Probably the most crowd-pleasing and thought-out theme for a SCENERY pack at this point would be a Cloud Forest Pack. The roster would be:
given how long it would take to design a tree kangaroo and how long it likely takes them from ideas to actually finishing a pack if they were planning on adding a tree kangaroo it may not be ready yet since it only really gained popularity at the end of of 2022 into 2023. Though testing climbing animations on a quokka is very possible and even the idea that the tree kangaroo was scrapped.
my hot take is that they should of just added the brown bear as a species scrapped the grizzly in place of the black bear and just had the brown bear to represent its whole range.
I have said it before and ill say it again a central america pack is the most obvious pick for another pack in that region and I think that will be the direction frontier takes.
There are a few cool scenery packs i can think of, but none really are that satisfactory as a final pack.
Bold of you to think so.
For a scenery pack, I think that would probably be one of the better outcomes. I can’t think of many other scenery packs that would realistically cover such a range of community wishes.
There's also a couple that made it to South America before the landbridge, notably Chapalmalania of the Raccoon family filled a small bear sort of niche.
I don't know it's like one of those packs where half the lineup is good that will be used often and the other half well exists.
Which two are what?
The sloth is useless to me but the 4 habitat animals are all pretty wanted, I don’t think this would trouble the community.
Im honestly content with the foliage we have, cant really think of anything that im missing. More would always be beneficial, but new foliage is far from a priority for me
I just want more regular shrubs and grasses, the recent ones we’ve gotten like hosta, creosote shrubs (dry variant too) etc. have all been super helpful for realistic lush enclosures - while they’re not needed, I would definitely appreciate more.
I'll Guess the bear and the sloth Will just exist. And to me probably also the kangaroo. The other two/three would be cool to have.
That one was pretty solid. I would have swapped out the stripped hyena with someone more unique than another carnivore thoughI want pampas grass and kelp and more underwater plants in general.
I think there are still some iconic plants that are missing, like the Pampas Grass and those tall California Palm Trees (Fan palm I think is the name?), maybe some kind of Bonsai trees and the likes.
I have 5 I'd like/hope for: Flowering Dogwood, Coffee Tree, Any Fruit Tree, Lavender and Strawberry Plant
I would too! In addition to the any of the five I already listed. Horsetails are one of the most unique yet ubiquitous plants its disappointing we don't have them...
I think while it’s not my favourite pack, Barnyard is the most important animal pack, because while the other packs add rep to continents, there are very few animals in them that actually differ from the way you build enclosures. E.x. Cougar might be NA rep, but you still build for it pretty much the same as any other large cat.On the subject of animal packs, I know it's a mega unpopular opinion, but...Barnyard might have actually been my favorite animal pack since North America.
HEAR ME OUT. Barnyard just feels like the most seen followed through pack in terms of its vision. As much as I would have liked poultry and rabbits, I cannot in good faith look at any of those choices and honestly say they had no business in being a farm pack. I might have played around with the selected breeds but that's different from species.
Wetlands had 4 excellent, crème de la crème picks with the otter, crane, platypus, and capybara, and four wildly off choices. I know the Nile lechwe has seen a "rethinking" and some deem it as wildly overhated, well...I don't lol
Grasslands, oh wait, literally as of writing this I forget about Grasslands.
Arid was a misfire imo and I can't have this conversation again
Eurasia is saved for me by the swan, tortoise, and sloth bear, and I can't deny the appeal of the wolverine. But the four other... I understand I might have bias as an American, but the presence of both the 2023-led influx of swine and base American bison made the wild boar and wisent seem redundant. Again American bias.
Siaga was okay. And tbh I kinda resent the takin, I know it was a community favorite and pick for many, but I was a much bigger fan of the markhor.
