Hey hunters,
Hope all is well on your side of the globe! Here at EW we are settling in in the new office (more on this below) and adding a final touch to Whiterime Ridge, as it’s almost ready – that close! – for you to set your feet in.
The starting five
As you already know, Bison, Sitka Deer and Snowshoe Hare will be residents of the new reserve. Time to reveal the last two members of the starting five – they are our good ol’ Moose and a new species Arctic Fox.
The Arctic Fox is based on the Red Fox but with nice, silky and – oh my! – so fluffy fur. On the pictures you can see the snow white animal but don’t be surprised when you come across another common variation – blue, which is simply stunning.
Some of you may wonder why Moose and not Caribou was chosen as One of the old guard for the sub-arctic reserve. Well, the reason if the existing Reindeer’s migratory behaviour and the shape of Whiterime Ridge where such gameplay wouldn’t be possible. In order to put Caribou into it, we would have needed to reprogram animal’s AI which would not be feasible at this moment.
Pre-release livestreams
Next week you’ll get a chance to see Whiterime Ridge with your own eyes during our traditional pre-release livestreams. This time, with help of hunters of our international community, we are able to offer it in 5 languages! Here’s the video announcement of the English and German livestreams and below you can find the dates, times and details of streams in other languages.
Times and dates of the pre-release livestreams:
English: Monday, October 5th at 19:00 CEST
Streamed by Pratze, joined by Killertut and aljona
You can watch it on this channel
German: Monday, October 5th at 21.30 CEST
Streamed by Pratze, joined by ForstHeld and Killertut
You can watch it on this channel
Italian: Monday, October 5th at 21:00 CEST
Streamed by members of theHunterItaly (beke87, 682, DiCy, LEO86, baluuto, scartuccio)
You can watch it on this channel (the link will be working at the time of the stream)
French: Monday, October 5th at 21:00 CEST
Streamed by Valentin992, joined by Aquila_Foios, Florian18, oscar2215
You can watch it on this channel
Spanish: Monday, October 5th at 21:00 CEST
Streamed by members of theHunterSpain (Metroid2, cibermax, juagarzo)
You can watch it on this channel
Hope you’ll be able to make it to one of these snow feasts!
Graphics Update
For the last months we’ve been working on some graphics improvements which will be implemented together with Whiterime Ridge. I’ll write a bigger, more detailed post with release notes later, but here is a sneak peek of just two improvements of many.
This shot shows the higher accuracy of the terrain lighting (the small hill to the right was previously lit incorrectly) as well as the updated lighting model.
This shot shows the improved shadowing of the grass for high and very high shadow settings.
Hunters’ new home – The Night Owl!
Last week, together with our mother company Avalanche Studios, we moved into new shiny headquarters with such a cool name the Night Owl. In case you want to come by and say hello (and you totally should!), our new address is Västgötagatan 5, Stockholm.
To make our office space looks truly theHunter’esque, we of course threw some some stuff around. Here’s a small collage of theHunter artifacts – do you know what they are and what relation they have to EW? The first person who will get all of them correctly (in forum thread replies) will receive something nice 😉
Game issues
Last Friday we experienced a server outage which lasted for about 8 hours and affected the majority of players. As a compensation for this lack of service we’ve added 2 days to all active memberships. You can read a more detailed statement on this here. We are very sorry about this.
And yet another persistent issue that has been plaguing many bear barrels and hog feeders in the last weeks – inconsistent and incorrect bait amount has been being displayed in the launcher and in game. We have been looking into this but were not able to pinpoint the cause of this problem yet. We’re continuing to investigate and after the issue is fixed, we’ll find the way to reimburse you for the lost bait if any.
Raffle winner
The lucky winner of our .45 – 70 Lever Action Rifle raffle is Fr_bugs! He was picked by the script from 2000 hunters who have increased their Hunterscore by 10 in the last week and will receive the rifle at the Whiterime Ridge release.
That’s it for today!
Happy hunting!
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