News Feature Focus - Guided Tour Improvements

[Narwhal4]

Welcome back Park Managers,

We are very excited to bring you a new Jurassic World Evolution 2 Feature Focus! Previously, we talked about Challenge Mode and Sandbox Mode and what you can expect when you jump into either of these modes. Today we're switching tracks to take a look at the Guided Tours you can add to your parks. We have made several improvements to how you build and manage your Tours and we wanted to take some time to highlight them.

Please keep your arms and legs inside the Feature Focus, and remain seated at all times. We wish you a pleasant tour!

We've brought back Tours from Jurassic World Evolution for the sequel. Your guests can take a ride inside dinosaur enclosures using Gyrospheres or hop on a guided Jurassic Tour as a group. Placing them inside your parks works similarly to what you're already used to from the first game: Tour Stations can be placed on their own or through fences, and you can then draw and place tracks for the vehicles to follow.

Tours can go through multiple enclosures using gates, but now you can chain different Stations together in a single loop. Make sure your dinosaur visibility is top notch across the board, so each part of your tour is as exciting as the last!

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Tour tracks can now be built over paths (or vice versa), and a path junction will be created when the two cross. You can also place fences over existing tour tracks, automatically creating a new gate for the Tour to pass through. This makes it a lot easier for you to make any necessary changes to your enclosures on the fly, without needing to redo the Tour track you've already built.

Photo points can be built along Tour routes, which will take pictures of your guests. If you pay attention to your Guided Tours you'll sometimes see a small flash go off when they pass the photo points, indicating that your guests are getting their photos taken. You won't be able to view these photos in the game, however, but it serves as an extra detail you can add to your Tours.

Your Tour routes can also run through Aviaries, giving your guests an up close and personal look at the flying reptiles housed inside them. You lay down track like you would in other dinosaur enclosures and your Tour can run through an entire Aviary if you'd like. Tour gates are snapped to Aviary walls to create entry and exit points. The system is highly flexible, and you can even make several entries and exits, letting multiple Tours go through the same Aviary or Enclosure at different points!

With these new additions to Guided Tours, you can even have a single Tour moving its way through a single Park, with multiple stations for your guests to get on or off the tour. You can also split them up further and have separate tours for separate parts of your parks. Maybe create a Gyrosphere tour through a huge Sauropod enclosure, or send a Jurassic Tour through several carnivore enclosures to give your guests the thrill of a lifetime!

You will need to be careful though, as your Jurassic Tour vehicles can be damaged by roaming or attacking dinosaurs! If they're completely damaged, that section of the tour will shut down, and a Ranger team will be required to reboot the tour.

Finally, we'd be remiss if we didn't mention the tour guide, who can be heard in the Guided Tours you can add to your parks. Jurassic World spares no expense, of course, so the tour guide will be a learned figure that provides commentary of what's happening in the tour, from facts about the park's environment, to announcing when the tour is entering the territory of specific species. If you've been following our Park Management Guides, the tour guide will sound very familiar to you.

We hope you've enjoyed this rundown of the various improvements and changes to Guided Tours in Jurassic World Evolution 2! Will you be adding Guided Tours to your parks? Let us know in the comments if you've got plans cooking up already. Until our next Feature Focus, you can follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, and join the discussions about the game on our forums!

Love the improvements being made. I wonder what what frontier has up it's sleeve for going through marine reptile exhibits. I'm so curious. Will Jurassic tours be able to get away or speed off if Dinos and flying reptiles attack vehicles?

 

[Joshquatch22]

Welcome back Park Managers,

We are very excited to bring you a new Jurassic World Evolution 2 Feature Focus! Previously, we talked about Challenge Mode and Sandbox Mode and what you can expect when you jump into either of these modes. Today we're switching tracks to take a look at the Guided Tours you can add to your parks. We have made several improvements to how you build and manage your Tours and we wanted to take some time to highlight them.

Please keep your arms and legs inside the Feature Focus, and remain seated at all times. We wish you a pleasant tour!

We've brought back Tours from Jurassic World Evolution for the sequel. Your guests can take a ride inside dinosaur enclosures using Gyrospheres or hop on a guided Jurassic Tour as a group. Placing them inside your parks works similarly to what you're already used to from the first game: Tour Stations can be placed on their own or through fences, and you can then draw and place tracks for the vehicles to follow.

Tours can go through multiple enclosures using gates, but now you can chain different Stations together in a single loop. Make sure your dinosaur visibility is top notch across the board, so each part of your tour is as exciting as the last!

