Icarus News

This week, we have two system update which have accompanying large write ups.

Our Atmosphere System, responsibly for lighting, shadows and reflection accuracy, has been updated with multiple cubemaps for each Biome in Icarus. You should see much better colour, detail and lighting in-game with this improvement.

We’ve also buffed the Firewhacker, making many improvements increasing its usefulness, which had reduced over the years as denser fuel sources crept their way into the game.

Finally, we’ve got massive news about next week’s update, which will the biggest since New Frontiers, and is aptly named, Copernicus.

• Fixed a Long Standing AI issue where creatures would stand still when recieving damage when hit from far away instead of reacting accordingly
  
• Brand New Backgrounds for the Blueprint Tech Tree
  
• New In-world effects for the BEAST Scanner
  
• Fix intermittent boss health bar visibility for some bosses for people playing on Dedicated Servers
  

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This week, we’ve added graphical improvements to lighting, shadows, and reflection accuracy.

Specifically, we’ve updated our atmosphere system with bespoke cubemaps for each different biome in Icarus.

This means that the ambient lighting used to brighten up the game world should be more accurate
to the area around it. Rocks, buildings, landscapes, and other objects will all take on more of the nearby environment colour, meaning fewer dark black shadows, and more accurate lighting on all objects.

The end result is similar to NVIDIA’s global illumination (GI) solutions, with none of the associated costs. And what’s more, the updated cube maps will have zero performance impact.

This required a rewrite of how cubemaps were utilised within the Atmosphere Controller. Previously, all ambient lighting and skylight reflections in Icarus were calculated using a single 360 degree cubemap scene capture.

This meant that we needed to have our cubemap approximate lighting for all biomes at the same time, resulting in a flat and overly dark end result. The way it did this was for each point in the world, a sample was taken from the reference image (cubemap) and multiplied together with the desired intensity of ambient lighting. This affected both the colour, and the brightness of the lighting applied.
Because we only had one cubemap to sample from, it wasn't applying the green hues you'd expect from the Swamp or the yellows of the Desert. Metallic surfaces were also given grey reflections. In general, all ambient lighting was more muted we'd want and we sought to improve this.

We've upgraded Icarus' atmosphere system to blend between multiple cube maps as required. This means we can create bespoke ambient lighting and reflections for each of Icarus' vastly different regions as we see fit.

Check out a few before-and-after shots to showcase this patch's improvements:


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Fire in Icarus is a fairly unique experience in the world of survival games. It exists to connect early-game dangers and provide an extra way to differentiate storms from one another via lightning. It's a great example of how a small system added to a game can make a world feel deeper and less static.

‘Realism’ is a good word to describe what features players might intuitively expect in a game, but it's often a bad goal for balance. In real fires, we see an exponential growth as fires spread in all directions and gain access to more and more fuel. In-game, we know buildings are placed on a 3x3m grid, with a fixed number of possible neighbours. Our deployables are consistently sized, so a base can't be too densely packed with burnable fuel. With the fire location fairly well scoped, we were able to make some programming choices so that the fire could spread at a more linear rate, so that it wouldn't get out of control too quickly.

Rocketwerkz has another game called Stationeers, which also features a fire system. Often, fires start when you have hydrogen and oxygen in a mix, and you accidentally spark them. A mix like that used to combust extremely quickly, just like here on Earth. Players often wouldn't even get to see or experience this happening, and they would return to rooms full of very hot carbon dioxide and pollutants, where they would be very confused as to what happened. Our solution to that was to do literally the opposite of what happens in the real world, and we made hotter fires burn less and less, so that ‘maxed’ out fires would continue to burn for a while, instead of instantly using all their remaining fuel.

Coming back from that aside, we wanted to make sure fighting a fire in Icarus wasn't too frustrating. The firewhacker is a delicate balance of stamina, attack speed, stamina drain and extinguish rate. Too much in one direction, and fires went out too quickly; too much in the other direction, and every base would burn down.

We ensured firewhackers were a simple recipe you could make early in the game, right from your character. We added forced periods of cool down before things could reignite, so you could be guaranteed to be able to save parts of your base from fire. We also switched the firewhacking swing from a slow 3-second overhead hit ( much more like the repair hammer) to the much quicker frantic whacking. Finally, the most significant early game fire change wasn't about the firewhacker but instead the firepit, which allowed players to solve many of their fire problems themselves, once they experienced an accidental fire or two from the cheaper campfire.

Eventually, we felt that the fire needed to spread to nearby foliage. This wasn’t driven by many gameplay desires or pacing metrics, other than it felt odd and wrong when fire couldn’t spread to nearby trees and bushes. Over the years, with new maps, biomes, and areas, some regions became much more dense with bushes and trees than the original Olympus map. These new fuel-rich environments unbalance the firewhacker, and many regions became forest fire risks.

So, after perhaps the longest setup for some simple tweaks, here are the changes we’ve made that hopefully will make fire fighting more fun, and less frustratingly futile:

• Changed firewhacker extinguish logic to allow multiple non-building pieces to be extinguished from a single successful extinguish roll, to have a better feeling ‘firefighting experience’ where fire density isn't fixed
  
• Changed Foliage extinguish cases so that the fire heat is entirely removed, which will stop foliage from automatically reigniting after the forced extinguish time elapses
  
• Doubled the time foliage is forced extinguished from 7 seconds to 14 seconds
  
• Increased base chance increase on failed extinguishes from .05 to .15
  
• Increased base extinguish radius from 80 to 120
  
• Increased base forced extinguish time from 5 to 7
  
• Changed extinguish count logic to ensure effects still play when extinguishing foliage
  
• Due to increased firewhacked extinguish chances, we decreased durability loss on successful extinguish from 500 to 200
  
• Improved the fire whacker audio behavior so that the generic impact plays from within the whoosh to ensure the player isn't misinformed about what's happening
  
• Balanced the firewhacker audio for better recognition of impact vs extinguishing vs whooshing
  

If you have feedback or experiences about fire or our approach to it, feel free to add a comment below, or drop us a ticket in Feature Upvote.


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Next week, we’re dropping our biggest update since New Frontiers.

Aptly named Copernicus, this massive free update aims to enhance a lot of existing content with the addition ~50 new items added as new rewards to existing missions across Olympus, Styx and Prometheus, five Legendary weapons that can be upgraded by killing world bosses and a 70+ brand new achievements to unlock.

Alongside the update, we’re releasing the Great Hunts DLC, adding three new branching Campaigns exclusive to Open Worlds, totalling 34 new missions which can change the world you are playing on. With these campaigns come three new world bosses, new creatures, three exclusive legendary weapons, six earnable character talent points and ~60 new items which you unlock exclusively through playing the campaigns.

You can check out more details on Great Hunts and Wishlist below before the release next week.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3315290/Icarus_Great_Hunts_Campaigns/
[hr][/hr][h2]Your support makes these updates possible.[/h2]

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https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/35727/Icarus_Complete_the_Set/
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[h3]New Content[/h3]
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• Adding generic firewhacker impact event to play when something is hit. Increased volume of douse audio for better feedback
  
• Adding firewhacker unique whoosh flap audio to play in first and third person. Adjustment to impact volume and balance
  
• Updating firewhacker audio behavior for the generic impact to play from within the whoosh to ensure the player isnt misinformed about whats happening
  

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[h3]Fixed[/h3]
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• Fix small beehive is not listed in FieldGuide
  
• Fixed skinning issue for Wayfarer Armor
  
• Fixed 1ST person arm skinning issue for wayfarer armor
  

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[h3]Future Content[/h3]
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• Updated SK meshes for caveworm armor variant and D_Armour
  
• Fix new accolades that were missing implementation rows
  
• Submitting auto-generated sublevels and navigation
  
• Updated legendary revolver cylinder anims to be slower after firing
  
• Remove Deubug Draw from BEAST Scanner
  
• Submitting auto-generated banks and uassets For chazz.hill-hayr's change: Adding generic firewhacker impact event to play when something is hit. Increased volume of douse audio for better feedback
  
• OBLITERATION, Ape campaign: Increase explosive deployment range, add screenshake and add hint where the explosives can be crafted.
  
• Submitting auto-generated banks and uassets For chazz.hill-hayr's change: [IC-28203] Further balance of the firewhacker audio for better recognition of dousing and impact over whooshing - swinging
  
• Further balance of the firewhacker audio for better recognition of dousing and impact over whooshing - swinging
  
• Flamethrower Burst improve flame visibility and scalability pass
  
• Setup 8 additional scope overlay data. Add Scope2B variation with thinner lines/dot. Set Scope alterations to use unique overlays each. Hide ScopeType Enum from UI.
  
• Fix new 100Packs accolade tracks in space, but not via orbital exchange
  
• Put some more bullet proofing around Ape death animations for 004 and 005
  
• Fixed a dialogue typo
  
• Adding new dialogue lines in for the new quest steps for RG C2 mission. Also adding in distant rumble event tied into the dialogue event
  
• Fixing Issue where missions completed in the open world where not showing their completed status properly
  
• RG_C2 - Converting Vestiges into armor fragments which can be cleaned and converted into raw ore
  
• RG_C2 - Removing Exotic Infused Golems and Replacing with Iron Infused
  
• RG_C2 - Adjusting base location to be closer to lake and on a ledge and Quarrite Den Locations so they are in different grid square, updated quest text to reflect"
  
• RG_C - Quarrites can now respawn after 4 minutes if you kill the Quarrite but leave the burrow active (Maximum of 3 spawns per burrow total)
  
• Submitting Generated Localization Content
  
• Added updated cubemap for arctic biome that is less blown out
  
• Update Pro_Abyss_Cave Biome data to be Arctic Cave with settings that match the Upper Ice Sheet biome so that this biome can be used for achievement triggering while providing the same existing experience
  
• Fixed a long standing AI issue where far away aggressive NPCs stood still after each instance of player damage instead of persuing target immediately
  
• Adjusted ape/IM health scaling taking into account 50% reduced health on easy and 30% extra on hard
  
• Submitting auto-generated sublevels and navigation
  
• Outpost012 - cliff placement, decal and foliage painting
  
• Outpost012 - rock material adjustments, new LC Cliff decal variants
  
• Added screen shake to Ape_C2's slam attack
  
• Garganutan Juvenile boss spawned in Ape_C2 is much better at destroying building pieces and deployables now
  
• Redistribued the UVs on the Sniper rifle core piece to give the pieces closer to the camera more resolution. Fixed small baking error on Scope A
  
• Fix BEAST scanner effect not playing on client.
  
• Fixed a typo in some quest text
  
• Further increased Ape_C2's damage bonus to buildings and deployables
  
• reverting latest change to BP_CaveEntrance_DC_SML_03
  
• Adjustments to the cleaning device to better represent how it looks and feels in game. Slightly more engine audio for it
  
• Updated Scope2 and 3 overlay texture as B variants. Decrease damage buff on ScopeA from 25% to 15% and increase crit damage on ScopeB from 50% to 100% otherwise ScopeA was clear winner in both cases due to damage multiplication. Swap meshes on scope A and B as they're better suited.
  
• Decrease zoom level on ScopeA. Increase base ProjectileAccuracy on Sniper rounds from 0.2 to 0.05
  
• LavaHunter Flamethrower: Update FlameBurst VFX to have 'low' and 'high' quality light setups with high spawning several lights that move with the flames to enhance the effect. Add server-only function for spawning new Scorch decal on ground for FlameBurst. Remove 'GetPlayerCharacter' logic and base off SKItem owner instead as this resulted in the server (Player0) also always getting the effect at their feet. Remove FlameBurst NS component that isn't used
  
• Biolab UI polish: Fix hover not coloring button angle, fix button tooltip appearing when hovering nearby and fix buttons appearing prior to animation playing
  
• Updating Trunk version to new version
  
• Updating Branchmap.json with new release stream info
  
• Resaving Account Flags Table
  
• Setting up the Remainder of the Caveworm Armor and Setting up as a reward for a quarrite mission
  
• Setup Sandworm & Black Wolf Rewards on Olympus
  
• Setup Scorpion & Blackwolf Rewards for Missions on Prometheus
  
• Setup Hammerhead Slug an Lava Hunter Rewards for Missions on Prometheus
  
• RG_D - There is now sealed cave which the boss busts open when you have closed the Dens, shifting the boss fight out of the cave and into the open, preventing movement issues
  
• RG_D - Swapping Rock Golems to be the Arctic Versions and increasing the time to spawn from the burrows as it was far too quick
  
• RG_B - Increasing Caveworm Spawn Distance during the mission
  
• RG_C - Removing Visible Debug Sphere from Mission
  
• Slight Adjustments to Biolab Customization pin locations
  
• Assigning material to the golem gauntlet to what looks like to be the correct material - it was currently unassigned
  
• Fixing Virtual Stats so Lure Item Wear Rate does not inherit wear rate stats from knives, bows etc, swapping out Bow Upgrade to use the bow item wear stat instead of the generic
  
• Adding Blueprint Backgrounds
  
• Swapping Over Achievements to use new Icons
  
• Submitting Generated Localization Content
  
• Adding new Biolab Background
  
• Updating Trunk version to new version
  
• Updating Branchmap.json with new release stream info
  
• Fix missing text on Shield stats showing up in the Biolab stats UI
  
• Fix grammar on Biolab title text
  
• Adjusted positioning of elements in Biolab to minimize elements overlapping either other UI elements or the associated weapon upgrade mesh
  
• Slightly increased RG health on easy mode
  
• Subtle adjustment to metal ring on impact of voxel to balance with other pickaxe
  
• Fixes and adjustments to dialogue timings
  
• Submitting auto-generated sublevels and navigation
  
• Removing triple up of same dialogue line playing in 3 steps of a quest one after the other unnecessarily. RG B_1
  
• Ape Boss - Removed deep wounds curve and added it to scaling stats in BP. Lowered deep wounds chance by half in solo play
  
• Slight adjustment to the mission RG rumble to cut through the mix more
  
• Outpost012 - cliff placement, decal and foliage painting
  
• Updated all arctic golem albedo textures to the desaturated version.
  
