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Patch 0.1.52.9



    General
  • Increased adult Dilo bite damage from 100 to 150
  • Reduced bleed damage for adult Dilo from 50 to 42
  • Reduced bleed damage for juvenile Dilo from 30 to 20
  • Rebalanced weight of Survival juveniles to be more reflective of their actual size, and reduced the jump in weight between growth stages.
  • Reduced volume of AI Avaceratops calls
  • Updated swim animations for Camarasaurus, increased Camara buoyancy
  • Reduced play-rate of Suchomimus crouch animations as a temporary fix until new ones are made
  • Can no longer create or dig a burrow with a broken leg
  • Entering a burrow has a shorter hold timer than before.
  • Reverted sprinting FOV adjustments, caused camera shaking
  • Characters align properly when entering/exiting burrows
  • Dryosaurus hatchlings can now enter burrows

    Fixed
  • Fixed growth not restarting after exiting a burrow
  • Fixed and improved game tip functionality
  • Fixed mouse cursor missing from MOTD
  • Fixed AI Avaceratops not dropping a corpse in adult stage

Patch 0.1.52.8



    General
  • Enabled the first version of the new burrowing feature for dryo, taco
  • Added Avaceratops AI to Thenyaw and Isle V3
  • Added AI velociraptors to Isle V3
  • Disabling HUD now hides group name tags, nest icons
  • Added new game setting "Disable Local Head Tracking"
  • Added slight movement pause to Pachy & Cerato landing animations to reduce sliding
  • Added effects to burrowing animations
  • Added new full-body vocalizations for adult Carnotaurus
  • Added nesting animation to subadult rex
  • Added new full-body bite animation for Carnotaurus
  • Increased speed that Sucho replenishes water when drinking
  • Adjustment to juvenile Sucho bite animation
  • Clamped ambient zone volume ranges
  • Reduced volume of swamp background sounds
  • Added lods and collision to further rock assets
  • Optimizations to jungle rock texture resources.
  • Minor tweaks to how FOV zooming works while trotting/sprinting
  • Added new soundtrack pieces to day phases and growth stages
  • Imported weather & location-based music tracks for later use
  • Added support for the nest UI to respond to the ESC key to go back/exit
  • Added new animation sets for juvenile and subadult T.Rex with full-body vocalizations
  • Updated & enhanced T.Rex life cycle sounds
  • Imported new dryosaurus burrowing animations
  • Enabled burrowing for dryosaurus survival juvenile and adult
  • Adjustments to swimming for Austroraptor and Baryonyx
  • Nest invites now show a different icon to group invites and have a gold tint
  • Complete animation overhaul for Camarasaurus with new full-body vocals

    Bug Fixes
  • Fixed food values being lower than corpse values for juvenile Carno, Cerato, Maia, Pachy & Utahraptor
  • Fixed character's growing resetting their nests ownership
  • Fixed juvenile Sucho having way worse stamina recovery than its adult form
  • Fixed bleeding ratios being backwards for adult Maia & Sucho
  • Fixed non-adult Ceratosaurs still using their old bite animation
  • Fixed Suchomimus using old sandbox hunger values
  • Possible fix for Cerato becoming stuck in falling state in some cases
  • Corrected rex detail color from appearing as a body color option for carnivores

    Balance
  • Improved bleed resistance for adult Triceratops
  • Increased ragdoll food values for Diablo, Maia & Trike
  • Reduced hunger decay for rex and giganotosaurus
  • Adult Spino, Giga and Rex can now eat "large" gore piles
  • Fixed resting heal rate for Parasaurolophus being the same as its idle healing
  • Fixed adult Utahraptor, juvenile Dilo / Sucho instantly losing their skin on death
  • Reduced fall damage threshold for Carnotaurus
  • Adjusted fall damage thresholds for jumping dinosaurs to be more realistic
  • Reduced bite damage for Giga to 700
  • Slight increase to adult Rex turn hardness
  • Increased weight mass of juvenile Suchomimus
  • Minor increase to Sucho swimming speed
  • Increased swimming buoyancy slightly for Suchomimus
  • Reduced swimming buoyancy slightly for Pachycephalosaurus
  • Increased trotting and sprint speeds for Camarasaurus
  • Increased pachy run speed by 1.2x
  • Increased water consumption amount for pachy's drink
  • Fixed Camara using IK while swimming
  • Lowered Camara direct attack damage

    Thenyaw Island
  • Placed "jungle trees" around main swamp area & some lowland river / pond areas
  • Added larger open areas between sections of forest
  • Cleared areas of forest that were growing through rock formations and POIs
  • New red glowing light added to radio tower to help guide players

