Absolutely awesome. Didn't think they would implement it like that
Planet Zoo: Arid Animal Pack Releasing 20 June 🐪
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Absolutely awesome. Didn't think they would implement it like that
Looks like they do both (skip to 39:45)there's one Thing I was wondering about regarding the Somali Wild Ass. I've seen that they sleep standing up in the Game. Equids have different Sleep Positions though. It depends on how safe they feel in their Environment. When they don't feel completely safe, they sleep standing up like they do in the Game, so they can escape faster. If they feel really safe, they lay down though. I doubt they do both in the Game but it would be really nice
On the rhino, I have to add my voice to the slightly disappointed too - the model looks great (the head especially), but it just doesn't carry itself in the way I would expect it to to distinguish it from the white rhino. I would have thought it would make more sense to use the Indian rhino as a starting point rather than the white (which I'm assuming would be the same amount of work, but I'm speaking from a place of complete ignorance). All the other animals look fantastic, though!
What I observed in one of the pre-release videos was a SWA that looked like its head was slowly drooping like he was seconds from falling asleep. Then it layed (dropped) down and slept.
Got the pack, I loved it! All animals look amazing. About Black Rhinoceros, the face looks impressive however, the back/hump and body don't look quite right, it looks like a hybrid between Southern White Rhinoceros + Black Rhinoceros with White Rhino body + Black Rhino face. Hopefully they will fix this.
I found an issue with the widget speed control: When rotating an information board with a speed slower than 1, the front and back sides flip with the turn, i.e. always the same side faces outwards or inwards. In my case, I could not make the screen face towards the guests. No problem when I set the speed back to normal.
Yes, it looks like Crested Porcupine and Meerkat got the Distribution treatment. If it was Cape Porcupine it could have been a different story. At least Sulcata Tortoise is likely to get Enrichment with Porcupine now then (if it gets added). What's interesting is there already are Bonuses in the game with distributions that do not overlap at all. Like Capybara and Galapagos Tortoise.
Just bought the pack and about to start the new scenario. I want to bring this up because I never see anyone appreciating this detail: I love the new avatar clothing we get with every DLC. It would be so cool if we could see the DLC hats on the guests according to which DLC you have in a future update.
Since this pack was more focused on North Africa how would you guys like a desert pack akin to the tropical pack?
Desert Pack
Yellow footed rock wallaby/ short beaked echidna
Collared peccary
African spurred tortoise
Greater roadrunner/ burrowing owl
Ex: condor
Scenery: American Wild West scenery
Desert Pack
Yellow footed rock wallaby/ short beaked echidna
Collared peccary
African spurred tortoise
Greater roadrunner/ burrowing owl
Ex: condor
Scenery: American Wild West scenery
That's a nice Surprise!
id really love some fake bone props for deserts
Yes please and thank you.
Well, that confirms that male lions are one of the most difficult animals to make in a realistic game, and partly explains what happens with PZ model.
I think it's a problem of naming and concept, because they always choose the enrichment bonus with species that live in the same geographical areas, there is no criteria of "these animals get along well and cuddle and play together in zoos" but just "these animals won't attack each other and share an ecosystem in the wild".
So the bonus should be given to the guests, as an education boost after seeing animals from the same natural habitat sharing the same zoo habitat. Instead of a welfare bonus for the animals themselves.
That would explain why the enrichment/education bonus is given to sets of species: we have the African savannah set, the Sahara desert set, the American roadkill set, etc. The only exceptions are the chimpanzee (which would attack the red river hog) and the capybara (which doesn't share range with the giant tortoise and the llama, but they went with the meme I guess).
To quote myself, that doesn't explain the Capybara and Galapagos Tortoise and some other examples I don't recall at the moment. They did expand on that idea recently, so I was surprised Crested Porcupine and Meerkat didn't get a Bonus.
Does any zoo hold them together? I'm open to being shown wrong but I haven't been to a single zoo that holds both camel types together.
Holding both together can lead to hybrid offsprings. Same goes for the Przewalski Horse, Somali Wild Donkey and Plains Zebra. And perhaps (I am Not Sure) for Addax and Scimitar Horned Oryx. I could Imagine that this is the reason why they do Not enrich each other.
I have been in one Zoo (Opel Zoo, Germany Close to Frankfurt/Main) which hold both old world camels. And they were divided into two different habitats.