We have already mentioned it a couple of times on Discord, but here is the official statement about the future of Archotek (Read Me): https://trello.com/b/Ghz1JNVL/the-archotek-project-roadmap

A couple of demo players reported having problems joining servers. We just rolled out a small patch, which hopefully fixed the error. Please let us know, if you are still experiencing issues.

We pushed all the changes that were being made on dev branch to public branch. Some additions are still incomplete, but being worked on and improved over the coming months. [previewyoutube=v6Fakz0k_ME;full][/previewyoutube] The new patch includes: - Turning based on mouse rotation - Head turning - Character acceleration - Sleeping (Press H to rest and then J to sleep; J and H to stand up) - Footstep sound improvements - Basic playable aquatics (predators and prey) - Location updates (Aran Desert & Sanctuary) - New herbivore food indicator - Performance improvements, etc. We hope you enjoy the update! - ATP Dev Team

Hello everyone! Head turning has been added to the beta branch "development" and is awaiting testing. We also fixed some minor issues which got introduced with the last patch and did some small performance improvements. We are aware of the bugs that let you move and partially attack during resting and sleeping. These are issues, which can only be fixed through an engine update, which will happen at a later point in time. Here is a short video of the new additions and changes that have been made with the last patches. [previewyoutube=v6Fakz0k_ME;full][/previewyoutube] - ATP Dev Team

Aquatic animals are available for testing on development (beta) branch! New animals: - Mosasaurus - Ophthalmosaurus - Leedsichthys - Dunkleosteus - Helicoprion - Mawsonia - Coelacanth - Doryaspis - Drepanaspis They are still heavily being worked on, but playable. Hunger and thirst are disabled for aquatic creatures. Hunger will be enabled as soon as underwater eating is implemented. Some sounds will get a rework, especially attack sounds.

There have been a couple of posts asking about dedicated servers. We are dealing with a couple of problems in our code, since our old programmer Deathlyrage abandoned the project, who basically coded the entire game. That includes issues with hosting dedicated servers. We tried to host a few servers through Pingperfect and our internal server host, but the issue remains. Until this problem is solved, players will have to host their own listen servers (make sure you meet the minimum requirements ant have a good internet connection). The amount of programming issues we are dealing with at the moment are preventing us from releasing new patches. Once the majority got sorted out, we will release a larger patch that also includes all other changes such as new map locations, new dinosaurs and potentially an early version of the ecosystem mode. The ecosystem mode is being worked on by our new programmer, but the multiplayer part of the game will have to be worked on by someone else, who has more experience in multiplayer programming. Also we recommend looking at our Twitter or Discord for changes, not the steam forums or news. Sorry for the silence, but we assure you, the game is still being worked on. We are just making less progress than we would like to at the moment.

We moved the current build from development branch to public branch. A lot of changes have been made since the last time we patched this version. A large portion of the changelog got lost due to logistical changes, which unfortunately cost us months of development time. We are aware of some issues regardling replication and dedicated servers not working right now, however we are working on them and will let you know when they are fixed. Also as we stated in several posts before, the new builds don't support Linux and Mac anymore. However your game will work on Windows or you can switch to the beta Branch Linux/Mac, which contains a copy of the last version of the game. We are slowly getting back on track. Thanks to the people, who have never given up on us.

