MAKE CHALLENGE MODE EASY! Awesome New Trick For Challenge Mode In Jurassic World Evolution 2 

“Ah, now eventually you do plan to have dinosaurs on your, on your dinosaur tour, right? Hello? (tapping camera) Hello? Yes?” -Dr. Ian Malcolm

Frontier added a duplication penalty to the Innovation Centers after this video came out. You can still build up to 11 guest attractions if you research all the modules but then you plateau and have to start releasing dinosaurs to progress. I recommend storing $5 million on Easy before releasing dinos and at least $10 million on Jurassic. I started with dinos with $8 million in reserve on Jurassic and went below $100K a few times due to storms and disease outbreaks.

You need to use as much space as possible to achieve this. Your rating and dinosaurs species requirement mean nothing at the end of the day, however it becomes easier when you haven't acheived the required rating yet. Once you're over the required rating, the building won't attract as much people. When placing shops, look at the predicted amount of guests before placing. If It's below 100, use a small amenity, 100-150 use a medium amenity, above that use a large. The amenities are essentially your money makers during the whole process haha! Transportation is one of the most important parts, a tip for that would be to build any advancements you need to add, and let all the tracks build before connecting it to any pre-existing tracks. This will keep the downtime short, as having low transport will easily knock you down a few stars and could mean failure. Get wide paths as soon as you can, and large hotels aren't necessary in my opinion, since you could use small hotels as a more efficient money maker that attracts people to certain spots. When repairing buildings after a storm, don't repair the response facility first, and it might be quicker to manually repair things since on some maps the vehicles have a hard time getting around. My final tip is if you ever decide you want dinosaurs, your stars will go down to zero because the dinosaur welfare will be zero. It'll take a couple minutes to recover, so make sure you have a lot of money before doing that. I've managed to 5 star every challenge except the 4th map doing all this

When you research advanced attractions, you can modify them. If you have a cinema, and a mini golf, and a lab tour, they don’t get the negatives. They’re 100 appeal each

I hate having to unlock everything in different parts of the game, especially behind Challenge Modes and modes you probably wont want to to do. I love how Bestinslot does his best to make his videos helpful and fun at the same time. Ive been folllowing him forever

Frontier did nerf this a bit by adding a penalty for multiple Innovation Centers. But it's still very doable, it'll just be a bit slower. Unlocking all of the Guest Attraction options (Cinema, Gym, Lab Tour, Rock-Climbing, etc) will still give big boosts to park rating and income by building one of each..

And with an update, the centers provide 250 points instead of 100. I easily got to 4 stars filling up that middle area with centers and had over 100% appeal. I did not know what to do after that. I released 11/11 dinos but nothing happened.

Thanks a bunch, Slot! I can’t complete the Jurassic World Chaos Theory mission because of frequent storms and dinosaurs dying left and right, so I’ve been a bit scared to try out challenge mode. Really hoping this helps when I do get around to it!

Thanks so much, i've been stuck harder than any step siblings on jurassic difficulty. this helps tremendously

I recently started with JWE2 and one thing I noticed is a bug in Chaos Theory JP where moving your attraction will make each new repositioning of the same building count as a duplicate.

Genius. tried this out and I had 3 stars even before I'd added any dinos. This is bloody fantastic. Thank you.

I wish this still worked. Lol. They have patched this now. The innovation center gives 250 appeal now, but the appeal is negated when you add a second one. The other building has more mods to add to it so you can have more of those buildings, but you cant double the same mod in the building or it negates the new building.

6:37 y'know I never would've thought of anything if you left it at that lol.

Saw this in another vid. If you build a grid of fences like on the other side of the buildable area, the storms will go right for the fences, leave them damaged and no more storms will hit the park because you already have signifigant damage ;)

Question: are you gonna do an “All species park” for Evolution 2 at some point in the future?

This needs an update because some things do still hold up

you? i watch your content YEARS ago. i just got the game and the first vid i clicked was yours. wow i always loved your stuff man, good to see your still at it.

