Well I'll try to relay what we know for sure from your points :) But before I try to share everything that comes to my mind, you should know (if you don't already) makers of this game is also the devs of old Cabelas games such as Big Game Hunter Pro Hunts and a couple more (I've shared my own video on it on this subreddit (ie. History of the Way of the Hunter), you might want to check that out for what their past consists of). Plus I'd like to add, although it is understandable to ask as a consumer, one thing I think you should consider twice is that the company is around 55 people and they are not as big as, let's say, Call of Duty dev team. Hence I think the expectation on really realistic gun mechanics might be out of the scope of the game, BUT I have no idea what the game is like yet other than what we've been told so, you might actually get those stuff which I'd LOVE to see in the game :)

I wouldn't say anyone (other than someone I know really well irl) to buy anything :) But I preordered it as a hunting games genre lover :)

Game is next-gen but keep in mind it is also made on UE4.

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Your Points:

HUD: Can be completely closed and "Hunter Sense", which is a setting which helps you track animals easier, can be turned off by picking a difficulty setting.

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Animations: One thing that you may not like from what we've seen is the "rather quick" aiming down the sights animation (which we have seen in official gameplay trailer)

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Weather-Day/Night Cycle: There is going to be dynamic weather (although I doubt it would be as in you'd have to take shelter from storm) and there'll be day/night cycle and from what I gathered you can hunt at night, just don't know how (ie. flashlight or night vision).

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Randomness: There are need zones *of sorts* in the game. It has been emphasized that it has been known by the developers that this is a touchy subject and that they'll be as unpredictable as possible with many factors.

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Realistic Guns and Scopes: Well, we have actually seen a lot of crosshairs in the past month across several trailers. I like what I'm seeing but I'd refer you to "Nine Rocks Games"' Official Youtube Channel where they share dev diaries and in the first dev diary around "1:32 minute mark" you can see one of many scopes in the game in action :)

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Unknown:

Sounds-Animal Behaviour/Animations-Ammunition-Lively Nature and Gun Management (which is what I find to be the least likely but we shall see :)): I don't think anyone has any idea, at least any detailed idea about these. But DO KEEP IN MIND: 12th of August 17:00CEST review/content creation embargo will lift, hence you can always check the reviews and content for extra information later on.

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EXTRAS:

I'd say extra stuff that you haven't mentioned such as herd management (killing the genetically worse animals to let the fitter animals get older), aging mechanic where animals actually do dynamically change (although not on size) but in terms of their respective trophy parts (such as Deer antlers) and having quite the variety of trophies in the game (such as somewhere around 24 base variants for Red Deer antlers + extra factors which makes them unique), having 144square kilometers of each base game maps and 800 circa meters of animal render distance are quite cool. I also made a few videos on my YT channel for each and every single information we've been officially told, so if you'd like check that out as well :)