🇳🇵Nepal species discussion chat.

[sharp flower]

A discussion about species that you want and that you don't want

Bengal tiger

Gaur

@main wolf I just want to know but why do you want gaur but not tiger despite both being illegal, no hate just interesting

[hexed scaffold]

snow leopard

[sharp flower]

Wild water Buffalo

[hexed scaffold]

leopard

[main wolf]

Numbers speak for themselves mostly. But also the public has been told that tigers are on the verge of extinction (they kinda are) since forever now, same thing with say elephants, lions, polar bears and if you’ve scrolled on twitter, people get… up in arms about that.

[sharp flower]

That makes sense I understand that argument

[hexed scaffold]

tibetan fox

[main wolf]

(Now that is just the first result on google but I’m going to presume it’s somewhere around there).

Mountain game (Tahr, Bharal, Argali) + Indian Leopard

[sharp flower]

I'm all here for them

Himalayan goral would be so nice 🤤

[pallid oasis]

What sheep is that?

[pallid oasis]

I would rather sloth and asiatic black bear but is Himalayan brown bear a possibility(I just did some research on them and they are really cool and now I want them as much as the other bears)

[sharp flower]

They look to be legal

[zenith mantle]

The way I see it is if an animal is legal to hunt as a foreigner then its quite alright when we get into native people hunting certain species then it's abit controversial in this case I'm talking about South American countries with tribes

[sharp flower]

All legal animals are an instant yes for me personally, some illegal animals like gaur would be liked to be seen by most and some like tiger are very controversial that's why I made this thread to see the communitys opinion.

[zenith mantle]

Illegal species currently in COTW

● European Bison ( C9 )
● Whitetailed Jackrabbits? ( C1 )
● Iberian Wolf ( C5 ) ( 2021 )
● Black Bear- Mississippi Acres ( C7 )
● Saltwater Crocodile ( C8 )

Based off of research

[zenith mantle]

1.Himalayan Tahr
2. Himalayan Blue Sheep
3. Argali
4. Indian Leopard

[rustic scroll]

it's just a game. other hunting games have had endangered species so why can't cotw?

[supple solstice]

European bison can be hunted in some European countries, they have legal hunting seasons.

Remember that Hirschfelden is not only Germany, it is the entire region of Central Europe, in the same way that Layton is the entire region of the Pacific Northwest and Medved Taiga the region of the Siberian Taiga.

[zenith mantle]

So Hirschfelden is Germany/Poland and maybe Austria too? But how does that make sense because Hirschfelden is German translating to Deer-Field/Fields

So naturally I think Germany as its name is German and the characters are German too

[sharp flower]

Poland? Poland doesn't have mountains like this or have German names like that

[supple solstice]

Yes, it could be said that the "Center" of the reserve is there but the first 4 maps were inspired by complete Regions, only from Yukon and Parque onwards did they begin to take the Countries of Origin as a reference

[zenith mantle]

Yeah I realise that which is why it doesn't make much sense but when you look at any map some just don't make sense

[supple solstice]

For example, if we look at Medved Taiga we have within it both the Yamal Peninsula (which is in the north of Russia) and the Lena River with the Lena Pillars (which are in the east of Russia)

[gusty nimbus]

tibeten fox

[main wolf]

What other games??? And don’t say Cabalas style games because as much as I love them they don’t count.

[pallid oasis]

I wanna hunt the brown bear

[night echo]

Indian Rhino is also banned in Nepal

[night echo]

No, I do recall reading through list all the legally huntable species and Indian Rhino was NOT on that list

[sharp flower]

What's canabalas style game

[night echo]

They are referring to several series of hunting games under the Cabela's brand name, which is a retailer that specializes in hunting, fishing and related outdoor products. If I recall correctly the only Cabela's games to have tigers was the Dangerous Hunts series, and that was only 2 games in the series: Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2 and Dangerous Hunts 2009 and in the tiger centric levels of both games you could only use the Tranquilizer Gun on the tigers

[upbeat needle]

Saltwater crocs are legal to hunt. It’s very limited and highly regulated though

[main wolf]

It was a reference to both the tiger mission and the earlier mostly target based shooting games.

[pallid oasis]

Guys I don’t think tahr will be on this map unfortunately because Jaxy confirmed there will be no backfilling and if tahr were added I am almost certain that they would be backfilled to te arawoa

[main wolf]

I wouldn’t jump to any conclusions, they are a core species of Nepal (not to mention backfilling can be done at a later date).

[lime hemlock]

we need a Gharial crocodile

they would look great in a lodge!

