God it would be cool if it was announced Wednesday morning, talk about it in the stream, then for the next 12 days have little showcase videos like SA and Arctic Packs did for all 12 species as a build up to the final pack of PZ on May the 7th.
Spring 2024 DLC Speculation
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So we are assumings is going to be 12 species? Ok, i like that.
That would be cool but I'm just going to be sticking with the idea we're just getting a regular scenery pack as to not hype myself up
Scenery, Animal and 12 animal are all possible, although we've never had a gap between announce and launch as short as 5 days, so the pack could have more, and since we just got an animal pack in the winter...
I'm expecting a scenery pack + campaign which fits in line with other final packs. Definitely not what I want, as a scenery pack would be pretty lackluster at this stage.
Yes, and it always has been.
Not really relevant. There are tools in the game to contain any habitat animal within a faux enclosed habitat, or not. Many zoos still keep flamingos, cranes, and so on in open-air habitats.
No it isn't.
Why? How is that remotely relevant? It's just a stupid deflection.
Seriously, I sometimes wonder about you lot.
If containment wasn't a problem, why did they make a special new exhibit type for flying animals? They could have just made the bats into a habitat animal and said "deal with it". They didn't, because they aren't stupid, and they know that would be stupid no matter which way you look at it. It is mind-bogglingly obvious that it matters to them.
They could, at any point, have given us flying birds in the WTE, but they haven't. It's exceedingly unlikely they're saving that for last, because even if it is birds, a pack full of exhibit animals is not the send off that most people want; this forum is exceptionally good at thinking it's the only voice in the community, but it's not. So there has got to be a reason. There are only two reasons that make any sense from my perspective:
- They do not believe the exihibit system will do birds justice. IMO this is unlikely, because it would require viewing birds through a weird lens. Big, crowd-drawing birds get their charisma from their appearance first and foremost, and their unique qualities secondly, and neither of these requires them to do much more than an exhibit animal. Birds don't spend all their time flitting about from here to there, and even in real aviaries they tend to remain in one place or walk or climb or just jump to wherever they feel the need to go.
- They know that birds will be a big selling point for a future game that will start with less than we're finishing on. That is to say, a sequel is not going to contain all 200 or whatever species in the current game. That would be an absurd expectation. So they would need something to soften the blow of the fact that we will be expected to repurchase animals we already got in version one as DLC in version two. It's still conjecture, but it follows common business practice. Because Frontier is a business. Not a group of do-gooders gettng giddy for giving a bunch of nerds on the internet what they want.
Punas are found in covered enclosures, yet we can make an open air enclosure for pumas. I don't see why the whole "only found in avirires, so impossible to come" argument even exists
I think there is a missunderstanding here. What people refered to was stuff like crowned pigeons, which are pretty much exclusively found in aviaries in real life but dont really fly, so would work as habitat animals without looking weird.
I think the reason most animals are categorised into Habitat or WTE is their main form of locomotion, not for any aspect of realism. Like the bats, they wouldn’t work as a habitat animal because of the WAY THEY MOVE, not because they need to be kept in closed enclosures - that’s why we have a null button for the WTE, right? So we can have creative freedom disregarding all realism aspects if we WANT to.
If all animals in the WTE HAD to be kept in closed top enclosures, we wouldn’t have the sloth in there. The reason they put it as a WTE animal is because that’s what best fits its way of movement.
In a similar way, wading birds and terrestrial birds can 100% be introduced as habitat animals if Frontier wanted. Birds like the Victoria Crowned Pigeon, Scarlet Ibis, Roseate Spoonbill… sure, they can fly. But their main form of locomotion is walking or wading, a characteristic which needs the habitat mechanics to function. This also extends to the burrowing owl, which can fly, but can also run around on its legs. It would work perfectly fine as a habitat animal, much like other wading or primarily terrestrial flying birds.
If all animals in the WTE HAD to be kept in closed top enclosures, we wouldn’t have the sloth in there. The reason they put it as a WTE animal is because that’s what best fits its way of movement.
In a similar way, wading birds and terrestrial birds can 100% be introduced as habitat animals if Frontier wanted. Birds like the Victoria Crowned Pigeon, Scarlet Ibis, Roseate Spoonbill… sure, they can fly. But their main form of locomotion is walking or wading, a characteristic which needs the habitat mechanics to function. This also extends to the burrowing owl, which can fly, but can also run around on its legs. It would work perfectly fine as a habitat animal, much like other wading or primarily terrestrial flying birds.
No one knows for sure I think it will be a simultaneous release since they would have already known console was happening before the packs release so could therefore plan more effectively and im sure that if the gift shops werent a complete an utter flop on pc console would have got them on release so that they are as in sync as possible.
Really with 1 week left to go until a new pack and now we’re arguing about birds smh
Some time honored traditions never die!
There are a ton of birds that can fit into this bin: can fly but spend enough time on the ground to make it work in PZ. Like I said, if someone wants to make a square box and throw some animals in they can. If others want to make the ultra detailed habitat, they can do.
We can place a polar bear in the desert and using the AC unit can make it cold enough to have snow on the ground. All with it being an outdoor spot. We can create an entire castle, and have a staircase go into the sky. Giving people the options matter to me more than anything else. I agree with you on the WTE, if they cared about it being realistic in mesh or not they wouldn’t give the option to have it null.
I think these guys would be in my list of “believable enough”:
- Secretary bird
- Any small stork species, like the yellow billed stork. Or animals like the hammerkop
- Any ibis species, highlight of the scarlet
- Greater roadrunner
- Burrowing owl
- Victoria crowned crane
- Ocellated Turkey (turkeys can fly if you can believe it!)
- Screamers like the Southern Screamer
- Any sea bird similar to ones like the oystercatcher
- Southern Ground Hornbill
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Alright soon this chat will end once dlc is announced and it’s time to jump to another topic
I got a fun idea
I challenge y’all: Let’s find out what has been discussed the most on this thread.
How many posts are about
Monkeys
Flying birds
Waterfowl
Doom posts
Any recurring topics
Please tally these up and let us see what is the most discussed
I got a fun idea
I challenge y’all: Let’s find out what has been discussed the most on this thread.
How many posts are about
Monkeys
Flying birds
Waterfowl
Doom posts
Any recurring topics
Please tally these up and let us see what is the most discussed
So your idea of fun is making me do math?
But seriously I think I would be here for a while counting posts from 388 pages, so I’m just gonna rank what I think we posted about most:
- Memes I guarantee it lol
- Flying Birds
- Monkeys
- South America (not listed but came up a lot)
- Doom Posts
- Waterfowl
- Planet Zoo 2
- Everything else
Sure. My imagination tells me JWE2 will gamble
with wholesome aviary pack featuring extcint forms of mesozoic avialans such as avisaurus, hesperornis and confusciornis.
On the other hand PZ will get yet another bland pack consisting mostly of hoofstock and bear in the middle accompanied by update, which can be laughed at more than actually used.
That is a matter of behavior not containment. They literally explained this when they released the sloth. An animal that can be kept in open enclosures yet is in the exhibit, because of how it moves
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The next ones have already been announced, so I don't think it's going to be a console edition update.