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Jurassic World Evolution: Return to Jurassic Park OUT NOW
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Hi everyone,
The day we've all been waiting for is here! We're excited to announce that Jurassic World Evolution: Return to Jurassic Park and Free Update 1.12 are out now!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1144410/Jurassic_World_Evolution_Return_To_Jurassic_Park/
Join Dr. Alan Grant, Dr. Ellie Sattler and Dr. Ian Malcolm on Isla Nublar, in an all new storyline where you'll rebuild and open the greatest attraction on earth, Jurassic Park. Use your skill as an expert park manager to overcome intriguing new challenges, and show the world you've got what it takes to handle the heat when life finds a way!
For anyone who may have missed our previous announcement, this fantastic new expansion pack contains a whole host a brand new story missions, classic buildings inspired by film, dinosaur skin variants you'll most definitely recognise, two new dinosaurs, the Pteranodon and Compsognathus, and much more! Don't forget, Jurassic World Evolution: Return to Jurassic Park comes alongside free update 1.12, with features that have been highly requested from the community like new Ranger team functions and a restroom requirement for guests.
Jurassic World Evolution: Return to Jurassic Park is available now for £15.99/€19.99/$19.99 (prices may vary depending on region, you will need to own the base game to play the new content).
Take a look below at the full release notes to see a list of all of the awesome features included!
Return to Jurassic Park Content
Story
- New story involving Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill), Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) and John Hammond (Mackenzie Grey)
- Added 7 'Return to Jurassic Park' story missions
Locations
- 1993 Isla Nublar added (Sand)
- 1993 Isla Sorna added (Shale)
Dinosaurs
- Added Aviary and Pteranodon
- Pteranodons can be hatched into an Aviary
- Pteranodons have a number of cosmetic variants
- Pteranodons can escape if the Aviary suffers storm damage
- Pteranodons can die of old age
Jurassic Park Era Building Set
- Added Visitor Centre
- Added Arrival Helipad
- Added Ranger Outpost
- Added Hatchery
- Added Park Tour
- Added Geothermal Power Station
- Added Jurassic Park Hotel
- Added Emergency Bunker
- Added Jurassic Cafe
- Added Jurassic Gifts
- Added Jurassic Park Storm Defence Station
- Added Light Cable Fence
- Added Electrified Cable Fence
- Added Heavy Cable Fence
- Added Jurassic Park Pylon
- Added Jurassic Park Substation
- Added Jurassic Park Gate
- Added Jurassic Park Tour Gate
- Added Jurassic Park Entrance Gate
- Added Jurassic Park Cheap path
- Added Jurassic Park Normal path
- Added Jurassic Park Fancy path
- Added Jurassic Park Feeders and Extended Feeders
- Construction cladding recoloured for Jurassic Park era buildings
- Added Jurassic Park Scenery
- Added Velociraptor Pen
- Added 'East Dock' sign and variants
- Added 'Dilophosaurus' enclosure marker and other species variants
- Added Jurassic Park restroom scenery item
- Added Ground Light scenery item
Guests
- Economy changes when playing in JP modes
- 3 groups of 1990s style variants for guests
- Tourist style guests
- Security/Operations style guests
- Ranger style guests
Management
- Added JP era management variations for campaign and challenge modes
- Transport Rating and Fun Rating are not present in JP era
Tour Ride
- Added Park Tour
- Can be attacked in the same manner as ranger vehicles
- Added a sandbox toggle
UI
- Add era toggle (choose JP or JW building sets) for Challenge and Sandbox Modes
- Combined UI for Visitors Center (Research, Expeditions and Fossils)
- Updated various UI aspects to reflect era difference when in 93 era modes
Challenge Mode
- Added 2 new Challenge mode maps (Nublar 1993 and Sorna 1993)
- Ability to play any Challenge map in either the Jurassic World or Jurassic Park era (after completing Mission 2 of "Return to Jurassic Park")
Sandbox Mode
- Added 2 new Sandbox mode maps (Nublar 1993 and Sorna 1993)
- To unlock JP-era for challenge mode and sandbox play, players must have first finished Mission 2 of the Return to Jurassic Park campaign (in addition to any other requirements to unlock the selected island).
