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

The November Update brings many game balance adjustments alongside our special thanksgiving event...


We've been continuing to work with our community testers and listening to feedback in general about certain classes and weapons. A big focus this update is the Pyro, reinforcing his role as more of a human tank and making him a more dangerous enemy...


Dinosaurs are now even more vulnerable to damage to when on fire, and damage over time from the molotov, flaregun and incendiary grenades is now consistent. The flamethrower has received a moderate boost to instant hit damage and the chainsaw's damage mitigation now also applies to Bruiser attacks. This means pyro can withstand more punishment and deal it out better, so we have also ramped up the flamesaw's fuel consumption rate.

Pyro's lethality extends to his death as well, with the "Pyro Bomb" explosion now also damaging dinosaurs if he died by falling. However, there are a number of checks in place to counteract this - if a Pyro was dropped by a Ptera, it will NOT hurt dinosaurs. You also need to have received more than 75 fall damage to trigger an explosion, and we have reduced the amount of damage Pyro will do to his teammates when blowing himself up.


We've made pounce a bit more viable as both an attack and a way to get around. Raptors can now aim much higher with their "charged" pounce, jumping to ledges above at more extreme angles. Max pounce distance is increased, and raptors have much less fall damage when landing from a long range pounce.

We've also added impact damage when a raptor hits a human with their pounce, which increases up to +25 bonus damage with a charged up pounce attack. This rewards raptor players who have good aim, and gives a minor consolation prize if they pounced someone with too low stamina to maul them.


More fine tuning has been done to the Tupa, with a lower stamina cost for air dashing into humans and 3x faster stamina recovery speed. Stamina management remains an important part of being an effective Tupa, but is less punishing now. When fighting a Tupa, know that the back of its head is now a weakpoint.


Finally, since stamina is an increasingly important factor in combat, all classes except for Tyrants now gain 35% faster stamina regeneration if they crouch down. These and other changes have been prompted by discussions with our community on Discord, and we'll be continuing to tweak things going forward.

But that's not all!

Scroll further down to the full changelog below to see all the other quality of life fixes, improvements and optimizations in this update...



It's another Turkey Takeover!



This update we're celebrating Thanksgiving by spotlighting our very own six foot turkeys, with a whole bunch of brand new Novaraptor and Oviraptor skins and even a new raptor taunt!



Novaraptor gets the Serus Nova mutation in-store, and we have three new Oviraptor mutations such as the wonderfully weird Bullatus Ovi - spliced up with ornithomimid DNA!



And to not leave everyone else out in the cold there are a handful of spitter, tyrant and bruiser items.



Classic items from previous events are also back today with deep discounts, so get your emu on!





Outside of the latest store rotation, there are several new drops as of this update, including the ALIOQUIN Novaraptor mutation!

As always, you can check out all of the latest new looks on our Special Event Trello!

• crouching as human or dino now regenerates stamina faster
  (by 35% - excludes tyrants)
  
  
• tripled stamina regeneration rate for Tupa
  
• reduced Tupa charge impact stamina cost slightly
  
• fixed tupa hit sound still playing when damage is 0
  
• converted one of Tupa's strongpoint bones into a weakpoint at the base of the skull
  
  
• changed burn DoT for molotov / flaregun / incendiary grenades to all use the same shared values
  (20 damage per tick over 4 seconds)
  
  
• increased flamethrower instant hit damage per particle from 4.5 to 4.7
  
• flamethrower now deals 10% more damage to large targets than it did previously
  
• flamethrower now has much faster fuel consumption
  
• less damage falloff for flameslammer's shotgun attachment
  
  
• pyro now takes reduced impact damage from Bruiser charges when revving chainsaw
  
• bruiser secondary attacks also deal less damage if they hit a chainsawing pyro
  
  
• pyro now has a minimum damage threshold from falling before he is allowed to explode
  
• reduced damage to humans from pyro bomb explosion if pyro was not dropped by ptera
  
• "pyro bomb" explosion from self fall damage now also damages dinosaurs
  (pyro bomb explosion will not damage dinosaurs if he was dropped by ptera)
  
  
• Survival mode: fixed missing double damage upgrade for flameslammer's incendiary grenades
  
