Emoji Contest Winners!

Today we announce the winners of our latest Official Emoji Contest!

We've run a couple of these now on theofficial Primal Carnage Discord and will be doing more in future.

If you've entered into the recent Clip Contest don't worry, we're still reviewing submissions for that and will be publicly recognising the top videos soon!

For now, it's all about the artwork...

HONORABLE MENTIONS

There were dozens of entries to the contest, so we'd like to share some of the pieces we liked but which didn't quite make it to the finals. We've always been impressed by the artistic talents found within the community, you guys never fail to entertain...

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To artists:

DeadButDelicious, TerexTheMenace, x3dog, hamishexists, fluffylulu, axo8756, just_natsuki, solista8364 and Dark Hat Imagination

...Good efforts everyone!

BEST OF THE REST

We've seen a lot of love for the Commando lately, and two of the most fun emoji show him having a good time. Both the more cartoonish piece and its more detailed counterpart are great likenesses of our machinegun wielding Brooklyn-born dino slayer...

by CallMeCarm3n

by Shamrocknroll

Although their creators won't be receiving merch rewards, these two will still be getting added officially to the game and to our Discord shortly. We'll also be granting personal copies of Sprays and Avatars to everyone who gets their design into the game next update.

RUNNERS UP

Not only will the following pieces appear in-game as Sprays and Avatars, AND on the official Discord as emoji, they'll soon be available as real life merch from our official online store!

by Dark Hat Imagination

by HamishExists

by TheNamesXenon

TOP PLACE(S)

It was quite difficult narrowing down the overall winners that will not only be included ingame, but also receive the animated sticker treatment. Originally we said there'd be just one emoji that gets animated, but in the end we've gone with two!

by Bad Plague

by Nutzy1

The flexing Spino was an obvious candidate to look good in motion, and a Compy with a megaphone just seemed perfect as a reaction sticker. For now, you'll have to wait til the next update goes live to see the finished animations. We may yet animate a couple of the other entries in future, it takes a while though.

PRIZES

We'll soon be contacting the winners about getting physical merch featuring their designs via Discord. Both of the Top Place winners can get their artwork on their choice of a Mug, Sticker, or Pin while the runners up will receive sticker packs.

Thanks again to everyone who took part, we'll be running more art contests in future and have the announcement of the Clip Contest winners coming soon too!

FUTURE CARNAGE

UPCOMING PATCH NEWS

It sometimes bears repeating that our team currently has only two programmers and they work on Primal in their spare time. Despite that, they've been able to pull off some big wins for the next update.

There were many crashes to fix along the way, but Patch 3.3.3 is almost ready to go live.

Our priority has been to address issues and requests from the community, so highlights will include:

• the built-in Host Game option no longer requires port forwarding

  • you will be able to create, view and join Host Game matches with no extra work

• added optional AI bots for Team Deathmatch

  • (AI slots get replaced as more actual players join)

• new options for server creation to hide your IP address from attackers

• fixed a spawn system bug that placed you near enemies / on wrong spawns

• experimental Vulkan renderer support for better performance on most systems

• officially implemented borderless window mode

• new async loading system for cosmetics means the game now uses less RAM

We're hoping to get this patch out within the next few days and start porting some of these performance wins and new features over to PlayStation as well.

You can try out the latest changes in PCE Open Testing already. Once the patch is live on the main game, we'll soon begin implementing brand new elements over in Open Testing such as sandbox bonus classes and the upcoming Dual Repeaters weapon...

Thanks for Playing!

-The Primal Carnage Team