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Vela 23 Nov @ 2:32pm
Wolf problems
Confused why a moderator locked this discussion from a year ago as soon as i posted on it yesterday, since it was still the exact same problem...

Custom settings, wolf spawn LOW, wildlife respawn as long as possible. Running into wolves every 100 feet. What's up with this, overspawning wolves has seemed to be an issue for years. Anyone else seeing this, have a solve, as i've done the custom setting suggestions to solve this without it seeming to change anything.

Edit: My issue isn't with fighting or avoiding wolves, it's how crazy easy it is to get wolf materials with the game in this state, i've literally never played a run of this even on medium settings where getting a wolfskin coat was this easy and fast in previous iterations and it seems really broken for it to be this way on the lowest possible settings.

Anyway I'm unsubbing from this convo now, thanks to those who actually bothered to understand my issue was with backend spawning overabundance seeming broken, even if there's no fix at this time.
Last edited by Vela; 24 Nov @ 6:49pm
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kamikazi21358 23 Nov @ 2:53pm 
I have not had this problem when playing custom, last time I played custom, at least in regions with reasonable amount of wolves. What region are you in? Different regions have different amounts of hostile wildlife.
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Vela 23 Nov @ 3:02pm 
Originally posted by kamikazi21358:
I have not had this problem when playing custom, last time I played custom, at least in regions with reasonable amount of wolves. What region are you in? Different regions have different amounts of hostile wildlife.

mystery lake so far on this run, haven't been able to check neighboring regions yet. Could be it, but it still feels... insane, for the lowest possible settings...
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ZACK (LTU) 23 Nov @ 3:38pm 
Originally posted by Vela:
Originally posted by kamikazi21358:
I have not had this problem when playing custom, last time I played custom, at least in regions with reasonable amount of wolves. What region are you in? Different regions have different amounts of hostile wildlife.

mystery lake so far on this run, haven't been able to check neighboring regions yet. Could be it, but it still feels... insane, for the lowest possible settings...
Then be more careful then. Those danm wolfs can be a pain in the ass but if you have some extra frares. Or even better a torch you can just light the light torch drop that bad boy on the ground and aim at the wolf with any weapon even a rock and he runs off like the ♥♥♥♥♥ he is. my advice carry both cause sometmes the wind might try to ♥♥♥♥ you over. Also if a wolf sees you dont worry he will just follow you around untill you get too close or aim a weapon at him. But that happens only in the day time during the night wolfs dont follow you around they attack much faster and dont make the growling noises from what i heard so its wise to not go out at night if you dont NEED to. Hope this helps good luck out there:knifeTLD:
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kamikazi21358 23 Nov @ 3:55pm 
Originally posted by Vela:
Originally posted by kamikazi21358:
I have not had this problem when playing custom, last time I played custom, at least in regions with reasonable amount of wolves. What region are you in? Different regions have different amounts of hostile wildlife.

mystery lake so far on this run, haven't been able to check neighboring regions yet. Could be it, but it still feels... insane, for the lowest possible settings...
Mystery lake was the region I based in when I did a custom game with wolf spawns set to low, and I rarely had a problem. Maybe they were changed since then or something. I was kind of expecting you to say desolation point or something like that…
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Vela 23 Nov @ 4:37pm 
Originally posted by ZACK (LTU):
Originally posted by Vela:

mystery lake so far on this run, haven't been able to check neighboring regions yet. Could be it, but it still feels... insane, for the lowest possible settings...
Then be more careful then. Those danm wolfs can be a pain in the ass but if you have some extra frares. Or even better a torch you can just light the light torch drop that bad boy on the ground and aim at the wolf with any weapon even a rock and he runs off like the ♥♥♥♥♥ he is. my advice carry both cause sometmes the wind might try to ♥♥♥♥ you over. Also if a wolf sees you dont worry he will just follow you around untill you get too close or aim a weapon at him. But that happens only in the day time during the night wolfs dont follow you around they attack much faster and dont make the growling noises from what i heard so its wise to not go out at night if you dont NEED to. Hope this helps good luck out there:knifeTLD:

I'm not having a problem handling them, headshots galore, already have a wolf coat a few days of gameplay in (which in and of itself should never happen this fast and speaks to the issue), it's jsut nuts how many there are on what are supposed to be the lowest setting, the game is too easy if all i have to do is step outside, wait for a wolf headshot and eat for the day.... literally leaving untouched bodies everywhere jsut to walk down the tracks...
Last edited by Vela; 23 Nov @ 4:44pm
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Vela 23 Nov @ 4:43pm 
Originally posted by kamikazi21358:
Originally posted by Vela:

mystery lake so far on this run, haven't been able to check neighboring regions yet. Could be it, but it still feels... insane, for the lowest possible settings...
Mystery lake was the region I based in when I did a custom game with wolf spawns set to low, and I rarely had a problem. Maybe they were changed since then or something. I was kind of expecting you to say desolation point or something like that…

Maybe behind the scenes changes messed something up last update, as this is the 3rd new game after starting over a few times where this over abundance issue seems to be in play, or i'd have said maybe my save was just borked.

