Reloading Fixes

This patch we have been able to address a few long standing issues brought up by the community.

The first being that of items disappearing when reloading an existing session. This has been most prominent with deep ore veins, buildings & deployables especially on sessions with larger builds. It has been an issue that has plagued us since release and is something that some developers have spent countless hours trying to fix. This week's build contains a fix to this long standing bug. The fix is in no small part due to some members of the community (Twist2021 & Cucu) for providing us with some files where we could accurately reproduce this issue 100% of the time.

Another widely asked for feature is that of auto-run and the various items that have been marked as coming soon (including the waterwheel). In this patch we have added these items and made sure they fit well into the existing Icarus structure.

Fishing is not one of the ‘coming soon’ items addressed this patch. It is something that we hear a lot of community members and internal staff talk about and is something we very much want to add to the game. The original intent of fishing and its place in the game has changed and I wanted to let you know the design team is hard at work expanding the mechanics to make it a fun feature. The main thing for us here is that inclusion of fishing feels natural and has its own place in the game. This may take a little time but will be worth it when we add the completed feature.

- Jake Dodunski, Project Lead

Tier 3 Repair Bench (Workshop Items)

New Items

Pastes Rebalance

• Health Enhancement Tonic: Significantly increases maximum health and health regeneration, and provides a large boost to health on use.
  
• Stamina Enhancement Tonic: Significantly increases maximum stamina and stamina regeneration, and provides a large boost to stamina on use.
  
• Sustenance Enhancement Tonic: Significantly reduces oxygen, food and water consumption, and provides a significant boost to each of these on use.
  
• Strength Enhancement Tonic: Significantly increases melee damage, throwing speed and physical resistance, and provides a boost to both health and stamina on use.
  

To introduce the revamped pastes, we have created a new mission to complete which requires you to perform research on protective pills and enhancement tonics on behalf of the UDA. Due to a last-minute issue in updating our content sever which stores a lot of the prospect data and player talents we have elected to pull the mission from this week and release it as soon as we can in the future.

- Jake Dodunski, Project Lead

Changelog v1.2.26.104657

• Add data setup for new revised Electric Furnace asset. Existing spawned/crafted Electric Furnaces will remain the same for nostalgia reasons. Newly crafted Electric Furnaces will use the new mesh
  
• Add data setup for new revised Concrete Furnace asset. Existing spawned/crafted Concrete Furnaces will remain the same for nostalgia reasons. Newly crafted Concrete Furnaces will use the new mesh
  
• Fix Mats on new furnace DMs
  
• Update Lightning Rod to use new revised asset
  
• Add data setup for new revised Cooking Station asset. Existing spawned/crafted Cooking Stations will remain the same for nostalgia reasons. Newly crafted Cooking Stations will use the new mesh
  
• Tweaked view distance settings for proxy meshes on new revised deployables
  
• Add data setup for new revised Glassworking Bench asset. Existing spawned/crafted Glassworking Benches will remain the same for nostalgia reasons. Newly crafted Glassworking Benches will use the new mesh
  
• Setting up waterwheel logic and power generation, adding new UI & unlocking on blueprint tree
  
• Update Repair Bench BP to use new mesh
  
• Update icon for updated Repair Bench
  
• Fixed texture settings on Repair Bench assets
  
• Delete repair bench mesh/materials/textures which were made obsolete by v2 assets
  
• Fix material errors for Wood Bed DM
  
• Update Interior Wood bed to use new v2 mesh
  
• Add new Repair Bench
  
• Can repair all items previously repaired at Fabricator and Machining Bench
  
• Requires power to repair T4 and workshop items
  
• Bypass stamina requirements for repair at bench
  
• Add data setup for new revised Electric Dehumidifier asset. Existing spawned/crafted Electric Dehumidifiers will remain the same for nostalgia reasons. Newly crafted Electric Dehumidifiers will use the new mesh
  
• Electric Dehumidifier - separated fans for animation
  
• Updating Repair Bench UI to make consistent with the rest of the UI
  
• Unlocking Repair bench in the Talent Tree and shifting to T3
  
• AUGMENTATION: Extermination initial mission setup
  
• Water wheels can now be only placed on flowing water
  
• Adding and unlocking T4 Kitchen Bench, Stove, Storage and Sink, also adding recipes, meshes and deployable setups
  
• Adding Snapping for Advanced Kitchen Blocks
  
• Reworked herbalism bench pastes into enhancement tonics, these provide a much more significant buff, last 2 minutes and cost slightly more than the previous pastes.
  
• AUGMENTATION: Updated mission requirements to utilize enhancement tonics
  
• Added tonics and furnaces to dynamic quest reward options
  
• Advanced Kitchen Bench & Electric Stove are now set up correctly with their available crafting recipes
  
• Updating T4 Kitchen Deployables Names, Descrioptions and Flavour
  
• Updating repair bench to be the only way to repair workshop items
  
• Adding waterwheel generator crafting recipe
  
• Updating Repair Bench UI to include new buttons
  
• Adding new Strings for Repair Bench UI
  
• Added advanced kitchen, waterwheel and repair bench icons
  
• Players can now wash their hands at a plumbed sink for a 2minute crafting, movement, consumption reduction buff
  
• Fixed typo in plumbed sink modifier
  
• Players can now place items in the interactable sink
  
• Cleaning in sink is only triggered when there is an active water connection
  
• Updating Water wheel talent and itemable
  
• Add Multiple Category Buttons To Repair Bench
  
• Add DamagePercentForRepairAll to D_Durable
  
• Added ability to toggle on and off auto-run
  
• Add Multiple Category Buttons To Repair Bench
  
• Removed the amount damage required for repair all from DT to BP variable
  
• Conditionally hide repair buttons and info popup based on repair bench state
  
• Allowed the waterwheel to not be affected by weather
  
• Reorganized T4 kitchen pieces in talent tree.
  
• Added recipes for T4 kitchen pieces.
  
• Ensured recipes for T4 kitchen pieces cover previous recipes as required.
  
• Fixed description of Marbled Kitchen Bench to indicate that it does not craft chemistry recipes.
  
• FORSAKEN: Fixed typo in Thruster step
  
• Fix location of Water network connection position on V2 Glassworking Bench
  
• Add transparent sphere helper guides to show network socket positions in Editor
  
• Removed Floatable trait from waterpump, causing it to error spam after being deployed
  
• Adding in a tonic base mesh with material setup to easily change tonic liquid color and an Icon + color for the front of the bottle
  
• AUGMENTATION: Increased mission timer to 3 days
  
• Added autorun support to mounts. Pressing forward or backward movement input will disable autorun if active
  
• Added enhancement tonic icons and added them to itemable datatable
  
• Added new backend hooks to the Repair Bench for greater filtering/better UX (not yet implemented)
  
• Enabled code enum generation on D_RecipeSets/D_TalentTrees tables
  
• Resaved D_TalentsTree table to fix formatting issues
  
• Reduced recipe costs of waterwheel.
  
• Doubled time between items clogging up the waterwheel, resulting in less item returns but longer running time.
  
• Removed waterwheel talent from repairing tree, as this is no longer required
  
• Fixed crafting location for Repair Bench, now correctly crafted at Machining Bench
  
• Added water connection to kitchen stove and electric stove, as there are now water recipes there
  
• Fixed typo in Condensed Enzymes (was missing z)
  
• Fixed typo in water tooltip for crop plots, receive instead of recieve
  
• Removed fuel slot from electric stove, as this does not do anything.
  
• Update icons for enhancement tonic modifiers to use new icons.
  
• Fix a bug with the enzyme dynamic mission reward where it would show 2-3 enzymes as a reward but only give one (now correctly shows it will give 1)
  
• GetRepairableItems function can now process multiple inventories at once with the ability to include/exclude workshop items
  
• Cleaned up ItemManipulationComponent code
  
• Dynamic Tools Mission: Required number of items no longer scales with difficulty, increasing required items at lower difficulty and reducing it at higher difficulty. - Fixed crossbow attachment reward giving the flexible frame instead of the lightweight frame. - Fixed icon for cooking bench talent to use new version
  
• Fixed the stamina regeneration on the Stamina Enhancement Tonic not applying to the character
  
• Updated Repair Bench description and flavor text
  
• Add new UMG_RepairMaterialStack widget for displaying stacked repair materials in the Repair Bench
  
• Fixed waterwheel item fill timer to correct value for new expected clog time
  
• Fixing Repair Bench Confirmation UI to include correct stat changes
  
• Fixing Waterwheel Timer
  
• Waterwheel now checks there are spoiled plants in its inventory before adding other items to prevent expoits by removing non-stackable items
  
• Increased energy generation of waterwheel to 2000 from 1500. - Increased time for clogging of the waterwheel to 2h50m, now requiring 50 items to fully clog (gains 1 item per 204s)
  
• Changed glow colour on enhancement tonic icons
  
• Update pivot position of Waterwheel SM and offset SK mesh in BP so that the wheel touches the water
  
• Adding new developer prospect to force content server update
  
• Fixed a bug where having sleep quality % buffs (e.g. washing hands) on the player wouldn't affect the well rested buff
  
• ADVANCED ORDER mission: Updated Health Restoration Paste requirement to Health Enhancement Tonic
  
• CONCEALMENT mission: Updated Oxygen Restoration Paste requirement to Sustenance Enhancement Tonic
  

• Added pre-compiled Sentry binaries to version control
  
• Added extra logging to ActorStateRecorderComponent
  
• Shifted GPU/Driver info collection to USentrySubsystem::AddDefaultContext so it doesn't spam log with gpu info
  
• Dynamic Quest Reward improvements:
  
• Increased the amount of storage granted by storage improvements (now 3 pieces of storage instead of 1)
  
• Fixed Advanced Modifications: Melee reward
  
• Fixed typo in Dietary Requirements
  
• Added T3 light options to light rewards
  
• Reduced chances for and increased reward amount of cooked T1 items
  
• Increased reward amount for uncooked veggies
  
• Added additional reward options
  
• Removed Prime Meat options from dynamic quest rewards, as the item is no longer in use
  
• Added validation to prevent a crash related to Quest initialisation during prospect reload
  
• Fixing Mission Communication board Mesh
  
• Fixing Water Pump Energy Requirements
  
• Fixing issues with missions created prior to week 50 being in an end state and reverting back due to bad save informaiton
  
• Committing fix for Icon editor crashing when clicking on a folder icon
  
• Fixing issue with caches missions not providing xp
  
• Fixing Collect Mission dead prospects from not being there on reload
  
• Mission Communicator now works all the time in editor
  
• Clients can now see the contents of Quest Rewards during selection
  
• Update wood repair hammer name, description and flavor text to communicate merging of repair and upgrade hammers
  
• Fixed an issue where deployables and buildings pieces could be destroyed when reloading an outpost/open world game. Reloaded IcarusActors and IcarusItems are now assigned their UID as soon as possible after spawning. UActorStateRecorderComponent::AttemptToFindOwner no longer accepts actors with valid UIDs as potential owners. Reduced default verbosity of various recorder-related log categories
  
• Dynamic Hunt mission: Reduced spawning delay on creatures slightly.
  
• Dynamic Cache mission: Items are no longer marked as quest items.
  
• Dynamic Collect Prospector ID mission: Bears no longer respawn, but will still respawn on reload (to prevent login and logout to remove them)
  
• Added missing RepairFunctionLibrary file missing from previous commit to fix the build
  

• Updates and improvements to swamp scatters and general ambience finessing
  
• Fixed an edge case with the hotbar focusing secondary slot not going away when reviving
  
• Add Enzyme Geyser to TU/AC/SW on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Apply water physical material to creek water mesh to fix creek footstep sounds, which were broken by the refactor required for lava footsteps
  
• Removing breathing layer from b.dog aggro state
  
• Placing Foliage, Exotic Meta Spawn and Enzyme Geyser's, In Volcanic Biome, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Cleanup of Ice Cave on Green, Cave AC SML 005 Added & Cleanup on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Moved GetLoadout and GrantMetaItems character functions to their own component to improve dedicated server compatibility
  
• Remove pointless Substance Toolbar buttons which are links to the website, taking up valuable Editor UI real estate
  
• Added DEP_T3_Communiction Device
  
• Adding more swamp lake scatter bubbles and interesting layers
  
• Placed Respawn Dropships in Grasslands, added aspen saplings in GL,polished decals and foliage around GL/TU transition, Green Quad, DLC Map
  
• Increasing the scale of the BatDog by 35% character to its correct size
  
• adding in first pass base level tundra ambience. To be adjusted and fine tuned and adding more scatters
  
• Upping the swamp quad character and corpse scale by 20% to better fit the vocalization feel
  
• RVT Off on CF Sandbanks, Prometheus Cliffs/Rocks/CaveEntrances
  
• Tree Trunk RVT OFF, Pine/Fir/Palm/Cypress
  
• Submitting Flyer and textures
  
• Adjustments to tundra and environment tweaks
  
• Wood Fortifications - all meshes, textures, materials added. Adjusted settings in D_DeployableSetup and added sockets to improve placement
  
• Adding biome data table info
  
• Cleanup of Riverbanks & Cliffs on Green/Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Added DEP_Landmine
  
• Updated LOD for DEP_Landmine
  
• Update Texture reporting in AssetInfo tool to take into account World Normal maps
  
• Fixed Skeletal Mesh checking including Destructible Meshes in results
  
• General Cleanup On, Purple Quad and Green Quad, Prometheus
  
• Fix LODs on several SKs
  
• Fix filenames and texture settings on new creature assets
  
• Fix Diorama mesh using complex collision at over 100k tris
  
• Delete test levels for new creatures uploaded into creature folders
  
• Fix DM material errors for new cooking station
  
• Adding tundra and grasslands ambient and scatters. Removing unused assets
  
• UI layout tweaks to AssetInfo tool
  
• Progress on Missing Materials check
  
• Added Enzyme Geyser to SW & General Cleanup on Purple Quad, DLC Map
  
• Placed Respawn Dropships in Grasslands, polished decals and cliffs around GL/TU , Green Quad, DLC Map
  
• Converted HAB Character assets from Virtual Textures to standard to remove unnecessary technical overhead
  
• Fixed up some filenames and deleted unused assets
  
• Adding new tundra and grasslands subtle grass blend layer when around bushes. Adjustments to grasslands levels and dynamic sounds
  
• Fixed Cypress BB texture being VirtualTexture
  
• Fixed Tree and Grass Billboard masters using assets instead of default textures causing dozens of unnecessary asset references
  
• Added Sulfur deposit meshes (duplicated stalagmites) + materials
  
• Adjustments to LC_PlantDebris decal
  
• Added subsurface to red grass in Lava Biome, LC_GrassA
  
• Rename Crate MED asset because it keeps dirtying DTs with casing issues
  
• Rename WildBoar assets folder because it keeps dirtying DTs with casing issues
  
• Tweaked WildBoar GFur LOD settings to fix close up visuals
  
• Adjusted M_RockMacroMaster and MF Dolerite/Moss/Sand/WindSweptSnow to reduce texture lookups and shader complexity, added cheaper triplanar method (MF_CheapTriplanar), WIP and older files saved in Dev folder
  
• Added New Arctic Template Cave, ACMED_005, DLC Map
  
• Fortifications - added first pass on wall piece with window
  
• Made template Cave_AC_MED_006 Level for TU/AC on DLC Map
  
• Placed Respawn Dropships in Grasslands and Tundra/Arctic, polished decals and cliffs around GL/TU , Green Quad, DLC Map
  
• Added KIT_Brick
  
• Added ITM_Brick Resource
  
• Added IsValid check in UpdateSentryContext function to prevent log spam in HAB
  
• Add pathway to climb out of Mega Tree Cave & Set Dress Mega Tree cave tunnel on Purple Quad, DLC Map
  
• Finished Template Cave ACMED_005 and Added it into the Ice Cave On Blue Quad and General Cleanup, Blue Quad, Prometheus
  
• Update D_Durable to fix build validation issue
  

Open World Missions

1. Hunt: Kill a quota of wild animals that spawn in the current biome
   
2. Grow: Grow a quota of vegetables and deliver
   
3. Mine: Collect a quota of a requested ore and deliver
   
4. Collect: Search for downed prospectors and collect and deliver their IDs
   
5. Scan: Scan a location with the scanner provided, defend the scanner
   
6. Cache: Collect a cache from a previous prospector
   
7. Boss: Kill a wandering boss animal
   
8. Tools: Craft and deliver 3 tools of varying tech levels
   

Performance

Bug Tracking

Data Decentralization

Games as a Service (GaaS) is a popular term in development, referring to online titles that monetize through the games live and run as a live service. Piracy is difficult because of the games "online service" nature. Initially, ICARUS has been very much like this. We have been prioritizing a move away from this, to decentralizing the game and pushing as much as possible to the community. While this means a reduction in some functionality, it dramatically increases redundancy and the ability for players to play the game how they would like.

