Update Notes

Hello Park Managers!

We are very excited to announce that the Jurassic World Evolution 2: Late Cretaceous Pack and free Update 4 are now available.

Read below for the full set of patch notes.

DLC 4 - "Late Cretaceous Pack"

Prehistoric Species

4 x New Species

• Flying Reptile
  • Barbaridactylus
• Dinosaurs
  • Alamosaurus
  • Australovenator
• Marine Reptile
  • Styxosaurus

Update 4

Features

Park Teams

• Added the ability to wake up tranquillised dinosaurs using the new "Stimulant Dart" either directly or through task assignment
• Added the ability to manually take control of an aviary or lagoon drone from the aviary or lagoon hatcheries. Manually perform tasks such as:
  • Tranquillise
  • Stimulate
  • Medicate
  • Feeder Resupply
  • Photos
  • Medical and Welfare Scans

Dinosaur Behaviours

• Capture Team helicopters can now be attacked by flying reptiles
  • Escaped flying reptiles will now attack Capture Teams
  • Capture Teams now show a condition bar
  • Destroyed Capture Teams need to have replacement teams purchased
• Marine reptiles will now attack lagoon walls when uncomfortable and can become injured

Decorations

• Added the ability to change the colour of certain lights within certain Decorations with a new Lighting tab within the Decorations panel
  • New subsection containing all the decorations with editable lights in a single place
  • Added "Edit Light Colour" mode that allows you to click and paint lights within the level quickly
    • The game will swap over to night time setting while in this mode, to aid light colour changes
• Added land-based decorations
  • 4 x Jurassic Park Banners (JP)
  • 1 x Jurassic Park Light (JP)
  • 1 x Spinosaurus Sign (JP)
  • 1 x Toilet (JP)
• Added ability to attach decorations to the edges of all lagoons and added the following decorations
  • 1 x Lagoon Fountain (All)
  • 2 x Lagoon Planters (All)
  • 1 x Lagoon Jurassic Park Banner (JP)
  • 1 x Lagoon Jurassic Park Pillars (JP)
  • 2 x Lagoon Jurassic World Sails (JW)
• Added ability to attach decorations to the bottom of all lagoons and added the following decorations
  • 2 x Lagoon Cages (All)
  • 4 x Lagoon Lights (All)
  • 5 x Lagoon Rocks (All)
  • 2 x Lagoon Boats (All)
  • 2 x Lagoon Thermal Vents (All)
  • 5 x Lagoon Coral (All)
  • 1 x Indominus Rex Skeleton (All)
• Added amenity and attraction building decorations
  • 3 x Planters
  • 1 x Amber Planter
  • 2 x Fountains
  • 1 x Pole
  • 1 x Jurassic Park Pillar

Capture Mode

• Added additional overlay options to the Capture Mode filters
  • Added 6 x postcard overlays
  • Added 4 x stamp overlays

