Super Animal Royale News

What’s that smell? That’s the smell of victory, Super Skunks.

Super Skunks join the fight this weekend and they’ve brought a new weapon with them. Super Skunk gas doesn’t just come from the edges of the map anymore, you can now deploy it strategically using Skunk Bombs. This third explosive weapon joins grenades and bananas in your utility slot, so choose wisely.

We’re also kicking off the weekend with another Squads weekend, so you can invite the rest of your best smelling friends to join in the fun! Squads weekend will take place until May 6th and then Duos mode will be back.

And you’ll want to make sure you visit the island on Saturday, May 4th! Today’s update isn’t the last thing we have up our sleeves for this weekend...but patience you must have, Super Animals.


We've just blown past a big milestone of 100k players, so we wanted to take a moment to reflect on how far we've come, and give you a sneak peak at some of the new things coming to the island in the months ahead. 100k is a whole lot of players for a small indie team like us, but this is still only the beginning. We can't wait to keep revealing the ways the world will expand so you can discover the full extent of this absurd story we've had so much fun writing.

We really can't stress enough how none of this would be possible without such a supportive community like you. We're constantly astonished by how many wonderful people have formed around this game, and how much each of you contributes to make this community so special. Thank you so much for joining us at the beginning of this journey, and we hope you're ready to welcome the next 100k Super Animals with open arms and show them what this community is all about!

You can find the full blog post I wrote here, reflecting on how far we've come and what's next for Super Animal Royale:

https://medium.com/@michael_one/where-weve-super-been-and-where-we-re-super-going-b71f01ce325e

• Super Skunk
  
• Super Grape Skunk
  
• Super Skunk Blues
  
• Super Vanilla Skunk
  

• Purple Tee
  
• Red Tee
  
• Red Striped Tee
  
• Green Striped Tee
  
• Navy Striped Tee
  
• Pink Striped Tee
  
• Red Print Tee
  
• White Print Tee
  
• Blue Striped Sweater
  
• Pink Striped Sweater
  
• Red Striped Sweater
  
• Black Princess Dress
  
• Blue Princess Dress
  
• Green Princess Dress
  
• Purple Princess Dress
  
• Yellow Princess Dress
  

• Skunk Bomb: a new grenade type that releases deadly Super Skunk gas when it explodes.
  
• Squads mode returns!
  
• Discord Rich Presence now shows your status in-game (ex. which mode you’re playing and how many players are still alive in your game).
  
• Mole crates will now fade if someone is hiding behind them.
  
• Grenade damage through walls has been reduced.
  
• "Rifle" renamed to "Automatic Rifle" for daily challenges.
  
• Fix for Grenade explosion particles being affected by some death animations.
  
• Fix for equipped weapons at the end of games not showing up in the menu.
  
• Fix for a glitch in chat messages.
  

Visit the island on May 4th for an added surprise ;).

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The Super Easter Bunny has arrived and hidden eggs all around Super Animal Island! If you've ever eaten a coconut, you'll be aware of its health benefits (+5 to be precise) and Super Eggs are no different! In addition to their healthy properties, eating Super Eggs will also earn you limited edition items, from now (April 19th) until next Friday (April 26th).

Here's what you can earn:

• Yellow Bow (limited edition event item)
• Easter Bow (limited edition event item)
• Bunny Ears (limited edition event item)
• Super Bunny (earn with eggs or bunny DNA)
• Super White Bunny (earn with eggs now or bunny DNA after the event)
• Super Chocolate Bunny (limited edition event item)

Grab your egg hunting friends, squads mode is back for another test weekend! You'll be able to play as a squad of 4 from April 19th to 22nd. When you egg hunt as a squad, every squad member's egg finds will contribute to the team!

If you've stacked up any duplicates or cosmetics items you don't care for, we have a brand new system for you to make use of them. In the Customize screen you'll now be able to trade in 5 items of the same rarity (or 3 legendary items) to get a new item of a higher rarity!




https://youtu.be/0UDBMRt6uIc
Friends of a Feather Fight Together in the latest episode of Super Animal Royale Tonight, and it's not looking great for dear ol' Donk and his co-host Howl...

A huge thanks to all of the talented Super Animals who submitted clips for this episode! We got the most clip submissions we've gotten yet, and some of the best too, so it was especially hard to narrow it down this time. Whether your clip is one of the official selections, seen in the background, or you participated in the recording of one of the clips, we have exclusive SAR Tonight in-game items for you! Just join our Discord and check the #announcements channel for instructions on how to claim yours.

https://discord.gg/AnimalRoyale

• Reduced game size by 200MB. Hallelujah to hard drives!
  
• Added Larkson glasses to the regular item drops.
  
• Weapon recoil while moving now applies on a per-weapon basis: smaller weapons such as pistols and SMG have less, and larger weapons like the AK, M16 and Sniper have more recoil while moving.
  
• All special items (from events, milestones, etc) have a new orange tier of rarity and cannot be traded up.
  
• Customize screen now shows what type of event, milestone or other category an item is from.
  
• Coconuts can now be eaten while at full health. Because of this, daily challenges and milestones for coconuts have been adjusted.
  
• Hiding the interface in-game will now also hide health bars, interaction text, and ammo/pickup text.
  
• Added "OK TO ALL" button on the end game item rewards.
  
• Customize icons decreased in size so 6 columns can be shown.
  
• Corgi icons updated.
  
• Bots now roll during regular movement.
  
• Slightly lowered maximum pursuit distance for bots.
  

• Fix for Super Robin art bug in-game.
  
• When browsing cosmetics on Customize, your animal's animation no longer resets each time.
  
