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Ultimate Fishing Simulator Free Download Unfitgirl I recently decided that if I am ever narcissistic enough to write an autobiography, the title of the book (soon to be a major motion picture) will be “It Sucked to be Me!” Sure, that sounds pretty awful, almost as if I led a life of deprivation and pain. Nothing could be further from the truth, though – the reason for that title is the never-ending string of awkward coincidence that has been the very hallmark of my personal history. A recent example was just a few days ago when I performed my monthly weed-whacking around the periphery of my house. I’m sloppy at it, to be honest, and I have done a lot of damage to innocent pieces of vinyl siding and plastic fence posts. This time around I managed to get the string of the trimmer all tangled up in the cables and such that feed the air conditioner. Two hours later on that hot & humid Sunday afternoon, my wife pointed out that it was getting mighty toasty in the house, the cause of which was a non-functioning air conditioner. Hmmm, what (read: “who?”) could have caused that? This is where the awkward coincidence comes in: the failure of the AC had absolutely nothing to do with the weed whacking. That wasn’t discovered until the next day, though, so I got to spend 12 hours in “The Blame Zone.” Why does this matter?? Well, it doesn’t. At least not directly. After all, we’re here to talk about the Ultimate Fishing Simulator, right? Yes. Yes we are. But because we’re talking about a simulator, parallels to real life are pertinent. Which begs the following question: what is your reviewer’s personal background when it comes to fishing? Well, I’m glad you asked, even if it was just rhetorical license on my part. My first experience with fishing occurred roughly half a century ago, back when I was only six or seven years old. Unfitgirl.COM SEXY GAMES

It was very much an introduction of the classical variety: a cheap Zebco reel, a kid-sized pole, a bobber, and a hook for a worm to ride on. On my very first cast, the bait hit the water and the bobber immediately sunk. Just my luck – a defective bobber! I reeled it in, only to find the first fish that I ever caught. And for a good number of years, that little Bluegill was the only fish I caught. As an aside, that little jerk of a fish drew blood when it speared me in the palm with its dorsal spikes, leading to a fifty year history of me never wanting to touch a fish again. Which brings us to the here and now. While I had periodic opportunities to fish throughout the years, and actually managed to catch a good-sized bass at one point, I never pursued the hobby with any kind of regularity until a few months ago when the initial frenzy of early retirement was starting to taper off and I was forced to find some new and interesting pastimes. My history with golf is long and painful, so that was out. Gardening equates to work (see also: weed whacking), stamp collecting in the era of email and IM seems pointless, and I’m not ready for Bingo. Fishing was the obvious choice. After five months of effort, I have caught four fish, and two of those hardly count because they were accidental snags. That’s kind of like accidentally sinking a ball when playing pool: yeah, you scored, but it was just blind luck. The third was a fingerling bass and was so small that I didn’t even know it was on the hook until I reeled in for another try. The fourth was a bluegill. I got a friend to remove it from the hook. About a month ago, I discovered simulated fishing in the last place I would have expected it: Far Cry 5. FC5, for the unaware, is an open-world game that allows you to almost completely ignore the storyline of the actual game in favor of things you would rather do in the vast and complex world.

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For me, that was fishing. It was fun for awhile, but the challenge of it was not in the catching of the fish. If you can’t catch a fish in five seconds in Far Cry 5, it can only be because you’re casting with your back to the water. That said, the extremely dangerous FC5 world itself provides plenty of other challenges – the fact that you’re blissfully ignoring your surroundings while fishing is a recipe for getting shot to death. Or worse. Bears, coyotes, wolves, and even turkeys are out to get you too. Fortunately, just as I was starting to hope for a somewhat more realistic sim, along came the Ultimate Fishing Simulator. While it shares a lot of the same types of fishing mechanics (casting, setting the hook, reeling in, etc.) with FC5, the challenges provided by the UFS are more in line with those of real world fishing. There are also many, many more types of fishing techniques, equipment, lures, baits, and other fishing-related items in the simulator, some of which are actual real world brands. That’s all great stuff to have, of course, but the meat of the game (so to speak) is the catching of fish. One would (quite fairly) expect it to be more in line with the realities of fishing, a couple of which are long periods of inactivity and dealing with outdoor weather. In these two cases, I almost immediately categorized the UFS as being both very realistic and very unrealistic. Being a snap decision unsupported by more recent experiences, don’t put too much credence behind those findings. The first, the realism, was determined after more than four hours of fishing wherein I caught precisely zero fish. That comported perfectly with my own actual experience. I could have gone another four hours without a nibble and still felt that to be an uncanny reflection of my personal reality. Left 4 Dead

