased Rope albedo resolution to 1k and fix missing phys mat define
  
• Removing final(tm) traces of unncessary materials from levels
  
• removed 'GT' from Geothermal atmosphere as it is missing from MPC_BiomeTransition and causing errors
  
• Clear usage of unwated materials in levels, prepping for deletion
  
• Set BloomKernel texture to 512px, saving about 30MB of VRAM, matching later engine update optimization
  
• Remove Outpost002 as the map entry for Space row in D_Terrains, causing fishing data to be incorrect on Arcwood. Add DT Validation to catch this
  
• Fixup redirectors across project
  
• Fake change to Prom to trigger worldgen
  
• Remove unnecessary material overrides in Cave Prefabs
  
• PROM: Cleanup Outliner structure, delete empty SM actors
  
• Add utility for viewing all processors & generator/transmutable times
  
• Fixed Arctic Vesper trophy crafting not granting bestiary points
  
• Add Max Stack size text to Field Guide
  
• Fixed Beeswax Advanced Set being called Base set in the tech tree
  
• Clean up Fillable data (removed unused & combined duplicates), removed related & obsolete Item data
  
• Fix Deployable Highlightable and View Distance initialization being server-only. Now Deployables with custom highlightable setups (single mesh highlighting for multi-mesh setups) will work on Clients and so will the recent view distance optimizations
  
• Fix Wood Cupboard being uncraftable on Maching Bench and Fabricator
  
• Updated DTs and Validation: Ignore validation on certain bespoke items. Disable Meshable root bone rotation checks because they're being ignored and slow validation. Remove duplicate Decayable rows, genercise names and update previously used defines. Update DeployableSetups as per navigation validation requests
  
• GFur settings pass & optimization across entire project. Updated tooling to find incorrect settings
  
• Update Gfur settings on Cold Steel items for improved physical response to movement (looks less like underwater). Removed GFur from Axe/Pickaxe/Sickle as its not visible in FP making it a wasted performance cost
  
• Disable Light Functions on Medium shadow quality (not just Low) for a potential performance boost without needing to disable shadows entirely
  
• Updated SMPL3 quest rewards, adding Brambles and Coconuts, and their seeds
  
• Removed Thermos drinks from SMPL3 quest rewards as they were for the old drink system
  
• Increased Enzymes reward count for SMPL3 quests to 2-5
  
• Grants a small amount of XP when harvesting bones
  
• Cleaned up usage of Fillable data by genericising row names, deleting duplicates and reassigning.
  
• Add DTValidation to pick up on duplicate Fillable rows.
  
• Balance tweaks include increasing Large Water Trough from 15L to 30L, increasing Filtered Water Trough from 30L to 60L, decreasing Water Barrel from 300L to 150L, increasing Watering Can from 5L to 10L and Watering Cart from 300L to 250L
  
• Fixed Biofuel Radar not playing deploy animation by gating tick logic off the deploy animation being completed
  
• Fixed Biofuel Radar screen visuals by adding a black screen behind UI widget
  
• Prevent Radars from being interactable before deploy animation has finished
  
• Tidied Base class blueprint for readability
  
• Add Socket to Biofuel Radar mesh so that the widget is properly connected to a bone
  
• Fixed Highlightable on Meta Radar with separate Head mesh
  
• Fixed RMA on Biofuel Radar being wrong preset resulting in it looking wet
  
• Fixed Radar materials not having Physical Materials set
  
• Rename MA_DEP_Radar (which is a unique shader that is not required) so it can be deleted and MA_ITM used instead
  
• Fix low resolution textures on Biofuel and Electric radar meshes
  
• Fixed NOMAD progress breaking if players disconnect while the starting dialogue is playing. Ensured Tomato grow properly skips to next step
  

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Welcome to Week 162.

This week we go over a multiplayer weapon fix that has now been tested, and the performance improvements that come along with it.

We also feature the new Coconut Seeds, which will drop from wild coconuts and can be planted to grow your own crop back at your base. These can also be brought down from the Orbital Workshop.

We’ve also got a look ahead at what to expect next week.

Jump in and have a read.


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As mentioned previously we have had an experimental build up over the holiday period testing a fix for players connecting to a multiplayer game and being unable to fire weapons in some circumstances, particularly in older prospects.

Guns, bows and crossbows were unable to be fired by players in older prospects unless they were the server. These types of items have their own special inventory controlled by a container inventory manager. They differ from the the regular inventories on benches as they track ammo & attachments. This meant the game was not aware of ammo levels, as it was waiting for the information to be replicated from the server. The replication was not occurring because of the sheer number of these inventories that needed to be replicated. Other items that act in a similar way are the medical kit, seed pouches and anything that contains an attachment (so most T2 equipment and above).

There was a few different things that were causing the issue.

• We were not always cleaning up old container inventories. These could come about by having items be created, used and discarded or destroyed, their inventories would still exist. We have now improved this so the inventories are now cleaned up appropriately, we have also added checked when a prospect starts up to clean up any unused inventories to cater for ones that should have been cleaned up but were not.
  
• There was too much data to replicate to clients all at once. As prospects get older and people create new weapons, seed pouches and medical kits the amount of data to replicate becomes quite large. We have also modified the way this data is replicated to allow for targeted updates to prevent network flooding every time a single gun is fired and its inventory its updated.
  

These fixes provide a performance improvement by having less inventories to manage and keep updated for each player in the game. This also means that we are sending far less networked data which allows clients to be kept in a better up to date state and reduces the amount of unnecessary replicated data to process.

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From this week on, when you harvest coconuts, you may get a coconut seed. Like all seeds, this seed can be used for crafting or planted to grow your very own coconut tree for harvesting.

In addition, there will be packs in the orbital workshop so you can bring seeds down to the surface. This will also mean you’ll be able to grow coconuts on maps where they aren’t found in the wild.

Coconuts have also received a small QoL as they are now stackable, their weights have been adjusted and they now yield more from wild harvests.

This was added to ensure that all food plants were now growable, regardless of location.

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Next Week we are planning on addressing several bugs and issues found over the holiday period that have been reported and some other small QoL improvements before we start back up into the planned work for the year.


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• Enabling Coconut Seeds, Workshop Coconut Seed pack and Coconut Palm which is growable in crop plots
  
• Coconuts now stack to 10
  
• Coconuts weight Adjustment 200 -> 800
  
• Upped Coconut yield when harvesting locally (1 to 2-3)
  
• Doubled maximum partial network bunch size from 64kb -> 128kb
  
• Added a fix for prospect files where clients couldn't use or reload various ranged weapons
  
• Server host now cleans up orphaned inventory container component data on prospect load, this should prevent issue where clients weren't getting inventory containers (weapon mags, seed pouches, etc.) replicated to them because the initial replication packet was too large
  
• Increased various default network connection timeouts from 3->6 minutes