Yeah the problem i see with that is that thats essentially throwing a perfectly fine animal in the garbage just to replace it with something else you need make from scratch. That just seems idk wastefull and kinda pointless to me? Might aswell throw in the alpine goat instead of throwing it away
Planet Zoo 2 Roster Game
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I mean, if it comes down to "base game" vs "DLC" there's not really much to discuss. IMO either the sum total of the current roster should be in the base game, or at the very least the majority of it, or, if we're willing to accept that some species can be left out and added via DLC again, then we have to accept that any species can fit that criteria. That is to say, if we're willing to leave out, say, the markhor for DLC again, then the same applies to the grizzly bear. One person's "zoo staple" is another person's "nice to have" and another person's "who cares".
Yea imma say most of these should be base game cause it’s a sequel. I say sheep is essential don’t want a whole barnyard dedicated pack again, it looks good and generic for a sheep and domestics are needed
For Planet Zoo 2, I don't they should pull a Jurassic World Evolution 2 and save a selection of animals for DLCs like what they did with the Huayangosaurus putting it in the deluxe edition, and the Dr Wu hybrids being put in a DLC a couple of years later. But something else JWE2 did was keep all previous species, so particularly with this game I think that is something they should do.
Instead I think every species and subspecies should make it in, but spaces in the roster can be saved by introducing a subspecies variant system, classifying animals by their species name, and if there are valid subspecies represented in captivity, then some of those can be implemented.
But to make it an even 190, I would drop one species that being the Titan Beetle, as none exist in any captive representation anywhere, so I think it can be dropped.
Some domestic species could also use this system instead with breeds.
Here's my idea of the returning roster: (I hope I have them all here, if not, let me know please
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Instead I think every species and subspecies should make it in, but spaces in the roster can be saved by introducing a subspecies variant system, classifying animals by their species name, and if there are valid subspecies represented in captivity, then some of those can be implemented.
But to make it an even 190, I would drop one species that being the Titan Beetle, as none exist in any captive representation anywhere, so I think it can be dropped.
Some domestic species could also use this system instead with breeds.
Here's my idea of the returning roster: (I hope I have them all here, if not, let me know please
)| Aardvark |
| Addax |
| African Buffalo (Cape and Forest) |
| African Crested Porcupine |
| African Penguin |
| African Savannah/Bush Elephant |
| African Spurred Tortoise |
| African Wild Dog |
| Aldabra Giant Tortoise |
| Alpaca |
| Alpine Ibex |
| Amazonian Giant Centipede |
| American Alligator |
| American Bison (Plains and Wood) |
| American Bullfrog |
| Arctic Fox |
| Asian Black Bear (Formosan, Tibetan, Himalayan, Ussuri and Japanese) |
| Asian Elephant (Indian, Sri Lankan Bornean and Sumatran) |
| Asian Small-Clawed Otter |
| Asian Water Monitor |
| Axolotl |
| Baird’s Tapir |
| Binturong (Palawan, Mainland and Javan) |
| Black Rhinoceros (Eastern, South-Western and South-Central) |
| Black Wildebeest |
| Black-and-White Ruffed Lemur (Nominate and White-Belted) |
| Black-Tailed Prairie Dog |
| Blue Wildebeest |
| Boa Constrictor |
| Bongo (Mountain and Lowland) |
| Bonobo |
| Bornean Orangutan |
