Formosan Black Bears Won't Climb

[MicHaeL MonStaR]

I suppose this is both feedback and a question, but I've had these Formosan bears for many in-game years and they don't seem to climb anything.
I've seen it happen in a tutorial-park, but in this one (which is the first "free-build" park) I haven't seen them climb once.

At first, I put in some climbable items up against and between the trees, hoping they could use them, and it did indeed get detected as climbable.
At least, the requirement in their menu was fulfilled by far, but they simply didn't use it.

Then today I decided to remove whatever I'd placed and just use an existing blueprint-build to make sure it couldn't be wrong or something.
Still, they seem to completely ignore it, despite the requirement being in the green. I've even put some toys on top to try and lure them, but it didn't help.

As you can see, the Heatmap-view for traversable area indicates that things are climbable and accessible.
What's more, even if the items weren't there, the trees would be and the bears aren't ever in them either.

Am I missing something or are the Formosan Black Bears just broken?... Because this doesn't seem to be the only issue.
There was the issue of their mouths staying open or something. I've also noticed how they react to stress illogically (but that's another post from me in the future).
In any case, something seems to be going on with them in that they won't do things properly.

 

[FoxyDee]

I got the same problem with almost anything that climbs lately. All the binturongs, leopards, monkeys, red pandas and anything else is not using climbing enrichments at all, despise the game showing they can climb it, just like your pictures shows.

 

[ZSHplays]

I have the same issue across my wetlands zoo. I believe Frontier are aware of it, I saw one of their reddit mods said they were looking into it. Unfortunately I saw that after spending about 3 hours trying to fix the climbing in my Binturong habitat before realising there was nothing wrong with it, it was a bug.

 

[MicHaeL MonStaR]

Ugh, why does a whole system like that just stop working. That's so bad. I'd almost just hope it was just the local game-installation or save-file or something.
But apparently not then... Guess we play the waiting-game.

 

[XT]

Yeah, I noticed that awhile back with ... um some bintorungs or something.

 

[MicHaeL MonStaR]

I should report back here that I've seen it happen again last week.
However, I don't know whether it has been fixed in the last update, or that it took completely changing out the bears, which happened after the update as well.
So I can't tell what made it work, but I saw at least one of the two in that habitat, which didn't change, climb.

 

[SanRazo618]

This always happens to me. Usually just deleting the frame and undoing fixes it

 

[NZFanatic]

Mine has fortunately been working fine, but the whole climbing system needs to be looked at by Frontier. It's glitchy as hell, which is especially disappointing because it was one of the best features at launch. There are no smooth transitions between climbing pieces anymore, animals are phasing in and out of solid objects, animals are 'gliding' from point to point instead of climbing or jumping, animals are moving in slow motion, some animals are definitely not climbing enough (koala, looking at you buddy). The climbing system is really a huge selling point for the game (plenty of games have underwater stuff, but no other zoo game has had a complex, customisable climbing system like this) so they really ought to go back to it and try and get it back to how it was.

 

[DrBurrito]

Mine has fortunately been working fine, but the whole climbing system needs to be looked at by Frontier. It's glitchy as hell, which is especially disappointing because it was one of the best features at launch. There are no smooth transitions between climbing pieces anymore, animals are phasing in and out of solid objects, animals are 'gliding' from point to point instead of climbing or jumping, animals are moving in slow motion, some animals are definitely not climbing enough (koala, looking at you buddy). The climbing system is really a huge selling point for the game (plenty of games have underwater stuff, but no other zoo game has had a complex, customisable climbing system like this) so they really ought to go back to it and try and get it back to how it was.

Really good points, I think this comment deserves its own thread.

 

[MicHaeL MonStaR]

Mine has fortunately been working fine, but the whole climbing system needs to be looked at by Frontier. It's glitchy as hell, which is especially disappointing because it was one of the best features at launch. There are no smooth transitions between climbing pieces anymore, animals are phasing in and out of solid objects, animals are 'gliding' from point to point instead of climbing or jumping, animals are moving in slow motion, some animals are definitely not climbing enough (koala, looking at you buddy). The climbing system is really a huge selling point for the game (plenty of games have underwater stuff, but no other zoo game has had a complex, customisable climbing system like this) so they really ought to go back to it and try and get it back to how it was.

Yea, When I saw it happen first (during the tutorials) I thought that it was actually pretty cool out of principle. And I didn't even mind if it was a bit jank.
But then I saw more of the details and all that, to the point that it sometimes doesn't even work, and wish it was a bit more refined.
I honestly don't even feel like building "climbable" stuff when it's so mediocre, with the chance of it not even working, at least not custom stuff. Hence me just plonking down the pre-made one that I showed earlier in this thread. Besides, it's often unclear how to attach or place the climbable parts for them to actually create a path for the animals.