Ever since JWE1 released, I’ve been wanting an aquatic Dino pack. Seeing the announcement for the prehistoric marine species pack was probably the happiest I’ve ever been for a dlc for both games. And the announcement was on my birthday too😄
Here it is: 1. Feathered Species Pack 2. Cretaceous Predator Species Pack 3. Late Cretaceous Pack 4. Camp Cretaceous Pack 5. Secret Species Pack 6. Early Cretaceous Pack 7. Marine Species Pack 8. Deluxe Edition Pack
I hope the next update is a big one and includes the following: -Sauropod Attack and defense animations -Lagoon kelp/coral brush -fences connect to Lagoons and Aviarys -variety of kill/attack/defense/social animations that other species can use if the same size so as not limited to one animation. -small fence enclosures and attractions to better view smaller dinosaurs like compys, Moros, etc...
I've noticed a bit of a pattern. Every like amazing DLC is followed by a "Meh" DLC. Only exception I think is the malta and then the feathered species.
There are only 2 types of players 1. Oh I finally finished my sandbox park 2. Okay, all the challenges were completed at the Jurassic level, luckily you can make your own, it will enhance everything to the max
I like to play Sandbox Mode with everything set to normal Game mechanics (research, money, etc); except rating-limits (jurassic) and randomized dig-sites. This is like the best setting that comes to a Operation-Genesis Kind of play, which i really prefer.
My ranking: 1-Biosyn Expansion 2-Malta Expansion Yh its pretty obvious why those are the best ones. 3-Feathered Pack: By far the best pack in the game that adds all great dinosaurs, deinocheirus alone can carry this pack, it has great animations and design and also bonus points of being a omnivore; yutyrannus is amazing; jeholopterus although small it's the most unique pterosaur and its the only insectivore in the game and finally sinosauropteryx yes it is super small, but i do think we need those dinosaurs, it gives variety and for me its just feels right to have those small fellas. 10/10 insta buy pack 4-Early Cretaceous: You dont have the idea how kronosaurus carries this pack, krono is by the best marine reptile and one of the best creatures in the game, amazing design, skins and animations, sure aquatics are pretty boring cause of the lack of stuff we can do in the lagoons but krono can still be super entertaining and yes it is sure bias cause i love pliosaurus; minmi i absolutely love this thing, its really cute and has great animations, minmi was one of my most wanted dinosaurs in JWE1 and then it got really quick in JWE2 so yes i was super happy; dsungaripterus is a cool and pretty unique pterosaur and wuerhosaurus is pretty amazing even tough it kinda lost the spot for the CC Kentro and Lost World Stego variants its still an amazing dinosaur. 9/10 pack 5-Marine Species: Great additions for the lagoons, shonisaurus being the best one, archelon it's another great one and it's also pretty unique, dunkleosteus is cool but i rather had something like dakosaurus and then nothosaurus that is meh also rather had another marine reptile. The main problem of this pack its just marine reptiles are not entertaining in this game since of the lack of stuff we can do on the lagoons. 7/10 pack
6-Cretaceous Predator: Im gonna be honest i'm not a fan of this pack and the sole reason i bought this pack was just because of gigantoraptor, and yes gigantoraptor is amazing i love it, it was one of my most wanted dinosaurs since JWE1 and i'm super happy that i finally have it, great design, animations and really cool skins and now it's able to hunt its even better 10/10 dinosaur; concavenator is a ok dinosaur i like it, i was not one of those people that wanted conca, but its still a cool carnivore to have; utahraptor yes it is a amazing design, but i just don't think it was needed in the game, we already have so many dromaeosaurids and yeah i just think there better picks its honestly a waste of slot for me and finally... Tarbosaurus yh i despise CC Tarbo design and i'm not gonna continue im so done with my comments about tarbo. 7/10 pack just because of gigantoraptor and conca kinda helps too would be a 6.4/10 pack if gigantoraptor was not there 7-Camp Cretaceous: Although only 2 species i do actually both of them, Scorpius is ugly as hell but its a crazy and amazing monster and monolophosaurus is a amazing small carnivore, the skins are cool and the kentro and ourano variants are realy cool. Although i have to say this pack come out too early s5 was not even out when this pack launched, cause of that this really created a big snowball that then kinda ruined the future packs. Tarbo, notho and sinospino they all should have been here since the start just like the still missing skins. 6.3/10 pack (real score) 0/10 cause of how this pack created a big snowball 8-Late Cretaceous: Its a mid pack, only australovenator stands out for me with the good animations and skins; alamosaurus have cool skins but god i really dont like those spikes that are down there in neck; barbaridactylus i honestly forget this pterosaur is in the game and finally styxosaurus its a cool marine reptile with some cool lux skins yh just that. 6.2/10 pack 9-Deluxe: meh its a ok pack to launch with the game launch, i do despise tho that i have to buy huayangosaurus again! Atleast this pack gives other 4 creatures and skin vehicles tho :v. The other 4 are cool i like them. 5.5/10 pack 10-Secret Species: Before going hard for this pack im just want to say that i do actually enjoy a lot the hybrids, i would not even mind to get even more of them, i do mind tho that to get them again i have to freaking buy them again this is stupid and one of the worst decisions frontier made they really did not learn with huayangosaurus; spinoraptor, ankylodocus and stegoceratops should have come for free and instead we should have got new hybrids,frontier could make a lot of more money if they gave us a marine and flyer hybrids and also a brand new hybrid. Yes ankylodocus redesign, the socials and lux skins are cool but that will not save it. Oh and SinoSpino yh i really don't care for that hybrid its cool tho that its able to eat from the fish feeder. 2.4/10 pack for the sole reason that i have to buy 3 species again This what they should have done in my opinion Give an actual free update that would be: -The missing finishing animations of ceratopsians, stegosaurids and ankylosaurids that are in JWE1 are back. -The missing decorations and trees are also back. -The old hybrids would be here on the free update and ankylodocus can fight back. -New kelp decorations and rock formations for the lagoons. -A new Indominus Rex skeleton. -And finally a new behavior that is scavengers can now eat remains of the teeth of medium and large carnivores when they finish eating something, those medium and large would lie down and open their mouth letting the scavengers eat. For the DLC now: -4 new hybrids that are SinoSpino, Allosinosaurus, a Pteranodon and Dimorphodon flyer hybrid and a Mosasaurus and Elasmosaurus aquatic hybrid. -All hybrids would have a Lux pattern. -Ankylodocus redesign and Stegoceratops movie look would be new body variants. This would make the pack a bit more expensive like the CC one but i think the pack in this way would be more worth it. Note: If you like any of this packs its ok if that's you like i'm fine with it, everybody have their opinion and we should respect each other i will respect yours i hope you do the same. Let's hope frontier will give something big on the next update and pack. And sorry for the long text XD
lol I already corrected myself later. I don't use Notho much, so I forget but also don't get any use out of it's lux skin, so for me, Styxo is the only lux lagoon animal *that I actually use*
I feel like she failed to take into account Frontier's current financial state being a factor of us having to pay for the hybrids again, like if you look at their stocks right now... It's bad it's very bad
I know very well about Frontier's financial state and how it influenced this DLC. That is completely irrelevant to *any* of the points I was making in this video :) Understanding why something is the way it is, doesn't excuse it and shouldn't sway anyone's opinion on whether they like it or not.