The starkly unrealistic point was when I was standing on the side of a lake futilely lobbing bait/lures into the water, with only the benefit of light casting-arm calisthenics to show for it, when it started to rain. The unrealistic part of that was not the rain – it was when I did not grab my stuff and run for the car. At some point between the 4th and 5th unsuccessful hours, I finally broke down and did some research. The specific type of research I did is commonly referred to as “RTFM.” It turned out that I was doing everything right when it came to building out a fishing rig suitable for the type of fish I could see tauntingly swimming right past my lure, but I was missing the boat (so to speak) on reeling in the line. The problem was that I wasn’t using one of the five defined reeling methods; just randomly reeling and jerking the line won’t cut it. It is also possible that I was getting nibbles all that time, but was simply too ignorant to recognize them. Back in 2018 developer Bit Golem cast Ultimate Fishing Simulator onto Steam. Since then the popular fishing game has had several DLC additions including VR support. The Xbox One version was finally released on May 29, giving console players a chance to experience fishing across a variety of environments and disciplines. Does the port of Ultimate Fishing Simulator from PC to Xbox One deliver the catch of the day or is it just a pile of tasteless fish sticks? Welcome to our Ultimate Fishing Simulator review. UFS packs in a ton of locales to test your fishing prowess. You can cast from the shore of a small lake, put on your hip waders and fly fish in a quiet stream, hit the swamps in a boat, or head out on the ocean for the giants. You can even try your hand at ice fishing in a couple of spots. Every area is based on real fishing spots from around the globe, each one stocked with a variety of fish species.

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The diversity of environments is welcomed but the actual scenery is rather bland. Compared to the PC version (which has beautiful graphics by the way) the Xbox One version is sparse on foliage, distant objects are lower res and have jagged edges, and the water itself feels lifeless. Considering how the visual component of a fishing game is just as important as the fishing itself, the lack of detail in this version is disappointing. As an added bonus, the Xbox One version does include three of the aforementioned DLC packs – Moraine Lake (regular or ice fishing) in Canada, the Kariba Dam between the borders of Zambia and Zimbabwe in Africa, and trolling for sharks in the waters near Greenland. These areas still aren’t quite up to par with their PC counterparts but their unique settings are an improvement over the other fishing spots in the console port. Right along with a variety of locales, UFS lets you try out all different types of fishing disciplines. Like most fans of the sport, you will start off with a spinning or casting rod in your pursuit of freshwater fish. If you aren’t happy with just one line you can set up multiple rigs and put them on a stand to better your odds of landing a fish. After a while, you can try your hand at fly fishing and even fishing off the back of a boat in the ocean. Using the right tackle and bait goes a long way when hunting for the big catch. Fortunately, UFS takes a lot of the guesswork out of setting up your rig. The encyclopedia gives a quick rundown of each species including the best time to find the fish active and what techniques to use. You are able to purchase a wide range of fresh bait and lures to fill your tackle box. Each item lists the fish attracted to it ensuring you are always fishing with the right bait. As far as your rod and reel go you start out with the equivalent of the Wal-Mart special. Rods and reels run the full gamut with spinning, casting, feeder, and fly fishing options to choose from.Killing Floor

As you progress in level more advanced options open up and you will want to replace this beginner gear with better, more durable equipment. Upgrading the rest of your gear follows the same pattern. At higher levels you can get better quality lines, more floats are available, larger hooks and lures can be purchased, and so on. is estimated that fishing could have begun almost 500,000 years ago, with fossils from around this time — the period of the Homo erectus — suggesting that these primitive humans were capturing the underwater dwellers for nourishment. But it wasn’t until depictions of fishing from Egypt from around 3,500 BCE that we can see evidence of tools being used to catch them, such as with spears, nets and rods. There are some suggestions in the times since that recreational fishing was undertaken, but it only became more widespread after the English Civil War in the 17th Century, at least in England. Reserved for nobility at first – they did own much of the land, after all – it trickled down the class structure over time, bringing us to today where we have videogames to catch fish, rather than needing to visit any body of water at all. Enter Ultimate Fishing Simulator. I did have high hopes for this, but the first thing I must say is that I played this on Xbox One. A One S, for that matter, just in case there is a possibility that the One X performs better…because, unfortunately, the very first thing I noticed was just how poor the performance is. There’s really no excuse either, as each fishery you visit isn’t particularly large, with what feels like no anti-aliasing at all (if it is present, it must be very weak). Jagged edges everywhere and constant dips below 30FPS even though it is targeting 60FPS. Even FreeSync enabled isn’t enough to smooth out these awful dips, which even persist into the menus. Poor performance could be somewhat excusable if the game had a good art style, at the very least, or high quality textures. But the maps in Ultimate Fishing Simulator look like they’ve taken 10 minutes to design (and take almost an entire minute each time just to load!).