Patch 0.1.52.7

    General
  • Lowered bite attack damage for subadult Giganotosaurus
  • Increased health/mass to 3600 for Suchomimus
  • Increased swim speed for Suchomimus, halved Sucho stamina drain from swimming
  • Increased ambush speed modifier for Suchomimus from 1.2x to 1.27x
  • Significantly reduced hunger decay rate for Ceratosaurus
  • Fixed over-exaggerated bite animation on Ceratosaurus

    Graphics
  • Overhauled animation set for Suchomimus featuring new full-body vocalizations
  • Updated swim animations for Pachycephalosaurus
  • Updated detail color pattern mask & palette for Tyrannosaurus
  • Updated skin pattern mask for Utahraptor
  • Updates to rock textures and shading

    User Interface
  • Removed more outdated / deprecated dinosaur classes from the selection list
  • Updated gameplay settings menu with more options
  • Rebinding action inputs now ignores any combination prefixes (Shift, Alt, Ctrl, Cmd)
  • Changed default binding for ToggleHUD to F10
  • Added monitor off/on 2D sounds when toggling HUD

    Bug Fixes
  • Rolled back an engine setting change that degraded performance
  • Fixed an issue where adult Allosaurus could become frozen when resting
  • Fixed being able to move during resting transition as Parasaurolophus
  • Fixed juvenile & hatchling Para using adult effects for sit / stand
  • Fixed missing nesting animations for Cerato & Sucho
  • Fixed Cerato juv having an overbite

Patch 0.1.52.6

    General
  • Wiped database due to several growth changes
  • Old / deprecated dinosaur classes are no longer available on the class select screen
  • Adjusted upper body blend on Diablo so its attack is better seen when in motion
  • Added preview locations to Cerato, Giga, Pachy & Sucho skin creators
  • Adjustments to TinyVocal attenuation, disabled logarithmic filtering on Oro & Psittaco calls
  • Removed several unused keybinds

    Balance
  • We have updated the bleed mechanic so that bleeding will now only be mitigated by resting, allowing you to recover from a deadly wound if you are out of combat. When not resting, you will now die of blood loss if you continue moving around while bleeding.
  • Improved herbivore bleed resistance across the board to improve chances of survival.
  • Increased impact damage for Diabloceratops (bleed damage unchanged)
  • Increased Galli's weight mass to properly reflect its size
  • Increased Parasaurolophus speed so it can outpace a default run Allosaur
  • Decreased the stamina drain on Maiasaura so it doesn't have asthma
  • Adjusted T.Rex stamina to now drain faster
  • Shortened ambush duration for T.Rex due to its recent speed increase
  • Increased stats for Giganotosaurus across the board, offsetting his subadult's power spike compared to T.rex, and bringing it back in line at adult.
  • Reduced bite damages for Allosaurus, Carnotaurus, Dilophosaurus
  • Increased damage for Utahraptor and Suchomimus bites

    Bug Fixes
  • Fixed dismiss game tip (default F9) not showing initially
  • Fixed subadult Giganotosaurus skins not being applied correctly
  • Fixed the resting animation not looping for Pachycephalosaurus
  • Re-synced Suchomimus movement notifies to better fit its new animations
  • Fixed hatchling & juvenile versions of Allo and Cerato playing adult effects on sit / stand
  • Re-enabled engine option "FinishCurrentFrame" to see if it helps performance

Patch 0.1.52.5

This patch is a follow-up to our recent update which re-introduced the Giga class to Survival, you can read more about that here. Expect more tweaks as we examine the feedback that has been coming in, along with various bug fixes.

    General
  • Increased Allosaurus max bite damage from 300 to 400
  • Increased Carnotaurus max bite damage from 150 to 250
  • Increased Dilophosaurus max bite damage from 15 to 200
  • Made jumps cost significantly more stamina for Pachycephalosaurus
  • Fixed adult Pachy growth stage starting with zero damage output
  • Increased Pachy stamina drain from sprinting

    Bug Fixes
  • Fixed resting being bugged for Pachycephalosaurus
  • Fixed juvenile Giganotosaurus drink montage not looping
  • Fixed subadult Giga eating animation failing to play
  • Fixed subadult Giga male IK/animations breaking
  • Fixed some misaligned footsteps for Suchomimus
  • Fixed fade in/out time on rain mist being way too slow
  • Changed chat command warning for /grow /heal /slay
  • Subadult forms of Giga, Rex & Trike can now build nests (Subadult Rex still needs a custom nest build animation)