Drones

[worthy bolt]

I feel like drones with cameras would be awesome in COTW

With these drones you could get awesome pictures and find animals.
To make this balanced i recommend making it so the drone cant go too far from the player.
And if you get too close to animals they get scared and flee.

I've talked to people about this idea and they all loved it
I think content creators would love this for making thumbnails and more

[echo widget]

Could be a really nice addition to the game.

[soft merlin]

very hot

[worthy bolt]

I wouldn't mind this being dlc aslong as its not expensive, maybe it could be in an already existing dlc pack

[fading venture]

The use of drones to find, chase or track animals on a hunting trip is not permitted and is illegal in almost all countries.
It is not a hunting tool.

[worthy bolt]

Damn that sucks

i don't get why its illegal

[dapper kraken]

yes

[worthy bolt]

in cotw i can ride over my friends with atv or push them of cliffs in cotw, just saying
its a videogame

[fading venture]

Still all non-weapon additional equipment are real-life Hunting Equipment, including dogs, they all count as allowed hunting tools.

[worthy bolt]

so not halal mode

[twin agate]

To be fair, this game isnt realistic in many ways. You dont tag your buck and wait till next year to get another?

[knotty pasture]

And?

[fading venture]

I'm talking about hunting tools, they could add chainsaws, spiked bumpers for the ATV, deployable anti-aircraft batteries, anything is possible, but you won't see it in the game because they are not hunting tools and this is a hunting game.

[twin agate]

I'm just pointing out that this fun idea would be cool to do, and that the game doesn't have to be realistic.

[knotty pasture]

WOTH is widely regarded as the more realistic game and you don’t need to tag your bucks.

[twin agate]

I know, i just mostly bring up that fact when someone uses the "That wouldn't be realistic" argument for a fun idea

[knotty pasture]

It’s a moot point. Nonsensical

It’s in your best interest to quit bringing it up.

[junior path]

They could add thermal drones

[twin agate]

Okay? Don't know what made you so pressed but whatever.

[late pond]

Because it's not a legal way to hunt

[twin agate]

For real, or some kind of thermal

[junior path]

If you shoot a animal and you have the drone and you can turn on thermal and find it

[knotty pasture]

You seem extremely childish and not very knowledgeable on the topics you speak of.

[late pond]

@junior path

[twin agate]

I'm just confused by the whole realistic argument. People who use it only use it when shooting down a good idea. But when its used against them they get all mad.

[knotty pasture]

It’s a TERRIBLE idea.

[mossy crater]

there's a pretty big difference between unrealistic and almost universally illegal

[late pond]

Because the game is based in realism. Unrealistic ideas are unrealistic ideas, they shouldn't be added to the game. It doesn't matter who's idea it is, if it's unrealistic, it shouldn't be added to the game

[knotty pasture]

I’d say a good 90 ish % of all ideas where people use the “unrealistic”. “argument” are terrible ideas

[twin agate]

But tagging and limits are very realistic.

[late pond]

In multiple reserves it's explained that you're culling the population

[late pond]

And trying to say "this unrealistic thing should be OK since we don't have this realistic thing" is terrible reasoning.

[twin agate]

If you think so. I just find the idea of bashing an idea because of it not being legal irl is a bit condescending when you don't accept all the laws irl. Its a game, have fun.

[knotty pasture]

There’s an infinite amount of things I’d rather have and enjoy more than some stupid drones.

[twin agate]

Your looking at the guy who made the Unethical Hunting DLC post. Trust me, i would be duct taping things to said drones

[knotty pasture]

Cool…?

