Did they break the weather simulation?

[Soltyk]

I noticed while hunting moose on Layton, there is west wind and sunshine every day between 12 and 4 pm. I didn't really realize it at first because I had the HUD turned off, it was more of a hunch. Now, after turning it back on, I was able to confirm that the weather simulation is running Groundhog Day.

I'm quite sure the weather and especially the wind has been more random in the past.

Is this just a problem with my save game or do you see this too?

[DanthemanBoone]

That is the way the weather is.
In COTW the wind goes through the full 360 degrees during the course of the day and wind direction follows the same pattern every time you hunt. At any time you like to check the wind will always be pretty much from the same direction at the same time every day. Time and direction is the same on every map.
Some settings on some engines are termed "Global settings" such as sunrise and sunset times, while I dont have experience with this engine I have worked with others which require globals to be used for weather parameters. In some engines all maps are in one world and the settings apply to every map, but in other engines each map can be programmed to different weather patterns.
In theHunter Classic for example the wind always blows primarily from south east to north west and is also always constant on every map.
In Deer hunter 2005 the sunrise and sunset times are set according to the longitude and latitude settings and calendar choice, the weather is either rain or snow and wind direction changes and is entirely random.
Its actually helpful that you can know where the wind will be from and adjust your hunting pattern to suit. Knowing a need zone time and wind direction at that time allows you to set tents and blinds or stands to the most advantages positions.

[Tigershark1968]

They broke a lot of stuff. I have found at least 10 new bugs. I'm pretty much done with this game now until they actually really fix it. Way Of The Hunter doesn't have this absolute total frustration going on. Due to the dev's changing positively everything because of cry babies that complained about deer management and putting the brakes on everyone harvesting animals easily, the game is broken to all hell now.

I wish people had not begged for change, because with such changes, games get broken almost beyond repair. This game reminds me so much of the garbage that EA's Dice crew did with the Battlefield series. Patch after patch they made their game a different game than we all signed up for, and they promised. All due to people that couldn't handle the game wasn't exactly their type of vanilla, and trolled until they forced change.

People will complain about everything, creators shouldn't listen to those people. Create your game and fix what is actually broken. If people want a lot of other stuff changed for personal preference, then save it for the next game and start over fresh when the time comes. Changing stuff nearly weekly breaks stuff. I wish this game was exactly where it was about 5 months ago. It was near perfect for what it was, and now the chance of ever seeing that near perfect game is surely gone.

I am seriously debating if this game is worth my time now. A sad thing to have to say, but I am not into walking sims and that is what this game is turning into fast with the terrible hit markers, tracks dissapearing, animal corpses going invisible, and animals getting away when they near death according to blood trail info. The broken dog is the icing on the cake. Hey, want a $45,000 dog that licks his #$%@'s all day? Add in the ridiculous levels of geese noise, ducks and other chatter that just deafen you when you are trying to actually have fun. Dev's listened to absolutely the wrong people. As they often do.

[Poltergeist]

Originally posted by Tigershark1968:

They broke a lot of stuff. I have found at least 10 new bugs. I'm pretty much done with this game now until they actually really fix it. Way Of The Hunter doesn't have this absolute total frustration going on. Due to the dev's changing positively everything because of cry babies that complained about deer management and putting the brakes on everyone harvesting animals easily, the game is broken to all hell now.

I wish people had not begged for change, because with such changes, games get broken almost beyond repair. This game reminds me so much of the garbage that EA's Dice crew did with the Battlefield series. Patch after patch they made their game a different game than we all signed up for, and they promised. All due to people that couldn't handle the game wasn't exactly their type of vanilla, and trolled until they forced change.

People will complain about everything, creators shouldn't listen to those people. Create your game and fix what is actually broken. If people want a lot of other stuff changed for personal preference, then save it for the next game and start over fresh when the time comes. Changing stuff nearly weekly breaks stuff. I wish this game was exactly where it was about 5 months ago. It was near perfect for what it was, and now the chance of ever seeing that near perfect game is surely gone.

I am seriously debating if this game is worth my time now. A sad thing to have to say, but I am not into walking sims and that is what this game is turning into fast with the terrible hit markers, tracks dissapearing, animal corpses going invisible, and animals getting away when they near death according to blood trail info. The broken dog is the icing on the cake. Hey, want a $45,000 dog that licks his #$%@'s all day? Add in the ridiculous levels of geese noise, ducks and other chatter that just deafen you when you are trying to actually have fun. Dev's listened to absolutely the wrong people. As they often do.