But is that our problem? I'm a customer, I pay for a good product, it's not a charity. Plus it's not like those dlcs take a lot of money to develop. 4 models, a bit of skin combinations, some reused animations + some new. I don't think it takes a lot of time and resources to develop
@@EvolutionSquare i was pointing it out because a llloooottttt of people were poiting it out on discord when the pack was announced, and by doing so it brought back the whole "Frontier Layoff" drama from the grave and almost everybody in the JWE2 discord server was loosing it. But talking about relevance, the only point where i think Frontier current financial state is relevant is why the first three hybrids weren't free, why would they make us pay again for something we already paid for in the first game ? because they're currently near the bottom of the financial hole and they needed a backup plan and sadly that backup plan was to make a paid hybrid pack with hybrids we've already paid for in the first game. That doesn't mean people have to hate this pack, love it or hate it no matter Frontier's financial state, but in my opinion that was a bad move from frontier and i hope they learn to make the same bad move again.
Ranking dinosaur Packs is something you can’t put a price on when bias for most come into play. I liked all four dinosaurs in the pack and I think it’s unique to have. ( I’ll never really use them but I like the options.) The Camp cretaceous toro skin is one of my favourites for it simply due to the rubber like skin texture. I’ve liked the camp cretaceous pack editions over others simply due to me using it more than Utarhraptor for example, im not gonna say one is better than the other though. ( People will hate the Meg if it were ever added just because people don’t want a big shark and people do want a big shark.)
Evo: we should not argue with each other, some people like things you don’t. People: Okay Evo: For example, I don’t like peanut butter. Me: Get the torches.
My favorite DLC's for evolution 2 is the biosyn expansion matla expansion and the hybrid pack marine species and I don't why but the camp cretaceous is one of my favorites probably because of bumpy the ankylosaurus
ey! happy to have accidentally brough you some good news! I've linked all the full showcases in the description, if you want to check out what that pack (late cretaceous) includes
You are absolutely 100% correct. You either like something or you don't, or maybe you don't really have an opinion on it. But that doesn't make either opinion the "correct" one. If you don't like peanut butter, congrats. I may think you're a massive weirdo, but you do you. End of day, does it affect me personally? No, no it doesn't.
Pretty much agree with this list. I think the accompanying update can also give a 'boost' feeling to the content. Had the marine pack come with an update with kelp brush, lagoon rocks, more social animations, it would've killed. Please also make Evo's fireside podcast chat room background a regular thing :D Maybe with a view of herding creatures in the background.
I really liked the rooms until I realized in fullscreen mode that they were AI : ( I'll be trying to make my own version using JWE2 footage outside the window
I think it’s also worth mentioning that this DLC was basically made right after one of the worst layoffs they’ve seen in their whole company. Not only do they have so many less developers to work on this, but also, it could be that this was an attempt to try to make some money back to financially recover from their losses.
14:23 I just wanted to say that as a 3D artist who has frequently worked in Unreal Engine for my day jobs...this is a bit of an oversimplification. It's likely that Frontier had to *at least* modify any models sent to them for use in JWE2 (retopology, new UVs and textures, modifying the rigs to work with the JWE2 existing skeletal animations, etc.), if not just remaking them entirely based off a provided model sheet. I don't know for sure, of course, I'm just making educated guesses. I won't deny that these packs are less original than the others, but I also think our language around developer workload could be a bit more informed when discussing such topics. I think it's best to comment on the end user experience and how that feels, rather than assuming the developers did more/less work, especially since the price tags aren't decided by them. Something having more/less work involved doesn't need to affect how someone feels about it - they either like it, or they don't. The work should stand on its own. I just wanted to offer some of my "industry experience" in here, I guess. And to be clear - I hate Camp Cretaceous and have zero interest in their dinosaur designs, I totally agree that the Scorpius Rex is one of the worst things I've ever seen. Those original Frontier designs like the Yutyrannus, Utahraptor, Shonisaurus, Sinosauropteryx etc. are exactly what I'm after. Your tier list is pretty similar to what I imagine mine would be! The Spinoraptor is the *only* hybrid from this entire franchise that I remotely care about. Cheers!
I have hopes that the Ankylodocus might get some fighting animations added like how they added the ability for the Gigantoraptor to hunt since literally EVERYONE asked for it. I can't see them ignoring the Ankylodocus still being unable to fight back since everyone is asking it to.
finished watching video i agree with your ranking and second i learned two new things about likes and dislikes Evo good job on video overall. have great day .
I think what Frontier needs to do next is just a couple expansions improving aviaries, lagoons, aquatic creatures, and flying creatures. Would add so much to the game if lagoons had foliage and flying creatures could walk, even just those two would add so much.
I liked the 2 spino hybrids but I find it daft that stego-ceratops doesn’t use its tail like it did in the first game may as well have imported that aswell in my opinion or mix the two attacks of the charge and whack to make its design a bit more bearable
Another awesome video Evo. ❤️ I forgot to tell you yesterday thank you for confirming there's at least one more DLC pack. There were a lot people saying the game was dead before the Hybrid pack even released.
Here's my idea for the final DLC pack. I'm the thinking this will be the novel expansion pack. Adding Microceratus, Segisaurus, novel skins & variants for every species that appeared in the books. Pterosaur walking animations & the biggest addition the River Cruise as an attraction.
Hear me out, Evo should build a park where she uses only game base, dinosaurs(species),buildings to make a park. Meaning she can’t use DLC species nor buildings to build the park!!
One of my biggest issues with the hybrids pack is that they didn’t make any marine or pterosaur hybrids. Like I would have loved to see a tropagnathus dimorphodon and a Dunkleosteus icthyosaurus hybrid but they didnt put any. I hope in future packs they add some sort of hybrid to marine and pterosaurs. I think that one or 2 for each would work well, especially considering there is much less pterosaurs and marine life compared to land dinos.
Judging on how sometimes frontier fixes issues within packs like when they added hunting to Gigantoraptor, makes me believe they’ll add combat with the Ankylodocus
Soooo indominus rex and velociraptors being able to communicate ingame isnt?@@Six_the_Dragon And dont say they do that cause they did it in the movie
Hi Evolution Square. Just to let you know that this is my first time commenting on this channel. You're right about the dlc, I am disappointed a bit. Either way, I am getting this DLC, and I'm letting most of the hybrids from the first game live their own life's, except getting the Spinoraptor fighting it's opponents. That's all I can say. Thanks!
Scorpios is sooooooo good at being your super high security vip creature, which I always add to my parks, ofc you can go for indominus or indoraptor (especially now that they got lux skins) but scorpios is just so extreme, I love it
Awesome video!!! Also my favorite DLC in the game has to be the Cretaceous Predator pack and the Feather pack for a couple of reasons, the feather pack introduced the Deinocheirus, which I really love that creature, because it only eats plants and fish which is very unique, the Spinoceratops also has that nature which is why Spinoceratops is my favorote in the Secret Pack :), the butterfly bat is another major reason why I love the Feather Pack :), but the Cretaceous Predator Pack introduced the Tarbo, Gigantoraptor, and the Utahraptor :). And I respect your opinion on the Secret Pack :) hopefully one day we get a fish and plant eater pack :)
After the aquatic pack, I immediately set to work making a park themed around equality between land and sea. It was based on Pokémon Ruby and Saphire. And when I finish it, I’m going to make a hybrid themed park. I love your videos and they inspire my own creativity! Keep doing what you’re doing.😊
My personal ranking would be: Marine species Feathered species Predator Early cretaceous Late cretaceous Camp cretaceous Secret species And then I'd have to rank the expansions separately because they have a lot more content, but if I had to compare them they'd probably be somewhere in the middle with the Biosyn slightly above the Malta.
