Puma/Cougar Remodel 🐈

[steep kernel]

another old feline that needs a rework along with lynx (https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1323703520851136624). i like cats what can i say

The Puma needs a rework badly in almost all aspects considering it looks.. very rough and outdated in comparison to the newer cat models and new standard set by them.

First image lists all my issues with the Puma's design currently from a realism/design standpoint. Second goes into skins.

New skin addition ideas
(images in order)

Common
Dark Red (reworked)
Gray (reworked)
Light brown (reworked)
Copper (gray but with more apparent red/browns on the back)

Uncommon
Aurburn (or black)

Rare

• These are more dubious seeing as I'm unsure whether COTW would consider Vitiligo or this potentially not even an (adult) cougar.

Spotted

• The proof of these existing (as adults) is kinda... ambigious? Cougar cubs can have spotting but they tend to grow out of it with age, so whether these are actual adult spotted cougars or just large immature cougars/pumas is kinda unknown especially seeing as the proof is very few and far between outside of old trailcams or this one individual in a captivity (1930s ish). It could be a neat addition for a rare however. (I should note these are not puma-hybrids like pumapards (leopard x cougars) and are claimed to be just regular old pumas with rare mutations.)

Vitiligo

• unlike spotted pumas, vitiligo cougars do exist and are very rare. I think it'd be a neat addition because it'd give pumas a unique rare like the big felids should have.

standard melanism and albinism

[dusky drum]

Oh I love the spotted and vitiligo ideas for Puma/Mountain Lion GO tho

[steep kernel]

oh def

i think in general if we did ever get great ones for the cats they'd be Weird and Rare like hybrids or smthin like this (alleged) puma-ocelot

[steep kernel]

little quick edit for a reworked puma

[steep kernel]

bump

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bump

[eager ingot]

also improve the whiskers on the puma model, some of the newer felines have them and they look a lot better.

[magic skiff]

Id be fine with a fluff up, some whiskers and a behavior update tbh

https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1271927456323993610

[steep kernel]

def needs a behavior update the way it acts (guaranteed the little i've played on the map cougar's on) is just. odd.

[steep kernel]

bump

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bump

[civic gulch]

I would also like to see the Puma/Mountain Lion have Aggressive behavior towards players as well, I want to get attacked by them in the game!

[steep kernel]

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[tepid current]

looks more jaguarmundi x ocelot or jaguar x puma to me

[steep kernel]

bump

[tepid current]

real the need a remaster, so they albino puma born last year?

[tepid current]

tigons/ligers would be a cool 2 species in one great one

[dense scarab]

👍

[dense scarab]

Most predators in this game need a remodel (and an improvement in their behavior)

[dense scarab]

B

[steep kernel]

bump

[eager ingot]

bumping this back up again

[gaunt anvil]

She ate her fuvking babys or they died, all of them over 4/5 liter it's kinda funny in a sad way, that gurl had horrible maternal instinct

http://messybeast.com/genetics/hyb-pumaxocelot.htm

[steep kernel]

goddamn 😭

[little raven]

I would also like to add on the sounds they make most of them are accurate and do use real cougar sounds the ones that kind of shock me or the snow leopard sounds. They make again cougars in snow leopards are two different genus of cats. Why not just use more cougar sounds effects like snarls, yowls and screams in fact many of which are very iconic and some Lumos iconic wild animal sound effects.

[ionic trench]

this is REALLY in-depth, I love it!

[boreal tiger]

You're a rly talented artist

[steep kernel]

give us the diva cougar face we deserve cotw i beg

[eager ingot]

I hope we can get this rework someday

[lapis stirrup]

sheathed claws