Way of the Hunter

2023: the game is awesome and very beautiful. Gamplay and sounds fantastic. Pro: - Graphic - Sounds - Gameplay - Realistic - DLCs (Alaska!!!) - Big maps - Perks - Story missions - Multiplayer option Cons: - Cant skip the time in the Hunting Stand - In the multiplayer we cant create own hunter - Only one objectives can be active at a time I hope more new DLC coming! (Norway, Finnland

People where hoping this would be an alternative to COTW without the **** and it has kinda delivered on parts of that. Mostly on the alternative part. You buy (I don't actually recommend buying it, multiplayer is dysfunctional anyways) this because it's like 1 of 2 serious hunting games in existence. Not because it's all that great. Or like, still in active development.This is a weird game. The one thing they got right, partially at least, is the animal behavior. Longer spawn distances - not by that much of course since they can't handle their engine well enough for that, e.g. if you're glassing mountains from a distance they'll still be empty, just like in COTW - better flight behavior. The animals look better, so do the weapons. Okay, that's it for the positive part.Most of the weapons are redundant. Most of them are also not included in the base game. If you want good stuff, you have to buy DLCs, lots of them. Graphics are generally better, but optimization is very poor. The devs are not all that great at their job, game has been out for >3 years, while most of the bugs - most, not all - are fixed by now, it's still not running well on older hardware. Damage system is primitive. No spinal or bone damage. Insta-kill, fast or slow bleedout or survival. It's simple, not realistic.Story ... if you hated all the cringe in COTW and were hoping for a more 'adult' writing style here, you'll be disappointed. Some of drivel this game passes for a story wouldn't be fit for 12 year olds, much less any adult.

This game is too much of a mess to give a good score to. Its has some upside to it, but half of those features don't work. The graphics are good, but sound is god awful. Models are good most of the time with occasional T posing when running. Unfortunately there are too many game breaking issues should have been a $20 game

As a hunting simulator, it's a lie, not even close. As a game, it's painfully boring. I like hunting in real life and I had have very good teachers. Then, it' unfair ask for real hunting mechanics; it's just a game afterall. But the wildlife ai and behaviour are horrible, almost robotic. It amaze me the skill that many animals have to "hide" from you. And the sound design is a mess, confusing you about the spacial location the sound is coming from (you could hear a fox 220mts away like if was beside you; I think this is for hint and lead you, but it's really cheap and uninmersive). In its envelope, WotH could look something serious, but lacks for any real deep. Maybe if they tweak some animal patterns and add some surviving mechanics, like eat, real sleeping (not only a way to skip forward the time) and such, could be a decent hunting game, but I guess they went for the simulation thing, wich it's a bad move in my opinion.

Way of the hunter was supposed to be the "killer" of TheHunter: Call of the wild and the basics are here - stunning visuals, interesting gameplay, a lot of "realism". The finished product however, lacks any polishing and should be in early access and development for at least six more months. At it's current state, Way of the hunter is barely playable and really not recommended. Pros: + stunning visuals + limited ammo (so you can't hold enough ammo to fuel medium sized war as in CoTW) + really impressive "claim prey" screen with a lot of information about the killing shot and the animal Cons: - a whole lot of bugs. Devs and paid reviewers are trying to sell the story of "few bugs here and there" but that's not true - terrible FOV with no options to change it - terrible and not-intuitive controls, with no options to change them as well - limited and boring collection of weapons and equipment - worst voice acting i have seen in the last few years - it's freezing a lot, it's crashing a lot and often saves are getting corrupted - co-op broken to extend to be unplayable - tracking is not really working. There are tracks showing where animals are usually going through, but the actual animals are not leaving tracks - "ghost bullets". Sometimes (like 25% of the shots) are not counted, even if you are 100% hitting the animal. No reaction, no blood, no kill And so on, the list can go for few pages. Way of the hunter is not worthy of your time, or your money - check it again in few months and after (hopefully) few big patches.