What are YOUR favourite things about the game so far?

Jakpearl71 · Jun 17, 2018

I have noticed a few moments, or little things that honestly blow my mind.

First off, I’ve realised that dilophosaurus are kept under control (to a degree) by medium sized herbivores. For instance, I have an enclosure with 4 Torosaurus in it, and 3 Dilophosaurus, whenever the Dilo’s comfort starts to drop, they start roaring and spitting at the Torosaurus, which roar and stomp back. After a while, they get intimidated and run off! This is incredible, and is hilarious to watch.

Secondly, I was just hit by a monster storm on Isla Pena, get hammered and after finally tranquilising EVERYTHING I went to check on my Ceratosaurus, when I zoomed in to watch, she was looking up at the transport helicopters carrying limp dinosaurs back to their paddocks! Unbelievable, a touch that wouldn’t mean anything to the game, but certainly something to me.

What about you? Have you guys found anything cool, funny or interesting when playing the game?

Imagin · Jun 17, 2018

I love how astoundingly beautiful the game is. I'm not easily impressed but JWE is honestly breathtaking! I upgraded my video card not long before the game came out and am so glad I did. I'm just learning to use nVidia Ansel Support for screen shots. It is nothing short of spectacular! The realism of the game is so immersive! I don't have a VR headset and have never really even wanted one but this game (which doesn't even support it) makes me want to "be" in the park in VR and walk among my dinosaurs.

I also love the dinosaur interactions. I've seen a lot of complaints about the lack of this but I've also witnessed how good it can be. The other day I was making a bunch of Struthios. I have a gated holding pen on my Hamond Creation Lab so that I can select to move some dinos to other pens rather than release them into gen pop. Anyway, I started getting fence breaks but no dinos escaping. The breaks were all on the same place - in the holding pen. I thought it odd and just kept repairing it. It happened 3 or 4 times and I was starting to think I found a bug in the game until I got a notification of a sick dinosaur. I found a starving struthio in the bushes inside the holding pen with the gate closed. She wasn't the one trying to break out though - if she was she would have gotten out into gen pop and fed. It was the other struthios trying to help her get out. They were breaking the fence for her but because she wasn't the one doing it she never found the hole and didn't get out. It was as if the other struthios "cared" and tried to help her. That really impressed me.

Also, I know some people complain about the shallowness of the game but honestly I don't see it. I'm more into the simulation aspect of it and I think it's just game enough. I don't want to micro-manage and I also don't want to be more side tracked from the challenge of making a stunning 5 star park on every island. I get excited every time I am able to unlock something. I don't like to leave one island until I have unlocked absolutely everything possible there. I don't like to make a new dino until I have 100% of the genome. To me the balance of sim and game is just right. I woudn't want to work any harder. It's all about making the perfect park within the confines of the island given - that is the challenge.

I'm saving Nublar for last - after absolutely everything is unlocked. Maybe I'll wish it was bigger, I hear many griping about that on Reddit, but I feel that with everything available and unlimited money the island itself is the challenge on Nublar. To use every building and make a home for every dinosaur and end up with a pleasing layout. I'm already making plans for it which change every day as I learn more.

Lilo · Jun 17, 2018

When I let my deinonychus out of the hatchery tonight I was checking out some new colours so actually paid attention... the lips(?) quiver when they growl... that was a wow moment for me.

That and the eye pupils moving... My husband isn’t even a management game fan and he wants to play.

Winterwalker · Jun 17, 2018

Research Team Charlie ...

Have heard people complain about unlocks - being a grind and so on - but when you've got three research teams (AND three dig teams) on the case, what's not to like? I even found myself thinking today what a shame it will eventually, inevitably be not to have anything left to research. Go figure.

I really like the maps and the power grid system. I know maps are restrictive if you want one island with all everything on it but as changing islands takes about as long as making a cup of tea does, I don't envisage having one 'everything park' in the end but a five star facility that uses the whole archipelago as themed islands.

