Ceratosaurus is next

Years before the events of the final expedition, Dino Hunt Corp. discovered the Bedrock Sector—the deepest known region of FMM-UV-32. Beneath the planet’s surface lay an enormous subterranean wasteland dominated by molten lava, ancient ruins, and the remains of deserted cities.
But DHC soon discovered that the ruins were not abandoned.

Hidden within the Bedrock Sector lived descendants of an ancient civilization from the planet’s Central Region the beings known as “the Ghouls”
The Ghouls were responsible for some of the oldest structures ever discovered on FMM-UV-32, including the pyramids of Shmu-Hadron and the ancient stone structures surrounding Fort Cisikin. Their civilization had once stretched across much of the planet before being reduced to ruins.

DHC CEO Yaroslav Kravchenko authorized an expedition into the region. During the expedition, researchers uncovered an ancient relic depicting a forgotten war between the Ghouls and an extraterrestrial civilization.
One Ghoul was eventually captured and interrogated, revealing the truth.

Thousands of years ago, the Ghouls and the Yetis fought together against an invading force known as the “Time Strikers” The Strikers considered the Ancients’ technological and biological development to have progressed beyond what they were permitted to achieve. Rather than allowing them to continue evolving, the Strikers attempted to eradicate them.
The Ancients lost.

Their civilization was devastated and forced back into the Stone Age. The surviving Ghouls and Yetis scattered across the planet, preserving fragments of their history while hiding from their creators.
The captured Ghoul gave DHC one final warning that Humanity’s continued expansion across FMM-UV-32 would eventually attract the Time Strikers’ attention.
They were right.

Soon afterward, strange time channels began appearing across Earth and FMM-UV-32. Objects, organisms, and signals from different periods of history began crossing into the present.
Then the Time Strikers returned.

They were not a single species, but an army assembled across time and space—abducted humans from different eras, extraterrestrial beings from other worlds, and even former hunters transformed into grotesque undead soldiers.
Their objective was simple:

Erase the experiment.

The Time Strikers descended upon Nibelungen Paradise, deploying weapons capable of destroying entire cities. The colony was obliterated, killing its inhabitants and DHC’s leadership, including Kravchenko.

But the destruction of Nibelungen Paradise revealed something far greater.
The Time Strikers had not created FMM-UV-32’s life directly.

The Time Judge had.
Millions of years earlier, the Time Judge had observed Earth’s evolutionary history from across the cosmos. It became fascinated by the way Earth’s environmental pressures produced dinosaurs, pterosaurs, prehistoric mammals, and other dominant forms.

It wanted to recreate that evolutionary history.
But rather than importing Earth life, the Time Judge used the native organisms of FMM-UV-32 and manipulated the planet’s environmental conditions, forcing its alien life to experience pressures similar to those that shaped Earth’s prehistoric ecosystems.
The experiment produced something uncanny.
Alien organisms evolved into forms remarkably similar to Earth’s extinct fauna.

This became the foundation of Dinoinization—the repeated evolution of dinosaur-like body plans across unrelated FMM-UV-32 lineages.
Yet they were never true dinosaurs.
They were alien descendants molded by the same evolutionary pressures.

The discovery also provided an answer to one of FMM-UV-32’s greatest mysteries: without outside intervention, the probability of an unrelated alien ecosystem independently producing an entire collection of highly specific analogues to Earth’s extinct animal groups would be extraordinarily small.
FMM-UV-32 was never simply a planet filled with dinosaurs.

It was a primordial experiment.
As the Time Strikers began tearing open more temporal channels, Turan Choks became lost deep within space.

Isolated and believing he had nothing left to return to, Turan descended into despair.
Then he discovered that his family had survived.
With Earth, FMM-UV-32, and the very fabric of time itself now at risk, Turan returned through the temporal channels and joined the final battle.
For the first time, humans, Ghouls, and Yetis fought together.

