Hunter Challenge suggestion: Apex Hunts

[hot umbra]

Challenges themed around a particular reserve or type of hunting. I'm making up two for the base game maps as a suggestion but I'd like input on the difficulty and duration of the challenges.

I don't really expect this to take off but I hope it'll be a resource the devs can use to see what we're after.

Layton Lakes district challenge 100 animals, 25 of each species , whitetail, black bear, moose, and elk

Reward: a custom rifle built to Colton Locke's specifications for hunting in the Lakes district. (Used .35 Whelen for base idea) .350 Locke, Doc's own idea, bolt action built on a Huntsman rifle frame. 4 round magazine individual cartridge reload like the Malmer, classes 4-9 higher penetration but heavier and less accurate at range than the 7mm. (rifle shown with iron sights)

Hirschfelden reserve challenge 100 animals, 25 of each species, wild boar, fallow deer, red stag, and euro bison

Reward: a rifle Robert Sommer helped design, chambered for the reliable old 9.3x62mm. A modern and sleek design with a 4 round magazine that can easily be replaced in driven hunts roughly equal to the .350 Lock in terms of performance and weight. Nicely covering classes 4-9 with high penetration and recoil to match. (rifle shown without iron sights)

[errant nebula]

I'd love a .416 Rigby Apex Hunts reward for an African mission.

[hot umbra]

I'm thinking of trying to do one themed for each map, a Vurhonga Savanna .416 would be good I think. I just wanna find a unique one

[errant nebula]

I'm curious as to what you'd pick for Yukon.

[hot umbra]

I'm still researching a few ideas, I'm kinda leaning towards a .338 but I'm not decided yet

[hot umbra]

Vurhonga Savanna challenge. One hundred animals, 50 of each species, cape buffalo and lions

Reward: Grandfather Njabulo dusted off his favorite old rifle and had it refinished for you. The .458 has a 3 round magazine that is loaded with individual cartridges but the knockdown power and penetration of this cartridge is second only to the .470, as such its more than suitable for any and all class 8 or 9 game. It's even good insurance against possible encounters with class 10 behemoths

[keen gorge]

I think the animals that are taken should be gold medal or better, not too difficult but not too easy either

[hot umbra]

I was wondering about that, I'd like gold or diamond to count but I'm also wondering how long people should have for the challenge

[tender oak]

I don't think those challenges should be time dependent, so that Casual Players have the opportunity to work towards them even if they can only Play once in a while. Make them hard, maybe not hinging on the trophyscore but more on shotplacement etc.

[hot umbra]

@keen gorge @tender oak

I'd been thinking like a month for each challenge but now I'm wondering if a more difficult challenge would be best

Let's say: Gold or higher rating, lung shot, pass the harvest check, and sub 100m distance.

I figure you can't just blast animals from across a lake, you have to make sure it's a good shot with an ethical caliber and the ranking makes you work a little harder to find the right animals

What do you guys think?

[tender oak]

I Like the Challenge itself. I Just don't Like time Limits at all. If i look at myself: Familylife and Work hasn't allowed me to Play for almost two months and Just short episodes of gaming before that.
I Like Challenges that are hard to do , but not those that are artificially Made more difficult by forcing me to Play as much as possible

[hot umbra]

I kinda meant to ditch the time limit altogether, I was thinking a month for each one on rotation but honestly yeah, I'd rather just make it a standing challenge so everyone has an equal chance to get it.

At the very least have like 3 to 5 at a time and swap them after a year or something if they really have to be time limited

[tender oak]

@hot umbra that is good.

[hot umbra]

What do you think about making dlc ammo types available to the base game with these challenges? I have an idea for the .22H but I'm not sure it'll catch on

[tender oak]

@hot umbra i am all for it.

[hot umbra]

Challenge: Small Game Hunter

Take down 25 class 1 game animals and 25 class 2 game animals (no rank required)

Reward: .22H break action single shot. As basic as it gets but it only weighs one unit and allows even a brand new player to take class 1-2 animals ethically (p.s. I know it's ugly)

[brave sandal]

I like everything about his, except I must recommend .458 Lott or WM
Reason being, .458 Lott is standard issue for game rangers in quite a bit of Southern Africa, so I feel like that could really fit in very nicely with the Grandfather Njabulo as a old warden/ranger of vurhonga story and it can still be a class 8-9 rifle in the current system, leaving .416 to be the most powerful 7-9

[hot umbra]

Changed it, I'm still looking into other map challenge guns too so I'll hold off on the .416 for now ( still want it tho)

[brave sandal]

Now we just need EW to add this suggestion

[hot umbra]

What do you think of them so far?

