Icarus Update Patch Notes (A Features)

A new Icarus August update 1.2.17.101928 is available to download on PC (Steam). According to the official Icarus patch notes, the latest update added new features, fixes and improvements.

Unfortunately, since the last major update, players are facing several issues. Today’s Icarus patch will address a few of these errors.

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Icarus Patch Notes – September 23, 2022

New Content

Juvenile creatures undergoing taming process are now valid targets for other NPCs hostile to player
Juvenile animals now use their own custom BTs instead of using existing GOAP behaviours when taming process starts.
Improved feel of juvenile follow behaviour. Added ability to specify delayed secondary montage sections in base BTTask_PlayMontage.
Added temporary health bar UI when riding mount
Added version 2 of the feeding trough as well as proxy meshs for hay, seeds, and veggies to fill it

Parent NPCs now have child set as ProtectedActor by default if GOAP behaviour requires it. Moa are no longer fully aggressive, will only attack player if they near the moa or it’s child

Added weight component to mount base, mounts can now affect building stability when standing on pieces
Added functionality to detect when GOAP NPCs are falling out of the world and clean them up correctly in this case
Add combat music setup for M creature
Added mount bed asset to the project
Juveniles and Mounts will now freeze movement / AI when the world tile they’re standing on is unloaded
Adjusted geo on Mount Bed asset to accommodate placement on non flat ground
Buffalo mount is no longer able to mine voxels
Added maximum limit of 30 characters for tamed mount name
Implement talents for unlocking animal bed, food trough and saddles.
Balance recipes and weight for animal bed, food trough and saddles.
Prepare future saddles data
Added juvenile moa and juvenile buffalo carcass items

Adding in new section to Moa idle montage and decreased the anim section weighting that contains the vocalization to cut down on the repitition, added in new entry for juvenile idle so that the audio can be tweaked to differentiate it from the adult

SM_ITM_Saddle_Buffalo mesh, textures and material
SM_ITM_Saddle_Moa mesh, textures and material
Adding teenage M creature idle nip vocalisation to animation
Fixed bug where juveniles could be automatically cleaned up by the global spawn manager when their parent died. PossessedPlayers EQS Query Context now includes mounted players
Juvenile taming progress is now serialised correctly. Mounts and Juveniles now have their D_AISetup row initialised correctly on reload.
Added new generic NPC recorder component that records AISetup row and survival values
A server-wide chat message is now displayed whenever a juvenile undergoing taming is killed
Mounts can now drink from water troughs and lakes. Added new water trough item. Removed developer-only feature flag from mount/juvenile related assets. Mounts will now only search for food in food troughs instead of using the same query as Kea (all containers with food)
Added new inventory type
Moved saddles to T3 at Advanced Textiles Bench. This slight additional investment will make mounts feel less required by all players.
Renamed Basic Pack Saddle to Basic Pack Harness, to better differentiate ridable tames
Adding audio for Juve Buff to differentiate it between the main buff
Adding in full pass weighted skeletal mesh saddles for the Moa and Buffalo with physics asset setups to allow for anim dynamics

Added processor recipe and talent unlock for the water trough as part of the domestication loop, currently using the same cost values as the food trough and in the same section of the blueprint tree

