I understand you my friend, but the mechanics of the current game seem not to support pack hunting, dinosaur breeding, marine reptiles and pterosaurs. To implement all these new content including pack hunting, a new game with new mechanics is required. It seems that it is not possible for them to implement these things in JWE. Just like you I would prefer it to be a huge DLC. But let's wait for the sequel, Who knows you end up liking.
I'm excited, I think in the next game we will have the so waiting pack hunting!
How do you possibly know? I mean, no one seems to know literally anything from the inner workings of the game, aside from the developers themselves. And they won't say much. Sure, they've stated they wouldn't like to mess with people's savegames, but that's pretty much all. And it wouldn't be exactly the first time they claim something to be impossible only to fix it some months later.
Anyway, even if that allegedly sequel did feature avian dinosaurs, I wouldn't be happy at all. Why would I? Do you really think it's ok for them to show such things as pack-hunting on the "in-game" trailers and say "hey, we will be supporting the game for 3 years" and just add a bunch of new dinosaurs and suddenly stop it all just to sell us another game for another 60 dollars? I doubt I'd even gave it a try, considering we would have the very same assurances on the game as we had with JWE: zero. No one would know the game really delivers until it launches, they pay for it and try it, anyway, and I think I've learned my lessons and I would wait at least a year before giving it a chance. How many people would do the same, however much hype JW3 may cause?
I don't know, it just seems a really silly marketing decision to make, so I just hope they stick to JWE and re-work it via Expansion. That would be like having a different game, anyway, because that Exp DLC would be required to keep having support for the new features, yet it would be done on the basis of the already implemented, which seems to me neat enough. But I'm no dev, so I wouldn't know.
I really want a sequel, I want JWE2!!!! A new game with better graphics, the same dinosaurs from JWE, terrain tools, pack hunting, Pterosaur DLC, Marine reptiles DLC, male dinosaurs, dinosaur breeding and much more!!!! I prefer that they launch JWE2 makes more sense, because if the game comes out in 2021 along with the latest film would be a great marketing strategy, and with the new consoles the new PS5 and the new Xbox, the game may have better mechanics than current JWE. Just like that to implement all these things we talked about before. I'm betting more on JWE2.
Graphics are fine enough now, even if they always can improve them. But the same goes with everything else: why starting a new game from scratch just to add the things that people really want on top of what the previous one already had? Even if they work on it during the next 2 years, and JW3's marketing campaign matches the previous ones to create hype, I think it too risky a move to forget JWE in favour of a sequel, even in 2021. JWE already lost thousands of players, why would they buy
again such a
promising game? I italic both words because their key: it would be the same game and we won't likely have any proof of it to be what we wanted it to be so, why bother at all?
The leaks are questionable at best, but I wouldn't be surprised if Frontier were working on a sequel primarily to address the shortcomings in the current Cobra Engine. They reiterated many times early on that JWE would focus primarily on terrestrial dinosaur species rather than marine/flying reptiles. I will take them for their word on that one given their consistency and I can easily imagine the engine can't support the needed functionality its something they never needed previously with games preceding JWE, so I think it natural the Cobra Engine never had that functionality built and added to prior.
They were less vocal on no pack hunting. I still remain skeptical that its not going to happen as they've said, the job to modify the Cobra Engine for pack hunting is much less extensive a problem and its been repeatedly demanded by the community probably second only to terrain tools and decorations... well ignoring the reptile requests. Its essential that velociraptors operate in their trademark hunting pattern. I remain optimistic although I would be disappointed if this year passes and we get nothing of the sort. They have also not improved herding yet, the lack of collision boxes on dinosaurs as well the absence of cross-species herding is a letdown.
Pardon my ignorance but... what's this Cobra Engine?