Welcome to week 100, a century of Icarus weekly updates! This week brings the XENON backpack, a new hunting backpack with unique buffs and perks such as skinning speed boosts and reductions to knife wear.
We’re also one week away from Hypatia Part II, which will add Operations and Exotic Spawns in Olympus Open World games.
Notable Improvements
- Chamios & Tusker Vestiges now drop as intended, and the Wooly Zebra trophy now looks like a Wooly Zebra
- The Decorations Bench received a visual upgrade to reflect that it will be used for decorations other than just the basic rustic set
- Fixed an issue where respawns could be limited while doing Operations in open world, this was only supposed to be active during Missions
- Removed the Biolab button in the Orbital Workshop menu. It wasn’t supposed to be there yet
- Added UI on Drills and Extractors to display ore per minute
- Fixed a Fish spawn in the Pillars region of Prometheus, it was set to a rate of zero making it impossible to catch
This Week: The XENON Backpack
This week’s new item is the XENON Backpack, the first in a series of new backpacks we’re working on with unique benefits and buffs for different play styles.
The XENON Backpack is for the hunter and taxidermist and allows you to be able to harvest vestiges from animals without needing to use a taxidermy knife.
Alongside this, it also gives you a 33% boost to skinning speed, 6 inventory slots, a -50% wear rate for knives when skinning and a +50% chance to find additional Rare Meat while skinning.
The XENON Backpack can be purchased from the Orbital Workshop after being researched, and we’ll have more backpacks in the future that’ll cover other areas of gameplay.
Next Week: Hypatia Part II: OLYMPUS OPERATIONS
Next week’s update is a big one, as we bring you Hypatia Part II: Olympus Operations.
We’ve been talking about the testing of this project over the last few weeks, and we’ve now reached the stage where we are getting final passes done for any bugs or blockers that have slipped through.
We’re also looking to release the Open World Exotic Respawning as part of this update, and this is also in the final phase of testing as we balance the numbers.
We are in the process of closed community testing and open community testing will be opened this weekend for players on the experimental branch.
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Changelog v2.1.3.117372
New Content
Unlocked the Xenon Backpack
Rebalanced Xenon Backpack bonuses and cost
Reorganized workshop tree for future backpacks
Updated hunters backpack skeletal mesh with correct skinning and increased the size and position slightly
Unlocking Hunters Backpack in the Workshop
Fixed Duplicate Xenon backpacks appearing in workshop
Fixed
Added additional translatable text entries, pending translation by translation team: Destroying items, Orbital Exchange currency, Repair bench confirmation, sleep screen text
Fixed Pillars fish spawn zone having a fish with 0 weighting, being uncatchable
Committing uncommitted file
Fixed a bug where exotics/min were always 25. Now calculates and displays correct number/min
Fix returning to character select means players have no heads when rejoin
Add some non translated UI to string tables
Replaced boss map icons
Add pak meta check result to sentry reports
Fixed hitch caused by querying out of bounds texture
Fixed hitch caused by resetting radar scans
Fix an intermittent ensure in the shelter subsystem
Fixed incorrect visibility setting that caused Bio-Lab tab button to show up in the HAB
Fixing Snow Wolf and Hyena Vestige Item Icons
Fixed issue where respawns could be limited while doing operations
Fixed the Wooly Zebra Trophy incorrectly showing the Zebra Trophy instead, you will need to pick this up and place back down to fix
Fixed the Chamios not dropping vestiges when skinned with a taxidermy knife
Adjusting Stats to mention vestiges and not trophies
Fixing Tusker Vestiages not setup correctly to drop
Fixed issue with recent bounds caching change that caused some areas of the map be read as out of bounds
Fixing Pygmy Lopp Vestige being misnamed
Future Content
Meteor VFX adjustments to match audio, adding in variable meteor speed
Adjustments and improvements to the meteor strikes. nested events to have max instances etc
Lots more distancing tweaks and fine tunes to the meteor audio events
Landscape Sculpting Pass and Cliff Pass, Red Quad, Prometheus
T1 purifiers can now be placed without being in shelter. Ground variant only fills when its raining
More fine tunes and updates to the meteor audio
Added BOW_Crossbow_Sandworm living weapon with rigs and animations
Updated rotation on Cleaning Device T3
Added DEP_Bench_Decorations
Removing wind whoosh from meteor event. Just ended up clouding the sound. Added slightly more transient to distant kaboom. Small spacial adjustments and reduced side chain volume reduction for more control using the snapshot volumes
Added text for Brutalist furniture set
Added text for Hubble Boss items
Adding impact flashpoint post process to Meteor VFX. Various polish tweaks. Removed variable speed
Adding T3 cleaning device event and BP imp
Adding in working Arctic Bat character and soem additional setup for both bat types in D_AISetup
Submitting Spider Nest and textures
Adjustments and improvements to the cleaning device
Small adjustments to the arctic bat audio aggro spawn rates
Added fillable type dynamic data to the purifiers itemtemplate
Removing BP_Meteor Debug
Adding scorpion fishing rod cast and reel audio events and data table entries
Landscape Sculpting Pass, Cliff Pass and Inital Ground Cliff Pass, Red Quad, Prometheus
Fixed a bug where the scorpion rod wouldn’t launch the lure.
