Hello Super Animals, creators and destroyers! There’s a new episode of Super Animal Royale Tonight coming, so that means submissions are now open for your superest and blooperest clips.

We’re also taking submissions for our latest Super Fanart Contest, and the winning submissions will also be showcased in our latest episode of SAR Tonight (season 2, episode 4)!


As we prepare to launch Super Animal Royale out of Early Access in the not too distant future, we thought the perfect prompt for our third Super Fanart Contest would be the day that Super Animal World itself first opened its doors to the public!

Submit your artwork in whichever static medium you prefer for a chance to have it featured in-game at SMOMA (as well as in SAR Tonight and on the contest website) and get a shot at the coveted Golden Paintbrush.

“Opening Day at Super Animal World”

Sunday, August 8th by 11:59pm PDT



https://forms.gle/MCftReKDP4LFzqaz7

To see what players have submitted for previous fanart contests, you can visit SMOMA (Super Museum of Modern Art) in-game or visit the fanart website here:
https://artcontest.animalroyale.com

Note: both previous contests are visible on the site as well as their accompanying winner presentation videos by esteemed art critic, Rabbita Smith.



Watch the latest episode above (Season 2, Episode 3). Winning clips will be showcased in our next episode, later this summer!

For those new to the show, Super Animal Royale Tonight is our animated series, hosted by Donk Patrick and Howl Michaels, that features top community clips, submitted by you. It also tells a linear story set in Super Animal World, in locations you can visit in-game (often featuring new regions that you'll be able to visit after the episode airs).

Submit your clips for a chance to be featured in the next episode and win an exclusive SAR Tonight cosmetic!



Monday, August 2nd by 11:59pm PDT

Clip Requirements:

• 1080p+, 30fps+, less than 30s
  
• Please only submit up to 3 Blooper Scooper clips and 3 Superest Kills clips maximum (Blooper Scooper showcases the funniest and most creative clips, and Superest Kills showcases high skill, exciting gameplay).
  
• Please only submit clips from recent versions of the game (as a rule of thumb, don't submit clips older than 6 months, but if they're amazing and we haven't seen them before we might select something older).
  
• Please do not submit any clips with copyrighted music.

Tips for getting selected:

• 16:9 aspect ratio preferred.
  
• Shorter clips are preferred, but please try to leave at least 2-3 seconds on either side of where you think the best action is, so we have flexibility with the edit. If a clip is cut too abruptly it may not be usable.
  
• Visual clarity is key. If it is hard to follow the action, a clip is less likely to be selected.
  
• Reactions can make clips particularly great, so streamer overlays / facecams are good as long as they're high quality and don't distract too much from the clip.

Submit your clips here:

https://www.dropbox.com/request/tBXQ3Iqw7H5la0R3TUa6

If you want to catch up on previous episodes, here's where to get started:

Catch up on the most recent exploits of Donk and Howl in our Season 2 YouTube Playlist.

You can also go all the way back to the beginning and watch Season 1 here or we've also put together a recap video if you just want to get a summary of Season 1.

We increased the production values throughout Season 1 as we established the show, so if you just want to watch a portion of the first season, Episode 3 begins most of the deeper storytelling, and Episode 5 bumps up the production values significantly.

If you want to know first about community events like these, be sure to join the SAR Discord server or follow us on Twitter, Facebook and our Subreddit.

It’s getting heated on the island and that can only mean one thing: Super Summer Royale is here!

You’ll now find fruit baskets scattered across the island that can be redeemed in the Summer Event Shop for 8 new limited-edition summer cosmetic items and 17 legacy summer items. Survive longer to earn more fruit baskets at the end of the match and be sure to start hunting early, to grab as many as you can before the event ends July 20th!



On top of being spendable for cosmetic items, Fruit Baskets are healthy and nutritious and will reward you with 20hp when you eat them (and yes Giant Emus can snack on them too). The Delivery Mole also has 3 baskets per crate as one more reason to fight over its valuable loot.



