CRISPRmas Week 2 | Super Animal World Launch Party

Super Animal World celebrated its grand opening last week, and we can’t thank you enough for making it such a special launch. It’s been awesome seeing everyone step into SAW for the first time, and we’re excited to keep iterating and building on it with you.

In less than a week, you’ve already chatted with NPCs over 10 million times, completed over 2 million quests, and even kept us trending on SteamDB right up until The Game Awards. Seriously, thank you. If you think any of your favorite content creators might like Super Animal World, it would mean a lot if you told them about it to help keep the momentum going!

If you missed the full Super Animal World patch notes (including CRISPRmas week 1), you can catch up on them here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/843380/view/622187705533466306

Meanwhile, the team’s been busy fixing bugs and keeping servers stable (and occasionally popping in-game to say hi), so this update comes with a big batch of fixes alongside this week’s CRISPRmas goodies.

CRISPRmas Week 2

Santa Claws is still in town (find him on the left side of the Welcome Center) and CRISPRmas is getting closer! Week 2 brings a new set of event challenges and rewards, plus a brand new Super Animal breed.

If the climb to the top of the food chain was a literal climb, the Super Mountain Goat would have everyone beat. You can find it in the Research Lab as a permanent new addition!

5 challenge rewards to earn

• CRISPRmas Bauble Umbrella | Collect Candy Canes (1200)

• 1500 XP | Skate on ice (500 meters)

• Coal Gravestone | Deal damage with grenades (250)

• 750 Carl Coins | Eat Speed Mushrooms (20)

• Twinkle CRISPRmas Sweater | Break snow-covered crates (15)

New Super Animal Breed

• Super Mountain Goat (Available at level 50)

SAW Shop Highlights

In case you missed them during launch week, Ms. Macawsome and her many clones have been hard at work stocking new releases in the SAW Shop!

Thank you to everyone who has supported the game with DLC or cosmetic purchases. Your support is what lets our small team keep building and updating the game year after year.

To check out the new items, talk to Ms. Macawsome (or Carl) at any of her locations around the island, or pull up the shop in BananOS. The items are available now in a featured row, and will enter regular rotation when their time’s up:

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• Neck Mittens

• Snowman Hat

• Sushi Gravestone

• Hazmat Suit

• Vintage Bug Spray Melee

Ms. Macawsome has also managed to put together the sweet and festive Candy Cane Bundle for your weapons! Guaranteed to have been licked by Carl no more than three times.

Here’s what the bundle includes:

• Candy Cane Bow & Sparrow

• Candy Cane M16

• Candy Cane Silenced Pistol

• Dogna’s Candy Cane Dartgun

Also, since the universe wanted mimes, the Mime Bundle has returned to the shop this week!

RGB Twitch Drops Campaign is Live!

There’s a Twitch Drops campaign live right now! Earn two free cosmetics, the RGB Dress and Oversized RGB Hoodie, by linking your Super Animal and Twitch accounts on the SAR Drops website and watching Drops-enabled SAR streamers on Twitch.

The campaign ends on Friday, January 2nd, so be sure to tune in!

Changes and Bug Fixes

Thank you to everyone who submitted bug reports! We’ve rolled out some fixes to squash them (but don’t worry, we left the catchable bugs in).

The following fixes and changes are live on Steam, Xbox and PlayStation, and fixes are on the way for Nintendo Switch as well.

Changes Live on Steam, Xbox and PlayStation

• Fixed skunk mushroom gas not appearing on “low” VFX quality.

• Fixed a soft crash issue in shops with many categories in one section (for instance at Victory Island where there are exclusive items).

• Fixed an infinite leveling visual bug.

• Fixed a variety of crashes.

Additional Changes Live on Steam (coming soon to consoles)

• Chat bubbles are now layered above player names.

• Fish & bug catching popup is now a bit wider.

• Updated the map image with Murre Woods changes.

• Fixed being able to push through blocked areas by talking to NPCs.

• Removed a SAW Tickets and Carl Coins label in the Royale that was displaying “0”.

• Shops can now be properly navigated with a controller when at high resolutions (such as 4K).

• Fixed the shop screen showing Victory Island items with a timer.

• Fixed a rare case where controller users couldn't use the shoulder buttons while in a MTN Station or access BananOS Social UI.

• Fixed the Animal Pass tier purchase screen choosing an incorrect tier after using the (+) and (-) buttons to change it.

• Fixed "Join Social Hub" being broken if the party was previously hamsterball racing.

• All reward popups hide the equip button during the tutorial to prevent overriding animal presets.

• The proper error message will now be displayed when accepting a friend invite while offline.

• Fixed “Aim” not referencing a hotkey in NPC dialogue.

• Adjusted audio mixing so emote volume is reduced while near the jukebox.

• Added wider NPC dialogue bubble limits for German and Russian to prevent words from being occasionally clipped.

• Fixed the player level gem displaying incorrectly on the BananOS profile.

• Fixed the chat hotkey working in the Photo Booth and while the UI is hidden.

• You can no longer enter the Photo Booth while the UI is hidden.

• Switched to TCP protocol for SAR friends and cross-play lobbies (should be no noticeable change).

• Fixed Japanese subtitles on the opening cutscene.

• Updated translations for story dialogue and UI.

Console-specific Changes

• We rolled out a server-side patch the day after release so Xbox and PlayStation could properly complete the Photo Booth quests.

• Upcoming Switch fix: memory use improvements to help reduce crashing.

• AddedUpcoming Switch fixadded a missing icon for the button to exit a hamsterball race.

Additionally, some of the early matchmaking issues should now be resolved, including the “Could not reserve player slot” issue.

If you want to see the full list of huge new features that arrived in the expansion, including Week 1 of CRISPRmas challenges and rewards, check out the full Steam patch notes here.

Don’t forget to knock out your CRISPRmas challenges while you’re exploring the island during matches! Keep up to date on what’s happening in Super Animal World and what’s coming for the final week of CRISPRmas by subscribing to our newsletter and following us on:

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Have a happy holiday season, and we ho-ho-hope to see you on the island, Super Animals!