Rework Caribou & Reindeer TruRACs + Rework Caribou range on Yukon Valley

[gleaming gull]

The current Caribou and Reindeer have some issues, namely that their diamond requirements are excessively high, and the diamond racks that do spawn aren't as impressive as they could (and should) be. We ought to get some new diamond racks for Caribou and Reindeer that have bigger shovels on the front of the antlers, and that have thicker main beams. In general, more variety of large Caribou/reindeer racks and having more Caribou/reindeer be large enough to be gold or diamond scoring would be great, since currently most bull Caribou and Reindeer are tiny or wonky or just don't look that good. Honestly their TruRACs really just need a total overhaul to make them more realistic, like what was done with some other old species with the Askiy Ridge update.

||It would also be a good idea to touch up their fur and their models a bit too. That way they could have more realistic proportions and more realistic-looking fur (like what we can see on the new and improved moose). Caribou and Reindeer are defining species on their respective maps, they ought to look as great as they possibly can!||
Edit: this change has happened now, so good job EW!

Furthermore, I think the Caribou population on Yukon Valley should get a range redistribution. There should be more of them in the crimson tundra areas and less of them in the lower forests along the river, since they are found more in the tundra regions of Alaska in real life.

This would an especially welcome rework if we would get another map with Caribou, like a Northern Canada map.

[tired geyser]

The main beams aren’t very thick either,big thing imo

[pearl cloud]

Yes to this

[lime herald]

Yes, This Is Needed. The Models In General Look Slighly Off In So Many Ways (Eg. The Heads Are Too Blocky, The Antlers Are Weirdly Shaped, The Colors Are Strange).

[tired geyser]

Also,they are so….awkwardly long….

Now that I think about it,Elk suffer from the same thing just reversed,all squished like a pug.

[topaz island]

I have seen a lot of white reindeer closely so I agree.
The Albinos look much more sick and pink than the pure white in game and I also saw one or two piebalds and theirs room for variation.
Here a pic I took of one

[gleaming gull]

That's true, I will add that to the original post

If we get a caribou/reindeer rework, I think this species could become a good candidate for a potential Great One eventually, once most of the animals on the base game maps have gotten GOs. If we were to ever get a Caribou/Reindeer Great One, I would want to see one Great One rack based on the world record barren ground caribou killed by Daniel L. Dobbs in 1999.
Image credit: Boone and Crockett Club

[gleaming gull]

Rework Caribou & Reindeer + Potentially create a new Great One for them

[gleaming gull]

Another potential rack variation for the GO Caribou would be one with these bright red bloody antlers, caused by recently shedding their velvet.

If anyone else wants to give ideas for what a Great One Caribou / Reindeer could be like, feel free to leave your ideas and suggestions in this thread!

[gleaming gull]

Personally, my hope is that we'd get a new snowy map with Caribou ( like https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1070045518002147458 ) and get the Caribou and Reindeer rework as part of the free update coming with the new reserve. The free update could also include the new feature of animals getting covered in snow while it is snowing on the map. https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1181053623602520195

Those three things together would make for the perfect Wintertime update.

[sharp sable]

I'd like to see a GO for reindeer. Hopefully they'll appear on more maps soon to make this possible.

FYI, I think the next GO will be a predator. Likely gray wolf.

[sinful ruin]

Fix the trolling % just a bit and all the afformentioned remodels brought up

Definitely setup a GO in the future

Make it so the "Sleigh Sold Separately" can take caribou as well or give them their own multi mount

Also the racks for males need to be wayyyyy bigger on average basically the racks small level 3's and lower have I almost never seen being hunting in Ontario, Newfoundland and seeing them working in Nunavut they exist but bugger bulls are usually the majority in remote healthy populations

[gleaming gull]

um, that's what I said.

[gleaming gull]

If we get a new map that's based in the Arctic this year (like many people have proposed), hopefully we'll also get a Caribou & Reindeer rework alongside that.

