Icarus v1.2.42.108807 Update Patch Notes

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Icarus, a session-based survival game developed by RocketWerkz and created by Dean Hall, has just received a new update called Week 67/v1.2.42.108807. According to the devs, this update promises solid gameplay and comes highly recommended. The patch notes for Icarus v1.2.42.108807 are below for those curious about the changes.

Icarus v1.2.42.108807 Update Patch Notes

Mount Improvements

This week we’re bringing a bunch of Mount improvements based on feedback from the community and monitoring overall performance and usage.

Saddles now include ‘G’ slots so radars, extractors, and other heavier items can be carried. Basic saddles will have one slot, saddle bags will have two slots, and carts will have five
Mounts no longer take damage from thirst or hunger, meaning they will not perish if left unsupervised.
Increased all mounts’ damage resistance by 10% to improve their survivability
Increased the damage resistance provided by the saddles when equipped to mounts by 10% (was 0%)
Added an Aura to the Animal Bed, which provides creatures with a ‘Well Rested’ buff, similar to players
Lowered the base time it takes to tame creatures from 1200 seconds to 900 seconds

A lot of the feedback we have received around Mounts has been about the difficulties of effectively utilizing them when playing solo. A lot of our improvements have focused on this area of gameplay, removing elements such as damage from hunger/thirst and improving their overall damage resistance. Also, adding slots for extractors and radars makes them viable as stand-in teammates for solo adventures, and reducing taming durations helps speed up the experience, which is understandably more drawn out in solo mode.

Galileo Progress – Icarus v1.2.42.108807 Update Patch Notes

This week’s focus on our upcoming Galileo patch has been the bestiary rewards, UI setup, as well as an iteration on the fishing mechanic, following on from our progress last week.

For those still in the dark, Bestiary is the achievement system that will give you statistics on your hunting and animal exploits. This will be tied into a milestoned rewards system, with lofty targets reaping strong rewards.

The work going into this is split across lots of backend work, but also developing a good UI and rewards system that provides players with the incentive to aim for these milestones.

Next Week’s Update

For next week, we have packaged a performance update that we will put in the experimental branch on Steam later this weekend. We will be looking for feedback this week on the changes, and if the feedback is positive, we will push this, but if not, we will take a different approach.

For those unfamiliar with our strategy, we’re focusing on five key areas: Engine Performance, Game Systems, Memory, Stutters & Garbage Collection, and Connection. You can read more detail about our strategy in our Week 59 update here.

Optimization is an ‘always on’ part of our development and has its own dedicated team separate from the teams working on game design, concept art, and the many other roles and departments in the business. Sometimes, people can assume that due to us pushing out other updates with new content, we’re not focusing our time or attention on performance, but this couldn’t be further from the case. The skillset needed is very specific, and we, therefore, have dedicated specialists working on it exclusively, while the rest of the team keeps moving forward with our other plans.

Changelog v1.2.42.108807

New Content

Adding ‘Heavy Cargo’ Inventory to Mounts and Mount Inventory UI
Adding Heavy Cargo slots to some of the Mount Saddles so mounts can carry ‘G’-Slot items
Mounts no Longer Take Damage From being at Level 3 Thirst, or Level 3 Hunger, meaning they will not die if left alone
Increased All Mounts Damage Resistance to give them greater survivability +10%
Increased the Damage resistance provided by the Saddles that can be equipped to the mounts (+10%, 15%)
Added an Aura to the Animal Bed, which provides creatures with a ‘Well Rested’ Buff
Lowered Base time to Tame Creatures 1200 -> 900
Mounts no longer wander around in their ‘Stay’ behavior state, and will return to the location where they were last told to stay after eating/drinking
Adding Heavy Cargo stats to Saddles

Fixed

Fixed a few typos picked up by translators
Fixing communicator T2 having incorrect crafted sound (used masonry when it should use crafting bench)
ALCAZAR, HIGHRISE: Changed Biofuel Stove quest step to mention Kitchen Stove
ALCAZAR, HIGHRISE, LIFE LINE: Changed Kitchen Stove quest step to correctly mention Biofuel Stove
IRONCLAD: Updated name of Metal Plating to Layered Plating to match quest description

