Fishing question

[Incidius]

When ever fishing 1 of the larger fish and the prompt comes up to press the right mouse button and the keys the fish always gets away.... any1 know why?

[Greb]

It's probably borked with M+KB controls. Use a gamepad if you can.

The minigame works by mashing the B / O button until the fish swims either left or right, then you pull in the opposite direction on the left stick, to pull it back - without stopping mashing B / O - if you mash quickly enough it only pulls once before being caught, no matter what.

I don't know the commands for the PC controls but I'm gonna assuming you should basically keep clicking madly and when the fish swims left, press D and if the fish swims right, press A.

[Yosh]

Keep spamming the right mouse button. When the WASD keys promts up, spam it until its gone, then go back to spamming the right mouse button. At least, that's what I do.

[BloodyDBunny]

trick to capture the fish is keep spamming right mouse and when a button comes up, tab that button and continue spamming right click, works 100%

[Nightryderace]

Yeah, as stated, don't stop pushing the fish button (I'm assuming right click, based o NV others' responses) even when you have to hit left or right.

[shadonic]

don't stop spamming the mouse button prompt untill the directional prompt comes up.
as soon you see the mouse button spam the hell out of it, even when it disappears on the screen.

[Magnumer]

Originally posted by Project Cupid:

trick to capture the fish is keep spamming right mouse and when a button comes up, tab that button and continue spamming right click, works 100%

This^ (Or whatever you changed it to, if you did.)

[Incidius]

Thanks guys, will give it a shot, been pressing the right mouse button only once 🤣

[Xavr0k]

If you spam your mouse button fast enough you will catch the fish before any other prompts appear.

[Verb_๊]

If you just want the big ass fish just use the net.... no need to waste time button mashing lol. I always capture that big ass fish with the net at the Area 6 Camp in Wildspire after I land. Easy research points.

[Lunacy]

You have to keep pressing the button, not only when the prompt shows. Only do the direction when prompted.

[Incidius]

Bad prompting on the games behalf.... should keep the right mouse button flashing through out

[DarkFenix]

Originally posted by Xavr0k:

If you spam your mouse button fast enough you will catch the fish before any other prompts appear.

Yup, that's the norm for me. Of course, the game doesn't tell you that you should do this.

[Bamrak]

I had trouble also, then I realize the net works wonders :)

[Incidius]

Originally posted by Bamrak:

I had trouble also, then I realize the net works wonders :)

But there are fish that's too far for nets

[GuyInFreezer]

Do note that you can fish with capture net too.