You shouldn't have been. That was never a possibility, and I know it was explained by several people as to why.
Third Anniversary Stuff
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Maybe I skipped in the thread why the reason, but like i said im happy with the deer.
The walkthrough exhibit only came to our games a few weeks ago with the bat. A lot of people probably only bought the Twilight Pack for the bat. It makes no sense to take away that sales edge by giving away a flying animal for free only a couple of weeks later.
Thanks for the info mate! But Im still thinking why its free?
Do you mean why the walk-through exhibit was in the free update?
So they can use it for new species in future DLCs. This way you don't have to own the twilight pack to get a parrot or something in a future pack.
Same reason as all the other stuff we got for free in every update, such as the underwater plant feeder.
You mean that this is not tied to a specific dlc like the climbing rock is just for the ibex or the ant hill is just for the anteater?
Sad because before the patch the dall sheep used the ibex mountain enrichment.
Was originally planned though to be also used by the Aardvark but sadly they forgot about it
Not true. It was just added as a Tag by Mistake. I wish though they would actually update it someday so they can use it too
Frontier mentioned that? Because it would be cool that others will use.
As others already have written. Giving us things like the Walkthrough exhibit, the brachiation frame or the climbing rock (was it in the free update, I am not sure now?) allows Frontier to add animals using this Items/buildings in further DLC. For example birds, Lar Gibbon/Spider Monkey or Markhor/Barbary Sheep/Takin. It would be cool if animals from the base game or earlier DLC like Orang Utans or Dall Sheep can use this, too. But I could imagine that coding them for new Items is more difficult than with new animals but I am really not sure in coding stuff.
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I don't know much about it either, but I assume there's a cost/benefit analysis when it comes to spending man hours on creating new animations for existing rigs. Then again, I would have also assumed that the ibex was built out of the Dall sheep rig, so there ought to be a way to, I don't know, "apply" those animations and rejig them to fit the sheep.
@Iben tends to have an idea about this stuff, since I believe it's what he does for a living.
Yes, it was mentioned once. Wish they would still plan on implementing it and it would be absolutely great if Chimpanzees and Bonobos could use it too
Some big Enrichment Update would be great
I personally don't know. I've often wondered it myself, especially given that they have their animation mapper software which would make me think they could do it quite efficiently, but there's probably a reason why they haven't done it. Just can't seem to think of it myself
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