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Old 02-11-23, 08:27 AM   #436
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Last time I attacked big buffalos, I did so in hiding, and from a distance, and they could impossible see me, and a lake between them and me, and I laid flat. I injured the animal, and it imemdoately knew where I was, it locked a laser target finder on me, ran around the whole lake right to my position. It also called in its "wingmen", and form severla directions the other bufalos zeroed in in a straight line on my position.

Its totally messed up.

Or I get the attention of one of the, and flee on a quadbioke. I race across the whole map, with buffaloes form all across the palce on my heels. I reach a lodge, go in, close the dorr, and they breakl in thoruigh windows and doors.

BS.

I like the Hunter Classic, too, but I have had big quarrels with the original developer over the years. Did not get any help at all when due to issues ont heir side I could nto play for months while paying monethly fees. Big bugs not beign adressed FOR YEARS.

Still, the games are so good, good enough, that I still like them and play them. But the developer I do not like. I have a very cold attitude to them.

Have not met buffaloes since long time, since I avoid them, since very long. I plany to go into bow hunting in COTW, finally. Did so a lot in Classic, but not in COTW. In _Hirschefelden, there is a shoppoting range I think in the south-eastenr cornber of the map, a quite big gone. If you fire there, ammo does not get consumed.
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Old 02-11-23, 08:46 AM   #437
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Still, the games are so good, good enough, that I still like them and play them. But the developer I do not like. I have a very cold attitude to them.

Very true. Any critique I have is simply trying to be objective. I really like playing both of these hunting games.

Yes, the range is a free DLC and located in the SE corner of Hirschfelden. I have a screenshot in that thread over at SimHQ when I went to work out the hold over needed with the .300 at 300m. And yes, the ammo count changes to infinite and the shots do not count for the shooting percentage when at the range.


I was thinking about why your experience with wolves could be so different and it's worth noting that for me they are the worst on Medved Taiga. This map was only back-filled with wolves in November with the Granite update, when many maps received additional animals. So any time you spent in Medved prior to then wouldn't have had wolves in the reserve.

There's an archery range in Parque Fernando, but I have yet to pick up that reserve. Hirschfelden works for archery too.

Speaking of Hirschfelden, here's a nice Red stag taken there in my last visit







Trophy rating was 231 (gold) and the shot was taken from 223 yards with the .308.
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Old 02-11-23, 08:54 AM   #438
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Do you use TruRac? I don't, it mades the antlers in Classic look hilarious, and the statistics and scoring does not interest me anyway. The default antlers look a bit more natural, not as overblown. "Antlers on steroids, causing mutations".
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Old 02-11-23, 09:16 AM   #439
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I would have it on default. Is it enabled or disabled at the start? I've not changed it. I think it's off by default.

I care about score, in trying to take the best trophies. With the perks and skills I've taken I can see weight and trophy estimates when spotting and tracking, and can now target the best examples. Of course with deer-likes the rack itself is a good indicator, but I couldn't tell a trophy bear, fox or bison just by looking at it. Maybe if they are standing beside another one I can judge which one is bigger. So the trophy estimate range is very handy to select the best ones to target.

My gold percentage has shot way up since obtaining these perks, but I still have but a single diamond, and no great ones.

Way of the Hunter emphasizes the stages a hunter goes through.

To paraphrase, these are

-- Shooting Stage. The hunter is happy to get out in the field and fire his weapon at targets.

-- Limit Stage. The hunter has the skills to successfully harvest game and proves it by taking his limit

-- Trophy Stage. The hunter is no longer satisfied with taking a full tag. Now he seeks the best examples.

-- Method Stage. Trophies alone are no longer enough, and the hunter seeks to challenge himself with the method. Bows, muzzleloaders and other skillful methods are attractive.

-- Sportsman Stage. The hunter is content. He has mastered his craft and has the trophies to prove it. Now he seeks to share what he knows with new hunters, and seeks to promote conservation and teach newcomers the proper ethics and methods of hunting.

I'm straddling stages 3 and 4 haha. Bow hunting for the best animals is how I spend the most time, but I mix it up with all weapons. Funny story. I noticed I got the new .50 modern muzzleloader. Must have come with the New England reserve?

