Early Cretaceous Pack and Update 1 are out now!

[Dark_Ansem]

So I definitely love this update, but I've noticed some issues while playing today.

• The reflection of the sky in the water is still flashing sometimes, at least while playing in sandbox mode.
• When building a large amenity or guest attraction, what they actually look like doesn't match up with the customization settings.
• The upgrade slot for the DFW small power plant seems to not be working at all.
• Disabling egg synthisiztion failure in sandbox seems to not work.

Those are the only issues I noticed so far. I will edit this post later if I find more. Like I said I'm very happy with this update. More buildings. Random skins. The flat maps are cool. Finally can play on Nublar 2015 without the monorail. Wasn't expecting the color overlay option, that's nice. I know I've crapped on this game in a few posts before because I prefer the dino creation system of the first game better due to it's simplicity, but having the option finally to release a bunch of dinos at once that all look different is awesome and goes a LONG way towards making me not hate the 2-step, scientist dependent process.

Some further things I'd love to see:

• Option to disable dino traits in sandbox and remove the synthesis step alltogether so we can just cook and release dinos faster.
• Option to disable scientist requirement from tasks in sandbox, much like how the power requirement can be turned off for buildings.
• Ability to start sandbox with no research or genomes so we can choose to play a fresh slate game but with our customized sandbox rules.
• A contract or two that can be completed on a blank map with no money that could allow us to literally start with nothing and build up slowly. Example: "no power outages for x minutes" or "no guest fatalities for x minutes".
• 1993 era contracts like in the first game. If we are playing sandbox with JP only buildings and contracts on, we should be getting contracts from the classic characters rather than the JW era ones. I don't even care if it's just a copy/paste from the first game. In fact, given my previous point about easy starter contracts, the Return to Jurassic Park contracts from Malcolm would actually be ideal.
• Change challenge mode to allow us to pick which building set we want to play with before it starts.
• Since the arrival helipads and expedition centers use the same helicopter skins as the capture teams (as opposed to them being unique models like in the first game) let us change the helicopter skins on those buildings too so they can match whatever we've selected for our capture team.
• Add the option to have ALL guest types in sandbox. Guests, JP staff, JW staff, DPG workers, and DFW staff. Or better yet, change the selection method to a list with checkboxes and we can mix/match them ourselves. (I also thought a while ago this would be a better way to select sandbox weather as well. A checkbox list with all the different weather types and then separately a slider for weather frequency)
• I'd still like to see a "damage building" tool. The concept of a ruined park aesthetic has intrigued me since the first game but having to rely on storms to damage things randomly really sucks.
• Add more scenery. Specifically movie based stuff. Like parts of the crashed plane from JP3, ruined JP or Site B vehicles, the Rex nest from TLW.... you know stuff like that we can use to really make an enclosure stand out.
• Add the San Diego Amphitheater to the JP sandbox building list.

Edit: I can confirm now that both DFW power stations' upgrade slots are bugged as well as the small and medium ameninties appearance when built not matching what the customizations say they are. Also it seems like the "random skin" option doesn't recognize the movie skins, which is a real shame.

Put the bugs into the issue tracker?

 

[Dark_Ansem]

In my sandbox park, I had a dinosaur die when I went to pick it up and deliver it to the hospital. This made the hospital get stuck in "treatment pending." I was hoping this update would either fix that or at least let me demolish and rebuild the hospital, but I can do neither. Which means I can't treat dinosaurs at this hospital. I worked really hard on this sandbox park and don't want to start over on it.

Did you report this issue in the issue tracker?

 

[Dark_Ansem]

So @Jens Erik @Francesca Falcini a couple points about this great update...

• I can't find any LVL5 fence for DFW, am I stupid or is it not there?
  • On that note, DFW has unique fences, can we have back the JP era fences for JP theme please?
• The JP aviary is bugged the same way aviaries were before the patch, in terms of sound, there is no sound inside it, could you check?
• Could you add this skin to the JW pterandon model or the geosternbergia, possibly both, since I don't feel like another model will be what we will get?
• the 2001 pteranodon is, somehow, smaller than the JW pteranodon, which doesn't make sense, It should actually be the other way around: the Jurassic park 3 pteranodons had a wingspan of 33 feet, while the Jurassic world pteranodons had a wingspan ranging from 10-16 feet.
  • More importantly, it kinda looks like a direct transplant of the RtJP model and texture, as the level of detail is kind of low?

