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I remember when I couldn't find any diamonds when I first started playing the game it's keep on shooting animals and look everywhere it is impossible for there not to be a diamond on your map there is most likely multiple diamonds on your Maps you just have to find them look in the places that you don't usually look
This is perfect, I have several friends getting into the game and I'm getting questions about diamonds and respawns, I'll be sure to recommend this guide in particular, it's been forever since I actually left a comment or chatted in a stream keep up the good work.
Diamond water buffalo is probably the one I want the most (aside from Cape Buffalo). I just bought Parque, and the first buffalo I saw was a lvl 8. I didn't get to see if it was daimond though, I got a bad shot off and it died in a spot I couldn't get to.
Billbert Buzzums I didn’t even know 8’s could make diamond but my tip to find one is to set it to there drink time and walk along the side of the map with all the water u find so manny buffs
I've been playing this game for three weeks now and I shot my first diamond this afternoon! I was just driving around on Vurhonga Savanna at night. I spooked a herd of Wildebeast and Cape Buffalo's. Managed to shoot one Wildebeast and two Buffalo's. Got killed by a third Buffalo lol. When I returned to harvest, the Wildebeast was a diamond :). Guess you gotta be lucky two.
i've been playing for 40 hours and have yet to SEE a diamond, much less bag one. i've gotten numerous golds but so far, no diamonds. eh. someday. thanks for your tips, flinter. i'll continue to follow your advice here and see if i can finally nab one.
Can confirm weight and trophy rating in the diamond bubble are not enough...at least all the time. I'm guessing the level of the animal must be a factor. After harvesting a blacktail and a black bear, both within the bubble via tracks and spotting. They each weighed and scored in numbers far lower than I would have ever taken the shot for...aside from removing them for Diamond respawn. So not a total loss. Both were gold and both were medium.
I find a good way to unboring cotw sometimes is to hunt with weapons I don’t usually hunt with, like only shotguns, muskets, or bows, it’s a nice challenge.
just as you said at 17:07 yesterday I got a diamond blackbuck went to another lake found a diamond puma and a diamond water buffalo today I didnt even see a diamons
I've heard other youtubers mention some species multiplier (kill 5 of the same species in a row) that is needed to get diamonds. However, those videos are like, 2017 and 2018. Since you didn't mention it, I assume it isn't needed anymore... Or is it?
this is not about diamonds but when you have a need zone is it just me or is the actual spot where they drink eat or rest different from where it shows on the map like it might be across the lake or right next to it is this just me plz respond
They can feed/drink in a big circle from there. It could be 50 maybe even 75 meters from the actually poi on the map. It's normal. No animal in real life would drink at the exact spot Everytime. But they will be close by it. Also zones move or disappear sometimes. IDK why but it happens pretty often to me. If you shoot 4 animals at the same zone before you clear hunting pressure it will delete the zones but it only moves a couple 100 meters off
I play on Xbox and I'm having trouble with walking forward when I press down on the stick to hold my breath do you have any recommendations on how to mitigate that?
to be honest, for most players who don't spend too much time on this game, finding diamonds is just like gambling, purely probability dependent which we call "luck"
I am going to start one. I may actually save a decent amount of it for when I go to Wyoming, as those are easy to make and good for prep, that would be in about a month
Got my first diamond which was a max weight white tail deer a little before this video came out and didn't even know it was max weight I was just excited to get my first diamond
I bet we could just blindfold you, let you shoot in a random direction and it would be a diamond. xD Jokes asides, my main problem with Diamonds is actually getting an animal on the map that is "fat enough". 220+ hours into the game (although the first 50 don't count since I had no idea what I was doing back then) and I have 1 diamond (plus some from quests). Missed 2 chances for one since it moved in the very last moment, so my shot went into the wrong place. It's just getting frustrating since it feels like I could annihilate the whole map population four times over without an potential diamond animal getting spawned :(
I actually have a question about your movement. Whenever I run through the map I spook literally everything in line of sight. Is there a reason you're able to run around and not scare everything like a perk or a skill? I'm pretty new (level 16 maybe 15-20hrs in) so any advice helps.
