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

This Week: Hammerhead Slug World Boss

Next Week: All World Bosses Lootable

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Changelog v2.2.40.132442

New Content

• 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

Fixed

• 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

Future Content

• 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