🦌︴great-ones

[restive briar]

With a herd.

[cobalt dagger]

That picture does make sense now, that fabled has just as many points as all those animals combined

[restive briar]

Only noticed him with females though.

[edgy lance]

did it have some of the female deer or all of them

all of them then...

[last prism]

Are you going to be able to keep the trophy after the beta is over?

[frosty void]

cool

[cobalt dagger]

Nope

[viscid sage]

Ok so maybe in order to get this thing to spawn u have to kill a tonof whitetail

[hardy totem]

thasta basically it..

[paper current]

Was his body size noticably larger compared to other deer?

[viscid sage]

Yes

[hardy totem]

get like 20 diamonds per great one

[cobalt dagger]

Sounds about right

[viscid sage]

If u look at the pic with the other bucks u can see the size difference(pinned messages)

[paper current]

Yeah, I saw. I knew it looked bigger, but with the big one being in the front, I wasnt sure if it was just my eyes, or not

[cobalt dagger]

It could just be perspective

[solar pumice]

Its just perspective

[sharp junco]

Lucretius i just want to thank again and say that you have my respect for putting in so much time and effort for the community i think i speak for all when i say that were grateful

[hardy totem]

i am not ashamed to admit that i am a filthy casual and that it will take me years to get one

[restive briar]

The routes I took all Beta. Red -> Orange -> Yellow -> Green and Black is where I killed it:

[viscid sage]

Even if u couldn’t see the size difference, u would definitely notice the antlers

[hardy totem]

Im... borrowing this...

[edgy lance]

just say borrowing

[solar pumice]

Red route is always most effective for me

[cobalt dagger]

^^

[solar pumice]

Then green

[cobalt dagger]

Green is good too tho

[solar pumice]

Never really seen any on yellow route

[hardy totem]

maybe... just maybe i need to make routes for all maps

[frosty void]

That spot right to the east of black dot is where I start a LOT of my runs this beta. Some decent success.

[hardy totem]

maybe that way i wont run out of males

[frosty void]

You keep tents around and do time resets to keep them at their zones too?

[restive briar]

The yellow route for me has about 2-3 herds on my map.

[cobalt dagger]

I've seen whitetail eating around yellow

[restive briar]

Tents and time resets are needed, imo.

[viscid sage]

F

[cobalt dagger]

Indeed, many many many many time resets

[frosty void]

Makes sense. That is an absolute clinic in gaming the system (not cheating) and having a working knowledge of your quarry

[cobalt dagger]

That 'south lake' at the where orange and green are closest, I never see animals tied to it.

[restive briar]

By the time you finish the entire route, males have already respawned so it's a good way to wait on those.

South Lake is crap for me as well. I just try to glass it from a distance just incase.

[cobalt dagger]

True

[hardy totem]

how much to make routes of all the rest of the maps?

[sharp junco]

When you got that think on the beta whats your favorite trophy btw

[paper current]

It may have already been asked, or mentioned. If so, I apologize. But, what times did you mostly start your hunts? Mainly focused on drink zone times?

[viscid sage]

Did you run,walk, crouch a ton? Because the red route, I run that in about 4-6 hours game time

[cobalt dagger]

Gotta run lol

[restive briar]

Fav trophy is a combo with using that multimount with the three story wolves from Cuatro with a diamond mouflon. Fav single trophy is prob this one just based on the whole community involved. Pretty fun experience overall.

[cobalt dagger]

I only stop running when I get close to where I know animals are

[solemn minnow]

good job on finding it guys

[viscid sage]

I’ve seen people hunt so different. I’ve seen some like myself run the whole thing, some walk, and some crouch end he whole thing. Yeah same Challupa

[cobalt dagger]

@viscid sage The DD crouch hunt 😅

[hardy totem]

i usually walk unless i see NOTHING for a good ammount of time

[viscid sage]

Also may I ask if u remember where u found the fabled piebald at?

[restive briar]

I've been doing the routes pretty quick. Killing most of the game from a distance. I wasn't needing clean kills, just the respawns. Most of the deer died horrible, horrible deaths... rip.

[viscid sage]

Yes gotta crouch😂

[hazy lion]

I'm just curious if you spent all of your money on ammo or sleeping?

[hardy totem]

you dont need to harvest all deer, then? lke, just kill males

[viscid sage]

So ur telling me that u didn’t really care about quick deaths? u literally just hoped ur shot hit😂

[cobalt dagger]

I bet @restive briar in game character has red eyes...

[shell sage]

Harvest them so they don't respawn

[cobalt dagger]

I would shoot em with the 300, but that's just me lol

[viscid sage]

@cobalt dagger wdym he technically sleeps 22ish hours each day

[hazy lion]

His in game heart rate is constantly high, not from running, but from the cocaine in his veins.

[sharp junco]

@cobalt dagger^

[restive briar]

My game got corrupted around when Yukon dropped and I really wanted to use the .300 but didn't have enough after that bs happened. Looked up to figure out how to get more money quick. Ended up someone told me about the ingame cash glitch and how to do it while on multiplayer.

[hazy lion]

hol'up I want mo' free money

[viscid sage]

There’s a cash glitch...?

[cobalt dagger]

Mo money, mo widetails

[viscid sage]

widetails

[sharp junco]

Theres also a glitch where you can carry unlimeted stuff its pretty easy to figure it out tbh

[hazy lion]

You say glitch, I say opportunity.

[viscid sage]

lol

[paper current]

Theres also a glitch where you can carry unlimeted stuff its pretty easy to figure it out tbh
@sharp junco The ol backpack trick😂

[cobalt dagger]

@sharp junco yea, the backpack glitch

[sharp junco]

Nope

[hazy lion]

One man's conscience is another man's chance at finding a big chungus.

[restive briar]

There's plenty of little gems sprinkled throughout the game to make things easier. Without the need of downloading some virus lol.

Until they get patched that is.

[cobalt dagger]

Fax

[sharp junco]

Ya

[hazy lion]

No one needs to report anything here or to the bug section, because that's just not right. Taking away someone's ability at free help.

[cobalt dagger]

Unless the devs are reading this right now lol

[hazy lion]

In which case they understand how nice it is to have unlimited resources in game..

[restive briar]

Nothing to see here folks. Coughs.

[hardy totem]

so, how many diamond whitetails was it?

to make an stimate rough calculation

[hazy lion]

Between 1 and 1 million.

[cobalt dagger]

Imagine, they fix money glitches before any of the other bugs 😅

[compact skiff]

More than 3, I think :)

[potent sierra]

Everyone should call it the lecretius deer when they find it in honour

[hardy totem]

AT LEAST 3

[restive briar]

Couldn't give you a number since I was using my main game save but on the Beta files I had killed about 7-8 diamonds, 1 albino and 4 piebalds. Didn't find it then.

[compact skiff]

Am I wrong?

[hazy lion]

I prefer calling it the Lucretius Abomination.

[lunar mulch]

TK is gonna wake up, look at the pics....”no that’s a glitch but you’re on the right path.”

[hardy totem]

7-8 diamonds.... thats a lot D=

[sharp junco]

But even without a cash glitch its pretty easy to get money quik just farm lions brings lotta cool rares and diamonds plus rly easy cash ya make bout 100k each session

[hardy totem]

i dont even have 1 diamond whitetail -its not because i dont hunt them i swear-

[cobalt dagger]

Yea, I make plenty of money just by murdering. Glitches aren't needed

[hazy lion]

Me looking at my last session of 4 hours and like 25k feeling inadequate..

[viscid sage]

Tk needs to give us some stats of the spawn rate of this thing now.

[restive briar]

My need for the glitch came out of my og save getting corrupted. Be stronger than I.

[cobalt dagger]

They're going to talk about that in the live stream

[sharp junco]

Im currently stable at bout 1mil with buying ammo, changing time and taxing between 1-7 animals per session

[hardy totem]

See? This is what happens. Cool thing shows up, monkey brain says "I want" and then I spend the rest of the year worrying about the thing i cannot get.

I need to constantly remind myself to chill and enjoy the game

[viscid sage]

Lucretius if u remember where did u kill the fabled piebald at?

[cobalt dagger]

Tents and tripods is what eats up your money

[sage fossil]

@restive briar Good on you man.... Awesome experience

[frosty void]

@restive briar Fair. I usually hunt geese for money now that I know HOW to hunt geese (I WAS DUMB, OKAY!)

[cobalt dagger]

I need to get some sleep, but I also need to be here when TK shows up... Decisions Decisions..

[compact skiff]

Sleep is for the weak, but rest is for the best

[viscid sage]

me, in the corner, with my .243, and 50k and level 16, being conservative with my money and not buying better weapons

[cobalt dagger]

Lol

[sharp junco]

I like that its not complete rng so everyone has a fair chance with a good grind

[shell sage]

Don't you get a free 270?

[cobalt dagger]

Been there

[restive briar]

@viscid sage From the other day:

Strangely enough its tracks were located around the river somewhere along Highton Peaks. So def bugged imo.

[frosty void]

Shit @viscid sage.... you want some fast cash? I'll log back into my normal game and we can go get some easy money in Hirschfelden

[viscid sage]

In the beta u did, but I started playing in 2017-2018, then my laptop crashed and I couldn’t play it without getting 2fps for over a year. Motherboard issues. It kept forgetting which BIOS I was on, so surprised my cotw memory was saved. @shell sage

[sharp junco]

@restive briar was it counted as diamond in the trophy manager?