Yes there is a skill that will reduce the noise you make. However you should still avoid running unless you just fired a gun or need to get to a needzone quickly.
No kidding about the persistence part. I was obsessing _hard_ about that last mission in Parque Fernando, the worst mission in the entire game. I would not even open that map in multiplayer, because I was afraid one of my friends would ruin one of those coveted diamonds I still needed for that horrible mission while messing around. And one of the last holdouts was that damned puma. By that point I had already commited a massive _genocide_ among the puma population with many, many golden ones, but no diamond. I'd kill mythical pumas simply out of spite for them not being legendary. And then came one awesome night during which I got no less than _six_ diamond pumas, one of them even being an albino. Persistence pays, folks.
@@billbertbuzzums8166 Ouch! That hurts. For me the Ogrish one only made gold. I did not even do anything wrong. His trophy rating was just for some reason about 3 points lower than those of his peers. At least you have infinite tries in Parque Fernando. The puma hunt was such a big deal for me not the least because I had messed up a diamond puma early on in that mission. It was night, both ingame and in RL, and tired old me only realised during the harvest that I had used the wrong gun. That was soul-crushing.
hahha Parque Fernando. Im currently grinding red deer diamond in parque because i love the animal. killed 50 red deers in 5 days and got a steam achievement in the process LOL! Still no diamond though..
@@AngelGonzalez-wn8ws I mean the one where you have to hunt a diamond of every species for the tourist hut. I got lucky quickly with red deer, but some of the other ones were a royal pain, and I could swear the pumas were openly mocking me seeing how often they would be mythical but not legendary.
You dont know what you are looking at when you see it. That is most likely the reason why you dont have more cause you are not paying attention, or you shoot wrong or with wrong gun or with wrong ammo or just shoot too few animals. Know your guns and know how males usually stand at a zone. Look at females where they are standing, if a bunch for no reason are standing in formation, most likely they are hiding a male.
I’m just gonna say check your wind and make sure your sound has no red bars, and keep vis below oval, that’s all the advice I can give, and I am pretty ok at sneaking up on zones in the game.
Pro tip have sound at 2 bars max 99& percent of the time they do not hear me also most animals won’t hear shots from 200 yards out as well I believe you can run but once animals are in a 200 yard distance they will hear you.
Hey flinter. You probably won't see this but you are awesome. You made me want and get this game. You are extremely good at shoosting those animals. You're a big inspiration to me.
Hey flinter, I am proud to say that I just got my first ever diamond, a 14 point black tail. Killed him instantly on a lung shot. I just wanted to say that you are so right about them just sitting there waiting for you to find them and that they come out of nowhere. I was just massacring other black tail at balmont lake when I spotted him drinking in a fairly large herd with ANOTHER diamond that I sadly didn’t get. But seriously though thank you for the helpful guid I can not tell you how exited I am right now.
Do you concern yourself with a lighter load-out and being able to sneak a little easier or is the difference negligible? On that same note, how do you avoid spooking animals when running toward their zones? How do you know when to stop running?
Someone (flinter, scarecrow, lady or dd33, don't remember who) said that when they're approaching an animal or zone that they run to 150, walk to 100, crouch to like 80 and crawl after that. I can't say for sure that this is true but I'm pretty sure this is what one of the youtubers have said at one point. (Also this is in meters)
Hopefully, this works for me, I have played 225 hours of COTW so far and have only been able to kill 'mission' diamonds as opposed to 'naturally occurring' diamonds. :/ Edit: after posting this comment, a couple of hours later I managed to score a diamond red deer in parque fernando, thank you Flinter!!
"Some days i find several diamonds, some days i dont find anything." Well and then there is a majority of people which after hundreds of hours have none diamonds :D
My hubby has played this game for over 500h and no diamonds yet. I always try to give him advice which he finds super annoying so he made me download the game. My experience went like this 2 min into the game: “what button do I push to shoot the gun?” 10 min into game: “I got the diamond!” Now I’m stuck sleeping on the couch…. 🙁
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Just wondering you said they all have different score requirements but dont wolves and puma have the same
Glad to see you got the sponsor for this video
1st sponsor? anyways just bought 1 thanks
Congrats on the sponsorship!
