theHunter: Call of the Wild™ News

Howdy Hunters!

The TruMULE update is now live! This patch brings the TruRACS system to Mule Deer and a nice list of fixes and improvements.

PC 1.60
New Features:
🆕 Mule Deer TruRACS

Bugs fixes:
🐛 Fixed weapons disappearing from the Weapon Manager whenever a gun was removed from a gun rack
🐛 Fixed various trophy lodge issues related to legacy save files (from before June 2019), including legacy Trophy Rating showing up as zero and Saved Harvests being wiped from Trophy Manager
🐛 Fixed Silver Ridge Peaks story missions where progress was not saved (Inner Peace, Out Chaos and The Ascent)
🐛 Fixed Silver Ridge Peaks story missions where it was possible to get stuck (Plans Are Derailed and The Poisoned Chalice)
🐛 Fixed character constantly flickering when in another player’s field of view and wearing certain items
🐛Fixed female piebald Rocky Mountains Elk using male body
🐛Fixed female piebald Rocky Mountains Elk changing to common when placed as a trophy
🐛 Fixed animal spawn areas in Hirschfelden, Medved Taiga, Vurhonga Savanna and Yukon Valley
🐛 Fixed albino Harlequin Ducks spawn rate
🐛 Fixed 420 grain arrows and bolts so that they’re suitable for animal classes 2 to 7
🐛 Fixed the recoil on M1 Garand so that it’s more manageable (The Smoking Barrels DLC)
🐛 Fixed the short range zero on .22 Andersson so that it doesn’t overshoot (Weapon Pack 3 DLC)
🐛 Fixed “Up Close and Personal” achievement so that it unlocks correctly when animal is shot under 15 meters
🐛 Fixed flagpoles at outposts so that they show the correct flag in every reserve
🐛 Fixed storage UI so that ammo no longer takes up space if its count is zero
🐛 Fixed various crashes

Howdy Hunters,

Here are the notes for today's patch, please note we still have more fixes to come out for Turkeys, Bighorn sheep etc, but this will be done in line with the console release. These are fixes we felt were hampering game play.

[h2]Bugs fixes:[/h2]

• Fixed first person animations being extremely laggy in some cases
  
• Fixed Silver Ridge Peaks story missions where progress was not saved (A Rockies Start, A Dangerous Reaction, Up High - Down Low, An Ill-advised Retreat, Setting Up, Whodunnit? and Lock It Down)
  
• Fixed Silver Ridge Peaks story missions where it was possible to get stuck (Old Haunts, Setting Up, Out of Her Comfort Zone, Plans Are Derailed, Bear with Me and The Poisoned Chalice)
  
• Fixed Whodunnit? And The Ascent story missions triggering at the same time
  
• Fixed Mountain Goats so that they have no problem fleeing up hill
  
• Fixed Rocky Mountain Elk Trophy Rating being inconsistent between harvest screen and Trophy Manager or Hunting Log
  
• Fixed tutorials about new animals featured in Silver Ridge Peaks being empty
  
• Fixed several missing and incorrect Codex entries
  
• Fixed various crashes
  

Have a great week all!

TK

Howdy Hunters!

The new Silver Ridge Peaks Reserve is out now!

It is based in the Colorado region of the Rocky Mountains, features "above the clouds" hunting and you will be able to get great tips and hints from Professional Hunting Guide, Remi Warren!

This impressive species list:

• Merriams Turkey
  
• Rocky Mountain Elk
  
• Bighorn Sheep
  
• Mountain Goat
  
• Pronghorn
  
• Mountain Lion
  
• Plains Bison
  
• Mule Deer
  
• Black Bear
  

Included in this pack is the new Alexander Longbow!

Happy hunting, make sure you have a read of the patch notes below!

