How important is wind in this game?

[Austin96]

How much does wind effect your scent, bullets, and arrows? Also happy New Years to everyone!!

[Hazy_Memories]

with the wind in the wrong direction the animals will pick up your scent making them very nervous if not making them flee. as far as affecting bullets and arrows I don't believe it affects them at all, but there is bullet drop that you will have to adjust for on long shots, as for arrows I think its the same...they drop as they fly further...hope this helped, good hunting!!

[Andi]

If your much into bow hunting you gotta compensate for the wind just a bit on 50 - 70 meter shots.
For firearms though, naah.
Animals sense you from about 200 meters now, so always try to sneak up with the wind in your face or at least sideways.

[Ivory]

Wind is important because it carries your scent and animals with good noses will be able to detect you, even if you're quiet and camouflaged. Wind doesn't affect bullets much but has a more substantial impact on the trajectory of arrows, specially over larger distances, where you have to compensate a little to hit the same spot. It also affects scent lures and their effective range, if you plan on using them.

[Geronimo]

I do not go hunting without scent eliminator. It is absolutely necessary.

I've been calling for a time counter for a long time. I try to keep track of it in game time, but it doesn't seem to last as long as it's supposed to .

It's expensive.

[Andi]

Originally posted by Geronimo:

I do not go hunting without scent eliminator. It is absolutely necessary.

I've been calling for a time counter for a long time. I try to keep track of it in game time, but it doesn't seem to last as long as it's supposed to .

It's expensive.

You got the little icon in the bottom right corner of the screen as soon as you use it. It shows it´s lasting

[VictoriaHuntress]

The short answer:
The wind is just important enough to affect your shooting - you will have to be aware of it and compensate for it when aiming, especially for long distances to the target.

The long answer:

actually, a strong crosswind can affect rifle shots - you have to compensate for it when aiming. There is a perk that you can earn to estimate windage values - I have it on one of my game accounts, but hardly ever use it (it's an active perk, so you have to activate it, and that replaces the more useful (elevation) zeroing perk).
If you play Carolina's Challenge Circles mission in Parque Fernando, there is one circle at the top of a mountain, with the target mounted on a cliff side, about 400m away. When I was at that spot, there was a very strong crosswind, and unless I estimated the elevation AND windage holdovers correctly, I could not hit the target., and with 1500hrs of shooting experience and all the right perks, my marksmanship skills are top of the line. I did manage to hit it after several attempts, though. So, there is some wind drift for bullets - not as much as for arrows and bolts, certainly. You can always head over to Hirschfelden's rifle range on a windy day in Germany, and maybe you'll be able to notice the effect.



Since the scopes provided have no minor elevation and windage grid markers on the reticle, they are rather useless for precise holdovers, and since we don't have access to the game's ballistics calculator OR the ballistics data for rifles and ammo, you just have to get good at doing it by eye. If you play WOTH, hunter sense will show you the computed firing solution in a riflescope ( that little fuzzy red dot, or probable POI ellipse region) and that does take into account wind drift. That calculation is pretty standard in all ballistics calculators - even rolling your own trajectory solver is not hard if you know the math and are able to implement it in code.