The "Future" of Call of the Wild

[gray musk]

Idea for Next CotW Game

• Call of the Wild: 1900s
• Set in Late 1800s / Early 1900s
• Africa & South America Starting Maps
• Time Period weapons/tools, laws, hunt-able species, hunting methods, ways of travel
• Map Screen will look similar but with a more "classic" painted feel rather than digital outline neon look. 🗺️
• Lodge Included 🙏
• Mechanics same as CotW:theHunter (mostly)
• Could have some huge fish to spear hunt, IF spears were to be incorporated (way to get a little of :theAngler in on this) & (more "primitive" weapons)
• Less Outposts Per Map
• No HunterMate/cellphone maybe something physical to look at like a map or compass.

Certain limitations can still be implemented to keep the challenge.
With a game set in the past We can see Species that are NOT available to hunt in current times. 🐯 🦏 🦍
Set in the accurate time period Tons of animals could be hunt-able.
I think going to the past is the only logical way to go about hunting these animals while keeping the critics & fact-checkers "on-board" with the idea.

[deep token]

Now this I can get behind

Though I have to ask, why South America as a starting map?
I would say somewhere in Western North America alongside Africa would be better for a starting map as the late 1800s & early 1900s still had a fair number of big game

After all the last California Grizzly was killed in the 1920s
And Jaguars lived in the Southwestern US (in much larger numbers)

[tranquil wigeon]

This could be good. Would love to see Dog sleds and Horses in a starting Canada map also.

[gray musk]

South America just for all the Exotic Species
True for a North American map, Just wanted more "out-there" of a location. (Though it would still be awesome for a old timey NA feel)
I Was thinking the South America would be more dense like Hirshfeilden and the Africa would be more "forgiving" like Layton.(a little more open)

I think Horses and Dog sleds would Fit Right In with this time period 👍
Canada or the "North" in the General would Too be a great Starting map.

[deep token]

A 1800s/1900s South American map does have fantastic potential, for example Brazil

Water Buffalo of the Murrah breed (picture provided) were known in Brazil since the 1890s
Obviousness Feral Pigs but also 2 kinds of Peccary
Jaguars, Pumas, several types of Caiman such as the giant Black Caiman (20 feet is the likely maximum)

For deer you could easily have Tropical White-tail, Pampas Deer, Marsh Deer and several types of Brocket Deer

You also have Lowland Tapir, Capybara, Giant Anteater (shockingly dangerous) and Rheas for big game
Could also throw in some Anacondas and Giant River Otters

Lots of duck species, monkeys, agouti, armadillo, fox, ocelots and other small cats

[gray musk]

So many Unique Species to hunt during this time! All over the World.

[sonic shuttle]

Love this idea!

[deep token]

I’m putting together a potential species list for a South American area, set in Central Brazil

[tranquil wigeon]

I would love to have a DLC of even 1 map of this if they didn't want to do a whole game.

[deep token]

A separate game would allow for things like tigers and elephants though given the time period

[tranquil wigeon]

They could just call it back in time DLC 🤣

[gray musk]

Very True to both, I feel if CotW:2 were to do something like this, eventually we could even go further back in time into Pleistocene or even Cretaceous in CotW:2.5 or CotW:3 even.
With the Ideas I've seen from here in suggestions.

[tranquil wigeon]

Hopefully they would add swimming or canoes from the start.

[deep token]

Now the ones about Ice Age Animals and Dinosaurs were posted as ideas for separate games

[gray musk]

True, just thinking in long term, If we get to hunt elephants/tigers After that where do we go?
Just already trying to think after this game what would be next 😅

[tranquil wigeon]

What about a train track with a single man cart. I've read people would hunt from the trains in this time period

[deep token]

For a number of species I think having trees they can climb into would be great

[gray musk]

@tranquil wigeon 🤔

[deep token]

Here is my idea for a species list for an area somewhere in Central Brazil, it would have mix of rainforest, cerrado savannah and the Patanal

