That's true
@gabeluna27. The last time size alterations happened in this game was in update 1.4. It was a big change but I also noted from the developer livestream that it was a really big effort on the team, I recalled that they stressed how difficult it was to make the change due to animations, modeling, skin artwork upscale, and much more.
Honestly, it was a major reason why I held off this idea for so long, but I still at the very least wish to voice it out. The new dinosaur was designed to be the largest in the game, and I only wish to see their vision come true. It just does not really meet expectations they placed in the ingen database, the official website, and the tour calling her the largest animal to have ever walked the earth. Giving it the title of the largest land animal to ever walk the earth would invite players to compare the titanosaur to the other large dinosaurs, the brachiosaurus and mamenchisaurus. As it is, it does feel underwhelming, but I only wish for one more upsize, for this dinosaur, so that it captures that niche of the largest organism in the game rather well. Which is why I am so thankful of the number of members who liked this thread and voice out their thoughts as well, it shows that it is not a thought I experience alone.
One note I do want to add is that the Jurassic World Evolution wiki has included the ingame scales of each dinosaur in their height and length just recently. I wish to showcase how their sizes are described in the ingen database and how they are in the game.
In the ingen database, these are the data of the 3 largest dinosaurs in the game:
Brachiosaurus
Height 6.4m, length 18.8m, 55 tons
Mamenchisaurus
Height 5.7m length 26.0m, 70 tons
Dreadnoughtus
Height 6.0m length 26.0m, 65.4 tons
It is safe to assume that the heights that are registered in the game are the height of the dinosaur's shoulders in respect to the ground.
Here are the ingame data of the 3 largest dinosaurs in the Jurassic World Evolution Wiki:
Brachiosaurus
Height 16.11m, length 18.77m, 55 tons
Mamenchisaurus
Height 16.46m length 26.03m, 70 tons
Dreadnoughtus
Height 15.82m length 18.58m, 65.4 tons
(edited Oct 4th, I accidentally written 18.85m for the dreadnoughtus' actual length).
These results are how they are seen in the game. I know for a fact that the INGEN database data would not always correlate to the ingame models of the dinosaurs, but I wish to use it in this case as the lengths of the brachiosaurus and mamenchisaurus are accurate to their ingame models, so it is best to have the dreadnoughtus be similar to the mamenchisaurus when compared to their lengths.
I will post a recent photo I made of their scales to showcase how the scaling should work:
The length of these dinosaurs are based on their ingame base models. Which are obviously different depending on the actual length as the models will either be vertical like the brachiosaurus, or more horizontal like the mamenchisaurus.
The truth is, that if the dreadnoughtus were to be scaled up to the length of 26.0m with it's vertically posed base model, she would be too big to work in the game. This would make her nearly 40% bigger than her current model! This is too big, as it would clash with the incubation door, ingame gates, and monorail tracks as shown in the first post of this thread. Which showcases why it would make sense to downscale the dreadnoughtus from her actual length by nearly 8 meters. However, this downscale a bit too much and there is evidence that could push her scale up a bit more so that she could be imposing in size but not be game breaking in technicalities.
The first is the pose of the mamenchisaurus. Despite her base model having a more horizontal look, she has a more vertical ingame pose so that she could fit within the incubation lab, and reach the feeders in the game without taking much room in terms of length. With that in mind, lets compare the dreadnoughtus to the mamenchisaurus, not from their head to the tip of the tail, but from the front legs to the tip of the tail. This area is an area mostly unaffected by the change of poses these dinosaurs would alter within the game.
Having the dreadnoughtus scaled up by roughly 15% would make her new length 21.37 meters and her new height 18.19 meters. And if we were to visually see the dreadnoughtus turn its neck angle to match that of the mamenchisaurus, she is only ever shorter in length to the mamenchisaurus by roughly 2 meters. This is great as this dinosaur could have a more imposing size as its niche thanks to her more muscular anatomy, while the mamenchisaurus is still the queen of the long necked sauropods and would still be taller looking than the dreadnoughtus.
Overall, I wish to have the new size be a compromise of having the dreadnoughtus be the largest in the game while still respecting the ingame mechanics they have placed. Just recently they have released the newest smallest dinosaur, the homalocephale, and that was super awesome as it tested the limits the game has by how small a dinosaur could be. I wish to have the dreadnoughtus be the dinosaur that pushes the limits of the largest dinosaur as there is still room for growth and the potential is there. I do hope this makes sense and I thank everyone reading and staying up to date with this thread.