Lesser Kudu Diamond

[deadgerbil]

I killed at least two diamonds before, a springbok as recently as yesterday but messed up on shot placement. Tried to nab that diamond springbok with the .243 ranger at 300+ meters but ended up shooting it in the butt, killing it.

Anyways, here's the lesser kudu

https://imgur.com/a/7aByf9Q

I came across this lesser kudu and found its needzone, reset the time and waited for it to come back. I was going to make a waxed poetic and verbose chronicle of this, but I did not want to come off as weird lol

At any rate, the achievement I got "diamonds last forever" says that only 5% of players have this achievement. Have any of you gotten this achievement? What was the animal and what weapon and bullet type did you use?

I chose the 7mm for the lesser kudu, slight overkill as this animal constitutes the bottom of this weapon's class range, but I was not looking to take a chance at not reaching the lung(s).

[Mr. Ed]

Someone way smarter than I am has probably figured out how the % of players achieve the various Steam awards is computed. For example when I competed the mission to harvest a diamond of every species on PF it said less than 1% of players have the achievement. I find that a bit hard to believe but there it is. Yes, I have the "diamonds last forever" achievement. They ought to come up with an achievement for harvesting an albino of every species on a reserve. Now THAT would be a hard thing to do.
Congrats on getting that Kudu, they are hard to find.

[Hanuman]

Originally posted by Mr. Ed:

Someone way smarter than I am has probably figured out how the % of players achieve the various Steam awards is computed. For example when I competed the mission to harvest a diamond of every species on PF it said less than 1% of players have the achievement. I find that a bit hard to believe but there it is. Yes, I have the "diamonds last forever" achievement. They ought to come up with an achievement for harvesting an albino of every species on a reserve. Now THAT would be a hard thing to do.
Congrats on getting that Kudu, they are hard to find.

I was told the percentage they use is based on total player base, so I guess if people don't play missions on certain reserves a lot the percentage seems super low. I have a couple of the "kill 50 of a certain type animal" and its below 1% which seems crazy (and incorrect).
I ruined a diamond kudu couple days ago. It really hurt but oh well...there is always other diamonds...

[JPSGT40]

RE: Achievements
Also need to consider a lot of people play CotW in offline mode. Steam achievements will not register if you are offline.

[Viss Valdyr]

I would say the numbers are correct. When I check my friendlist, a lot own the game, but only played it for a short amount of time. These would never have the 50 animals and still count to the whole playerbase.

[JukePlz]

Achievements only track players that have at least earned one achievement, not the total playerbase, so people that bought the game but never installed it doesnt count.

From my own experience 5% seems normal, diamonds are quite rare, I have played 90+ hours and only have ONE diamond yet. The way the animal rarity works in the game is unknown but my personal theory is that it's based on how long you have played the reserve, either by number of need zones discovered or total animal spawns cleared or something like that... I say that because in Silver Ridge just after getting it was only non-ranked and bronze animals while I get golds regularly on the reserves I play the most, including my diamond cape buffalo.

As for "below 1%" for several diamonds, that's not crazy at all considered what I just said, you probably need hundreads of hours in the game AND it's a paid DLC achievement that was only implemented long after game launch, so it's no wonder there are players that don't even have the chance to unlock it. That's a common ocurrance in every steam game that has DLC achievement, and it's not rare to see low percentages even for easy achievements if the DLC is fairly new. Eg. Age of Empires II (2013) has about 33% achievement attainment for "defeat XXX civilization" if those civilizations are in the base game, but if the civilizations are from the 2016 DLC "Rise of the Rajas" then only 10% of players have it unlocked.

[Viss Valdyr]

Originally posted by JukePlz:

Achievements only track players that have at least earned one achievement, not the total playerbase, so people that bought the game but never installed it doesnt count.

That can't be true, because there are gameswhere the start of the game or finish lvl one gives you an achievement and still it isn't 100%. Can you proof your claim?

[JukePlz]

It's just speculation, it's also posible that it only tracks if you've ever started the game instead of unlocked an achievement, only Valve knows exactly how the algorithm works, but there are explanations for games that have a single achievement with no 100% like deleted/disabled achievements by the developer, people unlocking/relocking them with third party apps (there is no steamworks security for achievements and API calls can just do whatever they want for most games that don't have server sided achievements, or so I've been told)

I guess playing the game once makes more sense than unlocking an achievement before it counts (assuming the algorithm is the same for games with a single achievement than for games with multiple achievements) or we would likely see much more single achievement games with 100% attainment rate, regardless of how dificult they actually are.

[McSqurl Nugget]

that's only the Steam "playerbase" also, doesn't count in however many console players are out there and they're also separated, Sony won't report on the trophys that the Xbox players have.