“Wolves with pups don’t have spare time” The parents during one of my litters: “Okay pups see you in a few hours we’re gonna invade the Crevice Lake pack! Have fun!”
Idk if it's a bug or what but lately as soon as the pups come out of the den "OK KIDS WHO WANTS TO GO ON A FIELD TRIP ACROSS THE TERRITORY!?" *7 pups have wandered off and gotten lost* O H O K
@@blobbertmcblob4888 Yeah that’s Hellenes to me too in my last two litters at least!! The mate has gone to go get food and mark the territory and the pups have been like: “Nooooo! PArent let us come with you you’re sa best I don’t wanna be stuck here with other parent!!”
Wondering if when Saga comes out (literally later this year) we’ll get to hunt down the rival’s pups since we’ll get our grown up pups to watch over our pups also what?? I go denless like every other run and I have like 3 pups who are a whole hex away from me still not being lost despite the fact I can’t even see their names
@@shorkbot In re raiding, I doubt it. Dave has said in more recent devblogs that rival pack pups aren't instanced in a tangible way until they are old enough to be able to fight you (likely Young Hunters). They don't appear unless/until you join their pack and find a suitable den or rendezvous (depending on time of year). _Instant family!_ just add love
XD ya my wolves will prob do the same and if i could play with all of them, it would something like this: my wolves: *sees beavers* me: aww its so cu- my wolves: *murders the beaver in one second* me: u have to be killing me THIS IS THE 50TH TIME YA'LL HAVE DONE THIS
I love that you are sticking to how you want to enhance the game. Although people have genuinely good ideas and suggestions it's important to make the game how you intended❤️
"You already have a pretty good grasp on their personalities." Me, looking at three litters of pups where 10/13 of them I have basically no idea what personality they have: Uh...yeah....sure....mhm..... (Edit: Beep boop, this wasn't meant to be a put down or anything on the feature itself, at the end of the day I'm just enjoying playing the game and the lack of personality tracker has made a minimal if non-existent impact on my enjoyment. This was just a one-off thing I commented without any real feelings behind it, please be nice :3)
I've more wolves, grown from pups. And yeah, I have no idea either. Is the one I lam currently ooking at a Bold wolf or a Cautious wolf? How am I supposed to remember 100s of pups personalities?
@@tlktlg8745 And so what if you can't? If you decide to play as that pup, you will play it the way you want. In that case it doesn't matter what its personality is at all.
I do think, relating to the command system, that some basic "sit with the pups", "follow me", and a "go hunt" emote/call could be useful when trying to manage larger packs for Episode 3 or even Episode 2 to some degree. Plus, the wolves would still get to do their own thing, they'd just be confined to a specific task, so skittish wolves hunting could still be a bit less likely to get in trouble while hunting but bolder wolves could try to nip a bear. Assuming affinity is high and they actually listen haha. Another reason to interact with your packmates at least. Unless there was another system you all had in mind that I haven't heard about yet, in which case I'm curious.
For "follow me" and "stay with the pups," those are already in game. Not sure if it was just my mate or not but whenever I left the den, they'd always follow along unless I did the bark which tells them to go home and that kept the pups safe. I would really appreciate a "go hunt" command though because my mate is sometimes starving while with the pups and I'm full but I have no way to tell them to get some food for themselves.
I don’t think the “go hunt” command would be necessary if the devs improve the mate’s AI and makes them more likely to hunt across the board-especially when they get hungry. They should also hunt hares by themselves. I’ve never seen them do that.
@@SucicRaven Yes that would be great. The mates do the bare minimum, and on top of that, they can’t even feed themselves. I hope real wolves have more helpful mates than this.
If they plan to enhance the AI so that the mate goes hunting more, that would be great. As it is now, I still believe we need a command to ask them to go hunt and/or patrol.
Mates can do that by themselves. It just depends on their personality. I have a mate for my wolf and he often walks off to go and mark territory while I watch the pups or go off to hunt. So far, hes the only mate who's done it by himself though. ;)
I just wanted to stop by and say thank you to you and your team for all the time and tireless dedication they have put into this wonderful game. I love the attention to details large and small and how realistic you have made this game. It's a refreshing change to see and very fun to get your hands on! Thank you for everything you do ^w^
I think an interesting idea would be to add mutual relations with ravens! The ravens will let the pack know where food is, and in return, they get the last scraps. Ravens in yellowstone would also be seen playing with pups too!
I have an Idea. So as for telling your mate to do something, like go mark or hunt. Perhaps, you should have the option to tell them, but depending on their personality, how they are feeling that day, etc. will determine whether they do it or not. Maybe if you bug them enough they will do it, but the pack affinity will go down as they get mad at you for being annoying or something like that. So this way, you don't control them per say as they still can refuse, but the emote option will be there to clearly let them know "Hey, I'm going to defend pups, can you go hunt for a bit?", and at the same time, you wont control them, they can still choose. I think that might work, get the best of both worlds.
Omg, i had the same idea! Also, this might be harder to be code, but it would be cool if your mate would sometimes whine when they go out on a hunt ( i think whine command means follow me? ) so they would be like asking you to go out hunting with them
@@help1300 Idk if it was just coincidence but that actually happened to me once, my mate whined and looked away from the den. Then I got beside her and she was like "Aight, let's go hunt!" and started running. We both really went on a hunt afterwards lol
About the weeding out other pups thing, as much as it sounds cool, I totally get the reasoning. I know how y’all players feel about the Crevice Lake pack, haha. That is to say, it would be an absolute massacre, which doesn’t really fit the tone of the game, although I don’t know if real life wolves can be motivated by vengeance or not. XD
Why does everyone hate crevice lake so much?? I have only had them attack one or two times during a litter, and the rest of em is almost always junction butte
I was a little disappointed about not being able to find and kill other packs' puppies, but I understand that it would be a huge update and with everything else, I'm mostly excited about beavers, I love the game, keep improving where you can! Edit: I've never gotten so many likes! tysm!
@@yourfriendlyenbyneighbor8676 you would have less possible competition for prey , water , territory , and mates . similar to how stranger wolves kill your pups , with less competitors that leaves more room for them to successfully pass on their genes with more readily available resources that in a bad case would be unavailable .
I can tell my mate's personality in Amethyst Mountain just fine. It's when I travel to Slough Creek with that mate that I start second-guessing myself. I always pick bold mates in AM, wolves that will help me when hunting bull elk or moose, or when fighting stranger wolves. And yet.. multiple times in SC with the same wolf that helped me with hunting and fighting in AM consistently, I will get into a fight with stranger wolves and they just stood there snarling and doing submissive tail emotes while quite literally watching me die, or letting themselves be attacked without ever attacking back or trying to defend themselves in any way. It ticks me off.
@@Ominous_Odyssey OH, so that's not just me then! I don't know why this keeps happening, but each playful bowing, constantly howling, bear/bison biting, male mule deer chasing mate gets bonked on the head somewhere on the way to SL and won't bother to even eat a rabbit while they are starving, hangs somewhere hundred yards away from the den, only feeds puppies once in a blue moon and, again, half a field away from den and stays in place doing nothing when rival wolves attack. It's so frustrating... After a couple of these incidents I had to enable mate permadeath because I might as well raise pups alone if this keeps on happening...
I thought that I’d found a great mate in Amethyst Mountain, but as soon as we had pups, it was like her entire demeanour changed, lol. She never spent time with the pups, nor did she feed them or bring them back to the den they wandered off too far. She never came hunting with me unless I double howled like five times, and when it was time to change dens, she never even bothered to carry one of the pups who kept getting left behind. In fact, she did whatever she could to keep as much distance from me & the pups as possible. It was like she just didn’t care for them. I think it’s time to find a new mate and hope that she’s better, lol.
Yay, beavers! I don't feel disappointed with any of these; the additions and excluded parts are fun to see/hear. Although- come to think of additions, I've wondered if bison calves could be a thing? Don't take this as a demand or anything related to that, I'll love the game either way.
