#CRYPTIDS - New entry in the Codex

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candid axle
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With the Wild Haggis introducing cryptids to call of the wild, I believe many will agree with me that they need their own category in the codex, separate from wildlife.
The reason for this is that the current Wild Haggis entry in codex under wildlife looks out of place and doesn't make sense because they are not "real" animals, so giving them separate entry in the codex will make more sense and it opens the door to add more creatures there in the future. 👀

I will also add a personal request:
Please let us mount the Haggis as it is, they look really cool and I would love to have them displayed in the lodge. "The Scottish Dish" as it is now in the lodge can remain one of the poses to choose when displayed.

Thank you! z_COTW

pine shard
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Or at least add a plaque on one of the tables for the haggis lol

tranquil frigate
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Cryptids and fantasy animals are being added, and COTW is losing its original identity. COTW is corrupted. 😒

lean raptor
tranquil frigate
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young lodge
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EW has done an amazing job at the game, and COTW has become better and better through the years

tranquil frigate
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high goblet
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young lodge
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Although I agree that many of the G1s in COTW are more fantasized that realistic, some animals can be found, that look like a G1 in COTW

And no I have no pictures to prove what i have seen
You could probably find one on google or something idk
I’ve also seen a rare one (this time of a fallow deer) in a museum

ruby path
tough ginkgo
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last comet
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tough ginkgo
last comet
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Im fine with cryptids if they are like the haggis, extremely rare and more of a joke animal than an actual species, but I think its just weird to have them everywhere like the events in classic

pine shard
tranquil frigate
merry basin
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The wolves are also extremely unrealistic unless you want to claim they’re hybrid dogs then 6 of them might just barely be feasible, outside that only 2 of the coats are somewhat realistic those being the frostbite and battlehorn.

high goblet
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lean raptor
pine shard
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Gonna be honest, if the guns worked properly I'd happily ignore cryptids the same way I ignore GO's

strong mirage
broken knoll
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People don’t know their cotw history

strong mirage
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In response to the deleted message. Red deer g1s were not the first fantasy fur. EW has always been creative and free with their furs and designs. Look at melanistic mountain lions, a thing that does not exist irl and is genetically impossible

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Even albino lions in the wild is unrealistic

lean raptor
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Iirc leusistic lions exist not TRUE albinos

broken knoll
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Red deer also isn’t fantasy lmfao, it’s just a form of piebald leucism

ruby path
broken knoll
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Same with tigers

sweet token
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Same with mela tigers🤞

strong mirage
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The simple fact is. Everything that is “unrealistic” is optional. Don’t want a g1 or a haggis then don’t hunt or grind for one. This is an arcade hunting game, even ones that get pointed to for realism like classic, have fantasy elements and animals

broken knoll
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broken knoll
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At the end of the day no one makes you shoot thousands of bears for a over exaggerated color morph that exists irl

lean raptor
ruby path
# broken knoll Genetics

Do you have a source for that? Many other Felinae species can be melanistic. Sure, this condition has never been documented on Puma concolor but saying it's outright impossible would be wrong afaik.

broken knoll
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I fear it’s also not taking away development time, no g1 doesn’t mean lodges or anything else because different people have different jobs

broken knoll
strong mirage
broken knoll
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Thanks Bman

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Also I genuinely think of it this way. Are cryptids in the game meant for me? No. I know a lot of the community likes it though so cool! I’m not gonna get mad at their inclusion

raven egret
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lean raptor
# raven egret I 10000000% AGREE!! Especially with the fantasy great ones, granted i think bigf...

Fantasy g1s have been in the game since the whitetail Most of those whitetail are farm whitetail you'll possibly never find in the wild coming naturally, Its all fun OPTIONAL AND RARE furs you can find or see. Remember at the end of the day its a video game that hasn't been "realistic" for a while

At least most of the furs are grounded in realism and or have perks of realism and not rainbow or neon colored

Ill just quit here because this realism argument is going nowhere

merry basin
balmy viper
# ruby path Do you have a source for that? Many other Felinae species can be melanistic. Sur...

