Spring 2024 DLC Speculation

I want to add to this. I've listed the biomes and regions in game. Named packs are in bold.

Biomes:
Temperate​
Tropical
Grasslands
Desert​
Taiga​
Tundra​
Aquatic
Regions:
Africa
Asia​
Australia
Oceania
Europe
North America
South America
Central America​
Artic
(If I am wrong on the region tags let me know I'm doing this from memory I don't have the game in front of me right now).​
So that leaves us with six tags that don't have a pack directly sharing their names.​
My animal picks are solely based on animals I want to see in game.​
Temperate - arguably Oceania is a stealthy temperate pack but they both have their own tags.​
American Black Bear​
Short Beaked Echidna​
Bobcat​
Tree Kangaroo​
Kleinmanns Tortise​
Scenery is Rustic Horizontal Log cabins. Flexicolour leaves and nice mushrooms not the weird twilight ones.​
Desert - we do have the arid pack so I have mixed thoughts about getting one. Would be nice to have some of our missing hot climate species​
Greater Bilby​
Arabian Oryx​
Hamadryas Baboon​
Perentie​
Dik Dik​
Coyote​
Desert Bighorn sheep​
Thorny Devil​
Taiga - could be a way for us to see some of our mountain animals added into the game​
Tahr​
Gelada​
Patagonian Mara​
Roosevelt Elk​
Blue spot salamander​
Tundra - could be awful, could be great​
Wolverine​
Musk ox​
Artic hare​
Walrus or leopard seal​
Exhibit: European adder​
Scenery: style that pays respect to Eskimo, Inuit, and Sami cultures.​
Asia - I think this is a likely pack. not necessarily my picks, but definitely the pack.​
Golden snub nosed monkey​
Takin​
Markhor​
Golden pheasant​
Muntjac​
Yellow throated pine marten​
Saiga​
King cobra​
Central America - clearly a huge demand for one.​
Ocelot​
Brazilian Agouti​
Coatimundi​
Geoffrey's Spider monkey​
Black Howler monkey​
Cotton top tamarin​
Tamandua​
Common basilisk​
So, what are your thoughts? Do you think that these packs could be in our future? What line up would you hope to see?​
I will edit to add my own picks in later.​
Edited: added my picks​
I like your choices I do wanna say your did miss a region Antarctica which is only really shows up if you build a zoo there or mess with the king penguin.
 
IMO they'd be better of fusing taiga and tundra into one pack if they're doing it that way. Then again, in the game alpine biomes come under taiga, so who knows? I struggle to think of even four "necessary" species for the tundra biome; the muskox is really the only one (wolverine, too, but I imagine it fits taiga more closely). There are some species in demand, like the walrus, but they're not really "zoo animals" in the sense that there are so few of them in captivity, and there's the whole controversey around them being de-tusked. A few people have thrown in the Arctic hare or snowshoe hare, but that one just feels like a "I can't think of anything else" choice than something people actually want.

Snow goose? Perhaps. Atlantic puffin? Doubtful. A different polar seal? Leopard seal? Maybe. A fourth penguin? I want the gentoo, but I don't think everyone else does.
It would probably be a scenery pack so only 5 animals and I could see it as having mix of things like the canadian lynx which covers more than just tundra and things like polar seals.
 
Tbh the Arid pack screamed for a regular exhibit animal... though a chameleon or cobra would've been better.

If there was a pack they literally avoided birds in the WTE was Oceania. My hope for flying birds was completly destroyed after Oceania.

It might reignite with a Latin America pack lol
I personally like the viper but I feel like im the only one it is literally the first snake since the base game and the only viper if the pack came out pre twilight noone would have a problem with the snake.
 