[topaz island]

I would hope so

[sinful ruin]

Honestly fix the posture, fix the levelling making a more accurate looking herd and tweak LVL 5's to not troll as often and boom EZ fix

[still fjord]

I think they also need to settle on a uniform look between the two because they're really just one species. The Reindeer look much better than the Caribou for some reason, and it's distinct enough that, while I thoroughly enjoy hunting Reindeer on Medved, I have no desire to pursue Caribou when I'm on Yukon. They're just that ugly/blocky/clunky to me in comparison.

[sinful ruin]

I mean reindeer were once caribou but tribe's in the north domesticated some caribou and protected them which eventually made the caribou weigh less and have shorter legs as a result reindeer exist

[topaz island]

I think reindeer are just all Eurasian caribous.
finish forest reindeer or the reindeer found in dovrefjell are truly wild reindeer

[sinful ruin]

Bering Sea bridge my friend

When I say long ago I mean long ago plus the bridge was a thing for thousands of years of human existence of course we went both ways

[topaz island]

The wild reindeer of Eurasia are truly wild, I think this is a language barrier. Are you American if yes then it's quit possible you understood something else under reindeer. I come from a region with a lot of domestic and some truly wild ones

[sinful ruin]

Bro doesn't understand evolution apparently

Same way bears didn't originate in North America bud don't argue with me argue with the scientists on national geographic who literally said that's how it is bucko

And I'm 🇨🇦 fyi so sit down and I got a 3.9 GPA

[topaz island]

First ima a lady
Secondly bring me a good evidence that the Eurasian reindeer are feral and where semi domesticated at one point

[sinful ruin]

How about you bring ME evidence that they are feral because initially as in thousands of years ago all reindeer were once under reindeer people I'm not disagreeing that now there are wild ones but a good parallel to draw up is dingos

Originally all dingos were domestic dogs but now all are wild dogs in Australia

[topaz island]

With dingos you are correct but I couldn't find anything about the wild Eurasian reindeer to be brought here by reindeer people

[sinful ruin]

Bruv cave paintings and documentaries would state otherwise don't shoot me im just the messenger

[topaz island]

My bus is going ima be back in 15 minutes

[sinful ruin]

@topaz island are you a Suomi???

[topaz island]

Nope but I live in sweden

[topaz island]

Here they are an European species

[sinful ruin]

Hope y'all get in NATO soon and good job at the world Juniors you guys beat us I think

[sinful ruin]

Yeah the documentary was for the Siberian ones my bad

[topaz island]

No problems I mess up stuff at a much higher rate, and thanks for the nato thing lol.

[topaz island]

Odd that the Siberian reindeer didn't just walk over from the European populations maybe Couse of the Ural mountains??

[sinful ruin]

Ummm so Siberians are a mix between caribou from Alaska and European reindeers

Also something something be my valkyrie 😂 jk jk just my ex was Swedish

[topaz island]

Ah makes sense, sad how hard it is too find information about that

[sinful ruin]

Hunting show is what I was watching not nat geo so the host could have been blowing smoke and wrong

[topaz island]

That's the problem is see a lot on here like somebody on YouTube sad something and then it spreads like the plague

[sinful ruin]

Yeah if it was a biologist sure but it was some hunter guy citing information from paleontologists and archeologists so it's 2nd hand and could be twisted

I also think I was a bit stern awhile ago because some BS happened but then again Asperger's makes it hard to use correct wording to make what I say seem less rude

[topaz island]

Yea people also like to make stuff bigger than it is or make up numbers

[sinful ruin]

I say that about the Finnish language they add extra syllables onto everything

[topaz island]

Ya that's a problem for information and scientific talks

[sinful ruin]

I can only imagine when we were in Norway working with the Finns stuff was hard to exchange communications over the radio

[topaz island]

Finnish is very different than Norwegian, swedish or english the last 3 are very alike while finish is very hard to learn

[sinful ruin]

Their camo was similar to ours tho

[topaz island]

Why where you in Norway?
@sinful ruin

[sinful ruin]

Just was around ya know

[junior wind]

Also make sleigh sold separately for caribou also

[sinful ruin]

Yes

[gleaming gull]

that would be a nice QOL addition too

[hearty musk]

Need these as g1s

[tired geyser]

Not bad

[gleaming gull]

the textures look a bit better now, which is a good start.

