Spring 2024 DLC Speculation
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. I met the best girl I had the pleasure of have in my life and then this dies. A soul for another I guess...It's entirely possible that they do exactly that. They'd be leaving money on the table in doing so but... Given the current climate it's got less to do with that would make logical sense, or what Frontier might want to do, and more to do with what makes practical sense. And yeah, there's animals left hanging for both games but...
Resources are tight and they need to make money. Does an additional round of two DLCs for two 4+ year old games makes sense? Or do they leverage the Planet Zoo console and its DLC to get a steady stream of revenue (arguably more) during that same timeframe with a much lighter workload (better ROI) while they prep the next own-IP game? I would imagine they are going to make just as much if not more from this console drop.
You could argue that another summer DLC would make them even more money but would it make them more money at a higher cost than those console DLCs are going to. I'm not doubting that future DLC for either game wouldn't be welcomed with open arms... It just seems unlikely with everything that we know.
Spring 2024: Coastal Pack
- Sea Otter (EN)
- Southern Elephant Seal (LC)
- Peruvian Pelican (NT)
- Hawksbill Sea Turtle (CR)
- Atlantic Puffin (VU) [Walkthrought Exhibit]
- Red Wolf (CR)
- Red-shanked Douc (CR)
- Kakapo (CR)
- Hirola (CR)
- Diademed Sifaka (CR)
- Brown Spider Monkey (CR)
- Black-footed Ferret (EN)
- European Hamster (CR) [Exhibit]
- Grévy’s Zebra (EN)
- Secretary Bird (EN)
- Giant Eland (VU)
- Blackbuck (LC)
- Naked Mole-rat (LC) [Exhibit]
Winter 2024: Highlands Animal Pack
- Ethiopian Wolf (EN)
- Golden Snub-nosed Monkey (EN)
- Spectacled Bear (VU)
- Markhor (NT)
- Bighorn Sheep (LC)
- Alpine Marmot (LC)
- Matschie’s Tree-kangaroo (EN)
- Chinese Giant Salamander (CR) [Exhibit]
- North America: Roosevelt Elk (LC) // Ocellated Turkey (NT)
- South America: Patagonian Mara (NT) // Roseate Spoonbill (LC)
- Europe: Chamois (LC) // Western Capercaillie (LC)
- Africa: De Brazza's Monkey (LC) // Shoebill (VU)
- Asia: Banteng (EN) // Mandarin Duck (LC)
- Oceania: Tiger Quoll (NT) // Sugar Glider (LC)
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While I've not gone and explained it in such an organized way, that's sort of where my mind has been for some time. Two packs left. Late March/Early April (maybe a little delayed because of the console release) and Late June.
My guess is Central America Scenery Pack and a supersized finale pack (15 animals, 12 of which are habitat animals).
I mean, if there were no constraints and "anything" were possible, of course I would a 16-24 exhibit pack of the medium sized flying birds (the usual suspects, Toucans, Macaws, Eagles, Owls, Cockatoos and the like). But that ain't happening.
So Central America and Finale is what I'm sticking too.
White Nosed Coati, Black Howler Monkey, Ocelot, American Flamingo and Hoffman's 2 toed sloth (WTE) - mix of Caribbean and Hacienda style architecture.
Finale pack (6 habitat birds, 3 exhibit animals, 3 South American non-bird habitat animals and 3 worldwide non-bird habitat animals:
Secretary Bird
Scarlet Ibis
Wild Turkey
Mandarin Duck
Australian Pelican
Greater Rhea
Spectacled Bear
Patagonian Mara
Squirrel Monkey species
Goodman's Tree Kangaroo
Muskox
Hamadryas Baboon
Golden Lion Tamarin (WTE, shouldn't be walkthrough but I doubt they'd make a special exhibit just for them. Or they could fit in a standard exhibit I suppose)
King/Indian Cobra (E)
Jacksons/Panther Chameleon (E)
That's 20, that's 200 total. Gives us 7 more birds for a total of 18.
Gives us an additional 11 species for Latin America (3 habitat birds and 2 exhibit species).
Again, the whole "over 200 animals" bragging right, there's several to choose from: Markhor or Eurasian Otter to give Asia (and Europe for the otter) one more non-bird habitat animal. Masai Giraffe or Nile Crocodile if they want to go less work intensive and just throw in an easy to do animal to get them to 201
Worth noting too IMO, 6 of the 7 fairly highly requested and talked about animals make it in this way, with the exception of the Walrus. Muskox, Secretary Bird, Howler Monkey, Hamadryas Baboon, Coati and Tree Kangaroo all would be welcome.
