My Martensson 6.5mm RAYO Unlock Experience (spoiler warning)

[spoondigity]

So I just unlocked the Martensson 6.5mm RAYO in the Cuatro Colinas Don Miguel mission line. I was on the fence about investing time into this mission line since you can get two similar 6.5mm rifles already and people talked about how grueling the mission line is. But having the locked 6mm rifle in the store kept bothering me hehe.

In retrospect, it wasn't too bad when paired with the Gerhardt "Gary" Baden mission line to pick up the diamond when you need it. Thanks to everyone who had referenced this online along the way because it was a big help. Ironically, I happened to snag a diamond wolf right before I needed the diamond for the Don Miguel mission. But it came before I needed the diamond so it didn't apply and I still needed the Gerhardt "Gary" Baden mission.

Outside of tying these two mission chains together, having night vision equipment and tents felt like a must to grind through the quests. I think I used the tents the most during my Ibex hunts to hit just the right need zone at just the right time. It took me about 3 days of light grinding to do both quest chains together. I commonly used the Zarza 308 for flexibility with the Argus, Hyperion, and GenZero scopes. I used the Zarza-15 for the small game hunting.

I can imagine that this quest line was extremely hard before some of the dlc packs came along and prior to the good reference material on these quest lines. The achievement I got currently says .5% of players have it. Most likely just due to people not caring to get the third 6.5mm at this point. If anyone runs into questions or trouble getting through these quests I may be able to give more specific suggestions.

[DopaTrain]

Which achievement?

[spoondigity]

'Rebirth', which is the completion of that story arc for Don Miguel. Ironically, I felt like getting through the main story arc for the Hirschfelden dlc pack was a lot harder for me. The mission 'Fleischer - Don’t Ruin the Goods' took me trying on and off for months because I wasn't good at getting heart shots at the time. I would take breaks and work on other game content before going back to keep trying.

[DopaTrain]

Ah I completed all the missions on cuatro. There was a mission where you had to find a diamond hare. But they eventually changed it to gold thank god lol.

[jimmyporter101068]

took me forever to get the diamond rabbit

[SNEEDSON]

For the purposes of increasing Diamonds with simplified Herd Management:

1. Have the Highest distance between Highest Level Specimen and Lowest Level Specimen (high and low vs. middle)

2. Continuously ratchet this apart: Low Level animals are more valuable than nice Golds (for the purpose of forcing spawn rates higher.)

3. Apply the above Intra-Rating/Weight -- wait until you know you have a higher level before removing them. Hollow out the middle of silvers and bronzes too.

4. Studs Need Stacies Make the Females HUGE B-----s

5. Per #3, have multiple Golds on the map at all times: The Lowest possible Rating Gold is harder to spawn than Troll Pseudo-Diamonds-- protect him at all costs.

6. [Speculative] Maintain Consecutive Harvest Bonus & maintain ethical shot placement discipline.

[DarkFalz]

I just finished unlocking the 6.5mm Rayo last night. It wasn't that terrible since I already have the entire map unlocked and I already knew where to look for everything.

Getting a 400 meter shot was very simple since Cuatro has a lot of open space and I tend to take a lot of long range shots even during my regular hunts.

Taking a wolf from 30 meters with a bow was also simple. Just get a pack to go aggressive and shoot one with the bow when it's close enough. Afterwards, deal with the rest of pack however you like.

I got lucky with finding a diamond animal since I actually came across a level 5 Gredos Ibex while I was doing Don Miguels first mission. All I had to do was save him until the appropriate mission came up.

Really the hardest mission for me was getting 3 gold scoring hares at night. This one took a few days to complete and nearly drove me crazy since so many of the 4-5 estimate hares I killed fell short of gold. I don't think I'll be hunting European Hares again for a while.