use jeholopterus as butterflies that you can let loose in your park. just put like a TON of them. If you add exterior rocks/aviary paltforms, theyll congregate to certain areas,
What the secret pack should have been: Stegocerstops (Nasutoceratops version from concept art and jw movie) Spinoraptor Ankylodocus Spinoceratops What the free update: The bug fixes ofc Foliage for lagoons (kelp) Sauropods able to fight certain dinosaur based on their size ( for example a diplodocus loses against a indominus rex but can kill a allosaurus) And probably more stuff i dont remember
In my opinion the hybrid pack is the best so far(excluding expansions). And most people don’t think that it is worth $8 for dinosaurs we had in the last game, but you also Payed $60 for dinosaurs we had I t eh last game
I wish they added mosasaur mixed with arcalon which I mean a arcalon with a mosasaur head and tail an a larger head and it would be able to defend itself evo you wanna say ur opinion it because I think it would be cool to have a mosasaur arcalon hybrid and it would add more of a excuse to add your idea of a attachment to the lagoons and mor decorations to lagoons or natural lagoons
Hey evo there is a new (i think) feuture where you can airlift pterasaurs out of the hatcery to the wild and not need to do the glitch or wait for them to escape
For me from worst to best the packs go in this order: Early Cretaceous Pack, Deluxe upgrade, Camp Cretaceous Pack, Late Cretaceous Pack. Prehistoric Marine Species Pack, Feathered Species Pack, Cretaceous Predator Pack, Secret Species Pack(don't have it but will get it), Dominion Malta Expansion, Dominion Biosyn Expansion. P.S. I watched a 4 year old video of yours with Q and A. You said you liked Geology and History. I will take them for my GCSE's next year. Is this the psychology of dino nerds or what?😂😀😊❤
I'm wondering if the hybrid pack is kind of like the raptor skin pack in the first game. A small dlc with no free update followed soon by a major dlc later
This is just the kind of video this community needs. I admit that I was not excited for the hybrids, even if they were all new hybrids with awesome animations I would still have been disappointed. You are absolutely correct though about how to express that disappointment. This is one of my major gripes with the forums for JWE as opposed to something like planet zoo for instance. The JWE forum feels like a very toxic environment to me which is why I’m so thankful for the community you’ve created with this channel. It’s positive and excited for all things JWE but also respectfully acknowledges where something its lacking and you thoughtfully present realistic suggestions for improvement. So thank you for this video. I wanted to like it twice, but that’s not possible on YT.
Entirely valid points for addressing those who both love and loath this pack, honestly I like that the DLC isn't for everyone. Less you're a completionist (like me), people can pick and choose which expansions or packs they want to get! Now for my own personal rankings of the Species Packs (just the Packs, obviously the Expansions are the best DLCs - personally like Malta more than Biosyn). 1. Late Cretaceous Pack - All four species are in my top 25 out of the whole roster. Alamosaurus is my favorite in-game sauropod, Australovenator is my favorite in-game small theropod, Barbaridactylus is my favorite in-game pterosaur, and Styxosaurus takes 3rd place overall in the Aquatics category. I just really like the designs for these creatures. 2. Feathered Species Pack - Jeholopterus and Deinocheirus are two of my absolute favorite designs in the game. 3. Marine Species Pack - Dunkleosteus rocketed up to the number one spot in the Aquatic Roster, and the new platform is a definite favorite of mine. 4. Early Cretaceous Pack - I think all four inclusions are pretty solid, middle ranking for the middle pack. 5. Cretaceous Predator Pack - I love the Utahraptor and the Concavenator, they're right behind Australovenator in the small theropod category. But I don't particularly like the Gigantoraptor's design and I hate the Tarbosaurus' design; so while the Early Cretaceous Pack was all solid mid-tiers; the Cretaceous Predator Pack falls on either extreme with its entries. 6. Deluxe Upgrade Pack - Like the Early Cretaceous Pack just all around a collection of solid mid-tier entries which are nice to have, its ranked lower because I genuinely don't like that Huayangosaurus wasn't a base game species. I'd prefer if this pack was just the four new species and the extra skins. 7. Secret Species Pack - I'm not a big hybrid fan, though I do like the designs for the Spinoraptor and Ankylodocus; I'm just not really going to be using these creatures all too often. 8. Camp Cretaceous Pack - While I actually adore the show (currently been doing a rewatch with my D&D group and have been enjoying it!) I think this pack is lacking. There are only two completely new species, with the other two slots taken up by variants. The rest of this pack is taken up by skins, none of which I use too often.
Evo ive had the game on my playstation for a while now and was thinking of getting it on steam since its on discount, do you think the game is worth it at the state it is? (Im planning on getting the two expansions with it) 😅
I will say though the hybrids do have socials with their parent species, and they are adorable (especially ankylodocus with ankylosaurus) because it's like it was adopted into their herd. It's unusual, but they love it nevertheless. (Maybe not the raptor, because he always looks scared of the spinoraptor.)
When you talked about the dinos that didn't make it to the sequel for free, you put spinosaurus instead of spinoraptor, which by now we know, is your true baby!❤
I liked the hybrid park cause when I got it was really fun loss it reset it. My game started at the beginning I got it and I’m having a fun time back on thank you give me all these ideas cause I’ve been doing what you say about much has been quite fun for me doing this song, just cause I’m having a good time
Hearing the part about the camp cretaceous pack sparked a new idea for me! What if they added the Brad's and the Brad-x's? They could be used as park and enclosure decorations and maybe even part of the medical facilities.
Honestly I still love the hybrids glad we finally got them bck while it would’ve been nice to have them in the base game than just add the rest of the Dinos missing from the show and movie in a new pack
I absolutely love stegoceratops now spinosino but the points you made with the stegoceratops and ankyloducus make perfect sense and I wish they did those things, I hope they do the same thing with the gigantoraptor and give them some animations :)
To be fair to the Ankylo crosses, current theories on clubbed Dinosaurs support that they evolved due to mating pressure/selection not self defence as their tail bone structure doesn't allow them to swing it that way. Though I doubt developers really thought that deeply about it xD
No? There is literal fossil evidence of injuries on ankylosaur skeletons caused by tail clubs, not only they were certainly strong enough to break a Tyrannosaur leg, they were strong enough to pierce through the armor of another Ankylosaur. Besides, their tail structure is, quite literally, made to swing and hit, literally, the name "Ankylosaurus" comes from the ossified tendons at the end of it's tail, which made the end of it's tail rigid and allowed the club to hit at full force, similar to a hammer. Where did you find this misinformation??
About the "evolved to mating", it is possible, even likely that it happened, but not for show like a peacock, it would be more like the horns of all extant and extinct animals, evolved for intraspecific fighting, which is technically a form of sexual display, but it also helps the animal to fight back their predators.
There is currently no evidence on any of the thero predators of damage that matches Ankylo tails (as far as Im aware) but there IS evidence of that damage on eachothers bony plating which suggests it was developed for mating displays and aggression. Give it another 10 years and Im sure the thinking will be different again :)@@darkonyx6995
I think my main draw to the hybrid pack is that I like mixing species in an enclosure. Knowing that I can put a medium predator (spinoraptor) in with a small predator (raptor) and not have to worry about them fighting like if you mix say, a raptor and carno is great, and can lead to very unique enclosures and habitats.
I agree with the rating for the most part but I can't justify the existence of the DLC based on having to pay for the creatures twice, and the first time they gave them to me they came with missions.
what i rly find dissappointing is that there is like barely any free updates, it feels annoying when i have to pay just to get a few more dinos or more content
I'm not disappointed by the Hybrid pack. That said, on a ranking, I would have probably put it only one spot higher. Aside from wishing we got the original hybrids for free, I wish they would have also added a lux pattern to the "parent" species like Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Diplodocus, T-Rex, Spinosaurus, Anklyosaurus, Sinoceratops and Velociraptor.