Cheers

TK

[h2]Patch Notes[/h2]

New Features:

• Added support for new paid DLC: The Southern Rockies
  

Bugs fixes:

• Fixed various issues related to switching between player profiles
  
• Fixed issue that caused trophies to disappear when weapons were removed from gun racks
  
• Fixed missed shots being attributed to everyone in a multiplayer game
  
• Fixed missing grizzly bear calls
  
• Fixed sound of falling rain being persistent on blinds and tents
  
• Fixed Mule Deer so that it is scaled more accurately compared to other animals
  
• Fixed amplitude of various weather, foliage, callers, footsteps and ambient sounds
  
• Fixed goats and sheeps so that they no longer headbang while drinking or feeding
  
• Fixed collisions on antlers so that they no longer sink into the ground when animal is dead
  
• Fixed issue where some antler models were not used by the game at all, resulting in lower variety of the racks
  
• Fixed some situations where treestands were unnecessarily removed from the trees
  
• Fixed tutorial pop-ups so that they no longer remain on screen
  
• Fixed the shimmering of distant terrain and trees
  
• Fixed anti-aliasing options so that it’s possible to disable AA completely
  
• Fixed missing localization of the Red Deer TruSCORE measurements
  
• Fixed spotted animal POI so that in no longers sticks to the map
  
• Fixed some third person animations so that items no longer float above the hunter
  
• Fixed various crashes
  

Howdy Hunters!

You can now head out into the digital wilderness and harvest these Beautiful TruRACS Red Deer!

Along side these amazing animals, comes a huge list of fixes and game improvements!

Happy Hunting!



New Features:

• TruRACS: Red Deer
  

Bugs fixes:

• Fixed legacy save files sometimes overwriting current save files
  
• Fixed animation issue that caused Water Buffalo and Spanish Ibex scoring to be wrong
  
• Fixed score calculation issue with Roosevelt Elk, Blacktail Deer, Reindeer, Caribou and Fallow Deer
  
• Fixed incorrect Palm Length value on some Moose racks
  
• Fixed incorrect Circumference value on some Reindeer & Caribou racks
  
• Fixed Multi Trophy Mount disappearing from Trophy Manager after swapping it
  
• Fixed multiple photo missions
  
• Fixed various rounding issues in the harvest screen and the trophy lodge
  
• Fixed high-scoring animals being too hard to spot with optics
  
• Fixed shooting range so that in no longer consumes ammo
  
• Fixed .270 rifle sight and ammo not working properly after attaching tritium sights
  
• Fixed buying locked items by exploiting Compatible Items button
  
• Fixed binoculars and other optics to use Aim Sensitivity instead of Look Sensitivity
  
• Fixed incorrect trophy rating on females in spotting HUD
  
• Fixed incorrect weight in pounds shown in the tracking HUD
  
• Fixed incorrect weight of a Great One shown in the tracking HUD
  
• Fixed wrong placement of heart and lungs on Plains Bison
  
• Fixed horns and antlers being very glossy on the harvest screen
  
• Fixed floating Huntermate when entering a trophy lodge more than once
  
• Fixed ATV driving controls so that they can be remapped freely
  
• Fixed occasional black screen on startup
  
• Fixed various crashes
  
• Fixed various localization issues
  

Howdy Hunters,

I think about the only thing better than announcing this beta, will be when I get to announce these are released for real!!! That is right, this weekend we are running an open beta and we want you guys to go shoot all the Red Deer you can find! Oh and then wait… it gets much better. We are pretty sure the TruRACS scoring has been fixed on ALL animals! So we would like you to have a close look at the harvest screens and scoring for us as well. Then also, while you are here.. Have a look at that huge list of bug fixes!!!

Join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/ZgXDqFS there will be some raffles being held over the weekend!



