What is the benefit of the new "Free Hunt" mode?

[Spledor]

at first i was realy happy to see the new free hunt mode,
my initial thoughts were:
Great a random animal map where a can shoot like a ... (not hunter).
Or maybe i can cultivate 5 Star deers in story mode and can hunt them in the free hunt mode without loosing them in story mode.
but the maps are "shared" with the story maps....
But shared map means if i shoot a 5 star in free hunt i loose him in story mode too...

so what is the benifit?
1. the story is deaktivated,
2. I can change my visual character

mehhh....
anyone got a 3. or 4.?
or did i missunderstand this mode?

Edit:
It looks like i didn´t missunderstand this gamemode.
so i have a suggestion for improvement:

give us an option for the animal economy in "free hunt"
A: fully shared with story mode (just like it is now)
B: Copy from story mode but not growing togehter
C: A full new expirence from scrath (incl. weapons )
D: A full new expirence from scrath, but with absolute random animal economy, for people who want to hunt and not cultivate animals

[JuliaM]

I think it is just to give you the option of changing your avatar. I don’t mind the different avatars for the different maps, but some do.

[Lanani]

What JuliaM said. It gives you the ption to pick which character you want to play as, which was a highly requested feature.

[Freddy_DB]

Yea, i can relate to that. I'm weird i know, but i can not get imersed in a game if my character is a woman, never could. I played hc wow for about 15 years, had 2 accounts with max alt. Not one was a female character. I tried, but deleted it after a while. So now i can enoy every map the way i prefer. That is, if i'm not getting the usual graphical glitch where the ground becomes a blurry orange mess, and i get mad and quit the game. As i did a few min ago..

[Spledor]

It looks like i didn´t missunderstand this gamemode.
so i have a suggestion for improvement:

give us an option for the animal economy in "free hunt"
A: fully shared with story mode (just like it is now)
B: Copy from story mode but not growing togehter
C: A full new expirence from scrath (incl. weapons )
D: A full new expirence from scrath, but with absolute random animal economy, for people who want to hunt and not cultivate animals

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[Lanani]

Originally posted by Freddy_DB:

Yea, i can relate to that. I'm weird i know, but i can not get imersed in a game if my character is a woman, never could. I played hc wow for about 15 years, had 2 accounts with max alt. Not one was a female character. I tried, but deleted it after a while. So now i can enoy every map the way i prefer. That is, if i'm not getting the usual graphical glitch where the ground becomes a blurry orange mess, and i get mad and quit the game. As i did a few min ago..

Re blurry graphics, right click your game in Steam > Properties, then switch to "DX11" in the launch options. See if that improves it for you.

[Freddy_DB]

Originally posted by Lanani:

Originally posted by Freddy_DB:

Yea, i can relate to that. I'm weird i know, but i can not get imersed in a game if my character is a woman, never could. I played hc wow for about 15 years, had 2 accounts with max alt. Not one was a female character. I tried, but deleted it after a while. So now i can enoy every map the way i prefer. That is, if i'm not getting the usual graphical glitch where the ground becomes a blurry orange mess, and i get mad and quit the game. As i did a few min ago..

Re blurry graphics, right click your game in Steam > Properties, then switch to "DX11" in the launch options. See if that improves it for you.

Thanks, i will try that later this evening. Much appreciated :)
- Freddy