Pets Bundle available for Pre-Purchase
This is the first time we have a bundle that features a "bundle only" package. To minimize the chances that things break, we are preparing as much as possible ahead of time.
Just in time for its release alongside the free Laika update next week, we've just made the Pets Bundle available on Steam. This contains the Pet Companions and Creature Comforts content packs, and as a bonus you will get access to the Zebra Rescue Mission - only available if you purchase the bundle.
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/40692/Icarus_Pets_Bundle/
Welcome to week 124.
In the penultimate week before Laika, we’re introducing a new system for packing the game files so that future weekly updates download and patch quicker.
This means the update is out a day early, but hopefully will lead to fewer issues in future weeks.
We’ve also got a new Operation on Styx for you - GENESIS: Recovery.
Hop in and have a read.
This Week : NEW STYX OPERATION
This week we have a new Operation for you on Styx - GENESIS: Recovery.
This mission requires you to head to a small creature research station and take care of some local wildlife before hatching a strange new egg.
There also might be a new creature in this operation that you’re more likely to see on Icarus in greater numbers in the future.
This Week : Patching Optimizations
This week's core reason for this update being released earlier is our adjustments to the update patching process.
Note: If you wish to postpone this patching optimization you can do so through a temporary branch we have added on Steam called ‘2.1.26’. You can find instructions on how to switch branches here.
We have added a temporary branch to Steam if you wish to postpone this patching optimization. it is called ‘2.1.26’. See this post for how to switch branches.
As we mentioned last week, we’re rolling out a patch that our optimization team has been working on.
It involves a long-standing issue with patch times, due to the way Steam’s patching process works with UE4 games.
What we’ve done is adjust the way Icarus is packed and distributed during this process, intending for it to work more efficiently with Steam’s patching process.
This does mean that this week you’ll need to redownload the entire Icarus game as it’ll need to reorganize your files into the new system, but it also means that Icarus updates going forward will patch noticeably faster from week to week and the size on the disk will be reduced.
Because of the need to redownload the entire game, we’ve brought this patch out a day earlier so people can preload this before the weekend.
Next Week: The LAIKA Update
For those of you who possibly haven’t read our previous updates, here are some of the features to expect:
- New Food Troughs, Water Troughs and Carts are being added
- Animals now have a levelling system and their own talent trees
- Animals now have a customs system in space and can be taken up into orbit and brought to other prospects just like workshop gear
We have even more we’re saving as a surprise for next week, so keep your eyes on our socials for more teasers.
Your support makes these updates possible.
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/36462/Icarus_Architecture_Bundle/
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/35727/Icarus_Complete_the_Set/
Changelog v2.1.27.12153
New Content
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- Fixing Objectives which was breaking the build - GENESIS: Recovery
- Committing First Pass of New Operation - GENESIS: Recovery
- Added ability to fill tank via nearby deployables
- Enable OodleData plugin. Turn on PAK file compression for test and release builds (not dev)
- GENESIS: Recovery - Adding final mission tweaks & balance (Still missing mesh for egg)
- Added the ability for quests to set relevant icarus character actors if needed
- Fixed Dribbo Eating / Water Drinking so it effects their stats
- Adding Quest Markers in level for GENESIS: Recovery
- Added Missing Quest Recorder Logic
- Adjusting Quest Steps for GENESIS
- Fixing Alpha Spawn, Adjusting Snuffles Helath
- Fixed Incubator Quest Steps
- Adding in Strange Egg Icon and Mesh
Fixed
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- OFFENDER: Fixed map marker not appearing for clients
- Fixed Antelope trophy saying it's from the arctic
