Dinosaurs Dinosaur - Ranger vehicle interaction

[NicoLubitz]

Your Feature Request / Idea
First of all, the game has come a long way and is so much better than initial release!

But I am still struggling with the fact that ranger vehicles have no physical effect on dinosaurs, for example if you hit a small dinosaur that they loose health or can be killed as in JPOG. Additionally, larger carnivores should attack vehicles, even when refilling feeders. This could be another exciting thing to take care of when playing the game, careful refilling and that you have to sometimes jump in because when you command the ranger team to do it for you the chances are higher they cannot avoid a carnivore and get killed. It would add so much more excitement to the game if you could get chased by a trex in your jeep rather than driving through the paddock like you are in a petting zoo.

cheers

 

[GonerMcGoner]

A destructible jeep has been requested about a million times. Even Trevorrow asked about it during a livestream. I doubt it'll ever happen at this point since they can't sell it as DLC. I totally agree the devs missed out on an exciting JPOG feature here (but hey, at least we got the blessed tornadoes). I would love more ways to interact with the animals too. Maybe allow the jeep to drop hay bales or meat to lure them? Have them curiously approach the vehicle when the horn is sounded? Currently all they do is run away or endlessly circle it.

 

[LordTrilobite]

I also doubt actual killing of the jeep crew will get added at all. But I do think that it would be cool if the interactions were expanded a bit more. The running circles around the jeep is pretty cool and shows the aggression of the large carnivores. But perhaps even if they don't actually kill, maybe it would be cool if the more aggressive dinosaurs knocked the jeep about a bit. Since the jeep already reacts as a physics object this would mainly be an enhancement on what's already there.

Dinos like T. rex, other large carnivores and perhaps armoured herbivores could push the jeep around a little maybe. And perhaps small predators like raptors could swarm the jeep as a group, trying to intimidate.