Hunting

[Dead&Divine]

Everytime I shoot a deer it runs away and vanishes. I thought it just managed to get away but I had one in an open field and the game bugged out and it just disappeared. Mutt is also useless he won’t even attack the deer and slow it. Any tips on hunting?

[Neonwarrior]

Yeah, I figured out early that hunting deer with a bow is foolish. Forget going for headshots; the trick is to use the siege crossbow, the one with the hand crank that's slow to reload, since it does upwards of 500+ damage and will down a deer in one shot.

[Mordochlacz]

Brew dollmaker poison they won't be able to run away you can get recipe from Aranka at nomad camp.

[Dead&Divine]

Originally posted by Neonwarrior:

Yeah, I figured out early that hunting deer with a bow is foolish. Forget going for headshots; the trick is to use the siege crossbow, the one with the hand crank that's slow to reload, since it does upwards of 500+ damage and will down a deer in one shot.

Where to get this crossbow?

[spanish inquisition]

If you wait like one minute the deer comes back, maybe not in the same exact spot but it comes back in the area

[Izuzul]

Poison, poison and poison.

[Neonwarrior]

Originally posted by Dead&Divine:

Originally posted by Neonwarrior:

Yeah, I figured out early that hunting deer with a bow is foolish. Forget going for headshots; the trick is to use the siege crossbow, the one with the hand crank that's slow to reload, since it does upwards of 500+ damage and will down a deer in one shot.

Where to get this crossbow?

It's called a "Heavy crossbow" or "Reinforced heavy crossbow." Keep an eye out for it, but you probably won't find one until you go to the second map. In general, crossbows will always do more damage than regular bows, so use them for hunting. Keep in mind that heavy crossbows/arbalests cannot be reloaded from horseback.

[Svartkladd]

Originally posted by Neonwarrior:

Yeah, I figured out early that hunting deer with a bow is foolish. Forget going for headshots; the trick is to use the siege crossbow, the one with the hand crank that's slow to reload, since it does upwards of 500+ damage and will down a deer in one shot.

Hunting feels dead in KCD2. First, it feels much harder to spot prey in all that foliage (which may be realistic, of course). Then, even if you hit it, it either warps away or stays like an idiot looking around like "whhaaa, guys? reaallyy? who did that, huh?" with an arrow in its bottom (back) parts.
Managed to drive an elk to cliff edge, so it could not run away. Shot like 40 arrows and bolts from close range, just to watch him twerk a bit. Then decided to stop this show, took a sword and started slashing poor lad just to realize that he was already dead long time ago yet animated like a live one. Had to butcher zombie elk while it was still standing and looking at me. Medieval hunting is totally cruel.