Anyway, I took it out last night to complete a mission that required it (take a turkey with a bow and a moose with the muzzleloader). I was slowly stalking near a lake and spotted a black bear not far off. She sensed me and rose on her hind legs like they do but I wasn't prepared to shoot and I stopped to see what she did. She lost me as I had stopped moving and began walking, straight toward my position. Straight on with her head low I could not get a good shot at the vitals. Finally, she was too close, just 15 yards and I tried to shoot past her head and hit the chest. But whatever I hit didn't take her down and she came for me.

I went to shoot again, but saw I had no round loaded. Hit reload and well, it's a freakin' muzzleloader! Doh! She hit me at a full run and took a nice wedge out of my health bar. The lesson is, always make the first shot count with a muzzleloader haha.
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Old 02-11-23, 12:25 PM   #440
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TruRac came after I already was in COTW. It left me the choice therefore to download it as a free DLC or not. So far I did not.


The only thing I care for is "one shot - one (quick) kill". If the deer dies within the time limit after the hit - the better. I avoid shots if they are not possible in a clean way. Also, I avoid, like I would in reality I would be hunting (I dont), shooting female deer. It gives you some ingame money, yes, but does nothing for points and score inciatin git is not ethical". So, I am after score, yes, but I do not care for the value, only that there is a score for sure: as an indicator for an ethical kill.



Doing so also helps to get more gold and a few diamond trophies.



In reality, if I had the possibility, I would hunt, and probbaly enjoy the stalking - but if I would nto plan to use the meat and eat it myself, I would not hunt to kill, but hunt to shoot with a camera. I do not like hinting for "sports" or for "trophies", I accept huntign for eatingk, however, or pest controllö. But sometimes one can perfectly debate about what is a pest worth to be hunted, and what not. often human hunters claim something to be a pest only to get rid of an unwanted animal competition that is after the same prey like the human hunters. You have the same problems in fishing. Here in Germany hunters therefore have an extremely bad reputation. My father, who did sports shooting, also had no friendly words for them. "Saufen und Rumballern", he said. No, sports shooters and hunters really do not like each other too much over here.
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Old 02-12-23, 10:03 AM   #441
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Doing so also helps to get more gold and a few diamond trophies.

Yeah, your approach is a good one. Pure hunting.

What do you mean by the bit I quoted? I've read about stuff like diamond stacking, but don't understand how it works. I'm not interested in gaming the game, but if there are simple things that can be done, certain methods that increase animal quality in the reserve, I'm interested in knowing about it.

I'm interested in diamonds too, because of the Grand Slam ibex hunting here. The objective is to take a diamond of all four ibex variants. Considering I've only taken one diamond in 330 harvests so far, this seems a shadowy goal indeed.

I added two more DLC to the soup. I'm so weak. Cuatro Colinas to give me another red and roe deer map, plus it will give me a third map with wolves so I can see if it's any different. These are Iberain wolves, not gray, and maybe their behavior is different, I don't know. I've heard two howls so far, but no attacks, and I didn't even see them. This map is much more open than the areas on Medved where I encounter them, so I feel like I can get the jump more easily. But so far, they've kept to themselves.

I also picked up the sidearms pack for the 10mm Glock. I've been carrying handguns a little more, and this will be a good wolves defense weapon I think. It gives class 6 over the .45 I've been carrying lately, so a little more powerful, although red deer with a 10mm is pushing it, but still maintains integrity. I bet there would be some long tracks though and I don't intend to use it for class 6, but it means it hits harder in the lower classes.
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The trophies you cna score are rated in Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Diamond. Its linked to the scoring value of the animal itself, I think, as long as you hunt it ethically and thus do not ruin the scoring. The high-value animals are usually not the ones moving in first, they are rare, may be "protected" by a screen of low value "guards"(like carriers surrounded by a screen of escorts ), or may immediately spook if you use a caller, or move in on them instead of letting them come to you. They are more difficult to hunt.


