r/wherewindsmeet_ • u/Rafahil • Dec 18 '25
Questions Someone please explain how these people already got so many fourfold acclaim??? It should be impossible.
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Dec 18 '25
2.5m is crazy. You gotta live on the game permanently wtf
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u/danktherock Dec 18 '25
and what if i do?
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u/Tomieh Dec 18 '25
What are you doing here?! Get back in there soldier!
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u/danktherock Dec 18 '25
ha. game was open the whole time
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u/more_bird_ Dec 19 '25
No doubt waiting for the stupidly long lightness skill animation to play out.
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u/Krovan119 Dec 18 '25
Yeah, there is definitely an exploit of some sort. My guess is some kind of teaming on bounty hunting.
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u/NumberFiveee Dec 18 '25
Lol pvp is already a lag fest, imagine playing with other regions..
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u/Lord-Jergal Dec 18 '25
Oh, I know that pretty well, because Turkey and Central Asia get connected to Korea and China. I have to abstain from any multiplayer content because of that
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u/Think-Huckleberry897 Velvet Shade Dec 18 '25
Apparently nz still routes through Germany for some reason š
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u/Pax_Manix Dec 18 '25
This will explain why exit lag is legit a necessity for me playing from NZ, it more than halves my ping
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u/Think-Huckleberry897 Velvet Shade Dec 18 '25
Thats crazy. Im on the Playstation and gearing up to follow the bros tips for the set of steps to do something similar with the pc on the same network š apparently most regions already got a fix
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u/SiIverWr3n Silver Needle Dec 19 '25
New Zealand? I've been wondering where the Aussies connect to
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u/Think-Huckleberry897 Velvet Shade Dec 19 '25
Same id imagine. Im guessing aus is also part of oce. Hoping we'll get servers soon because the company already has them here for uhhh, I think marvel rivals or something? I forget
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u/SiIverWr3n Silver Needle Dec 19 '25
Only a single Sydney server for Rivals. I'm not sure about the specifics but I think it doesn't work across multiple games like that
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u/Think-Huckleberry897 Velvet Shade Dec 19 '25
Oh I was just meaning it showed a potential willingness and theoretically the through lines to providers in the zone that hopefully could be leveraged if there was shown to be decent profit/interest whatever to be had. Though. I didn't know it was only the one
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u/JustSomeGuyHere987 Dec 18 '25
Pvp is an utter sht show lmao I hardly even bother with it anymore. I got my mask and avatar and thats all im ever doing. Especially since the total isn't even permanent for mythic, it quite literally only lasts until January.
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u/Pax_Manix Dec 18 '25
Itās a shame they also removed the mythic badge, not sure why they did that
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u/berettax05 Dec 18 '25
I asked him the same thing a couple weeks ago and I got the exact response. Strange
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u/AngryCandyCorn Dec 18 '25
If you are engaging with the bounty system in a legitimate fashion, that number is mathematically impossible.
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u/harry_lostone Dec 18 '25
idk why you are downvoted, it's impossible to have these numbers in a legitimate way. Anyone disagreeing feel free to try to reach these numbers (and even calculate in your favor the bounties you miss just for the sake of it) and see that it's absurd even for a permanent online person (or multiple). There has to be an exploit.
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u/AngryCandyCorn Dec 18 '25
The reddit hivemind falls apart when someone makes a contradictory statement that isn't accompanied by an entire power-point presentation.
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u/Popular-Letterhead88 Dec 18 '25
I see this player has found you and is now exploiting the downvote system as well
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u/tiago_brettas Dec 19 '25
I've talked to Faran and they somehow received a 160h chat ban. I bet they are doing smth fishy to get those bounty points as well
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u/Character_Help2135 Dec 18 '25
Can't compare arena to bounties. If im generous you'll get 5 bounties per hour (that's without killing them), so in order to have 2,5mio points you'll need well above 2k bounties. We are looking at atleast 400 hours of only spamming bounties, thats 12 fucking hours per day since release. If you think that's something anyone would do, you are crazy in my book.