Love the dinosaurs, as people have mentioned, the disease mechanics are also really interesting (you'll get no hints from me). The sound of the ranger jeep is great, the radio hilarious and the helicopter flight awesome. I've been going to fetch it then leaving it in a low hover while I release the dino I'm about to sedate. ,The sound of the rotors changes, leaves blow up from the ground and it's a really convincing vehicle.

The best game I've played, ever I really think, partly because it's not exactly how I expected it to be. But my favourite thing about it? I find myself cheering for Costa Rica in the World Cup group stage! (OK OK it's 1-0 to Serbia at the moment but there's still time, and at full time .. dinosaurs!)

Factabulous · Jun 17, 2018

Favourite thing? Probably watching dinos being released and seeing a jeep / helicopter in the background zooming past. And occasionally a guest in the paddock looking almost as shocked as me

Imagin · Jun 17, 2018

I agree! It's all the little extras that really got me too. Nothing has made dinosaurs more real for me than this game. The first time I saw a dracorex released I marveled at it's beauty and how delicately it moved compared to the triceratops who really looked like it had serious weight to it - that's good animation. Someone just power-playing through the game zoomed out most of the time is missing all the best parts!

WR3ND · Jun 17, 2018

Addictive gameplay figuring out what I want to do next and how I want to go about doing it to set up a park just so or to reach certain goals.

Dinos are cool, obviously, but rather one-dimensional as being related to park management in general, though they do have their own interesting quirks within that to set them apart.

The game also looks great and runs very smooth.

Cheers.

SonOfTheSun · Jun 17, 2018

The fact that you can plant the jungle so dense, that your dinosaurs can litteraly disappear in it. An when they move through the dense forest you can hear branches breaking etc. A very nice touch I haven't even thought of until seeing it.

cinemetropolis · Jun 17, 2018

Jakpearl71 said:
First off, I’ve realised that dilophosaurus are kept under control (to a degree) by medium sized herbivores. For instance, I have an enclosure with 4 Torosaurus in it, and 3 Dilophosaurus, whenever the Dilo’s comfort starts to drop, they start roaring and spitting at the Torosaurus, which roar and stomp back. After a while, they get intimidated and run off! This is incredible, and is hilarious to watch.

Funnily enough I never have any problems with my Dilophosaurus'. They never give me any problems.

Yesterday, I spend some time in the Rexy paddock and at one point she starts to sniff picking up the scent from some visitors who came around the corner. I love this sort of detail.

Besides some of the well documented flaws JWE gives me many moments of joy and I'm really looking forward for the things to come starting with the first DLC.

WingardiumLevicoaster · Jun 17, 2018

The animations

Gdain · Jun 17, 2018

Had my T-Rex go after a jeep close to the fence and it made the nearby visitors go into a panic and they started running and screaming. Made me laugh.
The different skins are a really cool touch.
Messing with the dinos genes are fun, you kinda never know how they will behave after.
Animations are amazing. Found myself just watching the dinos interact with the environment and each other. Or just watching them move.
I don’t see why people would just want to burn through this game. Been playing since launch and I’m only on island three. So much to do and see.

LemonyNebula · Jun 17, 2018

Small details such as the sway of the leaves when you fly a helicopter past them. Also, there's something great about seeing a majestic dinosaur dangling limp and asleep from the bottom of said helicopter.

Winterwalker · Jun 18, 2018

Anyone who knows me knows I play on £100 worth of laptop and on Pena the twister graphics are causing my game to crash. So when there's a storm .. I'm opening up the shelters, then hiding in one!

Going to Control Centre (easier on my R2 integrated graphics) reading up dig sites, managing fossils and research, I have to wait it out while it all goes on outside then pick up the pieces when it's over.

It's ever so cosy in there when the wind is howling outdoors and there's nothing you can do. Multiple alarms on damage, breakdowns and of breakouts are a bit disconcerting but I can't go out and look - or it's over until I get back from Reboot Hospital. And this ladies and park owners is a real typhoon.

