Middle America Map (Missouri & Arkansas)

[scarlet knot]

Thank you @lost hemlock for helping coming up with ideas with me.

Terrain
I’m thinking that the map could be split 4 ways top left is hollers with creeks running through them, bottom left is A.G. fields (soybean, wheat, and corn mostly) with trees running along field edges, top right is going to be flooded forests and flooded fields with holes in the trees that you can build waterfowl blinds near (like stands in the game already), bottom right is going to be a large lake with big blinds in the middle, that can be accessed after completing the story line. There would also be a river splitting the map in half that connects to the lake, and has blinds on the side of it.

Climate
The season would be early winter/late fall and the map would have the ability like Yukon to have snow build up on the ground.

Animals (18 in total with 11 new)
Big Game
Rocky Mountain Elk
Whitetail
Black Bear
Medium Game
Bobcat
Coyote
Small Game
Raccoon
Badger (New) or Gray Fox
Fox Squirrel (New - Would work like Euro Bunnies for trees)
Upland Birds
Turkey
Dove (New - Most likely Mourning)
Waterfowl (All New)
Canvasback
Bufflehead
Pintail
Wood Duck
Blue Winged Teal
Snow Geese
Brant Geese
Speckle Bellies
(Geese decoys would now have floating decoys for hunting geese in water)

Story Line
Focused around conservation and the revival of the Eastern Turkey and Elk to Missouri.
Missions would be about killing predators of Turkey and would be about finding zones for Elk and Turkey. There could also be a mission to find a Mountain Lion like the mission on NZ for the Moose.

New Weapon and Additions
The new weapon will be a semi auto 12ga, with the weapon being either a Browning A5 or Benelli Super Black Eagle III.
We will also get a skeet or trap range on the map.
The ability to now create preplaced waterfowl blinds like you can with stands, these will be along the river and flooded fields/timber in the map.

Ex. Holler, A.G. Fields and Flooded Timber/Fields

It would also be nice if they went the realistic route with this map and made diver ducks and geese only be able to land in open water and not timber but it's up to EW

[surreal hound]

I really hope one day we get a map that has Elk and Whitetail on the same map. Love the waterfowl options on here.

[scarlet knot]

Yeah I was wanting it to be truly representative of the Midwest, so I put the ducks species that are the most unique to harvest, and I was hoping this map would rely mostly on feed zones which would allow for tree stand hunting the fields for a big buck

[lost hemlock]

We could also get a Predator E-Call as this is a perfect map for how you’d work such a caller.

[scarlet knot]

I'm just thinking now how I would have this map set up like real life with tree stands over resting and feeding areas of big bucks and having ground blinds with turkey decoys set out for a huge gobbler. Plus having ducks come into flooding timber would set this game apart for being really realistic

[stuck sky]

You could also add quail since the Ozarks do have plenty of quail though not as many as they used too you could also add bait barrels for bears and maybe deer feeders if ew would wanna add those but if you wanna add conservation mission you could also include quail into those since arkansas and Missouri have been working hard to bring the population up

[lost hemlock]

That was in the talks,however we have 19 species on this map already,not sure how much more Cotw can take

[scarlet knot]

You literally imagined it into existence

[lost hemlock]

What?

[scarlet knot]

We got an e-caller in the next update

[lost hemlock]

We did??? I haven’t been on YouTube all day?!??!

[scarlet knot]

We’re getting one, and it has all animals that can be called plus alligator

[lost hemlock]

That’ll definitely drive me to go on Mississippi more!

[scarlet knot]

Check your dms real quick

[scarlet knot]

Bump

[carmine dust]

I Feel Like This Map Would Be Really Close To Mississippi, And I Think That All The New Waterfowl And The Doves Could Go There, Whilst Badgers Could Go To SRP.

[lost hemlock]

I disagree,if I remember correctly it was going to be much like Yukon where it snows every now and then that’s something I’ve been missing.

[carmine dust]

I’m Talking Species Wise. You Could Very Easily Add All Those Waterfowl To Mississippi, And Add The American Badger To Layton And SRP.

[lost hemlock]

EW clearly doesn’t like backfilling new animals shown by the granite update so if we were to get these waterfowl and badgers,we’d need this map first.

[scarlet knot]

True, but also we don’t have a map with white tail and elk on it at the moment and it would give a map that would allow tree stands to be used a lot more.

[carmine dust]

Layton Lakes Has Both Whitetail And Elk, And SRP Easily Could.

[scarlet knot]

Yes, but not RME and Whitetail as well SRP is a more run and gun type map where this would be centered around sitting and waiting for deer or other animals to come to there feed zones. Also I think that seeing ducks landing in timber with holes cut for them would be awesome to see.

Not to mention that this map will have periodical snow fall which would be cool to hunt whitetail in.

[carmine dust]

Eh, Still I Feel This Wouldnt Be A Good Map, At Least Not To Be Released Any Time Soon. We Need Things Like Asia, The Arctic, Papua New Guinea, Rather Than Mississippi Reskinned.

[scarlet knot]

I agree with adding this later down the line, but I think it would be more of a mix of Hirsh and NE with hard to hunt forests and easier to hunt fields with plentiful water fowl

[carmine dust]

This Would Be A Great Map To See, If They Represent It Correctly. Te Awaroa Looks Nothing Like New Zealand, Just As Hirsch Doesn’t Look Like Germany.

[scarlet knot]

I think Te Awaroa is a great map but I can agree it look’s nothing like NZ, however the mountain regions were you have to hunt Chamios look alright if only they would add thar I would be happy with it

[lost hemlock]

I mean EW needs downtime inbetween big maps,that was proven rev/EC.

[brazen meadow]

Cool!

[scarlet knot]

Thanks, any additional ideas or criticism are greatly appreciated