Today's patch includes a selection of new customizations on the in-game store and a few minor fixes.
Summer Warmup is here, and we have a second set of taunts, skins and mutations now available...



The fourth generation of Royal Dilophosaurus now sit the throne, with a fresh quartet of premium skins...



Several new mutations have appeared, ranging from the extra-bulky Exaltus Spino to the Allosaurid infused Fragilis Dilo and the nicely rounded Chubutensis Cerato...



All that and a handful of new regular skins, not to mention some really fun new taunts for the Ceratosaurus, Pathfinder and Pachy classes!



We're extremely busy right now with most of our engineering time occupied by overhauling the PS4 side of things. So over the next couple of months we hope you'll understand why patches will for the most part be cosmetic-focused.

On that note, our yearly MELTDOWN event is coming up. We're gonna have dozens upon dozens of new items, both in-store and free drops! Expect that to arrive later this June, alongside a certain yearly sale...

• Optimized several more sounds
  
• Adjusted volume of some taunts
  
• Reduced audible radius of Tyrant footsteps
  
• Fixed an issue where weapon sounds could get stuck looping during cinematics / end of round
  
• Changed some audio parameters that might help with sound stutter
  
• Minor changes to health and stamina bar graphics
  
  
• Added second set of Summer Warmup cosmetic content
  
• Tweaked subsurface colour and intensity for Ceratosaurus
  
• Adjusted glow colour and intensity settings on a variety of skins, with emphasis on Cerato
  
• Fixed a couple of recent Cerato mutations missing full support for cosmetic attachments

Please make sure to restart your Steam client to receive the latest patch for the game.

You may need to verify the integrity of the files on your hard disk if you encounter settings issues.

Simply right click Primal Carnage: Extinction in the Steam library and go to Properties > Local Files > Verify Integrity of Game Files.



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Today's patches include fixes for some audio engine issues, various other bug fixes, further tweaks to skins on the new master shaders and a fresh batch of items in-store.

Summer Warmup is here, with a new selection of taunts, skins and mutations now available!



From the dramatic display gestures of Carnotaurus and the malevolent growl a threatening Spinosaurus, to the down to earth Pyro re-adjusting his backpack, we have a bunch of new animations to deploy...



Keep an eye out for Summer Warmup, Round 2 arriving next month!

• Fixed an issue where the Tyrant timeout in TDM would not work 100%
  
  
• Optimized several weapon sounds
  
• Adjusted volume properties of some weapons
  
• Reduced audible radius of various impact effects
  
  
• Added first set of Summer Warmup cosmetic content
  
• Updated assault cannon specular map & base texture
  
• Tweaked subsurface colour and intensity on a few skins such as Diamond Rex
  
• Fixed a few Ultimate skins looking incorrect, such as missing masks for Flyers
  
• Fixed reflections being inverted on assault cannon bullet shell casings
  
• Fixed missing pre-cached physics scale on a couple of plushies

• Increased engine max audio channels from 64 to 128
  
• Weapons and dino vocals now take priority over footstep sounds
  
• Fixed server log spam from weapon sounds that caused slowdown
  
  
• Fixed two Dilo skins being swapped - Yellow Belly and King of the Shoreline
  
• Fixed an incorrect model reference for Praeliator Cryo mutation
  
• Fixed missing item text / descriptions for a few cosmetics

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A new patch is available for Primal Carnage: Extinction on Steam.
This release addresses various problems found in Update 2.8.0, and includes some new improvements.

You can scroll down to the bottom for a full list of fixes and changes in today's patch.
First, we have a few morsels of info about upcoming special events for Primal Carnage this year...


As mentioned above, update 2.8.0 came out last week with a major Flyer Focus, revamping both the Ptera and Tupa in many ways and bringing a whole bunch of brand new Flyer cosmetics to the game. It was one of our biggest updates yet, even as it brought the game down to one third of the file size it used to be. However, there's much more coming this year to PCE and Primal Carnage in general!

The Primal Carnage franchise has its 10th anniversary in October, and we'll be celebrating across the year with big announcements for PlayStation in the coming weeks and our yearly extravaganzas on PC from this summer onwards, which will be even more... extravaganza-y!

We're full Steam ahead towards the Meltdown Event in June at the moment, which will be adding the motherlode of new items to the game, featuring dozens of new free skins on top of the usual store stuff!




Just recently we kicked off our Summer WARMUP by reintroducing a classic summer gift each week.

The Box of May-Hem and Summer Sunset gifts return today, with more on the way!



But we're doing more than bringing back those dusty old items. Starting next Tuesday, keep an eye out for a fresh new batch of hot summer looks and snappy new taunts being added every ~2 weeks, culminating with the main Meltdown Event in the second half of next month!



In addition to this, over the next few weeks we'll also be running various flash sales on everything from skin packs to paint tools, and will be adding more colours to customize with!


We'll of course be having a spooky horror-themed special occasion in October, closing out with some celebratory freebies to commemorate the franchise's first decade. That's followed by the winter wrap-up for 2022, which will be bringing oodles of festive gifts to the game!



During all this time we're going to be continuing to support PCE with further overhauls and bug fixes. We're looking into some major renovations for a couple of game modes, enhancing the abilities of certain dino classes, and even hope to bring in some new firepower for the humans this year as well!

And on top of everything else, we're bringing as much of this as we can to console too.
It's going to be a wild year!


That's all for now. Until next time...
- The Primal Carnage Team



Here are all of the fixes and improvements included in today's patch:

• Fixed being unable to play Tyrant for the first minute of TDM when class limit requirements are met
  
• Cryo spit vision now lasts only half as long before it starts to fade out compared to Dilophosaurus
  
• Minor reduction to spitter base movement speed (sprint speed lowered from +85% to +80%)
  
• Added more hints for Ptera and Tupa abilities
  
  
• Increased size of audio memory streaming pools to prevent stutter
  
• Optimized / updated first person sounds for sniper rifle, flaregun
  
• Updated sound class settings, adjusted volume & distance filtering of weapon / explosion sounds
  
• Fixed the Scientist not playing footstep sounds when moving around with the compound bow
  
• Fixed looping weapon audio persisting after death and into cutscenes sometimes
  
• Fixed heavy weapon melee on a few guns triggering weapon fire effects
  
• Fixed a bug on listen servers where others would hear your 1st person weapon sounds everywhere
  
  
• Fixed lighting not being built on PhantomCave
  
• Fixed a shipping container not being solid on DesertionPoint
  
• Fixed bumping into invisible walls when flying inside the Borealis ice cave chasm
  
• Reduced the chances of the "double spawn issue" occurring (still happens with poor latency)
  
  
• Fixed the Viridescent Green colour bucket being inconsistent between Colourizer and in-game
  
• If you colourize more than one skin in a row, they should now all have their correct colours without needing to restart the game.
  
  
• Refinements to dinosaur skin roughness and reflectivity
  
• Fixed problems with lighting on a bunch of feathered dinosaur skins
  
• Adjustments to a few human skins, reduced first person arm brightness
  
• Removed broken first person arms model from Agent Trapper skin
  
• Model fixes for Serratus Cerato and Primigenus Tupa mutations
  
• Fixed missing opacity masks for a few Flyer skins
  
• Changed default eye intensity value to be less bold
  
• Fixed eye intensity/colour "resetting" when you first begin moving the sliders
  
• Fixed some skins missing collar eye glow masks which caused their whole body to glow
  
• Fixed skins that used eye masks for glow effects not being glowy enough, or glowing incorrectly
  
  
• Fixed renamed items not showing correctly in the inventory
  
• Fixed item names appearing without their prefix/suffix in some cases (Frosty, Combustible, etc.)
  