Decentralizing the games architecture allows our community to run the game how they see fit, and ensures the game a long life independent of the studio running it. This has been a conscious decision at our studio, across all of our products including unreleased ones, so that we can focus on making good games with excellent tools. By focusing on the games, and providing the tools to run them, we believe this maximizes both the lifetime and the creativity of the games themselves.

- Dean Hall, CEO

DLC Status Update and Monetization Stance

ICARUS is the first major title the studio has produced and it would be fair to say our launch was rocky. With the launch we undertook a review of how we were working and made adjustments, as well as some key decisions. One commitment we made was to work on the quality of the base game, and customer satisfaction, before we looked at monetization. We originally had plans for more additional monetization, such as DLC including more expansions - but have moral objections to monetizing the project while reception was deservedly mixed.

Instead of this, we committed to weekly updates even through holiday periods to build customer and player confidence, to allow us time to develop the experience. As such, we're still not at a point where we feel comfortable releasing paid DLC, as we feel there is still some work to be done getting the base game to an experience players are satisfied with.

To ease our production processes we publish our changelogs verbatim, so keen eyes will have noticed we have been doing a lot of work on future DLC content for some time and we are mostly there in a number of aspects, but I will continue to delay the launch of the DLC until we are satisfied the base game is broadly representative of what our players want and expect.

Even when we do launch future DLC, we will continue to prioritize development of the base game and have DLC being supporting content. Additionally the studio is committed to ensuring DLC does not divide the community such as when playing with friends.

There is no specific targeted date for the launch of paid DLC and content. We will continue to listen to your comments and discuss it with you, here and on Discord.

- Dean Hall, CEO

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Changelog v1.2.25.104293

• Adding Dynamic Quests for Growing & Mining, Updating Kill Dynamic Quest
  
• Adding Dynamic Quests for Scanning and Dead Prospector Retrieval
  
• Tweaked Mission EQS to better work with quest distances
  
• Adding Dynamic Quests for Hunt and Cache
  
• Added Anchored Behaviour to Wolves by default that can be enabled via spawner
  
• Adding New EQS for Close AI Quest Spawning
  
• Unlocking 'SMPL' interface for triggering dynamic missions
  
• Fixing Dynamis Mission 'Hunt' as it wasn't counting the creatures killed correctly
  
• Adding Dynamic Quest Table and ability to trigger quests from in session
  
• Update Exotic Delivery Interface to have its own widget and not use the Mission Communicator BP
  
• Adding new Strings for SMPL interface
  
• Adding Rudimentry Flare to Reward Pod which fires into the air upon landing
  
• Fixing up mission communicator text and adding a shift to the base dynamic mission spawn location
  
• Adding FName as a possible generic actor record on the save game
  
• Adding a new UI for Dynamic Quest Reward Selection
  
• Fixing some typos in the Dynamic Quest Descriptions
  
• Submitting missed Dynamic Quest Reward Structure File
  
• Adding cheat to Skip Quest Steps
  
• Updating Enviroment Queries to Query based on Mission Board Or Actor instead of Pawn
  
• Updating Dynamic Kill quest to have different bosses per atmosphere type
  
• Adding functions to call to clean up quest objects when a quest is complete
  
• Updating Scan Dynamic quest to clean its mission objects up after mission complete
  
• Fixing up Quest UI so it works with missions being cleaned up after they have finished
  
• Reworked Dynamic Quest Rewards so there is a lot more variety
  
• Fixed Dynamic Quest reward options now have an interactable tooltip
  
• Resaving DynamicQuestRewardsDatatable
  
• Added first iteration of Dynamic Quest Reward Items
  
• Added first iteration of Dynamic Quest Reward sets, pre-lore
  
• Add basic audio cues for dynamic quest UI and item setup
  
• Adding ability to select from 2 dynamic missions when interacting with the Short Range Radio
  
• Adding fallback cases to mission selection location
  
• Adding DynamicQuestSeed to GameState & GameModeRecorder so missions are set until completed reguardless of Short Range Radio
  
• Adding new UI for Short Range Radio Mission Selection
  
• Adding Weighting to Dynamic Quest Selection for Generation
  
• Setting Dynamic Quest Reward Item Selection Weighting to 100 by default instead of 1
  
• Updating Short Range Radio to Propertly Roll Dynamic Quests based on Weight
  
• Removing unused UI asset for dynamic quests
  
• Fixing default values for various quest weightings
  
• Updating Dynamic Quests to include Difficulty Reward Modifier
  
• Updating Dynamic Quest Distance Spawning logic, so it slightly futher away
  
• Updating Grow Missions to only include things the player can grow on Olympus & Styx
  
• Updating Hunt Quest to include extra spawning of creatures specific to the mission
  
• Updating Mine Quests to include different ores based on session difficulty
  
• Updating Quest reward UI to show the scaled rewards based on session difficulty
  
• Couple of UI audio tweaks for dynamic missions
  
• Added additional dynamic quest reward items and sets.
  
• Added lore to all dynamic quest rewards
  
• More tweaks to dynamic mission audio:
  
• Fix phys mat on T2 communication device
  
• Add charge sound to transport pod ascent sequence
  
• Replace mission confirm UI audio on dynamic quest option widget
  
• Adding new Tools Dynamic quest, scales on both selected difficutly and asks the player to craft & delivery 1 out of a possibly 7 sets of items per difficulty
  
• Unlocking Short Range Radio Talent to be unlocked on the T2 Tech Tree
  
• Resized Reward Pod Inventory as it was not required to be as big as it was (60->24)
  
• Fix flare assets to be configurable for color
  
• Tweak flare logic for Transport Pod
  
• Increasing Dynamic Quest Spawn Location and Updating EQS
  
• Updating Cache Dynamic Quest Spawn Location
  
• Fixing Tools Dynamic Quest Completion condition, so it actually completes
  
• Scaled cache reward options to be similar in level to dynamic quest rewards
  
• Increased minimum cache rewards
  
• Remove debug setup for Transport Pod
  
• Updating Dynamic Quest EQS & Dropship Landing EQS to use the correct QueryContext
  
• Updated Cache quest so it can be completed after a reload & allowing some items a percent chance to spawn
  
• Dynamic missions now generate a mission difficulty, which is saved in the QuestManager and Recorded as needed
  
• Updating all dynamic quests to use the dynamic mission difficulty rather than the prospect difficulty for scaling
  
• Fixing Short Range Radio's itemable and durabable data, it will now have a proper name, icon, description and health
  
• Add an autodetect GPU button to Graphics Settings
  
• Add an Auto Detect button to Graphics Settings
  
• Performs GPU and RAM detection and applies settings based on what is found
  
• This means users have a 'make it go faster' shortcut button
  
• Add an autodetect for GPU button to Graphics Settings
  
• Add an Auto Detect button to Graphics Settings
  
• Performs GPU and RAM detection and applies settings based on what is found
  
• This means users have an opt-in 'make it go faster' shortcut button
  
• Updating Transport Pod Inventory Length
  
• Rescaled quest rewards, notably reducing boss crafting materials and increasing their fully crafted counterparts
  
• Fixing Short Range Radio not having a meshable entry
  
• Add an autodetect GPU button to Graphics Settings
  
• Add an Auto Detect button to Graphics Settings
  
• Performs GPU and RAM detection and applies settings based on what is found
  
• This means users have a 'make it go faster' shortcut button
  
• Made changes to DynamicQuestReward and Mission_Communicator_T2. Still needs to be adjusted
  
• Added new option in escape menu to 'Report an Issue' that can be used to directly report a bug report to our bug tracker along with useful game state information. Added UE4 Sentry plugin to give better integration/control over what is reported back
  
• Adjusted Short Range Radio UI to match concepts
  
• Adjusted Dynamic Mission Reward UI to match concepts
  
• Limited Short Range Radio to only work in Open World Mode
  
• Final touches on Dynamic Missions widget clean up
  
• Dynamic Quests no longer provide the 2 experience events
  
• Swapping Experience granted from Dynamic Quests to use the dynamic mission difficutly variable for scaling
  
• Collect Dynamic Quests now spawns additional enemies
  
• Kill Dynamic Quests now spawns additional enemies
  
• Collection Dynamic Missions Clean Up Correctly Now
  
• Dynamic Mission Locations now increase based on the selected dynamic mission difficulty
  
• Added Settings module to Icarus build.cs, removed WITH_EDITOR flags around SentryModule ISettingsModule
  
• Added Settings module to Sentry.Build.cs
  
• Fixing Short Range Radio not having the correct talent requirement - fixes blueprint talent display
  
• Adding additional Text to Login Screen for Connection Status
  
• Removing ws from socket header
  
• Rebalanced dynamic mission rewards to offer higher tier rewards more often and more basic materials when they appear. - Increased dynamic cache mission rewards. - Fixed dynamic tools mission Antibiotics step. - Quest rewards now correctly show the unscaled value if the value does not scale (eg if you get 1 tool)
  
• Fixing issues with Collect Dynamic Quest where items were not spawning in the collection bodies as intended
  
• Adding redundance case for collection quest bodies item spawning
  
• Dynamic Mission EQSs now avoid generating points on water
  
• Adding ability to cancel dynamic quests, if a quest is cancelled there is a 10minute delay before another quest can be undertaken
  
• Adding Replication for the Dynamic Quest Seed
  
• Adding a new gameplay config option for DynamicQuestCancelDelay
  
• Modifying Exotic Delivery ship Spawning to use the new Dynamic quest pod logic
  
• Updating Dynamic mission range to be slightly larger
  
• Removing Red light on the Short Range Radio
  
• Adding new EQS for quest spawning
  
• Updating Cache Quest to include new cache eqs
  
• Updating Dynamic Quest Weightings
  
• Fixed dynamic mission scaling for Mine mission when selecting difficulty, and removed chance to require titanium as a handin
  
• Fixing issue if clients and the server interacted with the reward pod on quick sucess and selected a reward that both rewards could be given
  
• Fixing the reward pod flare & smoke not showing on the derived classes
  
• Tweaked dynamic mission rewards, making long term quarantine reward and hunting supplies rarer. Increased bone drop from hunting rewards
  
• Added new Test to Dynamic Mission EQSs to prevent picking points next to existing IcarusActors
  

• 'Max' Crafting UI button now works as expected for items that require Fillable inputs (water, fuel, etc)
  
• Fixed typo in the MK-200 Weaponized Laser (Repaired) item, and updated to US spelling standard
  
• Water pumps no longer automatically increase the water levels in the water trough
  
• Fixed a bug where on respawning, the off hand item on the quickbar would still be focused while no item is there
  
• Fixed issue causing the STRANGE HARVEST mission flower to not have the poison cloud on first spawn
  
• Grenages dont damage structures or deployables
  
• Grenades (and sandworm spit) will now damage buildings and deployables
  
• Grenades (and sandworm spit) will now damage buildings and deployables
  
• Melee weapons can again damage buildings and deployables (fix for throwables change)
  
• Corrected Caveworm Icon
  
• Add an Auto Detect button to Graphics Settings
  
• Performs GPU and RAM detection and applies settings based on what is found
  
• This means users have a 'make it go faster' shortcut button
  

• Updated all Brick Tier Floors, Walls and Beams. Also added sockets
  
• Small adjustments to r.dog movement audio sounds
  
• Adding Sledgehammer Harvest Context Icon Logic
  
• Adding Markers onto Prometheus for Prebuild Structure Locations
  
• Adding Wood Railing Gate audio
  
• First implementation of RockDog enraged behaviour. Added support for GOAP Controllers to dynamically select custom behaviour trees to inject, instead of relying on static D_GOAPSetup data
  
• Added extra stats for Enraged GOAP behaviour
  
• Add audio context component to cave rivers to enable faux audio occlusion based on cave context - still need to set up custom FMOD event and apply parameters once cave volumes have been defined. Move river audio settings to data to facilitate new features and custom audio for different rivers
  
• Fixing up Redirectors in the quest folder
  
• Fix missing texture after cleanup
  
• Added support in Enraged GOAP Motivation for ActivationTime and CooldownTime stats. Fixed Enraged Heavy Slam attack not waiting for montage notify to apply damage. Added new placeholder montage for lava spit attack
  
• Cleanup Character assets part 3
  
• Adding in lava scatter audio and low level base biome amb
  
• DEP_Crate_Sinotai skins variation textures and material
  
• Created New Volcanic Template Cave and Scoria Placed In Volcanic Biome, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Add TU Cave SML 001, Add Ice Flow To Frozen Lake & Cleanup on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Adding new Skins for the 3 different Orbital Transport Pods & Updating their associated map icon colours
  
• Apply new river audio setup to cave and lava rivers in Purple and Green quads
  
• Prototype cheaper triplanar material function
  
• Cleanup creature assets
  
• Add icon for T2 communication device, fix meshables setups for tiers
  
• SM_Breakable_Clay combined and matched to the blueprint
  
• SM_Breakable_Obsidian combined and matched to the blueprint
  
• SM_Breakable_Scoria combined and matched to the blueprint
  
• FT_Breakable_Clay_Var1 swapped mesh into combined version
  
• Adding rumble audio scatter to lava biome event
  
• Adding batdog specific footstep event and adjusting footstep layers
  
• Basic audio pass for brick-tier buildings
  
• Added burnt versions to all 4 variants of the Aspen trees, including all Foliage Types and FLOD descriptions
  
• Add Ice Tunnel to Ice Maze, Painted Clay in SW & Cleanup on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Created New Volcanic Template Cave, Set Dressing Volcanic Transition Cave and Placement of Breakable Rocks, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• submitting MoBasePrebuilt_Cave first pass
  
• submitting Group15Outpost_Volcanic first pass
  
• Adjustments to predator bird idle call trigger points, spacializer settings and wing pitch randomness and other improvements
  
• submitting MoBasePrebuilt_Arctic first pass
  
• Added Sledgehammer node icon and added it to Valid Interact Queries Datatable
  
• Added Dogtags and Delivery Ship icon and added to D_MapIcons
  
• Prototype initial RockMaster shader and functions, decreases instructions ~10% and PS by half
  
• Shield Mechanics. Shield now works on the quickbar rather than the G slot. There are a list of items based on tags to be used with the shield/off hand
  
• Adding in first swamp scatter cre into FMOD. More to come
  
• Adjustment to small rock debris scatter to make sure it doesn't spawn too close to the character
  
• submitting MoBasePrebuilt_Treehouse first pass
  
• Add appropriate vocalisation states to predator bird
  
• Add Editor tool to check health value of creatures
  
• First pass adding swamp ambient and scatter layers in. To be adjusted and fine tuned
  
• Increased maximum trace distance for SpawnAI cheat script
  
• Added recipes and item setup for potato and tomato recipes.
  