I did not find Gold and Diamond ones before my skills were seriously scaled up, maybe becasaue some oif these skills could be interpreted as a "sharpening of senses". But that is my interpretation only.
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Old 02-13-23, 08:21 AM   #443
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OK I see, I misunderstood once again. Yes, the harvest check is linked to the score. I was thinking you were discussing some way to raise quality by herd management.


I've only hunted Cuatro Colinas a few hours and have had a wolf attack. This one was bad in just about every way.


It was nearly dark, and I was in a field with high grass, making the circling and darting wolves hard to spot. I did have my new Glock, which holds 15 rounds, and I was popping them off at the fleeting targets. Finally they ran off. But two bronze harvests resulted since I hit one wolf more than twice, and the other outside the vitals. I hit a third evidently, because I lost my consecutive harvest bonus, so a third wolf must have died but I didn't find him. Two shots missed, dropping my shooting percentage, dammit. And one of the wolves got a strike in, taking a chunk out of my health. The only positive is some handgun score.



This behavior should only occur if the animal is wounded or cornered in my view.
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Old 03-03-23, 09:55 AM   #444
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New DLC coming for Call of the Wild on March 14.

Hunter Power Pack

Three new rifles.

.308 bolt-action. The .308 semi-auto is my most carried rifle. But bolt-action rifles to me are the essence of what a hunting rifle should be. I would expect it to have a longer barrel and maybe be a little heavier, resulting in higher accuracy and less recoil. The .308 is one of the top cartridges in the 4-8 class, matched only by the .30-06 for expansion and penetration (the 7mm is 4-9 and a class of it's own, along with the much shorter ranged .45-70)

7mm bolt-action. Being class 4-9 makes this cartridge the most versatile in the game.I don't use the current one as it is single-shot break action, which I don't care for. A magazine-fed bolt-action option is very attractive, but I would rarely to never use it for class 9 game like cape buffalo. There are better options for that. Not sure I'll carry this one much, but it will have it's uses. It would be a good option to carry in the Hirschfelden reserve. Everything is class 6 or lower, except the class 9 bison. Good cartridge for this map.

.338 bolt action.. Same deal as with the 7mm. Only current option is a single-shot break-action. Another magazine-fed rifle in this very powerful cartridge is a nice option. This might bump the .300 from my lineup. There's some discussion in the community about whether they will model .338 Win Mag, or .338 Lapua, and those are very different cartridges. Either way, it's a nice new rifle for the biggest game.

I expect I'll be using all three. Of all the weapon pack DLC, I think this one is most well-suited to me, I like everything in it, and that's not usually the case.

Finally harvested my first lion last night. I've made it a point to make the first one a top trophy, and I passed up many shots on lions to get there. This one was Mythical. Found him resting at 350 yards, but had to wait a few hours for him to stand up. When he did he started moving and closed the range to 180 yards where I took the shot. One lousy point short of diamond rating, but a magnificent trophy for the lodge.
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I had some fun with the night vision scope longer time ago. The implementation looked not too shabby.
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DLC dropped along with a 22 gig patch. Good grief.

New trophy lodge and a bunch of fixes. Loadouts can now be saved.

Bought the Hunter Power pack. It was the .308 I was looking forward to, but it's the 7mm that has caught my attention. Three good rifles chambered in repeat cartridges, but I like me some bolts.
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I think they should give us a .458 Winchester Magnum and add elephants to the African reserve.

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I'm all for new weapons and especially cartridges, but the devs have said no to elephants. Same with giraffe, rhino and hippo. Never say never I guess, but there are no plans to add those animals.

Call of the Wild has most covered, and honestly there aren't any cartridges I still want added. Way of the Hunter is different and has some holes to fill.

Maybe a .375 Holland? .416? I've got it all covered anyway as it is, and the best big big-game killers are the heavy arrows. 600gr drops anything.
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Indeed.





Wanted to post on the update, but forgot it. Some good stuff and wanted features in there.
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Haha, and I don't doubt it. 600gr shoulder mounted SAM.

But yeah, against something like a bison the 600gr arrows are more immediately effective for me than the .300 mag anyway.

I like the bow hunting in this game. I only use the compounds really, and the brightsight to make it quite easy indeed. I hit with 90% of my bow shots because of that sight.
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