• Fixed NOT OWNED showing sometimes when nothing is equipped in a colourizer slot
  
• Fixed a few typos
  
  
• Extinction Point amounts for completing Weekly Challenges are now listed on the main menu
  
• Increased challenge reward EXP - new values for each tier are 2000, 4500 and 9000
  
• Fixed only being able to see 3 of your 4 challenge reward items on the end round unlock screen
  
• Fixed end round summary not showing challenge progress in some cases

A new major update is now available for Primal Carnage: Extinction on Steam.



We've been hard at work the last few months, optimizing and improving things ahead of returning to PlayStation development this summer. This update has many features and tweaks requested by the community, ones we hope to bring across to console later as well.

Major changes include overhauling the flying classes, a new way to "Colourize" dino skins, and proper team shuffle when playing in ranked. Read on for more highlights, or scroll down to the bottom for the truly epic full changelog...



Tupandactylus finally has a unique secondary ability... (It only took 7 years!)



Divebomb is a new manually triggered ability that can be performed while in flight, complementing the passive ram attack that Tupa has by providing an alternative with more control.

Gain height then tap alt-fire to initiate a divebomb, rocketing ahead in a downwards arc for up to 1.5 seconds. You can also turn left and right during this speed boost. Divebombing while at high altitude is useful as a dodge move, and it can be a good way of quickly landing on the ground. However, it does have offensive capability as well.

If a Tupa hits the ground while their divebomb ability is active, they will trigger a ground pound...



This radial shockwave deals moderate AOE damage and knockback. Anyone standing directly underneath will receive severe damage. Since a ground pound causes you to land, the Tupa can choose to cancel it before landing by tapping alt-fire again (if they are still high enough in the air).

One extra tweak for Tupa is your roar now also regenerates a chunk of stamina!



For a long time there's been an unintentional learning curve with grabbing people as the Pteranodon. It required precise timing, initiating the grab at the right distance, and guessing how long after that point in the animation your feet would be "allowed" to latch onto a target. This made using the class's key ability overly fiddly and annoying, especially with poor ping.

This update extends Ptera's grab ability with a "ready up" option. In addition to just tapping grab when near someone, you can now also anticipate the grab by holding the secondary attack button down. While doing this your flight stance changes, claws extended in front of you, ready to grab on.



Readying up a grab makes it much easier to successfully execute the attack, but will rapidly drain your stamina. This means it's only doable for just over a second.

We'd like to say a special thanks to community animator Mr. Troodon for helping us create these new abilities for our flying classes!






This update we rolled out a big change in how we package PCE's game files. Previously we shipped things in a much looser way, which meant the game took up more space than it needed to. The new method "cooks" all of the files down into compressed packages, reducing the install footprint and making things more efficient overall.

Here's some numbers:

Average install size, Version 2.7.5 ~31 GB
New install size, Version 2.8.0 ~10 GB

That's a saving of around 20 gigabytes! You should see faster loading times, with booting up the game being much quicker. Future updates will be greatly reduced in filesize as well.


The only downside to the new cooking process is that custom maps may no longer be 100% compatible with the game. That said, we will be keeping the option to subscribe to Workshop maps available and would still love to see more new levels submitted.

We are exploring the option of adding a Mapmakers Test Beta, where creators can continue play-testing custom levels. Keep in mind that some assets may not match exactly as of the next SDK release (coming soon).

We're already working with a handful of community creators to add more maps this year, and look forward to seeing what ideas people come up with for new levels in future.


As part of the new content optimizations, dedicated server binaries are no longer shipped with the game itself. This means hosting is a little more complicated. Community server operators need to have the official PCE Dedicated Server tool installed.

The process is the same as most other games on Steam that have a dedicated server tool.
Just follow these steps:

• Create a new folder on any place you want
  
• Download steamcmd from here and extract it in that folder.
  
• Then double click "steamcmd"
  
• Type: login anonymous
  
• Press Enter
  
• Type: app_update 336400 validate
  
• -> Done!

After this you can now create a simple batch file to run your server.
For more support, check the official discord.



As a refresher - the roar ability for Oviraptor has previously let it scent out humans, revealing the outlines of enemies (to itself). We have expanded on this over time, giving Oviraptor the power to mark mines for teammates, and its ability has now been upgraded once more!



In addition to being able to mark every type of throwable now, Oviraptor's strong sense of smell can sniff out weaker humans. Enemies with good health appear in shades of grey, weaker damaged humans stand out with bold red outlines when scented.

This allows Oviraptor to focus on specific targets that might be less of a threat, useful for a weaker predator that is geared around ambushing.



This update introduces the second part of re-engineering "rounds" for PCE. When a brand new map is loaded by the server, teams will now be shuffled so that players are re-sorted instead of maintaining the exact same team composition.

It was never our intent for teams to stay locked in place unchanging from match to match, which was a side effect of the previous update. We apologize for things being a little monotonous lately.

Team tracking is still enabled and will ensure players are swapped sides after "Round 1," but this functionality is now confined to the current map and is no longer persistent between matches. We'll be monitoring how the changes play out and keep tweaking the systems.



Until now, when you killed a Tyrant in team deathmatch it was possible they'd be back in just a few seconds to fight you again. This often led to the same player dominating an entire match...



To combat this, there is now a cooldown in place after you lose your slot as a Tyrant in both GTTC and TDM. The same player cannot select Tyrant again after dying for a period of time. This immediately frees up that Tyrant slot for other players to have a chance as Rex / Spino / Acro, and means humans don't have to deal with the same Tyrant right away after having defeated them.

There are other more radical changes being discussed for Tyrants, which may be headed for the game in the not too distant future. Watch this space.



Having observed the results of last year's spawn system changes for several months, we decided to revert a core element we believe was responsible for what has been called "the ball of death."

Previously, the spawn system would ensure Tyrants spawned as far away as possible from humans, and vice versa. It led to humans always appearing way across the map from dinosaurs.

This spawn weighting is now removed, which has reduced the chance of allies appearing right next to each other. It still avoids placing humans next to dinosaurs, but no longer prioritizes being max distance from them, and will no longer deliberately attempt to put allies next to each other in TDM.

We have also expanded the check radius for whether an enemy is near a spawnpoint when the game decides where to place you. We feel these tweaks should greatly improve the moment to moment experience, but will be watching closely to see how they play out.



We received a lot of positive feedback relating to the dinosaur colour adjuster added in the January update, but definitely heard loud and clear that the functionality was too limited and not really noticeable on certain skins. For this update, we have worked hard to totally overhaul this feature into something much more advanced...




This is a new feature of the customization area. In the Colourizer, you can now select up to 4 different colours to mix together to radically influence the look of a skin.

Specific colour buckets are used when colourizing instead of simply using a sliding scale. Each input of the Colourizer corresponds to a tonal range in the dinosaur's skin texture, differentiated from light to dark. You can equip up to 4 custom colours in different combinations when colourizing.

Try experimenting with different ratios for each layer to find the perfect blend. Layers stack on top of eachother, with the sliders controlling how much influence each layer has. As an example, to see more of Layer 2 you may need to reduce the amount of Layer 3.

