Beasts of Bermuda News

We have a community-wide announcement to make. We are hosting a YouTube video event for our new Pteranodon that will last until June 30th. Between now and the end of the last day of June, participants in the event must create a video involving our Pteranodon and post it onto YouTube. Once they have done so, we will also be linking the video in our youtube_and_streams channel! It is a goal of ours with this patch to raise our game’s YouTube coverage through hosting this event. If you have a video to submit, make sure to contact me or another member of our staff through discord to let us know!
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The video can be as long or short as the applicant wants. It can be about any topic they wish, so long as it involves our new Pteranodon in some significant way. The video could be a PvP montage, a gameplay guide, a scenic flight of some kind, or anything you can think of. If you have any questions about the viability of a video idea, feel free to ask!

One Pteranodon skin, made by Twilightwolf , has been created but was left out of the patch that deployed last night. It is, indeed, a bioluminescent glimmer skin. As many of you know, some animals have glimmer skins that were granted to people who donated towards our project prior to our Steam release. We now offer a chance for everybody to obtain the Phantom Glimmer Pteranodon skin! This skin will only be obtainable through this event. It will never be available again.
When the event has concluded, we will be judging the videos. The videos will be judged more on effort put into the video and the content itself, rather than things outside the participant’s control, such as YouTube subscriber count, access to high-end editing software, or having a lower-end PC.

Our judging of the event submissions is primarily to filter out extremely low-quality videos and to ensure effort is applied to the submissions. For example, putting 25 minutes of unedited, raw gameplay footage on YouTube will not grant a participant the Phantom Gimmer skin. If we receive a high volume of good-quality submissions, we will be awarding many participants with our skin. Our primary goal here is to spread news of our patch out onto social media, in part through this event, and we have no concern over awarding many people if turnout and video quality is excellent. This is an event, not a contest!

I now present some images of the Phantom Glimmer Pteranodon.
It is fully customizable.

(Steam won't let us upload this image for some reason, just click the link to see the backside of the Pteranodon!)
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/498272956800172032/583725538485731328/ScreenShot00144.png

When is the event over?
-June 30th, at 11:59 PM.
What are the content guidelines?
-It's very open, the only requirement is that you make video showcasing our new pteranodon model as the main highlight. Video can be any length, we judge based on effort/quality.
Pvp, documentary, a guide, all genre are welcome!
Can I collaborate with others to create and submit videos?
-Yes. We are willing to award up to two Phantom Glimmer Pteranodon skins per submission, as long as both people were involved in creating the video.
What if I want to make a video with many participants?
-If you create a video with many players taking part, we are willing to award non-bioluminescent versions of the Phantom Pteranodon skin to all that partook in the creation and filming of the video.
Where do I submit my Video?
-Once you have finished and uploaded your video: you will need to join our Official Discord, and send the link to your video submission to a developer. We will then post it for you in our Youtube Section on Discord (with your permission) for all to see!

For all videos submissions please make a list of your participants (including their steam IDs), to make awarding skins easier.

Please Note: We are currently in the process of doing a complete overhaul of our dinosaur textures, some skin and eye texture problems will be present while we continue to finalise these changes.

You may need to delete your save folder to enable the new "Look Up" Keybind feature. If your movement keys are not working properly: open your keybinds menu and press reset to fix.

NEW CONTENT
-The Pteranodon has been entirely reworked and redone
+Implemented our new Pteranodon model and accompanying animations and sounds
-The Pteranodon can now properly swim after diving into the water, and can takeoff from the water's surface, rather than just "flying" through the water
-The Pteranodon's braking mechanic has been redesigned entirely. You still brake by holding the use key but its functionality will feel very different
-The Pteranodon has been entirely recoded, which should result in flight, landing, and takeoff being substantially less buggy
-The Pteranodon is now much more forgiving on crash landings
+Added a new keybind, Look Up, that allows the player to deliberately look upwards. This should aid in combating pteranodons.
-Make sure to delete your local Saved folder to make use of the new keybind or it will not work
+Added support for wing flap sound effects and added these for pteranodon
+The Pteranodon now plays landing sounds for water and terrestrial take-offs
+Added a new console command, "SpawnCarcass," that allows the user to spawn a carcass. A good default size value is 1000.
+The HUD now shows shelter by lighting up a ring around your HP globe.

