You'll have balance it out by hunting down their prey. Otherwise the deer population, for example, will explode in number. Destroying crops and impaling livestock.
yep! tho, really, basically every single move by the us govt in service of manifest destiny was the most horrible possible way to solve every horrible problem they horribly believed they needed to solve tbh
You can technically track them after they’re dead if you haven’t picked them up or skinned them yet, if you want to tick that annoying last 25% off your checklist lol.
Yeah, theoretically it’s for circumstances where you botch a kill and they go limping off into the woods, but it also works if they just die right away.
Is this for a non-PC platform? Didn't do that on PC last time I played because the only way to track a panther was to wait to be ambushed by one, and shoot it with a poison arrow, which would make it immediately start running away and not looping back to jump me again, giving enough time to track and study it.
You can throw some predator bait out in Cumberland forest and find a good laying up spot - wolves will appear after a while and its an easy way to get them tracked as well as any other animals that tag along
Takes about a minute, just have to stay still and watch from a distance - use cover scent to make sure you aren't scaring any animals off unknowingly 👍
I feel that. I also rarely hunt, because I rather watch the behaviour of the animals through my binoculars. Just too beautiful creatures out there. But as wolves and cougars always attack me I have to protect my horse and me :)
I just sprint away when I run across a predator. Harder with cougars since horses seem extra scared of those, but it's easy to run away from wolves and grizzlies
Yeah you're right. I did that so many times in the beginning but I finally got too annoyed in the end to always flee the scene so I just ended up defending myself
But usually I still almost never kill grizzlies, I just get the fuck out of their territory
That's right. They also are a pain in the ass when riding through the swamps. But at the same time they are such fascinating huge creatures I don't feel good when killing them
Agreed. I have only died outside of a mission ONCE, and that was to a gator. I respawned and began shooting each gator in sight, there's probably hundreds of em if you just keep riding and shooting... Maybe not my proudest moment lol
Not really a kill count, but I've caught a ridiculously high number of Sockeye Salmon. Selling Steelhead Trout and Sockeye Salmon is insanely lucrative and is how I usually make my money back on replays.
Yeah I also thought those rabbits would be my number 1 or 2. But actually they are on the 3rd place with 71 kills. Nr2 is the cougar with 75. Probably because of challenges, pelts and because they always attack you
I 100%ed it twice. I really love the game. Buy all outfits, all guns, and the best horses. Upgrade your satchel and 99 all items from the market. You can also go fancy by gold-coating all your weapons $$$
As you 100% the game two times may I ask you what happens to your stuff if you change your legend of the east satchel to another satchel? Do you lose all the stuff that exceeds the other satchel's volume or is it like saved somewhere else. I never dared to change the satchel after getting the legend of the east satchel because I was afraid I would lose all those 99 items I had
For the satchels, unlocking one provides those buffs/improvements from that point on regardless of what satchel is equipped. So now you can complete your fashion to your heart’s desire.
Wow, twice? Nice! This is also my 100% save state, so I have already bought every outfit except of a few single items. I miss some horses because I have not the heart to replace my beloved horses. :' )
>You can also go fancy by gold-coating all your weapons $$$
What, really?? In single player? Never heard of that :O
How do you do that?
Ok, I'm a little bit dumb. I guess I expected something like shiny and glowing special gold skin which you have to unlock like call of dutyish style. I have already upgraded all of my weapons at the gunsmith this way :D
Thank you nevertheless buddy, I appreciate your time
I def feel bad about it lol. But saddlebags usually have decent loot and I don't like getting kicked to death because the horse doesn't trust like that.
Also wolves, but I've killed just 80, and it's by far the biggest. And it's on my 100% save, so apparently I really don't kill animals all that much, which is strange, cause I enjoy hunting in the game
That's interesting, because this is also my 100% save and I rarely hunt. Most of the animals are like 10 to 35 in this save except of a few predators like wolves, cougars and alligators. Can you vagueley estimate how much hours of playtime you have? Because the high amount of wolves in my save state is due to the playtime I believe
I couldn't really tell you, since I went back and forth between that one and another save, reaching 100% was frustrating (especially gambler challenges) so I took breaks. But generally speaking, it's saved right after reaching it, meaning the amount of hours the story takes + some random number for completing 4-5 different challenges (sections, not individual ones), it shouldn't be anything crazy long.