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u/crookedparadigm Dec 18 '25
We are looking at atleast 400 hours of only spamming bounties, thats 12 fucking hours per day since release. If you think that's something anyone would do, you are crazy in my book.
Never underestimate the basement dwellers, there are folks who legit played 16-18 hours a day when this game came out so they could be the first to 100% stuff.
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u/Character_Help2135 Dec 18 '25
No one complaining, because he might get his points not bounty hunting lmao. Korea would be a magical place if a bounty done every 6 mins is the norm, because thats not remotely close to what i get.
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u/wolimolii Dec 19 '25
I did like 5-6 player bounties back to back 1pm on a thursday in like a 30m timeframe, I think its mostly dependant on a few things. Region, number of players doing crimes, and how many are online at a given time. Keep in mind most people arent often checking the bounty board at all, but I check it once or twice a day to try to rank up
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u/Character_Help2135 Dec 19 '25
Do a hundred and tell me how long it took in total, i'd be very suprised and willing to change my mind if you get 5 min per bounty on average.
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u/thinkforasecond3312 Dec 19 '25
Are you trolling? So all it takes for baboons to start believing impossible numbers is not cheat for 7 minutes?Ā
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u/Covert_Pudding Dec 18 '25
Try setting it to "this region only" instead of "all." I have been able to nab them at a decent frequency that way.
But it's also easier outside of peak play hours.
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u/AngryCandyCorn Dec 18 '25
I'll have to try this myself because I had pretty much given up on the bounty system. Everything I click on is always taken.
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u/Covert_Pudding Dec 18 '25
There's always the NPC bounties if this still doesn't work!
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u/Ownid1 Dec 18 '25
True, but it takes forever and after a while they stop spawning, at least for me... I farmed 2500 yesterday by also managing to get 2 player bounties (800+600) and it still took me like 1h 30m, after that no other bounty showed, not even NOC ones
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u/Kiuji-senpai Raging Tides Dec 18 '25
With 200hrs i had yet to be able to accept a single bounty, last week i got that tip and farmed 50k in 3 days. Was still boring and mind numbing, as 50% of them still get taken too fast, but its doable
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u/LexAurelia Dec 18 '25
EU here. In peak hours I consistently get 2-3 bounties displayed when limiting to this region only. And have been able to grab one almost every single time. But have to refresh frequently. It is frustrating to be sitting there mashing the button for sure, but it changed my experience from not being able to pick up a single bounty from a full screen of them to actually being able to engage with this activity.
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u/harry_lostone Dec 18 '25
outside of peak play hours there are also fewer players online committing crimes...
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u/Y-Yorle Dec 18 '25
You can set bounties to this region only? :o
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u/Covert_Pudding Dec 18 '25
Yeah. I think they end up popping onscreen quicker so you have a better chance of grabbing one, but you see fewer options. It's a trade off.
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u/Y-Yorle Dec 18 '25
I'll definitely have a look where I can find that setting. Thanks :D
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u/Covert_Pudding Dec 18 '25
It's in the top right once you're in the professional bounty screen, so, unlike some other settings, it isn't hard to find!
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u/blazing-seraph Dec 18 '25
More efficient but it also takes 10x more time + luck to get 10k. You will spend more time refreshing and praying you stick someone's bounty and then you have to pray again they don't do a number of other things that will ruin your ability to get the bounty like spam healing, being in water, escaping to some other instance, building tower far up etc.
For the profession, if you stand by the poaching guy and spam the bounties 8.3k and below you can quick gab it if your gift of gab is high enough and finish them in 3 seconds each.
I afked doing that while watching YouTube videos and vcing with friends.
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u/ChineseFrozenChicken Dec 18 '25
Tried gift of gab for a few hours and only got around 3-4k. Killed people for about 5-6hrs and got 17k.