That's fair, I'm not here to tell you your opinion is wrong or anything (half my most wanted animals are what most would call "wasted slots", "boring reskins", and so on). It's rather that I guess I look at a wishlist as a collection of animals one has seen in a zoo that one wants in their zoo, but I get that there will always be outliers. It's also that lagomorphs have had a bit of a boost in popularity of late, so the question has been at the forefront.
I get your point but sometimes instead of I have seen this animal in a zoo and I want to replicate it its I really like this animal and wish I could see it in a zoo. That is the best part of it being a zoo game it can bend reality a bit because there is no physical reason lagomorphs cant be in captivity they just aren't because of lack of demand or access.

Im of the opinion that as long as an animal is not known to be harmed in captivity even if its not readily kept or is hard to keep then it should be in a zoo game as those are truly the exotic animal choices that make a zoo game fell unique to just going to a zoo.
 
Do you guys think that a Latin America Expansion Pack is possible, taking after Zoo Tycoon 2 with a pack of 20 species, many could be animals that don't really require new rigs, so let's see what this roster looks like:

Latin America Expansion Pack:
  1. South American Coati
  2. Black Howler Monkey
  3. Geoffroy's Spider Monkey
  4. Golden Lion Tamarin
  5. Greater Rhea
  6. Ocelot
  7. Southern Tamandua
  8. Patagonian Mara
  9. Collared Peccary
  10. Roseate Spoonbill
  11. Scarlet Ibis
  12. Common Squirrel Monkey
  13. Bush Dog
  14. Common Marmoset
  15. Kinkajou
  16. Plumed Basilisk (EX)
  17. Green Anaconda (EX)
  18. Northern Caiman Lizard (EX)
  19. Mission Golden-Eyed Tree Frog (EX)
  20. Linnaeus's Two-Toed Sloth (WE)
I think this would be pretty good, of course some easier to make animals like the South American Tapir, Tufted Capuchin, Guanaco, Black Caiman, Orinoco Crocodile, and this pack would be a good opportunity to introduce aviary birds with macaws, toucans and some others like Resplendent Quetzal, Hoatzin, Andean Condor and various others have potential.
No if they do an expansion pack this 100% will not be it

An expansion pack will not be a regular pack on steroids it will be something unique to the game if flighted birds or aquatic animals came to the game they might be expansion packs to provide enough species to utilise the systems.

This pack would just be too themed expensive to sell well.
 
Yes, I'm not counting on infinite support. I'm guessing that 2024 will give us a few more DLC, and then that'll be it for PlanZo

Well, we could get a secret regional pack, like the Arid, Tropical, & Twilight packs were secretly Africa, Southeast Asia, and North America, respectively
? how is tropical southeast asia only one of the animals was asian the rest where from entirely different continents and also while twilight was NA heavy it had 2/5 non American animals and its build theme was more European castle than north American.
 
? how is tropical southeast asia only one of the animals was asian the rest where from entirely different continents and also while twilight was NA heavy it had 2/5 non American animals and its build theme was more European castle than north American.
The scenery. And 2 of them were from Asia. The monitor and the gibbon

And for Twilight, 3/5 were North American species, plus half the scenery is for a North American holiday
 
I think tiger subspecies (and subspecies in general) all take up "DLC slots."
...so unfortunately the community is against them as a whole.
I'm not, I'd like a bunch of subspecies for the Anniversary animal!
Ill tell you what I would like is a change to the current systems so that subspecies are just variants of the species less duplicates in the zoopedia menu and dont take up any more dlc slots are they could then justify adding 2-3 subspecies as variants of one animal this change would only really affect the roster of Arctic and Australia as those are the only packs that have subspecies of animals that are in other packs or the base game.
 
I'd like to think it's possible, but even if we accept that a carnivore is likely, I don't feel like a third tiger is. Not after we got the red deer last year, and even the lemur was 'more' than a third tiger would be in terms of uniqueness.

I still think my "Variety Pack" idea has merit. It'll never happen, but I'd like it. A DLC full of reskins.
yeah a clone is possible but it wont be the tiger because ultimately unless your well trained it is almost impossible from a casual player to spot the differences visually so it would be very disappointing a clone of the wolf or giraffe where there are more distinct visual differences is more likely.
 
Just controversial by us. I somehow cannot imagine that the sloth is in any case controversial for the common player. I think the majority is just happy we got a Sloth in the end.