8 new 2021 summer items:

• Beach Sunglasses
  
• Blue Striped Umbrella
  
• Blue Beach Hat
  
• Starfish Visor
  
• Message in a Bottle
  
• Sandcastle Gravestone
  
• Beach Party Sarong
  
• Beach Party Outfit

We’ve also brought back the summer-themed music at the Welcome Center fountain and added two brand new Super Animal breeds to the Research Lab in time for summer:

• Super Avocado Sloth
  
• Super Dragonfruit Wolf

These additions expand the roster of fruit-themed animals that began with last year’s Super Strawberry Skunk and Super Pineapple Hedgehog.



And lastly, but arguably most important of all: you’ll now find beach balls along the southern shorelines that you can and should kick. Just try not to get...you know...killed while you’re playing beach soccer.

• The main menu news box now automatically rotates through news items.
  
• News box items that link to something externally in your browser now have an icon to indicate this (news box items that don’t have this icon, like seasonal events, open within the game client).
  
• Premium items (DLC, S.A.W. Shop, Animal Pass) now have special item backgrounds to help differentiate them in your inventory.
  
• The Animal Pass now has an estimated date for the next season (late-August)!
  
• Updated the Point emote to have a directional arrow for where you’re pointing (like the one in its icon).
  
• Added an idle animation for beach clams.
  
• Pressing [Escape] now closes the inventory screen if it's open (previously it opened the Paws Menu).
  
• Fixed an inventory bug where controllers wouldn't scroll through armor and powerups in the proper order.
  
• Fixed an issue where AFK players that were auto-dropped from the eagle were stuck in the ocean until landing.
  
• Translation fixes.

We’re so excited to finally share this Major Update and welcome all of the new Xbox One and Xbox Series X | S players to the island with you, Super Animals! There's a lot to cover so we'll just get right into it.

• Season 0.5 (our second Early Access season) starts now with the new Beach Party Pass.
  
• Xbox Game Preview is here (at 6am PDT), with cross-play matchmaking support for Steam and Xbox players to play together. Playstation, Nintendo Switch and Stadia versions arrive later this year alongside the launch of v1.0.
  
• Super Animal Accounts for cross-save support across platforms.
  
• Super Turtle joins the fight (+ 4 additional Super Turtle breeds).
  
• Map update: the size of the island has grown, with all-new shorelines all the way around, featuring regionally styled buildings, shallow water, crabs and Giant Giant Clams that contain loot.

To kick it all off, we have a brand new episode of our animated series, Super Animal Royale Tonight, that highlights the top community clips from the previous season, submitted by you, in addition to expanding the world and storytelling of the game (including a preview of the new shorelines that you'll be able to explore in-game).



Tune in to see which players had the superest kills and scooperest bloopers of Season 0, and pick up where we last left the cast, with Joe captured by the rebels and Donk and Howl considering the ransom of 10,011 S.A.W. Tickets. If you want to catch up on previous episodes of the animated series you can find the YouTube season playlists here:

• Season 2
  
• Season 1 recap (if you want to just jump straight into Season 2 without watching Season 1)
  
• Season 1

We increased the production values throughout Season 1 as we established the show, so if you just want to watch a portion of the first season, Episode 3 begins most of the deeper storytelling, and Episode 5 bumps up the production values significantly.



The second Early Access season has arrived, with another 49 tiers to complete, for the same 550 S.A.W. Ticket price of the previous pass. The 28 new cosmetic items are a mixture of beach-themed wear to match the shorelines update and items featured in the musical trailer embedded above, so that you and your bravest super friends can reenact moments from "The Incident" at the Super Animal Super Stage (scratch that, terrible idea).

We'll let you explore the whole pass in detail yourselves in-game, but some of the highlights include the Vaporwave M16 with custom firing sound effect, point emote, and clarinet, fishing rod and marching cane melee weapons that each have their own custom equip sound. In addition to cosmetic items, the pass also contains Carl Coins, Super Serum, and S.A.W. Tickets.



The Season 0 Animal Pass has now been replaced by the Season 0.5 pass, but it won't be gone for good, so don't worry if you weren't quite done! We're working on designing and implementing a new archive system for Animal Passes that will allow you to re-enable and purchase previous passes so that you can complete them at your own pace. We plan to debut the new system in our v1.0 update later this year alongside the Season 1 pass!