Always wanted to get your skin added to the game? Here is your chance! Our First Skin Contest
How do I enter/submit my work? Just send us a direct message on Facebook, tag us on Twitter (@archotek) with your concept attached to it or submit your art to our deviantart group. https://www.deviantart.com/thearchotekproject If you are part of our Discord, you can also add your work to the #skincontest channel You can find the rules listed in the image above. If you submit your work, add #ATPContestDec to the description/title or to the image itself. Templates: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fnH4ZgaFSugZiNv9rEB4J_We7NHNwFZF/view?fbclid=IwAR1vIJGO9K7i_OWCsCZrKATU57F1jlP4DiZrXhhb8YLCRh_QgNk061FpgXY Deadline: December 24th! :) Good luck! ..................................................................... Dev Branch has been added and made public, but we recommend staying on public branch, if you don't want to experience unstable builds or game breaking bugs. We would still like to see a few more people with low end Windows PC's try out the newest updates, to see how much performance has improved. Important: The newest updates on dev branch only work on Windows 64-bit. If you bought the game on Mac or Linux, you can still play your copy on a Windows PC though. We decided to discontinue Linux and Mac builds FOR NOW and pick them back up once we get closer to full release or fully released the game. How to switch to dev branch? Right-click ATP in your steam library > Properties > Betas > select "development". No password needed. If you are interested in Realism (dev branch), go check out the Realism (Listen) Server of one of our mods. https://discord.gg/jacJCzg or https://steamcommunity.com/groups/RSATP

You are experienced in Unreal Engine 4/C++ or have other awesome skills and want to get involved in the development of ATP? Send us an email and tell us how awesome you are and why you would make a great addition to the team: archotekproject@hotmail.com We are looking forward to hearing from you!

Hello everyone! It has been a while. Unfortunately a lot of real life stuff got in the way, so the work on ATP had to be delayed by a couple of more months, but we are slowly getting back. We are currently working on a development branch (beta branch) server that will be open to everyone, since we have to change our workflow due to changes in the dev team. This has a positive and negative side to it. The positive aspect is, everyone can check out the progress directly without waiting for the next patch on the stable branch. The downside is, you will experience several small and larger patches, more server restarts and broken mechanics. Hence the title "development branch". If you don't mind running into bugs, feel free to opt into dev branch once the server is up. If you want to keep your gaming experience as bug free as possible, we recommend staying on the stable version. We don't have a set date yet, when the server will go live, but we will let you know as soon as we got everything sorted out. - Levia

The old servers are currently offline and we are waiting for approval from the new host. Unfortunately, due to the holidays, service is a bit slow at the moment, so we don't know when the new servers will be up, but you are still able to host listen servers. Just don't forget to port forward! We will be back as soon as possible!

The old servers are currently offline and we are waiting for approval from the new host. Unfortunately, due to the holidays, service is a bit slow at the moment, so we don't know when the new servers will be up, but you are still able to host listen servers. Just don't forget to port forward! We will be back as soon as possible!

We are aware of the current server issues and are working on getting new servers up and running. We will let you know, when the new servers are working.

We are aware of the current server issues and are working on getting new servers up and running. We will let you know, when the new servers are working.

Short ATP dev stream. Working on Thescelosaurus. https://www.twitch.tv/leviadraconia/

Short ATP dev stream. Working on Thescelosaurus. https://www.twitch.tv/leviadraconia/