GRAPHICS
+All creature textures have been overhauled with better maps and textures
+Work on Lightshafts and lighting corrections
+New: Extra layer of post processing for the feather tech on velociraptor. The feathers are now occluded to simulate their density and give more volume to the character.
+Made appropriate shaders for smaller items that don't require complex customization support for optimization
+Redid the UI on MainMenu, New visual take on the MainMenu UI Side bar, logo is smaller
+Updated the Ichthyovenator eyes to look prettier
+Adjusted lighting on Rival Shores, Ancestral Plains, and Caldera

SKINS
+Reimported all the Krono and Orycto skin Diffuse Files so that they had a mouth texture.
-Tengu Kronosaurus by Misha and Hukysuky
-Dalmation Lurdu by Misha and Spoon
-Added Python Velociraptor by BananaBae
-Made the Default Pteranodon Skin customizable
-Added Fighter Pteran by Misha
-Added Molted Pteran by Twilightwolf
-Cracked Aroura Pteranodon by Twilightwolf
-Sunrun Pteranodon by Twilightwolf
-Moth Pteranodon by Twilightwolf
-Zero Pteranodon by Misha & Sombrero Galaxy
-Caustic Pteranodon by Misha
-Bull Rex by Omnomnomnivore
-Snow Leopard Velo by Misha

MAP WORK
+Made the larger volcano cave have an overhang shelter on Bloodbath
+Bloodbath Fixes
+Final AP changes, caves and shelters and map hole fixes
+Added a special room to the temple in Bloodbath
+Connected the flooding pit in the labyrinth cave to the ocean.
+Tried to optimize the arena.
+Polished up a lot of stuff, added mud in ocean caves, more terrain painting.
+Various AP fixes, caves, foliage, culling
+Added a river to Ancestral Plains
+AP changes / modified-improved river, added particle effects, etc

BALANCE CHANGES
+Juvenile apatos now generate smaller carcasses
+Experimental change: Added support for a new system that heavily discourages self feeding.
-Freshly spawned players drop significantly less food until they've eaten and drank sufficiently.
-Scent no longer shows up for animals that have not yet consumed 100 food or water
+Pteranodon damage now scales less intensely with growth (0.5% increase per percent growth, down from 1% increase per percent growth), beyond 1.0
+The Pteranodon Sharp Teeth talent has been replaced with Exhausting Bite
-This talent was stacking too intensely with Piercing Beak
+Pteranodon ground-based mobility has been greatly improved
+The Pteranodon mobility tree now contains two talents designed to greatly enhance grounded mobility, which have replaced tiers 4 and 5 on the talent tree
+The Pteranodon's grounded mobility has been substantially buffed in general
+Replaced the Pteranodon Stoic talent with Strong Lungs
+Significantly increased the amount of food fish grant
+It should now be much easier to hit fish as a pteranodon
+Adjusted health and damage scaling beyond growth 1.0 such that larger creatures aren't as strong as before
+The Scent keybind now activates fish for piscivores, rather than the call keybind
+Servers now default to sorting by player count, rather than latency
+The Pteranodon can use scent underwater to locate fish
+Adjusted the Pteranodon slowdown rate when it enters water from flight
+Modified camera behavior for smaller creatures
+After braking, the pteranodon no longer retains as much of its accumulated speed from diving
+Slowed Ptera flight speeds down
+The Botanist talent is now more effective at reducing food poisoning gained by eating aquatic plants as a terrestrial herbivore
+Improved the Ichthy's ease of catching fish
+Adjusted camera behavior for all entities for it to fit the creature better on the screen.
+Adjusted the talent coefficients for the Pteranodon's speed increase talent such that they aren't as extreme
+Adjusted the talent coefficients for the Pteranodon's Strong Legs talent such that they are not as effective at preventing damage from landing
+The Pteranodon talent Exhausting Bite has been replaced with Sneaky
+The Parasaurolophus talent Sturdy has been replaced with Clotting
+The Sneaky talent now also reduces attack-based sounds
+Carcasses, glowing herbivore plants, and water bodies can no longer be detected via scent from an infinite distance
-The default radius is now 350 meters.
-The talent Keen Olfactory now greatly improves the radius at which you can detect these around the map
-Extended carcass net culling distances to support levels 3, 4, and 5 smelling from further away
-The default scent radius, with 0 talents invested, is about half the current net culling distance
-Two talents invested will yield a scent radius similar to that of the current, live version
+The talent Keen Olfactory now allows herbivores to smell meat with 3+ talents invested
+Increased the modifier strengths for levels 3, 4, and 5 in Keen Olfactory
+Misc tooltip changes for some talents
+Apatosaurus now has Keen Olfactory in place of Cleanliness on its talent tree

