#🦌︴help-and-tips
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as long as they are close together, it doesnt matter how they are laid out
how close?
this is mine and it works fine
That's a tripod ye
does the extra elevation help?
dont know, but i'd keep them within a meter or two of each other
Sometimes~
Not having a roof is the most useful thing
Like I was saying earlier, point of aim is something to think about
With tripods it's a little easier for them to swoop down at your face
But you also get a very nice fov to find dropped birds
Yeah I watch them carefully to see if they abort landing and then start shooting
With layout you get a little more time before they hit the ground at your face to shoot at them as they swoop in
And thus a little more time of them being within range on the air as they fly away
Is geese still good money? I only have 20k
Geese is amazing money.
Geese is ~1k per bird, and you can get flocks of 4-8 at a time, so~
Okay thank you. I’m gonna watch some YouTube tutorials because I don’t have a clue how to go about it
I've been goosing for 25 mins maybe and have $25k more than when I started
Flinter's is pretty good
Still relevant
The bad thing about layout blind is that you can't aim a weapon without popping out of the blind, and thus losing concealment
And within concealment, you can't look straight up
Neither of those things are an issue with tripods
walk back to the corner you came in and it will prompt to hit E
Getting out should be as simple as looking down and pressing the button prompt
Ye
And to dismantle it, you look at the bag thing on the foot end of it and press E on it
and to pick it up look for the little duffle bag on the outside front
Jinx~
i owe you a duck
Yey~
Nope, that's about how far I put my tripod
Don't really need the caller if you have decoys. Now and then you'll have a flock ignore you, but I've found when that happens, nothing will convince them to come down.
so this vantage is fine then?
I use it because it gives me something to do while I am waiting for the next flock
I'm almost positive this is a bug tbh
It used to work before Rancho
here comes a flock, wish me luck! 😄
break a leg!
lol hit two
but I will improve 😄
another flock this way comes!
thank you for the suggestion friends ❤️
I will be grinding!
how long do geese take to despawn?
eg how long can I wait if I want to stay in stand and keep shooting?
like, goose bodies?
if there are 30 or more on the ground the game can bug out
so around 20 would be wise
they will stay there until either you pick them up, change the time, or quit to menu/desktop
yeah
okay sounds good
thank you 🙂
also my doge is running in circles
good boy 😄
there is a thunderstorm in game
I am sitting on a metal tripod in the middle of a field
this is very dangeous lmao
looks like geese don't come in the storm
They should
I just got the duck and cover DLC and ducks will only come once to an area when I load in Layton and then never come again or even fly over. Am I doing something wrong?
Duck decoys are a bit...
Not working properly rn?
They might do a proper waterfowl rework that fixes that, but as of rn ducks don't really answer to decoys as often as geese do
In my experience that's not unusual. Ducks don't fly in as regularly as geese. Sometimes I'll get two flocks in ten minutes, and then probably nothing for hours, so I try to return to the blind a few times in a day, when need zones change typically
and, overall, I don't think anyone fully understands how ducks are intended to work, it's an issue with lots of unknowns
cinnamon teals are definitely broken though
is there a particular time range for geese?
Not really.
I haven't tried at night but I wouldn't be surprised if they would fly in all night too. The weather certainly doesn't stop them
I honestly find it easier to tell if something's a non-common at night
does Red Deer Caller work on Sika Deers? Affected species are supposed to be Red Deer and Sika Deer but every time I use it I only get vocal response from Red Deer.
but even without vocal response Sika Deer doesn't seem to be affected by it. I tried it on herd of like 7 male sika deers and couldn't see any change in their behavior
Hmm it worked on one for me
Maybe try the buck wheeze call and see if it's more effective
I don't know. But I can clearly see behaviour change in Red Deer, they always go close to me but Sika Deer, they keep eating grass
that's strange
I also tried Red Deer scent (that's supposed to work on Sika) but also couldn't see any change in their behaviour
Maybe it's pick and choose cuz it worked on the one for me but I don't thank he was at a need zone
I've only used a scent a couple of times and one of those times I was using it as I cover scent I've never tried the red scent so I don't know about them
Ok, I will test it more
Sikas don't react to calls in general usually
you mean in real life?
In the game.
and is that supposed to work like that?
a good many animals are summoned by callers without vocalizing in game
Yes.
ok
morn
👋🏼
How do I pick my blind back up
Which blind?
So is hunting geese also the best tactic for exp? Or is there an alternate strategy for maximal exp gain?
One of the CC's got to Lvl 60 on nothing but geese.
within two days, though there was some nothing-but-game involved there iirc
What do you mean nothing but game? You mean they played non stop grinding?
By the way, I was quite successful with the geese strategy last night while watching a movie, it is very chill and I expect I will be able to work on programming and just tab in when I hear Goose honk haha
Also, I talked to my girlfriend into picking up the game, she got the Humble Bundle for all the DLC oh, what do you guys think would be a cool first hunt? I have played multiplayer 1 time total myself so I don't know what is actually fun to do with a partner haha
Pretty much.
and Cuatro is a fun map to just explore. With bonus danger of wolves while you're walking around.
anybody got a good wolf spot on cuatro ?
Top right lake (I find it good for wolves, red deer, roe deer and mouflon)
Cool, I think we will probably start the Montana map since she is from there
That sounds like a fun trip to Cuatro though :)
Can we do the story quests together in multiplayer?
What map do u mean? There isn't a Montana map, there is SRP, Layton and Yukon that are USA based though
SRP
it is basically yellowstone in terms of wildlife haha
I can agree lmao
Or maybe we can start with something more mellow since I know she is worried about predators
Maybe even something like Hirschfield or something to Te Aroyo
Yea
I will let her decide ultimately haha
Yea lmao
Yeah and it is a very chill vibe
Plus it has geese for when we want to get some levels and cash
When we create a multiplayer match does it matter who creates the game in terms of access to storyline and ping?
anyone know how to stop constant crashing ?
Te Awaroa or Rancho del Arroyo? 😄
Crashing when?
like once evry 45min
Hm, don't know any solutions for that. Maybe your GPU is struggling and it happens in particular hard spots to process?