[restive briar]

It was counted as a Great One.

[frosty void]

Think I'm going to abandon the beta anyway. It was a great hunt. I just hope they do more of these kinds of things, even if it's just a holiday special one-off. It was a good time

[restive briar]

Didn't think about screenshotting that.

[viscid sage]

Dangggg @restive briar I’ve only outlined the rivers, nothing else really. I did the main river and the fork in it. That was it. Just followed it.

[hardy totem]

i still think Great One is p dumb... nhgnghgghghhh

[frosty void]

@hardy totem We could hunt Cthulhu... and it would be the Great Old One 😋

[sharp junco]

Oh ok i wouldve loved one to be my 200th diamond

[hardy totem]

@frosty void Oh.... Thatd be nice

[viscid sage]

@frosty void id normally say yes but it’s pretty late here and I’m on my phone, so not now

[restive briar]

@viscid sage This was the total route I took incase you missed it. The black was where I killed the actual Fabled.

[viscid sage]

Yea I saw it

[frosty void]

Fair enough. Hit me up sometime (where are you at in the world anyway? I'm on EST). I'll go blow away some geese. easy 40k+ per hour

[sharp junco]

Do you have such advanced routes for any animal in the game?

[civic plank]

i would rather platnium score instead of great one

[sharp junco]

^

Or emerald

[restive briar]

I mean, I generally just go along the waterways during an animals drinking period. After awhile you end up picturing a rough idea of what herd goes to where. Limiting certain spots.

I used to keep notes but ditched those.

[viscid sage]

I can’t believe it though. Mad props to you for finding it and playing for 12+ hours. Devs need to do something for you. The only reason I really started playing beta was because I wanted to see what guns I should buy and what 2 worked best with moose and whitetail. Then I kinda got hooked into it. I played about 6-8 hours total. But props man.

[final ore]

do u guys know that it was found?

[civic plank]

well like platnium comes after diamond doesnt it and then above that is titanium right

[shell sage]

TK did say the first person to find it gets a reward

[civic plank]

lol yes we do

[sharp junco]

Ya pretty much works for all animals except foxes havent gotten a single damn diamond fox

[restive briar]

Lemme just plug my PayPal real quick for that juicy reward. amirite

[frosty void]

My pipe dream is to now go walking different routes and rekindle the idea of farming need zones for people.

[glacial pebble]

@viscid sage yo while its awesome he found it, all of his 12 hours a day was literally useless since he imported his live save file and found it in a couple hours. so his time on beta is meaningless

[edgy lance]

if anything his was more insightful then any other

[frosty void]

Maybe not @glacial pebble TK had the idea of maybe immortalizing you in the codex when it gets updated.

[edgy lance]

for a new player basically impossible to encounter even with cheats

[viscid sage]

I noticed it while looking in my beta session, but idk if anyone else noticed that for the WT at least, all of their need zones in the morning/afternoon aren’t very far away? I noticed that my whitetail resting and feeding zones were about 300yards away and the drinking zone was 400ish yards away.

[final ore]

guys there is a premeire

[ocean tulip]

Did someone find it?

[sharp junco]

Yes

[ocean tulip]

Niice. Finally

[twilit sleet]

😂

[viscid sage]

Yes ur a bit late check pins

[edgy lance]

for a veteren very possible to encounter

[ocean tulip]

I was gone all day man

[civic plank]

@viscid sage thats how it is in rl too, i mean no animal is gonna travel over a mile for a drink theyre gonna feed, sleep, and drink all in one area, but i have had fallows in the game travel half the map for zones

[twilit sleet]

Why bother checking the pinned post, It's not like anything's there anyway.

[glacial pebble]

no im saying him playing the beta for 12 hours a day was for naught, since he used his live file anyway. it helps us see that a fresh game trying to find this fabled would be pretty fucking hard. but if you have been playing for a while and working your animal pop, it might not be so rare

[edgy lance]

Wendila you are just gonna have to accept that some people don't believe in pinned posts and that's their religion

[shy pagoda]

I knew it was non topicals haha

[civic plank]

veterans usually encounter more diamonds and rares due to that management

[twilit sleet]

No. I disagree and that means everyone else is wrong!

[edgy lance]

I feel that

[viscid sage]

Yeah @civic plank I don’t hunt irl but I want to, but yeah I see what ur saying. It’s still easier here too to be able to stalk animals at any news zone

[toxic yarrow]

idk if its been posted here or not but the easter egg is a "great one" level 10 whitetail, non typical

[civic plank]

check pinned

[toxic yarrow]

would if i knew how to do it

[final ore]

https://youtu.be/7A1t9H3g274

[compact skiff]

It's been found

[twilit sleet]

This is just art 😂 😂 😂 Fucking love it

[compact skiff]

Was shown here first lmao

[viscid sage]

Yea, yea it has

[twilit sleet]

Like three hours ago lel

[twilit sleet]

A week from now. "GUYS! They found the Easter Egg!2

[civic plank]

god i cant even imagine how fast luc's heart racing at the EE

[tulip surge]

Hey guys did you know someone found it?

[civic plank]

mine was racing from the screenshots themselves

[sharp junco]

How much off getting one is luck and how much is grind cause i would say its more of an grind thing

[violet schooner]

90/10

[civic plank]

rng gods have to be shining on you

[final ore]

watch the premeire

[civic plank]

no

[twilit sleet]

I found myself just looking at the screenie and thinking "Nice. Good for them."

[violet schooner]

You rely on the luck of the spawn

[restive briar]

If its treated like rare fur types then it's luck. But if you need high-scoring males then it's def a grinding thing with also some luck.

[final ore]

https://youtu.be/7A1t9H3g274

[covert mason]

Did you really grind and grind your map?

[edgy lance]

destroy him

[civic plank]

now we just need a rare atyp lmao

[covert mason]

If that's the way, I'm doing wt hunting until I get one.

[civic plank]

super super super rare

[viscid sage]

Stop sending your YouTube video @final ore u have sent it 2 times in 3 minutes, and also drugs are bad

[violet schooner]

You grind wt so they respawn and then the luck wheel decides what respawns

[full cave]

Advertising is also against the rules

[viscid sage]

Yeah

[civic plank]

i wish a dev would explain just how respawns work

[viscid sage]

Yeah

[sharp junco]

The non typs where only a distraction real easteregg is a yellow platypus with condor wings for sure

[edgy lance]

be eleminating alphas the weaker ones have access to more resources and genetic variability comes into play producing super deer

[restive briar]

It's a grind in terms that my personal reserve has been managed for bigger males for many months. For example: most of my whitetails bucks are high-scoring. I reckon the average buck would be around the 220+ score when harvested, give or take.

[covert mason]

Resus

[hardy totem]

You really like whitetail huh

[viscid sage]

TK kinda explained it on stream. He said something like dead males come back as males, dead females come back as females, and all males have a chance as coming back 1 higher or 1 lower is what TK thinks

[glacial pebble]

how much play time do you have @restive briar

[restive briar]

Considering it's the only game species I typically hunt irl, yes lol

[civic plank]

Lucretius explained that he managed them by killing low levels instead of high

[sharp junco]

Glad you found it after putting so much work in your pop

[hardy totem]

So, you are a master of one... that explains it

[civic plank]

honestly all deer are fucking magestic

[tulip surge]

they taste great too

[civic plank]

they do

[viscid sage]

Lucretius could you please explain what u mean by keeping a good population/herd? I’ve heard a few different answers but idk

[naive juniper]

That is the most beautiful rack in the game. Congrats Lucretius!

[civic plank]

fucking venison backstrap, i would kill humans for that

[sharp junco]

Reds are cool but they need tru racs or another diamond rack they have gotten kinda boring tbh

[frosty void]

Whelp... I'm on the track for my first ever (2nd sighting) Lv.5 moose in 2 years... Maybe this beta will give me another diamond yet...

[placid nebula]

So who’s going to be the first one to find a non typical albino?

[compact skiff]

Venison is the best, man. I'd rather eat a venison steak than a beef one, if you can make it correctly

[civic plank]

yeah, same here

[viscid sage]

Does anyone else really want to see growth in deer/sizes? Like deer would gradually grow every day or 2, and maybe even have a 88lb doe a lot smaller than a 200 lb buck?

[civic plank]

i would rather live off of homegrown vegtables and fruits, and fresh game meat like deer and fish than store bought foods

[compact skiff]

Actual size differences would be nice, growing seems ehhh

[civic plank]

growing takes years so that would be soooooooooo gradual

but size differences yes

[viscid sage]

I really wish I could have deer meat normally. It’s so expensive here. I’ve had it a couple of times but that was like 6 years ago.

[frosty void]

Can't tell if it's missing it's right brow tine or not... oh well... bad wind and 150m away... M1 don't fail me now!

[compact skiff]

Size differences should already have been a thing

[restive briar]

This is how I believe spawning works. Every respawn has a chance of changing their weight and/or score. Level 1s, 2s, 3s, etc. It seems everyone is always going after the larger bucks but those smaller bucks have chance of getting higher and higher scores after each of their respawn. So working these smaller males and ignoring the big ones gives me focus on increasing their scores. I've had level 1 respawns become 2s for example. Hopefully this makes sense.

