your point about the north american & europe packs being regional preferences was correct. most of the animals in the NA pack just don't do much for me, the ones in the europe pack however - they're animals you'll find in even small, regional zoos across europe. i enjoy the scenery pieces an equal amount

@adriii_021

Жыл бұрын

im european and that shit isnt in zoos, mabye in small ones yes but i have only been in seajean, valencia and barcelona and the animals are more exotic

@cecilialeitet2794

Жыл бұрын

I agree. The Europe pack has five animals I regularly use, the NA pack have less even though it contains more. And the arctic fox, moose and beaver are as european as they are north american. I do love the cougar though, its my favorite looking cat in the game.

@kwatschmitsauce

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely. All those animals are incredibly common in zoos near me, big zoos that also have lions, elephants etc and small zoos that have more regional animals.

@SpiderJosh07

11 ай бұрын

could've mentioned this for the Australia pack

@wiebelziel

9 ай бұрын

@@adriii_021 I understand your feelings, they basically made a Nothern Europe pack and called it Europe

Planet zoo needs to make exhibits customizable it’s so weird to see an boa constrictor and frog have the same size exhibit

@tossoutacc9241

11 ай бұрын

I also kinda wish we could put exhibit animals that live in the same environment as habitat animals together. Like I’d love to see some bullfrogs chilling in the pond in my raccoon enclosure. Realistically it wouldn’t make sense because they’d probably get eaten but aesthetically? It would be pretty neat looking

@Cambrianlore12

10 ай бұрын

I want to put my gilla monsters with my emus

@rizkiramadhan9266

10 ай бұрын

@@tossoutacc9241 I'd rather keep it the way it is, with your suggestion sounding better as a mod imo

@CreatorProductionsOriginal

9 ай бұрын

@@tossoutacc9241 I want to see my capy babys chilling with their frog friends

@milotickz

5 ай бұрын

Where would you rate the deluxe upgrade?

As an outsider looking in, statements like “the tapir well… we all know the situation with that animal” are so funny to me. What about the tapir?What did this creature do?? lol

@tj001231

8 ай бұрын

It was essentially a recolor of the base game Baird's Tapir instead of being unique like everyone thought it deserved. That and it stole my bike when I was 7 years old :(

@MertowVA

6 ай бұрын

@@tj001231 They fixed it!!!

@ClodsireBeans

4 ай бұрын

they didn't fix it stealing the poor guy's bike tho@@MertowVA

There are two factors your tier list didn't consider: animal niche (meaning, how different the new animals are compared to what other packs bring), and story scenario (because a lot of people enjoy the scenarios too, even if franchise/sandbox is what youtubers focus on). With that in mind, Aquatic pack is considered S tier for many players (I recently saw a poll on reddit where it won as the most popular pack by a landslide) because it delivers strongly in those two fronts. The Twilight pack was also pretty popular on that survey, and I assume is for the same reasons.

As European it was weird seeing the red fox in a zoo. Here they’re very common animals in the city and countryside. Like raccoons in America. We aren’t allowed to put animals found in the wild in our zoos at least not those who are common. I mean wouldn’t you find it weird to walk into a zoo expecting exotic animals and finding the exact same species of squirrels as in your backyard?

@woopwoop8897

10 ай бұрын

I'm Canadian and there's a sizeable zoo in my city that focuses solely on the province's wildlife-- raccoons and red foxes were present! I personally still had a great time because they aren't animals I see everyday. Not many exotic animals up here and it's probably for the best.

@DawnFire05

10 ай бұрын

I’m actually looking forward to squirrels for that reason and hope we get them. I’m American so squirrels are very common in the wild, but my dad was stationed in Japan when I was a young kid and my mom would tell me about there being squirrels in the zoos in Japan. I was so fascinated by it, how could a squirrel ever be considered a zoo animal, and now I’d love to build for them! Squirrels in a zoo is just so weird to me that I really want to make it happen, not to mention it’d just be such a unique rig for modders (which isn’t necessarily something the red fox brings with it).