• Increased the maximum stamina and health granted by soups.
  
• Added cooked bean recipe and item setup for the campfire
  
• Added version 2 of the repair bench mesh, textures and destructable mesh
  
• Resaved datatables to fix build validation
  
• Fixed the montage not playing on clients and the floating damage numbers no longer double up and the damage number for the shield is now blue
  
• Added first implementation of BatDog stalking behaviour. Added GetWorld implementation to IcarusGOAPMotivation.h to support function libraries
  
• Added New Volcanic Template Cave, Added Deep Ore Deposits in LC and SW Biomes and Placed Breakable Rocks In the Swamp , Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Add Deep Ore Deposit, Cleanup Clay in SW & Cleanup on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Attached select nodes for relevant 'Shield' damage types
  
• Added eye sprites to BatDog. Increased stalking movement speed
  
• Adding more scatter swamp layers. Also swapping out footsteps to swamp layer which will reduce in volume - to be fine tuned and balanced
  
• Cleanup unused assets
  
• Cleanup unused assets
  
• Created new master materials for common developer materials and recreated in more structured format then reapplied to use cases
  
• Updated Brick Tier Roof assets
  
• Delete actors from unused OP001 map referencing deleted background meshes
  
• Updated descriptions and flavour text for tomato and potato meals
  
• Placing New Deep Ore Deposit Spawns In Swamp and Volcanic Biomes, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Adjustments to swamp scatter, footsteps and base layer
  
• More swamp scatter additions
  
• Cleanup Clay Breakable in SW & Cleanup on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Basic audio implementation for shield - create generic shield static mesh actor and add audio feedback when shield blocks or breaks. Add placeholder audio for wooden shield
  
• Cleaning up unused assets
  
• Improvements to subtlety of swamp biome base layer and some scatter adjustments
  
• Add Deep Ore Deposit to Green & Add Meta Exotic in TU/AC on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Fix MFs referencing asset textures in master materials, changed to default texture sets and resaved all associated materials to break references
  
• Added stamina cost to D_Actionable and removed the manual implementation from actionable shield to better use the preexisting functions
  
• Added hotbar functionality for the shield focusing. Now if the player has two weapons in their hands two different hotbar items will appear focused
  
• Removed accidental debug logging from tick
  
• Small adjustments to swamp biome. Added and removed test cre scatter
  
• Repair Bench - Implementation
  
• Add new Repair Bench
  
• Can repair all items previously repaired at Fabricator and Machining Bench
  
• Requires power to repair T4 and workshop items
  
• Big cleanup on assets, removing old and still unused content
  
• Fix up master materials using assets instead of default textures and resaved to clear references
  
• Fix up numerous redirectors no longer in use
  
• ITM_Shield_Wooden mesh, material and textures
  
• Added Brick Angled corner Roof and inverted assets
  
• Added Brick Roof Lower and Brick Roof Upper
  
• Small adjustment to swamp biome scatters. Addition of tree rustle in gentle wind
  
• Add Icarus Meta Exotic Spawns on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Update transport pod audio, and a couple of other audio tweaks for dynamic quests
  
• Adjusted cave painting colour, and emission to be more obvious in cave lighting
  
• Refactor action fail feedback audio from generic melee actionable into an option on the actionable base BP, so that it can also be used on shield actions. Add missing Shield_Hold stamina reference to shield row in D_Actionable to fix shield stamina
  
• Resaved datatable to resolve build validation
  
• Adjustments and improvements to swamp scatter and bass layers. Separated various layers out for better variability
  
• Update pass to tidy up some issues with swamp lake audio actor edge splines and islands
  
• Update pass to tidy up some issues with swamp lake audio actor edge splines and islands - a couple missing from previous commit
  
• Add Respawn Dropship Placement & Landscape/Foilage Cleanup on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Placing New Meta Spawns and Respawn Drop Pods, In Swamp and Volcanic Biomes, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Disabled RVT on Cliffs, Rocks, Seracs and disabled Snow RVT on Foliage to improve performance
  
• Submitting all the base assets for the Striker, new fur setup to be applied and AI setup to come
  
• Swapped the Map Icons for the Transport Pods to the new Transport pod icon
  
• Fixed ISettingsModule.h not being compiled out correctly in non-editor builds
  
• Added missing Sentry dlls
  
• Trying a more sensible approach to using the Settings Developer module in the provided Sentry source code
  
• Removing dependency to developer module 'Settings' in Icarus.Build.cs
  
• Reverting last commits
  
• Added base setup for spider assets to project. Created charater and corpse BP and added to data tables
  

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Update On Performance Optimization

Coming Next Week - Open World #2

New Features

Reworked Features

• The Repair Hammer and Upgrade Hammer have been merged into a single item, removing the need for two item slots for a singular tool that shared too many similar characteristics to warrant its own space and recipe. There is also a new input hint in the bottom right of the UI to teach you how to use the item in its new form.
  
• The Tomahawk Talent which provided the ability to throw axes has been removed and replaced with ‘Berserker’, which provides greatly increased damage and attack speed at the expense of durability and stamina costs. The subsequent talent has also been changed to an alternative, ‘Controlled Rage’ which lowers the impact of these durability and stamina cost penalties.
  
• The Bow Crosshair has now been applied across all weapons which have a ‘charge’ effect, such as all bows, throwing spears, and throwing knives. This provides a more informative UI when using these weapons.
  

Decentralization Update

• There will be no cap on character limit, as with this data stored locally, we don’t have to artificially limit it to protect our server performance. This encourages players to investigate specialized builds for unique scenarios.
  
• With data stored locally, characters can no longer be ‘lost’ or be mysteriously deleted by a fault in the servers, as this data is all stored locally and won’t be susceptible to any problems communicating between the server and the player's PC.
  
• Characters are no longer ‘bound’ to an individual Prospect, Open World or Outpost, and can be active across multiple sessions simultaneously. You’ll no longer be required to remove a character from a prospect or mission to take them onto a different one. This also means the ‘remove from prospect’ button will be retired, as it will no longer serve a purpose.
  

• Workshop Items can now be tracked in bundles and stacks, allowing us to provide a similar experience to planet-crafted items. We are also able to track durability, allowing for more crossover between different prospects and sessions.
  
• Mission rewards can now be granted upon the completion of objectives, rather than the completion of the prospect encompassing them. Talent unlocks, Item Unlocks, and Ren can be immediately granted, and players won’t be restricted from receiving their rewards if one player can’t leave the mission or another similar problem arises.
  
• Exotic Extractions will no longer require you to leave the planet's surface, with the addition of specialized exotic drones you can load and send into orbit, all while carrying on your missions on the planet's surface without impact.
  

• With data being localized, this greatly reduces the strain on our servers to withstand large-scale changes and additions, which opens the door for us to dive into some of the more ambitious projects and detailed improvements we’ve been wanting to make for some time. With the impact on your personal hard drives being near non-existent, we can execute these projects without fear of causing further problems for players' in-game experience.
  
• Many of you will remember some of the large server outages we have faced over the last year, and some of these have unfortunately been a result of forces outside our control, including our server providers. With the move of our data to a decentralized format, we will be removing the reliance on these providers to maintain their part of the motor, leading to a more reliable, less affected player experience with the game's active state.
  

Changelog v1.2.24.103878

• Add new BuildingHammer actionable setup which combines both Upgrading and Repairing
  
• Apply new combined building actionable to existing hammers
  
• Add keybind UI for hammers to show their inputs (LMB to Repair, RMB to apply Upgrade, R to select upgrade)
  
• Remove original Upgrade Hammer as it is now deprecated by all other hammers
  
• Hooking up Sitting anim bp to the chair base logic
  
• Add Trophy setups and Heads for Conifer, Snow and Desert (Hyena) wolves. Shuffled some rows so they're grouped better
  
• Add support for sitting in Rustic Dining and Living chairs
  
• Remove bed projection widget logic
  
• Added killcam availability to throwing knives and spears
  
• Set waterbomb blueprint unlock to be accessible
  
• Remove Talent unlock requirement for waterbomb
  
• Tweak waterbomb throwing data
  
• Reworked Tomahawk talent, removing throwing from axes but granting greatly increased combat capabilities.
  
• Reworked Oh wait, I need that talent, reducing the penalties for the reworked Tomahawk talent
  
• Removed throw action availability from Axes now that none can be thrown
  
• Reorganized talents in the Habitation: Repairing talent tree after removal of the waterbomb talent from this tree
  
• Disconnect flammability from grenade payload as part of damage refactor. Will instead buff base damage number
  
• Add icons for new wolf trophies
  
• Fixed grenades (and other forms of radial damage) not correctly displaying damage numbers
  
• Double base damage of Frag grenades to bring them more in line with current average creature health
  
• Increase outer radius size of Grenade explosion to be 50% larger
  
• Increase max throw distance of grenades and waterbombs
  
• Add min throw charge for Grenades so they can't be tap dropped at your feet
  
• Fixed Grenade and Waterbomb to use the same StaminaAction handle
  
• Removed water tags off of Waterbomb to stop UI showing that you can water crop plots with it, because this is not possible
  
• Water bomb: Moved talent to T2 crafting bench.
  
• Berserker talent: Increased damage and reduced attack speed even further. Greatly reduced wear rate penalty.
  
• Controlled Rage talent: Now grants less reduced wear rate, increases felling yield
  
• Tomahawk and Controlled Rage talents: Renamed row, causing players to lose these talent and be refunded talent points if they are not already at maximum.
  
• Tomahawk: Reduced durability penalty, increased damage and reduced attack speed.
  
• Controlled Rage: Added addiitonal yield from felling trees
  

• Cleanup Character assets part 2
  
• Fix wrong PM being used in several assets which would have resulted in broken visual/audio effects
  
• Add validation checks in AssetInfo tool to pick up incorrectly used PMs
  
• Cleanup unused, old assets to de-clutter project
  
• Delete unused and expensive assets in Developer folders
  
• Fixed Meta Extractor not animating (no AnimBP hooked up)
  
• Removed unused particle system from Extractor base class
  
• Fixed Meta Extractor AnimBP not compiling due to previously removed variable
  
• Remove unused recipe holographic preview logic/assets from ProcessorBase
  
• Remove level BP logic in ReplyTest map that doesn't exist anymore and was flagged during PIE
  
• Fixed Platinum Crossbow repair requiring composites, now correctly requires platinum.
  
• Platinum and Titanium Crossbows are now affected by cheaper bow crafting talents
  
• Fixed a bug preventing throwing knives and spears from consuming stamina while aiming
  
• Fix an issue where manually placing an item was ignoring return values from a remove only inventory, this means that players do not loose grown produce when attempting to place grown produce in a full plot
  
• Cleanup deprecated assets in Assets folder
  
• Fix incorrect shadow settings on several foliage types
  
• Add validation to check FT shadow settings
  
• Reduced weight of throwing spears and knives by 60%
  
• Allow Bow Crosshair to be used on more weapon type
  
• Implement the BP_CrossHairInterface on BP_ActionableBehaviour_Throwable
  
• Use the existing information from D_RangedWeapon for animating the bow crosshair UI
  
• This means that throwing knives and spears provided better UX to players (like bows)
  
• Adjust default projectile camera offset during killcam
  
• Fixed incorrect camera rotation during throwing knive/spear killcam
  
• Update icons for interior wood wall double door and window meshes
  
• Remove deprecated KeybindHints UMG that was replaced with FocusItemInfo
  
• Changed default value for KeybindPrompt to be text on the left
  
• Adding some additional input contexts for various items (torches, throwing weapons etc)
  
• Add new ST_Inputs StringTable to not continue bloating ST_UMG
  
• Removed throwing actionables from D_Actionable axe items
  

• Moved dead prospector assets in PRP folder
  
• Trasferred riverbanks from Blue to Green Quad level, and Alien's cave cliff and transition cave from Green to Purple Quad level, DLC
  
• Adding creature notifiers
  
• Adding in geothermal lake and pool audio and adjusting spacializer and volumes
  
• Creating Landmind Actor and Adding Explosion Logic
  
• Setting up the Final Steps for Story Mission 5, swapping quest step to self craft a beacon
  
• Setting up Orbital Strike Quest Spawning
  
• Updated Highlightable on the Mission Data Device
  
• moved alien fossil assets in PRP folder
  
• Adding lava lake audio and event and DT setup
  
• Final Basic Logic For Story Mission 5
  
• Enabling Creature Spawning on Story Mission 5
  
• Fixup redirectors after Dead Prospector assets were moved
  
• Remove deleted row reference for Pro 5 story mission
  
• Cleanup Character assets part 1
  
• Adjustments to lava lake audio
  
• Added Ponga Tree & Foliage Cleanup to Mega Trees Levels
  
• Audio setup for Aspen saplings and seedlings. Also reduced foliage placement random pitch value to match other saplings
  
• Added Scoria icon and added it into D_Itemable
  
• Replaced macros with impassable meshes, artic area, blue quad
  
• Painted Voxels resources in Grasslands biome and polished cliffs/riverbanks, Green Quad, DLC
  
• Adding Basic Mission Flow For Story Mission 6
  
• Voxel Resource Placement in TU & AC on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Adding Clay, Obsidian, Tomato and Potatoi Mesh Hookup
  
• Resource Placement in Volcanic Biome and removed Dead Trees From Volcanic Biome, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Added potato icon art and added it into Itemable datatable
  
• Added growing frame mesh to version 2 of the bean crops. Removed colour change in the shader and made a change in the base texture to match. Updated foliage type and farming growth stage data table
  
• Submitting alien fossil cave map V2 and 3D assets
  
• Resource Placement in Volcanic Biome, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Clean up alien fossil cave redirectors
  
• Delete IceCool materials which have compilation errors
  
• Fix Geothermal Pools not working as water and RVT not writing in runtime
  
• Replaced macros with impassable meshes, swamp area, blue quad
  
• Move proto swamp lake audio actor to persistent level as its data was getting trashed by world gen
  
• Placed Cave Volumes and Voids, painted voxels in Tu, AC and SW biomes, Green and Yellow Quad, DLC
  
• Resource Placement And Voxel Placement, Volcanic Biome, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Voxel Resource Placement in SW on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Added DLC icon art and added them to D_Itemable
  