[civic plank]

oh m1 definitly wont fail you none

it might die slow though

lucretius i think i might try that kind of management on my live game

[mossy ruin]

Why are people saying Lucretius or whatever his name is is cheating

[sharp junco]

Noticed that too on my lion population

[civic plank]

for all species, just to have a map of huge males

[naive juniper]

This rack gives me plenty of hope for crazy Red Deer racks. I can see similarities, especially from the top picture, which leads me to believe that they created this with knowledge they've gained while creating TruReds. As I said earlier in the weekend.

[restive briar]

Because I used an ingame money glitch to increase my bank amount, lol.

[compact skiff]

Now that we came back to eating irl, again, I must ask. Deer jerky or venison steak?

[hardy arrow]

Do share @restive briar lol

[sharp junco]

Also often had lvl 9 animals respawn as lvl 6 so it could be very true

[mossy ruin]

But it didn’t make finding the buck easier?

[viscid sage]

@mossy ruin some say he cheated because he use his live game files and he used money glitches. He’s using his resources though and he’s probably the only that’s gonna find it before beta closes

[civic plank]

steak for sure

[sharp junco]

Also the other way around with the 6s and 9s btw

[mossy ruin]

So it’s technically not cheating at that specifically

[viscid sage]

I like deer jerky, never had venison steak

[civic plank]

he didnt use money glitches in the beta though didnt he? he just said he knew how to?

[frosty void]

Luc, that also means that you aren't taking the larger males that already exist, yeah? You're just waiting for the smaller ones to spawn as larger ones?

[mossy ruin]

People had me thinking this dude cheated to find it or something, yikes

[glacial pebble]

@civic plank he imported his live file to beta, and found the deer in 3-4hours

[civic plank]

thats not cheating

[mossy ruin]

Coincidence?

[glacial pebble]

i didnt say it was

[viscid sage]

Nah. Just using his resources 😉

[shell sage]

TK used his live file I believe

[restive briar]

Many have. ^

[civic plank]

flinter used an old live file

[mossy ruin]

It still doesn’t help in any way to make the chances of finding the buck easier

[glacial pebble]

i never said he cheated, i just want people to understand that it does skew the potentially intended results of rarity

[civic plank]

yeah

[glacial pebble]

yes i know people will be using live saves if it comes to live, but that means its not quite rare compared to a new game

[mossy ruin]

Wait so you said he isn’t cheating but he is at the same time?

[viscid sage]

Guys we all need to use #🦌︴general after this beta chat is deleted

[frosty void]

Whelp... That's my first Lv.5 Moose ever down.

[mossy ruin]

I’m so confused now

[glacial pebble]

@mossy ruin what are you talking about

[frosty void]

Anyone wanna guess whether it made diamond? This was the brow tine I couldn't see when I took the shot

[restive briar]

Considering when the update drops everyone will be using their og game files, then I'm not sure what they were trying to gain by letting everyone use a clean sheet. The Beta would be good for new players though who don't have established herds.

[glacial pebble]

@restive briar i agree, which is odd for them to do a rarity test like this. if they wanted results comparable to peoples live saves they should have stated that and not cautioned people to import saves

[civic plank]

300 score @frosty void

[mossy ruin]

You said “skew the potentially intended results of rarity”
Isn’t that basically another wording for “he’s cheating”

[shell sage]

No

[civic plank]

no not at all

[mossy ruin]

👀

[glacial pebble]

no its not, i dont know their intent behind their test. so i have no idea if they wanted results from live saves or clean beta files

[viscid sage]

I kinda want this fabled level to be implemented with every animal

[mossy ruin]

My bad

[glacial pebble]

it could be what they wanted this whole time, either way its helpful info for a og save and a new beta file

[mossy ruin]

I’m getting mixed vibes

[frosty void]

Pretty close @civic plank ! So sad this is beta, but still... this makes me happy

[lunar mulch]

So are the gameXX.tab files the animal population files? If I want to backup my save, what files do I need to copy?

[shell sage]

Copy all files to backup a save

[lunar mulch]

That’s 50 gb

[shell sage]

Not the whole game lol sorry

[glacial pebble]

im saying i dont think its cheating in anyway, if you feel it is that your call. im saying that his effort in the beta prior to importing his live file was only useful to lead him to the conclusion that it would take way too long to do it on a new file

[shell sage]

Avalanche studios COTW copy that folder

[restive briar]

It's the entire folder (the big numbered one). Just copy and paste and overwrite. Back up though just in case.

[shell sage]

Or go further in and copy the numbered one

[full cave]

Hey someone make a server so we won’t lose each other and won’t see us again

[sharp junco]

Gonna start working on my WT pop now

[shell sage]

There's cotw general for when the beta chat is gone

[glacial pebble]

someone already said to just move to general chat when this is gone

[full cave]

Ok

[viscid sage]

To me, that wasn’t cheating, but I personally would not use other pop files because I want to create my own populations and see them thrive and decline and steady out and not kill some, then re install that pop file to get the same animals. That’s my thought.

[glacial pebble]

he didnt really use another pop file, he just used the game he had been playing for months now

[viscid sage]

I like the risk factor when I’m taking my shots, and with the hunting pressure and all that, I don’t want to completely hunt out an area then just re install the pop file again

[restive briar]

Resetting pop files should only be done when you're ready to start working them herds yourself. It's def a better experience imo. Maybe going through a couple resets and examining what you can work with easier.

[viscid sage]

Yeah that’s whaT I’m saying zavers

[civic plank]

@frosty void thats a nice moose right there

[shell sage]

Around six am TK time he's waking up soon

[viscid sage]

Why is it so easy to get diamond moose in beta lol

[glacial pebble]

when this hits, live who wants to start brand new saves and grind for this thing?!

[tired grail]

Still only one shot? I haven’t been in the chat since the first

[restive briar]

I'm almost tempted to make a new save, haha. Had a lot of fun.

[frosty void]

Thanks. I am really stoked about it. This beta has literally given me some of my dream animals I just haven't found on my normal maps

[glacial pebble]

i think it would be a fun little challenge, plus still the off chance that it spawns in quickly

[restive briar]

Would be a good test to see if they can spawn in naturally or they must come from respawns.

[sharp junco]

Anyone tested mela red rarity yet?

[frosty void]

So the moose distracted me. @restive briar, you said you only take the smaller one's on your map until they respawn as larger ones, so you're not actually taking very many big bucks, ya?

[glacial pebble]

i thought i saw someone got a mela red during this beta, i have no sources though

[restive briar]

Nope. Today was an exception in a long time, lol.

Which in this case was a good thing since I had a lot of good sized bucks available to me.

[frosty void]

I meant on your normal save

[restive briar]

Yes, I know.

[viscid sage]

I’ve only had lv2 bucks the entire beta. Idk why.

[frosty void]

Right. Today you destroyed them all LOL

[lunar mulch]

I’m not finding the save data folder. If I Browse Local Files from within Steam, I only see one directory 50gb of data

[restive briar]

I went through my route twice, I think... and was working my third go.

[shell sage]

Save file is under documents avalanche

[viscid sage]

Lucretius- Destroyer of Whitetail

[lunar mulch]

Thanks @shell sage. Found it.

[shell sage]

Np

[civic plank]

someones gotten two mela red deer in one herd i think @sharp junco

[sharp junco]

Oh great

Kappa

Like wtf

[compact skiff]

You forgot the Kappa, Muffins

[civic plank]

?

[pearl musk]

Now we just need a map that doesn't suck to hunt whitetail.

[civic plank]

Northeast please

[snow folio]

I'm assuming everyone has seen the Easter egg...

[full cave]

Help how do I enter a classic giveaway they look really good

[shell sage]

Easter egg was posted here first

[lunar mulch]

I thing there needs to be more skill points awarded. I don’t understand why those are limited

[pearl musk]

@compact skiff Your username sounds like a metal album.

[civic plank]

@lunar mulch so you have to choose to make the game still challenging at high levels

[compact skiff]

..thanks?

[full cave]

@restive briar ..... sorry overwriting the beta population file with your own is an advantage over others ergo cheating

[pearl musk]

@civic plank Northeast or midwest. Texas could be cool too but I'd really like northern farm land. I'd never play any other map.

[full cave]

Can someone please tell me phone is about to die

[civic plank]

US based hirshfelden with big open fields and forests

[shell sage]

I wouldn't say it's cheating he worked for months on that save file

[civic plank]

thats the EE from @restive briar

[compact skiff]

We need Montana or Texas or something

Big open fields with good diversity

[lunar mulch]

But if I go the stalker route for disturbed veg, it’s not possible to get the tag skill

[pearl musk]

@civic plank Exactly. I love the style of huning in Hirsch. Instead of just walking from water to water you can set up stands in fields and see get animals as they are traveling. More like real hunting.

[civic plank]

US based hirsh with fields and forest would definitly be a very loved map

[glacial pebble]

@full cave i dont know if this reference will make sense, but what he did is more like time boosting in Animal Crossing, eventually we all would be at the same point with time, he just got there faster.

[lunar mulch]

What does increased tagging time have to do with ambushing

[compact skiff]

Just make Logger's Point, but actually good

[civic plank]

what is tagging?

[lunar mulch]

Increased duration of the animal outline

[compact skiff]

Spotting

[civic plank]

yup @compact skiff god yes, wt, mulies, coyotes, wild boar

ah

[shell sage]

I'd prefer another Africa map with more diverse animals

[lunar mulch]

Level 2 of tagging allows you to highlight up to 3 animals

[civic plank]

i dontlike the highlighting up to 3 animals

[lunar mulch]

Ok?

