Did they nerf archery?

[camgillies]

I have 30 archery and 25 perception. I'm using a quality 12 bow and ~15 arrows. I was hunting a deer and hit it twice, once for 3 and once for 30 them the deer ran. did they nervy archery? I remember hitting for 100s with similar stats last world. Also, I Thought deer only ran if you did 50+ in one shot.

[xTrainx]

archery was nerfed in a number of ways, first now when shooting something or someone, its agility is matched agaisnt your perception, so if you have low perception and they have high agility, you will do a lot less damage.
Secondly, each time you shoot a stone or bone arrow, the quality of the animal will go down to what we assume is the avarage of the arrow vs the animal. Some people say a metal arrow wont destroy the quality, but i havent tested it myself, and i cant find anything by the dev that suggest that.

[abt79]

Protip: don't use archery this world, boat cheese with unarmed is infinitely easier and doesn't rek q

[beardhat]

Yes, they nerfed Archery so bad it might as well not exist in this world.

Get unarmed and abuse boats.