I was originally going to say non-avian reptiles too, but a lot of them would be better suited for exhibits. I think tegus could work as habitat animals, but that's pretty much just it since iguanas have been arbitrarily relegated to exhibit species. We have a wide variety of existing habitat reptiles, with pretty much the only weak spot being South America (which is deliberately excluded from the question).
Planet Zoo 2 Speculation and ideas
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You know there are so many packs where they put an ungulate where another animal could better have used the spot, but then the ungulates they put are so good I don't want them gone. The Nile Lechwe and Water Buffalo are some of my most used animals.
These two are a pain, especially the african crocodile. It's probably the absence I feel the most often when building because it fits in so many builds, and the saltwater croc is massive and doesn't really jive with an african setup.
Thats true, but thats just not allways the case. Just look at the worst offenders, arid, eurasia and barnyard.
Kicking out the black rhino and an antelope for baboon and hamadryas, saiga for a pheasent and any 2 in barnyard for the duo of duck and guinea pig/bunny isnt just easy, its also satisfying
The main habitat reptile absences I can point to (especially now the the Hermann and Spurred tortoise covered the tortoises):
- African crocodile
- Habitat freshwater turtle medium
- Habitat freshwater turtle large (or snapping turtle)
- Australian monitor
- Desert monitor (the biome not the specific species)
- A tegu as you said
Me too
One of the best models of the game in general, just look at the Buffalo or the addax is so so beautiful, i mean, yea, another bird would be cool but i love them so much
Honestly given that the devs had considered Malaysian painted river terrapins small enough for exhibits, I'm not holding my breath on any freshwater turtles being habitat species. Best odds would be a sea turtle I suppose.
Both baboon and hamadrayas in one pack?
Actually I wouln't kick an antelope from arid, but I would kick the springbok from the base game because it is kinda redundant between the more common and similar thomson gazelle and dama gazelle. The Saiga is a fan favorite so I get why it's there, even if I don't use it much. The black rhino was indeed a weird addition in the arid pack and that slot could have been better used. And in Barnyard, even though it'snot myfavorite, I recognize that all animals are basic farm (And zoo) animals and removing any of them would be a major absence.
When did that happen?
Thinking about what would be the biggest gap in the mammal roster besides monkeys, obviously for me it'd be marsupials from a local zoo perspective but they're fairly well represented from a global perspective. I'd actually say it's probably glires, the group that includes rodents and lagomorphs - obviously we have no lagomorphs in the game at all, and only four rodents despite them being the most diverse of all mammalian orders. Of course the vast majority of rodents would not work as habitat animals, but I'd still love things like maras, agoutis, New World porcupines, a bunch of other SA rodents, more squirrels, cloud rats, Malagasy giant rats, springhares, rakali, etc etc.
The water buffalo has been tussling with fallow deer for the spot of my favourite ungulate in the game for a while now, they're so pretty.
Perentie would give us both
I can agree with the water buffalo, it’s easily one of my favorite ungulates in the game and super fun to mix with Indian rhinos. Still though, I wouldn’t be upset at all if it were a duck or ibis instead, which are much more sorely missed in the games current roster. I have more than enough options for my hoofstock yards, but my waterfowl ponds? Mute swan, take it or leave it.
Also, this. I really cant say I’d miss half the rosters of those three animal packs. I didn’t mind all the ungulates we got before them - hell, I was a pretty big defender of African antelope - but now? It’s actually sad how favored they’ve been over other groups.
Every month I learn about some animal that apparently was planned but ditched for who knows what reason, some Asian terrapins would of been great for reptile houses.
Small ungulates are certainly still a gap, getting the Muntjac or pudu would be great. Honestly we do need more "filler" ungulates like blackbuck or another Asian deer.
I'd also like to see more nocturnal species, I think having some small exhibit mammals in a sequel like mole rats, mouse lemurs, etc could help alleviate this.
I'd also like to see more nocturnal species, I think having some small exhibit mammals in a sequel like mole rats, mouse lemurs, etc could help alleviate this.
There's a thumbnail for them in the Content0 files that reads "thumbnail_malaysianpaintedriverterrapin_u_normal.png". The "u" is code for "universal", as it's used by all exhibit animals regardless of age or sex (unlike habitat animals which use "f", "j", and "m" respectively). Unfortunately, the terrapin's icon is unfinished with the Goliath frog being left as a placeholder.
meant the tortoise
And while i like both antelopes in arid, imo having all 3 is actually pretty perfect, it does suck that its on the cost of better animals.
And for barnyard, id agree if they wouldnt have fumbled all breeds. African dwarf goat and kunekune? yeah i wouldnt kick those in a dream, but sadly i only can in a dream cause we got two niche ass breeds instead that id yeet out of the game in a heartbeat
Honestly sounds like some dev messing up before they picked a smaller terrapin species
The weird thing is that a smaller terrapin wouldn't appear until a year after launch when this file is from the base game. Either the Aquatic Pack was planned that far away and they arbitrarily left a placeholder content in the wrong folder or they scaled back ambitions from the base game and revisited the idea of an exhibit turtle later on with some down-sizing.
Afaik they were most likly planned for the aquatic pack but got replaced by the terapin, with honestly both being great additions so im happy with either, even if asia really could have needed the exhibit
Man that sucks, I would have loved to see it. At least we got the Diamondback, which is also very nice. Honestly it's crazy we never got the Red-Eared Slider, which is by far the most abundant and iconic freshwater turtle! I hope we get it in PZ2.
I could name 100 exhibit species I'd love to see in PZ2, and that's not even counting ones for walktrough exhibits. It's weird how few there are when they're comparatively much easier to make than habitat animals.