Hey ArkCoNauts!
As we brace for impact for the summer sale, we bring you another huge update! This one brings in new NPC’s for you to meet, Steam Inventory integration, bug fixes, video tutorials, and more! You’ll see a lot of quality of life features coming in here, such as level up banners, exposure warning, and other information to better understand what’s going on around your character. As always, keep those bug reports coming in, and we look forward to your feedback!
Headline Features:
- New integrated video player to help with the tutorial as well as codexes in the future.
- New In game Tutorial videos provided and voiced by: Martin Olav "Mr Crow" Andersen (AKA: TheNorseCrow)
- Weapon Reforging and release of R&D section of knowledges (Disclaimer: there is an issue where using the auto button to place a weapon into crafting slots then removing the weapon will remove the weapon’s stats. the weapon can still be reforged however it will not be able to be used until it is reforged)
- 7 New NPCs hidden around the world and in dungeons for players to find!
- Corrected player movement when moving up/down/jumping from slopes
- Steam Inventory integration
- New Steam API Created from scratch to give us more control
- Added new banner popups for various progression unlocks (codexes, knowledges, ranks, tasks completed)
- Added lots of new tasks for players to enjoy and experience on the edge of space!
Changes Additions
- Updated Roof Exhaust Placeable to be animated
- Updated PipeVent Placeable to be animated
- Adjusted Fineous’ flying height over MCP
- Biome overlay effect has been intensified
- NEW Exposure warning alert added
- New Level up alert for knowledges
- Added banner text to indicate when player is not close enough to activate an item
- Changed Button art for selecting avatars
- Added some text shadows to make reading easier
- Added an animated loading spinner on loading screens to indicate unseen functions being processed
- All phase carbine weapon types now reload 33% faster.
- Phase Shotguns damage has been increased
- New jelly net mounts
- Outposts have been fixed and spawn more frequently and more of them
- Fixed a performance issue related to placeables that cost 10x the normal amount of time to render the scene.
- Added Claimable items (secrets!!)
- Vehicle consumable items can now be stacked up to 50
- All weapon schematic costs have been tuned up slightly, with the advent of reforge schematics
- Transportation tree has been rebalanced and allows earlier access to them
- Updated a ton of armor icons with their unique icons
- Increased the granularity of exposure math
- Crab and JellyNet mounts now destroy themselves when out of fuel
- New NPC Chatter Matrix so NPCs can talk amongst themselves.
- AoE damage was cleaned up
- Generic tool tips to indicate the powered icons
- PIOS items now have better descriptions to help reinforce their use
- Rare chests in the world no longer give unlimited loot (QQ)
- Granted items in the Knowledges window now have tooltips
- Moved the Codex to a separate window
- Updated descriptions for vanity items
- Updated skiffpad discription
- Updated Command node discription
- Adjusted shaders to improve appearance
Fixes
- Changed helmet flash effect to be better aligned with the player
- Corrected an issue where items could be lost when removing inventory size boosters (items removed now go to the rewards menu instead of creating world items)
- Fixed an issue that caused rifts to spawn inside or near player constructed bases
- Fixed an issue when merging stacks where the source item had the wrong number of charges
- Fixed an issue where biome effects were not visible