[twin agate]

In Kansas it is legal to use drones to scout for hunting. (Finding Need Zones quickly). In Delaware, Louisiana, Minnesota it is legal to use drones as long as you arent in State Wildlife areas. In South Carolina you can use a drone, except for game birds. In Rhode Island you are allowed to use drones for all aspects of hunting. In Pennsylvania there is legislation being proposed to allow for deer recovery. In Texas permits can be granted for predatory or nuisance species such as wild hogs. In Massachusetts, Hawaii and Iowa a drone can be uses as long as its not classified as an air craft, last but not least Connecticut, Kentucky, Maryland and Oklahoma have no information posted on their states websites about it.

So 14/50 States (Possibly 15 soon) a drone can be used.

[mossy crater]

10 out of 50 states with 11 possible thanks to Pennsylvania proposing to allow them to be used for animal recovery. 1/5 is not exactly widespread, and Connecticut, Kentucky, Maryland, and Oklahoma are in a grey "undefined" area that likely leans towards illegal given the attitude of the majority of the country.

And no, I am not counting Connecticut, Kentucky, Maryland, and Oklahoma due to incomplete information preventing me from determining if they are for or against.

Edit: at that many of the states you listed have restrictions on drone usage. Pennsylvania would only allow them for use in animal recovery after the hunt and currently lists them as illegal. In South Carolina they cannot be used on game birds of any kind. In Texas they can only be used for predators and nuisance animals like invasive feral hogs and eurasian wild boar. Lastly, Massachusetts, Hawaii, and Iowa only allow smaller short-range ones that cannot be considered aircraft, which severely hampers their range and usability.

[visual belfry]

If you want drones in a hunting game, there is this neat little game called Open Hunting XL on Steam, it takes a bit to get used to the shooting mechanics but on the easier difficulties you can use a drone

I think Hunting Simulator also has drones but it has been ages since I had that game downloaded and played

[twin agate]

Okay, I can respect not using those states. I think the use of drones for finding need zones easily and faster would make a great addition.

[knotty pasture]

Perhaps because it was a massive flop👀

[visual belfry]

I bought it when it was on sale for dirt cheap, I just never got into it past one of the European Regions which is about midway through the game and just to be clear I am not talking about Hunting Simulator 2, which flopped for sure

[mossy crater]

It interrupts too much of the gameplay loop imo. A major part of what makes the game enjoyable is walking around and discovering need zones by searching through your rifle scope or binoculars. If that becomes nullified for zone searching then it just becomes a killing simulator tbh. The animals in this game are much more stationary than IRL, and drone spotting would just cause problems for enjoyability because people would flock to the drones, use them for everything, and then just be really selective and not actually play the game as it was originally intended.

That's not to mention the potential issues the game engine could have with a flying vehicle that has a connected camera for the player to view and can be used to spot zones.

[twin agate]

I understand that. But there is also the art of choosing not to buy it. If it interrupts the way you play, then don't buy it. But don't allow others to not try and enjoy it. Limiting others playstyles for the sake of your own is in my opinion very trashy.

The same thing could be argued for the electric caller. Instead of buying 103 (exaggerating) different callers, you could buy this single one. To some people that is interupting the gameplay loop because you dont have to prepare for what you want to hunt, but can just hunt anything on the fly,

[mossy crater]

I just doubt that it's feasible with the game's code to begin with. And it's entirely possible it could damage enjoyability for people who don't use them by introducing game-breaking bugs, glitches, and crashes that would certainly accompany a new vehicle release given how troubled the launch of ATVs was.

[knotty pasture]

That’s a whole different topic. Ecalls are actually y’know… legal to hunt with

[twin agate]

Then perhaps its time to update the engine if it fails to preform

[knotty pasture]

That’s not how game engines work lol. Said numerous times by EW.

[late pond]

That would take a larger team than EW has, and would have to postpone DLCs for a long while
And result in a massive update

[twin agate]

Dude, I was talking about the gameplay loop not the legality.

[late pond]

Yeah, very much different from a drone, as the e-caller is used to attract chosen animals to a chosen area. And those animals have to already be within a certain radius for it to work

[mossy crater]

This is whataboutism and entirely different. It doesn't fundamentally alter the use of and player interaction with a core game mechanic by making it radically easier to accomplish it in an entirely new way like drones would with zone scouting.

