Hunting question, why the re-aggro?

[cylenri]

Returning player, I was pretty heavy in worlds 4-7 but only did a bit of hafen upon world 8's release because of the original systems.

More importantly, I just have a hunting question, now that I'm starting to get geared up with a sling and all, I understand cliffs are now better than boat hunting, as I've been doing.
However, with the new pathing, any animal in it's flee state slides off objects and just keeps running, and running, and running making me spend tons of stamina to chase them, only for them to suddenly flip, re-aggro on me and try to curbstomp my skull as I'm trying to punch and finish them off. (despite not healing any HP that I've seen?)


tl;dr, how do I circumvent animals running three miles only to turn bipolar and decide they want a second go afterwards.

[KitsuneG]

Well, if u do just a lil dmg when flee they will re-aggroed.
They also re-aggro if trapped and can't escape.
Sometimes animals flee just when u do some hard dmg in one shot(200 or so), but next attack reaggroed them, work with walrus, bear and those who have a lot of HP.

Like u scary them with hard damage from bow/sling and then they realise that can eat u alive coz u can't fight xD

[hazzor]

tl;dr, how do I circumvent animals running three miles only to turn bipolar and decide they want a second go afterwards.

By killing them faster. If you can't kill something quickly after you've already hit it to the point of fleeing then you need higher stats, the best way to hunt is to get on a horse and sideswipe the tits off of everything with a half-decent sword.