Warning: Next week we are planning on rolling out a patch that our optimization team has been hard at work on. It involves a long standing issue with patch times. Due to the way steam's patching process works with UE4 games there has been issues in the past with some people experiencing long download and patching times. What we are doing is adjusting the way Icarus is being packed and distributed to work better with steams patching process.Week 123 is here and we’re adding the new MXC Cot, a great introductory bed for players to bring down from the Orbital Workshop to start new prospects on the surface.
This means that next week you will need to redownload the entire Icarus game but it also means that Icarus updates going forward will patch noticeably faster from week to week and the size on disk will be reduced.
This update will not effect your save files, all progress will be maintained.
Due to this we plan on rolling out next weeks patch a day early as to not interrupt anyone's regular weekend play time.
We’ve also got a refresher about how to pass on feedback to us, a sneak peek at some content to come in Laika, and some news on next week’s rather different update.
Jump in and have a read.
Notable Improvements:
- Updated many more decorations to have coziness bonus
- When upgrading building pieces but having insufficient resources, or selecting the same material, the swing animation will not play and an error message and sound will play.
- Improved localization display of longer stat names
- Added many additional translatable strings
This week: MXC Cot
This week we’re adding a new Orbital Workshop item - the MXC Cot.
This will cost 100 Ren to unlock and then a subsequent 75 Ren to purchase.
The MXC Cot acts as a normal bed, providing a place to sleep, set your respawn and rest in. It has a base of 110% sleep effectiveness and 800-second duration, with a +14 coziness bonus.
The 800-second duration is longer than other beds - but this is for good reason. This longer duration at the start is better for players with less established bases which will have a low coziness bonus. This gives them a good way to get guaranteed quality sleep and a respawn point, however, it will ultimately be outclassed by higher tier beds crafted on the planet that will provide a higher base sleep effectiveness and coziness bonus once you’ve established yourself on the surface.
Coming Soon: Free Laika Update
We're not going to say too much this week, just leave you with this image:
A new taming system is coming to Icarus. While some creatures have to be captured as juveniles, other creatures are going to require a little more creativity to capture and tame.
Next Week: Patch Optimization & A New Operation
Next week’s update is a two-parter - focusing on Patch Optimization and a new Operation.
We will be patching a day early next week - to introduce the Patch Optimization. This does mean you will need to redownload the entire Icarus game next week but the changes implemented will mean Icarus updates going forward will patch noticeably faster from week to week and the size on disk will be reduced.
We will also be adding a new Operation where players have to investigate a creature research station that has recently been attacked.
Your support makes these updates possible
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/36462/Icarus_Architecture_Bundle/
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/35727/Icarus_Complete_the_Set/
Changelog v2.1.26.121209
New Content
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- Reduced weight of MXC Cot slightly
- Increased price of MXC Cot, and unlocked item
- Unlocking Workshop Bed
Fixed
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- Fixed sort in device inventory showing on top of device name
- Updated many more decorations to have coziness bonus
- Fixed seed switch statement providing wrong seed data.
- Fixed UI Jumping when seed cultivation stage changed
- Rewrote most of the UMG logic (umg used to just take the time it takes for stage 4 instead of the time from all cultivation stages/also it was incorrectly calculating the current time the seed has been growing)
- Update waterskin description and flavor text to reflect that it no longer leaks
- Added coziness bonus to wall torch
- Update player stat display to show better when using long stat names (localization)
- Added translatable text entries for chat messages for player connect and disconnect, and mount deaths
- Added translatable strings for quest rewards, crop plot title, network info and in-world building durability
- Allow wood halfpieces and beams to be crafted at carpentry bench
- Prevented playing swing animation when not upgrading building piece
- Added warning when attempting to upgrade the same type of material or missing upgrade piece
- Moved duplicate logic into shared native function library and removed unnecessary memory allocation
Future Content
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- Turret balance pass: Recipes, angles, fire rates, talents, descriptions, brownout modifier
- Adding lots more reaver attack movement sounds. Adding footsteps and other movements
- Adding reaver dive ground impact audio and event and timing - also emerge fast event. Adding dog bowl data table entry to deploy audio sound
- Added a fillable to the cart. Cart BP now removes x amount of water from the fillable whenever it interacts with an unwatered dirt mound
- Setting up new food / animal feed / wool recipes / Laika items itemable and icons
- Setup dialogue for Ashlands and Icesheet missions
- RELOCATED: Setup dialogue
- Updated texture for CHAC_Hunting Rifle Ammo
- Added new GUN_HuntingRifle_CHAC_Repeater version
- Fixed minor typos in quest steps and upcoming Laika content
- Added destructible mesh for the animal bench
- Added Animal bench art assets to the project
- Preparing Labrador & German Shepherd Animal Companions
- Adding Dogs / Cats / Horses Bestiary enteries and setting up AI rows for correct loot, names, rewards etc
- Adding new Dogs / Cats / Horses to the workshop
- Adding new animal companion colour stat variation
- More reaver additions and adjustments
- Adding in additional cat colors and hooked up to AI setup DTs, still waiting on corpse items to be able to setup the dead item data table entry, bones and carcass etc, added in additional animations for IC-25490 as well
- Added art assets for the horse trophy and alternative materials for the different coloured horses
- Added Cat trophy art assets to the project with alternative materials for the different coloured cats
- Adding reaver roar audio event, data table setup and animation notify
- Added PNGs for the beastiary images to the Icarus source art folder
- Adding reaver attack vocalisations, events and animation notifiers
- Added sheep trophy art assets to the project
- Added text for hitching post and rope
- Added missing string table entry. Cleaned up blueprints for pet bowls
- Adding more cat idle layers and adjusting time until cat purrs when player is close by
- More updates and layers for the mini hippo. Attack, adjusted idle sounds, spot etc
- Added text for snare trap
- Added text for T3 biomass cleaning device
- Fixed a few descriptions for laika food items
- Updated DEP_Trap_Snare animations
- Added bestiary images for the sheep, cat, and horse and added images to data table with the MED and LRG workshop background images
- Added Wool recipes
- Fixed typos in new Laika items
- Updated DEP_Trap_Snare
- Added new Animal Feed items, modifiers and recipes
- Adding Itemable descriptions for various Laika Items
- Setting up Cat Corpse and new pet interactable option so you don't need to skin cats / dogs
- Added UI for changing pet bowl colours. Reparented bowls to a new pet_bowl_base
- Added egg and chicken recipes
- Adding animal bench crafted audio and adding dog bowl deploy audio and animal crafted recipes to correct crafted audio
- Added seup for MED and LRG creature bestiary screenshots with the HAB background
- Added bestiary ttext for the Kiwi
- Adding cat idle, death and purr audio and events and data table setup
- Added bestiary ttext for the Horse
- Updated exotic ground deposits with colour emissive colour and lighting adjusted to match the exotic item asset
- Added DLC Package Flags for Animal Companions, Zebra Rescue and Creature Comforts
- Adding reaver flinch audio, event and data table setup
- RE: Hadley - Stops hanging setup of engine files. We don't need to install prereqs because we have already done it. This step requires user input and hangs the build process
- Setting up Cat / Sheep / Horse Trophies and added missing icons for various items in the itemable table
- Added kiwi trophy and bestiary image and updated bestiary data table
- Adding reaver death audio, event and data table entry
- Adding hitch rope to wood sound and event
