Release Notes:

• Added Dryosaurus
  
• Added Homalocephale
  
• Added Nigersaurus
  

• Sandbox mode for all islands can now be unlocked (DLC islands need to have DLC purchased)
  
  • Islands are unlocked through Campaign Play
    
  • Research unlocks are checkpointed through Campaign Play
  
  
• Added sand tool to various islands when in standalone sandbox mode:
  
  • Isla Matanceros
    
  • Isla Tacano
    
  • Isla Sorna
    
  • Tacaño Research Facility
    
  • Nublar North

• Contracts
  
  • Prevent offered Claire's Sanctuary dinosaur contracts prior to ability to unlock them
    
  • Fish eating dinosaurs are now included for carnivore specific contracts
  
  
• Dinosaurs
  
  • Fixed Indoraptor sometimes not eating from carnivore feeders
    
  • Prevent issue where diseases will not break out on an island if it is populated with only carnivores
    
  • Adjusted minimum separation values for various dinosaurs to reduce intersection when they are grouping
    
  • Dinosaurs no longer graze immediately after release to stop clipping with other released dinos
    
  • Various animation fixes/tweaks
  
  
• Terrain Tools
  
  • Allow player to paint over the building and path-generated dirt texture
  
  
• Feeders
  
  • Improved how paleo feeders interact with the sandbox Infinite Feeders option:
    
    • When changing the desired plants for a paleo feeder, if Infinite Feeders is enabled, immediately populate the feeder with the desired plants, rather than waiting for a ranger to fill the feeder.
      
    • Don't show the "Requires Ranger Setup" prompt when modifying the feeder contents if Infinite Feeders is enabled.
  
  
• Sandbox
  
  • Sandbox option now available from the Main Menu
    
  • Added option for Creative or Standard play styles for new Sandbox games - the usual options are still available once in the island
    
  • Standalone sandbox saves only occupy a single save slot (like Challenge Mode saves)
    
  • Disable the Hammond Foundation Fee sandbox setting when the Cash setting is "Unlimited", to better indicate to the player that the Hammond Foundation Fee has no effect when cash is unlimited
    
  • Increase the rain intensity value for Light Rain on Nublar, all Challenge, and all standalone Sandbox islands.
  
  
• Stability
  
  • Fixed a crash when queuing vehicle tasks
    
  • Fixed crash when a dino is destroyed whilst cursor is over the dino when in the map
  
  
• UI
  
  • Fixed some InGen DB entries to match values from paleobotany requirements
    
  • Inverting gamepad axis now only changes rotation for gamepad, and inverting keyboard axis now correctly changes rotation for keyboard
    
  • Volcanic diseased dinosaurs regenerate health to just before threshold to get rid of GUI spam
  
  
• Vehicles
  
  • Despawn darts that hit low-LOD capsules of dinosaurs as this can make dart appear to float in air instead of hitting dinosaur

Release Notes

• Dinosaurs
  
  • Added the Nasutoceratops
    
  • Fixed a situation where a park could become potentially immune to disease
    
  • Fixed Troodon and Olorotitan fossil contracts from being offered too early during the main Campaign
  
  
• Buildings
  
  • Autocancel active research if the research centres requirement is not met. Add an extra line when deleting research centres to warn of this
  
  
• Stability
  
  • Fixed tutorial soft lock
  
  
• UI
  
  • Fixed incorrect dinosaur label when attempting to transport a dinosaur immediately after being notified that a Ranger/ACU tasks are full
    
  • After deleting a save, remain on the same tab on the load/save UI, don't switch back to the default tab
    
  • Palaeobotany feeder UI will now automatically close the more details tab to avoid focus issues
    
  • Fixed erroneous 'medication successful' message when medication is not researched

• Added sand to Isla Nublar sandbox
  
• Fixed crash caused by vehicle task queues
  
• Fixed crash from loading older saves
  
• Fixed crash caused by delayed autosaves
  
• Fixed "Executive Treatment" achievement (players will need to re-attempt this achievement from the start of Mission 3, but it will now unlock correctly)
  
• Fixed Challenge Menu focusing issue
  
• Fixed contract item progress placement issues
  
• Fixed Ranger/ACU names bleeding out of UI
  
• Fixed Indoraptor sometimes not eating from carnivore feeders
  
• Fixed carnivores to eat from carcasses they haven't just hunted.
  
