I have probably 1000 hours in this game, my approach is just hunt! I don't camp feed zones or drink zones I just enjoy wondering around and whatever comes my way I take down, it feels more organic.
I've tested the respawn with pumas and hunted on only two lakes on opposite areas of the map. I only shot females on the lake I wanted to grind, and only makes on the one that was bad to grind. After a while I had ONLY males around my grind lake! The only explenation is they respawned as males from the other lake. Then I stopped hunting the other lake and did my grind. Worked a treat!
I have been binging your videos!! i started playing just this week and my first 10ish or so hours were quite uneventful due to running around like a crazy person and not really succeeding in hunting, and that all changed after coming across your TH-cam videos :) I have accomplished more in the last few hours of play than previously!! thank you
Great Video lady I’m sure this will most definitely help people who are not getting respawns on their grinds. I had a similar issue with fallow but then I found 4 more zones and I was back in business 👍🏼 thanks Lady you’re the best!
Your videos are so freakin helpful, i recently just got an albino doe, whitetail, and i never would've understood how the respawns work without this video, so thank you, and the content is just great, keep up the work, also I'm watching from northeastern united states, have a great day Lady
I remember watching one of the older versions of this video and it helping me start up my first fallow grind. Funny enough i just got my 3rd great one fallow this morning in only 427 kills. Thanks to this type of video! Much love!
Math plays a role in programming, where straight RNG is not used. Leaving the smallest animals, and the largest, while shooting the medium animals is an effective strategy. Eventually you have enough smaller animals that if you shoot a large one, the algorithm (math) will tend to result in a large one spawning to take the place of the one you just shot, since there are already enough smaller animals of that species on the map.
I got the base game on sale and found your channel. 10 hours in I got almost all DLCs. Love your videos so much! idk what it is but it feels like I’m watching actual hunting videos! Learning so much!
Watching your videos has really improved my gaming experience with hcow. I recently just got my first piebald doe and my very first diamond lion. I actually now know how the range finder works and it has worked wonders
I need to play this game seriously. 82 hours played on Steam and until now I've treated zones as novelties I come across while wandering or heading to mission targets. "Oh, a drink zone. Maybe I'll come back and camp it some time so I can actually find animals..." and then I never do. I appreciate this guide! Cheers from Japan.
Thanks for making the vid. I are you able to keep your gun from rising up after firing to be able to take such quick follow up shots? My scope rises up so much like I'm shooting a frickin cannon.
How do I know if I’ve found all the drink zones? Side note: I have left and came back to COTW so many times... every time I come back and check TH-cam, there’s LadyLegend. Her tenacity and expertise is truly remarkable. I have been gone from cotw for so long, I don’t even know what gun that is she is using. Does she play any other games? Why would she, when she’s like a Jedi on this game.
I had a level 9 coyote always respawn around the same time in the same spot until I was able to get it. It was a pain but I learned high levels have really good senses.
I was grinding for a rocky elk and got trolled 2 times on the same day but stuck through it and finally got a 500+ score diamond your vids help a lot thank you for them
My opinion is that ethical hunting as well as harvesting yields some things faster. It doesn't mean that RNG won't give in other options what we want to spawn in the end, I'm just saying that it's faster. Personally, I don't have much evidence, only through the game for 3 years now, I got that feeling on my example (I've never made a classic grind, I have 2 GO). LL thank you for nice thinking and nice video for the community.
Thanks for sharing all this knowledge it really helps! I always wonder how much of respawn info is an estimate from a lot of gaming experience and how much is "proven" as in reverse-engineered from the code or directly confirmed by the developers... At least the comment on need finding zones increasing animals does not seem to apply in my case because i regularly level up to 60 and reset progress just for the fun of it.. And dont see a big difference in numbers.. Also there are some population analysis tools that you can inspect your save files and they seem to have relatively stable numbers on animal populations on different maps. Maybe it is different on other platforms (Im on PC), maybe the number of animals on the map are the same but rendered more if more needzones discovered? I wish the devs would reveal a bit more about the "under the hood" game mechanics :)
Why can't you quit and return at every zone? 12:44 Why do you have to tripods in spitting distance? Why, if you need all the drinking zones discovered to get animals to appear, do you not need ALL of the zones discovered, i.e, resting, eating, and drinking?
