Medved Taiga: Federal Eco Service #7 Side Mission

[DiscardLogic]

Overall, I have really enjoyed the main mission and sides missions of the Medved Taiga map until I reached this side mission for the Federal Eco Service side mission line. The requirement is to harvest a reindeer at night, which sounds very simple. They are all over the place, except for the zone the mission requries you to be inside when you harvest the reindeer! It has 0 reindeer! I couldn't find a single reindeer within the require map zone to complete this mission. Bug perhaps?

In order to complete this mission I had to go to Dikiy Coast, the zone next to Zverolova Hill (mission required location) and slowly lure a reindeer across the border. Kill it within Zverolova Hill without it running back into the other zone. Also, while making sure it is night time to harvest it. I end up having to wait for day time to do this just in case it went wrong. Then waited roughly 3-4 hours real time for night (19:00) in-game to start and harvest the reindeer to complete the mission. Why am I having to lure an animal from one zone into another, that has 0 of the requried mission animal, in order to complete it? I even did the main mission to repair the bridge linking the two zones because I thought that by doing so I'd start to find reindeer within the requried zone. But alas, twas not the case. I still had to go across the border to lure a reindeer.

Now, after doing all of this for only a SIDE MISSION! I look foward to continuing the side mission Federal Eco line into the next zone only to find out I have to do the same thing. 2 reindeer this time, during the day or night, with minimum scores and consecutive harvest percentage. Which I might add, because I had to wait until 19:00 for night time to harvest that darn reindeer that was sitting there beside me. I lost my consecutive harvest bonus somehow. How could I lose that bonus when I did not shoot anything else besides that one reindeer for the side mission?

Why are you asking me to do basically the same thing, same species, in the same zone?! When there are no darn reindeer in that zone at all?!

Please consider possibly having a second look at the missions (main and side) to make sure a player doesn't have to do something as nuts as what I had to do for this one side mission. I'll tell you it was very frustrating during the entire process and to end up feeeling punished with the loss of my consecutive harvest bonus to top it off.

Has anyone else ran into the same problem I did for this and the following side mission? Or did your Zverolova Hill zone have reindeer spawn there and had no problems?

[Heady]

One of the eastern buildable hunting thingys (sorry, I'm just not able to think of the right noun... ._. ) of Zverolova Hill is right next to the border to the eastern area.
There should be a reindeer sleeping area right next to it.
Build the tower. Use the caller. Kill the reindeer in the area. Done.

You really need to find that area to figure it out, but once you got the drill it's fairly easy.

Nevertheless, I have the same opinion than you have: The quest area is just a bad joke. Something should be adjusted badly...

[Willow Rivers]

I am on this misison of harvesting the reindeer at night, walked all over the zone with no reindeer showing lol. Got lot of other kills though.

[NuCkEnFuTs]

So I've finished Dimitri, (FYI the fed eco service missions are the Dimitri acheivement) there are reindeer on the Hill or in the zone, look East on the map in the zone and use the hunting stand, use the rattle lure and blep call, stay low in the stand till you hear them. i've had herds come through there from the sleep zone further east on the lake. do this in the morning and evening and you should be able to harvest the reindeer.

[DiscardLogic]

Thanks very much for sharing your experiences while dealing with these missions. I'll definitely give the tree stand a try soon. I normally never use them.

[The Spirit of Jazz]

The game pulls this kind of nonsense all the time. I've lost count of the number of times the game has given me a mission to harvest animal x from an area where there are no populations of animal x. I think the designers feel that missions should be "challenging", more so than normal hunting, so they present these almost impossible situations. I find them incredibly annoying and frustrating. I'm on the same night time reindeer mission as the OP and I'm just not going to bother with it. I would rather just roam and hunt whatever I want at this point. The mission system just trolls you.

[mmanser2]

Definition of boring: Hunting animals that aren't there. Yaawn . . . .

[CaptainNebulous]

I literally had to go outside of the mission zone and use my caller to get a reindeer to follow me into the zone (which was about 500 meters away)

[mmanser2]

I've tried the Pied Piper thing a few times now, as well as running around trying to spook them into the area. Also tried pitching a tent beside the stand and resting for an hour, calling for a while then resting again for an hour and calling again, resting, calling, resting calling. After at least 20 or 30 hours of this BS I'm about ready to pack it in on this mission. Not a whole lot of fun that's for sure.

[NuCkEnFuTs]

Originally posted by mmanser2:

I've tried the Pied Piper thing a few times now, as well as running around trying to spook them into the area. Also tried pitching a tent beside the stand and resting for an hour, calling for a while then resting again for an hour and calling again, resting, calling, resting calling. After at least 20 or 30 hours of this BS I'm about ready to pack it in on this mission. Not a whole lot of fun that's for sure.

Just think of how satisfied you'll feel once you've completed it. That's what keep me going.

[Evil Ways]

I think your in the wrong area of that zone... Try the lower right-hand side of that zone and you should find them right away... I do believe even hunting stands and blinds are in that same area. The should be in the same area as the wildboar... to the south of them.

I had no more issues with this mission than any other... Which isnt saying it was easy or went well.. but its do-able.

Sometimes the game just doesnt want to give you the spawn... Try, if no luck let it pass a day do another mission or hunt and try again..

I killed a whole herd of about 14 in one setting... Which was probably 2 or 3 different herds.

Not your fault really MEDVED [spawns and zones] are acting weird. but its mostly the same with all the maps... No continuity to them which can make finding animals sporadic, if not impossible.