  
• humans now take impact damage when hit by a pouncing raptor
  
• charged pounces deal more impact damage than a quick pounce
  
• reduced fall damage for raptors when landing from a long range pounce
  
• pounce now shows the standard charge-up circle in addition to its targeting indicator
  
• tweaked raptor pounce flight values to be more energetic
  (allows pouncing to higher ledges and at extreme angles)
  
  
• Cerato charge now has its own damage type and kill icon
  
• added a buff icon when Pachy enters brace mode
  
• increased ragdoll velocity from charge impacts
  
• enabled ThrowRagdoll on more damage types
  
  
• prevented tyrant heavy hit reactions when an attack is in progress
  
• fixed tyrants not being able to reliably interrupt hit reactions with attacks
  
• humans eaten by tyrants no longer scream after they've already been swallowed whole
  
  
• fixed heavy melee 3rd person animations not playing
  
• fix issues with dual wielded weapon inspect animations
  
  
• removed skeleton skins from default inventory
  
• disabled the halloween test map and menu map
  
• fixed seaspray ptera referencing wrong icon package
  
• updated masks for inventory icons to use less memory
  
• large scale game package optimizations for loading efficiency
  
  
• added support for virtual keyboard text entry when playing on Steam Deck

Did someone say Black Friday? If you've yet to jump into the carnage, or have friends you'd like to hunt or be hunted by, get up to 60% OFF the following items:

• Primal Carnage: Extinction
  
• Primal Carnage: Extinction 4-Pack
  
• Primal Carnage Official Soundtrack

Sale ends November 28th!



Check back regularly for more deep discounts on classic items in the run up to Christmas!

We will be back with the annual Winter Carnage event in December, bringing more quality of life updates and the annual festive goodie bag! Hope to see you then!

Thanks for playing,


For all things Primal Carnage, get involved on the Official Discord...

Our new Ultimate DLC Collection is finally going live with today's minor patch!
The Ultimate Edition bundle includes all of the Deluxe DLC along with 5 new Ultimate DLC packs.



Ranging from centigrade to thalassic, the Ultimate skin collection has special animated emissive effects with intricate designs and bold colours. Previously only available as ultra rare drops, they are now purchasable directly on Steam!



Each DLC pack contains the Ultimate skins for that class family, along with bonus copies that have their associated Strange effects applied. For example, each Kilowatt skin in the Ultimate DLCs also comes with a duplicate which uses the lightning trails effect.



New players can purchase the Ultimate Edition starting today, but existing players can also upgrade to the Ultimate Edition with a discount.

All DLC is available separately as well, so you can buy the packs individually if you only wish to get the Ultimate skins for one class family.

Finally, owning all of the Ultimate DLC packs grants you a special bonus Platinum Nameplate in-game!



Purchasing any of the new DLC will contribute to continued development of PCE, helping us tackle larger issues with the game and work on bringing new features to the experience.



In addition to the Ultimate DLC being enabled, there is a new minor patch today that resolves some smaller problems raised recently by the community...

• fixed weapons that can scope not playing inspect animations
  
• guns now also play inspect animations with zero ammo
  
• fixed the flamesaw being unable to play its inspect animation
  
• reduced jump timeout for raptors after pouncing to 0.25 secs
  
• fixed antlers on skeleton spino (for real this time)
  
• various additional cosmetic fixes

We're running a week-long sale to tie in with our Halloween Horrors event!
Pick up Primal Carnage: Extinction for 50% OFF right now until November 6th!



Our annual spookfest will be running for the next few weeks in-game, have a scary good time!

Today's patch for Primal Carnage: Extinction on Steam features a bunch of bugfixes for issues both old and new, along with minor balance changes and cosmetic adjustments.

