HDanke

I've had a couple jump scares while exploring far away where they pop out full speed from a bush they were sleeping in while i'm sprinting by. I'm playing commoner and i don't think i've ever managed to shake out a brown bear. As others have said i think a lack of cue is one of their main flaws. I don't think bears should be able to break into a full sprint chase from sleeping. I do not mind getting flayed if i had every opportunity to react to the danger before i get into the death zone, but at times it feels like i was given little to no chance to react. For a mob some people consider a mini boss, they have awfully little presence in the world besides the occasional livestock kills and looking up every so often.

Never had an issue with wolves, it's brown bears specifically that feel like too much. I've had bushlands with no wolves but 5 brown bears in close proximity which is ridiculous. Getting ambushed by a wolf isn't a problem at all, black bears lose interest in you fairly quickly but a brown bear is often guaranteed death if you aren't fully prepared to take them out - which is my problem with them exactly, the game forces me to kill the bear or else it's going to kill me later on by complete surprise. I don't really have a need to kill bears currently and i'm starting to get sick of kiting them to the cheese pit.

On bears i find that wolves and black bears become quite manageable by back kiting even with simple leather armor and a good iron falx, but brown bears in particular are tanky and fast making them really oppressive, which wouldn't be that bad if they were rare or easy to spot - but they are neither. I find them really tedious to deal with and would rather avoid them but they are such a pest i have no choice but to kill them and now i have more leather fat and meat than i can use. If i don't kill them an unexpected brown bear attack is almost always a death sentence due to how persistent they are at chasing you until you are dead, i wish they had stamina and tired down after a minute or so to allow you to shake them off eventually. I also have an issue with their weird hitboxes that make them harder to hit while running. Overall just not a fun experience when brown bears are mindless killing machines with overtuned stats and being so common, they don't feel polished or engaging to combat.