The E-caller just makes it more space convenient and allows for more loadout flexibility because it does the same exact thing as the manual callers but with less space. Of course, this comes at the expense of speed since it takes much more time to take out the E-caller, set it down in an optimal position, pull up the call list, select the desired species, move into a shooting position, and play the noise than it does to just go straight to the shooting position and call manually. The E-caller also has range disadvantages since it only works out to 200 meters in-game, which is lower than some big game calls that sit around 250 meters (like the buck grunt iirc) and the duck calls (which go out to 500m). At the same time it also has the benefit of being able to call two species simultaneously and prevent you from having to switch between callers, weapons, and binoculars while bringing in an animal.

Drones would not be that kind of tradeoff. Instead, they would just make on-foot scouting and ATV scouting obsolescent for anyone who decided to use them. It would probably entirely wipe the use of that one perk where claiming a lookout point unlocks nearby zones. It would fully take over as the new "meta" for scouting and basically powercreep a hunting game.

[twin agate]

Okay, but like I said it is the players choice to use the drone or not, Avalanche isn't holding your family hostage till you buy and use this hypothetical Drone DLC. They could make the drone have flaws, for example, you cant view the difficulty of an animal or something similar, either way you would still have to walk to that location to set up a grind spot or hunt there, you are still traveling through the reserve, just a bit quicker. Bottom-line, if you want to on foot scout, you can, if you want to use an atv, you can. If I want to use a drone, I should be able to.

[knotty pasture]

This was already covered. The sheer amount of game breaking bugs this would bring would ruin the good players experience.

[twin agate]

Bugs are a part of the game anyway my dude, every game, dlc, add-on, ect. will have bugs, bugs will be formed because of bug fixes. Why don't you come up with your own arguments and stop piggybacking on others. Until you provide me with your own argument, i will treat you like the pessimistic child you are and ignore you.

[knotty pasture]

All you do is “nuh uh”. Do you ever get tired of it? Think of something new holy hell…

[naive timber]

just because there's already bugs in the game does not mean that we should add completely unnecessary features that will only make the state of the game worse in terms of how many bugs there are.

[knotty pasture]

You’ll continue to reply but you lack a concise and coherent statement, I’m getting second hand embarrassment. Why would you want MORE bugs

[naive timber]

"Ignore the fact that my completely unnecessary idea will create numerous bugs, because there's already bugs in the game!" That's frankly a terrible argument.

[twin agate]

Then why did they add ATVs. As someone pointed out they created more bugs and made scouting easer, yet it is a "unnecessary addition."

[mossy crater]

Vehicles hadn't been added yet and there was no precedent to indicate severe bugs.

Then they were added.....

And there were lots of bugs....... Very bad bugs at that........

And we haven't gotten any vehicles since.

[naive timber]

That's irrelevant. We aren't having a discussion about whether they should have added ATVs to the game, we're discussing whether they should take a significant amount of time spent on other development to add drones.

[twin agate]

I should also clarify that I'm not saying that i think they should add x thing because it will create bugs. My argument is that adding anything will create bugs and that it is just part of the game, and should be taken with a grain of salt as there are other ways to avoid them such as not using this hypothetical drone and them having a setting where it can be disabled in multiplayer.

[twin agate]

I'm just pointing out that you are arguing against this hypothetical drone. But pointing out if you argued about the ATV like this?

[mossy crater]

Not to mention it requires an entirely novel vehicular motion rig due to being able to move in three dimensions thanks to willful elevation changes unrelated to ground undulations.

It'd be a massive amount of work and have too much capacity to cause severe issues.

[twin agate]

Also Bugs can be fixed. Just like the Pheasant Bug where they stayed on the ground that caused alot of arguments

[mossy crater]

No, because like 6 years ago when the ATV was added we didn't know the game-breaking potential of bugs that came with vehicles being added to this game.