Edit: But yes, never say never. The bat was a typical choice for Frontier reusing a unique rig a second time (and I can fully understand this working).
It very much is only controversial here I couldn't care less which sloth only that there is a sloth and I doubt most casual players know there is more than one kind maybe that there a 2 and 3 toed sloths that's it.
 
The scenery. And 2 of them were from Asia. The monitor and the gibbon

And for Twilight, 3/5 were North American species, plus half the scenery is for a North American holiday
lol I forgot about the monitor.
Halloween is yes a big holiday in America but its roots are from pagan Europe and is still heavily celebrated there for me twilight gives me northern hemisphere vibes with the wombat being the exception.
 
lol I forgot about the monitor.
Halloween is yes a big holiday in America but its roots are from pagan Europe and is still heavily celebrated there for me twilight gives me northern hemisphere vibes with the wombat being the exception.
I see it as a northern hemisphere theme, but I think ultimately it's more of a NA complimentary pack, solely because the raccoon and skunk are endemic to NA and the red fox is found across the northern hemisphere
 
almost everything that would be tundra would also be part of taiga just means if they also do a taiga pack it will focus on more uniquely taiga animals.
Yeah, that was my whole point. So they might as well be fused into one DLC (if we take them doing a biome pack as a given).
yeah a clone is possible but it wont be the tiger because ultimately unless your well trained it is almost impossible from a casual player to spot the differences visually so it would be very disappointing a clone of the wolf or giraffe where there are more distinct visual differences is more likely.
I'm sorry, but thinking a new wolf is more visually distinct than the Sumatran tiger just shows bias. And the layman won't be able to tell the difference between giraffes, either.
the only way I see birds coming is as the last pack as a we finally did it now goodbye forever sort of thing.
If you're fine with them as WTE animals, then that's possible (well...I don't actually think it's possible, but anyway), but if you're imagining some big new system in place with AI-driven flying birds, then absolutely no way would it be the last pack.
Ill tell you what I would like is a change to the current systems so that subspecies are just variants of the species
That's a terrible idea. The game is supposed to replicate real-life conservation efforts.
 
I'm sorry, but thinking a new wolf is more visually distinct than the Sumatran tiger just shows bias. And the layman won't be able to tell the difference between giraffes, either.
There’s slight differences for all 3 ( clone tiger, wolf and giraffe). Sumatran tiger is barely different from the Bengal and Siberian, the Masai Giraffe has darker patterns than a reticulated, and idk what wolf we’re talking about specifically but the Ethiopian wolf is also pretty distinct from other canids we have, the closest being the dhole. I would prefer a wolf or giraffe over a tiger though, it’s because I want an upgrade to the base game versions, the tigers are pretty good as is. I guess like you said though, bias.
 
Sumatran tiger is barely different from the Bengal and Siberian,
It's very different. It's smaller, leaner, has a darker coat. Much less muscle mass, less shaggy mane, larger eyes.
the Masai Giraffe has darker patterns than a reticulated
I don't disagree, what I'm saying is that Average Joe isn't going to look at a Masai giraffe and say, "Masai giraffe!", he's going to say, "Giraffe!" and won't care about the difference. Which is exactly how he'll approach a tiger and a wolf.
the Ethiopian wolf
Not a wolf. The Ethiopian wolf is a distinct lineage more closely related to jackals than wolves. We're talking about subspecies of the grey wolf, Canis lupus. Point me to an average person who would see a Eurasian and Northwestern wolf in the same habitat and know the difference.
 
Not a wolf. The Ethiopian wolf is a distinct lineage more closely related to jackals than wolves. We're talking about subspecies of the grey wolf, Canis lupus. Point me to an average person who would see a Eurasian and Northwestern wolf in the same habitat and know the difference.
Ohhh then yeah I’m out on the Grey wolf subspecies, I would just like the Ethiopian Wolf, just to see them do a “wolf like creature” to see how far they’ve come from the base game.
 
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