Super Animal Royale News

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.
  

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.