Spring dlc Speculation 2023

KönigDerKaffeebohnen

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jcp011c said:
let's be honest. Did anyone ever expect them to be the hot take animal of 2023? Once -if- they make it in, we can move on to this and pick another controversial animal to debate about.
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The thing about the red river hog is that it being a good inclusion isnt whats debated about it, im quite sure everybody would atleast not mind them.
The thing that sparks the fire is that the red river hog which is a nice animal but doesnt bring anything to the table besides their looks gets put over animals with actual open gameplay niches.
Its simply the posterchild for "yes you are nice, but you arnt needed" which is very weird for an animal with that much adoration.
On the other hand a leopard was for a long time among the top wishlist animals, so its not like its a first or worst as it atleast looks unique.
Rn we have so many actual open niches desperatly needing some representation like waterfowl, pelicans, non crocodilian habitat reptiles or non strictly tropical pigs and the red river hog simply is the by far most popular "redundant" (still its neat, 8/10 animal, but its niche is allready coverd) animal and the most obviously contrasted by similar just as good if not better animals that add something to far less represented areas and add pigs to new biomes (desert new world for the collared peccary, eurasian temperate and boreal forest for the wild boar). Couple that with the talk lately about what animals of each taxonomic groups are better picks then others and you got everything you need for something good to be suddenly discussed in a rather negative light.
 

yoav_r

yoav_r
My two cents: The Red River hog to the suines is what the Amur leopard was to the panthers. A great and necessary inclusion that is very common in zoos, but with major overlap in every aspect but look to an existing game animal, the warthog and siberian tiger respectively.

So every opinion on this subject is valid and subjective, depending on how much each person needs the RRH personally.
 
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jcp011c

jcp011c
Captain Callum said:
I do hope it's the three toed sloth next , that's a hot take animal I can get behind
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Yeeees. I’m all for any sloth but prefer the three-toed because it’s what comes to my mind when i think “sloth”. No amount of facts regarding captivity numbers or uniquenesses with the two-toed sloths will change that. But it’s a case where ultimately I’ll be happy with whichever one we get so long as we get one.
 

Marvinb

Marvinb
jcp011c said:
Yeeees. I’m all for any sloth but prefer the three-toed because it’s what comes to my mind when i think “sloth”. No amount of facts regarding captivity numbers or uniquenesses with the two-toed sloths will change that. But it’s a case where ultimately I’ll be happy with whichever one we get so long as we get one.
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I mean if they go through the trouble of getting a sloth to work in PZ they might aswell slap a different skin on it and give us both :D.
Also Fun Fact: Did you no that the two living sloth species arent closely related at all? They are both closer to the gigantic ice age ground sloths than to each other and evolved their super unique lifestyle independently from eachother.
 
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markun

markun
nutrit said:
Famous creators like Rudi or DeLady thinks that substitutes I have presented are great and I just thought it’s worth mentioning.
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I honestly don’t see what that has to do with anything. Their views have no greater validity than anyone else in this community.

EDIT: to clarify, I’m not saying your views aren’t valid, just making a general point that I don’t think it’s particularly healthy for us as a community to say “but X content creator thinks it’s good”. So what? Their views aren’t special or more valid than the rest of us here.
 
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yoav_r

yoav_r
nutrit said:
Wait wasn’t the Red deer the major overlap in every aspect with the Fallow deer? 😉😊
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Actually yes. There's a few pairs like this in the game. I personally would've preferred the Pere david's deer, but it is as I said subjective.

I think one major difference is that the red deer came as a gift, which everyone expectrd to be much more of a reskin in the vein of the b&w ruffed lemur. The amur leopard came in a paid dlc, as is likely to be the case with the RRH (obviously I'd love them as anniversary gifts but I don't think it is likely)
 

DarthQuell

DarthQuell
Magnolia said:
What do we all think the odds are on not getting the African Crested Porcupine but the indian, or maybe even the much more different prehensile tailed porcupine?
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Never tell me the odds...

Honestly, I'm not sure. I think the crested porcupine is most likely, and I feel like we'd get the African species
 

SpookDoc

SpookDoc
Magnolia said:
What do we all think the odds are on not getting the African Crested Porcupine but the indian, or maybe even the much more different prehensile tailed porcupine?
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I think if there’s anything we can actually “expect” to see in Planet Zoo’s 2023 releases, it’s the arrival of at least the top 3 requested species on the meta-list. It’s obvious now that Frontier is basing over half of each DLC roster on it. So be expecting to see a T. Devil, an Old World Porcupine, and a Sloth at some point this year. And likely at least one of them in the coming Spring DLC.
 

YesIndeed

YesIndeed
yoav_r said:
My two cents: The Red River hog to the suines is what the Amur leopard was to the panthers. A great and necessary inclusion that is very common in zoos, but with major overlap in every aspect but look to an existing game animal, the warthog and siberian tiger respectively.

So every opinion on this subject is valid and subjective, depending on how much each person needs the RRH personally.
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Leopard was kinda worse though cause the average person dosent know the difference between them and a jaguar.
 
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