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Hello Hunters,

It’s an exciting day today, we have a two part PC release for you to enjoy!

First up we have our first small game animal to hit the reserves, the jackrabbit. The jackrabbit is the larger cousin to your typical cottontail rabbit, and prefers to live above ground rather than in burrows. Their sharp senses and lightning-fast speed are sure to give even the most experienced hunter a very new type of challenge!

Jackrabbits will be available to all players free of charge .

Our second part of today’s update consists of a new paid Weapon Pack DLC ($3.99/€3.99 or local equivalent). This new bundle contains a triple-threat of three new tools to fill out your hunting arsenal, the Virant .22LR Semi-Automatic Rifle, the Houyi Recurve Bow, and the Crosspoint CB-165 crossbow (and accompanying scope). From the snappy follow-up shots offered by the Virant, to the stealthy but hard-hitting punch of the Crosspoint CB-165, there’s all kinds of options available to you with these new weapons in your pack. And of course, there’s a variety of skins to choose from included as a part of the bundle.

We’ve had great fun putting together this new update, and we hope that you enjoy playing it as much as we have putting it together. As always, if you have any thoughts, comments, or feedback we would be very pleased to hear from you either on our Steam Community Hub or social media.


Happy Hunting,
theHunter: Call of the Wild Team

• New species: White-tailed Jackrabbit in Layton Lake
  
• New weapon: Crosspoint CB-165
  
• New weapon: Virant .22LR Semi-Automatic Rifle
  
• New weapon: Houyi Recurve Bow
  
• New scope: Hawken 1-5X30 Crossbow Scope

Please note that these new weapons and the scope are available via a new paid DLC:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/766870/theHunter_Call_of_the_Wild__Weapon_Pack_1/

• Fixed issue where Red Deer Scent was only purchasable once

• Added new icons on Huntermate and map for every clue type
  
• Connections between clues on the Huntermate and map that are not in sequence now display a dotted line if the player has the connect the dots skill
  
• Fixed an issue where the last interacted directional clue would sometimes not display the direction of the next clue

• Improved environment sound mix for Hirschfelden and Layton Lake

• Huntermate has been optimized and is now smoother and has less impact on performance
  
• Fixed an issue when joining Steam friends through Steam overlay

Hello Hunters,

Today brings a small patch with improvements and removes the Lantern Festival decorations. A bigger update is in the works but we wanted to make sure to address the issues listed below sooner rather than later.

As always you can find all changes below, and please do let us know your feedback.

Happy Hunting
theHunter: Call of the Wild Team


Gameplay

• Hunting structures have been tweaked to provide better visual cover
  
• Fixed issue with players receiving bow weapon score when it wasn’t used for killing the animal
  
• Tents and ground blinds now adjust to an eligible position after being spawned. If it can’t find an eligible position it will return to the players storage
  
• Fixed an issue where direction indicators for tracking clues in the map would sometimes point in the wrong direction

Miscellaneous

• Removed Lantern Festival decorations (Good fortune to everybody!)
  
• Fixed crash related to sound engine
  
• Performance improvements, especially while tracking and having many clues and points of interest

Audio

• Environment sound mix improvement for Hirschfelden and Layton Lake. The wind loudness has been tweaked to better reflect the in-game wind strength

Hello Hunters,

Today brings a small patch with improvements and removes the Lantern Festival decorations. A bigger update is in the works but we wanted to make sure to address the issues listed below sooner rather than later.

As always you can find all changes below, and please do let us know your feedback.

Happy Hunting
theHunter: Call of the Wild Team


Gameplay

• Hunting structures have been tweaked to provide better visual cover
  
• Fixed issue with players receiving bow weapon score when it wasn’t used for killing the animal
  
• Tents and ground blinds now adjust to an eligible position after being spawned. If it can’t find an eligible position it will return to the players storage
  
• Fixed an issue where direction indicators for tracking clues in the map would sometimes point in the wrong direction

Miscellaneous

• Removed Lantern Festival decorations (Good fortune to everybody!)
  
• Fixed crash related to sound engine
  
• Performance improvements, especially while tracking and having many clues and points of interest

Audio

• Environment sound mix improvement for Hirschfelden and Layton Lake. The wind loudness has been tweaked to better reflect the in-game wind strength

Hello Hunters,

we are addressing a couple of issues that have been reported since the release of Patch 1.17 yesterday.

• Keybinds will now correctly save
  
• Localization for Simplified Chinese is fixed

These are the first changes to come and we will continue to investigate tent placement, performance, crashes and more.

