- GearStorm Release v1.620 - Improved Cockpit Readouts, Pickpockit and quest fixes - 2 December 2020
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
- GearStorm Release v1.619 - Discord Alerts, Looting, Harvesting, and Quest fixes! - 29 October 2020
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 format…
- Release v1.615 - Hotfix for Enemy Spawn Radius and Gamemaster - 30 September 2020
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.
- Release v1.614 - Hotfix for UI Scaling Issue - 15 September 2020
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.
- GearStorm v. 1.613 Day/Night Ratio Setting, Auto Graphics Settings - 11 September 2020
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 t…
- Release v1.612 - Performance and Stability Enhancements, New Gamemaster Manager - 3 September 2020
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…
- Release v1.611 - New Unreal Engine, New Weapons, Server Hosting, UI Additions! - 3 August 2020
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 bla…
- Release v1.610 - Vehicle Cockpit Improvements, Fixes, and Optimizations! - 11 June 2020
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! -------------------------------…
- Release v1.609 - New Vehicle Cockpit Enhancements and Turret-Centering HotKey - 8 June 2020
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! -------------------------------------------------------------- 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
- v1.608 - New quests in survival, shield projector, bug fixes, Weight Balancing! - 2 June 2020
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! -------------------------------------------------------------- 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
- Release v1.607 - Dedicated Server Gamemaster Fixed, Vehicle Damage Fix! - 28 May 2020
The GearStorm dev team fixed the problems stopping our dedicated server hosts from becoming Gamasters/admins on their servers. We have also fixed a problem causing players to be mysteriously damaged by parked vehicles. Numerous other fixes and performance improvements are also in this release. 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! -------------------------------------------------------------- Game should no longer require admin flag on client if is set on server, Bug fixes for QuestManager Radius location command Bug Fixes: Test for multithread collision on terrain chunk updates, protections from unintended vehicle damage to players, measures to prevent vehicles disappe…
- Release v1.606 - Bug Fixes, Dedicated Server Improvements! - 20 May 2020
The GearStorm dev team is hard at work fixing bugs and refining the Campaign story! We also heard our server owners and added logging to show the version of the dedicated server and when a player joins or leaves. 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! -------------------------------------------------------------- Full change log below: Multiple Bug Fixes - Display of Esc Menu at 150%, Remove Zombie Infection on Respawn, Addressed Settings for Zombie Appearance, Fixed plant locations for Recipe for Reiner quest, NPC Appearance can now be modified from Client, Improved Visibility of Transit Indicator, NPCs no longer get stuck in zombie animation when cured Bug Fixes for "S…
- Release v1.605 - Fixes, Improved Vehicle Cockpits, New Map Content, Balancing! - 3 May 2020
Another feature and fix-packed release from the GearStorm dev team! The dev team is very engaged with the community and in addition to adding new content, we are fixing things just reported two days ago! In this release we put a lot of effort in vehicle cockpits: Did you know GearStorm has a fully accurate, Physx-based wheeled-vehicle simulator complete with suspension and wheeled vehicles that can jump? This release fixes wheeled vehicle collisions with players and NPCs: There is also new content on the survival map including Bordertown: And a awesome new underground ICA base: Fixes for destroying base cores, Solar panels, and generators were also added in response to our community feedback. Re-balancing of the default cost for Bedrolls and CP was also done in response to community feedback. The full change log can be found below, as usual, if you enjoy GearStorm, tell your friends abo…
- GearStorm Release v1.604 - Fixes, New Campaign Stories, New Bases in Survival! - 28 April 2020
We are still very focused on quality and this release fixes several more crashes our community reported using our new crash reporter. We are jumping on these as top priorities and once again this release eliminates all the reported crashes. There is now a frame-rate cap of 120 to avoid cooking your PC and video card during menu time or low-activity time that should help the impact GearStorm has on your system. Bugs affecting saves and loads and alerts about new a Campaign. There are new graphic effects for harvested items now that show your resources being generated: We also added new story content to the Campaign mode and we are still adjusting the mission markers to make more sense for new players and tie elements of the story together better. This release also has some new things in the Survival mode. There are new bandit camps and bandit dog spawners you can encounter in your travel…