This is handy but it also bug fixes are going to be this week so i hope they dont fix this, even though it isnt actually a bug

I've done Canada and the UK on Jurassic difficulty without discovering this tip, wish I had it sooner! It took 25 hours for Canada and 21 for UK and mucho swearing and headaches were had. However I do have a tip if people want to do it the hard way with dinosaurs and that is that I did not build enclosures for the dinosaurs, I instead enclosed the humans with a fence and let the dinosaurs roam free (herbivores) in the big open space. If you only have water in front of your viewing gallery then the dinosaurs are always visible and don't wander off, but it removes the space issue especially for he bigger brachiasaurus. I amassed 41 million by just letting more herbivores out into the giant safari and only built the lagoon for the mosasaurus. Took a while, granted, but it got me off and running much quicker, did the same on the UK map, completed that one this morning, now I'm doing northwest USA. Germany is a whole other matter! Gah

I just noticed that building more than one innovation center will decrease guest appeal just like multiple cinemas.

Add the large pathway and it immediately helps with guest overcrowding and it’ll allow more guest, ive gotten a whole star for putting the large path

I don't know why challenge mode ramps up in difficulty so badly. Like the jump from Medium to Hard and Jurassic is insane and really took away a lot of the joy for me! Well why would you want to play jurassic difficulty? ACHIEVMENTS! I NEED THE ACHIEVMENTS! IT HURTS MY SOUL IF I DON'T 100% THIS GAME WHEN I HAVE THE FIRST GAME 100%! Thanks to this video (and the amazing reddit post) i can just let it build up a ton of cash and watch a movie like megamind or a show like... well you get the idea!

Why did you not get a penalty for duplicate innovation centers just wondering because i did for some reason and i can't figure out why

I've just been playing the challenge modes on easy. It's no stress. I can unlock a ton of dinos, cool maps, and a few skins. If I reeeeeally want to get those other skins then maaaaybe I'll play the challenge modes at a higher difficulty if I'm feeling up for it. I have found the whole gamemode a lot more fun than in the first game though, so maybe I will play it seriously after all.

This method works on most of the challenge maps, but the thing you also have to remember is stars are achieved by profit. If you start to plateau, and you've filled most of your park with innovation centers, check your amenities and see if they are generating profit or if they are full and need to be upgraded from small to medium or large.

Something I did that helped rack up the money was, after doing the researching I wanted/needed, I fired most of my scientists and waited to hire ones that did cheaper excavations, synthesis, and incubating. Without scientists mooching your income it can increase really fast, and the cheaper X scientists will help the money you've made last. Also don't try what I did and leave it going while at work, because it will still give you those game-pausing choices.

I needed this. I just lost my progress due to my save data getting corrupted

I also recommend to pause the game first so you can build whole setup immediately saving you a some cash too.

You can indeed hit 5 * using this method. Granted I am on easy mode but yeah. Following your method, my park hit 3 star by your 15 minute mark lol thanks man. You have given me the ability to now fully enjoy this game at my own pace.

Nice guide. One note though. If you get in the red economically which will happen during a storm you won't have the time to get back in the green again. The trick is to save up enough money to never get in the red during a storm.

I agree with top comment. The mod showcasing is nice but I'm a last gen console peasant so I much prefer content for this game we can all enjoy and learn from

Another tips is to actually open your shelter during calamities unlike the first game which barely effects anything, this will reduce your income loss significantly not negating it but you can see massive difference

Much appreciated help and it wasn't an hour long video. I get impatient when I just need one question answered and it takes an hour or more to find the answer. 20 minutes I got my answer, thank you.

Regardless of the difficulty, when you unlock a bunch of things in one of the locations and get a five star rating, when you do another location, will everything unlocked stay unlocked for the next setting location?

I already got medium on Canada, and on the way with Germany though it's taking a bit, but I may try this out with the Jurassic difficulty on some of them.

I've been watching you since the days of you uploading jurassic park operation genesis. Your videos got me through alot of dark times in my life and I still enjoy seeing the notification that you've uploaded. Love the content brother, keep up the good work. 👍

Have they nerfed the innovation centre now because its not increasing my appeal it acts like the cinema, useless as more get duplicated?

It's super easy, barely an inconvenience!

Does anyone know if custom challenges for challenge mode give you the same rewards? Such as I make a challenge that is medium difficulty or higher, would it give the rewards and a normal challenge mode?

