it is criminal at this point that I still use the same scopes as I did when the game released nearly 8 years ago especially considering that WOTH had more options at its launch and now they've even added more sights

Gotta be Whiterime ridge in COTW, just replace the bison with muskox. Polar bear, Sitka deer, artic fox, snowshoe hare, ptarmigan, dall sheep, snow goose, arctic wolves and of course muskox.

I’d love a thermal monocular, trail cams, a pointer and a rework to upland birds and species like foxes to go with the pointer Edit: A new huge trophy lodge

Merry Christmas to you and your family! My fiance and I just found out at the end of November that we're expecting a baby, and then last night I finally proposed after almost 5 years together. This years been full of big things for my little family and I hope your Christmas and new years is awesome as well!

I want a complete overhaul on The ballistic/ damage profile. And for the guns to feel slightly different than the others. And maybe more air guns.

TJ your Pennsylvanian deer hunter ballistics are showing in this one. 300 BLK is a 223 cut down with a .308 bullet shoved into it. It shoots a 125gr as fast as a 30-30 shoots a 150gr. A better AR option for moose grinding would be mayyybe 8.6 blk, but an ar-10 in 338 federal or 358 win would be better. Those are both necked up 308s, and the 338 federal pushes a 200gr to a bit over 2500fps. Though truthfully I think if they made a fast straight pull rifle available in 375 (blaser r8 comes to mind) that would be a great option.

In Florida, invasive snake hunting would be cool, such as Burmese python. They have cool morphs (fur variants) that could be interesting

I think the Amazon rainforest in Brazil would be a cool map cause it could bring a brand new animal ai if they were to add monkeys. Some of the animals they could add include Jaguars: class 7, aggression levels like lions Lowland Tapir: class 7, biggest land animal on the map Black caimen: class 7, the biggest animal on the map, aggressive like alligators Anteaters: class 3, not aggressive Capy bara: class 4 Giant otter, class 3 Red howler monkey: class 2 Squirrel monkey: class 1 Giant armadillo: class 3 Howler monkey: class 2 Spider monkey: class 1 New gun: 7mm-08 class 3-7

I'd love to see the render distance be changed to where we can see maybe 700 away and with that we would need more long range weapons like the 6.5 PRC which I've seen elk and moose dropped with at close to 1000 yards, i'd also like to see the 300 Blackout but you have to remember its a 308 bullet in a 223 cartridge so the penetration would not be great for moose but it would be a great hog hunting gun.

.300 blackout really isnt up to moose lmao... its only a .223 necked up to .30 caliber

12:25 I don't think you know what 300 blackout is. 300 blackout was a cartridge designed to shoot 30-caliber projectile from a case the same length as 556/223 at the same chamber pressure so that it could use the Bolt and mags from an ar-15. The standard round for 300blk is 120-150 grains, being fired anywhere from 1900 to 2400 fps, or you can get 220gr sub sonic rounds. compare this to a 308 firing a 180gr projectile at 2600 fps or a 150gr at 2800 fps 308 is FAR more powerful than 300 blackout. 300blk has less energy than a 243 or 270 a 270 has 2700 ft lb at the muzzle 243 has 1900 300blk has 1200

I think straight walled cartridges would be cool they make them in bolt action rifles at platform and most importantly could make for some really interesting zeroing distances 350/400 legend 360buck hammer 450 bushmaster

All I want from cotw is a semi auto 12 gauge add squirrels and a pointer

I like the Florida map idea. They could do squirrels as well. I still think Africa 2.0 with Elephant Hyena Hartebeest Sable Antelope Red Hart Leopard Guinea Fowl Common Ostrich Giraffe

Increase render distance, add new scopes and spotting scopes, fix goose hunting so they actually fly together and land in or near decoys not fly in circles in a single file line for 5 minutes, fix upland hunting, so the birds don’t sense you and start running from 200 yards. Add trophy shots and True size animals, a diamond bear is the exact same as a bronze and just makes hunting anything without antlers pointless.

I want classic single shots to get some love in call of the wild. Would love to see the buffalo rifle to return from classic.

Merry Christmas to you Sir Flantro, may your year be filled with more big males and 12 thousand trophies. Great video as always too, a great list that I agree wholeheartedly with! 🖤🙏

Flitter 300 blackout is tinny. It’s made for pigs and coyotes. That’s why it’s in a ar15 platform. Maybe a 338 in a benllie or BAR.