Since ATVs vehicles as a whole have been consistently at the bottom of the list for requested features with the only novel form of transportation people consistently request being horses.

This, of course, is because ATVs caused so many problems and are still often unejoyable due to slippery tires with little traction, severe understeer, a low top speed, inconsistent acceleration, and horrifically bad torque. Not only did they damn near break the game at their launch and several times after, they still have issues to this day and work poorly even when they function properly.

[knotty pasture]

You mean the one you consistently agreed with me on?

[visual belfry]

Boats and Horses seem to be the most popular transportation modes requested

[naive timber]

Here's a serious question that as far as I've seen, you have not come up with a clear answer for. How do you think this hypothetical drone feature would actually improve the game? As far as I can tell, all it would do is make it easier to find animals... which is already pretty easy. Just go walk around and go to water sources and see what's drinking there. It's not rocket science lol.

Drones would be a waste of time to develop because they wouldn't dramatically improve gameplay while also taking a massive amount of time away from things that are actually worthwhile to develop. Therefore, it's not worth the trouble for EW to develop them.

[twin agate]

Would actually pay so much money for a boat

[mossy crater]

And even then boats tend to rank much lower due to people being disinterested thanks to concerns about potential bugs pertaining to the required changes to water physics and addition of launching or spawn points for boats on every large body of water in the game.

[naive timber]

The amount of time it would take them to add working drones would take away time that would be much better spent improving existing maps, adding new ones, potentially adding new weapons and trophy lodges and great ones, etc etc. You get the picture.

[twin agate]

I think walking around a map for 3 hours looking for need zones is boring. I work a full-time job and my time is limited on this game.

I could theoretically half the time needed to find those zones. Also who said it had to be a vehicle or even controlled? For all we know, they could make it an automatic thing where you throw it out, and it just flys around, pining need zones on your map as your hunting in the area.

[mossy crater]

I would much rather have the development time that could be used for drones be used for improvements to behavior of existing animals, remodels of old animals, alteration of animal ranges and population numbers, and the development of new weapons, animals, and reserves.

[twin agate]

I can agree with you on some points there.

[naive timber]

well if you work a full time job and your time is limited, that doesn't mean that the game needs to change in order to address your issue. It just means that you have less time to play the game, so you're not gonna be able to make as much progress. That's how most games work. If you want a game where you can just boot it up and shoot some animals, there's plenty of games that you can play that are like that. This isn't really a game like that.

[knotty pasture]

There’s always Big Buck Hunter HD.

[naive timber]

Also I don't think drones would really solve that problem anyway. It would still take time to find animals with a drone, and even after you find them with it, you still have to sneak up on them and take time to make a good shot. At best, drones would be another gimmick, not a massive game changer that you seem to think that they would be.

a better way to make it easier to find animals would be to design future maps so that animals would spend more time in open areas so you can see them from farther away. But obviously not all maps can be based on a wide open grassland or desert with no cover for animals to hide in, that would also get boring quick, so there's really no foolproof way to address your concerns just because of the way that the game works.

[twin agate]

I'm just saying, to you, it may seem like a waste of time to add drones, to me it isn't, i think there could be a good way to implement them. QOL improvements in my opinion are never bad. If it even saves me an hour then its cool. If you dont like the content that they realease then dont buy it. For example i think some of the gun packs they released are just slop and that they release the same thing with a little tweak just to get money. I think the gun skins you can buy are slop. Am I going to demand that people shouldn't use those guns? No, you play how you want to play. But I would hope people respect how i want to play. If that's using a drone to find need zones or whatever it does then that should be fine. I personally think they need to focus on something a bit better. These aren't more so concerns and simply just ideas on how new content that isn't just a gun could be added. I share my thoughts. In my opinion fixing old animal models are a waste of time, and should be very low on the chopping block, i think that they should add cooler things to hunt rather then another deer or duck, drones arent even that high on my list of wants, im just arguing that they could be a great addition to the game.

