Way of The Hunter

Way of The Hunter

Way of The Hunter is a different experience than usual, it takes you

to natural places away from cities and life full of noise. We usually see

various simulation games of aviation, car racing and even car mechanics

and repairs as in Car Mechanic Simulator, but this is the first time that

a game specialized in shooting and hunting simulation has appeared for

a very long time. We played Way of The Hunter on the PC platform, and

we found that the game performed well despite some technical problems

we experienced, which we will talk about later.

The beginning and introduction of the game is beautiful, as it opens with

the beautiful nature in which you will live, and it is clear that it contains

a nice story mode that tells about the life of the character you play with.

The scene begins with a person’s conversation with his grandfather about

hunting and the use of his headquarters, which is a large house that contains

several things related to the phase of play, including receiving hunting missions,

placing stuffed animals for decoration after hunting them, purchasing equipment

related to hunting, sleeping to change the time, and others.

In the beginning, the game will teach you the basics of playing style, and will

explain to you about the equipment that you will need, and everything that

mentioned during the game of those basics you will find inside an

encyclopedia divided into several sections, including information that helps

you in playing style and information about the animals that you hunted later.

The problem with that, you will start to receive terms in the world of fishing

that you may not know before, and this is what I went through during playing,

which made me search in the Google engine for the meanings of the terms

because the game does not contain an explanation for them, for example,

the game mentions the term “Taxidermy” or “Taxi Dermi”, which means

taxidermy of animals after being hunted, and for someone who does not have

a background in the world of hunting or does not recognize mummification in

any way, he will have to look for clarification.

The game will later take you to the shooting range to give you lessons on using

the hunting rifle that allows you to adjust the zoom lens according to the distance

of the target and this process is called “Zeroing”, knowing that this process affects

the movement of the bullet so that if you adjust the lens to a hundred meters and

the target is closer than that, you will hit position is higher than reality and vice versa.

Then you will have an actual hunting experience for the first time for a badger,

and you have to take into account that the animals may run away from you if you

approach them in an annoying way, and you have to walk carefully to approach

without them noticing you, and you must also take into account that the car you

drive to reach the desired place is a means Moving around in the game,

it will make a loud noise which will cause most of the animals to flee from you.

We’re assuming you’ve been careful right, but they ran away nonetheless, why?!

Because of the direction of the wind, of course, if the wind is blowing in

the direction of the prey, it will carry your scent to them and they will know

that there is a danger to them, so they will flee in front of you. During the game,

you will find watch towers of medium height, which are useful in terms of

monitoring and hunting animals from a distance, and they also have another

advantage, that they help in Hide your body odor carried by the wind, as it

becomes more difficult to sense your presence for prey, and after you have

succeeded in catching prey, you will have the ability to sell its meat or mummify it,

and you will see an assessment of how well you hunted prey and which part of

the animal was hit by the bullet, and this will help you more mastering Fishing

for the next time.

The question arises, how do you investigate your distance from the prey

in order to adjust the zoom lens when shooting? The game will start and you

will have a digital telescope that shows the distance between the player and

the target he is aiming at, so the telescope will be your true friend always and

forever before any hunting attempt, and you have another trustworthy friend

that you will rely on most of the time, which is the sixth sense of the hunter,

as you will see when you play it a red point When aiming, it indicates the likely

direction of the bullet before firing. You will also rely on it later in the game

to carry out investigations for the prey that is chasing it, such as its favorite places

to eat or drink, traces of its hooves to track its movements, and more.

When you do the analysis of all these traces, you will see an update on

the information about the prey in the encyclopedia.

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In the event that you caused most of the animals to escape from their usual areas,

and you want to return them to their normal states, you can go back to your home

to sleep and change the time from night to day and vice versa, after enough time

you can go back outside to try to hunt again. Although catching prey from

the first time gives you a good sense of success, there is a problem in the event

that the prey is injured without killing it, as I found that the injury does not affect

the behavior of the prey in any way and will not slow down during escape due to

the injury. The game has a quick transition feature, but the use of it is very limited,

because the car will not move with you.

When navigating from one place to another, you will notice that there is a compass

at the top of the screen and it will have a mark that determines the location of

the main task only, and if you put a side point in the map, it will not appear on

the compass nor can you see other important sites and that is a little annoying.

There is a design problem in our perspective… If you want to start the game over

for one reason or another, there is no New Game option in any of the game menus,

and here I had to look for the game’s save files and delete them in order to start

the game over, and it is not possible to erase any of your storage In the game via

its menus as well. Way of The Hunter

In addition, I tried to change the settings of movements or functions on

the keyboard to other keys to be comfortable for me to play, for example,

I wanted to change the opening of the map from the TAB button to the letter M,

which is usually the map key in most games, but the game does not allow me to

do that at all And that is not acceptable.

The graphics quality of the game was better than I expected, in addition, the quality

of the sound effects is excellent, which makes you quickly immerse yourself in

the atmosphere of the game especially in rainy weather and thunderstorms.

On sunny days you will notice that your character’s arms are stable while walking

or running as if the character’s arms are dead because they do not swing during

movement like any normal person, what is going on here? In addition, you will

also notice that your visibility is annoyingly close and there is no setting for that

in the game settings.

At the end of the day, Way of the Hunter almost became one of the best hunting

simulation games ever, but unfortunately, with its many technical problems and

the absence of the basics found in most games today, in addition to how difficult

it is to adapt to the gameplay mechanics, It does not reach this position. Well,

the experience may get better in the future with updates but now it’s not quite

as complete as we’d hoped. Way of The Hunter.