It's been months since we last heard from Lukewarm Media about its promising-looking multiplayer game Primal Carnage. Today, the indie studio put out another trailer for the team-based, dinosaur-versus-human PC title. For pre-alpha footage, this is shaping up quite nicely.
Lukewarm has also landed a partnership with EVGA, which should help to tighten up those graphics. Not something you see every day among independent developers, so props to them.
Primal Carnageis estimated to be at about halfway through development. That would put the full release during early next year, although I learned long ago never to get too fixated on dates. It'll come when it's ready. And that's perfectly fine.
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The T-rex looks like it plays like the Tank from Left 4 Dead. It never even touched one of the humans, despite having one essentially underneath its legs, but it didn't go down despite all of the gunfire either.
Two problems with this. The first is the animations, running and crouch walking look so weird, even the source engine looks better and that's old news.
The second is the T-Rex. This is not the badass T-Rex from Jurassic Park that chased down cars and eats lawyers sitting on toilets, they actually made the iconic king of the dinosaurs look lame.
This might just be alpha footage but I'm not impressed.
Halfway through development, I'll forgive the animations and slightly bland graphics, because I fucking LOVE dinosaurs. Playing as a Raptor looks a little easier than playing as the bulking T-Rex, I hope that's fixed because playing as one should feel awesome, not frustrating (At least that's how it looked).
I used to care about this game when it was supposed to use unigine, but now it just looks like shit. Way to sell out and use UE3, the killer of innovation.
i also thought and hoped for Primal Rage... you can't honestly call a dinosaur game 'primal carnage' without knowing you will remind people of primal rage.. it was kinda classic
Btw, why are the player characters composed solely of white women and black men?
Has the earth's population been devastated and this is the genetic combination preferred by scientists?
Rex was nomming on air for too long. Looks like it would be frustrating playing as one. Now if Rexxy had done some sort of charge attack, grab a human character in its teeth, and carried them off into a dark recess of the jungle that would make it fun.
They need to make it so that you feel as if you're completely fucked while playing a human.
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The second is the T-Rex. This is not the badass T-Rex from Jurassic Park that chased down cars and eats lawyers sitting on toilets, they actually made the iconic king of the dinosaurs look lame.
This might just be alpha footage but I'm not impressed.
Has the earth's population been devastated and this is the genetic combination preferred by scientists?
They need to make it so that you feel as if you're completely fucked while playing a human.
Why did they ever think "Lukewarm" would be a good name for a studio?
Regardless looks kinda like a less-fun version of ORION: Prelude. The gameplay just seems very 'meh.' Picks up a bit at the end though.