Tips about buffalo aggresivity

[lagosuchus]

Hello people,

I've just begun playing Vurhonga savanna and I had my first encounter with cape buffalo. I was peacefully reading something in a point of interest when two of them came to me. I can promise you I didn't attack them! They came from nowhere and gored me to death. I avoided them a few times but they didn't seem to leave. I also fired up to the air, as I had an improper ammo to kill them, but they were unimpressed.

Do they ever go away when you avoid them or they stay forever until they kill you(or you kill them) ?

[Pete Gaimari]

They sound worse than the Bison and they're bad.

Although Cape Buffalo for real are killers too, so at least it's real. I don't have that map but if I did i'd make sure I had a gun with me that would kill them.

[Pinger]

unless you hurt them enough without killing they wont go away, carry the best you can of the rank 9 ammo classes 7mm/300/338/454 pistol, edit forgot the 10 bore SG with slug round

[Boomer]

Run for the water, I don't think they will enter it.

[eagle74]

Welcome to Africa. Cape Buffs are psycho & once they attack its a fight to the death. The fight does not end until one of you is dead. I have even had them show up at the outpost where I respawned after they killed me to continue the attack. Realistic, no?

Edit: I don't set foot in Africa without the 454. Its the quickest SD weapon for me.

[Carstein83]

Some of them flee, some of them attack you, if they notice u. If they attack, they fight till death. The best weapon to stop them efficiently is the .470 imo.
If you just started the game, don´t choose vurhonga as your first map, it´s due to the aggressive class 9 animals absolutley not noob-friendly.

[Striker]

I know for a fact that Water buffs will enter shallow water these days. The Capes I haven't tried lately but they did used to stop at the waters edge. When I'm on a tripod both cape and water buffs that charge me will run around beneath the stand until they get good and tired (which takes quite awhile). If you are on foot and get charged the good news is that you can run faster than the buffalo (not sure about bison). Expect to have to run as much as 200 meters or so before the more aggressive ones will give up the chase. I usually set up a tent within about 80 meters of my stands/tripods then fast travel to it. Gives me enough time to take the scope off the .300 or grab the .470 and shoot them as they change from attacking the stand to coming after me in the tent. You can shoot out the door of the tent but have to right up at it or the tent will eat your bullet. Buffalo/Bison/African Lions can all kill you when you are in a tent or any of the "pay to build" ground blinds or elevated stands.
Now you know it's best to stay out of buff territory until you have a big gun or a tripod to safely perch on.

[Hidden Gunman]

Play it safe. If it's aggressive, it will hunt you. If it runs into scrub, it will be waiting for you. If it has friends around, they will join in, a lot of the time.

Best suggestion is the .470, and if it is coming at you aim for the tip of the nose. You can jump out of the way of a charge if you keep your nerve and time your dodge.

My tactic on buffalo is to get down on your belly and crawl in close, 10 to 20 metres is good, 5 metres is great.

Bit of related advice, if you are following lion into scrub, move off to the side so that you are just keeping the lion track in visibility, move carefully, listen and look around you. They have a habit of lying in wait behind bushes and in thick scrub, and they also circle around to your flank or behind you and come in from a direction you wouldn't expect. They also do that when there are several of them...I've knocked a few over that have circled round and had a go after I'd dropped the one I was tracking.

It's a worthwhile exercise with lion and puma to check all the tracks they've made before you claim them after a kill...you can pick up a lot on their behaviour which can save your butt at some point.

[DanthemanBoone]

I hunt Cape buffalo a lot and have found the best weapon is the crossbow. The reason being is if you shoot at them with a firearm they will mob you nearly every time but you can get right in among them and kill one with the crossbow and the rest of the mob will run away.
Then in about five minutes they all come clomping back so you kill another and they all run off again. Then 5 minutes later .. here they all come again .... clomp clomp clomp. I shoot most between 10 and 30 meters and have killed over thirty in a session without being stomped.
Lions are best dealt to from a tripod. Set up a tent and tripod within easy shooting range around the watering spots and hunt around midday. Call them in and pop them off. I can often kill two or even three at the same spot because during the watering times they dont run far and like the cape buffalo they keep coming back. I have five tent and tripod set ups for lions and usually hunt them all by resetting the times when I fast travel between them. I have more than one place to skin a cat.

[plugger]

I'm a bow hunter.

When in buffalo country I move from tree to tree. If I'm charged I can manoeuvre around the tree and, if I manage to get it right, wait for them to charge past and miss and then put an arrow or two in them to end it.

If they catch you in the open your only hope is to stand your ground and hope for a one shot kill as they charge you. It can get ugly.

Trees are your friend.

[Vertibird]

Those buffalos are angry! They love chasing me when driving an ATV

[Geronimo]

Think of types of vidgames like WOW where enemies will get Aggro on you causing attack. Once aggro is activated it continues until something deactivates it, death, time, etc.

Aggro can be activated by fast travel to a tent or Outpost within their aggro perimeter, shooting at one, running, driving, etc.

[lagosuchus]

Oh dear... I didn't want to realise that they were, in fact, buffaloes with rabies, but what you told me opened my eyes. I suppose that's what tse tse flies do to them. Incredible that they could follow you to your spawn point after killing you.

My gosh, that savanna is deadly. I also was stomped in my ATV by a super big stampede of wildebeests.

Today a buffalo had a little mercy on me. After trying to kill me twice, he decided to leave me alone. But the rest of the ones that had tried to kill me, are super fervent about it.

Thank you for your advices. After discovering these hatred filled animals what I did was having the 300. and the first aid kits each one in a shortcut button on the mouse. I usually had a caller instead of the first aid kits but I suppose the circumstances changed.

[MarktheMuffin]

Originally posted by Boomer:

Run for the water, I don't think they will enter it.

Yep, that's what I do, unless shallow, then it is RUN! Forest, RUN!.

[4of25]

Always have your trustfull tripod stand with you... Put it on ground... make the Buffalos angry - Take a seat- crossbow, big caliber slug or pistol and go...

[Zoon]

I'vehad cape buffalo hunt me across the map, ive had water buffalo in PF trap me in a tower and I had to kill them with birdshot. They soon bleed out with 48 flesh wounds.