Winter 2023 DLC Speculation

While I appreciate that people are also choosing the titicaca water frog I do think that a giant salamander would be much more impressive and welcomed, even if it's limited to the 4x4 exhibit. Either way I am hoping for something more substantial if we get mountains instead of birds.
Tbh I dont really care about the exhibit animal, I know its probably gonna be a regular exhibit, so that immediatly lowers my excitement, unless its a chameleon of course but that seems to have a low chance.
 
Look im making a worst pack, its a canid clone fitting to the region, you think frontier could hold back to not have an easy animal that panders to the canid crowd?
Its literally a slightly paler arctic fox, theres no way they would add that. There already is 2 carnivores that are easy to make and are wanted, spec bear and pallas cat. Both easy to make, both are wanted either by meme quality or just the general want, I really can't see them skipping over these 2, seems like a perfect opportunity.
 
Also the corsac fox really isnt that bad.
They are rather pretty and look distinct from the other foxes and would give us another desert animal, which are allways neat to have. It got a large range and would give us something else for the central asian steppe and deserts then the prez wild horse an bactrian camel. They are also pretty common in captivity with 59 EAZA holdings.
They might not be the coolest or most wanted inclusion but they also wouldnt be the worst and would props be quite usefull, even if i would take most other animals rather then them as a sane human being, but it does fit frontiers biases very well
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Its literally a slightly paler arctic fox, theres no way they would add that. There already is 2 carnivores that are easy to make and are wanted, spec bear and pallas cat. Both easy to make, both are wanted either by meme quality or just the general want, I really can't see them skipping over these 2, seems like a perfect opportunity.
Tell that to the arid pack, also you asked for a worst case thats reasonable so you got it. Watch me cut the monal next for a whitelipped deer to do the ultimate frontier move
 
Nobody has asked for a corsac fox though, they won't add an animal that is not somewhat requested. Even the oddballs from previous packs were in the top 100 of the meta wishlist.
I really doubt that would stop them for the 7. habitat animal of an animal pack, especally when its something as popular with casual audiences as a fox.
Theres a reason the only non ungulate and non reason the pack even exists is a cat
 
Feels kinda quiet around here this afternoon so I'll build off of what @KönigDerKaffeebohnen said about a mountains pack may not be exactly what we hope for.
This is what I hope we will get:
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I think frontier would still take quite a lot of these animals. All these are highly requested overall, though I personally don't really care for a Pallas cat, rock hyrax and the frog, but the Pallas cat is realistic, so I'd keep it in as a speculate species. The frog I would replace with a Giant salamander and the Hyrax with the Darwin Rhea. But that's just me :) overal good pack species, and fingers crossed we would get a pack like this :)
 
Also the corsac fox really isnt that bad.
They are rather pretty and look distinct from the other foxes and would give us another desert animal, which are allways neat to have. It got a large range and would give us something else for the central asian steppe and deserts then the prez wild horse an bactrian camel. They are also pretty common in captivity with 59 EAZA holdings.
They might not be the coolest or most wanted inclusion but they also wouldnt be the worst and would props be quite usefull, even if i would take most other animals rather then them as a sane human being, but it does fit frontiers biases very well
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I genuinely would have preferred the corsac fox to either the arctic or red fox (albeit not in a potential upcoming mountain pack, considering they actively avoid mountainous habitat). Main thing that would have set them apart is their sociality - they are not territorial and sometimes live in packs. The picture below, from Hamerton Zoo, shows fourteen out of the zoo's fifteen-strong corsac fox pack. Would have been excellent to have those in the game, but even I'd admit that four foxes would be pushing the group towards over-representation.

 
I genuinely would have preferred the corsac fox to either the arctic or red fox (albeit not in a potential upcoming mountain pack, considering they actively avoid mountainous habitat). Main thing that would have set them apart is their sociality - they are not territorial and sometimes live in packs. The picture below, from Hamerton Zoo, shows fourteen out of the zoo's fifteen-strong corsac fox pack. Would have been excellent to have those in the game, but even I'd admit that four foxes would be pushing the group towards over-representation.

Did a casual oops of assuming that the tibetian plateau was part of their range, but how could i forget that it has its own glorious fox species
Behold, the tibetian sand fox, a true beauty
Hes just as thrilled to be in the game as we are to get him in the game
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The exhibits are certainly big enough to fit them still. Plus, they don't tend to move too much anyway.
Green iguanas can be longer than the Japanese giant salamander, which reaches around 1.5 meters. I don't see how size would be that much of a problem, the exhibit square is 4x4 meters.

Edit: canid fans really do be some of the most obnoxious people on the planet. Good lord Frontier knows adding more foxes would be a terrible idea.
 
Did a casual oops of assuming that the tibetian plateau was part of their range, but how could i forget that it has its own glorious fox species
Behold, the tibetian sand fox, a true beauty
Hes just as thrilled to be in the game as we are to get him in the game
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They look so wrong. Like it comes from an alternative reality where animals have human faces or smth. This one and the Celebes crested macaque i don't want for the same reason: the creep me out.
 
Green iguanas can be longer than the Japanese giant salamander, which reaches around 1.5 meters. I don't see how size would be that much of a problem, the exhibit square is 4x4 meters.
To add to that as small fun fact, i, a human, have lived in a one room appartment for 2 years thats smaller then the exhibit.
Adding up my room + kitchen and bath come to just about ~32 m^3, aka half as much as the exhibits.
I rest my case but im sure we can all agree that if a human can reasonably live in half the space of an exhibit they might be a bit large
 
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