Planet Zoo: Barnyard Animal Pack and Free Update 1.17 Out Now
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May I ask why there's an option to see baby animals when we can't sell them? Is this a bug or something y'all planned to do and never finished or what?
I will say that if y'all have us the option to rehome and/or sell infants, it can actually help a lot. Sometimes we get way too many offspring on enclosures and you're just stuck with them. Of we had a way to free up space (other than quarantine, animal trade center, or opening a new zoo and dumping them), it'd be very helpful
I will say that if y'all have us the option to rehome and/or sell infants, it can actually help a lot. Sometimes we get way too many offspring on enclosures and you're just stuck with them. Of we had a way to free up space (other than quarantine, animal trade center, or opening a new zoo and dumping them), it'd be very helpful
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Y'all, are there black llamas in-game? Because my brown llama and my leucistic llama had a baby, and it has "black thick shaggy wool"
Alright, I threw a massive tantrum when this pack was announced. Spat the dummy, full meltdown, the works.
Buuut I just bought the pack in spite of it being full of domestics, just to support Planet Zoo because I love it more than any other game and it's obvious how hard the Planet Zoo team works on making it wonderful. If buying this pack helps to keep updates and DLC coming, well why not. I have to say, the textures are incredible on these animals! I should expect it by now, but every time we get new animals the models and textures blow me away. I feel like I could cuddle up in the sheep's wool, or the alpacas, and the chicken's face!? Even the donkey texture does look distinctly different to the Somali wild ass. I'm going to play a new challenge game of starting as a chicken farm and gradually growing into a zoo (if I don't go bankrupt first).
Well done, Planet Zoo team. This is a beautifully made pack.
Buuut I just bought the pack in spite of it being full of domestics, just to support Planet Zoo because I love it more than any other game and it's obvious how hard the Planet Zoo team works on making it wonderful. If buying this pack helps to keep updates and DLC coming, well why not. I have to say, the textures are incredible on these animals! I should expect it by now, but every time we get new animals the models and textures blow me away. I feel like I could cuddle up in the sheep's wool, or the alpacas, and the chicken's face!? Even the donkey texture does look distinctly different to the Somali wild ass. I'm going to play a new challenge game of starting as a chicken farm and gradually growing into a zoo (if I don't go bankrupt first).
Well done, Planet Zoo team. This is a beautifully made pack.
"Hey, this one animal has the entirely wrong sound. I hope they fix it, because at the moment I don't want to use that animal."
"Have you tried silencing every animal?"
You'll note I used the word 'immersion'. Immersion involves the sounds of a zoo as well as everything else. If my beef is that a certain aspect is breaking immersion, telling me to just not be immersed isn't a solution.
Yes, it absolutely is, I second this.
Honestly unneeded, Leaf. It's fine if you enjoy playing without sound. For me (and others) the sounds are an important part of the game and usually Frontiers strong suit. And yes, I absolutely notice the difference between a horse and a donkey sound. Plus, we actually paid for that animal (twice even, if we count the wild ass) so I don't see why we should accept the model half baked. I could have as well downloaded a donkey from n... then. For free.
How about we treat each other with respect and see that we have different play styles, so asking for the correct sound is not something to be mocked about? I don't mock you for playing on mute.
don’t worry Linda you know I’m half serious all the time lol
i do agree it should have been included in the original rollout. it’s only making an ass of itself
Oh that sounds fun! A lot of zoos began as private farms/ bird collections! Could make for cool role playing to start your zoo like that then try to start your zoos history from there.
Just bought the pack finally the other day. Although somewhat disappointed upon the reveal due to simply wanting wild animals more. I admit it’s a great pack. The highland cow size I can live with and just say it’s a miniature but I agree on the donkey sounds. Definitely needs to be changed but still all and all a very nice pack. Secretly wishing a Turkey made its way in but very happy with getting chickens at least.
I could have sworn I saw it on there the other day
Frontier, what's happening? Why the radio silence about new updates/DLC for Planet Zoo?
Just a: "We're still working on PZ content and there's something coming soon..." would be appreciated. I know there's a lot of focus on PC2...But I dunno, I think one of the things y'all could be better about with the fans of your games is communication. (Not knocking the community team of course).
So we just have to assume there's no summer DLC and maaaybe there's more content coming this autumn? Who knows.
Just a: "We're still working on PZ content and there's something coming soon..." would be appreciated. I know there's a lot of focus on PC2...But I dunno, I think one of the things y'all could be better about with the fans of your games is communication. (Not knocking the community team of course).
So we just have to assume there's no summer DLC and maaaybe there's more content coming this autumn? Who knows.
They announced an animal pack is coming "later this year" in one of the streams. That's all we know for now.
In my case, if I put up a new shop (which is cased, as in your case) it went out for a break normally, but when it came back, it stayed the same in front of the door....Aaaaand here we go again
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The souvenir shop doesn't even have a door. Deleting the door frames didn't make a change either. Vendors are lost and can't enter the store. I'm about to eat my keyboard.
But I found a solution... The shop counter must be 100% exposed It cannot be covered by anything.... Because there is a passageway there, as you can see there is no door. The shopkeeper will even go through the maze into the shop (I checked how it works).... You have to play with the shop counter and then the shopkeeper will start working again.
Yes, they don't promised that this upcoming DLC will be released in the summer, just later this year.
I'm a bit sad too that we didn't get anything this summer, but 2024 isn't over yet, so let's all be patient.
Communication at Frontier was always bad. With the customers, and as it stands now also with the employees.
When they told us after the release of the Barnyard Pack that there will be another animal pack "later this year", that was HUGE for them and a surprising and welcomed break of the non-communication pattern. It probably happened because the announcement of the Barnyard pack faced very mixed receptions.
A company has many reasons why they can't inform us of every step on the way or can't put out a release date for a small pack in advance. Some reasons we might not see or understand. So we should always take that into account. At the same time I do understand the frustration and share it partly. And if we are honest, even marketing and communication for PC2 seems stale and slow now. Just the same old screenshots from different angles from the same old park.
So yeah, bottom line is, Frontiers communication is and always was lackluster and it doesn't get better when you fire almost all your community managers. The company obviously isn't interested in positive customer engagement. And looking how they cut corners with the Barnyard pack on several levels, sound being my most obvious problem here, PZ as a money maker is basically dead to them already, so they don't seem to have a reason to put much effort into keeping up the communication with the community up.
I wonder how come there wasn't a single dlc pack between April when Barnyard pack was announced and December? Was it because Planet Zoo creators and designers were busy with planning pack bundles (same from original) for Console Edition?