Prehistoric Hunt News

Greetings dinosaur hunters!

Two new dinosaur skin types and a pair of lever-action rifles join the hunt. The trophy lodge now lets you display trophy shots, while new story notes deepen Tenebris lore. Fresh callers expand your hunting options - and the game is now fully Steam Deck Verified!

Thank you to our great community for your continued support! ːsteamhappyː

Check out the patch video for more details:
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The update includes a total of 42 new unique skins for the huntable species! These come with the introduction of 2 new skin types for all the species which means each species now has 7 skin variations. From most common to the rarest here is the up-to-date list of skin types:

• Common
  
• Rare
  
• Piebald
  
• Xanthochromistic
  
• Melanistic
  
• Albino
  
• Erythristic
  

[h2]Xanthochromistic [/h2]
Xanthochromistic skins are exhibiting unusually high levels of yellow pigmentation, resulting in golden to yellowish tones that differ greatly from typical coloration.







[h2]Erythristic[/h2]
Erythristic skins have overexpression of red pigments, producing vivid reddish, copper, or rust-colored appearances uncommon in the wild type.







[h2]How the new skins affect scoring? [/h2]
In scoring the rarity bonus is given in the following way depending on the skin type:

• Piebald : 20%
  
• Xanthochromistic : 40%
  
• Melanistic : 60%
  
• Albino : 80%
  
• Erythristic : 100%
  

A new weapon type in the form of lever-action rifle is introduced. There are two rifles to choose from. Lever-action rifles are quick to handle and do decent damage but have slightly less penetration and range than bolt-action rifles. Scopes can be used on both rifles.

[h2]Greystone .45-70 Lever-Action Rifle[/h2]
This is a heavy rifle that is more suitable in taking down the bigger dinos. Magazine can fit 6 bullets.



[h2]Ashford .30-30 Lever-Action Rifle[/h2]
Ashford lever-action rifle is more suitable for smaller game and has a large magazine of 8 bullets.




Prehistoric Hunt has officially been tested and is now Steam Deck Verified!
This means full controller support, smooth performance, and a fully functional interface on the Deck.


You can now display your trophy shots in the trophy lodge. Before you taxidermize your catch if you’ve taken a trophy shot with it you’ll be able to show it in the lodge stand. The trophy shots are displayed on rectangular and round stands on separate frames. You can customize the placing of the frame when interacting with the stand.




In the shop players can find a new menu where they are able to recover items dropped. The recover price is 25% of the purchase price. If you don’t want to walk back to your death location this makes the recovery a bit easier.

Please note the current functionality allows you to buy back the items from your latest death location. If you died multiple times without recovering the items in the middle the previous death locations will still have the boxes and you can recover them by travelling to the location. And the recovery isn’t possible in a different session.




Exploring Tenebris Island will now reveal additional lore notes scattered across the environment. These fragments expand the island’s backstory, uncovering more details about its past operations and secrets.


New species introduced on the Tenebris island got their own callers: Sinornithosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Stegosaurus, Quetzalcoatlus and Therizinosaurus. The callers are available in the shop and you can find them in loot boxes if you’re lucky!

• When losing connection to server / suspending game recovering and rehosting
  
• Trophy camera rigidbody manipulation improved
  
• Improved cursor management in lodge when using controller
  
• Leaderboard tabs interactable with controller on first open
  
• Satellite phone can spawn in loot boxes
  

• Fixed grass in trophy camera
  
• Fixed Tenebris island dock sink hole
  
• Fixed missing prompts in weekly challenge menu
  

Thank you for reading and we look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Greetings dinosaur hunters!

We've just rolled out a new hotfix with several adjustments and improvements. Steam Deck UI scaling has been improved, controller navigation is more responsive with better button prompts, and intro flow issues have been addressed. We've also made performance tweaks to the culling system and fixed various text and UI issues. Thanks as always for your valuable feedback and ongoing support!

• Server creation options: Increased size of dropdown menu items
  
• Fix credits text size
  
• Fix spacing in notes menu
  
• Stats menu and challenge text scaling fixed.
  