Maybe
After a quick reinstall its running smooth
Wait now it crashed and restarted my computer
Crashes like that usually indicate a computer issue.
Like a gpu thing or cpu
Some people lately have reported crashing problems which were solved by unplugging a controller which was left plugged in
Controllers, overclocking (even factory overclocks) and the audio sample rates e.g. 24 bit 96000 Hz are all odd things I've seen cause issues.
just luck
sometimes i was having troubles picking my previous find b4 the next flock arrived
other times could wait 10 or minutes for them to come by
there are lulls. If none come in a half hour IRL I usually restart game just to be sure not a bug
you could try using the caller when there are no geese nearby
maybe they are outside your hearing range and respond to the caller
I have been doing that as well actually
go into perks screen right click on icon for skill, activate it
I love it, but I will tell you that it is the second level which gives you longer range is the one that is most useful. For most rifles, it makes your default shot distance from 168 yds to 328 yds.
shorter range zero I have used more for bows if at all
but basically, if an animal is 328 yds away, if you turn to max zeroing, you can use something like an M-1 and put it right in the crosshairs instead of adjusting for bullet drop
Cool, I just got the second rank a moment ago, I will be trying it out later. I was using the short-range zero as yesterday someone suggested using that for shotguns and geese
I've tried it on geese but usually I leave it at default range. Others might be better at it than me though
I'll switch to max zero as the geese get farther away
You have so little time to get your shots in on geese that I don't want to fiddle with the zeroing more than necessary
Yeah, I definitely got that
when you change your zero setting it carries across all weapons too
Cool, good to know
important to remember when you set long range zero and then shoot at something 100 yds away because it will send your bullet high and miss a vital or miss entirely
I've done that a lot lol
I also wanted to ask what the significance of the different colorations is oh, I have gotten a couple alternate colorations of geese, I was wondering if I am supposed to do something special with them
some of the colorations are rare and prized. Hang on a sec it's on the spreadsheet
Rare and prized for whom? Do you just get extra money or are you supposed to taxidermize them or something?
no extra money but it's bragging rights
I have gotten mostly Brown hybrids
I got a mela yesterday and I almost harvested it without noticing
so now it's in my trophy lodge
Haha awesome oh, is that the type of thing that I should collect the various colorations regardless of quality?
Where can I find that spreadsheet by the way?
it is pinned in the trophy gallery channel but I'll give you a link too as I always have it open when playing. Each map has its own tab at bottom
but yes, rare color variations are worth saving and taxiderming and sharing here
it adds something to seek out besides just diamond ratings
Thank you! I also had another question which is more quality of life than anything, I find that when I scope in I am not aiming where I expect to be oh, is it just inconsistent or is it an unusual position not the center of the screen like it would be for most first person shooters? Is there any way to adjust that or maybe some screen overlay that puts a. Or something where the crosshairs will be when aiming down sights?
I find this to be the case when using the Argus scope because it is such long range, and only switch to it specifically for long range shots. The others I just try and line my point of view up before aiming
I tried to do that but I find myself losing track of targets very easily because it just doesn't end up aiming where I was expecting it to aim
It is no issue when I take my initial shot but if I have to change weapons for example and aim down sights again it is wildly inconsistent
I think that just takes practice. Might have something to do with your field of view setting maybe
What is the optimal field of view setting?
I think that's just preference
Is there any advantage to increase fov? I know that in twitch shooters increase field of view makes it so you can take in more information but in this sort of game information is basically binary, you mostly only know what you have directly put in your sights and once you take a shot it pretty much erases everything else within range of you so I feel like feel the view is not as important here
Some rare fur/plumage types are highly sought after due to, well, their rarity
I expanded my FOV early on and then dialed it back because I though it distorted my view too much. I agree I don't think it is especially beneficial to have higher FOV in this game
For instance
Impressive! Is this highly sought-after just for Kudos and props from people in the community or is there an in-game Dennis it?
Benefit, sorry using voice to text while on phone
For their novelty, mostly
There’s no in-game benefit, but there is a sentimental one
there are some steam achievements which consider coat type but that's about it
Yup
Rare fur types on the smol predators are particularly elusive btw
Melanistic is usually the rarest fur type on the animals that have it (exceptions exist, like the European rabbit and chamois)
What’s the best time for whitetail on layton
12-16 is their drink time
12-4pm?
Okay
@last hemlock well played on that description 🤣
What are the best doggy traits?
I don't think any of them have a significant impact on how the dog performs, imho, so it's really preference
what does the extra love/bond do functionally?
the higher the # of hearts the faster the dog regenerates focus. Since the dog almost always has enough focus, it ends up being kind of irrelevant
look at the ammo type it uses
anybody else hunt club beta not working ? im on ps4 ...
hunt club hasn't been a thing for a loooooooooooooooooooooooooong time
disabled currently
all platforms
its disabled currently
oh okay thanks guys!
also appears to be one of the things they hope to fix soon though
Hello. On Layton lake I am on the high lake outpost trying to fast travel to the chopeeka but after the loading screen I’m back on the high lake outpost
afaik that outpost doesnt really work for a lot of people, i just kinda forgot about it lol
Best time to kill your first diamond ? LOL
Any time you have a clear shot.
always double-check what weapon you're using too
depends on the animal, your skill level, how comfortable you are, how good of an angle you have, how aware of you the animal is, etc
Update I shot it and my game crashed after it got downed 3 sec after
basically whenever you have a shot you are comfortable with and you have the right weapon
RIP
ouch
It was a kudu
☹️
Could someone send me a fur sheet rarity for each animal
I can never find the one I want
I thought geese didn’t land w/o decoys but I jus had a whole flock land in front of me no decoys
Nice
pinned messages in #🦌︴trophies
Guys I bought ammo for my 270 but It won’t let me equip it to my gun anyone know why?
did you buy .270 ammo?
Yes but this time I bought polymer tips and it won’t let me equip
unequip then re-equip the weapon and see if that changes anything
Helped thank you 🙏
i clean updated my drivers and hopefully it should work
Do deer always use the same need zone? I sat in a drink zone where i’ve seen deer before, and sat there from 12:30-15:30 and didn’t see a single deer..
