Yeah I think you're reading too much into it for sure. They just think it's nice that part of the community goes in looking for clues, but at the end of the day the key-art is used for marketing purposes for the entire community and they're not going to deliberately leave stuff out to or try to play games with us here. They're trying to sell packs first and foremost.
Frankly, I feel the opposite, the cover-art is pretty solid if you ask me.
1. It's clearly some sort of tropical location. It's obvious from the forested hills in the back, the use of palm trees and even the use of of Strangler Fig 03 (it matches up perfectly) on the right.
2. The colors used are very reminiscent of the SEA pack. This honestly should be one of the biggest hints that this is not something like a safari pack; because when you ask a random person to think of safaris the colors they'll associate it with are reds, oranges and yellows ( and frankly, a freakin' safari pack would
very prominently feature a jeep somewhere).
3. Two of the three animals we can see clearly are animals from Asia. The third is still blurry, but it's hard to say that they're any form of African animal.
4. The only really clear structure we can see is the Indian Support Column, being part of an Asian oriented theme in the game. The other structures we see are too blurry to really make out. I don't see the safari tent you're referring to, and frankly I don't even see the umbrellas. Most people I've talked to just think the things in the middle are trees.
IDK, all the contextual clues point towards something tropical and something Asian. We can speculate about the details from "is it an Indian pack or a South Asia pack or an Asia pack?"; but in general I think the key-art so far is doing its job pretty well.
The key art isn't, the pictures of the animals and the trailer are always made using the scenario map.
In its marketing it was somewhat ambiguous if you ask me, as it primarily talked about the Australian Outback which would point it towards it being about the country, but the steam page specifically mentions the Australian continent so I'm more inclined to think that it is indeed more about the continent.
"Make meaningful decisions and manage an amazing living world as you bring the grand continent of Australia home in the Planet Zoo: Australia Pack."
This however seems less like an issue to me tbh. We already had an Africa theme and so the Africa Pack's theme was called "North Africa". We already had a New World theme so they went for "Fiesta" for Americas. I'm sure that if it turns out to be India that they'll find a name that works for it.
It kinda makes me hope that we are getting an India pack even, because I think it's what this form of pack really works well for. Don't bother trying to make a full theme out of 60 to 80 pieces. Instead, use one of the base game sets and extend it so we can use it in more creative ways. The Africa Pack and the Europe pack did such a good job with that, it's a shame that a pack concept that fits it so well doesn't seem to do it more often.
Nacho please, whilst I can't guarantee that there's no elephant in this pack I'm pretty sure they aren't harming sloths here!