Added proper pass mess for the food trough in the deployable and deployable preview, updated water trough BP to the same and swapped out the animal bedding BP mesh to the proper pass mesh
Adding M creature aggro vocals in and data table entries
Adding in Buffalo Pack harness mesh, previously called the saddle bag, and setup physics assets for anim dynamics, created copy pose anim bp and hooked up the assets to the D_Saddles data table, added in stat to D_ItemsStatic to enable for cargo use only so players can’t ride on it
Added flavour text for weekly patch items
Added descriptions for weekly patch items
Mounts now act like normal NPCs when killed (ragdoll -> freeze -> replaced with corpse).
Players can no longer ride saddles if they’re tagged as cargo-only.
Shifted base ragdoll logic from BP_IcarusNPCGOAPCharacter to IcarusNPCCharacter. Adjusted IcarusNPCCharacter data validation to ignore socket requirements for NPCs without SkeletalMeshes
Adding in M creature stomp sound and notify
Adding Buff jump event, adjustments to velocity differences in footsteps and landing impacts
Applied mount inventory design concept to UMG_MountInterface, added UMG_MountCommands widget, redid UMG_MountInventory and separated saddle from it into its own widget
Added version of the Food trough to use as a water trough, slightly tweaked the mesh and hue shifted the interior boards to push away visually from the food trough, hooked up int he BP_Water_Trough mesh entry
Added IsValid check to prevent warnings on getting the players state from the player seated on the mount
Adding M creature specific whoosh attack sound, adjustments and general fine tunes to overall experience and spawn rates and small volume tweaks and spacializer improvements
More general mount improvements. Tweaks to jump timing and better velocity transitions. other small mount improvements
Added Gfur to the Mount Bed BP. Adjusted Mount Bed mesh and LODs to minimise crashing
Resaved Trough DM with different material ID name to fix warning on startup
Player can no longer ‘claim’ an unclaimed mount if they already have one, enforcing a limit of one active, alive tame per player.
Mounts will now store whatever they had in their cargo / saddle inventories into their corpse when killed
Add Moa to Conifer SpawnZones on Oly and Styx. Add to Desert for Styx
Add OLY prefix to Olympus AISpawnZones and delete unused entries
Add DT validation to detect unused AISpawnZone rows
General improvements to both buffalo and moa mount audio based on playtest. Adjusted swimming audio to be more appropriate for buffalo etc
Added Camera FreeLook support while riding mounts, currently functions the same as Player Third Person FreeLook
Can now CTRL-Click items between mount saddle and cargo inventories
Mounts can no longer sprint while jumping
Items contained within mount cargo inventory are now dropped as overflow when removing equipped saddle
Can no longer equip unsupported saddles on mounts. Added new IInventoryModerator interface that lets actors implementing it add additional logic when checking item/slot validity. Renamed pack harness item to make it obvious that it’s for Buffalo only
Juveniles can no longer trigger a killcam. Shifted generation of aim-assist target component to BP NPC GOAP Character
When initially led by a player, juvenile mounts will now start with low hunger and sleep, to prevent taming progress from starting until player has returned to their base/camp
Removed one mount per player limit
Fixed moa & juvenile moa swimming above the surface of the water
Amount of camera lag on mount saddle spring arm is now reduced when player is looking backwards
Adding moa bones assets for after the skinned and harvested state which were previously missing and assigned to the Moa and Mount_Moa corpse BP’s
