Fall DLC 2023 Speculation

[Eletan888]

Personally, I don't really want the quokka. Don't know if it's a hot take or not, but since theyre not common in the US (do any US zoos even have them?), they're just not interesting to me.

 

[Captain Callum]

North América part 4. Boreal forest and taiga centered on the arctic region. Musk ox Wolverine and a bunch of other stuff that lives around there. Maybe walrus and sea otter we are lucky. Puffins if we are pushing it.

My wallet is ready for that , the musk ox will be mine.

 

[CharlieXGaming]

South America Animal Pack:

Ocelot
Spider Monkey
Southern Tamandua
Scarlet Ibis
Collared Peccary
South American Coati
Bush Dog

Also I haven’t seen this anywhere but with the Tasmanian devil coming I bet the bush dog would be really easy to make.

 

[biggest_dreamer]

Personally, I'm not too optimistic that Frontier would make a second South America pack. Most of what South America is missing are monkeys and flying birds. Based on how the last few packs have gone (TBD on if lorikeets are included in this islands dlc), it seems like Frontier doesn't think they bring us good quality highly primarily arboreal animals or flying birds, so they would rather not include them at all. If you exclude birds and monkeys, what's left for South America? Something like a peccary, rhea, agouti, coatl, and maybe an ocelot? That doesn't sound like a really inspired pack that's easy to market like most of the other packs have been.

I think there's enough content there. Coati and ocelot are pretty big and marketable. A single new world monkey, tall order that it apparently is, would double our roster. And then yeah, everything you said plus mara, spectacled bear, bush dog, tamandua, possibly chinchilla or pudu as a wildcard, lowland tapir. I think they've got enough to work with to make a solid animal pack that pleases the obsessives while still hitting the proper marketing points (cat, bear, and dog are all on the table) for casuals.

 

[CharlieXGaming]

North América part 4. Boreal forest and taiga centered on the arctic region. Musk ox Wolverine and a bunch of other stuff that lives around there. Maybe walrus and sea otter we are lucky. Puffins if we are pushing it.

No. My favourite bear is back in the running. Don’t need no puffin, give me spectacled bear.

 

[biggest_dreamer]

Also I haven’t seen this anywhere but with the Tasmanian devil coming I bet the bush dog would be really easy to make.

Nah, the Tasmanian devil, if animated correctly, should move with a subtle "hop" to its hind legs, almost like a kangaroo but toned down. The bush dog would probably use an edited version of the fox rig, if anything.

 

[Pentoleaf]

Is there any chance that the Cerulean Pebble cocktail could be for the Victoria Crowned Pigeon? They're blue, live on islands, and could be made out of the peacock rig...

 

[FortressDoor]

I think there's enough content there. Coati and ocelot are pretty big and marketable. A single new world monkey, tall order that it apparently is, would double our roster. And then yeah, everything you said plus mara, spectacled bear, bush dog, tamandua, possibly chinchilla or pudu as a wildcard, lowland tapir. I think they've got enough to work with to make a solid animal pack that pleases the obsessives while still hitting the proper marketing points (cat, bear, and dog are all on the table) for casuals.

Forgot about the spectacled bear, that's probably enough to make it worthwhile. I count tamandua in the highly arboreal category though. After seeing how awful the in-game koala is, I don't really want Frontier trying to make tree dwelling habitat animals unless they're able to make them actually spend a realistic amount of time climbing instead of spending all of their time on the ground.

 

[Hugo98]

I canot say for everybody, but personally i don't want the quokka because i strongly dislike it irl.

Quokka is in my list of animals i hate, alongside with Aedes aegypith, mainly because i feel something off about it (probably because of the smile).

Theres also the fact that i don't see why they should be added over any other Oceania/island animal, considering they are a niche animal with low captivity presence.

The quokka got more captive holdings in the last couple of years though. Some Japanese zoos keep and breed (I think) them. In July also a German zoo got some as the first zoo in Europe. As they are listed as vulnerable with decreasing population a captive breeding program makes sense and in my opinion this is the plan. Otherwise it doesn't make much sense to do an expensive export from Australia all the way to Central Europe. That said I would bet we'll see them a lot more often in European and probably American zoos in the near future. The German zoo already said the three quokkas won't be the only ones coming to them.
They are also incredibly popular among the general public, so also from a marketing point of view it makes totally sense to include them in the game.

