Super Animal Royale News

Hello Super Animals caged and free, this is a completely legitimate episode of Super Animal Royale Tonight! Check out the top highlights from the island and watch closely for a sneak peek at what we have in store for you next week. This was our most ambitious episode yet, so we hope you enjoy it!!

Thanks to all of the talented Super Animals who submitted clips for this episode! If your clip was selected or you were featured prominently in a selected clip, we have exclusive SAR Tonight in-game items for you! DM Bob on our Discord, with the timestamp of the clip you're in and your Steam username and he'll hook you up with an item.

https://youtu.be/pDhRO0imRkw
...and if you missed the previous episodes, check out the full playlist of episodes 1-4 here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3WiHu7C1Ts&list=PLSsDwH8E5MUK7YGiMUEMIj5wFCB9kBx7K

We've been working on next week's update for a long time, so we're super excited to debut brand new points of interest on the island, filled with history and tight indoor corridors. And next week's update will also include new gameplay mechanics, new Super Animals, and more! As always, building this game is a collaborative process with you so the update also includes refinements based on your feedback and we can't wait to hear your feedback once you try out everything new!

Join us in Discord to lend your feedback directly and shape the development of the game!
https://discord.gg/AnimalRoyale

See you on the island tonight for some games!

Our latest update is live! The new Super Ferrets and Super Hedgehogs have joined the fight, and they’ve brought with them rainbow hats and umbrellas so you can show off your Pride in-game! Just enter the code “love” in the main menu to unlock them.

This update is on the smaller side as we prep for a major new update in 2 weeks, but we hope you enjoy all the new animals and items!

• Super Ferret (level 5) and Super Hedgehog (level 20) join the fight. Each has 3 additional Super Animal breeds to create as well!
  
• Rainbow items are here! Use coupon code love in the menu to redeem them and show off your Pride!
  
• Squads mode is back until Sunday June 16.
  
• Shirakami Fubuki will be streaming at 10pm local time in Japan (6am PDT) on Friday, June 14th, and she’ll be revealing two new items on her stream that we made just for her! Watch live for a chance to get them.
  
• Made an improvement to the issue of ghost bullets: the game client will accelerate enemy bullets so they match the actual bullet on the server. We evaluated several different ways we could improve it, as clientside movement is a large part of it, but this should be a good first step.
  
• Hamster ball hitbox adjusted to better match its shape and size.
  
• Skunk grenades now drop from mole crates.
  
• All grenades and tape now have a 3-pack visual.
  
• Fix for bots sometimes not targeting closer enemies.
  
• Bots walking through walls should be fixed but let us know if you still see it happen.
  
• Bots shouldn't clip corners as much now.
  
• Russian translation fixes.
  
• Newspaper melee weapon updated.
  
• And we have a couple more special item surprises for over the weekend ;).
  

A new weapon has arrived (feathers included). The new Deagle gun comes in epic and legendary varieties, with legendaries being exclusive to mole crates. The epic (purple) version of the deagle replaces the epic magnum, and one of its most significant differences from the magnum is that it can remove 2 ticks of armor per shot. Deagles provide a more mobile alternative to snipers, retaining more accuracy while running and rolling.

We’re also debuting Super Duck (with 6 additional breeds) and Super Hawk (with 5 additional breeds, including Super Eagle):

• Super Green Mallard
  
• Super Blue Mallard
  
• Super Purple Mallard
  
• Super White Duck
  
• Super Black Duck
  
• Super Duckling
  

• Super Goshawk
  
• Super Osprey
  
• Super Peregrine
  
• Super Kestrel
  
• Super Eagle
  

During this squads test weekend, for the debut of the Deagle, we’re guaranteeing a Deagle drop in every mole crate so you can all enjoy trying it out! We also recently added Discord invites that work between both free and paid editions, so it’s a great weekend to introduce new friends to the game!

And don’t forget to submit your best clips from this weekend to Super Animal Royale Tonight episode 4!
https://youtu.be/nFbQuKVRLAk
You can submit your superest and blooperest 1080p+, 30fps+, https://www.dropbox.com/request/lvtFKUxkxlXmIdkFCelA

And you can catch up on the previous episodes here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3WiHu7C1Ts&list=PLSsDwH8E5MUK7YGiMUEMIj5wFCB9kBx7K
Get your very own in-game Dreamhack Dallas umbrella by entering the coupon code: dreamhack in the Super Animal Royale main menu.

Day 1 of Dreamhack Dallas 2019 begins in the morning, and we have a booth (#iz-14), so come say hi to Michael, Bob and Logan if you’re attending! You can tag us on Twitter @AnimalRoyale, and use the hashtags #dreamhackdallas and #animalroyale. We’ll also be posting updates from the show floor in our Discord server: https://discord.gg/AnimalRoyale.


In addition to the new gun, new Super Animals, and squads weekend, we’ve added a bunch more quality of life improvements:

• New 3D positional sound system: many sounds such as gunshots now have their frequencies customized so that they sound clearly lower when below the player, and higher when above.
  
