I mean, yes and no. We have seals, sea lions, and penguins, so it's not a huge stretch either and wouldn't fee that outta place
Spring dlc Speculation 2023
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I’ve never seen any of those kept with fish - for good reason!
I've also never seen sea turtles kept outside of an explicit aquarium environment. The same can't be said for anything we currently have. They'd just stick out like a sore thumb in our current roster.
I would say that 4th of April will be the most likely date we will get the DLC as it is the Tuesday before Easter (and I think thia was Always the Spring DLC pattern). I think it will be a Scenery Pack and I would Bet for Islands at the Moment which could include the following animals:
Tasmanian Devil
Fossa
Kiwi
Goodfellow Tree Kangaroo
Exhibit: Perhaps a bird species
This would be a very strong Pack with a lot of highly requested animals in my opinion and would nearly fill up the Oceanian rooster (Echidna would be a cool Addition in a further Pack, too).
Tasmanian Devil
Fossa
Kiwi
Goodfellow Tree Kangaroo
Exhibit: Perhaps a bird species
This would be a very strong Pack with a lot of highly requested animals in my opinion and would nearly fill up the Oceanian rooster (Echidna would be a cool Addition in a further Pack, too).
I think each has a good chance, so it’s more of a question of what animals definitely are getting in. I think the devil and probably the fossa are shoe-ins, with either the kiwi or tree kangaroo (or both?) possibly being shafted for other options if Islands comes as a standard pack. Out of these two I’d prioritise the kiwi with a tree roo coming later as the token Oceanian animal in a hypothetical Rainforest/Tropical Animal Pack (and this is as someone who wants a tree kangaroo more than a kiwi).
If Islands is an animal pack though I really hope we get all four.
Funnily enough I've never seen zebra and wildebeest together
I’ve seen them without fish before and in general I’ve irl never seen a hippo habitat without fish, and I’ve never been to a zoo without flying birds and aviaries. So a lot of things are still wrong with this roster that we can fix
Cats dogs and bears are mainly suggested as the filler animals. We are not getting a pack with completely new rigs for every animal because that would be to much work for the developers to handle within the time period they have. For a pack to be realistic it has to have some more basic picks.And to me, all those cats and dogs and bears that are suggested are wasted slots. Besides, i don't quite understand the reasoning when the pack contains a completely new animal (rabbit), a monkey and the porcupine. I just built a theme around it, which "could" work for me.
But in the end what we get is not in our hands anyway, so no reason to have a heated discussion about it.After all, it's not like I'm giving out the Packs
The thing is there are so much better choices for reused riggs then those 3 groups like antelopes, deer, tortoises, monitor lizards, gibbons and especally primates.
Id wish wish wish theyd start using cloning the hell and back of the white faced capuchin and japanese macaque
I mean, yeah, I understand this reasoning, but given the current animals we already have, and the fact that a sea turtle would come in an islands and/or coastal pack, they wouldn't really stick out that much. Well, maybe an Islands pack, but definitely not a coastal pack, which would feature more marine creatures
Random thought:
This game could be greatly improved by 3 different kinds of aquarium exhibits:
These kinds of aquaria are really common in zoos and with just these 3 types most needs would be fullfilled.
Besides the current shape a round one and multiple different water (and preferably also exhibit) heights would be appreciated.
For the fish species itself, imo it would be best to handle them like enritchment items that you can toggle in execution with them looping around certain spaces with different loops, like a few for ground dwelling, some for "free" swimming and a few specialised ones like around an anemone for clownfish.
For each aquaria having an assortment of 6+ options of fish would be great, with some like Piranha being unable to share their aquarium and others being able to be kept together.
This way with just 3 different "bases" we would have many different options for our aquaria just by mixing different fish, toggleable items and what ever we place into them on other scenery items, making it imo a quite elegant solution to introduce fish in a costeffective way to the game.
It wouldnt be perfect ofcourse, but it would be good enough and be an interesting new take for an exhibit animal.
This game could be greatly improved by 3 different kinds of aquarium exhibits:
- Tropical Coral Reef
- Amazonian Rainforest (Piranha)
- East Africas 3 Great Lakes
These kinds of aquaria are really common in zoos and with just these 3 types most needs would be fullfilled.
Besides the current shape a round one and multiple different water (and preferably also exhibit) heights would be appreciated.
For the fish species itself, imo it would be best to handle them like enritchment items that you can toggle in execution with them looping around certain spaces with different loops, like a few for ground dwelling, some for "free" swimming and a few specialised ones like around an anemone for clownfish.
For each aquaria having an assortment of 6+ options of fish would be great, with some like Piranha being unable to share their aquarium and others being able to be kept together.
This way with just 3 different "bases" we would have many different options for our aquaria just by mixing different fish, toggleable items and what ever we place into them on other scenery items, making it imo a quite elegant solution to introduce fish in a costeffective way to the game.
It wouldnt be perfect ofcourse, but it would be good enough and be an interesting new take for an exhibit animal.
I agree that this is an ok compromise
That's a good question and my answer and, from postings, probably many of the answers are that those are the 4 habitat animals that need to get in an Island Pack. Not everyone is saying it of course but I think the majority of people. True that it would contain no reskins/clone type animals - by that I mean it would be 4 new rigs I'd think - but it's the one pack idea that Frontier literally wouldn't have to think about what animals to include while still pleasing most of the players. The only downside to that list is that there's nothing from the New World, but it is what it is.
If islands pack is coming next, I'm afraid the tree kangaroo is the best candidate to be left out, since it is probably the most difficult to animate due to the climbing + bouncing and because we just got "another kangaroo" in the grasslands packs. I can see it being replaced by something strange like the Japanese serow or by a primate.
Scottish Wildcat would be my guess. It's a cat so that already gives it good odds.
They got them in Shepreth Wildlife park and Highland Wildlife Park, both zoos which Frontier teamed up with for DLCs last year.
It is among the more logical European animals for an Island pack, and since Grasslands didn't have an European habitat species, they might want to go there now (unless that is why they went with the red deer for anniversary)
Also adds something none tropical to a pack with likely a lot of tropical. Like the crane in wetlands and dhole in SEA
If an Island Pack is next, and especially if it is an Animal pack, I would be surprised if they didn't go with this. But I hope I will be surprised...
Oh, no please, no more specific population over a general species. I rather have the European wild cat. I might be wrong, but I don't see the Scottish population being so different from the other European wild cats to make it so specific.
It isn't really any differences between them. seeing both up close there is absolutely no difference, domestic breeds like the Highland cow or Shetland pony are a far better way to represent Scotland in an islands pack (yeah I know they are better suited for a petting zoo pack but why not)
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I don't hope to see it either (mostly because I don't want more cats anytime soon).
But when it comes to wildcats, zoos tend to focus on subspecies and zoos in the UK especially on the Scottish. Plus the last two packs didn't have a lot of conservation going on for them, so this choice would also break that pattern.
It seems likely to me, I'm afraid
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Probably de kangaroo. Devil is highly requested and the top most wanted animal in the wishlists, kiwi would be literally the only animal from NZ in the game which has currently non-existing rep (not even an exhibit tuatara) and i doubt they will go for ANOTHER lemur for Madagascar (and i think Madagascar has to be represented in an island pack by something... i can see maybe the aye-aye but they also love their carnivores and the fossa has that going on their favour as well).
Maybe they will choose the sumatran rhinoceros, japanese serow or the tanuki. Maybe even from colder regions like Iceland or Greenland.
All that said, we don't even know for sure if we are ever getting an islands pack lol