theHunter: Call of the Wild™: How to stalk in Layton Lakes Map, Stalking not Glassing

First and number one rule and biggest rule: Dont wear backpacks…
You are to be light as a feather, cause everything within a 300 meter radius will hear you coming, just take it off.

It effects the sound meter at the bottom right of the screen near the eye, It may also effect sight due too how larger you appear to be with the back pack on so make sure its off.

Each animal can spot you due to eyesight sound and smell. They all have hidden parameters on how far they can see hear and smell you as well hunting a moose is going to be way easier stalking than say stalking a coyote. Coyotes have better sense of smell and are more skittish more liable to bolt even if they only heard without smell or sight of you at times. Moose tend be blind as a bat but can hear you decently. They make up for that by being tough for newcomers to kill till you get the right bullets.

Red Sound Indication/ Loud:When it comes to sound it will reach up to three bars, after that it will go up to red if your way too loud. From rustling bushes and trees too craggy rocks. They can hear you out to 200+ meters if just the first red bar shows on the sound meter. You will get warning calls then they will flee right away. If it shows red. Your mainly running or going through some thick bush or stomping on stones.

Full sound indication/ Three White Bars: 150 Meters Walking is usually where you still get a lot of warning calls from animals around you but they still could flee so its usually best to start crouch walking at least around 170 meters of your targeted need zone to not spook what your hunting.

Half sound indication/ Two White lines: The two white line means as long as they don’t see you should be able to get around 80 to 50 meters with out spooking them, if you have been as patient as you can be. Fast crawling also can also get you with in range but its better cause you limit how much your being seen. if your still crouched up while fast crouch walk you may still get seen by the animal so stay near trees and bushes to help reduce your signature to the animals around you.

Slow Stalk/ One White line: This will get you as close as you want to get to pretty much any animal in the game. Its takes the most patience out of you cause at the start of the game you wont have the tag ability yet to see your animal and you wont have the perks yet. its good to completely stop and come to a crouch to look at the animal from time to time. Still remember to move among the tree line to make sure they cant see you. Some people get frustrated with long stalking game but I promise you its really rewarding. I once stalked passed three coyotes to get to a bear I was hunting the temptation was insane cause coyotes are rare but in the end I got my bear. Plus you can always use the same tactic for coyotes and foxes which are the most elusive animals in game.

BIGGEST TIP EVER: NEVER STALK GAME UPHILL! For newcomers only stalk game parallel to the mountain or hill or down hill due to the dense foliage. Those trees are insanely dense on Layton lakes. Its wise to not stalk uphill in Layton due to how the sight lines are some times non existent, just let the animal go and don’t waste your time. I speak from a lot of bad experiences while doing that. Plus I’ve caught more animals within my sight traveling and tracking downhill simply due to the fact the distance you can see them is far better. Just wait till you get the perk that makes your tag last longer when you spot them. It will make stalking uphill more worth it later on.

Also be careful where you step some shrubs and bushs and rocky surfaces will make more noise go around the rocks and slow stalk through the bushes and trees.

Now that we got sound out of the way lets talk about Sight and Smell. Then I will Talk about the four or fives perks that will turn you into a wilderness ninja.

Sight will be based on the small circle that’s on the left of the sound indicator. I’m going make this quick cause this one isn’t really hard to understand.

Full circle: You are seen by everything around you out to 200 meters

Oval/Almond shape: Can be see till up to 100 to 150. Depends on the animals sight and senses. Moose cant see you very well so you can still get somewhat close. Coyotes and foxes can see you still pretty easily still. Bears and Deers…it depends on there level.

Half circle/Sunset:Animals have a hard time seeing you but again depending on there level they can spot you, but surprisingly you can get really close around 40 to 70 meters or closer if your well hidden.

Horizontal line: You are hidden. Animals can get to 5 to 10 meters till they spot you

Transparent horizon line/No line: Animals can brush pass you and not notice you at all.

Wind will also have an effect on how well the animals can spot you. Its simple the wind changes at about every three or two hours in game it seems. Just make sure the Green winds cone isn’t facing the need zone that has the animals your trying to hunt. Make sure its facing behind you or beside you.

BIG TIP NUMBER TWO:
POOPS! Animal poops are really good for indicating how far you are from the animal when your stalking it.

Hears how you can tell:

Very Old: 200 meters to 300+ meters away

Old: 100 meters to 150 meters away

Fresh: 60 meters to 100 meters away

Very fresh: 40 meters to 60 meters away

Lastly the last thing I will talk to you about is the weather. Mainly the two forms of weather status that will aid you in stalking about and those two are foggy weather and rain. When these two weather effects being your going to wish it happens more often cause it dulls animals senses so that sight and sound are halved for them. Its great! Put perks in that at the same time they will never see you there pretty much I’m going to talk about that in the next section.

That’s it for the poops. Now onto the Last Section in order to train you into wilderness ninja you were always meant to be.

This wont be long either. The main skills you want are:

• Im only happy when it rains.
• Soft feet
• weather prediction
• Disturbed Vegetation
• Innate Triangulation

Only Go after these skills after you gotten all the tracking skills such as Locate tracks and track knowledge. Connect the dots is optional. once you maxed out the other too track skills. The tag perk is one you want to get to make sure you can see where your game is headed too or deal with the problem of uphill stalking. When it comes to rifle perks make sure you get the zeroing perk. it helps with taking the shot at the game your stalking. Remember one shot one kill, wasted ammunition is more money out your pocket and the longer it will take to track your animal. Remember to Push the R button when using binoculars to tell the range of said animal early on cause you don’t have a range finder at the start. The Default range for all rifles is 75 meters. Happy huntingIf you gotten this far thank you for reading my guide and may your easy and shots true. God bless. Stalking is quite difficult cause the game doesn’t do quite a good job at telling you how to do it properly. Through my experience hopefully you learned some thing and become a better stalker overall.