Cross-platform note: the Animal Pass and its progress sync between platforms, but S.A.W. Tickets are platform-specific, so any S.A.W. Tickets earned in the pass will be granted to the platform you're playing on at the time of the reward. The same is true of purchased S.A.W. Tickets, which will only be redeemable on the platform you purchased them on.




Upon updating, you'll be greeted by a create account / login screen so that you can claim your Steam save data to a Super Animal Account. If you've played before on Steam, you'll want to create a new account to associate that existing save data with it (don't create the account on Xbox if you have existing PC save data that you want attached to your account). Once you've set an email and password, your save data will be associated with it so that you can log in with the same Super Animal Account on Xbox and have your progress sync!

If you don't ever plan on playing on other platforms you can skip account creation/login! Just keep in mind that if you ever change your mind and do play on other platforms in the future, we don't support account merging, so only one platform's save progress can be associated with a Super Animal Account.




The S.A.W. Scientists have made a major breakthrough and are pleased to introduce the first cold-blooded Super Animals in the Research Lab, Super Turtles! They can be unlocked starting at level 60, and include the following breeds:

• Super Turtle
  
• Super Aqua Turtle
  
• Super Loggerhead Turtle
  
• Super Slider Turtle
  
• Super Tortoise

We also have some new cosmetic items that pair perfectly with the Super Turtles that you can look forward to in an upcoming giveaway! Join our Discord or watch our Twitter, Facebook or Subreddit to catch those when they drop.


The island's shorelines have been completely re-done with new assets and better looting opportunities:

• Map size has increased from 4248x4248 to 4608x4608 (+17.6% total area) with a combination of increased island size and added deep water so that the island doesn't get quite so close to touching the edges of the map.
  
• Shorelines have been rebuilt and expanded out, with shallow water that you can wade into (at the cost of speed) before hitting the deep ocean.
  
• New region-specific structures have been added along the updated beaches including huts, bungalows, a lifeguard station and more.
  
• The biggest changes were made in the south, east and western shores, but additional expansions were also made along the northern snow cliffs, including new crossable bridges.
  
• The river mouth outside of Superite Mountain is now surrounded by cliffs and has two crossable bridges.
  
• Interior inlets/rivers have also been updated, in addition to some areas near to shorelines.
  
• Eagle flight speed has been increased along with the map size change.
  
• The first few gas circles have been tweaked to match the new map size.

• Shallow water slows movement by 31%, unless in a Hamsterball or Emu, in which case it only slows by 11%.
  
• Animated crabs have joined the beach party and can be found along portions of the new shorelines. They also have a new secret milestone associated with them.
  
• You can also find and open Giant Giant Clams in shallow water that provide ammo, Super Tape, grenades, or Skunk Bombs.
  
• Keep in mind that creep-walking on shallow water will still make splash sounds, so you won't be as sneaky as on land if you're making a water-based approach.

• Emotes that support movement are now limited to 20.0 movement speed, and weapon speed no longer affects them.
  
• It's no longer possible to use creep-zoom while emoting, healing, or taping (you can only use it while your sniper-class gun is actively equipped).
  
• The second to last gas circle's warning timer has been adjusted from 15s to 18s to provide a bit more breathing room for intense final fights.
  
• Fixed some environmental z-order issues near the top of the map.
  
• Translation fixes.

We also have some new bundles coming to the S.A.W. Shop, with brand new items debuting in them. The Sailor Bundle will arrive when the S.A.W. Shop rotates this Thursday, June 3rd at 6pm PDT!

Set a reminder on Steam with the blue button on the right or hit the notification bell on YouTube to be reminded when it's live!

Hey there Super Animals rocky and sandy, Donk Patrick and Howl Michaels are back for another episode of Super Animal Royale Tonight!

Tune in to see which players had the superest kills and scooperest bloopers of Season 0, and pick up where we last left the cast, with Joe captured by the rebels and Donk and Howl considering the ransom of 10,011 S.A.W. Tickets. You'll also see a preview of the new shorelines coming in Season 0.5, which kicks off June 1st at 12am PDT on Steam!



For those new to the show, Super Animal Royale Tonight is our animated series that features top community clips, submitted by you, and also expands the world and storytelling of the game, while syncing up with changes to the in-game island. After the episode concludes and the new update arrives, you'll be able to visit the new locations seen on the show!

