Spring 2024 DLC Speculation

Going off everyone’s responses, and including my own, birds make an average of 7.14 slots in our final 20 animals.

Mine was 10
@SuzieSky was 5
@Fallax was 11
@Captain Callum was 6
@CharlieXGaming was 7
@Emcee was 4
@NachoB was 7

Anyone correct me if I got the math wrong, and I will try to add more people to the calculation later.

Makes me wonder if the final dlc of bird distribution will be around that. Or around a third of the final animals being birds (7/20).

Which is interesting as the current meta wishlist only has around 4 birds in the top. I wonder if Frontier will follow the meta wishlist or follow more of the current community needs.
I wish, but i doubt it.
 
Golden rule ... golden ... golden monkey ... golden snub nosed monkey will come!
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Going off the top 20 meta wishlist animals, if you could pick 20 animals for the final dlc what would you pick? It can be as selfish as you want.
Completelly selfish without rig problems? Something like:
Golden lion tamarin
SA coati
Spec bear
Howler monkey
Red faced spider monkey
SA tapir
Blackbuck
Patagonian mara
Greather rhea
Red legged seriema
Wild turkey
White-whistling duck
Ocelot
Scarlet ibis
Gaur
Leopard seal
Secretary bird
Helmeted Guineafowl
Domestic rabbit
Musk ox
 
With 20 slots id do:
  1. Mandarin duck
  2. Any baboon
  3. Howler monkey
  4. Second SA monkey
  5. African dwarf goat
  6. Domestic rabbit
  7. Domestic chicken
  8. Golden pheasant
  9. Yellow throated marten
  10. Patagonian mara
  11. Coati
  12. Any pelican
  13. Nilgai/blackbuck
  14. Tree kangaroo
  15. Luzon giant cloud rat
  16. Any agouti
  17. Lion tailed macaque
  18. Helmeted guineafowl
  19. Any agouti
  20. Secretary
 
Here's my 20 animals list, currently :

For Latin America (9) :
  • West Indian Manatee
  • Patagonian Mara
  • Geoffroy's Spider Monkey
  • Golden Lion Tamarin
  • South American Coati
  • Greater Rhea
  • Scarlet Ibis
  • Black Howler Monkey
  • Roseate Spoonbill
This would be enough to complete LatAm IMO, with the needed monkey, birds and small mammals, as well as a flagship animal in the manatee. We have enough cats and bears in the game, I don't think they're absolutely needed.

For Africa (4) :
  • Hamadryas Baboon
  • Black and White Colobus Monkey
  • Marabou Stork
  • Grey-Crowned Crane
Again, to me the weaknesses in the African roster are the birds and the monkeys, so here we are.

For East and South Asia (4) :
  • Blackbuck
  • Lion-Tailed Macaque
  • Père David's Deer
  • Golden Pheasant
One bird and one monkey again, but we also need more Asian ungulates, with our first Asian deer and our first Indian antelope.

More Birds (3) :
  • Great White Pelican
  • Mallard Duck
  • Black Stork
These three all represent multiple continents, and allow us to get more essential birds. I chose the black stork over the white stork because otherwise we would have three white aquatic birds, so I wanted some variations here.

Honorable mentions (5) :
  • Sea Otter
  • Goodfellow's Tree Kangaroo
  • European Mink
  • Pallas's Cat
  • Luzon Giant Cloud Rat
Those five I left out. They all fill interesting niches (a cold climate otter/smaller cat, a small mustelidae, a tree kangaroo and a giant rat) and they all are great zoo animals in their own right, but none of them feel essential enough to me that I would chose to add them over the 20 I selected. But I would still be quite happy if you replaced basically any of the other animals in my list with those five (or other representative of their respective niche - like the eurasian otter, yellow throated marten, matschie's tree kangaroo, malagasy giant rat or european wild cat).
 
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AH okay, just 20 animals. I'm tempted to just run down my own top 20 wants, but I'm going to throw a few crumbs to the masses as well.

1. Shoebill - I rarely bring them up anymore because I doubt we'll get many more birds, and the Secretary Bird is more likely.
2. Spectacled Bear
3. Coatimundi (any species)
4. Secretary Bird
5. Black Howler Monkey (red would be okay instead though)
6. Squirrel Monkey (any species) - I know not a favorite, but I personally like them.
7. Patagonian Mara
8. Brazilian Porcupine
9. Scarlet Ibis
10. Wild Turkey
11. Tree Kangaroo (preference to Goodfellow's but not set on it)
12. Pelican (any species, prefer Australian Pelican though)
13. European Otter - I like otters a lot what can I say
14. Bat Eared Fox
15. Muskox - for the masses
16. Hamadryas Baboon - for the masses
17. Mandarin Duck - for the masses (another duck would also be alright)
18. Masai Giraffe
19. King Cobra (E)
20. Chameleon species (preference to Jackson's or Panther chameleons) (E)

There's a few other animals I would have put in my own more selfish wants but I get the reasons for including the Baboon, Muskox and Mandarin Duck.
 
