A new game update is available for Primal Carnage: Extinction on Steam!



This update introduces the second wave of Meltdown 2022 items, with dozens of new customizations available on the in-game store and as free drops. We have some other minor improvements here and there, but new looks are the star of the show.

Selected from the many amazing Steam Workshop submissions made by the Primal Carnage community, you can view all of the newest content on our freshly updated Special Event Trello...


Some of the highlights:


Today's update brings a fresh set of items to the Extinction Store!



There are 8 new dinosaur model mutations newly added this time round, ranging from the athletic Varanus Cerato to the knobbly Narmadensis Acro and hulking Frustrum Rex!



Take to the skies as Prodigis Tupa, which has a set of "feathers" (?!) on either side of its head, or grow some teeth with the oddly beaked Trimicrodon Ptera! All of these and more available now if you scroll down in-store...



Apart from all of the new taunts hitting the in-game store today, there are also three fresh new taunts in this rotation, with a real banger for the Pyro!


Sorry, punk rocker Pyro outfit sold separately.



It can backflip?! Where did it learn to backflip..?!



Want a great deal? A second bumper pack of dinosaur skins is available in-store today!



Big Blazing Bundle 02 is a pack that contains 8 scorching new looks for $8.99, including vivid skins for Bruisers and Tyrants, such as the bold Furore Carno and smouldering Wildfire Rex.

With so much new stuff, don't forget that all of the items that were added as part of Meltdown Part 1 and Summer Warmup are also still available on the store until the event is over!







Technically falls under this heading. We have another collaboration with community member and "honorary developer" Mr. Troodon. At long last, a custom model for feathered Novaraptors...



Featuring new 4K base textures and additional sculpted feather structures, this model and its overhauled texture set is now used by default when a feathered Nova skin is selected.



The update to feathered Novaraptors was designed with maximum compatibility in mind. To that end, the custom feathered model can be overridden by equipping a mutation, and there is a new default mutation, "Novaraptor Innatus," if you wish to apply the classic model when using a feathered skin.

Alignment with certain cosmetic attachments such as collars may not be 100% at the moment, so there might be some clipping or incorrect rotation when using attachments with the new feathered Nova model (depends on the item). We'll be doing a pass in a future update on cosmetic alignment in general, to fix some of the annoying offsets on a bunch of different characters.





We have a bunch of new free skins and extras dropping as of this update, obtainable simply by playing the game. Among the rarer items are new hats, aqua shackles and even two free mutations...


Above: Macronyx Oviraptor & Gracilus Pachy


In addition to character cosmetics, there are half a dozen new sprays now available and (nearly) all of the in-game sprays are now obtainable for use as player avatars. Spicy Rex seen below on the right also comes in Legendary flavour, with a fiery animated version!






We are currently focusing the majority of our time preparing for the relaunch of Primal on PlayStation, so most changes on the PC side will be fairly minor for now. The change log for today's patch is below:

• Added a custom model for feathered Novaraptor skins
  
• Added a new Novaraptor mutation to the default inventory, "Novaraptor Innatus"
  
• Fixed the Royal Acro eyes not glowing when equipping a collar
  
• Various other minor model fixes and compatibility updates
  
• Tweaked / fixed a number of small skin issues
  
• WIP optimizations to water shaders (may result in them appearing more wobbly than usual)

Meltdown continues with its third and final phase in the coming weeks. Keep an eye out for more mega deals and hot new looks headed your way soon...



Stay hydrated and have a great summer!
-The Primal Carnage Team



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Recently we opened the Official Primal Carnage Store, and simultaneously kicked off a community art contest focused on designs that could work well on merch such as T-shirts, mugs, posters, etc.

Today we're unveiling the winners of the art contest, but first let's visit the gallery to peruse all of the competition entries we received...



There was a nice variety of submissions, from full colour posters to sticker-style cutouts, in a whole bunch of different styles. As there was no specific theme other than something which might work well as merch, there's a wide range of subjects in the artwork too.



It was difficult narrowing down the selection, keeping in mind both the requirements of assets that would be physically printed and considering the merits of each piece on its own terms. Here are a few that we really liked but didn't quite make the top spots...


"Airbase Poster" by ChunkoHunko


"Lightning Spino" by DiNoKiDz1441


"Water Spino" by Shockal


"Don't Fall Behind!" by Dead but delicious


"Summer Dilophosaurus" by Stardust Blur


"Fiery Novaraptor" by FeralViolet


"Serious Trapper" by Bad Plague


Some of these designs may yet become the basis of official merch in future, if we find time to work through some tweaks with their creators.




