Howdy!
So it's been about a decade since I played last, managed to fiddle my way back into the game mostly via the well-kept wiki (Thanks for that btw, to whom it may concern).
There are a few things still a bit weird to me:
- Been hunting some mostly small game, thanks to getting a decent weapon from abandoned places. So most "fights" I win by the thing I'm fighting usually being dead before it really gets to hurt me. I tried experimenting a bit after raising my ua and agility and fist fighting ants at different stages. The confusing part is mostly that it doesn't really feel like I'm getting better at defending against them, but more that they just die faster. Is the general idea behind the combat that you just kill stuff before it hurts you, neglecting defenses? Or am I just expecting too much from jumping between UA 10 and UA 30? For the slower enemies this works fine, I can just run away from boars and such while lowering my openings. But part of me is wondering how you'd fight something "fairly" when neither side is running away.
- Related to this: How do you go about hunting ideally? I've had trouble actually catching foxes and badgers once they start running away. Sometimes I can just barely keep up with them on speed 3, other times they outrun even that, meaning I can only catch them on any terrain that lets me sprint. It used to be that you could trap animals, I've tried doing so on cliff U-Turns and small islands, but they seem to break log and such as well now. The bloodstains seem to imply you are meant to track them down, but it seems to be somewhat random if and when an animal will stop running away. I ironically have a way easier time killing boars over foxes/badgers simply because they don't run quite as fast.
- FInally for taming. As animals seem to break through a lot of stuff now, I assume some of the older tech I remember does not work anymore. I vaguely remember that you could encircle horses and such in a ring of rocks and play keep-away during the taming process. Since that most likely won't work anymore: What stats / equipment would I roughly need to tame myself a horse? Also, is there still a risk that using a high q weapon kills them before they submit during taming?
Thanks in advance to anyone who takes the time to respond.