Layton Lakes Trophy Lodge is actually on that reserve map!

[VictoriaHuntress]

you can find it just southeast of Cheelah Lake.
Start at the Mount Leviathan Outpost cabin, and follow the footpath trail to Cheelah Lake. It's about 650m due north of the outpost.

At first I thought it was randomly placed (you'll see why when you get there and look around), but Geronimo confirmed that it's at the same spot on his map.

You can also read our discussion about it on Geronimo's Layton Lake Lodge thread.

[SpidersInABirthdayCake]

When I saw it, it made me wonder if the African lodge is placed in some random off map spot on Vurhonga somewhere.

[Haddock_Dundee]

Found it thanks to Victoria indications. Also a couple of black deers and Elks along the way. See my screenshots for Lodge interior. Funny.

I wonder if this is a test place for devs?

[VictoriaHuntress]

Originally posted by SpidersInABirthdayCake:

When I saw it, it made me wonder if the African lodge is placed in some random off map spot on Vurhonga somewhere.

I'm wondering the same thing. Perhaps the LL trophy lodge is in Hirschfelden too.

[Findus]

The African lodge sits (at least used to sit) on a flat square piece of land that hangs in the air, or rather simply ends. You can jump over the railing via some pots or similar and explore the environment.

[James]

Can you interact with the lodge?

I find it very nice to see that lodge in the environment. Still - I need to get back to Layton and find it 😀

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by James:

Can you interact with the lodge?

I find it very nice to see that lodge in the environment. Still - I need to get back to Layton and find it 😀

It's interactive but no taxidermy

Just go to cheelah lake mountain cabins and then go up the hill following the lake on the same side.

[VictoriaHuntress]

Update: I heard back from JaxyBeard on my Discord message to him about the lodge. Apparently it was accidentally left in the game in the last update, and will be removed in the coming update. Jaxy thought it was a cool thing and pushed to have it left in the reserve, properly aligned, but alas, no.

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by VictoriaHuntress:

Update: I heard back from JaxyBeard on my Discord message to him about the lodge. Apparently it was accidentally left in the game in the last update, and will be removed in the coming update. Jaxy thought it was a cool thing and pushed to have it left in the reserve, properly aligned, but alas, no.

Well I have to ask the obvious....I wonder if it could be responsible for any of the glitches that some are experiencing.

[El Poto]

Originally posted by VictoriaHuntress:

Update: I heard back from JaxyBeard on my Discord message to him about the lodge. Apparently it was accidentally left in the game in the last update, and will be removed in the coming update. Jaxy thought it was a cool thing and pushed to have it left in the reserve, properly aligned, but alas, no.

Right. Because, God forbids, we might end up with something cool and actually reasonable to have in game for a change. When I first opened the game, after the showcase update, I went crazy trying to locate the lodge, in the map. Because, I distinctly remember being referred to as "Layton Lakes Trophy Lodge". Then I thought, oh no, don't tell me these guys are so dull they only made it accessible via a menu, and yes, they were.
Are they afraid we'll later be asking for another one for Hirschfelden? Seriously, what's wrong with this guys?

[VictoriaHuntress]

Originally posted by El Poto:

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Right. Because, God forbids, we might end up with something cool and actually reasonable to have in game for a change. When I first opened the game, after the showcase update, I went crazy trying to locate the lodge, in the map. Because, I distinctly remember being referred to as "Layton Lakes Trophy Lodge". Then I thought, oh no, don't tell me these guys are so dull they only made it accessible via a menu, and yes, they were.
Are they afraid we'll later be asking for another one for Hirschfelden? Seriously, what's wrong with this guys?

Yeah, I hear that.
It is a trophy lodge after all, and the game already has a well-defined mechanism for managing them and travelling to them, so it makes reasonable business (and engineering) sense to continue to use it.

I'd agree that being able to place a trophy lodge physically on every map, to be able to access and use it from inside the world (by fast travel or ground travel) would be a very cool feature. I'll bet that they were working on a prototype for something like the above new mechanism, and somehow a bit of it ended up in the official version of the code. It does make you wonder how that was able to slip through the cracks and not get noticed, though.