@@WolfQuestGame I have an Idea. So as for telling your mate to do something, like go mark or hunt. Perhaps, you should have the option to tell them, but depending on their personality, how they are feeling that day, etc. will determine whether they do it or not. Maybe if you bug them enough they will do it, but the pack affinity will go down as they get mad at you for being annoying or something like that. So this way, you don't control them per say as they still can refuse, but the emote option will be there to clearly let them know "Hey, I'm going to defend pups, can you go hunt for a bit?", and at the same time, you wont control them, they can still choose. I think that might work, get the best of both worlds. I made a comment, and I don't know if you guys saw it, and I just wanted to make sure you saw so you can give your thoughts :D
@@lunarbubu Ooo I really like that! Would be fun but also can imagine how frustrating it’d be for players sometimes! If they ever decide to consider the idea for that, they should probably add a ‘on and off’ option on it so casual players who just want to have fun can turn it off while players who are more interested in roleplay and giving wolves more life can turn it on! :> Or put it along the challenging modes in wolf quest!
Its been so fun to watch how this game has grown! Y'all have done such a good job with all the details and making it as realistic as possible. Keep up the good work guys!
"You already have a pretty good grasp on their personalities." Me looking at my pups who I can't tell what their personalities are at all: Uhh yeah.. definitely.
Mates: Sorrel (dead). Current mate: Sorrow- That is just hilarious. Poor Sorrow, looks like Dave (or whoever recorded that) couldn't get over Sorrel's death.
at first I thought the beaver was a an elk calf, then as it got closer I realized.....ITS A BEAVER!! I can't wait to see it in-game! great job Wolfquest!!
All I Want Is A Command Is For Your Mate To Go Mark Territory Or Hunt As I’m Getting Tired Of My Mate Wandering Off Randomly And Come Back With Nothing Marked And Not Hunted
@@guncat2962 Nawww, My Mate So Far Is Energetic And Around More Of The Social Part. They Just Wont Come Back To The Den After 15 Minutes Of Constant Howling. I Usually Have To Travel 20 Minutes To Go Get Them Then Another 20 Minutes To Come Back Lol
It’s great you won’t do so we control our mates, I love their different personalities and the things they do on their own, sometimes annoying, but it makes the game alive!⭐️
It's absolutely fine that you are not including everything! The community will still love and support you :). Would it be possible (perhaps only on Accurate or something) for your wolf to take a slight amount of damage when sliding down cliffs? From their paws scraping on the ground? Also, maybe any dens your wolf lived in as a pup automatically show up at the beginning of Slough Creek because they remember where the dens were?
I think letting us see the personalities would be a good idea. Literaly all the pups act the same. Ive watched all my pups from 4 different litters now act the same way. I think the most different was one pup chased another and they fell, that was.. the most special thing I've seen them do
About that tree thing, it’s details like that I’ve seen a lot of games struggle with, especially when it’s for a creature/creatures you wouldn’t often interact with in that environment. I’m unsure how your system works, but I know that one of the popular Dino sims found a work around this for their certain species. If you can make a few different trees their separate intractable entity, you could place them around the map and have AI near them to interact with the entity. The reverse of the issue being that instead of having the tree system account for interactable trees, it would be making the AI think about how to interact with the tree. Personally for something as small as black bears climbing, I wouldn’t (personally) bother until late game as a quality of life update if at all, but I figured to throw out this suggestion anyway since it does apply to non-tree related things.
I spent one whole night, from 6:00 PM to 10:00 AM, watching wolf documentaries, and still learned more from this game than anything I’ve ever watched. You guys are so amazing!! I LOVE THIS GAME SO MUCH!! :D
I genuinely have no idea what the personalities of most of my pups are, and only figured out how mate personalities work on my fifth playthrough, with help from the wiki. Maybe I'm just super unobservant, but the only difference I've ever been able to see is that some tend to wander more than the others, and I had one that liked to sleep next to my mate, away from me and the other pups. I get your reasons for not letting us see their personalities, but I would at least like some sort of resource that could guide me and point out the different behaviors, I searched the wiki for this and could only find it in regards to mate behaviors, I have yet to find anyone explaining the pup behaviors.
Thanks, good point. We will work on adding some more info and tips to the WolfQuest Knowledge Base support.wolfquest.org/help/quest-raise-pups article. The pup personalities use the same system as for the mates and we can state that more clearly. The WolfQuest wiki is a great resource and we expect that fans will be adding details to it. For those of you who are thinking, what wiki? wolfquest.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page
Since this is an older video I can see this getting buried, but what if, since we can't raid dens, there's a chance younger pups/other pack members do on occasion? I noticed my den tends to get raided by 1 year old wolves more often than any other, and I very rarely get the pack leader raiding my den unless they're the only wolf from that pack that I've met. I think it would be cool if, on random chance, sometimes the younger, more ambitious and less wise pups go try to raid other wolves dens, with varying results, maybe they get a pup, or maybe they get a minor or even a major injury, or maybe they even die while gone
I love that you guys listen to our suggestions and ideas :) its so nice that you guys get so many requests and comments and still reply and listen to a good amount of them! keep doing an amazing job :D
Some things I hope come to wolf quest, ideas for the devs ^^: Animals: otters, catchable fish such as samon, cod, etc, raccoons, lynx & bobcats, (possibly even) snakes and american alligators. Communication with ur pack/family: asking ur mate to go hunt or mark and strengthen the territory while you protect the pups and spend time with the sick ones (Just ideas for the devs and things I really hope come to wolf quest, thank you for reading my comment! 😁)
@@Ubiquitousducky Well, they are working as fast as they can to get it out to us! We should be grateful that they are even working on this for us. They could have stopped at 2.7 but they didn't!
"Thirteen years ago" I can't believe I was playing it that long ago myself, and writing "wolf fanfiction" on the forums too. A majority of the people playing it today weren't even alive then! I'm glad that this game has entertained people for so long.
About tree climbing bears; i can see how difficult that would be to make!!! Planet Zoo's climbing system might be helpful to look at though! Just an idea for the team!
This game really improved so much and i love it as well, you have done an amazing job at making this huge game and i just wanted to say thank you so much for making this game and all your hard work! 💕✨ Thank you!! This game has been my childhood game for so long!
That beaver at end was suprising but a welcome one! ❤ I was wondering will beavers be able to cut trees in the game or not? Thank you so much for everyone who works hard on this beautiful game you guys are AMAZING!!!!❤
I sort of wish you would show the pup personalities. Only some of them seem to have very strong personalities, if they're very shy or very outgoing. Everything else in between is a gray area, and it would be interesting to see some of the nuances that we didn't pick up on while playing the game.
Two words: “Bear Quest” I know that this would be a glimpse in the eye of an idea and task much larger, but just imagine 10 years from now, a Bear Quest game where you live as a Black Bear and raise cubs. It could work very similarly to Wolf Quest. Just an idea since you talking about the complexity of the Black Bears got my thoughts rolling.
@@geministrial950 If they had enough money, time, and support, I know they’d make a franchise. It be stupid not to. A LionQuest would be very cool as well.
My husband and I can't wait till you bring out multiplayer for Slough Creek! We think it'd be epic to have both of us taking care of a litter, since one could hunt while the other tends the pups XD
Been having a blast trying to get through the accurate campaign without dying! I make a new wolf every time I lose and so far only one has made it to Slough Creek (got cocky and died in pursuit of a moose calf when my pups were about 18lbs, whoops)! Super excited for a new relocatable food source!! Maybe by the time beavers are added I’ll be in Slough Creek again...
You're doing such a good job, Wolfquest Team!! This game is so fun and exciting and you keep on making it better. I think right now I'm really hoping for an update with fish, since in some areas, especially in British Columbia, wolves sometimes hunt salmon. I was thinking less of a source of food, though, and maybe more as an aesthetic thing - seeing eagles hunt them (like you do a little bit in Amethyst Mountain), maybe seeing them wiggle around under the water when you put on headcam when you swim... right now the headcam while swimming just shows the bank texture lol! It would just be really fun to see certain fish, I guess. I study marine biology a lot, and there are some neat fishies in Yellowstone. If you've checked out Voyageurs Wolf Project, you've probably read the articles on how wolves hunt beavers. It'd be neat if there was a special way to hunt them, like with tutorials and stuff, on ambushing them the way those articles and studies describe. No pressure of course, just so long as we get some big fat rodents on the menu, I'm happy! I guess I'd really enjoy pronghorns and possibly even raccoons being around. Just a neat touch to boost immersion. Other little things I think would be neat is more tree variety (I see a ton of aspens and coniferous trees but not much else, maybe I'm just not recognizing different species), maybe a few more neat coat coat colors, and then animations like shaking water off of your coat after getting out of water, grooming your mate (licking and nuzzling) and playfighting (being able to have a little mock battle with your mate). As for pups, I think it would be kind of awesome if we could groom them and sniff their noses like we do our mates, just for cuteness factor! Love the work you guys are doing and love the game. Thanks so much for sharing it with all of us!! Your work is so appreciated!