Quality of Life Updates

• Cameras
  • Game camera can now be moved into the water of lagoons
• Lagoons
  • Adjusted the clarity/transparency of the lagoon water
• Buildings
  • Adjusted the clarity of the lagoon viewing stands glass so you can see more into the lagoon water
  • Added the ability to toggle between multiple viewing points on guest buildings
    • Added viewing points to the Amphitheatre building
  • Added option to hide the UI when in Guest Views
• Park Teams
  • When one dinosaur is welfare scanned by a Ranger Team, it will now also scan all dinosaurs in its territory and all dinosaurs in cohabiting/shared territories
  • Made it possible to re-open a park tour by assigning a Ranger Team to any building connected to its tour network, instead of just a single building
• Tours
  • Allow tours to be connected in either direction
  • Players can now choose the travel direction of their tours
  • Show the tour travel direction on the track
• Dinosaurs
  • Readjusted the scale of the Jurassic Park 3 Pteranodon
  • Optimised and reduced the cost of feathered species for the Species Limit on PS4 and Xbox One consoles
  • Enable marine reptiles' status icons to be visible underwater
• Dinosaur Behaviours
  • Dinosaurs have an extra chance to gain certain traits in biomes with extreme climates.
    • In Alpine and Taiga biomes, dinosaurs are more likely to gain the Hungry trait.
    • In Desert biomes, dinosaurs are more likely to gain the Thirsty trait.
  • Cohabitation Balance
    • Added a Likes relationship between Hadrosaurid and Ceratopsids
    • Added a Likes relationship between Ornithomimosaurids and Ceratopsids
    • Ceratopsids can now cohabit with other Ceratopsids, with certain exceptions
      • Triceratops can't cohabit with Styracosaurus, Torosaurus or Sinoceratops
      • Torosaurus can't cohabit with Styracosaurus, Pachyrhinosaurus or Sinoceratops
      • Styracosaurus can't cohabit with Sinoceratops
      • Sinoceratops can't cohabit with Pachyrhinosaurus
      • Nasutoceratops can't cohabit with Chasmosaurus or Pentaceratops
      • Chasmosaurus can't cohabit with Pentaceratops
    • Territories now decay quicker in cases where the area is not desirable, or overlaps other disliked territories, or the territory is over the size it needs to be.
  • When two dinosaurs fight over territory overlap, remove the territory of the loser around where the fight happens
  • Marine Reptile territory stats will now decay slightly slower
  • Allow dinosaurs that don't fight their own species to choose a new Alpha or Herd Leader using social interactions rather than combat
  • Make flying reptiles regain stamina when eating and drinking
• Sandbox Mode
  • Redesigned the Sandbox Settings so it's more readable
  • Custom settings now are saved between sessions
  • Added the ability to create negative Traits when Gene Editing
  • Added the ability to have infinite Traits when Gene Editing
  • Added the ability to have infinite Trait points when Gene Editing
  • Added new Cohabitation Sandbox Setting with settings for Normal, All Like or No Dislike
  • Added new Instant Construction/Destruction Setting
  • Added new Infinite Candidate Refreshes setting
  • Prevent the "Dinosaur Combat Frequency" setting from disabling dinosaurs hunting guests
• Challenge Mode
  • Blocked deletion of Control Centre in Challenge 06
  • Exceeding the Challenge species limit no longer flags the save as requiring a higher spec platform
  • Setup per level save images for Chaos Theory Challenge Mode saves
• Chaos Theory Mode
  • Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom - Added fail state to dinosaur scanning stage - all dinosaurs must be kept alive
  • Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom - Changing button prompt during second wrangling objective to use the correct button
• Loading Screens
  • Added quotes from Jurassic World Dominion to the loading screen quote pool
• UI
  • Made Path Capacity and Overcrowding information visible during path placement
  • >Made path heatmap information more responsive to changes in the park
  • Added the ability to use right mouse click to back out on the full screen management screens
  • Change the "Missions" title in Management screens to "Missions & Contracts" in some levels
  • Added a "Guest Park Issues" section to the Finances management screen to help guide players to how to improve their parks
  • Display star rating targets on "area locked" icons that are locked by star rating
  • Map icons for buildings, fences and tracks in locked areas now also appear grayed out to further highlight the difference between locked areas and non-locked areas.
  • Added time remaining to next refresh of Scientists in the hiring pool
  • Allow the player to refresh Scientists in the hiring pool
    • Can be used once per financial period
    • Players will need to pay to refresh the pool
  • Added the Scientist name to the task list for Rest tasks
  • Added option to assign scientists to rest directly from the task allocation screen
  • Improved map feedback for blueprint fences
  • Now allow hyphen input when renaming assets
  • Contracts - Changed all profit and revenue contracts to use per minute values, rather than per month.
  • Fixed wrong save image for Sierra Nevada sandbox level
  • Long dinosaur names do not get truncated anymore in the egg select panel
  • Highlight pylon wires blocking construction will red
• Accessibility
  • Added an accessibility option to allow for setting a custom HUD background opacity
• Terrain
  • Now allow terrain editing around destination flares on the landscape