• Fixed piscivores using the wrong feeding animation when eating from carcasses
  
• Removed visibility cone from the Greenhouse
  

Update Notes

• Audio
  
  • Fix for audio cutting out when rumble is active
  
  
• Dinosaurs
  
  • Prevent small dinosaurs escaping through tour ride/gyrosphere gates
    
  • Pachycephalosaurid attack / defence re-balanced:
    
    • Assigned missing defence stats
      
    • Adjust stats to better reflect size differences
    
    
  • Fixed some Ouranosaurus animations
    
  • Adjusted the weight of Albertosaurus in InGen DB
    
  • Updated the InGen DB genus for Albertosaurus and Ouranosaurus
    
  • Updated closed eye animation for the Albertosaurus
    
  • Improvements to Spinoraptor fish feeder animations
    
  • Audio tweaks for the Spinoraptor and T.rex
  
  
• Missions
  
  • Fixed sometimes showing incorrect dinosaur names for missions on Sanctuary
  
  
• Scenery
  
  • Scenery trees & rocks now are placed in water rather than on its surface
    
  • Fixed some graphical artefacts on the islands
    
  • Allow button rebind for scenery random rotation & entering delete mode
  
  
• Stability
  
  • Fixed hang/softlock when backing out of greenhouse panel with your cursor over the greenhouse
    
  • Fixed a crash with dinosaur UI
  
  
• UI
  
  • Fixed missing HUD when replacing a seed in greenhouse
    
  • Added tooltips for Off-Grid Wu buildings (research centre, expedition centre, fossil centre)
    
  • Fixed greenhouse subtitle text truncation
    
  • Various localisation fixes

Release Notes:

• Added new Claire Dearing campaign mode: Claire's Sanctuary
  
  • Added new story missions
    
  • Added new locations
    
    • Isla Nublar North
      
    • Sanctuary
    
    
  • Added Challenge Mode for new locations
  
  
• Added new dinosaurs
  
  • Albertosaurus
    
  • Euoplocephalus
    
  • Ouranosaurus
  
  
• Added new dinosaurs to dig sites
  
• Added Palaeobotany features
  
  • Greenhouse building added
    
  • Can research plants
    
  • Researched plants can be grown in the new Greenhouse building
    
  • Each species has preferred plants
    
  • Each species has plants that are harmful to it
    
  • Give a prestige and lifespan bonus/penalty based on a dinosaur's palaeobotany satisfaction levels
    
  • Palaeofeeders can be stocked with plants grown at a Greenhouse
  
  
• Added Jurassic Tour
  
  • Added new station building
    
  • Added new truck vehicle
  
  
• Added new achievements

• Added new terrain painting options
  
  • Palettes for each island are taken from the base materials used on that island - typically Rock and Grass, with Sand on some islands like Isla Muerta
    
  • Added dirt paint layer
  
  
• Added new shrub brushes
  
  • Isla Muerta shrubs are now available on all islands
    
  • Isla Pena shrub now available on all islands
    
  • Standard shrub now available on all islands
    
  • Added new vibrant shrub to all islands
  
  
• Added new natural scenery items
  
  • Added 6 individual rock variants
    
  • Added 5 individual tree variants
    
  • Added a random rotation toggle for placing scenery
  
  
• Dinosaurs
  
  • Added wetland need for enclosures and spinosaurids
    
  • Added fish feeders for spinosaurids
    
  • Pachycephalosauridae can now defend themselves against small theropods
  
  
• Added terrain contour line options to the gameplay menu. Off by default
  
  • When editing terrain
    
  • When placing buildings
  
  
• Challenge Mode
  
  • Added random dig site option when starting a new Challenge Mode game
    
  • Change saves so they are saved on a per island basis so using less space
  
  
• Tour rides
  
  • Allow tour ride vehicles to pass through enclosures fences by adding automatic gates
    