 

[Jens Erik]

That should depend on the size of the sauropods, but I'd rather have them immune instead of getting killed without having the ability to fight back.

So, sauropods can still be hunted, but they'll occasionally be able to shake off pack hunting carnivores.

After the update i am not able to change the color patterns of the dinosaurs anymore. Must be a mistake. I could go for genetic modifications but no colors?

Hmm, that's odd. Are they fully locked?

Performance on consoles is still bad after update 1 and HDR remains broken.

Thanks for the report. The team is still looking into HDR on consoles

Weird, despite having Synthesis Failure turned off and installing the +50% success rate addon to the hatcheries I still have synthesis failures.

If you haven't already, please submit a ticket about this in our issue tracker: issues.frontierstore.net

Nice. Though I hope that's retroactive so I don't have to do it again.

The Campaign level selector should work retroactively

There is an issue with audio on Xbox series x with pteranodons not making any sounds anymore I can not hear their wings flap nor their vocalizations anymore it seems to be in the Jurassic park aviary and now the male JP3 raptor has no quills, and the JP3 Pteranodon seems too be to small aswell. Can we please get a fix to this fast

It looks like it's an issue with the JP Aviary specifically. The team's been made aware of it

 

[dinowolf]

So, sauropods can still be hunted, but they'll occasionally be able to shake off pack hunting carnivores.

Hmm, that's odd. Are they fully locked?

Thanks for the report. The team is still looking into HDR on consoles

If you haven't already, please submit a ticket about this in our issue tracker: issues.frontierstore.net

The Campaign level selector should work retroactively

It looks like it's an issue with the JP Aviary specifically. The team's been made aware of it

Jens:

Are the JP3 pteranodons supposed to be so small? They look like toys compared to the JW versions. That said, please pass up how awesome this patch was (and the notes as well were clear and well written!). We desperately need individually placeable trees and other placeable decor items.

 

[Dark_Ansem]

Jens:

Are the JP3 pteranodons supposed to be so small? They look like toys compared to the JW versions. That said, please pass up how awesome this patch was (and the notes as well were clear and well written!). We desperately need individually placeable trees and other placeable decor items.

I wish the RtJP decorations currently missing returned, and the Spinosaurus wasn't the one for flying reptiles .

 

[Mister Random]

Are the JP3 pteranodons supposed to be so small? They look like toys compared to the JW versions. That said, please pass up how awesome this patch was (and the notes as well were clear and well written!). We desperately need individually placeable trees and other placeable decor items.

They are the '97 TLW version, not JP3. The skin is named "Pteranodon 1997"

 

[Dark_Ansem]

They are the '97 TLW version, not JP3. The skin is named "Pteranodon 1997"

Wrong. It's been said several times in this thread that is a typo.

 

[DTV Enternainment]

Not a issue for the New pack but I saw that i can't unlok the Polacanthus for sandbox even when I released it once in Challenge Mode i dont know that was the issue earlier but I really not getting him in Sandbox for completeness

 

[KiryuCPR88]

Really aprecciate your efforts and new stuff, i have a little answer and a suggest,there is a posibility to split DLC´S content?, because in my case i personally don´t like any marine or flying reptiles, just the dinosaurs so in my will of get this new dinosaurs i have to pay for the other two creatures that i will not use in any case, so i hope you give the option in future DLC´S of buy only land or only flyer or only marine or all of them, maybe this is not good for your incom money but i have to ask. thanks for all ^-^

 

[kingofJWE2]

So, sauropods can still be hunted, but they'll occasionally be able to shake off pack hunting carnivores.

Hmm, that's odd. Are they fully locked?

Thanks for the report. The team is still looking into HDR on consoles

If you haven't already, please submit a ticket about this in our issue tracker: issues.frontierstore.net

The Campaign level selector should work retroactively

It looks like it's an issue with the JP Aviary specifically. The team's been made aware of it

Jens after the update 1 I notice that in the database in jwe2 there’s a new fence or a new path in there so tell me how do I unlock two of them?

And why the mosasaurus has a red line on her back and why there’s no a full blue pattern? But only red,green and grey pattern

.And Jen’s remember I said this

Why’s can the dinosaurs basic skins return? Cause I’m having a hard time to find those

And you said Hi there! I'm not sure what you mean? This is what I mean from this

To this

and There’s no a grey pattern for it

 

[Velocityraptor]

So @Jens Erik @Francesca Falcini a couple points about this great update...

