HALLOWEEN HORRORS

[h2]The season of fear is here![/h2]

HALLOWEEN HORRORS has returned to Primal Carnage: Extinction!



We've got a scream of an event in-store for you starting this weekend, with Halloween in full swing and dozens upon dozens of fixes, improvements and feature additions to the game. You can see the full list of changes at the bottom of this post.

First though, let's gaze upon highlights of what horrors await you.
Gamer beware, you're in for a scare...

OTHERWORLDLY NEW MAP!

Halloween Horrors adds a new community level to the game, the strange and beautiful Pandoria...

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Created by community member ArchShiranui, this map is filled with spooky easter eggs, luscious visuals and even has lower than Earth-standard gravity.

Available for a limited time in regular deathmatch rotation!





As a special halloween present, we've transformed every default skin into a living fossil! This curse will last for the duration of the halloween event, only lifted with the breaking of the unholy storm that is currently ravaging the island. Enjoy.

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Working together with creators in the community we have brought you over 100 shocking new looks in this update. Some of these are sure to strike fear into the hearts of your enemies!

You can browse through all of the new store items, gift items and free drops that have been added on the Special Event Trello board here!

There will also be a brand new Halloween 2020 Gift added to the store this weekend!
Watch this space.



[h2]ULTIMATE & ENERGIZED ITEMS[/h2]

This update introduces a new rarity tier for items, ULTIMATE.

Ultimate skins feature animated emissive effects on their skins that reveal intricate details beneath the surface. These are ultra rare items that we have specially commissioned from the community. More will be added periodically as we get into winter, with new flavours being introduced.



Right now these items are available as a very rare drop during the Halloween Horrors event.

We are still in the process of making them craftable- you may see a Legendary option when you open the crafting menu. When this is enabled you can use 25 Legendary items to create an Ultimate tier skin. Watch for an announcement on the official discord server for when this new feature is live!

The other spooky new cosmetic we've added this halloween is the ability to Energize items using special crafting tools. The first of these is the Strange Combustible Crafting Tool.



Use the tool when crafting an item to apply special fiery effects to a dinosaur's eyes and add flaming hot trails to their feet! You can acquire these tools as random item drops while playing the game, and there is also a low chance you may receive one as a rankup or challenge reward.





We've gone through intense rounds of testing to bring you a massive suite of game changes that should make your Halloween unforgettable! Feast your eyes...

[h2]General Changes[/h2]

• Fixed crashing when switching teams / joining spectator
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when server changes maps
  
  
• New algorithm for spawn system, tuned to place tyrants further away from humans and find player starts that are away from large skirmishes.
  
  
• Players are now auto-spawned into the game if they stay on class selection too long
  
• Sensor mines are now destroyed when their owner dies, the same as land mines.
  
  
• Fixed GTTC victories not being tracked correctly
  
• Fixed GTTC Overtime having strange end conditions
  
• Players can now respawn during Overtime
  
• Fixed defending points bonuses not being awarded in GTTC mode
  

[h2]New Features [/h2]

• Cryo acid pools can now be transformed into fire pools by Pyro's flamethrower
  
• Dilophosaurus venom spray can now extinguish dinosaurs who are on fire
  
• Dilophosaurus puddles now drain stamina of humans that stand in them
  
• Dilophosaurus can now extinguish fire pools by spitting on them
  
• Small dinosaurs on fire can be put out by Dilophosaurus spit
  
  
• Pyro receives bonus points for transforming acid pools into fire pools
  
• Dilo receives bonus points for putting out fires
  
  
• Added alternate hit sounds when bullets impact dinosaur Strong Points
  

[h2]Human Gameplay Changes[/h2]

• Fixed hit marker sounds not playing in multiplayer
  
  
• Ammo kits (thrown by teammates) no longer resupply throwable weapons.
  
• Can now only replenish throwables by using pickups already placed in the world.
  
