The year’s final update is here! We’re kicking off the CRISPRmas season with the release of Super Snakes, the first week of CRISPRmas, and plenty of stocking-stuffing surprises to snag. Check back each Tuesday through the event for new items to earn, and a new Super Animal breed!
Super Snakes: Dangerous Noodles, Now With Arms!
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They said it couldn’t be done, but thanks to Dr. Dogna and Thomas Sleddison’s efforts,
Super Snakes are finally here—equipped with robotic prostheses to run, gun, and groove with the best!
Super Snakes are now available to unlock in the Research Lab beginning at level 50, with four total breeds to unlock:
- Super Snake
- Super Corn Snake
- Super Blue Snake
- Super Albino Snake
CRISPRmas 2024 Week 1
Winter’s here in the northern hemisphere, and the island is all dressed up, which can only mean one thing: it’s time for CRISPRmas! Gather round the festive Welcome Center fountain with your fellow Super Animals to celebrate friendship, generosity, peace (for now), and most importantly, the CRISPRmas miracle of genetic modification. Mark your advent calendars as well, because we’ve got three weeks of challenges, rewards, and surprises scheduled for this holiday season.
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Santa Claws has scattered candy canes around the map, which grant a small heal and help you progress through some of your weekly challenges. Smashing snowmen (snow animals?) around Thomas’ Tundra will score you some candy canes, too. You’ll even earn them from completing matches!
A new breed has arrived in the Research Lab to deal with naughty Super Animals:
Super Krampus. This festive enforcer is the newest breed of Super Goat, and as with all new breeds of Super Animal, it’s a permanent addition to the Lab, so you can take your time gathering its DNA and Super Serum.
[h3]5 challenge rewards to earn[/h3]
- Warm Plaid Hat | Collect Candy Canes (1000)
- 1500 XP | Smash Snowmen (5)
- Warm Winter Vest Outfit | Get Kills (12)
- 750 Carl Coins | Chop Snow Grass (125)
- Winter Sunglasses | Land on ice
[h3]New Super Animal Breed[/h3]
More challenges and animals arrive on Tuesday, December 17th & Tuesday, December 24th!
New in the SAW Shop: The Krampus Bundle!
Punishing all those naughty Super Animals is no small task, but someone’s gotta do it. The
Krampus Bundle is now available in the SAW Shop!
- Krampus Outfit
- Krampus Bell
- Krampus Sticks melee weapon
The SAW Shop has a few more surprises in store too if you feel like treating yourself this holiday season:
- Salute emote
- Snowglobe Gravestone
- Gift BCG
Festive New Stocking-Stuffers in Carl’s Cart
Sleighs and reindeer are so overdone. Carts and Giant Emus are where it’s at. You can pick up these new stylish CRISPRmas-themed items from Santa Carl’s Cart:
- Green Santa Hat
- Yellow Santa Hat
- Pink Santa Hat
- Snowflake Scarf
The Cart has also received a shipment of legacy items from past events. Keep an eye out for them in the coming weeks:
- Festive Lights Outfit
- Festive Bow
- Santa Dress
- Icicle
- Snow Shovel
- Red Pom Beanie
- Gingerbread Gravestone
- Festive Lights Umbrella
- Winter Fur Hat
Code CRISPRmas Returns
Away to the window, fly like a flash, tear open the shutters and throw up the sash, because the coupon code
CRISPRMAS has returned! You can redeem it anytime in the main menu from now until the event ends on
Friday, January 3rd. It’ll get you the seasonal Santa Claws bundle (Note: does not include eyes that twinkle, dimples so merry, cheeks like roses, or a nose like a cherry).
- Santa Hat
- Santa Outfit
- Santa Beard
Celebrate SAR’s 6th Anniversary with Code BIRTHDAY
It’s hard to believe, but SAR is celebrating its 6th anniversary this year! Join the party by redeeming the
BIRTHDAY coupon code in the game’s main menu, for some Pixile-purple items:
- 6th Anniversary Cake Gravestone
- Party Beads
- Pixile Umbrella
- Pixile Anniversary Firework melee weapon
- Pixile Party Hat
The game has already exceeded our wildest dreams for where it could go, and we can’t wait to start a brand new chapter with all of you next year when the Super Animal World expansion arrives!
Gameplay Changes and Bug Fixes
We’ve also included some gameplay tweaks and bug fixes in this update:
- Holding the creep hotkey while throwing a Zip-and-Go now prevents automatic riding, offering more strategic deployment options.
- The Menace Bat Wings item is now a neck slot item! If you had it equipped in any of your loadouts, you’ll need to re-equip it.
- Weapon swapping animations now take priority over shooting, taping, and drinking. This is to fix an animation issue from v1.9.5 where shooting slow weapons and quick swapping would not show the weapon swap animation.
- Removed an exploit allowing the duplication of Zip-and-Gos via swapping throwables while deploying a zipline.
- Fixed an issue causing death cancellation when eating coconuts, health fruit, mushrooms, or event consumables during the same tick as reaching 0 health.
Some tweaks have also been made to the Bwoking Dead game mode to improve Zombie Joe navigation as well as final escape zone generation:
- Zombie Joe bots now have a higher AI pathing limit, preventing them from becoming unable to find a path in certain areas (such as the northwestern cliffs in Thomas’ Tundra).
- A slight collision adjustment has been made in the Super Animal Super Stage conductor’s podium area to fix Zombie Joe bots from getting stuck.
- The number of attempts for the game to find a suitable escape zone has been increased, and the method it uses to choose an escape zone has been improved. This should reduce edge cases of the final escape zone’s yellow circle being on water.
With the new year right around the corner and the release of the Super Animal World expansion on the horizon, SAR’s future is looking brighter than ever! The team has been hard at work this year, and can’t wait for all of you to get your paws on 2025’s huge new additions to the island.
We hope you enjoy all the gifts this first week of the event has brought, and we’ll see you on the island, Super Animals. Merry CRISPRmas, one and all!
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