  • Added VO audio tour to the tour rides
    
  • Added bespoke music to the tour ride audio
    
  • Added an option to set the number of vehicles on a tour ride

• Buildings
  
  • Added a tooltip for terrain constraints caused by already-placed buildings
    
  • Show edge highlights when placing a building if the automatic flattening is beyond the maximum allowed level
    
  • Highlight a building if it is preventing a new building from being placed
    
  • Added specific messages for a building being obstructed by water (or by requiring water and being obstructed by land)
    
  • Added staff and guests information to shop tooltips
    
  • Added power consumption to building tooltips while in the power view mode
    
  • When a building is prevented from being placed by constraints with the edge of the map, highlight the boundary in red
    
  • Added tooltip for active expeditions to the Expedition Centre
    
  • Added tooltip for active research to the Research Centre
    
  • Added tooltip for active extractions to the Fossil Centre
    
  • Added a tool tip to the Hammond Creation Lab to show currently incubating dinosaurs and their progress
    
  • Improved player feedback on shops - low coverage reports (eg for food, drink) now may identify a building causing the problem
    
  • Fixed incorrect shelter coverage calculation
    
  • Show correct path on connection point with buildings
    
  • Reduced angle snap to 22.5 degrees
    
  • Allow smaller movements when rotating a building during placement
    
  • Feeder placement UI now organised into a grid
  
  
• Capture Mode
  
  • Added capture-mode-specific Y Invert and Sensitivity options, for both mouse and gamepad
  
  
• Challenge Mode
  
  • Challenge Mode difficulty selection now initially show the correct picture and info
  
  
• Dinosaurs
  
  • Sauropods are now no longer panicked by large carnivores
    
  • Dinosaurs are more likely to sleep at night
    
  • Added scenery prestige - a boost to dinosaur prestige when near individually placed natural scenery
    
  • Stopped dead dinos running their behaviour briefly on load
    
  • If a dino fight is aborted in the injured state, stop processing the fight and unmark the dinos for death
    
  • Made incubation costs consistent between min and max genome, basing the value off whatever the current max genome value is
    
  • Allow dinosaurs to be selected while obscured by forest
    
  • Text for "incubating" and "ready for release" in Hammond Creation Lab behave correctly
    
  • Decreased the vehicle threat radius, and lowered dinosaur flee timer for
  • vehicle threats to reduce panicking dinosaurs caused by the vehicles
    
  • Stopped dinosaurs from grazing when walking over rock or sand
    
  • Fixed an issue where a dinosaur could become stuck in its idle target
    
  • Allow very sick dinosaurs to still get angry
    
  • Dinosaurs being transported no longer contribute to enclosure population
    
  • Tweaked Carcharodontosaurus materials to fix detail issue
    
  • Fixed excessive head wobble when a dinosaur is drowsy/sick
    
  • Various animation tweaks/fixes
  
  
• Fences
  
  • Improve how fences (and paths) are segmented to prevent an issue were they could not be split when a section is deleted
  
  
• Guests
  
  • Allow science and security guests in locations with visible audiences
  
  
• Islands
  
  • Made the small and medium brush sizes smaller for the terrain painting and shrub brushes
  
  
• Monorails
  
  • Support for multiple monorails on a loop track:
    
    • A route can now have multiple trains running on it.
      
    • A loop track now spawns a train at each station.
      
    • Trains on a loop now start in reverse if their station is reversed.
      
    • Trains leave slightly quicker after a storm so that the trains don't bunch up together too much
    
    
  • Only consider monorails for transport rating if they are properly operational
    
  • Fixed bug where the visible dinosaur count would show incorrectly when a station is deactivated
  
  
• Power
  
  • Display the GUI line showing the shape of the power cable when building a substation with connected pylon
  
  
• Sandbox
  
  • Set habitat requirements to 'disabled' in sandbox settings will cause wetland need to be satisfied, as well as forest and grassland
    
