Why Turkey? Friendly discussion/debate.

[☠djb204☠]

Turkey has been a very popular request for this game. It’s been popping up across all COTW social media sites. Unfortunately it’s a hype I don’t get and/or understand.

- Can somebody explain what it is about turkey that players want so badly for COTW?

What will turkey add to the game?

- What makes hunting turkey a different experience? and how could that experience be implemented into gameplay?

I’m very curious about this, so let’s keep this discussion civil please. If anyone has any intentions to derail the thread, please just move on.

[Player1]

Well all i know is it was popular on theHunter Classic maybe others can add some light

[☠djb204☠]

Originally posted by \m/:

Turkeys are fun to hunt in classic, sometimes challenging if its a big one. Beside all kind of deer my favorite animal to hunt

Cool, what makes them challenging?

[Old Goat]

Wild Turkeys (in RL) have excellent color perception, sharp vision and very good hearing. They are also strong flyers and fast runners. In many ways they are more difficult to hunt than deer. If it were not for the fact that mating season severely fuddles a toms brain cells the Turkey might well have been selected as the national bird of the USA (as proposed by Ben Franklin). They can also vanish in a heartbeat.

[☠djb204☠]

Originally posted by Old Goat:

Wild Turkeys (in RL) have excellent color perception, sharp vision and very good hearing. They are also strong flyers and fast runners. In many ways they are more difficult to hunt than deer. If it were not for the fact that mating season severely fuddles a toms brain cells the Turkey might well have been selected as the national bird of the USA (as proposed by Ben Franklin). They can also vanish in a heartbeat.

Which version would be best for the game?

Mating Season Turkey?

or

Non-Mating Season Turkey?

[afwsi]

Originally posted by djb204:

Originally posted by Old Goat:

Wild Turkeys (in RL) have excellent color perception, sharp vision and very good hearing. They are also strong flyers and fast runners. In many ways they are more difficult to hunt than deer. If it were not for the fact that mating season severely fuddles a toms brain cells the Turkey might well have been selected as the national bird of the USA (as proposed by Ben Franklin). They can also vanish in a heartbeat.

Which version would be best for the game?

Mating Season Turkey?

or

Non-Mating Season Turkey?

Mating Season. To be 100% accurate, you would need a map in the spring time and I don’t think that would be happening. No other animals are usually hunted in the spring.

Edit:
Don’t want to derail your thread ,but can’t this same question be asked about any animal request? I wasn’t a mallard or goose fan ,but I have enjoyed hunting them since they’re in the game now. Everybody has a favorite animal and turkey is #1 for a lot of people.

[Zara_Spook]

Turkey hunters enjoy the changing interaction between hunter and prey responding to calls. Its like playing chess. Alot of times you react depending on where he calls from. Your not the only Jake in the woods. Turkeys can be called by other turkeys as well, tossing a wrench in your ambush. I dont find turkey hunting as fun in game (hunter classic) as IRL. There is also something really cool about making your own turkey (friction) calls. An old turtle shell and a stick can start you off. Even a novice can learn to(speak turkey)and bring in a gobbler in short time. Shooting him before he makes you is the real challenge. I have no doubt turkeys are direct descendants of Velociraptors. Turkeys in COTW sounds expensive. 3 calls- gobbler, owl,and female cluck, decoys maybe new outfit sounds like a DLC. In advance turkeys should be slightly larger than geese and NOT the size of bears or wild boars. Most games of the past never got the size right.

[ColdConduct]

Originally posted by Zara_Spook:

In advance turkeys should be slightly larger than geese and NOT the size of bears or wild boars. Most games of the past never got the size right.

Now that you point this out, I realize every game or movie I'm aware of is guilty of this. Where can I get one of these monster video game turkeys for my Thanksgiving dinner?

Anyway, back on topic. I'd love to see gobblers added to the game, but personally I want Medved to get one or two new species added to that reserve before anything else. I've suggested, as many others have, to give us some wolves and ibex. I'm pretty sure The Classic had ibex or some form of mountain goats if I recall correctly. Please, devs, give us a freakin' goat or ram species. Medved currently has the least amount of variety in terms of its animals than any other reserve.

