Jurassic World Evolution 2 - 1.2.0 Update Notes

DLC 1 - Early Cretaceous Pack

• Flying Reptile
  • Dsungaripterus - Small Pterosaur<
• Land Dinosaur
  • Minmi - Ankylosaur
  • Wuerhosaurus - Stegosaur
• Marine Reptile
  • Kronosaurus - Pliosaur
• Added new dinosaurs and reptiles to dig sites

New Content Free Update 1

Buildings

• Added DFW themed buildings to Sandbox mode, including new buildings:
  • Restroom
  • Lagoon
  • Lagoon Hatchery
  • Lagoon Viewing Gallery
  • Aviary
  • Aviary Hatchery
  • Aviary Viewing Gallery
  • Shark Feeder
  • Hotel Large
  • Hotel Small
  • Hatchery
  • Large Power Station
  • Small Power Station
  • Viewing Platform
• Added extra JP themed buildings to Sandbox mode:
  • Lagoon
  • Lagoon Hatchery
  • Lagoon Viewing Gallery
  • Shark Feeder
  • Aviary
  • Aviary Hatchery
  • Aviary Viewing Gallery
• Added a 'randomise all' button to Amenity and Guest Attraction architecture and colour customisation

Sandbox Mode

• Added Sandbox versions of all 5 campaign levels (with appropriate landscape and building space tweaks)
• Added 'Combat Frequency' option to Sandbox settings, letting you decide how often dinosaurs fight
• Added flattened versions of all Sandbox levels with a building space cleared of trees etc; you can chose which one to use in the sandbox settings before starting a new map
• Added Colour Grading options to sandbox settings; these change the colour tone of a level - you can choose from a predefined selection

Campaign

• Added level select screen in Campaign mode - once completed, you can now go back and re-play any of the campaign levels

Genome Editing

• Updated the skin and pattern colour selection screen from a preview image to colour swatches; it's now easier to select the skin and pattern colour combinations you wish to use
• Added a random swatch for both pattern and skin colour in Genome Editing. You can now hatch a batch of dinosaurs, each with a random skin and/or pattern colour
• Added animal x-ray images to genome editing screen

Landscaping

• Added 'auto paint' option to landscaping tools (off by default); with this option on, terrain that is raised or lowered will now automatically update it's texture to match (example, raising the terrain will create a rock texture at the top, which blends down into dirt/grass at the bottom)
• Added perch points for flying reptiles on all placeable rocks
• Improved visual feedback for terrain constraints

UI

• Added more details and info to the following buildings' tooltips:
  • Arrival Point
  • Control Centre
  • Expedition Centre
  • Staff Centre
  • Viewing Buildings
  • Customisable Attraction
  • Monorail Station
• Added the ability to click on individual events in the Calamity bar when using mouse and keyboard. When clicking you are taken to the calamity location on the map
• Added extra info to path connection warning message, clarifying that players need to ensure that buildings are connected to the Arrival Point through the path network
• Added an info panel for the transport tool which shows the selected dinosaur and options for selling or loaning, where applicable
• Added "Fossil Storage Full" message at dig sites on the expedition maps
• Added more information to finance overview screen

Accessibility

• Added more accessibility options:
  • Added pause function for cinematics, letting you pause the game at any time
  • Added 'signify speaker by colour' option in settings to differentiate between speakers in subtitles
  • Added 'Autosave Interval' in settings, allowing you to adjust autosave frequency between 1 and 20 minutes

Balance Changes

• Reduced the frequency of storms and periodic disease outbreaks in Chaos Theory
• Reduced the frequency of periodic disease outbreaks in Challenge levels on easy and medium difficulty
• Dominance changes:
  • Reduced the dominance boost from traits that don't affect combat stats
  • Increased the dominance boost from traits that do affect combat stats
  • Fixed an issue that would cause the Aggressive trait to increase dominance more than intended
  • Reduced the increase in dominance from high infamy
  • Decreased the frequency of leadership challenges
• Decreased the likelihood of dinosaurs fights causing injuries
• Rebalanced the combat stats of dinosaurs that can be involved in group hunts
• Contracts can now be requested more frequently in Challenge mode
• Balanced selling eggs to the black market narrative event
• Balanced economy in various challenge levels
• Balanced Jurassic difficulty on Challenge 1
• Balanced Triceratops comfort objective in Jurassic Park 3 Chaos Theory level (no longer auto completes)

