Icarus Dev Tracker

Originally posted by StellarSkys: i mean i'm sorry what conditions happened to you happened but you also contradict yourself in this post.

here you imply you messed up with your programming and made storms more frequent than you meant to.
"This meant changing several parts of the weather system, which combined to result in much more severe and frequent weather events than we originally intended."

then you go on to say. "
This week we definitely got the message that the storms were too much."

this implies you did intend it and have learned the community does not like and will change it.

like why aren't you just honest instead of trying to sell both stories?

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Last week we released our Weather Forecasting update - a new system that allows players more advanced notice of incoming storms giving them more time to prepare and make more informed decisions about what to do in-game. This meant changing several parts of the weather system, which combined to result in much more severe and frequent weather events than we originally intended.

One of the most enjoyable parts of the week for our team is seeing reactions from both fans in Discord and content creators on YouTube. This week we definitely got the message that the storms were too much.

Typically we would address this much sooner in a hotfix, but as you may be aware immediately following the update's release Auckland, where our studio is based, experienced an entire season worth of rainfall in a few hours and severe flooding (the irony is not lost on us) and much of the team is now working from home (as weather warnings are still in place) or taking time off to clean up.
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Hey all - the issue is fixed, we should be all working again! Thanks for your patience while we resolved the issue.

Originally posted by Possemaster:

Originally posted by Exctoris: If you have have done a migration in the past - you are fine.

If you are a new player - you can click ok and play and it is fine.

If you are returning after not playing for a while and haven't done a migration - the migration is down currently but you can choose to skip and play and migrate when it is back up using the [ForceMigrateButton]. When you Force Migrate it will clear all progress made after the skip, but you wil...

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If you have have done a migration in the past - you are fine.

If you are a new player - you can click ok and play and it is fine.

If you are returning after not playing for a while and haven't done a migration - the migration is down currently but you can choose to skip and play and migrate when it is back up using the [ForceMigrateButton]. When you Force Migrate it will clear all progress made after the skip, but you will have all your old data from when you last played.

- Fixing Race Condition caused due to new dropship player initialization which was causing players to die before landing on a prospect
- Added timeout check for retrieving data from the server. If migration fails a backup option is now shown to allow you to play without old data. Migration can be attempted later, however this will lose more recent data.

***New Players can now enter the game after attempting a migration, existing players who haven't migrated will have the option to skip migration. People who have already migrated will be unaffected.***

Originally posted by UnderDoug:

Originally posted by Duckett: BTW.. thanks for the heads up

I imagine it'll be included within the regularly scheduled weekly update.

You are correct, this weekly update

Originally posted by Pach: Hey, thanks for the heads up!

Is this online characters only, or will offline ones be impacted as well?

Its both, we are merging offline & online with this patch.

This week we plan on publishing our data decentralization patch. This means that all of your game information, characters and progress will go through a migration when you log in and will now be saved locally on your own PC not our servers.

Open World games and Outposts will be migrated over BUT any Missions that characters are currently on will be interrupted.

Your character will leave the Mission, you'll lose any progress in that Mission, but all your loadout items will be returned to your inventory in orbit.

You won't lose any workshop items but will have to start the Mission again. We apologize for this inconvenience, but it's a one-off while we migrate your data.

Anyone playing on experimental branch this week will also have to go through a migration to make sure their data is formatted correctly.

Its something we really want to add, along with a balance of all the energy / power systems. We are planning to do something early next year after data decentralization.

Originally posted by Des: i've got questions
1, dedi servers are always on so whats gonna happen to your base
when no one is on at that moment?
lotta storms happen and on styx stone gets damaged
would we have to build all the way to concrete before getting off every time?

There is in option in the config of the server as to how long the game runs when no-one is connected. I believe we default it to 3 minutes, then the server switches to lobby mode, and the next time you connect you will have to load up the session. While the server is in lobby mode the game isn't running so no events or anything will be happenning.

Originally posted by Des: 2, what happens when the mission is finished?

When missions finish players will be instantly rewarded with the Ren / Exotics, no need to go back up in the dropship to collect the rewards... Read more

Dedicated servers are in active development, over on discord we have some channels set up with how to access the tool, the wiki on how to host and steam branch required for you to connect.

We are looking at adjusting this soon, so that a mission-recipe unlock on one character unlocks for all.

We are planning to expand the Open World Quests with larger objectives, they will come and take a little time.

As noted above, we are looking at how to do respawning resources in open world. In our last steering group meeting we discussed doing this in multiple parts to ease development. Respawning ores is probably going to be more straightforward than respawning trees/bushes. We want to make sure we do it as best as we can, so we are studying the systems behind it and working out the best way to balance tech/performance/design/UX considerations before implementing.

Please do raise a steam support ticket relating to download and install issues. Many users have reported issues with steam download and verification of download speeds. We upload the files to steam, and they provision them via their content delivery servers. Unfortunately, we have no control over how this occurs. We do have many users report issues with how updates occur, including in our other product, which appears to have started just over a year ago when Valve made some changes to how downloads are applied.

By raising a support ticket with Steam, they might be able to diagnose the specific issues that are causing downloads to be a problem for some users, and it can be very frustrating with some having to resort to refunding the game. It also makes us extra cautious to apply hotfixes, which is challenging because sometimes we really need to get a fix out.

Can you post some information about your game and setup? We've seen a lot of framerate improvement with the last couple of updates as a general rule, so would love to be able to pin down what specific circumstances are leading to people experiencing the opposite. Most important in order is probably hardware, map, part of the map you're experiencing the biggest issues on, hosting or not, number of players, game mode etc.

We've added Autorun this week!

See: https://steamcommunity.com/games/1149460/announcements/detail/3524658636190247437

C:\Users\ \AppData\Local\Icarus\Saved\Outposts

is where Outpost AND Open World save games are stored. You could just email it to a friend.

I'm locking this thread as the discussion ain't going anywhere,

And to play some more Project Zomboid.