Icarus Adds a Workshop Flashlight as Double XP Weekend Begins
The Inaris Flashlight has a larger battery than the crafted T4 model, while Elysium Great Hunts content remains in testing.
Icarus is free to play for the weekend, and RocketWerkz has paired the promotion with a double XP event. The Week 242 update also adds the Inaris Flashlight to the Workshop, previews Elysium Great Hunts content, and prepares a major rework for the Livewire Operation.
The free weekend also comes with discounts across the game’s downloadable content. A special Free Weekend Bundle combines the base game with the major expansions at an additional discount. The update details are available in the official Steam announcement.
RocketWerkz used the update to look back at 52 free weekly updates from the past year. Those updates included the Mendel overhaul for creature husbandry, the Kepler Update’s Tier 5 technology, Legendary Weapons from the Copernicus Update, new tameable creatures and mounts, the Timber Extraction Unit, and the Single Barrel Grenade Launcher.
A new Workshop light source
The Inaris Flashlight is the first light source available for purchase in the Workshop. Players can find it in the Gadgets category.
Compared with the planetary-crafted T4 Flashlight, the Inaris model has about 15 meters less maximum range. Its battery is 15% larger, though, which RocketWerkz says should keep it running through a player’s first two nights on Icarus.
Elysium Great Hunts are still in testing
RocketWerkz is testing and iterating on a new Great Hunt for the Elysium map. The planned content includes a branching narrative mission chain, a world boss called The Malformation, a two-person Hoverframe, and additional creatures and items.
The developer has not given a firm arrival date, but says the Elysium Great Hunts content should arrive soon.
Livewire Operation rework is planned for next week
The Olympus Operations refresh will continue next week with a larger update to the Livewire Operation. RocketWerkz said the early mission did not benefit from the tools and experience used for newer operations. The rework is intended to improve its overall flow, and other early Olympus Operations will receive similar attention in the coming months.
Patch Notes: Icarus 3.0.20.154829-rel-DangerousHorizons
This changelog covers the double XP event, the Workshop flashlight unlock, Beachhead adjustments, fixes for visual and audio issues, and ongoing work for the Elysium Great Hunt and other missions.
New Content
- Enabling Double Experience Event Banner and XP
- Updated name of Workshop Flashlight to Inaris Flashlight
Fixed
- Increased health and damage of Irradiated Mutation (Wraith)
- Fixing Sandworm Lifecycle Poster as it was showing a corkboard instead when deployed
- Adding giant roach zapper audio event
- Fixing the sandworm poster as it was not displaying the texture as required
- Item Popup Widget – Weight number now includes items within its own inventory
- Fixed shadow artifacts from DF meshes on Simple Building Shadow settings. Removed unncessary collision and LODs from SHA meshes. Fixed some incorrect aux mesh assignments in Building BPs
- Beachhead further improvements from player feedback
- Beachhead – Easy XP penalty :: 25% >>> 0%
- Beachhead – New quest tip informing player to Crouch for stealth and damage bonus
- Beachhead – Creature Move Speed Baseline :: -10% >>> -15%
Future Content
- Adding Rad Boss Legendary Weapon Background
- RAD_E – Fixing Build break by removing accidently typed character
- Unlocking Workshop Flashlight
- RAD_E – Reducing Build Requirement, Adjusting Map Markers and Removing spoilage from the Radboss Residue
- RAD_E – Adding second half of mission steps, quest is now playable
- Updated NPCHighlight Stats to be Replicated as they weren’t working for clients
- RAD_E – Setting up areas Alpha & Beta
- Added supporting lighting effects for Irradiated Mutation
- Updated lighting setup for Irradiated Prospector with more optimized version similar to Mutation (several localized lights on Epic, 1 primary light for other settings)
- Rescaled Orka Juvenile to be smaller than parent. Renamed Orka Juvenile files from Skulk to keep internal naming consistent. Fixed corpse rewards. Added tooltip for BabyAnimal variable on GOAPCorpse
- Mission Radboss – Fixed radboss sitting still for 10 seconds after 3 attacks. instead changed to a roar to give players a tiny break. added a big break upon 10% health removed
Fixed boss melee attack having 2 instances of damage (1 when montage starts and 1 when arm connects) - Fixed ‘prone to upright’ anim getting stomped because not waiting for animbp to play the anim
- Added a run animation to the boss turning so it looks more like its trying to turn and not just sliding
- Added Trees, Cliffs, Lakes and Landscape Sculpting in the Jungle, Green Quad
- Added several hair and beard SKs for the character customization demo
- T4 and T5 planetary backpacks item inital setup
head customization helmet toggle, hair and eyes color update - Adjustments to rad boss arena audio volume. Also adjusting rad boss death audio – increasing hte length of the final scream moment
- Fixed class type of new rails tests
- Adjustments to dialogue and quests for E. Also removing adsr from assault rifle loop for the NPC
- ARK – mesh placement and landscape sculpting in geothermal, purple quad
- Adding settler npc fire loop, assault rifle burst, single shot sniper and rifle single shot audio events and notifys
- Fixed old Electric Furnace mesh incorrectly swapping materials
- Fixed a number of typos and grammar issues
- Added helmet variants for Beard_4 and Beard_08
- Adding all gh rad E mission quest step dialogue in
- Fixed inverted normals on BLD_Wall_CurvedAngle_Up_Stone_R_SHA
- Added destructible and support meshes for BLD_Wall_CurvedAngle_Up_L_Brick_Inverted and R_Brick_Inverted, updated BPs
- T4 Weapon Rack: Removed second camera and WeaponSK component. Removed unncessary base class variable setups. Swap pointlight for RectLight. Rotated electricity connector so puck is sideways. Removed toggling of resource component on interact causing light to turn on/off.