New Features:

• TruRACS: Red Deer
  
• ATV controls can be remapped
  

Bugs fixes:

• Fixed legacy save files overwriting current save files
  
• Fixed animation issue that caused Water Buffalo and Spanish Ibex scoring to be wrong
  
• Fixed score calculation issue with Roosevelt Elk and Reindeer/Caribou
  
• Fixed incorrect Palm Length value on some Moose racks
  
• Fixed incorrect Circumference value on some Reindeer & Caribou racks
  
• Fixed Multi Trophy Mount disappearing from Trophy Manager after swapping it
  
• Fixed various rounding issues in the harvest screen and the trophy lodge
  
• Fixed high-scoring animals being too hard to spot with optics
  
• Fixed shooting range so that in no longer consumes ammo
  
• Fixed .270 rifle sight and ammo not working properly after attaching tritium sights
  
• Fixed buying locked items by exploiting Compatible Items button
  
• Fixed binoculars and other optics to use Aim Sensitivity instead of Look Sensitivity
  
• Fixed incorrect trophy rating on females in spotting HUD
  
• Fixed incorrect weight in pounds shown in the tracking HUD
  
• Fixed incorrect weight of a Great One shown in the tracking HUD
  
• Fixed wrong placement of heart and lungs on Plains Bison
  
• Fixed missed shots being attributed to everyone in a multiplayer game
  
• Fixed horns and antlers being very glossy on the harvest screen
  
• Fixed floating Huntermate when entering a trophy lodge more than once
  
• Fixed occasional black screen on startup
  
• Fixed various crashes
  
• Fixed various localization issues
  

It’s a chance for you to, during a limited period, experience changes to the game before they are technically “live”. It’s also a way for us to test updates without “committing” them to the main version of the game.


The Beta will be available from now, until 9am CEST Monday May the 11th


Right-click theHunter: Call of the Wild in your Steam library and click “Properties.'' A window will open, then click the tab at the far right labeled “Betas”, you will then come to a window that looks like the one below:

Please enter the following code in the box (without the quotation marks): “CalloftheWild”, then CLICK “Check Code” (just hitting enter won’t work). You should now notice that your game will start an update, this will be the Open Beta build installing.

Note: The download can potentially be large, and this will need to be re-downloaded as you switch between the live/Open Beta clients, so those on metered internet connections please bear that in mind.



Nothing. When you start the Open beta client your game will be entirely “fresh”, you’ll have no save game, cash, skills etc. But don’t worry, this has NO effect on your “live” version of the game, you can switch back and forth at any time (see the next point below).

Note: We DO have a means for you to get up and running quickly in the Trailblazer Beta. Hit “Escape” and go to the Hunt Club Beta menu, there’ll be a reward there where you can claim a large sum of credits, a big XP boost and weapon score points in all categories.

DO NOT MOVE OR MESS WITH THE SAVE FILE, IF YOU DO, YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!


Do the initial same steps as when installing the Open Beta, but when you get to the Beta tab you should not fill in a code. Instead in the drop-down box saying “Select the beta you would like to opt into:” you simply pick “None - opt out of all beta programs” and your client will run a small update. After that, you can play the normal version of the game again. You can switch back and forth between the live version and Open Beta/Trailblazer Programme at any time during the period just by using that dropdown menu.



Please use our “Beta Feedback” board on the Steam Community Hub here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/518790/discussions/13/2253433385452729981/


Yay, you’ve made it to the best part! Please see below the changelog for the Open Beta/Trailblazer Programme, this will give you some ideas about what to look at specifically when playing on it.

Note: You WILL need ownership to the relevant content on the live version of the game in order to test it in the Open Beta/Trailblazer Programme. For example, Parque Fernando specific content would require you owning that particular DLC. That being said, you can of course join a multiplayer hosted game on that reserve should you not own it yourself.

Again, please be sure to put any feedback or bug reports you may encounter (ONLY from this beta version of the game) on the new forum here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/518790/discussions/13/2253433385452729981/

And please see this bug reporting template that provides some guidelines of what kind of information that might be helpful to us, so we can easily read through your feedback: https://steamcommunity.com/app/518790/discussions/13/1735469327937280314/

Enjoy and thank you for your feedback!

/theHunter: Call of the Wild team