BUG FIXES
+Fixed megalo's overbite on mesh
+Fixed para's sleep and sit not being grounded
+Fixed megalo head during sleep
+Fixed megalo running on wrong foot
+Fixed: Breath bars now start for creatures who have been grabbed off land by a Mosasaurus
+Fixed: Mosasaurus now loses stamina if sprinting while grabbing another creature
+Sort of Fixed: Glitched plant bundles now destroy themselvees rather than allowing players to continuously eat indefinitely
+Reduced the speed at which players can pick up multiple plants.
-This will hopefully make jammed plant bundles less likely
+Fixed: Pteranodon no longer applies growth-based damage increases twice while in flight
+Fixed some minor layout things in the loading screen so stuff lined up better
+Fixed some map holes on AP, added an ocean cave
+Fixed: Strange outline on Sunrun skin
+Fixed: Loading with a pteranodon saved no longer causes the old pteranodon model to show up
+Had an issue where the mosa's mouth mask didnt reach the corner of the mouth, fixed.
+Hopefully fixed render distance on velociraptor
+Fixed: The Pteranodon can now properly fly out of freshwater bodies
+Fixed: The Velociraptor now fades out of render distance at a proper distance
+Fixed: Held plants with one plant in a pile can now be properly eaten after being dropped
+Fixed: Plants and other map objects such as crystals now respawn properly
+Fixed: Fish no longer get masked by the ocean's material while highlighted
+Fixed: Fish now show up when scent is used for appropriate animals
+Fixed: Carcass size now properly works with the new anti self-feeding mechanic
+Fixed: Game client crash related to saved talent builds
+Fixed: Saved talent builds now properly apply their respective talent modifiers when loaded
+Fixed: Bleed tick healing rates now work properly
-Healing is doubled while sitting down
-Healing is quadrupled while sleeping
-Healing is tripled for stationary creatures that cannot sit or sleep, such as aquatics
+Fixed: Velo tongue no longer clips through its mouth when looking around with the camera
+Fixed: Velo animation twitch bug on one of the idle stances
+Fixed: Velo collisions being too small and easily getting stuck in the low resolution hitboxes
+Fixed: Ichthy no longer subtracts ability power twice when using its secondary attack
+Fixed a minor issue with the new post process that was causing overdraws
+Fixed: Creatures should no longer, occasionally and randomly, die to fall damage when they shouldn't
+Fixed: Kronosaurus can now properly pick objects up beyond growth level 1.2
+Fixed: Para's head now behaves properly when transitioning from a resting state to a sitting state
+Fixed: Para arms no longer contort when it uses vocals while sitting down
+Fixed: Screenshot mode no longer points a flying pteranodon towards the direction the camera was facing when screenshot mode was entered
+Fixed: Fish no longer highlight indefinitely far away
+Fixed: Pteranodon now reduces speed properly when it goes underwater
+Fixed unsticker. Requires to enter the command "stuck" in order to activate now, and cannot be activated while sitting.
+Fixed collision issues with velociraptor's camera
+Fixed: You're no longer doomed to rejoin a server if respawning while being a velociraptor latched onto a surface.
+Fixed: Customization works properly once again
+Fixed: Ichthy textures.. Not awesome but better, did what I could with the sculpt.
+Fixed: Camera bug when being small and young, putting it under the map (correlates to the recent changes to camera)
+Fixed: Camera probe size that was far too big in general ando ther QoL things
+Fixed: Customization works properly once again
+Fixed: Ichthy textures.. Not awesome but better, did what I could with the sculpt.
+Fixed: Camera bug when being small and young, putting it under the map (correlates to the recent changes to camera)
+Fixed: Camera probe size that was far too big in general and other QoL things
+Fixed: It is no longer possible to glitch velociraptor with its camera somehow colliding with the character
+Fixed: rivers no longer visible while under the ocean.
+Fixed: Occlusion problem on AP
+Fixed: Veloci climbing sometimes unlatching on its own right after latching.
+Fixed: Lighting on RS and collision problems for acacia
+Fixed a bug with the velociraptor that would cause it to either get stuck, enter a infinite flight mode, or both at once.
+Fixed collision issues on large meshes on AP.
+Fixed: Elasmosaurus no longer jams after eating