Hello everyone, Levia here! It's only the beginning of December and most teams post a summary, statement or whatever you want to call it, at the end of the month, but I believe it's always better to do something sooner than later and most of us will probably be busy fighting the Christmas food coma instead of spending their holidays reading Facebook posts. ;) Some of you might remember Archotek starting out as a business tycoon (not a park tycoon, as many people believed), where you had to "create" and sell animals based on your customers needs, e.g. with specific skins, stats, etc. In summer 2016 the idea behind the game changed and turned it into the ecosystem management simulator, that we are still holding onto. A few players asked, if it the ecosystem mode will be based on different time periods. The short answer: We are not against the idea, but we don't have the financial resources to do that. A good amount of work has already been put into the creation of the dinosaur models, when the concept changed and we believe, we can have a working ecosystem even if we have different animals from different periods in the same place. Option B would have been scrapping some of the models and sticking to one time period, but we love our animals even if they are only a bunch of polygons & textures and even caused us headaches in some cases (Damn you, Galli!), which is also the reason, why the "Be the Dinosaur" mode exists - They deserve more attention than just being watched through a top down camera. We are aware, that there have been a lot of debates, when Archotek launched on Steam with only the BtD mode and there have been players, devs and content creators trying to manipulate this project simply because of that (and there still are) and some even went so far, that they tried to destroy my personal life and the life of former team members. Beast of Bermuda is currently undergoing the same "treatment". However, ATP wouldn't exist anymore, if it wasn't for this decision. It is known, that the dinosaur community is - unfortunately - incredibly toxic. We are not exactly sure why, but the reasons are not really relevant. We do understand, that some people go through hard times and can't always be happy or simply positive, but there is a line that has been crossed many, many times, which forced us to be rather strict when it comes to excluding people from our community. I personally think everyone deserves a chance, but there have been individuals, who set a world record at crossing this line. I am not sure if these actions have left a negative impression on the game or team in any way, but we had to do what was necessary to avoid more drama and damage. The year 2017 has been filled with struggle, worrying, calculations and lots and lots of work. I often spent 24-33 hours straight working on Archotek, feeling incredibly exhausted during the few days I took off from work. In August I picked up a second job in town (for those, who don't know: I work as full-time dev & artist) to keep myself and ATP financially stable. We still had to slow down the dev process. Our animator works on Prehistoric Kingdom and is currently going through his final year at Uni and I am surprised, he hasn't shot me yet for the amount of times I had to bug him to do work on ATP. A lot of friendships, relationships and connections suffered this year just to prevent ATP from dying. One or two people mentioned Kickstarter as "solution", but I personally do not believe we would have reached the required goal, alone for the reason that I took over the project in December and there are people out there, who do almost everything to see me or the project fail. Besides that, statistics show, that Kickstarter is not really that helpful anymore as it used to be a few years back. We will still give it a try though, when our next project (Draconia) is developed enough to be shown there, since the interest in that project is way higher. What is our plan for the coming year? As I mentioned in one of the last posts, we have a new programmer, who will hopefully stay with us during the entire year and improve the game significantly (a lot of things/mechanics had to be rushed and are just super clunky). Especially the aquatics will need extra treatment, since I absolutely hate the current controls. haha I will undergo a larger change in my life to have more money that I can throw into the ATP pot. It still won't be easy, but it's a step in the right direction. Players also keep asking for flyers and specific animals. We really would like to have all these requested things in-game, but we all have bills to pay and still need to work on the promised content like the Ecosystem. However, if one or several people decide to throw some money together to have something added to the game, they can contact me privately about that on Discord/here on Facebook. Like I said, it's not like we don't want these things. And of course our main plan is not to give up. It's not an option. Never will be! No matter what life throws at us! 2018 will still be filled with a lot of grinding, but I am positive! Now back to the part about creating a working ecosystem: We did some work on the Tiers & Points for eco mode. The document I linked below is still heavily work in progress. We would still appreciate some feedback: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_vvVpoQAv_m3w7HccHGzFIkFaa5tXyhWaf4aYyqa6Ng/edit?usp=sharing Congrats, you made it to the end of this post! :) Thanks for taking the time to read it. - Levia

