Still haven't seen anything about any new or returning hybrids, and I'm starting to worry. When JWE 2 was announced, I was very hopeful that the game would be a worthy successor to the first. When it came out, though, my hopes were shattered. The cohabitation system sucks, and the fact that the Dr. Wu hybrids didn't return, hurt a lot. I've even considered not buying the game because of things like this. They didn't even give Dr. Wu any new research facilities or have his old ones return! There isn't even any way to return to five deaths to build new parks there!! But what breaks me the most is the fact that we can't even do new stuff with sanctuary!!! THERE COULD HAVE BEEN SO MUCH DONE WITH THE NEW GAME, AND YET THE DEVS DIDN'T EVEN CONSIDER ANY OF THIS!!!! THE GAME IS NOW NEARING THE END OF ITS DEVELOPMENT, AND FEATURES-WISE, EVEN WITH THE DLCS, IT SUCKS!!!!! All right, I'm done ranting. Sorry if I got too crazy there. I just care about this game like everyone else here. The game emphasizes the new species too much, and doesn't focus on the few new gameplay mechanics enough. If you are still reading this, please tell me if you find any news about anything I was talking about. Till next post. Bye.
I don’t engage myself in this kind of stuff, because I see no real point other than expressing a personal opinion. But the points you made here seem like a good place for me to share this, which doesn’t involve what you hope for:
JWE2 I believe,
exclusively within the active JWE community from 2019 to 2021, was overhyped
before its announcement. I was against the hype, not because I didn’t want a JWE2 to become a reality because that’s a completely different thing. It was because, in addition to contrary or potentially contrary information within Frontier’s RNS reports which I tried to hint and bring up numerous times here but went
completely ignored, the hype, hopes, and dreams everybody was talking about everywhere on social media, here included, did not meet reality or its vibes, and hyping themselves up for potentially nothing as hoped or dreamed of. At least, that’s how I perceived it in my own but reasonable ways and explanations through personal experiences, even
long before JWE1 was announced. That’s also why I don’t believe a “perfect dream” third JWE game, let alone a third JWE game at all, will be a thing, and that Frontier’s remaining two unknown games will be self-owned IPs instead, just like one unannounced title that’s coming this year.
Even hyped up popular wishes for JWE2 like re-meshing of existing dino models, breeding, more extreme and “realistic” dino behaviors and numerous animations beyond what’s present in JWE2 already, an expanded division system (a JWE1 system that never carried over besides its characters), and so on
never became a thing.
On your thread’s title topic though, I do believe the real-world and canon appearing animals (real and hybrid) were a higher priority before release. On the other hand, I do think there is a chance of the three Dr. Wu expansion DLC hybrids to return, I just don’t know how. In personal opinion, unless proven wrong, they are already planned for and will be in a PDLC pack that isn’t “species” or “expansion” focused,
if they will return. This also means I also believe, despite the rumors you seem to assumingly believe because of what others have been saying
solely because of happened with past Frontier games, JWE2 is
far from over.