Howdy hunters,

Long time no hear! Well, two weeks to be exact which, for some of you (and certainly for me) feels like a long time. Things have been pretty intense here lately. We’ve been planning the roadmap for the upcoming year as well as working hard on the wolves, overhauling our black and brown bears and our seasonal competitions, to name just a few things.

Wolves

Wolves WIP

The client programmers have been head over heels in wolves. As we told you before, we wanted to do them properly, do them justice and portray them as the smart and iconic creatures they are, and this is what we’re committed to. Right now our Canis lupus are howling, interacting with each other and – oh yeah – feeding on dead animal carcasses when they’re feeling hungry. Everything still needs a lot of work and some polish, but we’re getting there. Stay tuned for more grey news in future updates.

Mid-November Madness
Our Mid-November Madness event is over. It was a marathon, I know, but you did it. Here are the final leaderboards from each of the divisions. Congratulations to the tenacious winners and everyone else who have managed to get a score on the leaderboard. This is quite an achievement in itself!

• Hard Core Division
• Elite Division
• Division 1
• Division 2
• Division 3
• Division 4
• Division 5
• Division 6
• Division 7

Thanksgiving

From Mid-November Madness straight into a Turkey fest! Because nothing can make your holidays better than hunting some gobblers in the EHR, right? 😉 We’ve prepared for you some tiered Turkey competitions, a set of lovely missions, and of course Thanksgiving inspired sales and a bundle for those of you new to Turkey hunting. (And do need I need to mention that popping by theHunter tomorrow would be a frugal idea? ;))

Here are the unique trophies you will get for placing top 10 in the competitions; the last one with a slightly disheveled Turkey can be won by completing the Special mission.

Holiday event
If Turkey hunting is not your cup of tea, wait for next week when we’re launching our traditional Holiday Countdown event, during which we will keep you busy throughout the whole month of December, until Christmas. More news next week!

Last but not least
I thought I should mention that no, we haven’t forgotten about your questions in the recent Ask Us Anything thread. We will answer them. I can’t give you an ETA, because I’m cautious about poking some people on the team right now, as they are ultra busy and slightly grumpy, but as soon as the holiday mood (and successful wolf release) makes them all happy and fat with gingerbread cookies, we’ll get the ball rolling on that one.

That’s it from us for today, see you in the woods and happy hunting!

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Howdy hunters,

I am back in Stockholm to meet what apparently has been the worst snowstorm in over 100 years, with theHunter team fighting it through the snow to the office to create the most (amazing) realistic game ever created. It’s been a fun week.

Mid-November Madness

The holiday season is (almost) upon us, and we will be kicking off next week with our Mid-November Madness event. It will be truly mad and not for the faint-hearted, so you might want to clear your diaries next weekend, just in case 😉 You can expect to hear more on this next week.

Wolf Gameplay
There have been a lot of questions about wolves so far, so I wanted to shed some light in this area. For one, whether they will come to any reserve other than Timbergold Trails. The answer is not in the beginning, but we are not excluding this as a possibility for reserves where it would make sense.

There are a lot of players contemplating whether wolves will be dangerous animals capable of attacking hunters. The answer is no.

As you know, wolves are highly social animals and this is the key to their success in the wild. This will be reflected in theHunter by the new group behaviour and AI, for example as our wolves will feature pack behaviour with different levels of hierarchy within their groups. Also, our wolf packs will communicate with each other via howling which will also work as a special call.

There will be more news to come on their game design which we will slowly share with you. As you can hopefully understand, it’s a totally new feature with tons of code to be written, and our programmers are really hard at work making this happen. We are super hyped about this but we are very much aware that features like this take a lot of fine tuning to be made perfect. And we want this to be perfect, so we are counting on your patience 🙂

.22 “Plinkington” wood

Yesterday we released our favourite small game rifle, .22 Plinkington, in a beautiful wood variation that was asked for from the beginning. We’ve also bundled it together with some great duck equipment and put it in the store at a very attractive discount – check it out.