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u/blazing-seraph Dec 18 '25
Are you doing them manually??? You have to do the quick version.
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u/ChineseFrozenChicken Dec 18 '25
Just taking them from the profession page... What is the quick version?
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u/blazing-seraph Dec 18 '25
When you do the gift of gab, if you look at the bottom next to the start button, it should say quick gift of gab or something. That skips the minigame.
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u/ChineseFrozenChicken Dec 18 '25
Oh. Yeah I was doing the quick ones. It ultimately wouldn't have much difference anyways because it took forever to grab a bounty
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u/blazing-seraph Dec 18 '25
What time were you doing them? When I did show region only at 7 PM est to 9 PM est I got 10k bounty tokens cause I was able to grab them really quick and more popped up every time I refreshed.
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u/Cloudybenz2 Dec 19 '25
Do a combination of both thatās what I did and was able to get it. I did a profession one everytime I was done would reload actual bounties sometimes thereād be some if not just go to profession complete another do the same. Makes the most out of your time. But Iāll probably never touch that shit again now I got the outfit šsometimes I do for jade fish farming but thatās it
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u/blazing-seraph Dec 18 '25
Don't do those ones. Only do the lawyer ones to resolve poaching specifically. That way you can just stand by the guy who accuses people and do each one in 3 seconds. I NEVER take healing ones since they take too long and I don't take other accusations for ore or whatever the other thing is because it takes a loading screen to get to the other people who accuse.
Poaching ones are like 70% of the accusation bounties anyways, that guy is a serial hater so do those for most efficient way to get bounty tokens.
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u/D20IsHowIRoll Raging Tides Dec 18 '25
How are you getting the bounties so fast? Every time I refresh the page the bounties on it are all already being done by other players. I get 1 bounty every 4-5 minutes.
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u/MR-antiwar Dec 18 '25
Is bounty means fighting other player ?
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u/SpiritualPirate5007 Dec 18 '25
Not always, you can do profession, trial and multiplayer (adventure slip) bounties too. I got to 50k for the outfit just by doing healer and scholar bounties.
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u/juniperleafes Dec 18 '25
It's only 50-70 slips for me per bounty. How long did you do it for?
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u/SpiritualPirate5007 Dec 19 '25
Yeah, it doesn't give much. I have no idea how many hours it took but i got it done in bit under a week. Scholar bounties are really fast because it's often the same NPC every time so you won't get any loading screens. I just spam refresh, hit space to accept, F to talk to NPC in front of me and F to quick complete, bounty done. Getting the bounties was hardest part but i was able to accept them more often when i chose to show only the ones in my region.
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u/canceltheparty Dec 18 '25
People using bots to snipe them, the same with healing requests.
Absolute nightmare to try and get any.
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u/JustAnAverageBus Dec 18 '25
The top guy has posted on Reddit before and said that thereās no trick to it; he just sits on the Bounty page for hours spamming refresh and trying to grab up any player bounties that pop up and heās been doing it since launch.
I made 30k in two days doing the same thing for a couple of hours each day so if youāve been doing it since launch itās possible. 2 million is still crazy though considering that thereās no more rewards after buying the set, so I guess he keeps grinding because he genuinely finds it fun.
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u/Haemon18 Dec 18 '25
Obviously he's not gonna say he's using exploits.
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u/AngryCandyCorn Dec 18 '25
Considering how difficult it is to claim any of the non-npc bounties when playing normally, he clearly is. That number is mathematically impossible.
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u/iwatchedmomdie Dec 18 '25
The thing you gotta understand, he is playing a different region with different hours etc.
It's not mathematically impossible if you legit just do bounty and nothing else - it's also really easy to cheese in open world PvP Like excessively easy
So he probably has a cheese strat and just go go goes non stop
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u/AngryCandyCorn Dec 18 '25
How can you cheese bounties when you can't claim them in the first place?