300 blackout wouldn't really be ethical for moose. Now the now 8.6 blackout would certainly work and is the same kinda thing. Its starting to be made in ar-10 sized rifles

I would really like a map that could have mega fauna beasts like irish elk or saber tooth mammoth , it would be so cool to hunt all the giants.

My number one wish is for COTW 2.0 for PC, Xbox X/S & PS5 only with all your suggestions & more. Xbox One & PS4 are holding the game back so time to start fresh with gameplay modes (sim, arcade & hybrid), difficulties, functional camo, huge render distance & much much more!

I think a Hawaii map would be awsome. You could have axis deer, Spanish goats, feral goats, feral pigs, axis deer, turkeys. I think that would be so cool. I hope you have a super merry Christmas man. Keep up the great work.

It’s quite common for older Cape buffalo to end up with one or no horns they just use the big hump on their head to hit things. Could work well with an aging system maybe find a huge buffalo and if you leave him to age another 3 years he’ll be an oldie with no horns on the edge of the herd. Be interesting to see what expansive worlds do next year. My main complaint is really render distance, would love spotting scopes and being able to see animals out to 600-700m even if it means the models are sacrificed a bit graphically at that range. Merry Christmas Flantro hope it’s a good one for you man!

Need button remapping so I can spam L1 for spotting instead of square. Square makes it hard to spot moving targets and I always end up pulling out the camera on accident

Increase render distance, faster atv, let us make notes on the map, make it so you can toggle on/off other players waypoint in multiplayer.

Merry Christmas! Map features I would love to see: 1) Filter need zones by animal and zone type! E.g. only show white tail drinking zones, hide everything else. 2) Add markers (as you said in your video) 3) Only show currently active need zones

i would LOVE a silencer or suppressor system in some way, where some might add 50 meters of extra range or more penetration but not as silent as one like that makes it really quiet but shortens the range or gives less penetration. (i would personaly really enjoy this update and i think others would too)

We’re Also Missing Goulds Turkey (Which Should Have Been On Rancho In The First Place As It Is A Map Set In Sonora)

My Wishlist 1. Trophy Lodge Filter 2. Revamp of grinding - make the chance of spawning a great one higher. BUT - consecutive kills of a certain species past X number start to take the spawn chance down. I think grinding the way it currently stands has taken a lot of the magic out of the game. Loadouts are tailored to exactly “how many of X species can I kill” instead of what weapons are most enjoyable to use. This would also influence more weapon packs to be bought I believe. 3. Revamp of Zones: Again- grinding is extremely repetitive and becomes mundane for most species (black bear and moose to a degree is an exception). A lot of this is due to zones for the most part not really changing much. Implementing more solo zones, moving zones, and varied zone locations map to map would make the grinds less repetitive. This isn’t a perfect example but think back to COTW whitetail in 2018ish. A mixture of herds now + loners and male/female duos for most species could really revolutionize grinding

Trusize for non antlered animals and the ability to turn off need zones for something similar to classic.

i'd love for a thermal pack too come out instead of nightvision but make the scope better and we also need more custamizable options like suppresers

All sounds good to me. I would like mission packs or at least new missions. A way to block mods when hosting multiplayer. I get tired of kicking people but like to keep it public. A new bird mechanic, Sand Hill Cranes! Also I can't believe none of the hunting games have doves. What's up with that? Who wouldn't want to shoot rock pigeons? Thanks for all your content Flinter! Keep up all the good work.

A good map idea would be a midwestern map. The Midwest is known for big whitetail deer. The species would include Whitetail deer, coyote, raccoon, eastern wild turkey, Canada geese, wood duck, red and grey fox. And I would like to see American badgers.

Partner, I use 300BO on hogs and struggle to put them down. It is Definitely not something you’d shoot an elk with. For SURE not a moose. Maybe a 300 win mag AR? But 300 blackout AR is not at all the direction for moose.

I wish they would up the render distance to 500 for next gen consoles and pc

We need new scopes for guns

An update where the devs go back to older species and give new fur variations like with the fallow. Maybe lucistic for white tail, albino for black bear, new piebald variations for older species etc.

I agree with the new lodge and museum type of lodge. I love games where you have an objective, or you just have to grind for something in specific so when I saw they released the Layton Lake lodge where you have to find specific animals to hang it definitely brought me back to the game and it was free! So, I definitely want to see more of that.

Hey Flinter, great Christmas list you made this year. All I want for Christmas is more Classic videos from you. (When you have time and would like too, of course) 😋...Thanks for your Wishlist. Merry Christmas to you Kyla and Shadow.

