the rare NBW mystery....... solved

i wanted to share this story cause it was kinda wild, and also so others can do what i did if they ever come across a similar puzzling situation! 

so i recently reached level 15-16, and have only seen a few 'rare' wolves while exploring since, usually just wolves with the glass eye trait. 
but just now, i came across this wolf:

i was very confused, since for the life of me, i could Not figure out what was 'special' about this wolf, and what constituted it having a star. 
i showed it to some friends for feedback, and no one could come up with an answer; the coat (khaki), marking (beige elbow), eyes, skin, claws, nose... all were basic traits. 

i tried to befriend her, but unfortunately RNG was not in my favor on the first interaction, and she ended up leaving. however, i was still puzzling over what made her special.

finally, i decided to try and use image editing to manipulate the initial screenshot i took of of this wolf...
and lo and behold......



this is what was revealed to me. take note of the darker head, paws, and tail; she has the newly released 'point' marking, most likely at 1% opacity! almost entirely invisible to the naked eye. 

for better reference, here's a unmarked khaki coat, with boosted color contrast / saturation:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/779569973625487370/779832925214212116/unknown.png

please learn from this tale........ if you ever come across a 'basic' looking wolf that still has a star marking, i highly recommend taking a screenshot to an editing program and pushing those saturation and contrast sliders up to 100%, cause you may be surprised at what you find. hahaha

Ouch! Good to know

I thought star just meant that someone chased them...

A falling star with a big tail means someone chased them; a plain star like that (or more than one) means it's a special NBW.

Oh ok... I haven't really come across any with stars, but that's what I was told. I got two glass eyed NBWs off the trading center for practically nothing. 

The other day I came across a completely white rare NBW and managed to befriend them because I was ???? at how they were rare

turns out he had white shading at 1% 😭

@spacecadet AHHHHHH thats even worse than mine oh my god... literally invisible 🤧