With a starter palette of 32 different shades there are approximately 1,048,576 possible colour combinations when using the new Colourizer menu!

As this is part of the game's crafting system, the Colourizer requires special paint tools...


A limitation of the previous colour changer was that you would have to redo your custom colors every time you swapped skins out. To fix this problem, we have extended the economy/crafting systems to support Colourized Skins as a way to save your results.

Paint Buckets are a new crafting tool used when colourizing skins. These are available at a low price in-store (check out the new Tools tab). They can also be acquired as regular drops in game, and are part of both level-up awards and challenge completion bundles.



These tools are single use items which are consumed when a Colourized Skin is saved, so be certain you have the perfect combo before hitting Save Changes!

You can preview what a skin will look like with different colours even if you haven't acquired any tools. Just open the Colourizer Menu in customization, every colour is available to preview with. However, if you don't have the required tools (unobtained paint buckets are marked Not Owned) you won't be able to save it.

Finally, to craft your Colourized Skin you will need to equip a Paint Mixer.



At the end, you have a personal Colourized Skin, tailored exactly to your liking. Right now you can only colourize a skin once, but removing custom colours and recolouring recolours are on our to-do list for future updates.

(Please note that as they are Personal quality, colourized skins are non-tradable and non-marketable).

(While almost all dino skins support colourization, there are exceptions. Default items and skins that do not use the standard overlay system are unsupported).





In addition to the new Colourizer setup, we have overhauled many of our master shaders, including materials for humans, dinosaurs, weapons and more! Drink it in...




Skin now has more advanced subsurface scattering and new roughness properties, reacting more realistically to the light. New eye shading allows for a greater range of colour tinting and for collar eye glow to be changed.






Human skin shading is more realistic, with better specular highlights, light scattered naturally throughout the surface, and ambient reflectivity from certain angles. Hair shading is also improved to have more of a "sheen" to it on some characters.


The biggest update is perhaps the new shading model for guns. Previously there was a sort of "brushed metal" effect that overpowered things when looking at bright lights. This has now been removed, resulting in much smoother shading across all weapons with nice highlights and subtle reflections (see the environment colour reflected on your gun!).



And the cherry on top - weapons now receive shadows if you have dynamic shadows enabled...



Some weapons even received new texture masks and resolution boosts to their base textures, including ones which never had "blank bases" before. These will be included in the next SDK release.





There have been game-wide improvements to lighting and post processing, with several maps featuring new color grading. Bloom is now more present, new environmental effects have been added and we have made an effort to optimize the maps during this process as well.



Elsewhere, there are visual flourishes such as dynamic lights emitting from spitter puddles and new projectile light effects.




Poisoned by Atrium C, half of the map is now decaying, making for a striking visual. The layout and lighting of the map has also been completely overhauled.



We hope that you enjoy this new version of an old classic!



As part of our ongoing effort to optimize the game, some of our guns have been reworked with a new sound system. Instead of spitting out dozens of separate sound cues a second, automatic weapons now use a more efficient looping setup. Previously, these guns were overwhelming the audio engine and eating up every available sound slot, essentially "stealing the voices" of other sounds in the world.

While adapting the AR, M4 and SMGs to work with this new system, their actual weapon firing sounds have also received some polishing up. The rifles in particular have a lot more punch!

The dinosaurs have received some audio tweaks here and there as well. Tupa features updated roars and the flyers both have new attack calls, plus incidental chirps and new wind sounds when flying at high speed. Elsewhere, you'll no longer hear Spinosaurus growls when attacking as Tyrannosaurus.



In celebration of Tupa getting its new special ability, we're adding a collection of new Flyer items today! These brand new cosmetics include several new model mutations, a variety of new skins for both Ptera and Tupa, plus a selection of new free drops for the flying classes!


(All these and more available now!)

In addition to all the new content, we're also running a special Flyer-themed sale in-store. Grab dozens of classic skins, mutations and taunts for both Ptera and Tupa at a seriously low price!



We've added an option to customize your in-game avatar using some of the sprays in-game by clicking the empty box near your name on the main menu. These images show up on the your profile card and the in-game spectator panel / kill cam.



You have 6 default avatar images to choose from in your inventory. More avatars will be added in future as a new type of random drop.



There is a new option on the main menu to "View ID Card" - this is your Player Profile, which displays data such as how much EXP exactly remains until your next level. This is a feature we will be expanding on greatly in future updates.

• Teams are now shuffled when swapping to a brand new map
  
  
• Optimizations to level transitions, should mean quicker loading times and less crashing when going from match to match
  
  
• Spawn system updates:
  
  
  • increased minimum required "safezone" when selecting a spawn point
    (how far enemies need to be from it for spawning to be desirable)
    
  • fixed spawns artificially clumping members of the same team together
    
  • removed the "Tyrant test" for spawn point weighting
• GTTC Updates:
  
  
  • Control point capture speed is now halved if a dinosaur is standing on the control point.
    
  • Reduced wave respawn time from 17 seconds to 12 secs
    
  • Reduced default round time from 15 minutes to 6 minutes
    
  • Fixed Bruisers not being able to spawn for 60+ seconds at the start of a match
  
  
• SURVIVAL: Prices of items at vending machines are now multiplied every 10 waves (2x, 3x, etc.)
  
• Tyrants now have a timout after death before the same player can select them again
  
• Added a 7 second timer when clicking the Change Class menu option in ranked modes, to prevent players from instantly suiciding in combat.
  
• Removed forced spawn for dinosaurs in Freeroam mode
  
• Fixed tyrant limits being active in Freeroam mode

• Weapons do 25% less damage to all dinos during their roar animation
  
• Dinosaurs are slightly weaker to bullet damage when they are on fire
  
• Reduced duration of "afterburn" from various sources from 5 secs to 2.5 secs
  
• Waterfalls / leaks can extinguish dinos
  
  
• NEW Tupa secondary: DIVEBOMB
  
  
  • Use alt fire to get a burst of extreme downward velocity in midair
    
  • Divebomb into a radial ground pound that deals low damage, high knockback
    
  • Cannot be activated unless you are high enough off the ground.
  
  
• Tupa roar changes:
  
  
  • marking lasts for half as long compared to Ptera
    
  • roar instantly restores a chunk of its stamina
    
  • secondary attack take less stamina while roar is active
    
  • secondary attack divebomb lasts 25% longer while active
• Lowered minimum speed required for auto-charging as Tupa
  
  
• Pteranodon Changes:
  
  
  • New setup for Ptera grabbing - hold button down and if close enough to target you grab
    
  • Ptera can no longer grab when flying too slow (i.e. hovering)
    
  • Ptera can no longer fly downwards while holding a grabbed victim
    
  • Ptera now has a brief delay after grabbing a human before stamina drain starts
    
  • Stamina is drained heavily while readying up a grab as Ptera
    
  • Stamina cost of holding someone you've picked up is now 50% less.
    