• Added breakable clay node combined mesh
  
• Added Breakable Obsidian node combined mesh
  
• Fix harvesting small trees temporarily causing incorrect footstep sounds to play by tweaking harvest destructible mesh collision settings so that they don't interfere with surface checks
  
• SM_Breakable_Scoria combined meshes version
  
• Add Steam VFX to Preset Geothermals
  
• Apply correct settings for footstep audio on geothermal pools and lakes
  
• Apply correct settings for footstep audio on geothermal pools and lakes - fix reference broken in previous commit
  
• Add icons for Clay Brick buildables
  
• Fixed up asset pointers in BPs for Clay Brick buildables
  
• Add Beam scene for IconEditor
  
• Fixed ItemsStatic pointing to wrong Buildable rows for Clay Brick buildables
  
• Small adjustments to the swamp lake audio
  
• Changed mask texture on TU_Dirt Decals under Tussocks
  
• Polished Voxels resources in GL,TU and SW biomes and polished cliffs/riverbanks, Green Quad, DLC
  
• Voxel Resource Placement in SW & Added IMP Around Map on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Resource Placement And Voxel Placement, Volcanic Biome, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Updating most volumes of new creatures, adding notifiers, adjusting notifiers, adjusting spacializers and general creature updates and improvements. Adding footstep notifiers for batdog TBC
  
• Added skeleton rig and bone mapping from the buffalo, These were used in retargeting the animations to the blueback
  
• SK_ITM_Sledgehammer mesh, material and textures
  
• Replaced old IMP with Merged IMP on Blue Quad
  
• Adding FLODDescriptions for Obsidian, Clay and Scoria Breakable Rocks
  
• updated alien fossil cave for final touches
  
• Adding B.Dog howl vocalisations and all footstep anim notifiers and movement audio events
  
• added conch mesh, textures and materials
  
• Add initial pass of a DPS target dummy to help balance weapons - developer only (for the time being)
  
• Added version one of the repair bench mesh and textures to the project
  
• Fortifications - Wood Gate- added prototype mesh and open animation
  
• Fortifications - Wood Wall - added prototype mesh
  
• Fortifications - Wood Walkway - added prototype mesh
  
• Fortifications - Wood Spikes - added prototype mesh
  
• Fortifications - Wood Walkway Ramp - added prototype mesh
  
• Fortifications - Wood Forward Ramp - added prototype mesh
  
• Fix scoria BP not inheriting from correct base class causing FLOD error
  
• Added the option to disable landscape sculpting in WT_RiverSpline
  
• Updated Electric Spline junction mesh to use new mesh, delete old temporary mesh, update texture settings for new mesh
  
• Voxel Placement In the Volcanic Biome And Swamp Biome, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Adding Sledgehammer impact on clay resource audio and event and also corrected B.Dog with wrong vocalisation and added crossbow aim sound to data table
  
• Added aspen seedlings and saplings in GL biome, cleaned up resources, Green Quad, DLC
  
• Rework Geothermals for non-met water setup
  
• Clay Resource Placement Started in SW & Cleanup on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Adding sledgehammer hit rock event to data table
  
• Adding Consumable and Usables to Tomato's and Potato's so they can be consumed
  
• Swapping new Transport ship system to run off an EQS with a basic backup for landing zone selection
  
• Prebuilt Structures now Spawn on a proper building grid and can be repaired players can build off that grid
  
• Adding Utility and Library for adding / loading prebuilt structures from both json files and strings
  
• Setting up cheat function to load / save prebuilt structures
  
• Fixing up various prebuilt stuctures being used in the prometheus story missions
  
• Updated Brick Tier stairs, ramps and Floor pieces
  
• Updated Brick Tier wall pieces
  
• Submitting Hightmap x4y4
  
• Adding Data table for prebuilt structures, adding new ways to build (DTRow, Raw, Json)
  
• Adding New MoHideout prebuilt structure json file
  
• Update DefaultEngine.ini to include Prebuilt Structure files in the packaged build
  
• Adding unique rockdog aggro state vocalisations and correcting path for sledgehammer files
  
• Cleaned up old ranged weapon data for previous spears
  
• Add spline generation tools to generic lake audio actors. Generate edge splines for all swamp lakes. Add a couple of optimisations to decrease update frequency for very distant lake audio
  
• Adjustments to creatures vocal spawn rates and aggro states
  
• Updating of Mo's Base Prebuilt Structure
  
• Adjustments to sledgehammer levels and balance
  
• Changed MA_Decal to add RMA and Sparkle Support, Packaged Alian Fossil Decal textures and adjusted MIs
  
• Updates improvements and additions to Needler
  
• Fix error in LakeSplineComponent breaking compilation of non-editor builds
  
• Updating EQS for Finding the supply ships landing location
  
• Submitting Blueback, carcass, bones, fur, lava and arctic variations
  
• Added first pass of Roat_Swamp. Updated data tables and created blueprints based on the rabbit asset
  
• Add island regions to swamp lake audio
  
• Added Updated texture and Gfur to the Blueback blueprint
  
• Stomp movements added to R.Dog and other various tweaks and updates
  
• Voxel Placement In the Volcanic Biome, Placement of Exotic Materials In Volcanic Biome And Landscape Painting, Purple and Green Quad, Prometheus
  
• Add Cliff to Green to Blue Transition, Clay Resource Placement in SW & Cleanup on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• First pass setup of Blueback_Lava and Blueback_Lava_Mount added to project
  
• Adding Base Logic for Dynamic Quest Spawning
  
• Adding Stat for showing Epic Creature Map Icons so they can shown Dynamically
  
• Adding Experience Events for different difficulties for the Dynamic Quests
  
• Adding 6 Dynamic Quests with Common Reward Logic
  
• Adding Roaming Epic Creatures for use in Dynamic Quests
  
• Tidied up IcarusGameState damage numbers logic for better readability, no actual data change
  
• Adding in predator bird Dive behavior and corpse setup, still needs some rotation and target selection polish
  
• Resaving GOAP_Setup to fix validation fail
  
• Adding in base implementation for Wooden fortification gate, as well as the recipes and talents for the rest of the fortification set ups, currently the recipes are just 1 wood and fibre for testing and some collision bounds will need tweaking to enable all the placements we want with the walls
  

Thrown Weapons Item Separation

Tier 3 & Tier 4 Crossbows

Workshop Stacking Problem

Changelog v1.2.23.103516

• Removed ability to throw basic knives and spears
  
• Allowed throwing knives and spears to stack
  
• Slightly increased bone and titanium throwing knife damage
  
• Unlocked Throwing Knives recipes for upcoming patch
  
• Unlocked recipes for thrown knives and spears
  
• Added break chance to thrown spears
  
• Reduced stamina cost on thrown knives and spears significantly.
  
• Allowed thrown knives to be thrown at lower charge, going less distance
  
• Implemented base Platinum and Titanium Crossbows
  
• Fixing issue where thrown knives and spears where recieving the durability and felling damage crafting Alterations when players had the appriopriate talents
  
• Adding new Tag 'Tool.Thrown' and new tag queries for thrown/melee spears, thrown/melee knives
  
• Fixing issue when throwing Knives & Spears that the item thrown would not be 1 but be the entire stack, example, throw one knife, the thrown knife has a stack count of 20
  
• Added textures and Mat for BOW_Crossbow_T3_Platinum
  
• Added textures and Mat for BOW_Crossbow_T4_Titanium
  
• Removed throwing knife bonuses on Shengong Daokou Knife and replaced with a wear rate reduction bonus
  
• Added icon representing thrown weapons
  
• Updated item text for T3 and T4 crossbows
  
• Added Throwing Weapons Item Icons and added into Itemable table. Updated throwing weapon icon
  
• Add LOD for T4 Crossbow. Fix materials pointing to wrong Physical Material
  
• Adding in base animation implementation for the new crossbows including character animations for the new type of reload, just missing the bolt part of the implementation where it shows in the players hand and on the crossbow
  
• Fixing D_Meshable buildvalidation fail by pointing the crossbow entry to the correct mesh
  
• Tweaking new crossbow reload animation montage to incluide a final bolt at the end section of the reload
  
• Unlocked crafting recipes for Throwing Knives and Spears.
  
• Increased throwing knife and spear stack size
  
• Adding TV crossbow fire audio
  
• Fixing throwing knives not appearing in your hand after throwing by adding in a notify to unhide the projectile after throwing
  
• Fixed a bug where you were able to use throwable objects while in a menu
  
• Adding in base implementation for the platinum crossbow, missing preview mesh of the bolt showing up buth all reload and fire assets hooked up and ready
  
• Adding Titanium crossbow mechanical sounds and events and notifiers
  
• Adding crossbow to data table
  
• Fixed spear not blending back to idle smoothly after releasing input key. Fixed throwing spear action deducting stamina cost before throw. Fixed throwing spear not un-hiding after throw montage completed
  
• Added support for chambered weapons to show a visible preview projectile mesh; AmmoController_SingleRoundReload now inherits from AmmoController_VisibleProjectile. Fixed Titanium Crossbow not showing preview projectile during reload animation
  
• Updating thrown weapon recipes to provide a stack of 10 on each craft
  
• Throwing knive actionable now only consumes primary input action
  
• Adding in Item Classification Icon for the thrown weapons
  
• Updating thrown weapon recipes to provide a stack of 5 on each craft
  
• Rebalanced thrown weapon recipes around 5x craft. - Slightly reduced Platinum Crossbow fire rate
  
• Tweaking the crossbows relead animation so that the bolt follows during the reload animation and adding in item icons for the new crossbows
  
• Fixed icons for Platinum and Titanium Crossbows
  
• Lots of additions and improvements to the crossbows. Separated each semgent out for speed variations and added new layers
  
• Adjusted high tier crossbow pull to have more slide to match length of stretch sound and other small adjustments to spacializers
  
• Updating the crossbow meshes to using the latest version, slightly cleaning up weighting and movemnts
  
• Updating physics assets and adding LOD to the Platinum Crossbow
  
• Slightly reduced delay between throwing a knife and starting your next throw, added the same delay to thrown spears (previously no delay)
  
• Update new Crossbow icons
  
• Allowed thrown spears to be charged for longer, providing slightly more power than before but lowering power at lower charges
  
• Adding the spear equip to the end of the throw montage to make the throwing equip feel smoother than the previous snap
  

• Changing Resolution Scaling max value from 100 to 200 as a test to see if its supported
  
• Add custom view distance settings for various world objects: EnzymeGeyser, Meta Deposits, Ore Deposits, Dropships
  
• Added support for non-GOAP characters in GOAP debugger cheat
  
• Fixed level not retrieving from correct source
  
• Readding Translations lost in all languages in a commit last week where crowdin was trampled
  
• Adding new Crowdin Recipe which force pushes all translations to crowdin
  
• ABYSS: Fixed bug where biomes aren't tracked correctly for research station deployment quest step
  
• Add advanced mode to GetActorCount widget to pull any class type
  
• Fixed typo in Healing Boost Module description
  
• Resolved data table errors with the chamois variant
  
• Fixed typo in Neat and Tidy talent Fertilized Alteration
  
• Changing the min/max values of Resolution Scaling setting to match the min/max supported by the engine, which is 33 to 100 percent
  
• Optimized Loading screen images, changed format to pow2, removed unused DT
  

• Undo single //Icarus_Stream/Trunk/Icarus/Content/ASS/VFX/WAT/SM_WaterfallBase.uasset revision 3 - still in use but ref didn't flag
  
• Fixing and hooking up T2 Communication Device so it can be deployed correctly using its own static mesh
  
• Adding Scoria, Potatoes, and Tomato Item Meshes to D_Meshable datatable
  
• Adding B.Dog aggro and idle breath audio
  
• replacing proxy meshes for alien bones
  
• Adding mangrove harvest audio, event and data table entry
  
• Updating Setup for Scoria / Obsidian / Clay Reward Nodes so they provide the correct resource
  
• Shifitng location of nodes so they are contained within their own folder
  
• LC Impassables - geometry fixes, added additional LOD level to improve houdini integration
  
• adjustments to mangrove harvest audio
  
• Added Mangrove in Levels & Added Foliage to Trees in Levels
  
• SM_Breakable_Obsidian Var 1 and 2 updated textures and collections
  
• Adding Lava sapling harvest sound and adjustments to mangrove harvest audio
  
• Set up the first of the swamp lake audio actors for testing
  
• Adding Prometheus Story Mission 5 Basic Flow
  
• Adding new prebuild outpost base
  
• Setting up new required quest blueprints and mission hazards
  
• B.Dog Data table setup
  
• AI Setup for audio for new creatures
  
• Polished foliage in TU and GL biome, deleted old Aspen trees and cleaned up resources in grasslands, Green Quad, DLC
  
• Manual Foliage Cleanup in the Swamp Biome and Cave Void Placement, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Added Macros to Transition SW to GL , Added Trees to TU, Set dressed Transition Cave SW to TU & CleanUp on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Added polished details to main trunk pieces for AC_Aspen_Var1, as well as added burnt version of the same tree
  
• Improvements and updates to mangrove harvest
  
• Moved Top Layer Macros to Persistent Level, Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Foliage tonal adjustments for consistency
  
• Update proto swamp lake audio due to lost data
  
• Adding bulbous harvest and adjustment to sapling harvest
  
• Update to lava sapling collision
  
• Polished foliage in TU and GL biome, deleted old Aspen trees and cleaned up resources in grasslands, Green Quad, DLC
  
• Manual Foliage Cleanup in the Swamp Biome and Cave Void/Volume Placement, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Generate Edge Spline to TU Lakes, Generated Water Points, Set Dressed Transition Cave SW to TU & CleanUp on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Added Aspen seedlings to the project. Added foliage types, blueprints and added them to the Flod data table
  
• Added Aspen saplings to the project. Added foliage types, blueprints and added them to the Flod data table
  
• Adding Aspen specific tree events and adjustments and a few additioanl layers to make them more unique
  
• Added version 2 of the tomato crops and items to the project with tomato fruit scaled up 100%. Uopdated foliage type, blueprint, and framing data table
  
• Adding swamp bush harvest audio, event and data table entry
  
• Add new Editor Utility Widget (EUW_GetActorCountInBiome) to look up actors and output their numbers on a per biome basis
  
• Adding param to reduce volume of footsteps in swamp water based on event trigger consistency. Added to data tables
  
• Added version 2 of the bean crops with z transform offset removed and growing frame mesh added
  
• Manual Foliage Cleanup in the Swamp Biome and Cave Void/Volume Placement, Purple and Green Quad, Prometheus
  
• Swap out all mangrove hollow trunk static mesh actors for BP versions in Blue and Purple quads. Mark meshes in hollow trunk BPs as static, and update fallen log master material to use correct physical material
  
• Adding S.Bird notifiers to animations and also setting up event for geo pool for sound design
  
• Fix Stalactites foliage setting to be able to paint on ceiling
  
• New Voxel Added for DLC Map & Named with Pro Prefix
  
• Fix Ponga Tree Z up foliage setting
  
• Foliage Setup for Aspen Sapling and Seedlings
  
• Changed Lava river mesh to be on 0 on WT and BP
  
• Generated River and Lakes splines in Grasslands and Tundra, Green Quad, DLC
  
• SM_Breakable_Clay Var 1 and 2 mesh, BP, textures and material
  
• Updated text for the Orbital Exchange Interface item
  
• Adding audio for geothermal lakes WIP. Also small adjustment to S.Bird notify timing and reverting water footstep to standard until DLC release
  
• Fixed spelling error in ST_UMG
  
• Added T2 Mission Communication Device Icon
  
• Adjustments to Geo Lake event and data table
  
• Updated item descriptions for new resources, crops, communicators, and devices
  
• Updated name for new exotic resource
  
• Updated new communicator names
  
• Added prototype merged impassable and macro meshes, purple quad
  
• Adding swamp lake audio and event and data table entry
  
• Orbital Lase Strike Prototype BP and VFX
  
• Added Ponga Tree to Mega Tree Var 1, Set Dressed SW to AC Cave, Added Mushrooms to BP_HollowTrunk & CleanUp on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Manual Foliage Cleanup in the Swamp Biome and Resource Placement in Volcanic Biome, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Created chamois variant base setup as a duplicate of the regular chamois
  
• Resolved data table errors with the chamois variant
  
• Added base setup for CRE_BlueBack and CRE_Mount_BlueBack. Needs to be updated with texture, fur, and IK control rig
  

Key Features

How to play

Open World, Missions and Outposts

Open World has been one of the most popular community requests for Icarus for a longtime, and it is traditionally how most survival games are structured. We frequently have conversations with players about ideas on how to structure Icarus, how to mix missions and open world, how to introduce aspects of persistence and more.

