Part of my reasoning is that last year they followed a pattern of visiting every major continent. Which leaves the Americas as they were left almost untouched. Minus the peccary and the sloth of course. Which is why I think a New World/ Latin America/ Americas is likely.
The barnyard pack really made me realize frontier can and will go against the current top meta wishlist. While there are a ton of awesome animals left on the top of that list (coati, baboon, secretary bird, etc.) Frontier is also likely to pick a pack that is from a more requested theme, and people always like aquatic animals.
Now with all that being said, following JWE2’s last dlc a keeper pack is still incredibly likely. It would cover the most amount of animals and can also give everyone a little bit of everything. At this stage I don’t think a full bird pack is gonna happen at all, likewise a full monkey pack or a mixed monkey/ bird pack.
I’m just trying to think outside of the box, Frontier usually likes to surprise us. For better or worse…….
The Barnyard pack is the exception and not the rule, though. That was a rare instance where they let the free update drive the pack theme. Aquatic is the only other example I can think of... And all of the packs from Wetlands and on have skewed heavily toward the top 10 of the wishlist.
And the packs always feel more like they're picked by the species and
then the theme. If it was theme first then Tropical, Oceania, and Eurasia wouldn't have happened. Those three packs gave people the animals they wanted with a fully different theme.
The current top 10 is just such a smattering of randomness. Haha. The only non-generic theme that really sticks out is Latin America because it accounts nearly 50% of the top 20. Haha. And it's been a while since they've gone back to North America in a meaningful way so... There could be something to your thought process!
But what if its made on the backbone of imported content from planco2 and therefor not the last dlc but just an "extra" to capatalise twice on some of planco2 new stuff?
Unironically till now coastal pack has allways been niche, but this alone makes me consider it as one of the most likly additions if dlc should continue past 1 more
I think it's far more likely that PZ assets inspired PC2 content and I don't really see it happening in reverse. Mythological = Twilight and Rustic Viking = Arctic. Oceania = Resort.
I just had a thought
Frontier usually gives us what we ask for (well a lot of times does) but not the way we wanted it.
How about we get some of the top animals in a "coastal" or "islands" pack: brown pelican, cozumel island coati, Guayanan red howler monkey.
Not the specific species we expect but the animal type we want.
They're not usually
that far off as far as the sub-species go.
And with that roster, why not go more specific with Latin America? I
guess I could see it if they wanted to work in the tree kangaroo but otherwise...
