So we’ve talked about this issue quite a lot and basically there are two conflicting goals:
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It’s cool to show people other senses, like thermal radiation sense as pit vipers have, or echo location like bats, on the screen. It’s cool if animals can follow scent trails or have zoomable eyes or something.
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We want to make sure every creature is viable. If you want to play as a worm which doesn’t have eyes you still need to be able to see well enough to actually play.
So personally my guess is (and it’s not decided) we’ll have a basic sensory package every creature has regardless of anatomy (where you can see on the screen and hear stuff through the speakers) which is augmented with extra cool senses on top only if you have those. So every creature can see and those with especially good eyes get some kind of bonus to that.