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Thursday, August 10, 2023 6:25:02 PM

TheHunter: Call of the Wild - Mississippi Acres Preserve Review (AlfalphaCat)

Buy this map if you want and can handle a challenge. It's actually a large map, don't know how people can say it is small. They nailed the look and feel of the wild areas. 8/10
While there are a good bit off negative reviews, I think they are out dated now. The maps biggest problems seems to have been fixed. Gators work pretty well, and as expected, not overly aggressive, but if you stumble on them while just walking and not running they will try and getcha! Whatever others have said were broken about them seems to have been fixed. They are a little broken when it comes to spotting them with your binoculars though, don't know what is going on there. You could be 50m away from them with clear view and not be able to spot them. It's weird like you need to be able to see their belly or something. They should fix that.
They story is tame as all hell, and actually a little creepy at points. Short and to the point. I had no major bugs with it, so those seem to be fixed. If the storyline is too political for you, then you really need to get a grip on reality. I live in the South and there is no escaping it's history, and I can't see how the developers did wrong by acknowledging it in the tone downed way that they did,
Now what I will say that they got wrong, and sorta right, is the damned trash strewn everywhere there are buildings that aren't the nicer outposts. Sure there will be random crap, like tires and old cars, in peoples yards, but not trash straight up everywhere. Like trash just all around the trash cans on the ground, it's just so wrong and sort of a slap in the face. And I am not a Southerner, but I sort of take offense to it.
Some of it though is funny, like I found two toilets on the side of the road, in the middle of nowhere, grass growing through them. That is realistic, they just went overboard with it everywhere else, and should consider actually cleaning it up a bit. Everyone that lives in a trailer is not trash, and many of them will have quite nice yards, gardens, and keep up their home.
Most of the complaints about no open areas are just wrong. There are farm fields everywhere, they are not easy like Hirsch fields though. There are fields everywhere throughout the forests. There is a whole pine forest biome in the east that people probably didn't bother to explore. The in game map could be better, it's all just green, with no indication of where the open fields are. They could fix that.
I like the animal selection. Raccoons and Gray Fox are a good challenge. The .22H is just whatever, don't see much use in it. Tried using it to fit the theme of the map, but I would rather use the .22 and the .22-250 to cover those class ranges.
Overall I think this is a good map that had a bad release. They seemed to have fixed the most glaring issues in regards to gameplay. I only give it such high praise because I think they got Southern forests, rivers, and farm fields right. This is really how the wild/rural places in the South look and feel. The stereotypical trailer trash crap is just over done, and permeates too much of the map.