You can catch up on the story from the previous two episodes of Season 2 on YouTube here.

You can also go all the way back to the beginning and watch Season 1 here or get the summary of Season 1 in our recap.

We increased the production values throughout Season 1 as we established the show, so if you just want to watch a portion of the first season, Episode 3 begins most of the deeper storytelling, and Episode 5 bumps up the production values significantly.

If you want to submit clips or art to future episodes of Super Animal Royale Tonight, be sure to join our Discord Server, or follow our Twitter, Facebook or Subreddit, where we put out the call for clips before each episode and announce art contests.

We hope you all bring your super popcorn with you to the live premiere; we can't wait to watch it with you!

Hey Super Animals,

To prepare for upcoming platform releases, we are making price adjustments to most regions to account for currency fluctuations, balance some inconsistencies on our initial pricing, and maintain fairer pricing across platforms and regions. Each platform approaches localized pricing slightly differently, so we've attempted to find a reasonable middle ground between them so that the prices can be the same no matter which platform you play on.

The pricing update will go into effect on June 1, 2021.

The following table lists the new pricing for our DLC packs and S.A.W. Tickets. Base pricing in $USD won't be changing, but is provided for reference:



We’ll continue to update pricing as needed to account for currency fluctuations.

Introducing the latest addition to the Super Dog roster: the Super Beagle! 🐶

The new breed will be making its full debut in the Research Lab in about a month, but Super Animal Royale Content Creators will be giving away codes this week on their streams, so that you have a chance to unlock it early!

Tune into SAR Content Creators streams on Twitch & YouTube from today to Sunday, May 23rd for a chance to win a Super Beagle code.

Look out for the #SuperBeagleGiveaway hashtag and stream titles with [Super Beagle Giveaway] in them to find participating streamers!




If you’re a content creator who plays SAR and wants to participate in future giveaways, you can apply to our Content Creator Program right here: https://contentcreator.animalroyale.com/signup/

Hey Super Animals, we’re so excited to finally share that Super Animal Royale is coming to consoles, and that every console version will support cross-play matchmaking with Steam, and the ability to bring your game save with you wherever you play! It’s been really hard to keep it to ourselves as we’ve worked with Modus to make it happen, but we’re thrilled that very soon you’ll be able to play SAR on your TV with Xbox or PlayStation, play on the go on your Nintendo Switch, or stream it from the cloud with Google Stadia.

We hope you’ll be as excited as we are to welcome all of the new players to the island. Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S players will arrive first on June 1st as part of the Xbox Game Preview program so they can participate in providing Early Access feedback along with all of you before our full launch, and Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5 and Stadia versions will follow when the game leaves Early Access later this year.

In order to support this, when you update to the new version of the game on June 1st you’ll be greeted by our new Super Animal Account system. Signing up with an email and password will let you claim your PC/Mac save data to your account and then you’ll be able to bring it with you to Xbox Game Preview or wherever you play in the future (including bringing your console save data back to PC).

Alongside the console news, it’s taken a lot of restraint to keep from singing about the trailer embedded above. We had such a blast creating this musical extravaganza! Lore-hounds should recognize a key moment from Super Animal World’s history, referred to by S.A.W. Legal as “The Incident,” revealed here for the first time.



In addition to welcoming in all the new Xbox players to the island, PC players can look forward to a Major Update with our biggest map expansion yet (literally the biggest by sheer surface area changed) and a brand new Animal Pass season.

The entire shoreline surrounding the island has been redesigned and rebuilt, with roving crabs to meet and Giant Giant Clams to open. The new beaches, traversable shallow water and southern islands also increase the island’s overall size so that there’s more area to play in. Additional deep ocean water around the edges of the map and tweaked Skunk Gas parameters now make it so that beaches will be in the Circle of Life (Skunk Gas safe zone) a bit more often too. There are also multiple new types of shoreline buildings and structures that make looting the perimeter of the island more rewarding.

As of June 1st you’ll also be able to start making progress through the brand new Beach Party Pass, our Season 0.5 Animal Pass (the second Early Access pass). It contains a mixture of beach-ready gear, costumes seen in the musical trailer above, and more. You can unlock the full pass for 550 S.A.W. Tickets.