[gleaming gull]

Along with a Caribou/Reindeer rework, I would like a rework to the Caribou range on Yukon Valley. As you can see here, they can often be seen in the crimson and golden foliage of the tundra regions in Alaska. This should be possible in Yukon Valley as well. (Image credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

Realistically, Caribou should be found pretty much everywhere on the map except for the burned forest in the northwest of the map. Since the big lake in the corner is a pain to hunt, I'd like to see them excluded from there as well. Other than that, Caribou should be able to be found in pretty much every region of the map, but especially in the Crimson Plain.

[gleaming gull]

maybe if Caribou or Reindeer are on the next map, maybe they'll get the long awaited update that they need. These guys need to get the type of rework that the Moose got a while back.

[pearl cloud]

If we get a map with Reindeer its likely to be similar to Revontouli or Salzwiesen Park with a lot of sea ducks and seabirds somewhere like Norway, Kodiak Island, the Aleutian Islands or Iceland but either way I see the next map bringing a rework for both animals (And hopefully Grizzly Bear too)

[gleaming gull]

hopefully! We'll just have to wait and see.

[gleaming gull]

A post that discusses a potential Great One Reindeer:
https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1279023458348437603

[gleaming gull]

also I just realized that it's been just over a year since I originally made this post. The Caribou and Reindeer still desperately need a proper rework to bring them up to the quality we've come to expect from EW in recent years.

[topaz crane]

I hunt reindeer on medved but not really caribou, I think the reindeer look better

[gleaming gull]

yeah the Reindeer probably don't need a complete remodel, just a few tweaks to their existing model along with better TruRACs. Caribou, however, need a complete and total rework to pretty much everything about them.

[still fjord]

Give me the Medved Reindeer model on Yukon and that alone would make Yukon Valley Great Again.

[topaz crane]

Yes please

[pearl cloud]

If we get an Arctic Reserve a Caribou rework will have to be done

[gleaming gull]

oh for sure, it would be a terrible mistake not to rework them if they're on the next map

it would also be a good idea to just rework both Reindeer and Caribou so that they can both look better.

[gleaming gull]

I've was shooting reindeer for the medium march challenge and I just realized how messed up their scoring is. Not a lot of level 4s make gold, and the vast majority of level 5s are trolls. Their TruRACs definitely need a complete rework, and the way they're scored probably needs to be reworked as well.

[gleaming gull]

I would really love to see some Caribou racks in the game that look like these ones, those shovels look amazing. Also I would really like to see more Caribou in the Crimson Plain area of Yukon Valley since a lot of pictures (like this one) show Caribou in these tundra areas with the red foliage, not in forests (where probably 90% of Yukon Valley's caribou are currently)

[topaz island]

Up north I saw a lot of reindeer with racks that looked exactly like that

[bronze gorge]

Speaking of the crimson plain:

Boom. How appropriate.

[sinful ruin]

I've been saying they need more racks and also should be in the Crimson plains too

[bronze gorge]

If I remember correctly, the Yukon reserve trailer showed a group of caribou trotting across the crimson plain. Where they showed a white caribou.
Makes little sense why they aren’t centered there.
I would love it if they were; the crimson plain is my favorite region in the game and I have hunted there more than anywhere else.

[sinful ruin]

Well I'd say atleast have them more in the transition areas around the Crimson where there is pine trees but the ground is still red and yellow

[gleaming gull]

seeing a huge Great One Caribou roaming around the Crimson Plain like that would be one of the coolest encounters you could have in this game, hands down

[tired geyser]

Their entire range should lie in the plains rather than exclusively along the river

[sinful ruin]

Yeah it really should

[tired geyser]

Hell they could even throw more moose along the river in their stead.

[gleaming gull]

or put beavers in the river system like I suggested in my Yukon improvements thread. Maybe someday.

[gleaming gull]

EW, please show the Caribou some love!

[bronze gorge]

Care for the careibou

[gleaming gull]

How is it that a Caribou that has this tiny pathetic rack, is somehow a level four? It would make sense if Caribou went up to level 9, but they don't, so it really just makes no sense.

also their model looks so goofy, like a cartoon version of them. It really clashes with the realistic environmental graphics of the game.

