How can I deal with wolves?

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I've been using a torch when they come to me but they don't feel scared about it or with flares even when I throw it to them, what can I do?
I'm player voyager mode

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Originally posted by micah6vs8:

Rifle? Bow? Hatchet? Knife? Hammer? Bait? Stalk? Run? Crouch as default move speed?

Change attitude to that of, "The wolves are in My world. They exist at my discretion. I need to be mindful."?

Now I can see why you got only 5 friends
I have no bow, I don't usually have the rifle and sometimes I don't wanna get injured by them so knife is last option dude, if you run they run and they catch you, if you have meat you can't avoid them because they smell you so I don't understand why flare it doesn't work and some months ago It worked

[Metro]

Originally posted by Miau:

Originally posted by micah6vs8:

Rifle? Bow? Hatchet? Knife? Hammer? Bait? Stalk? Run? Crouch as default move speed?

Change attitude to that of, "The wolves are in My world. They exist at my discretion. I need to be mindful."?

Now I can see why you got only 5 friends
I have no bow, I don't usually have the rifle and sometimes I don't wanna get injured by them so knife is last option dude, if you run they run and they catch you, if you have meat you can't avoid them because they smell you so I don't understand why flare it doesn't work and some months ago It worked

That salt. Some people only have friends on their friends list who are their actual friends. N-e-wayz... how is it you have 50+ hours in this game and don't know how to deal with wolves? So long as you have an active torch or flare a wolf won't attack you. If you want to scare them off you have to stop moving, wait until they're growling at you, and then throw it.

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Originally posted by Metro:

Originally posted by Miau:

Now I can see why you got only 5 friends
I have no bow, I don't usually have the rifle and sometimes I don't wanna get injured by them so knife is last option dude, if you run they run and they catch you, if you have meat you can't avoid them because they smell you so I don't understand why flare it doesn't work and some months ago It worked

That salt. Some people only have friends on their friends list who are their actual friends. N-e-wayz... how is it you have 50+ hours in this game and don't know how to deal with wolves? So long as you have an active torch or flare a wolf won't attack you. If you want to scare them off you have to stop moving, wait until they're growling at you, and then throw it.

Salt? I don't have to endure the irony of a bitter dude
I did it, but then they are growling to me and I throw the flare the wolf come to attack me

[IFIYGD]

Flare and torch only have a chance of working. If you throw a flare, you quite literally need to hit the wolf in the face or chest with it. Torches will work more often if you hold it directly between you and them, in their direct line of sight, and back away from them, slowly, never breaking their line of sight on the torch. But neither is guaranteed to work. And both need pretty specific timing. That moment they pause before launching into an attack on you.

Stones sometimes work to distract them. On rare occasions, hitting a wolf in the face with one will get it to run off, but in my experience, it is not reliable. If they have not locked onto you fully yet, throwing the stone behind them, or off to the side, far enough away that it breaks their aggro range, they *may* break off to go investigate the sound of the stone landing.

Crouching before they are locked onto you can break their "detection", and have them ignore you. Moving away slowly before they are locked on, and breaking line of sight by getting behind a hill, rock, tree... may work.

Decoys work pretty well if you do it right. Drop the decoy, and step slowly away, straight backwards if possible. Don't run. The wolf will usually take the bait and move away. But they may also ignore it if they are locked onto you. If they do take it, don;t stick around to watch. They will often gulp it down, turn around, and come back.

Lighting a fire or fires where they will be in direct line of sight works best, but if it is not directly between you and them, or they can't see it because you are blocking their line of sight... they will not be frightened by it. \

Best way is avoidance, if at all possible, Don't travel in heavily guarded wolf patrol areas. Don;t carry meat, fish, guts and hides through wolf patrol areas. Going the long way around may take more time, but it's better to be tired and alive, than in a striggle that may leave you injured or dead. Never go out of a building in an area frequented by wolves standing up. Crouch. Never count on anything working 100% of the time. They are desperate to survive, just like you are. Their hunger + the smell of meat or blood, even your own, may override their fear of you.

The other option is to play using custom settings, and trn wolf fear up so they are more fearful, turn their detection range down, so they have to be closer to detect you and lock onto you. Or do dispaosbale runs, to practice different techniques and strategies to find what works best for you and your unique playstyle. You'll die often, until you learn what works and how to do it, which is why I say "disposable" runs. Once you find what works for you, go back to your long-term saved run, and get back into it. Or start a new one, with more skill and knowledge under your belt.