We originally launched Icarus with a unique Mission-based approach to survival games, which aimed to breakup sprawling sandbox experiences into more focused sessions. However, many people just don’t want to rebuild a base so frequently, or want their time and effort to be permanent and meaningful. So while we want to keep our unique Missions, adding new modes like Open World helps cater for those who want something a little more traditional when it comes to the genre.

This isn't simplifying our approach or flipping on what we intended the game to be, its an expansion towards a feature-rich game that caters for more players, regardless of how you prefer to play.

Adam Johnson - Design Lead

The future of Open World

Detailed Changelog v1.222.103152

• Added selection mode screen icons
  
• Added selection menu window textures
  
• Updated to use new open world prospect flow UI, open world map selection screen
  
• Added top border, tweaked font, colours and animation to UMG_TopLevelButton. Added mode tag Icons to theselection button (only as images, non-functional)
  
• Added MapSelection_Border.png for map selection border
  
• Added descriptions for each game mode to add the Open World update for localization
  
• Updated Open World drop point selection screen to match concept. Selectable drop points are now pulled from applicable items in D_DropGroups.
  
• Added new string table entries related to Open World UI. Added new Utility Widget for baking spawn group data into D_WorldData.
  
• Renamed Olympus prospect from 'DAYLIGHT: Olympus' to just 'Olympus
  
• Updated Open World drop point selection screen to match concept. Selectable drop points are now pulled from applicable items in D_DropGroups. Added new string table entries related to Open World UI. Added new Utility Widget for baking spawn group data into D_WorldData. Renamed Olympus prospect from 'DAYLIGHT: Olympus' to just 'Olympus'
  
• Tweaked borders on Drop Group selection UI. Updated Drop Group names to match corresponding spawn biome
  
• Added more 3 more icons for drop selection
  
• Added first pass difficulty indicators for each drop zone.
  
• Adjusted text prompt displayed to user when trying to leave an outpost or Open World map by dropship.
  
• Added new 'UseCustomTextKey' UProperty meta flag for disabling auto generation of localized text keys
  
• Tweaked difficulty settings for new Open World prospects. Removed Olympus outpost (existing saves migrated to Olympus Open World)
  
• Open World Terrain Selection is Now Ordered 'Olympus, Styx, NFTerrain'
  
• Widgets and animations for open world have been updated to keep consistent with the mission terrain selection
  
• Tidying up Open world drop point Selection so its a bit clearer and more readable
  
• Adjusted drop attributes to include new icons, images and layout
  
• Drop attributes are not capitalised and drop groud data structure has changed
  
• Added new WorldStat to disable Juvenile spawning on a per-prospect basis. Fixed bug where ensure would be thrown when trying to fetch best drop location for new Outpost
  
• Adding Basic Tooltips for the DropGroupAttributes
  
• Tidying up Mode Selection, Removed Open Animation, Resized Buttons
  

• Remove a ton of unused content from Developers and TRD folders to de-clutter project
  
• Tweaks to trees falling in water sounds. Also fixing spacializer min / max to be the same as the events on a few events
  
• Hook up new Screen Hit Effects Strength option to associated events in Character BP
  
• Add an options slider for Screen Hit Effects Strength in the Gameplay menu, which controls the strength of the screen effect when hitting a target, or being hit by a target
  
• Remove Dev Meta Reveal item and converted to Cheat function instead
  
• Fixed TextureLODGroup settings changes not being applied to all Windows profile groups, causing cooked assets to not be optimized
  
• Massive project content cleanup from Developer and ThirdParty folders, clearing out unused content
  
• Modify ShowRepairWarning logic in PlayerChar to be a separate event so it can be called externally
  
• Damaged buildings can no longer be Upgraded without first being Repaired
  
• Fixed naming conventions of booleans added to code. As per upsource ID:102730
  
• Cleanup ThirdParty/Maps/Hab/Orb content
  
• SPELUNKING: Increased requirements for all resources, requirements aproximately double higher tier resources, triple outside resources, and additional increases for resources the workshop picks provide bonuses for. This is to give the mission a bit more duration (it's still shorter than most other missions) and give more reasons to explore and use the provided tools effectively
  
• Enable shared DDC by default
  
• Added support for selecting drop ship spawn group when first starting an Open World prospect
  
• World bosses now have the ability to respawn if the correct world stat flag is set. Added new FDropGroupData in WorldData.h to make drop group information accessible outside of level context.
  
• Fixed editor crash that occured when UIcarusMapIconComponent tried to GetWorld as it was tearing down
  
• SPELUNKING: Removed requirement to find second cave entrance, better described cave entrance in quest objective
  
• Removed unused worldmarker and query lookup after removal
  
• Rename Rustic Bench to Rustic Sitting Bench to not confuse it with the actual crafting bench
  
• Disable weather damage on Rustic furniture
  
• Added fix for bug where outpost inventory wasn't being cleared correctly when player returned to hab via dropship
  
• Fixed incorrect encoding on ST_UMG
  
• SPELUNKING: Reduced Aluminium requirement and increased Iron requirement, this is to alleviate cases of bad RNG
  
• Temporarily disable Buffalo from spawning on Outposts to prevent Mounts from being accessible on Outposts. Will be re-enabled once a stat to prevent juvenille spawning is added
  
• Fixed bug where player would get dropped at group index 0 regardless of mission setup. Resources will no longer regenerate when Open World levels are reloaded
  
• Tidying up Mode Selection, Removed Open Animation, Resized Buttons
  
• Adding Basic Tooltips for the DropGroupAttributes
  
• Added new WorldStat to disable Juvenile spawning on a per-prospect basis. Fixed bug where ensure would be thrown when trying to fetch best drop location for new Outpost
  
• Fixing issue where the dropship inventory was not being checked for meta items in some code that was committed in preparation for the data decentralisation patch
  

• Added potato item asset
  
• Moved Cliffs on Green Quad to work on separatly, Purple Quad, DLC
  
• Added tomato and Potato growth stages to the farming data table
  
• Created Mo's Cave template in Cave template asset
  
• Adding Striker Flinch and Death audio and events
  
• Setup Foliage for Potatoes and Added to PFS
  
• Delete legacy Jungle/Lava/Wetlands DT/assets, use Swamp/Volcanic instead
  
• Update T019 Biome map and add specific biome areas
  
• Setup WeatherBiomeGroups for Prometheus
  
• Add DT Validation to make sure Biome rows don't use already used color combinations
  
• 2nd pass on Glacier mesh and materials (red quad)
  
• Fix Grass Plains to Grassy Plains
  
• Adding in striker aggro state audio and event
  
• Added 'Any_Meta_Consumable' D_TagQueries entry
  
• Included OnlineSubsystemNull in Build.cs to reduce compile times when switching between Trunk/Dedi branches
  
• Fixed normal maps and adjusted shader settings for all Aspen tree variants, which now share a single master billboard shader, as well as fixed some incorrectly rendered billboard textures
  
• Created cliff side for Mo's cave in lava biome, placed river flow points and ice flow points on frozen lake, generated resources in grasslands, Green Quad, DLC
  
• Manual Foliage Placement in the Swamp and Volcanic Biome, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Added Macro Tops, Reeds to Swamp, Added Riverbanks to Deepwater Swamp & CleanUp on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Added Prospect UI notification functionality from the dedicated server branch to improve merging between the development teams
  
• Added BP_SurvivalMetaController to help split functionality from the main controller which will reduce any merging conflict" #PORT
  
• Cleaned up Meta item query functions on BP_IcarusPlayerControllerSurvival to improve dedicated server usage
  
• Removing dedicated server code from prospect notification UI that currently doesn't exist in the live game
  
• Adding all new creatures to the data tables
  
• Fixing Volcanic and Swamp Atmosphere controller Switches so the New Atmosphere types work with the new biome map
  
• Improved collision on Macro Top meshes
  
• DC_Macro_08 - changed collision to complex (using LOD3)
  
• Create blueprint versions of mangrove hollow trunks so that we can run additional logic not provided by generic static mesh actors - still need to swap these out in map.
  
• Update audio shelter system with an additional option for actors to implement custom shelter-defining logic through an interface. Implement audio shelter and occlusion on the hollow trunk base BP
  
• Add BP_HollowTrunk to approved classes for world generation
  
• SW, TU, GL CanyonWalls - tweaks to materials, added NORVT mat to last LOD
  
• Added Colour variations of the beans, pumpkin, squash, wild tea, and cocoa plants. Created foliage types and blueprints, added to FLOD data table
  
• Updated view trace actor for FT_LC_Squash FLOD data table entry to correct blueprint
  
• Added throwing knives across all tiers of basic knife options
  
• Added cave volumes to the ignored actor list to allow world builders to start placing them for new map
  
• Foliage Setup for AC Tussocks and Recolored Crop Assets
  
• Adding Quest Steps for a new Prometheus Mission
  
• Update Visual Map textures for T019
  
• Initial work to set up audio implementation for rock breaking feature. Created a new datatable to define breakable rock data, and moved some hardcoded references from the base class there in a default row. Added a multicast to play effects when a node is broken off the rock base, and a placeholder audio event for this
  
• Painted new foliage types tomatos, potatos, pumpkin in TU and GL biome, generated resources and manually painted AC rocks and stones, Green and Yellow Quand, DLC
  
• Added Macro Tops, Reeds to Swamp, Added Rocks to the Tundra & CleanUp on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Manual Foliage Placement in the Swamp Biome, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Spawned General Resources in SW on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Audio data setup for potatoes and tomatoes
  
• Adding B.dog attack vocalisations and event
  
• Audio data setup and simple collision setup for all FLOD Tussock varieties
  
• Audio data setup for initial lava biome saplings
  
• B.Dog Flinch audio and event
  
• Adding prototype merged shadow geo for Prometheus
  
• Cleaned upo foliage in TU and GL biome, generated resources and manually painted AC rocks and stones, Green Quand, DLC
  
• Added Potato, Pumpkin, Wheat & Rocks to TU, Added Reeds to SW, Added Macros to Transition SW to GL & CleanUp on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Manual Foliage Cleanup in the Swamp Biome, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Added throwing spears across all tiers of basic spear options.
  
• Hooked up new customizable animation set to throwing knives and spears
  
• Added missing LOD Texture Groups to various DLC foliage
  
• Adding in full base setup for Swamp Quadruped, D_AIsetup character and corpse blueprints, missing corpse description text and custom skeleton mesh, Added animation montages. Haven't done crit region setup
  
• Foliage and tree audio setup for Grasslands biome, added simple collision and PMs as required
  
• Cleaned up and added foliage in Grasslands, Green Quand, DLC
  
• Setting up various new tags and queries for promethus quests
  
• Added new quest component which deals with item functionions in quest item inventories
  
• Adding basic mission steps for Prometheus Story Mission 4
  
• Updated version 1 of the tomato crops with the latest version with the transform offset removed. This will stop them floating above the crop plots. Updated blueprint, farming growth stage data table, and foliage type
  
• Reconfiguring all dead prospector blueprints
  
• Copied the swamp stalagmites and stalactities to the correct SM_SW_Rocks folder along with foliage types and materials
  
• Adding B.Dog death sounds and event
  
• Added protoype shadow geo to persistent level, Prometheus
  
• Added grassland stalactities and stalagmites to project and created foliage types
  
• Cleaned up foliage in TU and GL biome, generated resources and manually painted AC rocks and stones, Green Quand, DLC
  
• Adding B.Dog Idle audio and event
  
• Shifted Swamp stalactite foliage types from the SM_LC_Rocks folder to SM_SW_Rocks. Leaving redirectors in original folder
  
• Manual Foliage Cleanup in the Swamp Biome, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Audio and simple collision setup for foliage in Tundra biome
  
• adding B.Dog Aggro audio and event
  
• SM_Breakable_Obsidian Var 1 and 2 mesh, material, blueprint and textures
  
• Starting on Promethus Mission 5 Basic Quest Flow
  
• Creating Sols Hideout Prebuild Base & Adding Sols Communicaton Device
  
• Creating Audio Log items
  
• Finishing Basic Quest Flow for Promethus Mission 4
  
• Resaving World Data Datatable as the underlying data structure was saved and causing save issues
  
• Added Drop Icon for drop zone. Icon_AreaDrop
  
• Feature locked thrown spears and knives, to prevent accessing in current patch
  
• Implemented the Swamp Bird creature including Mount setup. Still needs Physics setup and crit region setup. Waiting on corpse and skeleton skinning pass and fur groom
  

Armor Durability Changes

Changes from Top 250 Feature Upvote Tickets

• Crafting on tables will now pause when inventories are full, preventing the loss of items which when finished crafting would be popped into the world nearby
  
• Debuffs reducing ‘maximum stamina’ no longer prevent jumping - notably in ice caves. This also means players can jump repeatedly while out of stamina to better navigate rocky terrain
  
• The UI can now be hidden in photo mode and while mounted
  
• We’ve fixed a couple of issues preventing progress in PAYDAY and VOYAGER (restarting the prospect won’t be needed for these fixes)
  

New Mission - SPELUNKING: ASSISTED STOCKPILE

Open World Mode Q&A

Changelog v1.2.21.102850

• Updating Armor Damage Equation so the Damage Dealt to armor is no longer tied to the amount resisted but instead directly off raw damage. This means that all armors will now take damage even if they dont have a specific resistance for that type (Something that resists only fire will be damaged by anything). It also means that resistance & armor durability is no longer inherintly linked and therefore better balancing can occur, both Durability and Resistances can be scaled independantly
  
• Adding GameplayConfig datatable for default values for various gameplay constants
  
• Updating Armor Damage Equation so armor accually takes damages
  
• Reduced all armor durability values by 50% as part of armor damage mitigation refactor
  
• SPELUNKING: Enabled Mission.
  
• SPELUNKING: Moved supply crate to be closer to first objective, rather than close to dropship
  
• Update quest queries to resolve build validation.
  