That's awesome to see you get such a great sponsor! Ridge wallet is one of the better ones from what i have heard!
Now I know why I can’t find any diamonds, there all on flinters reserve
Lol
I remember when I couldn't find any diamonds when I first started playing the game it's keep on shooting animals and look everywhere it is impossible for there not to be a diamond on your map there is most likely multiple diamonds on your Maps you just have to find them look in the places that you don't usually look
Lmao
Damn true
@trav3510 trav3510 that was over a year ago
"How to get MORE diamonds" me: hold up go back a step mayne try "How to find and actually get a diamond"
SAAAAAAMMMMMEEEEEE!!!!!!!
I’d probably be an expert at getting diamonds if I could actually FIND them.
Finally got one on multiplayer that's honestly the easiest way
Once u get one u find them everywhere
More than 0 is 1 ;)
SOOOOO FREAKINGG TRUEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!
This is perfect, I have several friends getting into the game and I'm getting questions about diamonds and respawns, I'll be sure to recommend this guide in particular, it's been forever since I actually left a comment or chatted in a stream keep up the good work.
Man that sponsor caught me off guard. Happy Flinter got one though :)
This is probably the best in-depth guide for diamonds
So happy he’s getting sponsored he deserves it
Our boy Flinter getting sponsors now. Congrats bro, and keep up the amazing content. I never miss an upload.
The 30-06 is one of the safest early game rounds to use. It's very versatile and covers a wide variety of animals.
I’ve been tryna get a diamond on every map in a row I’ve done savanna, Layton, srp, and today was parque and I got a diamond water buff
Lucky I got a troll level 5 pronghorn while watching the video
Fishing The Lowcountry I got two troll lvl 5’s then got a max weight springbok
Nice!
Diamond water buffalo is probably the one I want the most (aside from Cape Buffalo). I just bought Parque, and the first buffalo I saw was a lvl 8. I didn't get to see if it was daimond though, I got a bad shot off and it died in a spot I couldn't get to.
Billbert Buzzums I didn’t even know 8’s could make diamond but my tip to find one is to set it to there drink time and walk along the side of the map with all the water u find so manny buffs
I've been playing this game for three weeks now and I shot my first diamond this afternoon! I was just driving around on Vurhonga Savanna at night. I spooked a herd of Wildebeast and Cape Buffalo's. Managed to shoot one Wildebeast and two Buffalo's. Got killed by a third Buffalo lol. When I returned to harvest, the Wildebeast was a diamond :). Guess you gotta be lucky two.
Best tutorial on youtube haven't even seen the video......that just shows how awesome you are
12:12 thats exactly how I've gotten like half of my diamonds, I love hunting level 1 to 15 severs that are unexplored
I’m a 10 that only hunts on one map
I could find diamonds before, but now I can find diamond wallets
imma get a diamond wallet with the recurve before u
I'll get one from 400m before u
An update is needed. Didn't either of you bag one? Can I get a decent strat on this?
@@brandonjohnston7933 me won
Happy to see you are being sponsored Flinter. But being a cowboy, I dont make much money, so I think I'll stick with the good old cowhide.
Wow I’m really glad you’re getting sponsorships.
Me too
Same
I got my first black tail diamond on Layton lake. Was in a tree stand at 530 am while using my doe call. I honestly couldn’t believe it at first.
I have never seen a diamond d before and I have just about all but 3 maps, and have been playing since the beginning of the pandemic
Were can I find a description of what score is diamond for all animals mates ?
i've been playing for 40 hours and have yet to SEE a diamond, much less bag one. i've gotten numerous golds but so far, no diamonds. eh. someday.
thanks for your tips, flinter. i'll continue to follow your advice here and see if i can finally nab one.
i was LITERALLY just about to search this on yt and its the first video on my recommendation 🤠
I got today a melanistic diamond plains bison and a albino female gray wolf
Nice got a diamond plains yesterday with a bow but ur melanistic triumphs that!
HOLY flinter got a sponsor!!
