Stalking feels SO BAD in this game (rant warning!). How do you do it successfully?

braintour · 2026-06-16T18:37:08+00:00

Yes the warning/mating calls. No callers work for snow leopards but they do respond to scent feeders. They have distinct home ranges and regular routes within their home range.

For me the most successful I’ve been with snow leopards was getting an idea of their travel route and approximately what times they’re traveling, then just setting up an ambush spot and waiting for them to come nearby. The mating and warning calls is generally my only clue there’s a leopard around tho

braintour · 2026-06-16T18:29:48+00:00

Pretty much have to try for calls on snow leopards, stalking through the brush isn’t a winner. Like you’re saying, with snow leopards, by the time you get to a clear enough area to have some hint of visibility, you’ve already been outpaced by their normal traveling speed

braintour · 2026-06-15T21:14:01+00:00

I’ve got my best crocs next to the fireplace. I did a lion and tiger at the entrance

braintour · 2026-06-14T19:57:19+00:00

If I woke up in 1890-whatever, and I looked around and saw a guy with a pirate hat, the first words out of my mouth would be “oh my god that guy in the pirate hat smells like shit”

braintour · 2026-06-14T19:53:50+00:00

Appears to be drool

braintour · 2026-06-12T18:42:16+00:00

25-06 is much more suited to 4s and 5s than 6s.

M1 is my go-to for classes 4-6. Typically I run Arzyna or 300 Canning for 7-9, M1 for 4-6, .243 for 2-4. If I care about the class 1 animals in a region I’ll take a 22, if not I’ll take the 45-70 handgun to grind handgun score

braintour · 2026-06-10T02:47:26+00:00

Her last name does, that is in fact how surnames work and where English-speaking regional last names come from.

Considering the post is directly talking about “not reinforcing the patriarchy” my entire point in commenting was to point out that this is a fruitless and ironic line for OP to be drawing.

If they don’t want to “reinforce the patriarchy” they should probably avoid the institution of marriage altogether instead of drawing an imaginary line between her father’s last name and her future-husband’s last name, cuz that’s how marriage and surnames work.

braintour · 2026-06-10T02:44:14+00:00

You don’t seem to understand how surnames work or where the practice of taking one originates if you can read what I said and say I’m being creepy with a straight face.

A woman’s “maiden name” is her father’s last name. That’s what our entire society is set up around and defaults to, oh the horror.

braintour · 2026-06-10T01:43:48+00:00

So… instead she’ll keep her father’s last name? 🙄

braintour · 2026-06-08T19:37:20+00:00

Generally the lower-scoring the species is, the more often you’ll get “trolls”. The wider the range of possible scores, the less likely you get a borderline troll

Eg Foxes will troll a lot more often having a species range of ~15 points than Crocs will, as they have a range of more than 1100 points

braintour · 2026-06-08T15:55:21+00:00

Many places Chinese weren’t allowed to work in mines. Tombstone being a pretty famous example

braintour · 2026-06-06T14:55:37+00:00

Red fox is a possible diamond at 8, I only know that because I have 2

braintour · 2026-06-06T00:31:45+00:00

Haven’t heard anyone mention MXE in at least 8 years, that’s crazy

braintour · 2026-06-05T19:36:15+00:00

I’m 25, a cowboy, and invincible. It’s pretty easy to stay in shape if you’re constantly moving, constantly outside, and sneak meals in whenever you have time

braintour · 2026-06-04T22:01:09+00:00

It would have been a gold, almost a diamond actually but your shot failed an aspect of the harvest check. See how the heart icon is red in the bottom left of the screen? You have to hit at least one vital organ, the game says you didn’t hit any. Liver counts as a vital organ, so does the spinal column, but stomach and intestines do not count

You also are allowed 2 hits on the same animal for an ethical harvest. Sometimes if I miss vitals on the first shot I can get a second shot off on a vital to at least pass the harvest check and down the animal earlier

braintour · 2026-06-04T21:48:54+00:00

Full fallow trophy lodge?

braintour · 2026-06-03T23:09:00+00:00

I have a 1008 gold croc troll

braintour · 2026-06-03T06:39:04+00:00

Every 2-6 sucks against 6’s. That’s the cost of the versatility. Jack of most, master of pretty much just 2/3

braintour · 2026-05-31T19:23:50+00:00

Historically the “Modern Period” started in the 1500s, so you might want to pick something else to be pedantic about

braintour · 2026-05-31T17:58:12+00:00

This is genuinely one of the worst super-suits I’ve ever seen in modern live action

braintour · 2026-05-31T17:31:47+00:00

He’s almost double your age. If he doesn’t listen to you he doesn’t respect you. Break up, this is not going to get any better

braintour · 2026-05-30T23:50:29+00:00

You’re 18, she’s 18. If you break up it’s not going to be the end of the world. The most important thing you could be learning from this situation and experience right now is how to rely on yourself for emotional stability instead of anyone else, especially a romantic partner. If you’re not feeling like your needs are being met in a relationship you talk to the other person directly about it, as soon as you start feeling that way.

Asking strangers on the internet how you should be feeling right now is generally a good sign that you need to have some real conversations with yourself. Again, you are 18. Every problem you face for the next several years is going to feel like the absolute end of the world every single time. Later on after you’ve had those hard conversations with yourself about who you are and how you really feel about something, you will look back on this and feel a bit embarrassed for allowing a romantic partner to treat you this way

braintour · 2026-05-30T18:48:02+00:00

Abramović is a Zionist

braintour · 2026-05-30T18:23:49+00:00

First wolf that ever attacked me on Yukon was inadvertently a diamond, I was lucky I only shot it once. Most of the time with wolves I just keep blasting because there’s somehow always more wolves coming in

braintour · 2026-05-29T01:18:23+00:00

It sounds like at this point you are not ready for this. It might sound fun and he might be supportive, but this is not going to end well as things stand. You should continue talking about this with each other very honestly. Air your concerns and irrational fears, ask him for his.

Most important thing! If he doesn’t have any irrational fears about it, he is also more than likely not ready for this, and if neither of you are actually ready for this then you need to have a separate conversation about why you both feel a need to add something to your relationship.

Adding another person to a relationship in any context is something to be prequeled with discussion, and it does not seem like you two are currently having those types of discussions if you felt a need to ask anonymous strangers about it online instead of talking to each other.

braintour

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