Hunting... Frustrating as hell

[HD]

I mean, for those who are starting, hunting rabbits is not that bad, you can even run and keep up their pace and with an axe hit them once and their dead. With spears, same thing. They die instantly. Now, every animal that does not attack you will run fast as f*** and you just can't keep up... I mean, I play this game since early access on version 4 or 5 or what a hell it was, don't recall. but I remember where you could throw 4, 5, 6, 7 spears just to kill a deer. BUT YOU ACTUALLY COULD KILL IT. Right now it's impossible! I can't even advance my storylines but I'm stuck at hunting deers and boars. Boars don't wanna spawn and deers is all that's left... but to kill them? ♥♥♥♥ my life, just wasted an entire season to try to do it! Please, make it easier... I prefer the way it was before, not this what a hell. That ain't distance or escape, those animals just inserted the 6th and are running faster than a Lamborghini Murcielago SV on a highway in Germany, connecting directly to Moscow! There's no stopping them!

[Ellorien]

This is a game. People play for fun. Fun is the ONLY objective in games. If something is not fun for a lot of players then the devs should consider tweaking the feature.

Hunting in this game is definitely not fun, and saying “it is not bad” =/= it is good.
The point is you need to hunt only in the beginning in order to survive. And in the beginning you don’t have any good equipment. If spears are useless and you absolutely have to buy (or find if you are lucky) the expensive late game weapons in order to survive your first year or two, then why are these spears in the game?

It would not be too bad, though, if the devs haven’t gone overboard with the hunger meter. You need to consume a truckload of meat daily just to stay alive. That’s as unrealistic as it gets.
There would have been fewer complaints about hunting if the hunger meter was more reasonable.

The good news is the moment you hire a hunter you can forget about hunting yourself.

[Lailantie]

I play with animal damage zero and animal health 40%. I easily kill a boar or wolf with an iron axe, and I only do when they don't stop following me all over the map. I eat cabbage and cabbage soup. I also had games where my whole village ate raw cabbage for years until the tavern was unlocked so I could get some recipes. You don't have to eat meat :)

[Linio]

So yeah, my two cents also on the whole hunting thing being a bit meh. Honestly animals fleeing after receiving a shot in the head (albeit from a wooden spear) and running twice as fast as the other animals... is ... bad (on my game some are even clipping through rocks and else to move away from the player...).

[Faffrd]

Hmm..I found a bow and some bronze(Ithink it was) arrows and shot a buck once. He ran off like everyone here is saying, and I ran after him. He would never quite be close enough for me to shoot him again, but I could keep up enough to follow him until he died. It even left a blood trail for me to follow. Later I shot a doe, and it did the same, ran off and I followed. It lost me once but again, I followed the blood and found it laying dead. So I'm not understanding why hunting is giving so many people problems?

[playerofgames]

Use a recurve bow, if lucky enough you can find one in a camp as I did and any arrow from stone upwards, one shot on deer in the face, two on boar and same for wolves. Moose need a copper or above arrow, (Alvin gave me copper arrows) they will run in a circle so just wait til they come back round and hit them with another arrow and all done. With food, one hunter is enough for about 20 residents if you have a kitchen cooking meat. This version seems so much easier than ea.

[Philtre]

Postat inițial de Ellorien:

The point is you need to hunt only in the beginning in order to survive. And in the beginning you don’t have any good equipment. If spears are useless and you absolutely have to buy (or find if you are lucky) the expensive late game weapons in order to survive your first year or two, then why are these spears in the game?

Don't rely on meat as your main food source early on. Start a small farm ASAP (a few cabbages planted the first spring, or at least the first summer), and work on raising your crafting tech so you can unlock the kitchen and buy the recipe for a cooked meal (potage or something). You can cook meals in the cauldron in your house, and it will make a big difference to your food supply.

[LeNUTRIE Metanolo]

I have no issue with hunting, I mean, it's indeed an hard task at beginning, but why shouldn't it be. What is silly for real is the animal tracking skill that is actually not tracking.