• Fixing RG C outpost mission blocker after killing caveworms and dens by checking the correct killed worms bool
  
• Added stats to Caveworm armor set.
  
• Submitting auto-generated sublevels and navigation
  
• Outpost012 - cliff placement, decal and foliage painting
  
• Added small amounts of Biomass and Exotics rewards for some GHs missions
  
• Submitting auto-generated sublevels and navigation
  
• Fix intermittent boss health bar visibility for some bosses on dedi clients.
  
• GH Bosses - Changed health values to closer resemble the old health values
  
• Drone: Reduce Inaccuracy from 4 degrees to 1 degree to get their hit consistency rate higher. Decrease ProjectileDamage stat to -50% to balance out their increased accuracy. Added 100% Poison, Bleed and Wound resistance due to its mechanical nature
  
• Updates to subtitle override to match text in long dialogue event
  
• Fixed removal of blocker at cave in OLY:L2
  
• Fixed PP effects not working when ADS using Legendary Sniper
  
• Fix DF shadow cleanup logic not running on clients on Drone Spawner destruction
  
• Combining two dialogue events to account for events being triggered at step end and next step start to avoid overlapping
  

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[p]Week 187 is here, and several workshop items are receiving perks previously only seen on Prometheus exclusive tools.

These include Obsidian, Cold Steel, and Miasmic bonuses and improvements to the Inaris set, which is bought from the Orbital Workshop with Red Exotics.

We’re also talking about Great Hunts, and what you can do to be ready to jump in and start on day one.
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• [p]The Mission Selection UI has been updated both visually and feature wise. You can now see any blueprints, workshop items, talents and other rewards on the button itself with their own tooltips or when clicking into the mission and seeing the preview screen. [/p]
• [p]The Contact device has been updated to include new images on backgrounds and a more cohesive look. [/p]
• [p]Removing Armor from the Hammerhead slug boss as it was not meant to be used in that manner. [/p]

[p][/p][hr][/hr][p] Obsidian, Cold Steel, and Miasmic bonus perks were found on tools introduced in New Frontiers, and now these special perks can also be used on some workshop equipment:
[/p][h3]Inaris Set Bonuses[/h3][p]
Axes gain:[/p]

• [p] Dawn (Fire) gains Obsidian perk to get coal[/p]
• [p] Ersa (Frost) gains Cold Steel perk to get chilled wood[/p]
• [p] Sali (Poison) gains Miasmic perk to get infected bark
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[p]Pickaxes gain:[/p]

• [p] Claret (Fire) gains the Obsidian perk to smelt instantly[/p]
• [p] Viridian (Frost) gains Cold Steel perk to get Frozen Ore[/p]
• [p] Night (Poison) gains Miasmic perk to earn Noxious Crust
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[p]Knives gain:[/p]

• [p] Crimson (Fire) gains the Obsidian perk to cook meat instantly[/p]
• [p] Cerulean (Frost) gains Cold Steel perk to get chilled meat[/p]
• [p] Shade (Poison) gains Miasmic perk to get Acidic Glands
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Before Great Hunts launches, we thought it would be helpful to talk about the difficulty level and how you can prepare yourself to hop right into the new content when it releases.

Great Hunts will have you venturing through all biomes across each respective map for every campaign tree. This will mean you’ll experience both ends of the temperature scale, so having specific outfits prepared will give you a leg up on those who only bring one.

These mission chains are also long and fraught with danger. Medical supplies such as splints, elixirs and bandages are necessary, along with ample food to replenish your health and stamina.

We also recommend over-planning for your ammunition supplies. You might burn through your stocks quickly, and for non bow users your ammunition isn’t recoverable. Weapon repair Kits and the basic supplies for a pop-up shelter can also be handy.

This content is considered fairly end-game and not to be taken lightly. High-level characters and well-planned teamwork will make it far more manageable.

Tier 4 gear is likely to be the most effective, but a well-planned strategy with Tier 3 gear can also be successful. Plan accordingly, and get hunting.

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Next week, we’re making some long-awaited improvements to the trusty firewhacker, an icon of Icarus.

This will include improved firefighting performance (specifically versus forest fires), increased extinguishing area, and longer foliage reignite times after being put out.

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

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[h3]New Content[/h3]
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• Adding Prometheus Obsidian / Miasmic / Cold Steel Effects onto the Prometheus Workshop Gear
  

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[h3]Fixed[/h3]
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• Tweaked visuals on Plains Equix trophy Gfur setup to not look like it just shoved its hoof in an electrical socket
  
• Adding Mission Reward UI to the Orbital mission selection screen
  
• Updating Mission Select Screen to Show Unlockables with Tooltips
  

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[h3]Future Content[/h3]
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• Added new biofuel consumption stats for golem gauntlet
  
• Added New Achievement icons and file to SourceArt Folder
  
• Corrected spelling of Anti-materiel rifle
  
• Wire new accolade Electroshock
  
• Detail pass on the legendary sniper textures. Added LODs on the pieces
  
• Fixed Juvenile Rock Golem's physics asset not matching mesh
  
• JRG's armour plates no longer ricochet (previously they were set up to, but rarely did because of physics asset issues)
  
• JRG now takes extra damage if players target area underneath armour plates that are destroyed
  
• improvements and adjustments to the legendary club standard impact and heavy. Setting it up with the correct equip animation to ensure it plays the legendary equip sound
  
• Adding most appropriate armor sets audio for the new armor types. Adjustments to the adsr release on all armor sets so that the sound stops better in time with the players natural movements. Around 500 ms fade out
  
• Disable Bullseye components on Debug_Target causing hits to not register
  
• Adding the correct load anim sound to legendary crossbow
  
• Elysium - cliff placement and foliage testing in NW volcanic, red quad
  
• Adjust Legendary Sniper accuracy, barrel and module upgrades
  
• Wire new accolade 50SMPL3
  
• Decrease Reload speed upgrade on SandwormCrossbow from +75% to +33% so that it doesn't look jank
  
• Adjust biolab lock to ensure purchase button is available when currency is available for weapons that require DLC
  
• Adjustment to dialogue delay after killing landshark so roar doesnt interrupt dialogue or other way around
  
• Reparent some large static objects spawned by quests as they are not replicating to dedi clients correctly
  
• Update boss tracker button on C0NT4CT to mention the correct upgrade required
  
• Elysium - cliff placement and foliage testing in NW volcanic, red quad
  
• Added accolades for surviving swim in lava, and having frostbite & heat exhaustion at the same time
  
• Add translatable text throughout the biolab
  
• Adding correct purchase sound to purchasing biolab weapon upgrades
  
• Updated weight paints for Sand armor chest piece
  
• Adjusted meta biofuel canister, flamethrowers and gauntlet to all count their biofuel as part of their weight
  
• Remove exchange display from Biolab interface
  
• Added clip spinning animations for the the black wolf revolver
  
• Fix Carbonweave Armor Set bonus name
  
• Hide Great Hunt talent tree, as this content is now distributed throughout the existing talent trees
  
• Updating legendary bow load sound to match updated visuals. Removing sounds from unused events and adding to correct animations
  
• Add 0s for empty ammo to focused item info widget
  
• Added destructible mesh for drone spawner (APEX_MTK_Drone_Spawner) and applied to BP
  
• Fixed skinning issue for Sand armor helmet
  
• Removing pan randomization from Sniper rifle mech layer that was on unintentionally
  
• Fixing issue where prometheus was using the olympus background when viewing the missions
  
• Adding prefix to lab mortar and pestle to avoid confusion
  
• Tagging all lab probs with the decoration tag
  
• Adjustiing quest so the spawning of quarrites outside the cave does not exceed the imposed limit on the spawners
  
• Committing Raw Art File
  
• Retaking Sandworm Arm Attachment Part Photo and reimporting as the mesh has changed
  
• Giving Sand Armor a Name
  
• Adjusting Stats on Ice Mammoth Armor so it now sits at T4
  
• Adjusting Sand Armor Recipe to use Resin instead of Epoxy
  
• Add Quarrite Gear is now gained via mission in the Quarrite Campaign on Olympus
  
• Add Rimetusk Gear is now gained via missions in the Rimetusk Campaign on Prometheus
  
• Prospect File form last commit
  
• Adding Raw Art Files for Ape Mission Images
  
• Updating Ape Mission Images
  
• Adjusting Mission UI so that timers only show up when NOT on open world
  
• Adjusting Mission UI so Upgrades required for the Contact device only should up when on open world
  
• Legendary Weapon Upgrades are now all 20 Biomass
  
• Adjusting Legendary Weapon Names
  
• Capping Rock Golem Dens to only Spawn 1 at a time as these creatures are bear level and not on the same level as wolves
  
• Adding Spawn rules for Quarrite Natural Spawn Population, Max 1 at a time - unless from Burrows
  
• Adding Arctic Survival Armor Images for the Items and Setting up Descriptions and lore Text, Also slightly adjusted weight of the gear
  
• Feature Locked the Dusty miner Armor as it is not ready
  
• Adding Images for Scorpion Rifle based on new parts
  
• Retaking Flamethrower Part Images based on new mesh adjustments
  
• Updating Drill Arrow Image
  
• Adding new Art backgrounds for the mission device
  
• Updated legendary crossbow's loaded idle pose
  
• Updated BOW_Crossbow_Sandworm_Arms_Double
  
• Play Radio audio events attached instead of at a static location so that the sound moves with the player
  
• Achievement 'Crushing it' implementation - Break rocks with a sledgehammer
  
• Added outpost building accolade
  
• Updated scopes for the legendary sniper rifle to have centered UVs for the glass lenses and added trim to the normal map around the lenses
  
• Added Biomass entries to RichText DTs for purchasing 12.7mm rounds
  
• Update meshes of Legendary Rifle
  
• Muzzle FX per barrel upgrade for Legendary Sniper Rifle
  
• Wire new accolade ViewMeteor
  
• Adjusted legendary club heavy attack modifier application to be on hit prior to damage, to prevent using it for a sweep attack
  
• Reduced sweep attack attack speed by 10%
  
• Removed debug sphere drawing from sweep attacks
  
• Adjusting dialogue for mission C_5 to make more sense now that NPCs have been added to it. Removing unnecessary lines. Adjusting dialogue table to match
  
• Elysium - Macro and cliff placement in NW volcanic, red quad
  
• Achievement 'So Comfy, Can't Move' implementation - Sleep with atleast 250 coziness level
  
• Added ability to add a particle to reload effect for legendary sniper
  
• Added new scope lens material for legendary sniper
  
• Wire new accolades Lose80percHealth, Block5000
  
• Updated each of the 4 chassis parts of the legendary flamethrower to remove the back handle from the first person view. Removed the top lava rock section of the 4th chassis
  
• Setting injured NPC audio to loop to ensure that it continues to play
  
• Fix RG Brilliance exotic icon being super large
  
• Reduced Legendary Gauntlet attack speed and damage
  
• Added Arctic armor 3rd and 1st sk meshes, materials and textures. Also updated D_Armour and meshes for Deluxe,Lark and Inaris suit
  
• Increasing length of all rock golem juvi death vocalisations to better match the animation
  
• Achievement 'Professional Chef' implementation - Cook a Meal while wearing the Chefs backpack
  
• Changes to BEAST Scanner VFX to be more directional
  
• Added dog fetch accolade
  
• Updated legendary crossbow reload animation with a pause added at the start to accomodate syncing with the character reload animation
  
• Added 'Time Survived in Outposts' accolade
  
• Added accolades for mount reaching 50 and pet reaching 25
  
• Updated 'Tamed Pet Kill' accolade to only count for pets, not mounts
  
• Fix spelling of Persistent in Flamethrower InjectorB upgrade. Slowed fire rate from 140 to 60 which is taken into account when shooting fire balls/burst. Increased radius of LavaPool aura modifier and make it effect NPCs and deployables. Add radius stat scaling to Burst radial effect. Add light and heat haze VFX to fireball
  
• Updated AnimBP for new sandworm crossbow mesh
  
• Adding sniper rifle silenced fire event to audio firearm data table and adding the silenced stat to the sniper alterations table to allow sniper to play
  