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Even though I of course want more than one pack, if it did happen and we got 2 or 3 the layout is even more confusing. The general need right now is LA Animal Pack which would have to be pushed til June because of the pattern, but if the last pack is in June, what would happen to Latin America?
Central America scenery pack makes the most sense to me, they can knock out 5 animals with that. And then put a few more in some kind of finale pack.
Would it be too outrageous to get 20 animals over the next two packs, and then get 5 more in a 5 for $5 for the 5th anniversary? Nile Crocodile, Masai Giraffe, Markhor, Eurasian Otter, American Black Bear. Not too much work here and cheaper to be in line for the 5th anniversary.
5 for 5 for 5!
5 for 5 for 5!
Does the Other mammal category matter?
Is it supposed to be a type of mammal not mentioned above or dealers choice?
5 for 5 for 5
1. Have to be all clones (at least when it comes to rig/animations)
2. Can't be on the top ten of the MW
So the ones i would choose would be:
1. Nile crocodile
2. Southamerican tapir (i guess serval would be fine as well ugh)
3. Greater rhea / American flamingo (which ever doesn't make it into the LATAM pack)
4. American black bear
5. African spurred tortoise
The rest i would do:
LATAM animal pack
1. Coati
2. Ocelot
3. Howler
4. Rhea/Flamingo
5. Spec bear
6. Golden lion tamarin / Squirrel monkey
7. Patagonian mara
8. Ex: green anaconda or WTE: two toed sloth.
Community's favs (final pack)
1. Hamadryas baboon
2. Secretary bird
3. Grey crowned crane
4. Any pelican
5. Any duck
6. Blackbuck
7. Tree kangaroo
8. Walrus
9. Palla's cat
10. Golden snub nosed monkey (... or markhor i guess)
11. Ex: Cobra
12. WTE: Chameleons
And with that i'll be perfectly fine with the final roster
I don't ask for much (other than a pack full of unique rigs and with 12 animals i guess
, totally realistic ik)
The quote I could find from HeatherG: "So, what I was told was "The season pass will be available at launch separately"".
There's no real info there, and with being consistently called "Exclusive Pre-order animals", and referred to as a pre-order bonus on the purchase, I'm leaning strongly towards never being obtainable again, like every other Frontier pre-order bonus.
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Right, because they would rather say "preorder to get these animals which are not exclusive because you can get them later anyway" surely is something that will make people preorder the game more.
Can we talk about the elephant in the room of how are they supposed to add both the walrus and the coati in the same pack if there's only one pack left.
They will never do this simply because speculation brings attention we spend so much time speculating the inevitable end of the game that just telling us its the end will take so much of the communites engagement with them
I think console edition is planned for around then and thats why everyone is freaking out because they dont know what is going to happen to the dlc either it will release early late or conflict with console release.
With an exploration pack that takes us to different parts of the world:
Arctic - walrus or muskox
Amazon forest - coati
Himalayas - markhor
Patagonia - mara
African drylands - baboon
Australia - echidna
Danube delta - pelican
Madagascar - chameleon
The former: like rodents, marsupials, etc
It does mean frontier is planning to release the season pass seperately which the thread topic of will the season pass be available after launch was asking. The wording of both the season pass and preorder animals don't hint to any of them being available later including on the store pages. Lots of people are jumping to conclusions and getting upset thinking these are preorder exclusive animals.
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It doesn’t help that after an announcement Frontier will usually go back to radio silence, or they just don’t explain their inner workings. The situation reminds me of the whole WTE situation, where Frontier added a system for (assumed to be) flying birds and preceded to not add them but also never explain why they can’t.
Granted this is a situation that needs way better explaining. If consumers think Frontier is strong arming them into getting the season pass, or else they miss out on animals, it really needs to be explained.
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Yeah well I think we all know frontier is not the most transparent when it comes to explaining important things.
Frontier: you can get these animals by getting the preorder!
People looking to buy console: if I don’t have the money now will I be able to get these animals later? Or if I don’t have a console now will I still be able to get these animals when I can afford the new system?
Frontier: let’s see what animals will be in the console game!
Yeah that adventure tour to see the animals post and it only ended up being the gorilla before asking everyone what their favourite animal isFrontier: let’s see what animals will be in the console game!
I was honestly expecting a week full of community engagement but nope.