OrangFriut

I couldn't agree more! I'm a very new player, so all I can really expect from this is the usual "erm git gud scrub" stuff you see on reddit, but hunting is actually unbearable. I made the mistake of trying to be the dedicated 'hunter' of my friend group, and whilst I do succeed in bringing home the bacon, literally, it comes at the expense of literally ALL my game time. Whilst my friends are building a quaint little village and advancing into the Bronze Age, I'm living like a vagrant in the woods. I have made a recurve bow with the copper arrows, and I still cannot kill RABBITS! I already have poor eyesight, so shooting a tiny little thing with an arrow the size of its whole body, and then watching it immediately bolt off into the brush means I've basically lost it as prey, and the only chance I have at killing larger game like deer is praying to god they try to attack me so I can kite them and turn them into a pin cushion. I do adore this game, so I don't want any of the devs or vintage story purists to take this the wrong way but... are they stupid? I mean, anyone can look up bow-hunting videos on youtube and watch a man take down an ELK with a single shot to the chest from something like 30 yards out!!! All the while, I've taken the dedicated HUNTER class, which does extra ranged damage, has extra accuracy and range, and I'm using the BEST POSSIBLE BOW, and I cannot shoot more than 20 feet out in front of me without the extreme RNG and projectile drop making it basically a coin toss whether I even land the shot, and when I do, IT DOESNT MATTER! Who designed these animals? Who made it so that you'd be better off chasing down the game into a corner with a flint spear than actually hunting with a good bow and metal arrows? It's not fun, and its not realistic, so what is it? It isn't done for "balance" considering its extremely imbalanced in the favor of the animals. Is it just done to be gritty for the sake of grittiness? And we're playing on the official servers that my friend paid for, so I can't just "mod the pain away".