Spring dlc Speculation 2023

ElectricMonk

ElectricMonk
Marvinb said:
Something ive noticed that we almost never talk about the free update when spectulating :D
Do you guys have any theories/wishes?
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it’s tricky because there’s often no unifying theme and there’s LOTS that could be done but no real way to guess what will come next…. Consequently, I have no idea what’s coming, but I’d like:

  • User definded climatic parameters (temperature range and weather event probability) -at least in sandbox
  • More triangles - especially mesh but really to match all the other panels too.
  • Mix-and match terrain paints (choose palette from any biome)
  • 2d art shapes
  • 2d animal silhouettes
  • Individual animal personalities (hasn’t been mentioned for a while but would be great)
  • Smaller exhibits
  • Barriers or gates that only stop animals (not staff) within habitats
  • More eucalypts
  • Plushies (shop)
  • More current pieces made flexi-colour
 

Swiftie_Midnights_

Swiftie_Midnights_
Marvinb said:
Something ive noticed that we almost never talk about the free update when spectulating :D
Do you guys have any theories/wishes?
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Interactions between Animals and Keepers: for example, like instead of the keeper getting into habitat like the animals can't attack you, the Keeper going to some point and then the Animal going after the Keeper and then the Keeper doing a talk about the animals and for example, Hippos so the keeper just would give to the Hippo an watermelon

Variations, Shapes and Heights for Exhibit: such an essential update, it would makes the exhibit much more usable and fun to use.

Animal Show: Educator taking Animal from the habitat and then put this animal on table/platform doing a speech and then the Educator allow people's to touch the Animals, and it also would work with the Educator Exhibit Demonstrations.

Remodel Animals: West African Lion, Malayan Tapir, Snow Leopard, Common Warthog and Timber Wolf

Increase the Size: Aldabra Giant Tortoise, Galapagos Giant Tortoise, American Bison, Male California Sea Lion and Spotted Hyena

Multiple Gates

More Animals Behaviour

Increase the amount of variations for the animals for sandbox mode: that you will have options to turn on or off to get any variations and if you click on it will give you options how you want to increase like low (like now in sandbox mode), medium, high and very high. that's a least how I think it could work

Playgrounds

and more Foliage, Rocks, Logs and Scenery...
 
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avietar

avietar
For the free update, I'd LOVE custom animal selection in Sandbox!

We really need to be able to easily get animals of our desired characteristics in Sandbox. That's why it is Sandbox, you should be able to make your dream come true. But the animals are far too limited right now, and you cannot get the animals with your desired characteristics.

If I want a breeding pair of black gold star jaguars, or a herd of albino giraffes with a 'rescued' origin, or a 100% size polar bear, I should be able to get that in Sandbox at least.
 

FoxyDee

FoxyDee
Look what I got for this week in my office desk calendar. Could it be a sign? I wish we would get Coatis soon. 🥹
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markun

markun
Marvinb said:
Something ive noticed that we almost never talk about the free update when spectulating :D
Do you guys have any theories/wishes?
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I really, really, really want greater flexibility in maps, map skirts and biome textures.

It’s impossible to build anything in a flatland area, for example, apart from the Asia temperate map and that has an odd grass colour.

I want to select from a selection of biome textures or at least one palate - so switch a grassland map to the temperate biome palate for example.

The game is now extremely limited for me because of this. I can’t make a Finnish zoo, can’t make a Dutch zoo.

I would also like manual temperature control in sandbox.
 

jcp011c

jcp011c
Alkaline Andy said:
At this point, my biggest "wish" is for them to implement scaling for building items and foliage. Allowing us to re-size items would maintain the game's already pretty limitless possibilities... While making the creation of certain things infinitely easier (and without having awkward pieces that dangle/protrude out from the build itself).

Beyond that? Allowing us to re-name menu and shop items would be a nice way for customization, as would the addition of different-sized and shaped "billboard" items. Oh! And implementing some of the "fences/railings" off the elevated paths as their own unique building pieces. They already have them modeled. Why not implement them as scenery?

I'm sure there's all sorts of ideas beyond these that would be just as cool... The fun of it for me is looking at the feature update to see how it might apply to the DLC content. The two are usually at least somewhat correlated.

EDIT: And I definitely wouldn't say "no" to new mesh pieces (e.g., triangular shapes and smaller meshed lines). And new rocks, foliage, etc. are always welcome!
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That this would all be amazing to get. The scaling the size of objects? I don't use this term lightly, but that would be game changing at least from the building perspective.
 

Captain Callum

Captain Callum
markun said:
I really, really, really want greater flexibility in maps, map skirts and biome textures.

It’s impossible to build anything in a flatland area, for example, apart from the Asia temperate map and that has an odd grass colour.

I want to select from a selection of biome textures or at least one palate - so switch a grassland map to the temperate biome palate for example.

The game is now extremely limited for me because of this. I can’t make a Finnish zoo, can’t make a Dutch zoo.

I would also like manual temperature control in sandbox.
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I can't actually see much more done with the biome skirts especially with greater variation. The heavily requested city biome skirt was reduced to the lowest effort buildings I have ever seen on one of the career island maps and even then that wasn't actually a city skirt at that. As much as I would love skirts for each possible country I just use the European farmland map for every zoo I do and make custom scenery myself which blocks out the actual skirt
 

TuchA

TuchA
Marvinb said:
Something ive noticed that we almost never talk about the free update when spectulating :D
Do you guys have any theories/wishes?
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I think it doesn't make sense how we speculate about playgrounds, behavior, and there are dioramas in the update. Now at least it was.
I was reluctant at first, but the works of the community are amazing!
I also want to try it, but I have no idea 🙈

Regarding the .lqa file, I am looking forward to it. This news made my day better :love:
 

TuchA

TuchA
jcp011c said:
Well now I'm wondering if it will actually be a March 28th release date.
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The .lqa was updated on November 22. Grassland was released on December 13. Well there is a chance, but I would bet on April 4. Especially since we are expecting a special stream, which will probably be next week. The only question is whether the stream will be?
 

TuchA

TuchA
MMaire said:
Usually there is announcement of the update how many days later outsource_lqa update ?
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Depends, but as a rule, on average, the .lqa update was a month before the package was released.
During this time Frontier teases the community and they reveal the pets, write a post about the update, run a special stream, etc. Conservation DLC was announced first, only then Update 10, also there is no specific pattern.
 
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