| Brazilian Salmon-Pink Tarantula |
| Brazilian Wandering Spider |
| Brown Bear (Grizzly, Himalayan, Kodiak, Syrian and Eurasian) |
| Brown-Throated Sloth |
| California Sea Lion |
| Capybara |
| Caracal |
| Cattle (Highland and other breed(s)) |
| Cheetah (Southeast African, Northeast African and East African) |
| Chicken (Sussex and other breed(s)) |
| Chimpanzee (Western and Common) |
| Chinese Pangolin |
| Clouded Leopard |
| Cloudless Sulphur |
| Collared Peccary |
| Colombian White-Faced Capuchin Monkey |
| Common Blue-Tongued Lizard (Eastern and Northern) |
| Common Death Adder |
| Common Ostrich (Southern, Masai and North African) |
| Common Warthog |
| Common Wombat |
| Coquerel’s Sifaka |
| Cougar (North American and South American) |
| Cuvier’s Dwarf Caiman |
| Dall Sheep (Nominate and Stone) |
| Dama Gazelle (Addra and Mhorr) |
| Danube Crested Newt |
| Desert Horned Viper |
| Dhole (Ussuri, Burmese and Sumatran) |
| Diamondback Terrapin (Northern, Carolina, Texas and Ornate) |
| Dingo |
| Domestic Bactrian Camel |
| Donkey (American Standard and other breed(s)) |
| Eastern Brown Snake |
| Egyptian Fruit Bat |
| Emu |
| Eurasian Lynx (Northern, Turkestan, Siberian and Carpathian) |
| European Badger |
| European Fallow Deer |
| European Peacock |
| Fire Salamander |
| Fossa |
| Galapagos Giant Tortoise (Western Santa Cruz, Volcan Darwin, Volcan Alcedo, Santiago Island, Volcan Wolf and Iguana Cove) |
| Gemsbok |
| Gharial |
| Giant Anteater |
| Giant Burrowing Cockroach |
| Giant Forest Scorpion |
| Giant Malaysian Leaf Insect |
| Giant Otter |
| Giant Panda (Nominate and Qinling) |
| Giant Tiger Land Snail |
| Gila Monster (Reticulated and Banded) |
| Goat (Alpine and other breed(s)) |
| Golden Poison Frog |
| Goliath Beetle |
| Goliath Birdeater |
| Goliath Frog |
| Greater Flamingo |
| Green Iguana |
| Grey Seal (Atlantic and Baltic) |
| Grey Wolf (North-western, Arctic, Eurasian, Arabian and Mexican) |
| Hamadryas Baboon |
| Hermann’s Tortoise |
| Hippopotamus |
| Indian Peafowl |
| Indian Rhinoceros |
| Jaguar |
| Japanese Macaque |
| King Penguin (Patagonicus and Halli) |
| Kirk’s Dik-Dik |
| Koala (Queensland, New South Wales and Victorian) |
| Komodo Dragon |
| Lar Gibbon |
| Lehmann’s Poison Frog |
| Leopard (African, Amur, Sri Lankan, Arabian and Indian) |
| Lesser Antillean Iguana |
| Lion (Northern and Southern, with specific variations for populations like East African, Transvaal, Asiatic etc.) |
| Little Penguin |
| Llama |
| Lowland Nyala |
| Malayan Tapir |
| Mandrill |
| Maned Wolf |
| Markhor |
| Meerkat |
| Menelaus Blue Morpho |
| Mexican Red-Knee Tarantula |
| Monarch |
| Moose (Alaskan, Eastern, European and Western) |
| Mute Swan |
| Nile Lechwe |
| Nile Monitor |
| Nine-Banded Armadillo |
| North American Beaver |
| North Island Brown Kiwi |
| North Sulawesi Babirusa |
| Okapi |
| Old World Swallowtail |
| Pallas’s Cat |
| Pig (Tamworth and other breed(s) |
| Plains Zebra (Grant’s, Burchell’s and Chapman’s) |
| Platypus |
| Polar Bear |
| Proboscis Monkey |
| Pronghorn |
| Przewalski’s Horse |
| Puff Adder |
| Pygmy Hippopotamus |
| Quokka |
| Raccoon |
| Red Deer |
| Red Fox |
| Red Kangaroo |
| Red Panda (Chinese and Himalayan) |
| Red River Hog |
| Red Ruffed Lemur |
| Red-Crowned Crane |
| Red-Eyed Tree Frog |
| Red-Necked Wallaby |
| Reindeer (Mountain, Boreal Woodland, Porcupine and Barren-Ground) |
| Reticulated Giraffe |
| Ring-Tailed Lemur |
| Russian Saiga |
| Sable Antelope (Common, Zambian and Eastern) |
| Sacred Scarab Beetle |
| Saltwater Crocodile |
| Sand Cat |
| Scimitar-Horned Oryx |
| Sheep (Hill Radnor and other breed(s)) |
| Siamang |
| Sloth Bear |
| Snow Leopard |
| Somali Wild Ass |
| Southern Cassowary |
| Southern White Rhinoceros |