Happy Hunting
theHunter: Call of the Wild Team

Hello Hunters,

we are addressing a couple of issues that have been reported since the release of Patch 1.17 yesterday.

• Keybinds will now correctly save
  
• Localization for Simplified Chinese is fixed

These are the first changes to come and we will continue to investigate tent placement, performance, crashes and more.

Happy Hunting
theHunter: Call of the Wild Team

Hello Hunters,

During the last few months, we’ve been hard at work on integrations of our branches, which will allow for faster development and releases of new content in the future. While this is going to improve the experience for all players, our push to get it done has also meant a recent break in our continuous rollout of PC patches.

With this work mostly done, we are now aiming to once again pick up the pace with more frequent PC updates. This patch will lay down the groundwork for everything that is on the horizon.

This first update mainly focuses on changes “under the hood” in order to get ready for the next updates, including the previously announced Jackrabbit. That being said, some issues will be addressed in this patch already. Animal teleportation has been a big focus for us, and this patch aims to solve the “zipping” of animals. We will continue our work on areas that affect this unwanted animal behavior and aim to have more updates going forward.

All outposts now feature interiors and can thus be entered. This was already possible in Medved-Taiga and is now also available in Layton Lake and Hirschfelden. Enjoy those cozy log cabins!

This update also takes in improvements for user interface that have only been available on the console version so far.

Last but not least we invite everyone to celebrate the Lantern Festival with us on March 2. The Lantern Festival marks the end of the Chinese New Year spring festival period and is traditionally celebrated with family, friends, and of course, lanterns! For a limited time, you can find decorations at every outpost in the game, and we wish everybody good fortune!

As always you can find all changes below and do let us know your feedback!

Happy Hunting
theHunter: Call of the Wild Team

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KNOWN ISSUES:

Tents are appearing in the wrong locations in-game (too high/in the ground). We are currently working on a hotfix to address that, apologies for the inconvenience caused.

For the Chinese localized version of the client text is displaying incorrectly, this too is currently being addressed.

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• As a part of Lantern Festival celebrations statues and lanterns can be found in the reserve. Limited time.
  
• All Outposts now feature interiors that can be entered to rest

• Animal teleportation and pathfinding has been improved. This should alleviate the current problem of “zipping” animals. We are continuing the work so expect further updates on this in the future
  
• All weapons have their zeroing set specifically for their ammo. This is most noticeable on bows where 300gr arrows would hit higher and 600gr arrows would hit much lower on the zeroed distance.
  
• Significantly reduced the amount that wind affects arrow trajectories
  
• Added new outpost to Layton Lake - Balmont Railroad Outpost
  
• Default selection of starting reserve has been changed to Layton Lake
  
• Tritium sights - Fixed models and tritium sights not attaching first time, or staying attached to the weapon after switching equipment or holstering the weapon.
  
• Animals should no longer spawn in front of players
  
• Improved sound mix for Coyote and Red Foxes
  
• Sound Fix for Brown Bear warning calls

• With the exception of unlocking the first mission in a Side Mission arc, Side Mission arcs in Layton Lake and Hirschfelden no longer require progress through the Main Mission arcs
  
• JÄGER - A PICTURE FOR HER BOOK - adjusted the photo parameters to make it easier to take a suitable picture
  
• FLEISCHER: A TROPHY TO REMEMBER - changed the required game score from GOLD to BRONZE
  
• TRAMPFINE: THE RETURN OF BEAR MAN - adjusted the photo parameters to make it easier to take a suitable picture
  
• VUALEZ: WILDLIFE CONTROL - made the Jackrabbit Caller objective optional
  
• VUALEZ: THE BIG COYOTE TOUR - Only need to harvest coyotes from 2 regions instead of 5
  
• VUALEZ: A SILENT HUNT - required coyotes harvests changed from 3 to 2
  
• CONNORS: CAPTURING THE LANDSCAPE - locations of landmarks are given on the map when mission is selected
  
• CONNI #10 - removed game score requirement
  
• CONNI #15 - changed game score requirement from GOLD to SILVER
  
• CONNI #19 - required fox harvests changed from 4 to 2
  
• JÄGER #2 - removed the location requirement
  
• JÄGER #3 - removed the night time requirement and the location requirement
  
• JÄGER #4 - removed the trophy score requirement
  
• JÄGER #5 - changed the required harvest animal from fallow deer to any animal
  
• JÄGER #7 - changed the required harvest animal from fallow deer to any animal, removed scoring requirement
  
