Icarus Week 165 Update | Hammerhead Slug World Boss

Welcome to Week 165.

Today, the Hammerhead Slug World Boss is introduced to the swamps of Icarus.

We also give a sneak peek into what is coming next week, allowing all bosses to be lootable when killed and a quality pass on their rewards.

If you want to fight the Hammerhead Slug, you will need to play on the Prometheus Map in the New Frontiers Expansion. It can be purchased here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1648532/Icarus_New_Frontiers_Expansion/

Notable Improvements:

• Added additional Black Wolf spawn points to Olympus arctic areas, updated the Bestiary as the Black Wolf is in the Arctic on both Styx and Olympus
  
• Shifted the Black Wolf boss spawn zones from the starting areas of Olympus
  
• Various texture and material optimizations to reduce size and memory usage while playing

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This Week: Hammerhead Slug World Boss
The Hammerhead Slug is the first world boss we have added to Icarus in a long time, but it will not be the last.

The Hammerhead Slug spawns in all Swamp Regions of the Prometheus Map and has some rather unique abilities.

When the Hammerhead Slug takes enough damage, it will split, not once but twice, and prospectors will quickly find themselves fighting more than one creature. Prospectors will also need to be careful as these splits will attempt to combine back into their larger counterparts as time goes by.

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Next Week: All World Bosses Lootable
Next week, all world bosses will now be lootable when killed, and their drop pools will be rebalanced to reflect the difficulty of taking them down.

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Your support makes these updates possible.
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Changelog v2.2.40.132442
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• Adding NZ On Air Logo in the Credits Section
  
• Updating the NZ On Air Logo in the Credits Section
  
• Adding Entry for the Hammerhead Slug boss into the Bosses Json
  
• Added new Boss icon for the Hammerhead Slug
  
• Hammerhead Slug - Added 5 spawn points in prometheus for the slug spawn
  
• Health bar now only appears once the boss fight has started
  
• Fixed replication bug where the client wouldn't see the final slug/health bar cleaning up
  
• Added valid check to prevent warnings on getting blackboard as slug dies
  
• Hammerhead Slug - Slug will now return to anchor point if straying too far
  
• Hammerhead Slug - Added missing isvalid checks
  
• Hammerhead Slug - Changed how the slug manager was cleaning up
  
• WorldBossSpawner override so slug doesnt bind on big slug death
  
• Fixed bug where final slug would sometimes explode instead of curl into a ball
  
• Hammerhead Slug - Slug carcass now highlights. Removed debug testing
  
• Hammerhead Slug - Switched poison modifier to be -50% sprint speed instead of -5% movement speed to try reduce chance of not being able to move when having all debuffs added to you
  
• Hammerhead Slug - Added 30 minute timer after the final slug dies for it to cleanup
  
• Removed the 'reload dead boss' bool for the slug
  
• Smaller slugs will spawn the slug manager if there is none present
  
• Changed loot row table on slug to correct boss row
  
• Hammerhead Slug - Removed Development flags
  
• Removed space at end of hammerhead name
  
• Hammerhead Slug - Slug will now respawn correctly when slugs tile is reloaded
  
• Changed eqs such that the slug ignores itself when looking for targets that damaged it

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Fixed [expand type=details expanded=false]

• Project-wide asset optimization pass and cleanup
  
• Obsidian Pick: Updated physics asset to capsules, added extra LOD, optimized textures, changed PM to metal
  
• Project-wide asset optimization pass and cleanup
  
• Fixed UVs on ITM_Sickle_Obsidian
  
• Fix 130MB guide texture down to 300KB due to non-pow2 size and no compression

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Future Content [expand type=details expanded=false]

