Primal Carnage: Extinction News

[h3]THE RESULTS ARE IN![/h3]



We had some great pieces of art submitted for the February Emoji Contest on Discord, and got a real kick out of browsing through them. As ever, we're continually impressed with the creativty of our community!

Congrats to everyone who took part, it was a hard time picking out the winners but here we go...

[h3]TOP PRIZES[/h3]

Primal Shades by Jita23 -



Primal Classy by Bad Plague -



Primal Devious by DragonsAreCool -



In addition to being made official emojis, these 3 lucky creators will have their submissions appear as merch on the Official Primal Carnage Store!

We'll be contacting the top 3 creators soon about getting some personal physical copies!

[h3]RUNNERS UP[/h3]

These three entries will appear as In-Game Sprays for now, but may become official merch at some point in the future...

Cryo Blep by ChunkoHunko -



PrimalWheeze by ChunkoHunko -



PrimalBeg by Bad Plague -



[h3]HONORABLE MENTIONS[/h3]

Finally, not quite winners, but ones we thoroughly enjoyed!

PrimalSuspicious by Jita23 -



PrimalDespair by Domstrya -



PrimalFlex by BLSwiftThief -



PrimalGlare by QuiteBluish -



Thanks again to everyone who entered the contest. This is only the start of many Community Contests to come this year, keep an eye out for more soon!

[h3]JOIN IN ON DISCORD:[/h3]

For all things Primal Carnage, get involved on the Official Discord...

The Valentines Update for Primal Carnage: Extinction is now live on Steam!

This is the first part of February's month-long special event, featuring smouldering good looks and various quality of life fixes. Read all the details below...

[h3]Balance Tweaks & Fixes[/h3]

Our latest update includes various small fixes and a couple of balance tweaks suggested by the community. First and foremost, Flaregun shots have received a smaller detection radius for homing to targets, and to offset their easy to hit nature even further they now do ~50% less instant hit damage.

With the PlayStation beta in full swing and less time to work on the PC side lately, we've been tryng to resolve smaller quality of life issues in the moments we have to do Steam patches. Many annoying cosmetic issues have been addressed lately, improving compatibility of various skins and fixing visual oddities wherever possible.

Additionally, we've done some minor overhauls to the economy login process that should reduce login failures a tad, and fixed an issue with new players syncing their inventories.

Of course, the main highlight of today's update is our...



Love is in the air! Our annual Valentines celebration is now live in-game, with a collection of lovely new looks and a taunt that is sure to melt your heart...

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Outside of the store, we have a bunch of new free drops, including one simply adorable Carno...



Not to mention, the delightful Cupid's Bow...



This is only the first part of this month's special event, with even more interesting new looks arriving in Part 2, closer to the end of February!

Remember that you can check out all of the new goodness on our Special Event Trello Board in addition to previewing all store items in the game itself.

[h2]CLASSIC VALENTINES SALE[/h2]

Absence makes the heart grow fonder they say, well it's been at least a year so we're also bringing back all of our classic Valentines items today!



Loads of lovely legacy skins, gifts, taunts and more have returned to the store, ALL with some delicious discounts. So if you've always wanted a stylish red tophat for your dino - now's your chance!


[h2]Version 2.9.50 Changelog:[/h2]

• reduced flaregun instant hit damage from 50 to 25
  
• shrank the hit detection scale for flaregun projectile
  
  
• improvements to economy login process -
  
• resolved issues with new players syncing their inventory with the item server
  
• fixed the game not waiting for you to be logged in when joining a friend's match via Steam
  
  
• fixed missing pycnofibres on Snowstorm Ptera skin
  
• fixed "feathers" showing on Onyx Freeze Rex skin's head
  
• fixed Atroxiraptor skin not supporting head attachments
  
• fixed mismatch between head and body lightness of Troianas Rex skin
  
• fixed misaligned Classic Shotgun model in 3rd person
  
• fixed Satchel cosmetic floating when used with Lifeguard or Wilderness Commando skins
  
• fixed collar eye glow not being visible on Soul Collector Cerato - note that this does make its eyes less "soulless"
  
  
• reverted BasicTesting and main menu to non-snowy versions
  
• added new Valentines Event items
  

[h2]Community Roundup[/h2]



Our first art contest for 2024 just ended, with the Emoji Design Competition now concluded. We'll be announcing the winners soon, and running many more community contests throughout this year on the Official Primal Carnage Discord!