These features sound awesome. I think it would be very cute to have the wolves and pups shake off when coming out of the water. Also more pup interactions like we can with our mate
Honestly rethink the pup killing for towerfall when the pups are grown and as for the tree climbing add a new smaller tree system that may spawn when a black bear does if she's got cubs make those trees the only ones they can climb :]
hi i have a question, will you add wildfires to slough creek and others? it would be cool if you add abandon rendezvous site because of fire, and maybe add burns and burn traps/deaths by pups and some leaps exits! also might take maybe 5 days or higher to recover and can be used again. please add this and i'll go insane like im going to really like this game
I had a batch of pups and they didn’t listen to my call for them to go to their den I could’ve pressed the wrong emote but most of them were murdered by coyotes Wolves actually basically kill a smaller pack and take that packs pups as their own pack members
@@WolfQuestGame yeah but I kind of killed the coyotes out of anger because they killed my fav pup and yes I pressed the wrong emote and didn’t notice I was tired that time but by the way I love the game so much!
@@Harper6969 Whenever there is a predator that kills any of my pups I always kill them because I become so mad. I kill every predator,sadly expect bears. If there would be a possible chance to kill bears,I would kill bears too. 😅
The game is absolutely beautiful and I'd still play it and love it if you were to finish it now. Well, maybe not now because it still has some bugs, but you get what I mean!
I didn't know black bears climb trees enough to be a potential attribute in the game. Still, I don't see the point of black bears when we already have grizzly bears roaming the map that players can only minimally interact with by running away since they're impossible to kill. Another invincible predator walking around the map would be as impactful as a walking boulder or rock--they would just be cosmetic obstacles.
Black bears are a lot more common than grizzlies and so make sense to include to represent Yellowstone. They are also much less powerful than grizzlies so not as invincible.
Sorry about my demanding,but these features are my suggestions to be add in the future: - may get higher attribute points like +3 or up at offsprings or some NPCs(rare in NPCs). - can generate special markings at the wolves such as white tall tip,a black spot at the neck etc to make the offsprings or NPCs more unique. - can raise pups with the previous litters(which you had the family snapshot at the loaf task before) for few more years. Every survived ones will stay in the pack and some may start to leave from 2 years old,which depends on their personality. It is pleasing to see a lots of members who you brought up wandering around the pack.(Why there are so many wolves in other packs and we can't get that many,not fair!!XD)
With the black bear- maybe you could do the same thing that you did with the tall grass you can hide your pups in and elk and mule deer hide their pups too.
The upcoming episode Tower Fall will continue your life with pups. What will be in the new episode? In the first weeks of June, the pups frolic at the rendezvous site in Slough Creek while their parents bring them their first meals of fresh elk meat. When the elk herds move down into the Lamar Valley, the pack follows - only to find other packs have already established territories in the valley. So they journey further south, up and over Specimen Ridge, then down into the valley of the Yellowstone River. There, on the banks of the Yellowstone, with Tower Fall thundering nearby, the pack makes a new home amidst fellow predators and plentiful prey. Here the pack will stake out a new territory, protect their family from danger, and and raise a new generation of skilled hunters. The Tower Fall expansion will be an in-game purchase (DLC) and released after WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition. Follow development of Tower Fall at WolfQuest.org/blog
I’m not too sure if I’ve asked this in the past but Would you guys like to add a sorta damage indication to a wolf, like for example when your wolf or your mate is below 50% of health they limp? Or other things that indicate injury to a wolf to kinda visually tell a player about their health?
@@WolfQuestGame I would love this too because then I could identify wolves I come across and consider through observation like a wolf if the rival is strong or weak and if I should flee or not. And maybe I'm wrong, but the AI wolves seem to know when you're already injured or not at full health and I would like that advantage too
Will there ever be a possible feature in the future to see your pups who have grown up as dispersals? Or maybe they'd join the other main packs and if you scented them, it'd be Crevice Lake 27 FM (Clover). Either in AM or SC. There's be a feature to turn off your wolves from showing up.
All I want in terms of mate commands is a squirt bottle to discipline my mate when she feeds a pup far from the den that I was going to fetch and attracting all the other pups so I have to fetch them too.
I think attacking other packs would be fine, but an icon might appear on the map that whether any pack has pups or not, and attacking them should be optional I guess. Anyways good vid! This is my favorite game ever.
Oo, are you guys adding the limp customization feature into Anniversary Edition? (I can't remember if anything was said about that) or is it too buggy/complicated to? :O
2:14 tell me we're going to be able to make big packs in the future though, right? That after tower fall, you'll be able to have more pups and grow your pack farther? Or no?
We would love to keep adding to the story. Maybe someday the pups can grow up completely but it will take time. Tower Fall (a whole new episode/map. DLC) will continue life with pups but they still won't be fully grown.
Not being able to massacre other pack's pups doesn't bother me. I mean, sure it would be fun to find their offspring, but I'm happy enough I get to snatch newborn ungulates from the bushes as snacks in the springtime haha. I'm addicted, they're like easter eggs!
I will have to say that observing the pups' behavior is near impossible (at least for me), unless you're recording your playthrough and then viewing it again (which is kind of tedious), because you are supposed to be alert at all times, watching for predators, watching your territory, managing everyone's hunger (even mate's hunger, because if you happen to choose a lazy mate they'll rather starve than go on a hunt). Realistically, there is no time to sit back and watch your pups play! And very hard to remember which one did what even if you do end up noticing something, because 5-7 pups is A LOT... Take a look at "Seri! The pixel biologist" channel. She can't remember how her first pups died half the time and she mixes up the strengths and weaknesses of her adult wolves all the time and I do not blame her at all! It's a lot of information to remember and managing so many wolves can be a handful. If you take the task of raising pups seriously, if you want them all to survive it is rather stressful and if you spend time watching them playing instead they usually end up dying. And don't get me wrong, I understand where you're coming from! It is realistic to not know for sure, it can be fun to make your own conclusions and Tower Fall might help with getting to know your litter even better... But it is a game. In games we love to see the stats and menus exactly because it is helpful and informative and doesn't leave us blindly guessing. I'm trying to understand and respect your decisions, but as a gamer I can't help, but remain a little peeved. But this silly pet peeve aside this game is truly great and I appreciate your efforts immensely!
You don't *have* to "know" your pups as gameplay. The most important part of raising them is feeding them and keeping them safe. The purpose of the behind the scenes personality system is to add variety and interest to enhance the player experiences roleplaying/storytelling and add to re-play value. Just remember, the most important factor in interpreting pup personalities is your own experiences and perceptions. And, if you choose to later play a pup as an adult, you can have them behave however you like.
@@WolfQuestGame with all due respect, the personality system does not add much re-play value. as the other person said, it's nearly impossible to get a grasp on your pups' personalities. you're practically playing with the same set of pups, with the same unclear personalities, each playthrough. why do i care about a personality system that i can't even observe working in-game? i understand you want the game to be realistic, but *your players are not wolves.* your players will need assistance. we will not be tuned-in to the game environment as well as a real wolf will be tuned-in to ITS environment. and again, with all due respect, if i don't *have* to understand my pups' personalities, why did you add it? when you phrase it that way, it sounds like a useless throwaway feature. does your work not deserve more respect than that? comments i've seen regarding personality are mostly disagreeing with your decision-- you are not making players happy.