[high plinth]

Gharials are critically endangered. Way worse situation than tigers

[night echo]

This has been explained before, Gharial are not going to happen

[lime hemlock]

Ok but, just because they and critically endangered dosen't mean they wouldn't be fun to hunt, plus hunting the in game wouldn't harm their speices, it's not like they're being hunted in the real world because of this

[main wolf]

https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1187670413002690590

[zenith mantle]

Exactly plus if they never did end up adding Himalayan Tahr I'm going to kill them for it. ( JK lol )

[pallid oasis]

True true

[sturdy mauve]

I want pangolins

[night echo]

They are likely off limits in Nepal
Please either go to #1130567081780326530 or #1187670413002690590

[turbid belfry]

Trailer is out. Leopard growl? #📢︴game-news message

[zenith mantle]

I think it's a tiger

[sharp flower]

Tiger 4 sure

[turbid belfry]

Sounds more like tiger. Everyone says tigers are completely banned though.

[sharp flower]

Honestly artistic liberty

[slim sluice]

Alright! Can’t wait to see the map and stories!

[zenith mantle]

So from what I've seen with the Geese I'm 90% sure that they are Greylag Geese but we cannot rule out the possibility of Bar Headed Geese I don't think they were in the teaser trailer but that doesn't mean they couldn't make an appearance on the map huh what do you guys think?

[sharp flower]

Exactly the same

[left drum]

Based off sound it seems like they were Taiga Bean Geese.

[mellow rune]

Bengal Tiger! Most requested Asian Animal

[sharp flower]

No they are not found in Nepal

[sullen saffron]

If they add this , I will definitely be buying the DLC.

[sharp flower]

I buy everything they do lol

[sullen saffron]

I have so far as well, but if they didn't add some of the questionable animals to this reserve, I don't think I would have purchased it. With just the 100 percent legal list it wasn't too appealing to me.

[sharp flower]

We do not need legality for a good map only

[sullen saffron]

I agree! My viewpoint is that it's a game and we should make it as fun as possible.
It doesn't make me want to go out and hunt that animal in real life.

This game may be the only chance to experience a hunt for some animals because you would never have the chance IRL.

[sharp flower]

It's just pixels as Mel always says

Also hunting irl is so different then Cotw both fun tho

[tulip hedge]

I think marsh crocodile would be a cool one

[olive lagoon]

Iberian Wolf was legal until 2021 cuatro Colinas came out in 2019.
Saltwater crocodiles can be hunted on special ranches and the northern territory government is thinking of making croc hunting more legal and cull them because of high numbers

[stark flint]

European Bison are 100% able to be hunted. Poland and Belarus both allow foreigners to hunt them.

[stark flint]

There were talks of allowing Tiger hunting in Nepal a few years ago since their Population is over 350 in the country, so I’d say it’s a possibilityx

[zenith mantle]

I'm talking about Germany where Hirschfelden is placed

[stark flint]

If I’m not mistaken Hirsch is based off of Central Europe as a whole, it’s just said to be in Germany to give it a proper location (like how Layton is said to be in Washington, and Medved said to be in the Yamal Peninsula).

[zenith mantle]

I knew that you can hunt European Bison in Poland and Belarus but hunting Euro Bison in Germany is illegal

[zenith mantle]

I just find that annoying because it isn't one specific country or state which makes things even harder to evaluate in this case European Bison but why would a map that has a German name be a map for Germany, Poland and maybe Austria slightly

[sharp flower]

It looks to be at the Bodensee or another big lake of the Alps where Germany and Austria or switzerland meat

[river smelt]

this is a zoom in from the thumpnail of the teaser looks like a wolf to me

[sharp flower]

It really does

[olive lagoon]

I guessed Himalayan wolf because of slight colouration on its neck and it is yellowish. And size matches and it's game

[upbeat needle]

Kinda looks like a Nilgai

[pallid oasis]

Never noticed that

[olive lagoon]

You can see the snout and ears

[main wolf]

I’m not so sure they’d inhabit this part of the map. More likely the tropical bit.

[upbeat needle]

Ears…or are those horns?

[olive lagoon]

I think they are ears

[main wolf]

It could however be Indian leopard. The lighting in this photo isn’t good enough to rule it out.

[upbeat needle]

Nilgai in a similar pose

[pallid oasis]

How did you get such a good quality photo (as in how did u get such a good photo to be able to zoom in and see it)

[olive lagoon]

The neck and head is too small for the picture

[main wolf]

Perspective

[stark flint]

Now that I look that that it might be a Himalayan Goral

[main wolf]

The weird spotting in the original picture (it might just be a graphical thing) is really confusing me.

[upbeat needle]

That’s an interesting idea

[stark flint]

I just don’t think that’s the right kind of habitat for Nilgai. Nilgai like grasslands and farmlands, not dense highland forests like that appears to be.

