Jurassic World Evolution premium DLC: The Secrets of Dr. Wu launches today

Secrets of Dr. Wu

• Added new story missions
• Added new island locations for Dr. Wu’s facilities
  • Muerta East
  • Tacaño Research Facility
• Added new dinosaurs
  • Ankylodocus
  • Spinoraptor
  • Stegoceratops
  • Olorotitan
  • Troodon
    • Added Troodon venom bite attack against dinosaur prey
    • Troodon hunts can be non-lethal
• Added dig sites and research for new dinosaurs
• Added comfort gene genetic modification
  • Each dinosaur genome now has additional comfort gene slots
    • Stress genome slots allow modifications to the dinosaur’s stress thresholds
    • Habitat genome slots allow modifications to the dinosaur’s habitat requirements
    • Social genome slots allow modifications to the dinosaur’s social and population requirements
  • Added new UI state for dinosaurs engineered with unobtainable comfort, social or population needs
    • Added support for comfort bars for impossible to satisfy dinosaurs, new property “impossible” will turn them red and add “???” to the bar
• Added new story based and progression research unlocks
  • Improved marketing increases ticket values
  • Improved marketing increases photo valuations
  • Improved lawyers reduce losses through guest fatalities by dinosaurs
  • Improved construction makes building construction cheaper
  • Hatchery Insurance research item that will give an increasing percentage refund if incubation fails
  • Feeder resupply cost reduction
  • Fourth tier hatchery upgrades for incubation speed and success rate
  • Improved transport team speed
  • Advanced Storm Defence Stations added
  • Indominus rex camouflage gene added – It is applied using the new researched gene and activates on:
    • Hammond Creation Lab exits
    • Hunts
    • When it panics
    • When in forest
    • Small chance when idle
  • Added new achievements

Free Update

• Dinosaurs
  • Added group behaviour
• Dinosaurs with social groups will try and form a social group
• Dinosaurs capable of contesting leadership have an Alpha
• The leader is the dinosaur with the highest prestige
• Certain dinosaur species can challenge the current leader to a leadership contest, if their prestige is higher than the current leader.
• Dinosaurs that cannot contest will congregate in suitable social groups with a leader
• Group factors are determined per species
• Members of the group will try to follow their leader
• Groups can merge if their member count is less than the maximum social size
• Members of the group will try and sleep if their leader does so
• The current needs of group members can be influenced by the Alpha’s current needs
• Alphas indicated in the dinosaur UI (for dinosaurs that can battle for leadership)
• Groups will look for suitably sized areas to form up
• Try to limit group members idle roaming too far from their leader
• Group size can be affected by the alpha’s social gene modifications
• Group members will try and graze when their alpha does
• Group members only socialise with other members of the same group
• Group members try to flee towards their leader

• Sleep behaviour added
• Dinosaurs can sleep if they are healthy and happy

• Contracts
  • Dinosaur with specific gene modification
  • Sell a dinosaur with a specific gene modification
  • Get a dinosaur to a target infamy rating
  • Sell a dinosaur with a target infamy rating
• Feeders

• Added higher capacity tall herbivore feeder
• Added higher capacity standard herbivore feeder
• Added higher capacity carnivore feeder
• Added Day/Night cycle options
  • Available automatically in Challenge and Sandbox modes
  • Unlocked alongside the preset options by five starring the campaign islands
  • Available by default on the Secrets of Dr. Wu islands
  • Added a cycle duration option

General Fixes and Tweaks

• Buildings
  • Fixed incorrect UI image for the Bar
  • Fixed existing incubation speed increase upgrades text to show the correct improvement values (the actual values have not been changed)
  • Fixed guests on the hotel roof not correctly facing the attraction they want to look at
• Contracts
  • “Attractions” is now “Guest Facilities” in ‘Make money from attractions’ contracts
  • Added contracts for photographing sleeping dinosaurs
  • Shelter Coverage contracts will no longer ask for >95% coverage as an objective
• Dinosaurs
  • Added venom resistance for each dinosaur
  • Further optimisations for the dinosaur needs flood fill
  • Fixed dinosaurs not always being able to eat after a hunt
  • Stopped dinosaurs sometimes playing the HCL Exit animation when loading into a save file
  • Prevent editing terrain underneath ragdolled dinosaurs, to avoid physics and other knock-on issues
  • Enabled cycling between dinosaurs when the dinosaur is selected but the info panel is not open
  • Added the current number of species, the target number of species and the target total dinosaur rating to the management screen
  • Dead dinosaurs no longer contribute towards the visibility percentage, visibility counts or visibility contracts. However, their negative prestige is still taken into account
  • Changed the display of habitat area requirements:
    • All comfort area values are now shown on a non-linear scale on the needs tab
    • All bars now have the same scale (0-35,000), so the current habitat areas should show the same for all nearby dinosaurs
    • The minimum required area is now displayed in the dinosaur’s bio, rather than the “ideal” value, which was really just the displayed scale
    • None of this should affect habitat satisfaction in existing parks (unless dinosaurs with comfort genes are released)
  • Stopped dinosaurs eating from food that is being carried away by a transport helicopter
  • Rebalanced carnivores so dinosaurs have to be visibly hungry before they’ll eat prey
  • Reduced instances of dinosaurs walking through fights as they begin
  • Fix for rare bug where the cause of death shows as “Died from healthy”
  • Further dinosaur audio polish
  • Various animation fixes and polish
• Music
  • Fixed some cut off occurring on music being played
  • Balanced various music types lengths
• Render
  • Screen space reflections improvements for PC
• Sandbox
  • Fixed sandbox money resetting when loading a save file
• System
  • Cleaned up template missions (contracts) from the game database when starting/loading a career
  • Added a save limit reached warning when there isn’t any available space for a new save
  • Various stability fixes
• UI
  • Added double click for sell and extract fossils on PC
  • Added double click to save and load menus for PC
  • Fixed side panel not getting an update in rare timing bug in laboratory
  • Fixed failed mission fanfare showing wrong division symbol
  • Remember the active tab when cycling between dinosaurs or buildings
  • Prevent weird situations where it’s possible to pause the game and bring up a UI prompt at the same time. e.g. when adding a new ranger team
  • Allow Help screens to be shown from the pause menu even if a hatchery exit sequence is currently in progress
  • Prevent various shortcuts from being usable when they’re not supposed to be
  • Management bar mouse hit now works as expected when the prompt is up
  • Added a keyboard binding for activating the notification button
  • Fixed being able to show the Cancel Research dialog box at the same time as the research is completed
• Vehicles
  • Pitch the camera upwards after leaving the first person monorail view, to avoid the camera sometimes coming to rest inside the monorail track
  • Fixed projectiles sometimes passing through things
  • Fix a case where the camera could end up under the terrain after exiting a helicopter well outside the park bounds
  • Various audio updates and fixes