• Fixed Hardened Point upgrade typos
  
• Allowed full C0NT4CT usage inside, as the shelter check was inconsistent
  
• Replaced Mission Type Icons
  
• Wire new accolade KillBearHands
  
• Increasing the audible range of the analyzer so its more clear in the mission when it has turned itself off due to lack of power
  
• Adjusting the ADS on the SW Crossbow so it doesnt blocck the players view. Also small adjustment to items used in mission rolloff distance so its slightly more audible at medium short range
  
• Added new IsAudioSilenced_? stat for use with new fmod param LCL_WEP_SILENCED
  
• Wire new accolade SavedChurch
  
• Added new fire/reload montages for updated sandworm crossbow mesh
  
• Updated sanworm crossbow BP to use new AnimBP
  
• Wire new accolade OrderHorse
  
• Bullet impact balance, dialogue line volume balance pass and increased cave scanner volume slightly as it became a touch too low
  
• Added three new 'Arm' attachments for BOW_Crossbow_Sandworm
  
• Committed Account Flags Table Update
  
• Account Flags now Calculate and Store which Missions grant the Account Flags
  
• Remving Account Flags Descriptions as this is now auto generated and does not need to be manually input
  
• Adding Account Flags for all of the ape rewards and assigning them to missions in the Great Hunt for Unlocks
  
• Adding Consistency to the Mission Device Backgrounds
  
• Doubling Stamina cost of Ape Slam as it is now a heavy damage attack and not a quick weak one
  
• Removing debug spheres from being draw on sweep attacks
  
• Adding Modifier when player uses the Alternate Fire Ape Club attack that increases melee damage bu 200%, it lasts a second then is removed
  
• Adding new Images of Sandworm Crossbow stock parts and reimporting, also assigning new part meshes for the stock so the gun builds correctly
  
• Retaking and importing legendary images for the shop panel
  
• Adding new Images of Sandworm Crossbow based on new Mesh
  
• Swapping out sandworm crossbow core piece with new 4x arms piece
  
• Removing old arms from sandworm crossbow as the attachment is no longer required
  
• Quickly setup basic animBP for sandworm crossbow
  
• Adjusted meshable to use new skeletal mesh for sandworm crossbow
  
• Adjusted Sandworm Crossbow modifier preview
  
• Adding Sniper Rifle Ammo to the Workshop
  
• Adding Assault Rifle Ammo & Bundle to the Workshop (Feature Locked)
  
• Adding Rifle Ammo & Bundle to the Workshop (Feature Locked)
  
• Standardised Ammo Bundles for firearms purchased from the workshop, added new icons and replaced old ones
  
• Updated meshes, textures and animations for Legendary weapon BOW_Crossbow_Sandworm
  
• Taking new Images and Reimporting to account for art changes in the Ape Club Legendary Weapon
  
• Reimporting Bow Images so they have the correct stroke and glow to match the other legendary weapons
  
• Retaking Legendary Sniper Images
  
• Adding Legendary Sniper Parts Images
  
• Adjusting Legendary Sniper Description
  
• Updated SK_ITM_Club_Ape_Core
  
• Wire new accolades OrderCat, OrderChicken, OrderDog
  
• glass shader for props cleanup
  
• Wire new accolades DaisyEscortSuccess, EndAbyss, FirstDropPromStory
  
• Fixed a bug where the button was unclickable due to a tooltip being set incorrectly. Fixed GH Missions not being able to be clicked due to overlapping text
  
• Small position adjustments to the revolver so the left hand while aiming is closer to the actual weapon and not floating in air
  
• Added pet death accolade
  
• Added tamed creature tracker
  
• Added accolade for taming 1 and 10 creatures
  
• Add custom muzzle flash setups for different upgrades on Legendary Sniper Rifle
  
• Updated the legendary sniper textures with added detail
  
• Flamethrower Fireball explosion now scales based off explosive stats (as per frag grenade setup) and deals significantly more damage by default (50->300) in order for fuel cost to be worth it
  
• Sniper Rifle Silencer upgrade Loudness reduction increase to -90%. Base aimed accuracy doubled to 0.05
  
• Fixed Mission Device Operation weird spacing, Changed background to the dark green with a bit of transparency to the screens, Search and mission hovers changed to corners instead of glow, added norex background to world boss menu and great hunt campaign
  
• Elysium - Macro and cliff placement in NW volcanic, red quad
  
• glass shader cleanup for props
  
• Fix glaci den spawner EQS is causing stuttering
  
• Fix AssaultRifle, HuntingRifle and GolemGun being able to be fired before reload animation had completed by moving AnimNotifies to the end of the reload montage
  
• Wire new accolades EatCake, DestroyDrone, AllSixStoryMissionsProm
  
• Setting up the sniper rifle fire standard and fire silenced to play in one event that adjusts based on the LCL_WEP_SILENCED new param
  
• Adding silenced sniper rifle audio close, tail and event setup. Adding to firearm audio data table under a new sniper entry
  
• Fixed Legendary Club hitting the same target multiple times
  
• Adding newly added dialogue lines to specific quests for RG camp
  
• Adding in all rock golem new dialogue lines and events and dialogue data table setups
  
• Refreshed node in BP_PlayerTrackerListener
  
• Added red exotic collection accolade and related tracker
  
• Updated legendary sniper barrel A alteration to use new weapon loudness +% stat
  
• Updated sniper rifle art assets and added variants for the barrel, chamber, scope, and stock
  
• Achievement 'Sic 'em!'. Tamed pet makes a kill implementation. 'On creature killed' delegate switched killing blow variable to be pawn instead of player to allow this. Added isvalid checks in certain missions incase player is null
  
• Exposed WeaponLoudness as a stat that can be modified
  
• Updating the Scorpion Rifle Upgrade Slot Locations and Preview so that the whole gun + upgrades can fit into the preview window
  
• Adding descriptions and flavor to the bow and sniper
  
• Quick adjustment of the legendary bows weight - 1kg was far too light
  
• Adjusting Revolver Stat to inflict vunerable instead of slow so there is more choice in one of the upgrade paths
  
• Adding new User Facing Stats for Vertical and Horizontal Projectile Spread and adding to sandworm crossbow
  
• Adding Sniper Part Names and Descriptions
  
• Adding names and descriptions for the bow upgrades
  
• Adding new Upscaled images for the Sniper and Bow
  
• Fixing preview issue with the sniper as it was showing the bolt action mesh
  
• Adjusting Great Hunts Weapon Button to be able to handle long weapon namesand scale appropriately
  
• Swapping Great Hunts backgrounds based on what hunt the player has selected
  
• Adjusting Line thickness and colour for great hunt connections to increase readability
  
• Fix to Great Hunt Weapon Button so it doesn't start in its 'hovered' state
  
• Adding Images behind the great hunts and a background which swaps based on hunt selected
  
• Adding Weapon Info Images for the Legendary Weapons
  
• Adding missing Raw Art Files
  
• Setting up Sniper BP
  
• Adding Sniper Biolab Customisation Layout
  
• Adjusting Images on the Legend Weapons Shop Items to remove the link to the specific creatures as the currency is now generic, kept the link between the sniper / bow and gauntlet as these are the result of completing the hunts
  
• More Pin Adjustments for the Legenday Bow
  
• Adding Icons for the Legendary Bow and its parts
  
• Setup the Store Layout and Pin Positions for Upgrading
  
• Wire various accolades that are triggered via (quest) dialog events
  
• Added Ice Breaker encounter accolade
  
• Added potential fix for Ice Breaker falling beneath world temporarily while playing montages
  
• Updated MagmaSurge CompactFrame alteration to be a SafetyFrame which gives fire damage resistance. Updated descriptions/names on several upgrades
  
• Fix fuel gauge on Magma Surge flamethrower not rotating after bone reference was changed. Adjusted min/max on basic flamethrower to fit better on the gauge
  
• Added accolade for defeating a enzyme infused creature
  
• Added accolade for dying by fall damage in null sector
  
• Added accolade for surviving 5 hours in null sec
  
• Elysium - Macro placement in NW volcanic, red quad
  
• Added accolade for being revived in null sec
  
• Added accolade for discovering abyss cave
  
• UI Pass on Contact Device, Mission Widget, World Boss Screen, Added Great Hunts Mission Backgrounds, Animation Tweaks
  
• Sniper: Slowed fire rate to 60rpm for multi-round magazine pacing. Add Elemental Damage alteration upgrade. Fixed some random stat description issues
  
• Fix ViewStats cheat not being scrollable due to parent being set to be not hit testable to self and children
  
• Added various null sec location accolades
  
• Add StatsViewer utility widget for filtering down Stats Categories and viewing associated stats
  
• Added various armour-related accolades
  
• Fix glaci dens sometimes spawn too close to buildings
  
• Elysium - Macro placement in NW volcanic, red quad
  
• Fixed D_FirearmScopeData validation
  
• Implemented 'Jelly Baby' achievement
  
• Fixed ensure in AccoladeSubsystem when triggering achievements outside of an active prospect
  
• Added some new scope overlay textures
  
• Achievements P3 - Press F to Pay Respects Implementation - Crushed by ice breaker
  
• Fixed issue with hammerhead slug GH achievement where it wasn't checking for final slug death
  
• Updated Scorpion Boss' creature type to NPC.Scorpion.Boss, and Alpha Wolf's to NPC.Wolf.Alpha
  
• Add player visibility check to some EQS
  
• Ape Fight - Increased throat hitbox to better cover throat when breathing. Reduced jump down from tree attack radius from 4000 to 2000. Fixed anim notify on jump down attack to do damage when landed instead of a second after
  
• Added rocks to stop player from getting to places where ape can not on Ape Arena
  
• Fixed new scope overlay not showing correctly when 'toggle-aim' is enabled
  
• Updating GH & Mission UI based on the concept provided, added a bunch of shared widgets to prevent issues with updating in multiple spots
  
• Added some pregenerated columns in the accounts flags table so we don't need to do lookups at runtime
  
• Weight pass on ClawFire, SlateSmasher, Behemoth, Frostbreaker, Sniper. Reduce Stack size on 12.7mm to 50, doubled mass and update description
  
• Hide Ammo category (instead of saying 'N/A') on Legendary Weapons field guide page if no ammo is used on this weapon
  
• Fix an issue with prebuilt structures missing foundation anchors for some items. Add an editor tool (EUW_Prebuilt_FoundationActors) to help identify and correct this issue for existing assets
  
• Fix an issue with spline actors of prebuilt structures not being cleaned up properly when a quest is abandoned
  
• Ape Fight - Reduced healing from 35% -> 15%. - Changed thrown damage from mostly doing damage via direct impact to doing most of its damage in a radius around it and a minor damage increase if impacts. IM Fight - Pillar slow doesnt work on players if they're on fire
  
• Ape, RG, IM are no longer affected by crouched stealth damage
  
• RG is no longer enemies with its Worm summons
  
• Players can no longer stand on most transparent crystal geodes in RG arena
  
• Small tweak to the sniper rifle specific idle animation for a fraction more screen visibility
  
• Adding legendary bow block audio and blueprint setup
  
• Elysium - macro placement in NW volcanic, red quad
  
• Improved RG's physics asset to better match its mesh and remove any redundant collision
  
• Drill arrows should now more consistently hit the same critical area on each successive damage instance
  
• Potential fix for issue with Rock Golem where armour plate destruction effects were happening more frequently than desired
  
• GH Arenas now apply the buffs of the biomes theyre supposed to be. e.g. Ice Mammoth -> Arctic/Ape -> Swamp/ Rock golem -> Cave
  
• Added missing new delegate to BT_BallisticBehaviour_Base
  
• Flare arrow particle effects and lights now fade out before destruction
  
• Flare arrow's smoke particle now lasts as long as the flare itself
  
• Slightly adjusted location of lights and particles on flare arrow, will prevent some issues where flare's light was completely obstructed by surface it was shot into
  
• Tweak Behemoth modifier duration and stat chances
  
• Adjusted legendary bow stats, removing all placeholders
  
• Separating dialogue lines and removing unnecessary wording to better make sense within GH RG End quest
  
• Clawfire Rifle - removed scope, fixed some normal map errors, added new albedo textures and materials for Stock C and D variants
  
• Updating club power hit, adding low end thump layer and better balancing
  
• Add legendary bow block, adjusted legendary sledgehammer block value
  
• Redoing the ape club heavy right click impact audio to better match the club. adding better equip audio as well
  
• Fixed a few typos
  
• Added in remaining new achievement text
  
• Removing slowed audio from the correct modifier which is actuallly the slow reload modifier
  
• Adjust Behemoth stamina usage for base and single target swings
  
• Removing debuff audio from slow down on sandworm crossbow as it can become annoying while playing and firing regularly
  
• Fix Frostbreaker ammo display / unlink old setups and update Field Guide page
  
• Updating the drill arrow impact audio event to accomodate for the changes in behavior for the drill arrows. Now has a drill moment upon impact no matter what surface and extra flesh impacts
  
• Timing and balance improvements to the legendary bow so the speed of the drawback matches the audio much better
  
• Add Debug Player Movement cheat. Dodgy, will improve later
  
• Sandslinger: Update camshake and recoil to be more representative of weapon size. Update weapon UX/feel to be heavier without heavily impeding movement. Decreased accuracy. Increased range, durability and weight
  
