I hate deer hunting

[mirko]

Yea I know it's been said in the past but I just started playing and it really fkn sucks to kill deer. Probably the worst part of the game right now. Devs, please fix.

[Ruffio]

I don't know if you play on the main branch or the beta one. But doing a new play through on the current beta and deer hunting never been easier, or at least what it feels like.

[tamu1997]

You have to take them down with head shots. Don't try chasing them down

[william_es]

Build a hunting lodge, and let your villagers do it. Make sure you put bows, quivers, and arrows in the inventory.

After that it's just free meat, hide, etc. Hunting lodge is also the only sane way to get feathers. The NPC's can shoot the birds down like they're firing laser beams. It traces a line straight to the bird from their bows.

[Djebble]

Hunting should be enjoyable, we need a crouch/stalk/stealth mechanic. As a hunter, headshots on deers and boars feels unnatural, heart hit best case, worst case lungs.

I also want to hunt humans, no lite-stealth is a bummer.

[BenchWarmer]

Originally posted by mirko:

Devs, please fix.

LOL

There's nothing to fix. You need to learn how to do it right.

[Ruffio]

Originally posted by tamu1997:

You have to take them down with head shots. Don't try chasing them down

Actually, if you hit one and they run off, they wont run as far as they used to. You can follow and then try shoot again. Forest/tree's act as obstacles and can make it a bit tricky sometimes though.

[pawelkrzyzak]

You need to hit the deer in the head.
"Before" deer were way harder to hunt, for they were more skittish and spooky. Now you can almost step on it before it runs off you. You need practice, that is all. But I understand frustration - I did brush against it playing the game. But then I thought again, to myself, I just need to find my way around it or learn how to do it, like in life. And I did learn. But the moment you will put up first hunters hut, you will be swimming in feather and deer remains.

[Xander Tyrann]

the way I do it is to hold right click and approach the deer until the wide eye symbol appears. When it does, the deer will soon freeze, lift its head and look at you. shortly after it will run. release you arrow at his head as soon as he looks at you as there is a couple of seconds where he will be frozen you can land the shot on his head.

and since the distance that eye symbol appears is always roughly the same, you will quickly get the instinct of the correct place to aim.

[tr0mp]

No it is true, with low level archery and simple arrows - hunting deer is tough, but not impossibble. Leveling up your archery by practising on bandits is a sound advice.

Also, you can buy some hides at different traders untill you reach a skill level that allows deer hunting. Sturdy arrows also make it much eassier to get a one-shot-kill.

[tamu1997]

Originally posted by Ruffio:

Originally posted by tamu1997:

You have to take them down with head shots. Don't try chasing them down

Actually, if you hit one and they run off, they wont run as far as they used to. You can follow and then try shoot again. Forest/tree's act as obstacles and can make it a bit tricky sometimes though.

Thought that was a change still only in preview, but admittedly I havent done my own hunting in live in awhile

[Ruffio]

Originally posted by tamu1997:

Originally posted by Ruffio:

Actually, if you hit one and they run off, they wont run as far as they used to. You can follow and then try shoot again. Forest/tree's act as obstacles and can make it a bit tricky sometimes though.

Thought that was a change still only in preview, but admittedly I havent done my own hunting in live in awhile

Probably on beta then, as that is what I play.

[Tanyon]

Inthe BETA they have made deer hunting laughable.. if you miss now they simply stay there.. it should take you about 5 arrows total to get it figured out where you have to aim to get a head shot.. it is EXTREMELY easy now.. and once you get to 3 in archery.. it's basically a 100% chance to hit.. you'd have to be blind to not hit/kill them. then there is the hunting lodge.. once you get that it's GGs. I have not shot my own deer in 50+ hours.. I hope to never see another one of these posts again.

[william_es]

Originally posted by Tanyon:

then there is the hunting lodge.. once you get that it's GGs. I have not shot my own deer in 50+ hours.. I hope to never see another one of these posts again.

Yeah, I built the hunting lodge, and few days later I had 123 units of hide in my storage. And boatloads of feathers. I set deer and ravens to priority 2.

[mirko]

Originally posted by BenchWarmer:

Originally posted by mirko:

Devs, please fix.

LOL

There's nothing to fix. You need to learn how to do it right.

Stay hidden, approach perpendicularly, line up head shot, 1 shot kill. Yea I know. It's not fun and it's frustrating as all hell.

[Zalzany]

Yeah its more of a skill issue, they super easy to hunt, and will be even easier if they keep it up on next public release I only trouble the first 2, and now even with the simple stuff and zero archery skill I cna head shot them almost every time from afar. It just takes practice, and its not a hunter sims guys the "you aim for the heart" heart is a harder shot then head just saying, hear is not as big or easy to tell as the freaking head so its a BS excuse especially when almost no games have that.

Its not the hunter you want a one shot aim for the head, and in those hunting games only reason headshot is bad is it ruins it as a trophy kill but you are after the PELT and meat so head shot would be the best if you can do it, you not here to mount its head on a wall.

Anyways yeah just practice actually try to aim, head shots are easiest way to hunt them and once you get the lodge its stupid easy mode to get their pelts, you literally do nothing and get piles of them. And again it use to be way harder you had to fire from a pretty good distance and become a master of the arrow drop originally to head shot them now you can get way closer to them to where the I can't do a headshot excuse is kind of sad... And in the beta its even more easy to get close..