A Scottish Highlands Hunting Ground DLC

[P.H.U.N.K]

There are many great places in scotland to hunt in varying from deer stalking to grouse shooting, there are many ideas that could be brought in to give the game a new feeling such as more shotgun hunting such as (high pheasant shooting areas, low grouse shooting areas, ability to decoy wood pigeons in, highland mountain deer stalks and much more. Just a few ideas i would like anyone in the staff team to see and hopefully see if it could be considered.

[Ivory]

Don't forget some foxes, boar, wild goats and sheep.

[Paleo Jake]

Interesting. Any new reserve is a good idea, simply because it means MORE HUNTING FUN.

[P.H.U.N.K]

i was hoping for grouse and pheasant stands where the birds can spawn high or low in flocks like a real shoot and you can have multiple hunters in multiple stands getting different heights and differenet angles.

[Mitchbus]

Just hope the developers see this, very good suggestions!

[P.H.U.N.K]

It would be, i think i was banned from the hunter discord for posting the link of this discussion in the correct place.

[P.H.U.N.K]

I really hope the developers see this aswell @Mitchell as the scottish highlands offer alot of different types of hunting.

[McSqurl Nugget]

+1 for this map.

Scotland is on my bucket list to visit, go golfing where it started, would be fun to hunt there also, i might have to go twice!

[TamponTimmy]

I live in the UK. Hunting here is so heavily controlled any kind of hunting map for Scotland (as opposed to say Scandinavia) is going to have a lot of problems.

Bow hunting is illegal in Scotland. Crossbows are illegal.
All wild birds are protected. You can't shoot ducks or geese. Only reared game like pheasants. Prison for swans. The Queen owns those.
Fox hunting has been illegal since 2004.
Badgers, bats, dolphins, hedgehogs, pine martins, otters, red squirrels, all protected and off limits.
It is illegal to hunt deer using vehicles, such as Land Rovers and quad bikes so no ATV.
It is illegal to use night sight goggles for hunting.
It is illegal to use artificial lighting (lamping).
It is illegal to shoot any bird at all whilst it is roosting.
Illegal to hunt deer at night, full stop. Deer Act 1991.
Pump action shotguns (any with more than 3 cartridges) are illegal.
You can also get a jail sentence if certain animals suffer 'unnecessarily' as you hunt and shoot. I'm guessing any 0% quick kill is going to land you in the slammer.

There is a reason there is such a limited hunting scene here in the UK. Now I get its just a game and you can be artistic with the law, but in the face of so many problems with UK hunting ... why not just do a reserve in Canada or Scandinavia instead? Why do you have to call it Scotland?

[dogshocker]

I'd love a Scotland type reserve with plenty of small game. To my mind, shooting moose is generally boring because you'd have to be a blind, parkinson's sufferer to miss a target the size of a commercial van ! Shooting duck, fox, lynx, etc. takes loads more game skill and I find it much more fun....even a bit realistic. I've seen so many posts here..."where are all the ducks"....just like real life, lol !

We're in this place again though re a Scotland map....game ethics......like TT says, it makes things a little difficult.

Hunting in the UK is very, very controlled and nine times out of ten, you'll have to hunt on a private estate/reserve, usually on a driven hunt, or special estate culls, if you want to avoid prosecution.

Still...nice idea though...and it doesn't have to be called 'Scotland'.

[Mitchbus]

Originally posted by TamponTimmy:

I live in the UK. Hunting here is so heavily controlled any kind of hunting map for Scotland (as opposed to say Scandinavia) is going to have a lot of problems.

Bow hunting is illegal in Scotland. Crossbows are illegal.
All wild birds are protected. You can't shoot ducks or geese. Only reared game like pheasants. Prison for swans. The Queen owns those.
Fox hunting has been illegal since 2004.
Badgers, bats, dolphins, hedgehogs, pine martins, otters, red squirrels, all protected and off limits.
It is illegal to hunt deer using vehicles, such as Land Rovers and quad bikes so no ATV.
It is illegal to use night sight goggles for hunting.
It is illegal to use artificial lighting (lamping).
It is illegal to shoot any bird at all whilst it is roosting.
Illegal to hunt deer at night, full stop. Deer Act 1991.
Pump action shotguns (any with more than 3 cartridges) are illegal.
You can also get a jail sentence if certain animals suffer 'unnecessarily' as you hunt and shoot. I'm guessing any 0% quick kill is going to land you in the slammer.

There is a reason there is such a limited hunting scene here in the UK. Now I get its just a game and you can be artistic with the law, but in the face of so many problems with UK hunting ... why not just do a reserve in Canada or Scandinavia instead? Why do you have to call it Scotland?

You are just over complicating things my friend. Do you think the developers really thought about the law ? it's not like its illegal to hunt animals in a virtual space.

[TamponTimmy]

I just don't know what animals you expect to find in Scotland that you couldn't find in say Norway where its perfectly OK to murder them any way that you like. Make a Norway map. You could add a little aurora borealis to the night sky and Santa's cabin whilst you are at it.

[P.H.U.N.K]

Hi Tampontimmy i appreciate you giving your feedback on my idea however as a keen fieldsports enthusiast in the uk, I can tell you there is alot of hunting that goes on in the uk that maybe your just not aware off. To avoid this becoming an argument, for the sake of it being a game i dont think listing a set off laws (within reason) is necessary as then you can totally blow this game and all other games off the steam marketplace.

[TamponTimmy]

I'll clarify why I don't like the idea. Then leave you to it.

In the UK, you can hunt, but its very constrained. This means if you go hunting for partridge, that's all you are going to shoot. You aren't going to come across a deer and shoot it. No way, no how.

If you go out hunting for deer, you aren't going to blast a goose flying overhead.

COTW is about finding whatever animal and hunting it there and then. Its not about going out for an entire day and only looking for one species. If I get a license or permit to hunt red deer, I'm not going to pick off a fallow deer in Scotland because I don't know who owns it and I don't have permission.

So I just think Scottish hunting is the wrong type of hunting for COTW. I don't think it fits the game and just think Scandinavia would give you all the animals you want with none of the "Scotland? Are they sure this is Scotland?" added.

Ultimately it doesn't matter anyway. The devs will make whatever maps they want. I doubt they give two hoots what we suggest. They'll build say Eastern Europe and say "See, some of you asked for this and we did it!" but they could easily do the same with Australia or India or China or anywhere else on earth. They've had everywhere suggested at this point so they can build whatever they want and claim it is user feedback. Sneaky so-and-sos.

[Snail Rancher]

Originally posted by TamponTimmy:

In the UK, you can hunt, but its very constrained. This means if you go hunting for partridge, that's all you are going to shoot. You aren't going to come across a deer and shoot it. No way, no how.

If you go out hunting for deer, you aren't going to blast a goose flying overhead.

COTW is about finding whatever animal and hunting it there and then. Its not about going out for an entire day and only looking for one species. If I get a license or permit to hunt red deer, I'm not going to pick off a fallow deer in Scotland because I don't know who owns it and I don't have permission.

That is pretty much the case in most areas where hunting is allowed: you don't just get a license for shooting any and all random animals you happen to encounter. So if EW was to follow the standard you are suggesting, there would either be no COTW at all, or at best a very boring game. Fortunately images of animals on a computer monitor are not real animals, and real laws don't apply, and EW has the good sense to understand that.

I would love a Scotland map, btw, esp. with feral sheep.

[P.H.U.N.K]

thank you snail for understand what i was coming from i was struggling to put it into words myself and sort off gave up the arguement as i saw it as pointless.