No Animals! Sick of walking around....

[Dr.Gonzo]

Nothing works... it feels empty. And when theres animal i hit they run away i lost it.... im sick of spending hours in this game.

[Kaned Dragon]

New to the wild?

It's a slow paced games, and it's like a stealth game at times. Go for the lungs or heart. The animals will run a bit, unless you get the heart or brain. The brain is hard to get. If you see very low bleed rate, the animal won't die for ages if at all.

[dgeesio & ronMctube]

location is the key of the game. once you learn where animals reside you can kill more than enough. this takes time to learn.

[FT]

There are tonnes of animals in the game mate, stop running around, you'll scare everything. You need to walk and crouch, and place your shots. Shoot them in the front chest region for the lungs.

[Kaned Dragon]

If you see animals resting or drinking / eating. Once you've shot and it's run away, just chill for about 5 minutes. The animal have a very bad memory and will come back.

Don't run much as the noise can spook animal from quite a distance away.

Also don't bother shooting the animal when your over 150 meters away. There seems to be an issue atm and the rifles just aren't impacting like they used to and long distance shots are very hard and kinda random.

[Jayombi]

Dont worry, I felt the same as was new to the Hunter series... Watched a load of YT vids and got a lot of tips. Its like Sniper Elite with animals.. slow paced but highly satisfying.

[CaptainNebulous]

Once you learn how to play properly you'll be killing like $30k worth of animals per hour.

But if you're trying to play it like a 100% arcade game, and RPG shooter, or a typical first person shooter then you're going to get nowhere in it.

[CaptainNebulous]

Originally posted by Kaned Dragon:

If you see animals resting or drinking / eating. Once you've shot and it's run away, just chill for about 5 minutes. The animal have a very bad memory and will come back.

Don't run much as the noise can spook animal from quite a distance away.

Also don't bother shooting the animal when your over 150 meters away. There seems to be an issue atm and the rifles just aren't impacting like they used to and long distance shots are very hard and kinda random.

Double lung at over 300 meters is still very easy though.

[Hidden Gunman]

Caution, stealth and patience are the key.

[Mr. Ed]

Walking around is not hunting and neither is running. There is a noise indicator on the HUD. Anything over 2 white bars can and will spook some animals that are 100 meters away from U. Have you checked your hunters profile page lately? There is a tally on it which tells you how many animals you have scared away by sight, smell and noise. You might be surprised to find out how many of these "non-existent" animals have been around.

Don't overlook water sources as you hunt. Not necessarily along the shore, but within 100m or so of them. U are looking for need zones (glowing spindly weeds or roughly circular areas with a lot of tracks in them). Investigating these will get you a time frame when animals are most likely to be in that area. Shooting animals in the chest as they are facing towards you is usually a way to guarantee you will be following a blood trail (unless you hit the heart). Tracking an animal can be quite challenging. After the shot and before you move one inch, mark the spot the animal was standing at when you hit it. Then sit tight, listen and watch. Many animals return to the area within 5-10 min (sometimes a wounded one will return to within a few feet of where you wounded it). Check your map. When an animal has died the area it was shot will turn pinkish colored. Above all, NEVER run after a wounded animal right away. If you do it may run to China before it dies.

[TamponTimmy]

Originally posted by CaptainNebulous:

Once you learn how to play properly you'll be killing like $30k worth of animals per hour.

Weird flex.


No one kills $30k an hour. That's an animal every 90 seconds or so.

[Flash Point]

Originally posted by TamponTimmy:

Originally posted by CaptainNebulous:

Once you learn how to play properly you'll be killing like $30k worth of animals per hour.

Weird flex.


No one kills $30k an hour. That's an animal every 90 seconds or so.

Well its quite accurate, maybe 1 animal in 2 min . For example you walking down the shore , you see a pack of deer, 1 down , 8 other running away , they r comming back in about 50 sec , boom another one and so on.

And yeah , the main answer - just stop sprinting for once and you will start finding tons of animals

[CaptainNebulous]

Originally posted by TamponTimmy:

Originally posted by CaptainNebulous:

Once you learn how to play properly you'll be killing like $30k worth of animals per hour.

Weird flex.


No one kills $30k an hour. That's an animal every 90 seconds or so.

It was exaggerated lol but I usually do 3 to 4 hour sessions and I never come out of that with less than around 40k to 50k profit. I'm not the type to hunt females either unless they're a species where females give good trophies. At the same time I don't tunnel vision on just the larger game but I also will hit rabbits and ducks as I come across them as well. I'd say on average I kill an animal every 5 to 10 minutes when I focus is on hot spots. I don't always even want hot spots though sometimes I want a nice chill hunt in Hirsh or at more abstract areas of a map so in that case I make a bit less.

[Kaned Dragon]

Originally posted by CaptainNebulous:

Double lung at over 300 meters is still very easy though.

Mmmmmmm, I think I need to visit the rifle range in Hirsch. I've been having no luck with long distance shots recently. I can't tell if it's me or the rifles at this point.

[baldeagle3415]

I am seeing a reduction in animal population also. Dont know if they have moved or there are simply not as many. Since my game is no longer saving my kills and if I leave and come back you cant tell I was ever hunting I get no rewards, my ammo count is never right, and I cannot find anyone to report this to who will repair the problem

[Hidden Gunman]

Originally posted by baldeagle3415:

I am seeing a reduction in animal population also. Dont know if they have moved or there are simply not as many. Since my game is no longer saving my kills and if I leave and come back you cant tell I was ever hunting I get no rewards, my ammo count is never right, and I cannot find anyone to report this to who will repair the problem

Have you raised it in 'bug reports' or 'technical issues'?