Saturday, May 24, 2008

Cretaceous Calamity

Cretaceous Calamity is a user-made expansion currently in production by the Mysterious Map Marvels. It focuses on the Cretaceous period, and includes plants and animals from the period, as well as new scenery objects. Several new features will also be included. Originally planned to be a map-only expansion pack, it has since evolved into a full-fledged expansion pack.
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* 1 Content
o 1.1 New Features
o 1.2 Animals
o 1.3 Maps
* 2 External Links

Content
New Features

Cretaceous Calamity will include modified animal behaviors. New predator and prey coding increases the chances of a herbivore defending itself from attack, as well as increasing the frequency of carnivore fights. Large dinosaurs will be tougher, taking multiple attacks to bring down. There will also be animal-specific behaviors as well, such as pack hunting among carnivores to attack larger animals.

Dinosaur Death Duels, first seen in the Jurassic Park Premium Download and in a user-created Allosaurus, will also be featured in Cretaceous Calamity.
Animals

The pack's number of animals is still unconfirmed, but a handful have been revealed so far. Currently known animals include:

* Muttaburrasaurus
* Giganotosaurus
* Unenlagia
* Argentinosaurus
* Irritator
* Spinosaurus
* Carcharodontosaurus
* Suchomimus
* Deltadromeus
* Ouranosaurus
* Achillobator
* Therizinosaurus
* Microraptor
* Pyroraptor
* Acrocanthosaurus
* Iguanodon
* Tenontosaurus
* Torosaurus
* Anatotitan
* Pachycephalosaurus
* Daspletosaurus
* Edmontosaurus
* Corythosaurus
* Stygimoloch
* Koolasuchus
* Tarbosaurus
* Nigersaurus

For more information, See List of Cretaceous Calamity animals
Maps

Cretaceous Calamity will be the first user-made expansion to include functional maps. Unlike saved games, which must be installed to a player's profile, these will function as official base maps for Freeform and Challenge games. Maps to be included are as follows:

* Early Cretaceous Antarctica and Australia
* Late Cretaceous Patagonia
* Late Cretaceous Africa
* Middle Cretaceous Mongolia
* Early Cretaceous Liaoning
* Late Cretaceous Romania
* Early Cretaceous Utah
* Late Cretaceous Montana
* Late Cretaceous Alberta
* North American Inland Sea

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