That sounds pretty good to me, as it covers both bears and creatures from all continents and gives South America some love.
Spring 2024 DLC Speculation
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I just know him as the host of Deadly 60, a primarily children to teens education show (It was regularly on ABC3 here in Australia during the mid 2010s).
It was alright, the formula was basically to go somewhere, find animals, show facts about them, put the best one on the list (animals that are deadly to other animals, not necessarily people).
I'm really hoping the motion capture bit is real and random guests will have the Backshall animation set.
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I think the top 10 species of META Wishlist do impact the Frontier's decision-making, the rest do not. Otherwise we wouldn't have Tasmanian Devil in the game since it is not that popular among the general players (it is not on the Deladysigner's top 100 popular list, many people who are not animal nerds don't know about Tassie Devil at all), as a niche species it requires new rig unlike Saiga and Asian Buffalo that are clone species at least. Looking back to DLCs after we had the META Wishlist, all of them contain species that voted as top 10 on META Wishlist before the release date (like Wombat and Red Fox of Twilight Pack, Fossa, White-handed Gibbon and Red River Hog of Tropical pack, Tassie Devil and Kiwi of Oceania pack, Wolverine and Takin of Eurasia pack).
Albino is common color morph for many deer species, like Fallow Deer, Moose also have albino type.White-tailed Deer wouldn't be the worst possible pick for a clone, it ranges into South America & has a decent range of colourmorphs (including Leucistic, Melanistic, Piebald, black-brow striped & double throat patched). It even has endangered subspecies if they're so inclined.
3 of the 4 European deer species are not restricted to Europe, Moose and Reindeer are typical North American and North Asian species, and Fallow Deer also occur in West Asia. The problem is, we only have few slots for new animals left, while deers like many ungulates can be easily done by the Modders, some other species have priority over the deers (like Tree Kangaroo, Victoria Crowned Pigeon which Modders have difficulty to make decent one). Maybe Reeve's Muntjac and Sambar Deer for Asia (Reeve for East Asia and Sambar for Southeast Asia), one deer for SA (Marsh Deer or Southern Pudu) would be good enough
Yeah, the Meta wishlist has played a major role in species selection for DLC. There's been at least one top five animal in every pack since wetlands. Maybe even before that but I can't remember, hah. And there was a streak for several packs in a row the #1 pick was in the DLC.
Porting something to console requires a different skill set than, say, coding new animals for PC or rigging. It's feasible to do both at once. There's honestly a decent chance they completely outsourced the porting.
And they start working on packs well in advance... So it's not like they're going to start working on a pack in April to rush something out in May. Whatever comes has been in development for a long while now.
They always work on DLC quietly. Only signal we ever get is the outsource update. We know one's coming. Just a little later than usual (which could make sense if it's bigger; they also may just be slowing it down because they can with the console release coming--no sense in rushing to complete something that has to release anyway).
Deluxe: Southern Rockhopper Penguin
Arctic: Muskox
South America: Mountain Tapir
Australia: Perentie
Aquatic: Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle
Southeast Asia: Green Peafowl
Africa: Gerenuk
North America: Sea Otter
Europe: White Stork
Wetlands: Alligator Snapping Turtle
Conservation: Secretary Bird
Twilight: Reeve's Muntjac
Grasslands: Blackbuck
Tropical: South American Coati
Arid: Hamadryas Baboon
Oceania: Goodfellow's Tree Kangaroo
Eurasia: Eurasian Beaver
Conservation Animal Pack: Golden lion tamarin, Pere David's deer, Nene goose, Roloway's monkey, Radiated tortoise, Goodfellow's tree kangaroo, Secretary bird and Titicaca water frog (E)
South America Animal Pack: South American coati, Southern screamer, Patagonian mara, Black howler monkey, Greater curassow, Red-faced spider monkey, Southern tamandua and Linnaeus' two-toed sloth (WE, with generic climbing frames instead the ones the three-toed sloth came with)
Aquatic Animal Pack: Pacific walrus, Alaskan sea otter, Great white pelican, Antillean manatee, Baer's pochard, Roseate spoonbill, Shoebill and Caiman lizard (E)
Twilight Animal Pack: Aye-aye, Northern Luzon giant cloud rat, Reeves muntjac, Grey-handed night monkey, Northern yellow-throated marten, North American porcupine, Senegal galago and Naked mole rat (E)
Very near to perfection
What are your top 3 animal picks for each represented Class? (Or all of them if less than 3)
The represented classes are Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians, Arachnids, Insects, Centipedes (happy to include Millipedes) & Gastropods.
You also have the option to include top 3 picks for the categories "Other Vertebrates" & "Other Invertebrates"
The represented classes are Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians, Arachnids, Insects, Centipedes (happy to include Millipedes) & Gastropods.