Can confirm weight and trophy rating in the diamond bubble are not enough...at least all the time. I'm guessing the level of the animal must be a factor. After harvesting a blacktail and a black bear, both within the bubble via tracks and spotting. They each weighed and scored in numbers far lower than I would have ever taken the shot for...aside from removing them for Diamond respawn. So not a total loss. Both were gold and both were medium.
I find a good way to unboring cotw sometimes is to hunt with weapons I don’t usually hunt with, like only shotguns, muskets, or bows, it’s a nice challenge.
Why was I so excited to see you have a sponsor
I have like no whitetails on my map, help??
Flinter got a sponsor!
Shot a diamond Antelope with the tips and techniques from this video
thanks for that video it really helped me a lot your one of a kind happy hunting.
Can you do an updated version. Like what all has changed since you made this video. Thank you
Here we go this will help find my first diamond
A sponsor? Epic.
I found one randomly and the other 2 was through the tracks but the amount I had spooked I guess I’ll never know
Question: is the 2019 version easier at getting a Diamond? I have the 2017 version and my son the 2019. Seems his plays and flows much better.
just as you said at 17:07 yesterday I got a diamond blackbuck went to another lake found a diamond puma and a diamond water buffalo today I didnt even see a diamons
I killed between 800-900 hare on quatro colinas and i still never see a LV3
6:30 you may have missed a moose to the far left
Your tips really worked I just got 2 diamonds today
hey flinter i had a question, whats your favorite dlc map?
Ik im not flinter but I reccomend silver ridge or vurhonga, or wait for the new map
Thanks alot this video helped alot. Also what gun is that?
I know it’s been a while since this vid but do you have to keep shooting black tail deer for a Simone black tail
I found my first diamond moose today just after a few days of playing the game. I was so shocked that I accidentally found one
Regarding the respawns, will males always be replaced by males or is that also random?
Hey man I love your videos I'm a big hunter as well
I've heard other youtubers mention some species multiplier (kill 5 of the same species in a row) that is needed to get diamonds. However, those videos are like, 2017 and 2018. Since you didn't mention it, I assume it isn't needed anymore... Or is it?
I really needed man. Though I have five diamonds this will help me alot more. I screwed up a didn't save my diamond cape buffalo.😭😭
yeessss i've been wanting an updated diamond guide c:
I swear ever time I focus on an animal I want to get diamond it’s like the game KNOWS and trolls me extremely.
this is not about diamonds but when you have a need zone is it just me or is the actual spot where they drink eat or rest different from where it shows on the map like it might be across the lake or right next to it is this just me plz respond
They can feed/drink in a big circle from there. It could be 50 maybe even 75 meters from the actually poi on the map. It's normal. No animal in real life would drink at the exact spot Everytime. But they will be close by it. Also zones move or disappear sometimes. IDK why but it happens pretty often to me. If you shoot 4 animals at the same zone before you clear hunting pressure it will delete the zones but it only moves a couple 100 meters off
I play on Xbox and I'm having trouble with walking forward when I press down on the stick to hold my breath do you have any recommendations on how to mitigate that?
Why does it make an advertisement sound so good and enticing
I need to find ANY diamonds. Iv played 40 hours and haven't seen 1.
I have 300 hours and I had 0 diamonds 3 albinos and 4 piebald
@@pangamerek9036 I have like around 200 and have 1 albino 0 piebald and 0 melanistics
I have bout 100 hours 5 diamonds 1 moose 1 duck 1 lion 1 turkey 1 kudu
Best map for very good animals like diamonds?
Best explanation ever thank you so much!!
