Hunting deer

[Jynx♛]

Do I just suck or are the deer seemingly impossible to hunt/kill? Spend an hour and 30 arrows just chasing the same deer around that I couldn't kill because I was spotted long before I saw the deer and right back to the chasing game.

[Pierrot]

It is possible, but it is hard.
You have to approach up to when you get the "hidden" icon, and from there shoot at the deer. Try to get in front of it to land an headshot, it will one shot it.

[pogosan]

We've just made hunting deer slightly easier in the latest patch!

[WHITE BOY ABER PUFFN BLACK]

Originally posted by pogosan:

We've just made hunting deer slightly easier in the latest patch!

It is still next to impossible and super frustrating. The visibility in forests is very bad either way and when you finally see the deer it runs away already.

Edit: this is really idiotic, killing a deer is so low reward but necessary for certain missions. Killing a basic animal in an already grind heavy game should never be this hard and I dont know what you think you patched, the second I see a deer it runs away from me

[Blastmetal]

take the high ground annakin and you can snipe them from miles away
also realy practice with bows for long range snipes the drop is very deceptive and hard to see at long ranges.

[[ Col ] Chamberlain]

Originally posted by pogosan:

We've just made hunting deer slightly easier in the latest patch!

Realy ? In my Opinion its now so hard, that you dont come more than 50 m near the Deer, its absolut worse now, sry and btw. pls change the Day Time, its realy running too fast.

[pogosan]

As a quick tweak, we reduced their vision by 20%, but we'll be working on it further.

[Lifter]

The only one I killed in 21 days was by pure luck when it ran past me. This is still highly frustrating. In the time it takes to stalk one deer I can kill 6 boars. I played call of the wild and way of the hunter but this is something else.

[Styles]

Get good with the headshots or arm some villagers with bows and take them with u

[Maxwell Trent]

Yes, so deer hunting.... 3 hrs of running after deer. I've hit one so far and then lost it as it ran off lol.... this is fun.

[Kiban]

Why game dont have steath mode :/

[Karabeep]

Deer need a complete re work, they see you from 10000 miles away run at the speed of the flash and then vanish.

the "hidden" icon isn't an indicator of anything more then the deer has already ran off.

then half the time ya arrow just goes straight through the deer because the hit boxes in this game are non existent.

[Zap Brannigan]

Originally posted by pogosan:

We've just made hunting deer slightly easier in the latest patch!

That's laughable, it's still by far the hardest thing to do in this game that I've come across.

My suggestions:
1. make the arrow path more visible, I've let loose well over 100 arrows and I still don't know what the arrow drop is, make it like Valheims arrow path. easily visible. this will make it easier to snipe deer from far away.
2. reduce the "radar" range of deer by 15-20% (i think you screwed up and boosted it by 20, fyi). they spook and run away waaay to easily. you didn't put a sneak ability in the game for some reason, so you have to make it so we can get closer to things we have to shoot.
3. Fix the damn hit boxes.

right now we can't get close enough to hit then because they spook, can't run them down because they're silly fast, and can't find them again because they're incredibly difficulty to find in the forrest. on top of it, if we do manage to get a shot off, we can't see the arrow to get better at archery, and even if we do hit it... we still don't because the hit box is messed up. I can't go to lvl 2 because of this bs, that and the strap idiocy where some "genius" thought it would be a good idea to need 30-40 of a resource you can't make, and bandits don't drop prolifically. there's another one, double the bandit strap drop rate. i should be guaranteed 1 per bandit. the shield hit box is also way too big, i've let loose what should be head shots at bandits with shields and even though they aren't blocking the arrow magically just hits the shield.

[Mac]

Originally posted by WHITE BOY ABER PUFFN BLACK:

Originally posted by pogosan:

We've just made hunting deer slightly easier in the latest patch!

It is still next to impossible and super frustrating. The visibility in forests is very bad either way and when you finally see the deer it runs away already.

Edit: this is really idiotic, killing a deer is so low reward but necessary for certain missions. Killing a basic animal in an already grind heavy game should never be this hard and I dont know what you think you patched, the second I see a deer it runs away from me

As you level up it gets easyer and you get more meat and stuff as you level up hunting.

[Mac]

jesus i think use dont understand the game its not hand feeding you things, as you level up it gets easier.

[Alpara]

I like it that they ran away from me after one hit like forest gump.