Way of The Hunter did Caribou a lot better imo, they aren't perfect but at least the proportions are mostly accurate.

[gleaming gull]

While I'm on the topic of Caribou depictions in other hunting games, Cabela's Big Game Hunter Pro Hunts has an excellent Caribou model for the time when it came out. This game, which is over a decade old, somehow has animal models which are better than some of their Call of The Wild counterparts in 2025. That should really show you how much the Caribou (and many other animals in COTW) need a rework.

[median remnant]

This model has aged very well!

[gleaming gull]

it definitely has

And here's a picture of a Reindeer in theHunter Classic. They look great. Not only that, but if I remember correctly Classic's reindeer are able to have parts of their antlers broken off, which could be a neat addition to COTW if the Caribou and Reindeer get a rework to their TruRACs.

Classic got their Reindeer's proportions and overall appearance almost perfect. They would be a great example to look to if EW chooses to remodel the Caribou and Reindeer in COTW

[bronze gorge]

What about a re-name as well? There are Mountain caribou, barren-ground, woodland, and more subspecies to refer to to specify the species, and therefore their model (slightly). Yukon could have
barren-grounds, this new map (say it’s Ellesmere Island) would have Peary caribou.
Medved: Siberian tundra reindeer.

So, a little much to propose, especially if they may as well make a humorous “TRU-NAMES” update for many other species.

[thin hawk]

I have suspicious what we will see a new caribou in June

[median remnant]

Peary Caribou 🤞🏻

[gleaming gull]

I would really appreciate a change like that, but I won't be too disappointed if it doesn't happen. I'm just happy that they made the distinction between Caribou and Reindeer in the first place, especially considering EW's history of being very inconsistent with subspecies distinctions in the past.

[bronze gorge]

Yes

[sinful ruin]

Also not as important as a rework but they really should allow you to place caribou or reindeer on the sleigh sold separately multi mount it would increase their popularity a bit since people have a cool mount for them and thus push the need for a rework even more

[gleaming gull]

bumping this one back up again

[fervent coral]

I agree they could use a face lift. I also love to a great one or even non-typical racks on them !

[glacial jewel]

To give cotw benefit of the doubt on this one it is a 8 year old game. The framework it was built on at the time probably couldn't handle the higher quality models we do have and they just started out when caribou were added so yes I agree they do need a face lift but saying another game has done it better is a little unfair when Medved was the 3rd map in the game and caribou came with it.

[severe mesa]

The Caribou look better than the Roosevelt Elk do. That would make sense seeing that the Roosevelt Elk was on the very first map made. I think it's just how much better EW has gotten at making animal models that make the older ones look bad.

[glacial jewel]

Agreed

[topaz crane]

I would argue reindeer, which came with Medved, look better than the Caribou, which came out later

[glacial jewel]

It's the exact same animal and model...

[topaz crane]

Nope. First is caribou second reindeer

[glacial jewel]

Why are they different wtf?!

[gleaming gull]

I think the reindeer model has gotten some improvements over the years that the caribou hasn't

[bronze gorge]

Don’t reindeer create a clicking sound through their feet when they travel or something like that? Do they have that clicking sound in game already? That could be something to add - to hear clicking when reindeer are near.

[gleaming gull]

that would be a neat addition too, sort of like how you can hear wildebeests stampeding away on Vurhonga when they're spooked

[bronze gorge]

Yes like that. Do caribou click as well?

[bronze gorge]

Yes, caribou also click their feet.

[gleaming gull]

I figured that both of them probably did it because Caribou and Reindeer are considered by most sources to be the same species (Rangifer tarandus)

the clicking would be a really cool little detail either way

[crude vortex]

My first diamond Caribou (460.45) - thrilled, but they could use a fluffing, and they look like they're squinting

[gleaming gull]

Congrats! If they ever get a rework, Caribou trophies will just be that much cooler to find.

[crude vortex]

Opened the eye a little bit more...Before and After

[crude vortex]

A special adaptation for caribou that experience total winter darkness in the very farthest northern regions: a membrane in their eye changes color to reflect different wavelengths of light — summer gold reflects most of the light back out of the eye, while winter blue scatters more light inside the eye, giving the caribou a better chance to spot predators in the dark. Art by Christina Nelson/USFWS.