@Lemon_squee

7 ай бұрын

Imo zoos should look towards hosting animals only native to their land. It promotes a lot of stewardship. But exotics bring in the big bucks

@phaex2288

7 ай бұрын

@@Lemon_squee Not really, zoos are fundamental in conservation, most endangered or vulnerable species today are not extinct because of zoos and other kinds of wildlife sanctuaries If it was not for zoos, the giant panda would be extinct in wild and so other species

@fraizie6815

7 ай бұрын

That's not quite correct. There are red foxes in zoos because they're not as common anymore as you'd like to believe, at least not over here in Germany. Europe is very diverse

Im British, and unfortunately disagree completely with your assessment of the European pack. I think the roster is a really strong one, and the models look amazing. Still to this day, the lynx and the fallow deer are two of my personal favourite and best looking models in the game. the building pieces are just amazing, and very very accurate to typical mainland European buildings. Before the European pack came out, the European animal roster was weak. With maybe the reindeer, timber wolf and grey seal representing the whole continent. (Even then they can be found in north America). The only slightly disappointing thing for me was the decals (which are amazing) formed most of the piece count of the new pieces, rather than anything more substantial like another wall set, or decorative pieces.

@fredstar-mw4tl

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, i agree with this as he says “your not likely to find them in american zoos” as a critique! Its the european pack ffs!

@leftlegleg

10 ай бұрын

bro forgot the personal preference part

@emilyandrews7457

8 ай бұрын

@@fredstar-mw4tlthat’s why he said personal preference. You wouldn’t typically see these animals in America, therefore, they aren’t typically appealing for Americans. That’s why he said the preference was largely regional. I would assume you definitely prefer the European pack over the North American one mainly because it’s familiar and accurate to what you’re used to. Idk why I keep seeing y’all Europeans almost taking his ranking as a personal attack?

@viktormosko9066

7 ай бұрын

So thats not objective ranking, typical murica redneck who thinks everything is about america ranks north america S while europe B.@@emilyandrews7457

@Nina-__

6 ай бұрын

@@emilyandrews7457 lmao ikr

Excellent video! One of the interesting things is the “outdated” take on the faux rocks, since they do look like irl dated concrete rocks. Definitely time for new rocks!

@OldCountry

Жыл бұрын

You'll also notice the planet zoo team really strayed away from using the faux rocks this year as well. This is really shown in the trailers. The only rocks that were really used were the base game ones. Only I believe in the twilight trailer were there some of the smaller faux rocks scattered around.

The Giant Anteater is amazing and no one can tell me otherwise. It’s amazing and adorable!

@leftlegleg

10 ай бұрын

(Personal preference: exists) This mf:

@f.o.m.a8131

7 ай бұрын

real. best thing ever

When the Europe pack released, I felt like the red fox was missing, so I was super excited for the Twilight pack!

Bro rly just said America 👍😍😘😁😋 Europe 😰😰😭👎🤬

@kika1479

Жыл бұрын

fr

I kinda agree with the Animal Packs only going forward but on the other hand i dont :D. Im personally good on building themes, however i really want more decoration props, like cars for parkinglots, playgrounds and so on :)

The lynx is my favourite real life animal and the Europe pack really made it justice. I'm probably biased because I'm Swedish, but all those animals (except the deer and badger) are common in our zoos. We also have most NA species too :)

@Jord_God

Жыл бұрын

As a French, i feel the exact same feeling. I love the lynx.

@KaijuEdits875

11 ай бұрын

The fox isnt there tho :(

@fallows4life

6 ай бұрын

@@KaijuEdits875 go too the forest at dusk or dawn and you'll see one.

As a San Diego native I was sold as soon as I hear the words "California Sea Lion". In La Jolla there's a beach that closes every year for the sea lion breeding seasons and in down town San Diego you can get on sea lion tours. I love sea lions

im so confused abt "cute-ifying" koalas bc i might be stupid but googling both side by side they look very similar 😭

@CocoaBean3977

Жыл бұрын

yeah i'm not really sure what he meant either, the animals don't really seem more cute than irl counterparts imo. Also not sure why the zoo animal models being a bit chunky is a detrimental thing since animals not in the wild naturally gain more weight due to not dealing with... being in the wild? lol it would make sense for the captive bred or rehabilitated animals to be eating more and thus being chunkier.

