Hey Super Animals!

Got a packed announcement for tonight! We've been growing consistently thanks to all of you amazing people spreading the word, and we can't thank you enough for all the support and the kind words about the game! So first up the big news:



Next week, to help our community grow even faster, we're going to be adding a demo version of the game, so everyone who tried it during the free weekend and hasn't made up their mind yet can join back in! And this is going to be a bit of a unique demo:

• Demo players will be able to play with everyone in online matches, and play time won't be limited in the demo at this time, but they won't be able to team up with Steam friends. They'll only be able to match into solos, or duos/squads with fill to get randomly matched onto a team. This will give everyone on the fence a chance to decide whether to jump in now during Early Access, or later as development continues! And demo players will contribute to the overall player base, so it'll help fill up games for everyone :).
  
• Demo players will see cosmetic items, DNA and Super Serum drop, so they'll start accruing them, but they won't be able to equip them until they unlock the full game (similar to upgrading to a premium battle pass, but in this case it's unlocking the full game, along with everything they've earned so far). In this way, demo players get their progression started as they decide whether to buy, and it'll convert into the full game if they buy!

We're also considering other perks for upgrading to the full game (as well as fair limitations) so that hopefully lots of people still support its development. If you have any ideas that you want to contribute, let us know in the comments or join in the active discussion we've already been having about it in our Discord server!

And in the meantime while we're still working on the demo, we've decided to mix NA/EU at certain times of the day to play on the same server together and boost the amount of players per game. It'll be split half and half, and each region will be playin on its own server at prime evening play time:

NA Server: 3pm - 3am PST (11pm - 11am GMT)
EU Server: 11am - 11pm GMT (3am - 3pm PST)

We'll only be enacting this for the next 1-2 weeks as we continue to grow, to make games fun and fuller in the meantime. Once each region is ready to sustain itself, they'll be split up again. Asia already has a healthy population so it's remaining on its own, and NA/EU are gaining on it, but in the meantime you'll be able to make some new friends from across the pond!

And now without further ado... we've also dropped a pretty big new content update with a bunch of gameplay adjustments and improvements:



And brings with it a whole bunch of new animal breeds, cosmetic items and gameplay enhancements!

• Super Maroon Fox
  
• Super Pink Fox
  
• Super Arctic Fox
  
• Super Yellow Bear
  
• Super Siamese Cat
  
• Super Navy Skullcat
  
• Super Sloth Blues
  
• Super Mossy Sloth (fun fact from our animator, Erika: sloths move so slowly that they actually grow moss on themselves!)

• Russian Dance is here, and you'll unlock it by getting a win before January 5th! After January 5th it'll become a regular item drop with epic rarity.
  
• Dab emote
  
• 2 banana shirts and a banana beanie! :banana: :banana: :banana:
  
• Trench coat (khaki)
  
• More baseball cap colors and beanie colors
  
• Military caps
  
• Captain's hat
  
• Red mohawk

• Reload cancelling (can be cancelled by rolling or changing weapons)
  
• Increased movement speed during parachute so you can fly further (10% faster)!
  
• Epic (purple) rarity added for weapons
  Along with this change, a few common (base tier) guns had slight decreases to base damage. What this means is the base version will be 2-4% weaker, but the purple version is stronger than the old rare (blue) maximum.
  - Pistol can be epic
  - Magnum can be epic
  - SMG can be epic
  - Silenced pistol can be epic and legendary (only epic drops in world, and legendary is exclusive to mole crates)
  - M16 and Minigun now have epic versions, and both epic & legendary still only drop from mole crates
  
• Uncommon (green) & rare (blue) items will appear a bit more frequent now as there is the new epic rarity
  
• Boosted the rarity colors for added visibility in all biomes
  
• All bullet speeds increased by about 6-8%
  
• Grenades and bananas in packs of 3+ will reflect that visually (check out those bunches of bananas)
  
• In-game music (eagle flight + end-game) is affected by music slider now rather than sfx slider
  
• Server lobbies are 180s now, up from 160s
  
• Fix for grenades not working if you picked up another one while throwing

We also have a new content update coming Wednesday (including new animal breeds, emotes and items to unlock)!
We're super proud where we're at as of these first 6 days of Early Access, and appreciate all of your support so much. We're now laser focused on growing the player population in Super Animal World, so we'll have an announcement in a couple days on exactly how we're approaching that and fueling growth for week two! If you want to contribute and provide your feedback directly, feel free to hop into our Discord where we're discussing and putting together the plans for phase 2 of growth now!

• Accounts level 5 or less now have 25% increased chance per minute (in-game) for a cosmetic.
  
