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Old 12-17-12, 04:45 PM   #5
RickC Sniper
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Originally Posted by Skybird View Post
Today I was sneaking on a blacktail, but the boss of the herd remained invisible. Spend one hour avoiding those females to become aware of me and fleeing, having the whole herd going to alert mode and stampede away. Like a sub avoiding the escort to get close to the real bummer. It is totally satisfactory gameplay even when not firing a single shot in hours.

Not perfect though. Sound could be done better, it is already great, but calls by animals are always the same sound level, and distance and direction is not properly matched by what you hear in the earphones. Grasshoppers still chirp like crazy even in severe raining. Steps by animals are too loud, imo. Lures work to easily, I think.

But that are luxury issues.
I do not have surround sound, but I'm told that if you do you can tell the direction of sound. I cannot.

The focus on competitions is my gripe. Many of the competitions force you to play unrealistically so I ignore them almost totally.

There is always that line between a true sim and a game. If you could go for days or without finding an animal worth shooting like in real life they would have few players and go broke. One must as you say, use a realistic play style to get the most enjoyment from it if you want to play it as a true sim.

The team of devs working on this game are very good at listening to the community and making changes or adjustments when they feel it is warranted. They have made many, many tweaks and as they do the game slowly gets better and better.

The original developers of this game went broke and after Avalanche Studios picked it up it began to show its true potential.

EDIT: Those videos you posted show off the beautiful environments very well.
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