I agree with you. They took what made this game fun for me and destroyed it.

It's worth noting they have a long, long history of breaking things when they patch the game.

The irony is that these changes only encourage me to play more WOTH. In terms of challenging simulations, WOTH has this beat hands down. COTW's strength in comparison was its gameplay. You could approach the game like "Hunter Skyrim", and that made it great fun for those not obsessed with "hunting realism".

[Soltyk]

Originally posted by DanthemanBoone:

That is the way the weather is.
In COTW the wind goes through the full 360 degrees during the course of the day and wind direction follows the same pattern every time you hunt. At any time you like to check the wind will always be pretty much from the same direction at the same time every day. Time and direction is the same on every map.[...]

I agree with you to some extent. It's just the way I remember it, there was a southerly wind in the morning and and a northerly wind the rest of the day, both with random changes to east and west. It never was that predictable.

[Tigershark1968]

I think I may just at least have solved one issue I was having. If any of you have terrible hit detection suddenly going on out of nowhere you may need to do one or both of these things. Go to menu, then exit the game. That fixes it sometimes. However, I just changed my FOV and adjusted it 10 higher, and all of a sudden my aim was true again. I just shot a half dozen animals where they dropped nearly in their tracks after adjusting the field of view settings. All heart shots once again. I know others are having this issue too. Try it out and see if FOV tweaks help you. You may have to adjust up or down, and by less than the 10 up I had to do to get things back on track in hit detection.

[Tigershark1968]

Originally posted by Poltergeist:

Originally posted by Tigershark1968:

They broke a lot of stuff. I have found at least 10 new bugs. I'm pretty much done with this game now until they actually really fix it. Way Of The Hunter doesn't have this absolute total frustration going on. Due to the dev's changing positively everything because of cry babies that complained about deer management and putting the brakes on everyone harvesting animals easily, the game is broken to all hell now.

I wish people had not begged for change, because with such changes, games get broken almost beyond repair. This game reminds me so much of the garbage that EA's Dice crew did with the Battlefield series. Patch after patch they made their game a different game than we all signed up for, and they promised. All due to people that couldn't handle the game wasn't exactly their type of vanilla, and trolled until they forced change.

People will complain about everything, creators shouldn't listen to those people. Create your game and fix what is actually broken. If people want a lot of other stuff changed for personal preference, then save it for the next game and start over fresh when the time comes. Changing stuff nearly weekly breaks stuff. I wish this game was exactly where it was about 5 months ago. It was near perfect for what it was, and now the chance of ever seeing that near perfect game is surely gone.

I am seriously debating if this game is worth my time now. A sad thing to have to say, but I am not into walking sims and that is what this game is turning into fast with the terrible hit markers, tracks dissapearing, animal corpses going invisible, and animals getting away when they near death according to blood trail info. The broken dog is the icing on the cake. Hey, want a $45,000 dog that licks his #$%@'s all day? Add in the ridiculous levels of geese noise, ducks and other chatter that just deafen you when you are trying to actually have fun. Dev's listened to absolutely the wrong people. As they often do.

I agree with you. They took what made this game fun for me and destroyed it.

It's worth noting they have a long, long history of breaking things when they patch the game.

The irony is that these changes only encourage me to play more WOTH. In terms of challenging simulations, WOTH has this beat hands down. COTW's strength in comparison was its gameplay. You could approach the game like "Hunter Skyrim", and that made it great fun for those not obsessed with "hunting realism".

I completely agree. I love Skyrim for just that reason. Same with Far Cry New Dawn. An absolutely terrible main game, but one of the best arcade hunting simulators you'll ever find on Steam. I highly recommend others buying that game on a fire sale, just to enjoy the hunting on it. So I have near 400 hours in that game, basically just hunting animals in it. To most of my friends amazement, as many have commented at what a terrible game it is, and how can I have that many hours on it. Red Dead Redemption 2 has a stellar hunting sim portion of their game. As did GTA 5. I often played Red Dead more to hunt animals than to play the actual main game. No scratch that, I totally did play the game pretty much for the hunting. I've gotta be honest with myself and others on that one. :P

[Thorstorm]

Originally posted by Poltergeist:

Originally posted by Tigershark1968:

They broke a lot of stuff. I have found at least 10 new bugs. I'm pretty much done with this game now until they actually really fix it. Way Of The Hunter doesn't have this absolute total frustration going on. Due to the dev's changing positively everything because of cry babies that complained about deer management and putting the brakes on everyone harvesting animals easily, the game is broken to all hell now.

