What are the chances of Frontier updating older Animals?

NachoB · Mar 17, 2023

TheHippoGirl said:
I'm not against updating older animals but I think it's a little unrealistic to ask Frontier to rework all their animals. And, let's be honest, the vast majority of them still look awesome. So I think we should be reasonable and ask for the updates that are REALLY needed. According to me, there are 3 of them: fixing the malayan tapir, increasing the size of the giant tortoises and add brachiation behavior to the orang-utan.

And the african lion. Is awful. It wasn't good from the smart even when compared with other OG cats.

Marvinb · Mar 24, 2023

Getting back to this. I cant help myself but feeling that the lar gibbon and water monitor are pretty much paid updates to the siamang and nile monitor

DarthQuell · Mar 24, 2023

Marvinb said:
Getting back to this. I cant help myself but feeling that the lar gibbon and water monitor are pretty much paid updates to the siamang and nile monitor

Although technically the siamang is already paid for. How dare they?

Marvinb · Mar 24, 2023

DarthQuell said:
Although technically the siamang is already paid for. How dare they?

I also paid for the nile, no idea if you guys got the base game for free

DarthQuell · Mar 24, 2023

Marvinb said:
I also paid for the nile, no idea if you guys got the base game for free

Oh right

YesIndeed · Mar 24, 2023

Marvinb said:
Getting back to this. I cant help myself but feeling that the lar gibbon and water monitor are pretty much paid updates to the siamang and nile monitor

Well hoping it also means the siamang can brachiate on any climable like it seems to kar gibbon can do and the nile monitor will be able to deep dive like the Asian Water Monitor.

NachoB · Mar 25, 2023

YesIndeed said:
Well hoping it also means the siamang can brachiate on any climable like it seems to kar gibbon can do and the nile monitor will be able to deep dive like the Asian Water Monitor.

Now we also need a model rework for the monitor lol

OkapiFan · Mar 25, 2023

I too, don't think it's very likely but some animals (like the heavily mentioned African Lion and the not Malayan Tapir) and also the Japanese Macaque I think need some major upgrades.

sumcherish82 · Mar 25, 2023

OkapiFan said:
I too, don't think it's very likely but some animals (like the heavily mentioned African Lion and the not Malayan Tapir) and also the Japanese Macaque I think need some major upgrades.

What is the problems of macaque?

sumcherish82 · Mar 25, 2023

No chance, rip

NachoB · Mar 25, 2023

sumcherish82 said:
What is the problems of macaque?

The model looks very putdated and low quality compared to other primates, the fur in particular.

sumcherish82 · Mar 25, 2023

NachoB said:
The model looks very putdated and low quality compared to other primates, the fur in particular.

I wonder what base game animals don’t need to be updated?

NachoB · Mar 25, 2023

sumcherish82 said:
I wonder what base game animals don’t need to be updated?

I'm ok with most of the hoofstock, the elephants, rhino, komodo dragon, the apes, the tortoises, the ostrich, etc.

Even the ones that do look a bit odd like the zebra i think is not that disruptive compared to things like the african lion that it looked off from the start, even when compared to the other base game animals.

SanRazo618 · Mar 25, 2023

Most of them are still good IMO. Only the wolf, male lion, Malayan tapir, and old saltie texture jump out at me, and even the saltie I can live with. Bison resize is still needed though

NachoB · Mar 25, 2023

SanRazo618 said:
Most of them are still good IMO. Only the wolf, male lion, Malayan tapir, and old saltie texture jump out at me, and even the saltie I can live with. Bison resize is still needed though

And i'm even ok with thw wolf lol

Antimony96 · Mar 25, 2023

SanRazo618 said:
Most of them are still good IMO. Only the wolf, male lion, Malayan tapir, and old saltie texture jump out at me, and even the saltie I can live with. Bison resize is still needed though

Tortoises and the male California sea lion badly need resizes.

SanRazo618 · Mar 25, 2023

Antimony96 said:
Tortoises and the male California sea lion badly need resizes.

Oh yea I forgot about those

YesIndeed · Mar 25, 2023

NachoB said:
I'm ok with most of the hoofstock, the elephants, rhino, komodo dragon, the apes, the tortoises, the ostrich, etc.

Even the ones that do look a bit odd like the zebra i think is not that disruptive compared to things like the african lion that it looked off from the start, even when compared to the other base game animals.

The komodo is so annoying to me. The model look great, frontier knows how to do reptiles. Bu their so small! I'm not saying they can't be the size they are but every komodo I've ever seen at a zoo is way bigger than the in game komodo at 100% size. They can be small at 50% size but when their at 100 I expect them to be one of the massive ones.

Edit: for reference I compared the 100% komodo to a 52% Spectacled caan and the caimans bigger. An average Spectacled caiman is around 2.4m and an average komodo 2.6m. And this one was supposed to be a big komodo which can get around 3m!

SalamAnders · Mar 25, 2023

YesIndeed said:
The komodo is so annoying to me. The model look great, frontier knows how to do reptiles. Bu their so small! I'm not saying they can't be the size they are but every komodo I've ever seen at a zoo is way bigger than the in game komodo at 100% size. They can be small at 50% size but when their at 100 I expect them to be one of the massive ones.

Edit: for reference I compared the 100% komodo to a 52% Spectacled caan and the caimans bigger. An average Spectacled caiman is around 2.4m and an average komodo 2.6m. And this one was supposed to be a big komodo which can get around 3m!

I guess chances are they will also look way too small compared to the new monitor then.

Our best chances to make them look at it might be to post a lot of pictures of the Dragon next to the water monitor just after release.

That is kinda what worked for the camel resize, since it looked silly next to the p-horse. Of course those two are also supposed to be housed together

YesIndeed · Mar 25, 2023

SalamAnders said:
I guess chances are they will also look way too small compared to the new monitor then.

Our best chances to make them look at it might be to post a lot of pictures of the Dragon next to the water monitor just after release.

That is kinda what worked for the camel resize, since it looked silly next to the p-horse. Of course those two are also supposed to be housed together

Good idea. After the pack releases I'll take some pics and make a thread.