The main obstacle is really gonna be that PZ1 has like 20 DLC's worth of content and free updates, which is a lot. The PC fans already went feral because they didn't include the original themes. It's gonna be even tougher for PZ to satisfy it's fanbase when they can't bring all the content back we already have in PZ1. And if PZ2 is coming out next year you would really have to convince the playerbase to follow, even when PZ1 is still working like a charm and is still being played consistently by the fanbase.
Planet Zoo 2 Speculation and ideas
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PZ2 with a new path system, aviaries, aquariums, indoor buildings, and hopefully revamped exhibits, and maybe even petting zoos (hey added these to JWE3) would be such an amazing new start I'd be fine not getting all content back immediately. I still hold out hope for Planet Sealife though. I don't think aquatics can get justice when they are just part of a zoo game.
Just a little fan theory I have is that JWE3 is basically on an updated version of the PZ cobra engine build and that the petting mechanic we got was one ported back from JWE3 or at least made in tandem with JWE3.
I think it's based on the movie scene where people are petting baby triceratops. I guess the park didn't offer the petting interactions with T-Rex haha.
well there is an entire childrens playground where they ride baby triceratops and some sort of sauropod in the first jurrasic world movie.
Which is so weird. Can you imagine zoos nowadays offering rides on young elephants and rhinos?
Well, Jurassic Park/World was always more like a theme park with dinosaurs than a dinosaur zoo. Like, basically a prehistoric SeaWorld, now that I think of itWhich is so weird. Can you imagine zoos nowadays offering rides on young elephants and rhinos?
Uuuuhhh, I'd appreciate that kind of marketing for Planet Zoo to Planet Zoo 2.
1. Flying birds, fully aquatic animals(Fish, reptiles, crustaceans, cepholapods, mammals)
2. Aviary and aquarium basin mechanic, zookeeper mode, riding cart around the zoo, scaling
3. All base game, anniversary, deluxe animals,
4. All the current DLC animals returning be it through updates, new and better exhibit system,
5. Rebuying the same DLC from last DLC's
6. Brush tool, scaling
7. 20+ Birds and 15+ Aquatic animals
AQUATIC
1. Bottlenose dolphin
2. Green sea turtle
3. Blacktip reef shark
4. Orca
5. Manta ray
6. West-Indian manatee
7. Greater hammerhead shark
8. Goliath grouper
9. Green moray eel
10. Largetooth Sawfish
11. Clowns fish(E)
12. Lion Fish(E)
13. Giant pacific Octopus(E)
14. Moon jellyfish(E)
15. Blue tang(E)
16. European lobster(E)
AVIAN
1. Blue-and-yellow macaw
2. Toco Toucan
3. Laughing kookaburra
4. Sulphur-crested cockatoo
5. Violet Turaco
6. Hamerkop
7. Trumpeter hornbill
8.Carmine bee-eater
9. Great Indian hornbill
10. Eurasian eagle owl
11. European raven
12. Golden eagle
13. Griffon vulture
14. Eurasian spoonbill
15. Glossy Ibis
16. Atlantic puffin
17. Northern Gannet
18. Black-headed weaver (E)
19. Budgerigar(E)
20. Green-crowned brilliant (E)
21. Ruby-Topaz hummingbird (E)
HABITAT
1.Greater kudu
2. Sea otter
3. Southern elephant seal
4. Asian Lion
5. Roosevelt elk(Wapiti)
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I would love to see some meaningful flexibility in how we create the environment within and around our zoos.
I continue to love Planet Zoo but this basic inflexibility drives me crazy. Flying islands? Sure! Tropical looking soil for your ocelot enclosure floor? No way!
So I’d like to see:
* Ability to select own palate of biome textures. The number of times I have wanted to add the tropical soil to a temperate map…
* Ability to manually select temperature so that the snow doesn’t suddenly disappear on a temperate map once it tops actually snowing. Weather in the game is beautiful but it’s also a real immersion breaker when the only functional winter zoos are at the Poles.
* An option to select guests and staff dressed appropriately for the weather. I don’t have PC2 but are the water park swimming costumes something along these lines?
* Autumn and winter versions of deciduous trees. Actual separate models, not trees that manically go through the seasons according to game time.
* Less dramatic map backgrounds. I’ve said it a million times but however beautiful they are, sometimes I just want a plain flat-ish zoo without tonnes going on in the background.
