Hunting and Prey

[DurneGirl]

I'm sorry, I love WolfQuest to death and have played both the paid version on Steam and the free version for several years now.

Let me get to the point, before I start rambling!

I love the idea that you can now hunt deer, moose, etc.
HOWEVER, the animal populations are just far too low! My wolf should not be able to sleep for nearly a week without some kind of prey, be it deer or at least more than three rabbits, appearing. It's rather stupid to have to risk your life (As a lone wolf without a mate) to go onto rival pack territory JUST to find food!

I would LOVE it if more deer were added and rabbits. As someone whose been to Yosemite nearly every year, all their lives I can tell you that deer are not NEARLY as endangered as the game seems to make them.

From my play throughs, I'd be lucky if I ran to one side of the map and come back twice before finding even a rabbit to eat.

I would love for more prey to be added, they can be just as far spread but there need to be more deer. Deer are overpopulated.

[lunarwolf4]

Are you using your scent view to track? I cannot move a few meters without finding a trail from a rabbit at least. Also mule deer and elk I track using those floating scent bubbles. You need to track. Wolves do this in everyday life. They don't just wake up with animals to hunt next to them.
Personally I like the population as it is now. It gives me reason to explore all over the map.
Besides, the hunger level drops very VERY slowly. I barely ever need to eat simply because of how low the food need decreases. And I play on Challenging or Accurate. It gives more than enough time to explore the map in search of prey.

[WolfofAnarchy]

Well...that's kinda what wild wolves have to do, yknow? Wolves really do only hunt every week or so, and they have to track food across lots of territory to find it. That's why they have such huge territorial ranges, and why it is rare for a lone wolf to survive on its own for too long. Like lunarwolf said, a wolf's sense of smell is its most important asset, and you should be spending a vast amount of time in it to really get a sense of the world around you.

Though, I do agree that, for at least the first mission, there should be a default herd close by when you first load in, like there used to be a lone cow in 2.7. Or, maybe even just a lone cow and her calf? Sometimes I get in and there are no elk scents around so I'm kinda doomed to go blindly searching before I start starving.

[kingfaisal2005]

I mean your wolf can go for ages without eating. However there isn't meant to be a super abundance of prey. Yellowstone wolves are actually kind of lucky in that Yellowstone has one of the highest densities of elk in North America. In most places across North America elk, deer and moose are distributed wildly. Also the elk herds are always on the move. They don't stay in one place. Elk and deer aren't too hard for me to find. Although to be fair when I do the first mission which is to kill 2 elk I did find it a bit harder to hunt elk.