There's a chance they're getting stuck in an AI loop
@tranquil tundra anyway to fix?😂😂
Use other zones for the time being. Or you can try to find where they're stuck.
@tranquil tundra anyway to fix?😂😂
Hey guys - does anyone know whether diamond mule deer on Parque Fernando are still a thing? Or are they bugged currently? I'm doing the mission where you get a diamond of each animal and had everythign except a mulie in under 3 weeks. I've watched all the guides and been grinding mulies since then and it's been now been 2 months solid, and the nearest I've got is a level 4 / 303.5. I know I'm seeing more level 3's and 4's than when I started, but no level 5 yet. Starting to get a bit tired of it but I want to finish PF so I can get started on one of the reserves I haven't played yet...
They are indeed a thing
And you don’t have to restrict yourself to completing that mission before going on to another map
No - I know
I've played about a bit on some of the others
but I set myself the challenge of getting the steam achievement for finishing it
Make sure you know where all your mule deer are ofc
so every time I go onto one of the others, I end up thinking - "I gotta go do another run at themulies"
yeah - I've got tents and stands up in all the spots I can pick out of the youtube videos
just really frustrating
had the same thing with the axis deer for about 10 days, then randomly - pop - there's one
dropped him at over 300yd from the other side of a lake, lost him in the trees
was running round there with my fingers crossed hoping I hadn't screwd it up
but no mulies
Same thing could happen with the mulies. You never know
yeah - just hoping it's soon lol
Lmao
probably discover there are about 20 of them running around in a herd, looking totally puzzled that no hunter has come along and shot at them yet
I wish there was at least a way to discover there was definitely one on your map
so you know you're not wasting your time at least
I don't mind working at it, but it would be nice to know, yup, he's definitely out there somewher
ah well
thanks for the confirmation anyway - I know there was stuff in the past with level 6 & 7 mulies and the scoring not being right, so helpful to know you can still get them 👍
Best pistol
Depends on the animal
For big animals
Oh ok
It will stop a charging Cape buffalo in its tracks
.44 magnum is gud too. Just against slightly smoler animals
Like the one night I was bored out of my mind and set my all-time PB for longest vital shot with a handgun
7mm is more of a jack of all trades kind of weapon
Meaning?
It trades specialization for versatility
It essentially fills the roles of two rifles in one package, but those two rifles are gonna be better at their respective jobs
It’s a versatile, dependable rifle though, and it will serve you well
What next reserve would you recommend me? Yukon, Fernando, Quatro, Hirsch, Medved - my favourite so far is Silver Ridge as it seems to be most full of animals...
Te Awaroa is also pretty well populated and comes with the .303, which is arguably the strongest 4-8 rifle. Other than that I'd recommend Yukon, which comes with the .300, a great gun for animals of class 7-9.
Medved is awesome for night hunting, all of the other maps are awesome as well
I'd say along with SRP, which you have played already, TA and Yukon are also great beginner maps. Medved and Hirsch are said to be harder to hunt, although I'm fairly certain that people just play Medved at the wrong times of the day, as it is mostly optimized for night hunting, with drink times etc.
i was just wondering, is this humble bundle that is advertised on theHunter instagram legit? are there any catches?
A lot of new people have joined the discord recently because of it, and I know it's legit, but I can't speak for the particulars of it
ok thanks!
I played Yukon for about 20 hours before I tried anything else. It's also why I bought the game - once I've finished PF, I'll probably go back to it and finish all the side missions. It's a good map and especially for the .300 / opportunities for long range shooting. I got the steam achievement for 400yd+ shots on there. One (obvious) thing I will say though, is it feels very big. It's got plenty of need zones, but - in my experience - they are mostly concentrated in small areas with big distances of "not much" between them. You won't happen upon animals on the way to places as often as on other maps (e.g. PF, Te Awaroa) so be prepared for that I guess.
Yes, it is a legit site and bundle. You pay what you want, with certain thresholds that, if met, unlock more content, and you receive the codes to redeem the content on Steam
Also this is a great deal. I would absolutely go for it!
Ayyy anyone got any tips to find male blacktail deers in layton lake? I only find females but they dont work for the Mission
you will usually find bucks where you find does. Blacktail does seem to run to callers while the bucks are more leisurely getting to you. They seem more likely to be walking around by themselves than whitetails, which are almost always roaming around in groups of 3-6. I would just keep looking all over Balmont, they are there.
What is the best way to hunt pheasants
Okay thanks, then i keep trying my luck with that^^ should i look more around the water or in the Mountain/forest zones?
I find blacktails all over, especially down at water level, but in the woods too. It's only once you start getting high enough that the trees are sparse that you won't find so many. Water edges hold drinking zones which is always a good place to find anything
Pull up on them with the cuoso shotgun and blast them out of the sky
But when and where would I find them at
Look for their eating and drinking times
They will spawn just north of la hacienda
On rancho
Ok thank you
I think my Baden quest is bugged
I went before
and I interacted with the airhorn, investigated the tree and killed the bear
it still tells me to go here
and the airhorn is going off again lol
you'd think the phone battery would be dead lmao
I did that one recently and I think there is something else in that area you have to find - I had the same issue and searched more around that area and found something else
The max weight for blackbears is 227-290kg right ?
Yes BlackBears max is 290
That should lead you to a gigantic lvl 7 a lvl 8 or 9
alright because i picked up one
Where is best to aim on bears?
also, I am confused about this shot review
it looks to me like I definitely hit the heart
look at that, the review shows it piercing straight through
so optimal is still lung/heart for bears right? depending on angulation obviously
I just want to make sure I'm making smart shot placement so I can improve 🙂
yes
What are the best lakes to look for white tail on the Mexico map and Layton
What time is wt drink on rancho
8-11
Thank you!
How come it won’t let me claim look out points
I swear I haven’t been to this one before
which one?
One north of Layton
show me it on the map
Did I already claim it and forget?
