WINTER CARNAGE 2025

We've got an update to make you merry!

Welcome to Winter Carnage 2025...

Update Highlights

Working with dedicated testers in the Carnage community we've made several balance changes and gameplay adjustments that are included in today's update..

Weapon Balance

Several changes have been made to various weaponry based on community feedback. Firstly, the dart pistol no longer provides brief invulnerability, instead it's now focusedp purely on healing. The quasi-godmode it gave humans before was just not fun to play against in the end.

A bigger change is that all shotguns have a new hit detection system.

This works by guaranteeing a minimum amount of damage depending on how many pellets hit, effectively rounding up to be a bit more generous. This makes shotguns feel massively more reliable and fun to use, they are a lot more lethal now. To compensate, their falloff distances have been made a bit more rapid.

Double barrel shotgun has a new secondary fire that shoots each barrel one after the other in rapid succsesion instead of both at once. This makes the gun a bit more fair to fight against and introduces a skill element with the timing of the second blast, whilst giving more of a reason to use single shot mode.

A balance change that's actually a bug fix is that flames are no longer buffed by flames. Dinosaurs on fire are made weaker to various types of damage, but fire itself was never meant to be one of those. Oops.

Cosmetic Improvements

With the help of community artists such as Spinoraptyrex and Abranca38, we've gone back to give some older cosmetic items a few touch-ups. A few of the most ancient T.Rex skins have received a new lick of paint, plus Battlescarred Rex has been remade with new textures and now supports mutations!

The most notable upgrade is a new feathered tyrannosaurus model in the same vein as the feathered novaraptor style, creating a more 3D look and using a brand new texture set. At least one feathered rex already had its own model, while the others had a simple scute-less look. As of December, the new model will be standard for all feathered tyrannosaurs going forwards.

Special Store Event

We come bearing baubles! Dozens of new items created by the Primal Carnage community have been accepted this winter, check out most of the cool new looks below..

We've also got a handful of festive free drops landing today as well! You can check out the full selection of new cosmetic items on our Special Event Trello board!

That's all in addition to the hundreds of classic winter items that are never going to leave. Ever.

And to top it all off, we're enabling DOUBLE DROPS for the next few weeks again!

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Version 3.1.97

FULL CHANGELOG:

• NEW double barrel alt fire:

  (now fires two separate shots consecutively instead of both at once)

• all shotguns now use new hit detection system that is way more reliable

• added separate crit damage