A New Beginning news

Howdy again. In a bit of a twist, I've decided to take on fixing up New World myself, along with Daubeny (and anyone else who wishes to assist);
The plan originally was just to touch up the skins and textures and animate the OGs for a MEE port, but I would like to do more than that. So, I introduce the new title, Carnivores: Phantasmagoria:

This new title will also come with a change in direction. After the word for feverish visions and many bright colors and old plays meant to disturb the audience, Phantasmagoria will be a more grounded yet still colorful entry to the Carnivores Universe.

A New World, or rather Phantasmagoria, will not remain my primary modding focus for long. Once a passable release is put together, I will begin work on a new project independent of anything pre-established to tell a new story with new ideas, a bit more in line with the "Continuum" style of Carnivores mods. As it stands though, I am redoing a lot with NW. For example, the Dilong has been entirely redesigned with new textures (all the stuff so far is in images).

First, Phantasmagoria (gonna have to figure out a good abbreviation-) is NO LONGER considered part of Plutyrian Cycle. The old New World will remain as it was in Plutyrian lore, but Plutyrian is 100% officially being retired. Phantasmagoria, as a restyle of NW, will retain elements of the plot that are generally accepted community canon such as Cityscape, the Gojirasaurus incident, and Mandibles, but will also generally be less absurd and be more grounded (eg, lore connected to the Primalgenitor, Hadesium, etc will be removed or toned back significantly/reworked). Not necessarily exact Continuum style, but more in line with those ideas, especially in regards to skin saturation and theme/story. Second, all the menus, sound design, skins, textures, and other such assets will be touched up and remade. The plan is, for now, to make a passable mod somewhat up to modern standards, release that to renew interest in the project and bring it up to par in MEE, then in the future, come back and touch up Phantasmagoria over time with new assets like custom weapon models, dinosaur remodels, and new maps. I will treat it akin to how Triassic was treated after Mandibles began, as I do not want to sit back on the same old mod for another 12 years like I have with NW. Third, I will be redoing a lot of the story elements and ideas for the mod, both to have nods to current community projects as well as to further differentiate it from Plutyrian deep lore. There will likely be connections to my new project in it, such as mentions of characters, but I'm not planning too far ahead, as excessive overplanning and ambition was one massive fault of Plutyrian.

I hope to make a project I am genuinely proud of, and it be a step towards moving past the old drama and fighting caused with Plutyrian cycle and fostering something brand new and unique, but more in line with the style we all love in Carnivores, just with a bit of extra flair.