• Adding legendary weapons items static audio data
  
• Adding pickup legendary weapon crate audio and item audio table setup
  
• Great Ape club attack only has a break chance for slams
  
• Great Ape Fix a montage where the animation length has changed
  
• Fix Rock Golem Op1 Analyze not showing complete at 100%
  
• Fix Rock Golem Ape E water step requiring biofuel
  
• Adding GH Mission Radio Icon
  
• Balancing player damage taken from creatures to accomodate for heavy hits as well as small and medium impacts. Small adjustment to collision damage event because projectilces use this too
  
• Great Hunts Cinematics Sequencer and BP Assets
  
• Final pass on great hunt music
  
• Added 'cave in' mesh/materials, tunnel cap mesh, tweaked Cliff_11_DLC2 to remove base
  
• Added stats for some of the Rock Golem Gauntlet upgrades
  
• Rock Golem alternate secondary attacks are now enabled when using relevant upgrades
  
• Fixed some input logic bugs within Rock Golem Gauntlet attacks
  
• Stormwall material and BP setup WIP
  
• IMP pass blockout in the swamp on Orange Quad, Elysium
  
• Swapped Tundra voxels to ridge variant, Foliage Pass and Cliff Pass, Green and Yellow Quads, Elysium
  
• Fixing accidental change to FMOD preset instead of event volume that added ADSR to cave contect preset which caused everything to be broken that used that preset
  
• Fix DT Whitespace validation. Again
  
• Adjustments to new Great Hunt UI
  
• Make GreatApe more immobilise and slow stat resistant
  
• Great Ape make high rocks fall faster
  
• Applied threat distance modifier curve to Ice mammoth boss, adjusted behavior tree to trigger music at more appropriate time during intro sequence
  
• Adding ADSR to waterfalls to avoid harsh starts when entering ape arena. Also intensifying very heavy impact hits from creatures like club hits to make boss combat feel more weighty
  
• Adding location markers and blockout for DH mission 3
  
• Hammerhead Slug - Removed slug from ice arena and readded mammoth to the arena
  
• Resave Ape Lab with correct position
  
• Fixing music override bp on ape boss
  
• Adding load spear into sandworm crossbow
  
• Added separate action behaviours to Rock Golem Gauntlets and filtered them by upgrade type
  
• Fixed Rock Golem Gauntlet third person montages not being on the right slot
  
• Adding new Great Hunt UI
  
• Add Garganutan Great Hunt steps to collect the Sonic device, for if the player has dropped it into a crate for example, so players will be able to collect the device before starting the mission
  
• Slight increase in Great Hunt bossfight music volume
  
• Shortening overly long tail events within the assault rifle that was taking up too many channels unnecessarily. Also fine tuning distance curve after multiplayer playtest
  
• Fix many dialogue timings for Quarrite Great Hunt
  
• Added border and hover border and UI tweaks
  
• Adding sandfalls audio and BP imp. ALso adding heavier jump land to rock golem so its initial entrance is more dramatic
  
• More nav blockers for Great Ape
  
• Updated Sandfalls to respond better to light and hold CPD on begin play
  
• Added destructible mesh asset for swamp ape club
  
• Added spinning wheel art assets including skeletal mesh and animation
  
• Add Rimetusk Great Hunt quest crafting recipes, final quest and remove many DNT entries
  
• Dev lock future content releases
  
• Fixed looking the wrong way when entering the Ice Mammoth Arena
  
• Shortening overly long vocal event when taking generic low damage
  
• Added Lamb sk meshes, materials and textures
  
• Resave atmospheres datatable
  
• Exported higher resolution source textures for the raptor creature
  
• Named boss atmospheres correctly
  
• reduction in volume of the ricochet hits
  
• dummy changes to files within certain banks to try force fix errors
  
• Slug Launcher - Add stats and effects for Backpack, Loader and Splash Guard components
  
• Rock Golem rolling attack now pushes hit targets to the side instead of straight forward, reducing chances that players are hit successively
  
• Rimetusk Great Hunt: Add additional craft step to O2 quest, add quest objectives to all missions
  