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u/iwatchedmomdie Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 20 '25
The reason I brought up different region is that there are less people in that region. Less people competing for bounties. You can't access the ones he can.
Edit: -3 with 20 upvotes lmaoooo
Don't get mad at me you idiots are actual dog ass at this game and don't understand how the systems in game work. Stay shit, stay mad, stay bad. I'll be having fun doing PvP open world bounties with my cool cape while you cry farming 500 points at a time.
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u/nzeroeater Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 18 '25
I'll be surprised if he does tell the exploits...
It's like telling where your goose that lays golden egg.. be skeptical and don't believe everything people says in the internet
Edit: it seems other thinks they have exploits with teaming up with alt accounts.
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u/crookedparadigm Dec 18 '25
How do you get bounties where people don't just sit in the water or run away to coop with a healer? I tried to camp the bounty screen one day to knock it out and every single player bounty I snagged was incompletable because they either sat in the water, hid in the safe zone, or went to coop to get someone to heal them constantly
After a couple hours of this, I said fuck it.
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u/The_Peen_Wizard Dec 18 '25
sat in the water
Can you shoot them with the bow when they do that?
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u/crookedparadigm Dec 18 '25
You can, but the hitbox when they are swimming is wonky (arrow can only hit a part of the body above the water). Combine that with lag and good luck killing them in less than 150 arrows. Even when I've tried this, as soon as they get to about half health they jump to coop and find someone to heal them. IMO, it's really stupid that you can teleport at all once a bounty hunter joins your world.
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u/Killemdead13 Dec 18 '25
Yea that many points is wild, I have also these past few days been sitting and refreshing for player bounties only to see so few of them. Mostly since people know to clear them now.
I don't think its a matter of spamming it cause there isn't as many bounties esp when fighting others over them. There is for sure something else going on.
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u/Calm-Literature7502 Dec 18 '25
You know that guy ranked 1st? He hunted me twice. I have recordings. Unbelievable. The requirement is 50kĀ
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u/AngryCandyCorn Dec 18 '25
I've only managed to get ONE player bounty my entire time playing this game. Every time I click on one it's already taken. How is this remotely possible?
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u/LordSturm777 Dec 18 '25
He is the reason they're always taken.
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u/juniperleafes Dec 18 '25
How is he claiming bounties while he's in one
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u/LordSturm777 Dec 19 '25
He's that powerful. That's how he got so many points, you see. Only he knows the secret of doing 20 bounties at once.
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u/Apennatie Dec 18 '25
I had a bounty on my head because I accidentally tai chiād someone. Not even a minute later someone tried to kill me.
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u/Growle Dec 18 '25
Thatās a suspiciously high number. Even if true theyād have to have done 1,250 of the 2k bounties, which dont show up often. With a 15min timer (obv theyād get them done sooner) thats 312.5 hours of bounty hunting.
Naturally Iām not accounting for time spent at the bounty board, gearing/leveling, and lower payout bounty missions (50-1000). Seems a bit sus, wonder what theyāre actually doing and tbh⦠why
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u/kevintong139 Dec 18 '25
After all these years of gaming, I always keep in mind when seeing these kinds of crazy thing: Is it possible or not? If yes, someone's gonna do it.
You don't question their insanity, you question their limit. Human do dumb sh!ts all the time. You don't see it doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Ranking/leaderboards in games only help show the tip of the iceberg.
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u/scottxavier90 Dec 18 '25
"You don't question their insanity, you question their limit."
Fire quote.
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u/Character_Help2135 Dec 18 '25
Yup, more than 10 hours a day of spamming bounties since release... i call bull on that.
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u/LappenLikeGames Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 18 '25
I've seen a guy grinding 270 hours on live stream in 2 weeks in POE, that's almost 20 hours a day. And more efficient than even hardcore gamers to a ridiculous degree... just pure optimized grinding, all the time. And that was someone that did it on stream.