Audio implementation for creature vs creature hit sounds, audio still to be added. Implemented SpawnHitEffects event in mount base so we get visual hit effects when a mount damages an NPC
More improvements to moa behaviors. Adding sit vocal and other small tweaks
Add icons for AnimalBed, Food and Water Troughs and Saddles
Remove unnecessary defines for ITEM_Missing icon itemable entries
Refactor mount audio state update function to be more robust. Add Relaxing audio state when mount is in Lying Down movement state
Renamed Basic Buffalo Pack Harness to Buffalo Pack Harness
Moved Basic Riding Saddle to T2.
Set PM for Saddle material
Add/tweak LODs for saddles
Add StaticMesh versions of saddles for world context dropping
Update Meshable entries for Saddles and Water Trough to point to new meshes and correct BPs
Increasing mount moa and buffalo stamina base regen delay and delay from empty, decreased both mounts base stamina regen flat rate slightly, greatly increased both mount base health and slightly increased buffalo base stamina, doubled the time from 15min to 30min to domesticate both juvenile creatures
Adjustments and improvements to moa mount footstep blend layers for other surfaces and also adding relax idle event with lower more gentle layers
Add support for Water Trough to fill when raining and not sheltered
Disable shadow casting on water plane mesh
Players can now only place raw fruit/veggies in the animal food trough
Upping juvenile spawn chance to 75% when their parent type spawns
Increasing the buffalo turn rate while sprinting to make it feel a bit more in line with the momentum
Added default D_AISetup rows to both juvenile character BPs
Added a local controller check to ToggleThirdPerson to fix possible desync when the client switches to third person
Adding relaxing state audio for laying down for moa mount, adjustment to vocal sit timing, also adding gore sounds for creatures damaging creatures
Can now activate/deactivate current light slot item when mounted
Add default AI_Setup row to Moa BP
Added Mount and Taming icons for UI. Added a button that swaps icons on toggle
Adding modifier states to use for tame hunger and thirst levels to effect heath and stamina regen values as well as movespeed and regen delays
ITM_Saddle for Moa, Buffalo and Harness textures update
Extended functionality of new IconSwap button UMG. First integration of mount ‘Commands’ UMG with AI behaviours. UMG_Titlebar text now scales to fit if parent slot is too small
Enabled Moa skinning rewards. – Added skinning event descriptions for juvenile Moa and Buffalo
Added ability to fill water skins/canteens from water troughs
Add unique Baby versions for Moa and Buffalo loot which is about half of adult
Update Moa loot to be White meat instead of Gamey
Reducing base time to domesticate both moa and buffalo to 20 min
Adding medium distant moa idle sounds for better blending between close medium and far distances. Removing old unused assets
Adding more appropriate deploy sound for the animal troughs
General finessing to audio spawn rates of moas and distancing tweaking
Adding in a lock to creature attack while sprinting, similar to the jump, this helps with the buffalo slide attack as well as provides another talent unlock opportunity
Update descriptions on new Mounts related content, Troughs, Saddles, etc to be more descript
Add Itemable descriptions for Komodo BearCub, Buffalo and Moa carcasses
Shifted mount behaviour toggles into inventory screen. Added text to display current mount behaviour on commands panel. Mounts set to aggressive behaviour will now consider anyone who recently attacked their owner a valid, hostile target
Removed developer-only lock on new commands panel in mount interface. Commands panel in mount interface is now hidden if you’re not the owner
Adding in a simple danger avoidance on the mount movement behavior tree, initial implementation
Adding weight bar to mount display