• increased stamina regen rate for Oviraptor and reduced Oviraptor pounce maul stamina cost
  
• prevented Bruisers from using special attacks in midair to avoid control locks issues
  
• increased human step height to get over small obstructions easier
  
• tweaked the "unstuck bump" feature, no longer rockets you upwards
  
• pressing reload when primary fire is full now reloads your secondary ammo
  
• if a raptor pounces someone without enough stamina to actually do mauling, they now play the pounce start animation then disengage, instead of just bouncing off the target
  
  
• fixed Tupa being able to peck at nearly the same time as hitting with its charge
  
• fixed Ptera being able to descend while grabbing someone when in hover mode
  
• fixed "speedpouncing" exploit that allowed extreme velocity when jumping after a pounce
  
  
• reorganized all cosmetic packages and UI packages for more efficient loading
  
• fixed golden nameplates sometimes showing in spectator without correct DLC installed
  
• fixed the Impossible Cryo skin using wrong material
  
• various other cosmetic fixes

Just in time for Halloween, we're running a scarily good sale!
Pick up Primal Carnage: Extinction for 50% OFF until November 6th!



If you have friends who have yet to jump into the carnage, now is a great time!
There's also hundreds of discounted items in-store during our annual Halloween Horrors event!


Art by ChunkoHunko


-The Primal Carnage Team

A shocking new update is here for Primal Carnage: Extinction on Steam!
HALLOWEEN HORRORS returns to haunt you all...

Our annual frightfest brings a terrifying assortment of nightmarish new looks, along with a new game update packed with feature tweaks and improvements suggested by our scarily dedicated players!


Before we get to the gorey details of this year's special event, here are some of the highlights of our latest game update...


As of now, everyone can see Tyrant buff overlays (red, green and blue for rex / spino / acro boosts). Previously these would only be visible to the dinosaur who received the buff.


This change allows Tyrants to see who they just gave a boost to, and lets humans know if they are fighting a buffed enemy. This is something which has been long requested, and we feel it's a positive change for everybody.

Another tweak related to this is that Tyrants no longer automatically get bonus points for roaring. Instead, they now gain additional EXP for every dinosaur buffed within their roar's range. This rewards actually helping your team instead of just roaring for fun with nobody around.


Flyers have always been one of the most problematic classes to balance, but we still keep trying. This update brings some major changes to the Tupa that make it slightly less of a nightmare to fight...


Aside from fixing bugs and exploits with the class (such as Tupa being able to land charge hits while hovering) we have added extra sound cues for when a nearby Tupa reaches charge speed, and adjusted its stats significantly.

Tupa players will now need to watch their stamina closely, as a more noticeable chunk is taken out of it whenever you ram into humans. This coupled with higher stamina drain when sprinting means you can get into situations where ramming is not allowed due to low stam. So watch that bar!


Remember you can conserve energy by simply diving downwards to gain speed, just angle your Tupa directly toward the ground while flying. This is more than enough to land deadly hits with Tupa's charge, allowing you to save stamina for an escape instead of relying on it to attack. To make up for higher stamina usage in general, Tupa's roar now provides much better stamina regeneration.


Circle 5 remains a small and mostly part-time team with only a couple of programmers, so we're doing our best to address issues as they're reported by the community. This update we have worked with our players to improve wherever we can, resolving many edge cases with weapons and various exploits such as being able to deal extreme knockback by hitting humans in midair as a Bruiser.

We have now started our PlayStation beta but will continue deploying any fixes and improvements we can to the PC side while that is underway. Some small but fun changes this time include new community animations for the machete... (thanks to SpinoRavenger!)



Other community-requested changes include adjustments to the UI - such as a small but helpful tweak to class counts and their availability on the Class Select screen that now sees them update in realtime. Previously, they wouldn't refresh until you reopened the menu.

There are many other fixes, for example the flamethrower failing to delete Dilo puddles (they still like to leave a smelly cloud, but don't worry about that). You can view the full changelog further down, which also includes details on a few more balance tweaks such as making Oviraptor's pounce less of an "instant win button" and reducing the deadliness of zap traps a tad now that they hit more reliably.




It's that most terrifying time of the year again! Our annual Halloween Horrors event is now LIVE, bringing a gaggle of ghastly new looks to strike fear into your enemies!



In-store we have a double-sized featured store set filled to the brim with horrifying new mutations! There are two new spooky skin packs -- the Jasper collection with their mesmerizing ghostly glows and the Nightmare collection which features a whole range of creepy creatures.