[river smelt]

i maked a sreenshot of the teaser thumnail and zoom in

(i know the quality is bad )

[sharp flower]

I thought that too but I don't think it really matches

[errant sable]

I think it will be a mix of everything Nepal has to offer kind of like emerald coast you couldn’t find a place where those biomes blend together like that and I doubt they just do a map with one biome that’s not a us map

Sorry I didn’t see context until now but my point still stands

[zenith mantle]

I hope this map has 5 or 6 biomes and is larger than the previous maps too

[quasi latch]

ik that elephants probably are never gonna be added but if they are there should be a weapon class 10 and a big enough mount to get them in lodges

asian elephants are smaller so they could make it work

but takin would be cool too

[night echo]

If any elephant species is going to get added its likely to be the African Bush Elephant, though the African Forest Elephant is just as likely and its smaller then both the Bush Elephant and the Asian Elephants. The reason I say the 2 African Species are more likely is because both are legally huntable species and a good number of people want elephants on the next African Reserve (Myself included)

[quasi latch]

true, but we would need a new africa map with elephants and new animals otherwise we’d just get vurhonga with elephants and one other species, so maybe other megafauna like Nile crocodile or hippo could be added too. crocs being class 8 and hippos 9 or 10

[night echo]

As cool as Takin would be, they do not live in Nepal, but they don't live to far away in Bhutan and Northeastern India though the specific subspecies in that area is the Bhutan Takin (Budorcas taxicolor whitei) (The subspecies in that picture is the Golden Takin, only found in China)

[quasi latch]

I’m pretty sure bhutan takin live in the eastern parts of Nepal

[night echo]

Here is the range map showing all subspecies of Takin, and if any subspecies do show up in Nepal, it would be the Bhutan Takin

[pulsar haven]

I’m ready for the nilgai

[split siren]

For people expecting Yaks or big class 9 species, I don't think they are coming, because of Jaxy's respond to a comment couple of months ago #🦌︴general message
The way he sounded doesn't sound like we are getting Class 9 big, but for sure class 7 or 8 as the biggest on the map

[main wolf]

Tigers not being in class 9 doesn’t sound right, maybe he was referring to weight. Because that would make tigers the largest on the reserve (using range maps).

That would mean no bovines, which I’m ok with.

[night echo]

So leopard might be the only big cat on the reserve if the biggest animal on Sundarpatan is Class 8, mostly because Tigers are certainly a Class 9 species

[slim sluice]

Perhaps a class 8 (wide)? 😏

[sullen saffron]

I really hope it's a Tiger and not a Leopard. The map would be better with a Great One Tiger in my opinion.

[split siren]

I hope it's tigers (I mean it was a Tiger roar) cause that will make ANY animal possible afterwards

[mellow rune]

He could also could’ve been lying and trying to under play it, after all probably it’s too early to reveal anything! So maybe we will probably get class 9 animals but since it’s still too early, he can’t really say anything About that so he’s probably under in and NDA which means he legally can’t say anything about the new reserve side from the Name until launch!

[main wolf]

I mean, Yaks don’t even live in Nepal, not anymore atleast.

[night echo]

Apparently domesticated water buffalo are a threat to wild water buffalo due to hybridization, and someone on reddit pointed out how the water buffalo (Bubalis bubalis) could be included as a species to hunt as they threaten the genetic purity of the wild buffalo (Bubalis arnee)

[main wolf]

Could be interesting. If that is the case for this reserve I hope there’s a few missions about it.

Definitely would add to the jungle part of the map, which has a minimal possible amount of species without something like them. Off the top of my head the waterfowl, chital, muntjac, Sloth bear, (Non descript big cat), and Sambar.

[steep smelt]

What i want is it to release already!

[zenith mantle]

One thing that we should be talking about is what will happen if there are Tigers on this map since they're illegal and endangered or vulnerable adding Tigers to the game is a big step in either the right or wrong direction in terms of species I mean if we get these what does that mean for other species that this will likely open a larger window for more species that may have not have been on the radar ever

What are your guy's thoughts on this

[sullen saffron]

I'm all for Tigers if that's what it ends up being. I think it's good for the game because it is just a game. This game is the only chance someone could possibly experience a hunt like that.

[slim sluice]

The more attention and inclusion we bring to animals, the better the chance of awareness for them.

A simple mention of endangered status can do so much more than say, exclusion from the game altogether.

[river smelt]

probely snow leopard but the second one looks like a piepald to me

[main wolf]

I think it’s just a different pattern/further away.

[river smelt]

damm sees only now that brownish pattern that looked piepald to me are branches

[night echo]

If it is Snow Leopards I better make it clear that more people have been attacked by Bobcats then Snow Leopard

There has only been 2 recorded attacks by wild snow leopards and both of them were very far from healthy animals

[mellow rune]

Truer words have never been said…. Which is why I have a feeling that it’s gonna be Tigers that are the big animal Revealed tomorrow! They are the Dangerous Cats you have to worry about!