I was grinding moose and saw a 5 piebald guarantee diamond but I let him go cause didn’t have a shot so I reset the time but he was the only one not there
I searched this up when I was searching for a diamond mouflon just now. I got trolled by three level 5s and they respawned as 3s so here's to hoping I can get it right now!
Oh my, they really reworked the spawnmechanics. It used to be that the exact same animal would spawn once more if you killed it but didnt collect it. This is good for getting people to actually try and set up their shots on big guys tho (:
Hello Lady!! I love the video I know you went over this in another video but I am still not understanding how to shoot down zones. I think I'm getting confused on what lvls to shoot to do that. Do I only shoot higher lvls in the zones I want shot down? and lower lvls in the zones I want to stack? I have been hunting Gray wolfs in Med. Ved. on ps4 because I want a few diamonds and of course cash lol I just feel I am missing something. Any help would be appreciated again I enjoy the videos and guides they have been great!
I have had 2 unretrievable whitetail on my Revontuli grind because they sank to the bottom of a lake, never seen it happened before , couldn’t get them. Hope it doesn’t screw up my GO chances
Hey Lady, I just started my whitetail grind on Revontuli and trying to learn more about the respawns and the grind. I have been trying to shoot the 2s and leave the 1s and 3s. Should i be shooting the 3s too or no?
Hey lady or chat. What is the best way to find all the Need Zones on the map? I jus find it very Tedious to run around 9+ maps to grab every single zone.
With the whitetail zones on Layton, can i look up a map of all the drink zones to go find or will they be in different places for other people?? Ive found a good chunk of zones but im pretty sure i dont have all of them
What rifle setup was this out of curiosity? I’m only level 23 and just completed everything on Medved Taiga (all story missions and side missions, achievements, antler sheds etc) using the 270, 243, 454 pistol, and 338. I’m looking for a new reserve to start back on an achievement grind and want this setup to use for the deer oriented reserves, so I’d like to use this setup! Deer we’re going down easy for the most part.
Love your channel! So helpful and I've only scratched the surface of your content. Question for everyone: when we find a need zone that only has one animal attached to it (we didn't hunt it down to 1, it started at 1 max), what is the benefit of not harvesting that animal? I understand the zone gets deleted if we kill the last animal, but what good is it to you anyways to keep it on the map? Maybe that animal can be used to lead you to other (more populated, shared) need zones? Or are we only talking about preserving zones with males and at least 2 animal population?
Ok listened to the vid again and I guess it's to prevent respawns from stalling out when you have a new undiscovered need zone pop up after killing a solo animal. Having to scour the map for a single need zone to continue a grind sounds.. horrifying haha
I’ve watched this video and few others about herd management and respawns and stuff and on Revontuli I’ve got 2 piebald and 3 Diamond Whitetails also RESET
I'm doing the grinds and I am getting big respawns. However, as big as they are they all seem to be trolls. And I mean by a lot. I had a whitetail with a 286 possibility and it came in at 18 pts up from the low number. And that happens a lot. I usually can count on the deer scoring 20-30 pts lower than the high number. What am I doing wrong? It's frustrating because it's constant. And I should mention I'm playing on PS4
Hi there, so if I got you right I know now why there are not many coyotes on my layton lakes map - because I haven't discover many need zones (drinking/resting/eating)?? So will there be one heard spawning either way when I discover any need zone? Thanks for your help!
Question, how to you know it's a diamond from spotting, I just started playing. Also thank you for the tip on finding drink zones, I was wondering why animal spawns are low.
Hi Lady. I last played like in july. I was too focused on school because i'm going to middle school next year (sorry i don't know how to say that in english I'm 14 and the translator is not very good.) i'm still doing my fallow grind but at this point i miss the game so much i shoot everything
What about the times I've killed some animals and the game hard dashed when i was picking up a number if bodies? Do i lose a chance on the great 1 red deer?
Hi, when you say ''all need zones in the map'' you mean the entire reserve or just that section of the map? Thanks for the video i will look foward to level up first and open my perks than i will start to grind diamonds one.
