Winter 2023 DLC Speculation
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Canadian lynx is cool too but I feel the two would get confused with the casual player.
I know, just saw the opportunity to meme. I would appreciate the bobcat too.
Just saw your trailer breakdown btw. That little notification tho
For the non-Americans we need the turkey and the North American porcupine. Although I adore the badger inclusion. Underrated.
So for a mountain pack, it seems the most popular choices are the wolverine, a caprine, baboon/gelada, and spectacled bear. I think all of these have a good shot of appearing. But what are some oddballs? I wonder if we could potentially see animals from Montane Rainforests, maybe this is where we will see a tree-kangaroo or even the Guereza pop up? There's also plenty of other oddballs such as marmot, hyrax, and a few habitat birds.
The takin would make more sense than the musk ox, which aren't really mountain animals. I'd also swap out the Japanese serow to avoid a third caprine (three ungulates is one thing but three in one subfamily is quite another) for a habitat bird--you have birds which are common in zoos and fly very high over the Himalayas like the demoiselle crane and bar-headed goose, as well as fowl like pheasants and the Himalayan monal.
Now there’s no telling if winter dlc will include colder climate animals as it’s has been a pretty much warm climate year of dlc.
Perhaps 2024 will be all cold weather climate that can finish missing species from EU northern Asia and NA.
Now my theory of no cold weather holds up, then perhaps SA will get attention next.
Frontier has just showed us that they have accepted the fact that birds are real, maybe they will go ahead and give us a monkey.
Not sure what an appropriate name would be that could cover SA dlc.
Perhaps 2024 will be all cold weather climate that can finish missing species from EU northern Asia and NA.
Now my theory of no cold weather holds up, then perhaps SA will get attention next.
Frontier has just showed us that they have accepted the fact that birds are real, maybe they will go ahead and give us a monkey.
Not sure what an appropriate name would be that could cover SA dlc.
I could settle for Amazon animal pack if I knew we'd get Andean Bear and Mara is some other packs down the line
A caprine? I need more. Double it. Triple it. I need to build more mountain and rocky enclosures, they’re my favourite to build.
We had the jokes about an all ungulate pack, would anyone pay for an all bovids/caprines pack?
- Sichuan Takin
- Markhor
- Nigerian Dwarf Goat
- Musk Ox
- Chamois
- Barbary Sheep
- Japanese Serow
I would pay for it. But I wouldn't be happy about it. Haha. This would be another case where I want the animals in game (exception: musk ox) but I'd be bummed that they were included at the proverbial expense of something else.
Priorities for a pack like this, for me, anyway would be the Sichuan Takin, Japanese Serow, Nigerian Dwarf Goat, and Markhor (in that order).
Yeah so moving in to the next topic of speculation, what does everyone think the headliner of a highlands pack would be?
It’s harder because it doesn’t have any instantly known animals, although the same could be said for the Oceania Pack. I would think the Wolverine or Pallas Cat honestly, maybe even the Gelada.
It’s harder because it doesn’t have any instantly known animals, although the same could be said for the Oceania Pack. I would think the Wolverine or Pallas Cat honestly, maybe even the Gelada.
I'm not sure how but I never even thought about the tree kangaroo for a Highlands pack! But yeah. I'm all in on that as an option, haha. And it's the cuter tree kangaroo, anyway!
TBH, I don't see any of those animals appearing on the key art. The "headliner" isn't always the most popular animal so much as one that is representative of the general content of the pack and/or looks kinda cute. There's one obvious exception (e.g., Aquatic pack with the penguins when it could have been the seal actually in water) but this is mostly the case, I think. Grasslands with the armadillo was odd but when you consider the rest of the pack? I'm not sure anything else could have made sense (wildebeest and kangaroos are too closely associated with their respective regions, IMHO).
So based on that... I would assume it'd be the takin (or another caprine). With a species of baboon silhouetted in the background.
Not that wolverines or Pallas' cat aren't cute or "headliner" status, really... They just don't rep that particular biome in the same way, as far as I'm concerned.
Because of the name? Idk man, this also varies from language to language.
For me those are canadian lynx and red lynx
I thinks its gonna be one of the mountain goats. Markhor seems like the most likely to me. It seems Frontier chooses the one thats the easiest for a casual to conect with the theme. Like the camel for arid for example.
Stuff like the spec bear, palls cat and gelade seem to obscure for the wider public to me.
And while the markhor specificly probably is aswell, its easy to conect a goat to mountains
Coyote is better in a Forest Animal Pack.
Eh, as a non American when I think "west" in terms of the USA, cactus, saloons, road runners, tumble weeds, and coyotes are my first kind of thoughts. Logically I know it's not all like that, but the imagery association is strong. Frontier makes stuff to appeal to the casual gaming public - wouldn't surprise me to see the coyote in a "Frontier" or "wild west" style pack
Well, the spectacled bear is already an animal from montane rainforest, so I think the guereza should work and I would love its inclusion (although the monkey slot in that pack maybe should belong to the baboon
). The tree kangaroo on the other side... I don't know if New Guinea highlands have a rainforest different enough from the surrounding lowlands to consider the tree kangarro a mountain animal. And it would fit more in a future Islands DLC which we still have more than enough candidates to fill it.Yeah, I agree that the markhor would be the best candidate as it really has the mountain goat look that the public would recognise. The takin is a mountain goat too, but a bit weird, I've heard people call them wildebeest or cow and things like that.
But a big problem is that we already got the ibex leading the Euro DLC, and maybe a second goat would be too similar? But then who is better candidate?