Hello everyone, Levia here! It's only the beginning of December and most teams post a summary, statement or whatever you want to call it, at the end of the month, but I believe it's always better to do something sooner than later and most of us will probably be busy fighting the Christmas food coma instead of spending their holidays reading Facebook posts. ;) Some of you might remember Archotek starting out as a business tycoon (not a park tycoon, as many people believed), where you had to "create" and sell animals based on your customers needs, e.g. with specific skins, stats, etc. In summer 2016 the idea behind the game changed and turned it into the ecosystem management simulator, that we are still holding onto. A few players asked, if it the ecosystem mode will be based on different time periods. The short answer: We are not against the idea, but we don't have the financial resources to do that. A good amount of work has already been put into the creation of the dinosaur models, when the concept changed and we believe, we can have a working ecosystem even if we have different animals from different periods in the same place. Option B would have been scrapping some of the models and sticking to one time period, but we love our animals even if they are only a bunch of polygons & textures and even caused us headaches in some cases (Damn you, Galli!), which is also the reason, why the "Be the Dinosaur" mode exists - They deserve more attention than just being watched through a top down camera. We are aware, that there have been a lot of debates, when Archotek launched on Steam with only the BtD mode and there have been players, devs and content creators trying to manipulate this project simply because of that (and there still are) and some even went so far, that they tried to destroy my personal life and the life of former team members. Beast of Bermuda is currently undergoing the same "treatment". However, ATP wouldn't exist anymore, if it wasn't for this decision. It is known, that the dinosaur community is - unfortunately - incredibly toxic. We are not exactly sure why, but the reasons are not really relevant. We do understand, that some people go through hard times and can't always be happy or simply positive, but there is a line that has been crossed many, many times, which forced us to be rather strict when it comes to excluding people from our community. I personally think everyone deserves a chance, but there have been individuals, who set a world record at crossing this line. I am not sure if these actions have left a negative impression on the game or team in any way, but we had to do what was necessary to avoid more drama and damage. The year 2017 has been filled with struggle, worrying, calculations and lots and lots of work. I often spent 24-33 hours straight working on Archotek, feeling incredibly exhausted during the few days I took off from work. In August I picked up a second job in town (for those, who don't know: I work as full-time dev & artist) to keep myself and ATP financially stable. We still had to slow down the dev process. Our animator works on Prehistoric Kingdom and is currently going through his final year at Uni and I am surprised, he hasn't shot me yet for the amount of times I had to bug him to do work on ATP. A lot of friendships, relationships and connections suffered this year just to prevent ATP from dying. One or two people mentioned Kickstarter as "solution", but I personally do not believe we would have reached the required goal, alone for the reason that I took over the project in December and there are people out there, who do almost everything to see me or the project fail. Besides that, statistics show, that Kickstarter is not really that helpful anymore as it used to be a few years back. We will still give it a try though, when our next project (Draconia) is developed enough to be shown there, since the interest in that project is way higher. What is our plan for the coming year? As I mentioned in one of the last posts, we have a new programmer, who will hopefully stay with us during the entire year and improve the game significantly (a lot of things/mechanics had to be rushed and are just super clunky). Especially the aquatics will need extra treatment, since I absolutely hate the current controls. haha I will undergo a larger change in my life to have more money that I can throw into the ATP pot. It still won't be easy, but it's a step in the right direction. Players also keep asking for flyers and specific animals. We really would like to have all these requested things in-game, but we all have bills to pay and still need to work on the promised content like the Ecosystem. However, if one or several people decide to throw some money together to have something added to the game, they can contact me privately about that on Discord/here on Facebook. Like I said, it's not like we don't want these things. And of course our main plan is not to give up. It's not an option. Never will be! No matter what life throws at us! 2018 will still be filled with a lot of grinding, but I am positive! Now back to the part about creating a working ecosystem: We did some work on the Tiers & Points for eco mode. The document I linked below is still heavily work in progress. We would still appreciate some feedback: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_vvVpoQAv_m3w7HccHGzFIkFaa5tXyhWaf4aYyqa6Ng/edit?usp=sharing Congrats, you made it to the end of this post! :) Thanks for taking the time to read it. - Levia

Working on the Hypsilophodon textures on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/leviadraconia Come and say hi! :)

Working on the Hypsilophodon textures on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/leviadraconia Come and say hi! :)

The free version/demo of Archotek is live now! Please let us know if you have any problems downloading it or can't connect to the servers! You should be able to join the Public servers 1-3! If you don't see them, disable your antivirus/firewall. http://store.steampowered.com/app/608990/The_Archotek_Project/

Added: More spawn points and food to demo map Updated: Physics volume position on demo map Updated: Error message localization (wip) Fixed: Poop will now spawn and despawn properly