View attachment 256636​

Tour tracks can now be built over paths (or vice versa), and a path junction will be created when the two cross. You can also place fences over existing tour tracks, automatically creating a new gate for the Tour to pass through. This makes it a lot easier for you to make any necessary changes to your enclosures on the fly, without needing to redo the Tour track you've already built.

Photo points can be built along Tour routes, which will take pictures of your guests. If you pay attention to your Guided Tours you'll sometimes see a small flash go off when they pass the photo points, indicating that your guests are getting their photos taken. You won't be able to view these photos in the game, however, but it serves as an extra detail you can add to your Tours.

Your Tour routes can also run through Aviaries, giving your guests an up close and personal look at the flying reptiles housed inside them. You lay down track like you would in other dinosaur enclosures and your Tour can run through an entire Aviary if you'd like. Tour gates are snapped to Aviary walls to create entry and exit points. The system is highly flexible, and you can even make several entries and exits, letting multiple Tours go through the same Aviary or Enclosure at different points!

With these new additions to Guided Tours, you can even have a single Tour moving its way through a single Park, with multiple stations for your guests to get on or off the tour. You can also split them up further and have separate tours for separate parts of your parks. Maybe create a Gyrosphere tour through a huge Sauropod enclosure, or send a Jurassic Tour through several carnivore enclosures to give your guests the thrill of a lifetime!

You will need to be careful though, as your Jurassic Tour vehicles can be damaged by roaming or attacking dinosaurs! If they're completely damaged, that section of the tour will shut down, and a Ranger team will be required to reboot the tour.

Finally, we'd be remiss if we didn't mention the tour guide, who can be heard in the Guided Tours you can add to your parks. Jurassic World spares no expense, of course, so the tour guide will be a learned figure that provides commentary of what's happening in the tour, from facts about the park's environment, to announcing when the tour is entering the territory of specific species. If you've been following our Park Management Guides, the tour guide will sound very familiar to you.

We hope you've enjoyed this rundown of the various improvements and changes to Guided Tours in Jurassic World Evolution 2! Will you be adding Guided Tours to your parks? Let us know in the comments if you've got plans cooking up already. Until our next Feature Focus, you can follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, and join the discussions about the game on our forums!

Man oh man you guys are making this game too perfect!! Can't wait!

 

[Oxythief]

Any chance of an aquatic tour? Some kayaking, raft or log ride. Would just paint water around the track as it’s placed down like terrestrial transport place land down.

 

[Only Islam Rules]

Seems like Tours can now be treated as a form of park transportation. NICE!

I dont think thats the case because the monorail station would be useless then

 

[Locknight500]

Welcome back Park Managers,

We are very excited to bring you a new Jurassic World Evolution 2 Feature Focus! Previously, we talked about Challenge Mode and Sandbox Mode and what you can expect when you jump into either of these modes. Today we're switching tracks to take a look at the Guided Tours you can add to your parks. We have made several improvements to how you build and manage your Tours and we wanted to take some time to highlight them.

Please keep your arms and legs inside the Feature Focus, and remain seated at all times. We wish you a pleasant tour!

We've brought back Tours from Jurassic World Evolution for the sequel. Your guests can take a ride inside dinosaur enclosures using Gyrospheres or hop on a guided Jurassic Tour as a group. Placing them inside your parks works similarly to what you're already used to from the first game: Tour Stations can be placed on their own or through fences, and you can then draw and place tracks for the vehicles to follow.

Tours can go through multiple enclosures using gates, but now you can chain different Stations together in a single loop. Make sure your dinosaur visibility is top notch across the board, so each part of your tour is as exciting as the last!

View attachment 256636​

Tour tracks can now be built over paths (or vice versa), and a path junction will be created when the two cross. You can also place fences over existing tour tracks, automatically creating a new gate for the Tour to pass through. This makes it a lot easier for you to make any necessary changes to your enclosures on the fly, without needing to redo the Tour track you've already built.

Photo points can be built along Tour routes, which will take pictures of your guests. If you pay attention to your Guided Tours you'll sometimes see a small flash go off when they pass the photo points, indicating that your guests are getting their photos taken. You won't be able to view these photos in the game, however, but it serves as an extra detail you can add to your Tours.

Your Tour routes can also run through Aviaries, giving your guests an up close and personal look at the flying reptiles housed inside them. You lay down track like you would in other dinosaur enclosures and your Tour can run through an entire Aviary if you'd like. Tour gates are snapped to Aviary walls to create entry and exit points. The system is highly flexible, and you can even make several entries and exits, letting multiple Tours go through the same Aviary or Enclosure at different points!