Central Brazil - Late 1800s/Early 1900s

Species - Big Game

• Murrah Water Buffalo - Class 9
• Black Caiman - Class 7
• Jaguar - Class 6
• Lowland Tapir - Class 6
• Puma - Class 5
• Greater Rhea - Class 4
• Marsh Deer - Class 4
• White-lipped Peccary - Class 4
• Yacare Caiman - Class 4
• Feral Pig - Class 4
• Giant Anteater - Class 4
• Pampas Deer - Class 3
• Capybara - Class 3
• Green Anaconda - Class 3 (Headshots)
• Giant Otter - Class 3
• Maned Wolf - Class 3
• Giant Armadillo - Class 3

Species - Class 1 & 2

• Red Brocket Deer - Class 2
• Crab-eating Fox - Class 2
• Jaguarundi - Class 2
• Black Howler - Class 2
• Ocelot - Class 2
• Nutria - Class 2
• Brazilian Porcupine - Class 2
• Lowland Paca - Class 2
• Green Iguana - Class 2
• Cuvier’s Dwarf Caiman - Class 2
• South American Coati - Class 2
• Tufted Capuchin
• Brazilian Cottontail (Tapeti)
• Grey Tinamou
• Undulated Tinamou
• Horned Screamer
• Orinoco Goose
• Muscovy Duck
• Comb Duck
• Brazilian Teal
• Spix’s Guan
• Speckled Chachalaca
• Razor-billed Curassow
• White-tipped Dove

[gray musk]

That would be an Awesome Starting Map for This!

[deep token]

I’ll be putting together some North American areas soon

[tranquil wigeon]

They have the ones like that with the handles that move it. Just because you was saying it would have less outpost.

[gray musk]

Sorta like this? It could be interesting, considering fewer outposts and for these to be used as a form of travel from one to the other. The handles to choose speed would be good. Could work

[north wraith]

As a brazilian, if there was a brazilian map, I think that tinamous are a group of birds that must be included. They’re known as forest ghosts (some of them patrols the fields, but its a minority), you hear their melancholic songs, but rarely see them. They’re hunted all over Brazil, but it is illegal. The pantanal forests contain species such as the undulated tinamou, Crypturellus undulatus, locally called "jaós". There’s actually a whole culture about these birds and the tradition of hunting them.

[deep token]

I did have Grey Tinamou on the list but I added Undulated Tinamou to the list

[tranquil wigeon]

hers a better Pic

[north wraith]

I do not hunt, but I’m a naturalist. Every day that I can, I’m out in the woods. One of the most beautiful things that you can do here is "talk" with the tinamous - wake up before the sun rises and start calling them with traditional wood-made callers. It is truly amazing. Their songs are extremely beautiful. I think I have a video, wait a sec

Here it is. At the end of the video, a male Crypturellus obsoletus responds. They're highly territorial.

[north wraith]

The list is very nice. Grey tinamous are a top prize for poachers. They’re almost as hard to hunt as jaguars!

[deep token]

Here is the first of several North American areas

Northern Mexico - Early 1800s

• Basically Rancho

Big Game:

• Plains Bison - Class 9
• Merriam’s Elk - Class 8
• Mexican Grizzly Bear - Class 7
• Jaguar - Class 6
• Desert Mule Deer - Class 6
• Mexican Wolf - Class 5
• Coue’s Deer - Class 4
• Sonoran Pronghorns - Class 4
• Desert Bighorn Sheep - Class 4
• Collared Peccary - Class 4

Class 1 & 2 species

• Coyote - Class 2
• Mexican Bobcat - Class 2
• Jaguarundi - Class 2
• Coatimundi - Class 2
• 9-banded Armadillo
• Antelope Jackrabbit
• Albert’s Squirrel
• Desert Cottontail
• Gould’s Turkey
• Plain Chachalaca
• Scaled Quail
• Montezuma Quail
• Band-tailed Pigeon
• Mourning Dove
• Cinnamon Teal
• Blue-winged Teal
• Northern Pintail
• Black-tailed Rattlesnake
• Western Diamondback

[agile thunder]

Here's a couple options for rifles. The rifle with yellow ammo boxes is a Steyr model 1893, 6.5 caliber in this picture. The other is a Westley Richards rifle called the Special Colonial, chambered in .318 Rimless/Netro Express/ Westley Richards.
Yeah, 3 names for one caliber is confusing huh?

