Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Where to find coyotes in Cheelah!


You don't find coyotes, the coyotes find you.

But on a more serious note.

A lot of coyote hunting missions in theHunter Call of the Wild take place in the Cheelah area. Let's look at good spots to find coyotes!


Around the Cheelah Lake

Map of Cheelah Lake with my best coyote hunting areas marked with red

This area is a pain but there are missions that require you to locate coyotes around the Cheelah Lake. My best luck has been in the woods on the northern shore and up in the eastern mountains.

And my best tactic in this area has been:

  • Do something else entirely and let them spot you
  • Stop, crouch or crawl towards the sound and at the same time use the caller to attract their attention.
  • Keep track so that the coyote does not have time to circle you and try to spot it with your binoculars
  • Take the shot or crawl closer to get a photo

In the Cheelah area in general

If I need to go coyote hunting in the Cheelah area in general I would go to the mountain to the north of the Cheelah Hiking Village (red square on the map above). Here I have found packs of coyotes from time to time and in general got most of my harvests here.
Here the best tactic is to follow tracks as there usually are multiple coyotes in this area. Only a few times that I've not found any up here in the mountains.

In the Cheelah Hiking Village area, the blue square is your friend. But you need a lot of patience and call, and call and call before you might have luck to spot one. Be prepared to return multiple times before you encounter your prey here in this area.
Here in the blue square, sitting still and calling is your best tactic.

As always with this game, no guarantees. The randomness is just pure hell and a lot of patience is needed for any hunt that you do!

If you find this helpful, or have other experiences in the Cheelah area regarding coyotes, don't hesitate to leave a comment!

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Monday, November 12, 2018

Red Dead Redemption 2 - Intro - Outlaws from the West


The introduction mission in Red Dead Redemption 2. Here's a quick walkthrough.

Mission starts with you following Dutch into the snow blaze.

Horse buttons (Xbox One)

  • Ride faster, pump A
  • Ride slower, press RB
  • Ride same speed as other person, hold A
  • Jump up on your horse, press Y
  • Jump off your horse (and hitch it if possible), press Y
  • Hit your horse, for whatever reason you'd want that you crazy person, press B

Meet up with Micah and follow him to the homestead in the snow storm.

Hitch your horse where the others hitched theirs by pressing Y

Press L to crouch walk, and go to the shed and press RB to take cover
Lean forward (L forward) to get a better view of what is going on. Note the people exiting the building from the backdoor

Select your gun by holding LB and selecting the revolver in the wheel and then releasing LB.

Aim with your gun by holding LT

Engage in the shootout by RT, be sure you have a good aim before doing so.

Take down all the hostile persons. I think you could press R to get into Dead Eye mode, (bullet time). Not sure if it is available in this mission as I did not use it. But if available, then it should make the fight a little easier.

Loot the people outside after the firefight.
Enter the house and press X to loot stuff inside the house.

When done with looting, exit the house and go to the stables.


Fist fight technique is:
  • Hold X to block
  • Press B to punch
Just beat the guy until he speaks and then decide if you want to let him live or kill him to 

Approach the horse, press X to calm her.

Once calm, press Y to lead the horse outside.

Get back to the main house, watch the narrative and the gang getting back to the temporary headquarters.

Mission completed.

Thursday, November 8, 2018

Red Dead Redemption 2: Things I wish I knew when I started out


So I bought this game and I've been playing it for hours now. It's awesome, but there are things that had me wondering a bit when I started out. Being a huge game, it has a lot of details that take time to learn.
I play this on the Xbox One, hence the button references are to the Xbox One controller. Button references will be within parenthesis.

Horses and Stagecoaches


  • Don't press (B) near your horse, turns out that you will throw a punch at the horse and lose some bonding points. Not a good thing.
  • (Y) will allow for safe jump on your horse or jump up to the drivers position on the stagecoach. Took me forever to figure the stagecoach thing out in the middle of a mission, ended up shooting my gun instead and waking up the whole house. Thus failing the Hosea stagecoach stealing mission.

Hunting

  • Get the right caliber weapon for whatever you are hunting. I.e. .22 caliber for small animals. If you don't then the quality of pelts harvested will go down.
  • Only shoot once, figure out where the animal goes down on one shot. If you shoot more then once, then the quality of pelts and furs go down as well. Still haven't managed a pristine, ***, three star, pelt of any kind.
  • Always check (L+R) when going hunting and continuously while on a hunt to get wind direction. Always have the wind in your face while hunting, or at least away from the direction that you are going.
  • Deer and bucks, aim for the hear or neck to get a one shot kill.
  • You don't have to lift off the animal carcass that you want to sell from your horse if you want to sell it. Just have your horse close by and approach a vendor. Saves a lot of time once you figure this out.
  • Use the bow for hunting deer, that was you don't damage the pelts. Using a rifle will most likely take away one star

Money making

  • Do the missions. Any other means to money is useless in this game.
  • Collect the gold bar from the burned out village south-west from the Horseshoe overlook camp and sell it to a fence
  • Loot all enemies! Sell all looted valuables to a fence

Ok. Hope this helps someone out there! Good luck, have fun!


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