[pearl musk]

None of the animals are interesting to me in Africa except lions.

[civic plank]

it gets confusing of what animal is shown on the hud in relating to whats spotted

[lunar mulch]

The point is you can’t have that and dist veg at the same time. Doesn’t make sense to me why it’s limited. It probably won’t change but just something I would like to see

[civic plank]

yeah

i think the spotting time is in ambushing so people cant dump all points into the stalking tiers

[compact skiff]

Stalking is better

[civic plank]

agree fully

[compact skiff]

Almost everythingin that is better

[civic plank]

ambushing isnt really a thing in this game

i mean it is but 98% of the time youre stalking

[lunar mulch]

Sight spotting and spotting knowledge are in ambusher

[frosty void]

Ambushing requires you to know the travel patterns and set up on their path between zones. I've done it a few times, but I hate waiting.

[civic plank]

no idea why they did but i guess its nice to have to chose carefully vs just having everything you want

[frosty void]

You answered your own question on that one

[lunar mulch]

No I didn’t

[pearl musk]

@frosty void It's my main way of hunting. My preferred strategy is finding a big grassy area with far visibility and then setting up a stand and tent. You just set the time to a little while before the end of a need zone time and most of the time you will get tons of animals walking through the field. I never see anyone talk about doing this but it's a really great way to hunt. Much funner for me than following track or just walking to a lake. It becomes more about exploring the enviroment and scoping out the perfect location.

[magic sierra]

Congrats @restive briar! That's one hell of a buck you shot there! Although I did notice that the spotting scope put up that the weight estimate was up to 220lbs; however, it was over 230 on the harvest screen. Gonna have to submit that in a bug report! 🙂

[civic plank]

@pearl musk and its more realistic to rl hunting

[full cave]

Damn I'm mad that my pc decided to break today, didnt get a chance today to find the big boy

[frosty void]

See, THAT is where adding something like trail cams to the game would be REALLY useful

[rustic wedge]

yo goodmorning. Congratulations @restive briar ..

[pearl musk]

@frosty void Oh, hell yes! They mentioned it in a survey I took once so that's something they have considered adding.

[frosty void]

@pearl musk TK mentions it in the live streams a lot. I don't think it'll be soon, but it's definitely on the table. People will just have to deal with some kind of limitation imposed to preserve the balance of the game

[compact skiff]

Trail cams could spot animals for you so you don't have to manually spot them

[restive briar]

The new style of hunting would be sitting in them lodges looking through trail cams lol.

[civic plank]

idk if thatd be something people would use a ton

[pearl musk]

@frosty void Hopefully relatively soon. Sometime this year would be nice. Feeders would compliment trail cams very nicely as well.

[civic plank]

feeders would be pretty cool actually

[compact skiff]

Found a zone? Slap a trail cam down and check out anything coming in to see if there are any bigguns

[civic plank]

i guess yeah, or observing places you dont go usually to see if its worth it to go there reguarly

[shy pagoda]

when does the easter egg hunt end?

[civic plank]

tomorrow

technically over since someone found it although you can still find it but beta does end tomorrow

[pearl musk]

@restive briar lol balance it by making you go back to the trail cam to actually see what pictures it took. What I would do is just head out exploring, setting up cams where I think looks like a promising spot and leave tents by them. Go to the next day and then check the footage on the cams.

[restive briar]

I love the idea haha. Makes my job easier looking at the herds and figuring out who needs death.

[civic plank]

balance it by deleting old photos after two rest periods so people have to check it

[frosty void]

I'm on the fence with feeders. I'm not opposed to them, but they'd have to function in a way to still keep things relatively the way they are, statistically speaking. Just give a slight edge. Maybe like a super lure that you need to pay for the apparatus itself (like any other deployable device) and also pay for feed uses like any other scent lure. Different feed types for different animals so its not calling in everything within whatever distance

[civic plank]

same as classic

[frosty void]

I like the idea of limiting the number of pictures. (I also never played classed, so, hurray for great minds thinking alike or something like that LOL)

[civic plank]

pay for the feeder and pay for feed, and you have to wait 4hours to have it fully set up and able to "call" stuff in and it depletes until empty over a bit of time

[shy pagoda]

or maybe like the old classic way when it would gain attractiveness over time

[pearl musk]

@frosty void Yeah you should have to pay to refill them. I imagine they would work by just having an attraction strength and range like a caller. The advantage would be luring the animals to exactly where you want them instead of always having them run at you like with the callers.

[frosty void]

I'd be okay with that

[civic plank]

me too

[pearl musk]

this is technically not beta related discussion. We are being naughty boys.

[hardy totem]

beta is over, this is party hours

[compact skiff]

We are above the law

[pearl musk]

breakin the law! breakin the law!

[paper current]

Washin the dog! Washin the dog!

[pearl musk]

lol i had beavis and butthead in mind while typing that

[paper current]

😂😂

[frosty void]

Ok... uh... beta talk... beta talk... uh....

[quick coral]

Heloooo my guys :)

[pearl musk]

sup mah dudet

[quick coral]

How are u all this wonderfull morning

[restive briar]

What about them bug fixes though eh

[undone stream]

@restive briar congrats 👍

[quick coral]

Oh hi lucretius. Congrats.

[full cave]

I am feelin' great!!!

[pearl musk]

has anyone who had the issue with the floating trails noticed it fixed? I never experience many bugs. I'm fortunate.

[flat minnow]

soo is the jaw dropper going to be added to the base game

[restive briar]

Yes.

[frosty void]

Honestly, the only bug I've found (and I have been looking... just only on Layton admittedly) is the decimal places not truncating to significant digits

[sharp junco]

Ya yeet i cant wait to go hunt one myself im on console so i couldnt play beta

[pearl musk]

You mean when you get a diamond that is spot on the decimal point but you still don't get diamond?

[flat minnow]

@restive briar congrats thats one crazy looking rack

[glacial pebble]

i hope these rare spawns like the WT are going to be possible with other animals on other maps. ive done so much layton this weekend im gona puke

[frosty void]

@pearl musk I think they said that was also one of the bugfixes, but I was talking about .9111111111111111 instead of rounding it properly

[pearl musk]

ah

[restive briar]

Quite frankly, I would remove the decimal altogether.

Keep it simple.

[gaunt yacht]

Where you able to transfer that dear luc ?

[restive briar]

Nope. I could see it in the trophy manager but once I placed it the game crashes.

[gaunt yacht]

😂once it comes out for main game I recon you will be able to place it

[pearl musk]

I bet it feels amazing to be the one to have found it.

[restive briar]

Hopefully. I'm keeping a back up of the beta just in case.

[pearl musk]

My adrenaline would have gone through the roof if I spotted it

[restive briar]

The best part of the beta was the community aspect of it all. This chat has been livid nonstop for days. The deer was a bonus lol.

[pearl musk]

yeah its been fun

[quick coral]

Yea.. i have loved it.

[full cave]

Lucrentius you found it?

[restive briar]

Eeyup.

[full cave]

jesus, grats

[shy pagoda]

was it more skittish than other whitetails?

[restive briar]

Seemed the same to me honestly.

Wasn't really paying that much attention to the finer details.

[full cave]

How long you actually tried to find it?

[restive briar]

On Beta files its been 12+ hours a day. Once I added my main game save files it took about 3-4 hours on a well established deer population.

[full cave]

Now that i've seen it i can leave beta

dang

[civic plank]

keep in mind it was his live game save so months? of herd management

[pearl musk]

same here. back to trying to find a diamond roe.

[undone stream]

so months of herd management = everyone has an equal chance..hmmm

[restive briar]

The average buck if I were to guess on that save file has a 220+ score to put that into perspective.

So it's hella rare which is was the point.

[civic plank]

do you manage that way for all animals?

[frosty plover]

@restive briar Would love to watch/read/listen to your process on managing herds. Whether it be a YouTube video, podcast, or blog article. I’m sure I’m not the only one that’s absolutely fascinated by this.

[restive briar]

Been working on others slowly. Moose, reindeer and caribou being top choices atm.

Predators are harder since they have higher levels.

[lyric vigil]

how many hours of playtime do you have, if you dont mind me asking? just to get a perspective @restive briar

[restive briar]

Minus rabbits, F rabbits.

Ummm prob over 1000.

[lyric vigil]

i actually expected more 😄

[pearl musk]

I'm at 487. I imagine I will get to 1,000 some day. If they keep adding content I see no reason to stop playing.

[restive briar]

My other save file got corrupted around the Yukon DLC so a lot of progress was lost.

[frosty plover]

Well I’m off to bed. Congratulations, @restive briar

I start my herd control tomorrow on my PlayStation 😂 working from home is about to become hunting from home

[restive briar]

Then again, I only started doing the herd stuff when I started watching Flinter when I stopped being a noob, lol.

[civic plank]

aslong as people keep playing, they will keep adding

[frosty void]

I didn't truly understand protecting need zones, so I started over a few months back. Just so I didn't have to wait for them to come back naturally. Overall I think it was better for me, but I still have that one slight regret doing so

[restive briar]

What a great way to keep people involved and hooked on something. I'm curious how many hours people put into the game this long weekend.

[civic plank]

im at 130 lol im a noob

[paper current]

I never really understood the herd control stuff. Everyone always told me that nobody knew how respawns worked, so it was all just a myth. I reckon I ought to learn how to do it now😂

[viscid sage]

I put about 13 hours I think

[civic plank]

i know what im doing though, i went into the game strong from classic

[pearl musk]

I know quite a lot about the game but I still have no idea how respawns work.