Stegoceratops: “and I took that personally.” Ankolodicus (idk how to spell it): “And i also took that personally.” Spinoraptor: “HA! Wait…. Why is she putting our pack down?”
My favorite pack has to be Camp Cretaceous pack. Although there are only two species, what makes it my favorite is how it set up a lot of what was to come in the future. Body variants? Pierce and Ouranosaurus. Lux skins? Parasaurolophus. Canon skins in dlc were also introduced in this pack with Big Eatie, Monolophosaurus 2015, the Scorpios Rex skins, and the Baryonyx trio. Toro and Bumpy even had model changes, even if they were slight. Scorpios Rex is my favorite of the pack, and it’s so unique compared to everything else in the game. The venom, the fight animation against medium carnivores, and the fact that it can climb out of its enclosure are so cool. Monolophosaurus is also a welcome addition to any of my parks. Even though it is Jurassic Worldified, it has amazing skins and I like to use it to have a nice balance between Jurassic World and more naturalistic designs in my parks. I also love how it sounds. Is it the best pack? No. Far from it. Do I wish it came out later to allow more of the species from the show to appear in the pack? Absolutely. But the fact that it feels like a stepping stone for Frontier and how some of the content of the future DLCs would play out is not something I can ignore. Even if it one of the weakest packs in terms of content, it still holds a special place in my heart, just as everyone’s favorite pack will.
I feel like an air quotes "yet" should be added everytime someone says ankylodocus can't defend itself. It seems like one of those features they will add retroactively.
I just made a spinosaurus and spinoraptor enclosure and a little staff and guest section. Something I am already doing is having the alpha a lux skin and the others don’t have lux skins
My personal conspiracy theory is that Frontier purposefully made the secret species pack polarizing to stop people from creating a Microceratus death cult
Even disregarding the missed Stegoceratops and Ankylodicus potential in my opinion it's still a bad pack as half of them are straitup reused animals from JWE 1 that should've been there from launch. Stegoceratops, the only part about it that must've taken more effort than any other species is the 1 lux skin wich is 2 less than Styx and Spinoraptor wich has the same amount of effort in as the base game I-rex (they also have an unique social with Velos) plus a third of the lux skins as Styx
I think I would’ve taken more to the hybrid pack if they had thrown in a few more new hybrids. Give me a Parasaurus Rex, Amargaspinus, or the epic Ultimasaurus. In general my biggest complaint with JWE/JWE2 is that they’re too “in the box.” We’ve all seen what Frontier is capable of. I wonder if the constraints are from Universal. We’ve seen how poorly managed and politically-corrupt most of Hollywood is. As a JP/JW fan since I was 3 years old in 1993, my biggest issue with the franchise is missed opportunity and surface-level content. We’ve all seen the many cancelled concepts, shows, and toys for the franchise. So many of them were actually great, but failed to launch or outright canceled.
I really think the next dlc or dlc's should include animals such as Plateosaurus, Anchisaurus, Liliensternus, Eoraptor, Rhamphorynchus, Protoceratops, Prenocephale, Alverosaurus, Shantungosaurus, Saltosaurus, Hypsilophodon, Microceratus, as well as some Palaeozoic and/or Cenozoic era animals. Maybe not all of those and not in that order, but just ideas.
I am still a bit meh BUT the more I see of the stegoceratops and my boi the ankylOdocus, the more I see the worth of it for me personally. I'll be getting next week. Gotta catch them all..... and have that ankylOdocus back :)
Its crazy how much work you put in a single video, i mean just look at the description! Theres so much stuff there that I couldnt even have the patience to read it Also that was a Jurassic pun in the description Edit: Completely unrelated topic but I cant remember I played a game mode different than sandbox, also i got banned from the discord 😢
I personally really like this pack, it triples the amount of bioluminescent species and I have degree of weird nostalgia to seeing some of the ideas I thought of with my friend at primary school 9 years ago projected directly into the game.
which pack is your favorite? I'd love to know! Or, if you feel like it, share your full ranking!
I have been waiting for a video like this
I like all of them the same way and I get excited when Frontier announces a new one
Ever since JWE1 released, I’ve been wanting an aquatic Dino pack. Seeing the announcement for the prehistoric marine species pack was probably the happiest I’ve ever been for a dlc for both games. And the announcement was on my birthday too😄
Here it is:
1. Feathered Species Pack
2. Cretaceous Predator Species Pack
3. Late Cretaceous Pack
4. Camp Cretaceous Pack
5. Secret Species Pack
6. Early Cretaceous Pack
7. Marine Species Pack
8. Deluxe Edition Pack
Did you know that all of the hybrids from the new hybrid pack has social animations with their parent species (except for spinosarus)
Evo: “Styxosaurus is the only bioluminescent marine creature.”
Nothosaurus: “And I took that personally…”
I forgot that too lol
While it is funny I forgot, it's also funny that nobody noticed that I DID correct myself later. Guess we all aren't paying attention? :P
The original commenter:
“And I took that personally.”
just wanted to write that too
@@EvolutionSquare lol your not wrong
“I’m a Lego fan I’m used to overpaying for stuff” Hit too hard😂
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@@EvolutionSquareYou went from overpaying for plastic to overpaying for pixels.
This is real asf
That got me laughing hard. I overpaid for that 2020 lego I-Rex and Anky set, but it was worth it
I'm in this comment and I don't like it
I hope the next update is a big one and includes the following:
-Sauropod Attack and defense animations
-Lagoon kelp/coral brush
-fences connect to Lagoons and Aviarys
-variety of kill/attack/defense/social animations that other species can use if the same size so as not limited to one animation.
-small fence enclosures and attractions to better view smaller dinosaurs like compys, Moros, etc...
Well we finally got kelp
No more updates
I've noticed a bit of a pattern. Every like amazing DLC is followed by a "Meh" DLC. Only exception I think is the malta and then the feathered species.
@@Roan-d6bmaybe the last free update will make it so that sauropods can kill
There are only 2 types of players
1. Oh I finally finished my sandbox park
2. Okay, all the challenges were completed at the Jurassic level, luckily you can make your own, it will enhance everything to the max
third type:
my sandbox park crashed before I could finish :'(
Fourth type (me): I got bored and stopped building
@@EvolutionSquareThat’s me.
I like to play Sandbox Mode with everything set to normal Game mechanics (research, money, etc); except rating-limits (jurassic) and randomized dig-sites.
This is like the best setting that comes to a Operation-Genesis Kind of play, which i really prefer.
5th type: time to find out new ways to absolutely murder the guests every time a new pack comes out
Get your torches ready, folks!😂
undoubtedly this video will get some *interesting* reactions haha
Yeah
Let's go before They light the torches
don't forget the pitch forks 🤣
Don't forget the cotten candy
My ranking:
1-Biosyn Expansion
2-Malta Expansion
Yh its pretty obvious why those are the best ones.
3-Feathered Pack: By far the best pack in the game that adds all great dinosaurs, deinocheirus alone can carry this pack, it has great animations and design and also bonus points of being a omnivore; yutyrannus is amazing; jeholopterus although small it's the most unique pterosaur and its the only insectivore in the game and finally sinosauropteryx yes it is super small, but i do think we need those dinosaurs, it gives variety and for me its just feels right to have those small fellas.
