Happy St. Patrick's Day!
A new update for Primal Carnage: Extinction is now available. Alongside today's patch, we have a fresh rotation of new looks in-store, a special Deluxe Edition DLC bundle, plus official support for Steam Deck!
NEW Deluxe Edition
Today we're launching a Deluxe Edition bundle for Primal Carnage: Extinction on Steam, which features a generous assortment of classic items!
We have two cosmetic DLC packs as part of the Deluxe Edition bundle - the _Mercenary Megapack and Prehistoric Legacy Collection_. In total, owning both of these grants you over 300 items, ranging from regular skins for humans and dinosaurs to model mutations and taunts.
Some of these items have previously only been available during special time-limited events such as the Summer Scavenger Hunt, but now you can acquire them as part of the Deluxe Edition bundle!
With even the official soundtrack included in the bundle, we think this is a great value starter pack for new players! If you _already _own PCE, you can choose to upgrade to Deluxe with a discount. And for those only interested in one of the item collections, you can also choose to buy each DLC pack separately.
Importantly, by purchasing the complete Deluxe Edition you will be supporting future development!
We're committed to providing more updates and new content for the game (Version 3.0 is on the way!), but your help is invaluable in keeping us going.
Players who own both the Prehistoric Legacy Collection and Mercenary Megapack DLCs will receive a special golden nameplate in-game that is visible to other players, as a sign of their supporter status.
Steam Deck
We're rolling out official support for Steam Deck this update. We'd received quite a few requests for this, and since we love the Deck we were happy to oblige!
It might be a while before Valve reviews our compatibility status again, so for now we may not show in the "Great on Deck" section. But fear not, with today's update installed you should be able to boot the game up with no problems on Steam Deck. You can now play PCE multiplayer wherever you go, so long as there's good internet access (or do some solo Survival if the wi-fi is out).
If you're lucky enough to own one, please let us know how your experience on Steam Deck goes! We've fine-tuned the graphics options on first boot so that you should have rock solid performance, but if you encounter issues we'll endeavour to investigate.
St. Patrick's Event
Spring is almost upon us and this St. Patrick's Day we're celebrating again with a gaggle of green cosmetics. Two new sets of bold dinosaur skins headline this store rotation, the Green Menace packs! Between them there's 14 voracious veridian creatures ready to be set free...
Marching into the store are several new mutations as well, ranging from the snarling Sarcophagus Acro to the terrifying Thanatos Carno, ready to give you a snap. Not to mention, there's two weird and wonderful Pachycephalosaurus variants - Annectens and Kapros!
Outside of the store, there are a handful of new free drops being added to the game. Why not get into the spirit with a Lucky Fedora, or bling out your Acro with the Goldrush skin!
As always, you can check out all of the latest items added to the game on our Special Event Trello board!
Changelog, Version 2.9.13
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Updated to a newer version of Steamworks for better compatibility
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Reduced size of the game's .EXE file, may improve performance
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Fixed an issue with Ptera grabbing people when hovering
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Added new St. Patricks Event cosmetic content
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Smoothed out Commando's head to be less polygonal
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Another fix for the "Not So Fast" achievement not triggering correctly
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The death screen now has multiple variants of each death hint while waiting to respawn
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Updated the game's startup splash image
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Main menu sidebar is now hidden when not connected to economy, instead of showing a bunch of garbled text.
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Added new golden nameplate for Deluxe owners which appears on main menu and when spectated
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Added a fallback fix for being stuck in team selection when joining a match - you should now be auto-assigned after a short time if team select appears for a game that has it disabled.
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Added new Steam Deck default system settings for smooth performance on handheld, (automatically applied when playing on Deck)
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Thanks for playing!
-The Primal Carnage Team
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