The developer´s bad decision

[JOKIN MADNESS]

The developers, instead of adding the whole fishing as a big dlc/update, they will make a separate game.

They missed the essential oportunity to make this game huge, the best on the genre, the biggest hunting game and most complete and diverse, making secure the first position of the whole genre since it has dozens of dlcs and a years of advantage.

Now, new hunting games with massive potential are appearing (Way of the Hunter) and others in development (Ultimate Hunting). They have even the jeep vehicles, dozens of species on each map, and features that we are still wating here since years.

Hundreds of players are migrating. Despite of having variety of maps, DLCs, etc, we were asking for mechanics and features that never were deliver, and now, the most expected and wished one, will be in a separate game instead being the greatest expansion addition on the base game.

I can understand the decision of the developers to make a different game, but i hope they understand what this suposse for COTW. It is the beginning of the end.

[JOKIN MADNESS]

Right now, the half of the playerbase of COTW is playing Way of the Hunter, both with +4400 players

[ATOMIC]

I think the decision was just fine. I can see the benefits of having it together, but I think the benefits of having it separate outweighs them.

- The title doesn't suit. "theHunter: Call of the Wild" doesn't imply fishing at all. This means less players deciding to get this game for fishing.

- Players who do realize this game had fishing would be forced into buying the DLC as well as the game just to play what they want to play.

- Players who do not want fishing have to deal with storage of the game being at least double what it is now because that's how this game is set up. The size of each reserve DLC would be at least doubled as well.

- Release would be extremely slow because every single existing reserve DLC would have to be updated with fishing.

- The experience while fishing would be poor when all of the code for hunting and managing the AI of animals on a map would have to continue simultaneously.

- Since reserves are designed for hunting, some reserves will likely be a very poor fishing experience with very few and/or small fishing locations.

- It is possible that the UI could get too cluttered trying to display information relevant to hunting and fishing simultaneously.

- Bug fixes would take much. much longer because as code gets more and more lengthy and complex, the maintainability and readability of code becomes exponentially poorer.

[JOKIN MADNESS]

i bet 100% that they make a separate game becouse they can not handle all new bugs and coding changes.

[James]

Not to mention the additional fish AI to be added on top of the animal AI...
I guess the fish entities would not be as demaning visually (all, or most, happens beneath the surface), but they would still have to be handled within a frame.

I like the idea of using existing maps for the Angler, but honestly, there are just a few places around all those beautiful maps that present a good visual shore environment. It needs to be re-baked also including running water this time...

[BJWyler]

Doom and gloom posts are so amusing. The devs made the correct decision. This is a hunting game. I play it for the hunting. If I want to fish then I play a fishing game.

It never ceases to amaze me how people simply cannot comprehend the idea of playing more than one game. I certainly can play CotW and any other hunting game without "quitting" the other. If any of these other hunting games prove to be any good, then I will play them in addition to CotW.

[DopaTrain]

It would be a technical nightmare...

[Leadmagnet]

Devs said in a live stream that in order to do fishing "right"; it'd have to be a completely separate game. Given how things wind up broken with basically every new map or DLC; I'd say they made the right call. I guess if you want a hunting/fishing combo....there's always RDR2.