MarkyB83 · Jun 18, 2018

Something cool that happened while I was on Pena:

I'd setup my island to have a big herbivore paddock in the space furthest from the arrival point... so there were a good 15 or so dinos in there (Brachios, Diplos and Paras mainly). Power area was by the arrival point and the operations in the lower middle section. The guest facilities were all in the big middle section, next to an enclosure just big enough to satisfy a Tyrannosaur's needs. I'd bred a hugely modified Rex with the coastal skin and when she hatched she looked so menacing..... at this point it was like all of the disaster mechanics combined together and all hell unleashed.

I was in the middle of the science mission where Dua wants you to put a Metriacanthosaurus and some Deinonychus (and some other dinos) all in the park and basically at the point my Tyrannosaur hatched I had 3x Deinonychus as part of this mission and then one of the other divisions shut down my power and a twister hit all at the same time. The Deinonychus and the Rex all went crazy and the twister meant I couldn't drive to the power station (rangers were based near my herb paddock) to re-boot them for a good while..... meaning my ACU was grounded! I tried to manually drive to the power station but the twister flung one of my ranger jeeps off the cliff outside the buildable area!! (it respawned fortunately)

So with no available ACU team, the rain & twister weather effects which make everything so atmospheric and guests being mauled left-right and centre by my big black Rex and those pesky Deinonychus - there was literally nothing I could do about it until the twister passed - I just had to sit and watch all of the terror unfold!

ChromosomeCollector · Jun 18, 2018

I think the dinos in JWE are the straight up best-looking and best-sounding dinos in any videogame in history so far.

Winterwalker · Jun 18, 2018

MarkyB83 said:
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Oh wow. Haha.

All I want to know is when does the movie come out?
You've got the script! PG13 ... but lol @ ranger jeep off a cliff.

Velociraptors - 108, Lucky, Arid and Sweety - got out on Pena and with a line of tranquilised dinos along the path, Sweety very nearly made as far as the entrance. Easily my favourite island so far, what I want to know is where was she leading them? She's the one with the corvid intelligence, so maybe .. Hollywood? (aka. "Your 30 foot concrete walls don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy town").

FlintZA · Jun 18, 2018

I really enjoy the mission & contract system so many have ed about. It keeps me constantly busy which is great.

But the dinos are absolutely the greatest thing. As basic as their AI is (I'd love to see some real herd behavior) they're still a treat to just sit and watch. Simple little things like when a hadrosaur of some kind was eating, suddenly stands up like something startled it and sprints off to a feeder like it's the first time it even noticed the food source

Unlocking new dinos is also awesome. I'm only on the third island. I'm intentionally taking it slow and maxing the islands before moving on to draw out the discovery process and that joy of unlocking new ones. Hadros are my favourites and I'm really looking forward to unlocking the Parasuarolophus

Malek · Jun 18, 2018

All the little details, some already mentioned.

One I haven’t seen mention of is the destroy forest landscaping tool! I was like those pink bits flying off looks a bit strange, I think it was only when I was on the second island and I was zoomed it to the max trying to get rid of a particular tree I noticed the pink things are actually parrots flying away after I destroyed their home &#55357;&#56881;

Aardwolfz · Jun 18, 2018

The little details...

What really gets me in this is the way dinosaurs notice each other. Someone has already mentioned that dinosaurs look up at other dinosaurs being transported, but put a new dinosaur in an enclosure or drive a jeep on the far end, the other dinos will literally look at it. I had a deinonychus sprinting along a fence once, and as it ran past a brachiosaurus, it looked up at it while running...

Also the way your dinosaurs disappear when going into thick forests. It reinforces the whole feeling of being in a command center and sometimes having to rely on the tracking technology when a dinosaur goes off the visual grid. My first IndoRex (Roelf) gave me several scares at times when I would go check up on him (I know they're all female, I still decide some are "him's"), not see him and have to go into the control room map view to check the fences and see where he was hiding...

Ishidreishon · Jun 18, 2018

something funny that has happened to me is just before getting the 5 stars in Sorna, I had 4.9 of qualification when suddenly "sabotage in process" and the doors of my enclosures were opened, my rex and spinosaurus genetically modified -14% of viability ( + 90% for improvement to the hatchery) they escaped, the stegosaurs were free and that made them go down to 2 stars. I was finally able to get 5 stars, but it was the worst thing that could happen to me