[restive briar]

I'm pretty sure everyone does things a bit different. I know most people simply just kill the big guys for the quick respawn though.

[lyric vigil]

have 622 harvests on beta but only played about 20 hours 😄 (was my first beta, so a clean save)

[paper current]

How long do you feel that it takes for a respawn to take place?

[civic plank]

i believe its when you kill a male of the same species, a male of the same respawns

[paper current]

So, instantly?

[restive briar]

Well after each route of the map I take (couple of hours) the respawns are more or less all there.

[civic plank]

well i think its the same as hunting pressure

[paper current]

Perfect. I'm gonna have to start trying some new techniques

[restive briar]

I also did tests with wolves on Yukon. Killed a couple pack members, left to remove that pressure and came back to the pack and they're were respawns.

[frosty void]

Huh... Think I found a bug finally LOL

[civic plank]

show?

[restive briar]

Removing an entire herd/pack, etc though makes an entire new group spawn elsewhere on the map also from my experience.

[lyric vigil]

how long did a completion of the whole route take you? (i pretty much hunted the same places, took me between 6-10 time resets)

[restive briar]

Good way to bring in new stock.

[viscid sage]

ur giving enough info to write a book😂

[paper current]

Do you perfer to kill entire herds, or just the males?

[civic plank]

im gonna make some map notes on the layton map anyone want when im done?

[restive briar]

More or less the same here. I was being real quick with my routes though. Not caring for shot placements, run 'n gun sort of tactics I guess. Only wanting to bring the animal down. So long as it was dead, then that would cause a respawn.

[viscid sage]

I was just thinking how cool it’d be if you could have a different mode that’s more realistic where in order to get more animals u have to leave at least 1 female and 1 male in the pack to breed

[civic plank]

spine shots are the best when you dont care about the harvest check

[urban dirge]

What have we found out about the new animal

[lyric vigil]

makes me feel, like i was on the right path, just with a less "optimized" population 😄 i will have sooo much fun, once it hits live 😄

[pearl musk]

Oh shit, I just realized that deer was level 10!

[civic plank]

me too @lyric vigil

[viscid sage]

It’s been found @urban dirge

[shy pagoda]

so you would shoot the big ones then check the herd again later to see if it respawns as something bigger? or is it shooting the small ones?

[urban dirge]

What is it @viscid sage

[viscid sage]

Check pins

[pearl musk]

check the pin

[urban dirge]

K

[viscid sage]

📌

[lyric vigil]

every male, since they all were pretty high @shy pagoda

[restive briar]

I got my big bucks to where I was pleased with them and then worked up the smaller guys hoping for better score estimates each time.

Eventually you get smaller bucks reaching better and better scores.

[frosty void]

@civic plank Absolutely I want one

[urban dirge]

So it’s just a whitetail?

[restive briar]

Make sure to not mess up their zones though and always try to get the zone before trying to eliminate bucks.

[frosty void]

JUST

[sharp junco]

How dare you @urban dirge

[viscid sage]

Yes. A big whitetail with huge antlers

[pearl musk]

If you really consider this the same as all other whitetail

[urban dirge]

Red deer have huge antlers

[civic plank]

anyone have a good quality layton map?

[edgy gate]

It's the GOD FATHER of whitetail

[viscid sage]

Lucretius does @civic plank 😂

[urban dirge]

Hmmmm I’ll be the judge of that

[shy pagoda]

I just got a diamond WT pfft

[lyric vigil]

there are 2 "extremes" to this: keep zones, keep herds at those zones and "grow" the bucks ... or reset pop, purge hotspots, reset pop again 😄

[analog flower]

@restive briar congrats on finding that beast! 🙂 Must have felt amazing to see and take it down!

[pearl musk]

its a monster

[restive briar]

Every person's map will be different, just depends on where your herds are from the getgo.

[urban dirge]

That thing is ugly

[civic plank]

speak for yourself

[lyric vigil]

yeah...some herds just have bad spots to hunt...like the "wrong side of a lake" 😄

[urban dirge]

I no like the antlers

[pearl musk]

that sucks

[lyric vigil]

nah...its ugly af 😄 but i still want it! 😄

[urban dirge]

I don’t

[restive briar]

You can try taking out those herds and hope another will respawn elsewhere someplace more likeable.

[lyric vigil]

exactly that

[viscid sage]

Wait is it so ugly that our jaws dropped?

[lyric vigil]

can also "steer" them around a lake with hunting pressure

[urban dirge]

Diamonds don’t exist in my worlds in COTW so I rarely play

[paper current]

It lived up to the hype for me

[urban dirge]

I killed an albino moose with a trophy score of 0

[civic plank]

was it a cow?

[viscid sage]

F

[urban dirge]

I only hit heart too, yes it was a cow

[civic plank]

cow moose score 0.

[pearl musk]

I was hoping for nontypicals to be any size and range from a single drop tine to the sort of beast this thing is, but I guess it's better than nothing.

[viscid sage]

Oh, nvm

[restive briar]

Even if you aren't a fan of nontypicals or even the way this particular animal looked. You had to enjoy how everyone was so engaged and working together on brainstorming ideas, solutions, etc.

[civic plank]

all female deer species score 0.

[dim locust]

thats y female r always 0 bc they have no antlers to rate

[analog flower]

That lived up the hype for me as well. Called non-types already on friday and so happy it was actually true. Now I wonder if there will be different kinds!

[urban dirge]

Honestly why do they score 0?

Female deer meat is better than male

[lyric vigil]

the score isnt for the animal, but for the antlers

[frosty void]

females aren't trophys?

[paper current]

I would love for them to do this with other new animals in the future as well. This was a ton of fun

[lyric vigil]

+1

[urban dirge]

I wouldn’t care cuz I’m on consol

[pearl musk]

@dim locust Boys rule girls drool HAHAAA!

[hardy totem]

a dream of mine is to have gold scoring females of weight/skull species

[viscid sage]

I’d like to see a fabled moose or a water buffalo

[urban dirge]

They need to put whitetail and black tail on other maps

[paper current]

I got a cheap pc just for things like this. Console gets the short end of the deal almost every time lol

[hardy totem]

just need wolves, coye, jackals, jackrabbit, grizzly and black bear. And cinna teal

[lyric vigil]

fabled with rare fur colour!

[pearl musk]

@urban dirge Desperately. Layton should be like a Canada map. They are the ones with the ridiculous amount of lakes anyway.

[restive briar]

Layton is basically Ontario anyways. ^

[urban dirge]

But it’s Colorado

[civic plank]

its washington i believe

[urban dirge]

No

[civic plank]

too far northwest to be colorado

[viscid sage]

What if we got a Sahara/Egypt map and we hunted camels😂

[urban dirge]

No

[hardy totem]

camels or dromedaies, idk, for Australia

[paper current]

I would be down for that lol

[cobalt dagger]

Camels, and camel spiders

[viscid sage]

😞

[urban dirge]

Unless you want to hunt pyramids why Egypt

[pearl musk]

I wanna club seals

[hardy totem]

Egypt is cool

[viscid sage]

Or, hear me out. A China map with all of china’s animals, but animals could randomly die from the coronavirus

[urban dirge]

It’s a desert

[cobalt dagger]

Has TK shown yet?

[hardy totem]

So is texas

[urban dirge]

It’s not as bad

[hardy totem]

Egypt is very very cool tho

[paper current]

Has TK shown yet?
@cobalt dagger I've been wondering as well

[urban dirge]

Carrot why do you want to hunt ancient Egypt

[pearl musk]

he probably wont be up for a few hours

[cobalt dagger]

Why doesn't china have a Baseball league?

Because they ate all the bats..

[solar pumice]

Is pristine a rare fur for Iberian Wolves?

[pearl musk]

he said he wants to shoot a camel. Let the man have his dream.

[cobalt dagger]

Uncommon

[solar pumice]

Thanks

[urban dirge]

Or you can hunt in the Nile

That’s all that would be fun for Egypt

[hardy totem]

Yeah, camels and crocodiles and like desert dogs and stuff

[viscid sage]

Or an Australia map, where we hunt kangaroos, but parts of the map randomly start burning so u have to be careful, and there’s a forest covered in spiderwebs

[hardy totem]

fennec foxes? id love to have. not sure if they are vulnerable tho

[urban dirge]

What about gray foxes

[viscid sage]

We need to be able to hunt penguins

[hardy totem]

ok but more furs for red foxes

[urban dirge]

I want a Kentucky map

[viscid sage]

We need all the different kinds of penguins in the snow map

[raw reef]

Tibetan foxes fjdkakka

Medved? There aren’t any penguins in Russia last I knew?

[urban dirge]

It would be great for Turkey, whitetail, Elk, and coyotes

[hardy totem]

tIBETAN foxes yess hahaha they are so funky

[urban dirge]

I want Kentucky map

[viscid sage]

Ok then let’s make an Antarctica map with polar pears and penguins

[cold apex]

Polar bears are North Pole penguins are South Pole

[urban dirge]

Tru

[cold apex]

Could have seals and arctic fox

[viscid sage]

Ok whatever let’s combine the piles

[cold apex]

Along with the polar bears

[pearl musk]

clubbing seals would be nice.

