Yukon or Silver Ridge

[dthompss]

My next map will be one of these. SR has more animals but other than that which do you recommend? I would think the general terrain's about the same but I'm probably wrong.

Tkx for any advice or info! Doug

[StuTheMoose]

The terrain is much more varied in Yukon, it's a far more interesting map than SRP.

SRP is what i would call an "easy" map. Great for those who want to be shooting stuff every minute but probably the least "realistic" hunting experience in the game.

I'd deffo recommend Yukon out of the two, but i guess it depends on how you play the game.

If you like doing missions then it has to be Yukon. SRP has very few missions.

[CaptainNebulous]

Depends on if you want a more diverse map design (Yukon) or an easier map to hunt on (Silver Ridge)

[Hanuman]

Yukon all the way: 1) Prettier 2) Better missions 3) More interesting animals 4) for me, duck hunting > turkey hunting 5) Gray wolf > mountain lion imo

[Humpenstilzchen]

I would recommend Yukon over SRP but it really depends on which kinds of animals you like to hunt.

[Kraxin-Kari]

IMO Yukon is a good terrain map, and ya can traverse the map almost everywhere easily, where as SRP has a lot of spots that are steep. Yukon also has a weather effect when it snows the ground turns white which is pretty cool experience.

SRP has a very good variety of animals and outshines Yukon easily in this department.

Both are good maps and depends which your preference is, I like both of them a lot.

[dthompss]

SRP has more animals but I can't get past your comments on scenery... more interesting, more diverse. Tkx guys! Yukon it is (for now). I'll dump a few hundred hours and decide if I'll stay there. I've spent a lifetime at Hirsch, time to move on. Tkx again!!

[MetalMind85]

Silver Ridge is much easier to hunt, but when it comes to terrain design I definitely prefer Silver Ridge. The amount of new trees, bushes and foliage is amazing. Yukon fails in this category. Above 50% of terrain in Yukon are just red bushes with the same trees everywhere, very repetetive to hunt there in my case.

I really hope that devs will create flora in the new reserve with the same dedication and attention to details like they did in Silver Ridge.

[Humpenstilzchen]

Originally posted by MetalMind85:

Silver Ridge is much easier to hunt, but when it comes to terrain design I definitely prefer Silver Ridge. The amount of new trees, bushes and foliage is amazing. Yukon fails in this category. Above 50% of terrain in Yukon are just red bushes with the same trees everywhere, very repetetive to hunt there in my case.

I really hope that devs will create flora in the new reserve with the same dedication and attention to details like they did in Silver Ridge.

I dislike the red areas as well ,but imo everything else in Yukon is extremely beautiful.

SRP is also very beautiful, no question about that. I like both but Yukon is better polished while in SRP you see Mapseams everywhere, floating trails or trails that vanish when you lay down and tons of other bugs and glitches plus less missions and those that are there are bugged. Same goes for the mountain lion that likes to bug out.

Yukon is much more polished hands down.

[dthompss]

@Metal - >>Silver Ridge is much easier to hunt...<<
Meaning more animals? Easier to transverse?

>>Yukon are just red bushes with the same trees everywhere, very repetitive to hunt there in my case.<<
Hmmm... this is different from previous posts in this thread. Do any of the animals eat the red bushes (grin)?

Regardless, I'm going to walk around Yukon first and see what happens. I know Hirsch so well, it's a little hard to make the change.

[dthompss]

I found a map-display of general animal locations for Yukon under GUIDES but don't see one for SRP. Can you point me in the right direction plz? I'd like to look at both.

[Humpenstilzchen]

I don´t think that most animals are drinking and that the rest of the map is less populated. I´m not one who exclusively goes to water sources and I keep finding animals and needzones everywhere on each map.
I was just thinking that if you only go to lakes you only keep finding drinking need zones ;)
But it could also all be coincidence and this guide is also not 100% accurate, I have found quite some needzones already of species in areas where the guide does not show them. I assume the guide is correct for the most part, but not 100%.

[Humpenstilzchen]

I kind of agree that the drinking takes to much time.
Maybe they should lower the duration of the drinking, no animal in the world drinks for several hours.
They should roam more instead.

[Humpenstilzchen]

I think the reason why it appears like SRP has a higher animal population is the fact that there are so many good sniping spots where you can look far into every direction and hence you see more animals.
It´s snipers paradise.

[MetalMind85]

@dthompss: Silver Ridge is easier to hunt, because there is a lot of animals everywhere. I'm not sure if that reserve is more populated or animals are placed more on open areas. You can harvest animals every minute sometimes.

And about those "red bushes areas" - I know that on Alaska terrain can look like that but IMO it is bad implemented in Yukon. A large part of the map looks very similar, you just walk through the same bushes and red ground, it looks weird in my opinion and can become tiring after short time. The problem is that this "red area" is not varied at all, looks the same everywhere.

I must agree with others that weather changes and snow failing is nicely done.

[dthompss]

@dc2dixon

Those are the highest resolution maps I've seen yet, major tkx. I also found this but I wonder if depending on all these info packages aren't taking from realism:

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1331327250927599459/02C4E102F4ED3B980A9C9095E251C5B395490DE5/