Decided to chip in with some observations recurring choices(sorry dragon, im not targeting you in particular. So far you have been the only one to post why you think what you do so its easier to bounce off of. these are not criticisms )
Acrocanthosaurus --- The head design is all wrong; it resembles a generic carnosaur as oppose to the actual animal.
The head
surprisingly actually is quite scarily accurate when you overlay a scaled Acrocanthosaurus skull over it, its not a perfect fit, the maxilla is a bit deep and the orbital fenestra on the model is a bit far forward but as far as "jurassified" designs go the head is good. Now what I would like to see is the walking animation fixed so it doesnt have that little jump.
Albertosaurus --- The shape of the skull and the crests over the eyes are all wrong... furthermore, like medium-sized tyrannosaurs, Albertosaurus is thought to have some kind of feathery cover.
I agree the orbital horns are greatly overexaggerated, but I have to disagree with on the latter, Tyrannosaurids(the Albertosaurine+Tyrannosaurine clade) are one of the few dinosaur clades where hat the evidence to say say with some certainty were majority scaled animals across the body. What cant be ruled out is Elephant like "fuzz", but that is the maximum extent the evidence from fossil skin impressions from across the group tells us.
Carcharodontosaurus --- One again, the skull is all wrong, being too pointed.
Hey its Maip macrothrax! The skull is only the tip of the iceberg with this one. Carch ingame is far too skinny and gracile,
Get my boi some meat! Carch is the sister taxa to Giganotosaurini, the
really robost chonky Caracharodontosaurids, Tyrannotitan's paratype has a fossil femur that is outright
larger than Sues, lenghwise its a full 10cm longer. And Giganotosaurus also is a heafy beast in of itself with its paratype only being estimated to be only 200kg lighter than Scotty. Barring other members of Giganotosaurini, Carcharodontosaurus is their closest reletive. It probably wasnt
as massive but it wouldnt have been no lightweight.
Dracorex --- Even ignoring whatever debate there is over its legitimacy, three Hell Creek pachycephalosaurs is way too much.
This one I dont get, Im a
big lover of filling out the rosters of well known formations and few are as well known or explored as Hell creek, and on its taxonomic validity, I personally think its not as open and shut as some like to make it out to be, Pachycepalosaurs in Hell creek are phenomenally rare, last I checked they made up about 1% of all dinosaur material cataloged from Hell creek, and in other formations both flat headed and domed Pachycephalosaurs have been noted as distinct (Prenocephale and Homalocephale). With dinosaur ontogeny being a "controvercial" topic among other hell creek dinosaurs, I'm left to be convinced there are only three Pachycephalosaurs in Hell creek
--- A complete redesign is in order here; they should be half their current size, no sail or crest or whatever that is, the skull should be more like Jurassic's Velociraptor, and they should be covered in feathers like Pyroraptor.
This one I couldn't disagree with more, as much as I ramble about accuracy I do like a bit of cheeky fun.and here is a fun little factoid for you all.
The in game Deinonychus is canonicly the female. I want Frontier to double down with its crazy inaccuracy. I want a full on rooster/turkey crested male!
Metriacanthosaurus --- One of those random animals no one would have wanted if the prop makers were more intelligent... a miniature Yangchuanosaurus at best.
This one will not be cut. Why? Its a film canon species. It has a cameo in Jurassic park as one of the embryos Nedry steals, and so far to my knowledge no film canon species have been cut.
--- I do like it... but I still wonder if Alioramus would have been the more sensible choice. If it does come back though, I'd love a more accurate redesign with feathers.
In this case I say why not both? They are visually distinct animals Qian is quite a bit bigger than both Alioramus species and from seprate formations. Also Alioramini is a tribe of Tyranosaurines, so barring a fossil of one with feathers the evidence all points to them being scaled animals.
Torosaurus --- The original Triceratops 2.0. Another "it's alright" animal that will always feel a little redundant compared to the alternatives.
Another one I just dont get the "Too Similar" argument for. This is perhaps the only dinosaur I think frontiers design
undersells just how unique it is, because its actually a spectacularly unique animal in its own right and far from a Triceratops clone,
it had the outright largest skull of any known land animal with the largest skulls being 3m long. To put it into perpective in game
Velociraptor has a lengh of 3.9m.
Torosaurus skull alone was three quarters the lengh of a Velociraptor.
The skulls for comparison.