I'd really like to see Osceolas in the game, as well as key deer like you said. I'd also really like to see some more backfills and also the concept of "rare species", where certain species would spawn very few animals, i.e. moose on NZ or mountain lions on Layton.

I’ve always thought about like a whitetail on revontuli being different racks from whitetail on Layton

I'd love to see the north American grand slam added. A customizable trophy lodge, change out large to small platforms and wall plaques.

Merry Christmas and Congrats on your news! Multiple Waypoint is a must and would bring people back. How many people quit the game because it takes so long to track down animals when you can only mark one point. Now my Wishlist after waypoints and a Spotting Scope. Spotting Scope must be able to see farther than you can shoot to make it for hunting and not long range shooting. My ultimate Wishlist item is for a EW Hunting Camp Map. Think about it they are Expansive Worlds so a EW camp map could be one with swamp, forest, plains, and etc because it doesn’t have to be a real geographically area. This EW camp Can rotate animals periodically so one cycle you could have Elk and the next the Elk is replaced with a Red Deer. Crocs for Alligators. Turkey, Goose, Quall, Fox, Bear, and Duck species interchange. And then in the EW Camp Map you can have more challenges for each cycle and total. Like you mentioned how cool would it be to get the Turkey Quad Slam on one map over a year. Make the cycle like a season in other games where it last three months. I’d even pay a battle pass price for a year or quarterly pass to hunt this EW Camp. Get Remi back to be the camp Director and set the challenges. It would be like a new game within a game.

I like idea of another Rev, but I would want it on the west coast, so we would get another map for Roosevelt elk, and blacktail deer, its also time for an elk great one! This is second on my list with a Yukon valley trophy lodge at #1, euro mounts are 3rd 👍 I also love the idea of a 300 blackout so that's #4 for sure. 5 is more scopes. Also love how you mentioned console camera! Keep up the good work as always, and have an excellent Christmas!

Merry Christmas Flinter. I would like to see an upland bird rework along with some sort of pointing dog. I find it frustrating when birds flush 100 meters away before you even knew they were there. Also would like to see a Texas ranch map with new animals such as : mourning dove, gamble’s quail, and nilgai. Africa 2.0 with a bunch of plains game would also be fun.

For the Florida map idea, it would be cool if they added the American Crocodile in addition to just the expected alligators. I feel like it would really set the map apart from Mississippi if it had a unique crocodilian species. It seems inevitable to me that they will eventually have more croc or caiman species to hunt. A Cuban crocodile, Nile crocodile, or gharial would all be awesome options for future maps

Merry Christmas Flinter! I got to go to my first Seahawk game today. Keep up the good work.

300 blackout has very similar ballistics to 30-30 a 300 prc would be cool to add to the game

Not just more diamond racks, but more racks across the board for all species. Also while a turkey slam would be a great addition, a Sheep slam is like a must, especially since we have the maps. So disappointing we are missing out on Dall’s, stones, and deserts. Plus image an all diamond sheep slam in the trophy lodge with custom habitat, would be so cool.

Better render distance for me is paramount. I know hardware limitations are a thing and last gen consoles are struggling. But i would love a next gen/pc render distance upgrade at least for big game species

Speaking of different racks how adding velvet deer. For the trophy lodges I’d like to see pedestal and wall pedestal mounts or even half life size mounts

I think they should add custumceble multi mounts. They can for example have a preset with one deer and one predator, but you get to pick which ones.

Yesss!! I so badly want Florida with Osceola turkeys

Merry Christmas to you, Ky and Shadow!! May God bless you all! See you in chat in 2024!!😊👍🏻

Ya know I was thinking of a new map that’s completely out of the realm of what they would consider, but here it is. A map created as of the woodlands of the Appalachian mountains, no sun only moon light so it’s always dark. And the creatures are like skinwalkers, Bigfoot, mothman, the wendigo, and many other folklore. I think it would be cool to hunt and find these folklore and be able to have them as mounts in our lodges.

Flinter, I loved most of your weapon wishes, I've thought they should definitely add a 375 H&H for a while. But 300 Blackout? That is not an ethical moose cartridge at all. It's actually significantly weaker than 308 Winchester, a cartridge in which we already have an AR-style rifle.

What I've always wanted for COTW is a muzzleloader weapon pack. .32 caliber all the way up to .58 or even .69 Calliber. Class 1 to class 9. A blackpowder shotgun for birds and even throw in a tradition frontier outfit. I spent a week in Silver Ridge Peaks limiting myself to just the black powder rifle and had a blast but there's to many species you can't hunt with the weapon options in the game.