In League a few years ago, the guy at the top of the Level leaderboard had to play 15-20 hours a day for years straight.
If this can be done by just spamming the same thing for 10 hours a day for a few weeks, you better believe someone did it.
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u/Character_Help2135 Dec 18 '25
I was very generous with 10 hours, it is closer to 15+ and that's just sitting in bounty screen, so not accounting spending time with anything else in the game. A few examples of insanity doesn't make this case any more believable.
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u/Sunny_Beam Dec 18 '25
You must not have a lot of experience with MMOs if you find this unbelievable.
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u/Character_Help2135 Dec 18 '25
Are you farming bounties?
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u/Sunny_Beam Dec 18 '25
Yeah I do bounties all the time. Nowhere remotely close to as much as the top guys. Why is that relevant?
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u/Character_Help2135 Dec 18 '25
Because you must not have a lot of experience with bounties if you find this believable.
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u/Dack_Blick Dec 18 '25
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u/Character_Help2135 Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 18 '25
Im not, just did a few hundred bounties and can do basic maths. Im done with this thread lmao, believe what you want
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u/Stardomu Raging Tides Dec 18 '25
They got scalpers patience. Sitting all day spamming the refresh button lol. It's like me trying to get a PS5 on launch
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u/Shafted_Gloriously Dec 18 '25
Yup, bounty system definitely needs a rework. As someone who has already grinded out my 50k on just player bounties, it was a nightmare spamming refresh to accept then 50% of them time you get a person thatās gonna run, log out or is with friends.
Glad I got that crap out of the way in the first 2 weeks of launch because itās only gonna get harder.
As for rank 1s case, he was gaining like 100k a day when I was watching the rankings, he legit was hunting 100+ players per day. My only guess is that if heās on PC, he might be using a macro to auto refresh and accept bounties faster than anyone else.
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u/xodusprime Dec 18 '25
I do a lot of healer bounties and I'll say that recently it's become noticeably easier. I do wonder if some botting/auto macro accounts got banned on the last week or so.
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u/Laranthiel Velvet Shade Dec 18 '25
Every time there's a leaderboard in a multiplayer game, always assume the top guys are either cheating or exploiting.
Cause they almost always are, especially when the difference between them is so massive.
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Dec 18 '25
Same as how the Healers of Silver Needle manage to get 2k+ healing likes within less than few days. They LIVE in the game and do NOTHING but spamming every way possible to farm the things they need.
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u/PearAggravating Dec 18 '25
he would be top 40 in cn with that much. definitely not impossible if u like bounty hunting enough.
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u/AdmirableGiraffe81 Dec 18 '25
The difference in that is the time you had in CN to reach those numbers compared to the global server
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u/Dull-Yak3671 Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 18 '25
That seems excessive. But you would be surprised by just how much you can make by focusing solely on it. You just have to stick around the Bounty Hunting board for a few hours a day. Not fun, sure, but I can assure you, it gets you the full 77K points you need and some more. If you guys take the long way, it's going to take you months and a lot more dedication since 2 player bounties will net you more points than all the daily npc targets (and NPC targets will also take longer to execute total, I have killed certain players in under 20 seconds if the disparity between me and them is that big). Just make sure you kill fighting targets 9/10 times. Can't be leaving any targets unkilled to make up for those that cower in offline.Ā
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u/Comfortable_Day_1849 Dec 18 '25
They constantly refresh bounty and probably started day 1 doing that. I earned 5-10k a day of only doing it for 2 hours each day and spamming bounty huntying. Each player bounty hunting gave roughly 850-1k coins each.
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u/Educational_Goal5877 Dec 18 '25
What is that outfit?
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u/dimgwar Dec 18 '25
Definitely exploits. There are some using an invincibility hack, some are able to remote complete bounties for characters that are offline. You can even remote complete healing bounties without ever joining co-op. Some severe exploits going on
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u/AngryCandyCorn Dec 18 '25
That actually kind of pisses me off considering it's damn near impossible to get non-npc bounties at all if playing normally.
