TheHunter: Call of the Wild - Treestand & Tripod Pack Review (MurderDethKillz)
I'm going to give the same comment for the DLC for Tents & Ground Blinds (blinds portion) so may see this mentioned on that DLC too. The entire purpose of each reserve having big map with different sections is to get you to explore those sections and figure out what animals go where when as they migrate around. Then as you shoot up 1 area you migrate to another as you just scared the crap out of any living thing right where you just discharged your firearms.
In this game, Treestands, Tripods and Ground Blinds are the cheat code to basically getting everything in small area without doing much exploring; OR if you have very limited game play time to still successfully get some harvests.
If you wanted to completely get around exploring anything but areas directly around 1st lookout point to find every close by gathering point of the limited animals on each reserve map. Then post stands in middle of these few points. You can basically kill every type of animal on that reserve in relatively short time frame without ever seeing any other part of map.
Main way it does this is by making you all but invisible to prey animals (by sight and smell) while at same time acting like putting suppressors on your firearms for post shot animal awareness. If you're on a Treestand or Tripod, animals will walk directly under you regardless of your scent, esp. if you use callers. And the cannot attack you either. Never been attacked in a blind yet either but it is on the ground but have had prey react to scent.
But really this is robbing you of the point of exploring the map and what hunting is all about. May also limit the various sizes of trophy animals you might find across entire map.
So why does it get still get a recommend from me? Any of the x3 are really good for combining with Bow Hunting DLC or for some of the reserve harder quest / challenges. Bow hunting is limited range 20-30m and better for some of the extreme range challenges (150m+ shots) because of limited on ground line of site.
OR if you still love the game but have limited time to go find prey, you can set Stand, Blind or Tripod at close by to several gathering areas that are near an Outpost or Tent (remote, mobile outpost). Then it's possible to immediately pop into game and with less than 10-20 min to rack up a harvest or 2 of specific game animals you're looking for.