[bronze gorge]

Yes that’s quite cool. How do the eyes look in Spring and Autumn?

[topaz crane]

Thats not a thing up north. It’s either winter or it’s not

[bronze gorge]

Oh I see

[crude vortex]

Caribou and Reindeer for comparison

[dense swan]

I gathered the best piebald images I could find across the internet, and I put them all together and here they are. Hopefully a few more piebald variations will be added.

[gleaming gull]

a lot of different species could use more piebald variations, hopefully we'll get some more in the future.

[dense swan]

Yeah, hopefully..

[gleaming gull]

If the next map is an arctic map, then hopefully it will have Caribou or Reindeer, and hopefully these animals will get the rework that they deserve

[gleaming gull]

well, considering that the new map has no Polar Bears or other animals like that, it's sort of hard to tell whether we'll get this rework or not.

I really hope that the new map has Caribou though, so that we can at least get this much-needed rework.

[severe mesa]

If it's British Columbia it think they will be on there because it is known for having massive Caribou but im leaning Elk or Mule Deer for the G1

[gleaming gull]

let's hope that Caribou, Elk and Mule Deer are all on the new map so they can all get a rework

[topaz crane]

Amen

[gleaming gull]

and if it's possible, Bighorn Sheep would be great too in order to get us a Bighorn rework

It'll be awesome to hunt Caribou in the snow on the new map, if they're included on it

It would be epic to see this on the new map

[gleaming gull]

hopefully we're getting this rework with the new map 🙏

[topaz island]

Anything else would be criminal

[tired geyser]

They made their neck concave ?

[raven sand]

You got it!!

[topaz crane]

Caribouuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!

[median remnant]

Woodland Caribou! 🤩

[gleaming gull]

Hopefully the addition of Woodland Caribou means that the existing Caribou will also get a rework 🙏

[median remnant]

For the people who are asking why there are woodland caribou in Askiy Ridge.

[timid lily]

I really hope so.

[thin hawk]

If I understand right. We got a new caribou species, not reworked existing.

[topaz crane]

But if the new one is looking fresh, the old ones probably gonna be better

[thin hawk]

All that remain is to wait of devs dairies.

[gleaming gull]

I hope all of the species that got better-looking counterparts on the new map will get reworks eventually. Like hopefully we can get a rework for Caribou and Reindeer to match the quality of the new Woodland Caribou, a rework for Roosevelt and Rocky Mountain Elk to match the quality of the Manitoban Elk, and a rework for Plains Bison and European Bison to make them match the quality of the Wood Bison.

also, hopefully Iberian Wolves end up getting a rework the same way Gray Wolves have

[gleaming gull]

still hoping for this 🙏

[median remnant]

Apparence: Woodland vs Barren Ground
||Image Credit: Michael McLaughlan||

Woodland vs Barren Ground
||Image Credit: Valerius Geist||

[median remnant]

• Grant Caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) -> Yukon Valley
• Woodland Caribou (R. t. caribou) -> Askiy Ridge
• Siberian Tundra Reindeer (R. t. sibiricus) -> Medved-Taiga
• Finnish Forest Reindeer (R. t. finnicus) -> Revontuli Coast (backfilling)
• Barren Ground Caribou (R. t. groenlandicus) -> Northwest Territories map
• Peary Caribou (R. t. pearyi) -> Nunavut map

[gleaming gull]

I would love to have the Finnish Forest Reindeer on Revontuli. Leaving them out of that map was a major missed opportunity.

[median remnant]

Note: It is important to distinguish between the Woodland Caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) from Askiy Ridge (Alberta), which is classified by Boone & Crockett as Mountain Caribou, and the Newfoundland Caribou (Rangifer tarandus terraenovae), classified by Boone & Crockett as Woodland Caribou. These are often confused.

[gleaming gull]

Now that I think about it a bit more, I think Finnish Forest Reindeer along with Roe Deer would really complete Revontuli's animal roster. The map still feels like it's missing a few larger species. Maybe I'll have to make a post about potential backfilling for Revontuli Coast at some point. It feels a bit pointless though since the map already has so many species and they probably aren't going to add any more to it.

