Challenge: "Climb Every Mountain, Ford Every Stream" in every reserve.

[VictoriaHuntress]

I've set myself a challenge to explore every square meter of each reserve (or as much as I possibly can). It's great fun, especially to blaze my own trails into the high mountains, and do it while not plummeting to the lowlands below LOL.

Why? you ask - Well, because they're there
The artists who designed the landscapes and terrain features have really outdone themselves - they put a lot of detail and convoluted routes up there

It's already netted me need zones in the most difficult places you can imagine - if animals can find a way, then so can we.

There are also some fantastic photo opportunities and interesting undocumented 'Easter Eggs' - photos and videos to follow.

[VictoriaHuntress]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3175645477

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3175645970

If you climb it, better leave a trail of breadcrumbs(drop a trail marker at regular intervals), so you can find your way back down. Fast travel is too easy, so don't use it

[VictoriaHuntress]

Unintentional (?) Patterns:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3175644225

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3175643174

It was a tough hike to get there, but fun

[VictoriaHuntress]

DIY mountain hiking

Travel to the nearest campsite or cabin (pick up a Jeep and drive to a trail-head in that case).

Then I use basic mountain terrain navigation skills and take inspiration from the "Sound of Music" songs LOL

0. A straight line is only the shortest distance between two points as the crow flies: we are not crows. It's the hardest path to traverse unless the terrain is flat LOL.

1. look for game trails going into the mountains - if the animals can make it, then so can you; well, except for Mountain Goats and Bighorn Sheep, Chamois and Himalayan Tahr ( go figure! LOL) are natural mountain climbers as well.
They seem to be able to travel the steep slopes and rock outcroppings with ease.

2. Look for Mountain Ridgelines and stay on the spine - that seems to be easier to traverse than getting trapped in gullies, rock slide channels, and old stream channels.

2a - use photo mode for a bird's-eye-view of the terrain ahead - it's too bad that photo mode doesn't come with a compass and map grid reference for your current position (or if you could place a tracking marker on the ground directly below your position).

3. Try to walk parallel to the contour lines, and use switchback hiking to traverse up or down the sides and slopes of the mountains - you can't hike along the direction of the steepest gradients.
Now, the WOTH map doesn't seem to show contour lines (I think I may have seen some on the NZ map, but not NP and TV; don't recall the other two maps).
What you can do is zoom all the way in on the map, and it morphs into a 3D relief representation, and you can discern topographical features rather easily. Put down trail markers on the map that would follow the natural travel routes.

[dbond1]

Good luck, that's an ambitious undertaking. I sort of do the same thing, but use the black fog as a guide. I head off in to the void to remove it as much as possible. But with all of these large reserves it's a shadowy goal indeed. Nez Perce is nearly done, the rest far from it. Not a goal really, but a guide to where I walk.

I also have praise for the artists at Nine Rocks. The reserves, terrain and that sort of thing are rather obvious. But I also think the artist doing the character portraits, the ones making the lodges and the ones doing the weapons and scopes are top notch too. Animals are the best in the genre.

[VictoriaHuntress]

引用自 dbond1：

Good luck, that's an ambitious undertaking. I sort of do the same thing, but use the black fog as a guide. I head off in to the void to remove it as much as possible. But with all of these large reserves it's a shadowy goal indeed. Nez Perce is nearly done, the rest far from it. Not a goal really, but a guide to where I walk.

I also have praise for the artists at Nine Rocks. The reserves, terrain and that sort of thing are rather obvious. But I also think the artist doing the character portraits, the ones making the lodges and the ones doing the weapons and scopes are top notch too. Animals are the best in the genre.

Oh, it is, but so much fun.
I'm in TV, hiking the mountains of Aurora Woods, Northwest of Cartitascu's Cabin, heading back down to the campsite due west of that cabin. It's dark and the woods are spooky, and I've seen ghostly things....vanishing tree stumps in an area about 500m NE of the campsite. I swear it's true ( i have pictures LOL) - the stumps are obviously due to logging - nice clean cuts. As I approached them, they disappear from sight - probably a rendering issues with my video settings, but still, it's delightfully creepy.

[Kossatz]

引用自 VictoriaHuntress：

I've set myself a challenge to explore every square meter of each reserve (or as much as I possibly can). It's great fun, especially to blaze my own trails into the high mountains, and do it while not plummeting to the lowlands below LOL.

Why? you ask - Well, because they're there
The artists who designed the landscapes and terrain features have really outdone themselves - they put a lot of detail and convoluted routes up there

It's already netted me need zones in the most difficult places you can imagine - if animals can find a way, then so can we.

There are also some fantastic photo opportunities and interesting undocumented 'Easter Eggs' - photos and videos to follow.

I dig that! I also like to walk and explore every bit of the maps and find these peculiar places.

[scoazectiti29]

What has surprised me the most so far are the dragon carcasses :-)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3172543961

[VictoriaHuntress]

引用自 scoazectiti29：

What has surprised me the most so far are the dragon carcasses :-)

Oh wow, that is something! Nice.
What reserve is that?

[scoazectiti29]

引用自 VictoriaHuntress：

引用自 scoazectiti29：

What has surprised me the most so far are the dragon carcasses :-)

Oh wow, that is something! Nice.
What reserve is that?

Africa

[VictoriaHuntress]

引用自 scoazectiti29：

引用自 VictoriaHuntress：

Oh wow, that is something! Nice.
What reserve is that?

Africa

That actually looks familiar - perhaps there are a number of these.

[VictoriaHuntress]

引用自 heavensarewild：

I love spotting weird shapes, and potential faces around the landscape ! Saw a few faces on the TV map, but thought I was imagining it, and didn`t make a post. But I can certainly see 2 x faces in the 3rd post.

And in the first post, the "a way to the top" image, I can see what looks like that blue Eagle like character from the Muppets, in the top right of the picture.

Hope they keep adding little things like this, for all future maps, as it`s great to come across them, and try to work out what they are, or if it is indeed, you eyes playing tricks on you !

Oh yeah, now I see it too. All it takes is the suggestion, and the illusion materializes!

[scoazectiti29]

引用自 VictoriaHuntress：

That actually looks familiar - perhaps there are a number of these.

yes there are several at the place where I took the photo

[scoazectiti29]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3178782146

[scoazectiti29]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3180360915
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3180369284