Capping it off is the 2023 Halloween Gift - open on a server to scare up to 24 other players with spooky items! The gift opener is cursed with a spine-tingling Satanic Royal Acro for their evil deed.



And of course, hundreds of previous Halloween items are back with devilish discounts!



Outside of the store SPOOKY DROPS have been enabled! These include new mutations, skins, and some seriously spooky sprays along with the creepy classics from yesteryear.



Feast your eyes on this year's entire nightmarish collection, if you dare...
Enter the Trello of Terror!





Keep an eye out for the Ultimate DLC Collection coming VERY soon!
From centigrade to thalassic, these beasts are pulsing with energy and have unique particle effects.

• increased base speed needed for Tupa charge to activate
  
• added a new sound cue when Tupa reaches charge speed
  
• hitting humans with Tupa's air ram now costs a chunk of stamina
  
• fixed Tupa dealing charge damage when moving slowly or in hover mode
  
• fixed impact effects still playing if you fly slowly past a human without hitting them as Tupa
  
• longer charge impact cooldown for Tupa
  
• reduced tupa charge sphere radius
  
• increased Tupa sprint stamina cost
  
• reduced Tupa stamina regen rate
  
• shorter Tupa roar cooldown period
  
• increased stamina regained from Tupa roar
  
• fixed Tupa gliding animation not playing properly
  
• flyers must now be in hover mode for at least 1 second before they can sprint out of it
  
• increased audible radius of Flyer whistling wind while diving
  
• fixed one of the flyer diving wind sounds quietly looping forever
  
• made flyers slow down from sprint in-air quicker
  
• marking many targets at once as Ptera now combines the total EXP into a single onscreen message

• Tyrant buff overlays are now visible to all players
  
• Tyrants now get bonus points for every player they buff when roaring
  
• Acro now takes reduced damage when using its stomp attack
  
• minor increase to Spino clawswipe range
  
• improved blending between head and body for a couple of T.Rex skins
  
• reduced audible range of distant Tyrant footstep booms

• reduced Oviraptor pounce maul damage from 50 to 40
  
• doubled Oviraptor stamina consumption while mauling
  
• Oviraptor's roar ability now has a buff timer in the corner to show its duration

• allowed Carno to sprint while stunned
  
• reduced stunned duration for Bruisers
  
• longer charge impact cooldown for Pachy
  
• increased Pachy's charge hit detection radius
  
• Bruisers are now forbidden from landing charge attacks while in mid-air
  
• increased knockback momentum from Ceratosaurus tailswipe attack

• increased effective range of Desert Eagle
  
• regular shotgun now has a 1.25x crit multiplier
  
• reduced assault cannon fire interval slightly
  
• increased assault cannon unscoped recoil
  
• lowered assault cannon crit damage from 2x to 1.5x
  
• removed auto-firing for the assault cannon when holding primary fire down
  
• fixed flameslammer grenades not working correctly when spam clicking
  
• fixed flamethrower and flaregun not destroying dilo spit puddles
  
• fixed a couple of exploits relating to weapon fire rate
  
• increased total flaregun ammo from 4 to 6
  
• increased ammo picked up by stungun
  
• fixed zap traps not working when submerged in water or when clipping into models/terrain
  
• stun animations now correctly end at the same time the stunned status effect ends
  
• updated machete with new community-created animations
  
• fixed most of the golden gun skins being too dark and contrasty

• reduced GTTC capture speed when dinosaurs are on the point to 25% of normal capture rate
  
• class select screen now refreshes total class counts and availability every few seconds
  
• added a Quit Match option to the class select and team select screens
  
• item descriptions no longer break when hovered on the right side of the screen
  
• server gifts now display a warning that it's impossible to open them while in the main menu
  
• fixed a rare crash related to gift opening
  
• fixed glow and reflection masking on certain dino skins
  
• changed distance falloff behaviour of dino footstep sounds
  
• added new Halloween Horrors cosmetic content
  
• added support upcoming Ultimate DLC Collection
  
• unique nameplates now show in the Esc menu while playing
  
• set gas masks to use the secondary item slot, clipping be damned
  
• re-enabled skeleton skins in the default inventory for halloween
  
• allowed skeleton skins to equip all cosmetics, because why not

-The Primal Carnage Team


For all things Primal Carnage, get involved on the Official Discord...

