Unrealistic animals drinking water

[GamE_V_o]

The animals when they are drinking water never do it near the lakes, they do it at a great distance from where the water is, but they are eating but not drinking. This is unrealistic when it comes to observing animals in their eating and drinking habits in their environment.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1420817989

[Wabbit.]

+1

[TangOscar]

If you want to observe animals in their eating and drinking habits ,then I suggest, you buy the game REAL LIFE. After some hours, you will figure out, that it has awesome graphics but the worst transactions and microtransactions, plus it is "pay to avoid game over". And after that you will figure out that TheHunter: Call of the Wild is just a game. It is close to a simulation, but still, a game.

In three words: Just have fun!

[NuCkEnFuTs]

Comparing a game to RL, got issues?

[Capt_Mac_141]

Originally posted by NuCkEnFuTs:

Comparing a game to RL, got issues?

It's a "Generation" thing !! lol

[NuCkEnFuTs]

Originally posted by Capt_Mac_141:

Originally posted by NuCkEnFuTs:

Comparing a game to RL, got issues?

It's a "Generation" thing !! lol

I think you are correct, I'm old and remember my entertainment as playing Stickball, kick the can ETC, till dark. before putting my @$$ down in a chair and pressing a key to move around on a screen became popular.

P:S. and playing WAR with cap guns in the hills behind the houses.

[Kaned Dragon]

Originally posted by Farru_Kill:

they do it at a great distance from where the water is, but they are eating but not drinking.

How can the animals be eating to get water? Are they getting their hydration from the soil? Also which animals are you referring too?

How about you provide some evidence, in the form of a link.

Like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT1iGcaTPjI

[Kaned Dragon]

You going to tell us certain bugs in the game are fixed, without any evidence.
And then have someone come back with the evidence that the bug is still in the game.

[GamingB4UWereBorn]

Originally posted by NuCkEnFuTs:

Originally posted by Capt_Mac_141:

It's a "Generation" thing !! lol

I think you are correct, I'm old and remember my entertainment as playing Stickball, kick the can ETC, till dark. before putting my @$$ down in a chair and pressing a key to move around on a screen became popular.

P:S. and playing WAR with cap guns in the hills behind the houses.

YES to kick the can, stickball, cap guns with real gunpowder (because we were responsible children or our mother would kick our a$$) and don’t forget wiffle ball.
Nice to heard from a fellow old folk.

[NuCkEnFuTs]

Originally posted by galvinj:

Originally posted by NuCkEnFuTs:

I think you are correct, I'm old and remember my entertainment as playing Stickball, kick the can ETC, till dark. before putting my @$$ down in a chair and pressing a key to move around on a screen became popular.

P:S. and playing WAR with cap guns in the hills behind the houses.

YES to kick the can, stickball, cap guns with real gunpowder (because we were responsible children or our mother would kick our a$$) and don’t forget wiffle ball.
Nice to heard from a fellow old folk.

Wif bal one of my fav, how could i have forgot, my old man would use a razor strap on me, contact made where ever he could and i i i ii i ii turned out ooookkkkkk/111w. i think

and we had much better fireworks back then.

[GamE_V_o]

Originally posted by kaned dragon:

How about you provide some evidence, in the form of a link.

Like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT1iGcaTPjI

ok, the video shows my suggestion....... thanks

[Kaned Dragon]

Originally posted by Farru_Kill:

Originally posted by kaned dragon:

How about you provide some evidence, in the form of a link.

Like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT1iGcaTPjI

ok, the video shows my suggestion....... thanks

Originally posted by Farru_Kill:

The animals when they are drinking water never do it near the lakes, they do it at a great distance from where the water is, but they are eating but not drinking. This is unrealistic when it comes to observing animals in their eating and drinking habits in their environment.

No it's doesn't.

Your suggestion was for the animals to be a great distance from the lakes and water areas.
"The animals when they are drinking water never do it near the lakes, they do it at a great distance from where the water is"

that's proof, your suggestion, was wrong.

And again what animals are you refering too, geese, hogs, deers, bears.

[GamE_V_o]

Originally posted by kaned dragon:

No it's doesn't.

Your suggestion was for the animals to be a great distance from the lakes and water areas.
"The animals when they are drinking water never do it near the lakes, they do it at a great distance from where the water is"

that's proof, your suggestion, was wrong.

And again what animals are you refering too, geese, hogs, deers, bears.