• Voxel Polish Pass and Swapped FIR saplings with Aspen Saplings, Green and Yellow Quads, Elysium
  
• Finished first macro pass blockout in the swamp on Orange Quad, Elysium
  
• Fixing Atmosphere Datatable
  
• Fixes to Ice Mammoth arena material after recent updates
  
• Applied new meshes and material for stormwall
  
• Adjustments to rock golem armor break audio. More audible over busy mix
  
• Added splinter mesh for destructible ape club vfx
  
• Removing mentions of thumper from dialogue. ALso increasing volume slightly of away from mic part so it is still audible over ambience
  
• Multiple new kitbashed cliffs for Elysium volcanic
  
• Adjustments to some legendary weapons. Smoother bolt load sound, gauntlet volume adjustments, data table update etc
  
• Resubmitting audio files in banks to attempt to fix any issues part 2
  
• Fixing Atmosphere & Equippable Datatable
  
• Add tooltip to Swamp Arena exit
  
• Fixing Atmosphere Datatable
  
• Fixing Legendary Weapon GH button so it correctly only works on appropriate maps / with dlcs
  
• Ensure RVT are refreshed when player dies in instanced level and respawns to main level
  
• Adding Legendary Weapon Images for Viewing their info
  
• Adding Legendary weapon view screen and ability to click on weapons when great hunts have been selected
  
• Adjusted livingitemshopitem data to include backgrounds and weapon images
  
• Cliff Pass on Trunda to Desert Transition, Green and Yellow Quads, Elysium
  
• Elysium - New CAC maps and FTs for geothermal stalagmites, new lake added to geothermal area, red quad
  
• Wire destructable mesh for Great Ape Log/Club
  
• Set up gfur for lamb and added trophy mesh, material and BP
  
• Added Emission channel masking to M_Creatures and setup emission on Ape
  
• Sandfall Polish Pass In Golem Arena and Cliff Pass in Tundra, Green and Yellow Quads Elysium
  
• Added depth fade and minor adjustment on mesh for stormwall
  
• Adding World Boss Names to Great Hunt UI
  
• Fading Weapon Images on GH & Boss enteries so they are only visible when hovering
  
• Added missing socket to black wolf revolver, causing the left hand to be held in mid air instead of the gun
  
• Polish Pass on Sandfalls and Made changes to Sandfall_03 Material
  
• Changed materials on Hammerhead Cocoon and added a cocoon forming VFX
  
• Tweaks to Sandfalls_03 Mesh UV to reduce streeching on sides
  
• Adding Respawn Timers on the GH UI for world bosses
  
• Fixed issues with World Boss Information so it displays number of potential spawns, as well as the number currently active
  
• The GH Device now tracks and updates boss information and replicates it to clients for display on various UI's
  
• Fix Garganutan Great Hunt progress tracking for wave defence missions. Clarified objectives in damage type missions
  
• Added ability for main mission objective text to be hidden if it is blank, but helper text (blue) is still shown, updated resupply missions to be blue/info text
  
• Decrease Sewing Machine RMA to 1k
  
• Prevent biome transition when player dies and is a spectator inside a biome override
  
• Added DCO_Cheese_A to F and DCO_Hanging_Meat_A to F
  
• Changed Ape Boss Hide to use ITM shader. Increased texture resolution
  
• Adding weight layer to ice mammoth and other sledge hammers
  
• Adjusting Great Hunt Talent Trees so they fit within the space allocated on the UI
  
• Added panning feature for main textures of MA_ITM. Set to disabled by default
  
• Add Ice Mammoth Great Hunt O1 setup, notes and dressing
  
• Updated Garganutan Decals to only clean up those specific decals, so if they are used in other missions they will still be cleaned
  
• Added Wall_Candle_Holder_Wood, with textures, materials, and DMs. Also added a candle proxy mesh with materials for multiple colours
  
• Added Cuckoo Clock with textures, materials, skeletal meshes, animations and DMs
  
