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Post by Jägerbomber on Sept 28, 2023 5:05:57 GMT
Been trying out Jurassic World Evolution 2.
A little early to say how it goes fully
But man.... As a person who played the hell out of Zoo Tycoon 1, I'm so sad that Animal Tycoon games don't do their tutorials in the Sandbox Mode anymore. I don't want Challenges. I don't Want Scenarios....
So I've been trying to figure it out without those.
First dumb difference from ZT1. No Guests will enter your park until you've placed a "Viewing Area" along one of your dinosaur enclosures. Like they can't see the dinosaurs anywhere else along the electric fences. In ZT1 I believe you get Guests the moment you place an animal... or maybe as soon as you open the park like other games?
I also forget that Modern animal tycoon games take the moving of animals away from the Response Team and give it directly to the player. But then it's also annoying because you still have to get the Response Team to tranquilize first. Then you move it yourself. (Actually you're still Commanding it to be moved, it's just not actually done by the Response Team. Your Transportation command is like another fleet of helicopters from nowhere)
Another thing I was a bit lucky to figure out because of no Tutorialization is that there's a little shack that you put in or near your enclosures (its a radius kind of annoyingly) and assign your crews to these and these are how you automate the work for areas. (Except I don't think repairs get gone automatically? which is... WTF?)
This is another game that's a mix of not-actually-grid on a grid (or with snapping) which actually pisses me off. This somehow always manages to create paths and fences that are supposed to be parallel but end up running into eachother. Also gaps in fences because god damnit.....
I'm gonna start a new one next time as I'm getting a hang of how it and animals should be handled.... with its annoyances. However I ended up acquiring a larger dinosaur and still can't figure out how to acquire/build a stronger fence. The (Numerous and Various) research screens are obtuse.
And there's how the hell to/I arrange/position things to have the enclosures and all the guest shops etc. AND TRANSPORTATION. Not knowing for sure how much you're gonna have to expand enclosures. I mean.... that's how these games go. And don't forget power because this is a Jurassic Park game. Not to mention the recurring hurricanes that randomly break shit. It doesn't seem like you get punished much for dinosaurs eating your guests though, lol. IRL, you'd be shut down completely. But I didn't see much of any punishment here for periods of loose carnivores. Then again to get the hang of it I've repeatedly cheated the money.
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Post by Jägerbomber on Oct 1, 2023 16:35:55 GMT
Oh yeah, The First Path in the Paths list is the Staff Path, not the normal/standard Path  Also, It turns out THERE ARE NO BABY DINOS IN THIS GAME. This is the 2nd game and you wouldn't make baby dinos! wtf!!!!! |
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Post by Jägerbomber on Oct 1, 2023 19:35:29 GMT
If your Repair Facility is damaged by a storm you have to manually control one of your crew to repair it.... even if they're at the facility. |
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Post by Jägerbomber on Oct 20, 2023 21:06:18 GMT
So I've been brute-forcing my way through a sandbox for a while now (ok, giving myself more money). But now I'm stuck in a research tree where I have to take a picture of a dino with a disease they can only get on a desert map? And I'm not on a desert map? 
Also I still haven't done anything with genetics. Is that supposed to be in the Fossil sections? Or Hatcheries?
This is why I wish Zoo Tycoon games would do their tutorials in the sandbox again. Not in Scenario Challenges
Oh yeah, duh. There's Hatcheries for regular Enclosures, too, not just for Aviaries and Lagoons (which are combined with the Response Teams which are separate in/for normal Enclosures).
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Post by Jägerbomber on Oct 20, 2023 22:23:57 GMT
WTF, Even though there's 2 different functions to Expeditions (1 of which comes in automatically) and you can have a ton of Scientists, you can only send out 1 Expedition a time with no additions to add more? 
The Expeditions for wild dinos are offered to you randomly. So my suggestion is to do a Fossil Expedition immediately after ending a Dino Expedition, and hope to heck another Dino Expedition doesn't show up before the Fossil Expedition Finishes.
Of course most of the game you're not going to have time to for this anyways. ugh.
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Post by Jägerbomber on Oct 23, 2023 18:45:25 GMT
One annoying/stressful thing about this game's Dino Comfort system is that they are angry THE MOMENT they are below their comfort threshold for any of the reasons and break out instantly. You obviously can't watch their meters all the time so there's no warning "they're becoming upset", it's instant breakout/rage injury.
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Post by Jägerbomber on Nov 1, 2023 2:50:52 GMT
Well I'm closing in on a full park and I just had its first freeze that it didn't recover from and crash. At least it autosaves, but I don't know how often...
lol also I got a trophy for getting 5 seconds of airtime with a vehicle. I don't even know how you do that legitimately because the vehicles keep getting stuck inside Hatcheries and flipping the fuck out in the walls
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Post by Jägerbomber on Nov 6, 2023 18:02:54 GMT
What this game needs is a button you can hold to show arrows to Alerts. Yeah you can use to top-down mapview, but even that you have to scroll/scan through. This is also sometimes the only way to find dead dinosaurs under forest trees. WTF!!!!
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Post by Jägerbomber on Nov 6, 2023 20:50:46 GMT
Dinosaurs panicking and then starving because the medical vehicles keep attending to them can be so frickin' frustrating....
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Post by Jägerbomber on Nov 10, 2023 4:02:19 GMT
Well I've finally gotten a 5 Star park by brute-forcing it [keep giving myself money]. No Trophy apparently. But I still have several dinosaurs I haven't obtained yet. I wonder if I'll have enough space to squeeze them in the little I have left. And as far as I still know it's random-ish what you get.
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Post by Jägerbomber on Dec 1, 2023 17:12:44 GMT
Sounds like things aren't going well for Frontier
If I was able to, I may have gotten World of Zoo, even though Planet Coaster wasn't working for me (or I wasn't working for it)
While Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 also may not have worked for me mechanically (long time ago idk), I played the Hell out of it by trying to recreate the maps of Simpsons Hit & Run in it (I'm not joking I wish I still had evidence) and I Was EXTENSIVE, lol.
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Post by Jägerbomber on Dec 22, 2023 23:15:37 GMT
One of the most annoying aspects of this game is when you can't delete something because something is glitched out inside it!
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Post by Jägerbomber on Jan 3, 2024 21:31:00 GMT
lol I think I might be maxing out my park, even though I haven't gotten all the dinosaurs (and that's Not including any DLC). I say that because now the helicopters to take away the dead dinos (which are separate helicopters that come from nowhere instead of staying in your park) are only coming 1 at a time now.
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Post by Jägerbomber on Jan 19, 2024 18:22:05 GMT
I've reached the point where I can't even keep up with removing the bodies of dinosaurs that died of old age which can't be automated because "that's the players job"
Maybe MAYBE don't offer more dinosaurs so often...
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Post by Jägerbomber on Jan 19, 2024 21:10:05 GMT
All of a sudden a bunch of my Ranger vehicles got stuck in places they shouldn't have been or made no sense and it wasn't indicating they were stuck.
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