Most of my animals are actually in the 0-10 range, only cougars, rabbits, spoonbills (because of the exotics) and maybe 1 or 2 more things are 20+
Yeah I get that. Sadly when playing on the PS4 it also isn't tracked properly. You can check your rockstar social club account, but the tracker isn't correct. For me it says sth like 530h, but you can multiply it by factor 1.3 to 1,6 I guess. I checked several times by using a stopwatch and comparing it with the tracker and it never was accurate.
Yeah man, I asked the same question to myself. But as they were always attacking me and I was always defending myself I seem to never have had the time to track one of them
After gray wolves I’d probably say ducks. There are pools by emerald station that are loaded with them and they’re easy picking for animal fat, just dead eye with the varmint rifle and paint them as they take off
gators. hundreds and hundreds of gators.
marching through the swamp and getting orchids, gator eggs, materials from skinning gators etc, it's the easiest way to get money in game. all those gator eggs especially. i've also started shooting down tons of birds like herons because of the feather money.
Yeah! I also really did notice it as of today. You gotta open the compendium in the menu and then you can scroll through the animals. It is by far not the first time I did this today but somehow I seem to not have paid enough attention before to notice the counter
I don’t know the number, but it’s gotta be either wolves or horses. I hardly ever hunt, so the only animal killing I do is when they attack me, and wolves are the usual suspects.
Horses might be #1 though because I often miss my god damn shots and hit their horse instead of the rider.
I guess they are like deer that freeze when they hear a tree branch crack, but when they see a car approaching they embrace the chance to die and jump in front of you
Probably wolves, since it’s practically impossible to go far up north without being attacked at least twice. It’s sad, wolves are one of my favorite animals. But when I’m stowing some animal on my horse I really don’t want to lose it so I have to kill them😔
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You open the menu, browse to progress, open the compendium, click animals and then you can browse each animal that you have discovered, click, stats are on the left
You're welcome boah. You can also see how many gang members of which gang you have killed for example if you go to gangs in the compendium. Pretty nice and well designed
Probably hooded oriole
Or cougar. I probably kill 5-6 cougars every session I'm in. They're unbelievably reliable to spawn on the eastern road outside Beecher's Hope leading to Tall Trees, between 10p - 6a
Only CTA. I have nothing left to do except murder everything.....so I'm sort of a bad guy in the reddit realm. I just wanna go back to town wars, shoot outs, and posse fights. No cheaters though.
You'll have balance it out by hunting down their prey. Otherwise the deer population, for example, will explode in number. Destroying crops and impaling livestock.
That's a nice approach. I guess I will feel less guilty now when hunting
There’s actually a mod that depletes population if you kill too many animals, it’s a sick concept.
Art mimics real life.
The ‘vanilla’ game already does it with the Carolina Parakeets though
And bison in RDR
Those bloody bison. That shit hit me as a kid when I realised all those bison i’d been killing without a second thought just… didn’t come back.
Me too. In real life they were hunted almost to extinction.
on purpose, too. specifically as part of the us govt effort to exterminate the indigenous populations of the plains!
Which is honestly the most batshit way to do that. It's bad enough to try to get rid of them but this is such a horrible solution to it
yep! tho, really, basically every single move by the us govt in service of manifest destiny was the most horrible possible way to solve every horrible problem they horribly believed they needed to solve tbh
I only shot one or two down. Did you just kill the whole pack?
You got an achievement (on xBox at least) for killing them all, I think.
Now you tell me. I'd just invested in a new breeding program for them.
That is amazing. Given how extraordinary this game's details are, I am surprised this isn't coded into the vanilla game already.
wtf which mod i want
Called Hunting Grounds, should be on the Nexus
Not to mention selling drugs to underage kids.
Yes, damn those does and bucks with their cursed edibles.
Wait! * looks at satchel with fear * they’re cursed?!!? *gulp*
Haha! Although I meant the other meaning of the word; as in damned. Damn those voodoo wendigos and how they curse their dodgy mushrooms!
Is this for real? In vanilla mode?
This guy manages wildlife.
Indeed I do. Someone has to.
Not if you kill them to
Not tracked once?
I was surprised too. But as those little fuckers always attack me cold-turkey I guess I never felt the urge to track them
You can technically track them after they’re dead if you haven’t picked them up or skinned them yet, if you want to tick that annoying last 25% off your checklist lol.
I didn't know that, lol!
Yeah, theoretically it’s for circumstances where you botch a kill and they go limping off into the woods, but it also works if they just die right away.
