Another prisoner interview. This time in the small village of Culta.
I opted for approaching from the southern cliffs to get a good vantage point and be able to snipe my way through the cartel members without alerting the whole camp.
1. Landing area. 2 recon and sniping line.
The prisoner is located in the church, I guess it is possible to enter it stealthy without eliminating all hostiles first. But I like sniping so I tend to go for the overkill approach.
At one point, two car arrived in the camp and alerted everyone. I have no idea how that happened as there was no indication of trouble before that.
Beware of the sniper on the church roof.
If you stay on the cliffs, then even if you get spotted on the ground, you will be able to keep them on a distance, only approach after you have removed all hostiles from the area. I.e. the all clear from your team.
Two part mission where we will start with questioning a Santa Blanca lieutenant that is located in the hills in the middle of Itacua.
There are different ways to do this, during my first playthrough I entered from the West and moved towards East through the camp. The lieutenant fled when he noticed what was going on and there was a chase to get him.
Pink enter by car and park at 1. Blue is where the lieutenant is. 3 should be the whole area of operation needed. Once interrogation is done, leave same way you came.
So this time, I thought I would enter the camp through his escape route, i.e. from the east and up the stairs.
I parked my vehicle behind a rock and used the drone to spot enemies.
When the cartel noticed me, the lieutenant fled right towards me and I was able to catch him before he entered a car. I dragged him back to my car and interrogated him behind the same rock.
Part two.
I started with getting a helicopter to make the mission a little easier. One is located downhill to the east. There is actually no need to get a helicopter at this point. You can just as well enter by car or foot.
1, leave you vehicle here. Blue line can be used for scouting with drone and sniping cartel members.
Move to the mission area and park you vehicle to the south out of vision from the cartel house.
Enter the bush-line and use your drone to spot enemies. Once you are comfortable with spotting. start sniping the lonely walkers first. I.e. those who wander the longest way from their friends, i.e. cull the herd.
If you get noticed at any point, just move to a different position in the bushes. Moving 20 meter can keep the men that are investigating a sound or hunting you from finding you. And you will have the possibility to flank them once they get closer to your previous position. Be a ghost.
Last part of the mission is to extract Amaru. There is a helicopter to the north of the house and you should just be able to fly all the way to the northern safe-house with little interruption.
It is time to go hunting for Red Deer!
The mission goals are:
Travel to Rotwald
Harvest a male red deer and earn a BRONZE score or higher
I've mostly found Red Deer in the are around the two lakes. Well, you will run into them elsewhere as well but those lakes give nice shooting options.
Red Deer males are usually easier to scare then the females so be sure to sneak around and make low noise. Also keep the wind in your face (if you don't have the anti odor spray)
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Travel to the cabin at the Rathenfeldt Strawfields
From there, when you arrive you will spot already marked tracks of a human. The mission is basically to just follow those tracks until the mission is completed.
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In this mission we will help Mr Sommer to evaluate a new roe deer scent spray by using it to harvest three roe deers in Köningsberg.
Mission goals are:
Travel to Köningsberg
Use the Roe Deer Scent
Harvest 3 roe deer
I started out at a outpost in Köningsberg by heading to the shop and buying a Roe Deer Scent. Be sure to put it in your backpack and then to your quick use list from your inventory before heading out.
I think that the idea when using scents for hunting is to actually move with the wind on your back instead of the normal wind in your face way. I.e. spray some roe deer scent and head out in the direction that the wind is blowing.
I also used the Roe Deer Caller to help with the odds.
Usual tactic is:
Roe deer calls out
I stop and use the Roe Deer Caller
Use binoculars to spot the animal
Use the Ranger .243 rifle to place a bullet in the animal
Do this 3 times and you complete the mission.
Roe deer hunting is usually quite straight forward even without the scent, just be sure to not run around once the roe deer has made its initial call, you don't want to spook it as it runs to the other side of the map in a blink if it decides to.
Another tracking quest. This time from Mr Sommer and the mission is to track Roe Deer
Travel to Spreeberg
Identify a call from a roe deer
Find a track from a roe deer
Find droppings from a roe deer
Easiest way to do this is to run until you find tracks, follow them until you find droppings. Meanwhile use your roe deer caller every 30 seconds. Roe deer are very alert and usually keep in the area, chances are if you make some noise and run around following the tracks the roe deer will notice you and call out a warning call.
