Modified from the post I made on the initial thread, I think the bulk of the missing JWD roster will implemented so they've been left out:
(as an aside, I find the Early Cretaceous pack's 2/1/1 split very unsatisfactory; 3/1/1 would be much easier to take in)
Land Creatures (25)
Limiting myself to eight theropods that I'll get out of the way first.
Segisaurus has been omitted, they probably only put it on the park map in the first place because they got it mixed up with
Allosaurus (don't ask). Cenozoic land mammals have been left out as well,
Smilodon being a no-show in the
Camp Cretaceous-themed DLC sets a precedent for them not being represented any time soon.
- Rugops - a Deinonychus-sized, pacifist abelisaur, what's not to love?
- Ornithomimus - on one condition: if it's fully feathered. If it's scaly, then it'll just be another lame, samey ornithomimid; I've been pining against this creature being implemented since JWE1 and am only giving it a chance now, don't blow it
- Mononykus - would need to be feathered imo
- Beipiaosaurus (added 9/13/2022, replacing Australovenator) - more therizinosaur representation, another animal that would absolutely require feathers
- Caudipteryx - and this would absolutely definitely NEED to be feathered; think a non-avian turkey
- Unenlagia - if Spinoraptor doesn't come back, it could take its mantle as a fish-eating paravian, and even if it does come back, Unenlagia isn't particularly similar to any other raptors/raptor-like dinosaurs in the game. Optimally, it would be feathered like the Pyroraptor, it could work as an alternative to it but with a less weird face
- Plateosaurus - I find it odd that the game has no non-sauropod sauropodomorph representation; Mussaurus, Massospondylus and Yunnanosaurus are strong picks as well, but I think Plateosaurus should be prioritized
- Europasaurus - I'll admit there's bias here because it's a personal favorite dinosaur of mine, but perhaps it could contrast the other two small sauropods by having a more brachiosaur-like posture
- Brontosaurus - to bounce off of the gray, wrinkly, blobby Apatosaurus, I can see a Brontosaurus (yes, it's valid, don't you dare start) being colorful and sinewy with interesting patterns and combat prowess; think the various sauropods in Prehistoric Planet
- Edmontonia - the only ankylosaur I want to see from here on out; exaggerate the spikes
- Hypsilophodon - a little ornithopod-like herbivore, a little smaller than Homalocephale
- Psittacosaurus - like Yutyrannus and Ornithomimus, on one condition - if it has tail quills
- Protoceratops - it would need to be upscaled to be able to tussle with Velociraptor
- Einiosaurus - personal bias is at play here again, my favorite ceratopsid after Pachyrhinosaurus
- Saurolophus - the game has a glut of hadrosaurs, and the majority of them are lambeosaurines (Edmontosaurus and Maiasaura v. Corythosaurus, Olorotitan, Parasaurolophus and Tsintaosaurus); Saurolophus beats out Shantungosaurus as my pick for saurolophine representation as it is more distinct from Edmontosaurus
- Scutosaurus - a bear-sized, armored and kind of round primitive reptile
- Desmatosuchus (added 8/3/2023, replacing Deinocheirus) - think the Triassic, pseudosuchian equivalent of a nodosaur
- Simosuchus - upscaled a bit so it would be easier to tranq, preferably; teeny-tiny herbivorous crocodylomorph
- Cotylorhynchus - I may have described Scutosaurus as round, but this creature - by God is it round
- Lisowicia (added 8/3/2023, replacing Yutyrannus) - huge dicynodont to contrast with Lystrosaurus
- Inostrancevia - my personal pick for gorgonopsid representation
- Moschorhinus - whether or not it is accurate, I would make it venomous, similar to what has been proposed for the too-small-for-consideration-in-my-opinion Euchambersia
- Barinasuchus - a terrestrial crocodile relative that lived way later than it had any right to, and perhaps the biggest land carnivore of Cenozoic; it would be fun as a big, quadrupedal carnivorous reptile
- Gastornis - a giant fowl, like an herbivorous alternative to:
- Kelenken - though it probably wasn't really the largest phorusrhacid, of all of the "terror birds" out there, it's the one I'd like to see be represented
Lagoon Creatures (13)
- Atopodentatus - a weird, herbivorous marine reptile that would probably require either a new feeder or more in-depth lagoon editing with seaweed paleobotany and such
- Temnodontosaurus - macropredatory ichthyosaur
- Dolichorhynchops - perhaps it could be streamlined a bit to emphasize how fast polycotylids may have been
- Moanasaurus - to make up for the Tylosaurus. Frowny face.