  • Fixed dinosaur escape setting not working correctly
    
  • Added sandbox settings menu tooltips
    
  • Sandbox settings reset now correctly resets time of day & cycle length
  
  
• Stability
  
  • Fixed a UI crash when in the map
    
  • Fixed a physics system crash
    
  • Fixed crash when altering window mode display properties
    
  • Fixed a rare crash when editing terrain near a monorail
    
  • Fixed a crash when trying to load a save game with invalid data
    
  • Fixed a crash when adding orders to a ranger task list
    
  • Various memory optimisations to existing code and art assets
  
  
• Tour Rides
  
  • Display the GUI line showing the shape of the gyrosphere track when placing a gyrosphere gate
    
  • Give more freedom to the gyrosphere first person camera. Hide the guests, position the camera in one of the seats, and increase the range of turning
    
  • Follow gyrosphere that was clicked on when choosing Ride Gyrosphere
    
  • Fixed guests in gyrospheres and tour trucks to correctly represent the entertainment/science/security composition of the park guests on paths
    
  • Highlight the entire gyrosphere track during editing
  
  
• Transport
  
  • The walking distance considered is now only the distance on paths from the destination monorail station to the building, as long as the source monorail station is within the allowed distance of the entrance
    
  • The allowed walking distance from monorail stations has been increased from 300 to 500 (the allowed walking distance from the entrance remains at 600)
    
  • In the transport view mode, highlight monorail stations blue or red to indicate that they themselves do or don't (respectively) have transport coverage. This ignores occupancy, but is designed to show the player whether they have placed their monorail station close enough to the entrance to pick up a connection
  
  
• UI
  
  • Gate icons on the map will now reflect whether a player has set a gate to open (It will still show a closed icon for 'automatic' opening of gates for jeeps and the like)
    
  • Made the 'Manage' tab the default for all shop info panels, and the 'Dispense' tab is the default for feeders. Players no longer need to switch from the default 'Status' tab to perform regular actions
    
  • Fixed 'reset' for gameplay options menu 'Lighting Settings'
    
  • Gameplay is now paused while the InGen Database is open
    
  • Fixed incorrect image being used for Skin and scale toughness gene v1.0 research items
    
  • Tooltip when picking dinosaur tranq/medicate/transport targets will now always display dino name
    
  • Fixed gamepad icons to appear tinted a light shade of blue when displaying multiple inputs bound to a single action
    
  • Various text fixes
    
  • Various localisation fixes
  
  
• Vehicles
  
  • Allow player control of height when in ACU gunner mode
    
  • Tweaked physics for AI vehicles
    
  • First person vehicle camera improvements
    
    • Rotate the camera using the current up vector, not the world vector, so it doesn't tilt weirdly when looking up/down in a car that's on a slope
      
    • Apply smoothing to the rotation when looking around
      
    • When calculating the current transform, reduce the pitch and roll so it's halfway between world space (no pitch/roll) and the vehicle's space
    
    
  • Added option to gameplay menu to focus on selected vehicle when clicking on it, defaults to true to match current behaviour. If set to false, don't focus on vehicle when selected, or when cycling through vehicles. Also disable gamepad movement as this is used for the vehicle control menu, as we do when using the ranger team shortcut
    
  • Fixed issue with transport helicopter getting stuck when trying to move a dinosaur

General Fixes & Tweaks

• Fixed issue with Proceratosaurus animations
  
• [PS4 Only] Removed screenshot watermark
  

1.7.0

• Added new dinosaurs
  
  • Proceratosaurus
    
  • Herrerasaurus
    
  • Acrocanthosaurus
  
  
• Added new dig sites for new dinosaurs

• Added capture camera mode to pause menu
  
  • Freeform camera control
    
  • Option to hide the UI
    
  • Letterbox and various aspect ratio (to match the different films) added
    
  • Added time controls with a toggle between Paused/Slow/Normal
    
  • Added keyboard shortcut for entering/exiting Capture Mode (Shift+C)
    
  • Made the keyboard controls for Capture Mode rebindable
  
  
• Various stability fixes

1.7.1

• Fixed issue with audio around capture mode
  
• Proceratosaurus model physics fix
  
• Frontend UI fixes
  
• Various localization fixes