It got patched in the latest uppdate, the innovation centers gets a big minus also now when you have mote then one

I’ve achieved 5 stars in Challenge mode England! Thank you for your big tip. Te mando un abrazo y gracias hermano. I’ve just suscribe

This is a big brain strat

When you start this map there is already a free dino walking in the north of the map.

If u change the modules on the guest attractions then it doesn’t have duplicates. For example if u have a cinema and a aquarium it wont make u loose appeal

I'm sure this is gonna help a lot of people, thanks for showing us, BIS!

I NEED HELP! It says that I have to many duplicates in my park of innovation centres after the camp cretaceous update!?!?

This will be really helpful for getting all of the cosmetics unlocked, thanks a massive lot! If it's possible to unlock more Guest Attraction options this way, then you could put more of them in and have them be something different.

Thank you both for the idea! It's terrible that a dinosaur park simulator has to remove the dinosaurs in order to have a pleasant experience in challenge mode haha.

When I literally heard you say you can make money and everything without having dinosaurs in the park my mind went to the Thanos meme, “impossible”.

I've noticed every shop makes a profit with fish tank or aquarium and fossil display lol 😆 nothing else works lol

they're not park guests their Park workers. unless you're using mods you cannot get customers unless you have a dinosaur in your Park

I actually found this post a few days ago, so glad you shared! My only problem is I’ve been experiencing a bug with the attractions, that if you move or demolish one (and it’s a different attraction than any others), it still counts as you having more than one. Hopefully this gets fixed though 😊 This method has really been helping me with Hard Germany

Could you do a tutorial on how to make the Northwest USA challenge hard difficulty easier, because it is basically nearly an all Carnivore challenge and the main problems with it is the feeders are unlocked when you reach 1.5 stars and only small amount of herbivores with lowest appeal of any dinosaur.

saddly this didn´t work for me, the storms are just ridiculous

With the latest additions, Dimetrodon makes a good starting carnivore as it doesn't attack plant eaters... most of the time

This is so handy to get the platinum trophy for this game on ps where you need to complete all the challenges on Jurassic difficulty

2 years later and this method helped me beat my first Jurassic Mode Map, thank yu 💙

I've achieved success with this in the Germany Park on hard difficulty, but once I hit 2.5 stars, I switched and used the dinosaurs, which helped me reach 5 stars thanks to almost 10 plesiosaurus, 2 Kronosaurus, 2 Apatosaurus, about 8 Struthiomimus, 1 Nodosaurus, and 1 Mosasaurus. After seeing the Reddit post, I'm eager to try this out on Hard Difficulty on the other maps, but especially the Southwest US. That in my opinion is the hardest challenge map.

Thank you SO much, I've been struggling with Canada for over a week

This is a great idea for those struggling with getting started on challenge mode...like me lol but like you said, I prefer to do it the old fashioned way. Mostly bc I am still working on Chaos Theory and if I can master challenge mode, Chaos theory will be much easier

You now get a penalty when you have multiple innovation centers and still get a penalty when you have multiple attractions so this method is no longer viable.

It probably works but kinda defeats the object of playing the game, the challenges aren't that difficult as Canada on jurassic difficulty took 4hrs out of 9hrs to get 5 stars which leaves a lot of margin for error.

I know this video has been out for 5 months now and I tried to do this method but the more innovation centers and guest attractions I build the lower my guest appeal goes this method no longer works can u remove this video so nobody else tries to do this and waste their time

Even if it I don't end up struggling on Challenge Mode when I get this game I still might do this just to see if I can.

not sure if you know by now, or if anyone told you, but 'Don't lose scientists' countdown resets if you fire a scientist

I'm not sure it works anymore. Every exhibition centre halves the appeal. it is now 250 appeal but halves to 125 each if two are put in.

Just started the second challenge map after completing the first one on hard I’m going through them on hard thirst then I might try them on Jurassic

Super happy this video was made since I’ve already ran out of maps to use

Aight, time to afk for the next 12 hours doing this in each mode/ map to unlock every dino and skin

IM DYING @6:36 . Man just couldn’t find an escape to that

Glad to see the cheese strategies are being developed, I feel foolish for working and sweating hard when besting all the Jurassic challenge maps in this game.

I wish I had know this when I was playing hard mode for all maps. I kinda hate this game after doing that. BTW this method does not work on the UK map.

