Unlock all outposts in every map from the get go, please.

[the.lovewyrm]

Why would the location of outposts be secret/hidden?
Rhetorical question.
Unlock em. I'm playing a hunter, not a conquistador.

[Nite69]

They aren't secret actually just look for dead end roads on the map, thats ussually where they are, use the ATV to get to them

[the.lovewyrm]

They aren't secret but I have to look for them?
You're sending mixed signals.

[Nite69]

Originally posted by the.lovewyrm:

They aren't secret but I have to look for them?
You're sending mixed signals.

well if ya want to find them faster you have to activate the lookout points in the area, but you sounded like you didn't even want to do that so dead end roads is another options to find them

You can also setup tents if you have that DLC and use those as fast travel points, but you can only have up to 16 per map, if you can't be bothered to look for the outposts you can instead move your tents around as you work on each area of the map

[the.lovewyrm]

Yeah, or the devs could unlock all the outposts from the get go, because we're playing a licensed hunter, and not a poacher, or invader, or whatever.
There is no need to not make them accessible from the get go, other than padding.

You get a map, but you have to trek to every outpost first? Even though they're furnished, have connections to the market, etc.

It's tedium. Needless tedium. The animals are random anyway, so being able to travel to any outpost immediately is not a big deal.

[NuCkEnFuTs]

Or you could just play the game as it was designed,. Hunt, explore and discover. You want someone to shoot your animals for you too?

[the.lovewyrm]

How does unlocking the outposts from the get go diminish exploration and discovery?
The outlook posts are already marked. Why aren't they hidden? Why don't they need to be discovered and found?
(Because you can't fast travel to them)

How do you make the leap from me wanting the outposts available from the start to wanting others to shoot the animal for me?

[CEAuke]

I have to agree. I didnt buy the ATV pack. I like quick hunts. Pick an area, fast travel there. Maybe pay the sleep price for the right time of day and then spend a short time hunting (until I find one or two animals). I literally put a weight on my keyboard to run in a straight line to unlock the outposts and do something else in the mean time. If I have to walk from one outpost to another its' really just tedium. I will most likely get distracted by some animals and not reach it anyway and if I ignore all animals, I'm playing just a walking simulator. Hardcore fans, I'm not trying to change your game. But I support the idea of a non-'ironman' mode for the more casual gamer.

[Bedoune]

Originally posted by CEAuke:

I have to agree. I didnt buy the ATV pack. I like quick hunts. Pick an area, fast travel there. Maybe pay the sleep price for the right time of day and then spend a short time hunting (until I find one or two animals). I literally put a weight on my keyboard to run in a straight line to unlock the outposts and do something else in the mean time. If I have to walk from one outpost to another its' really just tedium. I will most likely get distracted by some animals and not reach it anyway and if I ignore all animals, I'm playing just a walking simulator. Hardcore fans, I'm not trying to change your game. But I support the idea of a non-'ironman' mode for the more casual gamer.

There is an autorun key.

[CEAuke]

Originally posted by Bedoune:

There is an autorun key.

you sir, deserve a hamburger!
never again will I precariously balance my kid's lego blocks on my keys.
thanks!

[Nite69]

Originally posted by CEAuke:

Originally posted by Bedoune:

There is an autorun key.

never again will I precariously balance my kid's lego blocks on my keys.

LOL

[Leadmagnet]

Originally posted by CEAuke:

Originally posted by Bedoune:

There is an autorun key.

you sir, deserve a hamburger!
never again will I precariously balance my kid's lego blocks on my keys.
thanks!

Better on the keys than on the floor.....

[Mom_Kat]

You also get XP and in game cash for 'discovering' outposts. I hunt my way from outpost to outpost sometimes, sometimes I run, other times I use the ATV. It's part of the game, just like the missions. If you really can't handle the time to walk / run, then invest in the ATV pack. It's like $4 USD regular price—less on sale

[the.lovewyrm]

Yeah, I know you get some xp (don't get me started on that system though, I consider it relief from negativity instead of a positive climb ) from that.
But you also get xp and cash for hunting. What if I read about the mountain lions in silver ridge peaks and want to hunt them with my friends, in MP, and we're all new.
Well, guess we all have to collectively walk or drive there.
Or the outposts could be unlocked. If I am interested in mountain lions because I'm hyped for them, then I don't care about the 'lush explorable landscape over yonder' as much anyway, and I'm focusing on the lush explorable landscape in mountain lion territory.

Almost EVERYTHING in this game is beautiful, and allowing the player to go to every outpost, from the get go, does not diminish that.

I was half fuming at the game when I was doing the last bits of the silverridge mountains single player story mission, but despite me having had wroth in the pit of my stomach, I still went wide eyed at this beautiful, meadow like plateau in the northern part of where I was at that point and thinking: Man having a house here would be so awesome.

And this was with rage in my belly, exhaustion from the errands of the NPC voice mail (which I lost identification with long ago at that point because at one time three of the narrators voice lines were playing at the same time, shattering the remnants of believability there) and having explored other parts of the map.
And this particular spot STILL stood out.

And now imagine that without all the rage, without having to slog through errands and doing the rigamarole (and really, the spots ARE somewhat obvious on the map, sometimes they even have light spots in the dark).
I would have loved that meadow just as much, if not more.

[Nite69]

Originally posted by Mom_Kat:

You also get XP and in game cash for 'discovering' outposts. I hunt my way from outpost to outpost sometimes, sometimes I run, other times I use the ATV. It's part of the game, just like the missions. If you really can't handle the time to walk / run, then invest in the ATV pack. It's like $4 USD regular price—less on sale

if only the ATV was faster though, the 20 - 30mph speed limit is too slow for some maps :/ it took me a while to get all the outposts done even with that, the game has 10 maps total now so that is alot of time just to get those active I can kinda see the op's complaint about it

[Bedoune]

Originally posted by CEAuke:

Originally posted by Bedoune:

There is an autorun key.

you sir, deserve a hamburger!
never again will I precariously balance my kid's lego blocks on my keys.
thanks!

Ahah, you're welcome, thanks for the hamburger sir !