Hey everyone! We are excited to announce the Metriacanthosaurus TLC! This TLC comes with a new model, new animations, and an ability rework to fill out its role as a carnivorous healer or a toxic solo hunter. This includes new healing abilities and several toxic abilities based on its new 'Noxious' stacks system.

Noxious Build

The Metriacanthosaurus has unique toxin-based abilities making it a dangerous hunter, eliminating prey if their health falls below their toxin levels. Toxic is a status effect that increases with each bite on your prey and displays as a black segment over their health bar. Once their health reaches the black area, they will die regardless of how much health they may have left.

Some of Metri's abilities become more powerful when they are used while under the influence of a new stacking status effect, Noxious, acquired by consuming noxious meat, carrion, and mushrooms. While travelling, Metris should keep an eye out for these items to top up on their stacks of noxious, or even carry one in their mouth for later in case of sudden ambushes. Eating these will apply a noxious substance to metri’s mouth and claws, creating additional effects while attacking.

While Metriacanthosaurus is able to use its abilities without having noxious stacks, the added benefits of using noxious makes it essential to gain the upper hand.

In addition to their regular damage, Toxin Bite and Toxin Slash will use up a Noxious stack to apply toxin to your foes.

If you find your prey fighting back, reflect their damage back as poison with the Hide ability Putrid Scales.

Boost your Toxin and Poison damage with Toxic Presence to inflict your prey even faster.

Swap Noxious Frenzy in place of Toxin Bite to consume all of your stacks of Noxious and reset your ability cooldowns.

Noxious stacks can also enhance other abilities’ effects like Resilient Scales, Healing Presence, Kick, Braced Legs, and Leap.

Once your prey is pumped full of toxins they can be worn down with basic attacks, eventually succumbing to the noxious substance in an untimely demise.

Support Build

For those who prefer a more supporting role in a pack, the Metriacanthosaurus can serve either as buff support for a carnivore group, or has a debuff dealer to your pack’s opponents.

Healing Calls

Chase down your target with Hustle, a call that increases trot speed and stamina regeneration, giving your pack the edge in movement and maneuvering.

Healing Call works as the standard vocal heal, increasing the healing rate of nearby groupmates allowing them to more quickly shrug off wounds.

If your group is encumbered by status effects or debuffs, Rejuvenating Roar will help teammates heal away those effects to keep up the pressure.

When the fight is over, Healing Presence will passively increase your group’s health recovery when you are resting nearby. Well fed and fully healed, you’ll be onto the next fight in no time.

Debuff Calls

If you’d rather focus on wearing your enemies down, debuff calls will make them weaker and more vulnerable to attacks.

Sundering Cry will reduce the armor of all nearby enemies, opening them up for attacks to deal more damage.

Then strike fear in them with Intimidating Screech, reducing their attack damage.

Or use Draining Scream to increase their sprinting stamina consumption, letting your allies catch up to take them down.

The Metri can further enhance their vocal abilities with Musician to decrease vocal ability cooldowns so they can be used more often to keep their groupmates’ health topped off or their enemies struggling.

Nocturnal Abilities

The Metriacanthosaurus thrives at night, with passive buffs and several abilities becoming stronger in the darkness.

While under the cover of night:

• Twilight Menace will increase stamina regeneration.
• Bite and Claw Attack deal more damage.
• Healing Presence has increased range.
• Kick costs less stamina. And finally Prowler decreases land-sprinting stamina costs with the added bonus of increased damage resistance during the day.

We are looking forward to how players will use Metriacanthosaurus’s new abilities to become the premiere toxic hunter and carnivorous healer. Whether you are helping your fellow meat-eaters in a group or wearing prey down through toxic build up, we hope you enjoy this TLC. As always, we will be listening to your feedback and we’ll see you soon!