• Fixed issue where furniture/crates under roofs would always block grenades.
  
• Fix for using Super DNA Magnets on animals that are higher level than you, if you had their DNA.
  
• Fix for bots switching weapons too fast.
  
• Translation fixes.
  
• If stuck with 'IN A MATCH' on the menu, pressing the READY button should reset out of that now.
  
• Rare bug with being stuck in reviving should be fixed.
  
• Fix for bots not being affected by bananas.
  
• Expanded grenade explosion visual effect slightly.
  

Birds of a feather can now kill together in the all new avian-themed Giant Eagle Landing zone. Join us in flocking to this new area, and make use of the overhauled progression system that includes new super challenges, DNA magnets, and a squads weekend to top it all off!!

If you’ve been watching our Twitter (and why wouldn’t you for Super Bird related updates) you might have seen that to kick things off this week, we just released our new trailer! We’re super happy with how it turned out, so first off we wanted to thank all of you who submitted foxy clips for it, and if you see yourself in it, DM us on Discord and we’ll hook you up with an item!
https://youtu.be/kWc2iItPNMM
If you’re not already a member of the Discord community, you can find us at discord.gg/animalroyale (or hit the Discord button in the main menu).

And now, back to your regularly scheduled giant feathery update patch notes…




The very first Super Birds are arriving on the island: 24 new feathery combatants bring the total Super Animal count up to 140! There are 4 new species (each with their own DNA), spread out through the Research Lab’s progression, and multiple breeds to create after you’ve earned each of them:

• Super Canary
  
• Super Blackbird
  
• Super Lark
  
• Super Robin
  
• Super Zebra Finch
  
• Super Bullfinch
  
• Super Sparrow
  
• Super Red Cardinal
  

• Super Grape Blue Jay
  
• Super Berry Blue Jay
  
• Super Bubblegum Blue Jay
  

• Super Barn Owl
  
• Super Pygmy Owl
  
• Super Gray Owl
  
• Super Snowy Owl
  
• Super Eagle Owl
  
• Super Horned Owl
  

• Super Hooded Crow
  
• Super Shadow Raven
  
• Super Albino Raven
  

You’ll also be able to earn the outfits of celebrity super birds including Blue Jay Z, Lady Caw Caw and Kelly Larkson! Glam.




The Super Birds arrive alongside their very own avian-themed land, Giant Eagle Landing, with fine establishments like Beakeasy (a seedy nightclub), Eggsotic Cuisine, Flappy Jacks, and the Giant Eagle Rides attraction. It’s a wonderful time to visit Super Animal World’s island, especially since Spring has sprung and the new cherry blossom trees are in bloom!




The Giant Feathery Update also adds the “Super DNA Magnet” item to the game, which enables players to focus all of their DNA earning on a specific animal for the next 3 matches. Each game played has a random chance of dropping one, and daily challenges will award them too! As a special thank you for supporting us in Early Access and being an awesome community, we’ve given all of you 3 Super DNA Magnets to try out (which will give you 9 games total of focused DNA earning)!




And the new Super Challenges system, debuting today, provides a new way to earn items including the new Super DNA Magnets. Completing tasks such as getting kills with a magnum, chopping tall grass to find items, or eating coconuts will earn you bigger and bigger rewards as the difficulty of the challenge ramps up. You’ll unlock a new challenge every day, stacking up to a maximum of three, and we’re starting you all off with a full 3 challenges. In addition to earning Super DNA Magnets from challenges, you’ll also be able to earn Animal DNA and Super Serum, and if you get a challenge you don’t like, you’ll be able to re-roll once per day to replace it with a new challenge!


Last but not least, you can gather up your flocks because we’re hosting a Squads weekend from April 5th-8th! We’ll be disabling Duos in the meantime, but it’ll return on Tuesday. Thank you so much for all of your help spreading the word about the game and continuing to bring new Super Animals into the fold! We’re excited to be able to enable all 3 modes permanently in the near future, and we keep making progress towards that goal with your help.

• The winner's health bar is now shown at the end of the game (so you have proof that you were this close to killing them).
  
• Sniper move speed multiplier lowered from 95% from 90%
  
• The third level marshmallow stick now has... 3 MALLOWS.
  
• Translation fixes
  
• Fix for some server crashes
  

We know we told you that the next major update for SAR would be April 5th, but we’ve had a major breakthrough at Pixile and we couldn’t help but release it immediately. After months of extensive research and community outreach to determine the best step forward for the game, we think we’ve cracked and peeled it. In the end, we had to pass on thousands of other features in order to pursue this new direction, but we think it was worth it and will take the game to the next level.

The key insight we discovered (with your help) was that of all the items in the game, bananas were the most deadly -- far moreso than bullets -- and as such we’ve made the decision to upgrade every weapon in the game to fire bananas. Not only do bananas make better projectiles, they’re also 100% compostable so none of your missed shots will go to waste! And we didn’t stop there: not wanting to leave melee weapons behind, we’re also granting every player, who plays at least one game between April 1-5, a giant banana melee weapon. Now, not only can you slip other animals with bananas, you can also smack and shoot them with the potassium rich fruit for maximum damage.

We’ve also been informed by a certain community Discord server, organized by banana loving Super Animals, that we should utter the phrase “praise banan” at the end of this post to grace your banans with the best of luck. So praise banan, and may all your banans fly true in your quests to reach the top of the food chain!

https://youtu.be/OdT0N_zox_A
Due to the gravity and importance of this update, we’ve looped the YouTube video revealing the feature 4 times to make sure you don’t miss a moment of the banan action.