You have visited it already
wheres the best spot in rancho for diamond whitetial?
and does anyone know why low low level whitetaisl are spawning in my zones, i just had a ton of 230's i killed them shoudnt bigger ones be spawning?
i'm trying to hunt the duck. I place 3 spot in Layton LAke. When i arrive at each spot, the ducks are always more then 200m away. even if i change my spot, they change place... any tips?
your population may vary
that's what RNGesus decided to put on your map
it's probably easier to go around the map looking for ducks rather than setting up a dedicated duck grinding spot
could it mean theres other huge bucks just where im not checking, im just hunting 2 lakes rn
possibly
my bloodhound i selected got changed for some reason and is now a female with red coat? I had the male with black coat selected? Is this a bug or fixable
That'd be a bug. A weird bug.
bro i just killed a 254 whitetail and it respawned as a 82
Keep that. Keep it for the hall of shame
lmao
do u know why my spawns are turning into shit rn
like ive shot 230s all day and now there all real small
Look at more than two lakes maybe
Feeding zone?
nneed zone*
Explore all your zones and see if there’s one or two you’re missing
Okay
Btw all spawns are RNG, so I cannot explain why your spawns seem to have gotten not so good
Missing some potential low-hanging fruit at these lakes
thanks!
Always get all your zones mapped out before you start grinding a herd-based species
Okay
Is there a way to keybind accepting a harvest or say hitting buy and then confirming?
I want to buy a bunch of ammo and it's annoying af having to click it so many times
Alas, there's no workaround for that
It's been requested
Been requested several times
got a weird bug/glitch with medkits, the icon shows the huntermate but you have the medkit in hand when you use it it uses up the kit without healing you just wondering if theres some sort of workaround or fix
quite a bad thing to get when in yukon valley, those wolfpacks are scurry
Known bug.
I see
there actually is, if you just spam click buy sometimes you can get ~30 before the buy button disappears, costs the same so not an exploit
idk if you know this but you can press Enter to confirm the buy. So you can click on buy and instead of moving the mouse to the middle of the screen to confirm, you press enter. This way it goes a bit faster if you buy a lot of ammo. Stay on the right side and click-enter-click-enter etc.
do you know why I am not able do open my lodge in multiplayer? it crashes every time
You just can’t open lodges in multiplayer
i thought that is possible bec you could visit the lodge with a friend
That would require hosting a game with the lodge as the map
i meant that
Then I am not sure. Maybe #📜︴support
That didn't seem to work earlier when I tried but I will try again later :)
OK, provocative question: what's the point in the .223 soft point ammo? What, on what map, is it good for? I was trying to use it and the poly ammo on Hirsch' for red fox last night and even with good hits they were running a long way. Hit a bone and they were running 100s of yards if they dropped at all. IRL, this is the same cartridge as NATO use for knocking over people at 600 yards plus. Surely even a weakened version in the game should be able to knock over an 8kg fox...? Was I just having a bad time of it or is it this crap for everyone? I did then switch to the .243 and knock over some nice red deer, so I get that it's possible to take stuff well with the smaller calibres...
can you atleast hunt rabbits with the 223
the .223 soft-points are only really for added challenge or personal preference, they are alright on Red Fox, if you hit a vital that is, it is useable on Roe Deer and Fallow Deer, but not useful, its a caliber you take out for a challenge.
Nope. 2-4 rifle.
useless
kinda between 6.5 and 30-06, which is better for general use in combination with a shotgun for birds and rabbits
Its for when you don't want to kill something but give it a permanent limp I guess
Like the .270 with just about any ammo :)
thats the .22’s job
lol I accidentally shot a roe deer with the .22 and even it died
Or like the 7mm on bison ;)
then it probably will with a .223 soft-point too, or you hit something other than flesh
its not bad
I thought someone might say that. I mean, IRL they're great for foxing but on the game just so underpowered. Wouldn't use then on rabbits though. No integrity and although the game obviously doesn't model it, there's something not right about using a rifle that would pillow-case them of it did...
When you want to just piss something off real bad
I use the .223 on Red Fox and it does just fine if you make a good shot
Maybe tickle a bison or a buffalo to get it to charge for when you want some practice with the 470 off the hip...
the .223 is probably the only weapon I don't even have in my inventory this time around. Not fond of it
Poly or SP? I'll give it another go, but I wasn't impressed last night. I remember trying it on the goats on Te Awaroa in the past and I wasn't impressed then either...
I have used both, SP you need a good broadside shot, PT will do alright
I prefer making one perfect shot with a slightly less powerful caliber, and not just yeet a shot at the general area of the chest of the animal, I prefer to be more precise, that is my preference in all games with guns. I basically prefer being a sharpshooter.
everyone has their own preference of how they want to play😄
Well, yup, on one level, I hope we all do. I suppose it's difficult (and kind of annoying) to have to have the differences between the game and RL as great as they are. Admittedly, IRL there's always the outside chance of something really weird happening but at the same time, it's a bit crap to take shots that would kill a fox on the spot with a real 55gr SP and find in-game that, as mentioned above, it's limped off, wounded.
EW’s way of balancing a hunting game (which I find weird that you even need to in the first place) unfortunately takes away from the realism.
There are certainly elements of reality I prefer to do without. Like the cries of a wounded bear suffering.
Agreed. I've always thought that the whole integrity thing was broadly a good component of the game but in spite of the need to balance the game, what lets it down is that although they've been broadly realistic about how much gun you need, the actual effect of making the right choice lets it down. I know they wanted to "big up" the tracking element, but most of the deer I've shot (IRL) have been double-lung hit and dropped on the spot or within 5-10 yards. A badly shot deer will of course run for ages, but the idea that they'll go for 200 yards after a good broadside shot is bonkers. Ah well. I will try to enter into the spirit of the game and be ultra-precise with the .223.
in the end, they chose the path they wanted the game to go, and it isn’t exactly advertised as a ultra hardcore realistic hunting game, but more of a fun hunting game. But to me CotW will forever be my favorite game of all time.
no matter what
No, that's a fair point. I don't know if it's my favourite - I grew up on NES / SNES games and I think a couple of those have never been bettered, but I don't think I've played any game as much as COTW in the last 15 years. It is very good indeed and I'm grateful we have it. I think I might go back to Hirsch' this evening and give it another try. Perhaps call in a few roe. Also wondering about musk deer on M-T but I was saving that for a final run when I've earned all the other Steam achievements...