• All-chat enabled during eagle flight.
  
• The mole now drops 3 items and has a chance to drop a blue sniper and 3-packs of grenades. Level 3 armor drop chance in mole has also been increased slightly.
  
• Tall grass and crates give slightly more ammo and slightly less health juice.
  
• Keybindings have arrived in settings in the main menu!
  
• Rebinding a key now replaces the previous rebinding (without needing to unbind the current one).
  
• You can now enable/disable team chat and all chat separately in the Paws menu.
  
• And lastly an update that streamers will appreciate (and all you other dual monitor people): you now have the option in the Paws menu to lock your mouse to the game window so it doesn't move over to your other monitors while you're playing.

• Bots are getting fancy: they'll now wear random combos of cosmetics (can't wait to see the weird outfit combos they dream up lol). We keep adding funny bot names inspired by you all too so keep those coming ;).
  
• Reduced bots sight range (sometimes they were locking on too far).
  
• Bots will fight each other more often now.
  
• Bots will reload if necessary after a kill.
  
• Bots have gotten over their fear of ammo. Good job bots!
  
• Bots should no longer shoot at walls with players behind them.
  
• Bots pursue distance/knowledge reduced a bit.
  
• Bots are slightly more inaccurate now with slower weapons like magnum and sniper (but we shall forever fear Magnum Bot).

• Final circles of life won't hang as far in the ocean anymore.
  
• Fix for destructible crates not always having proper randomness.
  
• Hopefully fixed players getting stuck during a lag spike.
  
• Changed how players-alive is counted, which should fix the 2 players winning solo bug.
  
• Fix for people being stuck at the end of the eagle flight at the bottom of the map.

Thank you so much to all of our early supporters for all the laughs and fun games!! You've made the beginning of Early Access amazing for all of us. If you have any friends who you think would enjoy the game please invite them in to join in and play with us! The game is by far the most fun with full servers and we need your help to fill them.

For day 3 of our Early Access debut we've added a big drop of new content to the game:






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• Festive holiday items are here! Get your santa hat, festive sweater and Super Rudolph Deer before January 5th. Unlock your hat and sweater by playing two games, and save your deer DNA to unlock Rudolph in the lab. We'll also have one more holiday item to unlock closer to Christmas!
  
• New Super Dog breeds added to the roster: Super Wiener Dog, Super Corgi, and 3 Super Labradors (Golden, Chocolate and Black labs).
  
• A mysterious new Super Animal has been added for players who reach level 30 to unlock.
  
• What's this? Are the beavers building something new on the island? We'll need to investigate...
  
• Kinda Funny and Team Fat t-shirts have been added and will randomly drop after games!
  
• Golden Video Jacket added and awarded to players who were featured in our launch trailer
  
• +15% chance of getting a cosmetic item when you level up
  
• More bot names added #notmango (bots fill up the remaining slots in games keep lobby times short and games full)
  
• Bots are more aggressive towards level 5+ players
  
• Fixed bug where people in hamster balls would run you over without being near to you
  
• Fix for rare case of items not rewarding at the end of a game

Hey Super Animals! Thank you so much from the bottoms of our hearts for all your support throughout alpha and beta testing. We can’t believe how lucky we are to have such an amazing community, and we’re extremely excited to let you know that we’re launching into Steam Early Access on December 12th!



We’re also hosting two final beta weekends to get the game ready for Early Access, and give you an opportunity to record and stream gameplay! We’ve had so much fun playing with all of you throughout the beta and we can’t wait to share it with even more players soon. Here are our next two test windows:

Sat Dec 1: North America server 12 noon – 9:30pm PST! Click here to see the time in your location.

Sun Dec 2: Asia server 5pm – 10pm Singapore time (GMT+8)! Click here to see the time in your location.

To play in the closed beta, you can grab a temporary beta key in our Discord server here during either test time!

We’ll be hosting our final beta weekend on December 8th and 9th, and will post more information about that next week.



Whether your a pro on a Super Animal killing spree or have a knack for dying in hilarious ways, submit your best and funniest clips (30s or less) here.

We’ll feature the best clips in our launch trailer and reward the winning animals with an exclusive in-game jacket at launch! 1080p, 60fps recordings are best but 30fps works too, just make sure to keep them under 30 seconds. Your reactions overlaid on the video while streaming are great (but keeping unnecessary overlays to a minimum would be appreciated), or clean recordings are wonderful of course too. When you submit, please include your Discord, Twitch or Steam username in the clip filename so we can thank you personally and deliver you your reward if your clip gets selected!

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