Patching issues
Finally, we are aware of the patching issues with the web launcher which some of you are experiencing and we can assure you that we are treating this as a high priority and will do our utmost to get it fixed ASAP. We cannot make any promises on timescales, as we haven’t been able to pinpoint the source of the problem yet, but we will get there.

Happy hunting!

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Howdy hunters,

The wait is over, the 11th of the Evergreen Hunting Reserves, Timbergold Trails, inspired by the stunning Rocky Mountains, is here and should be downloading onto your PC as we speak.

A couple of quick points before you delve into this glorious fall environment.

• There are five species currently residing in Timbergold Trails – Mule Deer, Grizzly Bear, White-tailed Ptarmigan, Bighorn Sheep and Rocky Mountain Elk. All five species will be on free species rotation until next Thursday, October 27th.

• There are a currently some known issues with the reserve (you can find the detailed list in “In Progress” part of the Game Update). We will continue working on those as well as polishing and tweaking the reserve, we are planning to release a patch as soon as possible. So, if you encounter any rough edges, please don’t sweat it, just report them in the forum and we will jump on them!

• We are running a promotion campaign until Monday, October 24th, during which time you will get Deployable Hunting Towers when buying 2000, 3000 and 5000 em$ – 1, 2 and 3 towers respectively. Hopefully they will come in handy in the vast wilderness of Timbergold Trails!

• The rifle that many of you have been waiting for so long, is now in the store. The .340 Weatherby Bolt Action Rifle!

• In the bundle section of the store you can find a special Timbergold Trails Release bundle with weapons, clothes and equipment, at 70% off!

Happy hunting in Timbergold Trails!

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Howdy hunters,

Just a short update from us this week since it’s all hands on deck here in the studio as we near completion of the eleventh reserve of the EHR!

Rocky Mountain Elk

Meet the next new inhabitant of Timbergold Trails, the upcoming Rocky Mountain inspired reserve. The majestic Rocky Mountain Elk. All screenshots are work in progress and actual models may be subject to change prior to release.

Compound Showdown 2016

The results are in and it’s official, team Pulsar took the win. Well done and thank you to everyone who participated, regardless of which team you joined. The prizes and trophies have now all been awarded. We hope you enjoyed the event!

Pre-release livestreams

You’ll soon get an opportunity to see Timbergold Trails with your own eyes. As tradition dictates, we’ve planned a series of pre-release livestreams. Once again, with the help of hunters from our wonderful international community, we’re able to offer the livestreams in three languages – English, German, Spanish and Italian! Here’s the video announcement of the English livestream, and below, you can find the dates, times and details of the streams in other languages.

English: Tuesday, October 18th at 19:00 CEST
Streamed by Pratze, joined by our very own JohannaS and HooCairs
You can watch it on this channel

German: Tuesday, October 18th at 21.00 CEST
Streamed by Pratze, joined by ForstHeld and Fape19988
You can watch it on this channel

Italian: Tuesday, October 18th at 21.00 CEST
Streamed by members of theHunterItaly (EBEALIEN, 682, LEO86, baluuto, NaNo666, DR4GON3RO) and joined by our Lead Programmer Roberto!
You can watch it on this channel (the link will be working at the time of the stream)

Spanish: Tuesday, October 18th at 22.00 CEST
Streamed by montero72, Juagarzo and metroid2.
You can watch it on this channel

Lock&Learn

There will be no Lock&Learn session this week, since Johanna is tied up with preparations for the upcoming Timbergold Trails pre-release livestreams. Normal Lock&Learn schedule will resume next week.

Holidays

I’m heading off on holiday from the middle of next week, so for the next 3 weeks it will be Philipp and Johanna that will keep you updated. I apologise in advance, but will not be able to respond to private messages or forum posts during this time

That’s it from us this week. We hope to see you all on the livestreams. Happy hunting!

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