Oh god, I've completely neglected all of this. Well, I guess I'll go ahead and give a rundown on at least the most recent happenings and buzz surrounding Primal. But first! If you have art featuring Primal Carnage's dinosaurs, be sure to drop a note about it and I'll happily post it, with full credit and a link back to the original. Now onto the news!



New Archosaurs?
While yes, they've released the premium skins of Tupandactylus and Cryolophosaurus( Which WILL feature their own sounds sometime), another is currently in the works.This dinosaur is Acrocanthosaurus, though a developer has told everyone that it's purpose is unknown right now, it's not even in the game and it's literally just an animation right now (Of which is true). Currently this Acrocanthosaurus is Primal's finest dinosaur to date accuracy wise. yes, it really is completely true to what we know of the animal so far, which is incredible. An extra animation has appeared in the donator section if you haven't seen it already.


A new human is in the works too, though it's purpose is unknown too, and has been recently stated to kinda sorta be in limbo? Maybe?


Upcoming maps shown in the past while?

A vast 'Swamp' map was seen and teased once.

A huge and absolutely MASSIVE map was also shown, it's said to be at the very least, 4 times the size of airbase. And I can assure you that this is NO exaggeration whatsoever.

A map known as Oasis, featuring a massive cavern and a nice hot dessert was shown as well.

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Just a few days ago, Dondi, one of Primal developers, has shown of a great many delicious things in a livestream,which was also a Q&A session as well!

In this stream, people were witness to many very exciting things that'll be introduced into the game in the future. These are:

Blood effects and decals on dinosaurs. Yes, blood will spurt from the animals, and humans, much more than previously, and potentially leave marks upon the bodies.

Interactive ragdolls. While PC already has somewhat interactive ragdolls, Dondi showed that we'll be able to shoot at,poke, and kick at bodies that litter the ground, at least more effectively. It was shown, rather hilariously I might add, that the test-raptor was shot by Moira (the sniper) and flew stupendously across across the map.

Gibbing. Ah yes, the big one and related to the two above, while not quite implemented all the way, Dondi hinted that this WILL , in fact, be a thing.. probably.

Special attachments . Everyone here knows about Big Daddy, in his chained and collared glory in Genesis right? Well, dondi had a model that had a few metal strips attached to a static T.rex 's tail, he shot at it and, well, the bullets ACTUALLY hit the metal, not the skin. This is a major hint that Big Daddy himself, complete with chains, may appear


Breakable/ Interactive Objects. During the livestream, Dondi had interacted with a rather unassuming bridge-like structure which he jumped on and decided to shoot. The lip of the bridge actually bent down as he played with it. This could lead to much more interesting and dynamic maps in the future.

Also featured was a large mountain map, similar to Ruthless, it's a map that was actually shown a picture of before GTTC was released, the scenery is breathtaking and a bit foggy. One can see the utility base at the very foot of the mountain itself.



And now, for the two sets of largest news from the stream, one of which may be the LARGEST set of news since the release of the game itself!
What could possibly be so big? One might ask? Well..


First is Atrium C, this huge map was shown , in a super-early stage, when the beta for 1.3 was released. It has since grown into a very eerie and atmospheric map. The map is massive, and features opening gates, interactive waist high water, tiny bits of gore here and there with a baby Iguanodon and a hand pushing a button on a gate, and many low flickering lights. The map's default appears to be Capture the Egg mode,however Dondi stated that this will be a multi-purpose map, likely to be reworked for all game types in the future, and I can easily see that happening.I foresee this map being horrifying and thrilling to play as humans as well as team archosaur.



WORKING AI

Yes. As shown on the stream. We have Ai now. Shown was a pack of compies attacking the player (though they did no damage atm,since it was testing how it'd work). Yes, compies. They may have a future in the game afterall!
Also shown was the Tyrannosaur chasing, with the compies, after the player.

Last but not least, we were also shown a pack of raptors, following a player-controlled raptor. They ran around with him, jumped off of a ledge, and even tried to duck to evade an object above them.


So yes, AI is indeed being worked on in the game and while it is in it's infancy right now, may appear sometime in the future.

- Spike