Community Update #4 - Evolving Gameplay

In the last few community updates we've shared some of the upcoming improvements being made to Primal Carnage: Extinction, but ultimately all the new features in the world need to be supported by excellent core gameplay, and that’s an area we’re continually looking to refine.

To that end, we're going to be introducing some major changes that we hope will improve the balance, fun factor and longevity of the game.

First and foremost, some of these will be large scale core gameplay changes that we want extensive testing and feedback on, so they will not be making their way into our next major update (due in a few weeks). The improvements we're currently planning will focus on a few key aspects of gameplay...


Tyrants have always played a major part in Primal Carnage's core gameplay, but we feel like they could be more menacing and powerful than they are now. In Team Deathmatch, we plan on making Tyrants unavailable for general selection and instead making them a timed "reward" for the Dino team. Every few minutes a random player will be re-spawned as a Tyrant to help sway the game in their team's favor.

Once a player is selected to be Tyrant, they will be able to pick which of the three species they wish to play as. Alternatively, the chosen player can reject their selection as tyrant, which will prompt a different player to be offered the role. Our first implementation of this feature will likely be weighted so that there's a higher chance of players with high scores being chosen, but everyone else is still in with a shot at being selected.

Naturally, all Tyrants will receive a buff to ensure they provide both a big impact for their team, and make them a bigger focus for the Human team. Something that's perhaps worth a few extra points to take down as well.


The dinosaur classes have great diversity and we want to further differentiate the Human classes to match. Promoting teamwork and increasing the overall mechanical depth are our main goals here. We’re going to refine the Human gameplay to better support the theming of each particular character. This will involve tweaks to a number of stats such as health, movement speed, stamina, and more that will be extensively tested.

We'll also look at making changes to loadouts to help improve character utilities - for instance, the Scientist as a long-range character maybe shouldn't have the health pack.


To help support the refinements to many of the classes, we’ll be adjusting some of the pacing of the game. The goal of this is to enable all classes and roles to impact the game in a more positive way, helping to increase the overall suspense, strategy and tactics of the game.


These changes will apply across the board in all game-modes. In TDM and CTE, Tyrant Selection will be semi-random every few minutes. Player feedback and information from our Open Testing sessions will help inform our decisions here. In GTTC, after Humans make a certain amount of progress, Tyrants will start getting chosen and assigned to players.

For those of you that enjoy Team Deathmatch the way it is right now, rest assured that we will also be including a "Classic TDM" mode with the normal Tyrant selection options we have currently. However, the majority of the other balance changes will apply across both game-modes.


Ultimately we feel like these changes are the right direction to take Primal Carnage: Extinction to help improve longevity. The updated gamemodes and gameplay balance will serve as a basis for ongoing enhancements, improvements and new additions into the future. We will continue to improve Primal Carnage: Extinction to make it a game you can enjoy for years to come.

As always, if you'd like to get involved in the discussions about our upcoming changes, or meet new players, feel free to join our Discord Channel