Galileo is finally here.
Our first named update in our new cadence brings the long-awaited fishing system, with 53 species, 3 rods, 23 lures and so much more. Catch, record, display and fillet a range of marine life, with their own mini-game and dedicated fishing book.
The Bestiary is your one-stop-shop guide to all of Icarus’ fauna, giving unique lore, perks, unlocks and advantages as you hunt, kill, skin and display your conquests.
Finally, Steam Achievements, Trading Cards, Badges, Backgrounds and Emoticons have all been added for you to complete, trade, unlock and display on your Steam profiles.
We’ve also made balance changes to address all this new content, and included a small decorative DLC for people who wish to decorate their base with mineral lamps or artwork, and support our continued development of Icarus.
Jump in, enjoy, and we’ll see you out on the water.
Fishing
Fishing provides a new way to engage with Icarus that’s not focused on combat. With enough challenge to keep you engaged and the serenity of a peaceful evening by the lakeside, the time just flies by as you cast your line.
Let’s start with the numbers.
There are 53 species of fish to catch in Icarus and they can be found in any body of water. From lakes and rivers, to babbling brooks and raging waterfalls, the world is your oyster.
There are three different fishing rods to use, from basic wooden rods to more advanced versions. The better the quality of your rod, the easier it is to catch the rarer species.
There are 23 lures you can craft and attach to your rod. Each lure is unique, with its own design and advantages for catching different fish species. Experimenting with different lures, fishing spots and rods gives you the best chance of catching all 53 species. Each catch will unlock more information in the fishing book, giving you tips and tricks to employ on your next expedition.
There are also two different fishing traps you can place in any body of water, that will catch fish native to that area of the map. These will also slowly fill up with trash as the water current flows through them so they require a little maintenance to keep them effective.
You can also craft and bring a tackle box that functions as a storage container, which is suitable for keeping your fish fresh when you're away from your base. It can also serve your lures and rods keeping them organized in one place.
You also have the option to display your impressive catches with three new wall mounts or keep a selection of fish in two new aquariums. Choose whichever suits your preference.
Finally, the new Fishing Bench is your hub for all things fishing. The left side of the bench is your workspace for crafting rods, lures, and traps. The right side is for filleting your catches into saltwater or freshwater fillets to be used in a range of new recipes to prepare for you and your fellow prospectors.
Fishing Mechanics
With all this content, we’ve spent considerable time working on the gameplay mechanics to create a unique experience that feels different from other parts of Icarus. To catch fish, players need to snag one on their hook, and then battle them in a mini-game as you wrestle to reel them in. If successful, you’ll then be able to admire your catch and check out its stats.
There are 53 different species of fish, each with varying weights and lengths. They come in four different rarities and have unique quality rankings. Additionally, fish can be found in either saltwater or freshwater.
Freshwater fish are more commonly found in the Forest and Arctic environments, while the desert is more likely to be home to saltwater varieties. To find all 53 species, you’ll have to get exploring, as some rarer species are only found in some of the more remote locations of Icarus.
The quality ranking of the fish determines how much resource it provides you, and how difficult reeling it in will be. The closer to a 100% quality ranking, the larger and heavier the fish will be. Heavier fish will provide more fillets or chunks if filleted, and be far more visually impressive when mounted on your wall or placed in your aquarium.
Finding high-quality versions of the rare species is incredibly challenging, so unlocking clues will be critical. Thankfully, the more fishing you do, and the more fish you catch, the more information you will unlock in your fishing book. This can give you clues as to locations, the type of lures that prove more effective, and other tips and tricks.
Traps also provide an opportunity to catch these rare species, however, they act far more passively and require more patience to return results. If you prefer to set and forget rather than casting out a line and waiting for a bite though, then these will be your best friend. Move your traps around, try different locations, and figure out your luckiest spots for catching all the fish you need.
Bestiary
The Bestiary is the all-in-one guidebook for all of Icarus’ creatures, earth-like or exotic.
When players kill, skin, fall victim to, or craft trophies of different creatures, they’ll increase their knowledge about the species and increase progress in the Bestiary.
