Ohhh sorry I don't know to much about those amazing leopard but in my opinion this leopard looks great also now we know this leopard have a summer coat it's makes sense even though I prefer for the amur leopard the winter coat but it's still looks amazing!
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Amur leopards live in the cold regions of Northeastern China (generally the Amur River Valley), and so like many cold-weather mammals they have adapted to having a warm winter coat and a cool summer coat. This is similar to the dhole from the Southeast Asia Pack, and like the dhole Frontier has opted to give their version the summer coat. They tend to do this because fluffier animals are harder to animate and more difficult to process in-game (as far as I know - I'm not a programmer or anything). In some ways it's better anyway because it makes them more versatile, in other ways it's confusing because both the Amur leopard and dhole are more famous in their fluffier winter coats, which leads to situations like this where various aspects of the model look "wrong" because it's not how we're used to seeing it.
YAY NOW I KNOW MUCH MORE ABOUT THE AMUR LEOPARD!
But yea I love the model and I'm think about the cub it's just color variations but if I'm correct the snow leopard in the game is fluffy, isn't?
That's true. my local zoo has Amur leopards so I'm used to see them in their summer coat because I go more often to the park in summer than in winter (it's too cold haha). So I find the leopard in the screenshot ok.
Not completely. Blue morph is a winter coat just like white. Sometimes blue morphs is all year round (they don't have summer coat). Only juvenile white polar foxes have summer coat in the game (brown and white).
I'm definitely looking at that one single photo we have, and I think it looks bad. It's not an Amur leopard. That's not the face of an Amur Leopard.
Now, in the early days of PZ this could have been acceptable, but seeing how good the Clouded Leopard and Cougar were this is just... I hope it's a joke. I hope this is not what we're getting. It's that level of bad
we can say that perhaps the summer coat was chosen because it is easier to make, personally I would have preferred the winter coat because it makes it more unique and recognizable than other leopards. In any case, even with the summer coat, the hair in the ears is not evident and the textures there are superficial, the mustache should be more marked, the eyes (perhaps this is the moment when the screen was taken) are too round and instead they should be more almond-shaped.
Let's wait for a different angle picture before we judge so hard
it just isn’t.
Could just be the angle, or an unfortunately paused frame. To me, what makes a leopard's face a leopard's face is that the outer corners of the eyes are higher than the inner - I've done that here with 2 seconds of photoshop work, and it immediately looks good to me - the amount a model alters while it animates is going to be way more than that, so I would wait until we see it in motion or from a few different angles before too much judgment.
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Looking at it again, it's not THAT terrible... Zooming in, the face does look a bit rounder. Maybe it's just the angle, as everyone's saying.
Maybe next time I should take a better look at the reveals lmao
Maybe next time I should take a better look at the reveals lmao
I thought this leopard was going to be stunning, I'm disappointed because is far from that... 
The face/eyes and the coat are not what I expected but the body, at least in this picture, is not that great neither.
Maybe is just a bad picture, but why such a choise? I hope they can show another one soon and if it still doesn't look good, well we have a little problem with maybe one of the most beautiful animals in the real world, that in Planet Zoo didn't amaze anyone
The face/eyes and the coat are not what I expected but the body, at least in this picture, is not that great neither.Maybe is just a bad picture, but why such a choise? I hope they can show another one soon and if it still doesn't look good, well we have a little problem with maybe one of the most beautiful animals in the real world, that in Planet Zoo didn't amaze anyone
So if you can tell it's a leopard that's already good? Don't we play because we like the aniamls in the game? Being able to understan the specie is enough for you? The Zoo Tycoon 2 model were a good choise too in 2022.
A lot of animals in Planet Zoo looks amazing and we love them, we would expect the same from the stunning Amur Leopard.
"at least got a leopard." doesn't make me happy to spend my money (but I do love other things in this pack)
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then why does the wolf look so bad too?
All PZ felines are created to see a cute face. If the other animals are close enough to their natural appearance, the cats are as if taken from a cartoon. They have very human expressions and a face that makes them as easily integrated as possible with what human recognize as human expressions. Cats have surprisingly many facial expressions, depending on their behavioral involvement, but their facial expressions never have anything in common with human facial expressions because they cannot have the same emotional feelings as human ones. Any such approach is found only in cartoons. Maybe cats are ferocious, and this behavior is associated with the difficulty of obtaining food in the wild, for me Frontier felt the need to make them more sympathetic to human perception. Hence the deformation of the models of lions, tigers, jaguars, snow leopards, cheetahs, is expression to make them more acceptable to sensitive players.
After one day and further looks on the Leopard I still do not see bigger problems with the Leopard model. It looks like a Leopard with a summer coat in my opinion. Perhaps the problem is that it is kind of a fan favourite and in this case the expectations are often higher than what can be delivered.
1. Pretty much, yep
2. Also yeah
3. Um, isn't that the point?
4. This is far superior than Zoo Tycoon 2 quality, even more than the Radical Remake mod. I played ZT2 last weekend, believe it or not
Well, it was a base game animal, so that really isn't fair anyways; many base game animals require a remodel, and they were trying to make the gray wolf a generic wolf, but I guess they combined the European wolf with the North American wolf
Obviously most of the species (besides the leopard) can be kept with others, but I don't know how many of them should receive interspecies enrichment bonus.
With many SEA species in the game, the siamang may get some interspecies bonus. I agree giving it a bonus with the orangutan may work, even though the species don't share a natural habitat (the siamang lives in Sumatra and the orangutan we have is from Borneo). However, the same goes for the Baird's tapir and the capybara which have interspecies bonus. Another option for interspecies bonus with the siamang could be the Malayan tapir or ASCA though I'm not sure if they live together in zoos.
The Przewalski's horse and camel may work, as it seems like they share parts of their natural habitat. Just because zoos keep them together doesn't mean it should give them an enrichment bonus, but in this case I could see why it works.
The scimitar oryx and gemsbok wouldn't make sense since the scimitar oryx is from North Africa and the gemsbok from the south. It could work with some other animals though like the ostrich, but I don't see a need for that. A better solution would be to give it interspecies bonus if an addax or dromedary camel are added into the game later.