No and no, my suggestion is that the animals should drink near the lakes. In the game the animals are drinking away from the drinkers, and that's what I say is wrong and unrealistic.
You have to understand that I am writing with a language translator and my suggestion may not be understood. ok

[Kaned Dragon]

Originally posted by Farru_Kill:

No and no, my suggestion is that the animals should drink near the lakes. In the game the animals are drinking away from the drinkers, and that's what I say is wrong and unrealistic.
You have to understand that I am writing with a language translator and my suggestion may not be understood. ok

Originally posted by Farru_Kill:

The animals when they are drinking water never do it near the lakes, they do it at a great distance from where the water is, but they are eating but not drinking. This is unrealistic when it comes to observing animals in their eating and drinking habits in their environment.

Your the ones who said in your first post.
"The animals when they are drinking water never do it near the lakes, they do it at a great distance from where the water is"

I put up the video, that shows a deer, having a drink from a lake.

Now you are reversing this and contradicting yourself.

This is the same when you tried saying the stands in Layton and the other reserve were working, I made a post in the bug report section reporting the Layton stands were bugged, but Hirschfelden ones were okay and Snail Rancher corrected me that the bug was still happening and still is.

You then came along and said they were working in all reserves.

I then provided evidence that the bug is still active in the form of screenshots.

If you meant, the animals have drinking areas that are not close enough to the lakes and rivers. Then your first post did not specify, you were talking about the animals in game. It sounded like you were saying animals in real life don’t drink in lakes.

If you are using a translator, I’d suggestion double checking your posts, make it clear your referring to the animals in game, not in real life, and which animal your are referring to.

Did you mean, the animals are just off the shore line, not in the water?

[Kaned Dragon]

Originally posted by Farru_Kill:

The animals when they are drinking water never do it near the lakes, they do it at a great distance from where the water is, but they are eating but not drinking. This is unrealistic when it comes to observing animals in their eating and drinking habits in their environment.

Farru, Sorry, I apologies, my bad, sorry for the comments and confusion.
You might be onto something!

[Kaned Dragon]

Okay, I think this could be a glitch / bug. Maybe. I’ll start a thread in the bugs section.

I came across a large pack of boars at the wild boar need zone south of the lake, north east of the Rinderland Gorge, Upon shooting a boar and going to the sight I shot the boar, I noticed the drinking zone marker. (Lot’s of small feet impressions in the ground)

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/941698198344268634/BF268005FF422299E14DA159C29B9C47238CAF01/

You can see that the drinking zone is over 50m away from the lake.

I then needed to do some research.

I went to Layton, I visited some of the drinking areas, I had already discovered.

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/941698198344534032/89502ED3A3585249519E3B2F64A591BA31EA1120/

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/941698198344535044/1FC5E00F7ED59BCC2402526B16EB30DF5DEEB5DD/

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/941698198344535777/02AA75381B8EE49C8057F649A127C6026D120EBD/


https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/941698198344535621/ADF9FCADC971D4C82DAD0D7A50930A1680E282CD/

Now it could be because it was early in the day, and the animals had not visited the drinking areas. But I could not see any drinking markers. I saw feeding markers, and a couple of resting markers.

The deer in the screenshot below, registered as feeding, even though it looked like it was resting.

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/941698198344535777/02AA75381B8EE49C8057F649A127C6026D120EBD/

But then I saw this moose, in the distance, and it registered as drinking.
I went over, trying not to spook the moose. Failed by the way, some of the animals seem more sensitive then before.

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/941698198344536121/D49CDC0DD145114E9D6177EACB0E2FD9AF7A3632/

You can see it is not near the water.

BUT

Something occurred to me, and I realised something.

The moose didn’t leave a drinking marker. Only droppings.

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/941698198344536525/70588B029831A577582687A45FAA0AC9516DB47A/

I’m suddenly thinking, I have not seen drinking markers as often as I had before.

I remember seeing Elk right at the waters edge, drinking at the lake. And seeing black tail deer, fallow deer, and some other animals, right at the water edge in groups. Not in the water, but right next to it.

I’m suddenly thinking, did the animals need zone behaviour get effected by the updates. And I don’t mean, the recent geese and rabbit update. I mean before the Medved Taiga Update.

I’ve seen this before in Classic, certain behaviours and traits of the animals got effected. And it was so subtle that no ones realised, until a lot of time had passed.

Because the variables in the game are so great, it’s quite easy for something to change, and no notice.

I was not able to do a comprehensive test and research into this. The reserves are huge, and the day’s in the game can last a while, as well as taking the time to really observes the animals behaviour. And I was just trying to find some evidence of this, but it’s time consuming. And over my time play COTW. I’ve become complacent when harvesting and observing the animals. I see an animal, choose a weapon, check the distance, take the shot, go over and harvest, and I only really check if I got the heart, or how my shot hit the target. I don’t even bother checking the details. So I can easily miss things.

So has anyone else noticed this,,, you have seen as many drinking zones than in the past?
Have you noticed, the descriptions of the needing zones not match up to what they should be?

Something could be wrong, but it needs more eye’s than myself.