[naive timber]

you also have to remember that what you're asking for would be highly expensive in terms of the time it takes to develop it. Combine that with the fact that it's generally frowned upon for hunting IRL, and it's just really not a very great idea.

[visual belfry]

"If you don't like it don't buy it" seems like such a weak argument that way too many people use when it comes to anything video game related and I am sure I am guilty of using the argument myself in the past. Also new animal models allow use to have "cooler things to hunt rather then another deer or duck" and therefore would be a higher priority for EW then drones.

[twin agate]

Sorry i mistyped that, i meant fixing old models

[naive timber]

it is the case though that we have tons of animals in the game that could look much better. Like, have you seen the Caribou in the game? They're just really awkward and they look bad. If you don't mind that, fine I guess. But I'd much rather have the existing animals in the game look as good as they can than to have a drone added to the game that I'm probably not going to use anyway.

[twin agate]

Okay, i can understand it being frowned apon. But i also see this as just a game and don't have that much of an opinion on it irl.

[twin agate]

I have not seen the Caribou. My hunting has pretty much been 40% Layton 30% Hischefeld and 20% Salzwizen 10% Emerald Coast.

I think rather then developing old animals they should add new ones. Like how is there not an emu in Emerald Coast.

I also think they should develop a way for players to spend in game money. For example, a build your own trophy lodge.

I have like 440K and barely anything to spend it on except ammo and tents.

[naive timber]

I believe that any hunting game has three major elements that matter the most to making the game a "good" hunting game: animals, environments, and weapons. Those are really the meat and potatoes of the game. Anything else is extra. What is a hunting game about? Hunting animals, in an environment, with a weapon! If the animals look like a heaping pile of garbage, of course I want them to be improved, because they are an essential element of the game.

[twin agate]

I can agree with that. I just wish that there was some extra "Vegetables" on the side.

[naive timber]

while drones might be an interesting little feature, I think most of the fun I'd get out of them would be crashing them into things (which is ironically the most fun thing to do with the one vehicle we already have in the game), or using them to get cool screenshots - but a "photo mode" like what you have in Way of The Hunter would probably be a better way to take screenshots anyway. I don't see myself actively using a drone to actively look for animals, that takes away some of the fun of hunting imo.

[twin agate]

Duct Tape C4 and crash into a rabbit burrow

[naive timber]

I mean, that would be fun too I guess! although at that point it's not really something you can call "hunting" lol

[late pond]

Dearest 3 year old,
No
Sincerely,
Anyone with an opinion that matters

[twin agate]

Clearly a joke, also everyone's opinion matters.

[late pond]

Not those who's brains are decorative

[naive timber]

maybe once we have all of the other stuff in the game that I really want to see, maybe then I'd be okay with adding drones, as a "just for the heck of it" sort of thing. Until then, I want EW to focus on the things that are more important to me, like weapons, animals and new maps, and hopefully a trophy lodge update too.

and I think that a majority of players would agree with me. I don't think little gimmicky things like drones are something that EW should be using their time for at this point in the game's lifetime.

but to each their own I guess!

[twin agate]

For real, I say a Trophy Lodge that you build up using in game money is 100% needed. You pick the aesthetic and what material is used on the walls place the trophys where you want. Id have like a gun room for the guns, a waterfowel room, big game, ect.

[visual belfry]

I wouldn't be too upset if drones never got added to the game, I would honestly rather see something like fishing or falconry in a hunting game since they fit a fair bit better in a hunting game then drones, especially since falconry is a form of hunting, but that is simply my opinion

[twin agate]

I have an old Falconry Post on the feedback page

[naive timber]

honestly falconry would be pretty fun if EW finds a way to make it happen

I think it would be a much more fun feature than drones

[twin agate]

I suggested that they add some really small game that can only be harvested with the falcon. Or maybe a new style of map that focuses on falconry

[mossy crater]

ngl Salz could fit falconry perfectly

largest animal there is the fox

[twin agate]

Another good animal to add as a hunting companion could be a ferret. They are used in Rabbit Hunting.