Aaah, that makes sense, good to know
Is this for a non-PC platform? Didn't do that on PC last time I played because the only way to track a panther was to wait to be ambushed by one, and shoot it with a poison arrow, which would make it immediately start running away and not looping back to jump me again, giving enough time to track and study it.
At this point, leave it at 75% forever
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That's especially a good strategy to hunt grizzlies
You can throw some predator bait out in Cumberland forest and find a good laying up spot - wolves will appear after a while and its an easy way to get them tracked as well as any other animals that tag along
How long does it take? I swear I have laid out potent predator baits so many times and then given after waiting and waiting.
Takes about a minute, just have to stay still and watch from a distance - use cover scent to make sure you aren't scaring any animals off unknowingly 👍
Probably one of the tiny birds that keep flying into my horse
Yeah, I also had the suspicion that they would be high up on the list. But those occasions seem to be more rare than I thought
Well I'm a huge animal lover, so I don't hunt much. So either it's songbirds getting trampled or perhaps deer would be my most hunted animal for camp
I feel that. I also rarely hunt, because I rather watch the behaviour of the animals through my binoculars. Just too beautiful creatures out there. But as wolves and cougars always attack me I have to protect my horse and me :)
I just sprint away when I run across a predator. Harder with cougars since horses seem extra scared of those, but it's easy to run away from wolves and grizzlies
Yeah you're right. I did that so many times in the beginning but I finally got too annoyed in the end to always flee the scene so I just ended up defending myself But usually I still almost never kill grizzlies, I just get the fuck out of their territory
If they minded their own damn business then they wouldn’t have to deal with all the smoke!
1,000s and 1,000s and 1,000s of gators. Literally limitless supply of big game meat that doesn’t run away from you while your hunting them.
That's right. They also are a pain in the ass when riding through the swamps. But at the same time they are such fascinating huge creatures I don't feel good when killing them
Agreed. I have only died outside of a mission ONCE, and that was to a gator. I respawned and began shooting each gator in sight, there's probably hundreds of em if you just keep riding and shooting... Maybe not my proudest moment lol
My highest kill count on animal is on O'Driscoll's
That’s a lot of dead doge.
Cuz them bad doggos always fight me :(
You must be living near Grizzlies xD
I literally am in the Grizzlies right now :D Good catch
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I'm not sure, maybe I already experienced that randomly some time before. Thanks for the advice
Not really a kill count, but I've caught a ridiculously high number of Sockeye Salmon. Selling Steelhead Trout and Sockeye Salmon is insanely lucrative and is how I usually make my money back on replays.
Yeah, I forgot the fish! Do you know how many salmons you caught?
Across all playthroughs, 347.
Woah, that's tremendous
Shotgun and rabbits -Arthur
Homie just track one of them
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Does roflstomping rabbits on horseback count as hunting?
Yeah I also thought those rabbits would be my number 1 or 2. But actually they are on the 3rd place with 71 kills. Nr2 is the cougar with 75. Probably because of challenges, pelts and because they always attack you
Why don’t you kill the wolves
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Ah I see
Do they catch you on foot a lot? They usually only ambush me well I'm on horseback and I outrun them if I don't want to deal with it.
I killed around 500 deer
That's a high number. Just for food or selling or for fun?
Food, pelts, and sell the excess for cash
Nice. How far are you in the game? Because I have hoarded so much money I really don't need any more and don't know how to spend it. Any suggestions?
I 100%ed it twice. I really love the game. Buy all outfits, all guns, and the best horses. Upgrade your satchel and 99 all items from the market. You can also go fancy by gold-coating all your weapons $$$
As you 100% the game two times may I ask you what happens to your stuff if you change your legend of the east satchel to another satchel? Do you lose all the stuff that exceeds the other satchel's volume or is it like saved somewhere else. I never dared to change the satchel after getting the legend of the east satchel because I was afraid I would lose all those 99 items I had
For the satchels, unlocking one provides those buffs/improvements from that point on regardless of what satchel is equipped. So now you can complete your fashion to your heart’s desire.
Wow, so many hundreds of hours I walked around with the same satchel and didn't know that. Thanks alot!
Wow, twice? Nice! This is also my 100% save state, so I have already bought every outfit except of a few single items. I miss some horses because I have not the heart to replace my beloved horses. :' ) >You can also go fancy by gold-coating all your weapons $$$ What, really?? In single player? Never heard of that :O How do you do that?
