Verify Size or rating of the animal

[toddsdzl]

Playing on the hardest setting.I know you have NO "Hunter Senses" on hardest setting. I know that the game says information on the animal size. Like the neck will be thicker or just generally larger. Not able to really tell differences in most animals on size. Like the bears and Mouflon as well as wolf, fox, jackel. There is no way to verify which animal is older or bigger or higher rating. A easy fix would be to allow size/rating through binoculars. Anyone else having this issue?

[Andi]

If you look closely, the fur color on non-antler game tells you quite a bit about age, not genes tho.
It's a bit of a hit and miss.

[DC2Dixon]

Its why I don't see the point in playing ranger difficulty. You can play hunter which is the same difficulty and just disable the sense options yourself. I did play ranger for a while but got tired of trying to tell what I was looking at. Even the 18X scope isn't good enough to tell with most animals. I get some people like the challenge but you can get the same challenge on hunter and just leave the animal info on. Turn HUD and all other options off and you have a ranger difficulty that makes sense from a gameplay POV.

[toddsdzl]

Originally posted by Andi:

If you look closely, the fur color on non-antler game tells you quite a bit about age, not genes tho.
It's a bit of a hit and miss.

Agree...tired of running around killing every bear or predator trying to get the correct one

[dbond1]

Originally posted by DC2Dixon:

Its why I don't see the point in playing ranger difficulty. You can play hunter which is the same difficulty and just disable the sense options yourself. I did play ranger for a while but got tired of trying to tell what I was looking at.

This. Exactly the same for me. Play Hunter and disable everything but the animal identification. Personally I keep the energy display, small game shafts and bloodtrails too.

[dbond1]

By the way, do we know for certain Hunter and Ranger have the same animal senses? We seem to assume it, but I've not seen it definitively.

[DC2Dixon]

Originally posted by dbond1:

By the way, do we know for certain Hunter and Ranger have the same animal senses? We seem to assume it, but I've not seen it definitively.

From when I played ranger it was exactly the same. It says in the game its the same just without the sense. I believe there are little differences apart from senses across all difficulty's but there is only easy, medium and hard difficulty.

Now play hunter and use the sense for sound cues (distance sounds the same to me) and animal identification. I find it hard to believe someone could look at a herd of 12 mountain goats and actually know what there looking at. Some animals are fairly easy to tell but there are also species that I personally don't see much difference.

[toddsdzl]

Originally posted by DC2Dixon:

Originally posted by dbond1:

By the way, do we know for certain Hunter and Ranger have the same animal senses? We seem to assume it, but I've not seen it definitively.

From when I played ranger it was exactly the same. It says in the game its the same just without the sense. I believe there are little differences apart from senses across all difficulty's but there is only easy, medium and hard difficulty.

Now play hunter and use the sense for sound cues (distance sounds the same to me) and animal identification. I find it hard to believe someone could look at a herd of 12 mountain goats and actually know what there looking at. Some animals are fairly easy to tell but there are also species that I personally don't see much difference.

When I am not busy or hunting. I hand load and watch a lot of videos. Hunting videos like "Meat Eater", "Stuck N the Rut" and more. Seeing bear are the hardest to verify. REALLY DIFFICULT to tell if its a boar. Granted this is a game...🤷‍♂️I am really far in the game and don't want to start over. 🤦‍♂️

[DC2Dixon]

Originally posted by toddsdzl:

Originally posted by DC2Dixon:

From when I played ranger it was exactly the same. It says in the game its the same just without the sense. I believe there are little differences apart from senses across all difficulty's but there is only easy, medium and hard difficulty.

Now play hunter and use the sense for sound cues (distance sounds the same to me) and animal identification. I find it hard to believe someone could look at a herd of 12 mountain goats and actually know what there looking at. Some animals are fairly easy to tell but there are also species that I personally don't see much difference.

When I am not busy or hunting. I hand load and watch a lot of videos. Hunting videos like "Meat Eater", "Stuck N the Rut" and more. Seeing bear are the hardest to verify. REALLY DIFFICULT to tell if its a boar. Granted this is a game...🤷‍♂️I am really far in the game and don't want to start over. 🤦‍♂️

You can change difficulty at any time. It just spawns you back at the lodge on all maps.

[toddsdzl]

Originally posted by DC2Dixon:

Originally posted by toddsdzl:

When I am not busy or hunting. I hand load and watch a lot of videos. Hunting videos like "Meat Eater", "Stuck N the Rut" and more. Seeing bear are the hardest to verify. REALLY DIFFICULT to tell if its a boar. Granted this is a game...🤷‍♂️I am really far in the game and don't want to start over. 🤦‍♂️

You can change difficulty at any time. It just spawns you back at the lodge on all maps.

Thank you for that! I didn't know it would allow difficulty change in the middle of the game.

[DC2Dixon]

Originally posted by toddsdzl:

Originally posted by DC2Dixon:

You can change difficulty at any time. It just spawns you back at the lodge on all maps.

Thank you for that! I didn't know it would allow difficulty change in the middle of the game.

Yeah its always just spawned you back to the lodge. Ideal for testing the differences between all difficulty's. If you want to turn all sense options off just do it in game. Turn all HUD and sense options off except animal info and you have the same difficulty without having to guess what your looking at. If Ranger was more rewarding somehow I would say its worth playing but for me it just turns into a guessing game for some species.

[Lanani]

Originally posted by dbond1:

By the way, do we know for certain Hunter and Ranger have the same animal senses? We seem to assume it, but I've not seen it definitively.

yes, animal senses are the same in Hunter and Ranger difficulty. There was a bug in the difficulty descriptions that gave the wrong impression of them being different, but that was fixed recently. The only differences between Hunter and Ranger are:

- In Hunter difficulty, small game bodies get highlighted by a glowing column after death.
- Hunter Sense is completely off in Ranger.
- Photo mode range is reduced in Ranger.

[Pete Gaimari]

Why don't they list all the differences in the difficulty modes instead of making us guess?

[dbond1]

Originally posted by Lanani:

yes, animal senses are the same in Hunter and Ranger difficulty.

Thanks.