[urban dirge]

Why not another South America map

[viscid sage]

We need a $2 dlc map of the tiny island off the coast of the us that has tons of pigs there

[hardy totem]

Id like australia, all 5 continents done AND kangaroos and bunnies and dingoes and stuff

[viscid sage]

And then anidst that some fires randomly start and some forests are covered in spider webs @hardy totem

[pearl musk]

Anyone still play the old Deer Hunter games? 2005 still holds up. I miss the old days when there was like a dozen hunting games on the market at all times.

[sturdy niche]

Good morning!

[pearl musk]

Sup, dude.

[lyric adder]

morning

[quick coral]

Morning TK:)

[sturdy niche]

Who found what?

[pearl musk]

Good news.

[lyric adder]

pins

[quick coral]

@restive briar found it

[lyric adder]

Lucretius the legend

[hardy totem]

ye, morning

[dusty narwhal]

It looks so cool

[frosty void]

Morning TK!

[sturdy niche]

Ok. I have to drop Wyatt off at Preschool. Will catch up after that. Congrats 😁

[lyric adder]

also nice job on the non typical

[quick coral]

Cya :)))

[shy pagoda]

It's antlers look like a lop sided pine tree

[restive briar]

I was lowkey waiting for the: "Sorry mate, it's a glitch but you're getting closer."

[shy pagoda]

pfft that would have been horrible

[lyric adder]

@shy pagoda best example period

[hot cosmos]

did he mention he swapped game files with his so he could use his map spawns and what not??

[shy pagoda]

yea i think so

[restive briar]

Old news.

[hot cosmos]

Kinda cheap i think. But he has to live with himself

[shy pagoda]

hmmmm

[lyric adder]

Adapt Overcome Survive

[snow fable]

I hope they keep fableds super rare

[frosty void]

Whelp, I'm gonna push the envelop and say this is beta related, because I got all of these in the beta LOL.

[restive briar]

Nothing in the "rules" mentioned against it so 🤷
A lot of people were doing the same. Heck, someone who was watching TKs stream earlier said he did the same but don't go quoting me on that. It's third party info.

[pearl musk]

We were talking about everything but beta the past hour lol

[lyric adder]

Lucretius did everything correctly so he's clear

[restive briar]

Everyone could've done the same as well.

[frosty void]

@pearl musk I know 😛

[hot cosmos]

Seems kinda jenky to me. I mean, the devs removed all of our stuff for a reason to truly test the beta. Kinda defeats the purpose of it if you ask me, but again, opinion

[cold apex]

It’s just a separate save file so your main stuff doesn’t get fucked

[restive briar]

Yeah we had this conversation earlier with a lot more explanation involved behind it. Idk if I feel like bringing that back up now haha.

[analog flower]

Where did you find?

[shell sage]

Pretty sure TK used his save @hot cosmos

[restive briar]

I'll show you the map.

Black dot was the spot.

[civic plank]

i have a map of layton with possible routes people could try, 70% is just a better version of Luc's map

[analog flower]

lol I'm there right now

[restive briar]

Yeeaaaah. Mine was done halfassed during the excitment, lol.

[hardy totem]

So far, green has ben giving me the most whitetail, red the most moose

[restive briar]

Interesting highlighting the Belmont swamp area. I never have much luck there.

[civic plank]

purple is kinda just there

[sturdy niche]

@restive briar did you cheat to find it?

[restive briar]

No.

[civic plank]

ive had pretty good moose and now bears by doing the blue route

[sturdy niche]

Who swapped game files?

[restive briar]

Unless you believe moving my main game files counts as cheating.

No rule against it last I checked.

[sturdy niche]

Well if you are doing it to manipulate spawn. Then yes that's cheating

[quick coral]

Oh oh ..

[tidal spear]

Whelp..

[hardy totem]

Is it really manipulating spawn tho?

[quick coral]

Well it kinda is..

[sturdy niche]

Why else would you do it ?

[left isle]

with the hunt club not working, alot of people used there main files

[quick coral]

Then u don't rly test the rarity on the beta.. it's a new game file..

[hardy totem]

because youd know where your herds are and youd know more about your map

[polar tartan]

That’s what weasel in the Facebook group did to get all his diamond then complain it was too easy

[twilit sleet]

I did in hopes to get the xp reward from hunter's club to trigger - someone said it helped them. :z

[slate moon]

Friend of mine did it because the beta rewards never unlocked for him, who wants to hunt a hidden monster when you start at level 1

the xp and such

[quick coral]

Well u said it only took u 3-4 hours after u changed files @restive briar ..

[sturdy niche]

The other thing is. If you had copied over your main save, the GO would not have appeared 😉

[restive briar]

It's herd management that I've worked months on obtaining. Details on finding the Easter Egg was limited at best with all we got was harvesting large bucks. No rule was given about using your own game files. When this update hits the main game, everyone will be using their own saved games.

The only people who would be using a clean sheet would be new comers to COTW.

[quick coral]

No. I used a clean sheet through the whole beta.

[restive briar]

That is my point. ^

[sturdy niche]

You are missing my point

[polar tartan]

I’m on PS4 so I can’t copy the files

[analog flower]

Unless wt population is wiped for this.

[restive briar]

Would you delete your population on your main game when the update drops?

[quick coral]

Well that was the point. To see how rare it is. Not to use a perfect heard in your main game..

It's a beta.. to test it..

[fervent crow]

well no one found it the entire beta except this guy, rarity shown its too rare

[restive briar]

The test seems flawed to me in that regard then if its about a clean sheet but I suppose we all have different opinions.

[pearl musk]

This feels like when a kid got in trouble in school.

[hardy totem]

I agree its too rare imo

[sturdy niche]

The other thing is and I will check this to double check. But if you only copied over your main save, you would not have been able to find the GO, because it would not exist in those population files

[shell sage]

He killed wt to get it to spawn

[hardy totem]

he soent like 3-4 hours

[lone hazel]

He is clean. Cmon now it seems like u wanted us to not find it or sth

[quick coral]

I think it's fair that u want to double check it TK

[civic plank]

i do get what TK is saying, he wanted clean saves to check the rarity

[winged pollen]

🍿

[twilit sleet]

I mean - he can send the files to you guys and you can check it, yes?

[hardy totem]

I mean, TK said we werent SUPPOSED to find it

[restive briar]

Make sure to double check killing whitetails on a pregame file on the beta.

[lone cliff]

Well, we know it spawns, as to rarity, still up in the air

[hardy totem]

Like, NOONE was SUPPOSED to find it ever or somt

[sturdy niche]

I never said that Carrot

[lone hazel]

I can tell you something. It's only game lmao

[hardy totem]

Thats why i used "like"

[sturdy niche]

I was hoping someone would find it without messing with game files.

No you said "TK said we werent SUPPOSED to find it"

[quick coral]

Relax.. it's a beta. It was supposed to test everything on a new slate..

[hardy totem]

I mean... didnt you say that?

[sturdy niche]

No, that is what I just said, I did not say that

Quite the opposite

[twilit sleet]

The expectation was 0 to 1 people finding it.

[quick coral]

Defeats the purpose if u transfer your game files.. and it says they won't recommend u transfer files around.

[tidal spear]

Its really sad that this easter event seems to end like this with all the drama :/ should be a fun hunt its just a game

[sturdy niche]

Yup I agree @tidal spear

[fervent crow]

well doesnt seem like that was gonna happen the entire beta chat was talking about slaughtering white tails i dont think one would have been found without him editing files if he even did

[hardy totem]

Then what? What is it supposed to be?

[slate moon]

There was nothing said about not using your save file during the many times it was discussed in this channel the first day or so. Seems like a salty stance tbh.

[lone hazel]

Then you should write at the beggining - dont transfer your main game filles to beta

[quick coral]

It doesn't matter if it was found or not. What matters is the community comming together to look for a new super rare thing added to our game...

[restive briar]

To be fair, this is a good test regardless. How a clean sheet versus an exciting game compares to rarity. I spent 12 hours a day up until last night to find it and spent about 4 hours in a reserve with a well managed whitetail herd.

[analog flower]

How long the beta is still going?

[civic plank]

it was supposed to be a test of the spawn rarity on a clean slate

[twilit sleet]

Like... 30 min? :D

[left isle]

or make sure your XP boost isnt bugged...

[hardy totem]

didnt people test it tho?

[full cave]

all i can say it was hell

[pearl musk]

Well, someone could still find it. And if not, then you know no one found it on a clean save.

[quick coral]

I loved the beta. Loved everything about it. Except the end. And the people who felt the need to get nasty

[lone cliff]

Sounds like devs need to put in a stop gap for beta population files of some sort

[hot cosmos]

This was part of the explanation, take it for what you will.

[full cave]

how much time we have to find it, because i just changed back from beta

[hot cosmos]

Was a fun weekend all in all. Cheers guys

[frosty void]

I will say TK, and this might be independant of the easter egg, I saw a LOT of stuff I haven't seen on my main game in 2+ years of playing. Search my name to find my pics. Don't know if any other spawn rates were changed or if it was just pure dumb luck, but I for one had an AMAZING beta. Take that for what you will. -DarthMagnus

[cold apex]

meanwhile, I couldnt find a whitetail that went past 90kg lol all the 85-100s were 85.1kg or 85.2

[plucky obsidian]

give him the win he was not the the only one who copied their files over it was all the talk the first few days of the beta and after all it was supposed to be impossible if you do that so give him the W

[hardy totem]

I also did find a lot of stuff on the couple hours of beta... It was nice, just wished i coudl had transferred it al hahah

[pearl musk]

@frosty void I've only ever seen 2 diamond WT and I found 1 within 2 hours of the beta.

