As someone who comes from playing modded zt2 for so many years, I completely agree.
Spring 2024 DLC Speculation
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Same here. But there are some mods that aren't good enough for me. Unless they get a remake or something i still want those animals for the game.
Each to their own I guess, the concerns about the quality level of certain mods disappears the longer you use them. I'm sure many of the needed animals will make their way into the game before the end of the game.
Maybe the final pack as 20 to make it 200. Just to shut us up for the next 5 years.
All you have written is true but leaving console players without new content would be weird and kind of unfair.
The joy of new packs is a part of the whole PZ experience for me.
So I hope for at least a year of DLC’s after the console release. It would be kind of missed opportunity if they would play it that way.
The joy of new packs is a part of the whole PZ experience for me.
So I hope for at least a year of DLC’s after the console release. It would be kind of missed opportunity if they would play it that way.
But you can't blame them when you have 16 DLCs to choose from. We don't know if its harder to make packs when there is more platforms the game is on. Plus for the people who really wanted the game on console, they probably followed along with the release of each pack, hence why you see the COME TO CONSOLE comments on every trailer or social media post they do. I think that the excitement for console players to finally have access to all these packs at once is equal to us getting to enjoy them at each release. If anything its better that they get it now after support because its like we PC players have been going through the journey to get everything then the console players get to enjoy everything at once and get all the features we have gotten each update to fully enhance the experience.
Actually we know because the DLC’s for JWE2 are being released multiplatform all the time and there is still a lot of groups of animals that are missing from the game that can’t be covered by one DLC.
Frontier knows best but in my opinion it would be hugely missed opportunity to stop with the spring DLC.
As a console player I would be devastated to know that there would be no new content. It just makes no sense.
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Wouldn't They Need To Release The Previous Dlcs In Order?
I don't think all the needed groups of animals will ever be covered in planet zoo or a possible planet zoo 2. There surely needs to be a line to draw on what groups are actually needed and others just blatant filler.
True, but that will always be the case. Lets say we get the chamois in a pack, then people start wanting markhor, then we get it, then tahr, we get it, and so on.. and this is the case for almost all of the animal groups. This isn't able to be filled by one pack but they can cover most of the noticable missing gaps of the roster, animals that someone would look at and go wait where is this animal? animals like a duck, baboon, pelican, another monkey etc.
Also this is basically the same concept as someone buying the game 5 years from now. Theres not gonna be new content when they buy it, but they'll still have an awesome game with everything that already has been released. You can't satisfy everyone, frontier definetly knows this.
True, but filling up the roster is one thing.
Leaving new console players without one of the best thing that this game have to offer which is the new content is the other.
And past 16 DLC’s is not a new content is just the old content that would be brought to the new platform.
The excitement of new content has to end at some point, there is going to be a point where dlc just stops being released when frontier moves to other projects that are likely going to be more profitable. New players are not going to miss anything by not seeing new content release over time, there is already an expensive but fantastic choice of dlc to choose from. By the time I started playing cities skylines, there was already a massive wall of dlc to choose from that didn't make it any less fun gradually being able to afford the 'new' content to me.
Of course. So much for the “bright future” mentioned in September 2023 by Johnny and the whole “nurture strategy” then?
All good things must come to an end you are 100% right. In my opinion it just should not be just yet for PZ. That’s all.
But to a console player it is new content. They are seeing all of this first hand for the first time, it is basically any scenario where you buy a game and you already have a bunch of packs for you to choose from and to explore. I did the same with PC and chose which ones I wanted out of all of them, it didn't take away from the short lived fun I had in that game.
What annoys me is that while yes many wishes arnt essential anymore, most peoples wishlists arnt created equally.
Id argue for a complete zoo game experience the minomum still lacking are:
Imo thats a perfectly reasonable list of essential additions to round out the game and wouldnt be to hard to fit into dlc.
A petting zoo pack can deliver on the petting zoo (duh) and a duck, the much requested south america pack could also cover the south american animals (duh) and especally as an animal pack some extra birds (scarlet ibis, roseate spoonbill, rhea, brown pelican, muscovy duck) and both the baboon and the african monkey can fit in alot of different packs.
4 more packs could easily round out this game to be a great and well rounded out roster to leave the game on and it would especally make some of the more disappointing ommissions like the hamadryas baboon in arid much less painfull
Id argue for a complete zoo game experience the minomum still lacking are:
- Petting zoos (atleast 3 more animals)
- An african monkey
- Southamerican monkeys (atleast 2 of them)
- Non primate South American Animals (also atleast 3 more, strong preference for rhea, mara and coati)
- A baboon
- a Pelican
- A duck (better 2)
- Atleast 2 other birds (grey crowned crane, roseate spoonbill, white stork, western cappercallie, victorian crowned pidgeon etc)
Imo thats a perfectly reasonable list of essential additions to round out the game and wouldnt be to hard to fit into dlc.
A petting zoo pack can deliver on the petting zoo (duh) and a duck, the much requested south america pack could also cover the south american animals (duh) and especally as an animal pack some extra birds (scarlet ibis, roseate spoonbill, rhea, brown pelican, muscovy duck) and both the baboon and the african monkey can fit in alot of different packs.
4 more packs could easily round out this game to be a great and well rounded out roster to leave the game on and it would especally make some of the more disappointing ommissions like the hamadryas baboon in arid much less painfull
Yeah that's pretty much also my list. I would add the two remaining bear species just for the sake of completion (would be weird they leave them out after adding the sloth bear)
problem is i can't think of any pack that could cover all that. LATAM animal pack comes close, could even include one of the bears, pelican and duck along monkeys, coati and rhea. But the rest doesn't fit in just one pack. We need at least two more packs. One focused on the americas and the other on african savanas.
World Exploration Pack
Let’s put a pack idea out with these suggestions:
Planet Zoo Extra Expansion
. Nigerian Dwarf Goat
. Highland Cattle
. Alpaca
. Black and White Colobus
. Black Howler Monkey
. Black-handed Spider Monkey
. Greater Rhea
. South American Coati
. Patagonian Mara
. Hamadryas Baboon
. Brown Pelican
. Mallard Duck
. Mandarin Duck
. Wild Turkey
. Gray Crowned Crane
+More!
. Spectacled Bear
. ABB
. Pallas’ Cat
. Pere David’s Deer
. Raccoon Dog
. Linne’s Two-toed Sloth (WTE)
. Alligator Snapping Turtle (E)
. Naked Mole Rat (E)
. Plumed Basilisk (E)
. Leopard Gecko (E)
Would retail for $19.99
Do I think Frontier would do this? Sadly no. Would I absolutely love this? Heck yeah!
Thats not a pack idear, thats a fever dream