Oct 28, 2021

Ragnarok Online - CMGarnet

iRO Renewal Hardware Maintenance

October 28th, 12:00PM - 6:00PM PDT

We are aware there is an issue with Gramps monsters being incorrect this week. Unfortunately, we are unable to fix it right now and will swap out the monsters next week. The team apologizes for the inconvenience.

Hardware maintenances will solely consist of IT tasks required to continue smooth operation of the game. From now on, we will be alternating between Hardware Maintenance and Update Maintenance from week to week. Current schedule looks like this:

10/28 - Hardware Maintenance 11/4 - Update Maintenance
11/11 - Hardware Maintenance 11/18 - Update Maintenance

Halloween Event begins! (Ends November 18th)!
- Head over to Prontera (161, 97) to get started!
Our Homeward Bound Event has been extended (Ending date is to be determined)!
- Enjoy a bonus +50% EXP and +25% Drops as you stay indoors and keep safe!
Big prizes are listed in bold.
- Kafra Blossom Card (1) / Old Purple Box (1-10) - 1,000,000z
- Beelzebub Wing Box (1) / Yggdrasil Berry (1-4) - 1,000,000z
- HD Oridecon 100 Box (1) / Oridecon (1-20) - 2,000,000
- Temporal Crystal (20) / Yggdrasil Seed (1-2) - 200,000z
- Coagulated Spell (2) / Blue Herb (1-60) - 70,000z
- HD Elunium 100 Box (1) / Elunium (1-30) - 2,000,000
- Cursed Fragment (1) / Witch Starsand (1-20) - 60,000z
- HE Bubblegum (2) / Alcohol (1-15) - 350,000
- Blacksmith Blessing (1) / Yggdrasil Seed (1-2) - 175,000z
- HE Battle Manual (2) / Strawberry (1-30) - 100,000z

Glast Heim

Alice
Anolian
Arclouze
Bloody Knight
Swift Wanderer
Swift Raydric
Solid Arclouse
Solid Raydric
Solid Whisper
Solid Wind Ghost
Solid Zombie Prisoner
Gargoyle Ringleader
Marionette Ringleader
Furious Anolian
Furious Dark Priest
Furious Gargoyle
Furious Injustice
Furious Majorous
Furious Wanderer
Elusive Carat
Elusive Evil Druid
Elusive Wraith Dead
Elusive Sting
Carat
Chimera
Cramp
Dark Frame
Dark Illusion
Dark Lord
Dark Priest
Drainliar
Evil Druid
Palace Captain
Royal Guard of Kingdom
Gargoyle
Hunterfly
Injustice
Khalitzburg
Abysmal Knight
Majoruros
Marionette
Amdarais
Maggot
Bloody Knight
Corrupted Root
Corrupted Soul
Royal knight with hatred
Royal Knight of grudge
Chamberlain in pain
Grand Chamberlain in pain
Corrupted White Knight
Abysmal Knight
Royal knight in Pain
Royal Knight in Agony
Kingdom Knight
Kingdom Archer
Archer of Kingdom
Corrupted Palace Guard
Maid of Resentment
Corrupted monk
Crying Gardner
Corrupted steward
Mimic
Mysteltainn
Corrupted Priest
CursedBbox
Cursed Book
Wandering Man
Grave keeper with Hatred
Owl Baron
Owl Duke
Phen Dark
Raydric
Raydric Archer
Rideword
Rybio
Sageworm
Skel Prisoner
Sting
Ogretooth
Wanderer
Whisper
Giant Whisper
Wind Ghost
Wraith
Zealotus
Zombie Prisoner

Did you know?
- The use of grf edits such as "grayworld" is prohibited
- We do not recruit players to be GMs

Oct 28, 2021

Beta 3.741 Clogging Holes

AI War 2 - x-4000 (Chris McElligott Park)

New build, not nearly as exciting as yesterday, but it's solid progress: https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:The_Great_Refactor#Beta_3.741_Clogging_Holes

1. On the subject of trying to hot-reload the xml files:

I've made some progress on that, but there's still more to do. There's some added functionality I need to add, apparently, before that's really going to work as well as I need it to. But it definitely got a lot closer today, and this took about the first half of the day to work on it. Right now if you try to hot reload xml, it will potentially lock up the game, but when you kill it and reload it, it will have what you want. I just need to fix the whole lock up part, but it's one step at a time.

2. On the subject of the memory leaks, which still exist:

Notice I'm not saying "the memory leak" anymore? I do suspect that there was mainly one big memory leak in the past, but at this point there are definitely multiple. Some of them are caused by the semantic changes I've made to how we use collections -- aka, in building the panopticon, I introduced new temporary memory leaks, but in exchange I gain the ability to find them and kill them, and also to improve performance in general in the future. I fixed at least six memory leaks today, none of which were the "big one" that is causing the most trouble.

