T H E V E R Y B E G I N N I N G



When you start the game, you have no skills, no ammo, and worst of all, you are on Leyton Lakes.

Leyton Lakes is an area where the moose and elk roam.
These guys take 7mm and laugh it off (one of the most powerful guns in the game which you will grind for).

BEFORE YOU EVEN BEGIN THE WHOLE SHOOTING THING
Hit ESC
Goto SYSTEM
Hit GAME
Immediately change your ACTIVE TRACK/CLUE COLOR to something else than the color the sadistic devs picked. Something that will not blend into your reserve (yeah, cyan and white works GREAT on snow maps, devs!). Go magenta, pink, orange, whatever but cyan or white.

SPOTTING OUTLINE COLOR - of course also change it. I go with hot cerisse, cuz I am manly like that (it's C E R I S S E, not pink, don't get it twisted).


IMMEDIATE STEP 2 FOR NEW PLAYER:
1) hit M for map
2) Press H to change reserve
3) Choose Hirschfeld

Ahh, much better.

This is the home of Roe Deer, the dumbest, stupidest animals in the game.
You can literally run into them, wait a few seconds, and spam the ROE CALLER to get them back.
Shoot those roes for xp points and money.

You probably will notice (unless you are as dumb as a roe) that this reserve does not ONLY have roes. There are all kinds of animals.

Hit ESC, go to WILDLIFE. Read up on the animals. Whateva, blah blah lore, blah blah nature.

2 most important things to note: AMMUNITION CLASS and CALLER TYPE.

You can shoot and maybe even kill an animal with wrong ammo type - but you get less points for it (and less money?). Because it is unethical.

YOU CAN SHOOT AN ANIMAL TWO TIMES ONLY, WITH CORRECT AMMO, AND AT LEAST ONE ORGAN MUST BE HIT. Make it a lung, it's easiest.

At the beginning, shoot ANYTHING THAT MOVES that has a chance to die.
For example, using a 270 on an elk or a moose is very.... iffy.

So grind away, using your correct guns with correct ammo, while spamming the callers on Hirsch.




W H A T T O G R I N D F O R: GUNS
270, then 7mm. 7mm will open up the maps for you, giving you a chance to take out bears, moose and elk.


B R U H W H A T S K I L L S F I R S T
Glad you asked, so I will tell you how to avoid the mistake that me and 99% other new players make. They start with STALKER skills.

%$^%$^$%$%^ NOOOO!!!! Mistaaaaaaake!
Here's wut yah do:

Go AMBUSHER

1 point in scent tinkererererer
3 in spotting knowledge
1 in dazed and confused
and finally, what you REALLY want:
SIGHT SPOTTING - this allows you to spot animals using your rifle scope.

Recommend you stay in AMBUSHER and put 2 points into
FATAL ATTRACTION

But you are probably tired of chasing your "kills" (heheheh) which have a tendency to run alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll over the daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang map.
Most of the time you have your nose to the ground, while doing your best to follow the tracks.

Goto STALKER now
LOCATE TRACKS 3 points
TRACK KNOWLEDGE 3 points
SOFT FEET 2 points

If you REALLY have trouble tracking your animal, start with Locate Tracks.... but then immediately switch to ambusher and follow this guide.






W T F B R U H I S H O T I T 5 0 T I M E S L O W B L E E D R U N S F O R E V E R
Ahhh, you must shoot it correctly. You must penetrate AT LEAST ONE vital organ. Otherwise it will run forever and you will explore a lot of the map trying to track the kill.

The Hunter COTW Wiki has great pictures of where to shoot each animal i.e. where its internal vital organs are.

Go to this page, hit CNTL-F to find, type in animal name, ENTER.
Click on said animal, on each animal page there is a picture with its internal vital organs.

https://thehuntercotw.fandom.com/wiki/TheHunter:_Call_of_the_Wild_Wiki





B R U H W U T D L C?
Yah want tents and tripods. That's it, really.
Sometimes treestands are good, situational - thankfully its the same DLC with tripods.

For the record, I bought almost ALL DLC.
All reserves for variety, tripods, geese, tents, ATV to vroom vroom and scare every animal within 300m radius, dLC with the crossbow,
AND THE HIGH TECH DLC WITH NIGHTVISION AND BOWSIGHT cuz I keep it real.


For printing money, recommend WILD GOOSE CHASE. Setup 20 geese decoys on a field, lay the cool laydown camouflage blind about 25metres away, and equip two (2, yes 2!!) Strecker shotguns. Buy a lot of birdshot ammo for those Streckers. Grab a goose caller.

Get into the laydown blind, and start printing money. Boring but if you are having no luck in a "normal" hunt, do this.

Give a tumbs up, like and subscribe, gibs money, Daddy needs a new Cacciatore for birds




A D V A N C E D B O N U S G U I D E F O R P R O B R O S
Not my guide, but use it after you use my guide for the basics:
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1938530527

Give him some love, he deserves it


E X T R E M E S U P E R S E K R I T
Did you notice that the Red Deer caller plays the beginnign notes of "Bad to the Bone"?


A N O T H E R G U I D E S
As we all know, Civilization 4 with all DLC (all 2 of them) is the pinnacle of 4x genre, the number 1 game of all time. Here is my guide for this timeless classic. Please note that if you play Civ5 1UPT or Civ6 dumbest AI ever, you should rethink your life.

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2311382538

Distant Worlds: Universe, The New Guy Newbie Guide to Fully Non Automatic Manual Play - Distant Worlds, The Manly Man Way to Play™
The greatest space 4x of all time. No lie.
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=266988099

Survivalist Invisible Strain, a great hidden gem of a game (EA though, warning), my guide:
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2183931443

Advanced Tactics Gold, basically a turn based RTS (yes, really, it makes sense once you play the game) guide:
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=827684622


I also have (even better) guides for PolishSpeakersMasterRace (tm ;=) only