Loyal Community,
GearStorm release 1.620 is out! This release improves the readability of the cockpit displays in all the vehicles, fixes for the pickpocket ability and fixes for players locking themselves out of chests/doors.
Easier to read cockpit displays:


Pickpocketing!


Locked chests/doors are fixed to prevent locking yourself out:


Full change log below:

• Improve readability of Cockpit ammo readout
  
• Pickpocket feature now works
  
• Code to prevent players from locking themselves out of doors/chests, Updates to Vanguard quests with more Log information

Loyal Community,

A new version of GearStorm (v. 1.619) just released that adds integration with Discord to alert you when a player joins your server or when your server starts up. Just add a Discord Webhook to the channel you would like to use for server alerts and put the webhook URL in the "DiscordAlertWebhook=" parameter of the "game.ini" file.



You will then see a alert in your channel anytime anyone joins your server or your server starts up.



We have also included several fixes for looting corpses on a base core, harvesting cacti by hand, and inventory messaging when a item is lost.

There are several fixes for quest issues in this release, including AI behavior, text on certain quests, and the ability to finish certain quests.

Please share our game on your Twitch streams, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube channels to support our development!

Full change log below:

•     Fix formatting issues in menus, Wandering Bot on Vanguard, Quest text too long,  Special Delivery quest fails if you use the Base Core
  
•     Adding Discord alert for dedicated server startup and player joining.
  
•     Fix for looting corpses on base core, Fix for harvesting cacti by hand, Updated Inventory Full message to say item was lost

Gearstormers!
Hotfix incoming for issue with the list of Gamemasters being reset after activating the Gamemaster menu. This release also includes a fix for AI spawning too close to the player and adds a setting in the .ini to change the radius AI spawn.

Loyal Customers,

Hotfix incoming for a customer-reported issue with the graphics options UI scale setting not persisting if you change it and close the dialog or restart the game. The UI scaling option should now persist when closing and opening the graphics options or restarting the game.

Loyal Customers,
We are rolling out a small update adding automated system testing and graphics settings to make our first time player experience better and help people tune the game. We also included a very frequently requested feature to change the percentage of the day that is night and persist that setting and the day length setting!

Automatic Graphics Settings When First Starting the Game:
To avoid issues when first starting GearStorm, we now have a auto-system benchmark running that automatically adjust the initial graphics settings for your system. For those of you that already own the game, your graphics settings may change only the first time you run it after this benchmark. Feel free to go into the options->graphics settings and set things like you want them again and they will persist.

Automatic Graphics Settings Button:
We have added the automatic system bench-marking tool to the graphics settings dialog so you can benchmark your system and get suggested graphics settings anytime you want.


Night Percentage Setting:
Responding to our community request to add the ability for the server admin to change the percentage of the 24-hour day of the map that is night we have added a setting to the "Game Settings" screen under the GameMaster menu (backspace by default). This and the other game settings on this screen now persist for all your maps on that server.


The full change log can be found below, if you enjoy GearStorm, tell your friends about it, show it on your stream (We always look for streamers and we'll plug their clips on our social media), share it on your social media, don't be shy to tag us!
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Full change log below:

• Adding a option for night percentage on the game setting dialog, persisting day length and night percentage to game.ini when changed.
  
• Changing link to 4NetPlayers
  
• Adding auto-scalability on startup and in graphics options

GearStormers!
We have taken advantage of the last release to the new version of the Unreal Engine for some major performance and stability improvements. We are seeing at least 5-10 fps performance improvements over the last release. Some stability and crash issues relating to losing contact with 3D cards have also been addressed. We also have released our new Gamemaster administration tool so you can add or remove Gamemasters from your server from in-game!

Gamemaster Administration Tool:
We are continuing to simplify your ability to run your own server and make a unique experience for all of your players. This week, we are adding the Gamemaster administration tool that allows you to make someone a Gamemaster in game by picking their name from a list of players currently logged into your server, or simply typing their Steam ID in the text field and adding them. You can remove players the same way. Adding a Gamemaster takes effect instantly and is saved in real-time as you do it.

The full change log can be found below, if you enjoy GearStorm, tell your friends about it, show it on your stream (We always look for streamers and we'll plug their clips on our social media), share it on your social media, don't be shy to tag us!
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Full change log below:

Added in-game Gamemaster administration toolMoved Grass/Tree shader processing to Z-Pass to help PerformanceRefactored Terrain Textures to use simplified materials where possible per chunkChanging how servers are listed in Steam Master Browser.Rearranged Main Menu layout, material and ai optimizationsAdding links and news to main menu, updating manual.Dead mobs no longer block visibility traces.Changing shader defaults to address flickering shadows.Increase roughness of some materials to reduce flicker effect

This release brings GearStorm up-to-date with the latest Unreal Engine, gaining performance and stability improvements and enabling GearStorm to take advantage of newer features in the future like ray tracing. We are also packing in several improvements on our UI, additional weapons, and several bug fixes. This release also marks the beginning of our partnership with 4NETPlayers, our exclusive hosts of dedicated servers for GearStorm.