@@hamtastham8831 Well, thank you for chiming in, but I will have to disagree that all pups are the same. Some will stray further away from the den than the others either to explore or spend some time alone, buuut that's about all the difference I've noticed between 3-4 litters... And then again, usually, it's the entire litter that tends to be all bold or all lazy, taking after the parent that has one of these strong traits. Maybe it's just my luck, but it's hard to find them memorable. Puppies aren't memorable until they grow up (or die) and I straight up *forget* what they were like after I've raised them (I know, for shame). That's why I'd love to see more background info about them, but if the devs don't want to show that info, well... It's their game and they are free to do what they want with it.
@@Greyshi sure, it's their game, but it doesn't take more than 2 minutes of scrolling through the comments to see the developers are failing the players in this decision. the decision to add personalities to wolf biographies *wouldn't even affect the gameplay itself.* usually i agree with the devs' decisions, but it's clear they're just being stubborn this time around. the personality system in its current form is NOT interesting enough to add re-play value as they claim.
Glad to have found a more in-depth discussion on this. My own thoughts are a bit mixed and muddled, so I will address both arguments. *Personally, when I play, even when I have the time to sit at the den and watch the pups in pupcam, I don't remember anything about them but the color of their pelt. I'm watching them, but not really observing them- which, may simply be because I'm more focused on playing the game and reaching the end. I feel that this is at least partially because you have no real motive to be observing your pup's the way you do your mate. Your mate, you pay closer attention to during courting to see what their personalities may be, because their personality matters. I think this is what wolfquest means by "you don't need to know the personality of your pup's". Because there's quite literally nothing to know about your pup, they act how you act as adults. As was mentioned, it has no effect on gameplay, unlike mate personalities that dictate the survival of your pups. *However, I understand and share many of the frustrations of wanting to know what personalities the pups had if you don't know or can't remember, if only simply because they exist. After all, it does seem counterintuitive to give the pups certain behaviors, only for those behaviors to be forgettable due to it's lack of purpose and clarification. Part of me feels that having the sliders or even a pre-generated description of your pup's personalities as adults would in itself give the pup personalities more purpose. Even if you plan on acting outside of the pup's personality, you know more about your pup and if/how they are unique from their siblings, or your other litters. This is especially interesting for me in seeing how much the genetics of your wolf and your mate affect their pups, and allows litters to be more memorable, since you have more information about them. It is argued that you get this information about them in the game. But with respect, I simply do not think this is the case. As already stated here and in other comments, it is difficult to identify pup personalities yourself. As I mentioned, for many this is probably because they are not actively thinking about their pup's personality, they are thinking about the game. And for many others it is just difficult to remember the personalities of your pups after the litter is over, especially with larger numbers of pups.
bears in the trees ? Oh my dear god imagine being at your den with your pups an whinney the poo just decided to hop on by ☠️ Cant wait for more future updates i always get excited when new updates come out 🥺
Yay! Beavers! You guys are doing such an amazing job! But I was wondering how the controls would look like for mobile? I mean like how would we tell our mater to do things? And will the rest of the controls stay the same? Love the game and watching seri playing! You guys are amazing, and I am always looking forward to seeing the Thursday videos!
Im curious if your gonna allow us to remember the dens on certain wolves cause I get that wolves that are different won't remember the dens but I would like to know that if you have had a previous litter if you can see the dens next litter too?
I think it's a neat idea, but would probably be a challenge to implement, plus I'm not sure about realism. Pups only really live in dens for the first few months of life (and as gameplay may have shown you, they often switch dens at least once), and then spend the rest of their life at rendezvous sites. It's reasonable to think that they simply wouldn't be able to remember the location of one of their pup-hood dens. Plus there's the fact that dens sometimes become uninhabitable, so it's entirely possible that through the 2+ year period of them not living there, the den is destroyed. Then you have to consider the exploitable factor. This would be very easy to exploit. On your first wolf, you find all the dens. Provided you play wolves only from the family tree, you will always have those dens unlocked. It just doesn't fit with the challenging aspect they're going for.
I mean... Don't *you* remember these dens? After spending hours in certain areas you're bound to remember at least something! So you can easily say that your wolf remembers them too, even if they aren't marked on the map yet.
“Wolves with pups don’t have spare time”
The parents during one of my litters:
“Okay pups see you in a few hours we’re gonna invade the Crevice Lake pack! Have fun!”
Idk if it's a bug or what but lately as soon as the pups come out of the den "OK KIDS WHO WANTS TO GO ON A FIELD TRIP ACROSS THE TERRITORY!?" *7 pups have wandered off and gotten lost*
O H O K
@@blobbertmcblob4888 Yeah that’s Hellenes to me too in my last two litters at least!! The mate has gone to go get food and mark the territory and the pups have been like:
“Nooooo! PArent let us come with you you’re sa best I don’t wanna be stuck here with other parent!!”
Haha
Wondering if when Saga comes out (literally later this year) we’ll get to hunt down the rival’s pups since we’ll get our grown up pups to watch over our pups
also what?? I go denless like every other run and I have like 3 pups who are a whole hex away from me still not being lost despite the fact I can’t even see their names
@@shorkbot In re raiding, I doubt it. Dave has said in more recent devblogs that rival pack pups aren't instanced in a tangible way until they are old enough to be able to fight you (likely Young Hunters).
They don't appear unless/until you join their pack and find a suitable den or rendezvous (depending on time of year). _Instant family!_ just add love
I lost it at the pups being named 'Minecraft Steve", "Ballpit", "Breadbug" and "Cereal"
Not just Minecraft Steve, Minecraft Steve the Second
Same
@random idiot *Breadator*
i just saw that and i fell out of my chair laughing so hare lol
@@Birdi-c2jhard*
THE BEAVER AT THE END, that actually got me screaming
:D
Lol
Haha i thought it was a pup or a fawn until he zoomed up XD
I know right?! I was so excited when I saw that!
Don't spoile it
That beaver at the end though, looks like somebody is the Wolfs *lunch-*
The tail is the best part.
Oh man, i didn't pay attention... i didn't realize it was a beaver... i had to go back and look. ::face palm::
@@WolfQuestGame Lol innit
@@WolfQuestGame what animals are you planning to add between 3:42 and 3:54
@@WolfQuestGame ikr
Me: Sees the beaver*
My wolf: *It's time to return to my full-time job as a murderer*
LOL yes.
Same
XD ya my wolves will prob do the same and if i could play with all of them, it would something like this: my wolves: *sees beavers*
me: aww its so cu-
my wolves: *murders the beaver in one second*
me: u have to be killing me THIS IS THE 50TH TIME YA'LL HAVE DONE THIS
YAaaAaaAass
Personally, im rooting for Minecraft Steve the second
me to XD
The creepers are trya steal our souls again!
@@wolfxxyufzboi376 I’m part creeper and Minecraft Steve
I love this game, so I’ll be happy regardless of what you add
"You already have a pretty good grasp of their personalities"
Me: ..the pups have personalities??
I love that you are sticking to how you want to enhance the game. Although people have genuinely good ideas and suggestions it's important to make the game how you intended❤️
"You already have a pretty good grasp on their personalities."
Me, looking at three litters of pups where 10/13 of them I have basically no idea what personality they have: Uh...yeah....sure....mhm.....
(Edit: Beep boop, this wasn't meant to be a put down or anything on the feature itself, at the end of the day I'm just enjoying playing the game and the lack of personality tracker has made a minimal if non-existent impact on my enjoyment. This was just a one-off thing I commented without any real feelings behind it, please be nice :3)
I've more wolves, grown from pups. And yeah, I have no idea either. Is the one I lam currently ooking at a Bold wolf or a Cautious wolf? How am I supposed to remember 100s of pups personalities?
exactly, you can't tell at all lmao
isn't the max 8 pups-?
@@tlktlg8745 And so what if you can't? If you decide to play as that pup, you will play it the way you want. In that case it doesn't matter what its personality is at all.
@@codid7381 13 pups over three seperate litters
Also I think the max is 7
I do think, relating to the command system, that some basic "sit with the pups", "follow me", and a "go hunt" emote/call could be useful when trying to manage larger packs for Episode 3 or even Episode 2 to some degree. Plus, the wolves would still get to do their own thing, they'd just be confined to a specific task, so skittish wolves hunting could still be a bit less likely to get in trouble while hunting but bolder wolves could try to nip a bear. Assuming affinity is high and they actually listen haha. Another reason to interact with your packmates at least.