I just started playing again two months ago on a new character and as kinda being new to everything again I would love if they had a lodge that is like layton lodge where there are specific areas for a mount but have a lodge for each map or just a lodge that expands as you get new maps. It would really help in seeing progress as you fill it out and overall would make setting up a good and filled out lodge easier I think.

I'd really like another Africa map, something in central Africa with savanna buffalo, elephant, bongo, maybe a zebra species, and duiker. Also I think you were talking about an AR-10 in 300 magnum moreso than 300 blackout which is NOT up to the task on moose (irl is significantly weaker than .30-30)

I'd love thermal gear, like a thermal monocular but I do think that when doing co-op hunting a polaris would be so amazing, we are stuck with using ATV's and have to dry by ourselves, but could you imagine how convenient it would be if we had a side by side like the polaris?!

I’d really like deployable bipods. Something you carry and can set down and immediately stabilize your weapon sway. No movement so you could accurately shoot up to 400m even if you’re not high level and reduce weapon sway. Make it like 4 points to carry

They need to rework the nightvision and add thermals. And for mounts, they need to add pedestal mounts. Then we could have 1-3 shoulder mounts (depending on species) on 1 floor pedestal and fill some of that floor space in the lodges.

Merry Christmas Flinter. Aside from Africa 2.0 and maybe an Arctic map I don't really have a wishlist for COTW. Florida would only excite me if we can also hunt Burmese Pythons

I like how flinter suggested the new turkey for the florida map when he mentioned florida my mind immediately went to Iguanas they are a super invasive species over there and I think it would be dope to shoot iguanas out of the trees in a florida map also it would be a great species for the pellet gun thats in the game since it really has no use and not many use it since its release but the new turkey is a good addition too

Merry christmas flinter. As someone who lives in florida and has watched your videos for years, i think its cool to add a florida map. The only thing is that we dont have as much exotic hunts as people think. I wouldnt want EW to go TOO far and add sambar and red deer, rusa, sheeps and other nonnatives. Its not necessary. As far as ducks go, we need wood duck and and teal and the osciola turkeys. I love the .300 blackout idea and maybe more 20ga shotguns for turkeys. Thank you for the video it was entertaining.🎉

Python hunting in Florida would be my favorite map

Fun video, and a lot of great ideas. Merry Christmas buddy!

I would love suppressors it would work like less hunting presser so maybe 5/6 animals before the zone is gone and the animals don’t spook as far. And tripods for the wepons to have a more steady shot

Merry Christmas flinter! Iv been wanting and waiting for big game throwing spears!, I'd grind moose with a spear all day long! You ever seen Alaskan brown bear hunts with spear just craziness like to try that on a game

I've been wanting a flordia map for Osceola Turkeys since they added subspecies!! They could also add both gators and American saltwater crocs.

Trophy shots and being able to place them in the lodges and the trophy shots showing the time and when it was taken I think this would be a great quality of life improvement and I believe everyone like to see this addition to the the game hopefully expansive worlds looks into this feature

Just wanted to say good video but 300 blackout is actually just a 223 straitened out to 30cal so it’s still a small cartridge with a big bullet

I like all the ideas so far except for the Florida map. However the Texas map of exotic game animals now that is something that would sound much better. I think my favorite thing so far is the animal age cycle.😊

I like the Florida idea with a added twist being the iguana. Florida is over run with them and it'd be cool to do missions based on "pest control"

in my opinion we should also have co-op trophy lodges, because that would be really fun if youre great one grinding with your friend and you both could acces the lodge and place animals there toghether would be really nice

I wish they added some sleeping bags as an item as a lighter version of a tent that functions as purely a placable rest/fast travel spot.

Dall sheep need to be in the game at some point. I also think hyenas and greater kudu would be awesome

Something I prefer for water buffalo (haven't tried on cape buffalo) is actually a compound bow with 600 gr. broadheads. Rated 90 for penetration, I think I actually heart shot a banteng from behind before. If you have the high tech hunting dlc, the rangefinder bow scope makes 70 meter shots possible. I think I got a 110 meter shot on a lioness after missing a few times, but over 100 meters is a toss up. Like a lot of other people are saying in the comments, I think if you are looking for a popular caliber for AR, 450 Bushmaster might be a more powerful choice than 300 blackout, and it is very commonly used where people can only do straight-walled cartridges for deer hunting. Something KG Gaming talked about was suppressors. I would add that this could expand to chokes for shotguns. Say you value low recoil over sound amplitude, perhaps a muzzle break could also be added. Fore end attachments could be viable.