If you're involved in making content for PCE, we recently revealed the deadlines for special events. Submit your skins, taunts, mutations and more before the deadline for an event to have a chance of them being officially added during this year's occasions!



Elsewhere, the overhauled PlayStation version has been in closed beta for a few months now and we still have plenty of places available to bring in more testers. Sign up at www.primalcarnage.com if you want to take part. The major 3.0 update for PC will contain all of the graphical and gameplay improvements from the new PlayStation version when it launches later this year.

[h3]Thanks for playing![/h3]
-The Primal Carnage Team

[h3]Happy new year![/h3]



The winter event is still ongoing with Valentines coming up soon, but today we have a smaller patch with some fan-requested tweaks included...

Cosmetic attachments like hats can be difficult to line up accurately, especially when the same hat is used by characters that range from your average human to a full-on Ceratosaurus. This patch we've added new code functionality to set custom sockets per class for shared items, allowing for much better alignment.



Mutations still pose a challenge for this, but if you're using the default models (or something close to them) the hat offsets should now be generally pretty good, if not spot-on. The most noticeable improvements are for larger items like the valentines tophat, and we'll be fine tuning things further.

Aside from cosmetic tweaks, a few changes were made to the in-game text chat. We decided to disable drop notifications appearing in chat- they're not really that relevant and you still get the regular popup notice on your own screen when you receive a new item anyway. Finally, server admins and developers now have custom bold name colours in addition to the scoreboard icons to help identify who's who.


[h3]Patch 2.9.49 Chaneglog:[/h3]

• fixed Velvet Novaraptor skin posing as a feathered raptor
  
• positional tweaks for a few dino items such as the raptor head cam
  
• implemented support for unique socket locations for multi-team items
  
• fixed cosmetic attachment offsets for items which are used by both dinos and humans
  
• fixed the fishing hat position + rotation along with a bunch of other human cosmetics
  
  
• added special colors for admin and dev names when typing in chat
  
• stopped drop messages appearing on the in-game chat
  

Our economy programmer is looking into problems a couple players have had redeeming DLC lately, there will be some server-side improvements to hopefully address this soon.

If you are having problems connecting to the economy, please share your details in the bug reporting section of the official Discord so we can investigate.


[h3]
Thanks for playing![/h3]
-The Primal Carnage Team

Today's patch brings a few small fixes and tweaks after for our latest major update.

[h2]Patch 2.9.48 Changelog:[/h2]

• killing with the chainsaw should now grant health
  
• fixed Trapper's net win taunt being unusable
  
• fixed Renegade Pathfinder missing his facepaint
  
• fixed offsets for new plushies on Scientist
  
• fixed Tyto Feathered & Leaflitter Guanlong Dilo skins missing their feathery base textures
  
• tweaked Craghide Cerato skin texture
  
• fixed a couple of corrupted icons
  
• fixed swapped steam icons for a couple skins
  
• fixed missing item info for sleepy cerato avatar
  

[h3]Thanks for playing, and have a merry christmas![/h3]

[h3]The Steam Winter Sale is here, and Christmas means Carnage![/h3]

Get 70% OFF Primal Carnage: Extinction and 40% OFF all DLC packs until January 4th!

If you've yet to jump into the Carnage or have friends who may want to hunt humans and slay dinosaurs, now's a great time with the PCE 4-Pack also discounted this winter.

Save even more on DLC when you buy the Deluxe or Ultimate Edition bundles...



Our annual winter carnage event is running currently and is sure to leave you merry!



[h3]Happy Holidays![/h3]
-The Primal Carnage Team