There, they can huddle around torches in a hideous wooden cave, knocking back beaker after beaker of astringent, body-temperature monster juice from one of the four whiskey shops on site. Immediately after passing the welcome centre, guests are confronted with the immensity of Al Swearengen’s Gem Saloon. Farnum’s famous hotel, groaning and mopping festering sweat from their brows. Every single customer seemed to have aged about twenty years by the time they’d waded to the welcome centre modelled on E.B. I honestly spent quite a long time just relishing the sight of guests running excitedly through the entrance gates, before immediately getting bogged down to their shins in a sea of detritus. Since the zoo’s built in the middle of the desert, it’s also punishingly hot, and there’s no aircon, anywhere. As such, all the paths are buried two foot deep in mounds of dung and straw, there are bleak yellow puddles all over the place, and there are no bins whatsoever. I think the main thing I wanted to capture with this zoo was a real sense of rancid wild-west squalor. Now, as the great Ian McShane once famously said, “Welcome to fucken Deadwood”. There’s nothing worse than a blank canvas, after all, and I will not miss the headache of trying to build an ape jail ex nihilo, without so much as a hill to work around. Now, however, there are loads of preset sculpted plots available to build on, as well as versions of the gorgeous maps from Planet Zoo’s career mode scenarios, and I cannot adequately express how much it has increased my appetite to play the game. Sure, you could use landscaping tools to make mountains and rivers on these weird abysses - but doing so took forever, and often ended in tears. Until 1.5, you could only ever start a zoo on a huge, featureless, flat plot of land.
PLANET ZOO PACKS UPDATE
Frontier have been dropping a free update alongside every animal pack, comprising a bunch of feature tweaks and quality of life fixes, and the 1.5 update accompanying the North America pack is a crucial one. If you like the idea of Planet Zoo but have been holding out on it so far, I’d honestly recommend you jump in now. Before we get into the tour proper, a little note of sincerity.
0 kommentar(er)