[late pond]

The problem with falconry is the implementation. It'd either act like a retriever to retrieve/kill prey or be controlled by the player after release. And both have their problems

[twin agate]

A big problem is the fact that a lot of people seem to be focusing on the problems of new and exciting content and not the fact that its something that breathes life into the game. I think throwing a bird at a squirrel is 10000% cooler than a rifle.

[late pond]

You can't have a new thing without first addressing it's problems, that's unrealistic. You have to figure out how exactly something should work or how it could be used in the game for it to even make sense to suggest it

[visual belfry]

Yeah, I do think that things like falconry, fishing, boats and horses could be features for a future TheHunter title (Or maybe call it the Outdoorsman Call of the Wild)

[naive timber]

It is really cool, yes, but it would also require a lot more work than a new rifle. Maybe if we can get the entire community behind the idea, EW might try to make it happen. Unless there's overwhelming support for it, I don't see it happening in COTW the way it is currently.

[twin agate]

I find it kind of sad that developers wouldn't want to work on something as cool as throwing a bird called Leroy Jenkins at a smaller bird and would rather just release another gun.

It would give a use for those white birds that you can shoot but they aren't harvestable

The only problem i foresee is that there wouldn't be a good way to pass harvest check for people without the dlc if they put new creatures on old maps. Which is why i recommended a special map for the dlc as a whole.

[naive timber]

I see where you're coming from but those white birds are also pretty low-poly and just overall look bad. I'd prefer it if they'd just remove them and replace them with better-looking birds that are actually harvestable.

I'm not saying I wouldn't support falconry though, and a falconry map would be really cool too

[twin agate]

Your Roe Deer sir.

[echo widget]

you basically just described "grinding", which it seems is incredibly popular with CotW players.

If we're trying to argue against unrealistic stuff in the game, you probably want to remove tents and fast travelling.

[floral junco]

https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1271864050116071466 already posted

[floral junco]

In relation to drone use in-game the only use that I would find it appropriate is an added photo feature. IF it was introduced it would likely tie into the narrative in the quest storyline. A good example was trail cams on I believe SRP & Nepal. Now I'm all for new gear & features however I can easily see Drone use being abused heavily without a distance & elevation cap but on the other hand. I can see this feature being applied to taking photos with the additional feature being applied to the camera as well with photo memory saves to put in your lodge as well as photo quests within lets say a 30x30m hover radius with a 3x7 power zoom? This would be a great addition to those who love taking nature photos as well as Trophy Shots as the plus side. On the bad side if a limit isn't applied it will most defn. be abused to search for game in general as well as flight mechanics being wonky & of course game crashing bugs.

[echo widget]

I see a lot of people ask for ranch/canned hunts, which are banned in 20 states in USA. Just saying.

[floral junco]

This varies bc gated or private clubs host introduced game hunts often & is legal with permits of course this varies from state to state.

But overall in terms of adding drones its a 👎 for me only because I feel it has more cons than pros in the titles current state. If EW utilizes it with limited use & range for photos only & the game is stable, then I would'nt mind it being an option. If nothing else its a thought for a future title.

[echo widget]

Yeah, I generally agree with that. My point is that legality and realism as an argument against additions to a game seem weak when there are already a lot of laws being overlooked in the game depending on where you live. I don't remember having to get a license to start with for example. I don't see an annual limit on kills and you don't need to buy tags etc. I saw someone yesterday saying they kill 1500 Reds in an hour or something...? Where I live, guns are almost entirely banned and almost all hunting is illegal and basically frowned upon by the vast majority of the public, yet I still love playing this game.

