What determines whether capture can be revives?

[Jon.Topps]

I believe I've seen someone asking this elsewhere, but I can't find it again.
I FINALLY caught a Crescent Vulpaphyla (last new pet I need), and Son doesn't have it as an option to revive it... I believe this happens fairly often, so I'm just wondering, is it random? Do you need a certain amount of them to revive one? Is it just bugged?
I got a perfect capture for it, so that can't be it.

[Makoto Naegi]

I think you need to find specifically ones that are "wounded" or "weakened" or something along those lines. The ones that you find fighting against a group of infested. The ones that are just wandering around like normal conservation animals only give you the tags, they don't let you revive them.

[GladiatorDragon]

You need to find those that have engaged in battle with the Infested.

[Ivara Ara]

I just give the ones i find a bullet or two and that downs them for me, lets me then revive them so

[Rays of Apollo]

Originally posted by Ivara Ara:

I just give the ones i find a bullet or two and that downs them for me, lets me then revive them so

"Hi there little guy. How ya doin? Hey, do you think you could hold something for me?"

[Jon.Topps]

Oh interesting. So, suppose I do a conservation and get a Crescent, can I then sleep it with Equinox, and then injure it. Will that let me revive it you think?

EDIT: I can confirm this does work. I had 12 Slys before going in, and all I did was one conservation, and it was a Sly. I put it to sleep (Equinox not tranqs), and it's named changed to weakened, but that makes it immune to damage (I'm guessing because it thinks you want to capture it). I waited for it to wake up, and then lightly damaged it, but it's health was gone immediately. It fell over, so I caught it, and returned to town, and now I have 13 Slys ready for reviving. Not sure if it's random, or something specific I did, but it was a conservation, I damaged it, and now I have a new potential pet.

Tried with a second one, when it shows up, just damaging it didn't work, so I damaged it more, and it just died...

Just did two more, exactly as the first. I put it to sleep with Equinox, waited for it to wake up, and then attacked it. For whatever reason, doing this allows it to fall down weakened, rather than die, and then it counts towards revivication.

And the bad news, just did it again with a Panzer, and when it woke up, attacking it killed it. I have no idea what's going on now.

Just had another Panzer. Put it to sleep multiple times, and whittled its health down with an unmodded weapon. It NEVER got the "weakened" note in its name. Eventually, I did too much damage, and it died. The weakened aspect is definitely the important part, so I guess, if it says weakened, grab it? Otherwise, I guess you just gotta get lucky with mobs attacking it, or your abilities working.

[King Rath]

they have to be damaged so much by infested before it becomes weakened, call one with the conservation and hide untill it agros some infested

[Jon.Topps]

SO ANGRY!!
I finally got a Crescent to show up. And I sat there staring at it, 100m in the air, until finally some mobs attacked it, and it got weakened. I then captured it. The capture says weakened Cresent, I have a screenshot to prove it. I get into town, go to Son... still no Crescent option...
What in the world do I have to do for this stupid thing!?

[WZ]

hunt with Ivara so you have perma inviz
clear the area of infested before calling the animal
after it spawns, go find some more infested & lure them back to the pet
do not tranq & capture it as soon as "weakened" appears
let the infested massacre it all the way down to zero health
they can't actually kill it - it will sit there wounded & not flee
you can then capture it without tranq

[Jon.Topps]

Yes I've done that, still didn't count. There's a bunch of other people complaining in the bug forums about it I just saw, so it seems like there's a bug where weakened ones sometimes don't count.

On another note, none of my new companions are giving me mastery after I rank them (and yes they're gilded), so there's bugs there too...