Icarus Week 167 Update | Achievement Fixes, Sleep Screen improvements, and more

Welcome to Week 167.

This week, we have a number of smaller fixes and some QoL. We have highlighted some below, but check out the patch notes for the full list.

We go into detail about the Achievement Fixes and Changes and a new addition to the sleep screen.

Finally, we discuss a feature that has been requested for a long time—tree regrowth—which, if all goes well, will be released next week.

Jump in and have a read.

Notable Improvements:

• Fixed an issue where the Game would suffer from persistent frame drops after interacting with the Orbital Exchange Interface
• Increased XP gain from killing world bosses significantly
• Dirt and Stone Buildings now take damage in Lava as intended
• Cakes can no longer be placed on Walls
• Increased the zoom level on the map to double the current amount
• Removed the level lock on the Arctic Armor talent, Big Game Hunter talent, Ghillie Armor blueprints, and Arctic Armor blueprints
• World Boss Icons have been updated to more accurately reflect their state
• Updated the Bestiary overview page to show the biomes of creatures in addition to their image
• Adjusted Meshes in the desert to use ‘Far Shadows,’ which increases the shadow quality visuals
• Made adjustments to the shadows on floor torches to reduce the performance impact
• Adjusted Muzzle Flashes and Smoke on most guns as it was causing unnecessary obstruction to the player's view
• Removed an exploit where you could use a shovel on a dirt building piece to collect unlimited dirt

This Week: Achievement Fixes

We have had some issues with Achievements in the past, specifically the ‘Styx & Stones’ and ‘Zero to Hero’ achievements. One of these issues included a bug where the game was not correctly sending the complete data to Steam (specifically, it was ignoring the missions, which were unlocked by default). This resulted in the two achievements never being completed, which has now been addressed.

We have also adjusted the ‘The Bigger They Are…’, ‘… The Harder They Fall’, ' Leader of the Pack', and ‘Sting Operation’ so they now award the achievement to everyone who is on the server fighting the Boss rather than just the player who deals the final hit. This was not only an issue for teammates but sometimes even for the whole lobby, as Mounts, Tames, Fall Damage, and Poison could all do the final hit, rendering the achievement given to no one.

This Week: Sleep Screen QoL

We have also added a small QoL to the sleep screen, so you will now be able to see who is sleeping and who you are waiting for in your play session. This can help larger prospects quickly track down who you are waiting for and dish out some well-earned condemnation.

Next Week: Tree Regrowth

We are in the middle of testing out the implementation of tree regrowth.

This involves building and powering a device that will trigger tree regrowth inside a preset radius. We know the community has been asking for this for a while, so we are taking our time to make sure it works as intended. If we don’t feel like it is ready early next week, we will do a smaller patch with some QoL and Fixes instead.

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