[quick coral]

To all the people being alittle salty. I will eat my underpants if u can say that u have had more fun than this weekend before in the game.. this is all thanks to Tk. He made the beta extremely fun and exciting.. round of applause to u my man.

[rotund yacht]

Well said Julie

[dusty narwhal]

yep agree

[restive briar]

Don't think anyone is being rude or salty. Everyone just has an opinion and whatever happens, happens.

[pearl musk]

ahem.. and all I gotta do is say that?

[civic plank]

i loved the beta

[lone cliff]

I know i for one became a better hunter, or maybe just more focused? I did get more engaged and felt overall the community was exciting

[restive briar]

The beta was arguably the best thing the community had together in a long time with everyone working together. That is what should be taken out of this whole thing. Not a virtual deer.

[sturdy niche]

I had heaps of fun. I am chatting to the team to see what they say about all this

[frosty void]

I have 5 on my normal game. But A max level moose, rabbit, and elk I have NEVER seen on ANY map. The piebalds I've seen and bagged, but as I said... YEARS of playing. But whatever the cause... big game trophies aside, this was the most fun week I've had, and I have a LOT of fun playing this game

[tidal spear]

@frosty void same. Im new to the game (lvl 12 i think) and i shot my first albino in the beta

[pearl musk]

No denying this was a ton of fun. I've been cooped up for WEEKS and am getting depressed. This helped.

[lone cliff]

I do agree the point(s) of the beta were lost in some regard involving testing. And as such can agree with TK on the rarity test being skewed

[sturdy niche]

@restive briar I agree with that. It was so cool to see everyone come together

[languid anchor]

Expansive worlds should do this type of thing more often.

[sturdy niche]

But, I am just worried now we still do not really have the results needed to make a good decision.

[left isle]

lets just have some more detailed rules in the next beta. it was till a blast tho

[hardy totem]

When can we expect a detailed explanation about the deer? Like, atyps vs nontyps? why the lvl 10? small nontyps anytime? Drop tines?

[analog flower]

30 min time to find this thing still so I still search 😄 I put way too much time on this beta haha. It was super fun tho, loved this chat and all the speculations and excitement around the mystery.

[paper current]

Would pushing the beta to console be possible? No way to mess with game files on console

[sturdy niche]

This feature, is way more than what you are seeing at face value as well 🙂

[idle bridge]

i thought of doing the same just for the fact id have the outposts unlocked but maybe next time you guys can specify to use a clean map @sturdy niche

[sturdy niche]

So there is still more awesome to come with it!

[restive briar]

The conclusion would be that no one was able to find it then if it was supposed to be looked into under a completely clean sheet of paper.

[idle bridge]

to avoid all this drama

[fervent crow]

well no one found it without the save change right? isnt that part of the test resultes

[pearl musk]

@sturdy niche Like I said before, regardless of that one deer, you have your results. No one shot one.

[languid anchor]

I have a ps4 so i couldnt play on the beta, but i had fun watching people play.

[quick coral]

Well it's obviously not only the whitetails who get the fabled ranking. But they need an animal to test it on.

[worn falcon]

Still hoping for that chonker lvl 1 WT with teeny antlers

[hardy totem]

I just dont want nontyps to be all huge and too rare

[slate moon]

@fervent crow I think that it could be used as a testament to how much time is needed to invest in finding it, for sure.

[valid surge]

are there diffrent racks than the one he got?

[civic plank]

there has to be, the scoring does go upto 722

[shell sage]

I believe so Flummy the one duck glitched in looked different

[pearl musk]

@hardy totem Yeah, I think most of us wanted a total revamp of the whitetail when we said we wanted non typicals. I wanna see level 2s with drop tines and stickers. But this is still really cool.

[sturdy niche]

Yeah, I just want to be clear, I am happy it was found, just a little disappointed that there was some manipulation involved. BUT I am checking to see if that actually made any difference, might still be fully legit 😄

[quick coral]

Well tbh. I think this makes the beta test rly difficult for then to study. Because they don't know how many people transfered files. And how many kept their clean one..

[fervent crow]

yeah no one shot one so in a weekend of hunting and like what 2 or 3 days of only white tail? so that means on a clean save finding it in that time is impossible

[lone cliff]

I think we were looking at a two headed rarity check here

[shy pagoda]

wish we had more time to look for it

[winged pollen]

I guess what needs to be considered is how the spawn rates would differ depending on an animal population file which has been played on for ages (like the ones everyone has in the live game) and how it differs when it is fresh (like everyone has in the beta)

[fervent crow]

we will once it comes to live

[lone cliff]

Atyps, and lvl 10

[idle bridge]

@sturdy niche you guys thought of this before hand though correct

that we would maybe use our maps

[valid surge]

people who transferred files 🤡

[restive briar]

I would imagine that A LOT of folks did it. I know what made me try it was someone mentioned a Youtuber or Streamer did that so thought I should give it a go as well, see how my luck will change with less than day available to us.

[idle bridge]

i didnt just for the fact that its a clean map

[fervent crow]

if transferring files will interfere with testing it 100% needs to be noted next time

[civic plank]

^ agree fully

[worn falcon]

I didnt transfer and coulnt get the beta awards so i was stuck at lvl 1-5

[quick coral]

Well I think it's clear that a beta test isn't your own map..

[idle bridge]

but i feel it should be mentioned next time to help with making testing results more accurate

[quick coral]

They did write that they don't recommend fiddling with files.

[sturdy niche]

Yeah, from what I understand, which is what I need clarity about, is that using your live Population file, should not generate a GO

[left isle]

dont reccomend is not a NO

[shell sage]

He used live pop them killed wt until it spawned

[twilit sleet]

And the transferring was mostly done due to the free xp + money reward not triggering :/

[pearl musk]

Yet he did get one.

[quick coral]

Well it made it clear enough for me not to move my file.

[valid surge]

tk so the people who reset tjeir animal population just ruined the chanse to find it?

[restive briar]

Was killing whitetail on the og game file while on the beta for about four hours.

[fervent crow]

but some people had to cause of the hunt club free xp and money not working

[left isle]

to me, that says if you break your game it your own fault,we are not relaiable. not a dont do this

[quick coral]

Well they didn't have to. U could still go clear whitetail without the boost...

[fervent crow]

bruh who wants to do that cmon

[hardy totem]

My goodness, the tents, the outposts unlocked...

[fervent crow]

the boost was there for a reason

[quick coral]

Im just saying nothing stopped those people from using a clean slate.

[hardy totem]

thats another reason i stopped the beta.

[twilit sleet]

shudder

[left isle]

nooooo. i would not grind this with a 243

[idle bridge]

some people already had things from previous betas

[fervent crow]

but nothing fully stated dont use your live saves

[quick coral]

Common sense did...

[fervent crow]

bruh

[sturdy niche]

Meh, lets stop, it has been done now. I do not want to be in a setup where I have to write down hard and fast rules. That is no fun, but its up to players to use their own judgement and like I say, there might not even be anything wrong with doing this. The Devs might be happy 🙂 I am sure they will be with all the feedback anyway 🙂

[left isle]

obviously not that common of a sense.

[nova vale]

it dont count

[quick coral]

Right. I will go for now. Thanks for a wonderful experience. Can't wait to see what u guys come up with.

[lone cliff]

I think the main takeaway... great one needs a new name ;)

[pearl musk]

It still a cool deer. Can you tell us if this is going to be done on more species in the future?

[valid surge]

a normal diamond moose is better, #changemymind

[restive briar]

If anyone on the Dev side needs additional information from my end I would be happy to aid in that.

[sturdy niche]

Well, you guys still have only just seen it at face value 😉 There is a reason its called a Great one 🙂

[slate moon]

Any timeline on releasing that monster to live?

[worn falcon]

What was it in the end?

[shell sage]

Does it get bigger?

[valid surge]

my jaw didnt drop 😉

[hardy totem]

But i dont want a great one, I want nontyps =c

[sturdy niche]

"I want" 😛

[paper current]

If the devs rule this as a clean kill, how long do you think until this update goes live?

[gaunt yacht]

What does that even mean 😂😂

[sturdy niche]

All in good time Carrot 😄

[nova vale]

it needs to b e found illegitimately with the same files as everone else

[lone cliff]

Ahhhh Great white tailed Deer...Great black bear etc ;)

[lapis carbon]

Does Atypical just mean non typical or is there multiple types of non typs?

[hardy totem]

Hopefully... Hopefully some day we will have nontyps that arent crazy rare to find

[shell sage]

@nova vale Legitimately*

[hardy totem]

as an oddity collector, it would hurt my heart that we get Great Ones and not "normal" nontyps

[sturdy niche]

This feature is NOT Non-typs! 🙂

[fervent crow]

😦

[paper current]

Interesting

[nova vale]

keep looking everyone it wasn't found yet

[gaunt yacht]

What ....

[hardy totem]

YES
YES

[lapis carbon]

Then what is it

[valid surge]

moose

[frosty void]

Can you sticky that quote TK? LOL

[shell sage]

So drop time non typs can come in the future

[west marsh]

@lapis carbon Atypical and Non typical are pretty much the same

[sturdy niche]

https://tenor.com/view/mysterious-mysteriousa-mysteriousb-gif-8171427

[knotty dust]

Yeah what exactly is a great one

[fervent crow]

how can spiky mcspikes alot not be a nontypical

[quick coral]

Wait and see guys. U helped them alot already. I'm sure it will be great.