[deep token]

Another North American Map, this time in polar bear country

Northwest Territories, Canada - Early 1900s

• basically the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut all in one

Big Game

• Walrus - Class 9
• Wood Bison - Class 9
• Polar Bear - Class 9
• Alaskan-Yukon Moose - Class 8
• Musk-ox - Class 8
• Grizzly Bear - Class 7
• Black Bear - Class 7
• Barren-ground Caribou & Woodland Caribou - Class 6
• Grey Wolf & Arctic Wolf - Class 5
• Dall’s Sheep & Stone’s Sheep - Class 4
• Mountain Goat - Class 4
• Bearded Seal - Class 3
• Harp Seal - Class 3
• Wolverine - Class 2 or 3
• Ringed Seal - Class 2 or 3

Class 1 & 2 Species

• Canada Lynx - Class 2
• American Beaver - Class 2
• Red & Arctic Fox - Class 2
• Hoary Marmot - Class 2
• Snowshoe Hare
• Red Squirrel
• Pine Marten
• Geese: Canada, Snow, Cackling & Greater White-fronted
• Tundra Swan
• Ducks: Harlequin, Long-tailed Duck, Common & King Eider, Greater Scaup & Common Goldeneye
• Rock & Willow Ptarmigan
• Ruffed, Spruce & Sharp-tailed Grouse

[gray musk]

Either of those NA Maps would be Awesome! I love how accurate you can get with species list to particular areas.

[magic fox]

From what I understand you only want a map to kill all the animals that inhabit it before it was illegal to kill them.
Those animals could be hunted in South America because there were no environmental studies, no information on populations or biological knowledge about the species, neither territorial laws on environmental resources nor government agencies that will dictate these laws, this lack of control is basically the reason these animals can't be hunted nowadays, it's like we're leaving the CotW base where hunting is portrayed as a solution and instead portray it as "the problem".

[digital barn]

India and China would be possible.

[deep token]

For the trophy lodge it could be some sort of museum

With a museum inspired trophy lodge you could pick sections to represent different continents too

[deep token]

Oh yeah

[magic fox]

However, I think if you would agree if in the game we represented an Explorer and we were in pre-civilization natural spaces, before countries, where we could go into various unexplored territories to gather animal species for a museum, I admit that that would be great and there will be numerous ancient weapons that could be used

[deep token]

I only mentioned museums because of guys like Theodore Roosevelt

[tranquil wigeon]

@magic fox They could have Relics for the explorer to find and you could even put them in the museum

[magic fox]

That would be great, historical pieces from ancient civilizations accompanying your taxiderm animals would give it an incredible thematic environment.

After all, in the Age of Discovery, every existing insects, reptiles, mammals, every animal was collected to have taxidermiological records of them

[north wraith]

Now that would be awesome

[grand pulsar]

Maybe the great plains could be a starting map? Not trynna shoot you down but a TON of pioneers hunted there.

[formal mesa]

This sounds awesome

[craggy haven]

This wold add so much to the game really good idea 👍

[main oar]

This is a neat idea

[wild hedge]

This is actually a good idea, and like others have said it would be cool if we represented some Explorer Guild to go and collect specimens this would open up to more mission types and like the old COTW maps with unique collectibles.

[tranquil wigeon]

It would be sweet to have the collectibles you find after a certain amount Reward you with a special outfit or something. Make it where only the people that find the collectibles get that outfit. Gives purpose to finding them.

To keep it fresh they add new collectibles each update

[wild hedge]

Here's my take on an India map which during the time period is a haven for big game hunters and the stories of legends about maneaters.

