Elephant puppet Reviews - Prehistoric kingdom update 9
6Welcome, Park Managers!
Update 9 is now available! This patch introduces 4 new animals, swimming, a new map, biome, as well as a new selection of font styles. Please send feedback and bug reports to our Discord server's appropriate channel.
The team will be working on hotfixes for Update 9 over the next few days in addition to adding a few additional animations that didn't make it into the initial release. This will be our last major update for the year, as the team will be going on a short break over the holiday period.
This release also adjusts our version numbers to better reflect our original versioning scheme, which we were too silly to follow through on. Oopsies!
Your patience this year has been greatly appreciated, and we look forward to sharing our plans for Prehistoric Kingdom with you in January's Dev Diary in 2024. For all the details on what's changed in Update 9, please be sure to read the full patch notes at the bottom of this post!
New Species
Expand your kingdom's collection with 4 brand new species: Ouranosaurus, Muttaburrasaurus, Carcharodontosaurus and Spinosaurus!
Swimming
Take the plunge with swimming! This new behaviour allows animals to cross rivers and explore deep water bodies by swimming across the surface. Every species has varying degrees of water affinity, meaning that some animals like Spinosaurus frequently try to seek out water, while other species will try to avoid it all costs.
New Map: Tanzania
Build in the heart of the savanna with our new map set in the grassland biome. With sparse vegetation and flat terrain, this location is perfect for builders!
New Biome: Grassland
Adding 9 new types of plants, the grassland biome is one of our most versatile climates yet. Alongside classic trees like the Acacia, the grassland biome also comes with, well... grasses!
New Fonts
A collection of new styles are now available for the modular letter pieces. Coming in a range of different themes, these fonts are the perfect way to change up your park's signage.
PSA: Navigation Changes
Due to the introduction of water-based locomotion, all navmeshes will have to be regenerated! This means that upon initial load, your saved games may take longer to enter. Please resave your games once loaded in.
We have also made slope limit changes to the navmesh, so if you had animals that we were previously stuck in surprising places (e.g. rocks, roofs) you'll have to move them back down to an appropriate area.
Known Issues & Additional Notes
We will be fixing as many crashes as possible as they're reported. Please send feedback and bug reports to our Discord server's appropriate channel.
Muttaburrasaurus is missing Nigel voicelines! We will be adding them next year when we do our next recording session with Nigel
We’re still tuning the render distance for small objects, so some items may disappear sooner than expected
Animals do not animate while in the Nursery due to the new locomotion system. They will animate again in the future
Animal IKs are a work in progress and will be improved in future updates
Animals may jitter when resting or sleeping in shallow water
Guests can pick some pretty funky paths! We're in the middle of reworking our technical backend for path choices, so this will be fixed in a following update
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