Oh? Need to rewatch. I watched it with too many (german speaking) people, maybe I got it wrong. I thought the aniversary animal will come earlier than the aniversary but the DLC would come on the aniversary. My bad.
DLC18 discussion and predictions
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I would love it, but if it would be the case, the assets shown in the key art would be new. Here these are just already existing ones
You know I was the same with the Arctic fox. I thought it was a waste of a slot and that the red Fox (or gray fox
) was the logical choice.But, now I love the Arctic fox, even before we got the red later down the line.
A lotta animals I didn't care for at announcement I ended up loving
I think Jackson's Chameleon would be one of the more well-known ones that live in high elevation regions
Theres a pretty cool video from the youtuber "Atlas Pro" in his video series about unusual "island" ecosystems that arnt actually islands but behave similary, highly recommend checking him out
If it is a mountain pack, there are loads of options - Ethiopian mountain adder, Mangshan pit viper, Andean milksnake and Lake Titicaca frog would all be good standard exhibit species for starters. I'd have also said pancake tortoise, but I think with the Hermann's tortoise recently added, it is less important now.
I don't disagree at all, but the African leopard is such a silly thing to include. Oh well, as you say, it's free.
Anyway, I'm looking for the announcement post. When do we think it will be up? This week? Next? I want to know what other species are in this DLC before I judge it. The baboon alone is great. I like the markhor but I wasn't really clamouring for it, but I don't imagine I'm going to use the Pallas cat very often. It's cute but on the list of cats I want it's pretty far down.
For an alpine theme there's not a whole lot I'm too interested in, but if they give us a Himalayan monal I'll be thrilled. We haven't had a new pheasant...ever. This also means the raccoon dog is a possibility, which, despite being rather niche, is one I've been hoping for (Little Japan here we go - macaques, raccoon dogs, cranes, fallow deer as a "hey we can't source the real thing" stand-in for the sika; all I'm missing is the Japanese serow and an exhibit animal (fire-bellied newt would be amazing)).
I'm also taking this as our final DLC. If we do end up getting another one, then great, but as it stands this is touching on a handful of highly-requested species and makes sense as a theme to bring them all in. It works as a send-off, even if a few of you are still clamouring for more animals from X-land and Y-ia. In any case I'll be pretty busy with Coaster 2 come November and the new CK3 DLC that's just dropped so I won't be hanging on waiting for more Zoo content.
Tropical mountain rainforest is pretty common though.
Not saying i want them but theres a reason gorillas are devided in flatland and mountain gorillas
I'm always up for more snakes, but we really could use some smaller lizards
Or better yet make it a habitat animal. They are easily big enough and there really inst any valid reson to put them into the exhibit in my eyes
Cloud forests, man. Don't forget the cloud forests
Tropical pack trying to hide which forgot south American monkeys exist.
Maybe the Alpine newt? It's similar to the Danube crested newst, but there are some differences:
Alpine:
Danube:
Now there's an idea! Smaller animals have become habitat animals.
keep in mind at that time we didnt even know they would end both were the first of their line to end in hindsight them being the last pack is obvious but at the time we didnt even know to look for the end
Fair re free update. For me, the huge difference is, that we support the free updates much more with our money and the diorama probably took a lot more programming time that could have spend elsewhwere than to reskin an animal.
At the end of the day, a lot of people also actually asked and wished for the African Leopard. I can't remember anyone even remotely asking for a diorama mode.
Yeah now that i know i'm never getting the SA animals i want i can enjoy this pack specially since 3 of the animals revealed has been in my wishlist for while (african leopard, Palla's cat, markhor). I do hope we get some surprises. I don't see how the dik dik, secretary and tortoise fit into this theme though so maybe there is more coming? But i don't want to speculate. Is a weird theme for a final pack but so far very good animal selection.
There is a koi lantern. Could we be getting a koi pond as a new type of exhibit? Of course not, but is fun imagining that.
My only gripe with that is that we'd get another crocodile situation where an animal that's supposed to be mostly sedentary (I don't mean literally, but just don't move often) will then move around a lot. The gators and Crocs move too much, and so do the koalas