The September Update is now available for Primal Carnage: Extinction on Steam!
Here are the highlights...


This update brings a few quality of life changes and fixes to the game, resolving several issues that were reported by the community.

For example, sniper rifles have a crit damage multiplier to ensure headshots kill at long range. This was not quite working correctly before and has now been fixed. Also on the subject of the Scientist, her stamina regen time is no longer unintentionally slower than other classes.

In addition to a bunch of visual fixes and crash fixes, we added a highly requested server admin feature. Server owners can now use adminservermute to block messages from specific users. This will stop their messages from being visible to anyone in the chat.

When logged in as admin, simply open the console with ` or @ or F7 and type "adminservermute" followed by the player name or ID you wish to mute. To unmute, use the command "adminserverunmute" followed by the player name or ID.




Today's update brings a fresh rotation of autumnal items to the game. A new featured store set includes Arsenal Appearance Pack 3.0, along with a collection of Fall-themed skins and mutations!



Outside of the store there are a bunch of new free drops now available, ranging from the Rainforest Rex to the legendary Sharpshooter's Carbine...



Remember you can check out previews for all the latest items on our Trello page!

• Imported new cosmetics for September
  
• WIP updates to human shading and weapon shading
  
• Updated base textures for the M4 carbine
  
• Updated textures and added more accurate colour slider masking for Battlescarred Rex skin
  
• Fixed a couple of Spino skins with incorrect eye masking
  
  
• Halved the distance required for sniper rifle crit boost damage on small targets to take effect
  
• Made sure sniper crit boost on small targets at long range is 4x not 2x
  
• Fixed stamina regen time on Scientist being too slow
  
  
• Fixed an FPS drop caused by holding the bow at the ready
  
• Fixed a crash when trying to cancel using a nametag/description tag
  
  
• Added new "adminservermute" and "adminserverunmute" commands

-The Primal Carnage Team


For all things Primal Carnage, get involved on the Official Discord...

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


This patch primarily addresses an exploit with the compound bow that would make it fire like a minigun.
We fixed this ASAP as it also allowed scientists to continue firing while pounced or being eaten.

In addition to the bow fixes, we resolved a long-standing problem with default loadout availability. If you are unable to connect to the economy servers, you will now still have access to the entire default inventory instead of only a handful of items.

Previously, if you weren't fully connected you'd be unable to use alternate weapons at all. With this patch you can at least still use the complete arsenal even if your customizations are not there.

• Fixed being unable to use all of the default items when not connected to economy
  
• Fixed an exploit that could cause the bow to fire at ludicrous speed
  
• Fixed the Prime Cerato skin being missing from the customization list in-game
  
• Fixed the Battleburned Tupa skin having fibers

We're working on a bunch more quality of life fixes such as these for future patches, in addition to a bigger rewrite of server connectivity that should roll out later this autumn. Thanks for playing!



The Meltdown Event is still running and will be here until mid September! A second helping of sizzling special deals has just gone live, with dozens more classic items returning in addition to the spicy new set added with our most recent major update. Get 'em while they're hot!

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

This version addresses a few issues with our recent Meltdown update, improves colour slider functionality and makes some tweaks to the new visual effects.

• fixed the Battleburned Tupa not being shown in the Tupa skins list
  
• fixed various Spinosaurus skins erroneously using the T-Rex body mask for colourization
  
• updated eye blending for simple colour sliders
  
• wider range of selectable colours on the simple eye slider
  
• eye and body colour on glowy skins will now be more similar when adjusted via slider
  
• capped the intensity of body glow colourization
  
  
• lower minimum damage for explosive arrows
  
• slightly shorter max charge-up time for explosive arrows
  
• fixed an auto-fire issue when shooting the bow on spawning
  
• fixed an odd delay between shots when firing special arrows
  
  
• smoothed out camera animations for all jumping and melee attacks
  
• updated screen effects for spawning/healing
  
  
• reset loadouts to fix Scientists who kept the bow in the secondary slot from previous game version
  
• fixed desert eagle being shown as a default Pathfinder customization on first launch even though it was unusable

Meltdown 2023 is here!