  • 30% faster stamina regeneratiion for Ptera
    
  • Reduced grab radius for ptera
    
  • Minor increase to Ptera diving speed
• Flyers now recover stamina faster while they're on the ground
  
• Adjustments to Flyer movement, animation blends and turn rates
  
• Flyers now flap less often when flying slowly
  
• Re-positioned Flyer shoulder cam
  
  
• Pachy Changes:
  
  
  • Reduced walk speed of Pachy slightly
    
  • Pachy now moves slower when bracing
    
  • Pachy bracing now has more noticeable stamina drain
    
  • Increased health received by grazing as Pachy from 60 to 75/sec
    
  • Attempt at making Pachy float less off the ground
    
  • Reduced blend time on Pachy slide and increased slide damage radius
    
  • Fixed the Pachy being unable to ram people if you slide while charging, then continue to charge.
• Stopped bruisers and tyrants colliding with each other for less frustration
  
• Bruisers now only lose half of their stamina when stepping on gas mines
  
  
• Fixed randomization being applied incorrectly when Carno or Pachy charged into people -now properly applies random momentum direction during charge hits.
  
  
• Added an extra +40 bonus health restored for all damage dealt when using Carno's roar ability
  
• Removed a neck bone from the Carno's weakspot calculation
  
  
• Ceratosaurus can now use its tail whip while walking
  
• Increased Cerato roar duration from 20 to 25 seconds
  
• Increased Cerato tailswipe cooldown from 0.9 to 1.1 seconds
  
  
• Cerato roar changes:
  
  
  • Now has faster speed and acceleration while roar is active
    
  • Bite hits after roaring are now guaranteed to always restore stamina, regardless of whether the target has stamina left to "steal"
    
  • Reduced roar effect duration of Cerato from 25 to 20
    
  • Reduced roar cooldown timer from 55 to 45
• Increased movement speed of Spitters
  
• Increased Dilo spit blind duration: minimum from 1.8 to 2.15 secs, maximum from 4 to 4.5 secs
  
• Fixed charged spit collisions so that they don't phase through certain objects / force fields
  
• Cryo drool now appears only after spitting, persists for 60 seconds
  
• Spitter pools now light up the world
  
  
• Tyrants can now sprint while netted
  
• Tyrants can no longer hold down primary fire to automatically continue biting repeatedly
  
• Fixed an issue where Tyrant bites would sometimes not pick a player up but do a "fake bite" instead
  
• Fixed: Tyrants being able to bite during net escape animation
  
• Acro now does its stomp attack a little faster than before
  
• Extended camera shake effect for Tyrant roars to Acro and Spino
  
  
• Added new Spino bite animation / attack setup:
  
  
  • has head tilting to the side for more horizontal reach
    
  • requires more specific timing, jaws must close shut on target
    
  • features a new Out portion for missed bites (SNAP!)
• Increased blinding duration for spit (there is now a short delay before spit overlay starts to fade out)
  
• Adjusted charged spit arc indicator to be more accurate
  
• Slightly faster charged spit travel speed
  
  
• Reduced distance for raptor claw slash attacks
  
• Updated oviraptor attack animation to have more of a "pecking" motion
  
• Various animation blending adjustments to make dinosaur attacks look smoother
  
  
• Oviraptor roar changes:
  
  
  • roar now marks healthy enemies in subtle gray outlines
    
  • low health enemies appear bold red
    
  • roar also highlights dynamite now
    
  • flyer marking no longer "overwrites" oviraptor's own vision mode
• Changed how dinosaur collar eye glow is handled, added collar eye glow for Pachy
  
• Updated Gurneyi and Aerosteon mutation models to improve compatibility

• Humans now have 40% less time to wait before their stamina starts regenerating
  
• Reduced health of Pyro from 185 to 180
  
  
• Removed the Deagle from Pathfinder (default secondary is now standard "MK" pistol)
  
• Halved respawn timers for in-world health & ammo pickups
  
• Fixed not being able to interrupt reload / fire animations
  
• Disabled weapon sway when scoped in
  
  
• Slight reduction to sniper rifle scoped firerate
  
• Sniper rifle now does guaranteed quad damage on long range headshots (smaller dinos only)
  
• Updated sniper rifle scope material to have more noticeable reflection when walking around
  
• Sniper rifle scope lens is now highly reflective in third person
  
  
• Assault rifle damage now drops off slower over distance
  
• Extended max damage distance of assault rifle bullets
  
• Small boost to dual pistols effectiveness over distance
  
  
• Simplified shotgun crosshairs
  
  
• Spaz-12: max damage distance extended from 3300 to 4096 units
  
• Spaz-12: increased per pellet damage from 20 to 24
  
• Spaz-12: quicker damage falloff
  
• Spaz-12: reduced damage at long range from 30% power to 10%
  
  
• Shotgun: increased per pellet damage from 30 to 32
  
• Shotgun: increased max damage distance from 3500 to 4400 units
  
• Shotgun: much quicker damage falloff, reduced damage at max range from 30% power to 10%
  
  
• Double Barrel: increased per-pellet damage from 38 to 40
  
• Double Barrel: reduced spread when firing single shot
  
• Double Barrel: damage falloff curve is now less rapid
  
  
• Increased amount given back for double barrel shotgun and flamesaw when picking up ammo
  
  
• Converted acid firepools now deal 25 damage, instead of only 7
  
  
• Reduced assault rifle grenade max flight time from 3 seconds to 2
  
• Reduced maximum rocket bounces from 3 to 2
  
  
• Flamethrower firejet now goes through more targets (max 8)
  
• Increased afterburn damage per tick from 5 to 7 for flaregun, from 8 to 9 for flamethrower
  
  
• Added new first person reloading animation + reload sound for the M4 carbine
  
• Minor fixes for a few 1st person weapon animations
  
• Fixed pathfinder 3rd person movement animations being too slow
  
• Fixed sniper rifle 3P reload anims not playing
  
• Fixed chainsawing animation not appearing in 3P
  
• Fixed netgun 3P "fire animation" playing too quickly
  
  
• Increased force feedback from firing guns, rumble amount is now balanced between both sides
  
  
• Sped up assault cannon & tranq rifle heavy melee
  
• Fixed you can do heavy melee while scoped
  
• Fixed an exploit where heavy melee could be used to fire ridiculously fast
  
• Fixed: you can continue shooting while taunting when holding the button

• Major map optimizations to:
  GTTC Downpour, GTTC Docks, ForestChasm, UtilityBase, Airbase, Transfer, TheFalls
  
  
• PC-Marsh:
  
  • Major overhaul to level layout, adding more differences in elevation and extra cover
    
  • Completely reworked lighting, fog and color grading
    
  • Added a "dead half" of the map that has been poisoned by pollution
    
  • Converted static water into interactive water volumes
    
  • Collision and exploit fixes
• GTTC-Docks:
  
  • 2x cooldown speed on primary capture points (uncapping)
    
  • Adjusted spawn point locations, added more tyrant spawns
    
  • Placed more cover and water around the map
• GTTC-Falls:
  
  • Adjusted spawnpoint placement, moved Tyrant spawns outside of the dome
    
  • Added more cover and adjusted sight-lines to final objective
    
  • Placed additional healing corpses throughout the map
• GTTC-Ruthless:
  
  • Added more foliage cover and tried to direct humans better to the caves
    
  • Sprinkled various types of flowers at different elevations
• GTTC-Downpour:
  
  • Updated & optimized lighting
    
  • Placed more cover on the way to the final objective
    
  • Painted lots of new types of flowers to denote different map zones
• PC-Docks:
  