[HoofHearted]

this is why the first thing i did was build a hunting lodge and assign my first townsperson to hunting

[JabroniCorleone]

If you have difficulties with hunting I found out a solution:
Get a bow from a shop or built a speer and sneak close to a deer. Hit the deer with an arrow or with your stick. The deer begins to run away. If you are doing it with a speer you need more speers because you dont have time to pick it up. When the deer begins to run it always runs in a big circle around your positions... Think its programmed that way... Dont run straigt to the deer because you will run out of stamina and the deer is gone. When the deer begins to run stay close to your position where you stand. You will see that the deer runs a big circle now. Try it only in daytime when sun is shining because you see the deer better. Best situation is when the environment is flat without hills. Now the deer runs for maybe 1 till 1,5 minutes and stops. Now the game starts again. Sneak to the deer, shot again and if youre lucky the deer drops dead otherwise repeat the precedure again. You will have more sucess if you use arrows with poisen. Dont make the mistake when the deer begins to run: Stay where you are. Do not run to the deer so you will run out of stamine... Move around your positon in small circles alwas focus on the deer and turn around the big circle move till the deer stops.

[HD]

Guys, guys, calm down, I got it. After playing a little more I managed to understand it a bit. As I said, I'm not new in this game, but coming back to it and seeing how animals were reacting kinda took me off by surprise. Hunting is harder now, I already figured out how to hunt. I just left my frustration all in here, and I even read all your comments for tips and hints. Already got several bows. But they really need to rework a bit on the animals as well probably on how fast you level up the hunting skill. I'm playing as normal without using any modifiers because I like to play like this. Taking my game slowly. The skills compared to before, now tend to be more harder (in hunting for example) or take more time to level up (diplomacy takes time lol), some more than others.

[Someone]

Postat inițial de Ellorien:

This is a game. People play for fun. Fun is the ONLY objective in games. If something is not fun for a lot of players then the devs should consider tweaking the feature.

Hunting in this game is definitely not fun, and saying “it is not bad” =/= it is good.
The point is you need to hunt only in the beginning in order to survive. And in the beginning you don’t have any good equipment. If spears are useless and you absolutely have to buy (or find if you are lucky) the expensive late game weapons in order to survive your first year or two, then why are these spears in the game?

It would not be too bad, though, if the devs haven’t gone overboard with the hunger meter. You need to consume a truckload of meat daily just to stay alive. That’s as unrealistic as it gets.
There would have been fewer complaints about hunting if the hunger meter was more reasonable.

The good news is the moment you hire a hunter you can forget about hunting yourself.

Just change enemy HP down to 50% or something then. I too play for fun and turn on unlimited stamina so I can run everywhere faster and unlimited weight so I don't have to go back to micro-manage inventory. Getting a longbow at the beginning of the game is not hard. Hold alt, pickup lots of stones and twigs, make stone daggers and sell them. Longbow are not that expensive. At 100% enemy HP, I still get hundreds meats in 1st spring with just a longbow and stone arrows with the tricks in my previous post.

[Elric]

Postat inițial de Linio:

Honestly animals fleeing after receiving a shot in the head (albeit from a wooden spear).

I wonder, how unrealistic is this really? I've also been primed by other videogames that headshots are 1-shot insta-kills, but is this realistic? Especially when shooting arrows or throwing spears?
The skull is a pretty hard bone. It's not hard to imagine projectiles, like arrows, not always penetrating the skull, but instead ricochet of the bone. For sure, taking a piece of fur and flesh with it, but definitively not killing the animal. A skull has lots of smooth, round surfaces. You would actually have to hit a weak spot, like an eyesocket, or hit the skull at an almost perfect perpendicular angle to penetrate. Too high of an angle, and I can imagine most arrows to bounce off.

Not an expert, but I can imagine most hunters that used bows or spears to never actually take aim at the head. Probably because it's too small of a target that also tends to move a lot, but perhaps also because it's too well protected. I guess most hunters try to aim at the torso, hoping to pierce the heart or lungs.

[boneys26]

Postat inițial de Mr. Phil Good:

Postat inițial de jams:

While there is always room for improvement, hunting is far from as bad as you paint it.

not asking for instakills just for them to actually be trackable and not cover 5 miles in 5 seconds...

You found a slow one.. lol

[Sanibeast]

times of early access spear hunting seem to be over. You need a bow at least but stealing a crossbow is a game changer in early game. This kills all small and middle animals up to wolfs with one shot even with wooden bolts. Also bandits are no issue and might drop further crossbows as long as you cant craft or buy one.

[Willow Rivers]

Todays update just adjusted the hunting/