mythical /legendary animals

[Graywolf71]

Ive been playing this game pretty hard for awhile now i have yet to run into a mythical /legendary animal..What is the secret to finding these? thx for the help

[notion75]

I have 35 hours and I got a Albino RienDeer :D
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1373060612
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1373060713

[jimco]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1343519825
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1293159612

2 x 5 - Medium Diamond Roosevelt Elks.

[GIbbralter]

Автор сообщения: Chowdog

Go into th4e hills of rotward theres 5-medium red deer everywhere 190-300 kgs

where the heck is rotward

[Paul]

After hundreds of hours of play I had not seen any mythicals or above, then I followed the advice of ZaggiDK for finding Diamonds, which is essentially, get the skills from the tree which let you ascertain the animal's weight from its tracks and when spotting.

Then what you have to do is pretty much ignore any tracks that are below the maximum weight threshold and only follow ones which are in the max weight threshold. For example, a Whitetail I would only look for the track of a male in the 85kg-100kg weight range (187lb-220lb), a Black Bear I would follow only tracks of a male in the 227kg-290kg bracket (500lb-639lb). There is a top bracket for every animal.

I have not yet found a Diamond, but this strategy did let me find two mythical bears, one of which I killed and scored a high Gold, they were the first mythicals I had seen in the game. Sometimes they will be in the low-end of the weight bracket and will just be a decent gold, but overall this means you waste less time tracking animals which are certain not to be around Mythical/Diamond level and are more likely to find what you're after.

[Lightshifty]

Автор сообщения: Dexter_Raminus

After hundreds of hours of play I had not seen any mythicals or above, then I followed the advice of ZaggiDK for finding Diamonds, which is essentially, get the skills from the tree which let you ascertain the animal's weight from its tracks and when spotting.

Then what you have to do is pretty much ignore any tracks that are below the maximum weight threshold and only follow ones which are in the max weight threshold. For example, a Whitetail I would only look for the track of a male in the 85kg-100kg weight range (187lb-220lb), a Black Bear I would follow only tracks of a male in the 227kg-290kg bracket (500lb-639lb). There is a top bracket for every animal.

I have not yet found a Diamond, but this strategy did let me find two mythical bears, one of which I killed and scored a high Gold, they were the first mythicals I had seen in the game. Sometimes they will be in the low-end of the weight bracket and will just be a decent gold, but overall this means you waste less time tracking animals which are certain not to be around Mythical/Diamond level and are more likely to find what you're after.

Mythicals have nothing to do with weight.

[Rookie-31st]

Автор сообщения: Lightshifty

Mythicals have nothing to do with weight.

There is a direct correlation, actually. Mythical level animals always belong to highest weight range. You will never see young and skinny bear with level 8 - those are usually mature and large adults.

[Lightshifty]

Автор сообщения: Rookie-31st

Автор сообщения: Lightshifty

Mythicals have nothing to do with weight.

There is a direct correlation, actually. Mythical level animals always belong to highest weight range. You will never see young and skinny bear with level 8 - those are usually mature and large adults.

That's not true. It is tied to the trophy type for that animal and not all species have weight as the determining trophy score factor. For example:

Species.........Trophy Type
Red Fox.........Weight
Coyote............Weight
Roe Deer........Antlers
Fallow Deer.....Antlers
Whitetail Deer..Antlers
Wild Boar.........Tusks
Black Bear.......Skull
Red Deer.........Antlers
Roosevelt Elk...Antlers
Moose..............Antlers
European Bison..Horns

[Paul]

Автор сообщения: Lightshifty

Автор сообщения: Rookie-31st

There is a direct correlation, actually. Mythical level animals always belong to highest weight range. You will never see young and skinny bear with level 8 - those are usually mature and large adults.

That's not true. It is tied to the trophy type for that animal and not all species have weight as the determining trophy score factor. For example:

Species.........Trophy Type
Red Fox.........Weight
Coyote............Weight
Roe Deer........Antlers
Fallow Deer.....Antlers
Whitetail Deer..Antlers
Wild Boar.........Tusks
Black Bear.......Skull
Red Deer.........Antlers
Roosevelt Elk...Antlers
Moose..............Antlers
European Bison..Horns

His point still stands though. You won't see a Moose with an enormous Diamond trophy rack that isn't also massive and heavy weight, same applies for Bear skulls, Boar tusks and all the other trophy types.

[Lightshifty]

Автор сообщения: Dexter_Raminus

Автор сообщения: Lightshifty

That's not true. It is tied to the trophy type for that animal and not all species have weight as the determining trophy score factor. For example:

Species.........Trophy Type
Red Fox.........Weight
Coyote............Weight
Roe Deer........Antlers
Fallow Deer.....Antlers
Whitetail Deer..Antlers
Wild Boar.........Tusks
Black Bear.......Skull
Red Deer.........Antlers
Roosevelt Elk...Antlers
Moose..............Antlers
European Bison..Horns

His point still stands though. You won't see a Moose with an enormous Diamond trophy rack that isn't also massive and heavy weight, same applies for Bear skulls, Boar tusks and all the other trophy types.