After much deliberation, we came up with the top three below. The following designs will appear on official merchandise in the Primal Carnage Store in future!





This delightful piece made us smile, it'll be an excellent sticker. We love the colours and the art style in general (plus we're a sucker for puns). The expression on the cartoon Dilophosaur's face is just priceless.







The in-joke that will just never die, we couldn't say no to a celebration of Primal Cornage - the world's greatest typo turned breakfast cereal. This is a great re-interpretation of the boxes that can be found as easter eggs in-game, with a nicely retro feeling vintage poster aesthetic.







Taking things to the next level, we have the first place design. The lighting and overall execution of this piece are top notch, with an ominous background glow and excellent use of masking to create a border that gives an impression of liquid. The vibe is a little darker than most of the other pieces and alludes to the concept of the dinosaurs being unnatural recreations of science.

It's going to make an epic T-shirt.





The three winning community artists will be receiving copies of their designs on products of their choosing, along with the other prizes mentioned in the Art Contest Announcement. We'll be reaching out via Discord to discuss the details soon.




Thankyou to everyone who participated in the contest, it was lots of fun looking through all the artwork!

Even if you lost out, as mentioned above, there's still a chance some of those outside of the top three may yet be added to the official merchandise collection in future. We had a surplus of awesome entries honestly!

Looking ahead, we're definitely hoping to run more contests in future :)
If you want to get involved, be sure to join the official Discord server...

A new update is now available for Primal Carnage: Extinction on Steam.
Today is the start of our annual MELTDOWN EVENT!



As has been mentioned in many places by now, development time is mostly focused on rejuvenating the PlayStation side of things currently. This means that we have a wonderful collection of new cosmetics arriving this summer, but we won't be making any major changes to gameplay for now. To view the minor fixes and tweaks included in today's update, you can scroll down to the patch notes at the end.


Now, on to the fun stuff!


SUMMER MELTDOWN is a firestorm of sizzling new skins, taunts and more for your dinosaurs and mercenaries, most of them selected from some of the best community creations on Steam Workshop...



Meltdown is actually a multi-stage event, with parts 2 and 3 following later this summer. So keep an eye out for news on when the next patch of items is released! The summer selections will be leaving when the event concludes this August.

Grab 'em while they're hot...




Today's featured rotation brings in 12 brand new model mutations for dinosaurs, with some radical transformations among them. Each is bundled with a skin of their own, and a few are pretty wild!



From the terrible tusks of the Kapros Acro, to the exotic Tropicus Oviraptor, and majestic Superios Rex... we have a whole range of different transformations great and small.






The Royal Acro premium skin collection is here! With a much more armoured appearance, enhanced dorsal spines and reinforced skull - it gives a properly "Primal" look to our stomping giant.



This new model boasts unique 4K base textures that add extra layers of detail, scales and osteoderms for a truly menacing feel. The sculpt was created by talented community member MrTroodon (who also made our Pachy and Cerato). Variant skin designs were executed by the wonderfully inventive artists ChunkoHunko and XSEIDET.



The initial Royal Acro set has four variants - Arid, Blazing, Blueblood and Forest, which can either be bought separately, or in a 4-pack for a great discount if you wanna have them all!




Here to rain on your parade, Mister Rainbow has arrived in-store. Quite a colourful character, this multi-tone tipped suit is surely the height of fashion.



A cuddly new backpack item is the Plush Rex, whose huge eyes are either totally adorable or windows into insanity. Bold red and with a permanent smile, this sinister or sweet attachment is now in-store!


Each phase of Meltdown will introduce a new BIG BLAZING BUNDLE to the store!



These jumbo skin packs contain 8 sizzling new dinosaur skins for you to enjoy. Parts two and three of this trilogy of awesomeness will be arriving with the next two Meltdown patches this summer!


Four fresh taunts are available in-store today.
That's two for Acro, one for Cerato, and one for Pachy...

Acro Hiss Taunt



Acro Threaten Taunt



Pachy Alert Taunt



Cerato Slow Clap Taunt



These community animations really do just keep getting better and better.
We'll be adding more new taunts (including some for humans!) as Meltdown continues this summer!





