Hey everyone!

Thank you all for the incredible support since launch. It's been amazing to see your feedback, secrets shared, and speedruns popping up. This second update brings a splash of speed and clarity to your journey across Primal Planet, literally. 🐬🌊 Whether you’re still exploring or deep into the late game, this patch adds new ways to move, navigate, and uncover secrets.

🚀 What’s New in This Update!

DOLPHIN RIDING! 🐬💨🌊

🐬 Swim up to a dolphin to auto-grab its fin and ride!

💨 Swim twice as fast

｡˚○ No oxygen loss

🎮 Full control over movement

🌟 Bite with normal attack

💦 Let go with roll/dash button

🐬 Dolphins can also be found in rare deep locations

MAP IMPROVEMENTS! 🌍🗺️

🤫 Local maps now show how many secrets you’ve found!

🧭 In addition to your village, lost tribe members, the mountain tribe, underwater alien facility, and your daughter's location, the world map now also shows:

🔑💙 Blue Keycard

🔑🍊 Orange Keycard

🌀 Portals

🏕️ Potential village locations

🧩 Connections between different areas

🧑‍ Lost vilagers appear on your local map if you're in the same area

Note: Many of these only appear after the game's introduction. Before that you can simply follow a question mark or village icon in your local map.

OTHER FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS

💨 Swim Boosters no longer cause dashing, but still temporarily increase your speed and restore oxygen.

🗺️ Fixed an issue where unrevealed maps didn’t show level exits you’d already visited.

🚧 Fixed a progression-breaking bug that allowed players to bypass the mountain tribe trap sequence.

That’s all for now! As always, thank you for playing, exploring, and helping shape the world of Primal Planet. If you’ve been enjoying your time in the game, consider leaving a review—it really helps more people discover it. 🦕💚

- Albert van Zyl aka Seethingswarm

Developer of Primal Planet

Join us for a Castle Crashers Painter Boss Paradise DLC stream tomorrow, August 14th, at 2:00 PM PDT on YouTube and Twitch! We'll be playing as custom characters made by YOU, the community that makes it all possible for this big chicken! See you there!!!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3543444000

For today's patch we got a few balance updates and quality of life features. Don't forget to leave a review!

Weapons

• Mines: maxed lifetime reduced from 3 minutes to 1 minute

• Laser: Increased Laser base damage and DoT from 1 to 2. fixed an issue where damage wouldn't appear in the selection screen

• Spinner: fixed weapon description

• Updated bullet graphics for certain gun weapons

Crew

• Biologist/Collector: For each collected item gain a coin per boat level Instead of 10 coins

• Racer/Evasive Maneuver: added +10% dodge chance, reduced dodge chance per steering level from 1.5% to 1%

Enemies

• Crabs: fixed an issue where crabs would remain after defeating the king crab

• Snail: increased trail contrast and added noise

Visuals

• Stats and cargo remain available for inspection post-run

• Fixed a minor text issue for maxed stats

General

• Increased max available cargo to purchase by 2

• Added 10-value coins

• Fixed an issue where 5-value coins wouldn't show the correct visuals

• Deliveries now spawn coin drops using mixed denominations from highest to lowest

• Coins now aggregate outside view to improve performance

• Fixed an issue where audio wouldn't start properly

Please leave a review on the Nautical Survival Steam page, it really makes a difference and will help us reach a larger audience.

Join our Discord to chat with fellow sailors, share ideas, or just hang out. Your feedback continues to shape Nautical Survival, and you can help me navigate the ship as we sail through Early Access.

Stay afloat,
-Idan

A new Skirmish Event!!

Event Name: Patience is a Virtue
Event Type: Skirmish Event
Event Start: Thursday, 08/21 at Noon ET (16:00 UTC)
Phase 1 End Time: Saturday, 08/23 at Noon ET (16:00 UTC)
Event Finish: Monday, 08/25 at Noon ET (16:00 UTC)

Squadrons: Y
Crew Sharing:N
Faction Winner Bonus: N

Event Crew: Short Fuse Torres 5* (Existing), Reginod 4* (New), and Grebnedlog 4* (Existing).

Mega Crew Threshold: Reginod 4*, and Injured Torres 3*.

Ranked reward 5* crew: First Officer Raffi 5* (New), and Grebnedlog 4* (Existing).

Featured Ship: PSS Packled 5* (Existing), Hirogen Warship 4* (Existing), and Intrepid-class 3* (Existing).

Bonus crew
- high bonus: event crew
- small bonus: variants of Grebnedlog, and Reginod and crew with the Torres trait.

Event Faction
No

Live long and prosper,

The next major hot fixes:

1. Leaving the safe zone instantly disables penalty, no delay.

2. Spectate window appears on car destroy (no navigation in pause menu needed).

3. Ocean City water no longer have collision.

4. Night City added airships were added as decoration, new building shader.

Airships move along the Lorenz Attractor path: https://youtu.be/WxWvm1TA0-Y

Airships:

• Create and save multiple profiles with your own settings
  
• Associate profiles with specific processes for quick activation
  
• Auto Profile Detection toggle — Scope X can switch profiles automatically when you’re in a mapped process
  
• New theming across the Customize page to clearly show your active profile
  
  
  

  

  
  
  Small Updates:
  
• Updated text in some help articles
  
• Updated Customize page icon to better match the Scope X logo
  
• Fixed the focus outline feather setting to be more concise
  
  Thank you for all the great suggestions we’ve received in our Discord — they help us shape Scope X into something better every update.
  If you’re new here, we’d love for you to join our Discord and share your ideas too!
  
  Join our Discord here
  
  🦆

Update 1.2 is live!

This update adds a couple requested features, quality-of-life improvements, and some cleanup behind the scenes.

**What's new:**

- The addition of an instant-restart hotkey for speedrunners! You can set the binding in the control setup

- You can now add lava to your custom levels!

Fixed:

• Punitor Natium technique could be learned multiple times.

• Side improvement branches for Punitor Natium were not purchasable.

Changes:

• Punitor Natium – Speed upgrades → now changed to Duration upgrades.

  • Each level adds +3 seconds of technique performance time.

  • All levels together = +15 seconds total, on top of HST scaling.

• Punitor Natium – Damage upgrades:

  • Each level adds +10% total slap damage.

  • All levels together = +50% total damage, on top of STR scaling.

Other Improvements:

• Pause menu can now be closed with the Esc key.

Patch 1.02 is live now, addressing the following issues:

• Bug fixes with interact system

• Bug fixes with navigation

• Added tracker to display the total number of narrations and photos found in the level

• Input hints were added to all levels that do not have an intro cinematic (Drydock)

• Fixed total number of narrations and photos showing incorrect number when inside Morro Castle Interior

• Updates button on main menu now points to the correct page

• Fixed position of pause menu details when UI scale is low

• Fixed weather widget not being scrollable on gamepad when UI scale is high

• Controller interaction enhancements and bug fixes

• Fixed typos and grammatical errors in descriptions of found photos

• Bug fixes with shading issues

• Bug fixes with teleporting

• Bug fixes with collisions

We’re continuing to test and monitor feedback for this release. If you encounter any issues as a result of this update, please reach out and we will do our best to follow up as we are able to.

Happy exploring!