How rare are diamonds and albino's/ melanistic animals

[sirstalksalot]

I have been playing this game for 3 weeks now (around 80 hours). Everywhere I look, I see everybody telling that those animals are super rare. But I have 1 albino red deer 1 albino big horn sheep 1 piebald moose 1 melanistic brown bear. And I had one leucistic turkey, but accidentally deleted it. And so far I have 3 diamond 1 male roe deer 1 male grey wolf (could have been 2 if I didn't shoot the other one with buckshot) and one female gemsbok.

When I look around on the forum here, It doesn't sound like it is normal. The question is, have I been getting really lucky or is this normal. Asking to know what to expect in the future, cause now I almost find it possible to get a rare from every animal. Not just diamond

[Findus]

Originally posted by sirstalksalot:

have I been getting really lucky or is this normal.

A bit of both. You probably got kind of lucky, but it's also normal that some people will get lucky and at least some rares and diamonds will be on your reserves pretty much anytime (this is a guess, but I'd say it would be rarer to have none). It also depends on how much you moved around. If all of these were in one part of the map, that would be more lucky, but piebalds and albinos, while rare, are pretty easy to spot if you move around a bit. Plus, it seems like you hunted across several reserves.

[sirstalksalot]

Yeah, I like to hunt while exploring the entire map, so that's how I encountered them across like 4,5 maps now I think. Still wondering if I keep this type of hunting up will I keep those numbers.

[Findus]

Only one way to find out, but I'd say it's probable. While this is skewed by which animals you decide to shoot, you can also check your diamond rate by seeing how many of the animals you shot were diamonds in your hunting profile in the codex (and do the same for the rares although you'll have to count them manually).

[Soltyk]

The question is, did you get them on your map or on some random multiplayer map? If it was your map it was somewhat lucky but don't expect it to continue in the long run.

[sirstalksalot]

Yeah, it was on my own maps I have played multiplayer but i always was the host

[Geronimo]

Every map has different dispersions, and repopulating is a random process as well.

So the luck of your initial spawning of rares does not suggest that it will continue with further spawns.