Upgraded: to Unreal Engine 4.18 Refactored: Eating/Drinking/Stamina/Sprinting/Health for shared functionality in-between aquatics Disabled: Halloween event Disabled: Collision on small objects like tiny stones and branches Disabled: Skylight recapture Disabled: Cloud density change on all maps, since it is causing massive frame drops on medium and low end computers Updated: Day-night-cycle length. A full cycle ends after 60 minutes instead of 90 Updated: Level art LOD's Updated: Asset shader to support different overlays like snow, moss and more Updated: Skysphere to 4.18 Updated: Foliage master material to allow us to easily switch between seasons, if needed Updated: Min occlusion on all maps Updated: Psittaco camera position to be closer Updated: Edible objects will now despawn and respawn after a while depending on food value Updated: Water post processing to be less dark Updated: Gallimimus model and textures, since the old model had UV issues Updated: UI and font to be compatible with the new localization Optimized: Network Optimized: Several level art and character textures Optimized: Trees. They now have 70-80% less polys, yay! Improved: Animation blueprints. Fixed: Movement not stopping on death Fixed: Dinosaurs could jump while eating and drinking. New: Discord Rich Presence integration (wip) New: Rivershader and winter foliage variations (demo map only for now) New: Mushrooms, flowers and berries are a new food source New: Edible trees will now be green/red (depending on season) and have yellow falling leaves around them as well as a slight glow New: Localization - Added German, English, French, Dutch, Italian, Hungarian & Portuguese (Brazil). Please let us know if a translation is wrong or if you want to help with the translation of other languages. Hotfix 1039: Disabled aquatics. We spent a lot of time working on the aquatics, but they are still having some issues that need to be sorted out and they will also get a complete movement code overhaul later at some point.

We are about to release a demo of Archotek with a limited version of the BtD mode (gets updated with further progress of the full game) and need people, who don't own the game yet or have a second steam account without the full game to test it's functionality. You can play with people, who own the full version on the same dedicated servers. Please tag "Levia Draconia" in #general on our Discord, if you want to help. Discord is a requirement, if you want to help testing. https://discordapp.com/invite/archotek

The next patch will be delayed by a couple of days, since we have to fix a bunch of bugs that sneaked in with the addition of the aquatics. So the Halloween event will last a few days longer than planned. The aquatics update will feature the following playable animals: Mosasaurus Dunkleosteus Helicoprion Leedsichthys Rhizodus Ophthalmosaurus We also have Mawsonia, Coelacanth, Doryaspis and Drepanaspis in the making, but we haven't decided yet, if we will make these playable or not. All of these wouldn't really have any attacks and Doryaspis & Drepanaspis are very small (the size of Archaeopteryx and tinier) and would be hard to spot underwater, which makes them rather pure AI candidates, which appear in swarms rather than solo. Once the aquatics update is out, we will continue to work on the ecosystem mode, which means it will be our main focus in the coming updates and the addition of new species will slow down, maybe even be delayed until post full release of the game, since we currently have enough animals for the ecosystem management part. We know, that some of you are excited to see new animals, but we feel that adding new dinosaurs to the game, in it's current state, slows our actual progress down and just delays the release of the main part of the game. If you have any questions, feel free to join our Discord, where you can also find a few aquatic update sneak peeks: https://discord.gg/VsEhawK Also we are aware of the server issues and are still trying to resolve the problem. Until then let us know, if you get a timeout message and we will restart them asap. (Note: You can't join the Test Server on the public branch!) We hope you have a happy Halloween!