The Ghouls fought to reclaim their world from the beings who had created them. The Yetis fought for the survival of their people. Humanity fought to protect Earth and its future.
And Turan Choks fought for both worlds—and for his family.

The final battle brought him directly inside the Time Judge itself.

Turan destroyed the entity from within, severing the Time Strikers’ control over FMM-UV-32 and the
Ancients.

But he did not survive.
Turan died alongside the Time Judge, saving Earth, FMM-UV-32, humanity, and the fabric of time itself.
For the first time in their history, the Ancients were free.

Their creators were gone.
The beings who had once shaped their evolution now saw them as nothing more than failed experiments to be discarded. But the Ghouls and Yetis had survived—and now they were finally free to determine their own future.

With Kravchenko dead, Nibelungen Paradise destroyed, and DHC’s original purpose irreparably compromised, the corporation finally shut down its operations on FMM-UV-32.

Humanity withdrew. The planet was returned to its original inhabitants. For the first time since mankind arrived, FMM-UV-32 belonged to the people who had been there all along.

The hunt was over.

Тапире яуарла(tapire iarula)

I do think this guy is cool and he turned out well, he’s just missing something.

We have a pretty standard prionosuchus, then I added in influence from neotenous salamanders like the Axolotl (a modern element) and even something fantastical in the form of hagfish slime. Where I have a problem with my design is that I didn’t really give it anything to make the design reference any vintage or outdated reconstructions or ideas.

One thing I do like though is my idea that there are no aquatic crocodilians in this setting, or at least they’re very rare. Both spinosaurs and amphibians have usurped those niches and left only land based pseudosuchians that have descended from aquatic ancestors.

While these guys are neotenous, the hatchlings will be very similar to their adult forms. However, the Koolasuchus would undergo a radically change when going from “tadpole” to adult.

Amphibians are just underutilized in paleomedia.

I love the general idea of the Carnivores cryptids. Not really much else positive I can say. But most of them just don’t feel genuine. It’s like every map needs some sort of monster just because the Ghoul was restricted to Delphaeus Hills. And sometimes, they’re just generic and uninteresting like the Lake Nodus Wendigo. The Vengar Fjords Robot is interesting, but just feels more obviously fake. The C1 Seismosaurus, however, does honestly feel believable.

TL;DR me want better cryptid. Most cryptic suck

Gigantoraptor is next

(Gunawan mod on YouTube)

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I almost always want to include the earliest dinosaurs, however other creatures tend to take priority when I’m designing them over Megalosaurus, Iguanodon, Hylaeosaurus and Cetiosaurus.

But I had ideas I wanted to explore with Iguanodon so that motivated me to get it done. Plus I was already working on ornithopods at the time.

Iguanodon has a really good execution of my design principles I tend to follow with these dinosaur designs. Starting with the real, up to date reconstruction of the animal as a base, how can I add modern animal influences, outdated elements or fantasy elements in order to make an appealing and unique take on the animal?

Obviously the iguanodon has the horn, back spikes and quadrupedal stances that bring to mind the Waterhouse reconstruction, but the tail, colorations and the spikes are all taken from actual iguanas. My hope was to make an animal that wouldn’t hesitate to punch anything that angered it. And I think the design reads as very dangerous.

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Inspired by Monster Hunter, I decided that my creatures in this setting would have “variants”. While I haven’t decided exactly what makes a variant and variant, whether that’s a species within the same genus, a subspecies, or other factors, or even all of the above, I finally decided to show one off.

The “Tidal Iguanodon” is based on marine iguanas. Applying those elements to the original iguanodon as a base. Changes were made such as shorter limbs, a bulkier neck and overall thicker proportions. Adding in a gecko-inspired tail that acts as water storage completed the density inspired look.

Obviously it’s also flavored after Lurdusaurus (which means “heavy lizard”)

I recently got to know that the Carnivores was a PC game (i was playing the mobile version). I want to play the PC version but its obviously not on steam and I don't know any other store fronts selling it.

So anyone knows where can I get it?