Pouncing on prey impossible!!

[Charebear🐾]

Is anyone else struggling with catching prey? I can’t seem to get my cat to pounce. Every time I try it’s simply swipes and the animal runs away! I don’t know if I just am terrible, or if there’s a trick to it.

[GetSluggyWithIt]

Well to sneak up on prey, you must hold shift the entire time.

Now if you get too close, the prey runs away. There's a certain distance around the prey that when the player is in that distance, the prey runs away, it is different for all prey. (You can be far or kind of close, but not too close.)

Upgrading hunting helps too. And make sure you're still holding shift while you pounce.

[TwistedWren]

There's a circle above the prey, once the circle is full, you're able to pounce. If you get too far away, the circle will start to unfill again, and if you press space when it's not completely full, you'll just scratch.

[Charebear🐾]

Thanks! I have upgraded my hunting skill and its getting a little easier, but it definetly taking the fun out of the game for me. All i have time to do is hunt before I die, I don't get to do anything else.

[Kaden216]

I found the hunting tricky to get used to as well, but it gets easier with time. For me, it helped to figure out which animals were easier to go after to start with--mice, rabbits, and squirrels, for example. Fish and birds tend to be a bit tougher until you upgrade your hunting skill and/or get a little more practice with hunting.

I also started stockpiling animals so that I didn't need to hunt as often and didn't feel as desperate to catch animals. One last note: you can also forage for food, so don't feel like hunting is the only option if your kitty is hungry. :)

[Charebear🐾]

Thanks Kaden 216 I am defimetly imrpoving! I acctually managed to have a little stockpile in my den last night! I am glad I didn't give up! :)

[Konalani]

To prevent starving to death the first few days I just found battles and died in those instead so at least I could get some coins (with which I bought a little food) and XP. I can attest that these cats have more than 9 lives, btw. Make sure your bags are empty when you suicide battle, because I lost 100% of my items. I piled exp into hunting, and once my hunt skill was up to 3 it got much easier. Ignore frogs, toads and fish at first. Concentrate on crows, doves, rabbits and squirrels - they don't see you coming as much. If you found the prairie mine entrance, chase the mice around into the corners and swipe them till they're dead (don't bother stalking). Also swipe bugs to sell -- every mew helps.

The mechanic: press and hold the shift key. Creep close enough that your prey gets a dot over its head. When the dot is full, while pressing shift, hit space. it doesn't matter whether you are facing them directly or not, but if you get too close they'll run away. You'll miss a lot, and then you'll miss less. If you hit, you'll see a skull droplet float up briefly over the corpse. While standing triumphantly over your kill, press e to pick it up.

Also I JUST figured out that you can go up to 150% fed, and rather than turning into a lazy beachball like my ACTUAL cat, you get a speed boost.

TBH I nearly stopped playing at the start because of the hunt mechanic -- I found it a bit overtuned for my tender noobness.

[jomebrome01]

you are fine but you may want to practice[if you want to]

[Mediocre_Medic]

Pouncing on prey wasn't to hard due to the fact I used to play Untold Tales which was also made by Falcon. The two games have very similiar hunting mechanics.

[! Murciee ♥]

Pouncing was pretty easy for me to pick up, but try buying the hunting active skill that lets you see how close you can get to prey. And practise!