The Season 0.5 Animal Pass works the same way as the Season 0 pass, and will mark the end of Season 0. However, this won’t be the last time you’ll see Season 0. We’ve been talking with a lot of you in our Discord server and on our social media channels ever since the first Early Access Animal Pass came out to see how you’d like to see the system evolve. One of the issues that came up most often was that players don’t like that old passes go away entirely, which can make the end of a season a stressful race to the finish line before the pass expires. We agree! So we’re designing and are working to implement an archive system for previous seasons. It’s not ready to release quite yet, but you can look forward to it debuting alongside the Season 1 Animal Pass when the game leaves Early Access later this year.

What this means is that if you don’t finish your Season 0 Animal Pass in time before Season 0.5 arrives, you’ll have another chance when the archive system arrives (and all your progress from this season will remain saved)! We’ll have more to announce as we get closer to Season 1, but the system will allow you to re-activate previous passes that you own so that when you purchase a pass you can feel comfortable finishing it at whatever pace works best for you.

We’ve been ready to burst holding back all this news, and now we’re equally eager to finally share this big update and welcome all of the new Xbox players in less than 4 weeks!

See you all on the (bigger and better) island soon, Super Animals!

The Super Easter egg hunt has begun! Trade in your eggs for holiday-exclusive cosmetic items and round up your best squad for the brand new Mystery Mode.

Collect eggs until the event ends on April 25th at 11:59pm PDT!

Redeem your eggs for 8 new event cosmetics:

• Pink Polka Dot Bow (hat)
  
• Easter Egg Glasses
  
• Easter Bird's Nest Hat
  
• Easter Vest
  
• Flower Dress
  
• Blue Bunny Ears
  
• Chocolate Egg Gravestone
  
• Chocolate Bunny (melee)

Or spend them to collect 14 returning legacy Super Easter cosmetics!

New Super Animal spring flower breeds have also arrived in the Research Lab:

• Super Cherry Blossom Badger
  
• Super Violet Squirrel
  
• Super Daffodil Horse

Starting tomorrow (April 1st), the Super Bunny Beanie will be available in Carl's Cart along with Banana (melee) and Banana Umbrella from previous year April 1st banana events.

Thanks to some hard work from Ms. Macawsome, the S.A.W. Shop now has support for discounted item bundles! The first bundle will be available tomorrow, April 1st at 6pm PDT when the shop rotates and is themed to get you in the spirit for spring:


This is only the first of many bundles, so you can check the shop weekly to see all the new ones we've created! If you already own an item in a particular bundle, you'll still be able to purchase the bundle to complete your set and it'll automatically adjust its S.A.W. Ticket price to give you the same bundle discount on the remaining items that you don't yet own.

We also have a surprise new weapon cosmetic that will be rotating into the shop for April 1st tomorrow...praise banan!




A new limited-time squads game mode has arrived and will be active for the duration of the Super Easter Event, until April 25th at 11:59pm PDT!

Join a lobby with a squad of up to four and a dice roll will deliver you one of 7 modified riffs on the battle royale mode:

• Bananarama - Praise banan! Gun bullets are bananas, bananas spawn more frequently, grenades/skunk bombs are banished, and every time it rains it'll be banan rain.
  
• Wild West - Cowboy hats for all and weapons are limited to magnums, hunting rifles and bananas. Specific to this mode, magnums and hunting rifles are available in every different rarity tier including epic and legendary!
  
• Shotguns & Snipers - Only shotguns and snipers will spawn, but they can be found in every rarity tier in this mode, so you can find an epic shotgun in a Rebel Cache or a gray sniper on the ground.
  
• Super Slow Bullets - All weapons shoot with 50% bullet speed so you can get your super dodge roll on to avoid them.
  
• Super Fast Bullets - All weapons shoot with 200% bullet speed!
  
• Handguns Only - Only pistols, dual pistols, silenced pistols, magnums and deagles.
  
• One Hit Kill - Every weapon kills in a single shot (or hit or peck). Armor, grenades and skunk bombs are disabled and skunk gas speed and warning times are 20% faster.

We'll have more details on the next season of the Animal Pass as we get closer to it, but it's officially coming in late-May! We've added the late-May date to the pass in-game as well and will update it with the specific date as we approach it.