• Consolidating the Alpha Wolfs Name, as it was called Alpha & Black interchangeably, it is now called the 'Black Wolf' everywhere
  
• Added Research Crate icon
  
• Adjusting Great Hunt Talent Trees so an overview of the hunt is displayed before clicking on missions
  
• Added Shield Ricochet icon
  
• Small volume adjustments to various dialouge lines within the DLC to make sure the off mic parts are still audible. Increasing ducking amount on the music and ambience by a touch to help dialogue lines from being drowned out in storms or during combat or music events. Increase to sandfall volume and size and play amount
  
• Update all Great Hunt quest names and titles to new format
  
• Increase NOVA Station durability
  
• Removed Thumper from Rock Golem E dialogue subtitles
  
• Added tile texture and panning for MA_ITM
  
• Elysium - more lakes, stalagmite and decal placement in geothermal, red quad
  
• Fixed bug where Great Ape wasn't responding if players fired at it/attacked it from a great distance
  
• Extended RecentDamageCausers EnvQueryGenerator to allow ignoring distance when generating valid targets
  
• Added skeletal meshs for the homestead curtain variants. Updated roughness maps for the fabric variants and adjusted tiling on the the shaders
  
• Update Respawn dropship seat camera offset logic, camera shake & FP mesh visibility handling to also work for clients
  
• Fix client desync with mammoth trap due to bones not ticking on dedi server
  
• Adjusting source audio file of GH cover mic effect for better clarity but still feeling worldized. Previously felt too muffled in the mix
  
• Added catch all proxy mesh setup to windmill (uses dry recipe output by default)
  
• Updated the spinning wheel rope texture and updated UV on the static and skeletal mesh to utilise the new tiling material feature
  
• Resave terrains selection for translatable text
  
• Add destuctable mesh to Great Ape thrown logs
  
• Updated LOD screensizes on Biomass meshes
  
• Decreased Obsidian Sickle textures from 2k to 1k
  
• Rimetusk D Great Hunt, added helper text to craft explosives quest step
  
• Fixed typo in Quarrite spawner quest name
  
• Fixed Quarrite Great Hunt B worms stopping spawning if there are already too many spawned (will now automatically clean up spawns after a delay)
  
• Adding Biomass rewards to bosses & adjusting boss material conversion rate
  
• Garganutan Great Hunt O1 fix spawn locations not spawning
  
• Adding rock golem juvi flinch and death audio, events and data table setup
  
• Linked translatable text to Olympus terrain selection
  
• Updated tundra to desert transition and added palm bushes to oasis on Yellow Quad, Elysium
  
• Added prototype mesh for weapon rack for testing, material and textures
  
• Added first pass SM for DCO_Giant_Ranch_Sign with materials and textures
  
• Elysium - added temp FT for Kumara, foliage placement test in volcanic terrace area, red quad
  
• Fix Biofuel Radar not being able to be toggled
  
• Added missing EQS change from previous fix to Great Ape detection range
  
• Duplicated most necessary anims for Juvenile Rock Golem and placed in own folder
  
• Did a pass on Juvenile Rock Golem locomotion animations and speed
  
• Added armour to Juvenile Rock Golem
  
• Fixed Juvenile Rock Golem t-posing after death
  
• Fixed Juvenile Rock Golem not playing correction animations for GOAP actions
  
• Updating Biolab UI based on Concept
  
• Adding Purchasing functionality to the Biolab Weapon information screen
  
• Adding Images for the Biolab Legendary Weapons background
  
• Landscape Sculpting Pass, Cliff Pass and Foliage Pass on Tundra, Green and Yellow Quads, Elysium
  
• WIP proxy mesh system
  
• Great Hunts Interface animation and UI tweaks. Replaced Norex logos
  
• Added art assets for the Homestead curtain variants
  
• Added art assets for the homestead shutters window variant
  
• Added art assets for the homestead saloon style door including a texture variant for a whitewash look

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