• SPELUNKING: Update quest steps to better guide players to cave entrances
  
• SPELUNKING: Fixed quest completion not being granted on prospect completion.
  
• SPELUNKING: Added Aluminium to quest objectives
  

• Tweaked chatbox for readability
  
• Modified DefaultScalability config to improve view distance settings. Default settings were too aggressive resulting in extremely short view distances which offered little to no performance gain, as distant objects are well optimized and don't cause a huge performance hit
  
• Deleted some old unused StaticMeshFoliage assets
  
• Improved Culling Distance settings on various StaticMeshFoliage assets to draw at more appropriate distances (some way too far, some way too short)
  
• Added Dithered LOD Transition support to MA_ITM shader as many foliage assets use this shader and without it, culling doesn't work properly
  
• Modified DefaultScalability config to improve view distance settings. Default settings were too aggressive resulting in extremely short view distances which offered little to no performance gain, as distant objects are well optimized and don't cause a huge performance hit
  
• Deleted some old unused StaticMeshFoliage assets
  
• Improved Culling Distance settings on various StaticMeshFoliage assets to draw at more appropriate distances (some way too far, some way too short)
  
• Added Dithered LOD Transition support to MA_ITM shader as many foliage assets use this shader and without it, culling doesn't work properly
  
• submitting all dead prospectors with aging variations BPs, textures, and materials
  
• Clean out 15GB worth of unused assets in the Megascans folder
  
• Added DataTable validation for D_MapIcons to prevent invisible icons due to invalid colour
  
• Clean up a ton of unused assets. Lots of triplicate unused Material Functions and shaders/materials. More removal of unused Substance and Megascans assets
  
• Fixed cave worm spawn on reload, if a player saves and reloads inside a cave then caveworms previously killed do not immediately respawn on load
  
• Crafting jobs are now aborted if output storage becomes full, instead of the previous behaviour where each item was dropped into the world
  
• Fix divide by zero assert seen in PIE
  
• Update HideUI function to work while Mounted
  
• Permit UI to be hidden when mounted
  
• Gate attempts to open Inventory/Crafting/TechTree/Map/Menu Toggle when UI is hidden
  
• Fixed an issue where the player would try to attack an arrow embedded creature/object with a melee weapon, the arrows would block the hit and the intended object would be unharmed
  
• PAYDAY: Updated quest step to factor placed extractors, preventing issues where you could find the exotic deposit but not progress the mission. - PAYDAY: Updated Prospect view tooltip to indicate that it unlocks the workshop radar and extractor
  
• Update HideUI function to work while Mounted and Photo Mode
  
• Permit UI to be hidden when mounted
  
• Permit UI to be hidden when in camera mode
  
• Gate attempts to open Inventory/Crafting/TechTree/Map/Menu Toggle when UI is hidden
  
• Gate attempts to open containers and context menus when UI is hidden
  
• Unhide UI on death
  
• Unhide UI on ESC
  
• This means that the game is playable to a large degree when the UI is hidden
  
• Fixed a bug where if you had too many stamina debuffs your stamina would drop so low that you wouldn't be able to jump and would get stuck if you fall into any hole/crevice
  
• Prevent cave worm spawn on reload, save respawn timeouts for cave worms, this means that if a player saves and reloads inside a cave then caveworms previously killed do not immediately respawn on load
  
• VOYAGER: Fixed a progress blocker when the ship launches earlier in the quest.
  
• VOYAGER: Fixed typo in quest description
  
• Fixed bug where player couldn't remove last item from crafting queue
  
• Fixed bug where on-player crafting would not start if there were no backpack inventory slots available
  
• Crafting jobs that run out of storage space now leave the paused crafting job in queue for visibility
  

• Added 4 variants of LC_Sapling_A to the project. Created foliage types, blueprints, and added to the Flod Data table
  
• Spawning TU & AC Foliage on Blue/Green Quad, DLC Map
  
• SW Impassables - fixes to 11 and 14, added 15-17, plus GL and TU variants
  
• Finished first pass macro replacement with impassables, green quad
  
• Spawning SW Trees, Ground Foliage & CleanUp on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Manual Foliage Placement in the Volcanic Biome, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Fix geothermal material disabling sulfur on medium/low
  
• Removed VertexPainting from Ice Shader, added RVT Points shader functionality and BPs
  
• Added new Crossbow Bolts, Explosive, Scatter, Bleed and Tazer
  
• Decal painting, landscape painting and foliage manual painting in arctic biome and underwater dressing, Green Quand, DLC
  
• Submitting dead prospector sinotai with aging variations BP's - test
  
• SM_Breakable_Scoria all variations mesh, material, blueprint and textures update
  
• Added version 2 of HRB_Crop_Tomatoes with colour adjusted to fit the grasslands biome and optimised mesh. Added 5 growth stages, a dead variant, and a wild variant. Created a blueprint and foliage type for the wild variant
  
• Removed unused BlueprintNativeEvent specifier on TerrainAnchor GetAnchorBounds to solve crashing when playing in editor
  
• Added Tomatoes to GL_Foliage PFS
  
• Added TU_Dirt to SnowLite Trees foliage
  
• Removing large lava biome rocks from the interactable list because they are way too big to be used as minable voxels
  
• Changed Shader on IcePillars/Icicles/GlacialCliff to MA_SnowIce and added Thickness mask option to shader
  
• Changed DF Self Shadowing bias on Assets using Serac Shader to fix weird shadows, also enable mesh distance field to ice cave floors
  
• Disable Pixel Offset on Frozen Lake Shader fix collision issues
  
• Decal painting, landscape painting and foliage manual painting in GL biome, Green Quand, DLC
  
• Spawning SW Trees, Ground Foliage & CleanUp on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Manual Foliage Placement in the Volcanic Biome, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Adding new Crafting Recipe for T2 mission communication device
  
• Delete CF_Fern_01 FLOD row to fix build validation
  
• Adding Mega Tree on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Test for Shared quad landscape painting and foliage spawning, Green and Purple Quad, DLC
  
• Reduced spawn rate of general resources on DLC1 Spawner
  
• Fix Shader on old ice stalagmites and self shadowing issues with ice cave entrances
  
• Add simple collision and physical materials to swamp plants, update collision settings, and update audio tags in FLOD table
  
• Added SW_ReedA with 5 variants, including updating the foliage types
  
• Reduce spawn rate of large rocks on GL
  
• Add ability to apply surface type and water depth parameters to felled tree impact sounds, specifically so that we can handle swamp trees landing in shallow water
  
• Submitting Deer variant, including carcass, fur and winter variation
  
• Spawning SW Trees, Ground Foliage, Added Riverbanks to Deepwater Swamp & CleanUp on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Exotic Delivery Radio - Static+Destructible mesh, textures, materials added
  
• Exotic Delivery Radio - textures missed in last commit
  
• Resave D_TreeAudioData to prevent validation error
  
• Decal painting, landscape painting and foliage manual painting in GL biome, Green Quand, DLC
  
• Manual Foliage Placement in the Volcanic Biome, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Removed some meshes from Terrain 019 that are meant for voxels
  
• Removed large swamp meshes from the voxel table because they're too big
  
• Fixed lava lakes/rivers in Terrain 019 not displaying properly after generation
  
• Adding Transport Pod Base Class, Exotic Delivery and Supply Pod Inherit from this, allows for common functions in each class
  
• Adding Dynamic Travel Quest which allows a variable location rather than a hard set one
  
• Added new Exotic Delivery Interface Item which can call down an exotic delivery ship
  
• Adding new Quest Steps for Promethus Missions
  
• Adding a base class for retrieve item, renaming quest retrieve item class to reflect its operations (it also spawns a crate)
  
• Added new Quest Functionaility for Retrieving items
  
• Adding all base implementation setup for the Bat Dog, all data table entries and base montage, blueprint and animation setups
  
• LC Flax/Sapling, Rocks, Stalactites Foliage Setup + Spawner
  
• Decal painting, landscape painting and foliage manual painting in GL biome, Green Quand, DLC
  
• Spawning Ground Foliage, Reeds to Swamp, Added Riverbanks to Deepwater Swamp & CleanUp on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Manual Foliage Placement in the Volcanic Biome, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Adding Promethus Terrain Selection to Development Builds
  
• Connecting Faction Missions to Talent Graph for Prometheus
  
• Committed Completed Quest Objective Structure
  
• Adding Cheat functions for setting / getting account flags
  
• Adding new Map Icons for Various Transport Pods
  
• Adding New Texture tweaks for various drop pods
  
• Adding Basic Mission Structure in for two Prometheus Missions
  
• Swapping Contaminated Bear Creature to be Bat dog in Prometheus Intro Mission
  
• Adding in all base Needler setup, still needs ranged attack implementation and burrowing, but mimics the crocodile at the moment, physics asset setup to come, data table, blue print, montage and anim setup in
  
• Fix issue where sometimes neither water splash nor jump landing sounds would play when player jumped in shallow water
  
• Riverbanks LOD roughness fix
  
• Moved Avalanched Meshes to Red Quad from Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Basic audio setup for swamp cypress tree, including rough implementation of water trunk land sound
  
• Macro Tops - Trimmed down versions of SW macros for use in map as flat rock shelves/pieces. SW, TU, GL variants
  
• First pass of resource node audio setup for swamp foliage
  
• Increased Flat Fade Distance on Reeds to fix view distance
  
• Adding attack, Idle close and Idle distance audio and events for Striker
  
• Adding in alien fossil cave temp
  
• First pass on Glacier mesh and materials (red quad)
  
• Adding base Predator bird setup and new swoop animations, still missing the corpse behavior and dive bomb logic
  
• Missing dive bomb and swoop animations from last Predator bird commit
  
• Added UMG_AreaSelect for open world mode
  
• Added generic triplanar material for Avalanche on DLC1 Map
  
• Decal painting, landscape painting and foliage manual painting in GL biome, Green Quand, DLC
  
• Added Macro Tops, Reeds to Swamp, Added Riverbanks to Deepwater Swamp & CleanUp on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Manual Foliage Placement in the Swamp and Volcanic Biome, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Added potato foliage assets. Created blueprints, foliage types and added to FLOD data table
  
• Adding Tech for providing prebuilt bases for use on terrains and missions
  
• Adding some prebuilt bases for missions
  
• Finishing up Another quest for Prometheus
  
• Adding Various quest markers and quests to the Prometheus Map
  
• Adding new Swamp and Volcanic Atmosphere types
  
• Adding in P Bird sweep audio and event and adding to animation
  
• Adding in full base setup for deer variant, D_AIsetup character and corpse blueprints, missing corpse description text and custom skeleton mesh
  
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Husbandry Tree

Key Mount Fixes & New Mechanics

• We have increased the default carry weight capacity of the Buffalo mount and added extra capacity to the pack harness
  
• We have added a new ability to manually feed and give water to Mounts from items in your quick-bar. Hand-feeding Mounts will give them a short burst of health regeneration.
  
• We have improved the Mount/Juvenile ability to navigate towards troughs and beds
  
• Mounts no longer starve to death when at a distance from the player
  
• Mounts/Juveniles now take item nutrition value into account when eating, meaning they will consume lower quantities of high nutrition items such as watermelon, but will consume higher quantities of low nutrition items such as berries
  

Future Mount Features

The Future: 3 Distinct Game Modes

Narrative Chain Missions

Changelog v1.2.20.102562

• Added framework for Husbandry talent tree. - Renamed Construction talent group to Habitation
  
• Added base class for Spike Traps and cleaned up logic for Hedgehogs, basic Wood Hedgehog will now damage players, hedgehogs deal 50% damage to players
  
• Added ranks to Husbandry tree talents. - Renamed Husbandry tree talents from placeholder names to more accurate names
  
• Adding new Stats for Husbandry Talents
  
• Added stats to Husbandry talent points
  
• Updating Husbandy talents to include new stats
  
• Setting up modifiers for new taming aura's
  
• Setting up crafting cost reductions for saddles and taming equipment
  
• Adding new TamedCreatureModifiers Table for Determining the stat transfer between player and tamed creature / juvenile
  
• Setting up Virtual stats for new husbandry stats
  
• Hooking up Player States related to Riding Creatures (Oxygen, Food, Water Consumptions and Exposure Resistance)
  
• Adding new Stats for Player Husbandry Talent Tree
  
• Adding Missing Virtual Stats for Older Taming stats so we can work with the new system
  
• Updated stats on Husbandry talents to fix build validation error.
  
• Increased Buffalo Mount Health Regeneration
  
• Players will now be kicked out of the mount inventory screen if player/mount distance becomes too large. Mounts now use generic ragdoll behaviour shared with other NPCs
  
• Linked new stats to Husbandry talents.
  
• Updated Husbandry talent and related stat descriptions
  
• Creatures mounted by local player play audio when taking fall damage
  
• Players are now prompted with a dialog to set name when first claiming a tamed mount. Shifted 'open mount inventory' functionality into mount class instead of inside actionable
  
• Added first pass of Husbandry talent tree background
  
• Setup specific XP events for Moa, Juvenile Moa and Juvenile Buffalo.
  
• Enabled Juveniles to be counted towards baby animal kills and their respective parent creature type kills
  
• Adding Husbandry talent tree background asset
  
• Mounts and Juveniles will now have any player-owner driven stats applied to them when claimed, or when led by a new player in the case of juveniles. In the case of session reload, mounts and juveniles will wait for their most recent owning player to reconnect before reapplying relevant stats. Implemented following stats for use with husbandry talent tree: JuvenileFriendlyToPredators, TameSleepRequirement, IsJuvenile, IsMounted
  
• Tamed mount food/water is no longer reduced when their current level tile is unloaded
  
• Juvenile taming tooltip now switches temp requirement icon based on current environmental temperature. Fixed taming temperature virtual stat using the wrong base stats
  
• Added ability to feed and give water to mounts from currently equipped hotbar item. Nutritional value of food is now counted when mounts/juveniles go to eat, meaning it will take more than one item to completely satisfy hunger
  

• Fix closed doors and windows sounding open after respawn. There is a potential issue with initialisation order, so try to set the open FMOD parameter again if it fails the first time on BeginPlay
  
• Optimization pass on Buildables textures. Consistency pass on texture settings and reducing 4k textures to save memory
  
• Optimized some assets with high triangle counts to improve performance
  
• Remove sequence reference from Cave diorama causing unnecessary asset loads, wasting memory
  
• Numerous texture optimizations and settings consistency pass to save memory
  
• Fix LOD settings on Dead Prospetor meshes (LOD3 was 5k triangles), should have 6 LODs with the final being <1k
  
• Delete unused Tree meshes which have bad LODs and no materials
  
• Optimized and/or deleted unused assets in VFX/TRE folder to improve performance
  
• Add LODs to assets missing them or needing settings improved. Delete unused assets
  
• Fixed inaccurate collision on Scorpion Hedgehog mesh causing hits to fail often
  
• Add new option to Graphics Menu (Limit Poolsize To VRAM) which may help alleviate blurry textures on GPUs with not enough memory. Note: this is enabled by default and should only be disabled if you are having texture issues. Disabling it may cause issues/crashes
  
• Remove some of the many old variations of WIP HAB levels to allow easier cleanup of old otherwise unused assets. Deep chained asset references result in expensive assets being shipped unnecessarily, causing larger builds, bigger load times and more memory consumption
  
• Removed Prospect007 entry from Terrains DT to fix validation error
  
• Remove old levels which cause a ton of unnecessary references and make cleanup of old assets impossible
  
• Prevent graphics settings from being applied before the graphics subsystem is ready, reset the resolution scale when entering/exiting DLSS/FSR, ensure r.ScreenPercentage CVar calls are made with ECVF_SetByScalability priority so that the LegacyScreenPercentageDriver can make changes, this means that resolution scaling works correctly (when DLSS/FSR are switched off) and multiple combinations of settings are applied
  
• Move marker for this quest to a new serialization system ('MapSearchArea' vs 'LocationSearchArea'), reload the mission several times to ensure the marker now always shows up, this means that the map marker should always appear after reload on the station to station mission
  
• Accolade: Ravenous only tracks food consumed when consuming stack, wired PlayerTracker to consume food (of stack size 1) on right click 'consume', different code path from right click 'consume stack', this means players are awarded progress towards consumption accolades when comsuming single food items as well as stacks of food items
  
• STRANGE HARVEST: Fixed typo in quest description
  
• HOMESTEAD: Updated Rustic Statue objective to Rustic Icarus Statue, to better guide players to the correct statue to craft
  
• Added Sandworm boss to all Olympus Exploration missions (min 1, max 4)
  
• Styx has different Biomes from Olympus, so map accolades to atmospheres rather than biomes, this means that players correctly attain progress towards Biome accolades on Styx (Scorched Traveller, Forzen Traveller et al.)
  