I heard there was a semi-auto shotgun in COTW, which one?
I want to explore my other options as my 1891 10GA is great but I think I'd be even quicker/more consistent with a shotgun with a scope since part of the reason I miss shots is because the gun's body is blocking a bird moving in the path of it
I'm going to try out the Grelck
I loaded it with 16GA birdshot but the HUD says 0/0 presumably for that 9.3 ammo it also takes
how do I swap?
Press and hold the R key.
Excellent! That Grelck seems a pretty interesting choice, a scoped shotgun that can shoot birdshot and quickly switch to 9.3 with effective range 5-9 very interesting
The semiauto 20ga is on the duck n cover pack, iirc
Only loads 3 rounds, but can take a slug scope
what is the largest capacity shotgun?
Cacciatore 12ga pump, at 6 rounds
Followed by Couso 16ga pump, at 5
Then both the Miller 10ga lever action and Nordin 20ga semiauto at 3
And finally all double barrels at - you guessed it - 2
Couso Model 1897 = 16ga pump?
so I just tried the Couso
I sight in, ready to fire with birdshot loaded into it
and it does nothing when I left click
press the reload button
I’m holding off on the fix to use the Couso myself
I would like the Grelck better if its bullets had more oomph on 8 and 9s. The thing that gets me with it though is I’ll use buckshot and slugs in addition to birdshot, and when you switch shotgun cartridge type it reverts to bullets, and I’ve shot a lot of rabbits and turkeys with heavy bullets from that
Once you get used to the bug on the Couso, it's a bloody excellent gun~
Is the fantasma wolf a guaranteed diamond?
Thanks! That’s what I was thinking but just making sure
Ogro is the cathedral one right?
yeah
Which one is sombra. I don’t think I remember it
the side-mission one
Thanks! That’s why I didn’t remember it.
Is it common for the ogro to get glitched outside of the cathedral and underground?
I had that happen this playthrough. Had to hunt it down
I restarted my game hopefully it fixed it. It hadn’t happened until my current play through either
Yes. I grinded for a diamond Ogro (killed it 99 times) and encountered it maybe 15 to 20 times. You seem to have fixed it, but for others reading: Just restart the game. It doesn't matter whether or not you killed the wolf, restarting will give you a new one
I play cotw on ps4 and just started. What gun/ammo do you think is the best gun to use?
was the glitch were vurhunga would be unplayable due to sound issues fixed
It still exists, but it’s been dramatically reduced in magnitude (i.e. you can actually play on Vurhonga without it becoming a slideshow after 5 minutes!). A patch was released a couple months ago to address that issue
how can i clear hunting pressure quickly?
find a different spot and blast everything you can see
or, find a need zone with a big herd, set up a blind, and use a bow.
whats the best way to get diamond whitetail on rancho?
kill all the white tail bucks you see and hope one respawns as a level 5
3 yes sorry forgot WTs are 1-3
lol it happens
genocide to spawn rares? only in video games..
genocide would be killing the does too
okay. I keep seeing potentials but there never diamond i seen one that was 234 to 278 and it was a gold
Yeah I had one of those last night
the animal will respawn as a white tail but at a random level, so you just have to rinse, repeat
Okay thanks
Other than that, you basically want to locate the herds, identify their need zones, and manage hunting pressure so you don't remove the need zones.
yeah ive been doing that for around a week i think i kill around 100 to 150 whitetail a day
How can I get this one?
you need the Yukon DLC for it, and it's the second-to-last rifle you unlock

one day.. the biig rifle will be miiine
What is the most powerful weapon in cotw?
is there DLC for it or not?
comes with Vurhonga
Is it normal for a gun to be locked in the store despite meeting the rifle/cash reqs?

Like, for a scope I'm looking at, I see that I meet the requirements, it just says locked.
Fair warning, it's the last rifle you unlock
also Expensive
In addition to what Lyra said, you have to keep in mind that it is very situational and not a gun to be used as an allrounder. It is very limited in effective range, besides being limited to only C9 animals. I use it on Vurhonga mostly as a defensive option against charging buffalo and lions - there's no better alternative except possibly the .454 revolver. Also, when Lyra says it's expensive, she isn't kidding. 10 rounds cost ~2k.
The .300 on the other hand is arguably (ARGUABLY, before the .338 fans come running again) the best gun in the game for classes 7-9, you just need to grind a bit of rifle score and money. I don't know what Lyra means with "it's the second to last gun you unlock", by rifle score? Because it was one of the first guns I bought.
Anyways, I highly recommend the .300!
Thank you, I really got some good information from your reply. And now I'm trying to get money to buy the .300 👍
It'll be worth it and you'll use it plenty. IRL it's not really as big as you'd want if you were hunting lion and buffalo but in-game it does fine. One trick to mention: you should be able to knock over buffalo with lung shots and poly tips from good range, but if you do screw up and one charges you, whip the scope off as fast as you can and follow up. I quite often leave it unscoped if I'm around buffalo / bison and hunting something else - just in case...
It needs 6092 riffle score so it takes a while to unlock if you buy dlc straight and you're just starting the game
Eh, it's fine I think. I bought the 7mm until I managed to grind the rifle score, but I didn't need to use it much. It always depends on how much DLC you have. I played mostly Hirsch at the beginning and used the Drilling for Bisons, looking back, I shouldn't even have bought the 7mm and should've stuck to the Drilling and straight up save for the .300.
anyone else have issues fast travelling to Chopeeka Outpost?
It normally dumps me somewhere else
hi guys i have an issue with the game. I played like 16 hours without problems, and i was playing on ultra graphic mode. But since i played in night somehow it started crashing. Now i have lower graphic settings but still. Im playing for like 30 mins and then on the ground i see sky, like there is no grass im just walking on clouds. I have RX 580 8gb version. I reinstaled the game also upgrade gpu drivers but it keeps crashing. Please help me 😦 edit : when it crashes radeon setting also crash and reset themselves to deafult mode.
