So I appreciate that there's a bit of a train of thought that we are done with geographic DLCs, but I just kinda of feel that even without doing repeats (which a bunch of these continents justify!) there's so many rich options that the current DLCs - and I'm not saying that these all will or would happen, or some wouldn't be merged together, but I feel like I'd be really into a couple of these at least before we say we are done with Geographic packs?
Missing Geograhic DLC Options
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So I appreciate that there's a bit of a train of thought that we are done with geographic DLCs, but I just kinda of feel that even without doing repeats (which a bunch of these continents justify!) there's so many rich options that the current DLCs - and I'm not saying that these all will or would happen, or some wouldn't be merged together, but I feel like I'd be really into a couple of these at least before we say we are done with Geographic packs?
One small thing, Mexico and the Caribbean is North America, not Central America, even from a geopolitical standpoint. Central America overall is North America, but that's another issue, so you can ignore that entirely, as your classification already includes Central America.
Therefore Mexico and the Caribbean are the only ones needing a change in the context of this map.
Therefore Mexico and the Caribbean are the only ones needing a change in the context of this map.
The only large regional packs I'd still like are Central America and something from Asia, preferably with at least some South Asian species because I love Indian wildlife. If we had longer support though, I think packs like Sonoran Desert, MENA, New Zealand, China, and other more specific DLCs would be great.
Central America (animal or scenery pack), Middle East (animal pack), India (animal pack, we already have the India theme), Northeast Asia (scenery pack or animal pack) are DLCs I would very much want!
Central America
1. Any howler monkey
2. White-nosed coati
3. Collared peccary
4. Nine-banded armadillo
5. Any spider monkey
6. Tamandua
7. West Indian manatee
8. A colorful snake
Middle East
1. Striped hyena
2. Dromedary
3. Caracal
4. Honeybadger
5. Hamadryas baboon
6. Arabian oryx
7. Persian onager
8. Yellow-bellied sea snake (could have a cool new exhibit with a small beach)
India
1. Lion-tailed macaque
2. Hanuman grey langur
3. Gaur
4. Blackbuck
5. Malabar giant squirrel
6. Indian brown mongoose, or Large Indian civet
7. Nilgai
8. Indian cobra
North East Asia
1. Amur leopard
2. Przewalski horse
3. Saiga antelope
4. Siberian musk deer
5. Golden takin
6. Pallas cat
7. Japanese giant salamander
8. Variegated toad headed agama
1. Any howler monkey
2. White-nosed coati
3. Collared peccary
4. Nine-banded armadillo
5. Any spider monkey
6. Tamandua
7. West Indian manatee
8. A colorful snake
Middle East
1. Striped hyena
2. Dromedary
3. Caracal
4. Honeybadger
5. Hamadryas baboon
6. Arabian oryx
7. Persian onager
8. Yellow-bellied sea snake (could have a cool new exhibit with a small beach)
India
1. Lion-tailed macaque
2. Hanuman grey langur
3. Gaur
4. Blackbuck
5. Malabar giant squirrel
6. Indian brown mongoose, or Large Indian civet
7. Nilgai
8. Indian cobra
North East Asia
1. Amur leopard
2. Przewalski horse
3. Saiga antelope
4. Siberian musk deer
5. Golden takin
6. Pallas cat
7. Japanese giant salamander
8. Variegated toad headed agama
I disagree with the notion that we're done with regional-themed DLC and frankly I don't understand where the idea came from. The Aquatic Pack didn't lead to any more "mechanic packs" so there's no reason to think the Wetlands Pack will lead to more "biome packs".
In terms of geological continents yes, but while some of the species in the North America pack do have ranges that extend into Central America, it's realistically a USA and Canada pack in terms of overall flavour. I feel like with things like Sloths, Armadillos, Howler Monkeys and Coati on the table still, there's a ton of space to get in some pretty distinct families.
I feel like an India or South Asia pack probably has the most room to go big of any remaining geographic pack?
Leopard, Sloth Bear, Wild Boar, Gaur, Indian Crested Porcupine, Yak, Markhor, Great White Pelican and perhaps a gibbon species would be a fairly rock solid set?
I'd like this pack; it's maybe a bit temperate-focused for an India pack, but I guess they might want to avoid overlap with the Southeast Asia pack, which was VERY tropical-focused. Then again, I'd buy anything with a sloth bear.
I hope Frontier will revisit Oceania in one point: Not just australia. I mean Tasmania, New Zealand and Islands around.
Here's my ideal Asia Animal Pack
And this is my ideal Oceania Animal Pack
And this is my ideal Oceania Animal Pack
I find it interesting that the Lord Howe Island stick insect is now in a substantial number of Oceania wishlists (following the ‘leak’) but didn’t appear at all(as far as I can remember) prior to that. Personally, I’d prefer the tuatara but wouldn’t mind the insect in an endangered species DLC.
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I would prefer the Tuatara, even a Prehensile Tailed Skink, but until we know more of the stick insect, we may see it in a pack like this, considering it was cut from the Australia Pack, it may show up because the Capybara was cut from the Aquatic Pack and it showed up, so who knows
And this is an India Animal Pack idea that I have thought of
The odds of getting two cats in one pack are pretty slim to nonexistent. I'd replace the Pallas cat with the raccoon dog - it doesn't rank super high on the meta wishlist but it has a lot of traction, especially recently with Asia in the spotlight. I like your India Animal Pack, though; personally I'd swap out the gaur for the nilgai, but that's just personal preference. The giant squirrel is an inspired choice.
Well I had the original logic with the two cats, but I didn't really know what else either could be in that would be fitting, except for a Mountain Animal Pack, which I could make tbh. The India Animal Pack is one I am happy with, but I was going to have the Nilgai instead of the giant squirrel, but the squirrel was a more interesting pick
I mean whilst it might not be likely to happen, I think the 2 cats are very different and both highly requested so it would be fantastic.
I think we will get more biome/non-geographical packs though so if we did only get one we might get the other somewhere else.
I used to think like that until we got two rodents in the North America pack. If two cats are very different, I don't see why we couldn't get them together (especially in an animal pack).
I understand your point, but calling Mexico Central America is wrong in any sense of the word and it would be best not to fuel misconceptions that people may already have.
As for the NA Pack, it really does feel like a USA-Canada pack, despite having animals ranging further south (i.e. cougar, sea lion, beaver, prairie dog, bullfrog), as most of these are marginally Mexican (i.e. beaver, prairie dog, bullfrog) and only two have substantial ranges in Mexico (i.e. cougar, sea lion).
I guess the only way to counter the USA-Canada pack feel would have been to include an animal from Mexico that doesn't range further north. Apparently, even having a predominantly Mexican animal, the California sea lion, with most of its breeding range in Mexico and the cougar which ranges all throughout the Americas isn't enough.
Well, cats are a family, while rodents are an order. Getting two rodents in one pack is better to compare to getting two carnivores (Carnivora), which we have seen several times. With that being said, this doesn't seem to be the logic Frontier goes with, since we just had two members of the Bovidae family in one pack (lechwe + buffalo).
I wouldn't be surprised if they went with two cats in the same animal pack. They are forever popular among a big part of the audience, it seems.
Cats rarely get called out as ''clones'', even though some choices would apply to that logic. Especially the fan favorite the leopard.
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