[main wolf]

Interesting artifact…

I believe this to be a leopard of some kind.

(Not necessarily snow leopards)

[river smelt]

which map is it on ?

[main wolf]

EC, Sanctuary Outpost.

[river smelt]

ah okay

[covert canyon]

I'll be happy with whatever they put on the map as long as they don't add in a bunch of species they already have on other maps. Cuts down on the population of the new animals. EC is a the worst with so many deer species.

[main wolf]

I’m sorry, what did you want from EC??? Australia is literally famous for deer hunting.

[covert canyon]

I was just saying there was too many deer species on EC, didn't need red deer, axis deer and to be honest fallow deer. Less species means more of the new species on the map, population wise. More roos, banteng, hog deer, rusas and sambar running around. Just my opinion.

[main wolf]

They are all apart of the Australian Deer slam.

[sharp flower]

Also another map for axis deer and a Rework of them was badly needed

[main wolf]

Honestly, I quite like their rework, it looks great, they need some more antlers though.

[bleak oxide]

As I remember, it originally was a cave lion skull collectable on Medved, but I might be misremembering.

[pulsar haven]

We got the tiger!

[upbeat needle]

I Called it! Nilgai is confirmed

[tulip hedge]

I think it's a tibetan fox in the thumbnail

[upbeat needle]

This is what we’re gonna look like when tiger hunting

[potent wolf]

https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1245037535017566209

[river smelt]

from where you have the picture

[bleak oxide]

it was sent out by EW via e-mail to their marketing list. I got it as well.

[river smelt]

ah okay

[severe creek]

It’s literally carried from classic where it’s strictly a German map lol

[regal nacelle]

can you click on anything there or nah

[bleak oxide]

just a link to https://callofthewild.thehunter.com/sundarpatan-nepal-announcement/

[severe creek]

I’m starting to dislike the great one route they’re going. Here’s why. We don’t even know what the tahr look like in the game yet. Besides maybe a screenshot or two.

It seems weird to feel excited about a species that is supposed to be very hard to get if I haven’t see the standard model a thousands times.

[narrow scroll]

What birds are we gonna get? any ideas?

[zenith mantle]

They're not going to just release a hundred pictures of Himalayan Tahr and their GO on the day they announce it that's what will likely be happening in next week's stream where they typically show off the species, GO and rare furs for those species too

[zenith mantle]

Just 1 bird species I think and likely Bar Headed Geese or Greylag Geese

[narrow scroll]

Only 1 bird in the whole species list? that's disappointing 😦 especially if it's Greylags, I think you might be right with the Bar Heads though, I think that was bar heads in the first teaser

[severe creek]

You missed the point I said. But okay lol

[zenith mantle]

What is your point then?

[zenith mantle]

They should have at least 3 Waterfowl and 2,3 Upland bird game species minium

[pulsar haven]

The .577/450 rifle coming with

[narrow scroll]

I really do hope so, I think Revontuli is the best map for species diversification.

[upbeat needle]

I’m pretty surprised they didn’t add Indian boar

[night echo]

Knowing EW they would most likely have went with regular wild boar

[slim sluice]

Trying to see the shooting lanes and species in JaxyBeard’s stream.

[zenith mantle]

That is one sweet rifle I wish we had more weapons pre 1945 the amount of choices would be insane

[steep smelt]

I hope the goose is greylag so we can get hopefully another new big game animal

[sharp flower]

I hope the same so we can get an upland game bird like monal on the map.

[zenith mantle]

We need at least one new bird species

[steep smelt]

Fair enough

[river smelt]

could be a greylag could be not

[turbid belfry]

Really hoping we get the full species list today. 🤞

[narrow scroll]

There are plenty of big game animals across all maps and a very disappointing number of bird species. irl You are far more likely to encounter a bird than ANY other animal in the wild. Just look outside and tell me the first animal you see, 9 times out of 10 it's a bird. The only map that comes close to reflecting this is Revontuli. To not have a variety of bird species to hunt on the new map is understandable as grinding for Great Ones seems to be very popular, but a balance has to be met somewhere in my opinion.

[stark flint]

Well…it was confirmed to be a Graylag Goose

[river smelt]

yeah saw it in the stream what a pitty we get a hare instand of bar-headed goose

[narrow scroll]

I'm finding it hard to believe we aren't getting any new birds considering the diverstity of gamebirds and waterfowl Nepal has to offer

[stark flint]

I’d bet that we eventually will. If there’s enough want from the community that is.

[narrow scroll]

I think there are a few of us, my worry is that the developers are appealing to the masses and that's understandable, at the end of the day it's what sells that will get developed. Again though, not a single new species of bird on release is very disappointing.