Bug Fixes

Audio

• Fixed issues that caused outside ambiance to play when inside an aviary dome
• Added in various missing SFX on various animals

Buildings/Fences

• Fixed issue where selling a dinosaur/reptile straight from a Paleo Medical Facility could cause the helicopter to get stuck and lock the building
• You are now blocked from demolishing a lagoon that contains a dead reptile until it has been removed
• Fixed issued that caused half of a shark to vanish on a feeder when the camera is close to it
• Gate animation can now be cancelled when opening, not just when closing
• Fixed issues where buildings are warning that they are not powered, even when they don't need power
• Show time remaining whilst lagoons and aviaries are under construction
• Fixed gaps that can be caused when placing curved sections of fences
• Fixed missing physics on buildings that are being demolished
• Turned off the power UI when a power substation is deactivated
• Fixed missing confirmation dialogue box when demolishing certain buildings
• Fixed issues where buildings with vehicles can't be moved short distances because of collisions with the vehicles
• Fixed a situation where Power Output and Fuel Usage information wouldn't appear when a Backup Generator had finished construction
• Fixed the amenity building customisation screen close button not working
• Added better feedback when a repair task is blocked by a dinosaur
• Show running cost of power stations on info panel
• Fixed deactivated Paleo Medical Facility still being able to incorrectly treat dinosaurs/reptiles
• Fixed missing 'guest boost' indication on attraction buildings
• Fixed amenity building signs being reset to default when loading into a save

Crashes/Stability

• Various crash fixes
• Fixed softlock that could occur when creating a save whilst airlifting dinosaurs from a hatchery

Dinosaur/Reptile Animations

• Fixed missing animation for pre-fight between Sauropelta vs Chungkingosaurus
• Increased animation blend times during fights to make movement smoother
• Fixed issue that caused flying reptiles to continually play 'eat social animations' (which can cause them to not actually eat when they need to)
• Adjusted flying reptiles position when drinking, so they don't appear to sit on top of the water
• Prevent Mosasaurus from clipping through the floor of the lagoon
• Ensure a second animal is present before playing a social eat animation
• Fixed various clipping issues with jump attack animations
• Fixed cases where Dinosaurs could run on the spot
• Fixed cases when animals could slide into various positions/spots in different situations
• Fixed various popping/glitches on different animations
• Fixed various alignment issues with social interactions
• Improved the look/movement of hunt/chase pathing when prey get's into an area the dinosaur can't reach
• Fixed various alignment issues when dinosaurs fight/hunt, including instances of dinosaurs teleporting
• Fixed issue that could cause dinosaurs to turn on the spot
• Reduced the amount of times that the Mosasaurus swims into the shark feeder support
• Fixed various instances of dinosaurs/reptiles distorting whilst being airlifted from hatcheries
• Fixed instances where dinosaurs would stand or lay on dead dinosaurs
• Fixed situations that could cause flying reptiles to clip through the landscape
• Fixed Ichthyosaur sometimes swimming above the lagoon water
• Fixed various issues with hatchery exit animations on various dinosaurs

Dinosaur/Reptile Behaviours

• Fixed issue that could cause a dinosaur that has recently become comfortable still attempting to breakout of their enclosure
• Improved ragdoll movement and lessened clipping during different situations (dead, tranquilized)
• Fixed issue where flying reptiles can end up underneath lagoons
• Fixed issue where flying reptiles would attempt to eat from a deactivated piscivore feeder
• Fixed issue that caused dinosaurs to eat from a corpse from the same place and clip into each other
• Fixed situations where an animal may attempt to start a fight with another animal that's dying
• When attempting to tranquilise a sleeping dinosaur, they will now wake up quickly rather than play out the whole rest animation
• Balanced amount of food that dinosaurs can provide carnivores
• Improved flying reptiles ability to hunt goats
• Removed the 'Thirst' need from marine reptiles in the genome library
• Balanced aggressive behaviour triggering fights with marine Vs marine and flying Vs flying
• Improved positioning of dinosaur when it's eating prey that has moved from the position it was killed
• Fix for Indoraptor sometimes not being able to catch goats during a hunt
• Wild dinosaurs will now become domesticated if the player builds anything within their 'wild' territory