Changed the mesh from static mesh to skeletal mesh to prevent invalid casts
Adding audio loop for meteor rumble pre bang
Added ITM_Sandworm_Tendon
Added ITM_IceMammoth_Frozen_Wool
Added ITM_Shield_BlackWolf
Replace and updating sounds used for T3 cleaning device. Various event improvements and updates for smoother playback
Improvements to the scorpion fishing rod audio
Added ITM_IcveMammoth_Armor_Fragment
Adjustments to shield impact. Setting up mammoth shield hit
Adding Frozen Wool, Sandworm Tendon & Ice Mammoth Armor Fragment Icons & Meshs
Adding Black Wolf Shield Item Setup / Blueprint and Stats
Added scorpion crossbow art assets and skeletal mesh
Beginning to separate out meteor events for initial impact, build up rumble and main impact
Adding meteor shockwave material – not currently used
Adding mammoth shield audiuo and event and data table entry
Fixed bug where Arctic Bat Nests weren’t spawning correctly using the EQS.
Fixed bug where Autonomous spawners sometimes didn’t initialise correctly.
Bat Nests are no longer recorded
Stopped logging error codes 28 and 62 to Sentry
Adding in new Decoration Bench Mesh, Icon and Destructible Setup
Submitting Slug (reskin) and its texture variations
Extending the audible range of the bat nest death audio
Tidy up for meteor FX
Landscape Sculpting Pass, Cliff Pass and Ground Cliff Pass, Red Quad and Purple Quad, Prometheus
Building out New Cave Network, Ice Sheet Yellow Quad on Prometheus
Adding death sound for when bat nest is destroyed. Adding to BP. Small reduction to spacialiser settings for attack
Ensure that meteors spawn deposits with the world rotation of the parent spawners, rather than just using position
Adding metal variation of spear throw whoosh. Updates to both whoosh events to unify sounds and adding metal variation to all metal based spears in data table
Submitting Ice Mammoth and textures
Ground Cliff and Decal Pass on Red Quad, Ashlands, Prometheus
Building out New Cave Network, Ice Sheet Yellow Quad on Prometheus
Setting up Scorpion Crossbow Mesh / Item / Icon / Stats / Talent, featured locked to Hubble
Adding meteor close up ear ring audio. Also adjustments to main event to distancing explosions
Updated LODs on the scoprion venom sac static mesh
Added art assets for black wolf fur item
Added art assets for scoprion venom sac item
Ciffs in the ground pass and Decal pass, Ashlands, Prometheus
Building out New Cave Network, Ice Sheet Yellow Quad on Prometheus
Further work on VFX shockwave materials
Beginnings of function library helpers for field guide
Fixing ring nest event being too long causing the sound to play for much longer than needed
Fixes for meteor VFX to account for initial delay
Adding correct audio for deploying items made on the decorations bench. separating metal ‚items‘ from standard wooden items
Adding Meshes for Black Wolf Fur & Venom Sac
Gate exotic respawn to open world only (not standalone missions), wire UI for event