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Paleobiologists haven’t gotten down to the surface to study one yet. This is an “Acid Raptor.” That’s not its actual taxonomic designation. Image: Systemic Reaction/Avalanche Studios Group The Flatback is a spikier, tougher, mutated ankylosaurus.

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Meantime, Xbox One and Xbox Series X may play together. But the two communities will not begin any kind of cross-play until later Vickers gave September as a window.

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The Xbox Game Preview version coming this week has a matching content drop on Steam, called Preseason 4, and the console game is heavily informed by what Systemic Reaction’s PC community has been doing so far, Vickers said. Systemic Reaction wants to build up a strong sense of a world where humans, who escaped to orbit to flee the tyrannosaur tyranny, face a dynamic threat on the ground, with a feeling of gained or lost momentum. Second Extinction therefore needs a lot of players hammering away at the the game. So the idea is that, even though these are kind of very scripted missions, they change from week to week, play session to play session in interesting ways.” That will introduce extra challenges, which could have unique objectives and slight twists. So if you see a lot of players failing in a lot of areas, then that will increase dinosaur presence. “Twice a week, the players’ actions will be tallied up, where they’ve succeeded at things, where they’ve failed,” Vickers, Second Extinction’s game director, told me. The ‘war effort’ on Xbox Series X needs a lot of players, says Second Extinction’s director Random encounters get a lot more frequent in areas of greater dinosaur activity, and in extreme infestations, players can face random firefights bigger than the boss battle awaiting them in the story. That can alter where the player’s fireteam of three begins its operations, and the order in which they might tackle some objectives. A place with a lot of action, even if human players are prevailing, can get marked as too dangerous for the orbital drop that begins a mission series. It’s called the “war effort,” which is an ongoing meta-game in Second Extinction where parts of the map get more or less dangerous and dinosaur-infested depending on how players themselves have performed there.

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What drives a lot of that action, Vickers explained, is the reason why Second Extinction launched six months ago for Windows PC on Steam Early Access, in advance of another preliminary run with Xbox Game Preview beginning April 28. Developers Simon Vickers and Anaïs Palm took me on a tour this past Wednesday, with a rather meaty mission chapter that provided 60 minutes of fast-paced action, and multiple firefights that ended thigh-deep in dino remains. It matches the how-am-I-still-standing relentlessness of Doom and Left 4 Dead with production values just as strong, an emphasis on cooperative play, and a larger meta-game affecting the world’s sizable map. Give developer Systemic Reaction some credit, though Second Extinction, originally announced for Xbox Series X a year ago, is not formulaic.

In the case of this game, it’s dinosaurs and a first-person shooter. 'There is also a myriad of other suggestions, improvements, features, and tweaks that aren’t shown on the map but are things we are working on – we just don’t have an ETA on delivery yet.The elevator pitch for Second Extinction might sound like a kid’s breakfast cereal ad, wherein two awesome, yet disparate things unite to form one big, even more awesome thing. Avalanche also made it clear these are just the major beats and not all players can expect from Second Extinction in 2021.

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The final update of 2021, Preseason 7, will launch in November and refresh with new seasonal contracts as well as add a new secondary weapon. It will also introduce a new Horde Mode, another Operative character, and add in-game comms for the first time. It will bring crossplay to the game between console and PC players. In Preseason 5, coming in June, a new enemy type, a new enforcer-class weapon, and controller mapping will all be added to the game.Ĭontinuing the seasonal changeover schedule, Preseason 6 will begin in September and looks like perhaps the biggest update of the year. Preseason 4 will begin in April and it will bring a proper tutorial to the game as well as a new enforcer character. Currently, the game's third preseason, Necrosis, is underway, having started just recently.

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