• Voyager Mission - Fixed Den item replenishment
  
• Strange Harvest: Fixed respawn on boss to ensure respawning on prospect reload
  
• Strange Harvest: Fixes issue preventing objective particles to appear
  
• Fixed Holdfast Outpost getting stuck on preparing geometry when crossing into the B4 tile by adding the missing level bounds actors which guarantee the correct levels are loaded
  
• Fixed weather timeline UI not updating correctly when mounted
  
• Fixed bug where talent tree view could break when trying to assign talent points while mounted
  
• Fixed bug where mounts and juveniles still wouldn't attempt to move to beds or water troughs if they were off navmesh
  
• Juvenile taming tooltip now switches temp requirement icon based on current environmental temperature. Fixed taming temperature virtual stat using the wrong base stats
  
• Fixed bug where talent tree view could break when trying to assign talent points while mounted
  
• Hand-feeding a mount will now apply a moderate amount of health regen, with the duration changing based on food's nutrition. Mounts can now be affected by warm and cozy buff
  
• Adding in all base AI setup for the Rock Dog, including all anim montages and placeholder stat values, still needs lava state hookup and lava based attacks to be completed
  
• Fixed Nurturing Presence aura not affecting juvenile taming speed. Fixed NPCs not being able to receive aura modifiers
  
• Fixing inherited collision on the wood gate that was stopping arrows, it is a door base BP which has the collision there to stop multiple doors being placed on top of eachother
  
• Fixed bug where cave modifier / visual effects wouldn't apply correctly when entering a cave while mounted
  
• Fixed bug where Juveniles/Mounts would stop short of their bed/trough when interacting with it. Juveniles and Mounts should hang back a little more when following player owner. Fixed bug where taming speed stat wasn't affecting the overall tame duration as expected; reworked the internal stats driving taming speed / duration
  
• Extended the level streaming distance on Holdfast Outpost to solve the preparing geometry screen appearing when crossing into the B4 tile
  
• Increased Buffalo mount carry weight limit to 300kg, Pack Harness adds an additional 300kg carry weight capacity
  
• Fixed juveniles not being ignored by hostile creatures when using the 'One With Nature' talent
  
• Implement audio cues when player manually feeds or waters mounts. Audio refs still to be added
  
• Adding sounds and events for mounts being manually fed / watered
  
• Fixed bug where player would consume held food item when hand-feeding mounts. Mounts and Juveniles will now reset the spoil timer on stacks of food left over after feeding from troughs
  
• Fixed bug where player wouldn't have their internal 'IsMounted' stat removed when dismounting from saddle
  
• Strange Harvest: Significantly increased tether distance on boss to prevent unintentional resetting
  
• Fixed bug where the 'Feed'/'Give Water' tooltip would show when looking at a mount with an invalid held item
  
• Adding feeding mount sounds to BP and correcting the buffalo mouth socket in data table
  
• Mounts and Juveniles will now receive a health regeneration boost after eating from food troughs (similar to hand feeding)
  
• Fixed typo in Enzyme Geyser description, havest to harvest
  
• Added footstep particles to mounts
  
• Improved modifier stacking behaviour, longest modifier durations will now always take priority. TamingSpeed aura modifier is no longer visible to players
  
• Fixed bug where mounts would start drowning if stood in water for too long
  

• Added Brick Buildable tier assets and added to blueprints
  
• Added BLD_Stairs_Brick
  
• Added foliage type asstes for the lava groundcover foliage. LC_Groundcover_A, LC Groundcover_B, LC_GrassA
  
• Added on to Transition Cave on Purple Quad, DLC Map
  
• Removed Tussocks and setup grass variations for Tundra Grass Layer
  
• Change Snow Tree foliage variations to be able to paint on AC_Snow
  
• Added SW_Bramble A, C, D, E, F, And G Foliage types, Blueprints, and added to FLOD Data table
  
• Fixed underground cave cliffs material to No RVT, Green Quad, Styx
  
• Added foliage types and BPs for several swamp plants, as well as the Toi Toi for Grasslands, along with all of their FLOD Data Table entries
  
• Adding Pbird Attack and death audio and FMOD events
  
• LC Ground Covers/Grass foliage setup
  
• Added tags/queries for sledgehammer harvesting, currently set up so the node can only take damage from sledgehammer hits
  
• Added sledgehammer breakable node class/functionality, with an example setup called BP_BreakableRockExample
  
• AC Bushes/Foliage (Harvestable) Foliage Setup
  
• Adding missing sledgehammer code files from previous commit
  
• Added Cliffs for Avalanched AC on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Create SM from IceBorer SK
  
• Tweak IceBorer constraints
  
• Point to correct mesh for Ice Borer meshable and delete old greybox assets
  
• Added Buttercups to GL_Grass and Foliage Setup
  
• TU Tussocks Foliage Setup and Proedural Foliage Spawner
  
• LC to SW Transition Cave Set Dressing, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Landscape Painting, Decal Pass and Cliff Placement, Green and Yellow Quad, DLC
  
• Adding Pbird data table entries and setup and distant idle audio
  
• Update Hitable row for Rock to reference new native C++ class
  
• Set Reeds as Foliage type for Swamp
  
• Manual AC Foliage Placement on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Decal painting, landscape painting and foliage manual painting in arctic biome, Green and Yellow Quands, DLC
  
• Fixed up Needler assets. Added Carcass mat variation. Pointed SKs to their appropriate materials. Deleted SM. Optimized texture settings
  
• LC to SW Transition Cave Set Dressing, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Swamp Macros - LOD pass, material edits on 04-06, plus GL and TU variants. Tweaked LOD distances on all meshes to transition sooner
  
• Foliage Setup and Procedural Spawner for General SW_Dirt plants
  
• Grass/GroundCover Setup for SW_Dirt
  
• Foliage Setup and Procedural Spawner for Tree/Saplings on SW_Muddy
  
• Toggle Grassland option on DLC1 Landscape to use new foliage/ grass options on CF layers
  
• Foliage Setup for Shelf Mushrooms
  
• Tweak Mangrove/Cypress Saplings generation values to balance spawn amount on SW_Muddy
  
• Moved Large Scale Swamp Cliff Meshes Into the Persistant Level, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Remove E_Waterfall_Base_Foam_smallBurst emitter which is unused but contains errors and shows up in log in Steam build
  
• Adding S.Bird close and far idle audio
  
• SW Impassable meshes - added 01-06
  
• Prototyped Stalactites/Stalagmites placement solution
  
• Removed RVT option fo Cave entrance on CF_Cave_MED_01 to fix underground cave RVT problems
  
• Adding S.Bird Attack vocalisations and event
  
• SW Impassable meshes - added 07-08, material tweaks on all meshes
  
• Manual AC & TU Foliage Placement on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Decal painting, landscape painting and foliage manual painting in arctic biome, Green Quand, DLC
  
• LC to SW Transition Cave Set Dressing, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Adding GL_TussockA and it's 3 variants, including foliage types
  
• Updated Brick Tier Buildable changes
  
• FT_D_TU_DirtDebris - decal created from Tundra grass terrain textures
  
• Moved Large Scale Swamp Cliff Meshes Into Purple Quad Level, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Small SW rocks - material parenting changes, duplicated meshes for Tundra and Grasslands
  
• Added inverted versions of selected cave stalagmites to create stalactites. Added foliage groups for these to allow them to be painted in the level. Tweaked material on Rock_Cave_Stalagmite_05 to match the others
  
• Med SW rocks - material parenting changes, duplicated meshes for Tundra and Grasslands
  
• Foliage Setup for ToiToi/GL Tussocks/Aspen Tree and Procedrual Spawners
  
• Setup Foliage for SW Internal Cliff Plants
  
• Tweaks to GL Foliage Instance Settings, Cull distance and shadows
  
• Adding S.Bird flinch and death sounds and events
  
• Added AC_TussocksA variants, including Foliage Types and BPs, and added them to the FLOD data table
  
• Manual AC & TU Foliage Placement on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Manual Foliage Placement in the Volcanic Biome, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Decal painting, landscape painting and foliage manual painting in arctic biome and underwater dressing, Green Quand, DLC
  
• Adding S.Bird Nip jaw and nip vocalisations and event
  
• Swamp Rocks - FTs and associated BPs added for Lrg, med, sml rocks
  
• Grasslands Rocks - FTs and associated BPs added for Lrg, med, sml rocks
  
• tundra Rocks - FTs and associated BPs added for Lrg, med, sml rocks
  
• Volcanic Rocks - FTs and associated BPs added for Lrg, med, sml rocks
  
• Added 3 variants of bulbous flax plant for the lava biome with foliage types and blueprints
  
• Adding S.Bird Nip audio to event and all footstep notifiers. Also adding all data entry tables for creature so far
  
• Added bulbous Flax to the FLOD data table
  
• Updated Brick Tier Floor
  
• Swamp/GL/TU macros - polish on textures+materials
  
• Volcanic Rocks - voxel cache files for LRG, MED, SML rocks
  
• Swamp Rocks - voxel cache files for LRG, MED, SML rocks
  
• Adding S.Bird aggro vocals and more unique idle layers
  
• Tundra Rocks - voxel cache files for LRG, MED, SML rocks
  
• Grasslands Rocks - voxel cache files for LRG, MED, SML rocks
  
• Adding in base implemenation of opening wooden gate to use with the railings, all base assets and data table setups, currently is awarded to the player along side the wooden railing when it is unlocked, using the same cost processor recipe
  
• Adding data table entries for aggro event for S.Bird
  
• Manual Foliage Placement in the Volcanic Biome, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Manual AC & TU Foliage Placement on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Decal painting, landscape painting and foliage manual painting in arctic biome and underwater dressing, Green Quand, DLC
  
• Added SW Impassable 09, plus GL variants of 1-9
  
• macro replacement with impassables, green quad (WIP)
  
• Adding S.Bird notifiers for movement sounds
  
• Added AC_Pine_SnowLite and AC_Fir_SnowLite, including foliage types and BPs, as well as Data Table entries
  
• Setup SW Rocks, Moss function tweak to fix moss inside voxels, Added rocks to SW_Dirt_Foliage Spawner
  
• Submitting first pass fortification implemenation, includes wall, spikes, walkway and stairs and all base data table setups as well as relevant blueprints the system uses our existing deployable socket and snapping features, so doesnt requiore a building grid
  
• SW Impassables - added 10-14, plus GL variants
  
• Fixed UV distortion of SW_MAC_05
  
• macro replacement with impassables, green quad (WIP2)
  
• Created PFS for GL/CF/SW and General Resources, changed AC_Stone Shader to not use RVT for TU use, Added DLC Layers to Resources
  
• Manual Foliage Placement in the Volcanic Biome, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Spawning SW Foliage on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Decal painting, landscape painting and foliage manual painting in arctic biome and underwater dressing, Green Quand, DLC
  
• SM_Breakable_Scoria blueprint, mesh, material and textures
  
• Setting up Deployable to call down an exotic extraction ship for delivering exotics while on a prospect (this is preperation of the data decentralisation game flow
  
• Added Wood Railing Gate Icon to D_Itemable
  

STRANGE HARVEST Revamp

HEADSTONE and KILL LIST

• Wolf packs now spawn at clue locations, with their levels scaled more accurately to the selected difficulty
  
• Wolf packs anchored behaviors have been altered so the pack stays with 1000 meters of its spawn zone
  
• Map icons for interactable targets are added when players reach a clue location
  
• Quest clue locations have been reorganized so players won’t have to ‘backtrack’ away from the final target
  
• We’ve added map prompts for the quest objectives
  

• The drop location has been moved closer to mission objectives
  
• Survey equipment is now contained within the dropship to streamline mission setup and remove the opportunity for unexpected collision issues with the care package
  
• AI now responds more aggressively to transmitters, and has been rebalanced with more creature variety in the spawn pool
  
• Mission items are now correctly tagged as quest items
  
• Transmitter Health and Progress are now displayed as quest steps
  
• Added more spawn points near Survey deployment locations for attacking creatures
  

Other Missions

Future Updates

Changelog v1.2.19.102260

• Scaled AGRICULTURE: Supply Stockpile mission objectives with selected difficulty. Slightly reduced hunting shipment requirements on normal difficulty
  
• Killlist mission - Mature Pack Wolfs now spawn at clue locations, their levels scale by selected difficulty
  
• Killlist mission - Adding new Mature Pack Wolf Epic Creature Spawn Config
  
• Killlist mission - Adding new Pack Wolf Anchored Behaviour with a distance of 1000 so it stays very close to its spawn zone
  
• Killlist mission - When reaching a clue location, a map icon appears to show the exact interact target
  
• Killlist mission - Shifting Quest Clue locations so the quest no longer requires back tracking when moving towards quest objectives
  
• Killlist mission - Slightly tweaked multiplayer scaling on follower wolves and Alpha wolf
  
• Killlist mission - Adding Map prompts to quest objectives
  
• Headstone Mission - Updating Drop Location so it is closer to the mission objectives
  
• Headstone Mission - Survey equipment is now contained on the players ship
  
• Headstone Mission - AI now get angry and charges at the transmitter
  
• Headstone Mission - Rebalanced AI which spawns and added more variety
  
• Headstone Mission - Fixed Map markers so they reload correctly mid mission
  
• Headstone Mission - Transmitter Health and Progress are now displayed as quest steps
  
• Headstone Mission - Mission items are now correctly tagged as quest items
  
• Headstone Mission - Replaced Crate with Supply pod when picking up transmitter
  
• Headstone Mission - Added Manual Spawn points near Survey Deployment locations
  
• Strange Harvest Mission - Changed Drop Point Location to add variation to early mission drop point locations
  
• Strange Harvest Mission - Changed Entire Mission Flow, players now investigate toxins within an area eventually tracking down the source
  
• Strange Harvest Mission - Adding new Contaminated Bear Creature with Anchored Behaviour, includes new materials, fur and particles
  
• Strange Harvest Mission - Adding 3 new mission items (Flora, Digested Biomatters and a Bioweapon sample)
  
• Strange Harvest Mission - Adjusting all objective locations to reduce player travel distance and backtracking
  
• Strange Harvest Mission - Updated quest logic to use new systems present in styx, decremented beta weekend quest systems, fixing search area and map icon reloading
  
• Strange Harvest Mission - Adding new Delivery Quest Markers and Droppod / Crashed Ship Variations
  
• Strange Harvest Mission - Updating Quest Objectives and Mission breifing
  
• Strange Harvest Mission - Adding new Map Icon for Contaiminated Bear
  
• Strange Harvest Mission - Adding Delivery Step to Quest for collected items
  
• Killlist Mission - Search area narrows down as you find each clue.
  