• Fix Text Sizes: Server creation option, credits, stats/challenge menu
  
• How to play screen text size more consistent and bigger
  
• Clicking input fields with touch screen now trigger on-screen keyboard
  

• B can be used to exit Trophy view menu
  
• B can be used to exit Room select menu
  
• Joystick movement can be used to activate controller mode
  
• Trophy scene, Side button prompts to show button icons
  
• Button mapping for controller to show/hide UI in lodge
  
• Interact prompt to show button icon
  
• Switching tabs with controller in shop fix overlapping UI
  
• Fix for multiplayer server list not being selectable with controller
  
• Prompt for X to add / remove marker in map
  
• Fix Controller can select disabled map locations
  
• Intro blocked trophy claim screen block disabled buttons and auto select fill contract
  
• Fixed missing in-game actions in default controller setup (inventory, contract menu, hold breath, item equip).
  

• Fix for being able to buy other items in intro before health pack if doing it before the dialog
  
• Added one new prompt text to intro to clarify equipping part
  

• New automated system for improving culling system config to fix disappearing trees
  
• Small culling performance improvement
  
• Improved automatic game setting selection on first boot
  
• Fix for broken player file blocking login
  
• Fix Tenebris mission texts
  
• Added text in notes menu when no notes
  

Thank you for reading and we look forward to hearing you thoughts.

[p]Greetings dinosaur hunters!

We've just rolled out a new hotfix with various controller and offline improvements. Thanks as always for your valuable feedback and ongoing support!

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• [p]Game can now be played in offline without playing first in online.[/p]
• [p]Offline mode can be activated with controller.[/p]
• [p]Improved offline data management.
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• [p]Lists can be navigated better with controller.[/p]
• [p]Improved controller menu navigation with larger dead zone.[/p]
• [p]Improved changing menu content selection handling with controller.[/p]
• [p]Fix for controller equipment wheel getting stuck when pressing other equipment action while it is open.[/p]
• [p]Fix for trophy view menu on controller.[/p]
• [p]Trophy placement, trophy lodge and object placement menus in lodge can be closed with Back button on controller.[/p]
• [p]Selecting dropdowns now play sound with controller[/p]

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• [p]A new demo has been released with updated game and intro is now playable in demo.
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• [p]Fix for dragging items in inventory causing bugs.[/p]

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Thank you for reading and we look forward to hearing you thoughts.
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Greetings dinosaur hunters!

We've just rolled out a new hotfix with several adjustments and improvements. Thanks as always for your valuable feedback and ongoing support!

• Fixed Gallimimus ragdoll
  
• Fixed Quetzalcoatlus ragdoll eyes
  

• Added water movement points for Sarcosuchus
  
• Improved Tenebris island dino spawn areas
  

• Fixes for disappearing trees
  
• Added notification if game is unable to write to disk
  
• Fix for rounding issue causing trophy claims to fail rarely
  

Thank you for reading and we look forward to hearing you thoughts.

Greetings dinosaur hunters!

We’ve released another hotfix containing various improvements. Read on to find out more. Thank you everyone for your feedback and continued support!

• Fixed floating eyes on Allosaurus ragdoll
  
• Fixed floating eyes on Sarcosuchus ragdoll
  
• Fixed floating eyes on Tyrannosaurus Rex ragdoll
  

• Added smoothness to flying dino when changing altitude
  
• Allosaurus turning animations improved (less jitter)
  
• Therizinosaurus turning animations improved (less jitter)
  
• Parasaurolophus turning animations improved (less jitter)
  

• Player can damage Tyrannosaurus Rex while it’s trying to eat the player
  
• Improved finish move when Tyrannosaurus Rex takes player to mouth
  
• Fixed Tyrannosaurus Rex corpse from exploding once it’s created
  
• Fix for dino targeting logic
  
• Fix for dino head logic when sleeping
  
• Fix for dino steps during special moves
  
• Sarcosuchus footstep sounds added
  

• Player corpse visuals match player outfits
  

Thank you for reading and we look forward to hearing you thoughts.