Loving the game but... how do you find the corpses?

[Ezz777]

Could be a new player issue (just got base game and loving learning the ins and outs), but quite a few times i've had corpses disappear... well at least the blood trails and tracks stop after 0-25% health with no corpse showing up - and yes the map had gone that beautiful burgundy. However while attempting one of the missions (think it had to do with an elk or some such) i spent a while longer just walking around the end of the trail and found an invisible corpse. No outline, no actual visual indication it was there except i was allowed to harvest.

Since then whenever a long shot didn't drop them straight away and they go for a runner i have then wandered about hoping for another invisible corpse to no avail...

So i guess the main question, has anyone figured out if there is a way a repeatable way to find the bugged corpses? Any tricks like fast traveling then coming back, using lights, anything?

Second question is more along the lines of what the devs are doing about this. Having a hunting game where hunting at long range can often ends in a bug seems like something they should be all over. It's hard to date when this bug arrived or when it will be fixed given the what i've seen posted so does anyone actually know?

[Hazy_Memories]

Find the blood trail and follow it till you find your dead game
you will be able to see if you had a major organ hit if you see a large blood spray on the ground...just keep following the blood

[Hazy_Memories]

it' easy to get a little screwed up on long shots...it takes time in the game to be able to kno where you are and where the animal was hit...also having a dog is good as well....

[Hazy_Memories]

changes are you may have been in the wrong area if you can't find the animal...or you missed....keep looking...try to take note of the lay of the land when you have hit the animal..also you could place you should id the animal with your binocs, that way it will show on your map where the animal was...good hunting...

[Ezz777]

Originally posted by Hazy_Memories:

Find the blood trail and follow it till you find your dead game
you will be able to see if you had a major organ hit if you see a large blood spray on the ground...just keep following the blood

Originally posted by Hazy_Memories:

it' easy to get a little screwed up on long shots...it takes time in the game to be able to kno where you are and where the animal was hit...also having a dog is good as well....

Originally posted by Hazy_Memories:

changes are you may have been in the wrong area if you can't find the animal...or you missed....keep looking...try to take note of the lay of the land when you have hit the animal..also you could place you should id the animal with your binocs, that way it will show on your map where the animal was...good hunting...

Thanks for the tips and welcome to a forum. One tip, there's more to a thread than the title. The content in a smaller font will often point you in the right direction! Happy foruming!

[Roast Beef]

a lot of people (me included) have reported disappearing corpses. i saw a corpse vanishing through the gun's scope myself, as well as numerous other vanishing corpse situations. not long after that i stopped playing this. too much of a mess right now.

Originally posted by Ezz777:

Second question is more along the lines of what the devs are doing about this. Having a hunting game where hunting at long range can often ends in a bug seems like something they should be all over. It's hard to date when this bug arrived or when it will be fixed given the what i've seen posted so does anyone actually know?

good question. it seems theyre too busy creating new content to bother with bugs. if i hear theres substantial improvement i might come back, but for now it will be uninstalled.

[Ezz777]

It's an odd one.

Early on when i wasn't even finding long shots it was obviously a non issue for me. And even after the first couple when i had just assumed they somehow survived with their medium bleeds after vital organs... But then once you realise it's a bug it becomes so much more of an annoyance. Even when not chasing a mission or something and you stumble upon a few deer at 350. You hit, they run, you make your way over there, you start the search... all the while enjoying the hunt... then discover they've disappeared. It's one of the most critical elements of the experience. Sure if it was a new bug it might be understandable but to discover it's been an issue a while they haven't bothered to fix... puts those DLC decisions in a new light i guess.

[p00se2]

99% of my vanished corpses were elk

[JtDarth]

I've had a few that seemed to just totally disappear, but some major tips for being able to get started on tracking them:
When an animal you shot dies, the place where you first shot it will be the center of the 'alertness zone' created on the map. That can get you to the initial blood trail, from there you should be able to track it fairly easily. If you had a good shot to begin with, it'll be within 30-90 yards of the initial gallon of blood all over the ground.
Tracks, iirc, will be 'marked' for the animal you last spotted. Use your binos to spot prior to taking the shot, and the trail of that animal will be marked with the 'active' color. Even if you don't see the blood trail, if you hit it, it's tracks should still lead you to it's body.

Generally speaking, it's not worth even taking the shot if you aren't truly confident in hitting the vitals. You are better served closing to a better angle so that you can drop it quicker, as opposed to spending half an hour chasing a wounded animal across the world.

The best way to avoid having to track the animals or their bodies (assuming you don't get bugged) is to use the correct calibers and take good shots. If you drop them on the spot, or within 20 feet of where you hit them, you don't have to chase them down. This is something that requires a bit of learning on anatomy and weapons to really rely on, but if you plan on playing the game for a while, you'll pick up on it sooner or later.

[Ezz777]

Originally posted by JtDarth:

Generally speaking, it's not worth even taking the shot if you aren't truly confident in hitting the vitals. You are better served closing to a better angle so that you can drop it quicker, as opposed to spending half an hour chasing a wounded animal across the world.

The best way to avoid having to track the animals or their bodies (assuming you don't get bugged) is to use the correct calibers and take good shots. If you drop them on the spot, or within 20 feet of where you hit them, you don't have to chase them down. This is something that requires a bit of learning on anatomy and weapons to really rely on, but if you plan on playing the game for a while, you'll pick up on it sooner or later.

Agreed, and that's kinda where the game and simulation intersect. It presents targets at range. And you can shoot them. And the game tells you by the colour zone you killed it. Yet it's not there. Sure at times the long shots aren't a quick kill, but you know it died... Often even the initial spatter is a vital yet the bigger things (damned robo elk) can still run a while before they drop.

Anyway, i get that game engines have their limitations and such, but this seems like the sort of thing they'd try to sort out. If 'learn to work around the bugs' is the deal well then i guess it is what it is.

[kubanskiloewe]

hunt with bow or crossbow and mostly the animal will die on the spot.

[yogisgoat]

Yes, but the bow will spook fewer animals and the ones who are spooked will generally return if you call immediately after shooting. You can take out entire herds that way.

[yogisgoat]

Also, a tip. Buy the tracer arrows or bolts. I suspect it's a bug, but they are noticeably more accurate than the standard ones.

[Woodyplank]

Originally posted by yogisgoat:

Also, a tip. Buy the tracer arrows or bolts. I suspect it's a bug, but they are noticeably more accurate than the standard ones.

Tracers arrows have had a better trajectory than regular arrows since they were introduced so if it is a bug...doubtful a change will be made anytime soon.

[JtDarth]

Originally posted by Woodyplank:

Originally posted by yogisgoat:

Also, a tip. Buy the tracer arrows or bolts. I suspect it's a bug, but they are noticeably more accurate than the standard ones.

Tracers arrows have had a better trajectory than regular arrows since they were introduced so if it is a bug...doubtful a change will be made anytime soon.

I mean, they have to have something to actually justify their price.

[Ezz777]

As above, hunting within 100m mostly gets around the issue, but not sure it's really in keeping with the theme of the game. The game even gives missions and achievements for long range kills. Which is what makes having an apparently long standing bug hard to understand.

And yeah, while a crossbow would be nice addition i've still got a bit of layton and then all of hirsch to consider before worrying about DLCs. Actually, w.r.t. invisible corpses, is this common across all maps or is layton known to have issues in this regard?