Future Content

Added BLD_Wall_Sngle_Wood for Buildable Rework Investigation
General clean up of foliage, decals and blended terrain with GL cliffs in Grasslands, Green Quad, DLC
Updated audio for lava tree sapling and applied sound to joshua trees BP. Better tonal balance and sizing
Adding Prometheus Open World Drop Zone, so open world can be played
Adding Galileo Feature Level – Icarus v1.2.42.108807 Update Patch Notes
Small tonal balance to exotic tinted plant harvest audio
Fixed Batdog physics asset
Fixed bug where batdog wouldn’t exit out of its stalking behavior when damaged
Added hitreact to Batdog while sitting
Added New Storm VFX NS, PP and BP
Setup new Weather VFX on Weatherman Editor Tool
Adjustments to DLC Trailer Volcanic Shot
Small adjustment to aspen tree falling audio to make it more appropriate to match the visuals
Committing Rudimentry Bestiary UI and Data Structures for Iteration
Added materials and textures for all 4 variants of Fish08, models will follow soon. Updated character/creature shader to allow for subsurface masking and dithering options
Sulfur Decal – changed alpha, added color variations (mats and FTs)|
New landscape textures for Grasslands
Added hemorrhage to Batdog heavy attack
Added sand layer to grasslands cliff and canyonwall materials for better terrain blending
Added copy of creature/character shader with iridescence functionality to Pedro’s developer folder to clean up/optimize
Added Basic Fish Enteries to Bestiary and removed open button from menu, Pressing ‘J’ will open bestiary for now
Adding Striker climb out animation with Root Motion for spawning behavior
Added Aquarium and Advanced Aquarium Icons into datatable
Added fishing bench, fishing trap and advanced fishing trap icons into datatable
Fixed Hole In Ice Cave, Added Voxels Swamp Transition Cave & Tundra Transition Cave Blue/Yellow Quad, DLC Map
WIP Commit of GL_AspenLeaves decal (textures, material, FT)
PRO_Story_5: Completed location placements, updated objective mesh as placeholder
Adding Fish Names to Items
Bestiary UI Update, Data is now pulled from one source
Polished snow decals in tundra area and blended terrain with tundra cliffs, Blue Quad, DLC
Added text for various fishing-related items and wire
Added text descriptions for new fish
Removed Swamp Cave Blocker and Set Dressed The Transition Cave Between Purple and Red Quad, Prometheus
Added DM for Scorpion_Hedgehog_Trap_03
Added DM for DEP_Hedgehog_MED_03
Flushed Grass on Green Quad, DLC Map
Added Static Meshes and SKeletal mesh for Fish 08. Added BP for Fish 08
Starting Prometheus mission can now be triggered by interacting with the dropship on an open world
Updating Dropship and Mission Communicator widgets, so they correctly select the Mission Talent tree associated with the terrain
Fixed Landscape Gap & Fixed Cave Surface showing on Red/Green/Blue Qaud, OLY
Updating Dropship and Mission Communicator so the second and subsequent Prometheus missions can be trigger from open world
added fish11 textures and materials
PRO_Story_5: Tweak areas, dialogue pacing, power requirements
adjusted saturation for fish11
Additional Setup of the bestiary, adding additional information to the first data table for classification and setup the data to be displayed in the Fish Page and Entry
Add a distance to player hook for designers when using animal swarms in quests
First pass of GL_AspenLeaves decal
Fixing Issue with Prometheus Missions where the Droppods were not dropping at the correct locations, which was preventing various quests steps from being complete
Cleaned Up Bad & Leaning Foilage on Green Quad, DLC Map
Pass on RockDog combat behaviors
Added special fire effects while enraged – Icarus v1.2.42.108807 Update Patch Notes
Added ability for NPC footstep notifies to specify left or right
General clean up in swap biome, added more megatree roots and polished blending of cliffs, Purple Quad, DLC
Updating mask texture for M_BLD_Wall_Angle_Wood, as well as renaming several textures
Adding in an animation to use as the spit attack for the Rock Dog to pull it away from the Roar
Visual changes made to Prospector FieldGuide. (Bestiary Category, creature button, creature entry, bestiary creatures, fish button, fish entry, fish page, bestiary.)
Removed Character Flag requirement from T3 Communication device as it is now a mission device
Fixing Prometheus Missions 2/3 as the load order of the prebuilt structures has changes and prevented finding of the containers to fill for the quests
Updating Aquariums for the new Fish Models
Added support for accolades to trigger steam achievements (disabled until achievements have been setup)
Fish now scale based on their length stat when placed in aquariums
Improve animal swarm spawner customization, allowing updating the spawn target on the fly
Increasing volume of grasslands ambience base layer within Pro Tools so no less increase needs to be done in FMOD
Decal painting and general polish of Purple quad, Prometheus
D_LC_ErosionRockBlend – adjusted saturation to better match LC rocks
Added ITM Lures, Basic Iron Lure, Prospector tag lure, Rubbery, Higher Tier Wood, Basic Wooden, Bone, Iron, Blue Reed, Yeast, Rotten Meat and Poison Sack
Polish in swap biome, added more megatree roots and polished tunnels in Megatree manual cave, Purple Quad, DLC
Removing Quest Step from Prometheus story 2 as it doesn’t make sense
Added ITM_Lures, Scorpion Tail, White Jelly, Painted Feather, Fiber, Bark Bug
Centered pivot on Fish08 static meshes
Adjusting fish positions in the aquariums to account for the new pivot point
Setting up base logic for the fish wall mounts, including widgets displaying stats and the mesh
Further improved customization on swarm creature spawning
Decal painting and general polish of Purple quad, Prometheus
Fixed MapCreatorUtility not applying MaterialOverride to Lakes or Rivers correctly
Added new minimap-friendly lava material
Lava-type WaterSetups now use lava material override when using MapCreatorUtility’s ‘Apply Override Materials’ button
First layers of unique transport pod audio
Visual Updates on Bestiary UI
Fixed Up Cave_GL_MED_001 & CAVE_GL_MED_002 , DLC Map
Added SM_Wall_Win_DBL_Wood_L, Added T_Wall_Win_DBL_Wood_L_AO, Added M_Wall_Win_DBL_Wood_L_Kit_A & M_Wall_Win_DBL_Wood_L_Kit_B
Added art assets for a Dirty variant the T3 and T4 aquariums
Added HRB_Rhubarb with all growth stages
Fixed RockDog spit not working – Icarus v1.2.42.108807 Update Patch Notes
Fixed RockDog enrage effects beginning too early sometimes
PRO_Story_5: Fix marked areas, update timer

RocketWerkz has just published Icarus week 67 / 1.2.42.108807 update patch notes on its official Steam Page. Besides, the game is available for download on Steam to PCs.