Have u got any pointers to diamonds grizzly on Yukon valley
"The spine and the spinal cord are not vital organs" - Yes, that seems legit, developers
was wondering what those diamonds on the lower left of the screen. I would losse
Its the game auto saving
to be honest, for most players who don't spend too much time on this game, finding diamonds is just like gambling, purely probability dependent which we call "luck"
When are u going to update the need zone spreadsheet for the two new maps that have been released
When I am goose hunting I always shoot level 2Because I want to get the response
Can you do another beginner series
I am going to start one. I may actually save a decent amount of it for when I go to Wyoming, as those are easy to make and good for prep, that would be in about a month
Just ignores the huge moose off to his left when he’s talking about drink zones
Flinter has a sponsor now. Nice
What gun is he using the single shot rifle
Bro i love the sponsorship
Why wouldn't I want to fast travel to zones if I was playing in singleplayer
I found my first Lion Like 2 months ago and it was a diamond
Got my first diamond which was a max weight white tail deer a little before this video came out and didn't even know it was max weight I was just excited to get my first diamond
Do u have info on the right guns to use in discord if so where do i find it. Thankyou.
I bet we could just blindfold you, let you shoot in a random direction and it would be a diamond. xD
Jokes asides, my main problem with Diamonds is actually getting an animal on the map that is "fat enough". 220+ hours into the game (although the first 50 don't count since I had no idea what I was doing back then) and I have 1 diamond (plus some from quests). Missed 2 chances for one since it moved in the very last moment, so my shot went into the wrong place. It's just getting frustrating since it feels like I could annihilate the whole map population four times over without an potential diamond animal getting spawned :(
try on MP, and go for the easy diamonds first birds Pronghorn Mountain Goat Wildebeast Gemsbok ect.
Yo I got an albino duck. It popped outta nowhere and I had just gotten on it was male
So how do I know which score I need per animal? This diamond thing got me confused lol
What gun are you using with the single bullet?
7 mm it’s op
I got a melanistic diamond kudu is that rare
I actually have a question about your movement. Whenever I run through the map I spook literally everything in line of sight. Is there a reason you're able to run around and not scare everything like a perk or a skill? I'm pretty new (level 16 maybe 15-20hrs in) so any advice helps.
Yes there is a skill that will reduce the noise you make. However you should still avoid running unless you just fired a gun or need to get to a needzone quickly.
Do you play on PC or console
As soon as I clicked on this video I found a 9 legendary black bear at his rest zone
Wait how do u reload fast
Damm I see you getting so many diamonds I'm sad. i screwed up today on a level 5 AXIS DEER I'm so sad. And I never really get any diamonds
Axis deer are broken rn keep going for them ive shot 3 diamonds in 30 min 1 with a bow
How do u find so many animals in hunter classic
I killed my first diamond it was a 292.3 moose
I got attacked my a black bear so I put two slugs in it with my shotgun turned out to be a diamond so not too bad
I've been playing HCOTW for a little over 2 years now and I only have 2 diamonds
Same
Actually number just went up too 4
How did you get the 300 magnum?
You need buy dlc Youkon Valley
I can’t get in your discord on pc
Where to find your discord for the guide to times, animals and best zones please
Go into the cotw chat and do !cotwsheet and it will show everything you need 😁
@@Flintergaming tysm, im doing my best
Only 2 minutes in and this is already the most detailed explanation of diamonds i have seen! Great job man!
scarecrow get a haircut! jk man ur an awesome creator man i just watched ur video earlier! keep the grind man!
Flinter is very underrated for the quality of his videos. He should probably have 500k subscribers not 176k
I mean call of the wild isn't a really big game tho so it's kinda hard to get attention on it.
You'd be surprised
He’ll get there
Gaming With Cheesecake tru
Call of the wild is a very big game what are you talking about
This guy got more diamonds than I got ammo
No kidding about the persistence part.
I was obsessing _hard_ about that last mission in Parque Fernando, the worst mission in the entire game. I would not even open that map in multiplayer, because I was afraid one of my friends would ruin one of those coveted diamonds I still needed for that horrible mission while messing around. And one of the last holdouts was that damned puma. By that point I had already commited a massive _genocide_ among the puma population with many, many golden ones, but no diamond. I'd kill mythical pumas simply out of spite for them not being legendary.
And then came one awesome night during which I got no less than _six_ diamond pumas, one of them even being an albino.
Persistence pays, folks.
I'm too afraid to do that mission. Especially since I ruined the Fantasma Wolf last night.
@@billbertbuzzums8166 Ouch! That hurts. For me the Ogrish one only made gold. I did not even do anything wrong. His trophy rating was just for some reason about 3 points lower than those of his peers.
