If I remember correctly we had this situation already one time... all americans being 100% sure Frontier would never announce anything on their holiday, but then they did. So I wouldn't base my assumption on a holiday that's not world wide and therefore maybe not even on their radar much.
Agree (on both points but mainly to the second one). Early September would seem really early. I'm feeling like at earliest we would see a release is mid-September, so it's possible that if in the unlikely event it did come that early we'd see teasers/etc at the beginning of September, which has the American holiday in it, which shouldn't really affect Frontier's activity since they're not an American company.
I'm going on a 6 month trip on september 15th so I'd love an earlier release, but it's unlikely. So I'd probably get to play with the next 2 packs only in 2023.
Given the real possibility that this is going to be our last animal pack, I just hope they actually do mark off a lot of the most popular remaining suggestions. I loved the wetlands pack, but it only had 3 actually highly requested animals and one mid-level request. Compare to NA where it was 5 popular requests and 2 mid-levels. Hopefully it’s more like that setup this time.
I can understand that and agree if it ends up being the second to last pack. I still think it's possible - not likely but possible - that if there's only two packs left they may both me animal packs. Either way, that's just 16 instead of 13 animals, and maybe an anniversary clone. I share the hopes that if we do just have two packs left they should try to find themes that will mark has many of those highly requested animals off, while at the same time taking design work hours into consideration.
This would be ideal for me. I’d fear if we got a general ‘forests’ animal pack, that the focus would fall onto the tropical animals rather than temperate. However, a pack focused strictly on temperate woodlands would rule out the sloth and the red river hog (two animals I’d love to see sooner rather than later). I’d be really happy with a forests pack that focused on the temperate side of things but still could include the sloth and the hog!
I kinda disagree here. For example, the wetlands pack was mostly tropical/grasslands animals, but they still got to add a temperate/taiga one with the crane (and the platypus). So if we get a forest DLC that gives one or two slots to tropical animals instead of all temperate, I don't think they would be stealing animals from the temperate biome which could still be added in many other future DLC.
Agree. Generic forest pack is dumb idea.
The Tasmanian devil could fill that niche in game as in real life.
I think that, because tropical rainforests are very different compared to temperate forests. Both biomes are very different if we look at fauna it can offer. Tropical rainforest excel in arboreal species, whereas temperate forests shine in terrestial animals. Both areas offer vastlty different environments.
That's of course assuming there are more than 2 packs left. If there are only 2 left, a "forest" pack to knock off a number of fan favorites all at once can be the way to go, the way they used the Conservation Pack to knock off 3+1 very popular animals, and the mildly popular oryx. I think the fact they used the horse is actually a bit concerning, as it would've been the best headliner for any grassland/scrubland/desert pack, and putting it together with the leopard was a sign of nearing the end of support (yea yea I'm being doomy I know).
Secretary bird, emu, wombat, and maned wolf would all make good grasslands headliners. I'm certain we'll see some sort of grasslands/drylands biome pack before support ends and getting the P. Horse and the Oryx in the conservativation pack just means there will be more room for potential weirdos like the mara.
Exactly. Plenty of grassland animals that can "lead" a pack other than the horse. The horse was good choice for a conservation theme.
and I hope that one of the animals will have feathers.
