Where do Coyotes hang out in New England?

[Bartowski]

Need to take 2 more out for a mission, but can't find any. Idk where i even got the first two, but apparently i had them.

[VictoriaHuntress]

look for the outpost with the ACME CO. station. Chances are you'll see Wile E. Coyote and his friends picking up packages or placing orders. HAHAHA

I'll assume that you have all the stealth skills for low visibility and low noise - if you don't, then it's much harder to stealth hunt them.
Coyotes have become much more challenging, it seems. Your best bet is to explore and scout the map's coyote habitat areas (Codex/Wildlife/Coyote) until you locate some of the need zones, no hunting at all in this mode. Try looking for their prey zones ( like rabbits ), chances are you'll find coyote tracks, too.

The chances of still hunting these critters are really small, even with full stealth skills. You are better off setting up a blind or stand about 200m away (with a clear shooting lane) from the area first, then come back to it well before the zone occupation times, and wait - call them in to you. If you can, set up so that you are in a crosswind direction, rather than downwind, if you can, but be prepared to use a lot of scent eliminator.

You'll probably have more luck night hunting them, since they are more nocturnal.

I have the same challenges with coyotes in Layton Lakes (this is my third unique game), even with optimized skills and perks. I have to take 2 of them with a bow, but in one specific region of the map - getting close enough for a clean shot is really tough - the one time I was able to take one that way, I was in Balmont, but the critter was just over the border in Leviathan, heading away - a perfect shot, but didn't count for the mission (argghh!). It's fun, though, but you need patience, persistence, good planning and just plain good luck.

ICYMI - need zones are randomly distributed within each habitat area (subject to certain constraints, which I suppose are an approximation to habitat area carrying capacity), so each game instance has a unique distribution - only the habitat areas are the same for every game (as those are part of the map's geography/terrain).

[misfitsailor]

I have a lot of time on the New England map and I have never seen a coyote. No tracks, no zones, no calls, nothing. My map is fully developed.

[VictoriaHuntress]

Oh, I hear coyotes all the time in New England, so I can find their tracks, eventually. Need zones are more difficult, but once you start finding those, the number of active coyotes starts increasing. JaxyBeard has a tutorial video (YouTube or Discord) that explains the relationship between spawning and need zones and the total number of animals on the map.

You'll just have to put in the effort - this game makes you work hard, but that's why it's so satisfying to play.

[Soltyk]

Originally posted by VictoriaHuntress:

[...] Need zones are more difficult, but once you start finding those, the number of active coyotes starts increasing. JaxyBeard has a tutorial video (YouTube or Discord) that explains the relationship between spawning and need zones and the total number of animals on the map.[...]

This is an old myth, but still wrong. The size of the animal population is pretty much constant.

[VictoriaHuntress]

Originally posted by Soltyk:

Originally posted by VictoriaHuntress:

[...] Need zones are more difficult, but once you start finding those, the number of active coyotes starts increasing. JaxyBeard has a tutorial video (YouTube or Discord) that explains the relationship between spawning and need zones and the total number of animals on the map.[...]

This is an old myth, but still wrong. The animal population is pretty much constant.

You could be right. It was an old video, and I may have misunderstood what he said, but that's what he seemed to be implying. Perhaps he simply meant that the more need zones you discover, the more animals you will encounter, i.e., you won't see animals unless you go out looking for them.

These are the videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxhQ0xW6pSA&list=RDCMUCb0EgM3A68cmk9tYnQK7X8A&index=9


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYjfanMIEIE

[Soltyk]

Originally posted by VictoriaHuntress:

Originally posted by Soltyk:

This is an old myth, but still wrong. The animal population is pretty much constant.

You could be right. It was an old video, and I may have misunderstood what he said, but that's what he seemed to be implying. Perhaps he simply meant that the more need zones you discover, the more animals you will encounter, i.e., you won't see animals unless you go out looking for them.

No, no, you understood correctly. It was a popular theory at the time, and Jaxy was one of its proponents. Another thing was "Need Zone Stacking", which was nothing more than a graphical glitch. But people want to believe.

[VictoriaHuntress]

@Bartowski
Okay, with the corrections provided by Soltyk, it will still come down to exploring every square meter of coyote habitat somehow, both by long range spotting and scouting on foot, until you start seeing them. That's why it's called 'hunting'

[TarjaS]

I found a couple of night time need zones by the river near the south border of the map.

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Soltyk:

Originally posted by VictoriaHuntress:

[...] Need zones are more difficult, but once you start finding those, the number of active coyotes starts increasing. JaxyBeard has a tutorial video (YouTube or Discord) that explains the relationship between spawning and need zones and the total number of animals on the map.[...]

This is an old myth, but still wrong. The size of the animal population is pretty much constant.

The population cap being constant is the myth. Sometimes it can take a couple of in-game days for an animal to be replaced.

And max cap has nothing to do with whether or not zones and spawning increases are programmed to correlate.