I've given it enough time to and I think that the critters retreating makes combat less fun and more annoying.

I have nothing positive to say about it and the only way I could see it being better if it was removed.


- Veeg

I hate it as well. If it is system resource problem there has got to be a better, albeit probably more difficult to code, solution.

Scripting has absolutely nothing to do with it. I can write a script that will move from room to room just as well as you do by hand. Critters retreating make it extraordinarily more difficult to train defenses especially multi. Your basically forced to hunt swarmy creatures, or creatures with small hunting areas.

As someone who is playing a noob, particularily in widespread hunting grounds where critters either spawn far apart from each other or don't spawn in sufficient quantity when I'm alone, it's very frustrating to play the "murder the critters until they spawn near each other and hope they walk into the same room" game. I know that it won't be an issue once I get to a certain point and reach the 'good' hunting grounds, where either plenty of critters spawn or the spawn areas are very small, solving the problem of finding enough critters for multi, but for now, it's irritating.

Particularily, in my situation where it's difficult to learn parry because 3 break through my defenses but two don't teach quickly enough to lock (my shield and multi are fine, but parry is a pain in the ass). So I'm forced to dance with three, taking hits and switching to shield, letting my vit recover, and then going back to parry, because parry just doesn't defend as well at the same ranks but I need the same number of critters to learn.

>Retreating brings nothing to the table

Agreed. I don't see any benefit from this change. Of course not every change is supposed to make my gaming experience in DR better, some are designed to make it harder I guess.

The biggest trouble of course comes when you couple retreating critters with poor spawning critters in large hunting grounds. I really wish that a thorough re-thinking of critter spawning and engagement caps would happen. Sounds like the changes to stormbull spawn might be applicable to other "non-swarmy" hunting grounds. I don't want every place to be vines and creepers, but I want the possibility of finding 2 to 3 critters in a room at least every 10 minutes.

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The retreating mechanics have a very valid roll to taper the creatures that one is able to hoard. Sort of a forced sharing mechanic.

>>Your basically forced to hunt swarmy creatures, or creatures with small hunting areas.

This.

Although I'm not feeling the wrath of the retreating mechanics at the moment, it more than likely has something to do with the fact that I'm hunting in caracals(genning four per hunter). I'm really hoping Multi Opponent learning is increased by the time I am forced to move on.

I think the only problem that exists at this point is the difficulty of Multi Opponent learning in non-swarmy hunting grounds.

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Something I don't understand, and I would like to know. When a critter wanders off in some direction after the retreat mechanism kicks in does it actually move to another room, or does it "disappear" the way I've seen critters do on past occasions.

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<<I train in Morah Vines because they attack so quickly and are so swarmy>>

vines and creepers are the easiest place to train MO out of any other creature I have been to, so you only don't have a
problem train MO right now. You will later probably.

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