[gleaming gull]

Rework Caribou & Reindeer TruRACs + Potentially create a new Great One for them

since we've seen that the Caribou have gotten their model/texture rework now, all that they really need now is a rework to their TruRACs, which should apply across all Caribou/Reindeer subspecies to make all of them more realistic. As such I've edited my original post in order to reflect that. I also still think that the Caribou range on Yukon Valley should be reworked to better reflect their habitats in Alaska IRL.

this map shows where Caribou should be found on Yukon Valley - the red areas would have a few herds of them scattered around here and there, while the yellow area would have a larger population of them because it has the most suitable habitat for them

[median remnant]

Grant Caribou for the Caribou of Yukon Valley👌

[still fjord]

Have any of the CCs taken a look to see if the Reindeer got a subspecies or rework too?

[median remnant]

It seems this subspecies has a new name ‘Mountain Reindeer’. Reworked? I don't know it now.

The landscape of the Medved-Taiga reminds me of the Ural Mountains. I'm explaining why the EW assigned the “Mountain” Reindeer to this subspecies.

[still fjord]

Awesome!! Did they get a rework at all?

[median remnant]

• Siberian Tundra Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus sibiricus) in the Tundra of Siberia

• Siberian Forest Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus valentine) in Altai Mountains (Mongolia) and Urals Mountains (Russia).

[median remnant]

Can someone confirm it?

[still fjord]

If they're doing subspecies of Reindeer now, I wonder if they're going to backfill them to Revontuli? 🤔

[median remnant]

Finish Forest Reindeer. It is possible.

[still fjord]

That would be insane. That's already a fantastic map.

[median remnant]

Finish Forest Reindeer by the International Hunter Mark V Peterson.
Video: https://youtu.be/EtrUOqmWpbo?si=1eyEaDClBeThG6VX

||Photovideo Credit: Mark V. Peterson||

[gleaming gull]

The choice to change the Medved Reindeer to the "Mountain Reindeer" subspecies is a bit odd. From what I can tell that subspecies mostly lives in Norway, but apparently there's a few herds of them in parts of Siberia too (probably introduced populations if I had to guess) so it's theoretically possible for them to be there.

either way I think Siberian Tundra Reindeer probably would have made more sense, but at the end of the day it doesn't make a huge difference.

If we eventually get a Canadian Arctic map, hopefully it will have the Peary Caribou on it.

Thankfully EW actually chose to do the subspecies distinction thing with Caribou and Reindeer. Hopefully they will eventually do that for other species (Coues Deer and Desert Bighorn on Rancho, for example)

[median remnant]

In my election, the best map for this subspecies is the thread https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1375853270890840245 posted by @topaz island.

[topaz island]

❤️

[gleaming gull]

Rework Caribou & Reindeer TruRACs + Rework Caribou range on Yukon Valley

So I think it's time for a recap of the changes to Caribou/Reindeer in the Askiy Ridge update (that we know of) and what that means for the future of this post.

We have some good news: content creators have confirmed that the Caribou on Yukon Valley have been changed to the Grant Caribou, which I assume is meant to differentiate them from the new Woodland Caribou. It's also been confirmed that the Grant's Caribou have had their models and textures reworked to match the quality of the new Woodland Caribou, which was a much-needed change. Furthermore, the reindeer on Medved Taiga have gotten their name changed to the Mountain Reindeer. They only got their name changed though, no model edits. That's fine for now, because the Reindeer didn't need a rework as badly as the Caribou did, but personally I'd still like to see EW do some touch-ups to the old Reindeer model to bring it up to modern COTW standards.

The bad news is, the TruRACs for all Reindeer/Caribou subspecies in the game appear to be exactly the same as they were before. I guess it might be difficult to fit a rework for their models and TruRACs into the same update, so I'm going to give EW the benefit of the doubt on this one. Either way, the changes that have been made are a great start, but Caribou and Reindeer still desperately need a rework to their TruRACs. They need the same sort of treatment that some other species got with the Askiy Ridge update (like Pronghorn, Mountain Goat and Bighorn Sheep), a complete and total overhaul of their TruRACs system.