 

[NachoB]

Is there any chance that the Cerulean Pebble cocktail could be for the Victoria Crowned Pigeon? They're blue, live on islands, and could be made out of the peacock rig...

Another wonderful surprise if that is the case. I very much will prefer that over another penguin, but the drink looked like an iceberg so i'm thinking penguin.

 

[CharlieXGaming]

Is there any chance that the Cerulean Pebble cocktail could be for the Victoria Crowned Pigeon? They're blue, live on islands, and could be made out of the peacock rig...

Honestly I would prefer the crowned pigeon over another penguin. Nothing against getting another penguin, but I want another tropical bird.

 

[Mazoku]

Is there any chance that the Cerulean Pebble cocktail could be for the Victoria Crowned Pigeon? They're blue, live on islands, and could be made out of the peacock rig...

YES! I would love to have Victoria Crowned Pigeon in-game, it's great for tropical houses

 

[Colehunter35]

Personally, I don't really want the quokka. Don't know if it's a hot take or not, but since theyre not common in the US (do any US zoos even have them?), they're just not interesting to me.

Opposite for me, no US zoos have them so they're foreign territory for me, STUFF TO BE LEARNED!!!!

 

[Colehunter35]

YES! I would love to have Victoria Crowned Pigeon in-game, it's great for tropical houses

I saw the victorian crowned pigeon at the wildwood zoo and safari, and i can confirm they are just gorgeous!

 

[biggest_dreamer]

The quokka got more captive holdings in the last couple of years though. Some Japanese zoos keep and breed (I think) them.

One Japanese zoo. But yeah, they actually have had breeding success with them. I'm actually planning to visit there in, oh... a year and a half or so. I'm sure I'll be all about the Planet Zoo quokkas after this trip, but that still does nothing for me now.

Is there any chance that the Cerulean Pebble cocktail could be for the Victoria Crowned Pigeon? They're blue, live on islands, and could be made out of the peacock rig...

Would love this but I don't think they address all of the hints given. They don't have any connection to pebbles as far as I know, and in this scenario the "rocky shoreline" line goes from being a significant hint to random and meaningless.

 

[Colehunter35]

call me crazy, but what if the flower drink isnt a WTE animal and is a habitat animal instead? maybe one of the others is an WTE or E animal?

 

[CharlieXGaming]

I wish there was something representing Japan in this pack. I know people are blown away by the oceania expansion but I wish we got the raccoon dog or serow to represent Japan.

 

[biggest_dreamer]

Personally, I don't really want the quokka. Don't know if it's a hot take or not, but since theyre not common in the US (do any US zoos even have them?), they're just not interesting to me.

0 US zoos have quokka, no more than 4 have devils, 5 publicly exhibit kiwi, and while I can't immediately find a firm number of little blue penguins I'm pretty sure it's also in the single digits. This is clearly not the pack for realistic US builders - that's fine, I completely get it, I'm happy for those who are happy, but I can't help but be disappointed with it personally. Lorikeets, if true, would help in that regard though, as would the rockhopper if that's the one.

 

[NachoB]

I wish there was something representing Japan in this pack. I know people are blown away by the oceania expansion but I wish we got the raccoon dog or serow to represent Japan.

Maybe the exhibit animal is a giant salamander

 

[becks474]

The quokka got more captive holdings in the last couple of years though. Some Japanese zoos keep and breed (I think) them. In July also a German zoo got some as the first zoo in Europe. As they are listed as vulnerable with decreasing population a captive breeding program makes sense and in my opinion this is the plan. Otherwise it doesn't make much sense to do an expensive export from Australia all the way to Central Europe. That said I would bet we'll see them a lot more often in European and probably American zoos in the near future. The German zoo already said the three quokkas won't be the only ones coming to them.
They are also incredibly popular among the general public, so also from a marketing point of view it makes totally sense to include them in the game.

Yes, IT came to Wilhelma in Stuttgart this year. According to Wikipedia a few Others Zoos within Germany held them in the past. So I would Not say there is no actual Holding outside Oceania. And in the end we (Europeans and North American) should Accept that there are also other continents which have Zoos Holding their local Fauna.