@OldCountry

Жыл бұрын

I'm not a mod user but to see the difference between the frontier Koala and a more realistic version I would recommend going to the Nexusmods website and searching Planet Zoo Koala remaster. It really shows the difference between the two. The Mod is very well done.

@shareehocking6294

Жыл бұрын

As an Australian, and have seen many koalas in the wild. I don't think he realises how adorable koalas are to look at. They got the looks pretty accurate, behaviour is very inaccurate though

@UglyFleabag

Жыл бұрын

@@shareehocking6294 watching koalas in video doesnt seem to do them justice! ty for the info, super valuable to hear from someone who would know!

I do wish they made the packs more specific. For example, because the South American pack is called the South American pack, now every square inch of South America is not a candidate for a new pack.

@crm7n

9 ай бұрын

i hope in future they do more packs with more regional animals they already had a pack named after that region. "south america +" or something, and make it a tad cheaper

Am I the only one that wishes we got a Red Wolf for the Conservation Pack? Red Wolves deserve some love as well

I think the koala is based on the southern koala, and if you look at it in real life, it looks similar to the one in game

@harmony8623

9 ай бұрын

Yeah I’m Australian and see koalas all the time (wild and in zoos), and it looked very similar so I don’t get what he’s complaining about with it’s design

There was some very handy info here but it was occasionally frustrating for me as a new player wanting to buy one DLC when I get the game when you keep alluding to things like the "fiasco with the binturong" and "we all know what happened with the tapir" since no, I have no idea what you're talking about and the fact that you left it at that with no explanation of what your referencing left me a little lost.

@OldCountry

10 ай бұрын

I've seen a number of comments like this. When I made the video my channel wasn't nearly as big as it is today and I really didn't expect this video to blow up the way it did 😅. I'm planning on coming out with a video that's similar to this but more catered towards new players, almost like a buyers guide or before you buy. I made this video to what I thought was going to be a very niche audience, so for that I do apologize if I left you or anyone else confused. Planet zoo has a very very deep and long and somewhat confusing history.

@RivkahSong

10 ай бұрын

@@OldCountry I would be SO grateful for that guide when you can make it. I love how your review style is so personalized on your play style with the focus on the animals. I tend to be a builder in sim games so I can tell from just looking at the content what scenery items I would use but I have zero idea on the animals. Also, if you ever did a "history of Planet Zoo" kind of video explaining the controversies and progress of the game I would watch the hell out of that lol.

What we need most is a rework of textures on nature items, more terrain textures, colors and types, like different sands, or different grass, either dead grass, or tall grass ect

Same as why you like the north america pack i love the ones with australian animals just because thats where im from and thats what i see the most. My local zoo only has the sea lion from the north american pack although ive seen beavers, alligators and cougars when i was in america.

The conservation is the pack I want the most ONLY for the horses lol, but that’s because it reminds me of the wild horses in Wyoming. Now that I live down south I miss seeing the wild horses running on the mountain sides

My ranking: 1- Grasslands Animal pack 2- North American Animal Pack 3- Wetlands Animal Pack 4- Africa Pack 5- Twilight Pack 6- Aquatic Pack 7- Conservation Pack 8- Australia Pack 9- Arctic Pack 10- Europe Pack 11- South America Pack 12- South East Asia Pack 13- Deluxe edition

Sad to hear the Australian pack doesnt rank well, i do agree though. I dont play Planet Zoo (very much want to tho) but the very 'Aussie' aesthetics of the pack dont have much utility, aswell as the indigenous influences on the designs dont have much value to non australian players. There is also plenty of other interesting Australian animals they could have used.

i stopped playing planet zoo in 2021 for.. reasons. i haven’t been very updated in what packs have come out since then, and i recently started playing again and have been interested in looking into the packs to see what i should buy next. this video is very helpful for me, and i’ll probably be using a lot of your opinions to make a decision on a pack to buy. you’re also very careful in how you phrase things, specifically when talking about how it’s your opinion, and i appreciate that. (especially because i’m from the uk and the europe pack looks very nostalgic of going to zoos as a child.) thank you.