We're proud to show off our newest completed dinosaur model, made by Manuelsaurus! Welcome Saichania, an armored herbivore donated generously by Howdn!

We're deploying a small hotfix that fixes the issues with food values saving or being set properly. Predatoria has gone ahead and updated all the servers!

Also, commands that need other player names or IDs (such as setgrowthlevel) should now work properly!

Sorry for the delay the last few days regarding the mini patches, for those curious, they were attempts to fix the crashes.
We're deploying another patch that was previously supposed to be another crash fix, but we ended up adding several bug fixes and balance changes to the patch as well.
Here are the notes:

Added Skins:
-Blue Whale Elasmo by BananaBae & Mugman
-Death Mosa by Misha & BananaBae (redone files hopefully don't cause crashes like before)
-Bearded Mosa by TwilightWolf

+Players of different species can no longer gain friendship grades beyond C
+Increased time values to obtain all friendship grades, with the higher friendship grades now taking substantially longer
+Asphyxiation now causes you to subtract a percentage of the other player's breath bar, rather than a fixed value.
+Significantly reduced the time requirements to acquire enemy status with other, nearby players that induce stress
-This is to combat mixed packing issues we've seen on some of our servers
+Reduced the amount of speed the Swift Flippered talent grants to improving Kronosaurus' lunge.
+Kronosaurus lunge now consumes both stamina and ability power, with the stamina consumption equating to 50% of the ability power consumption
+Mosasaurus swimming walk speed is now 800, down from 900
+Elasmosaurus swimming sprint speed is now 1750, up from 1700
+Elasmosaurus swimming walk speed is now 800, up from 700
+Split the "Aqua Affinity" talent into two separate talents, one for terrestrials and one for aquatics. The aquatic version has weaker modifiers.
+Elasmosaurus now increases both speed and stamina past growth 1.0, at a rate of 0.25% per 1% growth.
+Friendly Fire reduction from B, A, and S grade friendships now only apply while in a group
+Maybe fixed: Mosasaurus can no longer, occasionally, instantly kill other players with fall damage by grabbing them under some conditions
+Increased Parasaurolophus growth speed by 25% below Elder
+Swapped the location of Pressure and Weather Resistance on the Ichthy talent tree
+Fixed: Breath bar timers now continue to function beyond 300 seconds
+Fixed: Players of the same species now properly accrue negative friendship points while near one another, if either is a carnivore.
+Fixed: Talents such as Keen Senses should no longer occasionally appear on juveniles that should not have these talents
+Fixed: You can no longer get fat from the Fleshgrazer talent, greatly hindering Velociraptor combat
+Fixed: Being overweight now properly visibly scales the creature mesh in the lateral direction