20 seconds to carve. SOLVED

[NF_Crenos]

Title sounds like the newest "2-fast-2-furious" movie; "2-fast-2-carve", lol.
However! At the first Rathian kill quest, Royal Relocation, I only had 20 seconds to carve, despite always having 60 seconds before. And since the "kill replay" lasts for so long I never got into position to get anything... Is this an error on the developers part, or just an arbitrary change as you go through the game?

[Sgt. Magnusson]

20 seconds means someone captured it.

[Imperial City Guard]

Your monster got captured. You cannot carve captured monster and you get the "carving" reward at the end.
By capturing monster you have higher chance of getting rare rewards

[Jayzz911]

kill replay can be skipped with start and 20 seconds is for a capture.

[addiction]

If you have 20 seconds someone captured the monster, and you can't carve it anyways. It'll be 60 seconds if it's carvable.

[NF_Crenos]

I wish I had recorded it, cuz I swear it keeled over dead, and others were carving from it, unless that was something else.
How do you capture something mid-fight? I thought you had to either trap it then sleep-bomb it, or sleep-bomb it while it's resting.
Oh well, thanks!

[Xilo The Odd]

they mighta captured it on top of its severed tail. or something died underneath it worth carving.

[DerpTron]

you can skip the "kill animation" as you call it, push start.

[Zamus]

Originally posted by NF_Spasp:

I wish I had recorded it, cuz I swear it keeled over dead, and others were carving from it, unless that was something else.
How do you capture something mid-fight? I thought you had to either trap it then sleep-bomb it, or sleep-bomb it while it's resting.
Oh well, thanks!

Only requirement for the capture is that the monster is at roughly 20% hp, there are several way to know when this happens, after that you just trap it and use 2 tranq bombs or ammo, if you had a LBH/HBG user on the team he could easilly switch to tranq ammo for the capture.

[Knight_of_Gallifrey]

When you have enough tracks you will see a skull icon appear next too their mini map portrait. If not you can see it limp when it flees or when you see it sleeping.