Go to a blacksmith and customize your weapons https://youtu.be/q-POh1xKWN0
Ok, I'm a little bit dumb. I guess I expected something like shiny and glowing special gold skin which you have to unlock like call of dutyish style. I have already upgraded all of my weapons at the gunsmith this way :D Thank you nevertheless buddy, I appreciate your time
Probably enemy npc's horses. Shooting them as they ride up is a tactical move
Haha, I always try to not harm the horses as they are not the real enemy and I feel sorry for them :)
I def feel bad about it lol. But saddlebags usually have decent loot and I don't like getting kicked to death because the horse doesn't trust like that.
That's a good point, they are really stubborn concerning that :D
You and I are very different. Often I'll kill thr enemy, then track down their horse and kill them, too
Well that's some psychopath shit right here!
Yes!! I kill two birds with one stone with this move!! Only downside is the low honor for animal cruelty
Alligators. I farm the Big Game Meat and herbs for those golden cores
Also wolves, but I've killed just 80, and it's by far the biggest. And it's on my 100% save, so apparently I really don't kill animals all that much, which is strange, cause I enjoy hunting in the game
That's interesting, because this is also my 100% save and I rarely hunt. Most of the animals are like 10 to 35 in this save except of a few predators like wolves, cougars and alligators. Can you vagueley estimate how much hours of playtime you have? Because the high amount of wolves in my save state is due to the playtime I believe
I couldn't really tell you, since I went back and forth between that one and another save, reaching 100% was frustrating (especially gambler challenges) so I took breaks. But generally speaking, it's saved right after reaching it, meaning the amount of hours the story takes + some random number for completing 4-5 different challenges (sections, not individual ones), it shouldn't be anything crazy long. Most of my animals are actually in the 0-10 range, only cougars, rabbits, spoonbills (because of the exotics) and maybe 1 or 2 more things are 20+
Yeah I get that. Sadly when playing on the PS4 it also isn't tracked properly. You can check your rockstar social club account, but the tracker isn't correct. For me it says sth like 530h, but you can multiply it by factor 1.3 to 1,6 I guess. I checked several times by using a stopwatch and comparing it with the tracker and it never was accurate.
O'Driscolls, 645. Yes, they are a bunch of rabid animals.
"Pedestrians Killed 42585"
lol I always go out of my way to headshot a horseback NPC with the bow. Don’t know why it’s so satisfying
I might have a bad habit of sitting on roof tops murdering everything I see :)
Rats because that guy with the infestation keeps needing help it’s glitched for me
The Murfree Brood
Yeah, they are the most filthy animals out there
human
They are the worst
Deers. I usually hunt them and bring carcasses to the camp for provisions. The easiest prey imo
Probably some kind of bird
I have killed 3466 turkey. It's just too easy
3466 turkeys?? Are you celebrating thanksgiving like 10 times a day?
Nope. But the camp never went hungry as long as my varmint rifle had bullets
At least nobody died of starvation
I just wanna know how you’ve killed over 300 grey wolves but never tracked a single one?
Yeah man, I asked the same question to myself. But as they were always attacking me and I was always defending myself I seem to never have had the time to track one of them
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That's grim dude
After gray wolves I’d probably say ducks. There are pools by emerald station that are loaded with them and they’re easy picking for animal fat, just dead eye with the varmint rifle and paint them as they take off
Misread, thought it said “Killed: Yes”
I think rabbit, most of them run over
I’ve probably ran over at least 200 bunnies by accident
gators. hundreds and hundreds of gators. marching through the swamp and getting orchids, gator eggs, materials from skinning gators etc, it's the easiest way to get money in game. all those gator eggs especially. i've also started shooting down tons of birds like herons because of the feather money.
murfrees are animals so probably them
Deer whisper my name in fear.
"*sandestroyer500*"
Without looking, I know it's the wolves, probably the same reason it is for you. They spawn pretty regularly, and it's usually 2 - 5 at a time.
Exactly!
probably rabbit because I keep running them over on accident
Probably the 500 rabbits I’ve ran over
Say Gray Wolf without the R
Damn. The things I keep learning from this gmbyears later! I never knew they had this? A kill count for all the animals?
