Patch 0.9.8EA Notes

Las Vegas, NV – February 21st, 2015 – 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:

General

• Added startup videos
• Added more loading screens
• Removed minimum player count to get a loot as a temporary way of deterring loot bots from joining actual matches
• Re-enabled FXAA Low/High and MLAA Anti Aliasing methods
• Fixed main menu music from repeating when alt-tabbing in/out of the game
• Fixed Infernal Deagle icon
• Fixed issues with the Green Longhorn Carno economy item
• Improved the look of the Brimstone Feathered Raptor and the Snow Oviraptor
• Fixed the main menu Compies floating
• Fixed an exploit where alternate render modes like wireframe could be used in multiplayer
• Disabled camera collisions on thin objects like trees and fences
• Disabled thirdperson binding until we can improve it
• Fixed FOV not being set properly in spectator mode
• Fixed health corpses not receiving bulletholes
• Fixed footsteps sometimes still playing after death
• World Detail setting modified: Low – Nothing, Medium – Ground Foliage/Extra Details, High – Decals/Particle Effects

Humans

• Significantly decreased all human class base speeds and stamina speeds
• Decreased all human class stamina consumption rates to allow longer sprinting
• Added variable recoil to all human weapons
• Added crouch accuracy bonus to all human weapons
• Added crouch recoil recoil reduction to all human weapons
• Fixed accuracy calculation for scoped weapons
• Increased unscoped accuracy penalty for the sniper rifle
• Increased damage of assault rifle from 22 to 24
• Fixed animation desync between human arms and guns in first person
• Increased fire-rate of Scientist Dartgun
• Added throwable item cap
• Reduced Trapper net time to 5 seconds for regular dinosaurs, 8 seconds for Tyrants

Dinosaurs

• Fixed T-Rex not using its sprint animation
• Fixed T-Rex floating in certain cases
• Dinosaurs will now attack repeatedly when holding down primary fire
• Decreased base Ptera speed for network stability/ease of grabbing
• Increased Ptera grab window by 0.2 seconds
• Decreased Ptera stamina recharge delay to 2 seconds
• Increased Ptera stamina recharge rate to 15 units per second (out of 100 stamina units)
• Fixed issues with Carno sprint/blend animations
• Fixed dinosaurs being able to prevent other dinosaurs from healing

Maps and Environment

• Improved general performance in all maps
• Grass can now be hidden in low world detail mode
• Switched to more optimized grass
• Fixed the river bush moving violently when touched
• Fixed certain ground foliage assets visually popping
• Improved post-processing, lighting, and fog in all maps
• Added a blizzard event to Snowbound
• Added tyrant blockers to Snowbound
• Removed item resupply stations from Transfer catwalks
• Added a long catwalk corridor along the south transfer wall
• Added experimental tarp physics to Transfer

UI

• Weapon icons now show up properly in class select menu
• Fixed a crash when switching between static and dynamic shadows
• Fixed server browser sorting not always working properly
• Fixed certain characters not showing up properly in chat (<3)
• Fixed class stats all showing the same values
• Fixed the timer not showing correctly during the end-round sequence
• Consolidated Inventory and Loadout to Customization in menus
• Potential fix for looping healthbar animation issue
• Increased brightness on item outlines in inventory screens
• Fixed team select background parallax holes
• Fixed a bug in the scoreboard where switching between mouse/keyboard control would disable buttons and stop you from clicking/pressing any of them on the scoreboard