• A new set of milestones has been added for munching mushrooms. The new item rewards for completing them are: a Mushroom Shirt, Mushroom Umbrella, and Mushroom Cap.
  
• Existing milestone items will have their rarity converted from orange to a suitable regular rarity color. The gun skins are already like this so we are finally standardizing for all (this is just a visual change).
  
• Dogna's Dart Gun clip size increased from 5 to 6, and maximum ammo increased from 30 to 35. This change helps give a bit more breathing room for missing a few shots, and we will also be evaluating other improvements if necessary in the future (especially around healing).
  
• The current game mode is now displayed in-game below the minimap in the lobby and in the paws menu during a match.
  
• Toggling UI off will now also turn off the recently added arrow that points to the Circle of Life when tutorials are turned on.
  
• Fixed a bug where invisible mushrooms could be pinged during a match lobby.

The next update after the Easter event ends will be a Major Update in late-May that includes the new Animal Pass season, so it’ll be a bit of a longer gap between updates than usual, but we think it’ll be worth it once you see what we have in store! We’ll have more to share leading up to the update including another content creator item giveaway with brand new items, so keep your super eyes peeled for more info later in the month. 👀

Cherry blossom season is also almost here so watch our social media channels for the Sakura code making its return very soon!

Badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers and mushrooms have arrived.

The new Super Badger is also joined by 3 extra badger breeds who most definitely don’t give a 💩.



Super Badger breeds:

• Super Badger
  
• Super Honey Badger
  
• Super American Badger
  
• Super Honey Honey Badger

Mushrooms can also now be found in grassy forest biomes and provide instant health upon munching them down with E, just like coconuts.

Classic memes out of the way, the update also includes 9 free cosmetic items to help you celebrate St. Pawtrick's Day in style! Simply play SAR and you’ll have a 25% chance of earning one each match until you’ve collected them all.

7 Legacy St. Pawtrick's items return:

• Lucky Shirt
  
• Lucky Bow
  
• Lucky Beard
  
• Lucky Dress
  
• Lucky Hunting Rifle
  
• Lucky Top Hat
  
• Lucky Suit

And we’ve added 2 new 2021 St. Pawtrick's items:

• Pot of Gold Gravestone
  
• Shamrock Glasses

You'll be able to earn all 9 items until March 25th 11:59pm PDT!




Our biggest feature for this update that we’ve been working on for a while is a brand new tutorial system, featuring NPC animals to meet and in-world tips. We want all of your feedback on the new system so we can continue to expand upon it and improve it, so we’re enabling it for all players even if you’re a long-time player. We’d really appreciate it if you let us know what you think in Discord, Twitter, Reddit, Steam comments or any of our other channels!

Our main design goal with the tutorial was to make it as unobtrusive as possible, and teach players while they’re actually playing without getting in the way, but if you find it distracting it can be turned off with a single switch in the Paws Menu. Re-enabling the tutorials at any point will cause them to restart at the beginning of the chain.

Here’s how it all works:

• During your first match, you’ll meet Moosevelt and Quack Shot who will introduce the basics of playing SAR.
  
• Then, while you play, contextual tips will appear pointing out useful mechanics. They’re designed to appear when they won’t be too distracting so you have time to read them and perform their action, but let us know if they could use more fine tuning.
  
• When Skunk Gas begins to move in and you’re outside of the safe zone, an additional arrow will now appear to help new players find their way to the Circle of Life.

See it in motion here.

• Night mode has been updated to be more atmospheric, with new color temperature and lighting.
  
• Conal vision has been removed in favor of a localized light source (so gameplay at night will now be similar to daytime and more about the atmosphere).
  
• New outdoor ambience sound when in night mode.
  
• Added more night lighting to certain environment pieces (ex. rebel caches and exit signs).

Clip submissions are officially open for the next episode of Super Animal Royale Tonight! Make sure to check the form attached for all the details.

Clip requirements:

• 1080p+, 30fps+, less than 30s
  
• Please only submit up to 3 Blooper Scooper clips and 3 Superest Kills clips maximum.
  
• Please only submit clips with the new in-game UI (guns laid out horizontally in the bottom right).
  