At least you have infinite tries in Parque Fernando. The puma hunt was such a big deal for me not the least because I had messed up a diamond puma early on in that mission. It was night, both ingame and in RL, and tired old me only realised during the harvest that I had used the wrong gun.
That was soul-crushing.
hahha Parque Fernando. Im currently grinding red deer diamond in parque because i love the animal. killed 50 red deers in 5 days and got a steam achievement in the process LOL! Still no diamond though..
Which mission? The cave one?
@@AngelGonzalez-wn8ws I mean the one where you have to hunt a diamond of every species for the tourist hut.
I got lucky quickly with red deer, but some of the other ones were a royal pain, and I could swear the pumas were openly mocking me seeing how often they would be mythical but not legendary.
I like how I've been playing for three years and I only have 7 diamonds
You dont know what you are looking at when you see it. That is most likely the reason why you dont have more cause you are not paying attention, or you shoot wrong or with wrong gun or with wrong ammo or just shoot too few animals. Know your guns and know how males usually stand at a zone. Look at females where they are standing, if a bunch for no reason are standing in formation, most likely they are hiding a male.
Do you play siege on Xbox I’m 90% sure I remember playing with you
@@GrogBeefkins yea I do
@@banditodorito8617 I have seen you on siege too lmao
@@davidegallobamford6701 really, did I rage at all
How do you not scare every animal around you when you run to each kill spot? I crouch slow move and animals hear/see me 150 yards out
I’m just gonna say check your wind and make sure your sound has no red bars, and keep vis below oval, that’s all the advice I can give, and I am pretty ok at sneaking up on zones in the game.
Look wind if wind is from behind of you then normal, you must use difrent direction to sneak animal or some animal smell.
Pro tip have sound at 2 bars max 99& percent of the time they do not hear me also most animals won’t hear shots from 200 yards out as well I believe you can run but once animals are in a 200 yard distance they will hear you.
@@thanos6346 how do you not have red bars?
@@asai6201 just don’t move very fast
Hey flinter. You probably won't see this but you are awesome. You made me want and get this game. You are extremely good at shoosting those animals. You're a big inspiration to me.
Hey flinter, I am proud to say that I just got my first ever diamond, a 14 point black tail. Killed him instantly on a lung shot. I just wanted to say that you are so right about them just sitting there waiting for you to find them and that they come out of nowhere. I was just massacring other black tail at balmont lake when I spotted him drinking in a fairly large herd with ANOTHER diamond that I sadly didn’t get. But seriously though thank you for the helpful guid I can not tell you how exited I am right now.
Do you concern yourself with a lighter load-out and being able to sneak a little easier or is the difference negligible? On that same note, how do you avoid spooking animals when running toward their zones? How do you know when to stop running?
Someone (flinter, scarecrow, lady or dd33, don't remember who) said that when they're approaching an animal or zone that they run to 150, walk to 100, crouch to like 80 and crawl after that. I can't say for sure that this is true but I'm pretty sure this is what one of the youtubers have said at one point. (Also this is in meters)
Hopefully, this works for me, I have played 225 hours of COTW so far and have only been able to kill 'mission' diamonds as opposed to 'naturally occurring' diamonds. :/
Edit: after posting this comment, a couple of hours later I managed to score a diamond red deer in parque fernando, thank you Flinter!!
I choked a legendary Cape buffalo, no vital organ hit. It was the above the minimum diamond score
"Some days i find several diamonds, some days i dont find anything."
Well and then there is a majority of people which after hundreds of hours have none diamonds :D
Well, fair enough, it took me about 100 hours to get my first, and another almost 100 to get my second
My hubby has played this game for over 500h and no diamonds yet. I always try to give him advice which he finds super annoying so he made me download the game. My experience went like this
2 min into the game: “what button do I push to shoot the gun?”
10 min into game: “I got the diamond!”
Now I’m stuck sleeping on the couch…. 🙁
@@RebeccaS3980 lol
Idk but it was nice to see Flinter finally be able to have a sponser he talks about. It means he's growing boys!!!!!