LUTs
- Added ability to switch between the Jurassic World and Return to Jurassic Park full screen colour setting (via the Gameplay menu)
Audio
- Added "Return to Jurassic Park" versions of all gameplay/misc VO using the "Return to Jurassic Park" actors
Achievements
- Added new achievements
Vehicles
- Legacy style ranger added
- Legacy style ranger driver added
1.12 Free Update Content
Danger for Ranger Teams
- Aggressive or dangerous dinosaurs can try to attack ranger teams
- Certain dinosaurs will react aggressively if a ranger vehicle is driven too quickly or noisily when near them
- Ranger vehicles can take damage if attacked by a dinosaur - too much damage will result in the destruction of the vehicle
- Tolerance to ranger teams is determined per species
- Honking will now reduce the tolerance of any dinosaurs in range
- Added a calamity warning when ranger teams are being attacked
- Flares can be used to distract dinosaurs that would normally attack the ranger vehicles
- Can be fired manually
- Can be deployed as a task
Restroom Need
- Guests now have a restroom need which is satisfied by placing Restrooms nearby in a similar fashion to the existing guest need buildings
- Added toilet need management view
- Added JW era restroom building
- Added a warning for existing games that they'll need to add Restrooms to satisfy the new restroom need
Ranger Functions on ACU
- Certain ranger team functions can be unlocked for use by the ACU
- Fire healing/medication darts
- Fire flares
- Photo Mode
Capture Mode
- Added Legacy Night Vision view to Capture Mode
Scenery
- Added Redwood Tree scenery items
General Fixes & Tweaks
Buildings
- Fixed Power Station tooltip and info panel showing incorrect output value during a power surge
- Fixed ordering of Greenhouse upgrades in the UI
- Changed 'Building - switch camera' buttons so they are bound to the same as 'Gyrosphere - switch vehicle' control
- Show the overcrowding percentage on the tooltips for hotels
- Removed the Advanced Storm Defence station from the building menu on Sanctuary as it can't be researched and isn't supposed to be available
Capture Mode
- Fixed an issue where, while a transport team is lifting a dead dinosaur, looking away from it using the capture cam would cause it to disappear
Challenge Mode
- For Challenge mode random dinosaur order, hybrid research is now unlocked at the same island rating at which both source genomes are unlocked
Dinosaurs
- Dinosaurs will now wake up if honked at or within a ranger vehicle's tolerance zone
- Added a habitat gene slot to Olorotitan
- Fixed low-res and cut off Carcharodontosaurus damage
- Fixed dinosaurs getting stuck in idle loops when they suddenly can't reach a point they were graze-walking towards
- Fixed a tranquillised Olorotitan distorting during transport
- Fixed incorrect positioning when eating from a carcass
- Improved direction checking after a hunt
- Improved transitions for dinosaur idles
- Ragdoll tidy up pass for small dinosaurs
- Various animation tweaks and fixes
Islands
- Increased Light Rain intensity on campaign Sanctuary to make surfaces appear wetter
- Fixed Claire Challenge/Sandbox island files having no entertainment guests saved
- Fixed banding in atmospheric fog
Research
- When active research fails to match its requirements, only cancel research if a centre was demolished. Otherwise, pause and allow cancellation
- Fixed Improved Construction research display for reduced building costs
Sandbox
- Fixed changing from dusk -> day/night cycle in sandbox / lighting settings
Stability
- Fixed a crash when loading a save with an expedition in the pre-leaving state
- Fixed a lock on exit after deleting save games and attempting to change islands
- Fixed a crash when a dying dinosaur tries to fight
Terrain
- Fixed some graphical issues when attempting to paint then remove Crag and Vibrant shrubbery from Sand and Dirt
- Fixed forest and remove nature selection not correctly remembering when menu was re-opened
- Better prevention of camera clipping on terrain skirt
UI
- Added Gyrospheres and Jurassic Tour rides to the map
- Fixed the Palaeofeeder setup being blocked if player has insufficient funds while using a gamepad
- Fixed GUI issues when switching to gamepad while navigating through the "Management
- View" list on info panels in guest buildings
- Various text and localisation fixes
Vehicles
- Added first person mode to Ranger Team vehicles when driving
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