Fall DLC 2023 Speculation

Well that will be the case this time, being on a monday and all
One would hope it's Monday, or even sometime later this week. I could see that being a scenario too. Announce the update on Thursday as a way to remind people to tune into the stream, etc.

EDIT: The fact that they're announcing the stream this far in advance kinda means that the usual timing of the update info is potentially out the window. Announcing the update info, then the stream, doing the stream, then announcing the DLC within a 24-36 hour window is the usual approach. So it could be anytime between now and next Monday. Potentially even after (though I think that's probably far less likely).
 
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Black Bear might not be the most exciting pick for Temperate pack, but the amount of coat variations might just win me over
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I don't think it's worth reading too much into the mix/shake thing beyond that being the theme of the stream itself, which seems likely to be food or drink based. And while those usually do tie into the theme in some way, they aren't always obvious (painted pots for Conservation) or there at all (Lego for Grasslands). That said, I'm going to go against my intuition as well as all logic and say that there will be a mix-up, and that it's that we're getting nothing but animal packs from here on out, because that's what I want.

So, final wishlist for a woodlands pack:
  • American black bear
  • White-tailed deer
  • Wild turkey
  • Raccoon dog
  • Reeve's muntjac
  • Tasmanian devil
  • Black howler
  • Jackson's chameleon
A bird, a monkey, two deer, my most wanted, "the community"'s most wanted, three North American species, two Asian species, two carnivorans, and an actually desirable exhibit species? There's surely a lot that could be said about such a lineup, but it certainly doesn't feel impossible. You could swap the turkey for a pheasant or kiwi and I wouldn't be too bothered tbh, but I'm definitely team turkey given they're orders of magnitude more common here than pheasants, who are in turn orders of magnitude more common than kiwis.

Or, the Arid Animal Pack style Woodlands Animal Pack...
  • American black bear
  • White-tailed deer or elk
  • Wild turkey
  • North American river otter
  • Virginia opossum
  • Coyote or gray fox
  • Bobcat
  • Red-eared slider
Let's make everyone outside of the US mad 😈 Or a bit more realistically, I actually expect to see something like the following:
  • American black bear
  • Tasmanian devil
  • North Island brown kiwi
  • Wild boar
  • idk
Woodlands/temperate seems like a difficult theme to mess up, so here's hoping.
 
My ideals for both temperate animal and scenery packs:
American black bear
Tasmanian devil
Reeve's muntjac
Mandarin duck
Sheltopusik (E)
+North Island brown kiwi
+Wild boar
+Wisent

But I still don't think it's a guarantee for the fall pack.
 
Yeah that’s why I don’t want the Black Bear, cause we usually don’t get more than one of the same species type 2 packs back to back (exceptions for big categories like cats and dogs).
It's happened before, it can happen again. All three of our remaining bears are related at the family level. Off the top of my head, we've had that happen... Moose to fallow deer (same family), European badger to ASCO (same family even if they look and feel more different), fennec fox to arctic fox (same genus!), and twice now we've even gotten two members of a single family in the same pack with the Nile lechwe and wild water buffalo and more recently with the dama gazelle and addax.

If we get three more packs, I want to see three more bears.

If we only get two more packs, I still want to see three more bears.
 
It's happened before, it can happen again. All three of our remaining bears are related at the family level. Off the top of my head, we've had that happen... Moose to fallow deer (same family), European badger to ASCO (same family even if they look and feel more different), fennec fox to arctic fox (same genus!), and twice now we've even gotten two members of a single family in the same pack with the Nile lechwe and wild water buffalo and more recently with the dama gazelle and addax.

If we get three more packs, I want to see three more bears.

If we only get two more packs, I still want to see three more bears.
Good points I didn’t realize how often this happened. I assume the third bear you want to see is the sloth bear?
 
Wow, I didn't expect to get one so soon! Not that I'm complaining though. Considering that the DLC is typically announced the day after the livestream, and if there the usual two week period between the announcement and release, then it will release on September 26, which lines up nice with my projected release date of late September. Can't wait to see what we have in store this time!
 
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