  • Updated Docks with new fog settings and color grading
    
  • Sand is now more vibrant on Docks, added more details to the map
    
  • Added some water troughs around Docks for dinos to extinguish themselves
    
  • Resolved some human exploit locations (climbable boxes)
    
  • Fixed annoying trees blocking the camera
• UtilityBase:
  
  • Fixed a collision issue in the Ubase central building
    
  • Added new foliage and map debris details
    
  • Fixed missing tree shadows
    
  • Fixed walls and gates not having correct positions / heights on UtilityBase Snow
• Other:
  
  • PC-Borealis: fixed missing ambient alarm sounds of Borealis interior building
    
  • PC-DeadTide: fixed a tyrant collision problem zone
    
  • PC-ForestChasmSnow: fixed a corpse that was under the map
    
  • FR-Valley: rebuilt and optimized level lighting
    
  • PC-Waterlogged: collision fixes, lightning and level optimizations
    
  • Swapped winter testing map for standard basic testing map
    
  • Updated basic test level with new lighting, latest pawns, less weird collisions
    
  • Added new foliage assets, even more optimized grass
    
  • Reworked one of the main road scaffolding ramps on VisitorCenter to help the AI

• Added player ID card to main menu that shows remaining EXP to next rank
  
  
• Added customizable avatars for player ID / spectator cam
  (click image next to your name on the main menu to change)
  
  
• Added a new Tools tab to the in-game store for viewing crafting items
  
• Fixed gifts still doing the christmas opening sound
  
• Fixed skin icon border colour in spectator module
  
• Fixed an incorrect item description (we had two coastal pteras)
  
• Fixed a few typos

• Updated generic blood splatter particle effect
  
• Optimizations to flamethrower and impact particles
  
• Updated the upgraded flamethrower effect in Survival mode
  
• Fixed an issue where rain splashes were visible through solid walls, improved rain splash fx
  
  
• Game-wide post processing tweaks:
  
  
  • adjusted bloom threshold and intensity, more objects now catch the light
    
  • color grading style updates on various maps including Docks, Ubase, TheFalls, Marsh
    
  • added lens dirt effect to sun flares
    
  • increased contrast levels
• NEW master shaders for humans, weapons and dinosaurs
  
  
  • new specular lighting features
    
  • environment colour is now reflected on weapons more vividly
    
  • first person weapon models now receive dynamic shadows (if they are turned on)

• Reduced default volume level of the game overall
  
• Added a little beeping noise to timed frag grenades
  
• Added new looping weapon sounds for Trapper SMGs, M4 carbine and assault rifle
  
• Adjusted fireloop sound for flamethrower, can hear more clearly in 3rd person as well
  
• Optimizations to dual pistol and shotgun sounds
  
  
• Updated Tupa sound set
  
• Added some new Ovi, Rex sounds
  
• Added sounds to Dilo & Cryo spit charging and spit idle animations
  
• Increased audible radius of idle breathing sounds for several dinosaurs
  
• Fixed the in-air sound of launcher grenades looping for a while after they blow up

• Fixed controller analog stick deadzones defaulting to zero
  
• Fixed server log spam & stats writing that may have affected performance
  
• Removed a couple of specific debug console commands that were being exploited
  
• Fixed current round not being displayed on HUD
  
• Deprecated running P2P servers with Steam Sockets
  
  
• Started fixing issues when playing matches using the Host Game feature:
  
  
  • Fixed Pachy drift takes no stamina
    
  • Fixed various dino melee attacks that weren't dealing damage
    
  • Fixed outlines flickering on all people in the server

It's here again! Saint Patrick's Day has returned and brings with it an assortment of visually stunning items infused with the colour green.

That's what it's all about right?
Some sort of plant-related celebration?
That's why there's all the 3-leaf clovers, and the drinking... no...?



Anyway, if you check out the store today there's some great deals on classic emerald finery, from returning mutations to classic veridian skins. And there's more...





From today until the next game update, Lucky Drops have been enabled! The drop pool is now saturated with St. Patrick's event themed items and you can earn twice the maximum random item drops while playing the game.

These items are only here once a year, so don't miss out!





We're currently testing the March update for Primal Carnage: Extinction, and it's a doozy. From new mechanics for Flyers to reworking the spawn system, here are some of the highlights:

• New manual divebomb ability for Tupandactylus
  
• Reworked grab ability for Pteranodon
  
• Updates to roar abilities for Oviraptor and Ceratosaurus
  
• Brand new weapon shaders
  
• Weapon sound overhauls for certain guns
  
• Entirely revamped Colourizer menu for customizing dinosaur skin tones
  
• Team shuffle when the server swaps to a brand new map
  
• Filesize optimizations and performance improvements

All this and more will be coming your way soon, and we're looking forward to porting these latest improvements and upgrades to the PlayStation platform as well.

Until next time, happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!
-The Primal Carnage Team

We hope everyone has a great Valentine's Day today!

While the development team is hard at work on the next game patch, we have a whole bunch of classic items coming back to the store with some seductive discounts.

Check out the details below and read on for a hint at what's next for Primal Carnage: Extinction...





We have dozens of returning skins, mutations and taunts back today. From the spiky Saevus Rex to the adorably cute Spitter Rolling Taunt, this week's selection shows off some of the lighter side of making things extinct.

Pick up a Valentine's Gift to share the love, showering up to 24 other players on the server with presents and receiving a special item as a thankyou for your generosity!





Currently in testing are some fairly big adjustments to the flying classes. The next update for Extinction will be a major TLC pass on Pteranodon and particularly Tupandactylus. We're experimenting with changes to how Ptera grabbing works to make it a bit more reliable and trying to find a sweet spot with making them a tad more maneuverable without speeding them up too much.

Tupandactylus will (finally) be receiving its secondary ability with the next game update, giving it both a new attack and a way to get a burst of speed quickly. We'll be testing it soon and can't wait to share more about how it will work. Needless to say, you'll want to keep an eye on the sky.





As mentioned previously, we're getting close to having our new game cooking process ready to go. This is a different way of packaging PCE's game files, which is much more efficient. Our latest test puts the full game install size at 9.6GB using the new cooker. That's more than 20GB saved!
We hope to have the new package cooking process ready to go for the Flyer event in early March. It's an important change that benefits the upcoming PS4 rework as well, optimizing things for both platforms. The team is currently investigating ways of clawing back even more performance on PlayStation 4 in addition to the new packaging process, and those adjustments will have positive impacts for everyone.

With any luck we'll be able to tell you more about all of the additions and improvements coming to console soon, and hope to make an official announcement in the next couple of months about when these will be landing. For now... we have a lot of programming to do.



Thankyou for playing!
Keep an eye out, as we'll have Featured Class Weeks returning after Valentines has concluded.

See you again in March for the flyer update!
-The Primal Carnage Team

A new patch for Primal Carnage: Extinction is now available for download on Steam.

Version 2.7.6 changes how the game handles rounds.
To ensure players get to take a turn on both teams, the map now reloads itself at the end of a round.

The server keeps track of who was on each team previously, so after the map has reloaded, players are then swapped teams depending on which side they played last time. The new setup stops people being stuck playing the same faction over and over again and side-steps certain bugs.

This is a change that we had been considering for a long time. Many issues we've historically encountered would only appear on second round, where everything would attempt to reset mid-game. The new setup forces the map to reload, essentially a hard reset of the game logic between turns, which helps avoid a lot of problems.