Open up the 2022 Meltdown Gift to reward up to 24 other players on a server with special summer items! Check out some of them below:



Upon opening the 2022 Meltdown Gift, the gift giver receives the INNATUS Rex mutation as a reward for their generosity!







A handful of new free drops are entering the drop pool, including the DILATATUM Carno mutation and some fresh sprays to use. We'll be adding more free items over the course of Meltdown, and unlike the store items they will be sticking around for good!





MORE THAN 150 classic summer items are returning from previous years, many with over 60% OFF! From fan favourites such as Suchus Acro, to the vibrantly in-season Human Beachwear collection, we've got everything under the sun today.



AND, in addition to the all-new Meltdown 2022 gift, every classic Summer Gift is back as well! With deep discounts on boxes stretching all the way back to 2016, now's a great time to share the summer fun!




Get ready to go nuts colourizing your carnivores...
You can pick up paint for pennies, with all 32 existing paint colours being ~60% off during Meltdown!

Paint Mixer Tools are now also HALF PRICE!
Keep an eye out for more mega deals during Meltdown!



Here is the full list of changes included with today's game update...

• Added a new bite attack animation for Acrocanthosaurus
  
• Increased detection radius of Pteranodon grab attack
  
• Fixed the Tupa dive cancel animation not showing for other players
  
• Adjusted subsurface scattering for Tyrannosaurus skins
  
• Fixed default dinosaur eye intensity so that it's at 50% without any colourization
  
• Fixed weirdness with eye colour settings when entering and existing the Colourizer menu
  
• Stopped the Cerato doing that sudden snap animation in the customization screen
  
• Added a link to the official merchandise collection on the in-game store

The Meltdown Event will last well into August, with two more content patches full of hot new mutations, skins, taunts, etc. dropping over the next month or so. For a full list of all Meltdown items you can check our Special Event Items Trello page, which will be updated as the event continues.

We hope everyone has a great summer!

-The Primal Carnage Team



Join the official Discord for all things Primal Carnage...

A new update has been released for the Extinction Editor (SDK) toolkit!

If you are making content such as skins or maps for Primal Carnage: Extinction, please update to the latest version of the SDK to use the most up to date shaders and newest features.

Interested in creating your own Primal content but don't know where to start? First, you'll need to download the Extinction Editor (SDK) from the Software section of your Steam library.

The unofficial SDK Creators Discord can help you get going.

If you're just starting out. "skin creation for dummies" may be useful...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMDvE8dKaBM



The latest release takes the development kit up to around ~40GB in size, so make sure you have room prior to installing. There have been many changes to game content and features, here are some of the major updates...




This version of the SDK includes the most recent master shader updates for characters, most notably support for colour shifting in dinosaurs and changes to how subsurface scattering is handled on skin.

Make sure when creating a new skin that your material instance is based off either the default skin for that class or the most recent skin for that class. Dinosaurs require additional masks to be specified now, to allow for the eye to be excluded from regular coloration in certain cases (e.g. eye glows).


Material options under the category THOU SHALT NOT TOUCH or DO NOT TOUCH are exactly that - things you should NOT touch. These options are usually modified during gameplay for things like collar eye glows, being on fire, etc. You should never need to adjust these.



Parameters that influence dinosaur skin colour in the Colourizer menu are also located under this section. You can try manipulating these to see how they affect things, but NEVER save the changes, as they will break the skin when Colourizing. There are also a couple of work in progress features that have been added to the master dinosaur shader which are not quite ready for use, and may never be included in the game as they are experimental. Again, these are in the forbidden section, so you should never need to worry about them.





There are a bunch of new and updated models in the Environment folders. Several assets have received material updates with higher resolution textures and parallax occlusion mapping. A handful of damage decals that feature this effect can be found in the DEC_Effects area, they create the illusion of depth when projected on surfaces. See the before and after below for an example, where additional cracks and stones are layered on top to make the ground feel more three dimensional...



This effect is rather expensive so don't use too many of these. Set your decal properties to project only on terrain so that heavy static meshes aren't receiving the effect.

"Fake" like shafts are another new effect now placed in several areas. These often use the same volumetric meshes that are under other light sources such as lamp posts. Unlike regular light cones, these have options for angle-based fading so that they softly blend out when viewed from certain angles in addition to distance-based opacity.



An example of this effect mesh being used is the Docks garage tunnel, where dynamic light shafts have been replaced by the new "fake" version for better performance (and to stop dinosaur eyes turning into laser beams when standing below the fan).

