Summer DLC Speculation 2023

DarthQuell

DarthQuell
Marvinb said:
Yeah true but they probably delayed the Twilight pack so it can release around halloween. I rememver there was a longer wait than usual between conservation and twilight
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Maybe. But, as Yoav said, animal packs seem to be released relatively sooner than scenery. My guess is that animals are easier to recreate than scenery because the scenery needs so much detail to look good in every aspect; authenticity, usage, and even culture...

In the case of animals, it seems like it's easier to change the skin and tweak the model
 

jcp011c

jcp011c
Marvinb said:
Yeah true but they probably delayed the Twilight pack so it can release around halloween. I rememver there was a longer wait than usual between conservation and twilight
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Just by a couple of weeks. Both the Africa and Conservation pack released in late June. The NAAP released in early October, Twilight in mid October.
 

yoav_r

yoav_r
DarthQuell said:
Maybe. But, as Yoav said, animal packs seem to be released relatively sooner than scenery. My guess is that animals are easier to recreate than scenery because the scenery needs so much detail to look good in every aspect; authenticity, usage, and even culture...

In the case of animals, it seems like it's easier to change the skin and tweak the model
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Also note how relatively fast modders can release high quality animal mods. I assume that the more clone-y animals in packs take about the same time.
 

Spartan_Squat

Spartan_Squat
jcp011c said:
Thinking it'll be late June. The last two years, we got packs on a fairly regular schedule. The only deviation was the SEA pack in March and the Wetlands/Tropical being in April. The other three were June/October/December. I mean, it could be July of course, but probably June.

Which, that means we could possibly get new update/DLC news in a little over two months. Which is exciting. I love the shorter waits., it's like not even really having explored the new DLC fully, and then we get more. Actually with my decreased play time, I've only really explored the main animals I wanted in the last three packs, so I have a lot of catching up to do anyways.
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The wetland and tropical beign in april was mostly for easter. We always have a dlc in the easter week. For summer dlc, Im seeing mid-late june for the release
 

jcp011c

jcp011c
Spartan_Squat said:
The wetland and tropical beign in april was mostly for easter. We always have a dlc in the easter week. For summer dlc, Im seeing mid-late june for the release
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Oh yes, that's true. All first of the year packs have been right before Easter. Kind of weird thing to have as a pattern, but a pattern it is!
 

AlexSea

AlexSea
I know the idea of a Desert Animal Pack has been tossed around by quite a few people, myself included, but is it too similar to the Grasslands Animal Pack? There's a decent bit of overlap of deserts and grasslands, especially with the Emu, Caracal, and Striped Hyena. I'm not sure if there's enough viable desert animals left for an animal pack without it getting repetitive. The Sahara desert region will only get us so far, and with the general consensus being that arid Australia is complete, what does that leave? The North American deserts such as the Mojave and Sonoran deserts and the Gobi desert barely have any good species at all.
 

SanRazo618

SanRazo618
Feeling either Desert/ Drylands or Mountains/ Highlands animal packs

Drylands:

Dromedary
African Crested Porcupine
Addax
Yellow-Footed Rock Wallaby
African Spurred Tortoise
Short Beaked Echidna
Roadrunner/ Peccary
Exhibit: Thorny Devil or Vulture/ Condor

Highlands:

Spectacled Bear
Hamadryas Baboon
Takin
Wolverine
Tree Kangaroo (Idk if this is a stretch for mountains)
Markhor
Patagonian Mara
Exhibit: Hopefully some bird lol
 

Fallax

Fallax
Drylands or Highlands, we can probably get the aoudad in both... I'm going to start an aoudad fan club.
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Aramar

Aramar
AlexSea said:
I know the idea of a Desert Animal Pack has been tossed around by quite a few people, myself included, but is it too similar to the Grasslands Animal Pack?
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I'm not referring to you specifically, but I've seen this comment made by several people. It's funny that some people think the desert pack would be too similar and close to grassland and then some of them think an island pack with only tropical animals is more likely :ROFLMAO:
 

SanRazo618

SanRazo618
What if frontier adding the Asian water monitor (making lizard swim animations) leads to us getting the marine iguana in an island animal pack? We’ve seen them recycle assets before plenty of times

I know a lot of zoo purists would hate it but I’d be over the moon to have marine iguanas in the game and design incredible habitats for them!
 

DarthQuell

DarthQuell
SanRazo618 said:
What if frontier adding the Asian water monitor (making lizard swim animations) leads to us getting the marine iguana in an island animal pack? We’ve seen them recycle assets before plenty of times

I know a lot of zoo purists would hate it but I’d be over the moon to have marine iguanas in the game and design incredible habitats for them!
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Not bad, actually. Maybe add diving to the Komodo dragon and Nile monitor and possibly to tapirs and elephants in the future?

Are there any animals not in-game that could potentially be added that deep dive?
 

Utahraptor104

Utahraptor104
Aramar said:
I'm not referring to you specifically, but I've seen this comment made by several people. It's funny that some people think the desert pack would be too similar and close to grassland and then some of them think an island pack with only tropical animals is more likely :ROFLMAO:
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a wild guess, but this doesn't happen, because there are pretty much no notorious island animals that aren't from tropical islands?

idk man, outside of japan there isn't a single island animal that isn't from a "tropical island", given that the vast majority of non-tropical islands don't have a single species that is worth to mention.
 

jcp011c

jcp011c
AlexSea said:
I know the idea of a Desert Animal Pack has been tossed around by quite a few people, myself included, but is it too similar to the Grasslands Animal Pack? There's a decent bit of overlap of deserts and grasslands, especially with the Emu, Caracal, and Striped Hyena. I'm not sure if there's enough viable desert animals left for an animal pack without it getting repetitive. The Sahara desert region will only get us so far, and with the general consensus being that arid Australia is complete, what does that leave? The North American deserts such as the Mojave and Sonoran deserts and the Gobi desert barely have any good species at all.
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I think deserts would be distinct enough from Grasslands it wouldn’t be sn issue. I think many themes would be too similar to Grasslands but a deserts theme isnt among them. Besides, Savanna, Plains, Drylands, Scrublands all seem a bit too similar to Grasslands but that’s not stopped people, myself included, from suggesting them. Of course of those Drylands is the most vague and could include deserts and the more arid dwelling animals of those other regions
 

yoav_r

yoav_r
Guys I'd be glad if you could help this post get to Frontier:
forums.frontier.co.uk

Hippos and White Rhinos should not fight

Currently they can't be held together. I tried recreating my local Safari zoo, and was dissapointed to discover they will fight. Here is a picture of all animals together at the zoo: Hippos in general work well in Safari habitats with all animals ingame, so I don't understand why the rhinos...
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It's about the hippos and rhinos still fighting even though just now the hippo got enrichment from the RRH.

Let us build consistent safari habitats.
 
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