Focusing on uniqueness of species not in the game.

I greatly enjoy JWE2. It really has a rich, diverse collection of species. Here is some input for Frontier. I think the species put for consideration at this point, should be unlike any of the species currently in the game. This would add to the richness of types of creatures in the game. Here are some I would like to share for consideration.

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Australovenator already covers a Megaraptoran rep, and I'd rather not get a second one so soon. Everything else would be pretty cool, though I'd lean towards Scelidosaurus over Jakapil, since the latter is such a recent discovery.
The uniqueness comes from the fact that the creature was piscivorous. It would be the only raptor in the game to have that feeding behavior. I would just ask the designers to go for a different looking type of design. Especially with their excellent work with feathered models.

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The uniqueness comes from the fact that the creature was piscivorous. It would be the only raptor in the game to have that feeding behavior. I would just ask the designers to go for a different looking type of design. Especially with their excellent work with feathered models.

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What? Megaraptor isn't a raptor. It's a megaraptoran (I know, super helpful), a group that's poorly known and unfortunately difficult to pin down on the family tree. While they used to be thought of as carnosaurs / allosauroids, more recent analyses recover them as basal coelurosaurs or basal tyrannosaurs. I'm also not sure where the piscivorous diet comes from. Are you sure that you're not confusing Megaraptor with Austroraptor?
 
Australovenator already covers a Megaraptoran rep, and I'd rather not get a second one so soon. Everything else would be pretty cool, though I'd lean towards Scelidosaurus over Jakapil, since the latter is such a recent discovery.
I think that having two species from the same family / clade can work well if there's a large enough size difference. As such, if they add another megaraptoran, I'd vote for Maip or Siats since those two are massive. Plus, with megaraptorans having characteristically long arms, they'd stand out well amongst the other large carnivores and might serve as a more natural alternative to the hybrids while keeping a smiliar general shape. Siats's exact phylogenetic position is uncertain though.

I'd also like to see Gigantoraptor and Torvosaurus added into the game. Gigantoraptor is absolutely massive (at least in height) period and many orders of magnitude larger than Oviraptor. I've seen someone in this forum discourage Torvosaurus for being too similar to Megalosaurus, but Torvosaurus (the European species gurneyi at least, 10 - 11 metres) is absolutely massive compared to the relatively small Megalosaurus (6 - 8.5 metres).
 
What? Megaraptor isn't a raptor. It's a megaraptoran (I know, super helpful), a group that's poorly known and unfortunately difficult to pin down on the family tree. While they used to be thought of as carnosaurs / allosauroids, more recent analyses recover them as basal coelurosaurs or basal tyrannosaurs. I'm also not sure where the piscivorous diet comes from. Are you sure that you're not confusing Megaraptor with Austroraptor?
Sounder1995, thanks for the correction. Yes, I was thinking of Austoraptor.

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I may not get this right due to how far behind I am in my dinosaur research, it is said that this Australian carnivore species in the Late Cretaceous dinosaur DLC pack belongs to the megaraptor type. One would suffice, right?

There are still people wanting the Plateosaurus be added, but it is still a question about Archaeopteryx and Archelon.

The only thing that differentiates Microraptor from Archaeopteryx is the special sickle-shaped killer claw. Correct me if I am wrong, the Microraptor is by far the smallest in the dromaeosaur family.

About the Austroraptor, is it the only dromaeosaur that eats fish?
 
I may not get this right due to how far behind I am in my dinosaur research, it is said that this Australian carnivore species in the Late Cretaceous dinosaur DLC pack belongs to the megaraptor type. One would suffice, right?

There are still people wanting the Plateosaurus be added, but it is still a question about Archaeopteryx and Archelon.

The only thing that differentiates Microraptor from Archaeopteryx is the special sickle-shaped killer claw. Correct me if I am wrong, the Microraptor is by far the smallest in the dromaeosaur family.

About the Austroraptor, is it the only dromaeosaur that eats fish?
Even though we already have the megaraptor Australovenator in the game, I think that adding Maip or Siats (Siats's exact phylogenetic position is uncertain) would still add variety, as they are massive in comparison to Australovenator. Maip is 9 to 10 metres, Siats is up to 12 metres. Australovenator is only 6 metres.

I think that the smallest raptor is Zhongjianosaurus, at 0.31 kg (0.68 lb).

The halszkaraptorines were likely semi-aquatic and thus likely would've eaten fish. The other unenlagiines (the subfamily that Austroraptor is from) may have also eaten fish. A Microraptor fossil was found with fish in its stomach, but I don't think that Microraptor had any particular adaptations or affinity for fish in particular over other meat sources in general.
 
There are still people wanting the Plateosaurus be added, but it is still a question about Archaeopteryx and Archelon.
I hope all those species are added. The lagoons are the part of the game that need the most work. Animal socialization and some sort of attraction. Archelon would be something totally new, that could add a fresh coat of paint onto that old wall, that is the lagoon.
 
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