Spring 2024 DLC Speculation
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Kinda freaking me out too lol
I sense the turn of the week, doom talk is over, let's continue hoping for the other capuchin monkey we don't have that everyone needs to build a south american area!
Yeah it’s been getting quiet, but what else is there to say? The game has reached the end, all signs point to it. Could we be wrong and a miracle occurs? Sure! But I doubt it. Honestly, and I know this sounds stupid, my opinion on Planet Zoo as a completed game will depend on how this final dlc is delivered. Now don’t be shocked, it’s the best zoo game, and one of the greatest animal games ever made. As to my personal opinions, Planet Zoo has a lot of missed potential that I think this final dlc can make or break. Namely I find there are a couple of areas this one dlc has to fix:
- A baboon
- New world monkeys (one will be sad, but it’s better than nothing)
- South American representation, especially after this year where all we got was two
- Maybe 1 petting zoo animal, like a goat
Also, the environment is kind of gloomy so I don’t blame people for not wanting to stick around much.
Imagine after all this time we finally get another new world monkey, and it’s the brown tufted capuchin. I would laugh so hard
What better way to get everyone back than with one of these.
I think we will get more than 8 animals for the final pack but if we dont, thoughts?
+ Blackbuck or Mara
I think we will get more than 8 animals for the final pack but if we dont, thoughts?
+ Blackbuck or Mara
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Doubt will get budgies.
And i personally don't care for the goat. I would replace it with the blackbuck.
And you are missing an 8th animal there so either rhea or mara for me.
Yeah that's where i'm at right now. Feeling kind of down about all this "one last DLC" thing. Not because support ending this year, i was expecting that but not after at least two more packs and one of them being LAM animal pack. Now i'm afraid i won't even get another latinamerica pack, not even a scenery one. And since people are somewhat panicking that their favorite animals won't make it in support for a LATAM pack has decreased in favor of this worlwide DLC which i understand but can't help feeling like is very unfair. And then there are the birds. I thought we could at least get more habitat birds this year, mainly rhea, grey crowned crane, secretary, pelican, pheasant and duck... and now we'll be lucky if we get even two.
So yeah things aren't looking good for me and my wishes so my interest in specualtion, wishlists and discussions about the future pack has dwindle for now.
At the very least i wish for coati, rhea and another monkey. And i'm already mourning the lost oportunity for the patagonian mara since i don't think it's chances are good now.
Might as well hope
I think the goat is more useful for the petting zoo enthusiasts, seeing how we just got an Asian antelope, even with its flaws.
I'm on the side of a Latin America or Americas with a heavy neotropical focus if we only get one pack. I agree that it would be unfair to skip it now and representation for that realm is easily the worst. A global pack would be a great finale, but not at the expense of that animal pack. Africa got the arid pack, Oceania got its pack, and Eurasia got a pack all before the most requested one here, a Latin America Animal pack. I really hope we get one for the spring and more packs to come.
Latin America not getting a revisit after all this time would be genuinely baffling on Frontier's part - it's been the most requested regional pack for the longest time, and this year it almost seemed like they went out of their way to avoid adding SA species in the Tropical Pack. If the upcoming spring DLC is indeed the last, it should be a Latin/South America Animal Pack. It's just not fair otherwise.
If there is truly only one more pack, it almost certainly will be Latin America or some kind of wrap up pack. I think many people, myself included, would be surprised if they rolled out a finale pack and it was something for American Woodlands or African Safari. Latin America is truly the way to go, if it's some kind of actual theme instead of a hodgepodge of various animals included to check off the boxes of general player wants.
When you think about it,the pack last year were mostly regional (in name or as a stealth pack with the Arid pack), with Tropical being the exception and the only one that a South American animal could fit in, and as you say, it only included one. And South America was already much discussed as being a good bit behind in representation when 2023 started, so this only made it even more obvious.
Latin American can literally span from anywhere in Mexico, Central America, South America if the Caribbean if I understand correctly. So it doesn't even have to be Amazon-focused, though I'd hope about half the pack would have species that can be found in the Amazon. But having something from the Andes, Patagonia, and Central America would be great to have as well.
Honestly too, out of all the really long time popularly requested species yet to make it in the game, it's why the one I'm most confident will show up is a Coatimundi, since it's the only one of those from Latin America (the others being the Secretary Bird, Walrus, Tree Kangaroo, Baboon and Muskox). Short of a finale wrap up type of pack at this point, I'm having a hard time coming up with a good theme to bring any of the others in, particularly if we truly do have only one or even two packs left.
When it is announced for console, I hope they release it on the PS4, as to please all those silly lil goobers who so politely ask for a ps4 version on every single post on social media!
Sad for them.
Frontier confirmed PZ can run only on PS5 and series X. They dont know they are most likely getting nothing lol.
Unless Frontier decided on game with reduced roster or something like that, because animal number limitation is apparently thing for old gens.
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Yeah that would be kinda the dream.
I really hope they just make a pack with all the missing zoo classics that we dont really have any alternatives for.
Large NW monkey, baboon, duck, coati, pelican, mara and so on.
Im fully aware that most of the animals that would fall into this category need more than average work or even a new rig, but i really hope they somehow mange to pull something like this off. Especially when it the final pack the exclusion of the really requested animals in favor of filler clones or oddballs would feel even worse.
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For me personally it's hard to engage in this thread.
I kinda woke up incredibly excited about the "last pack", as I just see the positive in it.- Potentially larger
- No "will the next pack be good or a let down after 3 months of waiting" after that anymore
- No bumps in the road when planning a zoo
- Full animal palette to play with, without oddballs thrown, making for a loooot of cool, well planned projects on my end
- Looking forward to the evolution of Planco 2, as this will give us a good indication on what we might get with PZ2
- Using mods (mainly replacements, some new animals and object mods) without the hazzle to change them out with each update, so noooo more ugly lion, in case Frontier does never fix it.
Plus: My few left animal wishes do not fit in one DLC theme.
I'm just stalking in the bushes (like an ocelot
), craving for more hints and conspiracy theories from this forum, and waiting for official news from Frontier. The next couple of months are going to be crucial about the future of the game.Id accept this.
This is fine
I like this even if i doubt its even close to what we will get
Like I said before, let this pack have 12-20 animals and I would buy it in a heartbeat. Have these guys plus a couple others and I am sold. I’ll go off what you have and double the animal roster.
- Spider monkey
- Golden lion tamarin
- Spectacled bear
- Rhea
- Mara
- Coati
- American flamingo/ scarlet ibis
- Grey crowned crane
- Great white pelican
- Hamadryas Baboon
- Nigerian dwarf goat
- Blackbuck
- Mallard duck/ mandarin duck
- Golden pheasant
- Exhibit: King Cobra
- WTE: Budgies
- African spurred tortoise/ red footed/ radiated tortoise ( I would love a habitat turtle, like the Amazon river turtle)
- Nile crocodile/ slender shouted crocodile
- Another crane species, like the Whooping crane
- Another game bird species, like the wild turkey or western capercaillie