The Hunter: Call of the Wild and the AR15 DLC’s children killer gun

[Muty Ny]

The Hunter: Call of the wild and the AR15 DLC’s children killer gun

I was reluctant about purchasing a hunting game. I love animals and I don’t like their suffering. The Hunter changed my mind about hunting. It gave me a new perspective of ecosystem regulation and showed me the difference between culling and killing as it penalises the later and rewards the quick animal death. I learned how important it can be to balance the predator’s dominance over it’s prey and vice versa. But then came the AR15 DLC to change that all.
I am a convicted atheist after being raised to be a catholic and believed for many years that death was just a passage to a new stage of existence. How wrong I was. Life is the existence so death put the end to it and killing is the ultimate serious act.
We are the consequence of many causes that allowed us to live but that does not mean we are not important. We evolved as our fellow animals in a struggle for survival and we’ve reached a position of dominance. Such status also brings a huge responsibility: we can outbalance our ecosystem if we wrongly use our human power.
The Hunter was a delicious surprise on using the power we achieved for a balanced ecosystem, promoting regulation over killing spree through a campaign story showing that culling is not killing. It rejected animal suffering by the use of traps and rewarded the quick ending by accuracy rather than power. My respect for that kind of hunting grew and this game, although it’s only a game, was simulating that to the perfection.
Then came a DLC which introduced the AR15 as a hunting gun. That was and still is disgusting!
How could they try to mask a killing machine as a hunting weapon? That gun lost the contest to be the US armed forces weapon to kill humans, not to hunt. That weapon is the prefered weapon of mass shooters, of children killing massacres. That DLC only tried to wipe the AR15’s reputation as a “clean” gun. It tries top make us forget the splattered brains of children in their school rooms. That I won’t forget. The AR15 was NEVER designed to be a hunting gun but a murderous gun even if in a war context.
I was so disgusted that I stoped playing the game. I was playing a game that gave money to a company using a murder weapon as a mean of earning money. It has been almost two years since I stopped playing The Hunter with the horrific imagination of not only children but people being killed, not culled, with that gun.
Should I care about Americans being slaughtered with the AR15? Americans don’t seem to, at least a vast portion of them. So why should I stop playing a game that promotes a murder gun and enriches a software company? Maybe Americans deserve it? Maybe they deserve to live in fear of their children to be slaughtered with less pity and concern as we as hunters give to a wildebeest. Maybe the developers of “The Hunter: Call of the Wild” care more about their wallets than all the humans assassinated by the gun they so subtly try to clean of horrific reputation.
Should I also not care about 3rd graders being killed with AR15 or other weapons?
Who cares about Americans anyway, right? The developers don’t, so it seems… so let’s have fun playing while other get rich over horrors. Yes?

[Carstein83]

Yeah good point...during my last GO Grind I shot 2.500 Fallow Deer to regulate the ecosystem

[Challie63]

You do know that more people are killed in America, annually, by HANDGUNS than AR's, don'y you?

[Old Fox]

there is a difference between AR15 that OP is talking about and the DLC in COTW game

The AR 15 is a fully automatic weapon ( military version ) and on COTW is a single shoot rifle as many others hunting weapons ( some with more knockout power than AR15 )

so i understand the point of view of the OP ( and agree ) but related with the comparison between game and USA- Real life i don't

[Muty Ny]

Originally posted by Challie63:

You do know that more people are killed in America, annually, by HANDGUNS than AR's, don'y you?

Yes, the AR 15 has not the record of murders in the USA but it became a symbol of it and should not be whitewashed as a mere hunting gun.

[Muty Ny]

Originally posted by Old Fox:

there is a difference between AR15 that OP is talking about and the DLC in COTW game

The AR 15 is a fully automatic weapon ( military version ) and on COTW is a single shoot rifle as many others hunting weapons ( some with more knockout power than AR15 )

so i understand the point of view of the OP ( and agree ) but related with the comparison between game and USA- Real life i don't

The relation between the game and real life in USA is that the game soothes the image of a military weapon (like you correctly pointed) as a normal hunting gun, just as I replied to Challie63. Using it in COTW has the same effect as actors smoking tobacco in the movies promoting that it's not that bad to smoke without having to directly advertising it.

