Lynx Remodel 🐈

[open chasm]

I personally feel the lynx is in need of a remodel or atleast a minor touchup seeing as the anatomy of it's face looks rather odd? It's too boxy with a overbite, a pug-ish face (large forehead, a snout too long, generally kinda canid-ish), a receding chin and a nose that's a little too dog-like. I think (personally at least) the body is fine and it could maybe use a little more fur but otherwise I think it's mainly just the head with the most issues and outdated looking. Cotw's gotten a lot better with felines (the snow leopard and tiger look AMAZING and very well-made) so I feel more love to the other felines would go a long way. (this is more of a personal thing but I also feel it's facial tufts should be more pronounced as they tend to be IRL. maybe not to the extent as I've photobashed and drawn so in this mockup but Idk I feel it the lynx's face could be fluffier.)

my little photobash/mockup of what i'd wanna see (using albino lynx here for this because I didn't wanna photobash the patterns and have to then draw them back on LOL)

kittay

I'd also personally add more common/uncommon skins to the lynx seeing as they can be quite diverse and i'd just like to see more of that ingame

another ex

(a spotted, b rosetted and c uniform)

[obsidian oracle]

Yes, absolutely yes. The Lynx models are some of the better looking older models, but their faces are not fluffy enough. They need a bit of a touch up for sure.

[dusky falcon]

Yeah a rework for the Lynx would be nice just to bring them up to modern quality

[dire dagger]

I’m guessing they are currently based off of Lynx lynx dinniki (Caucasian lynx) cause that is the only subspecies that somewhat resembles the in game proportions despite not really making sense location wise, but it’s probably also a remnant of the devs struggling with long fur on the game engine up until tahr were added. Lynx definitely could benefit from having subspecies distinctions and a touch up tho.

[dusky falcon]

If Lynx get a rework, it would make the most sense to base their new version on the Northern Lynx, which is the subspecies that is present in Finland (where Revontuli Coast is located) and also in Western Siberia (where Medved Taiga seems to be located)

[dire dagger]

Northern does make sense for Revontuli but the Siberian seems more likely on Medved to me, they also look different enough that it would be justifiable to split them but that would be a lot more work of course. (Siberian is the grey one)

[viscid plinth]

Current fur’s just don’t do them justice.

[dire dagger]

Discord be hating adding photos Siberian vs northern (Siberian is grey)

[viscid plinth]

Where Medved is set:

[dire dagger]

Ah I was going by the in game map which is apparently way off, in game map makes it look like Medved is over here fsr

[viscid plinth]

I think given it’s a Mercator Projection (with very little detail at that) it could easily be both particularly its proximity to the island of Novaya Zemlya at the top there.

[dire dagger]

Yeah in game map is wacky, but also seeing as it’s a Siberian map it would be a bit disappointing to not have the Siberian lynx on the Siberian map (imo at least), then again Medved has always been low on map tier lists for people it seems (unsurprising given it’s age but still) so I wouldn’t be surprised that they won’t give it special attention.

[viscid plinth]

I’ve never seen it low on people’s map tier lists. Even before the fabled moose came out

[dire dagger]

Maybe I’m thinking about vids from before they added the wolves and capercaillie it was a big stickler for peeps that there were only 6 species and there were people who wouldn’t place it higher cause of that, guess I haven’t watched a tier list in awhile now that I’m thinking about it haha

[open chasm]

i wouldnt be suprised if most ppl consider medved rather low

seeing as just in general it's kinda not a super fun map to hunt on imo (atleast for me as someone with horrible eyesight the extreme glaring whiteness of just about everything + very dense foliage + weather events making it even harder to see + not a ton of animals unique to medved specifically) make it kinda low. i do like snow maps in games but medved is just a little too difficult for me to see in and around + the species on medved can be found in better maps usually

i think people would play on medved more if they made it so the map gave you snow goggles or something to prevent snow glare/eyesores or atleast some setting to darken the screen on medved because jesus christ i geniuinely cannot play medved for longer than 30 mintues without pain

[open chasm]

agree. like the current skins aren't bad per say they just look very outdated and kinda don't show the beauty irl lynx's coats and diversity can be like yk

[open chasm]

if i was to add new lynx skins they'd be smthin like this
( images in order )
(note; these aren't the offical names of these colours for this animal they are kinda just. made up. expect for "spotted, rosetted and uniform" those are real terms for the pattern variation within lynx)

commons
red (spotted; visible black marks)
gray (spotted; visible black marks)
light brown (original but reworked) (spotted; visible black marks)
silver (or pale gray) (original gray just renamed + reworked) (spotted visible black marks)

uncommon
ticked (markings faint/non-existant on body, but visible on the legs, head and tail)
pale (very pale/"transparent" markings.)
ginger (basically just red w/o the markings and/or veryy faint markings)

rare
piebald (personally i'd change it to make it more obivious like. giving the piebald to a skin w a darker base coat so it's much easier to see and spot)

(like the current pied i believe is based on this pied canadian lynx which is neat and all but the way it's executed ingame makes it extremely difficult to notice. imo where the white markings are is Fine it should just be the base skin made to be darker like with the IRL pied lynx.)

very rare
leucism (to my knowledge this is kinda the only known case of leucism within lynx, which even then it's kinda dubious whether this is an actual leucistic lynx or just a very white lynx (which are normal and happen) this one was allegedly caught around tibet so ! yeah!)

albino and melanism (already ingame)

I'd also say you could add yellow as a new 'very-rare' coat seeing as it's a very rare mutation that's only been seen a handful of times (tldr it's a mutation that replaces the black pigment w yellow or red like what you see w some reptiles and birds) or blue (which might be individual variation, again, which is not rare, or it might be caused by a dilution gene within lynx. it's more commonly believed to be due to a dilution gene in lynx sortta like dilute w mule deers. but because they are rarely seen with this sorta "true blue" look it's very hard to say. though maybe in the future due to iberian lynx's genetic bottleneck we'll see more as recessives are pushed more into being visible bc the population's so small.)

just in general you could probably throw a dart at a board and pop up with any number of new rares and very rare coats for lynx seeing as theres so much we know about domestic cat genetics and domestic cat genetics and big cats (and related felids) do share some similar mechanics w their genes (not a 1 to 1, but similar)

theres also like (BIGGG emphasis on alleged) alleged lynx x domestic cats. but the proof of their existance is very few and far between (outside of carcal and savannah cats x domestic cats which Do Exist) but its very unlikely. just in general theres a lot of alleged lynx x other felid hybrids that you could maybe add but i personally wouldn't considering proof of them existing is like. nonexistant. outside of "hi im a guy from here and i own one!" (doesnt show pictures) (doesnt show pictures) (doesnt have proof)

[latent slate]

We need mutton chops added to the Eurasian Lynx!

[hybrid garnet]

I would love for them to do the Eurasian lynx justice they are such a beautiful species

[strange solar]

I’m in full support of this happening
The Lynx deserve some love as well

[dusky falcon]

The Lynx really do deserve a remodel