I'm from south america so not really biased, but I really loved the european pack. The animals are not as interesting as zoo animals as the ones in the north american pack, sure, but they still are very interesting and it makes up by having really gorgeous building pieces imo.

Also, the African penguin mosaic sign also makes a good interesting statue as well

I don't know how anyone can know exactly how accurate every animal's behavior is, and not pursue zoology irl 😅

@paprikagames

5 ай бұрын

fr i just pick animals i think are cool or suit the zoo

Me, someone who has never played planet zoo: mmmhhmmm yep that’s right, I love that one

I don't care what people say I want more exhibit animals

@njmoonfrost6145

Жыл бұрын

Same here! They need to get more of them. When I do theme zoos I only have one of two exhibit animals to start with

@Coelacanth_yes

Жыл бұрын

@@njmoonfrost6145 ya let's say you have oceania you only have 4 exhibit animals from there but they could also add things like bearded dragons, frilled lizards, spiny tailed geckos, crested geckos, white lined geckos, monkey tailed skinks, tuataras, Lorde howe island stick insect, giant weta, whites tree frog, new Caledonian giant gecko, Fiji banded iguanas, inland taipan, and woman python but we don't got any of them

Christmas decorations this and that, you forgot the real star of the tundra pack - the bench!! I could swear I use it in every zoo I build 😂

very helpful video, thank you!

Don't think I've heard someone say Controversial so many times, o.o.

I love your videos already

Bring out a bird/aviary pack. Birds of prey, parrots of the world show and generally cool walk through aviary. Could be a goer.

"Has seem to become a fan favorite" Probably because the random explosion of Flappy Clappy love.

“Just because one animal is better dosent mean the other is worse”

I felt like aquatic, North America, Africa, and Australia were pretty solid packs!

I really wish they'd release a full aquarium pack.

I hope they add Aquarium pack. Like sharks and any aquamarine animals

Glad to see Gort on the thumbnail

As a Canadian the North America pack was a must and I use the never and moose in almost every zoo. Also as someone who has done a lot of research projects on animals included in the conservation pack, I love it.

As an Australian its not emoo its emU with a U 😹😹😹

@OldCountry

10 ай бұрын

yea, I've said it both ways numerous times. I know saying it with the u sound is correct, you can go back to my videos on grasslands and I promise I say it correctly lol. I just have so many people in my day to day life say it like emoo that I slip up from time to time. Same thing with the pronunciation of Tapir. So many people in NA say "Tape-Er" but when you go down to SA they say it in english as "Tape-Yer" which is correct. All just a bunch of American bad habits hahaha

Im British and Ive never seen any of those animals from the Europe pack and Ive been to many zoos

the way you feel about koala bears is how i feel about the jaguars lmao

man just said the Giant Leaf Insect was bad... that is the entire reason I have Southeast asia pack... 😢

I love all of them 🤩

The thing with alot of Australian animals, many are small creatures unlike other countries. If you're having a problem with running bigger packs at least smaller creatures take less space on your pc. I mean as an Aussie player I'd love to see more of our creatures, but I'm aware many won't ever get made because they're not as big as everything in other countries (but I'd love a proper Australian zoo in a game one day) Also, koalas aren't that exciting an animal. Ironic yes, but numbats, bilbies, emus & bandicoots would have been nicer to see.

"We all know the situation with that...." No. No we all don't know. You've assumed that new players will never find this video, and now here I am, considering buying the game for the first time, and wondering what in the jungle is wrong with whatever asset you're talking about! ☹️😵‍💫😵‍💫

I'm glad to see people talk about the Aussie pack being like. Bad. It wasn't even that great for the time, and it's only gotten worse with age. The build pieces were lackluster and while the cassowary and kangaroo were good choices, the dingo was an awful choice and the koala wasn't done well enough. It really hurt especially because we only had a single Australian animal since. Luckily, you can never buy the Aussie pack and have at least 4 or 5 other Aussie animals we've gotten over the past few years so you're not hurting too bad. Really the only thing you really hurt from not having is the kangaroo I suppose.

