Primeval News

Herbivores can now smell nearby edible plants and trees.



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Changes:
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Compsognathus turn speed was reduced slightly. The compsognathus felt a little out of control when turning sometimes.

Most dinosaurs have had their movement speed increased.

Pteranodon and velociraptor movement speed has been slightly decreased.

Brachiosaurus's size has been increased.

Dinosaurs can smell much further now, approximately 4 times as far.

Dinosaur growth point requirements have been adjusted. I'm trying to find the right balance of not taking extremely long to grow older, still having to spend some time in each growth stage, and having a sense of character development. If your herbivores are not growing very much from eating, try migrating to a new biome to see if the plants there may be more nutritious. If your carnivores are not growing very much from eating, try eating a fresh kill instead of left over meat, and also try to find what species are more nutritious.

Brachiosaurus has had its overhead health-bar position adjusted because of its recent size increase.

Dinosaur smell functions slightly differently now. Instead of the distance linearly scaling based on the size of your dinosaur, it now works in four different steps. One step for each growth stage, each 1/4th of the max distance further than the last. This way hatchling dinosaurs' smell works without having to grow for awhile first.

Smelled targets are now sorted based on distance from your dinosaur and the closest targets are given priority.



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Bug Fixes:
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The camera's underwater effect should no longer sometimes be activating upon continuing a saved dinosaur's progress when not in water.

Changes:

• The required amount of growth points in order to grow to the next growth stage has been changed.
  
  
• Ants now give twice as many growth points when eaten. Spiders now give three times as many growth points when eaten. Mantis now give four times as many growth points when eaten.
  
  
• All dinosaurs now give more growth points when eaten.
  
  
• All plants now give more growth points when eaten.
  
  
• Dinosaurs gain twice as many growth points when they're hungry.
  
  
• Carnivores gain twice as many growth points when they eat from a fresh corpse. Does not work for insects.
  
  
• Herbivores gain twice as many growth points when they eat from a live plant.
  

• The dinosaur selection screen has been recreated.
  
  
• The player's dinosaur progress is now saved so they can play that dinosaur during other play sessions and pick up where they left off.
  
  
• Once the player gets a species to grow to a new growth stage (juvenile, sub-adult, adult), that growth stage is unlocked permanently. Unlocked growth stages can be selected when creating a new dinosaur to advance to that stage from the beginning. Using this feature costs evolution points.
  
  
• Dinosaurs gain experience points when they reach a new growth stage. Experience points can be used to gain damage, health, and speed bonuses.
  

Changes:

• A dinosaur can only have experience spent on increasing stats if they are alive.
  
  
• Dinosaur's no longer animate walking or running one time when they spawn.
  
  
• Tier 2 species cost 1,000 evolution points each to unlock permanently. Tier 3 species cost 2,500 evolution points each to unlock permanently. Tier 4 species cost 5,000 evolution points each to unlock permanently.
  
  
• Dinosaurs now take longer to grow because their progress is no longer lost after each session.
  
  
• Insects no longer spawn around hatchling and juvenile dinosaurs.
  
  
• Twice as many insects spawn around nests.
  

Bug Fixes:

• Spending experience on increasing the speed stat is now working properly.
  

Changes:

• Insects now have less flesh, more proportionate to their body size.