DLC18 discussion and predictions

[RightWhale]

This is all making me wonder how people would have reacted to prior key art if we had received the art without the pack name in advance. There's a few examples where I think people would have fully been able to guess the theme based on the artwork and where the game was at the time. It was pretty straight-forward for the first 2 year of DLC with the exception of Aquatic (mostly because we were all anticipating regions).

But I do think others might have been more challenging. Wetlands, Barnyard, and Arid are pretty obvious. Twilight people would have guessed "nocturnal" but TBH, that's close enough... But I suspect that without the pack name people wouldn't have guessed Conservation, Tropical, Oceania, Grasslands, or Oceania without the pack name.

Which is why they probably don’t normally do this: OMG the nocturnal pack! I bet it’s gonna have an aye-aye and kiwi! Then it’s the Twilight pack and doesn’t have that.

Just like we are seeing now lol, if you look at the animals it looks like a highlands pack. If you remove the animals it’s a super generic background with a tent, streamers, lanterns, and rocks in a forest.

Honestly makes me super curious to see what will happen next week.

 

[Markiz]

Probably not, but it would be nice.
Of the DLC animals, which one is the worst/deserves the best remaster?

Not that it's the worst by any stretch but I would love to see Anteater remaster

 

[Doran]

Someone should remove all animals from key art and then look again how it looks without them.

Not the best, but honest work . Mountain Pack key art by Frontier.

 

[RightWhale]

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Not the best, but honest work . Mountain Pack key art by Frontier.

Finally, the party tent pack is here! With all my favorite rocks too!

Yeah this screams “mountains/highlands”, I would honest be super surprised if that was the intended pack name.

 

[Angeł]

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Not the best, but honest work . Mountain Pack key art by Frontier.

Yeah this does not give mountains at ALL.
I don’t even know what this gives. The ‘Nothing Pack’?

 

[NachoB]

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Not the best, but honest work . Mountain Pack key art by Frontier.

I see that i think forests and meadows not mountains. It just has a big rock on a side.

 

[nutrit]

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Not the best, but honest work . Mountain Pack key art by Frontier.

Also known as Moon festival much connected to the moon and it looks like moonlight in the art.

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival (see § Etymology), is a harvest festival celebrated in Chinese culture. It is held on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar with a full moon at night, corresponding to mid-September to early October of the Gregorian calendar. On this day, the Chinese believe that the moon is at its brightest and fullest size, coinciding with harvest time in the middle of autumn.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important holidays in Chinese culture; its popularity is on par with that of Chinese New Year. The history of the festival dates back over 3,000 years. Similar festivals are celebrated by other cultures in East and Southeast Asia.

During the festival, lanterns of all size and shapes – which symbolize beacons that light people's path to prosperity and good fortune – are carried and displayed. Mooncakes, a rich pastry typically filled with sweet-bean, egg yolk, meat or lotus-seed paste, are traditionally eaten during this festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is based on the legend of Chang'e, the Moon goddess in Chinese mythology.

 

[NachoB]

Not that it's the worst by any stretch but I would love to see Anteater remaster

OMG yes same.

 

[DarthQuell]

As a Southerner, all the white-tailed deer I’ve ever seen in zoos are in very podunk, low-budget and low-class zoos indeed. Otherwise they’re just a hunting animal.

Houston Zoo would like to speak with you

 

[PlanetSoyJak]

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Not the best, but honest work . Mountain Pack key art by Frontier.

All I see is a Party Tent, a Zoo Keeper, a Large Hill and Festive Decorations from Base Game.

 

[Mjmannella]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the very obvious amounts of foliage in the key art. That should've been clue #1 this isn't a highlands pack. Way too many plants for the environment.

 

[Markiz]

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Not the best, but honest work . Mountain Pack key art by Frontier.

Yeah this reaally doesn't scream Mountains. I'm not concluding that it isn't, but again whether theme was supposed to be Mountains or Anniversary better job could've been done conveying that message more clearly.

 

[DarthQuell]

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Not the best, but honest work . Mountain Pack key art by Frontier.

Honestly, it looks like a meadow. Meadow pack confirmed; bring on the rabbits

 

[AndyZoos]

I see that i think forests and meadows not mountains. It just has a big rock on a side.

That's my initial thought too, and absolutely no shade at @Doran's quick and effective work, but the one thing the edits did is turn the rolling hills in the back into a flat field. There's very clear hills that the markhor are standing on.

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the very obvious amounts of foliage in the key art. That should've been clue #1 this isn't a highlands pack. Way too many plants for the environment.

The Scottish highlands would like a word...

EDIT: And, while it's generally rockier? Here's the Himalayan highlands too...

 

[Markiz]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the very obvious amounts of foliage in the key art. That should've been clue #1 this isn't a highlands pack. Way too many plants for the environment.

Well depending where they draw the line with the definition of a mountain. If we stick to irl definitions there are plenty of mountains with dense foliage cover, both ground and trees.

But if this is really Mountains pack, Markhor/Pallas Cat on a lonely cliff with clouds and ridges in background would be unmistakable

Edit: Then again we wouldn't be constantly go back and forth with how well keyart was made, if they didn't use it as teaser. If we knew the pack theme first, I doubt many questions would be raised about how well key art fits

 

[Mjmannella]

The Scottish highlands would like a word...

EDIT: And, while it's generally rockier? Here's the Himalayan highlands too...

Those are all at the base of the mountain, and not at the peaks themselves. If anything that just proves my point

 

[Markiz]

Those are all at the base of the mountain, and not at the peaks themselves. If anything that just proves my point

But mountains aren't only peaks

 

[NachoB]

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Also known as Moon festival much connected to the moon and it looks like moonlight in the art.

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival (see § Etymology), is a harvest festival celebrated in Chinese culture. It is held on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar with a full moon at night, corresponding to mid-September to early October of the Gregorian calendar. On this day, the Chinese believe that the moon is at its brightest and fullest size, coinciding with harvest time in the middle of autumn.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important holidays in Chinese culture; its popularity is on par with that of Chinese New Year. The history of the festival dates back over 3,000 years.[3][4] Similar festivals are celebrated by other cultures in East and Southeast Asia.

During the festival, lanterns of all size and shapes – which symbolize beacons that light people's path to prosperity and good fortune – are carried and displayed. Mooncakes, a rich pastry typically filled with sweet-bean, egg yolk, meat or lotus-seed paste, are traditionally eaten during this festival.[5][6][7] The Mid-Autumn Festival is based on the legend of Chang'e, the Moon goddess in Chinese mythology.

Any animals associated with them?

I'm just thinking something else... All three animals are representations of chinese Zodiac animals: markhor is a goat, Palla's cat is a cat and the baboon is a monkey (although what a wasted chance for the GSNM if this is the case ).

12 animals in chinese calendar, 12 animals in the DLC

So this confirms we will get our third tiger

 

[Doran]

I fixed it! Now it should appeal to your fantasies even better .

 

[Mjmannella]

But mountains aren't only peaks

While true, the peak is what makes a mountain. If there's no peak, it's basically just a plateau at sea level