[brave sandal]

I absolutely love them
Especially the .35 Whelen and 9.3×62 one, I really think it'd make the Hunter Challanges worth playing. It's a unique prize for an achievable challenge (unlike some other games challenges)
If EW were to take your idea as is and just do some minor fine tuning, I think they'd have a winning Challange system

[hot umbra]

I hope they do, this is just a basic idea but I'd love to see it implemented so we could earn some seriously nice gear

[tender oak]

@hot umbra don't sell yourself Short. This proposal is great

[hot umbra]

Mississippi Acres Challenge:
100 animals, 25 of each species. Alligator, feral hogs, whitetail deer and black bear

Reward: a gift from Immi Davis at the recommendation of her father. This .348 lever action was modified to mount modern optics and takes advantage of powerful ammunition to handle classes 4-9 with high penetration inside 200 yards and five rounds in the tubular magazine allows you plenty of chances at running hogs or charging bears

Silver Ridge Peaks Challenge
100 animals, 50 bison, 25 each of Mule deer and black bear

Reward: a gift from Joe Bradley for helping his son get the park back on its feet. This Replica .45-70 Falling Block rifle only has one round but because of the long barrel and lack of moving parts this rifle is accurate at 300 meters (UPDATE THE COACHMATE PLEASE, IT HAS A LONGER BARREL THAN THE PISTOL AND SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST AS MUCH RANGE)

[brave sandal]

What do you guys thing of this one ?

Medved-Taiga Challange
100 animals, 25 Moose, 25 Brown bear, 25 Musk Deer, 25 Lynx

Reward: Gregory Grankin has gifted his old rifle from his youth to you for helping him gather the supplies he needs. His old MN91/30S with its unique scope mount and fixed 4X magnification scope. This rifle fires 7.62×54R as seen in game.
(Hopefully the 7.62×54R round would receive a much needed Buff and a better penetrating bullet as well as a class range of 3/4-8 for said better bullet)

[tender oak]

Since we already have a mosin ingame how about a svt40?

[brave sandal]

I wouldn't mind either the 91/30 or a SVT 40

[hot umbra]

I'd honestly take the SVT. We could make the argument to that if the Mosin and SvT were in game we need the 1903 to match the M1 Garand

Yukon Valley Challenge

100 animals, Gold or higher, 25 of each species caribou, moose, grizzly bears, and bison

Reward: Jim Murray wanted to thank you for your work in the reserve and giving him a chance for a vacation. He chose the .405 lever action from his hall closet, with a little work from a gunsmith buddy of course. Covering classes 6-9 with a 4 round box magazine this old rifle makes up for its lack of range with extreme knockdown power and straight line penetration with Hard Cast and Jacketed soft point bullets

[glossy star]

I wouldn't mind the Gewehr 98 uses the 7.92×57mm Mauser cartridge could be cool for Hirschfelden because there are WWI bunkers on the map and this rifle was commonly issued among Imperial German Army Troops

Also the Karabiner 98 kurz chambered in 7.92×57mm Mauser as well although from World War II still could be cool option

[hot umbra]

We've got it in another thread or 6, mine is #1327476844030853120

[glossy star]

oh cool

[hot umbra]

Bump

[slender zinc]

New England Challenge

Kill 150 gold or higher Black Bears with the use of a caller

Reward: The Warden thanks you for culling those bears as they’ve grown to be quite the problem in the last few years. As a reward they gave you a piece of Northeastern US history, a .30-40 Krag from their personal collection.

Oop, I just realized that one was already done

[hot umbra]

Wait, hear me out. Change this to NEM's challenge. There was a hunter ans gunsmith who hunted the Catskill mountains in New York state by the name of Larry Koller. He wrote "Shots at Whitetails" and his go to rifle was a sporterized Krag.

The Warden could even mention that he collected a few after reading it.

[slender zinc]

I was kinda referencing Roosevelt but that’ll do

[hot umbra]

Bump

[hot umbra]

Bump

[digital folio]

I like the idea of guns for community challenges and not Dlc's

[hot umbra]

I love rifles, but we need different gear much worse. Let's have a pcp air rifle and a different recurve bow, maybe a new shotgun

. 358 lever action, covers class 6-9 with a 4 round magazine

Take class 6, 7, 8 animals with any rifle and pass the harvest check

.25 cal PCP air rifle, class 1-2 (semi-auto with 6 pellet magazine)

Take class 1-2 game on Hirsch and Layton

[hot umbra]

Bump

[faint cave]

i love this idea

new weapons for doing community challenges would be so good