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Originally posted by IFIYGD:

Flare and torch only have a chance of working. If you throw a flare, you quite literally need to hit the wolf in the face or chest with it. Torches will work more often if you hold it directly between you and them, in their direct line of sight, and back away from them, slowly, never breaking their line of sight on the torch. But neither is guaranteed to work. And both need pretty specific timing. That moment they pause before launching into an attack on you.

Stones sometimes work to distract them. On rare occasions, hitting a wolf in the face with one will get it to run off, but in my experience, it is not reliable. If they have not locked onto you fully yet, throwing the stone behind them, or off to the side, far enough away that it breaks their aggro range, they *may* break off to go investigate the sound of the stone landing.

Crouching before they are locked onto you can break their "detection", and have them ignore you. Moving away slowly before they are locked on, and breaking line of sight by getting behind a hill, rock, tree... may work.

Decoys work pretty well if you do it right. Drop the decoy, and step slowly away, straight backwards if possible. Don't run. The wolf will usually take the bait and move away. But they may also ignore it if they are locked onto you. If they do take it, don;t stick around to watch. They will often gulp it down, turn around, and come back.

Lighting a fire or fires where they will be in direct line of sight works best, but if it is not directly between you and them, or they can't see it because you are blocking their line of sight... they will not be frightened by it. \

Best way is avoidance, if at all possible, Don't travel in heavily guarded wolf patrol areas. Don;t carry meat, fish, guts and hides through wolf patrol areas. Going the long way around may take more time, but it's better to be tired and alive, than in a striggle that may leave you injured or dead. Never go out of a building in an area frequented by wolves standing up. Crouch. Never count on anything working 100% of the time. They are desperate to survive, just like you are. Their hunger + the smell of meat or blood, even your own, may override their fear of you.

The other option is to play using custom settings, and trn wolf fear up so they are more fearful, turn their detection range down, so they have to be closer to detect you and lock onto you. Or do dispaosbale runs, to practice different techniques and strategies to find what works best for you and your unique playstyle. You'll die often, until you learn what works and how to do it, which is why I say "disposable" runs. Once you find what works for you, go back to your long-term saved run, and get back into it. Or start a new one, with more skill and knowledge under your belt.

Thank you so much. One question: what is that setting? I started to play this game almost a year ago but I died a lot and I stopped playing the game and now I just resumed an old saved game but I've never seen that kind of settings.

[IFIYGD]

When you start a new game, on the screen where you choose Pilgrim, Voyageur, Stalker or Interloper... the Custom settings game is at the bottom of the list. The icon for it is a red toolbox. Choose that. On the next screen, up top, you can choose a template. Either one of the 4 standard modes, or a fully custom mode. I'd recommend starting with the Voyageur template. Then you have 56 settings you can adjust. Take your time, read each and every one, so you know what they are, and how they work. And just and FYI- the descriptions for some are kind of vague, and there is a possiblity that some are not working as expected. I haven't played with them much, so I can't really say if they all work correctly or not.

There is one really interesting setting... day length. If you change it, you can lengthen the IRL time scaling for the day/night cycle. At the top end, daylight will last for 4-ish IRL hours, and night for 4-ish IRL hours. Hunger, thirst, fatigue, decay rates all scale with the setting. That could be helpful to slow things down while you test new strategies and techniques.

It may take multiple tries to find the settings that customize the game to find exactly what you want, so play with things and test it. And you can generate a code before you exit the settings menu and start the game, that will allow you to enter the code at the start of anothe new game, and retain those settings. Right now you need to either take a screenshot of the code, or write it down, exactly as it appears on the screen, to be able to input it again later. They are trying to find a way to let us save it to the clipboard or to share on social media directly from the game, but they haven't gotten there yet.

[Agrorix]

Flare and torch work fine if you manage to make the wolf step on it, meaning you have to throw it and then strafe to always keep it between you and the wolf, until he step on it.

If you become cocky you can even throw a path of fire and deal with several wolves at a time, but this need perfect timing, as having prepared several torches of course.

[Mister Eon]

Try tossing a pair of pants at them. My experience is that wolves seem to favour the pants when attacking, so maybe they'll go after a pair of pants?