Primal Dominion: Aftermath

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• Announcements·19 Jul 2025Official

  STATUS OF DEVELOPMENT ON THE GAME

  Hello Survivors! This is an announcement to be public and transparent about whats been going on with development for the last year and what to be expecting. I am PRIMAL, I am the Lead and only active developer on the project, although we have a team of greatly talented individuals who have helped in many aspects from concept to audio to design, most of them are no longer active on development and have not been for some time. I have been pushing the cart forward since late 2022 when I soft-rebooted the entire project. Last you heard from us, we had a playtest in June 2024 which we anticipated a sizeable audience to test with, we unfortunately did not meet more than 20% of the total RSVP attendees which was a significant re-evaluation point for us :(I then took some time to re-do the completed GDD (Game Design Document) which outlines what the final product would entail, what future dinosaurs, how progression and modes and levels would look like, etc. Once I brought this to the team we took an understanding that the rest of the game would really be worth doing if there was still a large and sizeable interest. We had reached out to a few content creators, we did not get much interest from their audiences, we also reached out to publishers, which were very reluctant to indulge in a multi-player project.Finding ourselves at no financial help or interest we took the summer off to think some things over. Shortly after the summer I had touched on development for a few weeks leading up to October of 2024, from there I had to relief myself due to personal reasons but kept drip-feeding some development from time to time. We now stand a 1 year 1 month after that playtest and I am able to put some more time and thought into the project, I can either continue multi-player or pursue a demo of a single-player game using the existing systems and assets.I have arrived at a few ideas, I have nothing to confirm but what I will say is I am interested in building out a single-player demo...
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• Patch Notes·7 Jun 2024Official

  UPDATE 0.1.7.1.3.a

  Hello Survivors! It's been a while. If you're not up to date with our Discord, we're working our way into re-emerging with a much more robust version of the game, it's better than ever AND we're focused on keeping everyone updated consistently. Some of you have expressed a distaste for joining yet another Discord and I can totally get behind that, so to strike a balance we will be posting quickly accessible information such as recent development progress and upcoming features on the Discord and then Playtest announcements, updates, devlogs and change lists here! //////// Introduction (to the new guys) ///////// It feels appropriate for some introductions, I am Primal, the Lead Developer. Some of you may know me already but for those who don't, I got ownership of the project in late 2022 and have been working on it mostly solo since then. Our team mostly remains the same, most have not worked on the project since I took hold of the project but I've been building the project from the ground up on a fresh codebase all the while squeezing time for animating, texturing, modelling and optimizing. It's been a long year and a bit but I think the project is now in a suitable position for the lime light and I want to drop all the goodies about development & playtests in the Discord Server and over here on Steam Community. A preface for those who have not been paying attention for the last couple years. The game is not the same as it was, as this is a debut devlog it is fitting to show the difference of the game in 2021 compared to current day. Early 2021: We did not know what to do for our controller, it was incredibly basic, did not respond well to inputs and did not have any mouse aid for directing the dinosaur. Funnily we considered hiring a few Animation Programmers to get it up to par with where we wanted to go for. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40556301/817475a54749e18273cb84e3feee4133af077452.gif Easter 2024: A lot of work has been put into making the dinosaurs feel incredibly be...
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• Announcements·20 May 2024Official

  SUMMER 2024 PRE-ALPHA PLAYTEST!

  Hello Survivors! This is an announcement to share the news that we're gearing for a public playtest this June. We did a few smaller scale PTs around December/January and we've taken some time to address performance, bugs and introduced a few QOL updates to where we feel the game is ready for a more people to get their hands on and help up test out the game. If the playtest date is adjusted an announcement will be made here and in the discord. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40556301/d34c3dedf81f6a3055d3a4d4ab39dd89247225a6.jpg //////////////// What to expect? //////////////// The current plan is for 1 confirmed playtest but we may run a few more on the following days at the same times. The playtest is currently looking to hold a good handful of the active community so we hope to be running a couple servers concurrently, this message is to expand our reach so we can guarantee more players and also keep you guys in the loop because I know many people are wanting to be only active on steam. The playtest will allow you to use a few of the dinosaurs, namely, Troodon, Moros, Spino, Rex. A few weapons for our humans and we will be playing on some test maps so we can iron out and test the stability of gameplay features. VOIP is enabled by default so keep this in mind if you don't want to hear other players. The game size clocks in at approximately ~9GB. We also recommend everyone has a minimum of 8GB of RAM and a 20 Series (or equivalent) GPU for a good visual to performance balance @ 1080p. For testers who are returning there will be a more conclusive changelist/update log releasing at the time of the playtest so you can see all the major changes between the new playtest and the one before. A lot of the work done although may be final is still not a representative of what will be in the finished game. So please do bear in mind there may be missing features and bugs that you may experience but if you want to give suggestions or report any you can do so by reaching out via here or on ste...
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• Announcements·5 Nov 2021Official

  Primal Dominion - Pre Alpha Multiplayer Testing now available!

  WE WILL LEAVE THIS POST HERE JUST FOR ACHIVE PURPOSES BUT THIS POST DOES NOT REFLECT THE CURRENT STATE OF THE GAME, PLEASE VISIT OTHER POSTS FOR NEW AND RELEVANT INFORMATION! NO THE GAME IS NOT DEAD!!!! :D Hey Visitors, Taylor Here! Today we are excited to announce that the multiplayer component to Primal Dominion; referred to as "Primal Dominion: Aftermath" is now going into early pre-alpha public technical testing. Aftermath is set post events of Primal Dominion and will feature all 3 factions from the Primal Dominion Story as seen in the single-player demo. You can find the request access button via our store page under the release date. https://i.imgur.com/F7zaxi1.png If you haven't observed or been active in the Discord, we've gone ahead with the decision to dedicate our player viewing experience to First Person as we feel this makes the experience more grounded, realistic and gritty. Over the past month we have been fielding private testing to our most active community members to collect feedback, smash bugs and improve our content, and the feedback has been absolutely great! To increase the amount of hands on experience and collect even more feedback and metrics we have decided to utilize the Steam Betas feature to make our technical test more easily accessible and visible. As a forewarning, the Technical Test is a live purely work in progress everchanging build and subject to change and as such we will consistently be updating with bug-fixes, content and features. This is a chance for all to provide feedback and get free early hands on access with our beloved project. So with that being said let's talk about what the technical MP test currently contains. Game Mode | Elimination https://i.imgur.com/j3WBnGD.jpeg Elimination is a 3-Team competitive mode that sees Park Rangers, Mercenaries and Dinosaurs go head to head for eliminations. Keeping things simple and straightforward to allow us to build on the player experience and systems. Inventory and Class System...
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