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Originally Posted by Skybird
In Classic, you would have spoiled the hunt for trophies anyway if shooting everything that moves, because trophies were like high value assets : guarded by sort of a shield of "escorts". Shooting the escorts let the trophy escape, did not even let you know it ever was there. I think by tendency something like this is in place in COTW, too. But the much longer viewing distances help a lot, of course.
Myself, I focus on hunting males, trophies of any kind, I often spare the females, and I do like I think it would be done in reality. Highscores do not interest me. I never play the "missions". Nor am I overly concerned with ethical callibre choice, its enough if I get some money per kill to replace the ammo spent. Doing a clean shot is important for me. Plan to soon move more to arrows.
Like with any sim you get out what you put into it. Treat it like a game and hunt statistics, and your experience will lack simulative and situational immersion.
New England is a breathtaking map. I am enthusiastic about it. Beautiful. I absolutely love it, its changign colours and moods, the sights. It simply is a piece of art.
Have just bought a dog, due to the steam sale. Seems to work okay, but already starts to kill my nerves a bit. May be handy in some of the longer after searches.
I do not like the way you have to micromanage ammunition for every rifle and pistol, there is so many callibres and it makes buying the right one a real nuisance since you have to take some work to find out which ammo is for what rifle, even more so if the rifle has several ones. Some more automatization there for us non-experts on firearms and ca,llibre terminology would be welcomed.
Ran into an issue in Finland, when bagging dropped moose the game tends to crash when approaching the animal beyond maybe 50m or so. For me at least. Or it was area-related, I do not know.
The Mississippi map I found dissapointing by looks.
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I grew up in the Finger Lakes region of New York state, which looks pretty much exactly like the New England reserve. My family moved there from up in the Adirondack Mountains, which also look just like the New England reserve. Autumn can be very spectacular, when the leaves change color.
I try to stick with one shot, one kill. I've taken moose in the game with some very light calibers, one shot, but they were heart shots. I find something in the neighborhood of .30-06 to be a good all-arounder.
In real life, hunting Whitetail Deer (Odocoileus virginianus), you're apt to see the youngest doe first, followed by other doe, then young bucks. If you want a shot at the grand old man, you have to be patient and hold your fire. He's likely to be the last to come along. I suspect that it's probably like that with most species of cervids.