In addition to this new setup for TDM, GTTC and CTE, today's patch fixes several issues that had been reported after the recent January Update.

• Updated logic for round reset to force a map reload
  
• Added server-side tracking of team composition that persists to next match
  
• Fixed server browser occasionally being out of sync / sending clients to the wrong destination
  
  
• PC-Waterlogged: more collison fixes, can no longer phase through the rear wall
  
• PC-Waterlogged: updated customization area, various optimizations
  
• PC-Waterlogged: added new water troughs and flooded floors for dinos to jump in if they're on fire
  
  
• Adjusted flamesaw hit detection to have a wider side to side reach
  
• Increased analog stick default deadzones to 20, adjust these in the options menu if you have drift
  
  
• Fixed an issue with Royal Alpha Dilo spikes
  
• Taunts are now cancelled when you enter customization, to prevent ice skating around as much
  
• Fixed colour sliders moving on their own when switching between classes in Customization
  
• Moved main menu options higher to avoid accidentally clicking the social buttons below
  
• Heavy melee camera shake is now affected by the Screen Shake ON/OFF option
  
• Fixed server boolean options failing in some cases

MatchScoreTarget is now hardcoded in the regular competitive modes to allow the new auto team swap and map loading system to work. There are two new server config options added this update:

• bRepeatMapsTwice
  
• bSwapTeamsBetweenMatches

These options must remain enabled to ensure players are swapped teams automatically after playing once as each side. Disabling the RepeatMapsTwice option will only have one "round" on each map before swapping to a completely new map.



We're going to be pretty busy bringing the PlayStation side of things up to date for quite a while, though we may have some smaller patches to fix and improve certain areas on PC in the next few months.

There's also a lovely collection of heart-stopping Valentines items coming back again in February, and more classic skins, mutations and outfits will be returning for St. Patrick's Day and Easter!

Thank you all for playing!
-The Primal Carnage Team

A new patch for Primal Carnage: Extinction is now available on Steam!

Today's patch includes numerous gameplay tweaks and fixes, including improvements to melee hit detection and human weapon accuracy.

It also marks the end of our special festive event, with the Winter Finale store rotation...



Check out the highlights or scroll to the bottom for a full list of changes...




We introduced melee abilities for all long guns with the December update, unfortunately they didn't function as reliably as we'd hoped. As of the January patch we've implemented a new way of doing melee traces for weapons, which is much more consistent and efficient. That means no more being unable to whack a dino that you've netted to finish it off because you just.. can't... quite.. reach it.

Finally, managing to land a killing blow using your primary weapon's melee ability will now return a good chunk of your stamina back, as a reward for pulling off such a feat. So if you were forced to use your last ounce of energy to take your enemy down, you are now newly reinvigorated with bloodlust!



Speaking of melee improvements... the Pyro has a new ability!



When using the chainsaw, he now has a degree of damage mitigation. Certain attacks from smaller dinosaurs only deal half their regular damage so long as he keeps the blade spinning to block them. Raptor slashes, Cryo and Bruiser bites are among the damage types he can resist. So, if you see a Pyro revving their saw, you might want to think twice before engaging!

Larger attacks such as Bruiser *secondaries* are unaffected and it won't help him against Tyrants. His new ability is also balanced out by the saw overheating slightly faster than it did previously, and the chainsaw does not have such a long reach now.

After receiving positive feedback during testing, we're interested to see how this update to Pyro's toolkit plays out in the wild!



A new addition to the customization screen for dinosaurs is the ability to modify the colour tone of your dinosaur skin, adjusting the hue spectrum and intensity. This works for the majority of dinosaur skins and allows a lot of new possiblities when tweaking your dino.



How noticeable the difference is varies from skin to skin. A black and white raptor won't suddenly turn red if you adjust the slider, because there were no colours to adjust to begin with. You can also change the colour of dinosaur eyes with this update to customization!



Many skins use the eye layer of the dino shader for their glow effects, so adjusting eye colour tone on those may change the colour of their glow (with the exception of Ultimate skins).

We hope you like this colourful new feature! This is just our first pass at implementing a wider range of colour customization into Primal, we'll be continuing to improve the feature and are also considering similar adjustment options for human clothing and hair colour in future.





The winter event has concluded, but we still have a few frosty friends showing up this week such as the simply magnificent Aurora Spinosaurus and majestic Ice King Rex.



Since we opened up submissions for Royal Dilo variants recently we've had a flood of great designs appearing on the Workshop (link). Today we have two new Royal Dilo skin sets - the Generation 3 triple pack and an Alpha Royal double-pack who bear noble fringes running down their spines.



For the humans, we have a unique remodel for the Desert Eagle, a "premium weapon skin" that gives it a radically different appearance. Pick up the Antique Desert Eagle Bodykit in-store today...




As you may have seen in the announcement video, we have a fresh collection of free drops entering the game with the January update....



These new drops range from the wild and wonderful Howling Cerato, to the understated Cooler Pachycephalosaurus, to the intricate Paisley Double Barrel and even a cheerful Winter Bobble Hat.



All of these will start dropping soon in-game so keep an eye out!



You may notice some new foliage types on a few maps with this patch. We're looking to improve the visual variety in certain areas going forward, so that everywhere doesn't look green and brown if you squint. There were some sprinklings of flowers in the past, but areas like Airbase now have vast fields in bloom to help break up the monotony.



Expect to see more varieties of interesting plant life decorating the world as we get deeper into the year!



We have a lot of ideas on how to improve and expand Primal Carnage: Extinction in future. Some of these we've mentioned before such as Sandbox Mode, but for the time being we're going to be focusing on polishing and fixing up issues with the game as it stands. These fixes and tweaks will be making their way to PlayStation later this year and will be taking up the bulk of our time.

Having said that, our rough goals for the first half of the year include:

• Finally finishing the Tupandactylus class, giving it a unique secondary ability
  
• Polishing off major revamps of the Contingency & Marsh maps
  
• Adding more customization options for humans and dinosaurs
  
• Further updates to Survival mode gameplay
  
• Fine tuning dinosaur camera controls to be smoother
  
• Implementing even more gamepad options and control schemes
  
• Improving network efficiency and optimizing game download size

That last one is important, as we hope to eventually deliver smaller bug fix patches that do not require large downloads. We managed to reduced the install size of the game from ~30GB to below ~10GB in our testing, and once the issues with the new build process are resolved we hope to roll it out ASAP.

We'll also be continuing to do small visual improvements wherever possible, such as adding new color grading to differentiate each map and updating one or two of our older dinosaur models. One of these is the classic feathered raptor base model. You can see a work in progress render of the new mesh below...



In addition to all that's going on with the game itself, we're also still hoping to launch a Primal Carnage Merch Store this year that will sell official posters and apparel inspired by the game. We're already working with community creators to make some beautiful artwork you'll be able to wear and drink from before too long if all goes well.



That about does it for now. You can read all of the January update changes in full below.