This works. I found out kind of backwardsly. I put a tent on the mountain SW before I used the outpost. Anytime I FT to the outpost it puts me at the tent.
What’s mule deer drink time??
check the spreadsheet pinned to #🦌︴trophies
That means you get it from a mission (for free) or it’s locked because your weapon score is too low
Also one thing to be aware of. Sometimes when you load into a map and are close to unlocking something, the game erroneously says you unlocked X when you didn’t yet
Seems to happen a lot especially when you start a new game. Especially with pistols.
But like bman said, some weapons have to be mission unlocked even when you unlock other skins of same weapon
this may provide some insights
https://support.thehunter.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013039500-Can-t-Launch-theHunter-Call-of-the-Wild-PC-
for :doge: what does close (level 25 trait) actually do?
I had to guess by what the description suggests it stays closer to you which may necessarily not be a good thing
do multiplayer games still produce "larger" animals or is that just a myth
Generally you don't want to trust "larger" animals on multiplayer.
hackers abound, unfortunately
I see
largely a myth. multiplayer pops have the exact same spawn rates as singleplayer pops (excluding hacked pops), but because its a completely different population, you have more chances to encounter a larger animal just due to sheer volume of animals
but as lyra said, beware of hacked/modded populations
I asked because I joined a Layton game and the first herd of elk I found killed my first diamond
can i see it?
do you have a screenshot of the harvest screen?
unfortunately no just this screen and its in my codex
do you remember what level it was?
if it was anything other than 5 - MEDIUM, i'd have reason to be suspicious
is there a way to go back and check? or no
sadly no
Also, how long does it take for animals to respawn?
3-6 in-game days
And I can just sleep in a tent a few times to speed that up?
yes
awesome, thanks a lot!
I hunt normally but move to the map I want respawning to sleep
Gah. I'm back for my now-daily moan. Managed an hour or two today. 15 more mulies, no diamonds.
Too late to get into it now, but tomorrow I'm gonna come back with a map of all the tents I've got on Parque Fernando and get you guys to see if I've missed any decent spots.
gotta get that mule deer before I go even more crazy than I am already.
Ciao 🙂
what’s the max score on big horn sheep
there really aint one
hey all, do some one maybe know what to do. in the single player and multiplayer some key will stop working out of nothing like the reload button or zoom in button.
Can I sell my stuff? I accidentally bought stuff.
no
You can refund things if they fit the policy of whichever platform you're on.
will this get my money back ?
That's what refunds do, yes.
How can I refund
To clear things up. Do you mean in-game items or DLC and such?
in-game
then no
No, there is no resell option.
there is, however, a "go out and massacre geese" option
so the halloween event not returning this year 😦 are the achievements staying on steam?
Morning chaps. Still haven't found my diamond mule deer on Parque Fernando. Could y'all have a look at this map and tell me if I'm missing any good spots? I'm grinding the drink zones. I shoot as many males as I can without losing the zone, then move on to the next one. I can usually get 5-6 done in a morning / evening (in game), then I sleep through and do the next one. Great for cash generation; not so good for the mission / steam achievement. The tents I'm using shoudl be obvious. Zones I'm shooting are marked with blue spots. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
You're pretty much right on the lake where you have the tent just slightly Northwest of where your character is located in the first Blue Dot is where I got mine at I do recommend taking 1 morning drink time and searching the traveling to The Outpost down there in the bottom right that's nearly right on the bank of the Big River go North to that little slew then follow the bank of the river all the way down and South to the bottom edge of the map checking out if there's any mail deer down there because mule deer do exist don't they so that would be a place to look
Going like that red line
For really if you want to search the entire Eastern riverbank but down there seems a little better in my opinion I've mostly only seen the random Doe and small buck north of that location
Thank you - and sorry for the delay in saying so - got distracted by that boring thing they call "work". I'll try the Big River bank this evening as you suggest. I haven't spent a lot of time round there, so perhaps I'll find that herd of 20 diamonds all prancing around wondering why life is so easy...
That would be absolutely amazing I have came across a number of bucks it's not like their herds of them but a little time wondering to see what's down through there could provide with something amazing so it's always worth a look just be careful since that is water buffalo country
I'll take the 470 🙂
Nah
That should stop them lol
454
Or crossbow with 600gr bolts
I find them irritating now tbh - had two of them charge me simultaneously last night and I was dancing around like a ballerina
had to put them both down with the '06 as it was all I had
or long bow with 700gr
enough at 10 yards, but irritating
That is probably one of the most difficult things I've did just try to survive with having two or three buffalo trying to kill me at once
Pierce everything on the way in and the way out
Lol yus
aye - done a few Texas arse shots with that combo
Go for a Texas bullseye
I need to try those I have never did one and I need to do one
well - I figure a texas heart shot goes in through the arse
so when you put one through the front and it gfoes all the way
it must be a texas arse shot, right?
Lol
A Texas bullseye is a heartshot placed right between the ass cheeks
sounds about right
👍
not my favourite way of knocking them over though, it has to be said
anyway
will grab a tent and go explore as Kingfisher said
hopefully turn something up
I'll come back and tell you guys too, since my wife does this "huh" look crossed with a "meh" look when I tell her I just shot a gold / diamond whatever
I wish you good fortune and safe travels
You just need to get her to start playing it
how did you get that picture of her!? that was supposed to be private.... 😄
LMAO
Lmfao
lol - I'd better go do some work
thanks chaps - will report back how it goes
ciao for now
Okie dokie good luck
id be content just running into a herd of plains bison with some Golds so i can get this damn mission in yukon done with already... seems anytime i see a herd they're all wimps
thats what im doin
if nothin else at least im getting money to eventually buy the .300 canning
Yup then it makes murdering them even easier

Hi wabbit
What that hell
Howdy bunny boy
Can I have a few of those mangoes?
here you can help me?
Here, @dawn skiff
*grabs 1/144 bore rifle*
Pick up your roles
dude i tried but that turtle didnt allow me to
Agree to rules
What are you in need of assistance with?
so should i describe you my problem?
