Safari in winter?Dang this is tough, I want both Safari and LA to have animal packs
Spring 2024 DLC Speculation
- Thread starter The Carcharodontogenius
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they did grasslands in winter so not impossible
hmm this would be so dissapointing for a safari pack at least for me
why ? i mean i dont really care about getting it but wouldnt it be way easier to implement than birds ?
Itās a fully aquatic. They donāt go on land. Keepers canāt swim. It would take a bunch of new mechanics to implement. Macaws could be plopped in a WTE
technically walkthrough birds would need exactly 0 new features to work however we currently have no way of getting the manatee into the water because of the way habitat gates work so manatee is therefore harder.
free flying birds on the other hand would be much harder technically to implement than manatees since all thats in the way of the manatee is the habitat gates which already has mods that help its usability with aquatic animals which modders have created. Compare this to free flight birds which would be hard to make but also require reworks of how traversable terrain is both calculated and displayed.
Personally I think the manatee will come first since its a fairly standalone animal where the second you have one birds the gap becomes even more noticeable.
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Because rig and animation wise the manatee would be easy its just fixing the wonky habitat gates. The manatee in of itself would bring so much appeal to the game that it might be worth it plus fixing the habitat gates and the keepers hydrophobia will help any semi aquatic habitats as well.
I've never seen a manatee discussion ever end on a positive note.
I agree in concept (I don't think they'd do it for just one animal either), but as for why they wouldn't do it for other marine life, what other marine life is generally kept in open air tanks aside from cetaceans (which Frontier will doubtlessly avoid for obvious reasons)? I mean, typically, outside their native ranges, fish, even large fish, are kept indoors with absolute control over tank chemistry unless conditions are ideal (like cichlids in a hippo pool - though even then I'm pretty sure the examples I've seen have been indoors anyway or in tropical countries). And yes, I know Frontier doesn't have to ensure everything is super realistic - clouded leopards typically aren't kept in open-air habitats either, after all - but in the case of fish it's less about the ability to escape as it is with climbing mammals or flying birds and more about literal survival, as for many species even minute changes to water chemistry and cause myriad health problems and even death.
I mean this sort of thing didnt stop them before. You can place ectothermic animals in your tundra zoo and king penguins in your desert one, both scenarios would likely result in the animals death in real life. So i dont think this would stop them from adding sharks and other big fish as habitat animals either. The option to personally only use them indoors is always there.
it's a bit carnivore heavy of an animal pack that I thought of... So I'll replace mongoose with hornbill.
So India animal pack may look better like this?
- Nilgai
- Honey badger
- Sambar
- Barheaded goose
- Lion tailed Macaque
- Golden Jackal
- Great Hornbill (IDK if it works as a habitat animal?)
- Cobra
Probably not any better than macaws, eagles and toucans would
Honestly I can almost see it, especially as an anniversary send off for the 5th anniversary. Being in development for 5 years is a big deal, so we get one animal for each year. Mostly going off your list everyone would get:
- European brown bear
- Sumatran tiger
- Masai giraffe
- American flamingo
- Nile crocodile
- Green peafowl
- Gravyās zebra
- African spurred tortoise
Perfect
