TheHunter: Call of the Wild - New England Mountains Review (vassilevb)
Neutral/Good:
1. New harvest screen. You get it even if you don't buy this DLC.
2. The new reserve looks nice (looks like Hirschfelden+Layton Lakes copypasta, but it still looks nice).
3. Colton has a ~40+ y.o. son, named Trevor. Okay, cool. Making me personally invested in fictional characters' lives sounds cool. Trevor is making jokes = instant likeability bonus points.
4. I believe the male moose are now making new warning sounds. Either that, or they fixed something that was previously inaudible. I guess you'd get this even if you don't buy this DLC.
5. It seems to me that mortally shot animals react slightly more different than before. I guess you'd get this even if you don't buy this DLC.
6. I got a new .50 caliber muzzle-loading rifle. Thanks, but I prefer the Hawken/Hudzik rifle (it's a separate DLC).
Bad:
1. The game has to re-download completely (~20 GB) and reinstall completely (~70 GB). You still don't care about my hardware, I get it, thanks! Again. Even if I don't buy this DLC.
2. I own and upvoted the Bloodhound DLC, because I find it useful (I like to turn off track highlights and rely on the dog's tracking abilities for immersion's sake), but the dog is now useless (can't track, doesn't react to commands). I guess that would happen even if you don't buy this DLC.
3. No new animals. That's now a tradition - the African reserve still doesn't have elephants and will probably never have.
4. I've always had Dolby Atmos enabled. Now any item switching is noticeably louder than before the update. I guess that would happen even if you don't buy this DLC.
There's probably more stuff to add to those lists. I gave the "labour of love" nomination to this game, because I believe all the repeating failures are due to poor management, not developer incompetence/laziness. I still believe that's the case. Management often considers negative feedback to be an evaluation of the developers' work (which isn't the case most of the time). Thus, developers, if you read this, please, tell your managers that they need to start questioning their own work/decisions, not yours.