Unless there was another system you all had in mind that I haven't heard about yet, in which case I'm curious.
For "follow me" and "stay with the pups," those are already in game. Not sure if it was just my mate or not but whenever I left the den, they'd always follow along unless I did the bark which tells them to go home and that kept the pups safe. I would really appreciate a "go hunt" command though because my mate is sometimes starving while with the pups and I'm full but I have no way to tell them to get some food for themselves.
@@mortober same. It’s annoying having to take care of a full grown wolf alongside the pups.
I don’t think the “go hunt” command would be necessary if the devs improve the mate’s AI and makes them more likely to hunt across the board-especially when they get hungry. They should also hunt hares by themselves. I’ve never seen them do that.
@@SucicRaven Yes that would be great. The mates do the bare minimum, and on top of that, they can’t even feed themselves. I hope real wolves have more helpful mates than this.
If they plan to enhance the AI so that the mate goes hunting more, that would be great. As it is now, I still believe we need a command to ask them to go hunt and/or patrol.
Something I was kind of wanting early was like you can "command" you're mate to go hunt or mark territory like in real life
I was hoping for that too. So you can go hunt and your mate can go mark or something. Would make accurate mode more fun.
Yes it would be very helpful
Mates can do that by themselves. It just depends on their personality. I have a mate for my wolf and he often walks off to go and mark territory while I watch the pups or go off to hunt. So far, hes the only mate who's done it by himself though. ;)
@@yawnne7088 that’s because wolfquest recently updated the mate ai
@@guncat2962 Oh, no wonder my mate actually attacks the mule deer now. :)
I just wanted to stop by and say thank you to you and your team for all the time and tireless dedication they have put into this wonderful game. I love the attention to details large and small and how realistic you have made this game. It's a refreshing change to see and very fun to get your hands on! Thank you for everything you do ^w^
Yay for wolfquest making stuff more affordable for us and being great!
I think an interesting idea would be to add mutual relations with ravens! The ravens will let the pack know where food is, and in return, they get the last scraps.
Ravens in yellowstone would also be seen playing with pups too!
I have an Idea. So as for telling your mate to do something, like go mark or hunt. Perhaps, you should have the option to tell them, but depending on their personality, how they are feeling that day, etc. will determine whether they do it or not. Maybe if you bug them enough they will do it, but the pack affinity will go down as they get mad at you for being annoying or something like that. So this way, you don't control them per say as they still can refuse, but the emote option will be there to clearly let them know "Hey, I'm going to defend pups, can you go hunt for a bit?", and at the same time, you wont control them, they can still choose. I think that might work, get the best of both worlds.
I agree 100%. You can tell your mate to follow you and defend the pups, it makes sense to tell the mates to go hunt/mark.
Yes! Full support
Omg, i had the same idea! Also, this might be harder to be code, but it would be cool if your mate would sometimes whine when they go out on a hunt ( i think whine command means follow me? ) so they would be like asking you to go out hunting with them
@@help1300 Idk if it was just coincidence but that actually happened to me once, my mate whined and looked away from the den. Then I got beside her and she was like "Aight, let's go hunt!" and started running. We both really went on a hunt afterwards lol
About the weeding out other pups thing, as much as it sounds cool, I totally get the reasoning. I know how y’all players feel about the Crevice Lake pack, haha. That is to say, it would be an absolute massacre, which doesn’t really fit the tone of the game, although I don’t know if real life wolves can be motivated by vengeance or not. XD
Crevice Lake pack?
My wolf has already killed crevice lakes alphas and junction buttes heh but that was cause they attacked her
@@adamgrogory i think they ‘ re notorious for killing wolf pups .
YAS Crevice laaakkkkeee is the worst
Why does everyone hate crevice lake so much?? I have only had them attack one or two times during a litter, and the rest of em is almost always junction butte
I was a little disappointed about not being able to find and kill other packs' puppies, but I understand that it would be a huge update and with everything else, I'm mostly excited about beavers, I love the game, keep improving where you can!
Edit: I've never gotten so many likes! tysm!
Just a little question cause I never understood, why kill the puppies?
Like what would other wolves/you get if you killed or if your puppies were murdered by another pack. I just don’t understand 😓
@@yourfriendlyenbyneighbor8676 you would have less possible competition for prey , water , territory , and mates . similar to how stranger wolves kill your pups , with less competitors that leaves more room for them to successfully pass on their genes with more readily available resources that in a bad case would be unavailable .
@@amaliciousgoose ohhhh thank you 🥺☺️💕💕💕
@@yourfriendlyenbyneighbor8676 ahh of course ! always love sharing knowledge i ‘ ve learned , it ‘ s great the amount of new things i can learn !
I guess thats what happened to TheGamingBeaver, there at the end, huh..
LMAOOOO
oh no,HOW WILL I GET TO WATCH THE ISLE
I have such a hard time telling the pups and my mate's personality
same i always end up with a lazy mate and its so annoying
I can tell my mate's personality in Amethyst Mountain just fine. It's when I travel to Slough Creek with that mate that I start second-guessing myself. I always pick bold mates in AM, wolves that will help me when hunting bull elk or moose, or when fighting stranger wolves. And yet.. multiple times in SC with the same wolf that helped me with hunting and fighting in AM consistently, I will get into a fight with stranger wolves and they just stood there snarling and doing submissive tail emotes while quite literally watching me die, or letting themselves be attacked without ever attacking back or trying to defend themselves in any way. It ticks me off.
@@Ominous_Odyssey OH, so that's not just me then!
I don't know why this keeps happening, but each playful bowing, constantly howling, bear/bison biting, male mule deer chasing mate gets bonked on the head somewhere on the way to SL and won't bother to even eat a rabbit while they are starving, hangs somewhere hundred yards away from the den, only feeds puppies once in a blue moon and, again, half a field away from den and stays in place doing nothing when rival wolves attack. It's so frustrating...
After a couple of these incidents I had to enable mate permadeath because I might as well raise pups alone if this keeps on happening...
I thought that I’d found a great mate in Amethyst Mountain, but as soon as we had pups, it was like her entire demeanour changed, lol. She never spent time with the pups, nor did she feed them or bring them back to the den they wandered off too far. She never came hunting with me unless I double howled like five times, and when it was time to change dens, she never even bothered to carry one of the pups who kept getting left behind. In fact, she did whatever she could to keep as much distance from me & the pups as possible. It was like she just didn’t care for them. I think it’s time to find a new mate and hope that she’s better, lol.
I can never tell their personalities like I can tell a little bit of ones more cautious during hunting but that is it.
Yay, beavers! I don't feel disappointed with any of these; the additions and excluded parts are fun to see/hear. Although- come to think of additions, I've wondered if bison calves could be a thing? Don't take this as a demand or anything related to that, I'll love the game either way.
We do plan on adding more bison in the future, including calves.
@@WolfQuestGame I have an Idea. So as for telling your mate to do something, like go mark or hunt. Perhaps, you should have the option to tell them, but depending on their personality, how they are feeling that day, etc. will determine whether they do it or not. Maybe if you bug them enough they will do it, but the pack affinity will go down as they get mad at you for being annoying or something like that. So this way, you don't control them per say as they still can refuse, but the emote option will be there to clearly let them know "Hey, I'm going to defend pups, can you go hunt for a bit?", and at the same time, you wont control them, they can still choose. I think that might work, get the best of both worlds.
I made a comment, and I don't know if you guys saw it, and I just wanted to make sure you saw so you can give your thoughts :D
@@lunarbubu Ooo I really like that! Would be fun but also can imagine how frustrating it’d be for players sometimes!
If they ever decide to consider the idea for that, they should probably add a ‘on and off’ option on it so casual players who just want to have fun can turn it off while players who are more interested in roleplay and giving wolves more life can turn it on! :>
Or put it along the challenging modes in wolf quest!
@@cosmichail yess. Thats a good idea also.