Simplified Server Hosting:
ICG has partnered exclusively with 4NETPlayers server hosting service to make it easy and inexpensive to host your own GearStorm servers. 4NETPlayers has simplified the server configuration and startup to just a few clicks. Since GearStorm has so many features catering to the server admin, we are very excited to make it easy for our admins to Gamemaster their own dedicated servers in Europe and the US.



New versions of the arm blade were also added:
We have added two new melee weapons with fire and electric effects.



A new option to set VSync was also added:


New "skillpoint indicator" was added to the inventory menu for our skillpoint progression system:



Numerous other bug fixes and performance enhancements are also in this release. We are fully committed to continuing to build our community that will help us make GearStorm the ultimate open-world survival combat simulator!

The full change log can be found below, as usual, if you enjoy GearStorm, tell your friends about it, show it on your stream (We always look for streamers and we'll plug their clips on our social media), share it on your social media, don't be shy to tag us!
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Full change log below:
Added VSync setting to graphics options
Added Server Rental Button
Removing Screenspace reflections from Post Processing
Fixing logging and AA settings
Updating Dialog Menu to avoid recreating response items on every transaction
Slight increase in dialog wait-time to allow for server return
Fixing dedicated server listing
Fix for Explosion Crash on Client, Added Skillpoint indication in Player Inventory Menu
Added Models and FX for Shock and Flame Arm Blades
Fixing dedicated server
Using Async Cooking of Physics on terrain to reduce hitching for chunk transitions
Fix Items disappearing during "Take All" if player inventory is full, Fix loosing clips on first load of weapon with less ammo than clip
Fixing Flickering lighting, fixing texture pool usage over budget error.
Potential Fix for FProceduralSceneProxy Crash
Added Separate Random Stream function to emulate 4.22 functionality, Disabling DX12/DX11 support (testing vs. crash)
Potential Fix for Procedural Mesh crash
Vendors will now buy items even if their inventory is full, Balanced items (MedKits, Power Armor) ,Switched Railgun to use Railgun Slugs
Removed "Light Attachments as a group" and shadows from attached parts (Head, Hair, Armor) for Player and NPCs
Fix for Missing Material Flag in Cockpits
Fixing navmesh and dynamic terrain
Upgrading project to Unreal Engine 4.25
Added Notification when gaining coins as reward
Fix for North Point Lore and Hidden Dangers quest
Fix for Map Marker of NPC follower after respawn

The GearStorm development team is still on-track improving our vehicle simulation with new cockpit improvements and performance enhancements for all vehicles. We added a speedometer, minimap direction indicator, clip size to weapons and fixed some bugs!



Minimap now with a direction indicator arrow:



Weapon Display now has a clip size included:



New speedometer on the cockpit display:



Numerous other bug fixes and performance enhancements are also in this release. We are fully committed to continuing to build our community that will help us make GearStorm the ultimate open-world survival combat simulator!

The full change log can be found below, as usual, if you enjoy GearStorm, tell your friends about it, show it on your stream (We always look for streamers and we'll plug their clips on our social media), share it on your social media, don't be shy to tag us!
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Full change log below:

• Fix to prevent recreating weapon widgets each frame, Fix to reduce MFD start failure on Foosa and Cougar, Added Digital Readout to Speedometer
  
• Vehicle Hud Improvements - Added Speedometer, Weapon display now shows clip size for vehicles, Added Direction Indicator on Minimap

The GearStorm development team is releasing another update with several vehicle improvements including cockpit and HUD improvements for the VTOL:


A new position indicator for the mech torso or other vehicles turret position:


The full change log can be found below, as usual, if you enjoy GearStorm, tell your friends about it, show it on your stream (We always look for streamers and we'll plug their clips on our social media), share it on your social media, don't be shy to tag us!
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Full change log below:

•     Adjusted VTOL Cockpit graphics, Shotgun bandit now starts with Bandit Shotgun
  
•     Added Center Turret key for Wheeled and Mech vehicles, Wheeled vehicles now support Turret position indicator
  
•     Added Pitch to Mech Cockpit,  Added Torso rotation indicator on Mech Compass,  Doubled size of Mech Compass

Our crack development team has just completed new content for the Survival mode map and we have continued to pump out bug and item weight balancing fixes.

The full change log can be found below, as usual, if you enjoy GearStorm, tell your friends about it, show it on your stream (We always look for streamers and we'll plug their clips on our social media), share it on your social media, don't be shy to tag us!
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Full change log below:

• Added Random Quests to Austrasia Map, Added Shield Projector Item, Throwable items now correctly decrement on use, Fixed bug where Quest NPCs/Mobs would disappear after 2 reloads, Reduced weight of some inventory items