Hot Shot: Reservoir Chickens

[Feyniphia]

Lucky, all the chickens spawns are farmed for me, so can't even get anything...

[Moose Of Woe]

For those having difficulty - particularly without a mouse and keyboard. It's possible on a controller even without the gunglitch, but it certainly is a lot more interesting.

A great tactic to use (aside from try not to miss) is to save the single chicken who always runs around if you think you're going to lose your multiplier. He respawns after a while, but don't shoot him as soon as you see him.

If it has been ten seconds or so and you haven't killed one of the chickens on the posts, THEN shoot the lone chicken to save your multiplier.

Hope this helps.

PS: Another great strategy, as previously mentioned, is to track in front of one of the ranchers.

[whoiscraig]

Yeah... I hate this challenge. It used to be fun in Alpha, then they changed it and made it really horrible. We all gave feedback about it, but looks like nothing has changed. The chickens appear for one second before being snatched up. Sure it may be *possible*, but its simply not fun at all.

[Psyqhical]

You need to conserve your ammo, don't shoot unless you're sure you'll hit it. Don't hit the ranchers either, they lower your points with -3 each time. The rest is up to your skill, really.

[Biowraith]

Trying to get gold on this trial was the first of two occasions I've actually ragequit this game Got it in the end though!

[larsenprodu]

chickens spawn - hehe, Im sorry that sounds funny to me.

[Katosu]

I have to agree with the advice to follow ahead of the bandits. Although you never need to choose just one - you can easily bounce ahead of each of them (I usually try to stay ahead of the two that will be running in the same direction. Less chances for snags that way.)

I will add, the group of chickens that spawn on the ground really seem like a false-bonus. I ignored them because most of the time, aiming at that small of a moving target caused me to miss.

Thank you for the advice given in this topic. It really helped me complete this successfully.

[Tr3nch]

No this challenge is bs. This is the only one I get stuck on and cant get past bronze.

[Nanostronghold]

This challenge is a joke for me too. My main issues are that i'm on Xbox. Looking at the PC video posted here i can see a big difference. The aiming reticule on console is bigger than on PC and is bigger than the chicken. What I find is that sometimes you can aim at a chicken whilst zooming in,the reticule will turn red an you'll fire and the bullet will still miss. That's a right pain.
With regard to the chickens spawning in front of a farmer I can see that but often that doesn't seem to happen consistently, with a couple spawning in front of one and then it switching to another. I also unluckily found that when following the two farmers that run round together the chickens kept spawning ahead of the second farmer, but they were then obscured by the farmer just ahead of him. It gives you a risky split second to fire your shot off between the two farmers.

I can see that this challenge is possible but a lot of it is the luck of the spawns, and with the controller sensitivity not being perfect it is too infuriating. When you have only a split second to line up an awkward shot its hard enough but then your shot misses despite being aimed correctly :S

I think the irritation factor of this challenge alone deserves a rethink and a re-balance. I would prefer totally random chicken spawns than this pattern of spawning two paces ahead of one of three farmers. It's just obnoxious and a bad design choice in terms of the nature of the difficulty.

[WickedSeraph]

You can basically miss 10 shots or so and still have plenty of bullets to get a gold, I honestly don't know what to say other than practice your aiming until you are able to do it.

Using the minimap to see when the chicken's spawn behind you can help on occasion but really, if you have any modicum of skill whatsoever this is an extremely easy challenge to complete...

Tone down the arrogance and condescension imo. If it was that easy there wouldnt be so many people having issues with it.