There are also additional shadow decals available, including the fan shadow in that tunnel, which is now a projected texture.

The water shaders are currently in the process of being tweaked, you may have noticed new normal mapping and foam effects on the Docks ocean. We may need to adjust things further as additional optimizations are put in place for PS4.






Over 12 maps have had major optimization passes in preparation for being ported to PlayStation platforms, with more planned in future. Part of this process has involved changing or in some cases removing various assets, or transferring them to different folders.

Please check existing maps for examples of best practices when creating your own environments. For example - the large shipping containers on Docks now have different meshes for each colour instead of relying on a material swap on one model. This allows for the model to render at lower detail with simpler shading when far away, while still having individual variation between crates and high resolution up close. Try not to override materials of objects placed in the map if you can help it, since there is usually already a model that exists with the material pre-applied to it.



Foliage has also had major performance improvements that are mainly facilitated by the use of Level of Detail (LOD) models. Almost every plant now swaps from its interactive version that blows in the wind to a static LOD version at distance, and then to an even simpler LOD model when very far away. The lighting setup in the foliage shader now uses a simpler approximation of light scatter and does not support detail normal maps anymore (they were so small as to not be noticeable in most cases).

Almost all grass now uses a separate Grass Master Shader that is even more simplified than the master foliage shader, with grass models themselves having up to four LOD models to improve performance when used in large numbers. It is still one of the most costly things you can fill a map with though, so be sure to use the actual Foliage tool when placing grass to at least gain some additional performance benefits.

Although the maps should run smoother than before, please be aware that editing uncooked content in an SDK does require a much higher performance level than running the regular game. If you want to do mapmaking, ensure your system is up to the task by having at least 8 GB of graphics memory and a 3GHz+ CPU.





All user-created items that have been marked as officially accepted for Primal Carnage: Extinction through the game's Steam Workshop now have the possibility to appear on PlayStation platforms. Anything accepted up to 6th June 2022 will automatically be eligible for porting to console, as they are already a part of the game and property of Circle 5 Studios.

The only difference between Steam item sales and PlayStation item sales is the revenue split. Item sales that occur on PlayStation platforms do not award royalties to the community item creators, as the transaction is being made via PlayStation Network, not Steam.

Nothing will change with item sales made on the Steam platform. User-created items sold through the Primal Carnage: Extinction in-game store on Steam will continue to provide the standard 25% royalty fee when they are accepted for sale on the PC game. Creators will simply not receive any *additional* revenue if the item is also sold on PlayStation platforms.

If you wish to not have your items appear on PlayStation, there is a grace period for items that have not yet been accepted to the game which will last until 22nd June 2022.

Any and all items on the Primal Carnage: Extinction Steam Workshop that are accepted for the PC game from June 22nd 2022 may appear on PlayStation platforms as free or paid in-game DLC items with revenue share from Steam sales only. If you do not agree to these terms you must remove your content from Steam Workshop before 22nd June 2022 or it will automatically become eligible for porting to PlayStation upon acceptance to Primal Carnage: Extinction on Steam.



We will be running themed events for Halloween and Winter as usual this year! If you want to take part by creating items based on those themes, please submit your content to Steam Workshop before the following dates to have a chance at being included...

Deadline: July 29th 2022

Deadline: August 26th 2022

There are tags for Halloween and Winter when uploading to Workshop which will help your entries stand out properly. If you don't see them, a moderator can apply the tags after the item(s) are uploaded. Putting the words "Summer" or "Winter" in your workshop item name can also be useful.



You don't need an SDK or modelling skills to enter this!
If you're artistically minded, why not get involved in our latest art contest...?



We're looking for cool new designs for use on Primal Carnage merch, now that our official store is open.
For full contest details (including some sweet prizes!) look HERE.

Join us on Discord to get involved!

The new Primal Carnage website is now online, alongside our Official Merch Store!

We will be posting larger official announcements relating to the Primal Carnage franchise on the website, which is much more streamlined now (along with being pretty snazzy looking).

Major news relating to the PlayStation version of PCE will be forthcoming on the official website in future, so keep an eye out if you're interested!



We've been working on both the site upgrade and official store for a long time now (in-between everything else!) and have enlisted a few community artists to create our initial collection of official Primal Carnage swag. There are posters, T-shirts, hats, mugs and more in-store...


Now, IT'S YOUR TURN!