• Killlist Mission - Increased tether range on follower wolves
  
• Headstone Mission, fixed typo in quest step.
  
• Heastone Mission, ensured AI stop spawning if transmitter is disabled.
  
• Headstone Mission, fixed issues causing quest progress to be lost after completion.
  
• Headstone Mission, changed spawn location to be closer to mission objectives
  
• Strange Harvest Mission - Adding Contaminated Bear Corpse and tooltip
  
• Strange Harvest Mission - Fixing Bioweapon not spawning in correct container & Delivery not checking correct container
  
• Updating reward from 50 -> 85 for Strange Harvest Mission
  
• Headstone Mission - Extending Creature Teathers to allow more nautral creature movements
  

• Fixed rotation on railing snap position for glass floors which was causing railings to be at 90 degree angles
  
• Delete a bunch of unused DataTable content which is causing assets to be unnecessarily loaded (taking up memory resources and increasing build size) and clutter content
  
• Added text to clarify water requirement on crafting windows for cement mixer, biofuel composter and electric composter
  
• Fixed another bug with juvenile mounts disappearing when reloading a prospect; Freeze/Unfreeze functionality for IcarusNPCCharacters now stops all movement before freezing, and uses only the character capsule component for TerrainAnchor bounds
  
• Added water connections to Masonry and Electric Masonry benches which increases processing speed when satisfied
  
• Adjust Sandbanks LOD material roughness to fix inconsistency with base material
  
• Ensure that the activation of the thermal component stays in step with (graphical) light activation, this means that players get a temperature buff when wood rag torch is equipped in light slot (as well as in hand)
  
• Improve Scorpion Physics Asset to be more accurate by adding more smaller capsules to better encapsulate the mesh. Gaps between capsules meant projectiles could pass through without hit
  
• Adjust equation for mammoth and elephant stomp knockback velocity, this means that large mammoth boss and elephants should no longer be able to knock players out of the map [Bug] Hurled across map by Mammoth to out-of-bounds area and killed, losing all equipment - SurviveIcarus
  
• Mounts and Juveniles can now eat / drink from troughs that are off the navmesh
  
• Fixed an issue preventing Heavy Glass Windows from being reinforced using a water connection, slighly reduced heatlh of these so when reinfoced they have the same health as the wall itself
  
• Prevent graphics settings from being applied before the graphics subsystem is ready, this means that resolution scaling works correctly (when DLSS/FSR are switched off
  
• Fixed issue causing the water trough to be labelled as Storage and gaining the Expanded alteration.
  
• Added level scaling for Mammoths and Elephants, resulting in significantly increased health and minor increases to damage.
  
• Fixed instance of Juveniles getting destroyed upon prospect reload. Removed code that was automatically cleaning up 'stuck' NPCs if they hadn't moved from their original spawn location 15s after spawn
  
• Removed 'Set' ItemsStatic entries from ValidAmmoTypes DT accidentally added in during data update, allowing the Workshop consumable stacks to be fired directly from the weapon.
  
• Added DT Validation to prevent unwanted items being added in to ValidAmmoTypes DT
  
• Added recipe to craft Bone from Mammoth Tusks at the Cooking Station.
  
• Overflow bags generated when player respawns no longer simulate physics to prevent cases where they fall through the world
  
• Reduced threshold for tames to get hungry and thirsty.
  
• Fixed stat assignment on the Hunger modifier pointing to an incorrect stat.
  
• Revert sRGB setting on map textures which have not been brightened up via art pass, causing them to appear too dark
  

• Updated CAC maps for IceCave Pillars, Ice Stalagtites and Stalagmites
  
• Added foliage type and blueprints for tundra bush assets
  
• Added Foliage type and Blueprints for Tundra Sapling assets. Updated FLod Data table with tundra foliage
  
• Decals painting and cliff placement in arctic Blue Quad , DLC
  
• Adding in WIP fur assets for the Bat dog for fur creation
  
• T2 Mission Communication Device - mesh, textures, materials added
  
• Painted Decals Volcanic Area & Added Cliffs to Base of Macros Volcanic Area on Purple Quad, DLC Map
  
• Allowed the Shoot the Breeze talent to use the Material Processor as well as Mortar and Pestle
  
• T2 Mission Communication Device - added DM, minor revisions to mesh and textures
  
• Painted Decals Volcanic Area, Added Cliffs to Base of Macros Volcanic Area & Added on to Transition Cave on Purple Quad, DLC Map
  
• Submitting Batdog, Batdog carcass, respective textures and fur
  
• Adding Pbird wing flaps sounds, events and anim notifiers
  
• Added Cliffs & Stalagmites to Transition Cave from SW to AC, Swapped Out RVT with NORVT on Blue Quad, DLC Map
  
• Landscape Painting, Decal Pass and Cliff Placement, Green Quad, DLC
  
• LC to SW Transition Cave Set Dressing, Purple Quad, Prometheus
  
• Added Arrowhead Plant, Bog Flower, and Cypress Sapling as foliage types, BPs, and also added all to the FLOD Data Table
  

Exploration Missions

Mammoth & Fixes

• Players do not immediately die due to prior weather exposure when respawned
  
• The storm exposure bar no longer stays full when players respawn, and will reset the exposure and shelter values when a player dies
  
• We’ve also addressed optimization through improving our textures setup, which should reduce RAM usage in-game for many players.
  
• And finally, we’ve added the ability to easily scale stockpile rewards by difficulty, providing more personalized and balanced missions.
  

Beachhead

Livewire

• The Radar is now collected from the Dropship, and will also respawn here
  
• The pool of enemies encountered has been expanded to add more variety, including bear cubs and boars
  
• The radar will now have a durability limit and can be destroyed, similar to the system in Styx missions
  
• Quest objectives now mention that creatures will be attacking to give players more time to prepare
  
• The number and frequency of enemy spawns now scales with the difficulty and number of players present in-game, to provide a more balanced experience
  
• The scanning process will now stop if the player moves outside the designated zone, and players are prompted to move closer to re-activate the process
  

Changelog v1.2.18.101993

• Livewire Mission Radar is now Collected & Respawns in Dropship
  
• Livewire Mission Adjusted enemies who spawn to add more variety and use new creatures (Bear Cubs, Boars etc)
  
• Livewire Mission Radar's now have durability and can now be destroyed as part of the quest (same as Styx Scanning Logic)
  
• Livewire Mission The quest objective now mentions that creatures will be attacking
  
• Livewire Mission the number and Frequency of Enemies now Spawn based on both difficulty and number of players present
  
• Livewire Mission If players move outside of the scanning zone the scanning stops and the players are prompted to move back into the scanning area
  
• Changed all exploration missions except Spirit Walk to have 10 total exotics locations, the ones from Spirit Walk plus 4 additional throughout the map, all granting 200-400 each, with 3 total spawns. Spirit Walk was unchanged to not impact that popular farming setup, happy extracting!
  
• Updating BEACHHEAD: RECON mission to include 2 new quest steps which help explain crafting, adding prompts to mention where to find oxite and the needing to consume it, updating spawn values to provide a more peaceful experience for learning, adding a small Ren Reward to introduce the mission reward system to players
  
• Removed out of bounds areas for all Exploration missions. - Exploration missions are now automatically completed when their attached scans are completed, players no longer need to enter and leave these missions for completion
  
• Adding Mammoth into Arctic Zone Spawn Pools
  

• Remove unneeded Alpha channels on Voxel Albedo and RMA textures, halving file size, saving almost 0.5GB of memory use while playing. (Reducing RAM usage)
  
• Fixed a bug where the setting 'toggle sprint' would not work when riding a mount
  
• Updated Shengong 'Sui Shi' Pickaxe description to not indicate that is is easily repaired, as it is no different to any other workshop item
  
• Fixed and issue where the damage indicator wasn't facing the correct direction
  
• Storm exposure bar no longer stays full when the player respawns, Reseting the exposure and shelter values when a player dies, Disabled any shelter traces until respawn,
  
• WeatherActions no longer add modifiers to dead players, This means that players do not immediately die due to prior weather exposure when respawned
  
• Fix river audio sometimes cutting out around river spline intersection points. FMOD voices were being inappropriately culled by virtualisation when the proximity parameter applied a volume offset as different river audio components moved close to one another. Moved the volume offset to a submix channel so that FMOD ignores it in virtualisation calcs, and also tweaked the proximity curve to blend more smoothly around braided river intersections
  
• Added the ability to easily scale stockpile rewards by difficulty
  
• Added missing file changes to ValidAmmoTypes.cpp/h. Reconciled offline work
  

• Submitting Batdog, Batdog carcass and respective textures
  
• Landscape Sculpting and Decal Pass, Blue Quad and Green Quad, Prometheus
  
• Painted Decals Volcanic Area & Added Cliffs to Base of Macros Volcanic Area on Purple Quad, DLC Map
  
• Added Brick_Wall asset and added all required pieces to BP for testing
  
• Decals painting and cliff placement in swamp Yellow Quad transition, DLC
  
• Created GL_Cave_Small_02 and 03, created cave template assets for cave levels
  
• Added FTs for SW_Cypress variants, and added their FLOD descriptions
  
• Added Mesh Mask MF and added swith on BLD Shader, to add option for AO,Dirt,Edge Wear customization for Brick Tier
  
• Sledgehammer_Nodes Prototype for testing
  
• Corrected needler aggro bus routing
  
• Adding needler aggro event and fixing events where min max was not set to the same as the spacializer
  
• Added Run/Jump VFX for Mounts, duplicated Anims for Moa to add Notifies
  
• Scaled OPULENCE mission objectives with selected difficulty
  
• Scaled SPELUNKING mission objectives with selected difficulty
  
• Refreshing lake/river settings on Outpost 5 to fix generation errors
  
• Added ivy to the Mangrove_Var2 BP
  
• Decals painting in swamp and arctic/tundra, blend in between Green and Blue Quad, DLC
  
• Verified texture settings for all textures in the UI folder and used more optimized settings where possible
  
• Ensured UI TextureGroup is correctly assigned for more accurate profiling
  
• Converted to Pow2 format where possible for further memory reduction optimization
  
• Painted Decals Volcanic Area & Added Cliffs to Base of Macros Volcanic Area on Purple Quad, DLC Map
  
• Landscape Sculpting and Decal Pass, Green Quad, Prometheus
  
• Decals painting in swamp and arctic/tundra biome, added hollow trees in swamp and cliffs in tundra, Blue Quad, DLC
  
• Refreshed the grass cache on Terrains 016/017 and Outposts 2/3/5
  
• Added SW_Blackberry_Bush, SW_Mushroom_Shelf_A, and CF_Aspen variants, and also added them to the FLOD Descriptions data table
  
• Added Foliage Types and BPs for CF_Aspen variants
  
• Added Foliage Types and BPs for SW_Mushroom_Shelf_A variants
  
• Added Foliage Types for SW_Blackberry_Bush variants
  
• added dead prospector static meshes, materials and textures
  
• Added ivy to Mangrove_Var4 BP
  
• Update all PROC map textures to use correct settings, optimizing memory footprint
  
• Updated BP with some ivy, but turning over to Joe to finish ivy placement
  
• Fixup redirectors for IceCool folder after move
  
• Decals painting in swamp and arctic/tundra biome, Blue Quad, DLC
  
• Landscape Sculpting, Landscape Painting and Decal Pass, Green and Yellow Quad, Prometheus
  
• Painted Decals Volcanic Area & Added Cliffs to Base of Macros Volcanic Area on Purple Quad, DLC Map
  
• Change paperdoll armor icons to use DXT5 compression and reduced resolution, reducing memory footprint from 24.5MB to 1.5MB
  
• Delete old unused static paperdoll texture, pre-rendertarget implementation
  
• Layed out swamp and tundra foliage in Cam's test level for review
  
• Added Foliage Types and Datatable descriptions for FT_CF_Aspen_Var1_A and FT_SW_Blackberry_Bush_01. Also added missing BP for SW_Mushroom_Shelf_A_Var1
  
• Added SW_Mushroom_Shelf_A with 6 variants
  
• Disable dithering pixel offset on by default on Seracs
  
• Added UV base layers to Master Rock Shader, Added textures, created MIs and set collision sets to Mangrove Hollow/Vine
  
• Icon Editor now has the option to specify an override mesh to display for situations where the item has no in world context eg. Clothing
  
• Landscape Painted Swamp Tile on Green on Purple/Green Quad, DLC Map
  
• Updated Textures for SW_Mangrove_FallenTrunk_Hollow variations
  
• Landscape painting and decal pass in swamp anbd arctic/tundra biome, Blue Quad, DLC
  
• Landscape Sculpting, Landscape Painting and Riverbank Pass, Green Quad, Prometheus
  
• Landscape Painted Swamp, Painted Decals Volcanic & Added decals in Swamp to Volcanic areas in Volcanic on Purple Quad, DLC Map
  
• Added ivy to the BP for Mangrove_Var2
  
• Added a ValidAmmoTypes datatable and changed Firearmdata to use this data table instead of having an array of item static items. This allows us to create new bows and select 'All Arrows' instead of manually going through and hand selecting each arrow into an array whenever a new bow/gun/crossbow is introduced into the game
  
• Fix GOAP World Stats cheat duplicating content when toggled off and back on again by clearing children on Construct
  
• Added second material to vines for SW_Mangrove_FallenTrunk_Hollow_Var1, SW_Mangrove_FallenTrunk_Hollow_Var2 and SW_Mangrove_FallenTrunk_Hollow_Var5
  
• Added dev only Cured Leather crafting process for testing. - Allowed Platinum Weave to be crafted on an Advanced Armor Bench even if you don't have the bench unlocked
  
• Merged up consumable meta item tag changes from backend removal branch
  
• Flushed grass on Outpost 6,7 and Terrain 019 Blue & Yellow Quads
  
• Flushed Grass, Outpost 004
  
• Move lava river flow audio functions to C++ to improve runtime performance
  
• Landscape Sculpting, Riverbank Pass and Flushed Grass On Green and Red Quads, Prometheus
  
• Added the SPELUNKING mission
  
• Landscape Painted Swamp, Painted Decal in Volcanic & Added Mangrove Trees to Swamp/Approved Actors on Purple Quad, DLC Map
  
• Moved IceCool to TRD folder
  
• Landscape painting and decal pass in swamp biome, Blue Quad, DLC
  
• Added Grass to Tundra and Grasslands Layer, removed cliff blend to Tundra landscape