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If you're hunting 2 coyotes in Mt Kraken or wherever that mission is, and also have Harvest a blacktail at night as a mission. You'll get less than 250XP for almost everything you kill (don't know what the upper limit is) so 1 mission task is better than at least 10 big animal kills, probably more like 15-17 animal kills as you won't get a high XP kill each time.ġ5) Missions are active even if not in the phone/GPS. You get around 2500xp for later missions, can't remember what earlier missions are but it's similar if not the same. In my experience animal callers are much much less effective in this situation, your scent makes them cautious and the call makes them nervous so if they appear once and you don't hit your target, you might not get another try.ġ4) Do the mission tasks to help level up. Just now = animal is very close, probably watching you touch it's poop! Be vewy vewy quiet!ġ3) Watch your wind! If the direction you're travelling is within the wide end of the triangle, your scent is being blown ahead of you. Very fresh = poop still warm, you could be within hearing distance, slow down Poop goes in a stage of levels regarding the closeness of the animal Finding poop means you're in the middle of a trail. If you're looking for quick kills to get your consecutive harvests up to 100% then use the highest class one you like and blast the crap out of whatever comes in your path!ġ2) Know your poop! More often than not, you will find a trail before you find poop. If you're looking for a gold animal for a task, you'll lose the integrity for using too high a class weapon/ammo.
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There's some great guides here about what class each weapon is and what class each animal is, although there's one or 2 discrepancies in-game. If it still has a health of 75-100% after about 10 blood trails (if you have the skill/perk that tells you), it'll probably just die as soon as you finish your game session, that's just how it goes!ġ1) Use the right ammo for the animal or task. Track (not run after) everything that has a blood injury that looks bad. 12G buckshot is the beginner ammo for the shotgun, causes a fast bleedout with multiple impact injuries as shotguns tend to do!ġ0) Keep your consecutive harvests at 100% for best high scores and silver/gold/diamond animal ratings. Soft point have a higher expansion score, so they'll do more damage near impact point and can cause a faster bleed-out. The penetration means you've more chance of getting a vital hit though. Red Deer pay well, herds can be found in Ernsdorf near the river inlet, ching ching!!ĩ) Know your ammo, if using polymer tip and you don't get a vital hit, you'll get a flesh wound and it's pretty harmless to the animal, you'll track for hours in-game and real time trying to find it! This is especially true for big game like moose or bison.
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Repeat until none come back after about 5 minutes and they go elsewhere. Call them back and wait 2 or 3 minutes maybe, kill another. I found it best to use the skills to link the trails together with dots/line then arrow showing direction, makes tracking trails much easier.Ĩa) Don't let the purple/high hunt pressure area thing make you move from the area if there's animals there after you got a kill.Ĩb) Get used to the roe caller and deer bleat caller.Ĩc) If you find a herd, hide under a tree and call them. Possibly get a hunting stand near a lake where you have a wide unblocked view in many directions where animals might travel through, and you can afford it, don't grind for it.ħ) Skill up/perk up appropriately. Then you can fast travel to them to get around easier.Ħ) Don't waste money early on for hunting stands/ground blinds, get more guns/bows/sights/callers first. Thought it might be useful to have some tips all in one thread for absolute beginners to get their bearings with the game, so here's my effort.ġ) This isn't Rust, you won't catch an animal running after it.Ģ) Patience is key, you can sneak around for a long long time, and still not even find a track, never mind get a shot off!ģ) Turn your lamp on at night (L) (6pm-6am) I think, or you won't see trails.Ĥ) Change the trail colour to suit your own preference, some people choose red, I find blue easier to spot.ĥ) Travel around a lot at the beginning, mainly to Lookout points (binoculars symbol) They will point out the Outposts so you can unlock them without running around aimlessly.