Sure why not
I personally keep forgetting that channel exists
i bought this game i played it with friends for like an 16 hours on ultra details all was good. Then i got bug textures, like there was sky on the ground, and after there was some green triangles also pixels was shiney white or black. After that my game keeps crashing and everytime its crash it fkup my pc too like discord is full black and i have to reset pc so this really suck.
this is what i got everytime
must be something with the graphic card or software but it just this game all other games works fine
errr
Did you lower the settings?
yes i played on lowest
https://support.thehunter.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013039500-Can-t-Launch-theHunter-Call-of-the-Wild-PC-
^ This is your first stop
also keeps crashing
Go through that article
Your graphics drivers for some reason shit their selves
Yeah, looks like
It could also be hardware-related
yes but i updated for lastest and then back to old and then back to lastest
also i reinstaled the game 3 times on diffrent HDD and SSD
That's only happened to me four times every time it's happened has always been on warzone so this is interesting
This sounds to me like your GPU had a stroke
It's definitely between your graphics card the drivers on your graphics card and cotw
I’m tempted to say a partial failure of the GPU may have occurred
yeah but all other games works fine so thats weird
Did you check and make sure your graphics drivers are up to date?
Do you have other problems with other games?
yes bro definitly
Run through the list on the article the bunny sent
no all other games are fine
That might at least resolve something
i have amd radeon rx 580 8gb shappire pulse
Run through this. Might help
and i heard radeon soft sometimes suck but im trying to fix it for fourth day and im so exhasted
That is slightly better than me nice
aight ill try ty 🙂
Sometimes it’s the most mundane things
Sometimes it’s something more serious, like save file corruption
well i think already for something new but now the prices are crazy and im poor student XD
Yuuuuuuup
yesterday i was writing with @remote monolith and he help me verify files so
Have you restarted your computer?
I didn't see if this question has done been asked or not
It could be any one of them
For it to be making discord to go fucky is interesting
yeah it scared me a lot i was like dude ill never turn on it again cause it also reset my monitors plugs HDMI
if you understand
sorry my english skills are so low but im trying my best XD
Oh your doing good yeah I would have been terrified weird stuff has happened to me like that before that had scared the hell out of me
well so ill try the support things and try to run it again
thanks a lot guys, i feel like im not alone to this problem
ur so kind ❤️
No like I said at least with the graphic stuff shitting itself that happened to me a four to six times playing warzone but it's always fixed itself and went back working again
nope i seee lots of white pixels everywhere but you cant see on photo
thats weird
idk if stream will work
well so i tried
i got 72 celsius 100% usage of gpu for whole time white pixels almost everywhere i run it windowed and od middle details
but on the picture when you look on the trees u can see white pixels and on my monitor was a lot more shiney
what is the best rifle to start with for the beginner?
Have you done anything to boost gpu performance
Cuz white pixels sounds like a wrong clock speed of the gpu
You put it back down i assume?
Can someone help me regarding this post i saw, apparently there is a way to roll back the patches of the game to the past halloween event so you could do the missions? is there a tutorial for it?
When I try to play Layton on PC my game crashes occasionally but not that often (seems to only happen on Layton) and I don't know why that happens
Verify your files through steam, i had this too untill i did that
Ok, I just did that hope it will work now
70 degrees isn't all that hot, is it?
Also, are you playing borderless/windowed? because I can see your task bar on the screenshot. Maybe try going fullscreen. It doesn't sound like that's the biggest issue here, but I used to have lots of problems with games playing in borderless mode instead of fullscreen when I had worse PCs
i played fullscreen before but on support they told me i should try this
What is more important, is it penetration or Expansion?
Most of the time penetration because your main goal is to hit a vital organ
Expansion makes it bleed more which makes it die quicker but doesn't penetrate as much and has a greater chance of not hitting a vital organ over a long distance or frontal shots
Np anytime
guys should i be scared to turning it on? when it does what it does
i want to play but im scared ill fuck my gpu up 😬
do you think i can break pc when ill play it?
I don't see how the game could break your computer
As long as you've turned the graphics down to at least say high to medium high everything should be fine I don't understand why it's still going crazy
its rx 580 8gb shappire pulse
Reason: Bad word usage
quick note, the cs game is on the bad word list due to scams
Unfortunately yeah
okay so that GPU should be running the game fine, but if you're having issues like that, I think it's on its way out
As in it might not be functional for too much longer.
that it will fix by time?
i.e. you might need a new GPU soon
okay yes, according to internet sources white pixels like that generally means your GPU is beginning to fail.
yes but why only in hunter cotw?
It's a very demanding game graphically.
more than far cry 5?
Never played that game so I wouldn't know
problem is that when i play hunter my gpu eat tons of watt and works for 100% without pause
but every other game there are some pauses between 100%
And that's really only a problem when your computer's temperature is 80 degrees or higher
again though, if you're starting to see white pixels in games, that means your GPU is beginning to die.
it might only be in COTW for now, but it'll start showing up in other games eventually.
oke oke
hey guys do you think it might be cause of that i have 2 monitors?
but now i played apex legends and got green textures of trees and fucked up cursor
so mby ur right
my gpu is about to end
Sorry to hear. Bad time to be looking for a new GPU.
Sounds very much like your GPU is dying a slow but certain death
yeah this sounds like a partial GPU failure or a disconnect of some kind
are there anymore hidden guns in game like the rangemaster 338 championship where it doesn't show up in the store until you unlock it or do all the other guns show up as locked in the store like fl sporter .303 laminated ?
There's 338 there's a 44mag those are the only two that I know that do not show up until you unlock them 44mag is at the end of the parque Fernando main quest line
ok thanks
The 303 from ta the 6.5 from the side quest line on cuatro and the over under 12 gauge from medved are shown and the 1891 pump shotgun from rancho I can't remember if it's invisible or not at the beginning
yeah those are visible in the store for me before ive unlocked them
Ok so as much as I know the two guns from parque Fernando that you get for free are the only two that are not shown in the store until you unlock them and the 44 is beautiful
nice looks like i know which quest line to do first 🙂
if i kill an animal and my game crashes is the body gone?
yes
good to know
Never know when a game's going to trip over itself.
fortunately doesn't happen often
Any idea why I can't access my DLC content on ps4, I've had the game for months and now it says I don't own it
Specifically maps
...it appears to be down atm.