10/10 insta buy pack
4-Early Cretaceous: You dont have the idea how kronosaurus carries this pack, krono is by the best marine reptile and one of the best creatures in the game, amazing design, skins and animations, sure aquatics are pretty boring cause of the lack of stuff we can do in the lagoons but krono can still be super entertaining and yes it is sure bias cause i love pliosaurus; minmi i absolutely love this thing, its really cute and has great animations, minmi was one of my most wanted dinosaurs in JWE1 and then it got really quick in JWE2 so yes i was super happy; dsungaripterus is a cool and pretty unique pterosaur and wuerhosaurus is pretty amazing even tough it kinda lost the spot for the CC Kentro and Lost World Stego variants its still an amazing dinosaur.
9/10 pack
5-Marine Species: Great additions for the lagoons, shonisaurus being the best one, archelon it's another great one and it's also pretty unique, dunkleosteus is cool but i rather had something like dakosaurus and then nothosaurus that is meh also rather had another marine reptile. The main problem of this pack its just marine reptiles are not entertaining in this game since of the lack of stuff we can do on the lagoons.
7/10 pack
6-Cretaceous Predator: Im gonna be honest i'm not a fan of this pack and the sole reason i bought this pack was just because of gigantoraptor, and yes gigantoraptor is amazing i love it, it was one of my most wanted dinosaurs since JWE1 and i'm super happy that i finally have it, great design, animations and really cool skins and now it's able to hunt its even better 10/10 dinosaur; concavenator is a ok dinosaur i like it, i was not one of those people that wanted conca, but its still a cool carnivore to have; utahraptor yes it is a amazing design, but i just don't think it was needed in the game, we already have so many dromaeosaurids and yeah i just think there better picks its honestly a waste of slot for me and finally... Tarbosaurus yh i despise CC Tarbo design and i'm not gonna continue im so done with my comments about tarbo.
7/10 pack just because of gigantoraptor and conca kinda helps too
would be a 6.4/10 pack if gigantoraptor was not there
7-Camp Cretaceous: Although only 2 species i do actually both of them, Scorpius is ugly as hell but its a crazy and amazing monster and monolophosaurus is a amazing small carnivore, the skins are cool and the kentro and ourano variants are realy cool. Although i have to say this pack come out too early s5 was not even out when this pack launched, cause of that this really created a big snowball that then kinda ruined the future packs. Tarbo, notho and sinospino they all should have been here since the start just like the still missing skins.
6.3/10 pack (real score)
0/10 cause of how this pack created a big snowball
8-Late Cretaceous: Its a mid pack, only australovenator stands out for me with the good animations and skins; alamosaurus have cool skins but god i really dont like those spikes that are down there in neck; barbaridactylus i honestly forget this pterosaur is in the game and finally styxosaurus its a cool marine reptile with some cool lux skins yh just that.
6.2/10 pack
9-Deluxe: meh its a ok pack to launch with the game launch, i do despise tho that i have to buy huayangosaurus again! Atleast this pack gives other 4 creatures and skin vehicles tho :v. The other 4 are cool i like them.
5.5/10 pack
10-Secret Species: Before going hard for this pack im just want to say that i do actually enjoy a lot the hybrids, i would not even mind to get even more of them, i do mind tho that to get them again i have to freaking buy them again this is stupid and one of the worst decisions frontier made they really did not learn with huayangosaurus; spinoraptor, ankylodocus and stegoceratops should have come for free and instead we should have got new hybrids,frontier could make a lot of more money if they gave us a marine and flyer hybrids and also a brand new hybrid. Yes ankylodocus redesign, the socials and lux skins are cool but that will not save it. Oh and SinoSpino yh i really don't care for that hybrid its cool tho that its able to eat from the fish feeder.
2.4/10 pack for the sole reason that i have to buy 3 species again
This what they should have done in my opinion
Give an actual free update that would be:
-The missing finishing animations of ceratopsians, stegosaurids and ankylosaurids that are in JWE1 are back.
-The missing decorations and trees are also back.
-The old hybrids would be here on the free update and ankylodocus can fight back.
-New kelp decorations and rock formations for the lagoons.
-A new Indominus Rex skeleton.
-And finally a new behavior that is scavengers can now eat remains of the teeth of medium and large carnivores when they finish eating something, those medium and large would lie down and open their mouth letting the scavengers eat.
For the DLC now:
-4 new hybrids that are SinoSpino, Allosinosaurus, a Pteranodon and Dimorphodon flyer hybrid and a Mosasaurus and Elasmosaurus aquatic hybrid.
-All hybrids would have a Lux pattern.
-Ankylodocus redesign and Stegoceratops movie look would be new body variants.
This would make the pack a bit more expensive like the CC one but i think the pack in this way would be more worth it.
Note: If you like any of this packs its ok if that's you like i'm fine with it, everybody have their opinion and we should respect each other i will respect yours i hope you do the same. Let's hope frontier will give something big on the next update and pack.
And sorry for the long text XD
I Like Stegocreatops And Spinoceratops But I Wish They Had A Unique Kill Animation To Stand Out From The Other Creatopsians
8:17
Nothosaurus would like to have a word evo...
lol I already corrected myself later.
I don't use Notho much, so I forget but also don't get any use out of it's lux skin, so for me, Styxo is the only lux lagoon animal *that I actually use*
I was today years old when I learned that Nothosaurus has a lux skin
Evo corrected herself near the end
I feel like she failed to take into account Frontier's current financial state being a factor of us having to pay for the hybrids again, like if you look at their stocks right now... It's bad it's very bad
I know very well about Frontier's financial state and how it influenced this DLC. That is completely irrelevant to *any* of the points I was making in this video :) Understanding why something is the way it is, doesn't excuse it and shouldn't sway anyone's opinion on whether they like it or not.
Facts. We waited three months for mid
But is that our problem? I'm a customer, I pay for a good product, it's not a charity.
Plus it's not like those dlcs take a lot of money to develop. 4 models, a bit of skin combinations, some reused animations + some new. I don't think it takes a lot of time and resources to develop
@@grzybowy1680exactly you pay for products so stop complaining you got what was advertised lmao
@@EvolutionSquare i was pointing it out because a llloooottttt of people were poiting it out on discord when the pack was announced, and by doing so it brought back the whole "Frontier Layoff" drama from the grave and almost everybody in the JWE2 discord server was loosing it.
But talking about relevance, the only point where i think Frontier current financial state is relevant is why the first three hybrids weren't free, why would they make us pay again for something we already paid for in the first game ? because they're currently near the bottom of the financial hole and they needed a backup plan and sadly that backup plan was to make a paid hybrid pack with hybrids we've already paid for in the first game. That doesn't mean people have to hate this pack, love it or hate it no matter Frontier's financial state, but in my opinion that was a bad move from frontier and i hope they learn to make the same bad move again.
Ranking dinosaur Packs is something you can’t put a price on when bias for most come into play. I liked all four dinosaurs in the pack and I think it’s unique to have. ( I’ll never really use them but I like the options.) The Camp cretaceous toro skin is one of my favourites for it simply due to the rubber like skin texture. I’ve liked the camp cretaceous pack editions over others simply due to me using it more than Utarhraptor for example, im not gonna say one is better than the other though.
( People will hate the Meg if it were ever added just because people don’t want a big shark and people do want a big shark.)
Warning of the day dont put a toaster in a bathtub
My dyslexic-ass self read that as: “Warning of the day don't put a bathtub in a toaster.”
@@HumanName-fm4hx the warning is from experience
Could have told be sooner💀
@@HumanName-fm4hxhow could you do that?
I am to poor for a hot tub, so a toaster is a tub Is the next best thing.
Evo swearing at 20:34 caught me off guard lol
I read this and was anticipating it the entire video💀
Epic Games currently has discounts on pretty much all JWE and JWE2 content, up to 75%
awesome!
@@EvolutionSquare Well it's saying something...
