Autumn DLC Speculation

nutrit

nutrit
Pinguin said:
Ok, sorry :)

But how does it matter to you? Does it affect your gameplay or? For me its just animal that is on cover, it doesnt do anything else it just represent the pack, but any of the animals in pack would do that to me.
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Always thought that the headliners needs to be this highly requested animal not just well known. Times has changed.
You are right it doesn’t matter.
 

FoxyDee

FoxyDee
Captain Callum said:
There's a reason why the phrase "don't judge a book by it's cover" exists. Many people simply look at the face of the product and if it looks lame they couldn't care less about what else there is.

Face of base game - lion
Arctic - polar bear
South America - jaguar
Australia - koala
Aquatic - king penguin
Southeast Asia - sun bear
Africa - meerkat
North America - beaver
Europe - lynx
Wetlands - capybara
Conservation - przewalski horse
Twilight - racoon

Now what exactly is the theme here? All unique and very well known animals that grab players attention. Having some obscure animal that only nerds will know is a really really bad way of business
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Not that I disagree with the main point here that headliners are usually well-known or well-sought after animal, but I dont think it has to be the case every single time. I doubt any laik can tell that the weird bear on SEA pack cover is a sun bear or the horse is a wild Przewalski horse (I was very surprised to hear alot of people, and even people that play PZ alot to refer to it as "just a horse" and then they procceed to say they dont understand why is everyone excited about a horse). I doubt average Joe knows the succesfull reintroduction story of the Wild Horse really and their importance as a Zoo species.

I agree that the species should be interesting and different enough from the other headliners, thus I did get why the Amur leopard was not a headline of the Conservation (too similar to jaguar from SA), but that is the only requeirment I really see as needed, especially now that the big ticket animals are mostly present in game. I think things like Sloths, Porcupines or Emus would potentionaly be headliners, but on the other hand I dont understand this community obsession with "headliners" and the forever present fear that we dont have enough "headliner" animals left for the packs to continue. That is really absurd.
 

Captain Callum

Captain Callum
FoxyDee said:
Not that I disagree with the main point here that headliners are usually well-known or well-sought after animal, but I dont think it has to be the case every single time. I doubt any laik can tell that the weird bear on SEA pack cover is a sun bear or the horse is a wild Przewalski horse (I was very surprised to hear alot of people, and even people that play PZ alot to refer to it as "just a horse" and then they procceed to say they dont understand why is everyone excited about a horse). I doubt average Joe knows the succesfull reintroduction story of the Wild Horse really and their importance as a Zoo species.

I agree that the species should be interesting and different enough from the other headliners, thus I did get why the Amur leopard was not a headline of the Conservation (too similar to jaguar from SA), but that is the only requeirment I really see as needed, especially now that the big ticket animals are mostly present in game. I think things like Sloths, Porcupines or Emus would potentionaly be headliners, but on the other hand I dont understand this community obsession with "headliners" and the forever present fear that we dont have enough "headliner" animals left for the packs to continue. That is really absurd.
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Yeah all great points basically from the hidden meaning of my part. I would say we don't really need much more headliner animals, just animals that the average player can sort of familiarise themselves with. Like any more south America expansion? Sloth. Aviaries? A colourful bird or eagle probably. Is say a lorikeet a headliner animal - no but many people know what kind of animal it is and this is frontiers marketing strategy of sorts
 

becks474

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Captain Callum said:
Yeah all great points basically from the hidden meaning of my part. I would say we don't really need much more headliner animals, just animals that the average player can sort of familiarise themselves with. Like any more south America expansion? Sloth. Aviaries? A colourful bird or eagle probably. Is say a lorikeet a headliner animal - no but many people know what kind of animal it is and this is frontiers marketing strategy of sorts
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There are still some animals most of the people know without further animal knowledge which could work pretty well as headliners. Drylands have the Baboon or the Dromedary. Both well known animals. Grasslands have for example the Emu or the procupine. Woodlands have the Sloth or a monkey species or the Red Deer. Aviaries (if this ever happens) could use a perrot which is colorful and recognizable by pretty everybody.

Edit: I think the residual bears will be off as headliners because they are too similar to the Sun Bear. I mean there are in fact huge differences but we already have a black colored bear species as headliners. I also think that the small cats like Caracal, Serval and Ocelot somehow are off (perhaps Caracal). In case of dogs the Maned Wolf could work as we do not have a dog as headlining species until now.
 
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Pinguin

Pinguin
Captain Callum said:
There's a reason why the phrase "don't judge a book by it's cover" exists. Many people simply look at the face of the product and if it looks lame they couldn't care less about what else there is.

Face of base game - lion
Arctic - polar bear
South America - jaguar
Australia - koala
Aquatic - king penguin
Southeast Asia - sun bear
Africa - meerkat
North America - beaver
Europe - lynx
Wetlands - capybara
Conservation - przewalski horse
Twilight - racoon

Now what exactly is the theme here? All unique and very well known animals that grab players attention. Having some obscure animal that only nerds will know is a really really bad way of business
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I dont think people buy or no buy a pack just because certain animal is on cover...I think everyone will check what all animals are in the pack and decide on that. People make elephant out of a fly with this. Even thing like tamandua can be headline and not many people know it, it just needs to be interesting and different from others.
 

Chuditch

Chuditch
Doran said:
People have obsession about something that is irellevant, because frontier first pick pack theme and then animals.
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I doubt Frontier would have thought up a pack like Wetlands without at least having the capybara in mind. I don't think headliner animals are that important but I imagine what animals are highly requested has some role in dictating which pack theme they choose, at least some of the time.
 

nutrit

nutrit
markun said:
Have they publicly stated that?
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Yes they did. They confirmed that they choose the theme and then choose the animals fitting to it.
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