Fixed: HUD not being enabled by default

New: The Halloween update is finally here! Gather 100 claws and find a shrine to permanently unlock 1 of 7 Halloween themed skins! The event takes place on all 3 server maps (Vulture Plains, Aran Desert and Sanctuary) and will last until November 1st, so you have plenty of time to unlock your new swag! Disabled: Motion blur Fixed: Pachy's diet class, which resulted in a lower food regeneration when players were eating plants Fixed: Message Box Error Messages were not working and always displayed 'You were banned' Fixed: Kick Reason not working on message boxes Fixed: Possible UI Bugs Fixed: Abort / Disconnect button not working in Shipping Builds. Fixed: Dev / Admin Tags not showing up on listen servers + Developer Only Skins not working Fixed: Invert X / Y axis setting not working and not saving Fixed: Remove Chat Settings Option Fixed: Ping bug with server list Added: Show HUD Settings Option Added: Mouse Sensitivity X and Y Option Added: Kelp and seaweed Added: Underwater cavesystem to Vulture Plains Added: Gender selection to character selection (not functional yet) Updated: Underwater caustics effect Updated: Steam Client Redist for Linux Updated: Waterplane material and water post processing Updated: Cavesystem post process settings Updated: Vulkan Redist Updated: Ignore list and upgraded material assets to 4.17 format Updated: Post process offset setting on several maps Increased: Galli's eating animation rate scale Increased: Psittaco's sprint animation rate scale Lowered: Pachy's stamina, health and attack damage Lowered: Stego health Optimized: Vulture Plains map Optimized: Several foliage meshes Optimized: Animation Blueprint Optimized: Player List UI Updates Improved: Night vision now works in a better way and doesn't break on death Improved: Network smoothing Improved: Player List + Ping is now accurate Note: The Halloween skins won't be allowed on the realism server once the event is over. Edit: Enable your HUD in the settings. We will do a hotfix in a few minutes to have the HUD enabled by default.

Fixed: Several sounds being global Fixed: Deinonychus and Pachy not using the new animations Updated: Sound attenuation for medium sized dinosaurs Lowered: volume of waterdrop sounds in cavesystem on Vulture Plains map

Added: Pachycephalosaurus Added: New Allosaurus Skins Lowered: Gallimimus Stamina Updated: Deinonychus sprint & walkcycle animations Updated: Vulture Plains map and also added more edible carcasses and plants to it Updated: Sound attenuation for medium sized dinosaurs Increased: the amount of food and water you get from eating trees/ carcasses and drinking

The Official ATP Realism Server is now live (Official_ATP_Realism_4) Rules & profiles can be found here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/atprealism#

We are planning on hosting an official realism server. But before we do that, we need to know which map you want to see on it. Please vote here: http://www.strawpoll.me/13691474 If you are interested in playing on the realism server, join this group and read the rules, as well as profiles to avoid any misunderstandings: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/atprealism We will post an announcement once the server is live! :)

Added: Allosaurus Added: Functionality for Server Admins, Game Devs / Game Admins to Kick and Ban Players from the player list UI Added: Dinosaur damage indicators Fixed: Cave mesh collision issue, that allowed you to drink the water underneath Updated: Poop now replicates like intended and uses more optimized actor lifetime method + general performance improvements Updated: Psittacosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Gallimimus, Deinonychus, Coelophysis cycle animations Updated: Skysphere on Vulture Plains map Lowered: Tyrannosaurus footstep & attack sounds volume Lowered: Galli stamina and attack damage

Many players got an error, saying they got banned from the server, when they tried to connect to one. Don't worry, you did not get banned! :) We restarted the servers to resolve this problem. You should now be able to connect again. If you are still getting the error, make sure your game version matches the server version. If you are on the public branch and are trying to connect to the "Test Server", you will still get this error, since it's a devbranch server. If you want to play on the public servers, make sure your Beta branch is set to "none". Sorry for the connection issues. We are trying to fix this asap. Also the next patch will be ready soon, so stay tuned!

Updated: Game to UE 4.16 Updated: Color of dev/admin tags on player list to be more visible Updated: Skysphere and lighting settings on all maps Updated: Ceratosaurus resting animation and jaw position Updated: Stats UI Improved: Attack System. Attacks no longer duplicate, refuse to play or have latency Fixed: Vocal Calls being inconsistent and sometimes not playing Fixed: Player Count not being limited correctly Fixed: Clipping issues in Archaeo hatchling call animation Fixed: Possible bug with Server Game Session code Added: Acrocanthosaurus Added: Several new Ceratosaurus skins Added: Cave system to vulture plains map Increased: attentuation radius for large dinosaurs Lowered: Ceratosaurus max sprint speed, stamina and attack damage Reverted: Mip level change on Vulture plains map since it caused some issues Optimized: Redwood trees, fern LODs and several textures

