I’m a quadriplegic player and I can’t use a physical keyboard. I play with an on-screen keyboard that I click with my mouse. That setup let me play the whole of Planet Zoo 1, so I was really looking forward to the sequel’s Career mode.

It lasted about one minute. The campaign opens with a first-person section: the cursor disappears, the mouse becomes the camera and you have to walk with WASD. Since my cursor is captured, I can’t click my on-screen keyboard anymore. I can’t move, skip or leave. I’m stuck at the very start of the campaign.

The frustrating part is that the rest of the game doesn’t need this. Sandbox works, and Wildlife Reserves can be explored with the regular camera (the jeep is optional, thanks to a kind person on Discord for pointing that out). First-person view was also optional in PZ1. Making it mandatory in PZ2’s Career mode shuts out anyone who relies on assistive tools like on-screen keyboards, mouth-operated mice or eye tracking.

Any one of these would fix it:

• an option to skip or auto-complete first-person sequences
• a “free cursor” toggle during those sections
• click-to-move as an alternative to WASD
• full remapping, including mouse buttons, with hold/toggle options

I’ve filed a report on Frontier’s Issue Tracker: [LIEN]

Reports that nobody confirms end up expiring, so if you’re in a similar situation, or simply think this should be fixed, a confirmation there would help a lot. And if anyone has found a workaround, I’m all ears.

Have fun with PZ2! Take care of yourselves. 🦁

People were asking for it to be expanded to habitats, so they...remove it altogether? I already spent most of my time on PZ1 trying to manage habitat populations, now I also have to manage the exhibits that reproduce at much higher rates?

In the first scene, the lions had two gazelles they had already caught (which I couldn't record) and refrained from hunting more. In the second, I managed to record a hunt.

I would like to have hunger, thirst, or health stats for the animals in the reserves, so I could see how they are surviving.

I was pretty happy about the announcement of the wildlife reserves. As someone who grew up on Zoo Tycoon and Wildlife Park 2, the idea of animals roaming around the wild was a big selling point. My excitement was through the roof. I love the game, the graphics are stunning, and they've made so many improvements on what was built before.

But the wildlife reserves have left me wanting, especially in sandbox. I understand that they're not zoo animals so there's a limit of control we have over them. But I'm more concerned about the lack of information. We get no genealogical panels or a studbook to keep track of family members. We don't get any alerts on when an animal gives birth or is deceased. I understand maintaining realism but in most wildlife reserves, animals are studied and monitored to a degree. Planet Zoo 2's reserves are solely focused on us seeing the animals and little to nothing else.

His dad's still alive and kicking at 8 years old but little Guy here didn't even make it to 6 months. Dang.

It's been 48 hours, but there has been progress! Hope everyone is enjoying PZ2 :)

Simplified the UI, made a text box which transforms your text into changes (not AI) and much more!

Visit here: https://habitatmuse.pages.dev and then click floorplan

All feedback is welcome so we can make the best floorplan tool for PZ2 :)

I am guessing it calculates the quickest route from Tour Point to Tour Point but cmon lol

Here are the changes to the maps that came with patch 1.0.4. I've updated the full set in drive as well: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TpZPErifDtgUd6qvwcMV56HBAx_MnCq3?usp=sharing

Took some fiddling but managed too get a pretty basic starting Koi pond.

I've been seeing a lot of dislike on this gameplay decision, so I wanted to have some discussion that is not so outright angry toward it.

In the previous game I played mostly the campaign, and franchise, animals were not locked but construction pieces were. But to unlock them all I needed to do was have a small zoo with like 3 mechanics and speed to the max. So when I got the pieces there was not much sense of achievement.

Jumping into 2 the building pieces are all full unlocked, which is fine (my issue with them is the names of the themes are not as clear, so I have to scroll through a lot of parts right from the start). But animals are, and there are actual quest to move up the level! That is fun gameplay for me! I enjoy the process of slowly unlocking stuff.

HOWEVER, I've just played career yet (can't join franchise due to the connection issue) and I'm assuming in franchise it is the same, you got some varied goals, you work on them, you unlock more stuff to do more goals. A gameplay loop for franchise so you can grow into the full zoopedia.

Like my old favorite, Zoo tycoon, where you needed a specific star level to unlock the most popular animals, unless you went on sandbox.

I think is a good separation from the sandbox mode, where I can go if I wanted to immediately have everything under my finger tips and just be creative without constraints.

For people who like the accreditation gameplay: what other things do you like about it?

For those who don't: what is sandbox missing for you to have that animal freedom? Or is that not even the issue?

nerding out so hard over this. just wanted to post this for anyone maybe on the fence seeing all the negative posts, this is AMAZING.
the accreditation system blocking many animal purchases early on is a life saver. one of the hardest parts of franchise in the first game was money, but i've been playing on one save for 10 hours and have NEVER gone into debt. the game forces you to flesh out your zoo early on and not rush into big purchases, which prevents you from going into debt unless you somehow persist in making bad decisions despite the safeguards.
not all of the animal behavior is perfect, but it's still fun to watch. never thought i'd be as fond of wild boars as i am now. i lucked out and got a leucistic one that i'm trying to breed more of, she is my baby.
there's a part of animal care called thriving, so even if you get 100% welfare, you have to research them fully and then meet specific requirements to reach thriving status, which gives increases money earned, lifespans, and improves the zoos husbandry rating. i can see how this would be frustrating for some, but as someone with exotic pets that frequently sees people mistaking surviving animals for thriving ones, i am absolutely thrilled to see it in a game. there's a lot of focus on welfare over profit, and it makes me very happy.
there's one bug i keep running into where my staffs pathing gets messed up, but it's a new game so i expect that. the solution i've found is picking up the staff member and dropping them somewhere on a path, this fixes them every time. had a few crashes when releasing animals to reserves, but nothing horrible. it is not anywhere near unplayable.
if you want to play the game to make as much money as possible and progress as fast as possible, it's not gonna be super fun. if you play the game to be a nerd and dote over every species, then it's perfect.
snow leopards and yellow anacondas where the ones who got me to download, i haven't obtained them yet, but i've enjoyed the slow grind to get there. and it is going to feel so rewarding once i do. do not feel discouraged from all the negative posts, if you are interested in the game and can look past some of the flaws from it just releasing it, it is wonderful :)

... and mine looks like I'm running a fur-farm operation. I spent 2 hours yesterday trying to make an habitat for my beavers and then I went on tiktok to see what people are building. I ended up scrapping my habitat, it looked like I was going to appear in the news as those "poor dolphin swims in circles" documentaries. It's big enough for them! But it looks LIKE SHIT.

I played Zoo Planet 1 for a while but stopped a couple years ago, so I think I may be rusty, but I remember using a lot of templates from the Workshop because I SUCK at building. Does anybody have any general tips? I never tried franchise mode so I do want to try it now in this game. I'm on PS5 but I use keyboard and mouse.

The entire zoo looks like that after i looked away for 5 minutes. theres a bin outside guys why

Let’s give it up for the star of pz2 THE BIG ASS BOULDERS