Taming dog and cat is absurd

[Fodder]

Seriously! This is just ridiculous. Dog is barely doable. Cat is effectively impossible. THREE times you have to sneak up and pet. Each is on a SHORT timer. Fail at any stage, and you start over. Cat freaks out even when you're hidden behind a barrel. Cat has eyes in his azz! No sneaking up behind, because, did I mention? Cat has eyes in his azz!

Come ON, Devs! This isn't even remotely fun. FIX the taming quests to make them sane. The cat isn't even worth doing.

Don't bother responding with, "I did it, and it was easy!" It's NOT easy. You got lucky. I'm not bothering. IMO it's bugged and needs fixed.

[Laar Dha]

You can adjust taming difficulty in the settings

[Ellis_Cake]

Taming is fine.

[saintspirit]

I did it, and it was mostly easy!
3 dogs and 2 cats so far. 5 to 10 minutes each. that's quite acceptable. it's about throwing the bait where it is favorable to you and a little patience.

[Laodent]

Originally posted by Ellis_Cake:

Taming is fine.

Every time. XD

[Ellis_Cake]

Originally posted by Laodent:

Originally posted by Ellis_Cake:

Taming is fine.

Every time. XD

Acknowledging that is fine. ^^

[legs]

yeah its fiddly.

[AlexLM777]

Dude, if you can't do it and your hands are crooked, you don't have patience, it doesn't mean that this game has terrible taming! Everything is fine with this in this game!

After many posts about difficult taming, today I specifically went to tame a cat for the FIRST time in the Alchemist's Tower, there are no other animals at all, I only read here and in the game how to tame! 15 minutes and 20 baits and the cat is mine. And I understand that she is the most difficult because of her location. The first time I stroked her in the building, then I threw baits so that she would go to the exit and onto the balcony, in the end it worked! Now I understand why the developers don't listen to such whiners! They don't like taming, then fights, then puzzles, then clothes, then farming!

[Fodder]

No, the game has terrible taming. It's the single most-complained-about game mechanic. Even those few saying it's "easy" talk about taking 15 minutes and 20 baits. That's not "easy," and the taming quests are artificially-difficult wastes of time.

The solution is to change the setting to preserve the taming progression. That's how it should be by default, or the dev can pluck the eyes out of the cat's azz. With the setting changed, it's still annoying, but one-and-done. Move along to better things.

It's an EA game, so the Dev should listen to "whiners." I do enterprise-grade software development for a living, and listening to "whiners" is how you discover that things you (and most others) thought were fine actually pizz off a lot of people, so you should improve them.

This is something the dev should improve. If some people want to spend hours on the taming quests, let them have settings to make the taming progression reset, say, every 5-seconds. That will provide the desired (artificial) difficultly for those who like to suffer pointlessly. The rest of us, however, realize that this is artificial difficulty for no good reason.

Fortunately, the "keep progression" setting comes to the rescue and restores sanity to the otherwise ridiculous mechanic.

Now that I'm long past the taming quests and about to tangle with the dragon boss, I look back on this game and still find the default taming to be the most annoying and indefensible mechanic of the entire game.

[FattyLumpkin]

Acknowledging it is not fine. It was horrible. Ten bait not enough. Not fun.

[Spook Rooster]

cat is definitely a bug fest. i had no problems with the goats 6 times, but 1 single cat is just awful. "eyes in azz" is definitely true. i had the cat not only discover me while distracted by bait and me sneaking up from behind, but i've also had the cat stare right at me and freak out from across the room, all the while ignoring the bait.

i will not be picking up anymore taming quests if i can help it.

[PaPaKat]

Originally posted by saintspirit:

I did it, and it was mostly easy!
3 dogs and 2 cats so far. 5 to 10 minutes each. that's quite acceptable. it's about throwing the bait where it is favorable to you and a little patience.

do they chase each other around
i got 3 goats , 2 yaks and one cat.