SCUM 0.85 - Complete Beginners Guide To Hunting 

So your saying you don't need to sneak until the animal actually spawns?

@@RayKit no

@@lanzonamerlions Interesting... Thank you.

​@@RayKit yeah that's it

Exactly! Shows even more how fucking stupid this is in regards to hunting. They might as well have just deleted all animals from the game. This new system is beyond ignorance. In all regards!

They should use this system for hunting legendary type animals. Normal animals/predators should still roam the map, it feels dead now.

Yea its called looting, selling to trader, then buying meat. If hunting was that stupid in real life humans would have died out a long time ago. I enjoy hunting games really they should have just made it where after you hit the animal it takes off running and you have to follow blood trails atleast then the game wouldnt feel dead. No animals in scum just open land with sounds of animals you never see unless you play a badly though out hunting mini game.

It is. You aren't the only person that wants them back.

It won't happen. I'm hoping that after they add AI, they find enough overhead in server performance to add wolves and bears back to the world spawns. We won't see animals for a LONG time.

Agreed having both this system to aid in hunting whilst still having passive spawns is the best of both.

won't you eventually lose fat reserves if you don't eat animal meat?

@@darkbrandongamerYou don't need any. In fact losing as much weight as possible is the way to go, because dexterity is linked with being slim. As in: Scum is fatshaming AF. It doesn't impact your strength either. Eating protein helps while training strength, but it's not required to keep strength. So you can be a stick but hulk at the same time. Because Scum is not realistic in any way. At the same time, standing AFK decreases you strength and condition... which makes no sense, because standing for a long time is very taxing on the body (see guard soldiers drop like stones when standing long for parades) so it should improve. But Scum is trying to force you to be active all the time (but then counts things like crafting as being inactive, meaning you'll lose condition while crafting a lot). Unfortunately Scum devs are going 100% in the wrong direction with almost everything they have done since they removed the old driving model. Every patch since has made the game worse overall instead of better. Implementing things nobody uses (=wasted dev time), adding things that completely ruin the balance of the mixed PvE/PvP environment, and loot changes that make basically 90% of looting locations useless. I've played 1366h between Sep 30th 2022 and Sep 20th 2023. So I literally played Scum for 3.85 hours PER DAY. And the experience went strongly downhill overall. Yes, pretty much every patch has 1 or 2 cool things, but all the rest make the game worse instead of better.

Appreciate the comment vietrak. I find the wolves and bears don't need hunting as they're predatory animals. They hunt us. So to speak.. but yes I would like to see some work done to this to allow some we can see and some we have to track. Maybe advanced awareness should allow for this.

After weeks of learning and using the hunting feature you hear an animal sound and follow it. Focus mode while following the sound. Examine, it then gives you direction of animal. While tracking you may hear the animal from another direction that goes against the examined path. Follow the sound. Always follow the sound. Keep doing that and you'll find the animal. I find now you can search up to 5 clues before spawning.

Yeah I understand what you mean. From what we have known to what we have now is world's apart. Also finding animal carcasses and examining them shows the direction of a predatory animal which I find really cool. Everything is triggered by something. Would be cool to have to track without triggering tmfirst through examining etc but I understand that could be difficult.

@@RayKit I wonder how in depth they will get? Though I could understand the balance between immersion and tedium. I do traditional bowhunting IRL, and my last trek was tracking a deer over 6km of mixed terrain in the winter, though the area I was in was patchy with its snow. Tracking can tell you a whole story of the animals day, from my deer's relaxed walk in the snow, to the sudden appearance of coyote tracks pursuing, ending up at kicked snow with intermingled tracks, crashed reeds, and patches of fur. No blood though. The tracks departed with the coyote retreating. The deer continued with a quicker pace but then veered in another direction. I discovered he had caught the scent of a doe and watched/ waited as he tried to impress her for quite some time before that. He was a decent size with a decent rack, even having double drop-tines which is uncommon. She brushed him off finally, and you could almost see his shoulders sag with disappointment. It was then that I took the shot. His antlers still hang above any fireplace or room-focus-area that I've lived in. I was also thrilled to see Scum use the furballl silencers for bow strings, as I have the same ones on my own bow. They also provide a noticeable amount of kickback reduction.

The animal makes the sound first then you find the clues. Not clues first.

@@RayKit I had 2nd and 3rd clue in mind. It's even more noticable at 2nd clue when you were facing north east, sound came from that direction and after examining it, it said animal went south. So my guess is that clues "produce" animal sounds until actual animal spawns.

@@Seamur_Strife if you miss a "clue" by going past it at least, you again hear the sounds behind allowing you to backtrack to the clue so that makes a lot of sense that the clues produce the sound until the animal is spawned in.

Lmao thanks dude made me laugh. I'll be making videos when I get back from Canada

yeah my awareness is on basic and jezz let me tell you shit feels fucking impossible to do, i tried to hunt down 4 animals now and i only managed to find 1 damn clue. i follow the sound as precise as i can and fucking NOTHING, so frustrating

Which animals? Only bears and wolves and maybe boars will attack which means no need to hunt. They are predatory.

@@RayKit lol, yes, those ones. I was looting C3 town and I could hear a bear grunting. I looked north and it was stood in the middle of the field. I have also found wolves by simply following the sound.

@@Blanny1974 Awesome to hear this! Just shows predatory animals don't need tracking which is great!

⁠@@RayKit Bears and wolves are still random spawnable? 🤔 I am not sure. I play after 0.85 many tens hours and I no see any animal (official server) 🤷‍♂️

@@Blanny1974 hmmm maybe I no have a luck 🤷‍♂️

Yeah they changed it again xD

@RayKit nice that makes me happy

Some things are a little more rare.. but if you had 10x loot, you'd very quickly be able to sell enough to buy a nice weapon.

I don’t think so, I think the new system is fine just the way it is. Although I hope Birds come back

Facts I agree

I don’t know what is the issue on scum, because on day z I always hear the animals sound first, I never have seen an animal roaming around. I hear the sound then I find it on dayZ

@@aithemed how long have you been playing Scum?

It's been changed since this video dude. Animals Roam as well.

@@RayKit Thanks bro. I'm glad they changed that

This hunting system was reworked in order to help server load, which will help when they add roaming NPC's in 0.90 and beyond.

I tend to update players on my live streams as well as videos as the game progresses. Cheers dude

but why is this video still up? it comes up in the search. @@RayKit

They retracted their feature. Mostly find animals roaming now.

I haven’t either

You are correct. Animals will never spawn unless someone successfully hunts them using the new system.