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Hi Players,

Please find below the information regarding the Primal Fear update that occurred this morning.

==SWEEPING TORPOR DINO CHANGES COMING IN NEXT UPDATE==
Hey all,

After quite a while reviewing Primal Fear, comments, videos and other stuff, I have come to the decision to do a sweeping change to all dinos that do torpor. The original vision for this mod was to use weapons to knock out dinos as ark always intended, but along the way that vision got lost. I am partially to blame. As I became more experienced with modding, i tried out new things. This led to adding various torpor creatures because i could. This quickly became apparent that these broke the overall balance of the mod. After many revisions and tweaks and small nerfs here and there, things have become more manageable, but still not in line with my vision for the mod. So, with all that said, here are the sweeping changes coming to ALL Torpor creatures

Celestial

Celestial creatures will no longer do torpor. Instead of their white fire, they will be receiving a completely NEW custom ability. Along with their massive damage and blue fire, all celestials will get power up ability. Using this ability will do the following:

1. Creature gets swirling particles for visual effect
2. Creature will deal 1.5x damage
3. Creature will receive 25% less damage
4. Creature will become immune to ALL status effects
5. Stamina will quickly drain
6. Once stamina is depleted, torpor will quickly rise. If left unchecked, your creature will pass out.

This attack is FULLY user toggle-able at ANY time, assuming creature has enough stamina to re-enable it.

Poison

Poison creatures will lose all torpor ability and be renamed to Caustic. instead of their green torpor breath, the creature's new attack will leave behind a caustic, acidic cloud, which will do the following:

1. Slow the enemy creature down
2. Constantly apply damage until creature leaves area of effect or until effect times out
3. Potentially (still unsure if i will put this in) poising the creature with some status effect that will not go away until the user crafts and feeds creature an antidote. (TBD)

Malin Ptera

The Malin Ptera will lose all torpor ability and gain a custom attack. While I am unsure what this attack will be at this time, it will be some magical attack with some effect. Possibly another heal attack like the grifficorn, but varied slightly.

Toxics

Toxic creatures will be the ONLY creatures to retain torpor dealing attacks. But there are multiple shake ups coming. They are as followed:

1. Toxic creatures will gain a secondary melee attack which deals torpor damage. Primary melee attack will not cause torpor, but it WILL retain the creatures natural harvesting abilities.
2. TLC update on direbear
3. Torpor attack has been nerfed by a factor of 4 regarding amount of torpor dealt
4. Torpor attack will use 500 stamina per shot
5. Once stamina is depleted, torpor attack can continued to be used at the cost of your own torpor. Using it too much will result in your creature passing out.

along with the update to the way toxics work, we will waive goodbye to flying torpor dinos, as well as a few others, but say hello to some new friends

1. Goodbye Toxic Ptera
2. Goodbye Toxic Argentavis
3. Goodbye Toxic Wyvern
4. Goodbye Toxic Trike
5. Goodbye Toxic Rex

Toxic dinos are now classified as non-flying*, small to medium creatures. Which means along with our old friend the Toxic Direbear and Toxic Raptor we welcome:

1. Hello Toxic Dire Wolf (TLC)
2. Hello Toxic Sabertooth
3. Hello Toxic Thylacoleo
4. Hello Toxic Terror Bird (i said fliers not gliders)
5. Hello Toxic Ravanger

Final Note

With these sweeping changes i'm sure there will be people who are excited for the new direction, as well as people who are angry or disappointed by the removal of most torpor creatures. Primal Fear was always meant to keep a vanilla feel while expanding core content, all without being a core mod. Extremely high, OP torpor dealing creatures made the mod way too easy. That being said, for those of you who do enjoy high torpor dealing creatures, I will be throwing you a bone. With the next update will come this change, as well as some user configurable ini options.

1. One set of options will allow you to add to the amount of torpor your toxic creature can do. You will be able to make this number as big as you like, assuming you own or admin a server, or play single player.

2. Another set of options which will be able to control the stamina loss and torpor loss on the new Celestial Ability. If you feel the celestials arent balance right for you, you will be able to change that.


Thank you all for your understand, continued support, and I hope you keep enjoy Primal Fear. I know I have a LOT more in store for all of you in the future!

Cheers
Tomohauk