• BehemothClub: Update stats per review discussion
  
• Corrected display text in Stats. Remove normals input from Gas Cloud VFX causing jittering. Added new tweaked version of GasCloud VFX for SandwormCrossbow Miasmic upgrade. Hide unused pins in AmmoController base because unhidden pins show up in search (thx tim). Remove 0.2x scaling on spawn transform for SandwormCrossbow payload and use correct scaling in spawned BP
  
• Removing the drill arrow boolean stat which no longer exists from AI Growth
  
• Adding Legendary Item Icon & Tooltip to quest cards, if it will unlock the weapon
  
• Adding Legendary rewards to account flags for lookup
  
• Adding Account Flag requirement for unlocking legendary items
  
• Granting Account Flags for the legendary items in the final missions of each hunt
  
• Adding boolean to stat afflictions to specify if the attack causing the affliction needs to deal damage to go through
  
• This means you can now scan targets with the Beast Device, trigger EDS ammo and Mark Target without dealing damage
  
• Adjusting Critical Hit Area's to use the armor damage modifier and removing the plus percent modifier from the actor state
  
• Removing Specific Armor Stats and updating Damage Logic so the Items rely on the generic armor related stats to deal additional damage
  
• Giving Pickaxes the implict stat of 500% Armor Damage
  
• Giving Drill Arrows the implicit stat of 200% Armor Damage
  
• Removing Armor from Viscids, Icy Mammoths, Landsharks and Hammerhead Slugs and replaced it with additional health
  
• Updated Launcher meshes for BOW_Crossbow_Sandworm
  
• Add camshake when Mammoth rams ice pillars and destroys them
  
• Fix hunting scope mesh being invisible due to inappropriate opacity texture usage
  
• Visual tweaks and sorting functionality to CharStats utility. Misc tooling updates
  
• Added some additional biome cubemaps
  
• Achievement 'Suited Up' implementation - Drop with a full loadout
  
• More dialogue delay adjustments and spawn percentage chance adjustments to wounded NPC
  
• Fixed a few typos
  
• Updated chamber piece C of the legendary sniper rifle to fit the core piece better
  
• Adjustments to dialogue delay at end of mission where landshark is killed to give a second of breathing space
  
• Removing double up of quest dialogue that played one after the other in outpost rebuild mission
  
• Mission dialogue delay. Also adjusting revolver bullet impact audio for better clarity
  
• Adjusting dialogue intro to remove mention of nova station
  
• Removing unnecessary NPC lines so that the press F can be just one dialogue line and hte subtitles match
  
• Elysium - ledge and cliff placement in NW volcanic, red quad
  
• Cleaned up mission/prospect talent widgets to reduce hitch when opening communication board/mission radio
  
• Applying a very small cooldown to the repair sound to accomodate for multiple items being repaired at once
  
• Added missing Achievement icons
  
• Updated the textures on the top of the mining drill prop to reduce the intensity of the edge wear
  
• Various dialogue adjustments to lines within missions that didnt make sense anymore with notes of things being marked on the map that are no longer. Made other line more generic to not mislead the player
  
• Added cubemap property to D_Atmospheres row. Default cubemap is the same as we've been using previously
  
• Adding new Images for the Sniper Rifle based on new Textures that have been added
  
• Adding Tech Level and mission types to the quarrite missions
  
• Fixing issue where account flags data table was adding multiple entries for the same mission incorrectly
  
• Tidy of Legenday Weapons Buttons in the Shop & Adding proper error text
  
• Adding Restrictions so you can't purchase the Sniper / Bow / Gauntlet if you haven't completed the campaigns
  

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Week 186 brings our new customizable Small Pouch, which comes in Tan as the base colour, but can be crafted into Red, Blue and Green variants using paint at the Mortar & Pestle.

These hold up to six items, helping you have a cleaner and simpler inventory with more storage layers.

We’ve also got some updates on the work going into the Great Hunts missions, which we’re excited to be releasing soon.

• Buffs to Caveworm and Sandworm Javelin Damage
  
• Liquid storage (from portable tanks to waterskins) has significantly reduced weight when not filled
  

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This week we’re adding a new Small Pouch with 4 different colorways so you can mix and match to your stylistic content.

The pouch cames in ‘Tan’ as the base colour, requiring five rope, 20 leather and five iron nails to craft.

From here, it can be upgraded using paints, with Red, Green and Blue variations available.

To craft, you will need one ‘tan' base pouch and five paints in your colour of choice. You can do this at the Mortar & Pestle.

The Small Pouch is unlocked in Tier 2, and crafted at the Textiles Bench. These pouches hold six items and help compartmentalize your inventory. This will help you carry more items, but you’ll still have to monitor your total weight as this is not impacted.

Pouches can store all items except utility slots, other bags and noxious materials.


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A couple of weeks ago, we talked about how we’d internally delayed the launch of Great Hunts, so we could make some improvements to the experience before we released it.

In that time, we’ve done a semi-overhaul of the UI, balanced and tweaked the Boss encounters, improved the combat experience, buffed the mission rewards and added new bases, quest objectives and unique creatures to each different quest.

We’re also completing a lot of bug fixing and testing, with the team playing daily and reporting back on any blocker or even small inconsistency that we can quickly address.

We’ll have new details to share with you soon, so keep your eyes on our update posts and ask questions of us in Discord also.


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Next week, we’re adding a range of ‘Prometheus Effects’ to elemental weapons from the Orbital Workshop that released with New Frontiers.

These are effectively ‘buffs’ or ‘perks’ that are logic and lore relevant, for example:

• Fire damage workshop gear will gain a chance to smelt or cook instantly
  
• Frost damage workshop gear will gain a chance for frozen ore, frosted wood or chilled food
  
• Poison damage workshop gear will gain an opportunity to gain Noxious Crusts, Acidic Glands or Infected Bark
  

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

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• Unlocking Pouches for Weekly Patch
  
• Fix Generic Pouches allowing other pouches/bags inside them
  

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• Fixed Heavy Obsidian Armor unlock being called Heavy Chest Armor
  

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[h3]Future Content[/h3]
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• Small improvements and adjustments to sniper rifle impact bullet. Adjustment to delay on hit indicator audio to feel more snappy and less laggy
  
• ApeClub: Add Sweeping attack setup to base weapon (left click) attack. Add capsule for sweeping setup. Updated upgrade stats as per document
  
• Adding uinque sniper rifle impact audio event and ballistic data table setup
  
• Reword RG_C NPC descriptions
  
• small ADS adjustments and position adjustments to sandworm crossbow so it points to the correct position when aiming
  
• Replace consumables within RG_C base. Fix typo in Wedge description
  
• Resaved Damage Ship widget to ensure proper translatable text linking
  
• Adding additional wounded NPC breathing audio in to account for increased use of NPCs
  
• Fixed missing Salvage text string in damaged ship interface
  
• Fix interact for stasis bag to be able to pickup new NPCs with left click
  
• Added base setup for legendary sniper and bow alteration stats
  
• Small dialogue timing pass
  
• Updating dialogue to have ccorrect end of mission line
  
• Clawfire: Reduce recoil, new CamShake setup, added MuzzleSocket as a MeshSocket and repositioned to suit shorter barrel
  
• Turn off drill arrow damage for Ice Slug spawners
  
• Adjusting the priority of the dialogue so that GH dialogue plays over intro line
  
• Shortening the bullet in sound for the legendary sniper rifle to better match the animations
  
• Updated LODs on legendary bow arms and handles
  
• Fixing ads on sniper rifle not quite lining up again
  
• RG_C - Adjust Quest Objective Preview & Adding Keybinds to Quest objectives for Map
  
• RG_C - Adding 2nd Half of RG_C where players have to Stabalise, Revive and Extract 2 NPC's
  
• RG_C - Adding Natural Spawn Blocker to the Area so we can control the spawns via the quest
  
• RG_C - Added ability to apply custom damage to NPC's that require stabilization in missions
  
• RG_C - Adding new Quest Steps so there is quarrite burrows at the Outpost Location
  
• RG_C - Removing map marker and using Grid Coords instead
  
• RG_C - Adjusting Worm Spawn location to use closest player instead of middle of the arena (with a max distance)
  
• RG_C - Adding new quest steps to close burrows and take out caveworms before the Landhark appears
  
• RG_C - Buffed Landshark stats for RG_C now similar to RG_E
  
• RG_C - Added new Logic so if the worms are too far from the player they are cleaned up and new ones spawn
  
• RG_C - Adding new Quest Markers & Gameplay Tags for Burrow Locations
  
• RG_C - Adjusting mining platform so there is a few pathways to climb up when in the water
  
• RG_E - Fixing issue with quest step where it was not granting the session flag to allow crafting of the Stasis Bags
  
• Adding new stat to stop projectile tool type inheritence where required
  
• Fixed issue where the sandworm crossbow was inheriting rifle stats because of its incorrect tool type instead of bow/crossbow stats OR Spear stats. It now correctly just uses bow/crossbow stat scaling
  
• Adding Sniper Rifle Ammo Type and Item Setup
  
• Updated UMG_BinocularsOverlay to use a material-based overlay for better resolution scaling support
  
• wip on creature eye shader improvement
  
• Added legendary recurve bow assets to the living weapon, living weapon upgrades, and meshable data tables
  
• Volume balance pass on various GH UI sounds to avoid some from being too loud
  
• Updated naming of the legendary recurve bow core piece
  
• RG_F: Rehook up first half of quest that was unhooked for testing
  
• Fixed DT validation
  
• Adjusted Frostbreaker stats and renamed part names to be representitive
  
• Revolver: Reduced HandleC damage buff from 30 to 25%.
  
• Removed ItemWear and Reload stats from ChamberA/B/C.
  
• ChamberA now hits much harder and has a high chance of slowing.
  
• ChamberC now fires much faster and has a chance to cause burn.
  
• ChamberB is a safe middleground. All fairly even in terms of DPS
  
• Added art assets for the legendary recurve bow
  
• IM Fight - Reduced IM head crit hitbox size as it was far too easy to hit
  
• Firearm scopes are now enabled using FirearmScopeType_Enum stat, which should directly map to D_FirearmScopeData index
  
• FirearmScopeData rows now additionally control ADS time, target FOV, ADS offset in first-person
  
• IM Fight - Added a health threshold that the IM will return to refresh his armor (currently 66% and 40% hp)
  
• Added BEAST Scanner Device VFX
  
• Reapplying position ADS offset and grip for sniper rifle with SK that was missing and stopped previous adjustment from working
  
• Removing reference to Norex station from RG D2_7 audio event to avoid any confusion
  
• Change all Throwable Spears to use BaseCriticalDamage instead of the Spear-specific stat in order for this to propagate to Sandslinger crossbow.
  
• Remove -50% crit damage as it destroys DPS in comparison to throwing it by hand
  
• Enabled scopes in D_GameplayConfig for GH weapons that support it
  
• Add resource widget (such as on Blueprint unlocks) translatable text
  
• Fixed issue in RG_E, C, B where LandShark was being spawned at incorrect scale, preventing from dealing damage during it's dive attack
  
• Update Olympus translatable text in terrain selection
  
• Adding audio blueprint logic that was somehow missing for legendary block that was legendarily blocking the audio from playing
  
• Add translatable text for the Min in crafting windows
  
• Adjusting dialogue delay at the end of the mission to wait for 3 seconds for better result. Various UI balances
  
• Update C0NT4CT device header text to be translatable
  
• Fix ClawFire being able to be fired before reload had completed by moving animNotify to the end
  
• Added 100% break chance to Quarrite gun projectiles, to ensure stone isn't added to carcasses
  
• Returned ape to it's higher health level now that the 60s of 80% projectile damage reduction has been removed from boss
  
• Fix quarrite burrows taking damage from things they shouldn't
  
• Added text for NullSec achievements
  
• Fixed bug where Killer Throw talent worked on boss/epic creatures
  
• Updated Killer Throw talent description to show that it requires a stealth attack (behaviour hasn't changed, this just wasn't previously communicated anywhere
  
• Adjusting ADS offset for sniper rifle so it looks in the middle of the scope. Fine tunes to the grip socket so the hand touches the gun.
  
