Las Vegas, NV - October 29th, 2016 - An update to Primal Carnage: Extinction has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Primal Carnage: Extinction. The major changes include:
Halloween, Primal Carnage 4th Anniversary
This weekend marks four years since the original Primal Carnage was released - four years of fast-paced deathmatches, nail-biting chopper rescues and oddball hijinks!
To celebrate, today we launch version 1.7 of Primal Carnage Extinction, and will be running the Primal Anniversary Celebration for the next few weeks. Halloween is also in the air and brings with it a raft of new community-created cosmetics and scarily good time-limited deals.
But wait, there's more! Everyone who plays Primal Carnage: Extinction during the Halloween update period will receive the Anniversary Gift, which includes a Primal Carnage 4th Anniversary Hat and a supply of crafting materials on the house.
This update features a new community crate and gift containing around 40 workshop items from the recent Halloween Workshop contest. We were overwhelmed by the amount of fantastic entries! We're going to look at doing more stuff like this in the future.
On behalf of the Primal Carnage Team, we thank you all for your continued support for the last four years and look forward to many more!
Update 1.7
General
- Reduced general network traffic, improving latency and load times
- Improved spawn system (Spawn closer to allies, away from enemies)
- Maximum progression rank increased to 50
- Class change no longer forces a suicide in multiplayer
- Changed the first intro splash screen to be unskippable to prevent a crash
- Improved controller button layout
- Improved and refined certain weapon sound effects
- Improved performance across all maps
- Added LODs to several particle effects across the game for performance
- Added more sound cues to dinosaur movement animations
- Added auto-balance to GTTC
- Added "Killed Restrainer" assist for pounced Raptors
- Fixed several different crash cases
- Fixed an issue where you would be unable to select a team when joining a match
- Fixed a delay before being able to select a character
- Fixed round timer displaying the wrong time when joining a match
- Fixed the server browser not using bAntiCheatProtected which caused issues
- Fixed player score being kept when changing teams/rounds
- Fixed assists awarding 0 or over 100 points
- Fixed players being able to move while taunting
- Fixed a wide range of audio performance issues
- Fixed certain customization items not showing up
- Fixed the customization menu not working while dead/taking damage
- Fixed the inventory screen not minimizing when character select is "requested"
- Fixed an issue that could cause incorrect playercount showing in class select
- Fixed certain hints showing at the incorrect time
- Fixed certain GTTC objects not having completion text
- Fixed dozens of issues across all maps
Dinosaurs
- Cryo acid pool now does damage in a circle rather than a half circle
- Increased Cryo acid pool damage interval from 0.7 to 1.2
- Increased Cryo acid pool radius from 60 to 90
- Decreased Cryo acid pool damage from 50 to 35
- Decreased Dilo spit instant hit damage from 40 to 10
- Disabled the ability for the Carno to bite while sprinting
- Disabled the ability for the Tupa to bite while flying at high speeds
- Decreased the intensity of the Dilo/Cryo spit overlay
- Decreased Raptor pounce cooldown from 0 to 1.2 seconds
- Increased stamina cost of raptor mauling from 5/s to 6/s
- Standardized roar cooldowns to 60 seconds for all Tyrants
- Increased T-Rex health from 2750 to 3000
- Increased Spino health from 3000 to 3600
- Increased Spino secondary attack stamina cost
- Increased Acro healing buff from 2/s to 6/s
- Increased Acro attack bite range
- Fixed headshot zone for the Carno being at knee height
- Fixed an issue where the Ptera wouldn't drop humans when shot
- Fixed the Overdose achievement not being valid for all Tyrants
- Changed the tranquilizer overlay effect
Humans
- Enabled head loss for melee weapons
- Disabled head loss for tranq/stun damage
- Increased human melee critical multiplier
- Added crosshair to melee weapons
- Molotov now sets enemies on fire on direct hit
- Molotov fire pool now ignites enemies that walk through it
- Flamesaw chainsaw attack now blocks raptor pounces
- Increased explosion radius of the "Pyro Bomb" mechanic
- Increased Flamesaw flame damage range by 50%
- Increased Flamesaw flame damage from 2 to 2.5
- Increased Dual Colt damage from 46 to 50
- Increased Desert Eagle damage from 95 to 105
- Increased M9 Pistol damage from 50 to 60
- Increased Assault Rifle grenade launcher damage from 315 to 400
- Increased Assault Rifle grenade launcher radius from 200 to 225
- Increased Tranq Rifle effective damage range
- Decreased Stun Gun fire delay from 0.2 to 0.15
- Decreased Stun Gun spread from 0.2 to 0
- Disabled headshot critical multiplier for all shotguns and explosives
- Decreased SPAS12 spread from 0.35 to 0.25
- Decreased Shotgun/SPAS12 effective damage range slightly
- Decreased Double Barrel Shotgun effective damage range significantly
- Decreased DBS fire rate from 0.6 to 1.12 seconds
- Decreased DBS secondary fire spread
- Decreased DBS hit momentum from 10 to 4
- Increased DBS recoil slightly
- Increased throwable medkit uses from 5 to 15
- Decreased throwable medkit heal rate from 50/s to 10/s
- Fixed humans being able to detonate Trapper landmines
- Fixed AR grenades not damaging the T-Rex when shot in the head
- Fixed the Molotov from sometimes creating a fire pool in mid-air
- Fixed the Molotov and grenade explosions causing a high knockback
- Fixed human pounced dialog not playing properly
- Fixed landmines not having an impact sound
- Fixed humans being able to use resupply items while pounced
- Fixed being able to reload during a weapon switch
- Fixed the Shotgun/SPAS12 reloading animations
- Fixed flamethrower sometimes igniting allies after death
- Fixed Assault Rifle weapon skins not showing up in third person
- Fixed the Commando not having a default taunt in the loadout menu
- Fixed certain weapons not having KillIcons
- Fixed certain weapons being missing from the class select screen
Economy
- Added Halloween 2016 Gift
- Added Halloween 2016 Crate
- Added Halloween 2016 Key
Known Issues
There are unfortunately a handful of unexpected issues. We will be fixing these in the next patch: