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Region 16 Questions and Advice
Maxfuzzybee
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So I finally figured out how to activate my account. I am a first time poster and avid DH 2014. Read many of your posts and appreciate the hints etc. I have the Spitfire and purchased the Plisskin Serpent. I have not yet begun to upgrade the Plisskin Serpent and now I see that we get awarded a R17 rifle if we complete all 5 holiday events. I have also not yet begun the trophy hunts in R16. Because the cost of rifle upgrades is sooo off the hook....7 levels at 5M plus per level puts a fully upgraded R16 rifle in the 35-40M range I was wondering if I should just hold off, win the R17 rifle and just start upgrading that...thoughts?
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First, it is usually not a good idea to get a non region gun. First, the upgrades are MUCH more expensive. Second, the gun specs may not fit the requirements.
R16 is expensive. I'm fully upgraded on the rifle and I have completed 4 of the 5 trophy hunts. I always leave the last one open until the next region. In this way, if I don't have time to do 10 contract hunts, I can always just shoot the last trophy in the head 5 times for about the same amount of money.
The contract hunts pay about $88K per and I am currently down about $10M from where I started. So I need to do about 130 contract hunts to pay back. That is not too bad.
So, my advice is to get the region gun and slog through the contract hunts and forego the R17 rifle.
My R15 shotgun worked fine for most of the contract hunts, so I held off buying it for a long time. I did not buy the AR. I use my R15 gold rifle instead with base level scope.
How many people got through this region using the standard cash rifle (Plisskin Bite) without using 'animal calls' or 'energy drinks'? Specifically, did any one get through the hunting series that has 4 standing animals that run away from you into the mountains? I know I'm a little rusty, but this region is noticeably more difficult for me. I'm used to 1 or 2 difficult hunts in a hunting series, but this definitely seems to have more. I'm used to being able to finish hunts without upgrades until they're 'required', but the 'recommended' upgrade is becoming better advice.
Good job on the difficulty GLU.
I stopped playing on my iPad and stick with the iPhone4's tiny screen for the challenge; I guess I should change my signature now. Anyway, because I used an energy drink, which I never used to do except for trying to break the 'kill the most doves challenge', I also got impatient and used a 'hollow point'.
So like I said GLU, game challenge and content will get me to pay money in some way.
If you had to pick a favorite Region 16 contract hunt and one weapon to use, what would it be?
Choices or write something in if I missed one:
3 or 4 Eurasian Lynxes
3 or 4 Mature Tien Shan Bears
3 or 4 Mature Snow Leopards
5 Mature Blacktail Gazelles
5 Mature Caspian Tigers
5 or 8 Elder Siberian Ibexes
6 Mature Siberian Stags
8 Elder Saiga Antelope
11 or 12 Golden Jackals
11 or 12 Pheasants
Personally I like the 5 Ibexes using the Plisskin Bite (manual bolt action rifle) because I like the challenge of having to use the scope more often and accurately. Of course when I want to get mad at the game, for the right reasons, I can always turn to the consistently difficult Gazelles.
I actually find it more interesting to use the highest level of scope on the running animals because your field of vision is more limited, which makes you really have to aim twice and predict the speed of the animal; once with the open scope locator and then again with the zoomed in scope. Much more similar to the challenge of real long range hunting in my opinion.