Icarus Week 172 Update | More Shadow Improvements and Six New Curtains

This weeks update features six new sets of Curtains, with Tier 2 ‘Fur‘, Tier 3 ‘Elegant’ and Tier 3 ‘Reinforced' options.

We’ve also made more improvements to shadows, particularly Skeletal Mesh and Thin Mesh Shadows, along with animated shadows, such as doors.

Finally, we have a breakdown for you on the three new Legendary Weapons coming with the Great Hunts Expansion, and all the other items and deployables you’ll unlock by defeating their respective bosses.

Notable Improvements:

• Allow placement of doors, windows and curtains on all left and right doorway pieces.
• Windows and Curtains can also all be placed on the same window frame
• Electricity and Water tools now show in the players hand
• Improved bee death animation
• Further improvements to SuperStruct crash prevention

This Week: New Selection of Curtains

This week, we’re adding six new sets of curtains to Icarus—one crafted from fur (Tier 2) and two from platinum weave (Elegant and Reinforced, Tier 3).

Base design has become a staple of Icarus, and curtains have often been requested to decorate your window fittings and add some color to your different rooms.

Each of the Fur, Elegant, and Reinforced designs come in both window and door options, giving you the choice of having all your entrances and windows match or vary if this is more your style.

This Week: More Improvements to Shadows

Last week, we introduced sweeping changes to the way we render shadows from many of our Deployables. While we implemented the first iteration of these changes last week, this week, we’re fixing several known issues we hadn’t caught yet, including some raised by the community (thank you, everyone, for your reports!).

As discussed in last week's post, we were aware of some limitations with the Distance Field shadows, such as them not playing nicely with thin objects and not casting any shadows at all from Skeletal/Animated meshes. After much tinkering, we feel these issues have been addressed for the most part, but again, we welcome your feedback and reports of anything we may have missed.

Lets go through a few of the changes.

We now have shadows which cast from Skeletal Meshes, such as Storage Cupboards:

Thin meshes (such as the Iron Buildables you can see in the background) are now working much better, no longer covered in shadows or leaking light through:

We were also able to do a pretty neat trick with the doors to ensure that their Shadow Mesh rotates alongside the Skeletal Mesh:

Thanks again for all your feedback and reports, and we hope you enjoy these new performance and quality improvements in Icarus.

Coming Soon: Great Hunts - Legendary Weapons

Two weeks ago, we covered all the new Legendary Weapons coming for free in our massive update, alongside the launch of Icarus: Great Hunts.

This week, we’re talking about the three new Legendary Weapons that are coming with the three new Bosses in the paid expansion that we introduced last week.

Defeating these bosses will earn you Biomass currency, unique to each foe:

• Rimetusk Biomass
• Garganutan Biomass
• Quarrite Biomass

These currencies are necessary to purchase not only each respective weapon but also their attachments, which allow you to customize them however you wish.

Rimetusk:

• Legendary ‘Frostbreaker’ Rimetusk Sledgehammer

The Frostbreaker is a prototype Sledgehammer crafted from the Biomass of the legendary ‘Rimetusk’ Ice Mammoth. It is both a lethal weapon and a utility tool with repair and mining capabilities, with attachments such as ‘Fracturing Skull’, allowing you to smash and mine large chunks of ore or ‘Chilling Femur’ which gives you the chance to spawn Ice Spires on impact, just like Rimetusk does to you.

The Rimetusk also has new recipes for an Armor Set, Spear, Shield, Trap, Modules, Trophies and Frozen Wool.

Quarrite:

• Legendary ‘Slate Smasher’ Quarrite Gauntlet

The Slate Smasher is Norex’s first experimentation with Exo-skeletons, aiming to create a weapon that is deadly up close or can keep enemies at bay with ranged attacks, depending on how you personalize it. Experimentation on the Quarrite has unlocked technology to charge it by hitting rocks, storing kinetic energy that can be unleashed in devastating bursts. Attachments such as ‘Cannon Fist' allow you to turn it into a ranged weapon if you prefer keeping distance between you and your foe, with the ability to charge your attacks and release damage how you see fit.

The Quarrite also has new recipes for a Sledgehammer, Rock Golem Gun, Grenade Trap, Defensive Attachment, Protective Module and Trophies.

Garganutan:

• Legendary ‘Behemoth’ Garganutan Club

The Behemoth incorporates technology derived from experimentation on the Garganutan, particularly its impressive agility and strength. Attachments for this weapon incorporate stamina, speed, power, and strength boosts, but even some unique perks such as ‘Primal Blood’ which boosts carry capacity and reduces over-encumbrance penalties, and ‘Vampiric Blood’ which leeches health from its targets on impact.

The Garganutan also has new recipes for an Armor Set, Grenade, Tonic, Carrying Module and Trophies.

Next Week: SMG (Finally)

Next week, we’ll introduce a new craftable SMG, as we talked about previously before they were delayed to undergo some more changes.

We appreciate your patience as we’ve worked through the changes to this new firearm.

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