Oh, one I forgot somehow – sometimes the game really fucking chugs. They add some plants and a few ‘styles’ of decoration and just like 3 new animals but they cost $10 each. Nothing major, just minor annoyances and the keeper problem was a one-time issue, luckily, however they’re similar to problems that were around in Planet Coaster so it’s kind of frustrating they are still around but at least now (aside for stuck guests or glitched keeper’s huts) it’ll warn you about things like animals getting super unhappy, stressed, boxed up too long, or escaping so it’s easy enough to fix but happens too often for reasons that it shouldn’t.Īs for the DLC, that’s a pretty typical and easy to explain one.
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One time an animal ended up in a box on top of a street light. Animals also have problems which lead to them either being boxed up without you knowing for a very long time – which leads to severe stress and can kill the animal (and at “best” make protestors come because its welfare is so low) or they can become glitched into “escaping” a perfect and very large fence purely because they woke up next to another animal or something and their body threw itself onto the top of the fence by mistake. Other bad ones include basic issues with all the “tycoon” games with pathing problems where visitors will get stuck for ABSOLUTELY no reason until you simply delete a path piece and replace it identically and things like that. This was during the story mode and on a difficult level so this was pretty shitty. I had to build it in an entirely different area far away from the same spot or else it kept happening if I rebuilt there or near there, almost as if the whole just area of land was glitched. However, building a new one also had the same problem. The only answer – which should have really been an earlier thing I tried, was completely destroying the building. I tried building a new one, nobody would leave this one or the line to it. I tried firing everyone – they would not move they continued going to the fridge and the sink and back and forth forever. Once I spotted it I still couldn’t fix it for ages.
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It was about a full hour in fast forward speed until I figured out the problem (managing a zoo makes it hard to sit staring at a building when there are all the other animals and the guests to worry about) and why all of my animals in that area of the park were starving, thirsty, and eventually dead. For some reason any keeper that went into the building got stuck there permanently making food or standing in line to make food forever. It was a large hut so it was used by several keepers and was in charge of my two biggest enclosures featuring a mix of animals in both. Some I’ve forgotten but the biggest one I ran into was that for some reason one specific Keeper’s Hut – where the zoo keepers must go to get food for the animals – glitched. With the bugs, I got very unlucky a few times.
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That’s just one small example but there are a lot of things like that even after you get used to it all.
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My biggest continuing issue is mostly with trying to resize fences choosing the entire fence is simple with dragging a little arrow, but to make it taller the icon is near impossible to find and click if you aren’t zoomed way in and you aren’t because you’re trying to pick the entire surrounding fence of the enclosure. I found even now after playing for a good amount of time it’s still a bit unintuitive. UI is not too hard to follow but it can be a pain in the ass, especially early on. The main issues with this game are a little bit of UI problems, some bugs that will screw you over for awhile at times, and the DLC. Surprisingly, nowhere in this review do I make a joke about monkeys and the current social climate. Planet Coaster was made by the same people who made RCT3 and now, showing they were still able to capture that magic and great repeatable yet never monotonous gameplay via Planet Coaster, they’ve decided to take on the Zoo Tycoons of the world as well.
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RCT2 and 3 still stand up as basically the best games of their kind and some of the most easily returned to and rewarding games on the PC even after all this time. Planet Zoo comes from the same team that made Planet Coaster – a fantastic modernization of the long dead “tycoon” genre(?) of games, most notably Rollercoaster Tycoon and those who attempted to be similar for a time.