It's been a while since we last had an art competition, and this is as good a time as any!
We're looking for cool / fun / epic new designs that we can use on the Official Primal Carnage Store.
If you're interested, read on for instructions on creating designs and how to get involved!

• Post your completed artwork to the Art Contest channel on the official Discord server along with the hashtag #contest-submissions
  
  
• A download link to a high quality version of the artwork in your post would be helpful too!
  
  
• After posting your submission, one of the moderators will shortly add it to the artwork collection for the developers to judge.
  
  
• Your entry must be submitted before 11:59PM UTC on July 1st 2022.

All designs MUST follow these three rules or will not be suitable for use:

• Images must be at least 300 DPI
  
• Images must be minimum 2000x2000 resolution
  
• Avoid semi-transparent elements on designs for anything other than T-shirts

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We want designs that will work well on any of the following item types:

• Posters
  
• T-Shirts / Tank Tops
  
• Stickers
  
• Mugs
  
• Hats
  
• Face Masks
  
• Mouse Mats

If your finished artwork adheres to the technical requirements and fits into one of these categories, it will be officially considered. We don't have a set theme for you other than Primal Carnage, so go nuts!

You can specify which item type in particular you have created your design for when submitting your artwork if you like. We will take this into consideration when deciding the product lines it will be available for in-store.

• Shirt designs can only be printed on the front side
  
• Design printing is primarily limited to a rectangular space on the upper two thirds of the product
  
• Shirts may have the official Primal Carnage logo(s) added to them if accepted

• All hats use embroidery instead of direct printing, so you must work with a restricted palette when designing for a snapback or baseball cap.
  
• Please use the colours listed in the image above for best results. Up to 6 different shades max.
  
• Design placement on hats is limited to the front area, as seen in the above image.

• Designs that are "sticker-like" may be repeated on both sides of the cup or centered.
  
• All ceramic mugs have a white base colour, so take this into account when creating designs specifically for use on a mug.
  
• You can have a design with no transparency to fill the print area, however the interior and edges will still have the white base colour.

• Stickers require a clean outline with an alpha channel, PNG files are acceptable so long as the transparent areas are 100% empty

• Limit of three entries, per person.
  
• Be respectful to all other members of the community and their entries.
  
• Entry must only contain original work- do not steal another person's hard efforts.
  
• You are allowed to collaborate / work in teams of up to 3 people maximum.
  
• Your entry must not contain anything offensive or inappropriate.
  
• Do NOT reference other franchises or media properties.
  
• All entries must be made with passion!

We have a range of rewards for the lucky winners to receive, both physical and in-game.
Here are the prizes up for grabs that will go to the first, second and third best design creators...

• Design added to the official merch collection!
  
• Receives any 5 in-game items of their choice.
  
• Receives up to 2 variants of their artwork on items of their choice (shirt, mug, etc.)

• Design added to the official merch collection!
  
• Receives any 5 in-game items of their choice.
  
• Receives up to 2 variants of their artwork on items of their choice (shirt, mug, etc.)
  
• Receives up to $50 USD worth of any other Official Primal Carnage Merchandise they choose.
  
• Receives a bonus £50 Steam Gift Card

• Design added to the official merch collection!
  
• Receives any 5 in-game items of their choice
  
• Receives up to 3 variants of their artwork on items of their choice (shirt, mug, etc.)
  
• Receives up to $100 USD worth of any other Official Primal Carnage Merchandise they choose.
  
• Receives a bonus £100 Steam Gift Card!

Winners will be announced on the official Primal Carnage discord and social media channels, within a couple weeks of the contest closing. Developers will get in touch with the community creators personally through Discord to arrange receipt of prizes.


You can post your progress, get critiques and advice in the Art Contest channel of the official Discord. This community has some really talented people in it, we've seen incredibly creative concepts for in-game items in the past and are looking forward to what you come up with for actual official merch!

We'll be showcasing all the designs made for the contest once it has concluded, as well as spotlighting honorable mentions which didn't quite make it to the top (but might still be added to the store later).

You have just under a month to show us what you can do. Have fun!



In case you missed it, Jurassic June is entering into high gear!
Summer Warmup, Part Two is now live with the Meltdown Event and MORE coming soon.


Thanks for playing everyone!
-The Primal Carnage Team

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.



Join our official Discord server for the latest Primal Carnage news, contests and more!

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

Join our official Discord server!

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