Ever since the update I can’t have compies in my park. They just don’t drink and die of dehydration. The patch didn’t fix it and Frontier has not even acknowledged the issue.
Apparently dinosaurs dying of thirst for no reason is ok game design to Frontier…
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do you have mixed species in the enclosure or ALOT of compies within? My theory is the ranger team attached to the outpost. When they go to check the welfare of the compies, its puts them in panic mode. and if there are alot of dinos in the enclosure the ranger jeep stays there for an extended period of time keeping them all in panic. then it leaves and only a handful have time to eat or drink before the jeep comes back. Just a theory because im dealing with it at my park as well. but only the enclosures with lots of tiny species that panic is having the issue.
I am not sure if this helps:
1) In the Jurassic Park era, always keep Compsognathus away from all the other dinosaur species.
2) In the Jurassic World era, Compsognathus can be put together with Moros Intrepidus and Sinosauropteryx to save space.
3) Word is that in the Sandbox gameplay, infinite feeders are added. Try toggle off dinosaur status checks without having the rangers to monitor them and enable infinite feeders.
Consider this our acknowledgement of the issue
Nope. They are alone and status checks are off. Only time anyone comes in is when their health drops low. I’ve watched them and even when they are not panicking they don’t drink.
I only play on JP era but I keep them separate from other species anyway. Infinite feeders and no status checks are on. They just walk around not drinking any water. They still eat like normal though.
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At this point I’d be fine just drowning them.
I've actually got a ticket going with Frontier Support right now. They're going to check out my saved game and hopefully fix the issue. My troodons are standing idle "Looking for water" and they're right beside it. I have another troodon literally starving to death while a dead goat is feet away. I've got a velociraptor starving to death with a similar issue - food is nearby but its not feeding. I lost all my moros intrepidus and most of my oviraptors to this issue so its not isolated. Also had tons of other species almost starve to death because of this and its a wide variety - corythosaurus, carcharodontosaurus, metriacanthosaurus, carnotaurus, pteranodon, elasmosaurus, struthiomimus, compsognathus, tyrannosaurus, giganotosaurus, archaeornithomimus, nasutoceratops, baryonix, carnotaurus, and I noticed it happening with my brachiosaurus too. No mods are installed and its a vanilla game with DLC installed on a computer through Steam.
I encourage everyone here experiencing this issue to file tickets yourselves; don't post just on here - report the issues so that they can understand how expansive this problem is with the game. It will help them narrow down the problems too.
EDIT: Had to come back and edit this.
I encourage everyone here experiencing this issue to file tickets yourselves; don't post just on here - report the issues so that they can understand how expansive this problem is with the game. It will help them narrow down the problems too.
EDIT: Had to come back and edit this.
I see. It sounds like what almost every of you call a bug.
That's weird, I'm not having any problems with compys on my ps5. Did you check their stamina and current action? I had issues where Moros and homalocephale would choose to eat/drink from a very specific far away place, run out of stamina and then walk so slowly towards it that they often die. This only happens in my site B park though, compys and other tiny dinos are fine on my regular parks. Although I did have issues with troodon.
Having compies that die of thirst despite having access to water seems to me to be an authentic Jurassic Park experience. After all, the place had all the problems of a major zoo and a theme park before it even opened.
I like to not have my Dino’s die of stupid reasons in my sandbox part. It’s already pretty pathetic you can’t have more than 120 Dinos without severe performance drop. Like really, I could tolerate that at maybe above 150 but with that limit you can barely make a decent park.
You too ? Same thing happened to me. I put a bunch in with some Dimetrodons and the Compys just...died.
all the small dinosaurs have alot of panic. i think somehow with the multiple species in one enclosure it triggers a bit too often the panic buttonConsider this our acknowledgement of the issue
Compies will always panic when in the presence of small carnivores, which will eat them if combat and hunger are both turned on. You should never put them in the same enclosure unless you want the compies to either get eaten or die of starvation or dehydration or just run around endlessly if you have combat, hunger, and thirst all turned off. This isn't a bug. Ideally, there'd be a Sandbox option to turn off panicking, but I'm not holding my breath.
I REALLY hope you guys solve this. This second game is better looking than the first ones. It has better options and MUCH larger maps. But it's completely unplayable if we have to stop everything every 30 seconds to which dinos in our parks have decided to just freeze there and stop eating and drinking.To provide everyone with an additional update: this is being looked into by the team
Also, another bad thing about the game is that it doesn't tell you how many of each dino you need. In the first game, it would tell you something like 5 to 9 individual dinos per species per enclosure...or something like that. All JWE2 does is say you have to have at least, say 2 dinos. It doesn't give you a maximum.
I like how I stated my compies are ALONE and somehow the post went in this direction. It IS a bug as my compies do this while not even panicking. There aren’t even any other Dino’s in that whole section of the park as they are the centerpiece of my park’s main street. My dinosaurs were not doing this before the update.
but is anything going to be done about it ? The game is unplayable. It's all fine if you turn on the options for the dinosaurs to not have to eat or drink...but where's the fun in that ? It's neat to watch them run around a stalk a goat or scamper off in search of a good patch of grass or a tree. Believe it or not, Jurassic World Evolution 2 is the first time in my entire 40 some years of gaming that I've had any problem like this. We spend 60/70 dollars for a game that looks amazing...but can't be used.To provide everyone with an additional update: this is being looked into by the team