Winter DLC Speculation

Naturaroca

Naturaroca
Maybe they can opt for something Mountains type???
The theme would go very well for winter, and if birds are finally added, species such as the eagle and others could enter...
what do you think???
 

TheYeti

TheYeti
IMO the new exhibit feature can mean two things. Either it will be used as a new aviary mechanic or we'll get more (nocturnal) walkthrough exhibits such as sloths and butterflies. I personally feel like we will get habitat birds in the next update for two reasons:
  • They appear to have switched the order of animal and scenery packs. It would seem that an animal pack is next and with Christmas DLCs traditionally being the big ones of the year it would make sense to get something new (read: birds). Any other animal pack would be underwhelming.
  • Since the new format is presented as an exhibit, with the bat filling the exhibit niche in the DLC, it would not make sense if Walkthrough Exhibit animals will take slots of habitat animals in the future. Therefore, I would think that - if we're getting birds next - they will mainly be habitat species with something like hummingbirds as the exhibit species.

Of course there's a third option where birds will be exhibit species and they'll add one bird to each upcoming DLC, but this makes little sense as we're unlikely to get more than 5 additional DLCs (okay it's possible but at least they won't know it yet) and it would mean that they would already need to add yet another type of exhibit, because birds have different requirements than this walkthrough thing.

And then there's another wild option, which is honestly my favourite: Frontier is playing us and when we all hope for birds they'll end the year with a Fully Aquatic Animal pack. If this is the case, you heard it here first.
 

TuchA

TuchA
Hello everyone!
Since we can consider the autumn thread closed I will post it here. Now I've taken another leisurely look and seen all the animals (of course I saw the fox, but also include it) 😊

SKUNK
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WOMBAT
wombat.JPG


RED FOX
fox.JPG
 

FoxyDee

FoxyDee
A new thread eh? I hope we can keep this thread going on naturally rather than unnessecery spam it. It was no fun reading throuh all the spam.

But anyway, I can see two options for the winter DLC:

1) Aviary animal pack - would make sense with the recent switch of the pattern on scenery/animal packs.
2) Mountain/Highlands animal pack - if that is the case, I would love to see:
- Golden Takin
- Spectacled bear
- Himalayan Monal
- Markhor
- Rock Hyrax
- Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby
- Gelada
 

NZFanatic

NZFanatic
I think the bat exhibit is being tremendously overhyped and imaginations are running wild, so let's look at this logically;

Does it open up the possibility of birds? Yes.

Does it open up the possibility of free-flying birds? No.

Does it open up the possibility of birds as exhibit animals? Yes.

Does it make it more likely we'll get a full bird DLC? No.

Does it make it more likely we'll get the odd bird instead of an exhibit animal? Yes.

Overall, though, all it guarantees (using that word loosely), by being added in the free update, is that we'll probably get another bat.

For December (it's not winter, stop that), I'm hoping for an Islands Pack now. Tasmanian devil got shafted again (Conservation was perfect for it, and Twilight was perfect for it) so we need that one. Fruit bats are also common island denizens so it would make use of the new exhibit.
 

Colehunter35

Colehunter35
NZFanatic said:
I think the bat exhibit is being tremendously overhyped and imaginations are running wild, so let's look at this logically;

Does it open up the possibility of birds? Yes.

Does it open up the possibility of free-flying birds? No.

Does it open up the possibility of birds as exhibit animals? Yes.

Does it make it more likely we'll get a full bird DLC? No.

Does it make it more likely we'll get the odd bird instead of an exhibit animal? Yes.

Overall, though, all it guarantees (using that word loosely), by being added in the free update, is that we'll probably get another bat.

For December (it's not winter, stop that), I'm hoping for an Islands Pack now. Tasmanian devil got shafted again (Conservation was perfect for it, and Twilight was perfect for it) so we need that one. Fruit bats are also common island denizens so it would make use of the new exhibit.
Click to expand...
Islands Animal Pack
Devil
Fossa
Kiwi
Something native to the galapagos
Idk-
 

DarthQuell

DarthQuell
NZ, I totally agree. I highly doubt we're getting a full.aviary pack.

The only thing I'm expecting is for a new exhibit animal to be added to the base game to use the new WE. Or, alternatively, maybe updating iguanas to use them. I'd be ok with that over having them as Habitat animals
 

Colehunter35

Colehunter35
I honestly dont really care for aviaries. I am just fine with out them, of course if they added them it would be great, but...
 

Captain Callum

Captain Callum
Even with just birds in exhibits I would be excited. Many of the irl zoos I build have aviary exhibits in African / asian habitat houses which would fill in these static gaps and bring so much more life to them
 
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