Increasing your Bestiary progress unlocks knowledge about the species, lore about their creation, traits and weaknesses for players to exploit, and perks for when you encounter them.
Here’s your guide for what you will unlock as you progress through the Bestiary:
- 1% The creature's name and habitat
- 10% Lore about the creature
- 20% Creature traits: weaknesses, strengths and unique behavior
- 30% Additional Lore about the creature
- 40% Gain a perk related to the creature
- 60% The creature's unique loot table
- 80% Additional Lore about the creature
- 100% Another perk related to the creature
Additionally, every 20% progress provides 1% extra damage and 1% damage reduction against the creature.
Steam Achievements and Trading Cards
Steam Achievements and Trading Cards are here.
40 Steam Achievements have been added. Some of these are easy to accomplish and will be completed just by playing the game like normal. Others will require you to complete unique objectives and tackle challenges that you may not have faced before.
The achievements all boast hand-drawn pieces by our art team. The inspiration for many came from our community. We wanted the achievements to feel native to Icarus, and reflect the experience that so many of you have had in the millions of hours invested into the game.
Some achievements will automatically be granted or gain a percentage of completion when they go live, as they retrospectively look at your previous play time. Others will start fresh, giving you the chance to earn them from day one.
You can find these in-game under the Accolades menu where your progress is tracked.
Steam Trading Cards and Emoticons have also been added to the Steam Workshop.
There are nine Steam Trading Cards to collect, all drawn in-house by our incredible concept art team (you may recognize the style from our weekly blog posts and game art).
Each of these can be earned for completing an hour of playtime in-game, but you’ll only be able to collect half through this method and will need to trade with other players if you want to complete the set.
There are also four profile backgrounds to collect, an Icarus Steam Badge to craft, and eight emoticons.
By collecting a set of trading cards, you can craft an Icarus Steam Badge, an Icarus background, and an emoticon to use across Steam. The more you play, the more you collect, and the more you’ll unlock.
Like what we're doing?
It has been a big two weeks for updates on Icarus! Last week's performance patch received awesome feedback, and we were able to push out a hotfix in under 24 hours too for a multiplayer issue caused by Steam Presence. This week is our first big update in the new cadence, and as you can see, it’s been a lot of work, love, and effort to bring it to life. If you are enjoying Icarus, and liking the progress our team is making with our weekly and larger updates, please consider leaving us a review on Steam. It can make a big difference to the project, so we can keep bringing you new content, improvements, balances, and bears.
Balance Changes
All this new content means we need to review our level cap and point allocation for your characters.
Last week we made the increase of talent points from 60 to 75 per character, by adjusting how many points were allocated at odd and even-numbered levels.
This week, we’re also increasing the level cap to 60. This will mean 15 more talent points (90 total) and 5 more solo talent points will be available to earn and spend, allowing you to enjoy the new content without having to skimp on other areas of your character's development.
We’ll keep reviewing these numbers closely as we add more content, and make adjustments where necessary to find the balance between over-saturation and point starvation.
Interior Decorations DLC
The final piece of this update, is a small decorative DLC we’re releasing for a few dollars on Steam.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2445280/Icarus_Interior_Decorations_Pack
This includes some fun decorative content for your bases, including 12 mineral lamps in Copper, Gold and Oxite, and six painting frames with a range of our concept art team's creations to display around your base.
This will be instantly granted to all our Supporters Edition players, and anyone else can buy the pack on Steam.
If you like what we’re doing with Icarus, and want to support our continued development, consider purchasing for a few dollars, it would mean a lot to us.
Changelog v1.3.0.111847
New/Galileo/DLC
- Fixing FishData pointing to the incorrect fish causing double ups in the fishing records
- Fixing issue where Fish that have not been added to the game where being displayed in the bestiary
- Adjusting FishData table validation to show issues where fish have / haven't been added to the game
- Colour adjustments to saltwater fish
- Bestiary landing page image adjusted
- Adjust the Fish Quaility and catch rate equation to balance out the quaility of catches for both low end rods & talents to high end rods and talents
- Added pronghorn creatures to PFG/Bestiary
- D_BestiaryData updated
- Fixed the scale of dark paintings so the image fits the frame
- Landshark added to bestiary images
- D_Bestiary updated with new creature images
- saving bestiary scenes
- Changed painting scale to fix protruding pictures from the frames
- Greatly increased the effectiveness of lures.