• Maximum game lobby time reduced to 140s (down from 170s) to get games starting as quickly as possible. We ran some tests and found that 140s would improve waiting times while also having very little impact on the total number of players in a match.
  
• Overhauled the entire character animations file to be drastically more efficient/performant. Let us know if any cosmetics appear incorrect!
  
• Fixed invisible collision above the bamboo resort houses.
  
• Added new specific fonts for Korean and Chinese. For some users the font may appear the same as before.
  
• Translation fixes.
  
• Minor changes to the Discord parties code to fix certain cases where matchmaking could fail.
  

Hey Super Animals! The update this weekend is gonna be otter this world, so it’s time to recruit some squadmates, grab the patch in Steam and join us on the island for some games!


Discord parties are here! We heard you loud and clear, and came up with a way for you to invite your Super Free Edition friends to join a party with you.

Last update, we added Discord Rich Presence so you can see if your friends are in a game, what mode they’re playing, and how many players are still alive. Steam invites still only work in the full game (Steam parties don’t work between demos and full games) but as of this week, you can now invite your friends to a Discord party with you, regardless of whether they have the full game or the Super Free Edition!


Super Otter has arrived on the island and is accompanied by 5 alternative Super Otter breeds, bringing the total number of Super Animal breeds up to 157! As of today you’ll be able to create the following new breeds in the Research Lab once you reach level 15:

• Super Otter
  
• Super Navy Otter
  
• Super Chestnut Otter
  
• Super Red Otter
  
• Super Golden Otter
  
• Super Sea Otter
  

Round up all your otter friends! It’s another squads weekend for you and up to 3 more friends to team up and reach the top of the food chain.


We’ve packed even more fun surprises into this week’s update. Here are your full patch notes:

• 25 Hamster Ball Kills: earns you the new Emoji (Rock & Roll) death explosion
  
• 250km Travelled: earns you the new Safari Shirt
  
• Pacifist Victory (win a game with zero damage dealt to other players in solos mode): earns you the new Fly Swatter melee weapon
  

• Emoji (Kisses) Explosion
  
• Emoji (Thumbs Down) Explosion
  
• Emoji (Sleepy) Explosion
  

• Discord parties / friend invites
  
• Super Otters
  
• New sound for equipping Super Light Swords
  
• New sound for equipping the Rebellion Sword
  
• Offset coughing sound when damaged by skunk bombs
  
• Hit sound plays for you when your grenades damage others
  
• Removed ability to bind the UI Toggle to the left mouse button
  
• Fix for grenades going through walls when rolling against them
  
• Fixed a spot where the mole crate could get stuck
  
• Fix for bullets sometimes not doing damage despite showing as hit
  
• Translation updates/fixes
  

Hey Super Animals, we hope you’ve been having a ton of fun with the new Super Skunks and Skunk Bombs we released on Friday! If you missed those patch notes you can read them here.

And as we teased, on Saturday we also dropped a little May the 4th surprise for all of you. Super Light Swords are now available in the game as random drops, and they come multiple colors and rarities:

• White (common)
  
• Green (uncommon)
  
• Blue (rare)
  
• Purple (epic)
  
• Gold (legendary)
  
• Red (legendary)
  

Today, Duos mode returns, and as we mentioned in our post about our 100k users milestone, Super Animal Royale continues to grow steadily thanks to your kind Steam reviews, sharing of the game, and supportive behavior in-game towards new players, so it shouldn’t be too much longer before we can enable all 3 modes permanently! In the meantime, you can look forward to the next Squads Weekend alongside our next update that is dropping in less than 2 weeks on Friday, May 17th.

Lastly, we’ve also added a couple small improvements tonight that you can read about below (the new cages in the Research Labs feel particularly nice and are more clear about how they block bullets). See you all on the island!

• Duos mode has returned! The next squads weekend will be on May 17th.
  
• Six Super Light Swords have been added to the drop table (arrived on May 4th).
  
• We’ve also improved the Super Light Sword sound effects slightly in tonight's update.
  
• Updated the cages in the Research Lab buildings to have more visible bars and shadows. We felt that the previous cages weren’t visually clear enough about how they interacted with bullets, so we turned them into clear bars that interact with line of sight shadows. The bars block bullets/vision, and the gaps between them do not.
  
• The Bamboo and Beakeasy stage shows can now be triggered while waiting for the game to start in the lobby.
  
• Adjusted some of the cover and crates in each of the three Research Lab buildings.
  
• Your skunk bombs will now play the hit sound whenever they damage an enemy.
  
• Improved background color of legendary items in the menu (thanks to Ashyfox in our Discord for the suggestion!).
  
• Fix for grenades warping out of some unwalkable areas like the Bamboo Resort pond.
  
• Improved character tails warping while shooting.
  
• Fix for rare glitch of unbreakable crates/doors.
  
• Fixed character clipping issue with a few tables in the Welcome Center.
  
• Slightly increased player collisions on the Research Lab's SAW sign.
  
• Lowered player collisions behind military tents.
  
• Applied a fix for being stuck repairing armor forever.