Let's be honest, "low bleed rate" means "not worth following"

[Ricchi Walker]

Let's be honest, it's seems to be just stupid to follow any deer that has a very low bleeding rate. It seems like it's not a bug but a rule, that they won't bleed out. I've had followed these endless trails 3 times now for over 30 mins each. Just after 2nd time it hit me it's just not paying off to waste time on those, you'll always find another animal and then take a better shot. of course if you have patience to crouch for 30 minutes you may catch the deer, but when shot they just turn on turbo-mode and run with no stop, also sh****g themselves every 10 meters for a boost.

I have a screenshot on my profile of a trail that took me 50 minutes and i've never found the deer again, he seemed just to run in random directions.

I know that devs have already a ton of messages like this, but come-on, this is supposed to be a game you play for 100+ hours and this sucks the fun out of hunting. it's gonna be either an instakill, a bleedout in <100 meters or it's not worth following.

Notice that i'm fine with it, i'm gonna soon or later "git gud" at aiming, but a bleeding animal, is bleeding, it's just not gonna bleed forever.

I'm posting this on "bug reports" but why is it a bug if it's not yet fixed with side-patch, and it has been on theHunter forums for like a year now.

[Vaktinsa]

Not true iv'e still tracked and killed a few animals with a low bleed rate, sure it takes forever for them to die and sometimes it really isn't worth it, but if you find them you still get a bonus for tracking them over a long distance.

[god_zeke_satan]

If you get a vital hit, the animal will more than likely bleed out even if the bleed rate is low. It may take a long time to track the animal. For instance, if you use a .243 Polymer tip and scoring a lung shot on a moose (a vital hit), don't be surprised if you end up chasing the moose around 500 or 600 meters.

Non-vital hits won't guarantee a long bleed rate, but if it's a large caliber on a small animal, like a .338 on a roe deer, the roe will probably die from a non-vital hit.

[Rookie-31st]

Flesh wound and very low bleed rate combination means animal can survive. Wait no more than 2-3 minutes, if no hunting pressure appears than just move on. Vital hit and non-vital hit, as said above, usually means animal will die sooner or later regardless bleed rate.

[Ricchi Walker]

Originally posted by vaktinsa:

Not true iv'e still tracked and killed a few animals with a low bleed rate, sure it takes forever for them to die and sometimes it really isn't worth it, but if you find them you still get a bonus for tracking them over a long distance.

Originally posted by zeke_difficulty_5-medium:

If you get a vital hit, the animal will more than likely bleed out even if the bleed rate is low. It may take a long time to track the animal. For instance, if you use a .243 Polymer tip and scoring a lung shot on a moose (a vital hit), don't be surprised if you end up chasing the moose around 500 or 600 meters.

Non-vital hits won't guarantee a long bleed rate, but if it's a large caliber on a small animal, like a .338 on a roe deer, the roe will probably die from a non-vital hit.

tl;dr version

1. I don't have enough patience for this, just clicking poop makes me bored fast.

2. Starter rifle limits player's potential horrendously and keeps him away from the good stuff until he manages to get a better gun.

3. Game kinda works on it's own rules it makes on-the-fly.

You both have valid points

1. Yes not all animals do that, and not always, but i forgot to mention the use of starter gun in my post, actually right after writing this post i've downed a coyote with a shot in the tip of the tail, didn't expect that. After all it's all only depends on the patience of the player, the less he has, the less he's capable of. I need to admit i'm on the impatient side of the spectrum even though i've managed to give these 3 deers benefit of the doubt first.

2. As i said in point 1, starter gun isn't the objectively best weapon. Thankfully it's the most universal, that's why i've downed a bear with one hit from 20m, and one-hit a deer from >200m. But the big guns await, someday, sometime after some hours of gameplay, but currently there is no choice instead of .243 until player doesn't gather some fat payday and afford gun points for some actually big-animal focused rifle.

3 . Point stays subjective, probably you can predict the hours spent in this game by the persons patience level. Although until I get at least the huntsman, wich is soon, I'm staying with the statement, that animals in this game are too damn tough. I'm not gonna mention my first deer that ran for 100m with his brain smashed. But I kinda have a feeling that game mechanics are a placebo.

Have a nice night, btw i see that someone just commented so i need to refresh the page and respond to them.

[Ricchi Walker]

Originally posted by rookie31st:

Flesh wound and very low bleed rate combination means animal can survive. Wait no more than 2-3 minutes, if no hunting pressure appears than just move on. Vital hit and non-vital hit, as said above, usually means animal will die sooner or later regardless bleed rate.

Whatever everybody says, bloodbank deers are annoying, the distance you cross following the bloody-pooptrail is gonna be equal to at least few killed deers. If the crooked, leg-broken, half-dead deer ever bleeds out, good for him. But 1.5 hours spend scanning diarrhea trails has cemented me in my statement - "low bleed rate" means "not worth following". It's not meant to be a rant, but a honest advice for newcomers, i hope people will find this topic before wasting their time and getting bored of the game.

[Razamanaz]

When I played early on (feb-march 2017) it seemed that when you had a low bleed animal, perhaps from a flesh wound, that you tracked, you would eventually find it. Maybe not dead but in a sort of moping posture that let you know it wasn't feeling well. (head down and moving slowly) Sometimes you had to shoot it again and other tmes it just dropped dead in front of you.

[southofpegasus]

Originally posted by Light Cruiser Tenryū 天龍:

...animals in this game are too damn tough...

I shot a coyote today with the 7mm Magnum through both the left and right humerus and he ran for over 300 yards before dying. Ran... with no front legs. :D