Carnivores: Unloaded

Most of us remember the early days of Carnivores modding. At first we could make only reskins of animals and maps. But then we were gifted with AltEditor 2, Animator 7 and Designer 2. With these tools we could do much more. And later JenDOS made dilophosaurus and carnotaurus. Those animals were used in Carnivores: Reloaded, a mod by glitchunter09.

This mod basically was a remake of the first Carnivores game (1998) on the engine of Carnivores 2. Besides new dinosaurs, it also had new maps - extended versions of Carnivores (1998) ones. Though the creator was an asshole, I still had warm feelings for this mod. Feeling nostalgic, I downloaded the last version from moddb.

As I opened the mod, I noticed that the waiver text is now utter gibberish. I thought that it was just a silly joke because most of us don't even read the waiver text, so I just accepted it and got into the menu. Strangely, the mod was now called "Carnivores Unloaded". I thought that it was a joke about the fact that it's the last release of this mod, so I once again ignored it and started the hunt.

At first glance things were okay, but then a dilophosaurus came out of nowhere and attacked me. I barely dodged the attack, pulled out my pistol and started to shoot at the dinosaur. To my surprise, it died after 5 shots. Later I found out that mortal zones were removed. Even t.rex didn't have them, you could just shoot it to death. A very strange choice.

Due to the removal of mortal zones, I quickly grinded up 1000+ points. It was the time to hunt the final creature of this mod, the elusive seismosaurus.

That's the moment when shit hit the fan.

As I started the hunt in Woods of Turan Choks, I noticed that the sky was red and ground was covered in ashes. The trees were dead, there were no ambient animals and the map had some freaky choir for ambience. It looked like that G̶͛͘l̷̇̋i̵̻̓t̴̪͐c̷̏͊ḩ̵̏ù̷̚ń̶͎t̷̾̋ê̶̝r̴̓͘0̸͛̓9̸͊͆ decided to be the ultimate edgelord, so I laughed for a little bit and started to move around the map. Then I noticed that water was gone... soon I found out the reason behind this. There was a giant crater in the center of map. It was so deep that I couldn't see the bottom. As I moved closer to it, the choir became louder. Suddenly, the crater started to expand. I ran as fast as I could, eventually I successfully escaped the fissure. I was fascinated by it, I never thought that Carnivores mods can do this. And then fascination turned into horror.

The crater flashed with red colors. The ground began to shake. A large creature emerged from the hole. At first I thought that it was seismosaurus, but no. It was a fat humanoid figure. As it roared into the red sky, lightnings showed its face. It was rotten and fat, beard was growing on its lower jaw, the forehead had a Warframe bandana.

It was him.