- v1.603 - Fixes, Campaign story additions, Survival balancing - 22 April 2020
Our new crash reporter has already enabled you, our community to report 3 crashes. We are jumping on these as top priorities and this release addresses all three! We also added some story to the Campaign mode and adjusted some mission markers to make more sense for new players and tie elements of the story together better. Mission markers are labeled now in the HUD to further clarify where to go for what. This release also has some changes to the balance of Survival, how spawners are marked on the maps, and what spawns in caves to make it more fun! 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! -------------------------------------------------------------- Adding Names to Quest…
- GearStorm gets the Coronavirus! Donating April Profits to Covid-19 Research. - 20 April 2020
GearStorm Gets Coronavirus Awareness Behavior Modeling, All April Profits Donated to Covid-19 Research! New Biohazard Content, Airborne Zombie Virus, Coughing, Masks, Social Distancing. Iron City Games is promoting Coronavirus awareness and prevention with a new addition to GearStorm. GearStorm now has a airborne zombie virus, the player and NPCs can be infected, hand sanitizre, anti-viral medication, and masks. The new Vanguard quest in the hanger bay will show you how everything works. We are also donating 100% of all proceeds from the sale of GearStorm in the month of April to Covid-19 research! Airborne Zombie Virus! In GearStorm, the Zombies don't bite you, they cough on you! And they DO NOT respect social distancing! When they do, they can infect you with the Phage virus! You can also still be infected by getting hit by zombies. New Infection Status: When you are infected, you occ…
- Hot-fix v1.601 - Fixes, balancing - 8 April 2020
Lightening fast hot-fix with fixes and re-balancing based on our community feedback! Here's the full change log: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adding Mask Assets Fixed terrain holes, reduced mob spawns by 25%, changed Bee behavior to ignore other wildlife.
- Update v1.600 - Training Stories, Fixes, Interface Categories, Re-balancing - 7 April 2020
New and Improved UI: In GearStorm there are hundreds of items to build and craft it can be daunting to find what you want or know what does what. We have started breaking up the items in categories to make it easier to find things and easier to know what they do: 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! Full change log below: Fixing sound level not changing in-game for effects and UI Adjusted terrain western coastline for correct biome, Modified "Recipe for Reiner" quest to teach about Anti-Toxin & Planters, tuned splash damage on Rocket and Grenade Launchers Reduced armor damage taken by most weapons, Slightly reduced damage from Rocket and Grenade Launchers, Fixed bug th…
- New Release! v.1.599 - Virus survival, survival map, skills system! - 31 March 2020
Community members, v1.599 is here! This is huge release with a new infection model that brings the Phage virus into the game, enhancements for campaign mode, a whole new survival mode and map, new content and environmental challenges, the introduction of our new skills tree, and all the bug fixes and performance enhancements we could pack into the release! This release also starts our automated crash reporting phase as we look to improve reliability for publishing our final release. Please help us out by sending in those crash reports whenever they pop up! Enemy-Spawning Nests: Now when you roam the vast open world of Apollyon, in addition to the myriad of different encounters you could experience, you can now encounter nests spawning hordes of monsters and wild beasts! You can destroy the nest or stalk the things spawned from it for XP endlessly or harvest it for resources. Quest Marke…
- V1.596 is here! With cool enhancement on FX and personalization! - 4 February 2020
V1.596 is here! With cool enhancement on FX and personalization! Hey friends, we're so excited to release V1.596 because there are significant updates on this version so you might want to update your game. Alright let's get into it real quick: Highlight 1 - You get to choose new heads, hair, eyes and change eye and hair color Have you ever pressed "HOME" on your keyboard and you look at your character and go, "Wouldn't it be nice if I get to personalize my character's face? What if we tell you that you can now customize your look? Now you can totally show off how you look like on your social media / our Discord server. Highlight 2 - New weapon effects! Watch zombies running in flames and getting knocked back! Most of our weapons now have cool effects on the enemies, they no longer just die like that, if you use your flamethrower on them, they actually catch fire, let's be real here, isn…
