the elusive Lynx. help please!

[cocoayoc]

i'm trying to complete the mission getting a photo of a lynx. that seems IMPOSSIBLE,
i either
1. can't catch up to it
2. get too close without realizing it and it flees
3. get close but not enough for the picture to be successful

should i just find a need zone and wait (im)patiently for a lynx to arrive?
it says the mission is optional so how can i skip it if i just give up?

[Willow Rivers]

When you here a call then stop movign and hide best you can and use the jackrabbit caller to lure it closer to you. Trying to approach it will not work, you will spook way before you get close enough, have to use the caller.

Optional means it does not need to be done but there is no way to skip it, just don't do it but then you can't do any of the optional missions after it from the same person.

[Groovy Monster]

When you're actually doing the missions, it seems the target animal is always the hardest to find or get close to, but when you're not, you're practically tripping over them. lol

As for the lynx, I gotta say, the devs were building them up to be SO incredibly elusive and hard to get close to, but after playing the new map for the first time last night, I had 2 walk up fairly close to me (within probably 40 feet or less) in 2 different instances, very early on.

Maybe I was just really lucky, but in neither case was I calling one or even being particularly quiet; just strolling along, stopped to look around, and boom...there's a lynx right over there just 40 feet or less away, giving out a warning call. Bagged both easily, right on the spot in both encounters. :)

[Uncle_Phil]

I've been stuck on the same mission. Please let me know if you find a good spot man. I'll do the same If I find one

[WINTERSTELLAR]

Just sneak behind him ? did this a few minutes ago.

[Uncle_Phil]

I took over 50 photos of a lynx at 60yards... I got one comment "I'm not paying for that ameture phtography" but the mission isn't complete.... what the piss?

[Uncle_Phil]

i finally got it. you have to be within 30 yards or 25 Meters of the animal for the photo to count

[cocoayoc]

success! the caller did it. a random hill though, no special chosen spot. made the harvest too, in 1 shot!

[Willow Rivers]

Originally posted by E. Dibbles 2C-97:

I took over 50 photos of a lynx at 60yards... I got one comment "I'm not paying for that ameture phtography" but the mission isn't complete.... what the piss?

You need to be closer, photograph missions you need a close up. 60 yards away is too far

[woodsmn]

Originally posted by cocoayoc:

i'm trying to complete the mission getting a photo of a lynx. that seems IMPOSSIBLE,
i either
1. can't catch up to it
2. get too close without realizing it and it flees
3. get close but not enough for the picture to be successful

should i just find a need zone and wait (im)patiently for a lynx to arrive?
it says the mission is optional so how can i skip it if i just give up?

I am in real life a photographer...and I can tell you from personal experience...it is allways much harder to get a good picture than a clean kill

[will wabbit hunter]

Originally posted by Willow Rivers:

Originally posted by E. Dibbles 2C-97:

I took over 50 photos of a lynx at 60yards... I got one comment "I'm not paying for that ameture phtography" but the mission isn't complete.... what the piss?

You need to be closer, photograph missions you need a close up. 60 yards away is too far

thats why i hate photo missions they should give you a bit more range for the photo to be flexible.

[Manu5Ahau [Be]]

Just go flat and upwind. I was on my belly for 150m. Took the shot at 20m.

[tiltaaa]

I got a call from the outpost and chased it down with the atv. lol i cheated.

[cocoayoc]

Originally posted by TilT_14:

I got a call from the outpost and chased it down with the atv. lol i cheated.

you must have quick relexes to get a picture before the ATV scared it off!

[tiltaaa]

your atv is much faster than the lynx. of course the lynx was running the whole time just drive right next to it get off, bang take picture, bang again its dead. mission done.

[Galliard2]

I found that there are lots of lynx by the Pillars. I found a large rock, laid on top of it and called in 2 lynx with the jackrabbit call. One I photographed, the other I shot.