Changelog v2.2.17.126344

 

New Content

 

Open world drop selection UI changes

Added the ability to add a color to the storm fog. Increased the clamp of fog density

Lightning rods will now divert all nearby lightning strikes - previously it only diverted strikes that were targeted against players and buildings (leaving trees and bushes).

Basic Lightning Rod is now destroyed after 3 hits instead of 1, and affects a radius of 50m (from 30m).

Platinum Lightning Rod is now destroyed after 9 hits instead of 4, and affects a radius of 80m (from 30m)

Added new hexagon modifier icons

Removed Player Tracker Module from workshop

Added Exotic Red to Ren image. Changed colour of exotic red button

Do not list existing prospects when New is clicked (confusing people - use Load)

Update starter torches to be repaired with sticks instead of wood (as wood is not in the recipe)

Did a pass on building piece resource cost ensuring half size pieces cost half the amount as their full-size counterparts (Wall Angled, Half Piece, Half Pitch, Roof Corner)

Adding Exotic Exchange Button so Red Exotics can be Exchanged for Ren

Add upgrade hammer functionality for Reinforced Glass building tier

Added Salt and Water to pickling recipe requirements

Added Half Stairs to all Half Piece variations

Added Corner Stairs for Interior Wood and Stone to Ramp variations

All doors, windows, trapdoors, and fence gates now used a fixed bounds size, should prevent assets from flickering when on the edge of screen

Adding new Resource 'Shotgun Casing'

Shotgun Ammo Recipes now use the Shotgun casing as the base instead of the 'Ammo Casing'

Splitting out the Shotgun Slug into its own blueprint and changed its recipe so it no longer requires Buckshot for Creation

BP_IcarusSplineNet no longer ticks

Changed modifier background icon shape and added medic backpack modifier icon

Added grazing behaviour to mounts and tames (enabled via talent)

Adding Concept of Positive & Negative Auras and setting up code so that Modifier backgrounds can be easily changed

Modifying the medic backpack to only provide one aura and one aura effect, its a combination of the 3 from before

Set Player Dropship icon's max compass distance to 100m

Set default grazing behaviour to 'None' to prevent animals from grazing until told to

Battery Powered Lantern now does not go out when you are underwater

Update shotgun casing to be craftable

Add Railing functionality to half stairs

Adding in Water Container and Jerrycan Recolor materials for biofuel and petroleum

 

 

Fixed

 

Replaced old hunter chest piece with the new one in the D_Armour

Removing light buzz from trail beacons to stop excessive use of virtualizing audio events if the player is using hundreds of beacons

Lowered the opacity, as well as height detail and roughness, for the wire grid in the tempered glass textures/material, as requested by Dean

Fixed ensure that was being triggered by Lava Flyer having a stat re-applied on tick

light optimizations

Creature Deterent map areas no longer show on compass

Fixed issue where cats wouldn't appear to sleep on beds properly (for clients)

Added a more generic way of serialising prebuilt structures - electricity/water networks should now be supported as well as more complex deployable/container/foundation configurations

Reduced tick frequency of BP_Building_Base::DirtyTickEvent, added random offset to ensure building pieces don't all tick on the same frame on game reloads

Nativised BP_Building_Base::GetHardStability

Hooking up Portable Biofuel Back Mesh

Fixed a number of typos

Tempered glass - adjusted material settings and albedo texture to mitigate fresnel fog effect

Removed wood rag torch and wood flare repair materials, as these should not be possible to repair

Fixed faction mission radar not being able to be activated on dedicated server, added some IsDedicatedServer checks to prevent cosmetic-only logic being run on the server

Fixed wrong BP material id for the destructible mesh on BP_Building_RoofCorner_L_Wood

Fixed radar not being able to be activated on dedicated server, or when host wasn't looking

Resaved Mounts DT

Increased initial delay variance on first BP_Building_Base::DirtyTick

Added data and widgets for new mount/tame grazing behaviour

Prevent some items that aren't repairable from being initially listed when 'Repair All' is clicked on the Repair Bench

Any objects that run off fuel / hydrazine / water / oxygen as a resource in a container, now have new icons to show the resource type, the tool tip has also been updated so it is more readable (it was using the default UE4 tooltip text)

Allow dropping of items onto the bags (Seed Pouch, Medical Satchel) to place them inside

When the bags (Seed Pouch, Medical Satchel) are focused, right click to open

Increased desert tames heat tolerences (moa, zebra and hyena)

Fix charging station lights being lit when device is turned off

Styx: Shifted an alpha wolf spawner slightly to avoid clipping with rocks

Increase temperature leniance on arctic tames slightly to allow use in forest biomes

