Update 1.5 was the third free major update for Jurassic World Evolution, released alongside the Secrets of Dr. Wu DLC on November 20, 2018. It included group behavior, sleeping, a dynamic day-night cycle, new contracts, high capacity feeders, and a variety of other minor changes and fixes.[1]
Release Notes[]
Dinosaurs[]
- Added group behavior
- 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
- Dinosaurs capable of contesting leadership have an Alpha
- 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 socialize with other members of the same group
- Group members try to flee towards their leader
- Dinosaurs with social groups will try and form a social group
- Sleep behavior 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 Ground Herbivore Feeder
- Added higher capacity Carnivore Feeder
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 & 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 optimizations 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
- Re-balanced 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