We are looking for some volunteers who would want to help with the translation of ATP into the following languages: Greek, Swedish, Arabic, Czech, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Turkish, Chinese and double-check Spanish, Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazil), Polish If interested, join our Discord https://discordapp.com/invite/VsEhawK and PM me the language (must be your native language), your email address so I can give you editing rights for the document and either your real name or an alias, which we will add to the credits later on. If you get accepted, you will be added to a private conversation, where we discuss all the details.

Added: Ability to block/unblock players. This option can be found on the player list (Tab) under "Actions". Updated: Cloud density change on Vulture Plains map. Updated: Collision mip level on Vulture Plains map. Improved: Performance in redwood area on Vulture Plains map. New: Game developers and admins show up as a different color on the server list.

Added: Ceratosaurus Note: Cerato will get more skins over the next few weeks. Fixed: Feces floating, when players press P while jumping or swimming

Fixed: Several issues on the new map Fixed: Player not being able to eat from trees and carcasses Lowered: Psittaco swim speed Increased: Spinosaurus Hatchling swim speed Increased: TRex bite radius

Added: New map "Vulture Plains" Fixed: Tricera Hatchling drinking animation not playing Updated: Camarasaurus animations Increased: Spinosaurus swim speed

Fixed: Player bodies kept attacking after death. Fixed: Attack issue, where players appeared to be spamming attacks for everyone but themselves and accidentally killed others.

Added: Camarasaurus Added: Brachiosaurus Added: Ascending and descending to Spinos (wip). Hold Q/R to ascend/descend. Note: Movement system (Swimming/Diving/Walking) will get a major overhaul later at some point. Added: Edible trees for Sauropods (placeholders). Keep an eye out for yellow shimmering trees. Added: Social media links to main menu. Updated: Name tag draw distance. Reduced it by 50%. Updated: Pitch of Spino calls. Adult and hatchling should now sound slightly more different. Updated: Coelophysis camera position. Updated: Texture color of edible trees and fern to yellow so they are easier to see. Updated: Hunger restoration values depending on diet class. Herbivores will restore significantly less hunger from eating corpses than carnivores and vise versa. Updated: Water surface shader. Nerfed: Adult Triceratops max sprint speed. Nerfed: Adult Triceratops and adult Stryacosaurus attack damage. Increased: Coelophysis breaking deceleration while swimming. Fixed: Glitch that can cause attack / call animations to become unusable. Fixed: Players could rest while swimming which disabled other mechanics. Fixed: Attacks and calls not working anymore sometimes. Fixed: Double-attacking when spamming the attack buttons. Improved: Settings Menu Memory and Performance.

We had some issues, where players weren't able to connect to any of the servers and got a timeout error instead. The servers are back up now and functional. We will look into a solution to prevent this problem from happening again. Until then, we ask you to message us asap, if that error occurs again. Furthermore the new patch, including Brachi, Camara and a bunch of other things, should be ready soon as well. Sorry for the delay. We hope you had a great weekend!

Save 15% on The Archotek Project starting today. The Sale ends together with the Steam Summer Sale (in 2 weeks from now). http://store.steampowered.com/app/608990/ And for those who haven't noticed: We published our Trello Board, where you can find more informations about what we have planned and what we are working on at the moment. https://trello.com/b/Ghz1JNVL/the-archotek-project

Added: Parasaurolophus Hatchling Added: Spinosaurus Hatchling Added: Stegosaurus Hatchling Added: Styracosaurus Hatchling Added: Edible fern (blue). These are placeholders until the real plant-eating is finished! Added: Sound effect to poop mechanic for better immersion Fixed: Night vision being toggled while typing in chat Fixed: Carborundum Archaeopteryx skin using the wrong texture file Fixed: Clipping issues in Anato and Para death animations Updated: Triceratops Hatchling Stamina. Increased it from 75 to 90. Updated: Tyrannosaurus walkcycle animation Improved: General performance

Added: Night vision - press "N" to toggle it.