- Fixed naming of exotic debuff stats, then hid from player (as these will never be visible to the player anyway)
- Checking for deployables now takes in a bed actor to get location rather than sometimes getting players location. Removed unneeded deployable caching
- Fixed Flow Meter UI resource network disconnected message being unable to be translated
- Fixed upgrade UI being unable to be translated
- Fixed hammer controls UI being unable to be translated
- Comfort system now takes in the stat containers for Corpses/Mounts+pets/deployables instead of just the deployable actors for the laika update
- When a quest is trying to spawn a creature and the EQS fails and the fallback nav mesh check fails, do not spawn the creature
- Update Ignari trophy and vestige to correct name
- Fixed BaseWildHoneycombYield_+% granted by Bee Bestiary reward to grant multiplicitive reward rather than additive
- Fix a rare crash when resuming a prospect (race condition applying materials to partially mined exotics)
Future Content
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- Adding mini hippo jump attack audio and adjusted attack footsteps / jump / lands
- Fixed dog bowl having incorrect parent. Added color picking umg to the inventory umg for food bowls. Removed automatically color picking the first value when interacting with the bowl
- Adding reaver idle audio and event and data table entry
- Jake added rep notify bool for audio implementation
- Initial check in of german shepard and lab assets and custom dog anims, corpse setup and minor weight tweaks to follow
- Added BLD_Roof_Peak_Connector_Wood. Still need to add APEX DM
- Added BLD_Roof_Peak_Connector_Thatch. Still need to add APEX DM
- Adding cat meow purr
- Adding dog idle event and audio
- Adjustment to audio location for food trough 4 and also small adjustments to start / loop playback
- Adding dog eat loop event, dog drink loop event and dog death RIP
- Adding quick gate so the boolean for running is only set when needed, fixes the T4 food trough
- Adding audio BP for food trough playing. Needs gate put in to notify if its already set or not
- Adding snare trap set and activate audio, events and notify's
- Updated talent tooltip to hide dividers for mount central talent node
- Splitting out Cats / Dogs / Horses into seperate AISetup Rows so their rewards / vestiages / trophies are all seperate items rather than a dog of one breed being able to craft a trophy of another
- Retook all Icons of All Cats / Dogs / Horses their Vestiges / Carcacasses / Workshop and Trophies
- Adding Boar / Wolf / Hyena Bait Items / Icons / Recipes
- Duplicating eating anim montage and anim to be used for wolf drinking - dogs drinking. Added drinking audio
- Adding dog bark for dogs A,B,C,D. Adding data table entries etc
- Adding dog snore and cat purr events, footstep notifys and other adjustments and fine tunes
- Added labrador trophy to the project
- Added german shepherd trophy to the project
- Added BLD_Roof_Peak_Connector_Glass. Still need to add APEX DM
- Small adjustments to watering cart and harvesting cart. Also recolouring all fmod events that had colour that didn't make sense with the event
- Adding watering cart event and audio
- Instanced levels prototype WIP
- Improved shader quality for horse hair
- Fix an issue with UAT where if the OodleData Kraken compression level is set to 0 (for debug builds) it instead defaults to 4
- Added isvalid check on inventory component for mounts that dont have one
- Added creature talent icons
- Adding various dog and cat movement audio
- Setting up Labrador and German Shepherd Trophies and Item Icons
- Added BLD_Roof_Peak_Connector_Iron. Still need to add APEX DM
- Added dogs bestiary image to the project and updated dogs bestiary entry with the new image
- Added the ability to toggle the farming carts on and off
- Added BLD_Roof_Peak_Connector_Concrete. Still need to add APEX DM
- Adding seed plough cart audio and event and data table entry
- Added SM_BLD_Stairs_Half_Wood_INT. Still need to add APEX DM
- Adding ghost croc vocalisations to data table ready for implementation
- Adding ghost croc to data table
- Added BLD_Stairs_Half_Wood. Still need to add APEX DM
- Ghost crocodile implementation. -Normal crocodile but will dive and teleport close to player
- Cleanup on Horse weighting to address leg movement in animation, further weighting pass incoming
- Added BLD_Stairs_Half_Thatch art assets to the project