@@EvolutionSquarethey now have a new Spinosarus killing animation is the neck snapping
Evo: we should not argue with each other, some people like things you don’t.
People: Okay
Evo: For example, I don’t like peanut butter.
Me: Get the torches.
My favorite DLC's for evolution 2 is the biosyn expansion matla expansion and the hybrid pack marine species and I don't why but the camp cretaceous is one of my favorites probably because of bumpy the ankylosaurus
As a newer player, I was not aware that a DLC had Australovenator.... but I'm so glad I am now!
ey! happy to have accidentally brough you some good news! I've linked all the full showcases in the description, if you want to check out what that pack (late cretaceous) includes
You are absolutely 100% correct. You either like something or you don't, or maybe you don't really have an opinion on it. But that doesn't make either opinion the "correct" one. If you don't like peanut butter, congrats. I may think you're a massive weirdo, but you do you. End of day, does it affect me personally? No, no it doesn't.
Pretty much agree with this list. I think the accompanying update can also give a 'boost' feeling to the content. Had the marine pack come with an update with kelp brush, lagoon rocks, more social animations, it would've killed.
Please also make Evo's fireside podcast chat room background a regular thing :D Maybe with a view of herding creatures in the background.
I really liked the rooms until I realized in fullscreen mode that they were AI : ( I'll be trying to make my own version using JWE2 footage outside the window
I think it’s also worth mentioning that this DLC was basically made right after one of the worst layoffs they’ve seen in their whole company. Not only do they have so many less developers to work on this, but also, it could be that this was an attempt to try to make some money back to financially recover from their losses.
At least they could inform us about that. I am sure most people would understand
14:23 I just wanted to say that as a 3D artist who has frequently worked in Unreal Engine for my day jobs...this is a bit of an oversimplification. It's likely that Frontier had to *at least* modify any models sent to them for use in JWE2 (retopology, new UVs and textures, modifying the rigs to work with the JWE2 existing skeletal animations, etc.), if not just remaking them entirely based off a provided model sheet. I don't know for sure, of course, I'm just making educated guesses. I won't deny that these packs are less original than the others, but I also think our language around developer workload could be a bit more informed when discussing such topics. I think it's best to comment on the end user experience and how that feels, rather than assuming the developers did more/less work, especially since the price tags aren't decided by them. Something having more/less work involved doesn't need to affect how someone feels about it - they either like it, or they don't. The work should stand on its own. I just wanted to offer some of my "industry experience" in here, I guess.
And to be clear - I hate Camp Cretaceous and have zero interest in their dinosaur designs, I totally agree that the Scorpius Rex is one of the worst things I've ever seen. Those original Frontier designs like the Yutyrannus, Utahraptor, Shonisaurus, Sinosauropteryx etc. are exactly what I'm after. Your tier list is pretty similar to what I imagine mine would be! The Spinoraptor is the *only* hybrid from this entire franchise that I remotely care about. Cheers!
I have hopes that the Ankylodocus might get some fighting animations added like how they added the ability for the Gigantoraptor to hunt since literally EVERYONE asked for it. I can't see them ignoring the Ankylodocus still being unable to fight back since everyone is asking it to.
Aquatic Species pack is definitely my favorite.
Im biased cause Archelon is my favorite Prehistoric Creature.
Archelon really is the goat
Feathered pack is my favorite for the same reason, it adds my beloved Deinocheirus
I like the cretaceous predator pack. Utahraptor is my spinoraptor
@@tycoonraptor7052 Deinocheirus is really cool.
@@GreatNorthernUnofficialChannel Utahraptor is also really cool.
finished watching video i agree with your ranking and second i learned two new things about likes and dislikes Evo good job on video overall.
have great day .
I think what Frontier needs to do next is just a couple expansions improving aviaries, lagoons, aquatic creatures, and flying creatures. Would add so much to the game if lagoons had foliage and flying creatures could walk, even just those two would add so much.
I liked the 2 spino hybrids but I find it daft that stego-ceratops doesn’t use its tail like it did in the first game may as well have imported that aswell in my opinion or mix the two attacks of the charge and whack to make its design a bit more bearable
Another awesome video Evo. ❤️ I forgot to tell you yesterday thank you for confirming there's at least one more DLC pack. There were a lot people saying the game was dead before the Hybrid pack even released.
Here's my idea for the final DLC pack. I'm the thinking this will be the novel expansion pack. Adding Microceratus, Segisaurus, novel skins & variants for every species that appeared in the books. Pterosaur walking animations & the biggest addition the River Cruise as an attraction.
Hear me out, Evo should build a park where she uses only game base, dinosaurs(species),buildings to make a park.
Meaning she can’t use DLC species nor buildings to build the park!!
One of my biggest issues with the hybrids pack is that they didn’t make any marine or pterosaur hybrids. Like I would have loved to see a tropagnathus dimorphodon and a Dunkleosteus icthyosaurus hybrid but they didnt put any. I hope in future packs they add some sort of hybrid to marine and pterosaurs. I think that one or 2 for each would work well, especially considering there is much less pterosaurs and marine life compared to land dinos.
Judging on how sometimes frontier fixes issues within packs like when they added hunting to Gigantoraptor, makes me believe they’ll add combat with the Ankylodocus
You know the spinoraptor has unique social animation with velociraptor!
All the new hybrids have social animations with there parent Dino’s!(the Dino’s they were mixed with)exept for the spinosaurus,strangely
@@CYN_FAN12 Spino hates everything, even it’s half siblings
@@CYN_FAN12not really strange, it’s a giant carnivore that would just eat it…
Soooo indominus rex and velociraptors being able to communicate ingame isnt?@@Six_the_Dragon
And dont say they do that cause they did it in the movie
I do and it's IN this video, in the intro no less lmao
Never understood why people hate hybrids but it’s proven useless to fight them over it
Hi Evolution Square. Just to let you know that this is my first time commenting on this channel. You're right about the dlc, I am disappointed a bit. Either way, I am getting this DLC, and I'm letting most of the hybrids from the first game live their own life's, except getting the Spinoraptor fighting it's opponents. That's all I can say. Thanks!
Scorpios is sooooooo good at being your super high security vip creature, which I always add to my parks, ofc you can go for indominus or indoraptor (especially now that they got lux skins) but scorpios is just so extreme, I love it
Awesome video!!! Also my favorite DLC in the game has to be the Cretaceous Predator pack and the Feather pack for a couple of reasons, the feather pack introduced the Deinocheirus, which I really love that creature, because it only eats plants and fish which is very unique, the Spinoceratops also has that nature which is why Spinoceratops is my favorote in the Secret Pack :), the butterfly bat is another major reason why I love the Feather Pack :), but the Cretaceous Predator Pack introduced the Tarbo, Gigantoraptor, and the Utahraptor :). And I respect your opinion on the Secret Pack :) hopefully one day we get a fish and plant eater pack :)
My ranking:
1. Dominion Biosyn expansion
2. Dominion Malta expansion
3. Cretaceous predator pack
4. Prehistoric marine spieces pack
5. Feathered spiecies pack
6. Late Cretaceous pack
7. Early Cretaceous pack
8. Secret spieces pack
9. Camp cretaceous pack
10. Deluxe upgrade pack
*I almost forgot the Deluxe pack too*
hahaha *I keep forgetting about the Deluxe pack*. Even in this video I still forgot about it once or twice, it's amazing lol
Evo: “Styxosaurus is the only bioluminescent marine creature.”
Nothosaurus: 🤨🤨🤨
everyone says this and nobody noticed that I correct myself later lol
@@EvolutionSquare I honestly didnt clock that :/ , also id like to ask if you could do like a spinoraptor wetlands in mini mantah corp island?