Added: Black magic. Press "P" to cast a spell, which has a cooldown of 60 seconds to prevent spam and performance loss. This mechanic got requested by several community members, don't hate. ;')

Added: New Anatosaurus Skins Added: Anatosaurus Hatchling Added: Archaeopteryx Hatchling Added: Psittacosaurus Hatchling Added: Tyrannosaurus Hatchling Fixed: Triceratops Hatchling not being able to attack Fixed (Hopefully): Bones were not being refreshed on dedicated server causing various problems including damage model not working correctly Updated: Tyrannosaurus and Spinosaurus animations Updated: Carcasses; Added flies and buzzing sounds Updated: Aran Desert map and Green Valley map

Added: Anatosaurus and Parasaurolophus Added: New Triceratops skin Updated: Rex and Tyrannosaurus bite radius Updated: Tyrannosaurs walkcycle and Spino swimming animation Disabled: Event driven loader as it causes crashes. Have a great Sunday!

Fixed: Players getting stuck in corpses after spawning. Fixed: Spino footstep sounds using the wrong attenuation settings. Sorry for the trouble.

Added: Spinosaurus (Note: Diving and camera that adapts to the animals size in the character selection are wip.) Added: New Coelophysis Skin Added: Additional carcass to nesting ground on Aran Desert map Fixed: Termite Hills, carcasses not casting shadows Improved: Tyrannosaurus Hitbox Updated: Character collision Nerfed: Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops and Styracosaurus damaged Wish you all an awesome weekend!

Updated: Shadow and foliage quality. Updated: Eating and drinking. Drinking water/eating player corpses or carcasses restores twice as much thirst/hunger now. Fixed: Dead trees on AranDesert map using the wrong billboards. Added: Edible carcasses, termite hills and chunks of meat. Added: Tyrannosaurus footstep sounds.

Improved game performance. It should now run much smoother than before.

New: Stamina now regenerates 2x as fast while resting Added: Health regen when > 50% Food. Health regens faster when resting Added: Second attack to Coelophysis Fixed: Reduced eating/drinking target distance by half Fixed: being able to drink while swimming Fixed: Game HUD was still appearing in the character selection screen for a few seconds Fixed: Game HUD wasn't being shown when logging back in after dying on character selection Fixed: Bug where your stamina would regen past the maximum value Fixed: Players now can no longer run when they don't have any stamina Improved: Game Performance

Added: basic hunger/thirst/stamina system, carnivores & herbivores can eat dead bodies to fill up their hunger bar (eating plants is wip) Added: Drinkable water Added: new spawn points to Aran Desert; players will now spawn around the large oasis Added: stats UI, which shows the players health, hunger, stamina and thirst Added: suicide button to Escape menu; players don't have to use the console anymore Added: New mini map "ArchaeoKingdom" to map selection (Host menu) Fixed: hitboxes on all dinosaurs; damage should now get applied like intended Nerfed: Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, Styracosaurus and Gallimimus Updated: second Tyrannosaurus skin set Updated: nametag visibility Updated: AranDesert map; something strange happened there...

Fixed hitboxes on dinosaurs Added 4 more Styracosaurus skins Nametags shouldn't change position anymore, when the player crouches Aligned swimming animations of all dinosaurs to water surface Disabled skylight recapture on all maps, which caused performance issues and larger framedrops every few seconds Added new character selections with light sources to all maps Fixed: Hosting of listen servers Fixed: Mesh deformation on Styracos beak, while using call Fixed: Vocal call duplication Possible dead body running fix Updated: Stego Walkcycle Updated: Tyrannosaurus Runcycle Updated: texture groups of UI elements and character textures New: Game now discards unused texture quality levels for lower memory performance impact