Reinstalled my packs and rebooted my playstation it seems to be working now
is Focused Shot perk worth?
If you go without a scope I suppose, I've never used it
oh it doesn't help with scopes?
reading would help..
hmm then I guess my next best option is lightning hands in handguns
I was thrown off by holographic sights
I am not familiar enough with the designations of sights haha
“Scope” would probably imply a magnified optic
where is the spreadsheet with rare colors for each thing?
pinned in Trophy Gallery channel
Oh I'm blind thank you ❤️
dw, a lot of people miss it
is the 303 air rifle and the 22 a good setup for TA?
never used the .45 air rifle myself, .22, Iwaniec, .243 will cover ya
the two class 3 animals there are why i even mention the .243.
if you see a albino/melanistic/piebald AND a diamond in 1 group of animals, which one do you shoot first?
which one is more rare
Are all of the rares male or female?
Or both
Yes, although I'd go with the Mosin (Solokhin) and .303, because TA has lots of spots where you can shoot at max range, and unless you want to be creeping up to everything, the Air rifle doesn't do that.
You can easily take both as well though.
I think I run the Virant .22, the Mosin (basically only for class 3), the .303 and the Cacciatore 12G - if I'm in the mood to annihilate some pigs
Cuatro or TA for red deer? I’m thinking of getting one of those maps since I wanna grind out a diamond red deer
Cuatro is probably the better of the two for red deer
What is whitetail max trophy rating
Not known. Not that it really matters tbh
I have yet to see one go above 275 tho
Highest I’ve seen is 273
I’ve seen a couple 275’s, nothing higher though
still don’t get why people are always asking what the max score for a certain animal is
I was just curious lol
Not talking about you specifically. Talking about the community as a whole
I think Cuatro is where I shot my big ol Gold Red Buck, just strolled out onto an open field. thats what I like about CC, as was stated earlier, lot of areas with good sightlines
maybe i should go back and seek out a diamond red..
beats doing fiona's coyote crap in layton...
Cuatro is also where I shot the uncontested BIGGEST male red deer in history
look at those flames!!!
lol
Honestly I like getting smol males more than I like getting big ones
honestly that looks highly unnatural
I can show you guys some more in #🦌︴general
its amazing their antlers can go from those little sticks to somethin pretty damn majestic
I have a collection of smol males if you wanna see them
Which is the best weapon for gray wolf hunt?
Depends on if you wanna take them out from a distance or get up close and personal with angry wolves
And best time
Both
that is all personal preference, any bow is good, M1, 454 10ga, 303 and others are good choices
44 too
Best time to hunt wolfs? Yukon valley
throughout the day when they are resting or 0-3 at alot of lakes
Okay
I usually lurk around the burnt forest, run into wolves quite often around there.
Best weapon for geese hunting?
Any shotgun. The Couso and the Cacciatore are my favorites for their ammo capacity and ability to take scopes. Short of those, the three skins of the .10 gauge can give you 9 rounds without reloading
They all basically shoot birdshot equally well, but the 1891s hold 3 rounds a piece, and you can equip all three skins for them simultaneously
Once you unlock them, the Cacciatore holds 6 cartridges at a time, and the Couso holds 5
.22lr rifle is the best gun for geese but of those shotguns i would take the 1891, if you're a good shot you can easily take out entire flocks of around 9 geese with the .22lr
okay
.22 LR is good for class 1s at range. Shotguns can take out more than one goose at a time. I usually equip 2 shotguns and the Virant and use the Virant on the geese which might make it out of shotgun range
i usually take 2x .22lr rifle with hyperion scopes and a 1891 shotgun
.22 handgun is not bad for geese either at close range
yes it's almost as good as the rifle once you unlock the Goshawk
but the only real reason to use it when goosing, over the Virant, is to level handgun
when leveling handgun i switch it for the shotgun ^^
oh another tip is to use a tripod and not the layout blind, tripod gives much better view and you can aim without spooking the geese unlike the layout
and the geese will still land if you use a tripod because for some odd reason they cant see you sitting there in broad daylight lol
Which trophy lodge is the best? wanna buy one
you can get the game and all dlc on humble bundle for £11
depends, saseka safari has XXL platforms, and spring creek manor does not
so guys i solve the problem, i download eset and run antimalwere searching and it blocked some amd software things and now i play hunter on medium without problems all textures are fine but only thing is that some of the bushes are not showing that fast that it should but thats not big deal
*as it should
What is the best way to help build confidence/skill for my girlfriend who just started? I have had her goosing but I want her to gain confidence on bigger game as well
everytime i try to go my lodge my game crashes. how do i fix?
Verify steam cloud storage
didnt work
bruh
What's up with the glitch/bug when the medkits don't work and resting does nothing as well?
Is there a way to fix it?
Known issue, should hopefully be fixed next patch
i had that once it was fixed when i died
you can try to restart game or go to main menu
Ok, I'm on cuatro so the wolves will probably get me
If they don't come for me, I'll restart it
not sure abt pounds, but kg is 35
Ok
I'm thinking about putting my game back on metric because that is literally what everyone uses in the game lol
77 lbs. They'll pry my furlongs, pecks, fathoms, and bushels from my cold dead hands
"Full fathom five thy father lies . . ." is much better than "your pappy is 9.144 meters underwater."
pretty sure that at the time id be less concerned how the message is phrased and more with the message itself
Well you'd have a hard time persuading Ariel to say it diffrn't I reckon
Being a fairie and all
moving to general lest we overburden help channel
I bought the trophy lodge dlc but idk how to get there lol.
Tried restarting the game?
Can try
if it's not there, you'll have to wait for the support site to be back up so you can #📜︴support
Ok it still sint there
are you in SP or MP
I dont know what that means lol
are u in singleplayer or multiplayer
MP
It doesnt?
theres your issue
Tysm
u gotta be in singleplayer
Yep that'd be why
np
Do you have both lodge DLC's?
Spring creek manor
that one is more condensed than saseka safari
do you have any animals taxidermised?