• SOMMER #8 - changed the required weight requirement from >= 30 kg to >= 25 kg
  
• TRESSLER #4 - removed game score requirement and weight requirement
  
• TRESSLER #6 - required boar harvests changed from 4 to 2, required equipment changed from the .454 Rhino to any handgun
  
• DOC #2 - removed the animal color variation requirement
  
• DOC #4 - changed the required harvest animal from black bear to any animal
  
• DOC #5 - removed the weight requirement and changed the maximum shot distance from 30 meters to 40 meters
  
• DOC #6 - changed the required harvests from 3 to 2, removed GOLD game score requirements, and added requirement for black bears harvests to have 100% Quick Kill bonus
  
• DOC #7 - removed game score requirements
  
• DOC #9 - there weren’t many bears in Kraken Highs, so we changed the required hunting location to Mount Kraken; we also removed the animal weight requirements
  
• DOC #14 - adjusted mission to allow for a wider range of photographs
  
• DOC #17 - changed the required completions from 2 to 1, removed the requirement to use a bow, removed the requirement to hunt from a specific location
  
• DOC #20 - removed game score requirement, removed the night time hunting requirement
  
• DOC #22 - changed the minimum shot distance from 150 meters away to 75 meters away
  
• DOC #23 - removed the game score requirement and added requirement for 100% Quick Kill Bonus
  
• DOC #24 - changed the required completions from 3 to 2, adjusted the minimum animal weight requirement from 85 kg to 70 kg
  
• DOC #25 - adjusted the minimum shot distance from 250 meters away to 150 meters away
  
• DOC #27 - removed GOLD game score requirement and added requirement for 100% Quick Kill Bonus
  
• DOC #30 - changed the required completions from 3 to 2
  
• HOPE #2 - changed mission requirement to Harvest 2 blacktail deer but not at night
  
• HOPE #3 - changed mission to harvest 2 male blacktail deer and earn a Quick Kill Bonus of 50 or higher
  
• HOPE #5 - changed required animal harvest species from blacktail deer to whitetail deer
  
• HOPE #7 - changed required animal harvest species from blacktail deer to whitetail deer
  
• VUALEZ #2 - removed night time harvest requirement
  
• VUALEZ #4 - mission reworked to harvesting a coyote with an Integrity bonus of 100
  
• VUALEZ #6 - changed the required completions from 4 to 2, removed coyote gender requirement
  
• VUALEZ #7 - removed specific weapon requirement
  
• CONNORS #3 - removed night time harvest requirement
  
• CONNORS #4 - change minimum shot distance from 200 meters away to 125 meters away and removed weapon requirements
  
• CONNORS #5 - removed GOLD game score requirement, changed maximum shot distance from 30 meters to 40 meters, and added requirement to score a Quick Kill Bonus of 50% or greater
  
• CONNORS #6 - changed GOLD game score requirement to SILVER, removed weapon requirements
  
• CONNORS #10 - changed GOLD game score requirement to SILVER
  
• REVENGE OF GRANKIN #2 - changed maximum weight requirement from <= 12 to <= 14 kg
  
• FRIEND OF THE NENETS #4 - adjusted the required harvest from 3 to 2, removed trophy rating requirement

• User Interface has been aligned with the console version
  
• Added a host icon to the multiplayer scoreboard (Default key “i”)
  
• Added visual feedback when saving the game
  
• Fixed duplicated “lures” category in the store/backpack/inventory.
  
• Fixed projectile hit damage percentages not always adding up to 100% in the harvest screen.
  
• Added scent eliminator duration to item description

• Added the .270 Stradivarius to the in-game shop
  
• All players that were active during the event of unlocking the gun should be able to claim this gun for no cost

• Updated the terrain near Mount Kraken
  
• Updated the terrain near Mount Leviathan
  
• Updated the terrain near Roonachee
  
• Updated the coastline in Petershain and Müllerwald
  
• Updated the terrain near Ernsdorf and Jonsdorf Lake
  
• Updated spawn- and need-zone maps for animals in Hirschfelden and Layton Lake
  
• Fixed bad collision on unbuild hunting structures
  
• Updated the playable area in Medved Taiga
  
• Added interiors to Lookout towers in Layton Lake
  
• Added interiors to the old church in Layton Lake
  
• Added possibility to enter upper level in the barn in Hirschfelden
  
• Fixed an issue where players could fall through the ice in Medved Taiga
  
• Fixed various issues where collectibles were buried under the terrain
  
• Updated placement of a few hunting structures