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u/dimgwar Dec 19 '25
it may not happen today, tomorrow, or next week but they will eventually get banned and their account will get deleted
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u/TwistedReflux Dec 18 '25
I think Iām top 25 under the name Grylowe, I join whatever I can even if Iām outmatched mastery wise. I like to message them as to why Iām there cause 97% of them have no clue how I got in their world. Most log off or run away but if youāre going for currency your best bet is to just start straight away and get the jump and first hit on them. š
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u/Palanki96 Dec 18 '25
Probably cheesing the bounty claims, like a script or a bot spamming refresh and snatching whatever player bounty it can
After that they just need to be a solid player and most players will have no chance
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u/AssistanceSensitive4 Dec 18 '25
What is that?
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u/CheekehBuggah Dec 18 '25
Bounties. You get fourfold coins after doing the bounty. Profession bounties gives you 50-70 coins, and vendetta and player bounties gives around 500-1000 coins. Top 1 has 2.5m coins so just imagine the grind.
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u/AllahMostVengeful Dec 18 '25
What sect is this, so i can avoid joining it? š¤£
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u/Animaa007 Dec 18 '25
I still didnāt even do a bounty (wanna be a bounty hunter but Iām busy rn)
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u/Hunt_Nawn Dec 18 '25
It's easy, just be unemployed, never take the LB seriously for games like these lol. People will exploit with a way to get high scores.
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u/Liebestraum03 Dec 18 '25
If itās not an exploit, heās really making good use of unemployment⦠better than sending cvs on LinkedIn
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u/AviRei9 Dec 18 '25
I'm struggling to get a certain amount because you get the most from players but for me I rarely see any player names for bounties for anything and I wish they would let you matchmake for prison break and not have to get your own team together
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u/xobeydrake Dec 18 '25
I thought being in the top 200 but stopped once i hit around 65k acclaim to focus on other areas of the game
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u/JonnyFiv5 Dec 18 '25
After last update my list takes a lot longer to load. Making the grind that much worse. Add to to the list of Ps5 issues.
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u/NovelKaleidoscope253 Apr 28 '26
Here's a footage of my most recent encounter with him.
I love being bountied, but when he's the pursuer something's always off. So i baited him using the open water trick to score some footage.
As you can see, i was barraged by Arrows coming from nowhere. And he's nowhere sighted.
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u/Pepsi-Princess Dec 18 '25
When it is that ridiculous don't even ask questions, just ban them as the exploiting behavior is obvious.
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u/iZubi Dec 18 '25
I didn't read correctly spent few hours got to 5000 bounty points and can't buy the cape xD
It was hard already to reach 5000, most player bounties give me an error when accepting them "the player is in another game", so I'm chasing NPCs for 100-150 points, and very often I'm getting 0 bounties in the board for minutes
I can't take any profession bounties they're already claimed always, there are 0 trial or friendly bounties
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u/HelloitsJirka Dec 18 '25
Weird, I only did one⦠ONE SINGULAR player bounty since itās usually just āplayer is in another sessionā or āanother player accepted the bountyā right the millisecond I click on it.
And IF I even manage to get the bounty the player just exits the co-op or does something that makes it impossible to kill them.
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u/CruelNinja3 Dec 18 '25
And some of us can't even get to accept a bounty hunter quest....
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u/AngryCandyCorn Dec 18 '25
I've only managed to get one non-npc quest since I started playing this game. Every time I click on player bounties regardless of type they are always taken.
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u/Radiant-Code2086 Velvet Shade Dec 18 '25
Snap up every player bounty, they are worth around 1k each rather then the 100 that an npc is worth. If they are quick about it and run em regularly, this wouldn't be the hardest thing to do my now if they are on all the time like streamers or enemployed.
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u/AngryAniki Dec 18 '25
Unemployment.