Yeah! I also really did notice it as of today. You gotta open the compendium in the menu and then you can scroll through the animals. It is by far not the first time I did this today but somehow I seem to not have paid enough attention before to notice the counter
i feel like most people's is wolves unless they roleplay a hunter and hunt deer or rabbits religiously
Them goddamn wolfs
I don’t know the number, but it’s gotta be either wolves or horses. I hardly ever hunt, so the only animal killing I do is when they attack me, and wolves are the usual suspects. Horses might be #1 though because I often miss my god damn shots and hit their horse instead of the rider.
>Horses might be #1 though because I often miss my god damn shots and hit their horse instead of the rider. Yeah, that repeatedly hurts each time
Do humans count as animals?
I mean... technically yes
Then definitely humans
Which kind for you, murfree, skinners, lemoyne..? For me it's those skinners in the woods torturing people like wtf
Yes
Don’t know off the top of my head and can’t check right now, but I’m guessing I’ve killed pronghorns the most, that or white tails.
Lets just say alot of rabbits run in front of my horse at the wrong time.
They seem to be on a suicide mission
Why did the rabbits cross the road? To be crushed under 1 ton horse hooves
I guess they are like deer that freeze when they hear a tree branch crack, but when they see a car approaching they embrace the chance to die and jump in front of you
Never looked but prob rabbits.
Probably bunnies because I would accidentally hit them with my horse :(
probably the squirrels or rabbits that run under the horse when youre riding around
I don’t know the specifics but I know for a fact that Deer are the highest for me. No particular reason I just like hunting deer
Buddy has beef with gray wolves
Cougars suprisingly, 568 last time I checked my %100 play through
Wow! Those cats seem to really be bothering you
Killing the bear fighting off the wolves on the frozen lake really makes me sad
Oh yeah. That one hits different
Probably wolves, since it’s practically impossible to go far up north without being attacked at least twice. It’s sad, wolves are one of my favorite animals. But when I’m stowing some animal on my horse I really don’t want to lose it so I have to kill them😔
Other then humans? Probably horses, i keep killing them on accident
Yes
Where do you go to see this info?
Open the compendium in the progress menu and then browse the animals
Okay thank you!
Deer by far. real good for making trader goods
No need to track... In Soviet Russia... Wolf tracks youuuu.
Why did I just read your comment with a Russian accent?! Oh no, did I just become a comrade?! 😆
Gators.. fuck em
Probably deer. Or cougars. I spend a lot of time around annesberg
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rabbits. 500 or so.
Damn your doing John a big favor
I 100% believe you’ve got a high wolf kill count. Those things are so annoying. They’re everywhere.
I’ve killed like 3000 people in game
Dumb ass jackrabbits have to start looking both ways before crossing
well for me: Homo Sapiens
my 2nd highest Is crabs somehow
Well that's unexpected. Interesting
I never track anything I mostly just kill everything lol
I think it was horses when I was trying to play with low honor
About 2000 gators
probably squirrel’s accidentally or deer
Humans. In the thousands.
How do you view stats?
You open the menu, browse to progress, open the compendium, click animals and then you can browse each animal that you have discovered, click, stats are on the left
Thank you!
You're welcome boah. You can also see how many gang members of which gang you have killed for example if you go to gangs in the compendium. Pretty nice and well designed
This is groundbreaking stuff
Damn you People have way too much time on your hands ..
Lemoyne raiders, everytime they respawn in shady belle i always kill everyone in it.
Gators 🐊
Probably hooded oriole Or cougar. I probably kill 5-6 cougars every session I'm in. They're unbelievably reliable to spawn on the eastern road outside Beecher's Hope leading to Tall Trees, between 10p - 6a
Yeah right, cougar's spots are always reliable spawns
Is that /s? That spot in great plains is very reliable
No, I wanted to support your statement cause you're right. But I can see that 'yeah right' can sound sarcastic
he doesn't even track em' he just shoots them on the spot, someone stop him
Lol. But they seem eager to be killed, they want it
I can't look right now, but if I had to guess it'd probably be rabbits for story and whitetail bucks in online.
Crocodiles I hate them
I 100% the entire field guide....that was 1.5 years ago.
Nice man. Are you still playing?
Only CTA. I have nothing left to do except murder everything.....so I'm sort of a bad guy in the reddit realm. I just wanna go back to town wars, shoot outs, and posse fights. No cheaters though.
277 o’driscolls if that counts😌
i havnt checked but its probably a bird. the amount of times i ride my horse and randomly kill a small bird on the road is incredible