ABOUT THE ATTACKS ...

[DYEUZ]

I just want to take this off my chest guys.

Some of you wanted to have animals attack us. I was not for it for many reasons but hey, now you have it!

One thing that pis.ses me off is not the fact that you become unconscious because of an attack, or that I can get attacked if not careful, but that I need to go back to a freakin' lodge somewhere if I do!!

Hell! At least let me regain conscientiousness where I was!!
You go about stalking animals far from any lodge & bad luck happens, you get attacked.
Ok, my bad. But damn, making me go all the way far from where I was!! Gimme a break!!

I tell ya, some decisions from these guys I just can't understand!

Btw, I got attacked 2 times so far. 1 random Buffalo that I never heard or see incoming & that Lioness that I shot two times. She came at me the second time from about 150m. Duhh!

That Lion btw when I returned to try to find her I did. She was bugged! Standing on her 4 legs frozen in time. A pic of her can be found in the PICTURE BAZAAR.


There, feeling better already.

[The Eagle]

Totally agree!

[games23]

the lodge is a lot closer than a hospital

[unknown]

What if you regained conseciousness and had a random injury. For example a leg broken means you have to crawl, or a broken arm means you cannot hold a rifle. Give you the option to have some sort of first aid kit which helps you out but must be purchased. You could also make it so after being injured you act as a call for preditor animals with a higher modifier on agression, but still make spooking possible. Obviously make sure the call chance is less than a normal call.

I think it would at least be interesting from a game standpoint though not necessarily realistic.

[Andaramir]

When ever I spook cape buffalo or lions I pee in my pants and grab my big gun.

[Florian Meyer]

Somehow there must be an effect when you were attacked, if it continued immediately afterwards it would be completely pointless. Because you can restart from the lodge, the flow of the game is not interrupted. If you have killed an animal before, you can still harvest it. For example, if you were not able to hunt for a certain period of time due to the injury, it would be much more stressful because you would be forced to do nothing during that time.
Of course it is stressful to get back to the place from a far away lodge. That's why I first unlocked all the lodges and campsites so that I can start again from a nearby point.

[qdavweb]

I like the attacks. Devs please add pistols next.

[CMDR.FREEZER]

Been playing a while now. Thing that i learned to do when hunting and such, it to allways keep the zoom on my rifle so that i can see most of the animals, and only ever zoom inn for the shot. right after i would zoom out again incase i do get attacked i will see the animal comming.

[claude 68]

Originally posted by DYEUZ:

I just want to take this off my chest guys.

Some of you wanted to have animals attack us. I was not for it for many reasons but hey, now you have it!

One thing that pis.ses me off is not the fact that you become unconscious because of an attack, or that I can get attacked if not careful, but that I need to go back to a freakin' lodge somewhere if I do!!

Hell! At least let me regain conscientiousness where I was!!
You go about stalking animals far from any lodge & bad luck happens, you get attacked.
Ok, my bad. But damn, making me go all the way far from where I was!! Gimme a break!!

I tell ya, some decisions from these guys I just can't understand!

Btw, I got attacked 2 times so far. 1 random Buffalo that I never heard or see incoming & that Lioness that I shot two times. She came at me the second time from about 150m. Duhh!

There, feeling better already.

:lunar2019madpig:

Je suis entièrement d'accord avec ton idée à 200 %

[DYEUZ]

Originally posted by unknown:

What if you regained conseciousness and had a random injury. For example a leg broken means you have to crawl, or a broken arm means you cannot hold a rifle. Give you the option to have some sort of first aid kit which helps you out but must be purchased. You could also make it so after being injured you act as a call for preditor animals with a higher modifier on agression, but still make spooking possible. Obviously make sure the call chance is less than a normal call.

I think it would at least be interesting from a game standpoint though not necessarily realistic.

You are talking/thinking of something else that is not in this game.
Simply stay with what I'm saying & what is my issue here.

[JPSGT40]

Originally posted by DYEUZ:

Some of you wanted to have animals attack us. I was not for it for many reasons but hey, now you have it!

+1

I've followed this game for a year and what I saw was the amount of people who wanted the animals to intentionally attack players was a small percentage. They added this in to try to win back that group of players, and now we are all stuck with it. They didn't even bother to give us a gameplay setting for it:

Animals can Attack Players: Yes / No

This change is incongruous to the nature of the game I purchased (a casual hunting experience). I intentionally purchased this game because it had proven itself to be just that and, although the animals could injure the player if you got run into by a fleeing animal, they would never intentionally attack the player.

I'd also like to point out that some people are confused and think it is only on the Africa map. Those people are wrong. Read the 1.24 Release Notes. Almost all animals across the entire game can now attack everywhere.

[Musodacan]

It gets worse: some people asked for car radios and got them. I hope no one asks for Dinosaurs.

[JPSGT40]

LOL, the car radio, yeah. But at least we can turn that On/Off.
Cannot turn animal attacks On/Off.

[DC2Dixon]

While it might add a little more "realism" I bet the amount these attacks happen IRL is very low. Predators maybe, a springbok or a deer probably not.

I personally was never a fan of it being added, what does it add? For me, only frustration, its not challenging, exiting, or a sense of danger. I am playing a video game, there will never be danger.

I have been charged a hand full of times and its not that hard to avoid the animals. Having said that I did get knocked out by a animal I didn't see coming just as I shot another. It was in a area I was uncovering the map so it was easy to find my kill. If it had been a area I had visited before, I might have never known where I was (I don't look at the map much) Now imagine that is a 5 star animal, I kill my first 5 star lion for example, get knocked out and have no idea where I was on the map. Now I have lost my 5 star.

I am not a fan of it really, like I said, all it adds is frustration. A option to disable the feature is needed IMO. I want to hunt not avoid charging animals.

[DYEUZ]

Thanks for your comments guys.
Interesting to see how you see this game.
I agree with many of you.

[hunterPRO1]

I'm fine with predators and animals like buffalo charging. But I've been charged one too many times by an uninjured elk or caribou. It's too frequent.