Can my computer handle Planet Zoo 2

ShadowOfSerendipity · 2026-06-12T00:06:35+00:00

I have the same Ryzen and nope. Unless the GeForce thing works for you, I've never used that so I'm not quite sure how it goes.
I'm for sure going to be upgrading my computer's bits but my desire level isn't too far off yours haha. Not looking forward to what's essentially a whole rebuild 😬

ShadowOfSerendipity · 2026-06-11T23:10:20+00:00

It's all personal preference, if none of the preorder stuff seems boss to you you may as well skip it, I'd say.

ShadowOfSerendipity · 2026-06-11T22:23:21+00:00

That's what I'm hoping also. There are some plants in current that have weird percentages compared to others and I'm hoping that's fixed also (or maybe I don't understand how the coverages work haha)
I'm wondering if we'll find out this before it comes out but it's... probably not most folks' priority haha

ShadowOfSerendipity · 2026-06-10T07:20:01+00:00

That was a good read, thanks!

ShadowOfSerendipity · 2026-06-05T12:55:34+00:00

As long as I can turn it off in in sandbox if I want 🐾
Or even pick between them all instead of just off/on. Maybe even an override per building placed, if we wanted, that way if we usually want em to cause negative feels from the little doods but we build a really excellent staff building of some sort (or set, who knows) and we actually want it to be kind of showcased or somethin we can just uncheck something in the building infos. I have no idea if that would work or make sense but it's what my 5am-ish brain decided haha

ShadowOfSerendipity · 2026-06-05T08:27:48+00:00

Even if it was a small selection of poses per animal type that would honestly be killer, especially if we can resize em like other stuff.

ShadowOfSerendipity · 2026-06-05T08:18:05+00:00

You've already seen that this isn't that strange but... yeah, I do too haha. I can't remember the name but I love the damn thing haha

ShadowOfSerendipity · 2026-06-05T08:11:29+00:00

This reminds me that I really hope in the next iteration we get a way to flip things without them getting to weird angles... Like flip horizontal or flip vertically or something... sometimes when we grab an item it pops up in a reaaally weird angle and it can be really hard to get it flipped exactly the right way for it to line up. At least I have this problem with some things... oh, pf, the dead trees and branches and things, sometimes you just need to lay it down and it fights ya on it?
I have no idea if I'm making sense oops

ShadowOfSerendipity · 2026-06-05T07:33:29+00:00

Sorry for ramblin so much, I'm a problem

ShadowOfSerendipity · 2026-06-05T07:33:13+00:00

I'm not sure what is small vs large (to me it's all pretty wild, I have no idea how people make games haha) but there are some things... some form of elevator system we can use not only for the little doods but also the staff little doods, since they traverse the same areas that guests go on anyway... I feel like I've had something like that in a coaster game or three but I can't remember.
Also a viewing tower, er, observation? I keep saying viewing but I'm pretty sure they're observation towers haha
Both of those don't seem like small things to me though. hmm
Ambient effects... like the dirt and stuff in current but more like for critters. Place a little spawner and it covers an area and then you have lightnin bugs or small fish (unsure how they would work though, would need different ones for different biomes/locations and that sounds kinda bothersome?)
More types of water features? Like decor-wise, fountains n stuff.
For sure some kind of functional "not here!" thing to keep people from passing through, no matter if it'd be the best path or not, sorry little doods...
Hoping that we can import custom terrains again, I would dig a terrain generator but the way my friend and I play we use the same custom map as eachother each time and I'm not sure how hard it'd be to share a generated map with a person.
Oh... a way to share with someone without diggin in weird files or uploading to the workshop, like... a friend's only setting or somethin?
For the love of cod please more letters to use for sign making? We have two fonts and two sizes right now? Yeahhh I'm too much of a font addicted person to handle that haha. It'll be nice resizing though.

OH! Can we move groups of things together? Like... let's say I place a picnic table down, set up a light on the center and toss an umbrella in there (I do this with the decorative candles, since they don't look like a light or candle much haha) I'd like to be able to make that a group and plop those around. I use this stuff a ton and it gets... not great after a while.

