How much time do you stay in one spot?

[Apocolyptica]

Just curious how people are hunting. Do you move around a lot or do you find a spot where you are concealed and wait?

[Razamanaz]

I move constantly unless I am using a caller.

[❄️The Last Frontier 😊]

I only stay in one of two cases. Either I know there is an animal close and I am calling it in or if it is mission related where I have to kill a certain animal in a certain area and even then most are a general area rather then a specific spot.

Otherwise I move around a lot to need spots or spots good for animals.

[Zourin]

It really depends. I don't have the caller for Red Deer, but I do have the scent, so challenge accepted...

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1221739343

This has been my life for about.. five hours or so.

Those are the two I winged on track. Turns out it's a herd of 27.. minus 3 or 4 and 2 more if they'll ever drop dead. Had them cornered on the island when a diff-7 showed its antlers and, since I couldn't tell the wounded ones apart in such a massive herd, I made my choice among twenty-something choices of suicide by trampling. Sadly, not even a Gold despite a good shot.

[TE5LA]

I normally move around a lot because the area gets pressure after killing a few things and animals avoid it.

The exception was the mission where you're told you have to down a moose from a stand, so you can't go anywhere. I think they have deliberately designed it to not have any moose within 100 miles of that stand while you're on that mission. I waited in that stand for over 2 hours and never a moose or even a call. I finally got irritated and changed the mission I was tracking. No sooner than I had closed the mission screen, a moose suddenly walks out of the bushes. I tried to switch back to that mission and took a couple of shots with a 7mm and hit it pretty good, but it ran. Since the mission said you need to "down" the moose while in the stand, I just waited inside, figuring it would die and then I'd track it. I did just that, but the kill did not count.

I think a lot of missions are bugged. I also did two other missions to kill something in a certain area, did just that, and they did not count. They weren't shot in one place and harvested in another, they were instant one-shot kills.

[DanoUK]

Originally posted by TE5LA:

I normally move around a lot because the area gets pressure after killing a few things and animals avoid it.

The exception was the mission where you're told you have to down a moose from a stand, so you can't go anywhere. I think they have deliberately designed it to not have any moose within 100 miles of that stand while you're on that mission. I waited in that stand for over 2 hours and never a moose or even a call. I finally got irritated and changed the mission I was tracking. No sooner than I had closed the mission screen, a moose suddenly walks out of the bushes. I tried to switch back to that mission and took a couple of shots with a 7mm and hit it pretty good, but it ran. Since the mission said you need to "down" the moose while in the stand, I just waited inside, figuring it would die and then I'd track it. I did just that, but the kill did not count.

I think a lot of missions are bugged. I also did two other missions to kill something in a certain area, did just that, and they did not count. They weren't shot in one place and harvested in another, they were instant one-shot kills.

I've noticed on a couple of these missions it'll say "kill a moose from a stand" or similar. What it doean't say is "kill a MALE moose from a stand"!
It's a very specific and seriously annoying word to be excluded from the missions requirements!

[saphire jinn]

i do both, sometimes i will sit in one spot not moving for hours. keep in mind a sniper will crawl four days to cover a quarter mile and then wait days for his shot, this is a game of patience.

[Rookie-31st]

Longest in-game time was about 4 hours, watching deers drinking and waiting for night time to complete specific mission

[VonStreed]

Depends on conditions. If there is little or no activity I bounce around from outpost to outpost and scout out areas I think might have some animals based on the wind or a mission. I usually don't hang around an area for more than an hour irl if nothing is really biting. Somtimes you hit a hot spot and the animals rain from the sky. Just got about 30 harvests or more from Balmont Lake tonight and a new longshot record. Went there just before dawn and stayed until the sun started to set. Would have stayed as long as I kept finding animals, I actually like night hunts, but gotta pretend I am an adult and go to bed.

It also depends on whether or not I am farming xp and credits or looking for a nice trophy. The higher level animals tend to hang out in the harder to reach, denser areas and those hunts are slow grueling crawls looking for a decent spots to hide and call hoping to find the biggest males. The higher the level of the animal, the easier to spook and less vocal they are

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1221879605

[KaiEr]

It varies from day-to-day. There are so many types/styles of hunting that you can do to keep things interesting.

I'll sometimes stay in a single spot for hours on end - there are "hot spots" (spawn points) where you can either rack up the kills or wait out the trophy animals, but either way there's going to be a lot of action in the area.

Or sometimes (like someone pointed out above) I zip around to a few locations to do long distance shooting. So, other than the fast traveling, It's still a sit/wait game.

And then there's the stalking, of which you can change up to all sorts of styles.

Recently I've spent a lot of time sitting on a rock on the European map, taking out bison with a bow (there's a major travel route for them that I can count on for nearly non-stop action).

Sometimes the hunting pressure doesn't seem to make any difference, sometimes it makes a lot.