@harmony8623

9 ай бұрын

The dingo is good wdym

@FlishonyanKing

9 ай бұрын

@harmony8623 the game at the time had literally one australian animal, the saltwater crocodile, and out of all the australian animals they could have picked, they chose a feral dog breed. There are so many unique and interesting species from Australia and they chose the one that isn't even native.

North african pieces are underrated, mix of berber and arabic architecture are S tier

I’m so gonna get the South America pack when I get planet zoo, anteaters in my opion are so cool 😎

it feels weird seeing people treating the twilight pack animals as zoo animals because i see 3 of them as pest

I’m not in this fandom, I’ve never played this game but omg the koala’s eyes are kinda scaring me

Only animal would use in the Europe pack is lynx but only use it recreating other zoos

As someone who lives in sweden and was born in Germany I really disagree on the Europe pack, it's great you have animals you see in every zoo and even in my old local park, Name one zoo without fallows, ibex and co, badgers are very common where I live.

As someone who lives in North America… there really aren’t that many North American animals in zoos near me. It could be because I’m in Colorado and the cougar, prairie dog, and Bison are already found in the wild in my state, but just wanted to comment.

@samuelb199

12 күн бұрын

Not really sure what you're talking about here. The 3 biggest zoos in Colorado being, Denver, Cheyenne Mt, and Pueblo all have pretty decent lineups of North American species. Cheyenne and Pueblo both have dedicated exhibits/sections for North America's fauna, and Denver has a huge one in their master plan. But even then they still have Northern Shores if memory serves. Maybe some smaller non accredited zoos in the state are lacking, but the 3 big ones aren't.

As an american, the night pack was a letdown. The wombat and bats are cool. The rest are considered pests were I live.

I’m building a zoo right now and I want to add polar bears it’s really the only thing I like about the Artic dlc

I just got every DLC to not miss out on blueprints from the workshop lol

20:56 - definitely one of the packs of all time

Im getting 3 dlc packs for this coming Christmas where i am ive decided african, wetlands, grassland, what do you think

LetsGameItOut: so I’m just gonna get all of these capybaras, and put them high up, and just trap them in there, for all eternity

What would you say is the best pack for foliage?

The Australian Pack was soul-crushingly bad to me when I found out it only had four animals, and one of them is technically an introduced species! I’m showing my age here, but when you bought DLCs for Zoo Tycoon 1 or 2 back in the day, you got tens of animals minimum per pack.

Perfect 🥰 😊

25:03 arid animal pack and Oceania pack moment

I want to start play Planet Zoo, but I don't know where to begin. :/ Is there like, a whole deluxe pack with all the DLCs? Buying all of them separately is troublesome (& expensive, I bet)

@OldCountry

Жыл бұрын

Yep Planet Zoo does have a deluxe or ultimate edition with all the dlcs. It is quite costly. So what I recommend is you check out all of the packs on steam and see what they have to offer in terms of animals and building pieces. If I were to give advice to beginner players on which dlcs are worth it right off the bat I would go with Africa, Conservation and Grasslands. These packs give good variety and two of them are scenery packs with very useful and realistic pieces to play around with. These packs also overall have very good Animal selections including animals like White Rhinoceros, Meerkats, African Penguins, Siamangs, Amur Leopards, Emus and Wallabies. Planet Zoo also has seasonal sales every March, June, October and December where you can get DLC for very cheap. If you have anymore questions let me know! It's very exciting to see new people get into the game!

@lysander3459

Жыл бұрын

@@OldCountry Thank you so much for answer!☺I'll be definitely checking out these DLCs and see which ones suit me the best!

