Gramophone upgrade! 🎶

[native ivy]

When Spring Creek Manor trophy lodge DLC was released in the Hunter: Call of the Wild back on April 11th of 2019, more than 5 years ago at the moment of making this post, it brought one incredible detail that made the lodge feel like player's own house. That detail was the classic, vintage Gramophone on the first floor, the room on the right, on the table close to the cozy fireplace that plays short tunes from the breathtaking places on earth we got to visit and hunt.

At the moment of the release, there were only 5 hunting reserves in the game, and it had five tunes, one for each reserve, that the player could choose from and play.
Today, in 2024, as of making this post, there are not 5, but 15 incredible maps in the game from all around the globe.
Unfortunately, we never got the chance to play a tune from those 10 reserves that came afterwards in our lodges ever since.

We would love to have a tune from all incredible scores that has been written by Expansive Worlds for the hunting destinations that came ever since added to the Gramophone and have it also available somewhere both in our second, Saseka Safari trophy lodge, and in an upcoming lodge DLC that is hopefully in works or in plans.

Expansive Worlds, please consider this.
Thank you!

[dense pebble]

That’s a really good screenshot did you take that?

[native ivy]

Yea, thanks! (:

[snow helm]

Imagine if they would plays songs that hint at future maps!

[lapis egret]

If I can play the Mississippi acres soundtrack this is the best update ever

[rotund star]

There's a gramophone in the lodges?!

[snow helm]

Only Spring Creek.

[rotund star]

Ah, I didn't know that

[native ivy]

That would be the biggest teaser ever, and the album cover next to the Gramophone will be just blank with a question mark on top of it until the map releases

[snow helm]

Little items to hint at said map would be cool, perhaps next to the album! (Ex: Rusty Whale Harpoon/Canadian Arctic Map, Bushman Hat/Australian Outback, Forest Fern/Amazon)

[native ivy]

Yeap!! EW take notes lol 😆

[native ivy]

I'm wondering since we have Emerald Coast, will we ever get true Australian red desert outback map? ... 😔

[snow helm]

Hopefully, untapped lands, species we will never see… unless…

[native ivy]

Imagine looking down a canyon to the valley and seeing bunch of emus run 350 yards away

Seeing red kangaroos with their iconic pocket bellies jumping around, dingos feeding, camels roaming the desert

[snow helm]

I’d buy it just for the Camels!

[native ivy]

I think we'll sooner get Africa 2.0 than Australia 2.0 ...

[snow helm]

Possibly… I really want them to continue improving their map making skills before that though, especially if it’s centered around The Big 5 and not Plains Game, they could probably do a African Plains Game map within a year.

[pulsar beacon]

Am I the only one who just now figured out the Gramophone actually plays music?! I thought it was just for show. 😆

[rocky patrol]

It’s a really cool touch to the game that many players miss.

[balmy dove]

bump

[safe hill]

bump

[mint carbon]

sounds like a fun scavenger hunt quest to find 1 in each reserve at a random outpost to unlock it for the lodge. 🤔Maybe an easter egg we didnt know about?

[native ivy]

That would be cool

[gilded plume]

imagine you would be able to sit on the couch with your dog and watch tv in the trophy lodge

[fervent isle]

It was a brilliant touch. I only wish the records were longer.

Every COTW built structure ought to have some music enjoying device..

[tropic mural]

this would be a great little quality of life update. I support it.

[main drum]

YES