Adjusting Explosive Ammo Crafting to use 1 Volatile Substance per 5 ammo instead of 1:1

Unlock field guide by default on development builds

Adding new pass on broken windows to move into more mesh based approach, 5 variants included

Wild animals no longer attempt to drink from water bodies with creature deterrent radius

Fixed bug where the 'How Many Shots Did You Count' talent was granting ammo to the wrong player on dedicated servers. Fixed bug where the 'How Many Shots Did You Count' talent was refunding the current amount of ammo player had in their loaded weapon instead of a single unit

Replacing jerrycan water backpack sound with a more generic tub container sound rather than water sloshing. Until water level within BP can be worked out

Adding correct deploy audio for biofuel and water tank.also correcting other wrong deploy audio sounds for new items. Lowered jerrycan pickup audio slightly

 

 

Future Content

 

Adding LC_Ledge_01-03, LC_MAC_05 meshes and materials

Material for ledges - missed in last commit

Added destructible mesh for the ape trophy display case and added to the blueprint

Outpost_012 - water, riverbanks, cliff placement. Added moss variant material for LC Cave Entrance 01

Added ape boss balloon trophy to project in three parts

Adding in electric motor to use with Null Sec mission, currently just a backpack item that can be picked up / dropped, no additional functionality

Added more new biome modifier icon types and colours

Fixed pins poing to previously named rows that have now been renamed. (Fixing build)

Fixing Modifier State Compile Error

Adding Mission_NPC_Base and interactions for dialogue

Stopping the aerosol emitter from playing if its deployed. Hacking FMOD event to solve auto start - stop BP behavior. adjusting deploy audio to be more appropriate for Aerosol

Added GRE_Golem_Caltrop_Grenade

First checkin of flag assets, has base setup for ground and wall based flag that works with the weather system, NZ flag texture setup, mesh swap for correct pole coming in part2

Adding New Prometheus NULL SECTOR Mission - STRANDED: ASHLANDS

Added whiteout values to the weather actions. Resaved weather actions to fix build break

COMPOSITION: Initial swap to powered aerosol device

Correcting hammerhead slug Medium and Small still using large animation montages within some of the BT. Now uses all correct small and medium versions for all attacks and roars

Fix black dist fog plane on Ice Sheets/re-added fog color on Ice Sheets on AtmosphereController

STRANDED: ASHLANDS, adding ability to interact with various elements of the truck, adding new recipes for alternator & radiator, adding new quests steps to fill up biofuel & water containters and deliver alternators and radiator, adjusted npc's so they play dialogue using the correct system, added new quest session flag for recipes, setup various truck elements and spawned them in as part of the quest, added new interactables for filling biofuel / water from held items

Added new Base Common quest for filling up an objects fillable

Reverb adjustments to hammerhead bosses to avoid drastic sounding reverbs in some biomes with different reverb settings. Applying some additional reverb to the worm explode event

Replacing earthquake audio from rock golem with a version with less close rock falls to leave more impact and intensity for the actual close rock falls

Added whiteout to PlayerEffectComponent and InGameWeatherman, twead NFX to improve windy behaviour and look at diff lights

Added hornet torn wing art assets to the project

Added hornet stinger art assets to the project

Updating Iron Bucket to be consistent with other water hauling devices

Adding in mining truck and texture pass to use in null sec mission

Added fuel resource icons

Saved missing json file (fixing build)

Added beeswax wood and tempered glass into the buildingfunctionlibrary switch statement and building lookup. added new tag query for beeswax wood and a tag along with it

Adding appropriate PM to Ice Breaker bones so they play the right footsteps when walked on

Adding in wall mounted whiteboard, as well as finished part 2 of flag checkin for custom flagpole mesh

Adding in Radiator and materials to use for Nul Sec mission, also hooked up contexts to D_Meshable

Changing UMG_modifier state widget to orange modifier circle texutres from Blue

Cliff Pass and Landscape Painting Pass, Outpost 11

Adding Portable Biofuel Tank

Fixing Truck Map Icon Build Validation Fail and Alpha Value rendering it invisible

STRANDED: ASHLANDS, adding animations to the NPC's Adding new Truck Map Icon, Updating Medical Scanner UI, Mission is now completely playable, Setting up radiator & alternator, taking item icons, setting up truck and truck parts / interact points, removing all the accidental quest markers from the quest

STRANDED: ASHLANDS, adding quest flag so you can craft the Alternator & Fabricator

