Like many others I am ecstatic for the release of JWE2. The mosasaur is a new JP-JW franchise favorite for me and i'm thrilled we finally get them and many other not-just-land animals.
I have a pretty big worry though, and that's the habitat tools. I've seen some early gameplay from different content creators and I've noticed that it all looks a lot like the first game, which was very restricted.
Please correct me if you've seen my suggestions in the game already (and please link!), theres an overwhelming amount of videos and I have obviously not watched everything lol
Specific things I've noticed and what I hope they can become
For land (and aviaries?) the vegetation tools is much like the landscape paint tools: You just roll a brush over the ground. You don't get to decide what plant it is and MAYBE (big maybe for me, who likes to place every fern, bush, tree individually) that would be okay, IF there was a way to make the vegetation more dense. It's too scarce right now which can look good in some instances but not everywhere everytime. I would like to have a way of mixing them with each other, ornamental trees and leafy ground vegetation together, for example, and not one deleting the other when placed.
This has been noted by several content creators, and i don't think it's yet confirmed, but I have to say it too: Marine enclosures look to become very very limited with customisation. There are rocks and plants(?) on the bottom which comes with the pools, and that appears to be it. I really hope we get to place seaweeds, rocks and other ocean elements on our own.
- A second thing is the clarity of the water. It is very dark and very... gloomy. I get these animals probably mostly lived in the dark deep oceans, but right now we can hardly tell colors and markings. Planet Zoo has a seethrough and color system that on a more limited scale might work here?
I might add more eventually.. But these are my top ones. Thanks for reading!
I have a pretty big worry though, and that's the habitat tools. I've seen some early gameplay from different content creators and I've noticed that it all looks a lot like the first game, which was very restricted.
Please correct me if you've seen my suggestions in the game already (and please link!), theres an overwhelming amount of videos and I have obviously not watched everything lol
Specific things I've noticed and what I hope they can become
For land (and aviaries?) the vegetation tools is much like the landscape paint tools: You just roll a brush over the ground. You don't get to decide what plant it is and MAYBE (big maybe for me, who likes to place every fern, bush, tree individually) that would be okay, IF there was a way to make the vegetation more dense. It's too scarce right now which can look good in some instances but not everywhere everytime. I would like to have a way of mixing them with each other, ornamental trees and leafy ground vegetation together, for example, and not one deleting the other when placed.
This has been noted by several content creators, and i don't think it's yet confirmed, but I have to say it too: Marine enclosures look to become very very limited with customisation. There are rocks and plants(?) on the bottom which comes with the pools, and that appears to be it. I really hope we get to place seaweeds, rocks and other ocean elements on our own.
- A second thing is the clarity of the water. It is very dark and very... gloomy. I get these animals probably mostly lived in the dark deep oceans, but right now we can hardly tell colors and markings. Planet Zoo has a seethrough and color system that on a more limited scale might work here?
I might add more eventually.. But these are my top ones. Thanks for reading!