This can be boring, and yes sometimes you will spend quite a while just trying to track down a specific animal, but the next part is when it becomes worth it. Hunter Sense will tell you if the poop you just found along the trail is fresh or old, urine if it smells pungent or dried up, essentially, it tells you and shows you things that allows you to know if you’re close to finding the animal you’re tracking. It will also highlight foot/hoof/paw prints from trails made by the animals going to or from their grazing spots. ![]() This is basically your superhero ability to highlight the above locations when you’re near them. The best way to find these items is by using your Hunter Sense. Even if you come across a tree trunk feeding spot for Black Bears, and you’re hunting Elk, you should still interact with it to mark it. It is important to explore and interact with all areas that look like they have had animals there so it logs it into your map and you can reference it later. Each animal will have a sleeping, eating, and drinking zone that it will go to and your codex can tell you what time of day the animals typically will go to these spots. Each group of animal in a region will have hot spot areas that it will frequent throughout the day. Tracking is an important piece of the gameplay, but also the most boring since you’ll just be walking around looking for clues that animals are around. ![]() Once you get into the rough area of where that animal should be, this is where the tracking comes in.Įxploring and interacting with hot spots is the best way to figure out where to start. When hunting for a new animal this can be tougher because the map is pretty much blank until you start exploring and finding other regions hunting lodges to unlock points of interest. The tutorial will be good enough to get you used to looking for certain things in the environment, also you can always look at the animal codex to see where they would usually dwell. Once you get a load out set, you need to check your map to locate an area where the animal could be. It can be a lot to take in, but typically as long as you use the correct tier firearm for that tier animal, you don’t need to get into the specifics of calibers if you don’t care. There is a nice codex included that goes in-depth about caliber size, types of ammo, and the kinetic power (Joules) that you can achieve. First thing you need to do is prepare your loadout for what animal you’ll be hunting. I’ve gone on about how well the actual hunting experience is so let me start at the beginning of what would be a hunting expedition. Preparing, exploring, and tracking down a kill provides a satisfying gameplay loop because of a few factors that are open for newbies and complicated enough for hunting simulator players.ĭoesn’t this look inviting to go explore and track in? When the story focuses on hunting, or when you just want to finish a task or job for someone in town, this is when it shines. This is because the actual hunting gameplay is really good. An old friend views hunting differently and doesn’t care about ethical hunting, so you will go on these quests to remove bear traps, and at one point he sends you on a scavenger hunt.Įvery time Way of the Hunter stops you from hunting and sends you on some random fetch quest it really drags down the experience. The story does a good job introducing you to basic facts and mechanics, but once that is over it starts diving into a weird rivalry plot that basically sets up a villain. You act almost like a Park Ranger in the way you will patrol the land, check the food and water supplies, as well as take care of any spreading diseases. ![]() ![]() You play as River, who is now taking over his grandfather’s hunting lodge and therefore the land around it. The drama and fetch quests really drag down the experience. However, it can get a bit heavy handed with the message and ends up getting in the way of the experience. This is a message anyone can get behind, and you don’t need to be a hunter to understand the reasoning. It truly drives home the fact that there is a balance to the ecosystem ,and you shouldn’t be out there recklessly hunting and killing. Way of the Hunter offers a story that really focuses on ethical hunting and keeping animal herds alive and healthy. While it tries to bridge a story within the hunting aspects, this is absolutely a hunting focused titled. While THQ Nordic’s Way of the Hunter doesn’t classify itself as a hunting simulator, it is definitely one of the best hunting “simulators” out there. Even if it is small repeated tasks, it is the ability to accomplish something while turning the brain off and getting into a zen mode. I’m no stranger to this, with a few simulators reviewed under my belt I’ve begun to see what folks like in these games. The simulator genre has been seeing a huge boom lately, with people seeming to love taking on monotonous tasks ad nauseum.
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