Daniexpert was kind enough to provide a very useful core dump from that new feature, and by diffing that against an early-stage core dump of my own, this is how I'm not just finding the memory leaks, but also places where I can optimize capacity allocations. The side effect of the latter is that the game runs faster, and most notably that it's wicked fast to load savegames now. I mean, it's down from something like 1.5 seconds to 0.5 seconds; that hardly matters, but it does feel nice. And the overall ram usage being lowered, and the during-gameplay performance improvements that this also leads to, are the real win.

I'm currently going painstakingly through that one core dump, and just fixing things as I find them after careful analysis, rather than trying to find the big leak that I know is in there. Something has allocated 23 million objects when it really should be closer to three million based on another metric, and in that core dump is the answer to that question. When I find that, hopefully tomorrow or the next working day, that should be the end of the big memory leak (knock on wood). In the meantime, I don't want to leave any smaller memory leaks around just because I'm in a hurry, so I'm taking the time to do it right.

3. On the subject of the stalling background threads:

This is really intermittent and frustrating, and requires you to more or less restart the game to get it to work properly after it happens. It only seems to happen after having loaded multiple savegames in one run of the game. While chatting with Daniexpert about the data he was able to show me from it happening to him again today, I think I may have come up with a solution for it. I'll need to actually implement it and test it, but I'm hoping I can squeeze that in tomorrow, as well.

4. Everything else?

These items are my top priority right now until they are fixed. After that, there's many other general bugs, and then a load of new features and things coming down the pipeline. I'm really excited about those things, but I want to finish this stuff out right and have this running really smoothly for everyone. I really have no idea how many more days of this pre-everything-else work is left, but I will be able to do daily releases like this one with updates, at least.

More to come soon.
Enjoy!

Oct 28, 2021

SCP-096 Plushie Now Available!

SCP: Secret Laboratory - Voidus

Hello everyone!

We here at Northwood Studios have a special announcement to make. We’ve partnered with Makeship in order to bring you your very own SCP-096 plushie!

Makeship has worked with some incredible creators in the past and as such we’re proud knowing this plushie is of the highest quality. Now this is a pre-order meaning the product will only be made if we reach 200 sales, if this isn’t reached then don’t worry anyone who pre-ordered will get a refund.

Pre-orders are only available until Friday 19th of November at which point you’ll no longer be able to get this limited edition plushie. If you want to get one for yourself check out this link: https://shop.makeship.com/3bldYaY

We hope everyone enjoys them as much as we do and until next time, have a fantastic day.

Oct 28, 2021

Community Highlights - Beta Weekend Five

ICARUS - Lil Shammgod

Hey Prospectors!

Did anyone see that coming? Not only did you guys conquer the Desert, but you fought off the first of Icarus’ native species, a gigantic sandworm. We did our best to keep it a secret all week, and judging by some of the surprised faces we’ve seen in your videos, it did not disappoint!

Mission: Blacksand was also supported by the return of Mission: Broken Arrow for those who didn’t get the chance to complete it last weekend. Between the two challenges we saw thousands of completions, thousands of bosses defeated, and an uncountable number of gruesome maulings by bears and bases turned to matchwood by fire.

Make sure you keep sharing all your photos, videos and art with us by posting it in #screenshots in Discord, or tagging us with #surviveicarus on socials.

Credit: DeathEmber & Therealfaux

An Art Team of thousands

This week provided an entire new biome, new creatures, and one very angry looking worm, and you turned all of that into some of the best content we’ve seen yet. We’re blown away, and wanted to share just a few of our favourites here:

The Lurker Below - Trug42

I'm coming home? - D4V394

Icarus Cribs - Chris Lindly

This little cutie has a mean strike - SlothOcelot

A sneak peek of what’s coming up

Beta Weekend Six brings the first iteration of our tiered missions, giving you a taste of the progression through missions objectives and character development. This means we will be wiping your characters at the start of the Beta Weekend so we can watch how you progress and through the missions. You’ll also learn more about factions, the various powers behind the failed Icarus project.

Beta Weekend Seven is a fun one. We’re hosting a big celebration for all of you, and how much you’ve given us over the last seven Beta Weekends. We’ll be hosting community competitions and giveaways to send off our Beta Weekends in style and get ready for the fast approaching 1.0 launch...

Because if you hadn’t checked your calendar, that’s just over a month away. All going to plan, December 4th brings Icarus: First Cohort to your PCs, ready for you to set your mark on this new-age gold rush. Look out for a Day 1 patch, exotics-mining, detailed patched notes and lots of exciting new prospects and missions to explore. We cannot wait.

Screenshots

If you want to get a picturesque shot, remember to press 9 on your Number Pad to hide the UI, and post them in #screenshots in our Discord.

