YMMV / theHunter: Call of the Wild

• Fan-Disliked Explanation:
  • The commonly believed reason for the Vurhonga Savanna Reserve DLC's lack of Africa's iconic animals is concerns about whether it would be controversial to let players hunt certain species, as it could be seen as poaching or involve hunting endangered species. ^note  The narration feels the need to carefully justify hunting the species that are present by saying things like they are overpopulated, or that they will be used for food for the locals, supporting this. There is as of yet no sign including them would have actually caused any controversy, and most players would rather the reserve have more variety.
  • The Mexican reserve was hinted with a gourd water canteen Easter Egg. Many players were disappointed because they assumed it would be a second African map since gourd water canteens are more associated with Africa than they are Mexico, despite being found in both places. Other players were disappointed that the reserve only has one unique animal species, with the rest being found on other maps.
• Good Bad Bugs:
  • On occasion, a single animal or even a whole herd of them will fail to run away and just stand there while you shoot them for easy XP. This is seen as an annoyance by some players because it's not fair if you happen to get a high-scoring animal this way, but others enjoy the glitch, especially when the game hand outs something good.
    • Similarly, animals sometimes get stuck on rocks, trees, or other objects when running away.
  • The photography system is badly designed enough sometimes the game will accept something random as a "correct picture" for a mission's requirements, such as say, a deer completely concealed by vegetation when its supposed to be fully visible, or even a picture without a deer in it at all. To those lucky enough to experience it, it comes as a welcome relief because of how frustrating, time-consuming, and hard these missions can be.
• Play the Game, Skip the Story: There is a very mild attempt at a narrative to the missions with the player often receiving radio calls. It is generally agreed among players that the missions are often fun to do, but that the attempt at a plot is incredibly, incredibly bland and forgettable, which is not helped by literally every "character" being either the The Ghost or The Voice as no humans other than the player are programed to appear in game. It's hard to find anything online about the plot because even the game's fans don't care enough to try to chronicle it. The game is entirely for the tension of the realistic hunting, with the missions being there to help give the player a goal to follow and a way to earn EP and money.
• Scrappy Mechanic: The photography system. Not only is it buggy as hell, the game also automatically adds each photo to your Steam account, meaning you have to manually delete photos you don't care about every time you tackle one of the photo missions. Also, for some inexplicable reason, shooting a picture of an animal often scares them away just as if you shot them with a gun instead, no matter how far away you are.
• That One Level: The photographing missions can be this if you hit a bug.

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