Animal spawns nerfed?

[TH3PUR1ST]

The lack of animals is not a purposeful nerfing by Rockstar. It appears to be a patch attempt for the duplication glitch of high value carcasses. Even when I am in a lobby where animals are spawning properly the cougars and panthers still do not spawn regularly in their spots. If it were simply a P2P issue, then this glitch would have been occurring since day 1. As far as fixes, simply keep lobby hopping until you find yourself in a lobby where the animals are spawning properly. Also, starting missions, bounty, stranger, resupply, etc. will some times place you in a solo lobby, at which time all the animals, including cougars and panthers, will spawn as they did on day 1 of online. I have noticed, though, that since the Moonshine dlc such missions have placed me in a solo session far less often so even using that trick has worked far less. For about a few weeks now even gators are hard to find in the bayou, and they are overly abundant, when sessions are operating properly. Gators are how I keep my big game meat plentiful so their absence is of great annoyance. But yeah, it appears that we can thank the carcasses duplication glitchers for the recent absence of animals, when they were once wonderfully abundant. Lazy cheaters ruin everything. Just ban their accounts RS, don't punish every single player, especially those of us who play the game the right way, and truly love RDR2. 

Edited December 18, 2019 by TH3PUR1ST
misspelling

[MilkMeeat]

Whens the last time anyones had a random encounter? I haven't found one for a while now, maybe its just me

[TH3PUR1ST]

Haha, realized after my first post how old this posting is. I honestly did not begin experiencing animal shortages until about a month ago. Like I said, even when the animals are spawning, the cougars and panthers still do not, so I assumed it was all due to a carcass duplication glitch patch attempt. April was when I began playing online, and up until recently I never had any issues with animal spawning. Your post was in December, online released a month before, animal spawn glitching at that time may have been nothing more than growing pains of a new online game. But by April, when I began, animal shortages were never a problem until recently. But as I said, lobby hop, and hope for solo sessions from freeroam missions, which have become much more rare since the Shiner dlc. 

[AmyStone]

38 minutes ago, MilkMeeat said:

Whens the last time anyones had a random encounter? I haven't found one for a while now, maybe its just me

I see them all the time while roaming the map collecting things. Far too often and I usually throw a stick of dynamite at them.

[Ghoffman9]

8 hours ago, TH3PUR1ST said:

The lack of animals is not a purposeful nerfing by Rockstar. It appears to be a patch attempt for the duplication glitch of high value carcasses. Even when I am in a lobby where animals are spawning properly the cougars and panthers still do not spawn regularly in their spots. If it were simply a P2P issue, then this glitch would have been occurring since day 1. As far as fixes, simply keep lobby hopping until you find yourself in a lobby where the animals are spawning properly. Also, starting missions, bounty, stranger, resupply, etc. will some times place you in a solo lobby, at which time all the animals, including cougars and panthers, will spawn as they did on day 1 of online. I have noticed, though, that since the Moonshine dlc such missions have placed me in a solo session far less often so even using that trick has worked far less. For about a few weeks now even gators are hard to find in the bayou, and they are overly abundant, when sessions are operating properly. Gators are how I keep my big game meat plentiful so their absence is of great annoyance. But yeah, it appears that we can thank the carcasses duplication glitchers for the recent absence of animals, when they were once wonderfully abundant. Lazy cheaters ruin everything. Just ban their accounts RS, don't punish every single player, especially those of us who play the game the right way, and truly love RDR2. 

Could have swore they dealt with that months ago.

I personally caught two players in the act doing it months ago but have not seen it since.

https://xbox-clips.com/GHOFFMAN9/d1adc8aa-0a31-4407-90f2-7e9b54b0347c/2533274823822935/315c1292-5596-4388-b0f1-e7b9d8561313/

 

Maybe its something new to PC?

[TCA]

I barely even find anything to hunt. No matter how many times I change sessions, it the same thing. I might come across 2-3 after that? Nada. I would spend the majority of my time hunting as it keeps things interesting.  Now I just find myself getting more and more bored with the game.

[MilkMeeat]

13 hours ago, AmyStone said:

I see them all the time while roaming the map collecting things. Far too often and I usually throw a stick of dynamite at them.

Possibly the easiest way to deal with them lol, maybe its because im inbetween missions too often for them to appear

[Cratoz]

Animals will mostly spawn normally when in low populated sessions up to 17 players, anything above that chances are high the spawns are bugged. In a solo session you're guaranteed to have normal spawns (also no camp glitch).

 

Rockstar should finally fix this for good, they already attempted it few months ago, did work for a month or two and then spawns were f*cked up again. Come on R*, animals are essential for a lot players!

