🇧🇼A LAND OF GIANTS, BEAUTIFUL ANTELOPE, AND DEADLY PREDATORS🇧🇼

[radiant belfry]

Okavango River Reserve

Where deserts turn to dense scrubland and those scrublands turn into the thick swamps and lush forests of the Delta,
WELCOME TO BOTSWANA!
On your trip you’ll find infamous predators with hundreds of stories written about them such as the African leopard and lioness. But we know why you’re here… due to a massive boom in the elephant population accounting for a whopping 30% of the existing elephant population! AFRICAN BUSH ELEPHANT hunting has been legalized. But don’t forget about the many beautiful species of antelope!
Enjoy your trip, Hunter!

New species:

African Bush Elephant - 10
Hippopotamus- 10
Angolan Giraffe - 9/10

Southern Eland - 9
Nile Crocodile - 8

African Leopard - 7/8
Waterbuck - 6/7
Burchell’s Zebra- 6
Greater Kudu - 5/6

Southern Impala - 4
Red Hartlebeest - 4
Brown Hyena - 4

Chobe Bushbuck- 3
Chacma Baboon - 3

Southern Springhare - 1
Cape Shoveler
Helmeted Gunieafowl

Returning

Blue Wildebeest
Lion
Cape Buffalo

[weary trail]

Nice species list

would Gemsbok also be a returning species? They would fit in well in the desert areas, and I would love to have another map for hunting them.

[radiant belfry]

I wanna keep vurhonga somewhat unique y’know, but I wouldn’t be opposed to it.

[weary trail]

understandable

[radiant belfry]

I think

Southern Eland
Blue Wildebeest
Southern Impala

Representing the more arid species would be fine though. I’d need some of our Africa friends to provide some knowledge on environments since most of mine comes from the Eastern Cape, a completely different country and super different environment.

[placid barn]

10/10

[tropic pond]

Anything above 2800+lbs should be C:10 and listed as Safari/ XL Game as its own imo.

[radiant belfry]

A case should be made for giraffe though since they are often shot with a decent amount of heavier .30cal rounds. I could definitely see Cape buffalo being class 10 though.

(On the otherhand though giraffes are quite famous for tanking multiple shots and faking the hunter out because they dropped and then got up and started running)

[tropic pond]

Leopards defn. 8 due to danger lvl for sure.

[waxen walrus]

African Wild Dog? Ik ik but they do have robust pops in Botswana.

[tropic pond]

I'm aware however EW messed up using #'d classes over categories in this case bc if I recall Giraffes are categorized as Safari Plains Game, though I could be wrong. But most ammo manufactures have safari-based ammunition specific for African Game. Unfortunately it was a huge miss on EW's part not applying it to our ammo atleast at this time. They might switch gears in the future, but given the current mechanic & game listed in the #'d classes I would presume this is the action they would take.

[steep cave]

If there's an arid area on this map it'd be on the south western part of the map, there where the Kalahari desert is

[radiant belfry]

The way I picture this reserve is:

The Okavango Delta taking up most of map, mainly the northern and central expanses

Kalahari Desert in the south/east with scrubland creating a buffer zone between dense swampland and open desert.

Does that sound about right?

[steep cave]

ja sounds good, I'd say
Kalahari into scrub
scrub into bushveld
bushveld into delta

[waxen walrus]

That's exactly what I've been wanting for a reserve

[placid barn]

🇧🇼

[south bolt]

This would be elipsen waterbuck mean that they have a white stripe round there arse

[uneven mirage]

I see hippo I click thumb

[radiant belfry]

That is beautiful

[uneven mirage]

Although may I argue with a Black Caiman - Class 6 instead of a Nile crocodile?

I feel like Black Caiman, or any Caiman, would complete the trio of Croc Gator and Caiman in game, and the rares (or great one) for a Caiman would be amazing

[radiant belfry]

Uhhhh

Caiman are from South America . . .