Its been so fun to watch how this game has grown! Y'all have done such a good job with all the details and making it as realistic as possible. Keep up the good work guys!
"You already have a pretty good grasp on their personalities."
Me looking at my pups who I can't tell what their personalities are at all: Uhh yeah.. definitely.
Happy Lunar New Year everyone!
My Lunar New Year is tomorrow, but happy Lunar New Year to you too!
Aye, that's me!
0:43
"Cereal"
"Breadbug"
“Minecraft Steve 11”
“Ballpit”
Mates: Sorrel (dead). Current mate: Sorrow-
That is just hilarious. Poor Sorrow, looks like Dave (or whoever recorded that) couldn't get over Sorrel's death.
You forgot Minecraft Steve
at first I thought the beaver was a an elk calf, then as it got closer I realized.....ITS A BEAVER!! I can't wait to see it in-game! great job Wolfquest!!
You are really bold to assume I know any of my pups' personalities
All I Want Is A Command Is For Your Mate To Go Mark Territory Or Hunt As I’m Getting Tired Of My Mate Wandering Off Randomly And Come Back With Nothing Marked And Not Hunted
Said so many partners everywhere...
@@WolfQuestGame Lol- Sometimes My Mate Doesnt Even Come Back When I Call Them- I Summited A Bug Report Bout It Idk If You Got It Doe
@@Taiphyr Maybe they’re just a loner. A very lazy loner
@@guncat2962 Nawww, My Mate So Far Is Energetic And Around More Of The Social Part. They Just Wont Come Back To The Den After 15 Minutes Of Constant Howling. I Usually Have To Travel 20 Minutes To Go Get Them Then Another 20 Minutes To Come Back Lol
@@Taiphyr I guess they’re just avdenturous
I CLICKED SO FAST MY IPAD DISAPPEARED
I-...
It’s great you won’t do so we control our mates, I love their different personalities and the things they do on their own, sometimes annoying, but it makes the game alive!⭐️
I love how you guys are trying to make it as accurate as possible
You have all done an Xcellent job! Such a beautiful representation of the Yellow stone wilderness, we having a bash thank you!
I certainly did NOT expect that lil surprise beaver at the end.
Keep up the amazing work! Can’t wait to see how the black bear turns out!
It's absolutely fine that you are not including everything! The community will still love and support you :).
Would it be possible (perhaps only on Accurate or something) for your wolf to take a slight amount of damage when sliding down cliffs? From their paws scraping on the ground?
Also, maybe any dens your wolf lived in as a pup automatically show up at the beginning of Slough Creek because they remember where the dens were?
The beaver at the end...
(Flashbacks to the Halloween Update and how one skeleton was muttering 'Beavers' intensifies)
I think letting us see the personalities would be a good idea. Literaly all the pups act the same. Ive watched all my pups from 4 different litters now act the same way. I think the most different was one pup chased another and they fell, that was.. the most special thing I've seen them do
About that tree thing, it’s details like that I’ve seen a lot of games struggle with, especially when it’s for a creature/creatures you wouldn’t often interact with in that environment.
I’m unsure how your system works, but I know that one of the popular Dino sims found a work around this for their certain species. If you can make a few different trees their separate intractable entity, you could place them around the map and have AI near them to interact with the entity. The reverse of the issue being that instead of having the tree system account for interactable trees, it would be making the AI think about how to interact with the tree.
Personally for something as small as black bears climbing, I wouldn’t (personally) bother until late game as a quality of life update if at all, but I figured to throw out this suggestion anyway since it does apply to non-tree related things.
I spent one whole night, from 6:00 PM to 10:00 AM, watching wolf documentaries, and still learned more from this game than anything I’ve ever watched. You guys are so amazing!! I LOVE THIS GAME SO MUCH!! :D
Honestly, the game is already great! Keep up the great work and have a blessed day!
I genuinely have no idea what the personalities of most of my pups are, and only figured out how mate personalities work on my fifth playthrough, with help from the wiki. Maybe I'm just super unobservant, but the only difference I've ever been able to see is that some tend to wander more than the others, and I had one that liked to sleep next to my mate, away from me and the other pups.
I get your reasons for not letting us see their personalities, but I would at least like some sort of resource that could guide me and point out the different behaviors, I searched the wiki for this and could only find it in regards to mate behaviors, I have yet to find anyone explaining the pup behaviors.
Thanks, good point. We will work on adding some more info and tips to the WolfQuest Knowledge Base support.wolfquest.org/help/quest-raise-pups article. The pup personalities use the same system as for the mates and we can state that more clearly.
The WolfQuest wiki is a great resource and we expect that fans will be adding details to it. For those of you who are thinking, what wiki? wolfquest.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page
Beavers!!! I’m totally naming a pup beaver and then feeding it a beaver lmao
Since this is an older video I can see this getting buried, but what if, since we can't raid dens, there's a chance younger pups/other pack members do on occasion? I noticed my den tends to get raided by 1 year old wolves more often than any other, and I very rarely get the pack leader raiding my den unless they're the only wolf from that pack that I've met. I think it would be cool if, on random chance, sometimes the younger, more ambitious and less wise pups go try to raid other wolves dens, with varying results, maybe they get a pup, or maybe they get a minor or even a major injury, or maybe they even die while gone
I love that you guys listen to our suggestions and ideas :) its so nice that you guys get so many requests and comments and still reply and listen to a good amount of them! keep doing an amazing job :D
Probably for the best they don't let us commit puppy murder. Crevice Lake wouldn't be nearly as fearsome after what I'd do.
Your pack is just weak. Best they wipe your wolves off the map 🤣🤣
The beaver at the end got me XD
Can’t wait till y’all start working on mobile!
Some things I hope come to wolf quest, ideas for the devs ^^:
Animals: otters, catchable fish such as samon, cod, etc, raccoons, lynx & bobcats, (possibly even) snakes and american alligators.
Communication with ur pack/family: asking ur mate to go hunt or mark and strengthen the territory while you protect the pups and spend time with the sick ones
(Just ideas for the devs and things I really hope come to wolf quest, thank you for reading my comment! 😁)
Yes I wish we could tell the mate to go hunt/mark
Most of these are pretty understandable, you guys are still doing an awesome job at the game! But Beavers!!! Can't wait to be carrying those around
I think they will be released in tower fall...
@@Atticusratticus that will be a long time...
@@Ubiquitousducky Well, they are working as fast as they can to get it out to us! We should be grateful that they are even working on this for us. They could have stopped at 2.7 but they didn't!
There are a few things I want you to add, but whatever you add I’ll love it :D ❤️
"Thirteen years ago" I can't believe I was playing it that long ago myself, and writing "wolf fanfiction" on the forums too. A majority of the people playing it today weren't even alive then! I'm glad that this game has entertained people for so long.
Dave will never let me down. He is Dave.
About tree climbing bears; i can see how difficult that would be to make!!! Planet Zoo's climbing system might be helpful to look at though! Just an idea for the team!
Ik said u wouldn't do it but I think the killing of pups in stranger territories would be more suitable for tower falls anyways
This game really improved so much and i love it as well, you have done an amazing job at making this huge game and i just wanted to say thank you so much for making this game and all your hard work! 💕✨ Thank you!! This game has been my childhood game for so long!
That beaver at end was suprising but a welcome one! ❤
I was wondering will beavers be able to cut trees in the game or not?
Thank you so much for everyone who works hard on this beautiful game you guys are AMAZING!!!!❤
There will be signs of beavers' work but since you, a wolf, change their behavior with your presence you won't see them felling trees or anything.
WolfQuest 3 is my first ever experience with WolfQuest and I absolutely love it! It's possibly the best wolf/animal game ever! 😁
5:03
BEAVER!!! BEAVERR!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Omg did they add that
Soon
@@WolfQuestGame OMG YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
I sort of wish you would show the pup personalities. Only some of them seem to have very strong personalities, if they're very shy or very outgoing. Everything else in between is a gray area, and it would be interesting to see some of the nuances that we didn't pick up on while playing the game.
Two words: “Bear Quest”
I know that this would be a glimpse in the eye of an idea and task much larger, but just imagine 10 years from now, a Bear Quest game where you live as a Black Bear and raise cubs. It could work very similarly to Wolf Quest. Just an idea since you talking about the complexity of the Black Bears got my thoughts rolling.