appreciate your feedback,
Last edited by Vela; 23 Nov @ 4:44pm
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ZACK (LTU) 23 Nov @ 5:36pm 
Originally posted by Vela:
Originally posted by ZACK (LTU):
Then be more careful then. Those danm wolfs can be a pain in the ass but if you have some extra frares. Or even better a torch you can just light the light torch drop that bad boy on the ground and aim at the wolf with any weapon even a rock and he runs off like the ♥♥♥♥♥ he is. my advice carry both cause sometmes the wind might try to ♥♥♥♥ you over. Also if a wolf sees you dont worry he will just follow you around untill you get too close or aim a weapon at him. But that happens only in the day time during the night wolfs dont follow you around they attack much faster and dont make the growling noises from what i heard so its wise to not go out at night if you dont NEED to. Hope this helps good luck out there:knifeTLD:

I'm not having a problem handling them, headshots galore, already have a wolf coat a few days of gameplay in (which in and of itself should never happen this fast and speaks to the issue), it's jsut nuts how many there are on what are supposed to be the lowest setting, the game is too easy if all i have to do is step outside, wait for a wolf headshot and eat for the day.... literally leaving untouched bodies everywhere jsut to walk down the tracks...
Ah i see. Then start a new game on interloper and see how you can last if you think the game is too easy.
Last edited by ZACK (LTU); 23 Nov @ 5:41pm
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THOMYORKE 23 Nov @ 11:23pm 
That's how low spawn looks like. Try Stalker to see how big spawn looks like.
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Vela 24 Nov @ 12:19am 
Originally posted by THOMYORKE:
That's how low spawn looks like. Try Stalker to see how big spawn looks like.

if you insist.
this is still a much larger spawning population than i've seen on these or similar setting even just a few updates ago, but i appreciate your feedback.
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Vela 24 Nov @ 12:21am 
Originally posted by ZACK (LTU):
Originally posted by Vela:

I'm not having a problem handling them, headshots galore, already have a wolf coat a few days of gameplay in (which in and of itself should never happen this fast and speaks to the issue), it's jsut nuts how many there are on what are supposed to be the lowest setting, the game is too easy if all i have to do is step outside, wait for a wolf headshot and eat for the day.... literally leaving untouched bodies everywhere jsut to walk down the tracks...
Ah i see. Then start a new game on interloper and see how you can last if you think the game is too easy.

I mean i am basically playing interloper settings with very few adjustments, which is why this was so surprising to me, but i get what you're saying. i just don't think in this case the comparison will be very different in generic interloper.
but worth additional testing i suppose.
Last edited by Vela; 24 Nov @ 12:24am
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SouthernMan1972 24 Nov @ 4:46am 
Originally posted by Vela:
Custom settings, wolf spawn LOW, wildlife respawn as long as possible. Running into wolves every 100 feet. What's up with this, overspawning wolves has seemed to be an issue for years. Anyone else seeing this, have a solve, as i've done the custom setting suggestions to solve this without it seeming to change anything.

I agree with you that the low setting doesn't seem to do much for reducing wolves, or any other animal for that matter. Everybody is just telling you how to avoid being killed by a wolf without acknowledging that the custom setting doesn't do what it should. You would think the lowest settings would mean you would rarely see a wolf, or have a hard time finding rabbits or deer, but they seem to always be in their standard spots no matter the setting. It is what it is I guess.
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Vela 24 Nov @ 12:48pm 
Originally posted by roach:
just carry a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ torch

Lol, just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ read.

I'm not having an issue killing literally all of them, that isn't my problem.
Based on these setting I shouldn't be having to kill 10 a day just walking toward one end of the region or another.
Last edited by Vela; 24 Nov @ 12:51pm
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RuneDjinn 24 Nov @ 3:21pm 
I've played custom games with wolf spawn set to low and medium recently. Low seems to still have lot of wolves but most are singular. On medium I occasionally get small packs, sometimes 3-4.
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PowerOn 24 Nov @ 6:26pm 
Lower the wolf spawn means that less wolf will spawn in a give spawn point, not that spawn points will be lowered. Anyway in no place they are spaced only 100 feet's.

In Stalker the maximum wolf spawn in a give point in Mistery Lake is five (5) - rarely, most is four (4). The wildlife spawn points are fixed, is easy to identify where is and avoid, or be prepared to fight wolves.
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Vela 24 Nov @ 6:39pm 
Originally posted by PowerOn:
Lower the wolf spawn means that less wolf will spawn in a give spawn point, not that spawn points will be lowered. Anyway in no place they are spaced only 100 feet's.

In Stalker the maximum wolf spawn in a give point in Mistery Lake is five (5) - rarely, most is four (4). The wildlife spawn points are fixed, is easy to identify where is and avoid, or be prepared to fight wolves.

semantics of the distance aside, walking from the lakeside to either end of the tracks yields at least 4 dead wolves by the end of the walk, usually more, so...

But sound like you're saying if it were higher settings it would be the same locations and more than one at a time, so i get it, still seems ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ insane to me to have a wolfskin coat by day 2- in game, 2 by day 3-4 etc... like in no way in the past with this game were these materials ever this abundant even on medium settings, let alone low. seems broken.

but whatever i appreciate you actually giving some of the programming facts as you've observed them, only you and one or two other people have even seemed to understand what i'm trying to say in this thread, so i'm unsubbing from the convo now, thanks all.
Last edited by Vela; 24 Nov @ 6:42pm
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