Spring dlc Speculation 2023

jcp011c

jcp011c
Just chiming in since the Bald Eagle is my most wanted bird (home country bias for sure). What the options for me would be, in order of best case scenario to worst case scenario

1 Habitat bird with flying mechanics
2 Habitat bird without flying mechanics - as mentioned, jumping from branches would be fine. I'd love it they could spread their wings even if they can't fly
3 (non) Walkthrough Exhibit bird with flying mechanics
4 (non) Walkthrough Exhibit bird without flying animations (though given the WEs currently have flying animations I doubt this would happen)
5 Not in the game at all.

#1 and #4 are probably not going to happen, #1 is probably too messy coding wise to make it work and #4 already have technical actions that can make it work, so why would they not?

Hopefully we get #2 but I'd also be really happy with #3. I just hope we don't get #5 but I do worry. We haven't even had any birds as WE exhibit animals, though I don't see why it couldn't be possible. Additionally though, a bird like the Bald Eagle would definitely need the exhibit to be non-walk through, which I feel confident they could make happen.

The same preferences could be applied to birds like Macaws and other Parrots, Hornbills, Toucans, Woodpeckers, Kingfishers, other birds of Prey (except the Secretary Bird) etc

Storks, Cranes, the Secretary Bird, Herons, Swans, Pelicans and similar wading/ground oriented etc birds should IMO definitely be habitat animals. I'm on the border with the Scarlet Ibis and also not quite sure where to place the Roadrunners.
 

Angeł

Angeł
I also think flying birds as habitat animals is not something we should rule out just yet! Walkthrough Exhibits will work well for Lorikeets, Budgies, Mynas etc, but I still think habitats work best for birds of prey, ibises and larger macaws/parrots. Simple enrichment items can allow for simulated flight, in a similar way to the jumps we already see with the flamingos and cranes. I’m glad a lot of people seem to agree!
 

Eletan888

Eletan888
It may be janky, but I really hope for a habitat avary system. I mean, deep swimming got better over time, but Frontier has had years to refine it. Free flight wouldn't be the same scenario. I understand the concerns that it could possibly be immersion breaking, but to be honest, would it be more than the climbing system? No shade to Frontier, but it's not great, to say the least. The WE are great, but definitely seem more suited for small flying animals in my opinion (sloths/tamarins are habitat animals, fight me 😅).

I think we'll see with this next pack. However, I would like to bring up a point. What if Frontier isn't releasing birds at all? I doubt it, because it seems like everything it pointing towards it, but it still remains a possibility. I think we all have accepted birds as a given, which could lead to dissapointment, if Frontier is playing us. 😂
 

Spartan_Squat

Spartan_Squat
I said this in one leaf video: At this point, the only birds I can see are these 3 types: 1. flightless ones like rhea, rock hopper penguin or kiwi. 2. flying ones but coded to dont fly (aka flamingo or crane) like pelicans or shoebills. and 3. small birds for the walkthrough exibith like macaws, toucans or loris, the same model but with small edits and different skins, similar to butterflies.
 

Captain Callum

Captain Callum
Spartan_Squat said:
I said this in one leaf video: At this point, the only birds I can see are these 3 types: 1. flightless ones like rhea, rock hopper penguin or kiwi. 2. flying ones but coded to dont fly (aka flamingo or crane) like pelicans or shoebills. and 3. small birds for the walkthrough exibith like macaws, toucans or loris, the same model but with small edits and different skins, similar to butterflies.
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We also said mammals will never come to exhibits but bats happened
 

Nausicaaa 22

Nausicaaa 22
Spartan_Squat said:
I said this in one leaf video: At this point, the only birds I can see are these 3 types: 1. flightless ones like rhea, rock hopper penguin or kiwi. 2. flying ones but coded to dont fly (aka flamingo or crane) like pelicans or shoebills. and 3. small birds for the walkthrough exibith like macaws, toucans or loris, the same model but with small edits and different skins, similar to butterflies.
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Actually the similar model with some edits and / or new skins sounds good for me. Animals like Macaws, Tucans and hornbills are perfect for this. The macaws are very similar, and in game, they can perfectly add the blue and golden, scarlet, hyacinth, militar and Spix in one pack if they want, they only need to do some touches to sizes, model, sounds and colours and boom, 5 new macaws to your parks. Similar thing with the Tucans: Toco, Rainbow, Channel Billed / Hornbills: Indian, Rhinoceros, African ones / Cockatoos: Sulphur-Crested, Palm, Galah, Yellow Tailed...
 

