You may be best to read this article (link below) written by people who played the pre-alpha game and then say again if you are disappointed or not because obviously you are taking the wrong conclusions from a pre-rendered trailer.
Planet Zoo will feature "the most realistic animals in any game"
It's a huge claim, but one that could actually be true. Frontier's working on another entry for the Planet franchise, a…
www.eurogamer.net
You may be best to read this article (link below) written by people who played the pre-alpha game and then say again if you are disappointed or not because obviously you are taking the wrong conclusions from a pre-rendered trailer.
Planet Zoo will feature "the most realistic animals in any game"
It's a huge claim, but one that could actually be true. Frontier's working on another entry for the Planet franchise, a…
I read the entirety and... Animals sleep in caves (As in Zoo Tycoon Ultimate Collection) and not in real buildings (Backstages). No traces of aviaries, greenhouses.
If you have to respect the exact needs of animals like in the first zoo tycoon it will be painful to create a beautiful enclosure but to be forced to put a big game in the middle...
I sincerely hope I am wrong and that I will be very pleasantly surprised by the quality of the game. But for the moment what has been announced (Apart from the management of genetics and reproduction, lifespan, personalization of each animal...) not look like a real zoo.
super excited for this game! seriously! after watching the documentary Our Planet I am so happy this game's central theme is also about conservation. We should educate everyone that we can about saving the planet and I am proud we can do it through the medium of a video game. I have high hopes for Planet Zoo! 
Joël
Volunteer Moderator
Perhaps you can build a backstage night enclosure around the cave to at least simulate that animals sleep inside.
We will learn more about Planet Zoo in the upcoming months
I want to purchase an early access version too, just like with Planet Coaster!!
While I have not worked in a zoo, I was incredibly lucky to spend a two week Co-Op placement for my college degree at a larger zoo in their Kid Zoo/Outreach department. It had been my dream since the age of 5 to be a Zoo Keeper, so I got my hands on every book, PDF and website about zoos to prepare, but the universe had other plans for me. I think the big thing we need to remember is that we are seeing a VERY tiny part of the game right now. They only just announced and with a release of Fall 2019 they can't tell us everything at once or they'd lose our attention until the day of. But knowing that A) the animal will react to terrain caves and B) it uses the Planet Coaster building mechanic (which we can assume has been updated), I don't believe that its ridiculous to suggest that we can't create those backstage areas and that the animals won't recognize them as shelters, we may just have to build them ourselves first and then share them on Steam as a community. We know we're getting spiders, reptiles and birds, and there have been plenty of mentions of "Smaller enclosures/tanks" for them, so I think we will definatley get some of what you and I am looking for, just maybe not all of it. I truly believe that this game will be the closest we get to a realistic zoo game for a good while, we just have to have faith in Frontier.
I am incredibly excited for this game, it's something I truly never thought we would get after Zoo Tycoon for Xbox. Can't wait for June for the newsletters and more information. The fall cannot come soon enough.
Yes via the Steam workshop.
Cool.
An interesting project then would be to recreate an existing park, like San Diego Zoo. Make into a virtual park.
What about VR? Will that be supported? (If it's been mentioned already, I apologize. I'm just lazy right now
)Nothing mentioned about VR.Cool.
An interesting project then would be to recreate an existing park, like San Diego Zoo. Make into a virtual park.
What about VR? Will that be supported? (If it's been mentioned already, I apologize. I'm just lazy right now
Judging by Planet Coaster and Jurassic World Evolution I would doubt it but you never know.
It's so crazy looking back at the announcements of this game. It really does hit a nostalgic bone, makes me super happy. Even look at the terrain and the foliage in the first picture! Feels like a weird mix between PC and PZ, I love it. Crazy to see how far we've come