" Immersive " throw lance in the Head

[Huntard]

no die

need to throw 3 lance right in the HEAD to make a simple deer die


Like wtf ?

[jeff1963]

How long have you played? It gets better.

[Goldi:AI]

Wooden spears are the weakest weapon in the game. Arrows or iron spears can one-shot most animals and cause bleeding damage if they don't.

[The real Sentry]

well headshoot should be headshoot thats the point guys

[Beltane]

Originally posted by gdhxgdx:

well headshoot should be headshoot thats the point guys

Just that real life does not work like that. And just to be clear, talking about what you said, not OP.

[Macaroni Mancer]

Just reviving this thread to point out you don't kill a deer by shooting it is the head with an arrow, let alone by throwing a sharpened stick. Deer have really thick skulls, and relatively small brains. Headshots should do much lower damage than even hitting the stomach, and chest should do the most damage.

[Humble]

Yes, I find hard to believe people had able throw wood spear even headspot kill dear, unless people had super strength like superman or hulk, but they wouldn't need wood spear, don't get me wrong, if bear or boar coming, you hold wood spear to ground, yea it's could heavy damage or kill when animal coming to you, but human had strength to throw like that? Bow and arrow more believeable than throw large wood spear.

[Random Zero Gravity]

Deer (Doe) weakest point are at the their neck, not the head. Except maybe for Buck, for me at least when I'm hunting.

[Asmodan]

That Deers and Boars can take a Hit is understandable, but a Fox that can tank up to 5 Spear Throws is not realistic, even if you don't hit the Head.

[Pavor Nocturnus]

The wood spear is highly unbalanced, that's obvious, and it has less to do with the number of hits an animal can take than the fact you only get one per log and they can only hit something 4 times before breaking. Solid shafts of wood, while not all that good at penetration, can take a *lot* more abuse than 4 impacts at typical human throwing speed. Ideally, the "Wood Spear" should be replaced with "Wood Javelin" (that is technically both singular and plural) that cost less (aka you get multiple from a single log), hit once or maybe twice, and do the damage the Wood Spear does now.

Also, give us a staff or quarterstaff, it's the ultimate farmer's weapon and deadly as all hell in skilled hands.

[Humble]

Wood Spear is kind of similar to quarterstaff, but quarterstaff is great assist to people who couldn't walk without support and it's not for kill, it's might be useful vs enemies who are human, but not very useful vs wild animal, it's just make animal more likely attack more and go kill you or harm you since wild animal don't follow rule or law like human do. So nothing wrong with wood spear for wild animal, but wood spear and log thing do need work, log should gave lot more wood spear than one wood spear at least. Maybe 1 log create 2 to 4 wood spear, depend on what kind of tree's log?

Nice to had quarterstaff in game, very useful for guard in town keep troublemaker human but not want to kill that person, unless it's bandit (not same troublemaker in town since bandit often will kill and out for blood and death, that is other story) or enemies army who want out for your blood, but lightly crime.

But in this game design, it's seem quarterstaff is useless since it's not based combat force other than hunting wild animal for food and cloth fur/leather.

[Dawn²]

tbh, it's true that the wooden spear was a bit OP and needed to be nerfed for it to be more "immersive" but, it really makes hunting tedious at the beginning. It become time consuming . First of all you should be able to make at least 3 spears with one log 1/1 is irrealistic. i mean you can make 2 plank with one log but one spear lol . Second while headshot shouldn't kill a deer 6 spears to kill it is a bit too much..it takes now 10 spears to kill one wisent which is understable, but 6-8 would make it less of an hassle. Of course it changes as you improve your gear, but i think there is some sort of balance to be made.

[Cassie]

I had a deer with 10 spears that I hit it with run around like it was nothing and i hit the head, neck and every part of the body even from the behind part and it was still running till i hit it with one more spear not that is an over done thing lol. so, to tell you at that time it really didn't make a difference where you hit it at, it took 11 to kill it.