• Adjustment to UI ducking to not be as dramatic for purchasing legendary weapon
  
• Adding position adjusted animations for potential use for sniper rifle and crossbow sandworm
  
• Fixing Ensure - It was backwards in terms of triggering
  
• RG_F - Quick Second Half of RG_F where you follow the quarrite tunnels and close them then fight some epic creatures at the end
  
• RG_F - Adjusting QM to get the Burrows Spawning in the Correct Locations
  
• RG_F - Committing First Half of new quest - players now have to find and scan golems with a BEAST then track tunnels with an ECHO device
  
• RG_F - Adding new QM for marking out locations
  
• RG_E - Adding Hint Text to inform that some caves may have been resealed
  
• Replace RG_Gauntlet durability increase to be reduced wear instead
  
• Landmine - Added isvalid checks to ensure the landmine isnt trying to set non existant dynamic materials
  
• Repaired some missing sections of navmesh inside RG arena
  
• RG per-player health/armour bonus on hard difficulty increased from 33% -> 50%
  
• RG now teleports to blocker wall in edge case where it gets stuck during pathing
  
• RG JumpAround behaviour now has damage source come from centre of NPC
  
• Slightly increased RG melee damage bonus on hard difficulty from 15% -> 20%
  
• RG Ceiling Rocks no longer affect navigation
  
• Updated RotateToFaceBBEntry BTTask to support 2D direction vectors if desired
  
• Fixed bug where RockGolem Rock payload wasn't cleaning itself up
  
• MoveToVectorAdvanced behaviour can now optionally move agent to nearest patch of navmesh before beginning move operation
  
• Fixed bug in BTS_SweepBoneDamage where SelfActor BT key was getting overridden
  
• Update RG_Gauntlet to use biofuel and updated all upgrades
  
• Added Rocks to block player snipe ape on Ape Arena
  
• IM Fight - Fixed bug where pillars wouldnt be removed from the pillar array when destroyed from collision and timeout
  
• Updated legendary bow handle A mesh and textures with corrected normals
  
• RG_C - Reduced Worm Spawn Frequency from 30s -> 40s Base
  
• RG_C - Reduced Max Worm count at anyone time based on scaling from difficulty and player number
  
• RG_C - Increased time it takes for worms to move 5s -> 10s
  
• RG_HUNT - Adjusting Objective Description to match the bosses name
  
• Adding an AI setup for the Rock Golem Juvenile Arctic so it differs from the base
  
• Adjusting the Rock Golem Juveniles Loot so that the variations add the specific ores and the base is more plain, also gave them soft meat as a 100% drop
  
• Preparing Materials for the Arctic Element Armor Variations
  
• Adding Rock Golem Juvenile Arctic Variation Textures for Bones and Carcass and Implementing on the Corpse
  
• RG_C2 - Adding additional Natural Spawn Blockers around the quest area's where the quarrite burrows are
  
• RG_C2 - Adding new Quest Steps to Build a Simple T3 Base and Craft some Basic Equipment before hunting down the quarrites
  
• RG_C2 - Adding new quest base to pull item name from itemable rather than always specifying it within quests
  
• RG_C2 - Adjusting Landing Location of the Droppod so it doesn't land in the base you just built
  
• RG_C2 - Incorperating existing dialogue for first finding the quarrites and then updates when skinning and collecting vestiges
  
• RG_C2 - Adding new Map Icons for the Quests
  
• RG_C2 - Adding Natural Spawn Blockers to Areas surrounding base outpost and Quarrite Burrow Locations
  
• RG_C2 - Removed Collection of Basic Vestige
  
• RG_C2 - Adjusting Faction Mission DT to show Previews of the Quest Correctly
  
• RG_C2 - Changed up flow to give more context and change dialogue triggers to allow for dynamic collection
  
• RG_C2 - Adjusted Map Markers, Tags and Trigger steps to allow for better quest objective locations
  
• Feature Locking New GH Accoldes / Achievements
  
• Adding Helper Functions of Quest Object Cleanup so you can specify lifespan so you don't need to call the 2 other functions
  
• IM Fight - Removed random pillar spawning.
  
• Added EQS based Pillar spawning (1 under player, 9 in area around player, and 10 max.)
  
• Boss can now walk through pillars to prevent him from not being able to go into caves and for players being able to destroy pillars.
  
• Added a lifespan to the pillars so after 5 mins they'll destroy
  
• Repositioned damage source location for RG jump attack
  
• Fixed issue where RG's jump attack BT task wasn't receiving the additional stats given to it
  
• re-organized files for creature eye shader
  
• Added cheat to update prospect difficulty at runtime
  
• Reduced drill arrow damage from 85->25, but now it deals an additional 3 instances of damage over time after hitting target
  
• Drill arrows are no longer affected by armour that causes projectile ricochet
  
• RG boss fight worm spawns are now affected by prospect difficulty
  
• Slightly increased base health/armour of RG based on difficulty level
  
• RG melee damage now scales based on difficulty level
  
• Added new attack in final phase of RG fight
  
• Potential fix for rare issue with RG fight where boss won't emerge after burrowing
  
• Various small timing tweaks to RG boss fight
  
• Adding sniper crack blend layer to give more mid range aggression. Currently blended in - may adjust and fine tune
  
• Adding legendary bow reload, draw, fire, shaft, stick events and data table setups. Added possible animation for holding the bow slightly further away for better visibility
  
• Adding new Chance to deal double damage stat
  
• Adding New Endurance Modifier & Stats for one of the ape club modifiers
  
• Naming Legendary Club Parts
  
• Adjusting legendary Club so the alternate attack is given by default and the 4th upgrade now provide bonuses which apply to all attacks
  
• Adjsuting Stat name to not mention lava pools but instead mention setting the ground on fire
  
• Adding Names for Crossbow Alterations
  
• Removing Summon Sandworm Stat and Replacing with Damage and Projectile Speed
  
• Fixing issue where only one affliction stat should be shown on the upgrade tooltip (fixes issue where bleed and wound where both not being shown at the same time)
  
• Revolver Upgrade Name Pass
  
• Removing Outcome Text from GH interface as it now just uses World Stats and Flag Descriptions (this was changed a few weeks ago and the data not removed)
  
• Adding DT for Stasis bags so we don't need to keep 2 maps up to date in different locations
  
• Adding new Arctic Rock Golem Texture Variations for the Elemental Infusions
  
• GH_RG - Updating Outcomes of RG Great Hunts to balance out the tree
  
• GH_RG - Adding Rock Golem World Stat Outcome for Landsharks appearing in large caves
  
• GH_RG - Setting up new Cave Creature Landshark for it appearing in caves
  
• RG_O2 - Adding specific spawning and hints to player as to where the spawning is happenning
  
• RG_O2 - Adding a bit more context as to why you are doing what you are doing
  
• RG_O1 - Adding new Creature Subsystem Notify for creature armor breaking
  
• RG_O1 - Adding Specific Den Spawn Locations for the quest and letting the player know via objectives
  
• RG_O1 - Adding new Objectives to give he quest more context, such as aquiring a vestige, more context on what needs to be built and using arrows specific remove armor
  
• RG_A - Replaced Map Icon with Grid Coords in Objective
  
• RG_A - Removed Scarecrow as it was adding a search area to the map which was not intended revealing the base location
  
• RG_A - Adding a Map Marker when players find the base
  
• RG_A - Capping Max rock Golems in Area to 1 - Making an epic creature with no new stats - will help players learn about the creature rather than be overwhelmed mission 1
  
• RG_A - Capped Number of Extra Spawns - even with multiplayer spawning - now has a 120 second delay before attempting to spawn an additional
  
• RG_D - Adjusting the Condensed Extotic Dropped Mesh to be the same as the back, and applying a map icon when the object is dropped
  
• RG_D - Removed the Cleanup timer from the Condensed Exotic when dropped
  
• RG_D - Fixing Quest Description that was not ticking off correctly making it look bugged
  
• Fix projectiles for fireball/slug launcher not visible when terrain deformation is on, also re-added color variation for slug launcher ammo types
  
• Ape Fight - Increased healing from 4% to 35% as he seemed to only heal once in the fight
  
• Reduced legendary bow base arrow speed, increase rate of fire on fire rate upgrade, reduced arrow speed slightly and added projectile damage to arrow speed upgrade
  
• Frostbreaker fix stamina consumption for base attack. Adjust stats on weights to reduce freeze, increase shattering rewards and reduce stamina consumption. Remove stamina consumption bonus from mining upgrade
  
• Reduce Behemoth damage variation to 10% from 20%
  
• Update Noxious Cloud upgrade to show modifier for attack chance
  
• IM Fight - Pillars now have a little spike that is in the ground on spawn that shows there is a pillar there and raised the niagara effects to give better visibility. Removed the ability for pillars to hurt/knock back the boss on spawn (being destroyed instead)
  
• RG_Gauntlet significantly increased durability, reduced fuel use and fuel capacity.
  
• Added mining rewards and tweaked damage and attack speed
  
• Add blinking Red/Green nav lights to Drone.
  
• Add DF shadow setup for DroneSpawner.
  
• Add supporting light and toggle on/off material states.
  
• Lights will go out when no more drones are queued to spawn.
  
• Remove bespoke highlight setup that isn't needed
  
• Buff Sandworm Javelin damage and crit damage
  
• Buff Caveworm crit damage
  
• Fixed bug where CF_MED_002 cave was spawning caveworms at the wrong scale
  

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This week, we’re completing part two of revising mission rewards by improving the baseline stats of the items you receive when completing some of the original mission chains.

These include Sandworm, Scorpion, Black Wolf and Caveworm Armor, weapons and tools.

We’ve also got a few new Great Hunts freebies from our Art team for you to download and use.


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This week, we’re making substantial improvements to a range of mission rewards, specifically the gear you earn for a few missions that have been around since the early days of Icarus.

Through the course of 185 weeks of updates and expansions, new gear has scaled in all applicable categories to leave a lot of the original gear lagging behind and being unviable for use outside of display only.

This, realistically, doesn’t make completing these mission chains very rewarding, something that we wanted to address so that all the in-game content feels enjoyable and worth your investment.

The gear updates are as follows:

[h3]Caveworm Gear[/h3]

• Knife Durability 2500 → 7500
  
• Spear Durability 5000 → 8000
  
• Spear Crit Damage 10 → 15%
  
• Arrow Crit Damage 10 → 15%
  

Caveworm Gear has received buffs for the Knife, Spear and Arrows. Knife Durability has the most significant improvement, tripling to 7500, making it viable as a multi-purpose tool that won’t wear out as quickly.

[h3]Sandworm Gear[/h3]

• T2 → T3
  
• Knife Damage 65 → 75
  
• Knife Yield 175 → 225%
  
• Knife Durability 5000 → 22000
  
• Spear Damage 60 → 75
  
• Spear Durability 15000 → 25000
  
• Spear Crit Damage 10 → 25%
  
• Bow Damage 50 → 75%
  
• Bow Durability 8500 → 15000
  
• Arrow Damage 60 → 85
  
• Arrow Break Chance 20 → 15%
  
• Arrow Crit Damage 10 → 20%
  

Sandworm Gear was one of the biggest culprits of being severely underpowered for the time investment required to collect it. As such, damage, durability, yield and more have been buffed fo the Knife, Spear, Bow and Arrows.

[h3]Blackwolf Gear[/h3]

• T2 → T3
  
• Knife Damage 55 → 70
  
• Knife Yield 175 → 225%
  
• Knife Durability 2500 → 22000
  
• Arrow Damage 20 → 75
  
• Arrow Break Chance 90 → 15%
  

The Blackwolf Knife was in need of a large durability boost, and it got it. We’ve given it an 8.8x boost to 22,000 durability, and a small increase to damage and yield also. Blackwolf Arrows have also received a massive buff. Damage has increased 3.75x and break chance has decreased 75% from 90% to 15%.

[h3]Sandworm and Scorpion Armor[/h3]

• T2 → T3
  
• Minor resistance increases across the board
  
• No longer use fiber
  
• Sandworm armor uses bone instead
  
• Scorpion armor uses cured leather instead
  
• Sandworm armor added 20% poison resist to base armor and 25% health regeneration in the desert to armor set
  

Sandworm and Scorpion Armor have received improvements, but also some recipe changes to make them more in-line with higher tier armor sets.

Neither set will use fiber in the recipe anymore, replaced by bone for the Sandworm Armor and Cured Leather for the Scorpion Armor.


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In the lead up to Great Hunts, we wanted to share some of the amazing work coming out from the team, in a slightly different style than we’ve done before.

We’ve grabbed three high-resolution concept art pieces from our Art Director and formatted them for desktop screensavers, so you can download them and get excited for the expansion alongside us.

If you’d like to see more of this from us in the future, let us know in the comments.

Click here to download the wallpapers


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Next week, we’re adding three new variations of our small pouches, in Red, Green and Blue.

These can be crafted at Tier 2, hold six items, and will effectively reduce the amount of inventory space your resources take up.