After the aquatic pack, I immediately set to work making a park themed around equality between land and sea. It was based on Pokémon Ruby and Saphire. And when I finish it, I’m going to make a hybrid themed park. I love your videos and they inspire my own creativity! Keep doing what you’re doing.😊
Personally the hybrid pack is my favourite but the others aren’t far behind
Stegoceratops not using its tail while Fighting will always be stupid to me...
Same goes for ankylodocus or any sauropod
My personal ranking would be:
Marine species
Feathered species
Predator
Early cretaceous
Late cretaceous
Camp cretaceous
Secret species
And then I'd have to rank the expansions separately because they have a lot more content, but if I had to compare them they'd probably be somewhere in the middle with the Biosyn slightly above the Malta.
In what order
@@Order66LG sorry I meant from best to worst
hoping and praying for a aquatic expansion dlc or update. I will give ANYTHING for more aquatic customization
use jeholopterus as butterflies that you can let loose in your park. just put like a TON of them. If you add exterior rocks/aviary paltforms, theyll congregate to certain areas,
Hi I just got jwe2 and every single dlc I have been waiting for a year I’m super excited!!
What the secret pack should have been:
Stegocerstops (Nasutoceratops version from concept art and jw movie)
Spinoraptor
Ankylodocus
Spinoceratops
What the free update:
The bug fixes ofc
Foliage for lagoons (kelp)
Sauropods able to fight certain dinosaur based on their size ( for example a diplodocus loses against a indominus rex but can kill a allosaurus)
And probably more stuff i dont remember
You do a great job of video composition and staying on topic. Here’s my 4th video of yours I’ve watched and you earned a sub! Keep it up
I never played JWE1. So this is my first time with this pack. I’ll be buying it. I also loved Camp Cretaceous. I have Bumpy in EVERY park.
In my opinion the hybrid pack is the best so far(excluding expansions). And most people don’t think that it is worth $8 for dinosaurs we had in the last game, but you also
Payed $60 for dinosaurs we had I t eh last game
I wish they added mosasaur mixed with arcalon which I mean a arcalon with a mosasaur head and tail an a larger head and it would be able to defend itself evo you wanna say ur opinion it because I think it would be cool to have a mosasaur arcalon hybrid and it would add more of a excuse to add your idea of a attachment to the lagoons and mor decorations to lagoons or natural lagoons
Huayangossaur was like one of my favourites in the first game, i thought it was just sooo cute, really liked it 😅😅😅
A mature and even-handed response, Evo. I respect that.
Hey evo there is a new (i think) feuture where you can airlift pterasaurs out of the hatcery to the wild and not need to do the glitch or wait for them to escape
this feature was introduced many months ago :P
can you make a snow park?@@EvolutionSquare
in the netherlands there isnt much snow :*(
For me from worst to best the packs go in this order: Early Cretaceous Pack, Deluxe upgrade, Camp Cretaceous Pack, Late Cretaceous Pack. Prehistoric Marine Species Pack, Feathered Species Pack, Cretaceous Predator Pack, Secret Species Pack(don't have it but will get it), Dominion Malta Expansion, Dominion Biosyn Expansion.
P.S. I watched a 4 year old video of yours with Q and A. You said you liked Geology and History. I will take them for my GCSE's next year. Is this the psychology of dino nerds or what?😂😀😊❤
I'm wondering if the hybrid pack is kind of like the raptor skin pack in the first game. A small dlc with no free update followed soon by a major dlc later
Evo trying to bring harmony to the community brings me joy. ❤❤❤
I tried lol
but I think I just ended up stepping into the crossfire
unpopular opinion but i think the scorpios rex is underrated the animations are nice and so are the skins
This is just the kind of video this community needs. I admit that I was not excited for the hybrids, even if they were all new hybrids with awesome animations I would still have been disappointed. You are absolutely correct though about how to express that disappointment. This is one of my major gripes with the forums for JWE as opposed to something like planet zoo for instance. The JWE forum feels like a very toxic environment to me which is why I’m so thankful for the community you’ve created with this channel. It’s positive and excited for all things JWE but also respectfully acknowledges where something its lacking and you thoughtfully present realistic suggestions for improvement. So thank you for this video. I wanted to like it twice, but that’s not possible on YT.
thank you!
Entirely valid points for addressing those who both love and loath this pack, honestly I like that the DLC isn't for everyone. Less you're a completionist (like me), people can pick and choose which expansions or packs they want to get! Now for my own personal rankings of the Species Packs (just the Packs, obviously the Expansions are the best DLCs - personally like Malta more than Biosyn).
1. Late Cretaceous Pack - All four species are in my top 25 out of the whole roster. Alamosaurus is my favorite in-game sauropod, Australovenator is my favorite in-game small theropod, Barbaridactylus is my favorite in-game pterosaur, and Styxosaurus takes 3rd place overall in the Aquatics category. I just really like the designs for these creatures.
2. Feathered Species Pack - Jeholopterus and Deinocheirus are two of my absolute favorite designs in the game.
3. Marine Species Pack - Dunkleosteus rocketed up to the number one spot in the Aquatic Roster, and the new platform is a definite favorite of mine.
4. Early Cretaceous Pack - I think all four inclusions are pretty solid, middle ranking for the middle pack.
5. Cretaceous Predator Pack - I love the Utahraptor and the Concavenator, they're right behind Australovenator in the small theropod category. But I don't particularly like the Gigantoraptor's design and I hate the Tarbosaurus' design; so while the Early Cretaceous Pack was all solid mid-tiers; the Cretaceous Predator Pack falls on either extreme with its entries.
6. Deluxe Upgrade Pack - Like the Early Cretaceous Pack just all around a collection of solid mid-tier entries which are nice to have, its ranked lower because I genuinely don't like that Huayangosaurus wasn't a base game species. I'd prefer if this pack was just the four new species and the extra skins.
7. Secret Species Pack - I'm not a big hybrid fan, though I do like the designs for the Spinoraptor and Ankylodocus; I'm just not really going to be using these creatures all too often.
8. Camp Cretaceous Pack - While I actually adore the show (currently been doing a rewatch with my D&D group and have been enjoying it!) I think this pack is lacking. There are only two completely new species, with the other two slots taken up by variants. The rest of this pack is taken up by skins, none of which I use too often.
Been watching you for about 2 years, your the one who got me into this game! And by “watching” i mean your vids
Evo ive had the game on my playstation for a while now and was thinking of getting it on steam since its on discount, do you think the game is worth it at the state it is? (Im planning on getting the two expansions with it) 😅
I will say though the hybrids do have socials with their parent species, and they are adorable (especially ankylodocus with ankylosaurus) because it's like it was adopted into their herd. It's unusual, but they love it nevertheless. (Maybe not the raptor, because he always looks scared of the spinoraptor.)
I think we have yet to receive a bad DLC, they are all 9/10 or 10/10.
When you talked about the dinos that didn't make it to the sequel for free, you put spinosaurus instead of spinoraptor, which by now we know, is your true baby!❤
ooooops
For the hybrid pack the spinoraptor,stegoceratops, and ankylodocus could have been free and for the paid dlc, we could have 4 new hybrid species
Ending was funny 😂 also of that was you in that stream video you showed you lied in October video you don’t look like that worker. Shenanigans! 🤪
As a person that’s never played the first game i’m just happy to be able to get them now. Even if some of the hybrids are kind of lackluster.