@@LadyLegendXO I mean, each reserve has diferent parts on the map each one with a name, same when doing missions, some need to be done in a particular area. So when you say spot all zones in the map you mean the entire reserve or just a particular area.
I enjoy your INFORMATIVE videos. Grinding videos are repetitive. All though I disagree with some of the wording on Animal Population and respawns 😢 this is insanely informative as usual. For that I think you finally won my membership lol 😂 KEEP HUNTING YOUR AWESOME
Dont know if youll see this or not. But i think youll think its cool lady, i live 2 hours below whats known as the crimson plains on the yukon map. Its beautiful up here, and currently -35! Haha
So theoretically it would have been beter to find every zone not only drink zones so i would get consistent respawns then before killing anything and messing up my zones? I have checked all the lakes on my map to find all drink zones. I think i got them all but my males do not seem to respawn. Minding hunting pressure and all that. So find every of al 3 zone types would get me a consistent respawn?
I have probably 1000 hours in this game, my approach is just hunt! I don't camp feed zones or drink zones I just enjoy wondering around and whatever comes my way I take down, it feels more organic.
I do the same. If it moves it gets dropped. Always have a ton of animals on my maps. Only found one great one so far.
Edit I’ve also shot over 300 springbok apparently.
I've tested the respawn with pumas and hunted on only two lakes on opposite areas of the map. I only shot females on the lake I wanted to grind, and only makes on the one that was bad to grind. After a while I had ONLY males around my grind lake! The only explenation is they respawned as males from the other lake. Then I stopped hunting the other lake and did my grind. Worked a treat!
I have been binging your videos!! i started playing just this week and my first 10ish or so hours were quite uneventful due to running around like a crazy person and not really succeeding in hunting, and that all changed after coming across your TH-cam videos :) I have accomplished more in the last few hours of play than previously!! thank you
That's amazing to hear!!! Welcome to the best game ever!!! Yay!
Great Video lady I’m sure this will most definitely help people who are not getting respawns on their grinds. I had a similar issue with fallow but then I found 4 more zones and I was back in business 👍🏼 thanks Lady you’re the best!
Thank you so much Jayce! 😍😍😍
Your videos are so freakin helpful, i recently just got an albino doe, whitetail, and i never would've understood how the respawns work without this video, so thank you, and the content is just great, keep up the work,
also I'm watching from northeastern united states, have a great day Lady
That's awesome! So great to hear!
I remember watching one of the older versions of this video and it helping me start up my first fallow grind. Funny enough i just got my 3rd great one fallow this morning in only 427 kills. Thanks to this type of video! Much love!
That's amazing! Congrats!
Math plays a role in programming, where straight RNG is not used. Leaving the smallest animals, and the largest, while shooting the medium animals is an effective strategy. Eventually you have enough smaller animals that if you shoot a large one, the algorithm (math) will tend to result in a large one spawning to take the place of the one you just shot, since there are already enough smaller animals of that species on the map.
Herd management in other words 😁
If i had a large level 4 Ibex that wasn’t dime potential would i leave it?
@@Phinsup-mw2cn Nop. You kill it to decrease the number of high level animals and try to force the spawn of a diamond
I got the base game on sale and found your channel.
10 hours in I got almost all DLCs.
Love your videos so much! idk what it is but it feels like I’m watching actual hunting videos! Learning so much!
You still playing lol? I did the same thing you did a few years ago, then quit for a couple years. Im back now, tho for real.
It’s fun at first but eventually you learn the mechanics and it grows boring after years of play.
Watching your videos has really improved my gaming experience with hcow. I recently just got my first piebald doe and my very first diamond lion. I actually now know how the range finder works and it has worked wonders
Congrats! That's awesome!
I need to play this game seriously. 82 hours played on Steam and until now I've treated zones as novelties I come across while wandering or heading to mission targets. "Oh, a drink zone. Maybe I'll come back and camp it some time so I can actually find animals..." and then I never do. I appreciate this guide! Cheers from Japan.
I was about 10 hours into a fresh account, set up a grind, and before I even started killing anything in my zones, I got my first Gold Pieballed Elk.
Congrats!
Thanks for making the vid. I are you able to keep your gun from rising up after firing to be able to take such quick follow up shots? My scope rises up so much like I'm shooting a frickin cannon.
