Persistence Hunting

[EndlessOats]

Persistence hunting is an ancient technique which was used in the stone age. Essentially, you just follow a deer or other larger game animal for a day or three and it will eventually collapse due to exhaustion, making it an easy kill. This would be amazingly easy to implement- just add a timer for how long a large game animal can be pursued before it collapses. Obviously this will have to be balanced towards how long a player's hunger bar lasts (with Blackguards having a slight disadvantage in this area, preferring more hands on hunting techs) and won't be truly realistic due to that, but the hunger mechanic is a little unrealistic to begin with (it takes more than 2 days to starve lol).

TLDR; Follow a deer or goat for a day or so and it will collapse making for an easy kill.

[RedVanGhoul]

Along similar lines to this: I think it would be great if you could cause an animal to bleed out. Stick it with a spear or arrow and it will start leaving a blood trail and slowly lose health over time til it dies.

[EndlessOats]

1 hour ago, RedVanGhoul said:

Along similar lines to this: I think it would be great if you could cause an animal to bleed out. Stick it with a spear or arrow and it will start leaving a blood trail and slowly lose health over time til it dies.

Agreed, cool idea

[Ketoth]

Agreed, and both would be fairly simple to implement, stamina for animals and a slow bleed debuff on weapons (slow enough it shouldn't affect actual combat, just hunting) would make early game hunting a LOT more accurate to what humans did in the stone age and early classical period