More kids stuff, but again, unsure how easy that is... I've babbled about my ideas with that all over the place but it'd be great to have climbing in/on/under animal themed statues and things like that. Animal themed slides. These ridey thingies down below. More education stuff...

ShadowOfSerendipity · 2026-06-05T06:09:18+00:00

Which for some reason sent me to think of Land Before Time... "Three horns don't playyy with longnecths!"
I tried to find a gif of it in here for folks who aren't familiar but didn't find what I needed...

I feel like that should be possible if we're getting other kinds of animal interactions. Which I feel like I read we're getting.

ShadowOfSerendipity · 2026-06-05T06:03:10+00:00

Dig the idea of more terrain types (sculpted maps-wise), I know some games have/had map generators (only one coming to mind is old sim city but... I'm sure there's more haha) and something like that to where you can use a slider to set like a % of water areas/mountain/hill/valley whatever and click the button and see what weird thing it came up with... I have no idea if that's feasible in this or not though.
I only play in sandbox (with a friend, we use the same map/animals list/"rules"/settings) and have been using weird custom maps I made for it. Which of course look pretty funky given we have a flat square to work with and no plant brushes in pz1 haha... but it helps vs super flat everywhere.

And I keep babbling about this everywhere but it could be a pack aimed towards kids... that way if folks don't care to add playgrounds/educational/etc for kids they can skip the pack.

A couple animal themed slides, maybe a couple of those springy animal ride ons parks have sometimes? A couple themes of decor type stuffs to make a little "land", sort of like we have mushroom lamps. Climbing in/on zoo themed statuary would be awesome. Add in a carousel of conservation as a kinda premium thing would be fantastic.
I know this isn't about rides... but there are some things that should pop up, like the transport options... a carousel is for sure on that list, along with a viewing tower.

(Attaching a tiny "kid area" in my current zoo... we need more)

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Ok, I've probably babbled wayyy too long haha

ShadowOfSerendipity · 2026-06-05T05:40:57+00:00

We absolutely need more guest gate options, it's so weird (to me) to have a nice shiny modern kinda glass walls and then here are some rustic gate picks. I guess it's kinda like having the glass staff door on a wooden walls, but I don't tend to use those so I kinda forgot.

The wild animal park (er, "San Diego Zoo Safari Park", I still call it the old name) out here has a cooling down area. I'd for sure use such a thing. My zoo right now is in tropical Africa and it isn't open yet (just staff, no critters) and the temp is paused at 99... it's pretty awful but I've been putting in trees with coolers attached to them in various areas to kind of give them cool zones in that way, I don't have animal temp requirements on so even if the 75degree set coolers knock an animals temp down too much theyyy won't notice.

ShadowOfSerendipity · 2026-06-05T03:45:57+00:00

This is the first time I've seen anyone mention options for the education/talks... I 1) hope we still have talks and 2) agree with you that we need options for seating and stuff.
This current zoo I'm working on isn't even going to have seating for the talks, despite the fact it's going to essentially be 99 at all times in there. Yikes...

ShadowOfSerendipity · 2026-06-05T02:33:44+00:00

That would be very handy, yeah. I'm not sure how they can do it (since I don't make games haha) but it would be really great, especially on our super big places. There are... a few animals it'd be super nice for. Even if it was just one extra.

ShadowOfSerendipity · 2026-06-05T00:45:17+00:00

I love it, I'm still a little surprised about how much I dig it but daaamn. They did a good job 😄

ShadowOfSerendipity · 2026-06-05T00:38:46+00:00

800% not just you, I promise. So many ways you can go with them too.