[Zara_Spook]

I would rather have wolves on Med . The cold winter call of a midnight wolf . You leave your tent head into the dark winter woods. Suddenly you here a rustle and a low growl followed by other low growls. You draw your .44 but its too late your hit by a flash of grey fur. You shoot at something thru the red blood dripping in your eyes. You got one. Bang bang you see two more fall. Three shots left and only four wolves left to go. Or you could sit in your treestand while the Turkeys march into your fire like Lemmings. J\K turkeys will be fine take what i can get. Sorry for the poor Jack London Imitation. Hopefully there will be room for both.

[Swampfox]

Adding Wild Turkeys to the game definitely has my vote.
If you have ever been out there on a beautiful Spring morning before daylight getting set up and just waiting to hear that first Cardinal calling. The woods are coming alive and beginning to wake up, and it just keeps getting better. Hearing the first Tree Call from hens will really get you going.

As Zara_Spook commented, Real Life Turkey hunting opens a door to another hunting adventure which is unique and will have you hooked for a life time. Along with learning the wide world of calling, making your own calls, getting inside that old gobbler's head and thinking like an old Tom, that's what can turn you into a Wild Turkey hunter on that first trip.

Could be that's why some of us ol' timers would love to see Wild Turkey added to the game.

[AldoAZApache]

Turkeys would be great. I think they would be great for Layton.
Love to hear some turkeys calling gobble gobbrbrbrbrtatatatahdododa

So would Mt. lions like they added for Parque/F, should have Mt/ Lion added to Layton...
Wolves would be cool ...but there a little controversal. Not many places have a huntable pop. but Russia does, it has monster wolf packs

[adkennedy03]

I would love to see turkeys but they better not mess it up like they did in classic, meaning that the thing should look more realistic than the decoy and shouldn't sound so bland or make weird and random movements that I've never seen one make. If they do add turkeys I would like a dlc that contains new camo that actually does something, a vest that allows you to sit down and have the same visibility reduction as sitting in really thick brush, a gobble locator, gun mounted push peg call (ex primos bomb shell) that allows you to call while aiming (use the same way you would switch barrels on the drilling rifle), x-full turkey tube (a new choke system for all shotguns will be necessary), 12 gauge magnum birdshot turkey ammo (shoots tighter patterns but costs more) and a new camo 12 gauge pump and/or auto loading shotgun that holds 3-4 rounds (please get the sound right for once)

[Autisticsrule]

i'm british but even i would love to go on a classic turkey hunt, but i too would like something more familier such as Pheasants they would be excillent to add to the German hunt zone but i also know they would be good for the american zone as they're now native there too, and just as tricky as turkeys but can fly, and as they don't make much noise tracking them without spooking them would be hard

[saphire jinn]

turkeys have vision 20+ times better than humans, they are a very hard challenge in RL, you have to be hidden and still to even have a shot. very hard game to take down, not like a deer that will walk into you, these suckers are hard, hence the oh yeah we need them here.

[Zara_Spook]

Im not sure its even legal to title a game " Call of the Wild" and not include Wolves or Dog sleds. Its breaking the law of the north. Turkeys really need a Spring map. Parque might be best . Really the whole hunt needs to be reworked (from classic) and done from ground or ground blinds. Nobody hunts turkeys from a treestand on purpose. Turkeys roost in trees at nite safe from predators. Part of turkey hunting is listening when the birds come down from roosting that night . So calling from up high in the day is unnatural. No hunting turkeys at night something the game isnt so good at. Maybe they can figure it out.

[iLBass]

Originally posted by ☠djb204☠:

Turkey has been a very popular request for this game. It’s been popping up across all COTW social media sites. Unfortunately it’s a hype I don’t get and/or understand.

- Can somebody explain what it is about turkey that players want so badly for COTW?

What will turkey add to the game?

- What makes hunting turkey a different experience? and how could that experience be implemented into gameplay?

I’m very curious about this, so let’s keep this discussion civil please. If anyone has any intentions to derail the thread, please just move on.

I personally hunt turkey in Real Life and I have to add that turkey hunting is my favorite type of hunting there is. The Classic has turkey hunting and although its a great aspect of how Turkey hunting really is, it would be great to see what Call Of The Wild can add and better recreate the experience.
Turkey hunting requires patience and for the most part, locating where they roost and feed for the day. The sheer excitement you get when you do hear a turkey gobble in the distance when you use a turkey boxcall, or a mouth call to communicate with them is incomparable to anything else. With turkey hunting, you create your own luck, you sweat and crave just to hear a single gobble that you may never hear or never even see while hunting for them.

So Turkey hunting MUST be added to this game with no further delays!
Simply put, it's the best hunting there is! IMO