- Remove DF from mesh as its not used due to lighting setup. Add ‘on’ material version. Removed metallic from material as it was negatively affecting lighting reaction
- Mission Radboss – Fixed radboss rotation being jerky and added some more turns so the boss will always try to face the player before it attacks. Added a debug bool to IsFacingTarget to display bosses dot to player
- RAD_E – Adding Quest Markers for the New Locations within the Quest
- RAD_E – Adding new Set Dressing Rock in location beta
- RAD_E – Setting up new recovery beacons, map icons and search areas
- Added Trees, Cliffs, Lakes and Landscape Sculpting in the Jungle, Green Quad
- Adding Mission E start dialogue to prospect list for mission
- Cow Milk Bug – Fixed log not working on client
- Added 3 additional hairstyles from PHX for ICARUS character customization
- Added Hair with helmet variants, as well as 2 adjusted helmets and one head armour for testing with new heads
- ARK – mesh placement and landscape sculpting in geothermal, purple quad
- Adding all diallgue audio, events and dialogue table setup for new mission steps
- RAD_E – Adding First half of new quest including quests and markers
- Correctly Tagging Aluminium Building Pieces, they where tagged as iron
- Adjusting how the firing audio for theo is playing. Now playing off animations for better timing and consistency. adding reload and pump audio and events and notifys
- RAD_C2 – Theo now fires as intended
- Updated mission tooltip to fix inaccuracies around no tasks required
- RAD_C2 – Adding Better Shooting and animation Setup for Victor / Theo and Agents while EDEN is being invaded
- Tightened up edges of Jungle biome map for T022
- Added Trees, Cliffs, Lakes and Landscape Sculpting in the Jungle, Green Quad
- ARK – Setting up Initial Drop Locations, Adding Dropship Spawn Groups to World Settings and setting up button so the ARK map can be selected and started on
- C2 dialogue adjustments and delay adjustments
- Updated Flavor Text for Cryogenically Frozen Lambs
- Livewire updates
- Livewire – Fixed some quest flow ordering
- Livewire – Reduced amount of Terrenus spawns in final stage
- Livewire – Changed Loc to be more purposeful at each stage
- Livewire – Added prepare weapon and optional armor subquest
- Special min max settings
- Changing the way theos line plays after defeating creatures in cave. spacializing it with good rolloff and a little verb to feel more cohesive with the environment and moment. Delaying a touch more before playing
- Adding theos dialogue to quest step when all the creatures are defeated in c2. Shotgun and dialogue tweaks based on distancing to feel better in the mission
- Updating theos voice play chance, adding new gun sounds to eden agents and victor firing
- Adding more theo attack dialogue lines and also extended the after battle line. Removing unused versions
- Added missing icarus.mk changes
- Updated perf_nightly.py to support client args passthrough
- Adjustments and additions to RadBoss fight
- RAD_C2 – Victor and Eden Agents will not fire and stop firing when the quest is over
- Added Trees, Cliffs, Lakes and Landscape Sculpting in the Jungle, Green Quad
- Adding theo firing shotgun audio. Iris healed audio and theo shouting with enthusiasm
- RAD_D – Adjusted Crafting Cost of the Weaponised Laser so its T4 not T5
- RAD_E – Initial Commit of Mission Layout and Plan
- Adjusting Rewards / Tree and Account Flags for the Elysium Great Hunt to Fit with new Mission being added
- RAD_E – Setup of new Mission required colony tower item
- ARK – mesh placement and landscape sculpting in geothermal, purple quad
- Removiong double up of mission dialogue in c2
- Adding rad boss vomit start audio to anim
- Added new ‘make perf-nightly’ which will automatically run rails tests on each map and report the output to #icarus_dev
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