Bug Fixes

• Sandbox Mode
  • With Infinite Lifespan turned on, removed visible ageing and stamina effects from occurring
  • Washington - Fixed the capture camera not being able to reach the floor
  • Jurassic World - Added Monorail to arrival point building limit list; prevents you from placing additional functioning arrival points
  • Fixed scientist training levels not becoming re-locked when enabling research in sandbox mode
  • Hidden any scientist-related information in building tool-tips when scientists are disabled in sandbox mode
  • Fixed reloading save on Isla Nublar 1993 resetting the colour grade to "Jurassic Park"
• Challenge Mode
  • Jurassic World/Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom - Changed mission giver to be Cabot Finch
• Campaign Mode
  • Fixed situation where scientists could have their maximum skill levels increased when being carried over from one campaign level to the next
• UI
  • Fixed "Demolish" shortcut not being present when building
  • Hidden the Calamity bar when in Gene Editing
  • Fixed the Ranger Team Flare taking priority use of the F key and cannot be rebound by the player
  • Added Antarctica landmass to the Expedition Map and moved the dig site for the Hanson formation
  • Added the Dominion film logo to the Sinoceratops
  • Updated Claire Dearing portrait during the Jurassic World Chaos Theory level
  • Territory along the edge of aviaries better matches the shape of the aviary domes
  • Fixed the Champlain Valley skin variant colour not matching in game colour for Edmontosaurus
  • Hidden Difficulty In Save/Load Island Menus for Sandbox levels
• Buildings and Decorations
  • Various building art and optimisation improvements
  • Fixed the DFW Emergency Shelter costing half the price of all other Emergency Shelters
  • Fixed DFW era decorations being place-able on Chaos Theory 3
  • Fixed some Jurassic Park buildings having Jurassic World logos on them
  • Fixed being unable to demolish enclosure marker decorations with single demolish tool
• Dinosaurs
  • Increased the maximum number of transport flares in world at once
  • Fixed comatose dinosaurs waking up when shot with tranquillisation dart
  • Fixed dinosaurs with comatose caused by Hypothermia being woken up when shot by Capture Teams
  • Removed ivy poisoning from triggering outside of specific Chaos Theory levels
  • Fixed multiple disease deaths displaying a different disease to one the dinosaur had
  • Fixed some dinosaurs getting stuck at the end of locomotion or in social interactions
  • Additional fix to keep flying and marine reptiles in their enclosures
  • Fixed flying reptiles getting stuck inside aviary hatcheries when you use multi transport only
  • Adjusted the less vibrant pattern on the Jurassic World Pteranodon
  • Fixed ragdolling dinosaurs interacting with buildings when being winched
• First Person View
  • Fixed not being able to begin First Person View mode in shallow water
  • After accessing a building from First Person View, fixed the player not being returned to First Person View afterwards if they performed certain actions
• Guests
  • Fixed guests not avoiding AI-driven gyrospheres
• Jurassic World Database
  • Fixed Tylosaurus having incorrect diet information
  • Added JWDB image for comfort gene mod
• Park Teams and Tours
  • Fixed helicopters when transporting multiple dinosaurs clipping into each other
  • Fixed Jurassic Tour vehicles spawning off to the side of the track and becoming stuck
• Species Viewer
  • Fixed Wuerhosaurus and Kentrosaurus Camp Cretaceous variants pose issues in the Species Viewer
• Environments
  • Fixed grass flickering unnaturally
• Localisation
  • Fixed translations for Korean, French, Italian, Russian, German, and Mexican Spanish according to players’ feedback.
  • Fixed mismatches between audio and subtitles
  • Various localisation issues fixed across 13 languages
• Misc
  • Various stability issues fixed
  • Various optimisations
  • Various text issues fixed

Dominion Biosyn Expansion Features

Added additional amenity and attraction building decorations

• 1 x Biosyn Lights
• 1 x Biosyn Fountains
• 1 x Biosyn Sculptures

Dominion Biosyn Expansion Quality of Life Updates

• Campaign
  • Added prompt text to tell the player they need 100% genome for feathered dinosaur species

Dominion Biosyn Expansion Bug Fixes

• UI
  • Fixed "Demolish" shortcut not being present when building the Hyperloop
  • Fixed Hatchery Upgrades research in Biosyn campaign not granting additional upgrade slot
  • Fixed missing Quetzalcoatlus fossil images in expedition map
• Campaign
  • Fixed Scorched Earth building area being expanded around the Biosyn HQ
• Decorations
  • Rustler defence decorations can now be placed on paths
• Chaos Theory
  • Jurassic World Dominion - Removed 'Swallowed Phone' from the list of injuries available so that we don't get the odd instance of a live captured Compsognathus having it
• Challenge/Sandbox Mode
  • Reduced number of Therezinosaurus & Dimetrodon fossils as some were left over after getting to 100% genome
• Jurassic World Database
  • Fixed Therizinosaurus length discrepancy
• Dinosaurs
  • Fixed Therizinosaurus missing fight animations with some opponents
  • Fixed some carnivores becoming stuck when group attacking the Giganotosaurus 2022 variant
  • Updated the Dimetrodon's cohabitation list
    • Likes:
      • Compsognathus
    • Dislikes:
      • Carnivores
      • Therizinosaurus