Omg thank you so much, I just got a diamond fallow today, u helped me so much
This channel has been a massive help to me starting out on this game, thank you! Hopefully my first diamond will pop up soon
How do I know if I’ve found all the drink zones?
Side note: I have left and came back to COTW so many times... every time I come back and check TH-cam, there’s LadyLegend. Her tenacity and expertise is truly remarkable. I have been gone from cotw for so long, I don’t even know what gun that is she is using. Does she play any other games? Why would she, when she’s like a Jedi on this game.
This solidified my understanding of herd management even tho you didn’t go into details . Paired up with your other videos, it really explains a lot.
I had a level 9 coyote always respawn around the same time in the same spot until I was able to get it. It was a pain but I learned high levels have really good senses.
Great Video Lady It's Great Knowledge to know , I always have reset my map , and I'm trying to get my 1st Fallow Great One
Thanks Dave!
I'm a new player this is so helpful. Also the 7 MM makes this game 1000 x easier
Very informative video Lady and much needed! I love it!
can’t tell you ladylegend how much your videos help. watching from oregon
I was grinding for a rocky elk and got trolled 2 times on the same day but stuck through it and finally got a 500+ score diamond your vids help a lot thank you for them
Awesome video!! Perfect timing as my spawns have been acting goofy. 😅
I'm commenting from Upstate NY. So there!
Thanks Jason! You're the best!
My opinion is that ethical hunting as well as harvesting yields some things faster. It doesn't mean that RNG won't give in other options what we want to spawn in the end, I'm just saying that it's faster. Personally, I don't have much evidence, only through the game for 3 years now, I got that feeling on my example (I've never made a classic grind, I have 2 GO). LL thank you for nice thinking and nice video for the community.
I have a challenge for you. A whitetail grind on Mississippi Acres.
Thanks for sharing all this knowledge it really helps! I always wonder how much of respawn info is an estimate from a lot of gaming experience and how much is "proven" as in reverse-engineered from the code or directly confirmed by the developers... At least the comment on need finding zones increasing animals does not seem to apply in my case because i regularly level up to 60 and reset progress just for the fun of it.. And dont see a big difference in numbers.. Also there are some population analysis tools that you can inspect your save files and they seem to have relatively stable numbers on animal populations on different maps. Maybe it is different on other platforms (Im on PC), maybe the number of animals on the map are the same but rendered more if more needzones discovered? I wish the devs would reveal a bit more about the "under the hood" game mechanics :)
A lot of this video seems to be more speculation than “proven”
@@jakemangi4815 its more experience than "speculation" but ok
Why can't you quit and return at every zone?
12:44 Why do you have to tripods in spitting distance?
Why, if you need all the drinking zones discovered to get animals to appear, do you not need ALL of the zones discovered, i.e, resting, eating, and drinking?
Bought the game this week , I'm lvl 6 and already have 2 dlc.s . I'm in love with this game , but I need all the tips I can have
I was grinding moose and saw a 5 piebald guarantee diamond but I let him go cause didn’t have a shot so I reset the time but he was the only one not there
Hi lady great vid do u know what’s the best way to find a great one
Set up a grind and start shooting. I have many guides on all great one species on how to
Ty
Thank you very much for this video lady it helps a lot because I can barely find any diamonds.
Glad it was helpful!
I had no idea that not picking up kills means no great ones! i suppose ill have to start picking stuff up again on my grinds
Thanks lady for the help my moose grind
Was not responding my moose so this help a lot
Okay. So if am farming melanistic european bison I should specifically target males EB and left the females alone?
I searched this up when I was searching for a diamond mouflon just now. I got trolled by three level 5s and they respawned as 3s so here's to hoping I can get it right now!
I love your vids, I'm new to call of the wild and there is SO much info I have gotten for you, keep up the great work!
Awesome! Thank you!
Thank you for the tips ma'am! Me and my Wife is new to this game and we are enjoying it
Thanks Lady! Very informative. How often does EW RESET the maps?
Only when they're making a change to a certain species. Not very often
This helped me a lot when I was doing my g1 grind
Awesome!