Just remember to not do the mistake that I did. After I found the tracks and identified the call I happened to shoot the roe deer and harvest it, and the game removed all traces of that individual. Ended up running around another 10 minutes to find another roe deer just to find its droppings.
This time we will go fox hunting with a 60 lb bow.
This one took me 8 attempts, some for hours and some shorter over a 2 week period to complete.
The mission goal from Mr Sommer is:
Travel to Spreeberg
Harvest 1 fox downed with 60 lb bow
The region in Spreeberg where I've mostly found foxes is the Spreeberg Lake area, namely the narrow passage where the road goes between the two bodies of water.
The tactic I finally was lucky with was:
Run around the area until you find fox tracks, use the Jackrabbit Predator Caller every 30 seconds in case you get lucky.
Slow down and move while crouched and follow the tracks
When you find fox spilling that is 'Just now', stop and find a higher position with a better view like on top of a rock. Lie down and use the Jackrabbit caller until you spot the fox and then try to judge the distance with the help of you map by placing a waypoint
Take the shot with the bow. You need to get up to crouch position to use it.
Played this back in the Xbox 360 days, remember how it came on two discs and when the game started it made sense as Rage was one of the better looking games on the Xbox 360. I.e. it felt like a new console generation compared to the other games at that time.
So, some years later I saw that this came on the Xbox Game Pass service and decided to test play it again in preparation for Rage 2 later this year (hopefully)
First replay impressions
Still seems neat.
One thing that I didn't like was the old style save system where you must save the game manually all the time. A good checkpoint system would have benefited this game. But hey, it still works!
This time we will be hunting bisons, not just for photos..
Mission details:
Harvest a male bison weighing at least 700 kg
No area restrictions in this so I decided to move south to the Rinderland Gorge area. There are usually always bison tracks on the path from the outpost to the hunting stand so that's where I begun.
Directly when I hit the open ground I saw 2 bisons, one male and a female. Why I didn't take a shot there directly is the question. But after a while of tracking (moving in crouched position) I came up on them again and downed the male.
Less then 700 kg but I found tracks of another bison in the 650-800 range and started tracking that one. But again no luck.
And again found tracks of another and tracked it for a while until I got a shot at it and it was also less then 700 kg.
Lastly I found tracks of a beast of 745-90 kg and thought that it for sure would be more then 700 kg. The tracks went a little back and forth around the area and then suddenly it was 50 meters from me, a quick shot with my Rangemaster got in a flesh wound, I guess the game bugged a little as I found it standing 10 meters from the first hit and was able to put 2 more bullets in it before it went down.
Harvest results: 745 kg, mission completed.
Not my cleanest hunt in this game but was kind of fun at least. Took some questionable shots but in the end this is just a game, not the kind of shots I would take on a real hunt.
Another bison quest. This time a photo challenge in the Ernsdorf area.
Mission details:
Take a picture of 3 different bisons in Ernsdorf
I managed to sneak a picture of a bison directly after completing the #3 mission, he also got me pretty good in the night time and I had to restart at an outpost. (still the picture counted)
My tactic for the rest of this mission was to do it in day time, didn't like the bisons during night.
Mainly I ran around the mountain in the northern Ernsdorf until I found some tracks and started following them while crouched.
The thing with bisons seems to be that they just suddenly appear in front of you if you have done everything right, i.e. no sound and sneaking around stealthily. I ran into a horde of them and just clicked some pictures and finished the mission.
Time has come for our first real bison hunt. No area restrictions, so I decided to try my luck in the Ernsdorf area.
The mission is as follows
Harvest a female bison at night
As I did not have any big game weapon I first decided to grind roe deer, red deer and red fox until I got 60000 for the Rangemaster 338. That took a while but was a lot of fun.
Once I had the rifle, I set out into Ernsdorf in the late afternoon with the intention to find bison tracks before nightfall. Once I did I started to follow them and pretty soon in became dark and I had to use my flashlight.
Bisons move a lot and even their walk is fast, so be sure to be silent but fast to catch up. Probably you will catch them at their next need zone.
Spot a single female bison with your binoculars and aim low behind the front leg.
Move forward and harvest it. Be aware of the other bison in the area as they may decide to kill you.