With our latest major update we've made several spicy gameplay changes and visual tweaks, plus there's a seriously scorching selection of new looks being added. Check it out...


Having listened to feedback, we decided to radically reposition the Compound Bow's place in the game.


The bow is now a primary weapon and has a lot more customizability with its controls and firing modes. We've worked hard to make the bow feel easier to use, it's now less annoying to quickfire and you can continuously fire arrows without needing to take your finger off the button.


There are two control schemes for the bow now in Gameplay settings, the Classic (default) setup that was available previously and the new Combined control method...

Classic:
Charge up by holding secondary fire, tap primary fire to shoot

Combined:
Charge up by holding primary fire, release primary fire to shoot

Tap the secondary fire button in Combined mode to cancel a shot, saving the arrow from being fired.


Three new auto-fire options for the bow in Gameplay settings control when an arrow is released...

Half: Auto-fires the bow when your shot is half charged.

Full: Auto-fires the bow when your shot is fully charged.

Max: Default behaviour, only auto-fires when you lose control of the arrow after several seconds.



By selecting an auto fire option you can continuously fire by holding the primary fire button in Combined mode or primary+secondary together in Classic mode. As always, half charged shots do half damage and will not ignite targets if you are using explosive arrows.


Although a lot of actions with the bow have been made faster, we deliberately made using explosive arrows take longer now. The draw time is over twice that of regular arrows even for half charged shots, making them less of a "quick win button."

Turning the bow into a primary weapon is as much about making it feel better to use as it is removing an overly deadly combination. The devastating one-two hit of assault cannon + explosive arrow was an incredibly lethal and unsporting tactic that Scientists could use previously. There's interesting potential for combining the DoT effects of arrows and darts with the bow's new loadout position, but it's not the crazy almost insta-kill on smaller dinosaurs that could be exploited previously.

Regular arrows have seen a modest buff to their damage output, and the bow no longer has a muzzle flash when fired, which would give away your position before.



A few classes have been rebalanced a bit or received fixes / tweaks that make them handle better.

Tyrannosaurus now has new tail swipe animations, these are faster and swing out lower down while also stretching more to the side. This gives the attack greater reach and flexibility, making it much more effective and more in line with the Cerato's tail swipe.



It's leg day for Ceratosaurus, who can now sprint for longer without getting out of breath, andi has much faster stamina regeneration. The Pachy has also been taking notes and is now able to reach max sprint speed quicker, jump a little higher without roaring, and has a slightly more damaging knockback slide.

Finally, the Oviraptor has been buffed with more health along with its primary attack and pounce speed being faster. This makes it a more compelling alternative to the Novaraptor.




Aside from the bowverhaul, a few of the guns have received some TLC. We're mainly fixing some annoyances, like being unable to heavy melee with the Spaz by using the actual heavy melee key (you can still use the secondary fire button if you really want to).


The big changes were to the burst rifle, making it a more accurate weapon, particularly when scoped. Its primary damage is slightly less, but the much better spread and falloff make up for this. The burst rifle's blade actually deals a bit *more* bleed damage, it just occurs over a shorter period of time. It's also a lot easier to melee now with the burst rifle, since firing can be interrupted.


As part of evolving the PlayStation side of Primal, we've been adding a whole bunch of new visual flourishes to the game. These range from purely cosmetic touches to indicators that help you in combat.

When fighting as dinosaurs, successful melee or charge hits will show a more noticeable impact particle. Landing a critical hit as a dino will show a dust effect with subtle red claw swipes on impact.



Several new screen overlays also appear for certain gameplay events such as healing or being stunned, and getting a kill causes a subtle flash of the screen. If you're too close to an incendiary explosion or are using the flamethrower, the screen will turn hot in addition to having new screen shake motions...



Moving fast whether as a result of SpeedGreed or by diving as a Pterosaur will cause "speed lines" to appear on the edges of your view....



A lot more camera shake effects have been added to many in-game actions, which add extra weight and impact when they occur. Everything from using heavy melee to being knocked back by a tailswipe or just jumping around will play unique camera motions now.