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https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/40692/Icarus_Pets_Bundle/

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/35727/Icarus_Complete_the_Set/
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[h3]New Content[/h3]
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• Buffed many Scorpion, Sandworm and Blackwolf crafted items while shifting to T3. Increased damage, yield and durability on knives and spears. Increased damage of arrows, while reducing break chance (notably Blackwolf arrows now do high damage and have 15% break instead of 90%)
  
• Buffed Caveworm gear slightly, this is still easily accessible but now mainly has a lot more durability so will be more comfortable to use
  
• Adjusted Scorpion and Sandworm armor set crafting costs to use advanced leather and bone respectively, and increased their resistances across the board
  
• Sandworm armor now grants additional poison resistance baseline, plus desert health regeneration
  

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[h3]Fixed[/h3]
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• Swapped cave entrance in OLY, K5 (green quad) so it is open by default
  
• Updated meshes and textures for the baby deer, including the carcass, along with updating the textures to be consistent
  
• Volume balance pass on the large landshark to make it not as intrusively loud within missions
  
• More subtlety to the cave scanner audio to stop it from becoming annoying when beeping fast when a cave is found
  
• BROKEN ARROW: Fix out of range message being untranslatable
  
• Fixed issue with Blueprint Tree tooltip hovering where 'Default Recipes' list wasn't being cleared properly between different Blueprints
  
• Tag Water Barrel as Fillable.Water to use dynamic water weight adjustment
  

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[h3]Future Content[/h3]
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• Removing idle audio drill audio that was stop starting for unknown reasons. Adjusting distance of drill spin so its not too audible at longer range. changing behavior from float to bool
  
• Grenades and Drill Arrows now Deal Damage to AI Spawners
  
• RG_D - Fixing mission Objectives shown in Mission Preview
  
• RG_D - Adding a prebuilt cave to the mission & Shifted mission markers and spawn locations of quest elements
  
• RG_D - Adjusting Bosses spawn logic so they spawn and charge the player when the player is close
  
• RG_D - Adjusting wording of objective so its clear you have to pickaxe you way into a cave if required
  
• RG_D - Adjusting name of 'Unearthed Exotic Shard' -> 'Exotic Shard' we didn't need that much of a descriptive name
  
• RG_D - Changing First Travel Location as it was far to large and didn't feel quite right when approaching the area
  
• RG_D - Adding basic lights to the Exotic Cluster so it glows slightly in the cave
  
• RG_D - Reworking Mission Objectives to provide more context and reason, did a pass on mission objective wording and adjusted preview objectives
  
• RG_D - Adding A Scan Objective to Located the Exotic Deposit
  
• RG_D - Adding Secure Objectives which involves fighting an epic Quarrite and closing associated Dens within an area
  
• RG_D - Shifted the Exotics Location to be within a cave as it felt better then being out in the open
  
• RG_D - Adding Bindable function to Radars to signify when the quest is finished
  
• RG_D - Adding new Epic Creature and map marker required for the quest
  
• RG_D - Adding new map markers and spawn locations as required
  
• RG_A - Renaming Quest Marker so it can easily be identified
  
• RG_B - Adding Cave Spawn Blockers to the 3 Caves so that players only enounter Quest Spawned Creatures and not Natural Spawns
  
• RG_B - Fixing Descriptions for 2 objectives which can overcount the required amount of caveworms that need to be killed
  
• Adding new Mission Deployable the can be spawned to block AI spawning in caves and the surrounding area if needed
  
• IM Fight - Removed 'can affect navigation' from ice projectiles and it only gets applied on the pillar as it reaches its highest point
  
• If obstructed the IM will now do 1 stomp, if its still obstructed it will charge and destroy everything infront of it. (to prevent building/hedgehog cheese)
  
• Adjustment to legendary flamethrower and slug gun idle height to enable the player to see more of the weapon when holding in hands. For review
  
• Enzyme propagation hub - Added destructible mesh for T4_Communication_Device, applied to BP_Enzyme_Disperser_Hub
  
• Fix currency exchange widget not coloring red exotics correctly
  
• Updated Legendary Licence exotic exchange to a purchase licence button
  
• IM Fight - Changed 'move to' node to a node that doesnt use navmesh and just walks in a straight line to its intended position to get around nav bugs on spawn. Also removed 'can affect navigation' on a few more missing icicles in the IM cave to prevent boss getting stuck
  
• Statify Drill Arrow armor weakness (attacker and defender)
  
• IM Fight - Added further debugging to discover why sometimes the mammoth wont go to its intro location
  
• Adjust attachments to show afflictions/modifiers when they're applied. Show max stacks of each debuff, if higher than 1
  
• IM Fight - Changed tusks from 'crit_none' to 'none' and removed the last change with floating point numbers changing the colour of 'crit none'
  
• Add some more GC/lifecycle bullet proofing around async voxel tasks
  
• Adding more subtleties to the drill arrows. Aiming is now slightly reduced spin volume, impact is slightly lower in volume when up close to impact
  
• Drill arrows now damage Quarrite burrows
  
• '- Fixed ensure-spam with UMG_Talent_GreatHunt that could cause editor to lock up when local player hadn't properly initialised after hosting a game
  
• Slight balance to bolt close audio for sniper. To be adjusted as the mesh changes and is updated
  
• Adding v2 of sniper rifle direct close sound with more focus on center image, slightly less distance between thump and crack and slight increase in tail volume
  
• Added remaining APEX destructible meshes for curved and diagonal Glass BLDs
  
• Added Spider/Web FXs (buildup, release, projectile, hit, decending strand and snare)
  
• Various improvements to cave worm world spawner actor
  
• Dones now correctly grant experience on death
  
• Drones no longer instantly attack target until hurt, or close enough to target
  
• Drones can now be hidden from without being attacked if player runs during it's 'investigating' state
  
• Drones will now attack target during movement if LoS exists
  
• Drones should no longer swap back and forward between 'idle' and 'investigating' states during combat
  
• Fixing landshark not playing death vocals in cave mission due to cave context param. Adjustements and fine tunes to NPC volumes and distances
  
• Added various APEX destructible meshes for curved and diagonal Glass BLDs
  
• Removed 'Night' related stats, now all the time. Removed Wolf Summoning stats, chambers now reflect magazine size with subtle differences in wear and chance to slow. Decreased Elemental multiplier from 75% to 25%. Reduced Barrel_A Crit multi from 25% to 15%. Reduced Barrel_B Bleed/Wound chance from 100 to 33%. Reduced Barrel_C Immobilize chance from 25% to 15%
  
• Removing dialogue from within mission BPQ which was repeating a RG line twice unnecessarily now that two events have become one
  
• Fixed arrow drill FX artifacts
  
• Corrected Water/Biofuel quest steps in RG_D2 to point to correct BPs
  
• Corrected spelling of Access on Interaction text
  
• Update licence purchase button to show the ren cost
  
• Small tweaks to thumper audio balance
  
• Move NPC DPS test logic to ActorComponent. Bind to correct DamagePacket event from ActorState. Tidy up GOAP Char event graph
  
• Clean up unused duplicated content for Flamethrower Fireball. Add SpawnPerUnit for smoke trail for projectile as it moves quickly and the puffs became disconnected
  
• Adding mini thumper anim BP so I can add mini thumper audio. Swapping thumper anim bp in mini thumper BP. Updating legendary sledge equip audio. Landshark audio volume adjustment and fine tunes
  
• Added big dusty FX for BP_Ape_Spawners
  
• Disabled block-all collision on legenday flamethrower alt fire projectile
  
• Added various APEX destructible meshes for curved and diagonal Glass BLDs
  
• Adding unique equip audio for legendary sledge hammer. Event and animation duplicates and data table setup. Setting up mini thumper event
  
• Drone should now face it's target when moving around
  
• Drone can no longer be stealth-attacked
  
• Drone will now prevent player from being 'stealthed' when crouched if they're currently targeted
  
• Reverted drone light colours back to what they were previously
  
• Added a particle light flare at the source of drone's spotlights
  
• Drone will try to keep at least a certain distance away from current target
  
• Drone will now attempt to reposition itself if target moves behind cover
  
• Drone will no longer continually shoot through walls and other obstructions
  
• Fixed positioning of drone's muzzle fire particle
  
• Update enzyme hub highlight and tooltip location
  
• Adding new events for cave wounded NPC so each has a unique voice and does not have any chance of saying the same things. Updating spacializers to feel better within a quiet cave. Pitch variations etc
  
• Tweaked the weight painting further around the jowel sac on the Ape Boss to reduce texture stretching, this time focussing on the area directly under the mouth
  
• Slight reduction in ricochet volume to account for arrows impacts
  
• Stopping audio event of drill flying sound when ballistic has reached 0 speed to prevent the audio continuously playing when the arrow ricochets
  
• RG_E - Updating Faction Missions Objective Preview
  
• RG_E - Adding New Objectives so the player has to explore 2 new caves, one requires players to save 2 dying miners and face a landshark the other requires players to close 2 quarrite burrows and eliminate an elite enemy
  
• RG_E - Adding new map markers and items are required for the mission
  
• RG_D2 - Missing Files from last commit
  
• RG_D2 - Adding Mini Thumper Blueprint, Recipe and Item as a Reward
  
• RG_D2 - Adding new Mission Steps to deploy and activate a mini thumper to take out the creature that destroyed the outpost in the first place
  
• RG_D2 - Adding new Epic Creature so the Landshark has additional stats and an increased difficulty
  
• RG_D2 - Added some extra materials to the base to help players build
  
• RG_D2 - Replaced Concrete Furnace with new one so it works with the quest
  
• RG_D2 - Adjusted Quest wording to mention low T4 Base
  
• RG_D2 - Fixing Issue where the Biofuel and Water Storage Units where not being counted as part of the rebuilding storage sub-quest
  
• RG_D2 - Fixing Issue where Crop Plots incorrectly required shelter
  
• RG_D2 - Fixing Issue where Biofuel Composter incorrectly required shelter
  
• RG_D2 - Fixing issue where 3 water containers where needed instead of 1
  
• RG_D2 - Adjusting Destroyed Prebuilt base as the contents where auto completing some elements when it shouldn't have been
  
• RG_D - Upping the number of required crop plots and beds so it wasn't just 1 - we are establishing a mining base
  
• Fixing Sandworm Building Pieces from being unlocked in the incorrect order on the tech tree
  
• Add DPS testing logic (gated, disabled) into Base NPC class
  
• Fixing the constant drill spinning audio by removing it from the animation and adding it into the drill arrow BP
  
• Grounding pass on Magma Surge: Renaming parts, shifting lava pool and damage bonus, improved tooltips
  
• Tweaked the weight painting around the jowel sac on the Ape Boss to reduce texture stretching
  
• New static and destructible mesh for Enzyme propagation hub, updated BP and preview mesh in D_DeployableSetup
  
• Adjusting dialogue that mentions final hunt but you are only halfway through the mission chain. small adjustments and balances to in mission sandworm so the volume isnt too loud in the world
  
• Cleaned up weight painting for Ape Juvenile
  
• Infant ape ducking adjustments to make sure the breath turns down enough when its whimpering
  
• Adjust exotic delivery interface to not block hotbar (as this is usable UI in this window)
  
• Removed fillable from Clawfire, as it is not be used
  
• Biolab UI - Selecting an item->scrolling away->selecting another item->scrolling back now properly unhighlights the original item
  
• Rework stats on Clawfire: Multishot replaced by marked target, electricity tier replaced by elemental infusions
  
• Increased Bloodmoon Pistol reload time from 2.2s to 3.75. Added unique camshake with more punch. Improved readability of FirearmData DT validation. Fixed HuntingRifle skeleton preview mesh not being the hunting rifle. Add merged SM version of base Revolver for visualization purposes
  
• Removing dialogue C2 from BPQ quest and combining c1 and c2 into one event that already plays from within the quests data table. updating dialogue text
  
• Fix pilot lights on both Flamethrowers. Allowed for inheritance and socketing on different skeletons. Updated VFX slightly
  
• IM Boss - Moved boss spawn point closer to the enterance of the waterfall. Removed his roar inside the cave incase that was messing with his pathing. Added a failsafe that if the 'walk in a direction' fails he will look in the direction and charge to get himself out of the waterfall
  
• Adding softer GH generic UI interface click to help smoothen some transitions. Reducing max instances of rivers by 1 and subtle volume pass to sniper reload to make some layers a touch more subtle
  
• Add Mesh Socket for Scorpion Rifle 3rd Person Grip
  
• Updating the drone audio to play the spot audio from the BP rather than the ai audio setup so that I can apply cooldowns to them in a way that doesnt break the vocal system
  
• Reverting recent talent changes to wood->sticks/leather->rope talents that made it so you didnt have to unlock them via blueprint tree
  
• Fixing armor stand audio being set to 2d and being heard from any distance
  
• Sniper audio handling adjustments and fine tunes. Sniper fire balance
  
• Applying directional filtering and volume adjustments for the two downed npcs in the mission E cave. This helps avoid the player hearing too much groaning when in between the two NPCs
  
• Elysium - more testing of volcanic/swamp biome combination on ArtTest map
  
• Fixed bug where two talents to turn leather->rope and wood->sticks wouldnt do anything
  
• Adding potential bow sounds to the FMOD session for legendary bow. A few volume balance adjustments to prep for bow progress
  
• Fix an issue refreshing RVT's for a edge case where clients are stopped from entering an instanced level
  
• Adding unique sniper rifle bullet load audio. Slowing down all reloading animation audio to attempt to match the slowed down time. Balanced as close as I could
  
• Generic reduced crafting cost - Added 'BaseCraftingCost_+%' that will check the player and deployable to reduce overall costs of a recipe based on stats. Added 5-10% reduced crafting costs on WaterConnection / 2x modifier as per ticket
  
• Make the 'bad pak file' message more meaingful
  
• Fix an issue with in flight sound sometimes sticking for drill arrows
  
• Elysium - exploring volcanic/swamp biome combination on ArtTest map
  
• Updated firearm data table to reduce the speed of the legendary sniper reload animation by half and added the HasSingleScope stat
  
• Quick fix for RG Mission E to stop the pod from flying back to space after deploying biofuel and water leaving that part of the mission in an incomplete state
  