Dinosaur/Reptile Injuries & Diseases

• Escalated diseases no longer need to be scanned again, and are monitored automatically
• Fixed 'Infected Wounds' not appearing as a disease
• Fixed wrong icon appearing above ill animals that you do have the cure for
• Ensure scars are applied to animals in all appropriate situations, even non lethal ones
• Balance pass on injuries received when a dinosaur attacks a fence
• Rebalanced frequency of 'broken wing' and 'swallowed object' injuries
• Increased the time it takes for a dead animal to discolour
• Predators that die through a group attack now display 'Killed by' rather than 'Hunted by'
• Previously seen ailments will now reveal themselves immediately, without the need for a medical scan

Dinosaur/Reptile Models

• Fixed texture stretching around the Carcharodontosaurus leg
• Enabled snow/dust settling on dead dinosaurs
• Pteranodon 1997 skin can now be unlocked correctly (to unlock, play Chaos Theory: The Lost World. If you've already finished this level, just load your last save and it should unlock)
• Removed quills from Velociraptor 2001B skin
• Fixed the Suchomimus always having visible lift straps when released
• The Deluxe Edition species are now available by default in Sandbox Mode

Economy

• Lowered guest comfort needs
• Added notification when income tax becomes deductible
• Fixed situation that could cause the player not be able to start incubating a marine reptile, even though they have enough money

Expeditions

• Moved the Hanson Formation dig site, which contains the Cryolophosaurus, further up the map so that it's accessible
• Expedition helicopter now leaves when performing a live capture

Feeders

• Fixed issue that could cause the fish from lagoon fish feeders to swim outside of the lagoon itself
• Fixed meat vanishing early from dinosaurs mouth whilst eating

Foliage/Trees

• Fixed cacti blocking navigation of vehicles and dinosaurs, stopping dinosaurs from detecting wetland

Game Settings

• Ensured that camera shake is actually turned off, if selected, when placing rocks in sandbox mode. Setting has also been moved to the Accessibility section

Game Modes

• Ensured that storms are actually frequent, if the player selects the 'Frequent Storms' sandbox setting
• Fixed various contracts that could be given out in Challenge that can't be completed due to restrictions on the level
• Removed 'Increase Genome' contract from sandbox mode, as players can't increase a genome in that mode
• Various contracts that can't be completed in Chaos Theory mode won't be offered to the player
• Fixed rounding issue in the first Campaign level that could cause the 'ensure Stegosaurus are at 90% comfort' not to be completed, when the Stegosaurus comfort is at 90%
• Stopped highlighting buildings that don't need to be demolished as part of an early objective in the Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Chaos Theory level
• Fixed edge case where a player can create a save game just after a failure state, meaning the player can not continue
• The dinosaurs roaming around Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom Chaos Theory level no longer count as 'terrorising'
• Fixed various flow issues on Campaign levels that could cause objectives to be incompletable
• Fixed timer in Challenge Mode
• Fixed Wild dinosaurs in Washington State Campaign level wandering up to main facility area, which could cause objectives to not complete

Genome Editing

• You should now get better feedback when certain gene modifications need to be unlocked in other areas of the game, not through research
• Variants and patterns unlocked by completing Challenge levels no longer also require a tech tree node to be researched

Guests

• Balanced the rate and way in which guests refill a park after it's closed and opened
• Guests now react at photo points during the Jurassic Tour

JW Database

• Fixed various data inconsistencies and typos

Landscaping

• Stopped terrain being modified underneath buildings that are being demolished
• Fixed issue that could cause terrain tool to not work correctly when flattening/raising terrain around lagoons

Localisation

• Fixed various truncated text
• Fixed various typos
• Adjusted language/terminology consistency
• Adjusted subtitles to match VO
• Fixed various missing localisations

Narrative Events

• Removed 'Theft Sabotage' events in favour of other, better sabotage ones
• Added details of the scientist involved in applicable narrative events

