[Challenge] Great Bear Island Bear Extermination (Interloper+)

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pickle

27 Oct, 2023 @ 7:01am

[Challenge] Great Bear Island Bear Extermination (Interloper+)

NOTE: This is a custom Interloper+ challenge.

Settings:

Custom code: 8sHM-/z8P-Dz+j-wXam-XQIC
NOGOA (No one gets out alive) with fish, deer, rabbit and ptarmigan spawns OFF.

Objective:

In 30 in-game days, kill all bears* of Great Bear with the bow.
*Must go toe-to-toe with the aggroed bear (non-aggroed will run away when hit, which is not allowed). Cannot use fire, flare or anywhere inaccessible by the bear (e.g., buildings, cars, fishing huts, hunting blinds, etc.) to avoid the mauling. Bear dancing is allowed but must be done on an open ground (no hugging trees).

Rules:

Random starting spawn, no feats.
Cannot use emergency stims. Your health at spawn is all you have for the challenge.
Cannot eat Frontier Comforts foods that give additional effects (warming up buff is fine). The allowed ones are carrot, potato, broth, porridge, bannock (regular/acorn), pancake (regular/acorn).
Cannot enter Prepper's bunkers except the abandoned one in PV.

Number of active bear spawns per region:
FA: 2
BR: 1
FM: 2
MT: 1
HRV: 2
BI: 1
ML: 2
CH: 3
DP: 1
PV: 4
TWM: 3
AC: 1
Blackrock: 2 (prison bear excluded)
Total: 25

Last edited by pickle; 27 Oct, 2023 @ 7:03am

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pickle

27 Oct, 2023 @ 7:10am

Killed all 25 bears in 26 days (rounded up, actual time: 25d20h) on a playtest run: https://streamable.com/cl8ukn

I don't plan to improve my time. The playtest run was just to see if the challenge is actually doable.

Sub-20d run may be possible with extremely good loot and weather RNG.

Last edited by pickle; 27 Oct, 2023 @ 7:13am

Scavenger

30 Nov, 2024 @ 11:48am

I almost can't believe anyone could succeed in this, but there you go

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Do you want me to add it to the player- created custom challenges sticky post?

pickle

30 Nov, 2024 @ 11:01pm

Originally posted by Scavenger:
I almost can't believe anyone could succeed in this, but there you go .
Do you want me to add it to the player- created custom challenges sticky post?

I suppose there is no need, thanks for asking though.

This challenge was not particularly hard IMO if you know how to do bear dance. I also did (and recorded) a similar challenge - Big Game challenge by PerfectTrip - which requires getting 50 combined bear and moose kills in 50 days of NOGOA. Somehow, that felt harder due to how early you have to kill the 1st batch of bears in order to let them respawn in time.

https://youtu.be/ucqLDFl7wxE

I did not manage to beat that (only 47 kills in 50 days) as PV bear spawns were bugged at that time. Only 1 bear in PV spawned instead of usual 4 in that run so I had a disadvantage of 6 fewer PV bear kills in 50 days as compared to when PerfectTrip did the challenge.

Last edited by pickle; 30 Nov, 2024 @ 11:02pm

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