Because of this, I've repurposed this post into one focused specifically on what I think are two important changes:

1. A total rework for TruRACs on all Caribou/Reindeer subspecies depicted in the game.
2. Redistribution of the Grant's Caribou population on Yukon Valley.

While I would still love to see a Great One for Caribou and Reindeer in the future, that is no longer the main focus of this post. There are other threads devoted to that idea anyway.

[gleaming gull]

by the way, here's the link to a post that is devoted to a potential Great One for Reindeer. I really liked this idea and I wanted to give it some recognition. If people want to show their support for a new Great One for this species, I recommend doing so in that thread, to help it gain more traction:
https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1279023458348437603

[gleaming gull]

The new and improved Grant Caribou look very nice, I'm very happy with how their fur looks.

Now really all they need is a rework to their TruRACs and a redistribution for their home range on Yukon Valley, and this species will be pretty much perfect

[topaz crane]

Wow, haven’t seen these yet.

[gleaming gull]

the new woodland caribou look amazing too, but they'd be even better if Caribou and Reindeer TruRACs were improved

[gleaming gull]

I think Caribou/Reindeer are one of the species that need new TruRACs the most

[topaz island]

I could say THE

[gleaming gull]

for me that's a bit tough, because Whitetail TruRACs need a pretty major rework too

[grand spade]

They look gorgeous! But why stop at home range redistribution? Why not a G1 too?!

[topaz island]

I guess, we don't have whitetail deer in sweden (if a deer manages to cross from Finland its killed immediately) so I can't really judge them as I've never seen one irl but I've seen a lot of reindeer and there racks are just horrible still but the remodels of caribou are definitely a great step, I love how much detail they put in to make them true to the subspecies

[grand spade]

Both of the species have bad antlers to be fair, well technically 3

[topaz island]

I don't think whitetails have bad antlers but I haven't looked at irl whitetails much neither irl nor online so idk

[topaz island]

I am counting grants, woodland and reindeer all as one species but I think they all need better racks both colour and shape

[gleaming gull]

I can totally agree with you on that. The Caribou and Reindeer need the same treatment that was given to the Bighorns with their TruRACs

[gleaming gull]

the ones in COTW look very bad. A majority of the racks just aren't very realistic.

[gleaming gull]

after seeing how much they botched some of the variations for the Mule Deer GO, I'm a bit apprehensive about any new Great Ones. Plus I'm not sure how they'd make the Great One Caribou and Reindeer work because of their subspecies distinctions.

[still fjord]

Loving the Woodland Caribou, but a few things I've noticed and researched:

1.) It seems like the individual herds and overall population of WC is relatively small, which I appreciate because that's pretty true to the subspecies. Makes the hunting for big bulls tougher and longer, but that realism is appreciated.

2.) Would like to see more big "tops" to the antlers of WC bulls, because that's what they're characteristically known for.

3.) The Grant Caribou look much better, but are there any antler/fur characteristics that they should be showing but aren't? Also, we still need more of them on the western/central tundra portions of Yukon Valley.

4.) Mountain Reindeer are still the king when it comes to hunting endless, vast (for EW) herds of Reindeer/Caribou. Their models still hold up pretty well, but would love to see a rework and see them (or the appropriate subspecies) added to Revontuli.

Also, it's a shame we'll likely never get a Quebec/Labrador map with QL Caribou. I doubt we'll go back to Canada anytime soon, and it would likely be the Canadian Arctic, and the vast herds of QL Caribou are no more. Such a shame. There used to be dozens of outfitters offering guaranteed two-bull (not two-tag mind you) hunts.

[sinful ruin]

Yeah the QL caribou is where we got them tho we usually go to Cochrane and Kapuskasing area for WC

Also yes I agree the Yukon vary caribou need to be in the center of the map more and the west too (not copperbowl lake tho it's wayyyy too big and takes a year to walk around)

[gleaming gull]

the Caribou and Reindeer really should get some love for their TruRACs, like what they've recently done with the Mule Deer

[bronze gorge]

So this is what they used to look like?! I want it back!