It’s shaping up to be an exciting end of the year, Super Animals! Thanks to all your feedback, testing and support in the PTR, we're excited to say that we're finally ready to release our major update next Tuesday, November 17th.
We'll also be dropping the price of Super Animal Royale to free alongside the new update so that it's even more accessible to invite your friends to play, and all owners of the game will receive a copy of the brand new Super Edition DLC, which we'll detail below.
Our animated YouTube series, Super Animal Royale Tonight, is also returning for a new season, so make sure to submit clips for a chance to be featured in the show and get an exclusive SAR Tonight cosmetic item!
Submit Clips for SAR Tonight Season 2!
Get ready for the new season of SAR Tonight with our Season 1 recap!
...or watch all of Season 1 here on YouTube. Pro tip if you have limited time: the storytelling ramps up at episode 3, so you can skip ahead to that episode without missing too much, and production values hit their peak by episode 5.
Clip submissions are officially open for the season premiere of SAR Tonight until Friday, November 20th at 11:59pm PST!
Clip requirements:
- 1080p+, 30fps+, less than 30s
- Please only submit up to 3 Blooper Scooper clips and 3 Superest Kills clips maximum.
- Please only submit clips with the new in-game UI (guns laid out horizontally in the bottom right).
- Please do not submit any clips with copyrighted music.
Tips for getting selected:
- 16:9 aspect ratio preferred.
- Shorter clips are preferred, but please try to leave at least 2-3 seconds on either side of where you think the best action is, so we have flexibility with the edit. If a clip is cut too abruptly it may be unusable.
- Visual clarity is key. If it is hard to follow the action, a clip is less likely to be selected.
- Reactions can make clips particularly great, so streamer overlays / facecams are good as long as they're high quality and don't distract too much from the clip.
SAR Goes Super Free
We detailed our design philosophy behind the new update and the game's transition to free in this blog post in September, so you can read that for all the details, but to recap, here's how the versions are changing:
Every SAR Owner Gets the Super Edition
The Super Edition DLC arrives next week for $14.99 USD (pricing will be localized regionally based on Steam's standardized pricing). Every player who owns the full game before the transition to free on Tuesday will get this DLC and everything included with it along with a bonus 300 S.A.W. Tickets as thanks for being our earliest supporters!
In order to get the bonus tickets you’ll just need to make sure to both own the game and have launched it at least once before 10am PST on Tuesday, November 17th.
The Super Edition includes:
4 Super Animal Breeds
- Super Hellfire Fox
- Super Splash Bear
- Super Leaf Skullcat
- Super Thunder Tiger
10 Cosmetic Items
- Pink Cowboy Hat
- Lollipop (melee weapon)
- Black Triangle Shades
- 3D Glasses
- School Uniform (Boy)
- School Uniform (Girl)
- Lightbulb
- Swordfish
- SARturday Night Fever
- Maid Outfit
Super Perks
- 1000 S.A.W. Tickets (premium currency)
- Super Milestones (115 currently, with more to be added over time)
- 2x rate on earning Carl Coins (earned currency)
Super Animal Pass
The new Early Access (Season 0) Super Animal Pass arrives alongside the major update, with 49 tiers to earn!
It costs 550 S.A.W. Tickets to unlock and has 350 S.A.W. Tickets to earn in it, so if you use your Super Edition Tickets to unlock the pass you'll still have a bunch leftover to shop in the new S.A.W. Shop (premium cosmetic item shop). It also has 4000 Carl Coins to earn in it that you can use at Cackling Carl's Cart (earned cosmetic item shop) and 170 Super Serum for your Super Animal creation needs!
We plan to create even bigger Animal Passes for future seasons, with more tiers at slightly higher S.A.W. Ticket prices, but we think this first one should be a great size and value for Early Access. Season 0 will last for the remainder of Early Access, which is scheduled to end in early 2021 when the game hits v1.0!
Starter Pack DLC
We're also introducing a new Starter Pack DLC for Season 0 that includes a limited edition Super Animal breed, 2 cosmetic items and 100 bonus S.A.W. Tickets on top of the standard 500 (for a total of 600 S.A.W. Tickets). This pack will be available until the end of Season 0 (which ends at the end of Early Access in early 2021).
Starter Pack
- Super Twilight Fennec Fox
- Twilight Newsboy Hat
- Twilight Overalls
- 600 S.A.W. Tickets (premium currency)
The pack will be $4.99 USD (pricing will be localized regionally based on Steam's standardized pricing) so it's a good low cost entry point for free-to-play players.
Founder's Edition DLC
The changes to the game do not affect the Founder's Edition DLC at all, and it will continue to be available until the end of Early Access, at which point all the items in it will be exclusive to those who supported us by purchasing it in Early Access!
Super Major Update
There's so much new to the game in this update including the new S.A.W. vs Rebellion 32v32 mode, revamped progression system, fully re-designed menus, improved UI, balancing changes and we've already covered the majority of it in our previous posts about the PTR, so we won't rehash it here, but we're extremely excited to finally bring it to all of you!
Read our recent Steam posts for the full rundown on everything new that's coming, and watch for our patch notes next Tuesday for some additional improvements that we've made since the last phase of the PTR concluded:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/843380/announcements/detail/2806262922974630246
https://steamcommunity.com/games/843380/announcements/detail/2921105984693369530
https://steamcommunity.com/games/843380/announcements/detail/4693273166424743059
If you have any questions about the new update or the transition, don't hesitate to post them in the comments below, join our Discord Server, or check out our recent AMA on Reddit! We can't wait for the next chapter of this journey with all of you.