Winter DLC Speculation

Guys and girls, I don't know if we took how important this new exhibit game mecanic is. I mean, it's absurd to create an all new mecanic just for one specie, and give the footprint to everyone in the free update. It seems pretty obvious to me something totally different and requested all lot by the fans is coming next...

I'm also curious if there will be something for the 3rd birthday (5 November) !
 
What do exhibits and aviaries have in common, and why might Frontier have decided to create a huge walkthrough exhibit for a bat? Answer: They're figuring out proper roofs, roof collision, flight mechanics, and flight animations. We've all seen climbing/swimming/diving critters glitch through walls and the tops of our tropical halls. That needs to be resolved for custom aviaries to work. It's much easier to work the kinks out of the system in a controlled environment - a single pre-determined walkthrough exhibit shape - than to let players create whatever they want while you're still building and testing and debugging the system. I'm also guessing that bats hanging from things upside down is easier to get to from the existing jumping, hanging, and brachiation mechanics already in the game than a bird perching perfectly on top of a branch from free flight. We're building up to the future, but we're still working out the bugs. Custom aviaries and fully flighted habitat animals are coming, but there are technical details to work out first. System refinements, upgrades, revamps. Think existing exhibit animals outside of the terrarium glass, in mixed species roofed enclosures, the green iguana set free. Think small primates running freely along vines and branches. Yes, think about the first flighted birds overhead. Think about large fully enclosed environments, and the possibilities therein. Even if the walls and roof are set in stone for the time being, if the interior is customizable, how much can be done?

South American Tropical Hall, a winter getaway DLC.

Linnaeus's Two-toed Sloth
Black Howler
Golden Lion Tamarin
Ocelot
Geoffroy's Spider Monkey
Scarlet Macaw
Keel-billed Toucan
Green Anaconda
 
Guys and girls, I don't know if we took how important this new exhibit game mecanic is. I mean, it's absurd to create an all new mecanic just for one specie, and give the footprint to everyone in the free update. It seems pretty obvious to me something totally different and requested all lot by the fans is coming next...

I'm also curious if there will be something for the 3rd birthday (5 November) !
It sounds ideal for sloths and small birds. Maybe iguana and friendly reptiles
 
Oh nice! So...winter dlc
My thought is: We recieved a scenery pack, that i don´t like the scenery but the bat and the other animals are so cool, and don´t an animals pack that we almost knowed. So two scenery packs along..This makes me think. Maybye, with the bat, they are going to see if flying mechanics work well and we like it, but surely bat animations are cyclical, like JWE1 pteras. Let´s hope to see an aviary dlc this winter to finish the year!
 
Oh nice! So...winter dlc
My thought is: We recieved a scenery pack, that i don´t like the scenery but the bat and the other animals are so cool, and don´t an animals pack that we almost knowed. So two scenery packs along..This makes me think. Maybye, with the bat, they are going to see if flying mechanics work well and we like it, but surely bat animations are cyclical, like JWE1 pteras. Let´s hope to see an aviary dlc this winter to finish the year!
It must be an animal pack, maybe we got another scenery pack because maybe there is a very unique animal pack in the winter. The bat in the whole walkthrough exhibit is an obvious testbed for flight seeing how the game engine handles that instead of going all in and ruining performance outright. Here's hoping a in-depth aviary pack comes in the winter or at least by spring
 
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