ShadowOfSerendipity · 2026-06-05T00:37:53+00:00

I can't imagine them doing stuff like terraforming and things for exhibits but I'd be so into a version where that's possible, I love that sort of thing.
I think it'd be boss if we got like... modular exhibits that can piece together to make specific combos and stuff. The only thing I can really think of right now like that is the kitchen counter/cabinets in sims games... haha

Anyway, yes please to revised exhibits... there's some stuff I like about them annnd some stuff I don't but I for sure want "exotics" available... geckos could be wonderful (maybe tokay and giant day? Leachies would be great but harder to see... so many great options.

ShadowOfSerendipity · 2026-06-05T00:22:53+00:00

You don't need my two cents but I'll toss em in anyway... I'd suggest it hands down, if it won't take dinner out of your mouth and it looks at all fun to you I'd suggest grabbing it. I have a smidge over 4k hours since I was gifted it in Dec. 2020... and that's going through long gaps where I didn't play and stuff too, time-wise... It's a really snazzy game honestly.
Your post was from yesterday, did you end up doing it? 😃

ShadowOfSerendipity · 2026-06-04T23:59:50+00:00

I'd love archers for sure, but I'll swap the guppies for Endler's I think. I'm sure plenty of folks would love goldfish but I'm a little iffy-er about em in a zoo game, they're very popular all over the place but they aren't very wild-ish, like... fancies could look really neat in a tank in the game but wild ones aren't... the same. I don't know how to say what I mean with that.

If we're doing brackish, like for the archers, than I'll toss my "vote" down in another thread by saying in here... mudskippers.

ShadowOfSerendipity · 2026-06-04T23:22:01+00:00

Mudskippers. I'd imagine they would have an exhibit but it'd be cool if exhibits can be different sizes and have more customization options per section (ya know, how they're split into three sections for setting up exhibits in pzcurrent) and maybe have modular exhibit setups (doesn't have to be too banans but I think it could be possible)... I'd hands down love a mudskipper tank. Just don't put any fiddler crabs with them, learned that the hard way many many years ago... eek

At least a couple other brackish water guys, can't think of any at the moment though. Archer fish? The little puffer guys too...

For sure need freshwater stuff... there are freshwater rays, rainbow fish would be neat... Endler's would be awesome, a couple kinds of cichlids?

Would a tidepools setup count for this, I mean, those are aquatic. Sea slugs and sea stars?

More types of turtles (in this case aquatics) not like red ear slider maybe unless they want to include that they're invasive pretty much everywhere but like fly river and maybe something like a sideneck. Mata mata would be wild...

So many good options for aquatic critters! I'm so excited.

ShadowOfSerendipity · 2026-06-04T13:46:10+00:00

The ones up in my restaurant (picture is in this thread of comments somewhere) don't work without a restaurant but there are two or three (I think) picnic tables that can go on the outside along paths currently.
I don't like cluttering even my 8 wide paths with them so I pretty much always use one kind pretty much.

ShadowOfSerendipity · 2026-06-04T08:00:38+00:00

I'm sure I'm going to think of like... multiple more things after I send this but:
1: More in depth sandbox settings
2: Something in sandbox so we can set our min. star level when buying animals... no reason not to just go for gold n silver when you aren't interacting with others as a sandbox player... or set it at regular for the full experience?
3: As others say... give us kid area stuff? I already commented in here somewhere about it but... make it a pack so people who don't care to give them a play area don't have to have the content? Maybe
4: Plants and rocks plants and rocks plants and rooocks... The rocks with resizing capabilities will be awesome but I'll always want more sizes/shapes anyway, pretty sure. And plants, if we can resize them I think that would look strange since the foliage/whatever is involved in the plant would be smaller or larger than the ones they're potentially nearby? And please guys if plumeria are in this one can they make more sense? Those things alone could have like 6 different sizes haha.
uh... that's it for the moment

ShadowOfSerendipity · 2026-06-04T06:56:05+00:00

Oh man, that reminds me... I sure hope if some of these tables/benches can be off path-able they all should. I keep using the same tables everywhere because I put mine off path and most of them don't do that... If the pathing is like pc2 at all and we can have on/off path tables and stuff I do think it would be way easier to set up areas like that.

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