This is very interesting and I think you could be onto something. I have no doubt in my mind after the Inclusion of the Bird Eggs and the addition of a new tree trunk and branches that they are definitely telling us Birds are coming. But we also have to consider that now we know the Europe files were legit the Capybara is in the files as well, and would need to fit in somehow to what I would imagine would be the second DLC of 2022
What can we realistically expect next
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(Rain)forests DLC, featuring animals like capybaras, Tasmanian devils, and gibbons... Wetlands, featuring animals like capybaras, manatees, red river hogs, Asian small clawed otter...
Ok, another question: what will the 1.8.1. patch have?
I noticed that, besides fixing a couple of bugs, the devs sometimes bring in new things to do, like animal remodels or adding tags...
I noticed that, besides fixing a couple of bugs, the devs sometimes bring in new things to do, like animal remodels or adding tags...
Sharing this here as I found it interesting:
What this data reflects, in my opinion, is that:
-The European pack brought almost as much PZ activity as the Aquatic pack (which was arguably the most rated pack and released just 1 year after PZ full-game).
-Leaving the Xmas boost aside, Scenery packs don't seem to be much more successful than Animal packs activity-wise (at least if you compare Africa pack with SEA or NA packs). Animal packs lead to a greater peak of activity, while scenery packs have a lower peak but much more prolongued activity afterwards.
-In general, PZ activity hasn't decreased much (if anything at all) throughout 2021.
What this data reflects, in my opinion, is that:
-The European pack brought almost as much PZ activity as the Aquatic pack (which was arguably the most rated pack and released just 1 year after PZ full-game).
-Leaving the Xmas boost aside, Scenery packs don't seem to be much more successful than Animal packs activity-wise (at least if you compare Africa pack with SEA or NA packs). Animal packs lead to a greater peak of activity, while scenery packs have a lower peak but much more prolongued activity afterwards.
-In general, PZ activity hasn't decreased much (if anything at all) throughout 2021.
I dont want to spoil fun, but that is enormous avantage on scenery pack side. Community engagement is more important than short term player count. This why games with low active player base often get long support, because product they play is enough engaging to spend a lot of time on it. Even frontier said for them most important part is how engaging is new PZ content for playerbase. Frontier wont stop creating scenery pack, because those are a bit more engaging and appeal to both sides of community.
Europe pack supported by biggest price discount by far (75%!) and christmas. Game had huge player spike in late November and lot of player came before Europe pack announcement. I remember PZ being in top 50 bestsellers on steam during that time.
Also being released after 1 year is kinda disadvantage for Aquatic pack, since game had less content by that time. Still it got huge spike both on peak and engagement side. Compare it to Europe pack, which was released in time when players literally could buy base game + deluxe + 7 dlcs for release price. Nothing can come to raw numbers of aquatic pack.
Personally i wouldnt compare anything to South America and SEA packs. SA was to close to release and SEA pack was new format, which attracted more attention than usual. (+ look at that twitch stream number caused by charity streams; more players tried game.
TLDR: Aquatic pack still the best and nothing came close to its numbers by far. All dlcs are mostly equall with slight advantage in favor of scenery packs. Game doing good, definitely better than in 2020.
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Now strictly talking about possibility of new content. Do you know that since October 2021 Kilian Schmitt is now our Full Game Designer working on Planet Zoo instead of being Graduate Game Designer? His responsibility according to his job description is to bring new content to the game in fast paced DLC cycle. Also research on new stuff (mainly animals) and designing features for base game. Concidence sine October, we got North American animal pack, anniversary update, Europe pack and now mysterious teaser. Maybe, because of his super vision and excellent design abilities we are getting so much lately.
If this means we'll get something new every (other) month, I am super down for that.
3 month probably also can be considered "fast paced" to be fair. Honestly, with the amount of time it takes to build a beautiful zoo in this game (not complaining), besides the wish to always want something new and shiny, I felt almost overwhelmed last year. 
I'm still in for the "an animal a month" idea in addition to regular dlcs and long term after regular dlcs, but I would not read a change of development cycle into this.
I'm still in for the "an animal a month" idea in addition to regular dlcs and long term after regular dlcs, but I would not read a change of development cycle into this.
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Wait, what?
That continuation of Lumi story. Honestly it could be nothing, but seems suspicious they are doing anything. On stream they said we should follow social media for answer.
I'm a bit torn. Still seems waaaay to early for teasing. But the ongoing story on social media is... weird? They should know they put fuel to the fire if it was just a social media filler.
And I don't know if you could really consider january "spring time", but the greenish leaf and grass layer on the waiting screen of the stream today also felt a bit odd.
I was thinking some kind of jungle dlc with the greenish layer and all that flying leafs and such.
And I don't know if you could really consider january "spring time", but the greenish leaf and grass layer on the waiting screen of the stream today also felt a bit odd.
I was thinking some kind of jungle dlc with the greenish layer and all that flying leafs and such.
Well remember, they did 're-do' the roadtrip after the North America Pack launched, going to different locations but using the same theme to showcase the DLC animals post-launch. I'm reading it as similar to that unless given reason to think otherwise.
That's a good point, but that roadtrip wasn't teasing anything and this thread certainly is doing it.
I actually forgot about that. I found that irritating as well, to be fair
Always thought my timeline is showing me old posts. But do people really get more interested in the europe pack when following a second fairy tale? Don't get me wrong, I loved the first one, and it was an awesome teaser and awesome marketing during christmas time. But I doubt drawn lynxes will increase sales of the europe pack now.
Something I thought of, the pictures of the story book (I know it was made by a frontier employee) could become scenery pieces. I like how the stained glass and art work included in the europe pack are of Lumi’s story. Or maybe a piece of all the animals jamming out together
I'm with you on this one. I wouldn't mind seeing more frequent free updates and little free update type content drops once a month but the way they drop animals imo is perfect. Ik people want more animals and people want it faster and that would be great too but the way they have the dlc set up is perfect
Sounds pretty conclusive, this guy might be the one who runs the show.
Why wild boar more than red fox?
Lomi hears a thundering sound in the story... doesn't sound like a fox to me.