I would literally give these people all my life savings if they made a LionQuest 😭
@@geministrial950 If they had enough money, time, and support, I know they’d make a franchise. It be stupid not to. A LionQuest would be very cool as well.
@@geministrial950 Yeah I’d love to see Lionquest or Bearquest
Such a beautiful game, I love the alpine phacelia in there too :D I'm so happy this game is coming along so well!
My husband and I can't wait till you bring out multiplayer for Slough Creek! We think it'd be epic to have both of us taking care of a litter, since one could hunt while the other tends the pups XD
I love your game and just got it, no matter what I think you guys deserve a million bucks... Well a Billion, but a million is good to shoot for
Been having a blast trying to get through the accurate campaign without dying! I make a new wolf every time I lose and so far only one has made it to Slough Creek (got cocky and died in pursuit of a moose calf when my pups were about 18lbs, whoops)! Super excited for a new relocatable food source!! Maybe by the time beavers are added I’ll be in Slough Creek again...
I didn't even notice the ending the BEAVER! Its Beautiful!! Ooo Im so excited:)
You're doing such a good job, Wolfquest Team!! This game is so fun and exciting and you keep on making it better. I think right now I'm really hoping for an update with fish, since in some areas, especially in British Columbia, wolves sometimes hunt salmon. I was thinking less of a source of food, though, and maybe more as an aesthetic thing - seeing eagles hunt them (like you do a little bit in Amethyst Mountain), maybe seeing them wiggle around under the water when you put on headcam when you swim... right now the headcam while swimming just shows the bank texture lol! It would just be really fun to see certain fish, I guess. I study marine biology a lot, and there are some neat fishies in Yellowstone.
If you've checked out Voyageurs Wolf Project, you've probably read the articles on how wolves hunt beavers. It'd be neat if there was a special way to hunt them, like with tutorials and stuff, on ambushing them the way those articles and studies describe. No pressure of course, just so long as we get some big fat rodents on the menu, I'm happy!
I guess I'd really enjoy pronghorns and possibly even raccoons being around. Just a neat touch to boost immersion. Other little things I think would be neat is more tree variety (I see a ton of aspens and coniferous trees but not much else, maybe I'm just not recognizing different species), maybe a few more neat coat coat colors, and then animations like shaking water off of your coat after getting out of water, grooming your mate (licking and nuzzling) and playfighting (being able to have a little mock battle with your mate). As for pups, I think it would be kind of awesome if we could groom them and sniff their noses like we do our mates, just for cuteness factor!
Love the work you guys are doing and love the game. Thanks so much for sharing it with all of us!! Your work is so appreciated!
These features sound awesome. I think it would be very cute to have the wolves and pups shake off when coming out of the water. Also more pup interactions like we can with our mate
@@guncat2962 Agreed!
Honestly rethink the pup killing for towerfall when the pups are grown and as for the tree climbing add a new smaller tree system that may spawn when a black bear does if she's got cubs make those trees the only ones they can climb :]
2:17 aww, I really wanted to do that :c
hi i have a question, will you add wildfires to slough creek and others? it would be cool if you add abandon rendezvous site because of fire, and maybe add burns and burn traps/deaths by pups and some leaps exits! also might take maybe 5 days or higher to recover and can be used again. please add this and i'll go insane like im going to really like this game
We would love to add more natural disaster challenges someday.
OH MY LORD I AM SO EATLY AND IM SO HAPPY
I had a batch of pups and they didn’t listen to my call for them to go to their den I could’ve pressed the wrong emote but most of them were murdered by coyotes
Wolves actually basically kill a smaller pack and take that packs pups as their own pack members
😢
@@WolfQuestGame yeah but I kind of killed the coyotes out of anger because they killed my fav pup and yes I pressed the wrong emote and didn’t notice I was tired that time but by the way I love the game so much!
@@Harper6969 Whenever there is a predator that kills any of my pups I always kill them because I become so mad. I kill every predator,sadly expect bears. If there would be a possible chance to kill bears,I would kill bears too. 😅
@@xaddictixn same lol I love my pups
The game is absolutely beautiful and I'd still play it and love it if you were to finish it now. Well, maybe not now because it still has some bugs, but you get what I mean!
Fun fact: here in Colorado, if ya drive a few miles out into the pastures, there will be little pronghorn herds EVERYWHERE!! Like SO MANY PRONGHORN!!!
Pronghorn are so cool! And fast!
Maybe, for the black bears, only make certain trees climbable. Then you won't have to change all of the trees, just a few
Yeah, it’s be easier if only one kind of tree could be interacted with by black bears, like how it is for eagles
@@guncat2962 yeah
I didn't know black bears climb trees enough to be a potential attribute in the game. Still, I don't see the point of black bears when we already have grizzly bears roaming the map that players can only minimally interact with by running away since they're impossible to kill. Another invincible predator walking around the map would be as impactful as a walking boulder or rock--they would just be cosmetic obstacles.
Black bears are a lot more common than grizzlies and so make sense to include to represent Yellowstone. They are also much less powerful than grizzlies so not as invincible.
Sorry about my demanding,but these features are my suggestions to be add in the future:
- may get higher attribute points like +3 or up at offsprings or some NPCs(rare in NPCs).
- can generate special markings at the wolves such as white tall tip,a black spot at the neck etc to make the offsprings or NPCs more unique.
- can raise pups with the previous litters(which you had the family snapshot at the loaf task before) for few more years. Every survived ones will stay in the pack and some may start to leave from 2 years old,which depends on their personality. It is pleasing to see a lots of members who you brought up wandering around the pack.(Why there are so many wolves in other packs and we can't get that many,not fair!!XD)
thats coming in the saga (last idea AKA raiseing pups with your last litters pups until they reach 2 years old and start to disperse)
With the black bear- maybe you could do the same thing that you did with the tall grass you can hide your pups in and elk and mule deer hide their pups too.
The WQAE danger at creek audio is amazing, i need it xD
14 years ago now the first wolfquest was released. It's come a long way, and I only started in 2.7
I really wish you guys added like a function where if the pups got a certain weight and age they could train to hunt with you. Great vid btw :D
The upcoming episode Tower Fall will continue your life with pups. What will be in the new episode?
In the first weeks of June, the pups frolic at the rendezvous site in Slough Creek while their parents bring them their first meals of fresh elk meat. When the elk herds move down into the Lamar Valley, the pack follows - only to find other packs have already established territories in the valley. So they journey further south, up and over Specimen Ridge, then down into the valley of the Yellowstone River. There, on the banks of the Yellowstone, with Tower Fall thundering nearby, the pack makes a new home amidst fellow predators and plentiful prey. Here the pack will stake out a new territory, protect their family from danger, and and raise a new generation of skilled hunters.
The Tower Fall expansion will be an in-game purchase (DLC) and released after WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition.
Follow development of Tower Fall at WolfQuest.org/blog
I want this game in my heart.
PUT IT IN THERE.
I’m not too sure if I’ve asked this in the past but Would you guys like to add a sorta damage indication to a wolf, like for example when your wolf or your mate is below 50% of health they limp? Or other things that indicate injury to a wolf to kinda visually tell a player about their health?
That would be cool but it would take a lot of work and custom animations and such.
@@WolfQuestGame I would love this too because then I could identify wolves I come across and consider through observation like a wolf if the rival is strong or weak and if I should flee or not. And maybe I'm wrong, but the AI wolves seem to know when you're already injured or not at full health and I would like that advantage too
Will there ever be a possible feature in the future to see your pups who have grown up as dispersals? Or maybe they'd join the other main packs and if you scented them, it'd be Crevice Lake 27 FM (Clover). Either in AM or SC. There's be a feature to turn off your wolves from showing up.
Thats a great idea! why wouldnt you ever maybe run into your now dispersial pups? surely youd run into them atleast once
All I want in terms of mate commands is a squirt bottle to discipline my mate when she feeds a pup far from the den that I was going to fetch and attracting all the other pups so I have to fetch them too.
