Meltdown Patches
A new patch is available for Primal Carnage: Extinction, addressing a few issues that were identified after the Meltdown update recently went live. We also have some news about future changes to the human characters.
[h2]Version 1.16.1 Change Notes[/h2]
[h2]Version 1.16.2 Change Notes[/h2]
[h2]Human Character PSA[/h2]
We're happy to say we've brought an old friend back to work on updating the human animation system.
Maccollo was one of the main animators on the original Primal Carnage game. He's an extremely talented artist and we're glad to say he is going to be replacing the existing human animation rig completely, with customized movesets for every character.
click for high fps...
This process will take a fair bit of time, so it will likely be a couple of months before these changes are in your hands. We wanted to share this exciting news early, and give a heads up to any community creators who might be working on human taunts or custom human meshes for the current skeleton.
We will be endeavoring to port much of the user-created content for humans to the new rig ourselves, but may need the help of the original creators in this regard. If you are working on new human content, it might be worth holding off engaging in more ambitious efforts such as making full character models for now (hats, backpacks etc. are fine though, being separate objects).
[h2]Future Changes to Challenges[/h2]
We're putting things in place to allow to improvements to challenge synchronization with the economy server and make them more consistent. These are still in testing, so we hope you understand and be patient with these changes, as we believe they will be for the better.
Currently in development:
As we roll these changes out, it may result in some shorter "challenge weeks" - i.e. you may not have the full 7 days that you normally would to complete challenges. We hope you agree that the overall improvements and new bonuses coming in the near future for challenge completion will make it worthwhile. The first major change will be the synchronization of everyone's challenge reset timer early next week. We will announce on the official discord when this change is live for everybody.
[h2]Meltdown Part 2[/h2]
The Meltdown Event is underway and we're hard at work on the second part of this sizzling summer shindig. Keep an eye out towards the end of July for more news on what's coming in Part 2!
And if you haven't already, you might want to check out the Summer Scavenger Hunt going on right now on Discord, for the chance to unlock special time-limited item codes!
The first few codes have only just been revealed, with many more left to uncover! Keep track of how the community is progressing by checking the Special Event Trello board.
[h2]Version 1.16.1 Change Notes[/h2]
- Fixed dino health restoration from bite kills not working correctly at times
- Fixed several challenges not tracking properly
- Updated hint text for challenges and evolutions
- Fixed some missing text characters from end game screen
- Health bar is now a brighter, more consistent red colour
- Fixed missing descriptions / names in a few areas
- Added PhantomCave map image to Host Game
- Adjusted attachment offsets for a couple of mutations
- Fixed certain gift items not dropping
- Various skin fixes
[h2]Version 1.16.2 Change Notes[/h2]
- Added new default mutation: Serratus Rex (spiked "alpha" rex model)
- The majority of Spiked Rex skins are now compatible with mutations
- Fixed projection and spawning issues with Cryo acid pools
- Fixed texture opacity masking on a couple of skins
- Physics optimizations to some cosmetic items
- Disabled some client-side error logging that may have been causing slowdowns
- Fixed an incorrect scavenger hunt skin reward
- Challenge tracking fix for headshots
- Challenge tracking fix for grenade launcher
- Challenge tracking fix for Carno charges
- Challenge tracking fix for tranquilizer kills
- Fixed a bug with challenges being replaced
- Preparations for unified challenge reset time (upcoming)
[h2]Human Character PSA[/h2]
We're happy to say we've brought an old friend back to work on updating the human animation system.
Maccollo was one of the main animators on the original Primal Carnage game. He's an extremely talented artist and we're glad to say he is going to be replacing the existing human animation rig completely, with customized movesets for every character.
click for high fps...
This process will take a fair bit of time, so it will likely be a couple of months before these changes are in your hands. We wanted to share this exciting news early, and give a heads up to any community creators who might be working on human taunts or custom human meshes for the current skeleton.
We will be endeavoring to port much of the user-created content for humans to the new rig ourselves, but may need the help of the original creators in this regard. If you are working on new human content, it might be worth holding off engaging in more ambitious efforts such as making full character models for now (hats, backpacks etc. are fine though, being separate objects).
[h2]Future Changes to Challenges[/h2]
We're putting things in place to allow to improvements to challenge synchronization with the economy server and make them more consistent. These are still in testing, so we hope you understand and be patient with these changes, as we believe they will be for the better.
Currently in development:
- A consistent Challenge and Drop reset time for all players. Previously this used to be relative to when you first logged in. The new system will reset challenges and drop limits at the same time each week.
- The ability for us to enable/disable/replace Challenges "on the fly". As you may have experienced with the recent update, sometimes challenges can be broken. We're investigating how to fix and replace challenges remotely.
- Methods for us to adjust Challenge targets without needing to patch, if a challenge is seen as "too easy" or "too hard" for its given tier.
- The ability for us to issue the same Challenges to all players during a reset cycle. While we're not sure how this one will go, it could be interesting to have 1 or more challenges to be the same for all players- so you can work together to complete common goals.
- Continued improvements to Challenge rewards, with different item drops (or multiple items!) being rewarded for completing challenge tiers.
As we roll these changes out, it may result in some shorter "challenge weeks" - i.e. you may not have the full 7 days that you normally would to complete challenges. We hope you agree that the overall improvements and new bonuses coming in the near future for challenge completion will make it worthwhile. The first major change will be the synchronization of everyone's challenge reset timer early next week. We will announce on the official discord when this change is live for everybody.
[h2]Meltdown Part 2[/h2]
The Meltdown Event is underway and we're hard at work on the second part of this sizzling summer shindig. Keep an eye out towards the end of July for more news on what's coming in Part 2!
And if you haven't already, you might want to check out the Summer Scavenger Hunt going on right now on Discord, for the chance to unlock special time-limited item codes!
The first few codes have only just been revealed, with many more left to uncover! Keep track of how the community is progressing by checking the Special Event Trello board.