With these new additions to Guided Tours, you can even have a single Tour moving its way through a single Park, with multiple stations for your guests to get on or off the tour. You can also split them up further and have separate tours for separate parts of your parks. Maybe create a Gyrosphere tour through a huge Sauropod enclosure, or send a Jurassic Tour through several carnivore enclosures to give your guests the thrill of a lifetime!

You will need to be careful though, as your Jurassic Tour vehicles can be damaged by roaming or attacking dinosaurs! If they're completely damaged, that section of the tour will shut down, and a Ranger team will be required to reboot the tour.

Finally, we'd be remiss if we didn't mention the tour guide, who can be heard in the Guided Tours you can add to your parks. Jurassic World spares no expense, of course, so the tour guide will be a learned figure that provides commentary of what's happening in the tour, from facts about the park's environment, to announcing when the tour is entering the territory of specific species. If you've been following our Park Management Guides, the tour guide will sound very familiar to you.

We hope you've enjoyed this rundown of the various improvements and changes to Guided Tours in Jurassic World Evolution 2! Will you be adding Guided Tours to your parks? Let us know in the comments if you've got plans cooking up already. Until our next Feature Focus, you can follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, and join the discussions about the game on our forums!

Hey Mr.Erik,
how is your day with all the work? First off i must thank you, your team and every single person working for this game trying to make it even more better then the last. You guys have done a awesome job at this game already and we the avid fans have barely scratched the surface for information about the game. Keep this great work up. Since we are talking about tour guides, will there be like a river cruise or a Cretaceous cruise where we can put kayaks or boats and let them be like a tour vehicle
P.S. My writing is bad and I’m trying to make it better, so pls excuse any mistakes

 

[Jens Erik]

I was wondering the same. Or do we have to rescue them when the car was attacked?

As it says in the post, you will have to send a Ranger team over to repair the ride if a vehicle suffers enough damage from a dinosaur

 

[BBordewyk]

So excited to hear that the Richard Kiley impersonator will be narrating the original tour! Any chance you guys will correct the model for the original tour vehicle though? I know you can't use the Ford or Explorer branding but the vehicle can still look exactly like it 1 to 1 without having to have either's iconography on it. After all, it was more a movie prop designed by John Bell than it was a true Ford Explorer.

 

[sour lemon 333]

This sounds good. But everything going wrong has to be reset by the ranger team sounds really repetitive like the last game.

 

[reply671]

This sounds good. But everything going wrong has to be reset by the ranger team sounds really repetitive like the last game.

Don't make bad tour design decisions, then you don't gotta deal with it.

 

[Ashaantha]

This feature focus looks great! crossing paths now and finally not having to redo the entire tour track just because I had to fix an enclosure fencing to keep dinos happy or to expand my park is more awesome!

 

[TheMightyMegalosaurus]

Could the tour paths be placed over shallow bodies of water?

This needs to be a thing, also for the foot paths. So annoying having shallow water be an impassable barrier for paths, it would be really nice if a simple bridge was created when putting them over water, like a wooden plank path for guests like they have in Yellowstone and a levee-like ridge with vehicle paths.

 

[JurWrldEvolu]

Tours in aviaries now makes me wonder if we'll also get tours in lagoons with submarines seeing that like aviary tours, marine tours weren't in the movie either

 

[Hykelion]

I dont think thats the case because the monorail station would be useless then

"With these new additions to Guided Tours, you can even have a single Tour moving its way through a single Park, with multiple stations for your guests to get on or off the tour."

Sounds like an alternative to the monorail to me. That is if the devs integrate the Park Tour into the transportation statistics.

 

[Dark_Ansem]

Don't make bad tour design decisions, then you don't gotta deal with it.

If there's no disaster, there's no jurassic park

 

[Amasaur]

So it is confirmed that Tour Vehicles can go into Aviaries, how about Monorails ?

 

[Jens Erik]

So it is confirmed that Tour Vehicles can go into Aviaries, how about Monorails ?

Monorails are for transportation, but Tour Vehicles are so your guests can see dinosaurs up close and personal. A monorail can go past an Aviary, but not through it

 

[DrStephenMeyer]

The tour will be one contiguous run and as far as I'm aware, there won't be stops between stations.

Why not???? Some people like self guided tours and how about the toilet?

 

[DrStephenMeyer]

Please have it so we can do something with the guest photo like a board to put them up???

 

[Gondrasia]

how about the toilet?

If you put down another Tour Station, it would be possible to create a visitor area which would include toilets, amenities & viewing galleries, etc.

 

[Jens Erik]

Why not???? Some people like self guided tours and how about the toilet?

What I meant was that guests can't get on/off between stations. Put down another station, and guests can get off/on the tour