Icarus Week 164 Update | Lava Hunter World Boss Spawning

Welcome to Week 164.

This week, we’ve enabled the Lava Hunter World Boss on Prometheus to spawn outside of its specific mission. This will allow you to fight it over and over again without having to start new prospects.

We’ve also done a quality-of-life pass on the rest of the world bosses' spawns to address their regularity so you can engage them more.

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Notable Improvements:

• Fixing the Cold Screen Space Effect, which was applying incorrectly on and persisted unintentionally
• Fixing the Achievements ‘Styx & Stones’ & ‘Zero to Hero’ so they are correctly tallied and granted on Steam and in-game
• Fixed Black Wolf Boss Spawners not begin present correctly in Olympus Open Worlds, the Black Wolf Bosses will now spawn correctly
• Removed Textures and Materials that where not used resulting in a smaller client pack size
• Texture Optimization which results in lower video memory and client pack size, will help on graphics cards with lower memory
• Fixed an issue where world stats and difficulty stats where being removed on open worlds when loading into a game with an operation in progress
• Fixed an issue where bunk-beds would unintentionally duplicate every time a prospect was loaded

This Week: Lava Hunter Respawning

We have enabled the Lava Hunter World Boss on Prometheus to Spawn outside of the Mission.

Like other World Bosses, this can now be encountered randomly in the Volcanic Biome, and the timer for it to respawn will persist after you defeat it.

The Prometheus Mission 'FRACTURE' does not need to be completed for the Lava Hunter to spawn in open worlds.

This was mainly done so people could tackle the Lava Hunter outside specific missions which may be important in the coming weeks.

This Week: World Boss QoL

World Bosses in Icarus are giant creatures that appear in open worlds and on missions when traversing Icarus. These large creatures can be quite tough to deal with if not properly prepared.

The current world bosses in Icarus are the Black Wolf, Sandworm, Giant Scorpion and now the Lava Hunter. Each map offers different word bosses that naturally spawn. There can also be mutiple world bosses of the same type present on the map at the same time, for example on an Olympus open world a maximum of three sandworms can be present at any one time.

World bosses can be tracked on the map via the 'World Boss Module' module purchasable from the orbital workshop. When equipped into your suit this will display map icons over every world boss currently active map wide.

This week, we have modified the way all world bosses naturally spawn as with the introduction of open worlds there where some side effects which meant they spawned far less often that originally intended.

In the past, every time you started or finished a operation in open world, the world boss timers would restart and not persist, meaning that world bosses would spawn far less often in the world. This has been corrected so that respawn timers now persist, so it will be far easier to encounter these creatures in the wild.

Let us know your feedback on this change and if you’re finding yourself encountering these foes more often in your Open World sessions.

Next Week: Hammerhead Slug World Boss

We will be introducing a brand new world boss to Prometheus next week. This is the Hammerhead slug, found in the Swamp Biome and sporting a deadly splitting attack.

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