Electronic Caller

[Advanced Nap Techs]

If I buy it or not will depend on the range.

1 caller the covers everything may seem attractive at first, but I can pull any caller I want at my tent and use them on the move. I presume the electronic caller will be something you need to deploy, being in the Ambush Hunting pack and all.

But ft it has much greater range over all the existing callers? *That* would would be attractive.

[astreamuser]

It's one caller per map, weight is 5 units, attraction strength is 30, range is 200 meters. Most existing callers have 200m range and 40 attraction. So it's not as good, they probably don't want players to abuse the device or use it as a replacement for the existing callers.

[DopaTrain]

Will be useful for completing missions and acheivements where you have to down an animals at a set range.

[McMurgh]

Its range is apparently the same as the existing callers, but if both trad and electronic were to be applied in tandem with some clever manoeuvring it could mean double range, yes?

[astreamuser]

Well, maybe. Here's the new info from today's stream for those who didn't watch it.

- E-callers can also attract alligators.
- Can't use it within 200m from a outpost. Jaxy didn't mention if tents quality, but i'm guessing they do.
- In multiplayer the e-callers cannot overlap. Not sure what this means, it wasn't explained in detail.

Jaxy did not mention if the range of a traditional caller can overlap with the range of the e-caller. This would allow for double range. But even if they allow it, the chance of this happening would be very low. Assuming 200m range, 40% attraction chance for a traditional caller and 30% for the e-caller, this translates to 12% chance calling from 400m. Not very practical.

Edit:
Another option would be to use both the e-caller and traditional caller from the same position. So 40% chance for the traditional caller and 30% chance for the e-caller translates to a 58% chance for a successful call. Anyone know if this already possible? Currently there are callers that can attract the same animal. Does using one after the other increase the chance?

[Geronimo]

Other than whether they stack or not, and the lesser attraction ability, what exactly is the difference between the callers?

Why would we use an e-caller rather than the traditional caller?

[astreamuser]

Jaxy mentioned that traditional callers attract to the player, whereas the e-caller attracts to the location. So he is saying that if the player calls and then moves 100m away, the animal will be attracted to the player? Is this how existing callers work?

[astreamuser]

Dev diary here

https://callofthewild.thehunter.com/dev-diary-quist-red-pro-electronic-caller/

confirms that double range isn't even possible (with e-callers).

[Advanced Nap Techs]

I'll probably skip buying it then.

I just don't find callers that good for ambushing; the range isn't there. 200m is tiny and I know from experience you can sit for an hour real time and never pull anything in.

The traditional callers can be useful, if you're already on the trail of an animal and you want to lure them a little closer or get them to move out of some brush. But that's stalking.

The "remote activation" of the e-caller doesn't really entice me either. Because that's how the traditional callers work already: you call in the middle of a field and then creep back into your blind/bush of choice, because they're attracted to the spot you made the call.

[El Poto]

Yeah I don't see the point of this thing. When regular callers are already frustratingly ineffective this new device will have even less attraction capacity?

[PESCADOU]

ONE caller per hunting card , what will the callers cost if I want to install them on all my cards ?

[astreamuser]

Originally posted by F YUKONTRAPPER:

ONE caller per hunting card , what will the callers cost if I want to install them on all my cards ?

Nothing. Placing one on the map will not remove it from the storage. So it will still be available for use on the other maps.

[PESCADOU]

Originally posted by astreamuser:

Originally posted by F YUKONTRAPPER:

ONE caller per hunting card , what will the callers cost if I want to install them on all my cards ?

Nothing. Placing one on the map will not remove it from the storage. So it will still be available for use on the other maps.

Thank you for the answer.

[ULTRA]

Isn't that funny how the animals can hear you jogging from ~150 m away and most callers other than the fowling ones can only be heard from ~200 m away?

Imagine either running so loudly that it's like you're shouting, or alternatively only being able to call so quietly that it's like the sound of breaking twigs and tumbling rocks

absurd

[Advanced Nap Techs]

No denying the sound system in the game is bad. Everything from movement being too loud and calls being far too quiet, to the bug that causes animal sounds to play from the wrong direction still being a thing with no word of it ever being fixed.

[DopaTrain]

Originally posted by Geronimo:

Other than whether they stack or not, and the lesser attraction ability, what exactly is the difference between the callers?

Why would we use an e-caller rather than the traditional caller?

I guess when you use normal callers the animals approach head on to you. If the e caller is placed and you move off to a flank the animals are more likely to present a broadside profile. Also they are less likely to detect you l would imagine.