Icarus Week 157 Update | Tame the new Shaggy Zebra Mount

Welcome to week 157.

This week, we are introducing a new juvenile variant of the Wooly Zebra that can be raised and nurtured into a new mount with Arctic specialties.

We also add some improvements to the AI in Icarus perception so they will be far less likely to detect players in various situations.

We’ve also got some news on next week's update, with even more firearms coming to your armory.

Jump in and have a read.

Notable Improvements:

• Fixed the Biofuel Powered Drills and Extractors not turning themselves back on after reloading a prospect
• Fixed a PhysX-related building replication crash that was occurring on larger prospects when join multiplayer games
• Fixed a crash that could occur when supply pods take off if they are near buildings or deployables
• Shifting Mission in Layout and Starting Position so that when you open the mission screen you are presented with the first missions rather than the middle of the tree
• Add 'Raw' prefix to uncooked meats so that its not confused with cooked meats
• STRANGE HARVEST: Increase size of Contaminated Bear, grant increased health, poison damage and chance to poison
• Fixed an issue where crops would regen quality even if all the seeds were dead, when looking at the tooltip it could be confusing as the crop would be wilted but could still look alive
• Drinks in the crafting menus now have their own icon to differentiate them (see the drinks in the campfire)

This Week: Shaggy Zebra Mount

Shaggy Zebra’s present in the Arctic Zones of Prometheus will now have a chance of spawning with juveniles. As with all juveniles, you will be able to tame, raise, and nurture them once their parents have been disposed of. When this juvenile grows up, you will have your very own Shaggy Zebra mount.

These mounts thrive in arctic environments, and as with all our mounts, they have their own talent tree to progress through as they level up.

This Week: AI Perception Improvements

A few of the big issues that have been brought up with Icarus over the years have been the AI perception. That being the assumption that AI can see through walls and players get attacked while in their bases while not being antagonistic. This week we have made some improvements to AI perception to prevent these cases from happening.

The first change is that AI must now be in their heightened state of aggression to be able to detect players if they have been seen recently. Previously, if a player was seen by an AI, they would continue to be 'seen' regardless of whether or not the AI had line-of-sight if player was within 3.5m of their last seen location. That distance hasn't changed, but the AI must now be fully alert to the player now before this behavior is enabled.

The second change is we have halved the player's footstep and jump noise range while sheltered, this will help to make creatures detect you far less while prospectors are inside buildings.

We aim to continue improving this system to provide a better experience so players suffer from less seemingly random attacks.

Next Week: Advanced Pistol

Next week, we plan on introducing the Advanced Pistol, a Tier 4 option that will round out the sidearm class with options at all applicable tiers.

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