Tracks aging to quickly.

[McSqurl Nugget]

Shot a mile deer in PF just now. Took me 2:28 real time to get from shooting position to the track, stupid water buffalo wanted to play along the way.

Blood splatter was fresh, not just now like it should have been, not very fresh, just fresh.

Next track to see age was Disturbed veg, at 2:54, it was old, next track was poop, at 3:17 on my stopwatch and was very old, body was just after that, 117m tracking distance.

[SaharaDesert]

Tracks turn "very old" much faster now??

Shot a moose from a hunting stand, ca 250m away. Didnt manage to kill it. Walk over to the tracks and the tracks are already very old. Run after the tracks, ca 12 tracks later I hear warning call and there it is. How come the tracks were already "very old"...is it supposed to be like that?

[Rookie-31st]

Yes, it goes from 'Just now' to 'Fresh' in less than 5 minutes now, aging is sped up. Not sure if designed or oversight

[AintJaMama (Joe/BrotherBoaz)]

If your sure, report this to the devs so they are aware. Nice job ferreting this out.

[Lenny Rat]

Even with an acceleration of track aging, going to "very old" that fast should not happen. Very old should be at least 1 hour or longer.

Is it possible that you happened upon overlapping tracks from the same animal? It happens quite often.

If not, I'd check it for repeatability before reporting it.

[SaharaDesert]

Originally posted by Lenny Rat:

Even with an acceleration of track aging, going to "very old" that fast should not happen. Very old should be at least 1 hour or longer.

Is it possible that you happened upon overlapping tracks from the same animal? It happens quite often.

If not, I'd check it for repeatability before reporting it.

One ingame hour you mean, right?

[PicSoul]

Just Now
0 - 6 min

Very Fresh
6 - 11 min

Fresh
11 - 21 min

Old
21 - 31 min

Very Old
31+ min

If I remember correctly, these are the realtime minutes for droppings.

[Nightwalker]

I've found that poo piles are actually aging faster, at least on LL.

[Zupanicarr]

Yeah, it used to be 0-6 minutes for just now, 6-11 for very fresh, etc, but now it's significantly shorter. I shot a boar but went to catch something else I had downed earlier, I came back maybe five minutes later at most and the blood splatter was "fresh".
Seems to be across all ageing track types.
Given that it's not mentioned in the patchnotes, and the devs don't seem to have mentioned it anywhere, this probably is a bug.

[sneakybass]

Originally posted by SaharaDesert:

Shot a moose from a hunting stand, ca 250m away. Didnt manage to kill it. Walk over to the tracks and the tracks are already very old. Run after the tracks, ca 12 tracks later I hear warning call and there it is. How come the tracks were already "very old"...is it supposed to be like that?

Yea kind of stupid as you think about It I can see a half hour or hour five minutes lololol

[cbrrrman]

I've been here since the games inception. 6000+ hrs played.
It has become less then fun and it now requires more effort / thinking.
I'm at Lvl 60... and I'm only bringing one rifle now as it means little to me on meeting the gamer's / Dev's requirements. I often wish they would just go back to the beginning.
At least then there were less bugs and it was less complicated.
I'm not really into the complications in a game. ( some like it / some don't )
I came to this game to avoid the real life drama and having to think about it.

Hope you all have fun with it. ( I had fun with it in the earlier days )

[Mira ~]

The poop tracks definitly age much much faster now, that was a thing in the beta already. I don't see any reason why that would be intended so I assume it's a bug, posting it in the bug report forum might help them to see and fix it.

[CaptainNebulous]

Originally posted by Milophie:

The poop tracks definitly age much much faster now, that was a thing in the beta already. I don't see any reason why that would be intended so I assume it's a bug, posting it in the bug report forum might help them to see and fix it.

It COULD be intended, as there was a lot of misconceptions that poop saying "fresh" meant the animal was surely still in the immediately area, when many times it was at least a couple hundred meters away.

Before when chasing down a track, I'd keep at full walk or run until it went to "very fresh" then start slowing it down. Now it might be more in line of.... running at "very old" and then slowing down a notch for every next most recent poop.... so go to walk at "old", fast crouch at "fresh", slow crouch at "very fresh" and just stop and call at "just now"

Could be easier to understand for new players. We'll have to wait and see..... if it isn't a bug, that is.

[Snail Rancher]

I've had blood splatters go from "just now" to "very fresh" in less than a minute IRL now. By the time I found the animal (which was about 250m away), the tracks were "old", but I think I had been tracking maybe 5 minutes or so. Clearly there is a problem now.

[Cederic]

I agree, I'm finding this change to be unhelpful.

[CajunRon]

I'm not worried about the aging of the blood spots...regardless of age they'll still lead you to the kill. But I really depend on the age of the poo. When I get the "I found some tracks...will send you the coordinates" message sometimes I find very old poo so I don't bother tracking, this was even before Score 2.0. But now if it ages quicker I'll be ignoring tracks that maybe I shouldn't.