 

[Cigars and chill]

So the only way to get animal spawns is to glitch a solo lobby and then lose your camp negating the purpose.

 

Fix this nonsense

[DrKrankenstein]

rockstar needs to ditch the 32 player count and lower it. simple as that. if that's all it takes to get a stable connection, no 02001006 error and animal spawns.

 

in server below 20 in never get the error,but when it fills up: bam gone wildlife, gone random encounter , hello 0x2001006.

 

failing that, give us invite only. most of us don't want to play with people like: xxxgetrektsonXX, we just wanna play with friends.

[Stupidis]

Does anyone know if R* has acknowledged this problem? So we know if they're actually working to solve it.

[Assblaster]

Got into a solo session last night for 4 hours...omg I never knew so much wildlife was possible and I've played since day one. Deer were so abundant I had to constantly steer outta their way. Reduce the player count per session, problem solved.

[TCA]

20 minutes ago, Assblaster said:

Got into a solo session last night for 4 hours...omg I never knew so much wildlife was possible and I've played since day one. Deer were so abundant I had to constantly steer outta their way. Reduce the player count per session, problem solved.

You should see San Denis it’s crazy full of life.

[Surebrec]

39 minutes ago, Assblaster said:

Got into a solo session last night for 4 hours...omg I never knew so much wildlife was possible and I've played since day one. Deer were so abundant I had to constantly steer outta their way. Reduce the player count per session, problem solved.

I;m glitched into a solo(ish) map right now, I was in a posse and got booted, they are still in as well, and the difference in wildlife is immediately noticeable. there's animals to hunt wherever I look.

and no sooner I post this, I'm yanked out and back into a public map

Edited December 19, 2019 by Surebrec

[stahlbeton]

Wow, since the moonshiners update I had a lot of animal spawn, even 2 times bisons, which never spawn for me! Even in crowded sessions no problems I thought they had fixed it.

[Cigars and chill]

Is there a good solo lobby glitch and are we positive you lose your camp.

[hotrats773]

On 12/18/2019 at 6:18 AM, TH3PUR1ST said:

The lack of animals is not a purposeful nerfing by Rockstar. It appears to be a patch attempt for the duplication glitch of high value carcasses. 

Serious question. I'm curious how you came to that conclusion.

[DarksunDaFirst]

10 hours ago, DrKrankenstein said:

rockstar needs to ditch the 32 player count and lower it. simple as that. if that's all it takes to get a stable connection, no 02001006 error and animal spawns.

 

in server below 20 in never get the error,but when it fills up: bam gone wildlife, gone random encounter , hello 0x2001006.

 

failing that, give us invite only. most of us don't want to play with people like: xxxgetrektsonXX, we just wanna play with friends.

I don’t think the lobbies are 32 max - I believe it’s 24.

7 hours ago, stahlbeton said:

Wow, since the moonshiners update I had a lot of animal spawn, even 2 times bisons, which never spawn for me! Even in crowded sessions no problems I thought they had fixed it.

It was good for me for about 2-3 days.  Now it’s back to “normal”.

[Dest45]

7 hours ago, DarksunDaFirst said:

I don’t think the lobbies are 32 max - I believe it’s 24.

It was good for me for about 2-3 days.  Now it’s back to “normal”.

I was just in a 29 player session and animal spawns were pretty decent. Only time it has been this week also. Not as abundant as solo lobby and I have only had one random encounter this week

[Krommer]

Weird, yeah the highest I've seen is 24 players.

 

For the last couple of days, though, I've been at 19 max and then it dwindles over time to me and one or two people. I was wondering if they changed something.

 

Manged to get Moonshiner to 20, over the last two "good nights." Animals all over, also.

[DarksunDaFirst]

7 hours ago, Dest45 said:

I was just in a 29 player session and animal spawns were pretty decent. Only time it has been this week also. Not as abundant as solo lobby and I have only had one random encounter this week

I guess it is higher than 24.  I just don’t think I’ve ever seen more than 24 when I checked (usually check right before I go hunting or while I’m hunting when I can no longer find animals).

 

Yeh, last night I had no problems hunting in a 20+ lobby, which was the first time since this past weekend.  As for the random encounters...which one?  I see treasure hunters and dogs all the time.  Those are random encounters, right?

[Ghoffman9]

If Rockstar would get the burr out of their ass and let us summon our hunting wagons during missions, it would at least make a sub-par work around till they fix the issue. They are too greedy however and won't let you do so. The only reason people even try is because its the only way they can do any sort of hunting. Its Rockstar's MO to prioritize bugs that hurt their bottom line whilst taking their sweet time fixing issues that hurt the player experience. If they even fix them at all.