We feel this connects you a bit better to the character you're playing and makes actions like chainsawing feel much more visceral. However, if you wish to disable these, the Camera Shake option in Gameplay Settings has been expanded to cover more than just Tyrant footsteps and explosions.


Updated Feature:

By popular demand, we have reimplemented the simple colour slider adjusters for dinosaurs!



These still have the same limitations as they always did, being unable to save the colours permanently. The simple sliders are remembered per-class, not per-skin, and are not guaranteed to remain selected between sessions. However, they do offer an easy way of tweaking the body and eye tones.

For more in-depth colour customization that can be saved, the paint crafting system is still usable and can actually be combined with the simple hue sliders for interesting results. As a reminder, all paint tools can be obtained as drops now.

There are even more visual upgrades in the works for 3.0, not least of which will be another round of revamps to the game's maps. Expect overhauled post processing, lighting, and denser details while also being better optimized for performance when it arrives later this year!





Welcome to MELTDOWN 2023! Our annual summer event is now LIVE in-game, with loads of awesome new community-created items being added. There's a brand new Summer Gift in-store today, alongside the Smouldering Saurian Selection which includes TEN scorching dinosaur looks!



Humans get some love with the frankly stylish Dapper Duster Trapper and Gambler's weapon skins...



There are also new dinosaur taunts and a collection of new mutations in this year's featured store set!



Outside of the store, there's a whole bunch of new free drops being added, from the Veteran Acro and Rostrum Cryo mutations to exotic weapon skins, glowing Red Welder Goggles and a new Acro taunt!



And don't forget that classic items from previous summer events are also returning!
Check the Specials section for some HOT discounts!

To take a look at ALL of the new event items, see our special Trello board!

Those are all the highlights.
For a full list of changes, see below...

• made the bow a primary weapon
  
• now possible to fire bow continuously with ease
  
• swap between two control schemes (Classic and Combined)
  
• tap alt fire in Combined mode to cancel your shot
  
  
• added bow auto-fire options to gameplay settings with 3 options
  (auto-fire arrow when half charged / fully charged / default)
  
  
• adjusted bow firing interval times
  
• tracker arrows fire at the same speed as regular arrows now
  
• explosive arrows now take much longer to fire than regular arrows
  
• most other bow actions are now faster
  
• increased regular arrow max damage from 140 to 165
  
• shortened explosive arrow burn damage duration from 2.5 secs to 2 seconds
  
• increased max burn damage over time for explosive arrows from 40 to 48
  
• increased the amount of arrows received when resupplying the bow
  
• running out of one arrow type now always makes you auto-swap to the other
  
• fixed the bow having a muzzle flash light when fired

• fixed dual wielded weapons not applying recoil when you're firing with just the right hand
  
• fixed Spaz not allowing you to do heavy melee attacks with the actual heavy melee button
  
• slowed down the Assault Cannon heavy melee attack
  
• updated Double Barrel Shotgun melee animation
  
  
• reduced burst rifle reload by 0.15 seconds.
  
• tweaked burst rifle spread to not bloom quite as much
  
• buffed burst rifle damage falloff to be closer to the Assault Rifle
  
• reduced burst rifle primary fire damage from 45 to 40
  
• tweaked burst rifle recoil and spread in scoped mode so you can actually hit stuff
  
• reduced bleed duration for burst rifle from 4 seconds to 2.6 secs
  
• reduced bleed damage per tick for burst rifle from 18 to 16 (total damage down from 72 to 64)
  
• burst rifle can melee after having fired 3/4 bullets of the burst (saves 0.16 seconds)
  
  
• started addressing the "double shot" issue when hold-firing weapons continuously
  
  
• various skin fixes
  
• began updating human shader (WIP)
  
• fixed incorrect default throwables for humans on first launch

• added new T-Rex tail swipe animations
  
• reduced Tyrant stamina drain while bracing, now costs less than half its previous value
  
  
• Roar refresh should now remove the poison status (if you're not marked for death)
  
• Tyrants and large bruisers do not receive screen shake when hit by melee attacks now
  
• Fixed fully tranq'd dinos having no camera effect when hit by poison dart rifle
  
