clarification of dog 6th sense trait

[PSYKO]

The skill that you can teach your dog at level 2 that gives it a higher chance of detecting if an animal is about to get spooked.

Is that when the dog is about to spook it

Or when you are about to spook it

Or both?

[Reality Check]

I'm not 100% sure, but I THINK the dog? Sometimes when we get too close to an animal, it will start whining and it will say "critical position". That's the only thing I could think of that would mean. I just try to tell it to stay back... but sometimes while getting juuuuuust the right distance away, dog decides that's when it wants to heel. Like it's afraid you are leaving it behind xD

[huebnerrl]

Most of the time you will spook an animal before the dog will unless the dog is tracking blood and gets far ahead of you. At that point according to the devs if he comes right up on an animal he will spook it.

When you see the dog go into "critical Position" there is an animal that you are getting ready to spook.

[paganSK]

your dog must be in IDLE mode to activate 6th sense.
BTW your dog have 6th sense - this perk only boost that ability
I choose Blood Track trait because without 6th sense perk your dog has very big chance to activate anyway - so its useless perk i think.

[Bumblewoot]

Originally posted by paganSK:

your dog must be in IDLE mode to activate 6th sense.
BTW your dog have 6th sense - this perk only boost that ability
I choose Blood Track trait because without 6th sense perk your dog has very big chance to activate anyway - so its useless perk i think.

I haven't been able to test without the trait. You may be right. With the trait critical position is 100% on the last spotted animal if it is within 100m, and the dog is in idle. It is also 100% if it is tracking. Critical position is triggered when the last spotted animal goes to 'alert' state.

If it is always 100% in those conditions on the base dog, then yes, the trait is useless and go go for the other one. However, the other trait isn't really useful either. The extra range is meh and only helpful on long range shooting and you can't remember within 50m of where you shot the animal.

[huebnerrl]

My dog has gone critical on animals I have not spotted but was getting ready to spook.

[Bumblewoot]

Originally posted by huebnerrl:

My dog has gone critical on animals I have not spotted but was getting ready to spook.

It's super easy to test. Load in to a hunt and NEVER spot/highlight an animal. Find a whole herd of whitetail. Slowly approach them so they will go through the stages to alert with the dog in idle. Critical Position will not trigger.

If it does then it is a very low chance. 1% or so. On last spotted animal it is 100%.

I've tried to reproduce a critical position trigger on non-spotted animals. I can't do it. I've had the dog trigger on an animal I thought I had not spotted before, but it turns out it was the same whitetail doe I spotted 10 minutes previous.

I will admit it may happen, but it has to be so low of a chance that it is worthless without the spot.

Always a chance my dog is bugged too =)

[Frank Bullitt]

So it is useful
But only when you tagged an animal with E?

[Shizanketsuga]

I can not confirm the limitation about spotting. if there is such a limitation at all I am pretty sure tracking also works, because my dog very reliably warns me if I am getting too close to a tracked animal even if it's hidden behind a hilltop or trees.