[floral junco]

At the end of the day it is a game, however Game mechanics & authenticity to a limited degree can go hand & hand. As much as I'd love nothing more than a realistic hunting game that has the investment & coding applied to be nearly identical to the real deal it'll likely never come to pass due to limitations whether its platform, financial, & staff. In EW's case small studio, limited staff, & they are using a custom engine they developed over a AAA studio using Unreal 5 or Frostbite with a flagship corp. CotW is evolving slowly to authenticity as EW intended bc the team is getting used to the engine and its limits. Where at launch it was a steppingstone. However, given Jaxy's reply this title has lots of life left with years of content. Which means they are going to rework mechanics & content from the ground up from scratch to add new features to keep player interest giving life or rebirth to the game from where it started. Its also community driven & thats good business tactics listening to feedback. However same is true that not everything will be applied & the company has a goal & will most likely not accept ideas if it doesn't line up to their vision.

[echo widget]

Indeed.
Yeah, I mean from the stand-point of salable DLC, drones and that type of added functionality are not that dissimilar to dogs imo. Maybe one of the dogs could be upgraded to sniff out zones?

[visual belfry]

Tents have a real-life use as a resting place for hunters, so being able to pass time at a tent is not that unrealistic at all

[floral junco]

Jaxy also said that our ideas are so vast they have spreadsheets however its impossible to apply them all esp. due to limitations & again folks have to understand the amount of time and process is overwhelming to achieve successfully.

[echo widget]

Sure, I meant specifically for fast-travelling tbh. Perhaps tents could be improved to include occassionally getting woken by animals in the middle of the night or getting trampled.

[chrome kite]

Drones really 😭

[echo widget]

You know, because realism and all that?

[chrome kite]

No I don't if you wanna hunt by flight get falcons

[visual belfry]

I did mention that earlier in this thread that I would rather falconry be added to the game then drones, both would be difficult to implemet but I still would prefer falconry

[chrome kite]

Yeah I'd rather have them focusing there programing power on something else but I'd be okay with that, a realistic hunting game or an hunting x fishing game would be neat

[floral junco]

I agree Tents would've been alot more ideal with further mechanic use over fast travel. Always wanted a hunt where I have to prep & get flown into a remote location and actually set up camp, survive, forage, & hunt.

[chrome kite]

But that's more helicopter then drone nobody uses drones in hunting, there illegal aswell in my most places (but so are shotguns over 2-3 shots)

[visual belfry]

There was a game with a similar premise but instead of being flown in you hoped into your vehicle and travlled to a specific map. It was rather buggy and as a result has poor reviews. The game was called Open Country if I recall correctly.

[floral junco]

we were talking about something else off thread topic relating to authentic features

[echo widget]

Falconry would be interesting but surely waaaay more work to implement just because of the dynamic nature of their flight and movement compared to drones? I'm not sure that small game hunting is really popular enough to warrant that effort though tbh, but I may be wrong.

[floral junco]

@chrome kite #1325097686944448542 message This was my response towards the Thread Topic

[chrome kite]

You could just add a photo mode like way of the hunter has especially for trophy pics

[floral junco]

Yea my issue atm is I'm on console havn't dived into pc yet.

[visual belfry]

I tried it on Steam but I did see it being available on Xbox

[floral junco]

Havn't played that yet so I have no clue but I simply put my opinion out there that IF EW was to add them this is how they might be applied, however I said 👎 bc thiers too many cons over pros.

[floral junco]

I'll look into it thanks. Yea CotW has been the only Hunting Game that has the right atmosphere for playing sim hunts though I've been wanting to try WotH since it appears to be decent. Although Idk if Ultimate Hunting Delivers as shown & explained from their blogs it might be the go to if the mechanics are legit 😅 If EW applies authentic caliber & ammo class expansions, weapon attachments, & proper predator ai then I'll stay.

