Map ranking

[mar]

Which order would you rank the DLC maps in?

Maybe this will help a few people to decide, which DLC to get in this Winter Sale.

My List:

1. Silver Ridge Peaks
   
2. Layton Lake District
   
3. Vurhonga Savanna
   
4. Medved Taiga
   
5. Yukon Valley
   
6. Hirschfelden

(Haven't played Cuatro Colinas, Rancho del Arroyo, Mississippi Acres, Te Awaroa National Park and Parque Fernando yet.)

[Bozzy]

1-Medved Taiga
2-Silver Ridge Peaks
3-Layton
4-Savanna

[Eanwin]

1. Medved Taiga
2. New England
3. Hirschfelden
4. Silver Ridge Peaks
5. Emerald Coast
6. Cuatro Colinas
7. Te Awaroa
8. Rancho del Arroyo
9. Layton Lake
9. Vurhonga
11. Yukon Valley
12. Mississippi Acres
13. Revontuli
14. Parque Fernando

So, first three are super nice and a long way ahead of number 4. 4-9 are really close together, I also like them. And Parque Fernando is just horrible. I like its landscape, but you cant see through the trees or below them or anything. Combine that with animals that are very skittish and you walk for hours without really making a lot of kills.
Revontuli I found nice, but I don't especially enjoy water fowl hunting, I'm more of a walking hunter. I liked the long view distances, though, and hunting extremely small birds with a bow at 80 m. :-)
Emerald Coast is really great for making money: Long view distances, medium to large animals and plenty of them.

[Geronimo]

Messaggio originale di Eanwin:

1. Medved Taiga
2. New England
3. Hirschfelden
4. Silver Ridge Peaks
5. Emerald Coast
6. Cuatro Colinas
7. Te Awaroa
8. Rancho del Arroyo
9. Layton Lake
9. Vurhonga
11. Yukon Valley
12. Mississippi Acres
13. Revontuli
14. Parque Fernando

So, first three are super nice and a long way ahead of number 4. 4-9 are really close together, I also like them. And Parque Fernando is just horrible. I like its landscape, but you cant see through the trees or below them or anything. Combine that with animals that are very skittish and you walk for hours without really making a lot of kills.
Revontuli I found nice, but I don't especially enjoy water fowl hunting, I'm more of a walking hunter. I liked the long view distances, though, and hunting extremely small birds with a bow at 80 m. :-)
Emerald Coast is really great for making money: Long view distances, medium to large animals and plenty of them.

I'm curious if you're using your binocs the way you should be as you're walking along???

I find alot of Encounter Hunters aren't scoping far enough ahead of their position, or break up their steps, to avoid scaring off animals before they ever get near them.

Try to get into the habit of taking a few steps, and stopping to scope as far ahead as you can before you start walking again. Remember that your scent carries some 250 yards ahead of you, and if the visibility meter in lower right corner isn't a flat line than you can be seen for quite a distance.

If you're just walking along without taking these things into consideration than you're not really hunting. And those chance encounters will happen alot less, meaning you will walk for long distances alot of the time without seeing anything.

And like you noted some species are more skittish, and even moreso depending on prior hunting pressure.

I think you would find Fernando and Revontuli very different than what you've experienced if you tried being more focused a little further ahead as you move along.

Try to keep an eye out for the landscape ahead trying to time your scoping breaks in your stepping so you're scoping open areas beyond that 250 yard range, in hopes that you'll spot animals long before they spot you, or sense you.

And alot of people develop the habit of using the spotting outline while just flashing their glasses across the landscape without even actually looking at anything.

Try to use your glasses the way you would IRL as though there wasn't any spotting outline. Slow down the scanning motion and actually observe what might be up there.

Just for comparison sake, check the codex under hunter stats and look for the number of animals you scare that smell, hear or see you. And than try this new methodology and check codex afterward to see if your stats improve.

[Eanwin]

Thanks for your input, Geronimo, but this is not really the place for it. Move to new topic?

[AlfalphaCat]

Good necro.

I am not gonna make a list, I have only played 5-6 of the maps. I will comment however on how high I see Mississippi on many of these lists. Pleasant surprise. I recently dove into on a whim because I found Te Awaroa a bore. I think it is a very good map, though I can see the challenge of it being why, it gets such bad reviews otherwise.

Te Awaroa, IMO, needs some work. I see how it is popular with grinders, it's a no-brainer really, but besides the lakes the map feels dead. They need to add some feed zones to the beech forests or something. Maybe have the feral pigs and goats eating in the forests sometimes, not exclusively though.

I really want to like the map, and it is beautiful, but it all kinda looks too much the same, with no part of the map drawing me in like other maps have.

Rancho is by far my favorite so far, so many different biomes and feels all in one map. All the high elevation, but really not too high, adds to the fun.

[Geronimo]

Messaggio originale di Eanwin:

Thanks for your input, Geronimo, but this is not really the place for it. Move to new topic?

Your right, not worth another thread though, just curious if you were new to game and offering a quick thought on map traveling.

[Eanwin]

360 hrs, all map DLCs, no Great One though. Mostly play the game after late shift around midnight as a kind of walking sim to cool off because of stupid customers at work. :-D

[hbyw618]

Messaggio originale di Yard-Dog®:

Here's my list:

1. Silver Ridge Peaks
2. Medved Taiga
3. Mississippi Acres
4. Vurhonga Savanna
5. Yukon Valley
6. Layton Lake District
7. Hirschfelden
8. Te Awaroa National Park
9. Cuatro Colinas
10. Rancho del Arroyo
11. Parque Fernando

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