- Fixed some lure stats.
- Rebalanced recipes on lures, ensuring lures of a similar tier have similar costs, and lower tier lures cost less.
- Reorganized lures so they show in order of tier and stat
- Removed the bonus fish quality provided by the base fishing rod.
- Reduced the fish quality provided by rare fish lures but greatly increased the rare fish chance.
- Lowered the fish quality provided by talents
- Changed inspect to stop inspecting once you press left or right mouse button rather than after a short delay
- Updating Fish Utility Widget for Zone counts so it displays percentages next to zones and all terrains now have their own column
- Fixed missing fishing zone data for Olympus and Styx
- Add editor debugging for fishing zones in Lakes and Rivers
- Standardized Fishing Zone Quality values to 0.3, 0.5 and 0.7
- Added a small build up to the unlock bestiary sound since the visuals start earlier. This ties in better to the UI
- Fix Fish03_Var2 pointing to Var1 icon
- Update fish spawn zones to ensure that each fish is in at least 1 mid or high quality zone
- Removed 2 extra still frames on first person reel anim
- Changed the animation blend float on the rod to match arm reel anims
- Slowed the fishing rod reel animation to match the speed of the arms
- Adding Pronghorn bestiary cre event and data table entry
- Added missing material function used for fishing line
- Increase all 0.5 fish zone quality to 0.6 per balance tweaks
- Increased fishing max_quality_roll constexpr to 135 from 120. When calculating upper range limit when rolling fish quality, values above 100 are now reduced by 90% (150 becomes 105)
- Readded timer event time based on fishing rod (was removed for debugging purposes)
- Added VFX for Fishing, LureHit, LureGrab and Thrashing
- Updated Decorations pack PackageData row to use correct Steam Package ID
- Adjusted the timing of the Rod Reeling animation to match up with the hand while reeling in, still needs somm position reset in between casts to ensure consistent timing throughout
- Deleted old fish recipes. - ADVANCED ORDER: Updated quest requirements to instead be a new fish recipe
- Updated task-list accolades to use an Icarus font for list items, also made completed items more readable and gave them a strike-through. Accolade task-list items now scale down to prevent text items clipping
- Added art icons for fishing talent tree
- Updates and improvements to fishing audio based on new vfx
- adding prometheus image to stage select screen
- adding prometheus image to stage select screen
- Added text "Press J to open Field Guide." for when a creature or fish is unlocked
- Reeling anim now auto sets back to its original position when reinitializing a reel animation so the fishing rod always syncs up with the hand
- Fixed Fish_13_Var4 D_FishData entry to correctly point to the Fish_13_Var4 fish item
- Fix Bestiary Images using the uncompressed UI texture setting
- Delete unused FieldGuideBackground texture
- Disabled the ability to reel while still in the 'release' animation so that the rod reel animation doesnt become disjointed from the arm reel animation
- Updated AllTalentsInTreeAccolade to only count talents that aren't blocked behind required flags. This means that the Blueprint Tree Accolades should no longer count Blueprints that require a specific player talent
- Item icons optimization
- Updated Fish Finder to say Low, Med or High for quality, including colored text.
- Updated Fish Finder fish list to always be ordered by the type of fish
- Small balance adjustments to fishing to better reflect vfx pass
- Reduced sizes of individual entries in field guide.
- Fixed highlight being stuck when hovering over bestiary entries on the stat screen.