I wish people had not begged for change, because with such changes, games get broken almost beyond repair. This game reminds me so much of the garbage that EA's Dice crew did with the Battlefield series. Patch after patch they made their game a different game than we all signed up for, and they promised. All due to people that couldn't handle the game wasn't exactly their type of vanilla, and trolled until they forced change.

People will complain about everything, creators shouldn't listen to those people. Create your game and fix what is actually broken. If people want a lot of other stuff changed for personal preference, then save it for the next game and start over fresh when the time comes. Changing stuff nearly weekly breaks stuff. I wish this game was exactly where it was about 5 months ago. It was near perfect for what it was, and now the chance of ever seeing that near perfect game is surely gone.

I am seriously debating if this game is worth my time now. A sad thing to have to say, but I am not into walking sims and that is what this game is turning into fast with the terrible hit markers, tracks dissapearing, animal corpses going invisible, and animals getting away when they near death according to blood trail info. The broken dog is the icing on the cake. Hey, want a $45,000 dog that licks his #$%@'s all day? Add in the ridiculous levels of geese noise, ducks and other chatter that just deafen you when you are trying to actually have fun. Dev's listened to absolutely the wrong people. As they often do.

I agree with you. They took what made this game fun for me and destroyed it.

It's worth noting they have a long, long history of breaking things when they patch the game.

The irony is that these changes only encourage me to play more WOTH. In terms of challenging simulations, WOTH has this beat hands down. COTW's strength in comparison was its gameplay. You could approach the game like "Hunter Skyrim", and that made it great fun for those not obsessed with "hunting realism".

COTW was never supposed to be arcade, it became that way because of bad changes through the years, they're going on the path of theHunter Classic which is a great thing.
I love the way the game is now, sweet spot between realism and arcade.

Btw WOTH is a terrible hunting game.

[sneakybass]

Originally posted by Tigershark1968:

They broke a lot of stuff. I have found at least 10 new bugs. I'm pretty much done with this game now until they actually really fix it. Way Of The Hunter doesn't have this absolute total frustration going on. Due to the dev's changing positively everything because of cry babies that complained about deer management and putting the brakes on everyone harvesting animals easily, the game is broken to all hell now.

I wish people had not begged for change, because with such changes, games get broken almost beyond repair. This game reminds me so much of the garbage that EA's Dice crew did with the Battlefield series. Patch after patch they made their game a different game than we all signed up for, and they promised. All due to people that couldn't handle the game wasn't exactly their type of vanilla, and trolled until they forced change.

People will complain about everything, creators shouldn't listen to those people. Create your game and fix what is actually broken. If people want a lot of other stuff changed for personal preference, then save it for the next game and start over fresh when the time comes. Changing stuff nearly weekly breaks stuff. I wish this game was exactly where it was about 5 months ago. It was near perfect for what it was, and now the chance of ever seeing that near perfect game is surely gone.

I am seriously debating if this game is worth my time now. A sad thing to have to say, but I am not into walking sims and that is what this game is turning into fast with the terrible hit markers, tracks dissapearing, animal corpses going invisible, and animals getting away when they near death according to blood trail info. The broken dog is the icing on the cake. Hey, want a $45,000 dog that licks his #$%@'s all day? Add in the ridiculous levels of geese noise, ducks and other chatter that just deafen you when you are trying to actually have fun. Dev's listened to absolutely the wrong people. As they often do.

You sure your commenting about the right game ,or are you talking about way of the hunter. That game needs another year before Its all patched up. Animals freeze when killed, animals spook out of site even over mountains, you even have to walk so slow even when your hundreds of yards away or they spook . Just look at their message boards , on there site . the way things are going the devos may never finish It. But you go on and play It If you think It runs so good..All games have glitches maybe you did not know that hunting games sure do so far. COTW does have a few glitches nothing game breaking on my game.With all the changes COTW makes your going to get some.

[sneakybass]

Worried about the weather got to be kidding me.

[Soltyk]

Originally posted by sneakybass:

Worried about the weather got to be kidding me.

You better shut up noob.