Until next time!
-The Primal Carnage Team

• 200% increase in maximum camera turn speed for humans
  
• Fixed a bug where scoped weapons were using an overly long fire interval when aiming
  
  
• Pyro now receives 50% less damage from non-tyrant primary melee attacks when revving the chainsaw
  
  
• List of damage types that are reduced when chainsawing:
  
  
  • TupaPeck
    
  • PteraPeck
    
  • CarnotaurusBite
    
  • RaptorBite
    
  • OviraptorBite
    
  • CryolophosaurusBite
• Reduced time til saw overheats to 2.75 secs
  
• Decreased range of chainsaw
  
  
• Bleed damage from heavy melee now behaves the same as bleed damage from bear traps for consistency
  
  
• Heavy melee attacks can now be used instantly after firing a gun
  
• Implemented a new trace method for heavy melee hit detection
  
• Humans now receive a jolt of stamina back when they successfully kill a dino using heavy melee
  
• Updated assault rifle first person melee animation
  
• Fixed muzzleflash appearing in 3rd person when using heavy melee
  
• Fixed heavy melee timing interfering with fire interval for m4 when scoped
  
• Made sure fire interval for m4 is the same whether aiming or not
  
• Should now be able to reload immediately after assault cannon fire animation has completed
  
  
• Reduced ammo for bow secondary fire from 6 to 3
  
• Reduced unscoped (hip-fire) spread on sniper rifles
  
• Increased crouched spread for sniper rifles slightly
  
• Doubled the damage falloff distance for sniper rifles
  
  
• Increased maximum range for the following guns:
  assault rilfe, double barrel, dual pistols, m4, shotguns, snipers
  
  
• Fixed a reloading issue with shotgun
  
• Updated third person trapper pistols run animation
  
• Updated flamethrower over-pressure particle effect to be a more intense blue burst
  
• More intense generic explosion light effect
  
  
• Increased arming time of thrown zap traps
  
• Reduced time between zaps for zap traps
  
• Reduced damage radius / shock radius of zap traps
  
• Reduced trigger delay of bear traps snapping shut
  
• Small reduction to scale of land mine model
  
• Timed grenades can now be thrown further
  
• Fixed being able to throw your throwables while holding LMB or RMB
  
• Fixed throwable items phasing through dino healing corpses

• PC-Airbase: test adding more varieties of flowers
  
• PC-Airbase: updated helipad material to be two-sided
  
  
• PC-Borealis: adjustments to collision in some areas
  
• PC-Borealis: blocked humans from jumping on top of a shipping crate
  
• PC-Borealis: added more detailed ice meshes to cave area
  
• PC-Borealis: lethal icicles are now placed above the water outlet
  
• PC-Borealis: various content optimizations
  
  
• PC-DesertionPoint: fixed humans climbing on top of rock formation
  
  
• PC-Docks: possible fix for a CTE weapons blocker still being present in TDM mode
  
  
• PC-Snowbound: fixed having dirt footsteps instead of snow steps in many areas
  
  
• PC-Transfer: prevented a human exploit (the truck)
  
• PC-Transfer- fixed an area lacking collision around the outside of one of the acid pits
  
  
• PC-UtilityBase: increased tree density outside the main compound and added new foliage assets
  
  
• PC-Waterlogged: numerous collision fixes and exploit fixes
  
• PC-Waterlogged: optimized stylized lighting and shaders, details pass
  
• PC-Waterlogged: fixed player spawn points not working correctly
  
  
• PC-TheFalls: added more varieties of flowers
  
• PC-TheFalls: now uses a toned down version of Airbase's color grading
  
  
• GTTC-Docks: dinosaur player starts for point B have been moved further back
  
• GTTC-Docks: enabled Airbase style colour grading
  
  
• GTTC-Ruthless: returned the Brachis to the summer background vista with new sequences
  
  
• Made resupply amounts consistent for health and ammo pickups throughout all TDM maps
  
• Fixed overly long respawn times for health and ammo pickups on several TDM levels
  
  
• Tweaks to post processing on Ubase and DesertionPoint
  
• Tyrants no longer roar over and over again on the main menu
  
• Main menu map optimizations
  
• Updated a few environment textures

• Adjusted charged spit gravity scaling / arc, now travels further
  
• Slowed down speed of spit projectiles, fully charged spit should be much easier to hit now with larger globules at the tip
  
  
• Carnotaurus now accelerates to sprint speed more quickly
  
• Tyrants now take a little longer to accelerate to max sprint speed
  
  
• Camera shake now appears when receiving heavy melee damage as dinosaurs
  
  
• Updated Tyrant footstep particles for walking through snow
  
• Softened Tyrant footstep sounds when walking on snow
  
• Added sounds to Pachy digging taunt
  
• Fixed a stutter in the Novaraptor run animation
  
• Minor fixup for Acro bite animation
  
  
• Added option to customize colour tint and saturation of dinosaur eyes + skin texture
  
• Fixed several Rex and Carno skins that did not have the correct specular maps applied

• Optimized waterfall particles
  
• Updated rotation and position offsets for a few cosmetic items
  
  
• Added official social links to the main menu, click to open in Steam overlay
  
• Fixed a crash that can sometimes occur while in class selection
  
• Possible fix for crashing when autobalanced
  
  
• Added option to disable screenshake (may not apply to all camera effects yet)
  
• Deprecated support for 32bit operating systems
  
  
• Updated sorting algorithm for scoreboard:
  - players with zero contribution are now placed at the bottom
  - sorting order now takes kill assists into account

A new patch is now available for Primal Carnage: Extinction on Steam, addressing several minor issues with the recently released Winter Update.

• boosted the maximum camera sensitivity scale
  
• humans now use their normal knife melee if they don't have enough stamina for heavy melee
  
• fixed Spaz-12 heavy melee not working
  
• increased range of assault rifle heavy melee attack
  
• fixed light melee interrupting heavy melee
  
• disabled being able to scope while reloading
  
• raised flaregun ironsights height
  
• adjusted position of m4 ironsights view
  
  
• tweaked settings on spawn points for Waterlogged map
  
• fixed a human exploit area on Waterlogged
  
  
• fixed missing rancorous acro mutation
  
• fixed degrootum acro using incorrect model
  
• updated spotted hyena nova feather mesh
  
• updated fallen tupa with enhanced texture masks
  
• fixed jolly jumper commando not being able to use cosmetic attachments
  
  
• increased timeout period for connecting to economy
  
• added a server config option: NoRotation=true/false for setting up a single map server

That's all, folks. The Winter Event is now in full-swing with all seasonal items activated! We'll be putting up a couple of 24/7 Waterlogged servers so people can easily check out the new map as well.

The snowy festivities will last into mid-January, when we'll be back with further game refinements and optimizations. Until then, we hope everybody has a great holiday!

See you next year,
-The Primal Carnage Team



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Winter is here! A new update has just been released for Primal Carnage: Extinction!
Read the highlights below or scroll to the end for an extensive full change log...





Our latest new level is an expansive deathmatch map, situated in the secretive location of "Atrium B" which was used to store and analyze marine reptiles offshore.



The once bustling labs now sit abandoned, and the facility is slowly being swallowed by the sea. As its passages fill up with water, the cryogenic specimen tanks have gone into overdrive to compensate, freezing an entire section in cold ice.



With the facility in disarray, the map has a number of hazards to avoid. Players must watch out for being hurled into the churning ocean, avoid electrified water, and steer clear of scorching hot steam vents.



Developed in collaboration with the Primal Carnage community, Waterlogged is one of the biggest and most intricate maps to be officially added so far!




The mercenary team now has a new backup attack they can use when holding their primary weapon. Tapping the melee button now does a bash attack that will fling aside smaller dinosaurs. This stuns dino players for a brief moment, allowing the human player the chance to take them out if they're fast enough.



