Animals and vanishing acts

[garry619]

So I'm trying to get my hunting skill up to get my next bow, but has anyone else noticed how hard hunting is in this game?!

I mean, as a good example, you shoot a deer or a fox or wolf and they charge off much faster than you, making weird turns that should be impossible and, and this is my gripe, run into a rock face!!! The electric animals are even worse. Shoot them with a slow down arrow, a dispel magic arrow, any arrow and they charge for a second or two before vanishing in a cloud of smoke before you can get off a second shot!!!

I get they should be harder to kill, but do they have to make it so hard to put down an electric animal that you need a posse of a dozen other people to help you?!

[SimoonGryphon]

There is definitely some problems with (animals/bugs in particular) collision issues in the world. You may have also noticed sometimes when a player talks to an NPC, the player or the NPC may end up with their body in the ground.

Hoping this is something that will get kinks worked out as the game develops, and not one of those "this is a bug from Beta" that just exists in the game.

[Etny2k]

There are slowdown arrows.

[CursedXistence]

a good 3.4 of it is bad programming, the rest is under-powered / slow / no scaling servers.

[Batabii • Suikoden I&II HD]

A little of it is dependent on other players (and their awful internet connections), but also I've seen sernuk just spawn inside cliff walls, and PHS have the ability to not just teleport forward, but also up and down cliffs, making them harder to chase.

[Frieren]

if you are on keyboard holding down SHIFT makes you sprint, I never have had a problem chasing the white magical deer or other deers. I do recommend you level up hunting in kilima as the dark brown deer in bahari take 2 to 3 shots to take them down. The paler deer only take one shot. I usually run from the bahari gate over to the farm and kill all the deer and the chapaas that spawn.

[TGC> The Games Collector]

Yeah, you really need at least fine arrows to hunt in bahari bay.
3 shots to get elder sernuk. 2 for the wolves and chapaa.

Only annoyances I've had was creatures just teleporting away probably due to lag. It's annoying, I just miss because the creature runs up to a wall and disappears and then reappears half a mile away in another direction.

Also bugs crawling under the floor or through walls so you can't capture them.

And the worst I've had was finally killing one of those wolves that turn invisible, just to have the loot drop under the floor. Unable to pick it up.
I really hate it when stuff gets stuck in terrain like that.

[MadDawg2552]

It's a client / server sync issue. The server thinks the animal is in one spot, the client thinks it's in another. When the client catches up with the server, the animal is moved to the correct location.