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Become the new owner of a hunting lodge nestled among gorgeous habitats and rich animal populations. Explore vast open world environments and hunt with a premium selection of firearms. Enjoy the perfect hunt on your own or with friends in co-op.
Way of the Hunter is a adventure, hunting and shooter game
developed by Nine Rocks Games
and published by THQ Nordic.
Released on August 16th 2022 is available only on Windows
in 16 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Russian, Czech, Turkish, Japanese, Hindi, Indonesian and Slovak.
It has received 8,953 reviews of which 7,111 were positive and 1,842 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.8 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 2.99€ on Steam with a 90% discount.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: 64bit OS - Windows 10
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 3 3100 / Intel Core i3-8100
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 960 / Radeon R9 380
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 19 GB available space
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As a real hunter in real life of 30 years of experience , and someone who has played all the arcade 90s hunting games and the Gamecube / ps2 Cabelas era til now. I will say this game is the best overall hunting experience on the market. TCOTW is horrible compared to this bad boy, and hunting sim 2 is a different experience altogether. Overall WOTH takes the bag in my expertise book , if you want a real challenge play on ranger mode and never use your camera as a drone!! Then you will see the whole beauty WOTH has to offer. P.S get a utv asap or the dlc you will need it and thank me later!
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What's the difference between Way of the Hunter, and The hunter: Call of the Wild; and which is my favorite. In this little essay I will figure that out by comparing Way of the Hunter to The Hunter: Call of the Wild. First, let's get a little background. Way of the Hunter is a realistic hunting simulator, while Call of the Wild takes those aspects and simplifies it for a more casual experience. Way of the Hunter (WotH) is a realistic hunting sim made by 9 rock games, and THQ Nordic. It features 6 maps, 4 being DLC, and a pretty good variety. Call of the Wild (CotW) is a more casual simulator made by EW (Expansive Worlds), and published by Avalanche Studios. It has over 50 DLC’s which mainly include Cosmetics; other DLC’s are reserves, dogs, lodges, guns, etc. It has over 15+ different reserves. Starting maps. WotH has Translvania, and Nez Perce Valley. Featuring over 20+ different species including Brown bear, Black Bear, Moose, etc. The maps aren’t overly brushy with foliage though. CotW has Hirschfelden, and Layton Lake; both maps have 9 unique base game species. Unlike WotH, Hirschfelden is REALLY bushy. Layton Lake after the update is kinda empty of animals. WotH gets a 8/10, CotW gets a 7.5/10 for starter maps. DLC maps. CotW has GREAT maps… and some mid maps, mostly great though. The only mid maps are maps that are really bushy. Best maps include Yukon Valley, Silver Ridge peaks, Askiy Ridge, and Emerald Coast. Way of the Hunter has 4 DLC maps… they suffer none of the problems CotW has… EXCEPT horrible variety. Yeah with 4 maps you’re not gonna get top tier variety compared to CotW. Even with “Bushy” maps, none of the CotW DLC maps are bad in MY opinion. One side note, I find CotW maps to be way more beautiful, and saturated; with cool unique areas. CotW gets a 8.5/10, while WotH gets a good solid 8/10. Animal behavior. Cut to the chase, WotH already wins. Even though WotH has the BEST animal behaviour, CotW still has TOP tier animal behaviour. CotW 8.9/10, and WotH gets 11/10. Difficulty. Way of the Hunter, even at its lowest difficulty is still PRETTY hard to be honest. CotW takes all THAT and makes it way more simplified. This subject is pretty depending on the player preference, but I definitely like CotW difficulty more. I’m not huge on spooking an animal before I’m even 300 meters away. Easy mode fixes some of my problems, but CotW is way more casual. Animal Designs. I think design wise, WotH is slightly better. Because of the CotW Grizzly bear, I went down a rabbit hole to find out the reason it's so big. SO, fun fact grizzly bears are actually SMALLER than Brown bears, which is what got me SO confused why Grizzlys are rated a level 8, while brown bears are rated a level 7????. After plenty of research; I came to the conclusion.. They based it off the Alaskan Peninsula Brown Bear. Which is an Alaskan brown bear/ Grizzly. A subspecies only rivaled in size by the Polar Bear, and Kodiak Bears; and the only reason it doesn’t get on the bear podium is because grizzlies are smaller in the lower 48… so… yeah. Over all, it comes down to personal preference. (my favorite is CotW if I didn’t make that clear.)