• Add fallback case capturing ActionableBehavior_Base which Flamethrower inherits directly from (not a Firearm) for Char 3rd person AnimBP so that offhand IK can be setup. Fixed equip montage for Flamethrower not having MetaData setup. Fixed missing IK curve track on Flamethrower Idle anims. Fixed Pilot light socket rotation
  
• Add Great Hunts device to Contact Device Field Guide set page
  
• Ape Fight - Reduced difficulty hp scaling by about 20%
  
• Adding Arctic Version of the Rock Golem Juvenile which spawns from Arctic Rock Golem Dens
  
• RG_B - Adjusting Objectives to Mention Grid Coords and added Tag to Grid Locations
  
• RG_E - Adjusting Objectives to Mention Grid Coords and added Tag to Grid Locations
  
• RG_E - Removing Code which Sends Retrieval pod up to orbit when completing an unrelated objective
  
• Converting Check to Ensure as it didn't warrent crashing the game in development when we can catch the bug when generating harvested rewards
  
• Resaving ItemStatic DT
  
• Items that can be filled with water or biofuel now take the number of stored units into their weight calculation, with this both the large portable tanks (water & biofuel) have had their weight reduced down to 5kg, when full with water they will be 155kg. Items effected are jerry cans, portable tanks, canteens, bladders etc
  
• Fixing Small Pouches so they now have weight when things are placed inside
  
• Juvenile apes that are buffed with gas cloud now have a particle effect attached to them to make it more obvious they're buffed
  
• Fixed bug where ape gas cloud buff was incorrectly being applied to Garganutan ape (instead of just juveniles like was intended)
  
• Tweaked lifetime of ape gas cloud particle system that should gracefully deactivate it before actor is destroyed
  
• Adding more unique purchased sound when buying a legendary weapon from biolab
  
• Nerf extra damage and wound chance for enraged GreatApe
  
• Updated legendary sniper rifle models and textures with the new design. Polish pass still needed
  
• Further nerf GreatApe health for single players only
  
• Add some more GC/pending kill checks around forced anim pose updates when projectiles are fired at GOAP
  
• Fix description on Verbose Damage Logging cheat to specify its player-only damage
  
• Fixed a number of typos
  
• GreatApe: Remove regen on little jumps. Reduce damage radius on big jumps. Fix an issue with logs not damaging
  
• Reducing excess dialogue lines from open world intro event 1 to ensure they dont interfere with opening the GH intro briefing. Just removed unnecessary lines and updated dialogue table
  
• Ape fight - Reverted the change in scaled health and reduced base health by 20%
  

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Welcome to week 184.

This week we have updated the item rewards from missions and split them out a little more around the tree.

We also briefly go over some changes and QoL being made on the Tech Tree and the Contact Device.

We offer an update on Great Hunts and then go into detail about last week.

Originally posted by author

Last week some larger terrain changes where made to the Styx map. Specially at map locations I6, O8, and K15. These changes where made as part of our maps enhancements and to add content for the upcoming Great Hunts Campaigns. If you need to revert to a previous build to be able to dismantle your base and move gear there is a branch on Steam called 2.2.57 which we will leave up for a few weeks

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In Icarus, players occasionally receive special rewards for completing specific missions, such as the ability to craft Sandworm, Caveworm, and Scorpion gear. While these items were powerful and exciting, they lacked visibility because they weren’t integrated into the tech tree. As a result, many players either forgot about them or never discovered them at all. To address this, we’re making a few key changes.



[h3]Tech Tree Integration[/h3]

Previously, these recipes were granted directly upon mission completion without being tied to the tech tree. We've now added them as blueprints that appear in the appropriate spots on the tech tree. Completing a mission will unlock the ability to unlock the related blueprint in your tech tree, making their presence clearer and easier to track. We’ve also adjusted some crafting locations to better reflect their placement within the tree.



[h3]Account-Wide Unlocks[/h3]

Originally, only the character used to complete the mission could access the reward recipes. This reinforced the idea of each character being unique. However, with the ability to take multiple characters across different prospects, that uniqueness has become less meaningful. We're moving these reward unlocks to the account level, so completing a mission with any character will unlock the associated blueprints for all characters on your account.

We’ve also implemented upgrade code to convert existing character-based unlocks into account-wide ones. So, if you log in with a character who already has the reward flagged, the system will automatically upgrade it and unlock the blueprints across your account.

[h3]Reward Distribution[/h3]

Some missions previously granted six or more items upon completion, which made certain missions feel overloaded in terms of rewards. We've redistributed these items more evenly across the mission tree. This should create a better sense of progression and help balance the reward structure.

[h3]Upcoming Item Buffs[/h3]

Finally, we’re planning a round of buffs for these items. Many were added in the early days of Icarus, and while powerful at the time, they’ve since been overshadowed by newer gear. Given that they often require players to complete nearly the entire mission tree, we feel they deserve to pack more of a punch. Expect updates in the coming weeks that bring these items back into relevance.


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This week, the tech tree received a few updates, including visual and functional improvements that aim to make it easier to understand and navigate.

[h3]Preparing for The Great Hunt Campaign[/h3]

You might notice some gaps in the tech tree—don’t worry, that’s intentional. We've created space for all the upcoming gear tied to the Great Hunt campaigns. These items will be unlockable by all players, but acquiring the necessary materials will depend on defeating specific bosses, both old and new.

[h3]Blueprint Hover Tooltips: Crafting Context[/h3]

We've added a handy feature where you can now hover over a blueprint and see all the recipes associated with it. For example, hovering over the Campfire blueprint will now show you everything that becomes craftable once you’ve built it, helping you plan your tech path more efficiently.



[h3]Hover Tooltips for Blueprint Sets[/h3]

In addition to individual blueprints, you can now hover over blueprint sets to see everything that will be unlocked together. A great example is the Wood Building Set—hovering over the core node now reveals all the structural pieces included in the set, making it easier to know what you’re investing in.



[h3]Armor Set Consolidation[/h3]

We’ve streamlined armor blueprints by grouping full armor sets into single tech tree nodes. If you’ve already unlocked individual armor pieces, any spent points will be refunded automatically if those blueprints no longer exist. When hovering over an armor set node, you’ll now see:

• All armor components included
  
• Materials required to craft them
  
• Total stat bonuses when wearing the full set, shown clearly in the tooltip
  

These changes should make unlocking and planning your builds smoother and more transparent while laying the foundation for the exciting gear to come.


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We’ve made some updates to the Contact Device to improve usability and clarity. You can now view all missions through the device, even if they haven’t been unlocked yet. This lets you browse rewards, descriptions, and other key information beforehand, helping you plan your next steps. We’ve also added clearer messaging to explain why specific missions are unavailable. Whether one is already in progress, located in a different region, on cooldown, or affected by other restrictions, you’ll now see the exact reason. Alongside these functional improvements, we’ve made some light UI tweaks to clean things up and improve the overall experience.

Looking ahead, we’re in the middle of redesigning this interface's visual layout, with a focus on consistency and usability. You can expect more updates in the coming weeks as we continue refining the Contact Device.


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We are hard at work with the Great Hunt Campaigns, as our staff plays through the various elements. We have decided to make some large changes to some of the content, particularly improving the rewards and legendary weapons. Unfortunately, this does mean we have decided to push back the release date. We covered some of the reasoning in last week's post. We appreciate your understanding in this.

If you didn’t catch our new trailer in the PC Gaming Show, you can watch it here:

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As mentioned above, we are planning on buffing many of the existing mission rewards (Sandworm, Caveworm, Scorpion, and Black Wolf Equipment) so they better reflect the current state of the game and are once again noteworthy items as they should be.


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• Fixed issue where players could not start many missions due to the the menu mission list lacking upgrades as if it was an open world mission board.
  

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New Content

• All Character Flag Rewards from Missions are now Account Flags, when loading in with a character a conversion process occurs
  
• Adding Blueprints for All Account Blueprint Unlocks from Missions so they items are no longer hidden in the tech tree
  
• Adjusting quests to grant the correct account flags during missions as opposed to the character flags that where granted before
  
• Split out some of the items granted from missions and spread them out amoungst the mission trees (for example one mission was granting 6 items before -> now the mission grants 2, and the other 4 are granted from other missions)
  

Fixed
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• Extractors will now passively get attacked by animals - you need to defend them
  
• Add function to ActorTools to get distance to selected actor from current viewport location
  
• Update Cave Entrance main mesh to not use culldist volumes and have static 1km draw distance. This should prevent the entrance mesh from culling too soon and leaving visible holes in the landscape... may require world generation again for properties to take effect
  
• Fix inability to headshot Ubis from front-on due to poor accuracy collision setup. General collision/capsule component pass
  
• Tomoto now provides a little hydration when eaten raw
  
• Platinum Lightning Rod health has been increased to 10k
  
• Fixing Issue where Cake would not clean up on dedicated servers and audio for taking pieces would not play
  
• Cake Now Requires Butter to Make and Decays
  
• Upper Ice Sheet in the Nullsector now has a lower temperate range, and uses the IceMammoth Arena Atmosphere Type
  
• Added dirt backfaces to T4 crop plot for when you can see the underside through glass floors (SM_DEP_CropPlot_T4_SML)
  
• Tonics are now visually in players hands
  
• Creature scanner no longer applies a debuff to mounts/tames
  
• Fix a compiler warning about default property assignment in ResourceNetworkInspector
  
• Fix a BP compile warning about default variable value in BP_Sign_Base
  
• Increased Beast scanner trace distance from 10m to 100m
  
• Commit skeleton fix for Tonic visibility change
  
• Fixing issue where charater flags where being retrieved without an active player state when attempting the character flag to account flag conversion when logging into the game
  
• Fixing issue where the character flag conversion whas not passing through the player state correctly
  
• Buffs to Ghillie and Hunter Armors with reguards to the Forest and Swamp Biomes (Set Bonuses)
  
• Adding small movement speed buffs to Ghillie and Hunters Armor Boots while in forest or swamp
  
• Adding missing Biome Related base Stats (Volcanic, Swamp - OxygenConsumption, WaterConsumption, FoodConsumpton, ThreatModifier and MovementSpeed)
  
• Added a stat to resist the swamp parasites debuff
  
• Fixing Workshop item inhalers which where referencing old meta currency
  
• Adding Drinks their own icons & name while looking at the blueprint recipe preview
  
• Updated meshes and textures for Rabbit, including carcass
  
• Preventing the Blueprint Recipe Checks from trying to access outside their bounds
  
• Fixing Armor Set Bonuses Stat Display as they where wrapping a lot earlier than intended making them very hard to read
  
• Fixing Alignment on the Recipe count on the Blueprint Talent so it lines up nicely with the edge
  
• Enabled DF on Megatree meshes to improve distant shadowing visuals. Fixed LOD screensize settings on Trunk
  
• Portable generator - Fixed LOD screen size values for LOD2-4
  
• Added custom LODs to portable generator mesh
  
• Potential fix for intermittent FLOD Flammable FISM async race condition crash
  
• Misc asset fixes, made crevasse LOD mat not blue, increased DF quality on Bunk Bed, add small default white texture. Delete obsolete buffalo trophy mesh
  
• Added DM for portable generator at correct scale and implemented in BP
  
• Fixed issue with the Bait BP as it was still referencing a character flag
  
• Fixing issue where resources required for recipes where showing as copper ore
  
• Added connections for reoganized blueprints so they appear connected to the blueprint tree bench they're crafted at. Slightly shifted blueprints so items are grouped with similar unlocks
  
• Fixed issue with new Talent Widgets that caused 'Mission is Currently Locked' tooltips from persisting incorrectly
  
• Fixing socket that was moved incorrectly causing the sledgehammer in third person to be held wrong
  
• Add a missions unavailable button that shows after the mission communicator is opened, reminding players they can't accept missions and giving them the ability to reopen the error mesesage UI
  
• Collapsing the new upgrade and buttons related to great hunts on the communicator UI
  
• Fixing issues with the character flag and account swap over - character flags now grant ALL new account flags associated with the old ones
  
• Added missing target dummy blueprint to the T2 tech tree and adjusted recipe to be crafted at the carpentry bench
  
• Shifted logic for calculating recipe count to native code
  
• Fixed bug with new RecipeCount UMGs that was causing main menu to lag significantly after selecting character
  
• Fix BEAST not appearing as meta item
  

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Future Content
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• GH Mission Commuicator Rework - All GH Device Functionality has been put into the the C0NT4CT Device
  
• GH Device is removed from the talent tree, the radio has been removed from the talent tree and they are no longer craftable
  
• Adding +2 Character Talents for completion of Great hunts
  
• Rework of Mission / Great Hunt UI for consistency
  
• Added ITM_Giant_Cat_Lure
  
• Adding Workshop Splint which heals broken legs and provides protection for 5 mins, as well as a small fall damage reduction for great hunts
  
• Small Bags can no longer hoild utility items
  
• Fixing Scorpion Armor Set not being bound to the new blueprint correctly
  
• Hitching Rope can now be crafted on character when unlocked
  
• Changed some UV parameters in MI_IcePlaneBase_LitTraslucent to fix distance field artifacts
  