Fortunately for us here in Europe, there are strict laws forbidding the use of guns, in some countries even tasers or mace are not allowed. Still, criminals manage to get it and cause pain and sorrow that otherwise they could not achieve. So the concern is mainly about the citizens in the USA. Even though they are not my fellow country nationals that is not an excuse to disregard their lives or any kind of living creature on Earth.

I can understand that in a war we want the best weapons to "dissuade" the enemy, so the AR 15 belongs to the battlefield, not in the hands of civilians. That gun became the symbol of mass murders because it is so efficient to kill, specially children and teachers.

Still relating with a hunting game, I believe the Founding Fathers wanted to protect the right to bear hunting weapons as a mean of survival, not as a fratricide way of defence. but hey, I am not American, I am just a philosopher and a dreamer.

Thank you for your reply, I wish you well.

[StupidSexyBigChunga]

surely this was written by chatgpt?

[Muty Ny]

Originally posted by StupidSexyBigChunga:

surely this was written by chatgpt?

Why, do I sound really intelligent? I am real and I use my brain.

[Kaned Dragon]

Stop feeding the trolls.

[ULTRA]

Originally posted by Muty Ny:

Originally posted by StupidSexyBigChunga:

surely this was written by chatgpt?

Why, do I sound really intelligent? I am real and I use my brain.

Just wait until your brain finds out about what the Mosin-Nagant M38 (which the Solokin MN1890 is modeled after) did

[Muty Ny]

Originally posted by ULTRA:

Originally posted by Muty Ny:

Why, do I sound really intelligent? I am real and I use my brain.

Just wait until your brain finds out about what the Mosin-Nagant M38 (which the Solokin MN1890 is modeled after) did

You have missed the point. And are you threatening me?

[res052cd]

What a ridiculous post. I am an American, have lost friends in a mass shooting and I own one myself, as do many people I know. AR's don't do the mass shootings, mentally ill idiots do them. The AR-15 that any civilian can buy in the U.S. is a semi automatic (full auto are military only and illegal), just like any other hunting rifle. As pointed out earlier, handguns are involved in mass shootings more than an AR style rifle.

If it wasn't for the media, activists and politicians trying to villianize the AR-15, it would only be thought of in relation to any other hunting rifle or self defense weapon.

Kudos to the devs for creating the modern rifle DLC, it's the one I use the most.

[Muty Ny]

Originally posted by res052cd:

What a ridiculous post. I am an American, have lost friends in a mass shooting and I own one myself, as do many people I know. AR's don't do the mass shootings, mentally ill idiots do them. The AR-15 that any civilian can buy in the U.S. is a semi automatic (full auto are military only and illegal), just like any other hunting rifle. As pointed out earlier, handguns are involved in mass shootings more than an AR style rifle.

If it wasn't for the media, activists and politicians trying to villianize the AR-15, it would only be thought of in relation to any other hunting rifle or self defense weapon.

Kudos to the devs for creating the modern rifle DLC, it's the one I use the most.

I know there are many who think like you and that is why that gun was not banned already. But since you are an American, should I stop caring about so many that are killed by an AR 15 handed by an American idiot? If so, then you are right to praise the devs for nurturing the gun, I mean money rules, right?

Please remember that I really like the game and the reasoning it instils about hunting, I just think that the AR 15 is really a very bad choice, a poor decision and a disregard for your friends who were murdered.

Aren't there more hunting guns in the USA? Why such a symbolic one is being promoted?

[misfitsailor]

There is a lot of BS in some of these posts regarding the AR15. No Ar-15 ever produced is full auto, they are all semi-auto. I hunt IRL with ARs in 3 different calibers, none of them 5.56 or .223. This is a popular weapon with real hunters. A good hunting simulation should make any and all guns available that actual people use to hunt. If you don't like guns, use the bows. Woke troll anti-everything BS.

[Muty Ny]

Thank you all for your opinions. I have mine and I keep saying that regardless of this being a game or not that the AR 15 was a terrible choice to make it appear as a mere hunting gun.
I can express my opinion as much as yours and if you don't like this topic then do not participate. If you have the right to bear arms, I have the right to express myself and ask if such a symbol needed to be promoted by a game that I like but stopped playing it over my beliefs.
All guns kill, even bear hands can do it. I simply deplore the poor decision of the devs.
You have made it clear to me: who cares about Americans being massacred?
Thank you and have fun.

[Tigershark1968]

...and we're off. AI has entered the chat.