It’s that time of year, Super CRISPRmas is here!
‘Tis the season to celebrate the miracle of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. Super CRISPRmas has arrived! Join the new Super Penguins for a slip and a slide inside Super Penguin Palace and begin collecting presents to earn festive new outfits for your animals.
We’re celebrating our 1yr anniversary in Early Access with our coolest update yet.
Donk, Howl, and their new acquaintance, Thomas Sledison, are kicking off the holiday celebrations with a brand new episode of Super Animal Royale Tonight! Watch for a peek at what has changed on the island since we last checked in with our intrepid hosts.
Watch the Holiday Special
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To catch up on previous episodes of Super Animal Royale Tonight, check out the full series playlist on YouTube.
Super CRISPRmas is Here: Dec 12 - Jan 5
The Super CRISPRmas event begins today, bringing with it 28 festive cosmetic items. Unlock them before the event ends on January 5th at 11:59pm PST!
- Collect presents around the island to earn 9 limited event cosmetics. They'll also give you 10hp. It's a CRISPRmas miracle!
- In addition to collecting presents, you can now also complete 5 weekly challenges per week during the event, for a total of 15 additional limited edition items!
- Week 1 of the event begins today with the first 5 challenges, Week 2 arrives on December 19th, and the final New Years themed week kicks off on December 26th. The event's challenges are cumulative, so week 1 and 2's challenges stick around until the end of the event.
Super Penguins have arrived in the Research Lab!
Week 1 of the event brings Super Penguins to the Research lab. Super Penguin has six breeds available to research in addition to the base breed:
- Super Penguin
- Super Penguin Chick
- Super Adelie Penguin
- Super Macaroni Penguin
- Super Bubblegum Penguin
- Super Blue Penguin
- Super Poison Penguin
CRISPRmas festivities
- As part of the Super CRISPRmas event, the welcome fountain now has a CRISPRmas tree and festive music, and many trees around the island have been decorated as well.
- The Giant Eagle and Delivery Mole have festive outfits for the holidays.
- During the CRISPRmas event, last year's festive items have a 25% chance of dropping randomly at the end of a match, if you do not own them. This includes the Festive Sweater, Candy Cane, Santa Hat, and Santa Outfit.
- 5 additional winter cosmetics have been added to the regular drop pool (not event exclusive): The Orange Pom Beanie, Blue Striped Scarf, Blue Festive Sweater, Pink Down Jacket, and Wreath Gravestone. Look out for streamer events for giveaways of these items!
- More Super Animals Coming Soon: Check back for more surprise winter animals arriving in the Research Lab in week 2 and 3 of the event!
Visit Thomas's Tundra
Thomas's Tundra has evolved and expanded with new points of interest: you can now slide on Lake Slippity, visit the Super Penguin Palace, dine at Le Waddle, and check out S.A.W. inventions at Thomas's Workshop.
New Weapon
There's a new epic & legendary version of the SMG available now on the island: the Thomas Gun. Epic varieties are available to find in the world, but legendaries only drop from Mole Crates. Pick one up in Super Shooting Gallery to try it out in the lobby!
Note: to fit alongside the new Thomas Gun SMG, the existing SMG now maxes out at Rare (blue) tier.
One Year in Early Access
Thank you so much to all of you for making this year in Early Access so special. We're so proud of what we've built this year, and so much of it has been inspired by you in our community. We can't wait to expand the game even more in 2020 as we march towards full release!
We'll be releasing a second Dev Blog soon on what's coming next for Super Animal Royale in 2020, so stay tuned to our Twitter, Discord and Facebook for that!
- As a celebration of our one year anniversary in Early Access you can enter the code "BIRTHDAY" in the coupon code screen to unlock an Anniversary Cake Gravestone and Pixile Party Hat.
- Super Pixile Tiger also joins the celebrations, now available in the Research Lab to create as a new tiger breed.
More Updates
- You can now slide on ice, including on Lake Slippity and in the courtyard of Penguin Palace. At full speed on ice, movement is 12% faster than on regular ground. Hamster balls also get this bonus.
- Now that SAR has been available for one year, we have decided to upgrade the game's engine from Unity 2017 to Unity 2018. This gives us access to new features, performance/security improvements and bug fixes. One big upgrade is the ability to use the new IL2CPP compiler with Unity 2018, which brings with it a more secure game client, and improved performance in certain areas.
- With Unity 2018, our minimum requirement to play SAR is now Windows 7. Our previous official minimum requirement was Windows Vista, although it was technically possible to play SAR on Windows XP even though it is not officially supported. If anyone runs into issues because of the update, please contact us via email (contact at pixilestudios.com) or in our discord server.
- Snow will intensify in the Tundra during rain events.
- The Minimap now shows the interiors of buildings.
- Super Husky has been redesigned.
- Thomas Gun colored skins available as random drops.
- Updated our animation toolkit (Spine 3.8), which should provide some minor performance improvements.
- Fix for Discord overlay/integration. Let us know if there's still any issues.
- Fixed z-ordering on the doors at Cattitude.
- Fix for first time accounts having no equipped emote.