• Removed crit damage bonus from quick melee attack
  
• Increased stamina drain from sprinting as human
  
• Fixed hatchets and flares colliding with teammates
  
  
• Increased fire rate of regular shotgun by 25%
  
• Reduced shotgun damage from 360 to 300
  
• Max Spaz12 shotgun damage is now 200
  
• Reduced max range of double barrel shotgun
  
  
• Increased fire rate of Desert Eagle pistol by 15%
  
• Reduced damage of Desert Eagle from 105 to 80
  
• Reduced reload time of Desert Eagle
  
• Reduced spread of standard pistol
  
• Reduced headshot damage of standard pistol
  
• Increased clip size of standard pistol from 9 to 12
  
• Increased effective range of standard pistol
  
  
• Increased travel speed of assault rifle rocket
  
• Reduced max number of rocket bounces from 4 to 3
  
• Increased base damage of assault rifle bullets from 25 to 32
  
• Increased assault rifle ammo per clip from 40 to 60 bullets
  
• Reduced max effective range of assault rifle
  
• Reduced damage at max range for assault rifle
  
• Increased damage at max range for M4 carbine
  
• Reduced spread pattern of M4 carbine rifle
  
• Increased headshot crit damage for M4 carbine to 1.5x
  
  
• Prevented scientist & commando from being able to interrupt rifle reloads by pressing fire
  
• Increased flamethrower range and damage slightly
  
• Removed spread from chainsaw
  
  
• Added more intense first person camera motion from weapon recoil
  
• Fixed some weapons returning to their exact starting position after having recoil
  
• Fixed cases where camera shake was not being applied when near an explosion
  (this was only being applied to impact grenades previously)
  
  
• Increased rate of fire for sniper rifle
  
• Increased sniper rifle damage from 160 to 170
  
• Increased fire rate of dartgun
  
• Reduced spread of dartgun
  
• Reduced stamina drain & tranq amount per dart for dartgun
  

[h2]Dinosaur Gameplay Changes[/h2]

• Increased tranquillizer tolerance for Bruiser classes
  
• Slight reduction to netted time and stunned time durations for Tyrants
  
• Increased Tyrant step height
  
  
• Reduced Dilophosaurus spit overlay time to 4 seconds
  
• Doubled stamina regen rate for Dilophosaurus
  
• Increased Dilo venom instant hit damage slightly
  
• Increased stamina cost of Dilo venom spray
  
  
• Reduced stamina cost of Cryolophosaurus acid spray
  
• Increased cooldown of Cryo roar ability from 30 to 35 seconds
  

[h2]Map Changes[/h2]

• Added new map: PC-Pandoria (danger: low gravity!)
  
  
• Fixed out of bounds Flyer spawns on Volcano map
  
• Collision fixes on Volcano map
  
  [h2]Visual Changes[/h2]
  
  
• Updated dino eye shading with simple reflection effect
  
• Fixed the Bobcat Novaraptor skin having incorrect feathers
  
• Fixed the Regalis Dilo model mutation having a gap in the mesh
  
• Updated tomahawk material
  

[h2]UI Changes[/h2]

Added 3 new challenges:


• GOLD: Kill 10 dinosaurs with flame-charged acid pools
  
• SILVER: Kill 15 humans using the Ceratosaurus secondary attack
  
• GOLD : Extinguish 10 dinosaurs using Dilophosaurus venom spray
  
  
• Added bonus points for sensor mines marking enemies
  
• Added assist points for scientist when marked dinos are killed
  
• Reduced assist points for marked enemy kills from 25 to 15
  
  
• Possible fix for certain items not obeying togglehud (kill feed)
  
• Updated hint texts to have TIP! at the start of each one
  
• Added hint popups for Cryo, Dilo and Pyro regarding new abilities
  
• Fixed thrown ammo kits displaying +0 AMMO restored when already full.
  

[h2]Happy Halloween[/h2] -The Primal Carnage Team!