Aquatic Update 0.122 - Mosasaurus Now Huntable

Greetings dinosaur hunters!

A new update is released just in time for the holidays! The update introduces aquatic hunting with Mosasaurus now available as a huntable species.
To support this, a new harpoon rifle, a SUP board for water traversal, and improvements to water behavior have been added.

Thanks again for your continued support and happy holidays!

Hunting Mosasaurus

Players are now able to damage Mosasaurus. Please note regular firearms don’t penetrate water. To hunt Mosasaurus we introduce a new type of weapon: harpoon rifle. When Mosasaurus dies its body will surface.
Mosasaurus can be placed on regular, and head stand in the lodge.

New Mosasaurus skin types

Mosasaurus has now full set of seven skins from Common to Erythristic.

Mosasaurus AI update

Mosasaur navigation and diving logic was improved to make hunting it more intense.

New aquatic weapon: Harpoon rifle

From the shop you can find new category Aquatic equipment. In it you’ll find a single shot harpoon rifle. Regular firearms bullets stop on water surface. Harpoons being slower and more heavier will penetrate water making them ideal for hunting aquatic or semi aquatic species. A new ammo type harpoons has been added for this new weapon.

New items: SUP board and paddle

SUP board is another aquatic class item. You need to put it in one of the equipment slots and hit left mouse button to deploy the board. Deploy it on water. You can pick it back to your inventory by looking at the middle section of the board and when you see the tex change to “pick” press E and the board will be back at your inventory.
In order to stand on the board you need to press E when looking at all other parts of the board than the middle. You’ll need to purchase the paddle too if you want to get anywhere comfortably. It’s possible to use the board without the paddle but then you’re able to move very slowly. Paddle is equipped in one of the equipment slots too.
Please note that the board will remain in the place where you left it when you die.

Trophy lodge poses

We have created a system that allows players to change poses on dinosaurs in lodge. Currently these species have different poses that can be applied:

• Tyrannosaurus Rex
• Ankylosaurus
• Carnotaurus
• Gallimimus

We’ll add more poses to other species later.

Christmas items at the lodge

Three items were introduced to the lodge to give it a proper holiday makeup: Santa hat, present box and golden star

Water improvements

• Player stays more to the surface of the water while swimming
• Wake in water created by player is now less in front of player while swimming
• Fix for shallow water logic
• Adjusted ocean waves in Tenebris sea base
• Fixed Water hit effect to match hit position
• Water is now synchronized between players
• Ocean waves no longer cause player to stop swimming

Map editor improvements

• Capsule collider visualizer in map editor improved

Sound improvements

The following species have some new sound effects especially for attacking: Allosaurus, Giganotosaurus, Sarcosuchus, Sinornithosaurus, Stegosaurus, Therizinosaurus, T-Rex

Other improvements

• Updated legendary rank T-Rex medal to match new design
• Fix for time of day synchronization and lighting not updating correctly
• Joining to other player game, now loads map asynchronously, and session is managed better to help issues with hard drive loading slowly the game
• improved Ashford lever-action in third person
• Improvement to Steam auth when reloading game immediately after closing it
• Improved interaction zones of dinosaur head trophies
• Fix for server scoring rounding issue in server that could cause submitted trophy to be dismissed (Published earlier on server)
• Game engine updated to newer version
• Running sway was modified
• Ability to use saved dino pose in trophy camera
• Performance improvement for Mosasaurus rendering

Bug fixes

• Fix for quick join not working correctly and missing some game settings, which caused issues
• Fixed issue with Steam invite not working when different region

Thank you for reading and we look forward to hearing your thoughts.