Winter 2023 DLC Speculation

One thing to note, though, is that given the statues of things at Frontier I don't know that we can necessarily 100% assume a livestream will be happening. I'd guess it's likely to but we might also be in for a different sort of roll-out this time around.
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There's a real possibility that at least one of the two regular live-streams that come with a DLC, be it the teaser stream or the launch stream might be cancelled due to the current situation at Frontier.
 
I also hope that this winter we get a Reindeer update. More colour morphs are needed, including piebald deer and different more common colour variations. At the moment, we only have the basic colour morph, a ‘pale’ colour which is for some reason impossible to find ever, and a leucistic which looks less than realistic. We need a fix to the reindeer to make our herds look more varied. This is what our deer could and SHOULD look like:
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I hope we get an alpine or tundra animal pack.
Alpine: The Himalayas desperately need hoofstock representation! Pallas' Cat would be a nice complement to the sand cat. Depending on just how strict Frontier is with the idea of Alpine we could get a baboon or geleda (the latter unfortunately isn't a true baboon, but he would add representation to the Ethiopian highlands!).
Tundra: There are so many cool animals left for the tundra such as the wolverine and maybe it could add some kind of hare...
I could also see there being a safari pack...
Whatever it is, I hope the free update adds colormorphs to a canid! Just because we have not gotten any new content for canids at all this year...
Alpine could add a greyish Dall Sheep, maybe new Dingo colormorphs.
Tundra would be cool if the update added a white timber wolf. Wolf colormorphs are the most needed but there not the ones I'm most excited about for some reason... Probably because wolves are so well represented already.
Safari I'd really love wild dog colormorphs.
I also hope that this winter we get a Reindeer update. More colour morphs are needed, including piebald deer and different more common colour variations. At the moment, we only have the basic colour morph, a ‘pale’ colour which is for some reason impossible to find ever, and a leucistic which looks less than realistic. We need a fix to the reindeer to make our herds look more varied. This is what our deer could and SHOULD look like:
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I really love that spotted reindeer!
 
I also hope that this winter we get a Reindeer update. More colour morphs are needed, including piebald deer and different more common colour variations. At the moment, we only have the basic colour morph, a ‘pale’ colour which is for some reason impossible to find ever, and a leucistic which looks less than realistic. We need a fix to the reindeer to make our herds look more varied. This is what our deer could and SHOULD look like:
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Please fix the horn of reindeer at the same time
 
But anyway I do think we should get back on topic, and a topic I haven't seen brought up yet is changes to current animals.

In Arid we got an update to the Bactrian Camel (at least I'm pretty sure) when we got the Dromedary, when we got Little Penguin, we got an update to the King Penguin. What do you hope / what do you predict might be the next animal that gets some changes based on whats coming in the winter?
Alpine pack with the spectacled Bear, update the HBB to the EBB.
 
Any other animal youd think would benefit from a pattern overhaul?
From animals in-game:
  • The gray wolf - yes, we did get the black variant, but gray wolves have also been known to be white. Having this in-game would be quite nice because then we'd have a white variant that lives in forests instead of pretending the Arctic wolf is a white northwest wolf (look, I think y'all understand what I'm trying to say even if the words don't make sense)
  • African wild dog - there's a reason they're called painted dogs. They should have some more variety in their looks
  • Dingo - I've heard that they have some other colors, like chocolate and black, so they'd benefit from this as well
 
also what are people thoughts about an oddballs pack where all the animals are the only habitat animals of their type
  • coconut crab (biggest land invertebrate)
  • Chinese giant salamander (largest amphibian)
  • burrowing owl (has low like fluttering flying animations) / roadrunner (speedy mostly land bird)
  • marine iguana (first habitat iguana and primarily aquatic) / dugong or manatee (fully aquatic but fairly common in zoos)
  • a sea snake or krait / caecilian (no too sold on the exhibit animal)
I would buy this pack. Two new amphibians, one being a habitat animal, a habitat invertebrate, a bird, and a reptile.

The kind of animal diversity I have been waiting for in packs. Unfortunately my likes are niche and wouldn’t sell super well.
 
The kind of animal diversity I have been waiting for in packs. Unfortunately my likes are niche and wouldn’t sell super well.
Says who, though? I've noticed that the oddballs seem to be the real stars of the packs in many cases, more popular than the actual stars. So, maybe your niche choices are, in fact, super popular
I like the idea of the Dall Sheep variants if we get a Markhor. That and the Bear would be my most wanted.
If we get the bear, I am really, really hoping for the base game bears, specifically the brown bears, to be redone. Is it likely? Not really. But can it be done? Yes
 
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