My hope is the next game you can go straight to sandbox without unlocking anything

If you're not concerned with making the par time, this is one of the best things to do for the Northwest USA hard challenge park, since you'll only have access you a limited number of small herbivores (only Struthio at the start), and you can't invest in Carnivore feeders until you're at 1.5 stars, so the only way to feed your Ceratosaurus' and Dilophosaurus' is with Struthiomimus.

Does this work on all maps.

This is gonna help getting 1.5 stars to get feeders in the carno park

THIS has helped me so much with getting to a 5 star park with most of the challenge modes. Build up a hefty savings and then just do what you need to in order to get the 5 stars. Canada I watched another video and it said to get the Brachy, every time I got that jerk it would not stay happy and would break out despite what I did to make sure it was content. Watching this I was able to keep funds up, have a good savings and 5 star Canada hard mode without any issues and no Brachy either!

this basically creates the scenerio where they actualy give you what you should need to make a real dinosaur park

These tips work! Finally feel like I’m getting somewhere with this game.

10:35 You keep repeating that it doesn't matter hotels are placed, but it kind of does. Not in this particular case (guest attractions only), but in general gameplay. They have a big viewing radius. Dinosaurs away from view have 0 appeal (which ultimately interferes with your park rating). The best way to place your hotels is to have them around "blind" spots of your enclosures (areas that your viewing galleries don't cover), so that dinosaurs are viewable at all times. Not only that, but they increase the need for amenities, so instead of placing a bunch of shorter paths across the main path leading to different core guest buildings like you did here (10:45), it's wise to have a long path next to enclosures with restroom/amenity 1/amenity 2/amenity 3/shelter/hotel, 'cause then guests are forced to pass by the amenities to get anywhere of interest. Also, shelter coverage is less effective if you have loads of short paths all over the place.

6/29/2022: Tried this and it looks like they fixed it and made it so that not only the attraction centers but also the innovation centers cause negative appeal when placing duplicates :,> I missed my chance to massive profit, but at least i can get minor profit

I'm just about to start the challenge modes. My question is: There are easy, medium, hard, and Jurassic modes. Why not just do every challenge mode on easy to avoid all the stress? Do you get something on the other challenge modes that you can't on easy mode?

This entire video is a piece of the puzzle needed for me to make a movie accurate Jurassic world, thank you Mr. Sloth.

Does this still work? I just got the game and hated challenge in the first game I only did like 4 on normal

Fun fact: money is accounted diffrently depending on language. While in english you count like this: 120.000, I (playing in polish) have numbers like $159,27.

Hey man, I scoped this game a while ago. Word is I looted out for it through steam because of your vidz. Thanks homie!

What about Changing a cinema to a lab, spa or gym. Would it still have a -50 appeal?

Doesn't work anymore, innovation centers get appeal penalty for reapating them

1:10 This sounds like some SpiffingBrit BS i love it

i alredy have ideas for dlcs for the future:)

Can this work for JW Chaos Theory because I am absolutely HATING that one. Tried it like 4+ times and everything is so expensive and boom storm hits and I am forever in debt. I have never even gotten to the mosasaurus.

This method of printing money, or an 'exploit' doesn't work after recent patches that also puts duplicate penalties for innovation centers, but instead of halving the appeal, just cuts the appeal added by an extra innovation center by 100%. Good video thou.

I know this is really late, but is there a possible way you can make a park to where you get stars really quickly? because schools starting for me soon and im not gonna have the time to make a park once it starts, if you can just reply to my comment and hopefully ill see it soon enough, thanks!

Me: * reads the original post after watching this video * Me: Clever girl....

But can't you change what the guest attractions are?

Yes I'm going to use this! Hell I'm going to get it going and let it run all day while I'm working and just fix the storm damage, like you said.

Any chance of a remake/revisit

Great video I'm a newbie to JW and this is really helpful. One question related to challenge and sandbox. Do the dinos you fully aquire on an expedition appear on sandbox for use whenever you're ready?

I already completed all 5 maps on Normal so I have most skins but I might use this for Hard Difficulty to get the last 5 skins lol

That's awesome. Also, you could put in more attractions once you unlock more than just a cinema, so you don't have duplicates.