No Foxes in Spreeberg?

[SoulsDestiny]

I tried to do the Bow-Hunting Quest in Spreeberg. But there are srsly no foxes. I looked for some hints in the forum and tried like everything. I stood like 30 minutes on a food place of the foxes and waited there between 0 and 7-30. I searched for them in the open but there where like none. I followed the track of the only fox around. He was never running only walking and i ran like 30 minutes on his track. It feels like there are rly no foxes in Spreeberg. Maybe i switch to the lake now....

[KERNOW]

Hope you enjoy this quest beacuse it sounds to me like your encountering the same problem I had on the quest befor with fallow dear in famer sommers feilds 3 actuall days looking around thoes fields that were ment to be getting destroyed by the fallow dear that I couldn't even get 1 track of.

[Photo]

There were foxes for me, I was able to complete the quest. I found them in the middle of the day, I wish I remembered what time it was and exactly where where. To me it seemed like there was an area to the West where there were a bunch of Bison and in that area I could not find any foxes but to the East on the map is where I was able to spot them.

I'm having your problem with taking a photo of a Fallow Deer by the lake though. Tons of Roe deer everywhere for me but zero Fallow anywhere near the lake even if I travel fairly far from it can't seem to find any even tried waiting around an entire day/night cycle.

[Gopetro]

There is a red fox food zone at -6496, 10560. There is also a fox water zone at 6560, 10832. They seem to have sleep zones south of the creek, outside the Spreeberg zone. If you can setup a blind either above one of the need zones or the narrow location where they cross the creek, you may be able to catch one passing by.

I am looking for a fox sleep zone in Spreeberg. Please post if you find one.
Thanks.

[Blood King]

Fox sleep zone: -7280.00 9584.00

[jjs82xx]

There is a place where a coniferous forest meets a lake in Spreeberg. I think I still have my treestand up there; and, if so, can get you the coordinates. I literally hunted foxes, bison and boar from the same stand, all with a bow. Great fun. The fox came in somewhere around midnight for (IIRC) watering need zone. Also IIRC, I set up that stand to do this fox quest; and then just kept it there because of the great hunting.

[jjs82xx]

LoL! And just noticed that this is a necro-thread.

[SoulsDestiny]

This will be certainly helpful information for other users, so thank you very much for your answers.

[Madwand]

Originally posted by SoulsDestiny:

This will be certainly helpful information for other users, so thank you very much for your answers.

Yep.

[VictoriaHuntress]

ICYMI
Missions are (supposed to be, assuming no bugs) programmed so that you can complete them, regardless of your game's unique animal population distribution and need zone locations. However, that doesn't mean it will always be easy. I completed this particular mission, but at least there was a fox zone close to the permanent ground blind in that area - as it turned out, waiting to ambush hunt there was not the way I bagged the fox - I had to prowl around away from the zone until I saw a fox heading back in that direction.


In my very first game instance (on PS4), when I went to complete the photographic mission to get a picture of a Fallow Deer by the lake in Petershain, that area had an abundant Fallow Deer population, and a zone between the outpost and the lake - all I had to do was set up a ground blind in a good spot and wait until a deer came along and snap! - got it done.
In the current game I'm playing on my PC, that same area has no Fallow zones, and I was lucky to find even one set of tracks - but it turns out that I could complete the mission simply by taking the photograph of the lake, no deer required. It seems that the programming 'knew that no deer were likely to ever show up' and that it had a plan B (or maybe it was just a bug LOL).

It's the same story for me in the Layton Lakes coyote missions - first game on PS4, there were so many coyotes around that the ACME Company couldn't keep up with the demand for gadgets, Earthquake Pills, paint supplies and TNT (Ha!). In this game (on PC), Layton Lakes has coyotes, but they are hard to come by - I've been able to complete all but two so far, even though the zone distribution is not in my favor (hunt two coyotes from the hiking cabins (I think Chopeka), and hunt a pair (male and female) of coyotes with a bow.
It's taken me months to get this far (not playing LL all the time, though), and I love it -the satisfaction of patience and perseverance when the plan finally comes together can't be overstated.

For those of you who are new and may not know this:
If you are working on an active mission and get stuck on a step (again, assuming no bugs), you can exit the game, re-enter and continue, and the game will 'reset the active mission to the most recent incomplete step', that is, set up the conditions so you can try the step again. In such cases, the way to proceed is to rest until about the same time the next day (so perhaps 23 hours or so) before exiting the game. When you jump back in, one game day has elapsed, so the animals will have gone through one diurnal cycle, and they'll be back. In the case of a mission, the animal that was supposed to be in the area will be spawned in, and you may get a second shot.

In the case of the 'ghost coyote' mission in the area north east of Chopeka Hiking Cabins, I had to do that sequence several times (10, IIRC) before it paid off - I set up a tent near the permanent hunting stand (which I built) and finally was able to get a good shot at the varmint!

Sometimes the game offers you a gimme (and luck), other times you have to make your own luck.

[Mo0on]

Wait until they get those juicy layton lake achievements less than 2% of the playerbase has completed the story archs.

Those coyotes are trained and skilled ninjas and they're a absolute pain and so damn satisfying to finally complete and hunt something else. Felt so liberating. Like a whole part of the game opened up after like 3 IRL days hunting coyotes.

This mission was a lot easier before they increased the spook distance.