• Adding generic impact hit to default audio axe and pickaxe events to account for instances where no PM is set but you are still hitting something
  
• Add extra is-valid checks to deployable rotation warning messages
  
• Prevent vesper cage from being deployed without a vesper
  
• Fixed deployable rotation toggle appearing on deployables that don't allow rotation
  
• Added starting logic for supporting fullscreen overlay scopes on weapons
  
• Sharpening up some longer dialogue events to be a little snappier to reduce wait time for dialogue
  
• Updated custom LODs for DEP_Chicken_Coop_Royal and Rustic
  
• Rock golem spawner - Added PM_Rock phys material override on invisible blocker
  
• Updating Item Description for the small pouches so they now specify 6 slots instead of 12
  
• Adding a better way of displaying item sets in blueprints, visual with recipes
  
• Fixed BP_EDSCanister FX not visible
  
• Vesper Cage can be crafted in GH quest, so whitelist in FieldGuide
  
• Fix the build (don't check in DT with the editor open kids)
  
• Further adjustments and fine tunes to bullet impact distance vs volumes to help them not be too loud at close proximity but still audible at range. Also balance to armor which was consistently too loud even at lower velocitys
  
• Added various APEX destructible meshes for curved concrete BLDs
  
• Fix the build (DT)
  
• Ape_A: Hookup rescue dialogue line
  
• Recompiled NS_LavaHunter_Flamethrower_01
  
• Updating every mission complete dialogue in GH and replacing the line to mention the contact devices instead of the norex devices for better understanding for the player
  
• Fixed Vesper Cage being undeployable on clients, removed right click deploy as this still showed even if it is not deployable
  
• Add a hook for setting a scope overlay based on weapon stats
  
• removed little flame FX on Lava Hunter weapon
  
• Legendary Slug Launcher and Lava Hunter muzzle flash vfx
  
• World Manager location input string now supports older XYZ string format
  
• Update MissionDevice BP now that SK/SM meshes have been split. Add lighting effects to all upgrades. Fixed missing GH upgrade idle audio
  
• Fixed 0 scale debug spam. Ice mammoth bat cloth affector and head blocker changed from 0 scale to 1
  
• Deleted meta file from disk and obliterated the history. Added original back
  
• Removed 'can affect navigation' bool from many of the blocker volumes to fix ice mammoth getting stuck in waterfall
  
• Delaying dialogue after giant explosion. Bullet impact updates for turrets, volume balance pass on mammoth etc
  
• more improvements and fine tunes to bullet impacts to make shooting mission items more audible with better connection to player. Also improving the range of destruction of metal deployables for better feedback
  
• Separated DEP_T4_Communincation_Bench into Skeletal and Static meshes
  
• Separated DEP_T2_Communication_Device into static and skeletal meshes, also updated normals
  
• Updated SK_DEP_SpawnBlocker_T4 and T3
  
• More scope overlay WIP
  
• Update DestroyAllAI cheat to also output how many AI are being destroyed
  
• Updates to spacializer settings of all weapon impacts to help better let the player know when they are hitting things like turrets etc since the player now shoots more things from a distance that don't have the hit impact notify
  
• Update Great Hunt Device itemstatic to work same as other Contact device upgrade modules
  
• Update collision on CONTACT device to be correct to what upgrade state its in. Fixed GHs device not having lighting setup copied over to new system
  
• Fix Ice Mammoth relationship status so they are not attacked by wolves/other creatures
  
• Add Great Hunt Intro dialogue to GH UI rework
  
• Fixing issue where account flags where being checked before the playerstate was initialised when trying to display in the infor screen for the biolab
  
• Removing individual currencies for each boss and replacing with 2 [Biomass & Licence]
  
• Fixed References in various data tables to convert all biomass over to the new item (Living items, upgrades, rewards etc)
  
• Setup Legendary Weapons to be purchaceable via Licences and Upgraded Via Biomass
  
• Added icons to the bottom of the Exotic and Biomass items to show that they connect with the meta currency used in the biolab and workshop
  
• Adding quick new icons for generic biomass and licences
  
• Fixing Stat Descriptions which Still mentioned EXP-VIS and not Glaci like it should have
  
• Update some strings so they make more sense in exchange contexts
  
• Fixing incorrect tints and colours in the exotic exchange UI
  
• Ading Tooltip to Legendary Licence purchase button
  
• Showing Biomass (Green Resource) on main currecny screen
  
• Adjusting all boss drops to include the general biomass now the specific ones have been removed
  
• Adding Default Recipes unlocked on crafted devices when hovering over them in the tech tree
  
• Adding Auto Scroll box to Elements that can have over 15 recipes or craftable elements when unlocking one tech tree blueprint
  
• Updated helper function which looks up item name quickly to take seed itemable overrides into account
  
• Converting planetary boss item recipes to now grant the correct biomass post conversion
  
• Adding tooltips for Workshop Currencies so players can hover over and see what they are
  
• Adding ability to buy a Licence for 15000 Ren (3000 Purple Exotics) - Added this widget to Biolab and Workshop
  
• Removing Biomass Tag from the Biomass Item as it is no longer required
  
• Fixing Currency exchange widget to allo large numbers
  
• Adding Legendary Licence Rewards to the first and last missions in each Great Hunt Campaign
  
• Adjusting Biomass Icon so its not so rough
  
• Fix Blueprint tooltips showing armor set data on other blueprints if the armor does not fully open
  
• Add dummy entries for Miasmic and Crystal missions so the string is formatted correctly for mission objectives
  
• Commited missed file which was causing a build break
  
• Adding Small Explosive Damage weakness to Quarrites
  
• More sniper shot balances
  
• IM Fight - Added debug messages in intro section to see why sometimes on steam the IM doesnt walk to its intended location before starting the fight
  
• Increase number of digs on drill arrows, so they dig through thick walls (and basically destroy voxels)
  
• Distance adjustments to sniper rifle for other players
  
• Adding third person sniper animation and montage and data table setup. Swapping out bolt action rifle sounds for sniper rifle sounds. Adding short version of bolt in for ending of animation. Adjustments and balances
  
• Fixing build - Missing JSON file
  
• Adjusted the FX for Arrow Drill
  
• Fixed a bug where IM could be stopped by building walls when coming to and from caves
  
• Removed NPC look at angle restriction, as this is already restricted by control rig
  
• Commit a file that was missed (P4V issues)
  
• Small timing updates to sniper rifle additional bolt to normalize all and make more consistent
  
• Adding harvest banana tree audio to BPs
  
• Adding additional sniper reload bolt audio to give it a more slick feel moving slightly further away from crafted vibe. several balances for the sniper audio
  
• Fix Ape_C2 boss dialogue trigger time
  
• Tell player to try again if multiple people try to join an instanced level simultaneously and a blocking load is already in progress on the server
  
• Added Glass Beams, Diagonal wall, and curved and angled floor pieces, with all SMs, DMs, materials and textures. Apex DM meshes still need to be created
  
• IM Fight - Added a new 'mini crit' weakspot that does more than base but significantly less than regular weak spot for when IM has armor on. IM now has different crit spots for when hes got armor/armorless. Decreased fire resistance from -300% to -500%. Increased Head Crit spot to more fully encapsulate his head. Added floating number colour/icon to new crit spot
  
• Ensure EDS Aerosol effect triggers during quest correctly. Disable rotation on aerosol deployable
  
• Adding potential legendary bow audio and event
  
• Resubmit communicator file for great hunt dialogue change
  
• Add infant ape breath animation and allow left click stasis bagging
  
• Update Great Hunt intro dialogue to play once per character
  
• volume pass on baby ape
  
• Small volume balance of sniper bolts in and out
  
• Update drill arrow FX to distinguish small and large voxels, removed unused particle
  
• Adding bullet in event for sniper rifle, lengthening all bolt in and out events and volume adjustments, adding additional sinper tail layer and volume tweaks and fine tunes. Adding data table setup
  
• Removing Explosive Weakness from Dens / Spawners
  
• Fixing the Build Issue with D_FactionMissions
  
• Reworking hittable mission spawner logic so that spawners take damage from pickaxes and explosive damage (via projectiles)
  
• RG_A - Adding Spawn Blocker at quest location so natural spawns don't occur
  
• RG_A - Adding new Quest Steps to Frame whats going on in the Mission
  
• RG_A - Changed so there are no Golems on enter, one will spawn in front of the player, then others spawn surrounding in different locations
  
• RG_A - Reduced Multiplayer scaling so there are less creatures to fight the very first time you encounter them
  
• RG_A - Ambient Golems will now find and attack you after spawned rather than wander around out of the quest area
  
• RG_A - Rewording Objectives and Helper text so its spread out and is only relevant for the current step
  
• Fixing Widget Display in the Biolab
  
• Removing Licence purchase from the workshop and kept in the biolab
  
• Adding Mesh Setup for Legendary Sniper Rifle
  
• Adjusting Stats on the Sand Armor so it now becomes a desert and volcanic survival armor focused on heat resistance, exposure and water retention
  
• Dusty Miner Item, Blueprint, Stats, Recipes and Talent Lock all Setup
  
• Adding Arctic Survival Armor DT Setup, Stats, Blueprint Recipes and locked so it required completion of an Rimetusk Campaign mission to unlock - Ready for 3D when the art is committed
  
• Added Sand Armor & Backpack mission lock so it requires completion of an Garganutan mission to unlock
  
• Adding Legendary Sniper and Bow Items and Brief setup, requires meshes to be added to DT and will just work, also added placeholder alterations which can be adjusted when design is done
  
• Fixed GFur toggle cheat not being set to 'checked' by default, causing it to require being toggled twice to take effect
  
• Improved drill arrow FX and applied BP_Payload_Arrow_Drill on D_Ballistics
  
• Adding greatly improved bullet impact flesh sound to help better notify the player that they have been hit by a turrets bullet
  
• Added first pass legendary sniper rifle art assets
  
• Adding new dialogue line to play when you first find the ape baby. Adding audio, event, dialogue table entry and quest entry. Ready for test
  
• Updating all dialogue lines in the dialogue table to mention Your next contract can be found on your chosen C0NT4CT Device instead of the norex device to match the updated audio
  
• Fixing audio location for the reserach crate so when you pick it up it doesn't feel like the sound plays from the right hand side
  
• BP_Mission_Ape_Desert - tweaked blood decal placement to reduce unwanted spillover
  
• Ice Mammoth Fight - Added a 1:45 timer to the bosses armorless phase. When 'charging' the boss will run to player then start it to fix a bug where if they were too far it wouldnt charge and then consume one of the 1 loops making the armorless phase shorter
  
• Adding upgrade connect audio to the GH communicator event since it is now an upgrade not just a standard deployable
  
• Ice Mammoth Fight - Added max amount of armor charges (currently set to 2 refreshes)
  
• Increase radius on Ape_C2 quest from 30m to 50m when counting creatures killed
  
• Adding baby ape wounded audio, event and BP entry
  
• Adding unique audio, event and BP imp for when searching a dead ape so its different from searching a dead NPC
  
• Adding Sand Armor Icons, Blueprint Talent, Stats and Recipes
  
• Adding Norex Boss Upgrade Recipe - as it was accidently removed
  
• Fixed Cooking Bench Blueprint as it wasn't attached to the crafting bench like it should have been
  
• Added a Number on the Blueprints in the Tech Tree to show how many recipes you unlock when you gain the talent
  
• Great Hunt Devices / Crafting Tables can not longer be created - if any have been placed they are replaced with upgraded contact devices
  
• Incorperating All Great Hunt Blueprints into the T2/3/4 tech trees
  
• Adjusted GH Item Recipes to Fit Tier
  
• Removing Great Hunt Device Crafting Recipe Set
  
• Converting Armor Blueprints to be single blueprints instead of the 5 seperate ones
  
• IM Arena - Removed collision between the IM and the waterfall ice on off chance he runs into it. Lowered blocks of ice that are protruding from the ground to prevent boss getting stuck. Removed bloat from 'find closest location' task to try prevent IM from immediately attacking player from inside the waterfall instead of walking to his set position
  
• wip on improving arrow drill FX
  
• Adding sniper rifle bolt out and bolt in audio, events and duplicates of animation and animation montage for use within Sniper rifle when its in
  
• Adding distant sniper rifle layer and blending with close layer for realism. Removing previous mid layer which was using bolt action audio. Fine tunes and balances for first person, third and other players
  
• Update mutually exclusive talent icons to have up arrows and fix a case in the Ape talent tree that wasn't showing correct talent arrows
  
• Added remaining APEX destructible meshes for curved concrete BLDs
  
• Adding sniper rifle audio. Close gun shot and gun tail. Data table setup and adding it to dev scoped rifle for now for testing until real gun is in
  
• Biolab Inventory - Removed audio repeating when scrolling over selected item. Anim doesnt replay when reclicking on selected item
  
• Fixed a few typos
  
• Simplify T4 Spawn Blocker glass emissive to be static. Add light. Toggle between states. Add additional gating logic for resource network. Fix physical material to be glass. Tweaked visuals on both materials
  
• Updated Great Hunt intro audio to play locally only
  
• Adjusting Sandworm Gear Crafting location to be on the anvil and not the crafting bench
  

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