YMMV / WolfQuest

• Awesome Music: The soundtrack, sounding like guitar music from an action Western film.
• Fan Nickname:
  • Bob the Bear, for bears. (They later gave a nod to this by naming one of their store items "Bob the Bear Toy".)
  • The Bunny Flower, a known spawn spot for hares, near the starting point and the pond behind it in Amethyst Mountain.
  • The Moontree, a dead tree surrounded by live ones near the Specimen Ridge pack territory, often used in roleplay. (The name is a reference to the Moonstone and Moonpool in the Warrior Cats series.)
• Good Bad Bugs:
  • In a pre-Slough Creek version of the game, there was a glitch where after every encounter with a stranger wolf, your wolf's speed stat would go up. If done enough times, it became possible for you to run all the way from one corner of the game world to the other in about thirty seconds, rather than the several minutes it would normally take. This was later fixed.
  • The limit of each stamina/strength/speed slider is determined by where the other two sliders are. Some people discovered a glitch where you bring your Strength stat all the way down (making the speed and stamina both be almost at the maximum level), and then click at the top of the Strength bar. The Strength slider would move there without changing the still-at-a-high-level speed and stamina, giving you near-maximum stats on all three. A fix was implemented where this glitch would not make a significant difference in the game compared to a wolf with normal stats, and a second one removed the possibility of making them all “maximum”.
  • If, when scaring off a stranger wolf, you pressed "Escape" to pause the game just as it started to run away and looked at your player stats, you'd see that your experience points kept going up and up and up. This has been fixed.
  • The Godspeed or Dogspeed glitch, which has since been removed. If you pressed C when loading the game or dying in multiplayer, your wolf would start running incredibly fast (and unable to stop) without your stamina ever going down. To stop the glitch, you needed to enter a message in the chat.
  • "Floppy the Moose," a humorously glitched female moose that can be triggered to spawn if you follow a series of steps.
• Growing the Beard: Anniversary Edition is considered this for the whole series.
• Memetic Mutation: During the time only Amethyst Mountain was out, lots of players roleplayed as evil 'pupkillers', even though there were no pups available in the game at that point, even in singleplayer.
• Scrappy Mechanic:
  • In 2.7, pups drown immediately when dropped in water. There is a mission where you must carry them all across a river, and for whatever reason you have a very limited grip strength so you can only carry a pup for a very short amount of time. If you leave a pup alone too long while getting another, a predator can kill and eat them. This can get worse playing this mission in multiplayer, where Griefers or misguided role-players will drown them deliberately, disrupting the game. Anniversary Edition addressed this issue by giving pups a limited ability to swim.
  • 2.7's territory mechanic. You're given an extremely small half-circle around your den that you have to mark constantly, hindering doing anything else, or predators will get in and try and kill your pups. It's not fun, and it's not even realistic or educational because wolves have far, far larger territories than that. This is another thing that was addressed and revamped in Anniversary Edition.
• Most Wonderful Sound:
  • The short bit of music at the end of the game as the camera lifts above the trees and circles your wolf.
  • The little thump as the bull elk you've been chasing for the last ten minutes hits the ground.
• Player Punch:
  • The mate respawns when killed, but the pups stay dead.
  • Anniversary Edition gives you the option to toggle if mates are fully killable, so now you can also be "punched" by your mate dying if you want that for some reason, such as more realism or the added challenge.
• Paranoia Fuel: In an old glitch, when your wolf respawned after dying, you would see a second player beacon on the map where you died, and if you went over to it, you would find your old body lying on the ground!
• Popular with Furries: The game is very popular with wolf fans, especially because it used to be free (old version still is.)

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