You get heavier individuals of the same species with lower trophy score. You could get 100% score across the board and score gold, you could score 100% across the board on a lighter animal of the same species and score Diamond simply because the tusks/antlers/horns/skull was bigger. The only way to know you have a diamond is by the spotting knowledge perk. Tracking by weight for diamonds only works accurately on animals that have weight as the trophy type.

Trust me, I was there when the community was confused about this and we were having discussions back in early 2017. We worked out that it is trophy type and not weight of an animal that gives diamonds (unless ofcourse weight is the trophy type). Search 'Diamond difficulty' in general discussions to see the old thread where it was solved by a few of us.

Edit:

I realize now, that I'm arguing about diamonds etc and not mythiclas and legendaries which is the topic at hand. My bad.

As for mythicals and legendaries, it is determined by difficulty score (how alert and easily spooked they are). Although it is true that mythicals and legendaries have high trophy score for that species, that species does not necessarily have weight as the trophy type, so what I said about diamonds is still applicable. You can be tracking a very heavy individual and it wont necessarily be a high difficulty rating if antlers are the trophy type. You need to use spotting knowledge perk.

[El Turista]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/518790/discussions/9/1290690926861337428/

Mythic and legendary are harder to hunt because they seems to be in a permanent alert state.

By the way. In my native language mythical should be above legendary. A legend is related to local tales and folklore and often has a real story behind, a myth involves unearthly powers a totally superhuman demeanor and tolds a didactic story that targets a bigger community than the legend.

Then the tale of "that ghost that haunts that old house" is a legend. The tale of how the king of Itaka goes to an epic war and coming back home gets lost and suffer everykind of stuff is a myth. Well 2 indeed Ilíada and Odyssey.

[Rookie-31st]

Автор сообщения: El Turista

Mythic and legendary are harder to hunt because they seems to be in a permanent alert state.

I don't think it is accurate. I recall spotting Mythical animals in calm state. Most probably they just get alerted quicker so players often spot it when already alert

By the way. In my native language mythical should be above legendary.

This should actually be true for any language. Legend is something based on real event or person, while myth is basically a fake story. I also would expect Mythical level be above Legendary

[El Turista]

Автор сообщения: Rookie-31st

Автор сообщения: El Turista

Mythic and legendary are harder to hunt because they seems to be in a permanent alert state.

I don't think it is accurate. I recall spotting Mythical animals in calm state. Most probably they just get alerted quicker so players often spot it when already alert

By the way. In my native language mythical should be above legendary.

This should actually be true for any language. Legend is something based on real event or person, while myth is basically a fake story. I also would expect Mythical level be above Legendary

They get alerted quicker, that's it. You're right, I poorly expressed myself

[Leadmagnet]

Only mythical I've seen so far was a bear with the spirit fur in the tiaga map.

[Rookie-31st]

I've seen mythical black bears, mythical red deers, mythical brown bears and mythical lynx for sure. I don't recall mythical coyote, but I've seen legendary one. They are definitely out there.

[KaiEr]

Автор сообщения: Lightshifty

Автор сообщения: Dexter_Raminus

His point still stands though. You won't see a Moose with an enormous Diamond trophy rack that isn't also massive and heavy weight, same applies for Bear skulls, Boar tusks and all the other trophy types.

You get heavier individuals of the same species with lower trophy score. You could get 100% score across the board and score gold, you could score 100% across the board on a lighter animal of the same species and score Diamond simply because the tusks/antlers/horns/skull was bigger. The only way to know you have a diamond is by the spotting knowledge perk. Tracking by weight for diamonds only works accurately on animals that have weight as the trophy type.

Trust me, I was there when the community was confused about this and we were having discussions back in early 2017. We worked out that it is trophy type and not weight of an animal that gives diamonds (unless ofcourse weight is the trophy type). Search 'Diamond difficulty' in general discussions to see the old thread where it was solved by a few of us.

Edit:

I realize now, that I'm arguing about diamonds etc and not mythiclas and legendaries which is the topic at hand. My bad.

As for mythicals and legendaries, it is determined by difficulty score (how alert and easily spooked they are). Although it is true that mythicals and legendaries have high trophy score for that species, that species does not necessarily have weight as the trophy type, so what I said about diamonds is still applicable. You can be tracking a very heavy individual and it wont necessarily be a high difficulty rating if antlers are the trophy type. You need to use spotting knowledge perk.

Actually, you are both right. You are technically right, and he's right in practice. For the heck of it I went through all my screenshots (every single one of the 3,382 of them... *heavy eyelids*). Since I knew that long ago I had spent a month hunting nothing but black bear, and the trophy for black bear is skull, I decided to use that to check this out. To keep it accurate, I counted only those bear with 100% across the board - I had about 125 of them to go by.

There were some where lighter animals had higher trophy scores than heavier animals. However, ALL of the ones that were different were only different by a pound or so +/-, and only by a few points at most. And none of them were off into a different D/G/S/B category (although it would technically be possible, but I'd see that as a perfect storm type rarity).

And, of course, this goes just for those black bear I harvested.

All I know is that in-game, if I'm going after a diamond, I'm going to be looking at the higher weight category when I see it on their trail. None of my diamonds were puny animals.

(And the skill/perk you are talking about doesn't show whether or not it's a diamond. Unless there's one I'm missing/looked over.)