• Please do not submit any clips with copyrighted music.

Tips for getting selected:

• 16:9 aspect ratio preferred.
  
• Shorter clips are preferred, but please try to leave at least 2-3 seconds on either side of where you think the best action is, so we have flexibility with the edit. If a clip is cut too abruptly it may be unusable.
  
• Visual clarity is key. If it is hard to follow the action, a clip is less likely to be selected.
  
• Reactions can make clips particularly great, so streamer overlays / facecams are good as long as they're high quality and don't distract too much from the clip.

Submit your clips here.

To catch up on episodes of SAR Tonight you can check out Season 2 (including a Season 1 recap) here or go all the way back to the beginning of Season 1 here.

Gameplay & Challenges

• Added two milestones for team healing. The rewards are a syringe and doctor's outfit.
  
• Added mushrooms to the forests around the island. They are typically found near pine trees and rocks, and munching one provides +5 health, similar to coconuts.
  
• Changed weekly challenge for Dogna's Dart Gun kills to be damage instead of kills.
  
• Replaced "Survive in Skunk Gas" weekly challenge with a munch mushrooms challenge.
  
• Added a daily challenge to munch mushrooms as well.
  
• Break explosive barrels weekly challenge changed from 75 to 30 barrels.
  
• Research Lab shows silhouettes for undiscovered animals.

Weapon Balancing

• Added 0.02s click buffer when shooting non-automatic weapons. This allows for more regular timing of breakpoints and less gun jamming.
  
• AK damage up-close changed from 35/37/39 to 33/35/37, and damage at max range changed from 25/28/31 to 23/26/29.
  
• M16 damage up-close changed from 38/40 to 37/39, and damage at max range changed from 31/33 to 30/32.
  
• Dogna's Dart Gun reload time reduced to 1.4s from 1.7s.
  
• Grenades are now audible from further, and use a custom sound when heard at further ranges.

Fixes

• Fixed stretched arms bug on parachute landing and with the Silenced Pistol.
  
• Fixed compression artifacts on the Dynasty Helmet.
  
• Fixed some cosmetic layering issues with the eye patch.
  
• Fixed the fez icon.
  
• Added an error message when the shop fails to load.
  
• Translation fixes.

Super Mod Cait The Cat's mod item is also now available for the first time in Carl's Cart! Grab the "Blue Hoodie & Camo Pants" from now until next Thursday when the shop rotates.

In addition to today's update, we have a bunch more in the works for the coming months to look forward to based on your feedback, so we wanted to start giving you a preview into some of those items as we're working on them. This list is only a sample of a few of the items that will be coming in the next updates, but let us know what you think and what else you'd like to see!

• Super Easter Event (April)
  
• S.A.W. Shop Bundles (get a set of items for a discount)
  
• Major map update (late May)
  
• New Animal Pass Season (tentatively scheduled for late May)
  
• New Super Animals (of course)

The Year of the Super Ox is here! The Super Beavers have replaced the Super Rat statue with a Super Ox statue in Bamboo resort and scattered Red Envelopes around the island for the celebrations. Trade them in for exclusive items in the Lunar New Year Shop.

We've also added the long requested ability to dual wield pistols! Just pick up a second pistol while holding a single pistol, and they'll automatically craft into Dual Pistols. Read the full patch notes below for all the details!

(Note: this will be March 1st in most other timezones)



Spend your Red Envelopes on 8 exclusive new event cosmetics and 16 legacy lunar new year cosmetics! Red Envelopes can be picked up around the island while playing and are also rewarded based on time survived at the end of the match.

• Mandarin Hat (2021)
  
• Lantern Umbrella
  
• Lunar JAG-7
  
• Lunar Silenced Pistol
  
• Lion Dance Ball
  
• Red Lunar Dress (2021)
  
• Lunar Vest (2021)
  
• Pipa

• Super Lunar Ox
  
• Super Golden Ox
  
• Super Demon Bull
  
• Super Deity's Ox

We've also brought back the S.A.W. vs Rebellion (32v32) limited-time mode in NA and AS regions as a 4th game mode until the end of the Year of the Super Ox event!

If you haven't already played around with the update to Dogna's Dart Gun that added healing, it's definitely worth trying out in 32v32 to support your teammates.