[hardy totem]

but are nontyps planned?

[shell sage]

Yes

[sturdy niche]

Well this GO is a Non Typ, but the feature is not Non-Typs

[shell sage]

After truracs I believe

[worn falcon]

A stupid me its in the pins.
Cool! Are those Trurak as well?

[frosty void]

But regardless, MORE EASTER EGGS! (even if there are some that are totally ridiculous that don't make it into the live game)

[hardy totem]

"THIS" GO

[fervent crow]

oooooooooo I like that TK

[tall vortex]

AND,we will probably get GO’s for more/all animals in future? 😀

[gaunt yacht]

Yea everyone should have same chances and files

[shell sage]

Are there other GO in the beta right now?

[lapis carbon]

I must me dumb... What does GO mean?

[sturdy niche]

Great One

[paper current]

Great One

[nova vale]

facts @gaunt yacht

[left isle]

great ones

[cold apex]

cant really be done because some peoples population files straight up suck compared to others

[lapis carbon]

Ah ok

[pearl musk]

As much as I want non typs, I would like to at least see red deer, mule and axis trurac. Be patient guys. This game is going to continue to develope for years and years and years.

[fervent crow]

can the GO grizzly please be more agressive?? I have yet to get even charged by one

[hardy totem]

ehhh i can finally sleep. Great Ones do not interest me in the least. Just nontyps and diamonds and rares

[left isle]

and even chances means a non buggged hunt club boost

[gaunt yacht]

I’m just saying in terms of the beta

[uneven valve]

my boost was bugged 😦

[gaunt yacht]

And the beta files

[pearl musk]

@hardy totem Weirdo.

[hardy totem]

@pearl musk why?

I mean, tru, but why?

[quick coral]

Well I personally only hunt foxes. Haven't shot a single whitetail

[lone cliff]

Just needs to add a version to population files with a gameload check

[fervent crow]

well GO is a step above diamond right? so why not be interested in what is beyond diamond carrot

[shell sage]

I only hunted bears in the beta because I only saw bears

[hardy totem]

Because its unreasonably hard to get

[sturdy niche]

Well you say rares interest you, but GO's don't? That right there is a huge contradiction 🙂

[glacial pebble]

I mean in the post on steam it literally says this, "DO NOT MOVE OR MESS WITH THE SAVE FILE, IF YOU DO, YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!"

[frosty void]

TK, can we have a hunt one day where we have to kill Cthulhu, and have it say Great Old One?

[pearl musk]

@fervent crow Exactly. Makes no sense lol.

[glacial pebble]

so take it how you will

[left isle]

bc fur is prettier that horns

[hardy totem]

I have a couple of albinos. Some dude with MONTHS on a save found it after spending 12 HOURS a DAY

[fervent crow]

i mean you got a point

[sturdy niche]

No, he found it after 3 hours

[civic plank]

the 12 hours a day dont go with the main save

[quick coral]

No. He moved the file and found it within 4 hours @hardy totem

[hardy totem]

That save was months of playing

[fervent crow]

with a month old save though right

[full cave]

Anyone found the easter egg?

[shell sage]

Lol

[knotty dust]

I assumed the reason for not moving file was to not potentially damage your save

[valid surge]

my saved files got deleted rip lvl60

[sturdy niche]

Not everything good in life is easy, and not everything easy is good. I will leave you with that thought 🙂

[dry idol]

Anyone find what it is

[nova vale]

no one found it yet fist

[cunning meteor]

But honestly, would you see a GO and think, "Nah, I don't think I'll hunt this one"? Like really?

[hardy totem]

its not like i woulnt get it

[cunning meteor]

I mean if it's there go for it

[gaunt yacht]

This man tk is like yoda

[full cave]

It's been found

[hardy totem]

is that i dont want to get my hopes up for nothing

[quick coral]

@hardy totem it will be the top animal for all species.. the GREAT ONE.. be excited man

[hardy totem]

Like "oh man, will i get a GO today?" and repeat this over and over

[pearl musk]

"Ah whatever, it's just the biggest and most rare deer in the game. Wish it were a piebald."

[knotty dust]

Kiwis are green Yoda is green

[fervent crow]

my only worry is that he said he did white tail herd managing for months (I DONT KNOW HOW TO DO THAT)

[lapis flicker]

The beta was awesome though, aside from the community involvement, this is one of the most stable game versions i have played. The sounds are great and CC looks like a normal place on earth again! 🙂 Kudo's for the Devs!

[restive briar]

That game file had almost daily herd management up until the Yukon DLC to give everyone a perspective. The average buck was give or take around 220 score due to this so keep that in mind.

[left isle]

if it doesnt get a money and xp boost by the time it gets on main, then its a maybe. cus that was a low goods trade there LOL

[knotty dust]

Tk is yoda confirmed

[hardy totem]

Its more like "ah this is the rarest thing in the game, i was lucky!"

[sturdy niche]

I think Carrot is actually correct in some ways. You would not want to exclusively hunt it, you might go mad

[quick coral]

@hardy totem exactly!!!

[hardy totem]

If I think about finding good things, i WOULD go mad

[ancient bramble]

Wait what happened?

[glacial pebble]

so TK is this like the Barry Bonds homerun record, gona have an asterixis

[fervent crow]

@restive briar (how do you even manage herds)

[valid surge]

tk, i have hunted moose for 400 hours havent found a single diamond yet, dont think i am already going crazy???????????????

[quick coral]

It's something u will see once a full moon. I love that.

[hardy totem]

It may be just me, but id I go and say "oh, this warning call may be a diamond" EVERY TIME... i cant handle it

[left isle]

ah, yes that. this beta has grown a massive hatred for moose in me.

[quick coral]

Diamonds weren't rly that rare anymore.. it's nice to see an animal and be like.. omg finally. This is exciting!!!

[valid surge]

diamond moose is, prove me wrong

[restive briar]

@fervent crow I've explained it a few times but a short recap can be seen in general only a few scrolls up.

[hardy totem]

speak for yousefl, Diamonds are ALWAYS exicting for me

[knotty dust]

And elk

[full cave]

I now updated my game from beta 3rd time, everytime i update it, it starts again

[sturdy niche]

I will say this here and now. This will not be a feature that everyone will find, nor will it be easy and it is designed to be super rewarding and something truly great for players to celebrate. It is also free, does not affect game play at all and should be in the back of your minds every time you go out hunting, that you truly do not know what is out there!

[glacial pebble]

@restive briar i think that is the thing, you say keep that in mind you had a daily maintenance, then used that in the beta to test a brand new rarity. Skews results..

[frosty void]

If you do this for other species TK... don't tell us. Let it happen and watch us freak when it does

[quick coral]

We needed something super rare.. I dig it

[knotty dust]

Your right tk, Never know might be a squatch in them woods

[hardy totem]

it kinda sucks not everyone will get one... i guess diamonds are like that too...

[full cave]

Get what?

[restive briar]

Then my results can simply be ignored then.

[quick coral]

@full cave check the pinned messages :)

[fervent crow]

but that actually shows results

[knotty dust]

@full cave to put a hole in big chungus

[full cave]

Oh

[hardy totem]

I have a couple of friends with quite some hours and no diamonds found... Feel bad for 'em

[nova vale]

@restive briar then that doesn't truly make you the first one to find it

[fervent crow]

without the herd grooming it wouldnt have been found right that shows how much effort needs to be put inot it

[tall vortex]

I love it. Will GOs be implemented on all animals?

[glacial pebble]

He still found it first regardless

[analog flower]

GO red deer? Chee I will not see much sleep after that

[restive briar]

Nope, in that case it doesn't. Which I'm totally fine with, it's just a game afterall. I had my fun these last few days anyways lol.

[hardy totem]

I think GOs need too much effort.. At least, for my style of playing. I am not a hardcore player.

[valid surge]

GOs moose man i need it

[shell sage]

You really like your moose flummy

[civic plank]

i could argue that everyone gets a diamond eventually, if it is truely rare and not everyone will get it then its something wayyyyyyyy rarer and way more rewarding @hardy totem

[fervent crow]

nah nah lurcretius is the peoples legendary hunter 👑

[nova vale]

@restive briar man with honor

[pearl musk]

Well, as soon as it releases aren't all the people will heavily hunted maps going to have just as easy a time as Lucretius did?

[solar pumice]

Can we get a role call for replacing TreeKiwi with Lucretius?

[civic plank]

no

[fervent crow]

no

[full cave]

wrong Population datei ......

[left isle]

no

[glacial pebble]

not an easy time but it means it might not be as rare as intended if he found it in a couple hours

[mental swan]

I think the effort required to find one is fine

[shell sage]

No

[hardy totem]

@civic plank I dont know, i play other kinds of games where collectors have it easy if they spend a lil time

[sturdy niche]

So results are back in, looks like the way Lucretius did it would work and even though it was not how we wanted it found, congrats mate 🙂 🎉

[shell sage]

TK is irreplaceable

[paper current]

If someone else were to find one, and they said they did it on a clean slate, would it be possible to tell for sure? Or would the devs just have to take their word for it?

[pearl musk]

TK is too sexy to be removed from the camera.

[west marsh]

@pearl musk heavily hunted and we'll managed are two very different entities

[fervent crow]

GG