- Added additional spacing for bestiary traits
- Removed Cave biome requirement from biome visiting achievement requirement, as players can not visit a biome listed as Cave
- Edited fish descriptions slightly to better match colour variations
- Re-added Pronghorn's desert Bestiary data, as they can spawn in the desert
- Fish thrashing particle effects are now only active when there is a valid fish on the line. Made MULTI_OnBobLure a reliable multicast
- Added skeletal mesh with start, loop, and stop animation for the T2 communication device
- Change the way creature images fade in as percent unlock increases to a basic black to color (Galileo feature level locked)
- Fix incorrect fish mesh assignment
- Fixing skeleton weighting for the T2 fishing rod to match the others during the bend forward animation
- Upping player max level to 60 for Galileo, and adjusting talent growth for both player & solo talent point growth
- Fixing up values in Accolades and adjusting Steam Values to reflect proper values
- Unlocking Paints, Painting Frames & Geode Lamps for their release with Galileo
- Removing Fish Dish and Crumbed Fish Fillet (Old Fish Recipes) from 'Yes Chef' Accolade
- Fixing Arctic Scorpions Carcass Description
- Swapping Fish Mounts Variation 1 & 2 because 2 looks visually better
- Readding animation and delay for opening the field guide to match the audio that is played when opened
- Updated Arctic Scorpion to differentiate themselves more from desert versions, they now have more health and projectile resistance, but are slower by default and enrage when hit.
- Arctic Scorpions now grant slightly more bones when harvested.
- Slightly increased critical area on scorpions
- Change fishing reset sound to only play if resetting a previously cast line
- Added Bestiary trait icons
- Update references to biomes not using text which can be translated
- Update fishing lure splash VFX implementation to replicate correctly
- Adding Fishing Lure attach audio event
- Fixing stretched bestiary image popup when unlocking
- Fixing 'Yes Chef' Achievement to remove New Frontiers Food
- Added manual invalidation to text boxes on UMG_AccoladePopup after initialisation, also added a scale box to title to make sure title doesn't ever obstruct accolade image
- Fix a crash when clients exit when a tackle box has been placed in the world (experimental build only)
- Field guide open animation fix
- Fish wall mounts are now correctly destroyed at 0 durability
- Update bestiary trait text for AP and explosive weakness to better communicate that it is a weakness.
- Disable creature audio button if bestiary record has not been unlocked.
- Fix bestiary trait icon being scaled incorrectly.
- Fix bestiary stat unlock listing unlock requirement as 80 instead of 100%
- Items crafted at the fishing bench can now correcly be destroyed to return resources
- Tackleboxes will now only drop items in an overflow bag when destroyed, not when picked up
- Fixed spelling mistake in Large Advanced Aquarium flavour text
- Fixed geode lamps not saving their enabled state between prospect reloads
- Widget invalidation is now temporarily disabled on UMG_AccoladePopup when widget is visible on screen, should fix issues where longer Accolade titles/descriptions clip or have incorrect spacing
Fixed
- Fixing Carved Wood decorations to be called 'Carved' and not 'Caved'
- Fix Large Desert Antelope bones mesh receiving incorrect material assignment after refactor
- Fix ice/heat affect can jam onscreen when mounting/unmounting with afflications
- Various fixes to Stats data, descriptions, symbols, etc
- Formatted DataValidation event graph to be more readable
- Cull Distance on Waterfall BPs
- Improve constraint setup on Mammoth
- Move LightShadows option to be beside PlayerLightShadows option under Settings > Display and grey out PlayerLightShadows option when LightShadows are off
- Fixed enzyme geysers not loading state. This was being caused by attempting to match save data to geysers using UId's which were failing to match up. Have disabled UId matching in favour of instance name matching, as the geysers are static fixed objects which have reliable names
- Fix LC stalags referencing the same material twice on an invalid slot
- Extra safety checks for alterations benches to prevent a possible crash
- Cave culling distance settings optimizations
- Add culling distance override support to Lakes
- Culling settings on Caveworm BPs
- Delete faulty cave light setups
- Fix an issue with cooking some cave prefabs that was preventing all materials from being correctly applied
- Fix various edge cases with being mounted (or not) when entering/exiting/being in caves and lighting
- Fixing Dialogue line spacing being way to big which wass an issue caused by the last patch
- Fixed bug where mission boards didn't have their mission list updated when another board was interacted with.