India - 1800s/1900s
-The Deccan Plateau (Located along the Western Ghats and South Deccan Plateau)

Big Game:
-Asian Elephant (Class 10)
-Indian Gaur (Class 9)
-Wild Water Buffalo (Class 9)
-Bengal Tiger (Class 9)
-Nilgai (Class 8)
-Sloth Bear (Class 7)
-Sambar Deer (Class 6)
-Indian Leopard (Class 6)
-Striped Hyena (Class 6)
-Indian Cheetah (Class 5)
-Indian Wolf (Class 5)
-Dhole (Class 5)
-Wild Boar (Class 4)
-Nilgiri Tahr (Class 4)
-Blackbuck (Class 3)
-Indian Gazelle (Class 3)
-Four-horned Antelope (Class 3)
-Axis Deer (Class 3)
-Hog Deer (Class 3)

Smaller Game:
-Indian Muntjac (Class 2)
-Nilgiri Langur (Class 3)
-Jungle Cat (Class 2)
-Golden Jackal (Class 2)
-Bengal Fox (Class 2)
-Indian Ratel (Class 2)
-Indian Crested Porcupine (Class 2)
-Indian Hare (Class 1)
-Grey Junglefowl (Class 1)
-Indian Peafowl (Class 1)

The biomes would be dry thorn forest, hilly scrubland, moist deciduous forest where certain species can be found in specific biomes

[tranquil wigeon]

Hopefully on the next COTW we will have a bigger lineup of animals on 1 map.

[agile thunder]

I really wanna see a game like this, the weapons would have so much more class and they could actually use brand names, it's incredible how diverse weapons were before bolt actions went into mass production. Personally I have a long list of guns that i'd buy a game just to use (can't find them IRL and i couldn't afford to buy them from a collector) One i plan to get as soon as they are available is a repro Colt Lightning Rifle in .45 Colt, hopefully with a tang sight too

[agile thunder]

These are two guns from Hunt Showdown, i posted them elsewhere but figure they'd fit in here too. They'd have been really popular in America around the time this version of CotW would be set in.

[ashen topaz]

In general but specifically this one I feel like it would be a better idea to just make a map in (this case) India and put in the story something about the setting being 1800, or 1900.

[brave furnace]

I’m all for a Early 1900’s India,the time of the maneater

[agile thunder]

Maybe you're there to collect museum specimens? Providing meat for Hindu villagers (goats, boar, antelopes, bears were popular meat options from what I've read of Jim Corbett's books) Protecting crops from wild boars? Hunting a livestock killing leopard?

I'd be a little disappointed if they didn't at least mention Corbett's work, he's basically an icon of hunting and conservation. Maybe have a similar model to his .275 Rigby, period accurate scope/ladder sights and such?

[deep token]

I disagree, having an entire game set in that time period would allow for different features that are not in Call of the Wild currently

[brave furnace]

The existence of more than half of the guns ingame would be so confusing.

[brave furnace]

Also,A mention of the Mysore Bear and Kenneth Anderson’s adventures would be perfect for such a reserve,maybe even a animal mission where you have to go to a fig tree orchard and shoot a maneating sloth bear

[gray musk]

Bump🏺

[deep token]

Bump

[agile thunder]

Would still be super happy to see this

[brave furnace]

I think we’d also most certainly need a map mostly based on Tsavo,Kenya,There’s a ton of Iconic species there!

[gray musk]

Bump🐅🐆

[gray musk]

🐘 Bump 🦒

[jolly adder]

@gray musk hey I just came upon this idea and I absolutely love it I was just wondering if I could add like map ideas and stuff to help out abit

[gray musk]

100% 👍

[jolly adder]

Ooh thanks so much I gotta go to bed now but tomorrow I got an idea that'll be better with fresh eyes

[jolly adder]

Ok so because this game is set in supposedly 1880s-1920 or something like that I think I would love a NZ map it has such a rich hunting history now I have to do more research on this but if people have info it'd be good

Problem is there are two islands in the

South Island

Red deer
Fallow deer
Wapiti
Moose
Chamois
Tahr
Whitetail
Feral pigs
Feral goats

North island

Sika deer
Sambar deer
Rusa deer
Red deer
Fallow deer
Feral pigs and Feral goats too

[brave furnace]

It could be interesting,reminds me of how https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1110817492277923850 could be laid out.

[jolly adder]

Now I was thinking South Island has more hunting history than the North Island from what I know