People sleeping on the anniversary. Maybe a walkthrough sloth exhibit for the anniversary or something?
Planet Zoo: Twilight Pack arriving 18 Oct š¦
- Thread starter Lydiah Moon
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Manage your expectations is all I can say. If we get anything then great, but make no assumptions.
A halloween pack without these guys? Shame on you!
Lol just kidding, I'm really excited for this pack! I'm happy to have more seasonal decorations, and omg raccoons wombats and bats! I've really been looking forward to these guys. I was genuinely worried we might not get raccoons which really bummed me out since they're one of my favorite animals, and now here they are! I'm pretty indifferent about the fox and the skunk, but I'm sure those guys will find a place in my zoos as well.
Can't believe we're getting bats! And the red fox, yes! So exitced 
I think this pack lacks that one big animal even tho you could argue the wombat kind of covers that. Maybe the Tasmanian devil in place of the fox or something changes the whole pack identity. I do believe there are different plans for the Tasmanian devil tho and frontier decides to add it in a future pack down the road. Donāt get me wrong these 4 animals are great and are welcome additions to the game for me but they are what Iād consider great filler animals. They arenāt going to catch your interest like a big cat or elephant would but still absolutely necessary to make a great zoo depending on region and whereabouts your zoo is. It also lacks the meta list animal as well but that can be nice once in awhile too. Iāll buy and enjoy the pack and will wait till I experience it first hand to judge it further. I am excited about it tho.
While I understand that the āthis rules outā thing shouldnāt apply to all things in PZ, I do think that Frontier does every new mechanic/feature with the intentions of expanding them and their use. For example, does the lack of a Tasmanian Devil or any other terrestrial mammal in this DLC mean weāll never get them? No, not at all. Thereās plenty of other themes we could see them in.
But on the other hand, the walkthrough exhibit, the exhibit flying bat, and new āeducators holding exhibit speciesā mechanic does likely tell us a lot about what Frontier has planned for future DLC and updates. Itās also really telling that the walkthrough exhibit will be base game and free to everyone, though literally no other animal but the DLC-locked bat can use it. This tells use that more species in the future will use this new, extremely large exhibit box (And when I say large, I mean massive, like the size of a large building. 20m L x 12m W x 8m H is incredibly big). Just like when we got burrows, diving mechanics, new color morphs, etc., these features will be expanded upon with time.
The fact that our first flying species is limited to this new large box also likely tells us about what kind of species Frontier has planned for the walkthrough exhibit box. And it doesnāt look like itās gonna be small bugs or reptiles. Additionally, the ability for educators to now hold exhibit species on their shoulders also speaks volumes. Things are pointing in a direction, and everyoneās entitled to have their own feelings about it.
Personally, todayās announcement is really bittersweet for me. Any new support for PZ is great news, but I canāt lie that I had higher hopes for flying species in PZ. Iād even be more happy with animatronic/animated object-birds that you can place anywhere and hand build a āhabitatā for than exhibit flying animals that canāt exist outside of a predefined box (that is incredibly large and clunky in nature). Aviaries vary greatly in size, style, and material in real-life zoos, but now likely every aviary in PZ will look the same. I personally find that pretty disenchanting.
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I don't believe they do, no. At least, I've only seen them on the ground
they can climb trees to get honey from beehives
Wow, you learn something new everyday
How exactly do the pterosaurs fly in JWE2? I've heard conflicting info: that they're completely free moving (like habitat animals in PZ) or that they live in bespoke exhibits - where you can add decorations as you like - but they fly to specific landing points and the feeders, meaning they're an advanced type of loop. Folks mention they can escape but all escaped animals move to a very limited animation; run away in random directions (the bin behavior is new).
It doesn't sound like the pterosaurs are as free flying as some people say? Regardless, it sounds like the bats and probalby other flying animals are going to be limited in their actions in some fashion.
They fly freerly inside of the aviaries, they are not in looped animations. The problem with them is that they are not able to do much, thus it almost looks like they are looped, even if they are not. They prefer to land on the birching points, as most flying animals in real life do. But if you dont have any landing points/rocks in the aviary, they land on the ground.
They also only move by fly only, they do not have walking on land animations, which further creates the illusion that they are looped, because all they basically do is feed, fly, rest.
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it is not very likely they will climb in game
can u share the link for that pls?
It would be nice to see valid criticism not get handwaved as "pedantry". We're allowed to say these things about multi-million-dollar companies you know.
Funny seeing my zoo pics pop up in discussions here. That was taken at Tropical World, if anyone's curious. They have a smallish nocturnal house with bats, slow loris and a few other small critters.
I'm extremely hyped at the prospect of having bats. I'm just hoping there's lots of customisation.