Question about the quality of killed animals

[Buttercup]

I apologize if this has been answered somewhere, but google and forum search both left me without an answer on this...

Basically I've been wondering what exactly determines the quality of a dead animal that you kill. Earlier today I killed a bear with four arrows.
While it was alive, the bear had a quality of ~150. The corpse dropped to a disappointing 60 though.

I suspected that the arrow quality (they were ~50) has an influence, but I've killed deer of Q90 before and got a Q70 corpse.
So does the number of arrows you need also have an effect? What about bow quality and marksmanship?

This is so very confusing. @_@

[Granger]

Arrows softcapping animals is a new thing that was added recently for who knows why.

[Buttercup]

Ah I see. However, q50 arrows killing a 150 bear would not result in a q60 carcass... If I punch in all four arrows it took to kill the bear, though, (q50*q50*50*50*150) I get to ~63, which is pretty much how it turned out in game.

In essence that means I am far better off looking for lvl 100 boars or deer that can be killed with one shot, since they'll yield much better materials...

Seems hella weird. I:

[Shadow7168]

You can always take two boats, lure a animal to the water, break aggro and then quickly block it in with the other boat.

That way you can melee it from relative safety, moving away after each hit.

[Granger]

My best guess is that it was introduced as a counter to arrowing trolls with throwaway alts, alternative explanation is to slow progression by denying q250+ bones in week 1.

[sMartins]

I'm confident that even the boat hunt thing will be fixed soon.
In my mind the softcapped leather by projectiles is a good addition, and it would even be better (once exploits are fixed) if leathers would become a more valuable item in the game....a kind of currency as it was in the past.
And then we could even think to a better way to link items quality with the gameplay....idk, something like: using 8x pieces (1x1) leather instead of 2x pieces (2x2) making a leather armor should cap a lot the final quality result. (my english, sorry I slept only a bit)

[shubla]

Inspect them to see quality

[wafflecat]

Hunting with bow & arrow is useless now. Unless your arrows are ridiculously high q you'll always get a major quality reduction on the prey.
What people suggested with the boats is a good way for bear hunting. You'll notice they 'tick' every few seconds. those few seconds between ticks are your chance to throw in a hit.
This works best with 2 people, but it's possible to do alone and you can get million q bear again

Also, learn to fight if you dunno how. Deer are relatively easy to kill if you can get some metal gear