doomstrike53 Posted September 24, 2024 Report Posted September 24, 2024 Every bear mod I've found has either outright removed them or nerfed them to the point they're less dangerous than wolves. They're definitely overpowered in vanilla and unnecessarily frustrating, but all they would really need to make them a serious but manageable threat is a change in their AI. Wolves will give up after a certain distance, but bears will continue to chase FAR too long. Reduce the chase distance to at most what a wolf does (probably even less considering their size), and they become a dangerous encounter but one you have a chance of surviving if you're fast. If your intention is to hunt one, chase distance could be increased a bit if you deal any damage to it, to help counter cheesing. But this way a random encounter won't be an almost guaranteed death sentence. If their AI can't be changed for some reason, another solution could be simply to reduce their speed to just a tad below a wolf. This way it's easier to run away and gain distance, so the bear looses interest faster.
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