[uneven mirage]

Are they? I thought they were in the Nile as well TwT this would look so good in game

[weary trail]

Nile Crocs are the only crocodilian that lives in Botswana as far as I know

[uneven mirage]

Yeah they are, just did a Google search and wow am I geographically ignorant, ignore that whole section lol

[radiant belfry]

All good, everyone learns something new everyday!

[uneven mirage]

Still applies though, even if not on Botswana exactly, I'd like to see Caiman in the game one day, maybe Caiman and Jags in the same map?

[radiant belfry]

The Amazon is a top 5 dream map for me particularly now that tigers were added on Sundarpatan.

[weary trail]

so I just did a quick google search to see what other animals could be included on this map. Gemsbok inhabit most of Botswana, it seems. I think they'd be a nice inclusion on this map, they're one of my favorite species on Vurhonga so I think a second map with them would be a major win.

[uneven mirage]

Exactly, the addition of tigers essentially opened the doors for anything

[weary trail]

it's totally up to you though

[south bolt]

Remodel! Or retexture

[weary trail]

yes, I approve

honestly just give them truRACs too at that point. Gemsbok remodel and TruRACs, on a new map? That would be epic.

[south bolt]

Vurhonga is the only map with all species needing remodels some more then some other but if jackals look like this it's really needed except the wigeon but that isnt part of Vurhonga to me

[radiant belfry]

Layton Lakes

[weary trail]

yeah the Roosevelt Elk, Blacktail, and Jackrabbit should all be completely reworked. Coyotes could use some touch ups on the model too. Also Whitetail and Moose could use a rework for their antlers (whitetails need more work than moose imo). Black Bears... are fine currently. So yeah pretty much every animal on Layton needs some amount of a rework, except for one.

[south bolt]

Mallard is also fine but yeah your right

[weary trail]

yeah you're right, forgot about the mallard

honestly they might as well rework the Merriams Turkey too. They don't look nearly as good as the other turkey species.

[south bolt]

Eh Rio Grande sucks it should be Gould's imo they can have it on SRP if they want

[placid barn]

These guys are awesome

[steep cave]

If you skin a waterbok just right, their meat is actually really great. Makes some of the best hamburger patties I've had

[radiant belfry]

Would make quite the cloak

[tropic pond]

I really want hyenas

[radiant dock]

B

[radiant dock]

bump

[delicate steppe]

Fan fact, we already have Botswana in cotw 💀 unless we're talking about a 2nd Botswana map 👀

[swift scaffold]

Wait? Vurhongas confirmed to be in Botswana? That means there’s even more out of place species than we thought lmao.

[jagged spire]

As well as the backstories in the missions and the Xitsonga language place names. All those place it in South Africa. The Tweet is just wrong.

[swift scaffold]

Honestly Vurhonga altogether is just really strange. The species roster doesn’t reflect a certain location, just generally all of southern and Eastern Africa. The location on the in-game map shows it as being in Eastern Zimbabwe or Western Mozambique, despite having the Xitsonga language of South Africa, as well as the plateau which I assume was meant to be a representation of the Drakensburg Mountains, and various other things. Yeah, it’s an older map, and has that weird vagueness that all maps prior to Yukon had, but it’s way worse than somewhere like Medved which is simply a location error (it mentions being in the Yamal Peninsula despite seeming more like Central Russia in both location and species).

[gentle solstice]

Very cool idea simple yet great, i hope they would rework all African animals with a dlc like this

[frank adder]

I read antelope instant bump

[reef wraith]

Vurhonga is a mid ass map. why the grass so long next to lakes
why are there lesser kudu and eurasian widgeon
Wheres the nile river
so much species leftout
warthog model is trash
Middle left area is to steep to explore
why is the warden speaking xitsonga

[unkempt remnant]

The Nile River does not start in Botswana

It starts in Uganda and I think western Ethiopia

The Okavango Delta is the watery area that puts Botswana on the map

[south bolt]

Blue Nile starts in ethiopia and the white Nile in lake Victoria so yeah not even close, as you said