What is the gameplay?

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What is the gameplay?

Post by loboLoco » Tue Jun 27, 2017 11:44 am

Single Player
In single-player games, players play alone, learning how to hunt elk, communicate with other wolves, find a mate, establish a den and territory, raise pups, and embark on a perilous journey to a summering site. Players configure their wolf avatar at the start of the game (choosing its gender, coat pattern and color, and name) before venturing into the wild. As a wolf, they hunt and eat prey such as elk, moose, hares, mule deer. They compete with other predators such as bears, coyotes, and stranger wolves.

Multiplayer
In multiplayer games, players join up to eight players online to explore the Yellowstone wilderness and hunt elk, and raise pups together. The game is not a massive multiplayer online game.

There are two types of multiplayer games:

* Private games: Invite-only, featuring voice, text, and phrase chat.
* Public games: Anyone can join, featuring voice, text, and phrase chat. Players under 13 only have Phrase Chat as an option in public games (that mode provides a list of canned words and phrases for communication). But they *can* use Text Chat in private games with friends.

Where does the game take place?
WolfQuest takes place in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, in the actual areas where wolves were reintroduced in 1996. The game recreates real places in the park and includes some of the animals found there.

There are currently two Yellowstone game maps and one fictional map:

Amethyst Mountain is the first episode. You are a two-year old wolf out on your own, seeking a mate. To gain experience, you hunt elk and hares, chase off predators, such as coyotes and bears, or fight or flee from stranger wolves encountered on your journey. Find a dispersal wolf who will become your wolf's mate.

Slough Creek is the setting of the next episode: Survival of the Pack. There, you and your mate establish a territory and raise a litter of pups: training them, feeding them, defending them against predators, and finally taking them on a cross-country journey to a summer home. Ultimately, success depends on your ability to ensure the survival of your pack.

Lost River is a purely fictional location set in an unknown valley somewhere in western America. This map features a mysterious, dilapidated city that was abandoned some years ago by humans.

Coming early 2018
Tower Fall, the 3rd episode (and 4th game map), will continue pack life in summer and autumn. When the elk herds move down into Yellowstone's 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. This episode will be available as in-game purchase. Learn more about Tower Fall on our developer’s blog at http://www.wolfquest.org/blog

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