You also have the option to include top 3 picks for the categories "Other Vertebrates" & "Other Invertebrates"
Mammals
- Coati
- Cotton top tamarin
- Blackbuck
- Harpy eagle
- Toucan
- Great Hornbill
- Chameleon
- Perentie (habitat)
- Freshwater crocodile
- Blue poison dart frog
- Glass frog
- ... Hummingbirds
- Black tip reef shark
- Cownosed ray
- Port jackson shark
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Deluxe : Grévy's Zebra (EN)
Arctic : King Eider (LC)
South America : Patagonian Mara (NT)
Australia : Thorny Devil (LC)
Aquatic : Southern Elephant Seal (LC)
Southeast Asia : Blue-spotted Tree Monitor (EN) or Banteng (EN)
Africa : Ethiopian Wolf (EN) or Giant Eland (VU)
North America : Black-footed Ferret (EN)
Europe : Muskox (LC)
Wetlands : Alligator Snapping Turtle (VU)
Conservation : Red Wolf (CR)
Twilight : Ocelot (LC)
Grasslands : Secretary Bird (EN)
Tropical : Ocellated Turkey (NT)
Arid : Ratel (LC)
Oceania : Matchie's Tree Kangaroo (EN)
Eurasia : Dalmatian Pelican (NT)
Mammals
- Another Tiger.
- Spectacled Bear.
- South American Tapir.
- Eurasian Eagle Owl.
- Glaucous Macaw.
- Mallard.
- Black Mamba Snake.
- Black Caiman.
- Blue Viper.
- Blue Poison Frog.
- Chinese Giant Salamander.
- Blue Shark.
- Black Piranha.
- Green Moray Eel.
- Cobalt Blue Tarantula.
- Toe-Biter.
For sure. I doubt they look at animals too far beyond the top 10 and say...oh, this one's at #50, we won't use that one since it's too popular for an oddball pick but not popular enough to be considered a main attraction. My guess? They choose a theme, look at what animal or two from the top of the lists they could included, depending on work resources as well as of course, and then fill out the rest with their own ideas. Many of those ideas may match what's further down the list, but are not so beholden to the list they would cross check where every single one is at.
This may be a reason we haven't gotten another New World Primate actually. Until last year, the community had a general want of NWP, but hadn't really rallied behind a specific species. So none of the species were in the upper regions of the list. Now that we've more or less, as a community, chosen the Howler Monkey as "that" primate, we have a far better chance of getting it. I refuse to believe, at this point anyways, that Frontier is going to leave us with only one New World Primate. It could happen but I really really do not think it will.
oh....guys,we turned in the animals we wanted time and time again, but the DLC never came. This is probably the saddest story I've experienced in months.
Mammals: Bat-eared Fox + Musk Ox + White-tailed Deer
Birds: Common Pheasant + any Duck + Victoria Crowned Pigeon
Reptiles: any Gecko + any Chameleon + Desert Tortoise
It's funny how the crowd that asked for consoles on DLC announcements was swapped out for crowd asking for DLCs on Console announcements
It's funny how the crowd that asked for consoles on DLC announcements was swapped out for crowd asking for DLCs on Console announcements
I've always wondered how they go about picking the themes. Because for at least a few DLC in a row we got the #1 animal from the meta wishlist and I just don't think there's any way that's a coincidence. So I've suspected there's times where they deviate from that...
My guess is that for the first ~2 years it was mostly Frontier picking the theme based don the region and backing into the animals that way. But from Wetlands onward... I think it was the reverse. What animal is high up on the meta wishlist? Are there other high-ranking animals we can tie to that theme? What can we do with current resources that won't conflict with the themes for later packs or feel like a re-tread of a past theme?
I think the reason we had to wait for the Tasmanian devil so long is because there just weren't a lot of feasible oceania animals in the mix so we had to wait for the scenery pack (and they probably decided that other pack themes didn't quite work with what they could pull off at the time for one reason or another).
And, to your point, it also explains the New World primate situation. It wasn't until very recently that there was one in the top 10. Probably because of how widespread the picks were. And I'm continually haunted by how low the tree kangaroos were until very recently... But when you combine the two counts for the Matschie's and Goodfellow's together? It basically dominates. LOL
Mammals:
- South American coati
- Black howler monkey
- Patagonian mara
Birds
- Greater rhea
- Grey crowned crane
- Secretary bird
Reptiles
- Perentie
- Panther chameleon
- Any cobra
Amphibians
- Argentinian horned frog
- Gian chinese / japanese salamander
- Australian green tree frog
Arachnids
- Don't have any particular interest in any particular species
Insects
- Goliath beetle
- Orchid mantis
- Leaf cutter ant colonies
Centepides
- similar to arachnids.
Gastropods
- Same here
Other vertebrates:
- A pelican
- A duck
- Blackbuck
Other invertebrates
- Any crab
- Any octopus
- A coral and anemone tank