Credit: Arrowgon

Credit: website607

Credit: Sarvannis

Credit: Atoning

Credit: CMat

A special mention of a special group of prospectors

The Icarus Wiki Team who have been diligently building out an amazing online encyclopedia for Icarus, spent some of their time this weekend working on a special treat for the Rocketwerkz team. As some of you might know, Rocketwerkz is based in beautiful Auckland, New Zealand, with our office on the top floor of the PwC building overlooking the waterfront. The Wiki team took it upon themselves to recreate it in Icarus and gave us a tour. Here are a few of the amazing shots, with a side-by-side to give you an idea of their accuracy.

Get ready for Beta Weekend #6

The sun might be setting on Beta Weekend 5, but Beta Weekend 6 brings a whole bunch of new missions and experiences for you all. Read about how our Beta Weekends work here

Beta Weekend #6 begins on:

5pm Friday 5th November PDT
1am Saturday 6th November UTC
1pm Saturday 6th November NZT

Helpful links:
Discord
Twitter

- Liam

Oct 28, 2021

Dual Snake goes Free-To-Play!

Dual Snake - madzera1

[h4]Dual Snake[/h4]
Exactly 3 years, 8 months, 28 days ago, Dual Snake was launched. It took us one year and one month of development, and it was an amazing ride, tough, but amazing nonetheless. This past week, we made a decision: We decided that we would make Dual Snake free-to-play! It's a bold move, but a good one, as we develop our new game Primateria, we wanted that the people who know our work, get to know our first game as well since our lovely two-headed snake will be present in Primateria.

[h4]Skin and badge[/h4]
Of course, for the people who had purchased the game before our change, they will receive a skin and a badge that goes next to their names. It's just a small token to thank all of you for supporting us.

Dual Snake and Primateria

store.steampowered.com/app/1397130/Primateria/
For those that don't know yet, our two-headed snake is on Primateria, with a new art style, and it looks totally amazing!

We hope that you come with us in this new adventure, and have fun along the way! Much love <3

Oct 28, 2021

1.1.0 Hotfix Patch notes

Horror Legends - October Games LLC

Balance Changes

Legends

Edith

Nails start charge dmg increased from 15 to 20
Nails max charge dmg increased from 70 to 75
Pounce RMB alt fire attack dmg increased from 4 to 7
Base stamina regeneration increased from 1.5 to 2.3
Fear and stamina regeneration radius size around player and ai Edith's increased from 9 to 11 meters
increased Crouch jump height from 9 to 10

Corey

Increased time it takes to reach max sprint speed from 2 to 6 seconds.
Increased travel mode start cooldown from 10 to 30 seconds
Increased Corey's head hit box to make her easier to hit.

Radu

Increased sprint jump stamina cost from 35 to 50
Reduced the height and width of the dagger hit box from .3 to .25.
Increased the Dagger miss cooldown from .5 to 1.5
Fixed an issue that would cause the dagger to perpetually affect your characters movement speed when getting hit by it.

Psycho Phil

Fixed his jump so he can traverse to the same places as the cast can.
increased chainsaw chargers from 125 to 200
decreased reload speed from 4 seconds to 2 seconds.
increased chainsaw damage from 6 damager per hit to 7 damager per hit.

Killer Keith

Fixed his jump so he can traverse to the same places as the cast can.

Punkie
Increased sprint jump height from 13 to 14

Punkie (Human)
You can now use Ambush while sprinting.
Reduced weapon switching from 1.5 second to .25 seconds.
Slightly reduced scythe attack range.

Gourd Horde
You can now kill downed players while by holding F on them. (Finisher animation coming soon)
Sprinting no longer requires stamina Stamina

CAST

Finishers

Reduced the fate reward for interrupting a finisher from 500 to 50.

Unarmed

Increased the LMB punch hit box width and height from .1 to .3

Kitchen Knife

Increased both attack hit box width and height from .1 to .3

Switchblade

Increased both attack hit box width and height from .1 to .3

Machete

Increased both attack hit box width and height from .1 to .3

Matriarch

Increased the time from which the matriarch will spawn from 7 to 8 minutes.

Trick or Treat Event

Zombies have new sound effects!

October Map

Effigies

Adjusted magic glyph spawns
Fixed some areas you could get stuck in
Added crouch zone in the windows on old house on the hill.
Adjusted some legend spawns to make it more balanced for the cast
Fixed an issue where you could stuck inside the wells.
Removed floating toilet paper roll in parking lot >_>;
Removed awkward bolt on door in cast spawn.
Removed the ability to grab item through long shack wall beams.

Fixes / Exploits

Fixed Issue where sometimes the wrong cutscene would play at the end of a match.
Fixed an issue where charged attacks could be exploited with travel mode and weapon switch.
Fixed issue where Zombie Ryan skin would prevent her from dying.
Fixed a few grammar and typos.