Seeing as how long humans have documented and encountered Mountain Lions, on top of how long we have kept them and bred them in captivity, the likelihood of mountain lions being able to have melanism is slim to none. People have been documenting encounters since Cabeza De Vaca encountered them in Florida in the 1500’s, and the first settlers in California in the 1600’s claimed that there were absolutely insane numbers of cougars in the state. Seeing as we’ve got nearly 500 years of encounters with no melanistic cougar ever documented, it’s pretty likely that they just don’t exist irl.

raven egret
broken knoll
# balmy viper Seeing as how long humans have documented and encountered Mountain Lions, on top...

While simultaneously both white cougars and cougars with vitiligo have been documented in the wild and captivity. Oh and the jaguarmundi and cheetah (same lineage) both have not had melanism documented. Jaguarmundi have had albinism documented while cheetahs have had erthysim and pseudo melanism documented (in addition to the spotted cheetah which I thinkkkkk is a form of leucism) is kinda telling

royal grove
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the Weird and supernatural are a part of the world of the outdoors, It also goes back as far as Vurhonga, and many maps have unexplained stuff happening in them

tranquil frigate
broken knoll
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And where is this supposed skin now

tranquil frigate
broken knoll
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Then we once again, do not have any solid evidence or proof of melanism in cougars 😭

maiden hamlet
# tranquil frigate The Great Ones are mainly fantasy animals.

While i dont agree with cryptids being a bad thing for the game, i do agree that GOs are too fantasy
I miss when they were grounded in reality, the vast majority of their fur variations now look like they came out of a fantasy rpg
Which im not saying is bad, i just wish we had more realistic variations alongside those

pure egret
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I'd have cryptids and joke animals be holiday events

Like glowing reindeer on Christmas or werewolves on Halloween

tranquil frigate
# maiden hamlet While i dont agree with cryptids being a bad thing for the game, i do agree that...

In the mission of Scotland Reserve, they mention that there are very few Wildcats in the reserve (the same situation as with the cougar in Askiy Ridge). I don’t think we’ll discover them (though I really hope I’m completely wrong). In contrast, the Wild Haggis has already been discovered, a cryptid (a specimen that doesn’t exist in real life) that is completely opposite to the realistic Scottish Wildcat (and this species does have a melanistic form). I want to hunt a melanistic Wildcat rather than the Wild Haggis.

maiden hamlet
obsidian drum
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I would like to present my thinking here. I've been a COTW player for a solid number of years (56) and my only GO came after a year of hunting in LL. I don't want the second one (grinding) because I don't have that much time and I don't want to ruin the game by running around killing 5-6000 pieces before a new GO appears. Someone likes it, I like to watch it on Youtube, but I wouldn't do it personally. This story about Cryptids (Haggies) got my pulse racing. Why not, in rare situations, you would have the opportunity to meet some other Cryptides (bigfoot or ...) that you could not catch, but you could take a picture as proof of that exceptional occurrence, and in the Lodge if there is space to insert that photo. I'm not saying that I would like a unicorn in the game 🙂 but something could be done by listening to folklore and stories for specific areas.

tranquil frigate
# maiden hamlet Youre misunderstanding the situation They arent adding ultra rare animals to map...

I know it’s meant as a joke, but this is my criticism. Personally, I see the mission’s mention of the Wildcat as a ‘joke,’ since we’ll never see it on the map. The Wild Haggy is supposed to fulfill the role of the true cryptid: it doesn’t physically materialize in the game (having no model) just like in real life, and simply serves to spark curiosity. In the end, from what I can tell, the melanistic wildcat would be the rarest specimen that could exist on the map and almost a cryptid.

balmy viper
maiden hamlet
# balmy viper They were never grounded in reality.

all of the whitetail rack variations are possible irl, the red deer GO is just a piebald with leaves stuck on the antlers, most of the fallow variants are possible and most of the deer go racks are possible irl
the brown bear was when the fur variations started going downhill and the fallow was a slight and shortlived comeback for the realistic ones

balmy viper
royal grove
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I don't think this thread is a bad Idea we have cryptids in almost every map, some turn out to be real like the Radioactive mutant and the infernal wolves in Cuatro Colinas, and the ghost Jackal
But really adding to the codex something along the lines of "Unexplained" to add chuchunya, Eloko, Bigfoot etc would be nice, and if more cryptids are added as animals in the future it wouldn't give them up right away

wooden anchor
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all in all i like the idea of cryptids i also think it might help more people to get the game

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and that sucked to read

runic dune