Affing new Radiator Image & Mesh Setup

STRANDED: ASHLANDS, added missing prebuilt structures

Ice sheet mission dialogue edits

SMPL3 dialogue hookup, line added for staging before Null sector and post entry

Dialogue edits for Ashlands story

Updated DEP_Swamp_Ape_Attractor

Cliff Pass, Riverbank Pass and Landscape Painting Pass, Outpost 11

Small adjustments to the hammerhead slug Small volumes

Fixed Exotic Infused Ignari spawning in Ashlands

COMPOSITION: Missed file commit

COMPOSITION: Further changes to mission flow

Made a few changes to the medical scanner UI

Increase Dressing Kit cost

A few small adjustments to ice breaker falloff distance. Slightly reduced the total length of the audio now that there's more fog, feels more appropriate. increased intensity in close proximity footsteps. More reverb

fixed incorrect material assignments for sandworm roof pyramid L piece

Removing dialogue entries for build fix

Outpost_012 - river adjustments, bank placement

Concrete BLDs - removed trim from angled wall pieces, fixed skin table entries for limestone, added empty material slot to most base SMs to enable the correct limestone fracture material

Replaced Ice Mammoth Shield icon with new model icon

Fixed issue where opening bunker locker in-game rotated it 31d

Removed limit for amount of bunker lockers that can be placed side by side

Adding in bunker Locker setup and materials, supports snapping to eachother to place multiple in a row, rotation bug with anim to fix

Fixed BP node compile errors after changing native variable type

The new method of serialising prebuilt structures now supports being spawned at a generated world location

STANDED: ASHLANDS, the timer only now counts down until you have provided aid to all the crew members, Fixing Initial Quest Step to include preperation phase, New NPC's will not longer consume extra medicine / food / oxygen / water if they don't need it, increasing interact distance on the medical device, adding prompts for the medical device, adjusting quest steps text for consistentcy, adjusting NPC food / oxy / water values so they require more to stabilise

Adding in various signs to use for Null Sec mission, as well as multiple variants of the large base sign, one completely clear to use as a player sign if needed, added in medic cabinet with animations and setup, added in large variant of the flag pole, locker mesh to follow

Fixing Water Can showing the Radiator Mesh

STRANDED: ASHLANDS, Updating Scanner so you can scan other prospectors, adjusting truck interact points

Adjusting biome modifier image to use a new shape and colour

Outpost_012: Flushing grass cache

Small adjustment to hammerhead slug axe equip volume

Set player/cargo landing pads decay to do not decay

Adding new BP for High Yield Deep or Veins, we now have a modifier for time on the BP itself so it can be adjusted in future

New Hail Weather FX Prototype

Cliff Placement Pass and Riverbank Pass, Outpost 11

Outpost_012 - rivers, lake, riverbank, cliff placement

Setup Beeswax reinforced wood item setups

Prevent player/cargo landing pads from showing damage numbers

Updated frozen lake collision profile to fix NPC IK making them clip through the ground when walking on top

Cliff pass, Outpost 11

Added a combined mesh for the ape boss balloon trophy to be use for placement

Possible fix for unity build include compile error on build agent

Adding Mesh and Icon for Ape Grenade

Setting up Ballistic Asset for Hornet Throwing Knife

Removing regualar Hornet throwing knife item

Setting up Meshes and Icons for Hornet Throwing Knife, Hornet Stinger, Hornet Wing, Ape Hide, Ape Trophies anmd Ice Mammoth Armor

Setting up Ice Mammoth Armor so it can be equipped

Setting up Ape Fishing Trap, Recipe & Blueprint

Setting up Ape Rug Trophy, Recipe & Blueprint

Update exotic creatures color to purple from blue

Added new CL param to force enable RTX

Knobble FLODActorComponent for rocks and voxels in instanced levels

Lava Flyer Nests are no longer valid AI targets

Cliff Placement Pass and Riverbank Pass, Outpost 11

Added first pass of whiteout storms for Ice Sheet

Adding press medical scanner audio. Currently playing off medical scan UMG in 2d. Need to check it doesnt play for all players

Added first batch of reworked aluminium buildable LODs

Collision pass and PM pass on the mining truck for accuracy

Adding Ice Mammoth Feet Armor Icon and Mesh setup

Adding back new SMPL3 lines for nulsec entry

Added cooling weather events to Ashlands

Change Hail VFX to new one, updates to collision and shader, optmization pass

Adding in progress light fuction material for Abyss cave triggers

Fixed null skeletal mesh error in editor

Added SK_CHA_MAL_ARM_IcemMammoth_feet

Outpost_012 - riverbanks, lake adjustment, cliff placement, moss variant material for Cave_LC_Entrance 03