Long gun heavy melee is an ability that was teased with the recently added Burst Rifle, with its bleeding bayonet attack. The chainsaw now has a similar effect as of the winter update. Using melee while holding a primary weapon costs stamina, however, it's a worthwhile trade in many cases such as interrupting a raptor that is pouncing towards you.


Alongside the human heavy melee ability is a new set of hit reactions for dinosaurs. Each land-based creature now has both light and heavy impact animations, with variations depending on which side of their body they were hurt from.



These new features wouldn't be possible without the help of half a dozen community animators lending their talents to the project. Things are not perfect just yet, but considering the time pressure they've done an amazing job.


Starting this week and running for almost an entire month is the special winter event, with time-limited cosmetic items dropping during the festive season. We have everything from glow-tastic firearms to brand new mutations to modify the look of your dinosaurs.


During the winter event you can receive up to twice your weekly limit of random item drops while playing!



There's a wide range of new festive items available through simply playing the game, from seriously *cool* skins to fresh new animated sprays!




A gaggle of winter goodies is hitting the in-game store today! The winter event collection contains 17 new dinosaur model mutations, 3 new taunts, new skins and more...



Mr. Blue struts his way into the game as a premium item alongside the second generation of intricately detailed Royal Dilophosaurus, and a brand new winter gift box is here to shower the whole server with cosmetics such as plush toys whenever a player opens it.



Not to mention, we're bringing back every Christmas-y item from the game's long history
(with some Jurassic-sized discounts)!



You can see all of the new and returning cosmetics over on our Special Event Trello board

1. Economy connection may fail the first time the game initializes, resulting in no inventory being visible. Simply restarting the game should resolve this in most cases. Additional troubleshooting advice can be found in the pinned threads of the Steam issues subforum.
   
   
2. Connecting a gamepad after the game has already started may sometimes not have it be detected properly. It is advised to have it already plugged in and not disconnect during gameplay, as it may not be recognized when connected a second time. Restarting the game will usually fix this.

• added heavy melee attack to long guns such as sniper rifle, netgun, flamesaw, etc.
  
• flamesaw heavy melee does bleed damage similar to burst rifle
  
• updated burst rifle first person melee animation to have more of a stabbing motion
  
• increased bleed time and bleed damage of burst rifle
  
  
• dual pistols can now be fired much faster
  
• reduced dual pistol damage from 75 to 60
  
  
• reduced un-scoped fire rate of sniper rifle
  
• reduced spread on sniper rifle and burst rifle
  
• reduced final bullet spread multiplier on burst rifle
  
• less damage falloff for assault rifle and burst rifle
  
• Small increase to effective range of standard shotgun
  
• Spaz12 has slightly better damage at max falloff distance now
  
  
• set a cap for maximum camera speed as human
  
• you can no longer scope in during melee animations
  
  
• adjusted model offsets for almost all weapons in first person
  
• fixed M4 and MK pistol animation playing too slow when aiming down sights
  
• fixed reload animations don't play unless crosshair has finished re-centering to normal size
  
• updated double barrel shotgun reload camera animation
  
• made camera motion for reloading the assault rifle line up better
  
• added more noticeable camera shake when chainsawing an enemy
  
• minor increase to pistol camera recoil
  
  
• fixed classic commando missing backpack socket
  
• updated default Pyro mesh to have more detailed hair modelling
  
  
• enhanced particle effects for various weapons
  
• updated flamethrower fire effect with a more three dimensional core jet
  
• Updated explosion lights, fixed commando rocket and molotov not having one
  (as a result, made it so that molotovs now light up the scene for their firepool duration)

• NEW deathmatch map added: PC-Waterlogged
  
  
• added new volumetric light coronas around various lamps throughout the game
  
• added new color grading style to Airbase map (experimental)
  
• updated Airbase with thicker fog and darker ambience

• closed a main entrance on the second Verdant big building
  
• added more cover to Verdant in general, both in the compound and on the edges
  
• added more spawns around the edge of Verdant
  
• updated snowy version of UtilityBase to be closer to regular Ubase

• new lighting pass for the ice cave area of Borealis
  
  
• fix for low health transparency issues on ForgottenWorld map
  
• basictesting map has been temporarily replaced with wintertesting map
  
• swapped to the winter main menu map

• dilo spit vision now fades out gradually instead of completely blinding you for several seconds
  
  
• reduced max dilo spit damage from 78 to 40
  
• reduced minimum dilo spit damage to 20
  
• reduced cryo acid damage from 90 direct hit to 80
  
• reduced cryo acid minimum splash damage 40
  
• reduced cryo acid overlay duration
  
  
• raised "eye height" of Tyrants so camera is higher
  
• made acro stomp impact effect bigger and fuller
  
• added more dense tyrant footstep particles
  
• fixed tyrants not having a specific grass footstep particle effect
  
• fixed spino not able to taunt sometimes after using secondary attack
  
  
• fixed net breaking sound playing on already dead netted dinosaurs
  
• fixed smoke emitters on dinosaurs that have been burned to death not appearing on listen servers
  
• changed master dino shader to allow stronger emissive effects unaffected by light direction
  
  
• Added mutation compatibility for the following Cryolophosaurus skins:
  
  _Iceshard
  _Hailstone
  _HoneyBadger
  _WildDog
  _Rinkhals
  _IceBreaker
  _CrichtonCryo
  _Withered
  _Korn
  _FrostCryo
  _Emperor
  
  
• Various fixes and remakes for certain skins including:
  
  _bearded feathered nova
  _savage feathered nova
  _dark classic nova
  _greenhorn carno
  _bloodhorn carno

A big focus over the past 2 months has been improving controller support, with the goal of making it much more comfortable to play using a gamepad and offering more options to customize your experience. These are also features that will be added to the refreshed PlayStation version next year...

• Improved native support for DualShock 4 and DualSense controllers
  (no extra software required, just plug and play)
  
  
• Rewritten controller support to allow compatibility with a wider range of gamepads
  
  
• Added option to invert vertical aim axis
  
• Added option to swap left and right analog sticks on controllers
  
• Added option to invert forward/backward movement on left stick
  
• Added option to change deadzone settings for left and right stick
  
• (controls how much movement input is needed before the game responds)
  
  
• Reworked gamepad aiming- the right stick is now tighter in the center but looser around the edges
  
  
• Split controller look sensitivity into separate X and Y axis sliders
  
• Reduced vertical sensitivity scale for gamepads
  
  
• Fixed an issue where diagonal gamepad aiming was slower than up/down/left/right
  
• Fixed getting stuck in team selection using gamepads if trying to select a "full" team
  
• Fixed the Share button being used to toggle scoreboard on PS5 controllers
  
  
• There is now only a single toggle button for swapping weapons on controller instead of having additional buttons for previous weapon and next weapon on the D-pad.

We're running a deep discount during this year's Steam Winter Sale!



You can grab 50% OFF the game itself, the official soundtrack, and even the PCE 4-pack for ultimate multiplayer mayhem! So why not give the gift of Carnage this Christmas?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/321360/Primal_Carnage_Extinction/




We hope you all enjoy this latest update to Primal Carnage: Extinction. More to come in 2022!

Massive thanks go out again to the community artists, animators and testers who helped create the winter update. We *really* couldn't have done it without you.

From everyone on the Primal Carnage team,
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year!



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