Really like the chill and empathetic words in the last parts of the video. A speech of wisdom and truth. I also love cozy evo! :D
I liked the hybrid park cause when I got it was really fun loss it reset it. My game started at the beginning I got it and I’m having a fun time back on thank you give me all these ideas cause I’ve been doing what you say about much has been quite fun for me doing this song, just cause I’m having a good time
Hearing the part about the camp cretaceous pack sparked a new idea for me! What if they added the Brad's and the Brad-x's? They could be used as park and enclosure decorations and maybe even part of the medical facilities.
Honestly I still love the hybrids glad we finally got them bck while it would’ve been nice to have them in the base game than just add the rest of the Dinos missing from the show and movie in a new pack
I absolutely love stegoceratops now spinosino but the points you made with the stegoceratops and ankyloducus make perfect sense and I wish they did those things, I hope they do the same thing with the gigantoraptor and give them some animations :)
To be fair to the Ankylo crosses, current theories on clubbed Dinosaurs support that they evolved due to mating pressure/selection not self defence as their tail bone structure doesn't allow them to swing it that way. Though I doubt developers really thought that deeply about it xD
No? There is literal fossil evidence of injuries on ankylosaur skeletons caused by tail clubs, not only they were certainly strong enough to break a Tyrannosaur leg, they were strong enough to pierce through the armor of another Ankylosaur.
Besides, their tail structure is, quite literally, made to swing and hit, literally, the name "Ankylosaurus" comes from the ossified tendons at the end of it's tail, which made the end of it's tail rigid and allowed the club to hit at full force, similar to a hammer.
Where did you find this misinformation??
About the "evolved to mating", it is possible, even likely that it happened, but not for show like a peacock, it would be more like the horns of all extant and extinct animals, evolved for intraspecific fighting, which is technically a form of sexual display, but it also helps the animal to fight back their predators.
There is currently no evidence on any of the thero predators of damage that matches Ankylo tails (as far as Im aware) but there IS evidence of that damage on eachothers bony plating which suggests it was developed for mating displays and aggression. Give it another 10 years and Im sure the thinking will be different again :)@@darkonyx6995
Imo, I'm fine with the hybrids, i just hope we get more, like Carnoraptor or Yudon (pretty sure there is also a parasaur and spinosaur hybrid)
I think my main draw to the hybrid pack is that I like mixing species in an enclosure. Knowing that I can put a medium predator (spinoraptor) in with a small predator (raptor) and not have to worry about them fighting like if you mix say, a raptor and carno is great, and can lead to very unique enclosures and habitats.
I agree with the rating for the most part but I can't justify the existence of the DLC based on having to pay for the creatures twice, and the first time they gave them to me they came with missions.
what i rly find dissappointing is that there is like barely any free updates, it feels annoying when i have to pay just to get a few more dinos or more content
They should add a feature that allow you to combine 2 speicies and let you make the hybrids your self
That would be cool
16:59 Can relate, I unironically like the majority of The Land Before Time franchise. Been there
I'm not disappointed by the Hybrid pack. That said, on a ranking, I would have probably put it only one spot higher. Aside from wishing we got the original hybrids for free, I wish they would have also added a lux pattern to the "parent" species like Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Diplodocus, T-Rex, Spinosaurus, Anklyosaurus, Sinoceratops and Velociraptor.
Finally, someone who actually understands both sides
I really love the feathered pack it was just ao unique and the picks were amazing
I can't believe this game has at least 10 add-ons, weather for DLCs or just creature packs
Stegoceratops: “and I took that personally.”
Ankolodicus (idk how to spell it): “And i also took that personally.”
Spinoraptor: “HA! Wait…. Why is she putting our pack down?”
My favorite pack has to be Camp Cretaceous pack. Although there are only two species, what makes it my favorite is how it set up a lot of what was to come in the future.
Body variants? Pierce and Ouranosaurus.
Lux skins? Parasaurolophus.
Canon skins in dlc were also introduced in this pack with Big Eatie, Monolophosaurus 2015, the Scorpios Rex skins, and the Baryonyx trio. Toro and Bumpy even had model changes, even if they were slight.
Scorpios Rex is my favorite of the pack, and it’s so unique compared to everything else in the game. The venom, the fight animation against medium carnivores, and the fact that it can climb out of its enclosure are so cool.
Monolophosaurus is also a welcome addition to any of my parks. Even though it is Jurassic Worldified, it has amazing skins and I like to use it to have a nice balance between Jurassic World and more naturalistic designs in my parks. I also love how it sounds.
Is it the best pack? No. Far from it. Do I wish it came out later to allow more of the species from the show to appear in the pack? Absolutely.
But the fact that it feels like a stepping stone for Frontier and how some of the content of the future DLCs would play out is not something I can ignore. Even if it one of the weakest packs in terms of content, it still holds a special place in my heart, just as everyone’s favorite pack will.
I feel like an air quotes "yet" should be added everytime someone says ankylodocus can't defend itself. It seems like one of those features they will add retroactively.
I might be wrong but they might add fight animations and stuff later like the Gigantoraptor
I just made a spinosaurus and spinoraptor enclosure and a little staff and guest section. Something I am already doing is having the alpha a lux skin and the others don’t have lux skins
My personal conspiracy theory is that Frontier purposefully made the secret species pack polarizing to stop people from creating a Microceratus death cult
Even disregarding the missed Stegoceratops and Ankylodicus potential in my opinion it's still a bad pack as half of them are straitup reused animals from JWE 1 that should've been there from launch. Stegoceratops, the only part about it that must've taken more effort than any other species is the 1 lux skin wich is 2 less than Styx and Spinoraptor wich has the same amount of effort in as the base game I-rex (they also have an unique social with Velos) plus a third of the lux skins as Styx
I think I would’ve taken more to the hybrid pack if they had thrown in a few more new hybrids. Give me a Parasaurus Rex, Amargaspinus, or the epic Ultimasaurus. In general my biggest complaint with JWE/JWE2 is that they’re too “in the box.” We’ve all seen what Frontier is capable of. I wonder if the constraints are from Universal. We’ve seen how poorly managed and politically-corrupt most of Hollywood is. As a JP/JW fan since I was 3 years old in 1993, my biggest issue with the franchise is missed opportunity and surface-level content. We’ve all seen the many cancelled concepts, shows, and toys for the franchise. So many of them were actually great, but failed to launch or outright canceled.
I really think the next dlc or dlc's should include animals such as Plateosaurus, Anchisaurus, Liliensternus, Eoraptor, Rhamphorynchus, Protoceratops, Prenocephale, Alverosaurus, Shantungosaurus, Saltosaurus, Hypsilophodon, Microceratus, as well as some Palaeozoic and/or Cenozoic era animals. Maybe not all of those and not in that order, but just ideas.
Your my favorite JWE2 TH-camr thank you for this opinion I’m abouta blow some money
Late Createous dlc is my favorite because I like the lagoon decorations
If they fix the Ankylodocus to fight and the Stegoceratops to have amazing kill animations, would you rank it higher?
That would improve the pack for sure, but not by enough to bump it up in the ranking
I hope next update they make the other hybrids have more unique kills
if gave story to hybrid pack it would be better like first game
I am still a bit meh BUT the more I see of the stegoceratops and my boi the ankylOdocus, the more I see the worth of it for me personally. I'll be getting next week. Gotta catch them all..... and have that ankylOdocus back :)
Its crazy how much work you put in a single video, i mean just look at the description! Theres so much stuff there that I couldnt even have the patience to read it
Also that was a Jurassic pun in the description
Edit: Completely unrelated topic but I cant remember I played a game mode different than sandbox, also i got banned from the discord 😢
I personally really like this pack, it triples the amount of bioluminescent species and I have degree of weird nostalgia to seeing some of the ideas I thought of with my friend at primary school 9 years ago projected directly into the game.