I continue to love Planet Zoo but this basic inflexibility drives me crazy. Flying islands? Sure! Tropical looking soil for your ocelot enclosure floor? No way!
So I’d like to see:
* Ability to select own palate of biome textures. The number of times I have wanted to add the tropical soil to a temperate map…
* Ability to manually select temperature so that the snow doesn’t suddenly disappear on a temperate map once it tops actually snowing. Weather in the game is beautiful but it’s also a real immersion breaker when the only functional winter zoos are at the Poles.
* An option to select guests and staff dressed appropriately for the weather. I don’t have PC2 but are the water park swimming costumes something along these lines?
* Autumn and winter versions of deciduous trees. Actual separate models, not trees that manically go through the seasons according to game time.
* Less dramatic map backgrounds. I’ve said it a million times but however beautiful they are, sometimes I just want a plain flat-ish zoo without tonnes going on in the background.
Ooh, I love all of these
+ Temperature control via the enclosure, as is the case with exhibits. (Energy costs can then be billed based on the enclosure size and set temperature.)
I find it really, REALLY annoying to have 30+ small air conditioners hidden in a Polar Bear enclosure, only to then still have a small one left over somewhere and get the message "Polar Bear 25 is too warm."
My roster prediction is simple
going for some statistics
Planet Zoo base game all: 77 + 3 deluxe
Planet Zoo base game exhibit: 23
Planet Zoo current roster: 210
JWE1: 38 + 5
JWE2: 79 + 5 deluxe
JWE2 with everything: 122
JWE3: 82 + 4 deluxe
So while are current Planet Zoo is the first, its big roster makes it more like the transition from JWE2 to JWE3, with about 90-100 base game for PZ2, and about 20-30 being exhibits.
So with all that said, here is my roster prediction, with a mix of new and old, as well as flying animals
Returning Animals
Grizzly Bear
African Lion
Plains Zebra
Hippopotamus
Grey Wolf
Ring-Tailed Lemur
Galapagos Giant Tortoise
Reticulated Giraffe
American Bison
Western Chimpanzee
Komodo Dragon
African Wild Dog
Spotted Hyena
Cheetah
Saltwater Crocodile
Blue Wildebeest
Indian Peafowl
Siberian Tiger
Dromedary Camel
Bornean Orangutan
Ostrich
Warthog
Snow Leopard
African Spurred Tortoise
Oakpi
Southern White Rhino
Indian Elephant
Aardvark
Braid's Tapir
African Buffalo
Red Panda
Lowland Gorilla
Bongo
American Flamingo
Giant Panda
Springbok
Polar Bear
Jaguar
Giant Anteater
Colombian White-Faced Capuchin Monkey
Red Kangaroo
Southern Cassowary
Koala
King Penguin
Sea Lion
Red Deer
Mayalan Tapir
Binturong
Meerkat
American Alligator
Puma
Prairie Dog
Eurasian Lynx
Capybara
Asian Small-Clawed Otter
Red-Crowned Crane
Spectacled Caiman
Przewalski's Horse
Amur Leopard
Racoon
Red Fox
Common Wombat
Nine-Banded Armadillo
Emu
Red-Necked Wallaby
Lar Gibbon
Red River Hog
African Crested Porcupine
North Island Brown Kiwi
Tasmanian Devil
Collard Peccary
Wild Boar
Mute Swan
Sussex Chicken
Highland Cattle
Alpine Goat
Alpaca
American Standard Donkey
Hamadryas Baboon
Markhor
Blackbuck
Eygiption Fruit Bat (Av)
Intotal: 80
Deluxe
African Penguin
North American Beaver
Pygmy Hippo
Red-Tailed Hawk (Av)
Indian Grey Mongoose
Intotal: 5
New Additions
Scarlet Macaw
Blue-and-Yellow Macaw
Sulpher-Crested Cockatoo
Golden Eagle
Barn Owl
Andean Condor
Toco Tocan
Rhino Hornbill
Peregrine Falcon
Rainbow Lorikeet
Laughing Kookaburra
White-Faced Whistleing Duck
Great White Pelican
Roseate Spoonbill
Aurra River Turtle
Reeves Muntjac
Total: 15
Exhbits
Boa Constrictor
King Cobra
Death Adder
Diamondback Rattlesnake
Gila Monster
Leopard Gecko
Praying Mantis
Bird-Eating Spider
Empower Scorpion
Desert Hairy Scorpion
Tiger Centipede
Banana Slug
Harvest Mouse
Naked-Mole Rat
Leaf-Cutter Ant
Total: 15
So about 115, a bit more than I wanted, but it was hard to cut any more than I already did, though it is possible.