Fixed

Fixed bug where Kea wouldn’t ignore food containers that were over the maximum distance when looking to eat
Fixed bug where map icons wouldn’t appear if player wasn’t possessing their player character
Fixed a bug where the ‘Multiplayer Ghost Buildings’ setting would be turned off but you could still see deployable ghosts from other players
Fixed bug where juveniles wouldn’t eat unless they were also tired
Remove obsolete Beta Weekend UI assets from project
Remove FTUE UMG content from Space Main Menu in order to not load assets not needed
Remove hardcoded references to deleted string table entries for BW4 Satellites mission
Fixed a bug where the multiplayer ghost settings being turned off would still show other players placement helpers
Fixed a bug where if the player mounted a creature and was at a distance that the name UI over their head would dissapear, when coming back into range, the name would be visible but it would not be correct and instead show ‘Test Human’
Fixed bug where clients (and server) couldn’t see current juvenile ‘parent’ in tool tip text
Fixed a bug where when going into a cave while riding a mount wont cause the caveworms to reveal themselves
Changed Accolade Ribbon texture compression to DXT1 to reduce memory consumption by ~75MB
Set Texture Compression on Item Icons to be DXT5 in order to reduce memory consumption by around 250MB
Fixed a bug where the player would be in first person perspective, mount onto a creature and then on dismount would always be in third person perspective
Player Food/Water/Oxygen reset to 20% on revive, even if it was higher before, ensure player is receives the greater of previous values, or 20% of max food/water/oxygen on revive
Add DT Validation for Talents DT to flag any rows with no Talent Tree defined as invalid. Deleted several entries that matched this criteria
Fixed issue where players didn’t get the prompt to cancel current taming operation. Fixed juvenile moa not animating.
Fixed issue where juveniles would only eat from unsheltered food troughs.
Lowered capsule size of Moa/Buffalo Juveniles and Moa Mount to ensure they can freely navigate through single doors and other small spaces.
Fixed Buffalo LookAt snapping after finishing current montage.
Tweaked location and size of juvenile/mount head blocker collision
Fixed bug where player could be left in mid air if mount they were riding on was improperly destroyed (without going though ActorState damage path)
Creatures placed on the skinning bench do not get ragdoll physics when loading game, increase both settle time and minimum velocity when corpses are placed on skinning bench, add physics shapes to edges of skinning bench to prevent corpses from falling off during settle
Fixed a bug where hopping off a mount would do the setup for placing the players map icon allowing a single player to have many icons stacked ontop of each other and causing a heavier icon shadow every time you dismount
Fixed missing ‘NOT’ operator when checking whether or not a player can ride on a cargo saddle
Fixed a bug where when picking a carcass up, a button would pop up to ‘place’ the carcass. This button has been removed to reduce confusion
Update Visual Map textures for T016/T017/T019 to use DXT1 compression which reduces memory consumption by 90% (80MB per map)
Delete old (2020) unused PROC textures for Olympus
Fixed issue where juveniles were slowly getting thirsty without a way of drinking, Juveniles no longer lose water over time. Fixed leather curtain doors incorrectly affecting navigation, NPCs should now be able to navigate correctly though.
Fixed Buffalo Juvenile not having a correctly scaled cloth affector
Fixed several mount interface UI display issues
Fix splash sound sometimes not playing when player jumps into water
Remove debug information from IcarusSplineNet showing in Debug builds by gating it behind a Bool in the BP
Fixed game crash by adding ‘Allow CPU Access’ to new Animal Bed fur mesh
Updates and improvements to mount audio. Fine tuned moa / buffalo footsteps, swimming volumes and general finessing of the mounting experience
Remove Development feature level requirement from mount AI audio data. Remove threat audio configuration from juvenile buffalo audio data
Fixed Buffalo mount using wrong collision profile for it’s cloth affector component
Fixed bug where mount cargo inventory UI would become invisible when re-opening the mount interface. Added temporary UI in Mount cargo inventory to suggest player equips saddle to access cargo. Hid ‘Talents’ tab in mount interface
Added missing herbivore food tag query data
Mount behaviour actions UI is now hidden behind developer feature level. Collapsed WIP survival value indicators on on-HUD mount health bar
Fixed a bug that due to an oversight on removing the deployable component, the player could no longer harvest bones from a corpse. Added query for animal corpse instead of using deployable tag that fixes this
Mount survival UMG health bar is now scaled 50%
Corrected bus routing for mounts and also adding needler death vocals and event
Fix creature death fall audio not playing on clients. Changes in how we instantiate NPC ActorState component meant it could be null when creature audio component initialised, so now am waiting until the ActorState is valid before binding to death events
Fixed issue with juvenile tames where they’d get destroyed if there were no players nearby
Fixed bug where cargo items wouldn’t get ejected properly when removing equipped saddle; Mount item overflow location wasn’t getting updated after initial spawn
Replaced mount command icons and slightly adjusted spacing between buttons in MountCommands. Slightly adjusted animation in ToggleButton_IconSwap
Shifted head collider for Moa to hopefully fix issue where they spawn underground
Fixed a bug where the animal highlight talent wouldn’t highlight juvenile animals
Corrected timing for juvi moa nip idle vocal
Remove ITEM_Missing icon defines
Updating Mount UI, placed inside a border
Mount Sprint speed is now displayed in stat list and attack information has been removed
Fixing Mount UI Stats so they corretly show the Mount stats and not the players
Reduced maximum distance mounts will travel to drink from nearby water bodies
Adjusted commands layout, temporarily removed button animation. Slightly adjusted MountInterface Layout
Changed mount/juvenile follow behaviour to allow movement off navmesh
Tweaked CritHead spheres on Buffalo and Scorpions to make sure they encapsulate desired area
Mounts set to ‘Passive’ combat mode will attempt to run from nearby hostile actors.
Fixed bug where mount status effects weren’t displaying properly in the inventory screen
Mounts will no longer attempt to run from hostiles when following player
Code Fixes and Cleanup for Mount Character Class
Water and food trough deployables no longer block navigation
Fixed collision on concrete, aluminium, thatch and wood stairs to allow mounts to climb them properly