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Plonk some rocks there, a tree or two there, and fill in that hole with water. Grass looks awful, distant textures morph in your view when you move closer and further away, objects don’t cast shadows so nothing looks grounded, in fact on stages where there are windows or anything else to reflect your body, instead of casting a reflection, it instead reproduces the Sun!? Assets are far too bright so for a game that’s supposed to embody some kind of realism, so your attention is constantly focused on just how fake the entire presentation is. It’s also clear that Bit Golem has simply lifted and shifted this game straight onto Xbox with minimal optimisations. The interface is absolutely horrendous, requiring you to control a pointer with the controller’s analogue sticks — but it’s so sensitive, making it pull your hair out in utter frustration. Want to turn the music down? Oh God help me. Trust me, you will want to turn that music down, or off, because it just does not suit fishing at all. Why is some dance shit playing whilst I’m concentrating on a big catch? And bugs. So many bugs. And I don’t mean mealworms to help you catch varying species of trout. After catching a few fish, I then had a bug where every subsequent one I caught wasn’t held up correctly after reeling the bad boy in. I thought nothing of it and continued playing, only upon quitting and going back in did I realise that it hadn’t saved any of my progress as I had unlocked a new stage, levelled up, and caught some fish. Perhaps I should have noticed when achievements weren’t popping when I did land a fish I hadn’t already caught.

Upon starting the game, you’ll only have one fishery to visit. OK, can’t be that difficult to unlock subsequent ones. But no, because levelling up isn’t enough. You need to spend money to buy a license. The second stage is just the first stage but with white textures to make it look like it’s winter. But, the water is frozen, so you have to buy an Auger. That’s not good enough either, because you also need to upgrade your character so you can actually use it, spending a skill point in the process. Next stage? $300, and considering each fish averaged ears you probably $15, you can imagine how long it will take grinding to unlock everything. And that’s if you even sell the fish — you can choose to only take enhanced XP, but then you’re locking yourself to these crap stages for even longer. If you’re still bothering to read this review, then there is one good thing. The gameplay, even given how shoddily optimised the rest of the game is, is actually pretty good. It’s simply and doesn’t take long to get used to, although eventually I found that most fish are pretty much the same. Just on some of the bigger ones, you do have to be careful when reeling in not to snap the line, so carefully does it. Some maps even feature boats you can drive out to hopefully land some more exotic species. So you sit down and there’s a tug on your line. Quickly, you start to haul the fish in, careful not to hold the reel button so long at your line snaps. Okay, it’s a little weird that your left hand is invisible and, hence, the fishing rod appears to be reeling itself in, but you’re concentrating on your prize. Finally, victory! Throwing it back is an option but then you spot that people are willing to pay for your catch, so you hit the sell button and sit down to fish some more.

Five minutes later, you’re out of bait so it’s time to go to the shop and get some more. Wait… there’s no fishing shop, just a pop-up menu? That’s a little disappointing, less immersive than you might have hoped but still, time to stock up. Different bait attracts different fish, so you spring for some chunks of bread which costs.. $6 a chunk? Are they kidding? Still, you’ve not got a lot of choice, so you pay up and equip your new bait. Or rather, you try to. What actually happens is, since Ultimate Fishing Simulator insists on making you use a pointer, you go past the ‘equip’ button three times until you’re finally able to click it. A few minutes later, you’ve caught a few more fish caught a few but you’re ready to move on. You were flicking through the fishing maps early and, to your joy, you saw that you could go shark fishing. Awesome. So you scroll over to the map and… it’s locked. You have to reach a specific skill level before you can access it. It’s about six skill levels above your current level, in fact. So, a little irritated, you decide to aim lower, to see if you can unlock the boating lake level; you’re already level 2, so level 3 shouldn’t be a stretch. In the mean time, you can go ice fishing, which sounds cool. Except you can’t, because you haven’t spent the skill point to unlock the ice fishing ability; but, luckily, you’ve got one spare so you’re ready to go. When you’ve bought a $200 auger, that is. At this point, your mild frustration has turned into boiling rage; you wish there was a virtual shop, not so much for the immersion factor, but so you could throw the stupid $6 bread chunks in the shopkeeper’s face. Fishing, a normally sedate, engrossing activity, has become a Sisyphean nightmare; instead of waiting patiently, appreciating your catch, you’re grumbling because your skill meter is rising so slowly. But, eventually you hit level 3 and, thoroughly ready to move on, you prepare to travel to the next fishery.Super Meat Boy

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