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Originally Posted by Oubaas
I had to have it because it looks just like where I grew up, many years ago.
All the reserves are beautiful. Sometimes I hunt, other times I explore, and sometimes I ride the ATV like a mad man. I also collect weapons, calls, etc.
When I first started out, I hunted everything and took any game that looked reasonable. Now, I'm finicky. I only bother with trophies. And sometimes I go through periods of only hunting one species, usually Grizzly Bears.
It's a relaxing, slow paced game; perfect for when I don't feel like the usual military fare.
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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.