going for some statistics
Planet Zoo base game all: 77 + 3 deluxe
Planet Zoo base game exhibit: 23
Planet Zoo current roster: 210
JWE1: 38 + 5
JWE2: 79 + 5 deluxe
JWE2 with everything: 122
JWE3: 82 + 4 deluxe
So while are current Planet Zoo is the first, its big roster makes it more like the transition from JWE2 to JWE3, with about 90-100 base game for PZ2, and about 20-30 being exhibits.
So with all that said, here is my roster prediction, with a mix of new and old, as well as flying animals
Returning Animals
Grizzly Bear
African Lion
Plains Zebra
Hippopotamus
Grey Wolf
Ring-Tailed Lemur
Galapagos Giant Tortoise
Reticulated Giraffe
American Bison
Western Chimpanzee
Komodo Dragon
African Wild Dog
Spotted Hyena
Cheetah
Saltwater Crocodile
Blue Wildebeest
Indian Peafowl
Siberian Tiger
Dromedary Camel
Bornean Orangutan
Ostrich
Warthog
Snow Leopard
African Spurred Tortoise
Oakpi
Southern White Rhino
Indian Elephant
Aardvark
Braid's Tapir
African Buffalo
Red Panda
Lowland Gorilla
Bongo
American Flamingo
Giant Panda
Springbok
Polar Bear
Jaguar
Giant Anteater
Colombian White-Faced Capuchin Monkey
Red Kangaroo
Southern Cassowary
Koala
King Penguin
Sea Lion
Red Deer
Mayalan Tapir
Binturong
Meerkat
American Alligator
Puma
Prairie Dog
Eurasian Lynx
Capybara
Asian Small-Clawed Otter
Red-Crowned Crane
Spectacled Caiman
Przewalski's Horse
Amur Leopard
Racoon
Red Fox
Common Wombat
Nine-Banded Armadillo
Emu
Red-Necked Wallaby
Lar Gibbon
Red River Hog
African Crested Porcupine
North Island Brown Kiwi
Tasmanian Devil
Collard Peccary
Wild Boar
Mute Swan
Sussex Chicken
Highland Cattle
Alpine Goat
Alpaca
American Standard Donkey
Hamadryas Baboon
Markhor
Blackbuck
Eygiption Fruit Bat (Av)
Intotal: 80
Deluxe
African Penguin
North American Beaver
Pygmy Hippo
Red-Tailed Hawk (Av)
Indian Grey Mongoose
Intotal: 5
New Additions
Scarlet Macaw
Blue-and-Yellow Macaw
Sulpher-Crested Cockatoo
Golden Eagle
Barn Owl
Andean Condor
Toco Tocan
Rhino Hornbill
Peregrine Falcon
Rainbow Lorikeet
Laughing Kookaburra
White-Faced Whistleing Duck
Great White Pelican
Roseate Spoonbill
Aurra River Turtle
Reeves Muntjac
Total: 15
Exhbits
Boa Constrictor
King Cobra
Death Adder
Diamondback Rattlesnake
Gila Monster
Leopard Gecko
Praying Mantis
Bird-Eating Spider
Empower Scorpion
Desert Hairy Scorpion
Tiger Centipede
Banana Slug
Harvest Mouse
Naked-Mole Rat
Leaf-Cutter Ant
Total: 15
So about 115, a bit more than I wanted, but it was hard to cut any more than I already did, though it is possible.
If we get Planet Zoo 2 with the base game and year 1 animals but they don't update the models I'm not buying it.
Oh please! Don't tell me you wouldn't be totally in for this! (and no, this isn't a official, "leaked" picture. It was made by Google Gemini...and me, a lot of work by me
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Generative AI should not be encouraged
Thanks for your feedback. My goal wasn't to promote generative AI per se, but simply to visualize my vision for a possible Planet Zoo 2 in a way that would be nearly impossible for me without such tools. It's meant to serve as a source of inspiration and stimulate discussion about possible future features, not to replace professional artists.
There are tools, one of which is called GIMP.
Yeah. I prefer Photoshop.