• Fixed bleed icon for heavy melee not shown for small dinos
  
  
• faster acceleration to max speed for Pachy
  
• increased Pachy default jump height to reliably be able to jump on top of cargo containers
  
• longer threshold for Pachy auto-ending a charge due to time spent in the air
  
• made the Pachy slide ability do more damage and slightly more knockback
  
• minor increase to Pachy slide and jump stamina cost
  
  
• increased stamina regen speed for Cerato
  
• reduced sprint stamina consumption rate for Cerato
  
  
• increased Oviraptor health from 280 to 300
  
• reduced sprint stamina consumption for Oviraptor
  
• slightly faster primary attack speed for Oviraptor
  
• minor increase to Oviraptor primary attack damage
  
• minor increase to Ovi pounce maul damage to be exactly double that of Nova
  
  
• fixed Cerato/Pachy technically not having a default skin on first launch
  
• consistency fixes between head and body for glowy Rex skins
  
  
• re-implemented classic simple colour slider options for dinosaurs
  - has same limitations as before, cannot save non-crafted skin colours permanently
  - can be used in combination with the multi-layered paint system

• tweaked soundclass prioritization
  
• removed AlwaysPlay from regular footsteps
  
• enabled AlwaysPlay on large dino steps and weapon sounds
  
• reduced the chance of throwable items playing impact sounds over and over
  
• increased max sound concurrency on roars

Camera animations:

• new screen shake when using the flamethrower and chainsaw
  
• jumping up now has more shake as human
  
• jumping now pulls the camera up and back as dinosaurs
  
• shaking when diving at high speed as flyers
  
• screen shake when using quick knife
  
• screen shake when using heavy melee
  
• new shake when hit by heavy melee as dinosaur
  
• intense screen shake when receiving knockback as human
  
• new machete camera motions for quick slash, heavy slash and winding up
  
• new shake when being hit by trample damage and Acro stomp
  
• camera bobbing when fully tranquillized or poisoned

Screen FX:

• hot glow when firing the flamethrower
  
• speed blur when using speedgreed or diving as a flyer
  
• pulsing effect when you start being healed
  
• extra effect when receiving burst rifle bleed damage
  
• extra effect when stungunned as non-Tyrant
  
• short screen flash when getting a kill
  
• subtle flash when spawning

Impact FX:

• dealing "critical" damage as a dinosaur (removing 50% health) shows a special impact effect
  
• red "claw dust" appears when a Bruiser / Tyrant lands a secondary attack

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A new patch is now available for Primal Carnage: Extinction on Steam.
Please restart the Steam client to receive the latest version and update any servers you are hosting.



This release makes some minor changes to server connections, with the aim of reducing crashes when experiecing heavy load. Overall stability should hopefully be improved.

Connection spam may now be less likely to take down a server, but joining a match could still be difficult depending on how hard the server is being stressed.

There are more substantial changes to the networking infrastructure that we're exploring for future updates later this year. However, our engineering time for the PC side is limited with the PlayStation beta starting soon. Our team will keep monitoring the situation going forward.

A new patch is now available for Primal Carnage: Extinction on Steam.
Today's patch mainly focuses on a few minor fixes and various code optimizations.

• fixed Acro brace animation not blending in properly, causing it to slide around
  
• fixed inspection animations playing in the background when a weapon is not equipped
  
• fixed having to click on a class after team sorting to see customization area
  
  
• added inspection animations for shotguns and burst rifle
  
• added a red muzzle flash environment light for the flaregun
  
  
• physics optimizations to throwables
  
• server and client log optimizations
  
• added logging to track down crashes
  
• miscellaneous code cleanup

Don't forget! We're running a special Summer Warmup Event in-game!

Check out the latest selection of superb summer items which includes new mutations, premium skins, taunts and more alongside years of classic summer content back at a discount!

Summer Meltdown will bring another wave of hot new looks next month. We're also building towards the major 3.0 release later this year, which will bring all of the massive amounts of improvements and polish we're putting into the PS4 relaunch over to PC. From new voice acting and visual effects to new lore, HUD overhauls, map reworks and variants... there's a lot to look forward to!


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