Badgers

[Netatsake]

I've seen only a handful of badgers playing this game and I'm a little unsure as to why it is that the tamed badgers are able to scare off any form of animal. I don't understand at all what makes them so much more terrifying than everything else in the game, especially since they're so much more vocal about their presence. I've never even seen one try to attack anything other than me and my tames. Do they just feed off of air particles or something? They're literally the only predatory animals in the game that I've never once seen try to eat something else.

[Myrmidon]

This confuses me as well. Badgers are very very tough but beyond that there's nothing exceptional about them. They are hard to find agreed. I usually leave carcasses around their locations to attract them then loose an opportune arrow.

[Netatsake]

Originally posted by Myrmidon:

This confuses me as well. Badgers are very very tough but beyond that there's nothing exceptional about them. They are hard to find agreed. I usually leave carcasses around their locations to attract them then loose an opportune arrow.

Does that work with most predators, or just the smaller scavengers like dholes and badgers? I've been having a hard time finding black dholes specifically since I got the ability to tame things, and ideally I'd like to have everything even if there's a few I never use. Completionism, ho!

Edit: I find it especially strange that I don't see black dholes now, since I saw one with nearly every pack of 3-4 before. I've even gone back to areas where dholes are common to try and find one, but I'm only finding individual common dholes, even when I go without a tame active to keep from chasing them off.

[Just Chill]

Have a look onto the side quests on your map.
Be sure to spare the side quests with the paws, as those contain animals.

There is one with around 10 badgers and one with around 10 dholes.
That one with the dholes has also a high chance to spawn a rare black dhole.

Here is a small guide for those side quests and which animals they contain:
http://segmentnext.com/2016/02/24/far-cry-primal-help-wenja-beast-kill-quests-guide/

Have a look onto the one with the boar. On my regular savegame without permadeath that bear killed me once.
I am glad that I wasn't on my permadeath savegame. The bear swims from the other side of the river to the action with the boars and he even kills the boars for you.
Well, he is more interested in Takkar of course, if you're closer than any boar.

[Fab]

Originally posted by Netatsake:

I've seen only a handful of badgers playing this game and I'm a little unsure as to why it is that the tamed badgers are able to scare off any form of animal. I don't understand at all what makes them so much more terrifying than everything else in the game, especially since they're so much more vocal about their presence. I've never even seen one try to attack anything other than me and my tames. Do they just feed off of air particles or something? They're literally the only predatory animals in the game that I've never once seen try to eat something else.

Because real life honey badgers are vicious little buggers with practically no fear, razor-sharp teeth, strong bite and claws and a thick protective coat. They can fight and scare off lions in the real world. Somewhere in the middle east a group of them wandered into a village and the people thought they were demons.

The reason you've probably never seen them attack and eat prey animals in the game is because their AI is scripted for them to spend about 10-15 seconds taunting/growiling/chirping at an enemy before attacking.

They are also situated in parts of the map with un-even terrain and few ideal sized prey animals like goats and deer. (they seem to share territory with larger herbivores like yak and rhinos, and other larger predators like sabre-tooth tigers.)

This, coupled with the fact they are one of the slowest animals in the game, means most of their prey will be easily able to run away from them.

[Netatsake]

Originally posted by Just Chill:

Have a look onto the side quests on your map.
Be sure to spare the side quests with the paws, as those contain animals.

There is one with around 10 badgers and one with around 10 dholes.
That one with the dholes has also a high chance to spawn a rare black dhole.

Here is a small guide for those side quests and which animals they contain:
http://segmentnext.com/2016/02/24/far-cry-primal-help-wenja-beast-kill-quests-guide/

Have a look onto the one with the boar. On my regular savegame without permadeath that bear killed me once. :awkward:
I am glad that I wasn't on my permadeath savegame. The bear swims from the other side of the river to the action with the boars and he even kills the boars for you.
Well, he is more interested in Takkar of course, if you're closer than any boar.

I unfortunately already did the dhole quest, so I'm kinda screwed in that regard. I'll have to get lucky and find one near the village again, because I used to see them all the time in that area.

Originally posted by Qaynan:

Originally posted by Netatsake:

I've seen only a handful of badgers playing this game and I'm a little unsure as to why it is that the tamed badgers are able to scare off any form of animal. I don't understand at all what makes them so much more terrifying than everything else in the game, especially since they're so much more vocal about their presence. I've never even seen one try to attack anything other than me and my tames. Do they just feed off of air particles or something? They're literally the only predatory animals in the game that I've never once seen try to eat something else.

Because real life honey badgers are vicious little buggers with practically no fear, razor-sharp teeth, strong bite and claws and a thick protective coat. They can fight and scare off lions in the real world. Somewhere in the middle east a group of them wandered into a village and the people thought they were demons.

The reason you've probably never seen them attack and eat prey animals in the game is because their AI is scripted for them to spend about 10-15 seconds taunting/growiling/chirping at an enemy before attacking.

They are also situated in parts of the map with un-even terrain and few ideal sized prey animals like goats and deer. (they seem to share territory with larger herbivores like yak and rhinos, and other larger predators like sabre-tooth tigers.)

This, coupled with the fact they are one of the slowest animals in the game, means most of their prey will be easily able to run away from them.

So then, badgers must starve to death rather often in this game, if they prefer to scream at everything instead of eating it. >-> Explains why they're so damn hard to find.