NachoB

NachoB
What if the spring DLC is a scenery pack with a set to build aviaries/enclosed habitats more easily and different enrichment ítems for perching and flying? I doubt they will make it full on birds but maybe two arboreal mammals say a monkey and a cat, fossa or civet and two habitat birds that could use the new enrichment plus the WE with small flying birds like lorikeets, finches or hummingbirds.
 

Nausicaaa 22

Nausicaaa 22
NachoB said:
What if the spring DLC is a scenery pack with a set to build aviaries/enclosed habitats more easily and different enrichment ítems for perching and flying? I doubt they will make it full on birds but maybe two arboreal mammals say a monkey and a cat, fossa or civet and two habitat birds that could use the new enrichment plus the WE with small flying birds like lorikeets, finches or hummingbirds.
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Sounds good for me. I think we don't need more scenery packs, but this idea sounds good
 

jcp011c

jcp011c
NachoB said:
What if the spring DLC is a scenery pack with a set to build aviaries/enclosed habitats more easily and different enrichment ítems for perching and flying? I doubt they will make it full on birds but maybe two arboreal mammals say a monkey and a cat, fossa or civet and two habitat birds that could use the new enrichment plus the WE with small flying birds like lorikeets, finches or hummingbirds.
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That would be a great pack IMO. The idea of an arboreal pack has been tossed around a bit as an animal pack, but making it a scenery pack with aviary building sets could also work. Getting a monkey would be a good addition. I would think the Sloth would be a contender too, but if the scenery theme is bird related, they'd probably want a headliner to promote that theme, and I feel like if and when the sloth does come, it's going to be a headliner for a pack.

But maybe a Howler Monkey, Brazilian Porcupine, a couple of birds that are capable of flight in real life but not in game, and maybe an exhibit set of Macaws?
 

yoav_r

yoav_r

jcp011c

jcp011c
As we're getting into hopefully the last third of the wait for news and reveals on what will be coming, I've thought to put down a list of potential themes and a possible headliner/big name seller/popular animal included. I know headliners are not always the most popular animal from our perspective, but for the most part the animals being used as the headliner are usually the most generally well known. Aside from SEA using the Sun Bear, and I suspect that's because of the leak a few months beforehand, and North America using the Beaver I think they all have been anyways, though the Koala and Kangaroo probably are so close in general familiarity that either could have been the headliner. I'm going to try to keep to that idea with some exceptions. So here goes:

Rainforest/Tropical - Sloth - not sure on exact species - I'm thinking this theme is the most likely theme we'll see sometime this year but I'm not sure it'll be the Q1 pack.
Islands - Tasmanian Devil - very hard to pick between this and the Kiwi.
a "Cold/Ice" type of theme, for lack of a real snazzy title - Walrus
Highlands - Wolverine (it's time for a mustelid to headline and the Wolverine is probably in the second tier of general familiarity)
Petting Zoo - Rabbit - not sure on exact species
Farmlands - Sheltland Pony, though this theme may be combined with the petting zoo idea.
Dry Lands - Crested Porcupine - this is more Savannah or Plains and scrubland, not Desert - but i think the theme is too close to Grasslands IMO
Desert - Dromedary
Avian - Toucan or Bald Eagle - potentially several birds honestly.
Nocturnal - our friends the Tasmanian Devil and the Kiwi both make good choices, though I suspect we won't see this type of theme, it too close to Twilight's theme.
Coastal - Walrus again
Arboreal - Sloth again
West Asia - Golden Jackal -- hear me out here, despite having soo many canines, we've not had one headline a pack as yet. Probably would not be the most well known, but could give us our final Canid.
India - Indian Cobra. A cobra is the only standard exhibit animal I think could headline a pack.

Any other ideas to add? I think that covers most of the more commonly discussed ideas but I could be missing something.
 
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