Howdy hunters,
After a short status update break with are back with your weekly dose of news and general musings from our headquarters.
Trophy Lodge update
It’s been exactly two weeks since we released Trophy lodge and your response has been very heartwarming. We’ve received a small mountain of feedback from you and we discussed it all in depth. The hotfix patch was already released last week and more fixes and improvements are being tested right now to be included in the next one.
For one, a lot of you have been reporting troubles with reindeer trophy placement, so we’ve decided to move those from medium wall plaques to large ones instead, which we feel is a more suitable place for their abundant antlers. We also slightly lowered the position of the top wall plaque and tweaked poses for red deer and elk, worst offenders in terms of antler clipping, so after the next patch it will be easier to place your monster trophies.
Secondly, we’ll be adding two more platforms for turkey, geese and pheasants. You said (and we agreed) that one per trophy lodge is not enough.
The last and hopefully the nicest bit, we persuaded Max the Taxidermist to keep his em$ fees at 10 em$, same as during the post-release week. I guess he was pleased that you were pleased with his work and the looks of your Trophy lodges 😉
Armed with more of your feedback, we started investigating the possibility to add full deer mounts for you to be able to showcase your piebalds and albinos in all their full-bodied glory, connecting the taxidermy to shooter instead of harvester, as well as a function to visit friends’ Trophy lodges when playing single player. In general, our feeling is that this feature has been really well accepted (supported by tens of thousands taxidermied animals), so we will continue working on it and adding more bits and pieces to the whole experience.
Trophy shot bonanza competition
It’s time to announce winners for our Trophy Shot bonanza competition! The EW team picked their favourites in two categories, and here are the entries that impressed us the most:
Best Trophy Lodge shots (winners get 1050, 950 and 700 em$ respectively)
1. Riumma
2. Foxtrotter (Max_Firepower)
3. Pittie
Best Trophy shots (all winners get a Trophy lodge)
1. Dilaj
2. Gas56
3. Villkatta
We’ve also decided to give Blendy a consolatory prize of 200 em$, as their trophy shot missed the top three by just one vote.
Congratulations to the winners and thank you to everyone for creativity and participation in this community challenge, let’s do more of those!
Latest releases
Last week we put up a new pack of Rocky Mountain Elk missions designed by our community member Dillakiller – get cracking on those and earn some gm$ for your taxidermy wishes!
This week we released four new face scarves in Blazing Orange, Happy Camper, Army and Boone & Crockett styles. They look dandy and the last two also provide camo against deer species. To accompany the release of the scarves, we are running a weekend sale on all the matching clothes and dog gear. Time to get fancy. And while we are on it, is there any particular style or piece that you feel is missing from our clothing gallery and that you would like to see added?
For now that’s all from us, check next week’s status update for the results of our recent player survey and introduction of our new front-end developer Katarina.
Happy hunting!
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