Planet Zoo - Colour Variation

[Chante Goodman]

Hayo Zookeepers,

Thanks for all of your brilliant support; we're excited to show you a snippet of what we've been working on over the last couple of months, and we'll be sharing more news on what else we've been up to very soon!

We've been intently reading your feedback regarding animal colour variation, and we've spent many hours researching realistic and well-documented variations to bring you accurate depictions of our animal roster. As a result, we've been working on bringing you varying colour, from the majority of animals with subtle differences to the couple of animals that have large variety in colour.

We'll be going further in to detail on how genetics will impact your groups, herds and individual animals in the next couple of weeks, where we'll also be going in-depth about what you can expect in our next update.

The animals will be categorised with subtle, medium and major variations. While we've aimed to give this treatment to as many animals as possible, we haven't done it for all of them. Exhibit animals and some habitat animals won't have these changes, largely due to either their environments being too densely packed to benefit from it, or there not being any clear variation occurring in the wild. Today, we'll be showing you one example from each category:

Subtle - American Bison

Medium - Reticulated Giraffe

Major - Timber Wolf

Thanks again for all of your feedback on this, including your threads sharing videos and photos. We cannot wait for you all to get your hands on this upcoming update to see these variations for yourself, and what else we've been working on too!

 

[HeatherG]

Exciting! Thanks for the update

 

[markun]

Great to hear an update and this looks very promising.

 

[jcp011c]

Thank you very much for an update! This is exactly they type of thing many of your players are wanting to hear and it is very appreciated!!

 

[Iben]

I'm really happy to see this! Thanks for giving us a little update, things like this are great to see

 

[FoxyDee]

This is exactly what we needed a little sneak peak on what is going on, thank you very much for sharing with us! It looks incredible.

 

[8bitjosh]

Look at the wolves! Thanks for adding this!

 

[arafan]

It's very nice to hear something of the team! I was really getting worried about the game, as there were simply no news.
I really like this new changes, that will really change something in the game, I'm excited to see what else you have done.

 

[RubberKerfuffle]

Another fantastic example of attention to detail never failing to amaze. Really excited to see this!

 

[Urufu1997]

I'm very excited to see which awesome Variations other People get after the Update gets released and of course also to discover them myself. Will we get a complete list of Species that got Variations when the Update gets released?

 

[Chante Goodman]

I'm very excited to see which awesome Variations other People get after the Update gets released and of course also to discover them myself. Will we get a complete list of Species that got Variations when the Update gets released?

Yes, we will be providing the complete list of animals that have variations, and will be breaking it down into the categories of variation for transparency.

Glad to see so many people excited!

 

[DrBurrito]

This is actually more in-depth than anybody expected. I would like to thank everyone who helped in the making of this feature that will be a game changer for immersion.

 

[NZFanatic]

Oh now this is exciting! Thank you @Chante Goodman, you have alleviated many worries with this news.

I must admit I breathed a sigh of relief when this showed up. Looking forward to seeing what else you are cooking up.

 

[WingardiumLevicoaster]

Oh wow. It looks wonderful! Thank you

 

[felinora99]

It looks sooo amazing ! I am so excited for this, the Timber Wolves look awesome ! Thank you so much to the team for their hard work during such difficult times.

 

[Vigoga_97]

Such good news! Thanks for working on this mechanic! Very excited to hear about the rest of the update content!

 

[Gorobai]

That's great!!

 

[paul78]

These look amazing. Brings another level of realism to the game. Thank you frontier.

 

[NZFanatic]

We cannot wait for you all to get your hands on this upcoming update to see these variations for yourself, and what else we've been working on too!

The bolded also has me intrigued. I wonder if the colour variations will be part of a larger 1.3.0 update.

 

[Evolution]

Awesome news!!! So glad to hear from you devs and that an update is coming real soon! Also, thanks to listening to our feedback and giving us a look at what the team has been working on. I know a lot of people are eager to get there hands on with a new update and dlc with everything happening around the world. We could all use some good news and a much needed distraction from all of it. So...thank you devs!!!