Future Content

Enable footstep and other movement systems to work with lava lakes:
Add Lava physical material and surface type, and add corresponding data to D_Surfaces and FMOD surface types
Update lakes to set physics volume PM override using their material’s PM if it’s non-default, and apply Lava PM to lava materials
Update ground surface checks etc. to handle water objects with non-water surfaces
Assigning proper texture groups to various DLC foliage
Fixed warning that was being displayed because it didn’t detect the keyword ‘new’ in the directory or name
Added Rocks to Geothermal Lake, Replace Macros with IMP & Landscape Painted LC Area on Purple Quad, DLC Map
Landscape painting, cliff placement, and frozen lakes placement, Blue Quad, DLC
Landscape Sculpting, Landscape Painting and Riverbank Pass, Green Quad, Prometheus
Initial setup to provide some lava flow parameters to lava river audio:
Add a step to WT_RiverSpline content baking which finds lava flow point actors which overlap spline points, extracts relevant data and passes it to the generated river actors
Add runtime functionality to river audio components to calculate lava flow values from the cached data
This approach is a necessary workaround since we can’t access the actual values calculated by the lava flow points at runtime or sample the RVT from BP
Added BPs for SW_Mangrove_Var2, SW_Mangrove_Var3, and SW_Mangrove_Var4
Adding more foliage to test scene
Ice Waterfall Top – meshes, textures, material added
Ice Waterfall Bottom – 3x meshes, textures, material added
Reimported APEX_BLD_Wall_Triangle_L/R meshes to fix warning msgs about bad normals
Testing texture setting optimization by removing a set of icons from the UI texturegroup to see if they’re still fully loaded automatically
Added RVT option for Lava Lake Material
Update lava river flow audio values to transition more smoothly by lerping in weight when approaching boundaries of flow zones
Added Deffered decals material for snow transtions to help frozen river to waterfall blend
D_LC_ErosionRockBlend – edited material to increase displacement
Adding Clay Brick Buildings & Depoloyables Datatable Setup, Blueprints, Recipes and Talents
Fixing Various Building Tag queries which where returning true when the should not have been (For example Aluminium was thought it was Stone)
Adding Iron Sledgehammer item to datatables
Adding new stats for Shattering Damage and Shattering Yield
Changes to the quality of code as per the code review: ICRST-CR-208
Changed TextureGroup back to UI on test icon set as test (CL 101272) failed
Adding Iron Sledgehammer Talent and Recipe
Fixing Misaligned Masonary Bench on T2 Blueprint Tree
Adding Shattering Damage and Yeild to the Iron Sledgehammer
Adding T2/T3/T4 Mission Communication Devices Data table Setup, including Recipes, Talents, Account Flags
LavaFlow mesh import adjustment on Z value
Finished Adding Rocks to Geothermal Lakes, Finished Replace Macros with IMP & Painted Decals Around Lava Lakes on Purple Quad, DLC Map
Swamp Macros – LOD pass, material edits on 01, plus GL and TU variants
Landscape Sculpting, Landscape Painting and Riverbank Pass, Green Quad, Prometheus
Landscape painting, cliff placement, and decal pass in arctic biome, Blue Quad, DLC
Set FrozenLake to be a BP to allow vertex painting
Adding Neelder Attack audio and event
Adding needler flinch audio and event
LavaFlow mesh – reimported with Z value adjustment (fixed bad import)
Updated Prospect images to use DXT1 compression to save memory. Fix source file locations/names
Add calls to a footstep receiver interface when the player stands on an actor. Enables us to add custom footstep sweeteners on specific world objects
Fix generation issues on WT_GeothermalSpline
Added spline rotation function to single mesh splines on WT_RiverbankSpline tool to improve general mesh placement
Swamp Macros – LOD pass, material edits on 02, plus GL and TU variants
Landscape painting, cliff placement, and decal pass in arctic biome, Blue Quad, DLC
added larkwell armor textures, materials and mesh pack
Landscape Sculpting, Landscape Painting and Riverbank Pass, Green Quad, Prometheus
Added CustomPrimitiveData variable for Snow Height on Tundra Rocks
moved larkwell mesh pack to it’s correct folder
Swamp Macros – LOD pass, material edits on 03, plus GL and TU variants
Improve CF Grass LOD settings to prevent billboard meshes being loaded so close to camera
Adding in a new moa sprint jump animation to be unlocked by a talent later on

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Icarus Update Patch Notes (A Features) – Sep 23, 2022

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