- Fixed bug where drop pod dynamic lights weren't functioning correctly if the pod hadn't landed before (was spawned on ground by mission)
- Preserve tackle box contents (inventory) when the tackle box is destroyed
- Fixed quest objectives panel not appearing for clients
- Fixed environment temperature not updating on HUD for clients
- Fixed weight stat being visible on envirosuit loadout selection UI. Stats can now be flagged to be hidden in various UI elements via the D_Stats table
- Added source file changes related to previous UI stat hiding changes
- Added additional logging for failure to create unreal session error (error 005)
- Removed some caching of text from the chat box as it was causing messages to not show correctly
- Removed some caching with the displayed weight on the encumberance bar on the HUD as it was showing old values until animating out
- Fixed picking up a partial stack of items not triggering an inventory weight recalculation
- Fixed issue with pickup animation not selecting the right animation to play in certain situations
- Picking up items with both hands empty will now randomly select a hand to play the pick up animation with
- D_Atmosphere names are now FText instead of FName (so can be localized)
- Put some more bullet proofing around context interaction and entering/leaving photo mode
- Upping map level clamp to 60 in rich presence
- Removed spoilage from Pickled Freshwater Fillets
- The time remaning for resources (biofuel/water/oxygen) will now display correctly in the fuel inventory just like when burning wood in the campfire
- Fixed crash caused by the chat box once messages move beyond the top of the window
- Restored some caching to chat messages
- Fixed mammoth carcass fur not being cleaned up correctly.
- Fixed mammoth carcass not using correct carcass mesh.
- Dampened physics setup for mammoth's trunk
Future Content
- General clean up, polished around megatree manual cave, foliage, resources and decals, Purple Quad, DLC
- Fixed a few typos discovered by the localization team in item and accolade text
- Adding broodling flinch audio and event and data table entry
- Adding first pass audio for Landmine
- Adding painting deploy audio and event and data entry. Also fixed some wooden items not having the small wood item deploy sound
- Setup for landmine audio, altered landmine item description, landmine will no longer auto trigger when creature enters proximity if player is within proximity. Optimized landmine VFX
- Deleting normie horsie static meshes
- Adding Normie Horsie skeletal meshes and variants 2 & 3
- Updates to the collision audio event. BP has been shelved until we can test further
- Aligned Prometheus Prefab Cave Entrances To Ensure the Player Overlap Modifers Happen at the same time
- Added art assets and updated BP for Rug_Jaguar
- Added art assets and updated BP for Rug_Cougar
- Added art assets and updated BP for Rug_SnowLeopard
- Fixed issue with recent ducking used which caused the crit hit sound to be slightly too loud with the increase of ducking other audio
- Added hanging ferns and roots/vines to manual cave and added rock formations to manual cave, Purple Quad, DLC
- Adding chamois variant flinch sound, adding pronghorn data table entry and adjustments and added missing reverb on flee audio and fixed flee using a loop state instead of a one shot flee event sound.