| Spectacled Bear |
| Spectacled Caiman |
| Spectacled Flying Fox |
| Spotted Hyena |
| Springbok |
| Striped Hyena |
| Striped Skunk |
| Sun Bear |
| Takin (Sichuan, Golden and Mishmi) |
| Tasmanian Devil |
| Thomson’s Gazelle |
| Tiger (Bengal, Siberian, Sumatran, Malayan, South China and Indochinese) |
| Western Diamondback Rattlesnake |
| Western Lowland Gorilla |
| Wild Boar |
| Wild Water Buffalo |
| Wisent |
| Wolverine |
| Yellow Anaconda |
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Yes, except if they put the Highland cattle in the sequel I would hope for a completely re-designed model. The current one is meh
I feel like already making a full list takes away the fun from the thread.Here's my tier list
It's not necessary to do this, but it sure is.
I like domestic animals, but I would choose the Somali sheep sooner because it is a domestic breed and it is my favorite sheep and which is found in certain zoos and in addition it can be mixed with Dromedary
I'd swap dingoes for the titan beetle personally
- Doesn’t need to make it but sure
Hopefully they will rework the exhibits so they can be converted into aviaries so then they could include so more birds. Things like owls, eagles, falcons and parrots would be nice. Would be great if they could also convert some of the talk points so that they could have falconry displays if the talk is linked with an aviary but I suppose that depends on how much coding that would take.
My placement for the sheep:
Also I’ve added the “community consensus” section in the og post like I mentioned yesterday
I actually (and I know I sound like a broken record) put this in the PZ2 base game. I think that having petting zoos straight off the bat will both make a lot of people happy by not having to wait for a DLC with them and it will be a good selling feature in general. Don’t really care personally about the subspecies, fine with the one we have now, but a more common one could also work.
Also I’ve added the “community consensus” section in the og post like I mentioned yesterday
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Animal #5 - Tasmanian Devil
Which category does it fit into?
Which category does it fit into?
- Essential for Planet Zoo 2 Base Game
- Save for PZ2 DLCs/Deluxe
- Doesn’t need to make it but sure
- Can be left out entirely
Essential, really one of the key animals for oceania that the community waited a long time for.
Essential. Really every animal in this pack minus the quokka and flying fox is. May be niche overseas but it's as essential as a lion or giraffe in its home region.
Oooh... it's a tough choice, but personally, I think I wouldn't mind waiting for the Devil as part of a DLC, and that honestly extends to the other Oceania Pack animals too (with the exception of maybe the Kiwi). I dunno why, but they all feel like acceptable "extra" animals to me. But if they do resell an Oceania Pack to us in the sequel, they should probably make it a full animal pack... Also, I would kill for a giant wētā as an exhibit animal in said hypothetical pack.
A sequel needs flying birds, marine animals,( manatee and stingrays etc.) and exhibits for larger animals like king cobra, green anaconda, reticulated python, etc. With some free range animations. Never been a fan of big snakes in open habitats. Absolutely ridiculous they’d escape. Of course regular exhibit animals although dull to most people are pretty explanatory. A demanding game like this unfortunately would be unplayable with everything functional. Besides most reptiles and amphibian are fairly inactive. But imo to be successful these three options are a must.
Excellent essential animal, does a great job at highlighting Australian biodiversity and has strong conservation values.