snow wolves

[mke453h]

What is with these things, trying to travel in cold areas, must of killed 25 snow wolves within 10 minutes, take 3 steps 3 more to kill, kinda ridiculous ,had a crossbow with six loaded bolts, could not load fast enough boom here come 3 more, anyway to stop them from coming constantly

[Pach]

Take a different route.

The cold areas have more than one entrance. Usually, the "nearest" entrance to where your pod comes in (on missions) is insanely deadly with mass numbers of wolves in narrow areas.

The other passage, usually a run around the zone in a more habitable biome (e.g. in the forest), often is less deadly, or it's easier to manage, or wider and easier to stealth past animals, etc.

And sometimes, it's closer to your target, too.

[Gards]

Originally posted by Pach:

Take a different route.

The cold areas have more than one entrance. Usually, the "nearest" entrance to where your pod comes in (on missions) is insanely deadly with mass numbers of wolves in narrow areas.

The other passage, usually a run around the zone in a more habitable biome (e.g. in the forest), often is less deadly, or it's easier to manage, or wider and easier to stealth past animals, etc.

And sometimes, it's closer to your target, too.

Your reply doesn't respond to his grievance against this hateful game. You almost apologise/make an excuse for it. She/He's right. He was mobbed by wolves spawning constantly, that's BS and not enjoyable in an already toxic biome that doesn't warrant anyone's time or attention.

[Pach]

Originally posted by Gards:

Originally posted by Pach:

Take a different route.

The cold areas have more than one entrance. Usually, the "nearest" entrance to where your pod comes in (on missions) is insanely deadly with mass numbers of wolves in narrow areas.

The other passage, usually a run around the zone in a more habitable biome (e.g. in the forest), often is less deadly, or it's easier to manage, or wider and easier to stealth past animals, etc.

And sometimes, it's closer to your target, too.

Your reply doesn't respond to his grievance against this hateful game. You almost apologise/make an excuse for it. She/He's right. He was mobbed by wolves spawning constantly, that's BS and not enjoyable in an already toxic biome that doesn't warrant anyone's time or attention.

If you find the game "hateful", don't play it.

I'm not apologizing, or making an excuse. It's a survival game. Packs of wolves are a thing to avoid in survival. There's a way to avoid them: take a different route. Usually, one path into the biome is very mob-intense, and the other isn't as much, or you can avoid them. It's called looking at and exploring the terrain and using it to your advantage.

In Icarus, the obvious, direct route is almost always the most deadly.

[Spaceminnow]

Does "sneaking" work?
The prospector doesn't have to kill every hostile creature encountered...

[Pach]

Originally posted by Spaceminnow:

Does "sneaking" work?
The prospector doesn't have to kill every hostile creature encountered...

Yes, but they have a larger detect radius than normal (they can see you easier, just as you can see them easier).

So in the narrower passages, it's hard to sneak past them. Better to find the wider passages in.

[Spaceminnow]

What about placing some meat for bait then sneak past... (good idea eh?)

[Pach]

Originally posted by Spaceminnow:

What about placing some meat for bait then sneak past... :steamsunny: (good idea eh?)

I am not sure they are attracted to meat just laying on the ground. They are attracted to corpses. So killing one, or killing a snow rabbit and leaving the body will attract them (or should). But that doesn't always work.