- Updating logic of lava flyers to play on event begin play and stop on detonation. Fixes issues with multiple lava flyers not triggering the audio and removes hack to stop audio when destroyed
- Enabled 2-sided DF generation on all MAC and IMP meshes, increased DF self shadow bias to 50 on all Cliff, CanyonWall and CaveEntrance meshes (GL, TU, SW, LC)
- 2 sided DF generation on MTN, Macro, DC CanyonWall meshes, increased DF self shadow bias to 50 on CF, DC cliffs (OLY and STYX)
- ADDING Lava flyer death and flinch audio event and data table entry
- adding male & female heavy obsidian armor skeletal meshes
- Added SM_BLD_Floor_Half_Wood_INT & set up Materials for Buildable Rework Investigation
- Increased the size of the bear rug and adjusted the shape
- Added art assets for Polar bear rug and updated the BP
- Fixed Collision Issues in prefab caves where players could get blocked by Macro Cliffs, Purple Quad, Prometheus
- Concrete BLD rework - added SMs, material, mask texture for Railing + RailingStairs
- General clean up of cave tunnels, decals and vines in Grasslands, Green Quad, DLC
- Added BLD_Stairs_Wood and BLD_Beams_Wood
- Added art assets for buffalo rug and updated BP
- Setting up test event for bramble foliage setup
- Adjustments to bramble loop volume and eq. Also lowered top end in footstep mud as it was too different next to dirt
- Adjustments and improvements to bramble audio. Added 1 shot with a cooldown at beginning of event. Added bramble tag and UE BP data
- Added art assets for desert wolf rug and updated BP
- Replaced Mask Textures for INT Wood Meshes & Updated Materials for Buildable Rework Investigation
- adjustments to bramble scratch audio and volumes
- adding male and female obsidian armor skeletal meshes
- General clean up around lava biome, on cliffs, resources and geothermal pools, Purple Quad, DLC
- Fixed Collision Issues in prefab caves where players could get blocked by Macro Cliffs, Purple Quad, Prometheus
- Update world generation to enable bespoke caves in Prometheus:
- Additional world gen step which combines in-world cave actors and any connected prefabs into cave groups which are deserialized as cave instances
- Updated cave prefab deserialization to ignore some components if they're part of a combined cave - flags can be applied to override this on a case-by-case basis
- Added editor widget function to assist world builders in initial required setup of cave entrances
- Improved the tear sound of bramble and also updated the creature collision audio for better balancing. Adjustments to both events
- rescaled prom image to pow2
- Creating new needler 'attack vocal' for ballistic whip so it can be controlled more. Also adjustments to tail whip volume based on amount being played to stop sounds being too much when multiple needlers are spawned
- Remove Vehicle Scale reference from RWVisualDebugger as indexing was getting stuck on it, and we have no need for it
- Adding lava hunter hatched egg audio loop and hatch audio and BP implimentation
- Fixed Collision and Seam Issues in swamp prefab caves where players could get blocked by Macro Cliffs, Purple Quad, Prometheus
- Updated Deer rug asset with more thickness, lower polycount, and normals fixed
- removed collision from deer rug fur mesh
- Updated cougar rug to match size and colour of the regular cougar instead of the alpha cougar
- Tweaked colour on dessert wolf rug
- Added snow wolf rug art assets to DCO folder and updated BP
- Added updated Alpha wolf rug art assets to DCO folder and updated BP
- Added updated conifer wolf rug art assets to DCO folder and updated BP
- Improve DF settings on several assets
- Improve collision on AlienBoneFossil meshes
- Disable RVTs on LOD materials
- General clean up, polished around manual cave, foliage and added cliff formations, Purple Quad, DLC
- Balance tweaks to the lava hunter hatched egg audio
- Added SM_BLD_Roof_PyramidHip_Single_Inverted_Wood_R, T_BLD_Roof_PyramidHip_Single_Inverted_Wood_R_Masks_AO & SM_BLD_Ramp_Half_Wood, T_BLD_Ramp_Half_Wood_Masks_AO
- Added fisrt pass of Iron Kit Assets as well as a test of BLD_Wall_Iron
- Small audio adjustment to brambles event. Also shortened the mushroom harvest audio slightly to accomodate better for the bigger tree mushrooms as well. Removed unused assets
- Updated polar bear rug to fix minor texture issue
- Fixed Collision and Seam Issues in Arctic prefab caves where players could get blocked by Macro Cliffs, Blue Quad, Prometheus
- General clean up of cave tunnels, decals and vines in Grasslands, Green Quad, DLC
- Fix manually lake spline generation editor button in WT_Lake which wasn't generating edge splines correctly. It now calls the existing generic spline creation function on the edge spline itself
- Added SM_BLD_Floor_TrapDoor_Wood_INT, SM_BLD_Wall_Doorframe_Wood_INT & Set Up Materials for Buildable Rework Investigation
- Concrete BLD rework - added SMs, materials, mask textures for window walls, angled + half pitch walls
- Fixed issue with predator bird idle audio sounds cutting off abruptly when crossing over various distant thresholds
- Cave Polish in Blue Quad Swamp and Regenerated Edge Splines in Prefab Caves LC_MED_004, 005 and SML_004, 005 , Prometheus