What is your fav gun for saltwater crocs
Lady, do you know any good Brook trout spots in the angler? Also this video helped a lot
I'm not a pro at the angler (Yet) so not yet... I'm working on it! Aren't there maps on the Angler Discord that will help?!?
I’ll look. Thx
Oh my, they really reworked the spawnmechanics. It used to be that the exact same animal would spawn once more if you killed it but didnt collect it. This is good for getting people to actually try and set up their shots on big guys tho (:
I watch your videos from France and they are so useful 👍
Awesome, thank you!
Loved the vid it definitely helped and here’s the key word: Reset
Thank you very much, this video has been long needed
Glad it was helpful!
I was watching while waiting for white tails to come in for water and just found my first great one 😂
Reset watching from Alabama. love the videos, keep up the good work!
Very useful video. Doesn't a map respawn quicker when you jump to another map and back again or do you have to exit the game completely?
really going to help me with my whitetail grind thanks lady keep up the great work!
Happy to help!
what do you mean by finding every need zone? every on the whole map?
Your the best I hope you never stop
Hello Lady!! I love the video I know you went over this in another video but I am still not understanding how to shoot down zones. I think I'm getting confused on what lvls to shoot to do that. Do I only shoot higher lvls in the zones I want shot down? and lower lvls in the zones I want to stack? I have been hunting Gray wolfs in Med. Ved. on ps4 because I want a few diamonds and of course cash lol I just feel I am missing something. Any help would be appreciated again I enjoy the videos and guides they have been great!
I have had 2 unretrievable whitetail on my Revontuli grind because they sank to the bottom of a lake, never seen it happened before , couldn’t get them. Hope it doesn’t screw up my GO chances
What’s the ideal tent placement when setting up your grind?
Hey Lady, I just started my whitetail grind on Revontuli and trying to learn more about the respawns and the grind. I have been trying to shoot the 2s and leave the 1s and 3s. Should i be shooting the 3s too or no?
Hey lady or chat. What is the best way to find all the Need Zones on the map?
I jus find it very Tedious to run around 9+ maps to grab every single zone.
thanks, really helpfull video, watching from Czech Republic
Glad it was helpful!
AMAZING VIDEO LADY
i have a request for u can u make a moose g1 guid on medved pls? and thank u❤
Thanks! th-cam.com/video/taEOMyVlawM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=WamkX-YL5lMR3_BE
@@LadyLegendXO THANK YOU SO MUCH❤
How many grind locations should I have around a map?
4:40 is the text supposed to say backwards? instead of forwards
This will help me so much. Thank you😊
You're welcome!
With the whitetail zones on Layton, can i look up a map of all the drink zones to go find or will they be in different places for other people?? Ive found a good chunk of zones but im pretty sure i dont have all of them
What rifle setup was this out of curiosity? I’m only level 23 and just completed everything on Medved Taiga (all story missions and side missions, achievements, antler sheds etc) using the 270, 243, 454 pistol, and 338. I’m looking for a new reserve to start back on an achievement grind and want this setup to use for the deer oriented reserves, so I’d like to use this setup! Deer we’re going down easy for the most part.
Love your channel! So helpful and I've only scratched the surface of your content. Question for everyone: when we find a need zone that only has one animal attached to it (we didn't hunt it down to 1, it started at 1 max), what is the benefit of not harvesting that animal? I understand the zone gets deleted if we kill the last animal, but what good is it to you anyways to keep it on the map? Maybe that animal can be used to lead you to other (more populated, shared) need zones? Or are we only talking about preserving zones with males and at least 2 animal population?
Ok listened to the vid again and I guess it's to prevent respawns from stalling out when you have a new undiscovered need zone pop up after killing a solo animal. Having to scour the map for a single need zone to continue a grind sounds.. horrifying haha
love your vids and thanks for all your time and hard work :D
Glad you like them!
I’ve watched this video and few others about herd management and respawns and stuff and on Revontuli I’ve got 2 piebald and 3 Diamond Whitetails also RESET
Nice video thanks for helping
Happy to help!
Your video's helps me alot in the hunter call of the wild ❤🎉
Glad to hear it!
