When hunting an animal, you have to kill it with a weapon rated for the class of the animal to get a maximum game score, which was really hard for me to understand for the longest time. The game limits you to hunting animals while they are eating or drinking, and taking shots from about 200 meters must be frequently done.Īnimals are given a class based on their size and how hard they are to kill.
Elk and Moose are also really responsive to calls, which seems to be pretty realistic.Īnimals can only be seen at a max distance of 440 meters, so it really makes “sneaking up” on animals tough because they mostly will see you and react before you ever have a chance. I’ve found Mule Deer, Whitetail Deer, and Blacktail deer all over react to game calls and come into them far more than surely any hunter has ever seen in real life, but they do also run away from sounds in the same over exaggerated way, so it kind of balances out. They fly weird and do not react to decoys or calls the way the real ones do. Ducks and geese rarely act like they should.
As for how animals behave that can be a totally different issue. The game has mostly really realistic looking animals.