Visit Ms. Macawsome in the S.A.W. Shop for some new premium cosmetic items themed after the event and the new dual pistols! There's 2 new featured items for each week of the event, as well as 8 new items arriving as 48hr offer rotations.

• Jian Sword (Feb 4 - Week 1)
  
• Yin & Yang Dual Pistols (Feb 4 - Week 1)
  
• Dynasty Helmet (Feb 11 - Week 2)
  
• Dynasty Armor (Feb 11 - Week 2)
  
• Lion Hat (Feb 18 - Week 3)
  
• Black Hanfu (Feb 18 - Week 3)

• Anvil Gravestone (Feb 4)
  
• Orange Bubble Glasses (Feb 4)
  
• Birch Sparrow Launcher (Feb 4)
  
• Flamberge (Feb 4)
  
• Boxing Shorts (Feb 12)
  
• Pearl & Onyx Dual Pistols (Feb 12)
  
• Sword Gravestone (Feb 12)
  
• Cupid's Bow (Feb 12)*

*Cupid's Bow will be available for 4 days instead of the normal 48hr window, to provide extra time to get it for Duo's Day (aka Valentine's Day)!




John Lick is here with all the math you need to calculate the type of Dual Pistols you'll get when you pick up a second pistol (while holding your first one) to automatically craft them into Dual Pistols.

If you want to check out some stylish slow-mo moves with the Dual Pistols, definitely also check out John Lick's video on Twitter.

• Two Pistols craft into Dual Pistols at the higher rarity of the two.
  
• Damage and bullet speed matches the Pistol (at the equivalent rarity), but clip size is increased to 20 and reloading takes a bit longer (1.3s).
  
• New set of milestones and skins are also available to collect for the Dual Pistols.
  
• Excellent for slow-mo montages.

• Rebel Caches can now drop epic weapons. This should make opening them more exciting and rewarding.
  
• Hidden rooms such as the Farm Rebel HQ, Sphinx, Super Stage piano, and Pyramid lab now have a guaranteed rare or higher weapon spawn (up to epic).
  
• Epic weapons no longer spawn randomly in the world, aside from the epic pistol and in the aforementioned rooms. This change helps balance the rate with which epics were previously being found (ie easily spotted from the eagle).

• The bamboo stick has been moved to Carl's Cart. It was previously a Legacy Lunar New Year item.
  
• The Duos Day rose will be returning from Feb 12th 5pm PST to Feb 16th 5pm PST. Just play a Duos match to earn it!

• Year of the Super Rat statue has been replaced by a new Year of the Super Ox statue.
  
• New Super Ox photo on the wall alongside the Super Rat and Super Pig from previous years.
  
• Community member Atuin (牛棚大師) has written a brand new Lunar New Year couplet for the front gates of Bamboo Resort! In English, it translates roughly to: Calves are young and strong, swamps and rain forests are magnificent and beautiful. / Once familiar land now gains a new look and feelings, thousands of animals are rejoicing. / Travel the world like a herd of cattle running on grassland, full of life.

• Adjusted uncommon AK and rare AK bullet speeds to be 180 and 188 (previously were 184 and 196).
  
• Adjusted epic M16 and legendary M16 bullet speeds to be 196 and 204 (previously were 221 and 233).
  
• Emoting in lobbies no longer has player collisions.
  
• Hamster ball audio range increased from 140 to 160 units.
  
• Reduced brightness on poison skunk gas slightly.
  
• The Sniper and Dogna's Dart Gun now snap their aim instantly after reloading. This should reduce the issue of shooting after reloading, where the gun is still sideways from the animation.
  
• Fixed a few spots on the map where players would get stuck.
  
• Fixed a bug where Carl's Cart sometimes displayed template items.
  
• Adjusted texture size and number of particles for Skunk Bombs.
  
• Lobby timer will jump to 60s remaining if 32+ players join a match (if the time remaining is currently longer). This change was made to reduce time spent in lobbies slightly.

• Added /hamball command which will spawn a hamster ball during a match. A limited number of them can be added total.
  
• Added /juice and /tape commands to spawn health juice and super tape respectively.
  
• Fixed a bug where the admin spectating wouldn't see utility items update when swapping between players.