[knotty pasture]

Ranches and canned hunts aren’t the same thing.

[chrome kite]

What's the difference, (ranches are larger?) I genuinely do not know

[knotty pasture]

Canned hunting is quite literally shooting animals in cages.

Ranches are massive expanses of land on which you can hunt animals because they are considered livestock.

[twin agate]

Good luck @echo widget

[echo widget]

My apologies. Proving, once again I'm much more of a gamer than hunter.

[echo widget]

Interesting which bits they pick up on for sure.

[twin agate]

Trust me, I've tried my best to explain the difference between RL and a game.

Even made a Ultra Realistic Hunting DLC idea for the people who want a game that's like real life.

Ironically, they didn't like it.

First it was illegal to use: I counter with that it's legal within 20% of the United States and possibly growing. That and ITS A GAME WHERE YOU HUNT TIGERS!

Then it was, it will create bugs: I counter with any content they release will create bugs, even bug fixes cause bugs.

Then it was Well I don't see how they could implement it to where it's an effective tool: I counter with well when you are limiting what it could do for the sake of your argument, then yeah, you aren't going to see how cool a drone could be.

[echo widget]

Yeah. Ironically it's all just bumping the thread for more attention.

[twin agate]

For example, I can throw 343 Guilty Hunt the Drone out to find need zones in my area while I focus on hunting.

I could then, go to those need zones to continue hunting, while 343 Guilty Hunt continues to find me need zones. Saving me a little time when on a new map.

[echo widget]

that name though 🤣

[twin agate]

Or, if the developers were really dedicated to making something cool and unique, they would add the ability to control it. But judging by how they can't get a simple ATV to move correctly I doubt it.

[worthy bolt]

more downvotes then upvotes because apparently illegal things in video games are bad🤣

[twin agate]

Yeah man, these are the type of people who follow stop signs in GTA.

[worthy bolt]

i just want my cool camera angles :(

[echo widget]

you're not cos playing?

[worthy bolt]

theres a bunch of illegal stuff in cotw i believe i saw a video about it

[echo widget]

I just happened to find out earlier that they have rc bait boats in The Angler.

[twin agate]

Yeah, like HUNTING TIGERS https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1326739082264711321

[worthy bolt]

kg gaming or something made a vid of him breaking hunting laws in cotw
i hope this isnt advertising lmao

[knotty pasture]

You mean the conservation model we are directly helping with? In which case would require some hunting… you do realize culling exists right?

[agile crane]

https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/tiger-hunting-in-nepal/

For tigers is because recently they thinks of hunt them and it's gonna be a reality so for the moment it's illegal but in 1 or 2 years it's gonna be legal

[twin agate]

They are like that one fish kid from spongebob with the pistachio ice cream. WAHHH I DONT WANT REALISTIC HUNTING SIMULATOR

Then why did you ask for it?

[worthy bolt]

its not legal right now is it? maybe drones will be legal for hunting later?

[twin agate]

It's legal in 20% of the United States. 4 states don't have anything posted as far as laws. And 1 is considering allowing them

[worthy bolt]

yeah in some countrys its legal but i dont want something to be map exclusive

[echo widget]

is that bush legal in all states?

[worthy bolt]

its illegal in 1 town on mars so we cant add bushes anymore

[twin agate]

Truthfully the bush is there because of it being a non full model.

[worthy bolt]

hear me out
what if i shoot my friend in cotw or my dog to scare away a deer behind a tree so i can shoot the deer while hes running?
illegal hunting equipment am i right

[echo widget]

you can't shoot the dog (invalid target), never tried shooting another player tbh

[worthy bolt]

my friend has done it before and theres literal blood splashes no joke

[twin agate]

Why not put a Lugar on the German shorhair pointer and when you whistle, it fires at the target.

[twin agate]

https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1305252550043238420

[worthy bolt]

unknown

[twin agate]

I'm making another Unethical DLC when I get home from work