Optimisations

• Optimised territory system

Park Teams

• Prevented players being able to erroneously lock on to marine and flying reptiles, when direct controlling ACU helicopter
• Fixed ranger team vehicle being launched into the air when driving over a dead goat
• Ensured the 'danger to vehicle' icon is shown in the appropriate places
• Added extra visual trails to darts fired from the park team to give better aiming feedback to the player
• Fixed issue where the helicopter could clip through the landscape
• Fixed missing animations on Park Team member when switching between equipment
• Fixed Ranger Teams needing to be re-assigned to a drone task after being disabled after a storm
• Ranger Team vehicles now produce tire tracks when going in reverse
• Fixed Response Facility sometimes showing access to 3 vehicles, when it actually has 2
• Fixed controller inputs sometimes being blocked after being forced into direct control
• Ensured destroyed MVUs are added to the calamity bar
• Ensured that renamed Ranger Posts also appear on the Rangers UI
• Drone rotors now spin when in use
• Added shortcut to buy new vehicle from selecting a destroyed one
• Fixed issue causing drones in lagoons and aviaries to sometimes become stuck
• Fixed sometimes not be able to replace a destroyed ranger vehicle
• Added prompt to tell player how to switch targets when locked on to a dinosaur
• Stopped transport helicopters falling to the ground when loading into a save where they're transporting an animal
• Blocked park team vehicles from being directly driven into aviaries as they will not be able to navigate out on their own
• Ranger vehicles that crash into the lagoon will now sink and the vehicle will respawn outside

Park Tours/Transport

• Added extra info to tell the player how to fix a tour that has suffered an emergency shut down
• Dead goats on tour tracks despawn more quickly, and don't allow dinosaurs to sleep on tracks either (to lessen the amount of times tours get stuck)
• Fixed issue where monorail track piece would move towards the camera as player pans down

Paths

• Fixed flickering issue when trying to place a path junction across a tour path

Photography

• Fixed incorrect 'Ranger Team' text when taking a picture that features the Mobile Veterinary Unit

Rendering

• Fixed visual artefact that could appearing along the top of water whilst a dinosaur is drinking
• Updated Campaign 2 Colour Grading

Scientists

• Applying more skill to a task that is needed no longer incorrectly counts as applying a trait
• Fixed 'show unavailable staff' off the bottom of the assign screen when player has large number of scientists
• Fixed images of scientists not appearing straight away when perform research tasks
• Fixed issue that could cause salaries of applicants to be too low
• Fixed various bio inconsistencies
• Players can assign scientists to tasks if they have the a trait that makes the task cheaper so they can afford it

Storms

• Ensure all vehicles are appropriately affected by storms

UI

• Fixed issue where the 'Ticket Sales' UI was incorrectly stating that Adventure guests desired the Gyrosphere Tour attraction, when they actually want the Jurassic Tour attraction
• Fixed issue that caused a mis-match of progress between the genome grid and details panel
• Added missing button prompt on the Paleo Medical Facility when a healed dinosaur/reptile needs transporting back to an enclosure
• Fixed empty 'Standing By' icon
• Disabled the Paleo Medical Facility 'Transport' button when there are no available helicopters to carry out the task
• Improved visuals when a fossil is selected to be extracted
• Fixed size of the ranger team icon in assign task mode
• Fixed issue where the incubation timer could loop infinitely
• Made various UI panel options cycle round
• When the task log is open, the d-pad can select items in the log, not the build menu
• Fixed some building icons in the build menu not matching the in game model
• Fixed issue that stopped players being able to use the left thumbstick to select options when resupplying response team
• The "Clear Extraction Slots" button will no longer display when fossils are being extracted
• Added missing 'Scientist Limit' data to egg incubation screen
• Delivery tool tip when selling animal confirmation is open is now hidden
• Updated loading animation
• Fixed icons and lines on the map view shaking whilst the player moves around it
• Fixed issue that sometimes stopped the 'synthesis' button from working on the hatchery screen
• Ensure the live capture event is focused on when the map is opened
• Fixed ESC key not working correctly if the mouse is over the in game HUD
• Fixed negative amenity profit sometimes still showing as blue, and not red
• Fixed hatcheries displaying total number of species available, rather than just ones that can be released through the specific one
• Track junctions should now appear on the map view
• Fixed various missing or broken icons in different research screens
• Fixed the star rating and finance buttons on the HUD becoming unresponsive
• Always show the Cosmetic stat in the Dinosaur Appeal tab on the info window
• Ensured the pause menu can still be accessed whilst the game time is paused and the pause wheel is still open
• General pass on UI focus consistency
• Fixed not being able to use a controller thumbstick to change number of vehicles on a gyrosphere tour

Visuals

• Added particle effects when flying reptiles break out of aviaries
• Fixed light still emitting from a flare that has been removed