I'm doing the grinds and I am getting big respawns. However, as big as they are they all seem to be trolls. And I mean by a lot. I had a whitetail with a 286 possibility and it came in at 18 pts up from the low number. And that happens a lot. I usually can count on the deer scoring 20-30 pts lower than the high number. What am I doing wrong? It's frustrating because it's constant. And I should mention I'm playing on PS4
That's RNG - has nothing to do with you. Just keep shooting!
@@LadyLegendXO Stupid RNG! LOL Thanks LL. Gonna have to buy more bullets. A lot more...
most you do herd manage ment to spawn a great one or can you just shot them
You don't have to use HM to get a GO
@@LadyLegendXO thx
Hi there, so if I got you right I know now why there are not many coyotes on my layton lakes map - because I haven't discover many need zones (drinking/resting/eating)?? So will there be one heard spawning either way when I discover any need zone? Thanks for your help!
Such a great hunter, really impressive.
Thanks!
Question, how to you know it's a diamond from spotting, I just started playing. Also thank you for the tip on finding drink zones, I was wondering why animal spawns are low.
Great video lady it helped me a lot with my grinds and I am watching from the uk and keyword is reset
Thanks!
When I started my GO moose grind I was shooting giant 4s. I went back to those zones hopeing for a diamond. It’s was only female respwans.
If you don't find ALL of your drink zones first, you won't get consistent respawns. Sounds like you need to find more zones
Are there any weapon packs that aren’t bolt action, with the recoil it’s almost impossible to get two shoots off quickly
Is that the zarzer .308? Absolutely smoking em, with the polymer tips?
Yes
when you have 2 million you start to forget the tent cost money to rest lol
what rifle are you using?
Great ty 👍🏼
Hi Lady. I last played like in july. I was too focused on school because i'm going to middle school next year (sorry i don't know how to say that in english I'm 14 and the translator is not very good.) i'm still doing my fallow grind but at this point i miss the game so much i shoot everything
Are you playing again? When you do play, you'll have so much fun!
What about the times I've killed some animals and the game hard dashed when i was picking up a number if bodies? Do i lose a chance on the great 1 red deer?
The red reer is obviously the animal i was referring to my bad. Hahaha.
Hi, when you say ''all need zones in the map'' you mean the entire reserve or just that section of the map? Thanks for the video i will look foward to level up first and open my perks than i will start to grind diamonds one.
I need more info. Not sure in what context that was said.
@@LadyLegendXO I mean, each reserve has diferent parts on the map each one with a name, same when doing missions, some need to be done in a particular area. So when you say spot all zones in the map you mean the entire reserve or just a particular area.
I needed this! Thanks so much😊
You're so welcome!
I enjoy your INFORMATIVE videos. Grinding videos are repetitive. All though I disagree with some of the wording on Animal Population and respawns 😢 this is insanely informative as usual. For that I think you finally won my membership lol 😂 KEEP HUNTING YOUR AWESOME
Thanks!
What gun were you using?
Everyone make shore you do not RESET your map even if you don’t see diamonds there most likely is at least one
Lady I need help. My fallow are reaching level 4 but their estimates are so low, is there anything I can do about it.
Rest - Excellent video... Will try the one minute time change.
Thanks!
Dont know if youll see this or not. But i think youll think its cool lady, i live 2 hours below whats known as the crimson plains on the yukon map. Its beautiful up here, and currently -35! Haha
Very informative great video
Glad it was helpful!
When i'm playing in Sundarpatan i go to Himal and there are no animals there no warning calls or tracks i need help
I literally caught three diamonds within an hour on emerald coast. Then proceeded to get a diamond wildebeest later that same day.
Awesome!
Hi Lady,
is it possible to have a great one on a map as soon as you start hunting it?
I don't think so. I think it has to be a respawn.
So theoretically it would have been beter to find every zone not only drink zones so i would get consistent respawns then before killing anything and messing up my zones? I have checked all the lakes on my map to find all drink zones. I think i got them all but my males do not seem to respawn. Minding hunting pressure and all that. So find every of al 3 zone types would get me a consistent respawn?
This helps so much!
do u know the best guns for whitetail deer great video
Do legendaries get respawned as well? Accidentally got a legendary grey wolf but didn’t hit a vital organ and got gold for it. Was hoping for one 😢
What weapon do use?
i have question if you find albino moose and if it get spooked will it come back?