Can the Bear Spear be used on wolves?

[hermanJnr.]

I know this sounds like a dumb question given the name of the weapon but I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere.

AFAIK devs said the spear mechanics are still being developed (hence presumably why the spear is not yet in Survival, only Wintermute) but I'm curious as to whether anyone has killed or fought off a wolf with it.

In my experience so far, lowering the spear causes the wolf to stop charging, but then it immediately charges and bites you right after your stamina depletes and the spear raises again. I tried several times but ended up just getting bitten repeatedly.

[Yeoman]

I’ve experienced the same thing as you, and have had the wolf attack once when the spear was lowered, but he essentially just dived at me anyway and it went to a struggle. I’m really hoping and expecting that it’ll work on wolves. I wouldn’t see why it would be limited to bears only.

[hermanJnr.]

Originally posted by TheNobleYeoman:

I’ve experienced the same thing as you, and have had the wolf attack once when the spear was lowered, but he essentially just dived at me anyway and it went to a struggle. I’m really hoping and expecting that it’ll work on wolves. I wouldn’t see why it would be limited to bears only.

Interesting. I'm imagining that the spear is currently only animated to work with bears and the animations for impaling a wolf aren't in the game yet.

Of course the spear probably also needs to be balanced too so you can't just go around spearing wolves effortlessly with it unless you're careful to use it well.

It'd be nice if you could right click to "jab" with the spear. Maybe the wolves are too fast to get stuck on it like the bears, but you can jab for less stamina and it deflects their attack and makes them bleed like arrows.

The trade-off is that "jabs" do nothing to bears at all, so you need to impale them. Doing it this way, the devs wouldn't have to add many new animations either.

[Lexford]

When I attempted to use it on a wolf, the guy was too smart to leap at me when I had the spear raised, so he kept his distance, snarling and waiting for me to exhaust. It kinda sucks, but oh well.

[Ravenwolf Silvermoon]

Hello. The spear does not work on wovles. They continue to attack.