I think attacking other packs would be fine, but an icon might appear on the map that whether any pack has pups or not, and attacking them should be optional I guess.
Anyways good vid! This is my favorite game ever.
I love this game no matter what the update
Oo, are you guys adding the limp customization feature into Anniversary Edition? (I can't remember if anything was said about that) or is it too buggy/complicated to? :O
Sadly, the old limp option requires a huge amount of custom animations so it is not coming any time soon.
2:14 tell me we're going to be able to make big packs in the future though, right? That after tower fall, you'll be able to have more pups and grow your pack farther? Or no?
We would love to keep adding to the story. Maybe someday the pups can grow up completely but it will take time. Tower Fall (a whole new episode/map. DLC) will continue life with pups but they still won't be fully grown.
a BEAVER THERE IT IS
1:31 love that photo
Same
Me finding out i dont get to kill those Crevice Lake devil spawns: *My dissapointment is unmeasurable and my day is ruined*
It was a pretty dumb idea.... like? Glad it’s not happening
Not being able to massacre other pack's pups doesn't bother me. I mean, sure it would be fun to find their offspring, but I'm happy enough I get to snatch newborn ungulates from the bushes as snacks in the springtime haha. I'm addicted, they're like easter eggs!
I will have to say that observing the pups' behavior is near impossible (at least for me), unless you're recording your playthrough and then viewing it again (which is kind of tedious), because you are supposed to be alert at all times, watching for predators, watching your territory, managing everyone's hunger (even mate's hunger, because if you happen to choose a lazy mate they'll rather starve than go on a hunt). Realistically, there is no time to sit back and watch your pups play! And very hard to remember which one did what even if you do end up noticing something, because 5-7 pups is A LOT... Take a look at "Seri! The pixel biologist" channel. She can't remember how her first pups died half the time and she mixes up the strengths and weaknesses of her adult wolves all the time and I do not blame her at all! It's a lot of information to remember and managing so many wolves can be a handful. If you take the task of raising pups seriously, if you want them all to survive it is rather stressful and if you spend time watching them playing instead they usually end up dying.
And don't get me wrong, I understand where you're coming from! It is realistic to not know for sure, it can be fun to make your own conclusions and Tower Fall might help with getting to know your litter even better... But it is a game. In games we love to see the stats and menus exactly because it is helpful and informative and doesn't leave us blindly guessing.
I'm trying to understand and respect your decisions, but as a gamer I can't help, but remain a little peeved.
But this silly pet peeve aside this game is truly great and I appreciate your efforts immensely!
You don't *have* to "know" your pups as gameplay. The most important part of raising them is feeding them and keeping them safe. The purpose of the behind the scenes personality system is to add variety and interest to enhance the player experiences roleplaying/storytelling and add to re-play value. Just remember, the most important factor in interpreting pup personalities is your own experiences and perceptions. And, if you choose to later play a pup as an adult, you can have them behave however you like.
@@WolfQuestGame with all due respect, the personality system does not add much re-play value. as the other person said, it's nearly impossible to get a grasp on your pups' personalities. you're practically playing with the same set of pups, with the same unclear personalities, each playthrough. why do i care about a personality system that i can't even observe working in-game?
i understand you want the game to be realistic, but *your players are not wolves.* your players will need assistance. we will not be tuned-in to the game environment as well as a real wolf will be tuned-in to ITS environment.
and again, with all due respect, if i don't *have* to understand my pups' personalities, why did you add it? when you phrase it that way, it sounds like a useless throwaway feature. does your work not deserve more respect than that?
comments i've seen regarding personality are mostly disagreeing with your decision-- you are not making players happy.
@@hamtastham8831 Well, thank you for chiming in, but I will have to disagree that all pups are the same. Some will stray further away from the den than the others either to explore or spend some time alone, buuut that's about all the difference I've noticed between 3-4 litters... And then again, usually, it's the entire litter that tends to be all bold or all lazy, taking after the parent that has one of these strong traits. Maybe it's just my luck, but it's hard to find them memorable. Puppies aren't memorable until they grow up (or die) and I straight up *forget* what they were like after I've raised them (I know, for shame). That's why I'd love to see more background info about them, but if the devs don't want to show that info, well... It's their game and they are free to do what they want with it.
@@Greyshi sure, it's their game, but it doesn't take more than 2 minutes of scrolling through the comments to see the developers are failing the players in this decision. the decision to add personalities to wolf biographies *wouldn't even affect the gameplay itself.* usually i agree with the devs' decisions, but it's clear they're just being stubborn this time around. the personality system in its current form is NOT interesting enough to add re-play value as they claim.
Glad to have found a more in-depth discussion on this. My own thoughts are a bit mixed and muddled, so I will address both arguments.
*Personally, when I play, even when I have the time to sit at the den and watch the pups in pupcam, I don't remember anything about them but the color of their pelt. I'm watching them, but not really observing them- which, may simply be because I'm more focused on playing the game and reaching the end. I feel that this is at least partially because you have no real motive to be observing your pup's the way you do your mate. Your mate, you pay closer attention to during courting to see what their personalities may be, because their personality matters.
I think this is what wolfquest means by "you don't need to know the personality of your pup's". Because there's quite literally nothing to know about your pup, they act how you act as adults. As was mentioned, it has no effect on gameplay, unlike mate personalities that dictate the survival of your pups.
*However, I understand and share many of the frustrations of wanting to know what personalities the pups had if you don't know or can't remember, if only simply because they exist. After all, it does seem counterintuitive to give the pups certain behaviors, only for those behaviors to be forgettable due to it's lack of purpose and clarification. Part of me feels that having the sliders or even a pre-generated description of your pup's personalities as adults would in itself give the pup personalities more purpose. Even if you plan on acting outside of the pup's personality, you know more about your pup and if/how they are unique from their siblings, or your other litters. This is especially interesting for me in seeing how much the genetics of your wolf and your mate affect their pups, and allows litters to be more memorable, since you have more information about them.
It is argued that you get this information about them in the game. But with respect, I simply do not think this is the case. As already stated here and in other comments, it is difficult to identify pup personalities yourself. As I mentioned, for many this is probably because they are not actively thinking about their pup's personality, they are thinking about the game. And for many others it is just difficult to remember the personalities of your pups after the litter is over, especially with larger numbers of pups.
i was drawing when i saw this
bears in the trees ? Oh my dear god imagine being at your den with your pups an whinney the poo just decided to hop on by ☠️
Cant wait for more future updates i always get excited when new updates come out 🥺
dave has spoken 🙏
I actually can’t wait to play the game for the first time and you can also have more pups then four so you have more mouths to feed
I thought they WERE black bears. Well ..They looked like that in the summertime-
The bears in the game are the much more dangerous and bossy grizzly bears.
Yay! Beavers!
You guys are doing such an amazing job!
But I was wondering how the controls would look like for mobile? I mean like how would we tell our mater to do things? And will the rest of the controls stay the same?
Love the game and watching seri playing!
You guys are amazing, and I am always looking forward to seeing the Thursday videos!
I hate to say this already but... I cannot wait for towerfall.
Im curious if your gonna allow us to remember the dens on certain wolves cause I get that wolves that are different won't remember the dens but I would like to know that if you have had a previous litter if you can see the dens next litter too?
I think it's a neat idea, but would probably be a challenge to implement, plus I'm not sure about realism. Pups only really live in dens for the first few months of life (and as gameplay may have shown you, they often switch dens at least once), and then spend the rest of their life at rendezvous sites. It's reasonable to think that they simply wouldn't be able to remember the location of one of their pup-hood dens. Plus there's the fact that dens sometimes become uninhabitable, so it's entirely possible that through the 2+ year period of them not living there, the den is destroyed.
Then you have to consider the exploitable factor. This would be very easy to exploit. On your first wolf, you find all the dens. Provided you play wolves only from the family tree, you will always have those dens unlocked. It just doesn't fit with the challenging aspect they're going for.
I mean... Don't *you* remember these dens? After spending hours in certain areas you're bound to remember at least something!
So you can easily say that your wolf remembers them too, even if they aren't marked on the map yet.
@@Greyshi I was just curious thats all
@@someoneidk308 That makes a lot sense!