Cross platform, father render distance, farther scopes, a artic circle map with musk ox, artic wolves, artic fox, polar bear, reindeer, moose, and whatever else they’d want, Africa 2.0 with atleast elephants because I’d love to have an elephant trophy.

Merry Chrysler! Hear me out.... give me a caliber rework so weapons like the 4570 and 470 more useful. Oh and g1 elk or muley

And for resting zone for example whitetail could have big rubs and scraps just a added detail that would be cool

Merry Xmas The number 1 thing I want is a customized lodge

I like the idea of customizing the lodge mounts. I play in offline mode and only one map. Would love to have multiple deer mounts!

I own multiple 300 blackouts, the blackout is a 30-30. It's an amazing round, but not personally a gun I'd hunt a moose with since your ammo tends to top out around 150 grain bullets. More of a class 2-7 gun if you will. Now what I could see being a huge attention grabber and potentially a huge seller for this game or any hunting game, is suppressors. Imagine grinding moose, suppressed .300 mag, being able to shoot a moose and nothing within say 100 meters being able to hear the gunshot. Sure maybe the animals can go to alert but being able to not have them flee right away, I think that would definitely change the game and make it so much more fun

Merry Christmas and I agree with everything

They should add a rare plumage type to the waterfowl that gives the birds a band

Number 1 thing i want is suppressors. They’re a huge part in hunting shooting. Everyone hunts with suppressors. And if anyone knows anything about suppressors they’re obviously still loud. Animals will still hear it and spook from 300+ yards away. But it makes it a greater experience for the shooter. Less recoil and easier to stay on target. I don’t understand why it’s not in the game.

I reckon some might disagree but I really want a uk map. Not just bc I live here but there’s great hunting opportunities. 6 deer species, lots of waterfowl, we could also have the introduction of squirrels and a break barrel air gun, slingshot, blowgun or spear could all be great fun aswell.

I agree one million percent with the .375 h&h. I want one of those guns irl and in a game so bad

They should totally have zebras in Verhonga savannah. They aren't super big like elephants, and they would look amazing if they are melanistic/albino, etc, I mean, imagine a multimount with a couple zebras and some lions, that would be so cool! I also think that there should be leopards in Verhonga savannah as well.

The fact that squirrels and trail cams aren’t in the game yet are crazy, hopefully in 2024!

Another map idea: Saskatchewan Canada(here me out) 16 species, 3 great ones, 4 unique Canada Goose, Snow Goose, Moose, Whitetail Deer, Mule Deer, Coyote, Beaver, Manitoban Elk, Black Bear, Mountain Lion, Sharp-Tailed Grouse, Willow and Rock Ptarmigan. Could have some snowfall, like Yukon, many fields and thick pine forests, many lakes

Well if they come out with a .416 Rigby, they also should make an Animation of the Gun falling off the Hunter's Hands 😂

Merry Christmas! My Christmas is a little interesting this year. After opening gifts briefly, I'm going to Hersheypark PA! Have you been?

I think there should be a South Africa map, you could have zebra, impala and bring animals in from Vurhonga and maybe even reskin the blue wildebeest and have a blue and black wildebeest. You could also have a mission where an elephant keeps breaking into the reserve so you have to put it down, seeing as elephants are a controversial topic when hunting, so people who want elephants can get them and people who don’t also win. Idk tho

Do you think they would add american crocodiles? I love the video! Thanks for putting that idea in my mind! Also happy new year!! Ik its kinda early but still!

You missed iguanas for the Florida map there's so many there that there's no limit. I think it be cool to see them running around a map.

I want Dall sheep and alpine ibex, they are in the hunter classic and would make an amazing species to add. Also new trophy shots would be cool too.

Hate to be the counter critic but lets go. Florida map would be alot of repeat species. It would take some really far stretching to get anything new out of that. Key deer shouldnt be there, it shouldnt give the impression of hunting them in a game going for realism also would destroy the location as it would put you in some poor places habitat wise for other species. TruRacks are on Vurhonga on Springbok. A 300 blackout is not a moose caliber. At all. Its barely enough for upper medium game definitely not true large game. It is a 7.62x67 (win mag) vs a 7.62x35 (blackout). Significantly smaller case (223 case) less powder, less energy, its designed for close ranger and supressor shooting.

I think trophy lodges should be the new “turkey” and the camera for console is an amazing idea