Spring 2024 DLC Speculation

So if we do only have 1 bird for the next and possible final pack, which one makes it in, the king of the meta wishlist or the queen of the waterways?
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Neither.
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If it’s a scenery pack there’s no reason for all the ungulate doom posts - we usually don’t get ungulates in scenery packs - at least the recent ones.
Conservation and Europe say hi. Also hog in Tropical.

My bets

1. There is going to be at least one bird (double down)
2. There is going to be at least one monkey
3. Coati species will come in this pack (double down)
4. It will be the last DLC but they won't confirm it (double down)
5. It will be an animal pack + scenery, that's what a lot means.
 
Agree with everyone pelican is ultimately the better choice - but in fairness I do see why the Secretary is where it is on the meta wishlist, it is a beautiful bird. Definitely wouldn’t be mad at either if we got them.
 
Well with a possible tease and announcement inbound it is truly time for final predictions!

Come one, come all! Place your bets on the table! The game is simple, for every prediction made right you get 1 point! The person with the most points wins! You can also double, triple, or quadruple down on predictions! You will get bonus points if you are right. If you are wrong however, you will lose points! If you don’t double, triple, or quadruple down you will not lose points if you are wrong. High risk, high reward.

An example:
  1. Prediction 1: we will get a bird
  2. Prediction 2: we will get a monkey (double down)
If I get both right I got 3 points! If I got prediction #1 right, but #2 wrong I would be at -1. If I got both wrong though, I am at -2 points.

You can be as safe or as crazy as you want to be. This is the final call for last spring 2024 DLC predictions! Place your bets on the table!
My bets on the next pack:
  1. Decorative item that resembles a skull, or has a marking resembling a skull [basically either a Pirate or Latin American scenery theme] (Quadruple down)
  2. Snake that rears [Cobra] or plays dead [Hognose or Grass snake for example] as an animation/pose (Double down)
  3. Bird of a new Order [Not Ratite, Pheasant/Turkey, Flamingo, Penguin, Stork or Duck/Goose/Screamer] (Octuple down)
  4. New flighted/gliding Walkthrough exhibit animal (Octuple down)
So my score could range from 22 to -22, realistically the maximum is probably 18 (standard exhibit and Walkthrough seems unlikely for the same pack)
 
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I don’t know about 100% true flight. But I think by using the climbing system we can make it look convincing enough. Like at the max if two platforms are 16m apart birds can “jump” between them. Or certain climbing structures birds can perch on. I think the smaller and faster flying birds: budgies, lorikeets, finches, bee eaters, songbirds, etc. would be too much and only work in the WTE.

Something like a scarlet ibis I can see using the climbing structures, we have many small fast moving arboreal animals. If I can handle them being a bit wonky I feel the same about birds being a bit imperfect. At least having the option creatively would be nice. Placing the ibis, maybe it can jump up to or around 16m at the max. Or maybe it makes smaller “jumps” but it can use the climbing space like the lemurs or monkeys. I think we can make it convincing enough.
I think alot of peopel miss that birds can flying without having truly free flight just make a jumping or running animation that has the model flying still technically only interacting with the ground but visually is flying.
Based on the phrasing it will be some proper news they wouldn't even have bother to mention pc edition if it was just going to be another deflection and since we are already in the middle of a community challenge it wont be that. There are only a few things this could be either the release a development timeline (very unlikely), they talk about an update either just bugfixes or with content, a dlc release, announcement of some other new community engagement separate from the challenges.
Why are we talking about a third elephant 😭
someone was uppestti that people are against ungulate heavy packs which lead to people talking about rig reuses which for some reason included the elephant and not the flamingo or habitat lizards.
 
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