Nepal -- No Rhesus Macaques // No Purchase

[jungle.james]

https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/after-sri-lanka-nepal-debates-exporting-its-problematic-monkeys/

[Wooki]

very different animal to all others in game

[jungle.james]

Originally posted by Wooki:

very different animal to all others in game

Alligators were different to all others in game when Bayou launched.

[ULTRA]

Originally posted by jungle.james:

Originally posted by Wooki:

very different animal to all others in game

Alligators were different to all others in game when Bayou launched.

and they work like poo poo caca to this day

[juj]

add macaques now

[jungle.james]

Add the rhesus macaque. A Nepali map requires pest control.

[CarrotCube]

The unwritten law of new maps is this:
Only one new rig per map.

We'll have the Tigers, the macaques are veryveryveryvery unlikely, although id love them

[jungle.james]

Originally posted by CarrotCube:

The unwritten law of new maps is this:
Only one new rig per map.

We'll have the Tigers, the macaques are veryveryveryvery unlikely, although id love them

Maybe they can rig some primate for another African map, or Central America.

[CarrotCube]

oh, hopefully, but there is no way to know, sadly

[Bot 2.0]

Are you dumb, stupid or dumb? For monkeys they have to do all the work from scrach. And those are very intelligent, social animals. They will require a ton of AI. Monkey climbing trees require a ton of animations, and they have to re-code all trees in the game for collision. They will be soooooo buggy that u dont want them, believe me. They will be facing down standing on a branch upside down etc. All types of bad positioning you can imagine. And this will ruin ur hunt missing shots beacuse monkey is bugging around from tree to tree.

[s.aitken88]

Monkeys would be super hard to make.

That being said, now that the game is firmly in its 'completed' stage, I do find it odd that they aren't investing all their time into creating new animal mechanics. So much time between updates as well.

A prior comment said that alligators were a major new addition. Personally I don't see it. They're the same as every other creature in the game, with a typical frame, walk/run/idle animations and some basic parameters set for when to warn, when to run, when to attack (if at all), etc.

I feel all the animals are extremely formulaic, there is no difference in hunting technique between any of them.

[jungle.james]

They didn't fit any frame that existed at the time. Additionally water and depth had to be coded in for them. Some primates live entirely on the ground. Roos were also a new rig as well.

Very much doubt that this game is in "completed" stage or is some legacy sunset. They're still working on theHunter.

[Sylveadiff]

Ground primates might be doable at some point, but it's part of the same reason I don't mind there not being squirrels even though I'd *love* just a wall of them in my lodge. The raccoons that are already in the game can't climb, and as someone who interacts with raccoons on a regular basis they just look dumb running between all of the trees when trying to get away. They'd need pathfinding for the trees which would also mean they need proper collision for said trees, and that's probably not going to happen.

[Findus]

Apparently there were squirrels in the game at the very beginning, but I don't know if they climbed trees (at least the part with collisions). My guess would be no.

As for primates: Yeah, very unlikely / hard to do, and in my opinion also not something that a significant part of players would find important.

[jungle.james]

Surely they're not lacking in funds nor interest to make tree and ground primates a possibility at this point.

[Leadmagnet]

Originally posted by Findus:

Apparently there were squirrels in the game at the very beginning, but I don't know if they climbed trees (at least the part with collisions). My guess would be no.

As for primates: Yeah, very unlikely / hard to do, and in my opinion also not something that a significant part of players would find important.

The squirrels ran on the ground and didn't climb trees or at least not that I ever saw. Squirrels and the weasel/mink were just something in the background to make the world seem more alive. Pity they got removed about the time EW started adding more animals to existing maps.

Given the collision models of some trees stopping an arrow in mid air; I'd hate to have to shoot something out of a tree.