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kelticpete Dec 30, 2016 @ 7:25am
"they only come out at night..." infinite wolves?
So I decided foolishly to walk back to cassardis for questing...and night fell. Did ok til I got to an area where I killed at least 12 wolves before I died. first time to die! anyway, no more night but wow. infinite respawn at night? or just like a brady bunch large family of them...
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Karathrax Dec 30, 2016 @ 7:54am 
There's a lot of them, but they're not infinite.
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Vepar Dec 30, 2016 @ 9:04am 
I leveled 3 times in one night thanks to those wolves. There's a swarm of them, and if i'm not mistaken, each howl duplicates a wolf once, so you can really be up your ass in wolves at night, but they're not infinite.
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AzKat 🐔 Dec 30, 2016 @ 9:51am 
the max amount of enemies that can be near you at all times is 30 (engine limitation), during the night you get close to that number.
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HypetheKomodo Dec 30, 2016 @ 11:33am 
Yeah, not infinite, but there's a lotttt.

You have to be way more careful at night. Unless you have a reason to, it's best not to explore at night.
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Huggles the Cat Dec 30, 2016 @ 2:11pm 
I feel it appropriate to quote the pawns.

"Wolve hunt in packs!"
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Chad "The King" ThunderCuck Dec 30, 2016 @ 2:14pm 
Originally posted by Vepar:
I leveled 3 times in one night thanks to those wolves. There's a swarm of them, and if i'm not mistaken, each howl duplicates a wolf once, so you can really be up your ass in wolves at night, but they're not infinite.
yup. thats why they are infinite. because if you dont have a missile attack, they will just outrun you every time and howl away whenever there is less then 4 of them
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Proconsul Dec 30, 2016 @ 2:21pm 
Originally posted by Vepar:
I leveled 3 times in one night thanks to those wolves. There's a swarm of them, and if i'm not mistaken, each howl duplicates a wolf once, so you can really be up your ass in wolves at night, but they're not infinite.


Originally posted by KINGS The King:
yup. thats why they are infinite. because if you dont have a missile attack, they will just outrun you every time and howl away whenever there is less then 4 of them

No, they do not duplicate, and they are not infinite. They just come in large packs during the day and larger packs at night. They also tend to retreat toward other nearby packs, so if you pursue you just blunder into more of them. And their howls call other nearby wolves even from other packs.
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Vepar Dec 30, 2016 @ 2:44pm 
Originally posted by Proconsul:
No, they do not duplicate, and they are not infinite. They just come in large packs during the day and larger packs at night. They also tend to retreat toward other nearby packs, so if you pursue you just blunder into more of them. And their howls call other nearby wolves even from other packs.

Really? I could have sworn i've seen a wolf howl, and another one popped in right next to him from thin air and started attacking... Granted, this might be a graphical glitch, but i never chase them around (i know better haha. :P), and 4 wolves can turn into 16 really fast if you leave them howling.
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Proconsul Dec 30, 2016 @ 2:51pm 
Sounds like a more distant wolf wasn't being rendered until it approached to within a certain range, then "pop", it rendered. Might be a video driver thing, but I never get that myself. I can see them very far off, so I never see them just "appear", but you aren't the only person I have heard of having that happen.
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Vepar Dec 30, 2016 @ 2:58pm 
Yeah, i've only seen it once so i can't be sure obviously, but i saw the first wolf howling, then another appeared next to it. If it was some graphic distance thing i shouldn't have been able to see the first one either.

Oh well, they're great for grinding so i let them howl a bit, regardless if they're summining or if they're just calling others. :steammocking:

Not so fun when there's a chimera around though. :steammocking:
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Proconsul Dec 31, 2016 @ 1:02am 
Originally posted by Vepar:
Not so fun when there's a chimera around though. :steammocking:

Bleh. Just stick close to the chimera and it will kill a lot more wolves than you do! :-P
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Applied Mediocrity Dec 31, 2016 @ 4:25am 
Depends on your vocation, actually. Those with some kind of knockdown or at least stunning attack (afaik, available pretty early in the game) are in considerably less danger from wolf packs and other such mobs. Gives time to run away, at least.
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cdarklock Dec 31, 2016 @ 4:27am 
Yeah, the howl is definitely just the wolvish variety of a shield call. If you have high ground during the day and can see two packs, you can alert one and see the other continue wandering aimlessly until one of the first pack howls and SOME of the second pack runs to their aid. The rest are clearly just out of the howl's range.
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Vepar Dec 31, 2016 @ 5:56am 
Originally posted by Proconsul:
Originally posted by Vepar:
Not so fun when there's a chimera around though. :steammocking:

Bleh. Just stick close to the chimera and it will kill a lot more wolves than you do! :-P

Haha, i'll try that next time. :D
The main problem with "boss surrounded with normal monsters" thing i had is because i mainly run into them while escorting someone. Now, that would be fine if the AI had any kind of survival skills, but the NPC escort AI is the most braindead AI i've seen in any game. I've had an escort that literally walked circles around the Chimera and i couldn't get him to go away. Add wolves and/or harpies to that equation and it starts to be annoying at times.
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Proconsul Dec 31, 2016 @ 12:03pm 
Originally posted by Vepar:
The main problem with "boss surrounded with normal monsters" thing i had is because i mainly run into them while escorting someone. Now, that would be fine if the AI had any kind of survival skills, but the NPC escort AI is the most braindead AI i've seen in any game. I've had an escort that literally walked circles around the Chimera and i couldn't get him to go away. Add wolves and/or harpies to that equation and it starts to be annoying at times.

Reading that I got a rather vivid image in my mind. Picture being at a circus when the clown car comes out during a lion tamer act. The clowns pile out dressed in phonied up armor with phony swords and knives. They immediately bumble over and start mock fighting with the lion tamers, the lions and each other. Further, while they have no weapon training of any kind, it turns out the clowns' weapons are real, drawing real blood....but their armor isn't. And of course the lions are real lions, and by this point are really ticked off lions, having had just about enough of these silly two-legged meat lockers.

Does that image seem more or less in line with the in-game experience the first time it happened to you?
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