• I can't find any LVL5 fence for DFW, am I stupid or is it not there?
  • On that note, DFW has unique fences, can we have back the JP era fences for JP theme please?
• The JP aviary is bugged the same way aviaries were before the patch, in terms of sound, there is no sound inside it, could you check?
• Could you add this skin to the JW pterandon model or the geosternbergia, possibly both, since I don't feel like another model will be what we will get?
• the 2001 pteranodon is, somehow, smaller than the JW pteranodon, which doesn't make sense, It should actually be the other way around: the Jurassic park 3 pteranodons had a wingspan of 33 feet, while the Jurassic world pteranodons had a wingspan ranging from 10-16 feet.
  • More importantly, it kinda looks like a direct transplant of the RtJP model and texture, as the level of detail is kind of low?

Don’t forget that after fixing the female JP3 raptor to not have quills and finally making her movie accurate, but they unfortunately removed the quills from the male JP3 raptor and now he does not look right at all. They need to fix this and correct the JP3 Pteranodon size aswell as fix the audio issues with the aviaries fast I have stopped playing do to this because I was trying to build a JP3 park

 

[Dark_Ansem]

Don’t forget that after fixing the female JP3 raptor to not have quills and finally making her movie accurate, but they unfortunately removed the quills from the male JP3 raptor and now he does not look right at all

"You now have what you wanted, what did it cost?"
"Everything"

 

[Nioell]

Don’t forget that after fixing the female JP3 raptor to not have quills and finally making her movie accurate, but they unfortunately removed the quills from the male JP3 raptor and now he does not look right at all

If my eyes didn't play tricks on me earlier it's not only missing the quills now but also happened to have a dentist appointment to have all its lower teeth removed...poor thing

 

[Nioell]

Okay, so I had some time to play with the update and decided to take a look at the new skin color selection and...please guys, if you really can't get that on dino preview into the game then could you at least make sure the colors you select are actually the colors you get when the dino is released?

I mean look at this! Going by the selected skin color it should be something in the violet/purple range. Does this brown, ocher striped thing look anything like that to you? This is so frustrating and missleading and really not helpful at all, especially with all the different combinations we got now.

 

[Dark_Ansem]

Can you return the decorative toilet to the game, @Jens Erik @Francesca Falcini ? And the original security bunker from Return to JP? After all, the JP style already features 2 styles of Command Centre, so 2 styles of bunker wouldn't be out of place.

 

[Platinasm]

I wish we could see what the colors would look like in a preview before we make the damn dinosaur. I've sold thousands of dinosaurs with color combos that just didn't come out the way I imagined...

 

[DeathPhantom533]

I just use the random color feature.

 

[Jens Erik]

Really aprecciate your efforts and new stuff, i have a little answer and a suggest,there is a posibility to split DLC´S content?, because in my case i personally don´t like any marine or flying reptiles, just the dinosaurs so in my will of get this new dinosaurs i have to pay for the other two creatures that i will not use in any case, so i hope you give the option in future DLC´S of buy only land or only flyer or only marine or all of them, maybe this is not good for your incom money but i have to ask. thanks for all ^-^

Hi there! We don't have anything to announce about splitting up the Early Cretaceous Pack. The animals found in it will only be available as a pack, not individually.

Jens after the update 1 I notice that in the database in jwe2 there’s a new fence or a new path in there so tell me how do I unlock two of them?

As far as I'm aware, those are DFW fences. If you reload a campaign save and research them, they should unlock in your database.

Don’t forget that after fixing the female JP3 raptor to not have quills and finally making her movie accurate, but they unfortunately removed the quills from the male JP3 raptor and now he does not look right at all.

Yes, we're aware of this and we're looking to amend the Velociraptor quills

 

[Velocityraptor]

Hi there! We don't have anything to announce about splitting up the Early Cretaceous Pack. The animals found in it will only be available as a pack, not individually.

As far as I'm aware, those are DFW fences. If you reload a campaign save and research them, they should unlock in your database.

Yes, we're aware of this and we're looking to amend the Velociraptor quills

And what about the missing audio for flying reptiles in the Jurassic Park aviaries, and can we please get the JP3 Pteranodon size to be a bit larger as it is it’s just a little bit larger than the dimorphodon