Couple of worries.

[Golden Goldsmith Studios.]

Hi,

So far the game looks immense and seems to be a dream come true. So much so that it makes me wonder what the catch is... So, I have watched all the videos many many times and found a few things that maybe a slight down side. So if it get's confirmed that these are not the case then great!

1) It seems the animals only swim at the surface.
2) It seems that you can only put certain animals in with others. So no Lion and Cheetah in the same enclosure if you wanted.
3) Visitors don't seem to react to animals say if they walk pass and there is and animal right there.
4) Animals seem to ignore each other unless it enters an animations type thing.
5) Same with JWE animals perform a mirror animation the exact same thing at exact same time.

Maybe me just being nit picky to be fair but just some things to look out for as well as how animals grow from babies to adults.

Either way I am so so SIKED for this game!

[Henry Crabgrass]

Lions will kill a Cheetah on site if they get the opportunity. They don't play nice together.

My biggest worry are your last points though, that the animals have no awareness of other animals nearby and cannot interact with them unless it's a scripted animation/event thing. JWE had terrible animal behavior.

[mbiggiani]

Originally posted by Golden Goldsmith Scenarios.:

Hi,

So far the game looks immense and seems to be a dream come true. So much so that it makes me wonder what the catch is... So, I have watched all the videos many many times and found a few things that maybe a slight down side. So if it get's confirmed that these are not the case then great!

1) It seems the animals only swim at the surface.
2) It seems that you can only put certain animals in with others. So no Lion and Cheetah in the same enclosure if you wanted.
3) Visitors don't seem to react to animals say if they walk pass and there is and animal right there.
4) Animals seem to ignore each other unless it enters an animations type thing.
5) Same with JWE animals perform a mirror animation the exact same thing at exact same time.

Maybe me just being nit picky to be fair but just some things to look out for as well as how animals grow from babies to adults.

Either way I am so so SIKED for this game!

1.) Yes sadly it seems like hippos only swim on the surface atm. However, it could be the case that that will be changed in the future.
2.) You can make mixed enclosures. Perhaps we have not seen lions and cheetahs in the same enclosure because they would kill each other on sight.
3.-5.) We don't have enough evidence yet to make those assumptions. Guests do seem to look at animals. We have only seen less than a half hour of footage and it jumps around so fast its hard to determine anything solid.

[Deku Dec (ง︡'-'︠)ง]

i agree with everything you just stated, it is giving me the RCT 3 vibe with wild :P it would be cool if they would make the menu where you could launch between the games, like in battlefield menus where you could easily switch between 4, 1, 5 ect. (Just as an example). Either way im stoked and excited to see if they will release a soaked version as well :D

[Golden Goldsmith Studios.]

Only time will tell, either way though it still seems they have done a phenomenal job so far.

[Jimmy]

the catch is that like planet coaster the actual management aspect will be non existant

[Golden Goldsmith Studios.]

Not sure about that Jimmy, from what we have seen the management side seems to be the biggest part. But then I have never played Planet Coaster so can't be sure 100%.

I just hope it's not that easy.

["Donut☆]

My biggest worry is the amount of animals at launch. When Planet Coaster released a LOT of flat rides where missing, only to get added later as DLC.

[Black Hammer]

PlanCo's management was just not there. No real difficulty whatsoever. With PZ lacking the depth of a coaster building and ride decoration system, it'd better have the mechanics under the hood of the simulation end of things.

[The Former]

The good news is, there MAY be modding for this game. It doesn't have the copyright issue JWE has. If so, it's possible some things - like mixed species enclosures - might be addressed by the community.

[Golden Goldsmith Studios.]

Sheriff of Nothingham a very good point.

Another point is that it has been said that animals can interact with anything in the enclosure but from what I have seen does not seem to be 100% true. 1 example (although very nit picky I know) is that we see Chimps climbing vertically up a climbing enrichment pole, so should they not be able to do the same with the poles holding up that jeep type ride? Maybe they can but just not seen it?

A genuine concern though is needing to be connected to the net at all times. Hope this is not the case as others have stated this to be a down side too. Although it must help with pirating.

[Hitch-22]

In the wild if you are on Safari chimps (although more likely monkeys/baboons) will not jump all over a vehicle and ignore it as they are used to it. If it is empty with no human around they may go through it looking for food.

I would expect he same in the game that the animals would not interact with the jeeps as they don't in the wild let alone in a zoo with constant human interaction.

The others are correct saying a Lion would take down a Cheetah given the chance, we have seen other animals together in an enclosure that have a symbiotic relationship. You will quite often see Zebra and Giraffe together as they both have different vantage points when looking out for predators so can move together.

[Unn4m3d (♥AUT♥)]

I am actually quite wary as well, which is why I wont pay anything until theres a couple of reviews after release. It looks good, but looks can (as we know) quite deceiving. But I do hope it will turn out as good as it looks.

[Emjay]

Mixed enclosures are a thing, it's just for the common sense animals. Predators, just like in real life, very rarely like to share and will usually kill eachother given the opportunity.

Prey tend to just get along, safety in numbers and all that...

The other points are stuff we just need to wait and see...

[Disgruntled Cuttlefish]

Originally posted by Jimmy:

the catch is that like planet coaster the actual management aspect will be non existant

I would hope not.

[Emjay]

Originally posted by Squid:

Originally posted by Jimmy:

the catch is that like planet coaster the actual management aspect will be non existant

I would hope not.

They do emphasise the point of management in the store page so I believe they may have learnt a bit... fingers crossed!