Idk man the european animal selection seems fine enough to me, with the exception of the deer. I see those around domesticated quite often, and you can order some sort of deer dish at pretty much every inn. Apart from that, the only other animal i sometimes encounter is the firesalamander, but those look so outlandish that i'll gladly give them a pass as a zoo exhibit

Personally I think they should also add a grey fox

i need a mini map on this game

Wetlands best pack 100%

4 of my favorite pack is in the s tier

I am watching this just to see what sort of herps are in the game

@OldCountry

8 ай бұрын

Most of them are in the base game. Check out my exhibit animal tier list to see a majority of them

i finly got all dlcs yeaday

To be honest, I finally bought the game because there is otter in it.

You seem to really love hating rocks lol

While living overseas, I've seen 0 animals from the US... so ok you have your little national pride that puts it in the S tier but those animals are mostly boring and plain. For the European ones, we do either get the Lynx or get a mention of it in zoos. But generally speaking unless it's endangered or rare to come by, it has no business being in a zoo (for Europeans anyway)... so I don't see why they put the badger, the deer and the salamander in there... if you're talking about taking typical animals from each "biome" they should have taken the wild boar over the deer any day... for the other packs I wouldn't be able to say.

12 DLCS???? (I haven’t played the game cuz I’m waiting for it to come on console)

@silikon7875

11 ай бұрын

13dlcs

@HollowKnightReference

11 ай бұрын

Well they said they had no plans if porting it

@theprehistoricnerd

10 ай бұрын

​@@HollowKnightReferencedidnt frontier say in 2020 that it might be coming to console in 2024?

My personal list ▪︎ Top 5 : - Grasslands - Wetlands - Africa - SA - Aquatic ▪︎ Animals pack : - Grasslands - Wetlands - SEA - NA ▪︎ Scenery pack : - Africa - SA - Aquatic - Australia - Conservation - Twilight - Artic - Europe

i dont even know what game is this, but he is right with the europe pack, as a european i fell in live with the decoration but the animal selection seems mediocre at his bedt odds, but the european animals are not very attractive ones, especially bc a lot of european fauna is now in almost all the world so doesnt feel exotic

The aquatic pack was my least fave for some reason

My pack list:Australia pack A Europe pack D Asian pack C South America pack S North American pack F Aquatic pack E

You are so Quiet bro💀💀💀

The conversation pack sucks purely because Australia has the highest amount of endangered species in the WORLD, and yet there was none in that pack. Tasmanian devil, bandicoot, eastern quoll, numbat, echidnas are all beautiful species and endangered.

@fatnakedjimmyneutron

9 ай бұрын

Ummmm, no? Australia does not have the highest amount of endangered species. Like it's not even in the top 10 countries. As far as continents go Asia and South America have the most endangered species and its not even close.

I really hope it’s animal packs going forward. Outside of unique props I think we are set with building pieces. And there are so many animals that need to be in game (for the love of god please more birds) it would be better for the game going forward to focus on that.

great video! I wholeheartedly agree with Grasslands being the best pack!

I know this is a zoo game and some of you are judging the animals from the Zoo standpoint, but personally I love creating wild/fantasy landscapes in planet zoo. So I absolutely LOVE the European pack, because I, as a Northern European, can find most of those animals in the wild. I was ecstatic when I saw the animals in that pack because fallow deer are my favourite animals ever. North America is boring to me because I have 0 connection to any of those animals and same goes for the twilight pack. The fox is good though.

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personally i just really dislike planet zoo having dlc in the first place. things like striped hyenas, jaguars, rhinos, etc shouldve all been base game. It just seems veerrryyy money hungry to me. Not to mention, i dislike both the european and north american packs because they're just not zoo animals! they are just common wildlife found in those areas that aren't really zoo staples. Why have a moose habitat when there are moose right outside? its just not even close to being a pick for me.

Unpopular opinion, I really dislike the Aquatic Pack, The animals could easily be replaced with more deserving animals, And the fact this is THE closest to aquarium pack we'll get is really dissapointing, I would have replaced them with true marine: - California Sea Lion - Green Sea Turtle - Emperor Penguin - Sea Otter - Sea Horses

This is so biased mate Americans man

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