Black Bear variants not appearing.

[Viking Mana]

I'm trying to bag a variety of Black Bears for the sake of the achievement, but I can't seem to find any Brown, Cinnamon or Blond variants. I have bagged over a dozen at this point, and they've all been either Common, Dark or Dusky. Possibly Black too. But none of them have had any of these variants. From my research, they're said to not be particularly rare, yet I haven't managed to encounter a single one.

Is there currently some bug that prevents them from spawning, or are the variants exclusive to particular maps? Or have they perhaps been incredibly rare? I really don't understand why none are appearing.

[Soltyk]

They changed the rarity of all the fur types. Those three are now rare and very rare.

[Viking Mana]

Why, that's just swell. And I guess no one's updating the wiki then.

[CaptainNebulous]

You'll see the variations more in female bear. But yeah used to be that every 3rd bear was a cinnamon so they balanced that

[Viking Mana]

Thanks for the tip. I've downed another 5-8 today, and still only gotten Dark and Dusky variants. Pretty sure they were all female as well.

[Viking Mana]

Bagged another 8-10 Black Bears this morning. All female. No variants other than Dusky, Dark and a single Black.

[Ninjafroggie]

makes me really glad for the diamond cinnamon male I've got in my trophy lodge.

Viking, try hunting silver ridge peaks. There's a little tiny lake called bear wallow or something like that, it's on the western slope of the big mountain ridge in the SE of the map, directly south of the lake with the island in the middle of the map that has an outpost on its north shore. There's a drink zone there that's short AF, like 11:30-12:00 or something like that. Get there before 11:00 and post up on the ridge above the lake to the east and wait. Bonus if you can put down a tripod or blind, but the ground there is pretty tricky to get placeables on, so you may have to settle for hiding in a tree. I've seen as many as 3 dozen bears there at the same time, and it's the best spot I know of for seeing many bears at once and therefore your best shot at finding a rare fur variant.

[Viking Mana]

Originally posted by Ninjafroggie:

makes me really glad for the diamond cinnamon male I've got in my trophy lodge.

Viking, try hunting silver ridge peaks. There's a little tiny lake called bear wallow or something like that, it's on the western slope of the big mountain ridge in the SE of the map, directly south of the lake with the island in the middle of the map that has an outpost on its north shore. There's a drink zone there that's short AF, like 11:30-12:00 or something like that. Get there before 11:00 and post up on the ridge above the lake to the east and wait. Bonus if you can put down a tripod or blind, but the ground there is pretty tricky to get placeables on, so you may have to settle for hiding in a tree. I've seen as many as 3 dozen bears there at the same time, and it's the best spot I know of for seeing many bears at once and therefore your best shot at finding a rare fur variant.

I'll try and keep that in mind.

[Viking Mana]

Originally posted by Ninjafroggie:

makes me really glad for the diamond cinnamon male I've got in my trophy lodge.

Viking, try hunting silver ridge peaks. There's a little tiny lake called bear wallow or something like that, it's on the western slope of the big mountain ridge in the SE of the map, directly south of the lake with the island in the middle of the map that has an outpost on its north shore. There's a drink zone there that's short AF, like 11:30-12:00 or something like that. Get there before 11:00 and post up on the ridge above the lake to the east and wait. Bonus if you can put down a tripod or blind, but the ground there is pretty tricky to get placeables on, so you may have to settle for hiding in a tree. I've seen as many as 3 dozen bears there at the same time, and it's the best spot I know of for seeing many bears at once and therefore your best shot at finding a rare fur variant.

Right, I gave this tactic a shot. I'm camping out at the top of a ridge overlooking the tiny lake at the top of Bearwallow, which I reckon is the oen you meant. There is indeed a drinking spot with a tiny window around the time slot you pointed out; 11:00-12:30. It seems to consistently attract 3-6 bears. Not quite 3 dozen, though. Perhaps their spawn rates have been decreased, but Silver Ridge Peaks at least seems to have significantly higher rate of bear encounters than the map I was on originally. I've bagged at least two dozen on this map, however, I have still yet to encounter a single variant of the ones required for the achievement.

[KreAture]

Did you ever find your cinnamon black bears?
The last mission on New England Mountains is to spot two cinnamon black bears. So far I've downed 3-400 black bears and not a single cinnamon in sight.

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by KreAture:

Did you ever find your cinnamon black bears?
The last mission on New England Mountains is to spot two cinnamon black bears. So far I've downed 3-400 black bears and not a single cinnamon in sight.

That person is long gone, look at post date, lol.

Rates are actually rare.

[KreAture]

Originally posted by Geronimo:

Originally posted by KreAture:

Did you ever find your cinnamon black bears?
The last mission on New England Mountains is to spot two cinnamon black bears. So far I've downed 3-400 black bears and not a single cinnamon in sight.

That person is long gone, look at post date, lol.
Rates are actually rare.

I am aware of the age of the post but it is still a relevant question and I really hope someone knows something about a specific location they hide at.
I've downed over 800 now and still not a single Cinnamon. At 0.2% I should have seen one at 500 but nothing.