- Titanoboa - the second of this list's water lizards alongside Moanasaurus, in this case a Cenozoic one; from what I understand it was almost, if not fully aquatic
- Liaoningosaurus - whether or not the theory holds water, the mere notion of a foot-long, fish-eating, aquatic ankylosaur is irresistible to me - they could be like swimming homalocephales
- Hesperornis - it being a strict lagoon animal might be a stretch, but still - a feathered swimmer would be interesting
- Basilosaurus - Cenozoic, sure, but it would mesh brilliantly with the other lagoon creatures
- Odobenocetops (added 8/3/2023, replacing Archelon) - utterly weird whale with a tusk
- Leedsichthys (added 8/3/2023, replacing Dunkleosteus) - Jurassic whale-fish
- Megalodon shark - would be a downright bizarre omission if the game ever expands to fish and/or Cenozoic fauna
- Hybodus - a relatively small shark
- Parapuzosia (added 8/3/2023, replacing Shonisaurus) - great big ammonite
Aviary Creatures (10)
If I didn't have a personal limit to how small aviary creatures should be, I would have at least one anurognathid in this category - if anything here is implemented, I very well may add one or two anyway. I'd personally like to see every pterosaur from here on out be depicted with pycnofibers but I know that's unrealistic.
That being said, I'm averse to new flying animals being added at all until they and aviaries in general get a huge overhaul; the amount of homogeny among the current flyers, including making a frugivore (
Tapejara) and a land-competent macropredator (
Quetzalcoatlus) piscivores that have no ability to walk and are generally behaviorally indistinct from every other pterosaur in the game, is insane. I tolerated them doing this with
Dsungaripterus to an extent, but I'm putting my foot down with
Quetzalcoatlus; its implementation - indeed, the implementation of almost all of the pterosaurs - is shameful.
Also, let us put meat feeders in aviaries for god's sake.
8/3/2023 addendum: The
Jeholopterus is wonderful and a good step in the right direction.
- Caviramus - it could be distinct as being hyper-omnivorous, it could be able to eat from pretty much every source of food in the game
- Rhamphorhynchus - only a bit bigger than Caviramus with a pointy beak and huge teeth; obligate piscivore, no hunting goats
- Pterodactylus - about as small as I want to see aviary creatures get, 1m wingspan
- Tupandactylus - yes, yes, I know it's extremely similar to Tapejara, but given how that pterosaur's execution in the base game is, I'd like to see a properly-represented - read, frugivorous and preferably semi-arboreal - tapejarine
- Thalassodromeus - a good candidate for a smaller (about Cearadactylus-sized) predatory pterosaur; it would eat from meat feeders and go for live bait
- Istiodactylus - even ignoring its odd face, it could be distinct among pterosaurs by eating from meat feeders but not hunting anything
- Hatzegopteryx - the following traits were previously just ideals, but with how they're botching its cousin, these are requirements as far as I'm concerned now - it should be relatively terrestrial, eat from meat feeders, hunt goats and anything categorized as "small", fight medium carnivores/defensive herbivores and harass medium-sized prey. If it can't walk and it can only eat fish and goats, don't even bother.
- Nyctosaurus - like a tiny Pteranodon with a big quasi-antler slapped on its head - like with Rugops, what's not to love? (9/13/2022 ed: if they implement it like how they did Barbaridactylus, there'd be plenty not to love)
- Archaeopteryx - would need to be upscaled to even larger than Wellnhoferia to be viable, but I think it warrants inclusion for its relevance to paleontology and the study of evolution; would eat from meat feeders
- Pelagornis - massive seabird with a weird beak
Hybrid Creatures (2)
As "original, creative hybrids that aren't just copy/pasted from the stinking Ludia games" probably isn't a valid option for the meta-list, I won't consider any hybrids here but the two hybrids with in-canon street cred.
- Stegoceratops - make it closer to the concept art design, don't just resell the Wu DLC one
- Sino-Spino - yes, it sucks, but it's canon
Skins/Variants (8)
The BaBR
Allosaurus, TLW
Mamenchisaurus and a fuzzy
Dimorphodon have been omitted because they shouldn't be skins or variants, they should replace the Great Value versions of the same designs we already have.
8/3/2023 addendum:
- Black and red/Demon Carnotaurus (JW:FK/JWD)
- Pteranodon 1997 (TLW)
- Little Eatie (CC) - if they can add Big Eatie, where the heck's Little Eatie?
- Baryonyx 2015 (old JW website)
- Troodon 1993 (JP:TG)
- Herrerasaurus 1993 (JP:TG)
- Carcharodontosaurus 2003 (JP:OG)
- Dilophosaurus 1990 (novel)
