Can someone explain the stupidity of hunting deers?

[Lord Darkness]

Its ridiculously hard it is to take one down. Unless you get a lucky shot its near impossible. You cant sneak, they spot you a mile away and once they do they hit light speed with a millisecond. Why make it so hard?

Any suggestions or locations that others know about that might aid me in my first kill?

[Remi]

I've been stuck forever because the bows are impossible to use. Can't even kill rabbits

[Electric6601]

Read archery and agility books. If you get archery to 3, it's a lot easier to hit things. Then it's just practice judging distance and arrow drop. Also, hunt around rocky areas as it's harder for them to see you from long distances. Don't sprint around otherwise you won't have time to react to the little icon showing they can see you. Always aim for the head otherwise you have to hit them 2 to 3 times. Watch how they run and where they run, sometimes they will circle back and almost come right back to you. Another good place to get them is the bridge SE of the starting town on the main road just past the Wolf Den.

[Lord Darkness]

I'm 45 arrows in and nothing... Whats the point?

[jokers27]

Originally posted by Lord Darkness:

Its ridiculously hard it is to take one down. Unless you get a lucky shot its near impossible. You cant sneak, they spot you a mile away and once they do they hit light speed with a millisecond. Why make it so hard?

Any suggestions or locations that others know about that might aid me in my first kill?

You need a head shot, when you see the eye icon stop moving and shoot.
If you are bad at aiming maybe you could try to bring some companion with bow and order them to attack simultaneous.

[starman01]

Originally posted by Remi:

I've been stuck forever because the bows are impossible to use. Can't even kill rabbits

The difficulty in rabbits (besides their super senses) is to manually adjust for the bow fall off... You have to aim slighty above them since the arrow flies a "ballistic" paths. Unless you hit it's butt, you can one shot the rabbit with the first shot.

But yes, Deer are extremly difficult to kill with the crappy starting bow. Only chance is a head shot while shooting out of the bushes (which seems to offer a small hide bonus).

Unless you DO want to manually hunt, just set up hunter lodges. They provide enough meat, and also quite a lot of trophies, dear horn included. I maybe managed to kill 15 deer myself, not a single horn, and meat and hide is RNG in values.

[Electric6601]

Practice. 45 arrows is nothing. You have to get used to the arrow drop and judging range. Practice on wolves and boars and rabbits if you have to but get your archery to at least level 3. The accuracy goes up significantly and your aim dot moves less.

I go through 2 or 3 stacks of arrows in a few hours of play between bandits, hunting and trying to shoot down birds. I've managed to hit several so far, just takes practice judging how far to lead them.

[Lord Darkness]

Easy to say head shot when you know were the arrow goes after you shoot, but its so hard to see if your overshooting or undershooting from the distance you need to be at to have a chance. I guess that's my point, is there a place where you can at least corner one and club the bugger?

[Lord Darkness]

Thanks starman, i'm going to give up on this and build a hunters lodge!. Cheers!!

[starman01]

Give it a bit more try maybe :) .. While frustrating sometimes, its actually really accurate for a medieval simulation just like it would be in RL . I'm usually not in the mood for extrem challenges, but i do admire the realism here.

Animals are extremly shy, you have no aiming help except your eyes and experience,need to "feel" the arrow fall off and you need to be tactical and try to sneak in on them. So lots of realism here :) Nothing for hours, but it can give some distraction now and then .

But yes, hunters do the job fine. Just keep arrows in supply and use a good hunter. Since I have set that up, i do not even use my "no food spoil" cheat anymore since I drown in meat, no need to use a trapper too anymore.

[Redhalo]

git guud son!

I jest, but this is a learning curve situation. I'm facing the same issues, but I'm getting better at placing my shots the more I practice. I killed my first deer the other day on the third shot.. They don't run far. I have also stopped using the harvest option to get wood out of small trees as you can just attack them and get the same effect. I now treat them as if they were target dummies, and i'm getting better at my melee too!

[Decado]

There's a learning curve to hunting deer but once you suss it out, it's not too bad.

What I do like is they're not reliable to kill, in that, you need to be setting out purposely looking for them to kill and be aware of your surroundings. You see heaps when just running around and naturally they flee.

Deers IRL bark when they sense danger, to warn others. They're not easy to just walk up to and peg. I feel like the deer in Bellwright are appropriate in difficulty in terms of the entire game.

And - they're actually not too bad now. Initially they were utterly balls with even larger sense radiuses, right now it's not too bad.

[Sir_Fell]

Practice works real well, took me awhile but now i can shoot down bandits that run straight at me, been using them to farm renown, best thing is to have wolves run straight at you and try to predict where the head is gonna be and shoot, you'll see somewhat where the arrow goes and if you are doing long range, aim at the head but try aiming abit higher since the arrow will hit the ground sooner if you are farther away gl with the practice :)

[starman01]

Technically, after getting a bit more better in hunting, the only thing I would like to see at deers being changed is another one-shot position at it's heart position. So you can sneak up at it's side, and have a slightly bigger target.

[T3mpestus]

10 arrows ... 7 deers.
Its about timing and aim. Learn your bow ... shoot him into head ... one arrow .. he is dead.
Just get closer, wait him to stand still and shoot. Its easy when you practice a little ... then when you got hunters .. they killing them rly fast.

[Tech Enthusiast]

They make it actually quite easy for you to one shot them. Just gotta be calm and aware of your souroundings.

BEFORE they run, the eye symbol shows up. Just stop at that very second.
A few moments later, the deer will face you, lift its head and stare at you. It won't move and it will keep presenting its head... just point the bow and finish it at that point.

If you step too close and it starts running, just ignore it and look for the next one.