How do i hunt animals?

[godz123]

Its seems just impossible to hunt without using some kind of glitch. It's how this game is intended to be played?

[VDZ]

Once you get used to the combat system and have a sword, you can melee most animals, particularly on horseback. But it takes skill and is dangerous to the point of potentially being lethal, so most players prefer laming the animals to death.

[abt79]

Shoot boars from behind the safety of a cliff then chase after it at run speed

[Astarisk]

Animals are stupid as they tend to flee even if you can manage to 1v1 them, so bears / deers and what not just run too fast. I don't know how the developers intend for us to kill them outside of one shotting deer with bows, and hoping you get lucky with non-fleeing bears. Kind of hoping they revamp hunting and animal AI at one point, the system just feels like it was made just to have you cheese the animals, since it is impossibly hard otherwise.

[Scoodles]

Its seems just impossible to hunt without using some kind of glitch. It's how this game is intended to be played?

Aggro them from a distance so that they don't hit you before you raise a defensive maneuver
Keep your defenses well maintained
Chip them with weak attacks like punch, do as much damage as you can without tipping them into their fleeing threshold
Ensure they have nothing to block your hardest hitting attack, then strike them with it
You should now have a dead animal (or enraged bear)

These numbers are not the exact threshholds. I wrote down when they fled and how much they could take as I fought them last world
First number is max damage I did without them fleeing. Second is the amount that caused them to flee

Mouflon
???
149

Badger
128
154

Aurochs
245
258

Horse
214
254?

Deer
115
124

Lynx
185
???

Bear
479
494

Happy hunting