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Well-made and enjoyable, but not for me. I'll still give it a positive review, but if you plan on buying this, go into it knowing that it's a very slow paced, strategic game.
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Really nice game - but please fix the hitboxes. Hitting a hog with a 300. in the neck and it runs 300-400 meters aint real. They usually falls on spot even with a 223, come on. Cheers
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As stated in another review, it would be difficult to review Way of the Hunter without comparing it to COTW, since that's what most folks who enjoy this genre are familiar with. Let's get into how Way of the Hunter does things. - Environment graphic with recent update is way more better than CotW. I cannot look at CotW graphic any more due to bad render distance and close range is worse than WotH. - Hope dev will add tracking dog soon. - Animal behavior seems more realistic. One spooked animal will, in turn, spook the whole herd. Hunting pressure can cause animals to completely avoid an area for a while. Deer, elk, etc. all seem to graze or "feed through" a zone rather than standing stationary for the entire feeding session. Deer will turn their ears and flick their tails while they feed, periodically raising their heads and looking around. Also, whitetails will show their trademark white tail when fleeing, and mule deer have that graceful mulie hop. I've yet to see a herd return to a need zone in the same day after being shot at. - Animal aggression is a recently added feature. I've only experienced it once in-game so far, in which I was charged by a single mountain goat after spooking the entire herd. Seemed a little...arcadey. You can look back through the patch notes to get an idea of their initial implementation of aggression. Not a huge fan of how they've set it up, but I'm sure it will be refined as the developers continue making improvements. - Weapon ballistics are much better than COTW, factoring in bullet velocity, gravity, wind, elevation, and coriolis (so I'm told). Terminal ballistics is measured in joules, and each animal has a range of joules (low to high) which is most effective for an efficient kill. You aren't punished for overkill in the trophy lodge (doesn't lower trophy rating), but the idea of overkill and reduction of harvestable meat does result in lower monetary payouts for using "too much gun". - Blood trails are one of my favorite features of the game. If you turn off the glowy bits in the UI settings, you must actively search for blood, which may be on the ground, on the grass, or on the stem of a bush the deer ran through. Blood has different colors based on what organs were (or weren't) hit, and different impurities (such a bubbles or bits of grass) to help you determine if you made a good shot or not. - The maps are big...more that you'll want to try to walk acoss, and very detailed. The terrain geometry is well done, and I've yet to see tears in textures or seams where two sections of the map meet. Overall, the scenery is gorgeous. - Graphically, it looks good. The anti-aliasing could be toned down a bit, but I run a sharpening filter through the nVidia overlay to reduce fuzziness and film grain. - Performance is good. - WotH solves my single biggest issue with COTW - its locked 480m render distance. Way of the Hunter will render as far out as your system will handle, which makes proper spot-and-stalk hunting much more realistic and fun. - All hunting stands are prebuilt and spread around the map. Most that I've found so far have been in decent locations. - Herd quality (overall trophy ratings) can be improved by removing low-fitness males from the herd (culling). This will, over time, give you more opportunity to take a nice trophy animal. Killing females will lower the overall population of a herd. So, while WotH may not offer the customization features or some of the quality-of-life features of CotW, it represents hunting better in the things that matter - animal behavior, natural beaty, and ballistics. And, I'm perfectly okay with that. I'd rather the developers put the time and effort into making a proper hunting game than a hunting arcade with too much feature creep. Overall, I'd say if you're one of those who wish CotW had more realism, then add Way of the Hunter to your library. You won't be disappointed.
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Way of the Hunter is currently priced at 2.99€ on Steam.
Way of the Hunter is currently available at a 90% discount. You can purchase it for 2.99€ on Steam.
Way of the Hunter received 7,111 positive votes out of a total of 8,953 achieving a rating of 7.75.
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Way of the Hunter was developed by Nine Rocks Games and published by THQ Nordic.
Way of the Hunter is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Way of the Hunter is not playable on MacOS.
Way of the Hunter is not playable on Linux.
Way of the Hunter offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Way of the Hunter includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.
There are 19 DLCs available for Way of the Hunter. Explore additional content available for Way of the Hunter on Steam.
Way of the Hunter does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Way of the Hunter does not support Steam Remote Play.
Way of the Hunter is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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172
Developer
Nine Rocks Games
Publisher
THQ Nordic
Release
16 Aug 2022
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