Going off the top 20 meta wishlist animals, if you could pick 20 animals for the final dlc what would you pick? It can be as selfish as you want.
Latin America gang:
1. Geoffroy's Spider Monkey
2. Bolivian Squirrel Monkey
3. Cotton-top Tamarin
4. South American Coati
5. Patagonian Mara
6. Greater Rhea
7. Rhinoceros Iguana

Oceania gang:
8. Short-beaked Echidna
9. Greater Bilby
10. Goodfellow's Tree Kangaroo
11. Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby
12. Magpie Goose
13. Australian Pelican
14. Perentie

Other lads:
15. Aoudad
16. Blackbuck
17. Golden Pheasant
18. Helmeted Guineafowl
19. Mandarin Duck
20. Radiated Tortoise
 
What is everybody's optimal worst case scenario?
They lie and give us nothing.

Being realistic of what they would actually give us though for a scenery pack, I would say LA but really boring animals, like:
  • Another very small monkey like Squirrel Monkey or a second Capuchin (not counting tamarins)
  • Greater Rhea
  • Ocelot
  • Spectacled Bear
  • Some random snake no ones heard of
While I want the bear, its become less of a priority to me because we just got a bear and there are more pressing concerns right now.
 
What is everybody's worst case scenario?

If a final DLC was 4 habitat and 1 Exhibit animals, what should it be?
South American Coati, Spectacled Bear, Black Howler Monkey, Black Spider Monkey and 5 Tamarin species (Walkthrough exhibit, Golden Lion, Cotton Top, Emperor, Golden Handed and White Lipped)

I'll be willing to give up every other region in the world or other animals if it means that we go back to South America
 
Going off the top 20 meta wishlist animals, if you could pick 20 animals for the final dlc what would you pick? It can be as selfish as you want.
I'd probably try to go with species from all around the world with 15 habitat species, 2 or 3 exhibits and 3 or 2 flying birds in WTE so modders can do somethin about it. And I'd put a little more effort on SA because we all agree that it is the region that need it the most.

South America:
1) South American Coati
2) Black Howler Monkey
3) A Marmoset or a Tamarin
4) Spectacled Bear
5) Blue and Yellow Macaw (WTE)

North America:
1) American Black Bear Edit: as we already had a bear in the last pack and I prefer Spectacled bear, I'd replace ABB without something else like the NA Porcupine
2) Sea Otter

Europe:
1) Eurasian Eagle-Owl (WTE)

Africa:
1) Nile Crocodile
2) Hamadryas Baboon
3) Secretary Bird
4) Panther Chameleon (exhibit)

Asia:
1) Palla's Cat
2) Golden Snub-Nosed Monkey
3) Blackbuck
4) King Cobra (exhibit)

Oceania:
1) Short-beaked Echidna
2) Lorikeets (WTE)

Arctic:
1) Walrus
2) Musk Ox


Special mention to the ones I left on the side of the road in the name of diversity (and because I once again rely on great modders job) :
Serval, Mongoose, Gerenuk, Grey Crowned Crane, Shoebill, Markhor, Japanese Raccoon Dog, Lion-Tailed Macaque, Mandarin Duck, Pelicans, Rocky Mountain Elk, Arctic Hare, Patagonian Mara, Ocelot, Tamandua, American Flamingo, Roseate Spoonbill.
 
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What is everybody's worst case scenario?

If a final DLC was 4 habitat and 1 Exhibit animal, what should it be?
Optimal worst? As in the best of the worst possible scenarios?

A LATAM scenery pack (Brazil, Caribbean, México themed a mix of styles but somewhat cohesive like the Europe pack did) with a satisfying roster (which with just four animals is close to impossible for the region):

1. South american or white nosed coati
2. Patagonian mara
3. Mexican spider monkey
4. Scarlet ibis
5. WTE: macaws (even if they tienes out our only flying birds in the whole game. Other options are marmosets or hummingbirds)

And then cuz i need it and i cheat idc: Anniversary : greater rhea 😬
 
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