Weird Vulture Behavior

[samcharles77]

So I was working on my base at night. It got near 4 am and three vultures spawned in the area. The funny thing is they just flew around for hours. My base has a cell phone tower next to it so I climbed to see if they would attack me. They did not. I managed to wing one with blunderbuss and then it went right for me.
It seems like the vultures didn't consider me an enemy.

Has anyone else experienced this and/or is it a known issue?

Edit: I also meant to add now I have two vultures following me around. I'd like to get rid of them but I'm still in the first week. I only have a primitive bow and a blunderbuss. Any ideas?

[DthBlayde]

Vults will circle about and remain non-hostile if you're not injured. Kinda just.. fly about lookin for that free bleedin out meal.

[samcharles77]

Thanks, this is good information for me to know.

[Rio]

You can damage yourself so they'll attack and then kill them with power attacks from your fist or wood club.

Only vultures tied to a POI attack you if your at full hp. Unless its a bloodmoon or you've been inside a truck/motorcycle/etc.

[NocternalDaze]

Well i had a scenario where i was not injured and had vultures circle me all night, but the next day when i was not expecting it they started attacking me even though i had no injuries. So to me they do seem bugged being they are only suppose to attack players when the player is injured or as part of a horde.

[DthBlayde]

Originally posted by NocternalDaze:

Well i had a scenario where i was not injured and had vultures circle me all night, but the next day when i was not expecting it they started attacking me even though i had no injuries. So to me they do seem bugged being they are only suppose to attack players when the player is injured or as part of a horde.

player injured. Part of a horde. part of a poi. While trying to escape on vehicles. These are the attack conditions I'm aware of. Were you riding anywhere when they decided to attack?

[NocternalDaze]

Originally posted by DthBlayde:

Originally posted by NocternalDaze:

Well i had a scenario where i was not injured and had vultures circle me all night, but the next day when i was not expecting it they started attacking me even though i had no injuries. So to me they do seem bugged being they are only suppose to attack players when the player is injured or as part of a horde.

player injured. Part of a horde. part of a poi. While trying to escape on vehicles. These are the attack conditions I'm aware of. Were you riding anywhere when they decided to attack?

Was out in the open on my way to do a quest when they decided to start attacking which only time i have known them to do that was when i was on a minibike in the burnt biome.

Unlike this time where i was in forest biome and was travelling by foot which is why i believe they seem to be bugged in some scenarios.

[DthBlayde]

Originally posted by NocternalDaze:

Originally posted by DthBlayde:

player injured. Part of a horde. part of a poi. While trying to escape on vehicles. These are the attack conditions I'm aware of. Were you riding anywhere when they decided to attack?

Was out in the open on my way to do a quest when they decided to start attacking which only time i have known them to do that was when i was on a minibike in the burnt biome.

Unlike this time where i was in forest biome and was travelling by foot which is why i believe they seem to be bugged in some scenarios.

Fair enough. I can only speak from personal experience, but in that instance it does sound flaky. Might be the behavior was changed to a random chance of attack regardless.

[NocternalDaze]

Originally posted by DthBlayde:

Originally posted by NocternalDaze:

Was out in the open on my way to do a quest when they decided to start attacking which only time i have known them to do that was when i was on a minibike in the burnt biome.

Unlike this time where i was in forest biome and was travelling by foot which is why i believe they seem to be bugged in some scenarios.

Fair enough. I can only speak from personal experience, but in that instance it does sound flaky. Might be the behavior was changed to a random chance of attack regardless.

Yep i agree although i could not confirm this was the case as i have not seen anything in any patch notes stating their behaviour has changed. Only happened once so i am keeping a close eye on it to see if it does happen again at some stage.

[jswilliams]

I got spawn jumped by a vulture flock exiting the forest trader (not Jenn). Anyway, I was slightly wounded and my bike was "hurt" so once i got on they all came for me...but in waves, which was weird. One at a time but there was 6 of them before it was done. I've never been jumped by a flock anywhere. Plus this same playthru I went to the cell tower across from the BombShelter just on the burnt biome/green border. The vulture many of them didn't activate as I approached them. I didn't even know they werre vultures...lost them in the ground clutter of gnawed corpses all over the place.

[The Plum Gate]

I find the best early game weapon against vultures is a bone shiv / bone knife. Power attack can cause them to bleed out mid flight or kill them right away.

Getting stuck on random objects while trying to dodge them is a huge problem for me - theres no easy way to tell where they in flight around your head and they're pretty much silent.

I noticed a similar circling vulture the other day, it was early game. I think I just left it alone, didn't follow me or anything.

I use a knife or a pistol depending on circumstances and game stage. If I have to hit it more than once. I want it on fire or bleeding out.

I'll use the torch early game for fire damage - it's a slow weapon with unpredictable results, but it never degrades and provides an attack interruption.