Hunting Bow discussion - Should food drops be limited to hunting weapons?

Hopefully noone else posted this.
But here's a cool idea:

Monster Hunter.

Come on... think about it.
Hunting bows will give you the meat straight up, while other weapons will leave the carcass there, for you to "carve" out your food/ bonus pelt.

Come on Chucklefish, do this for us please :>

 

I kind of like the idea of dedicated hunting weapons, it's strikes me kind of odd, when juicy meat drops after I blasted a monster to pieces with a rocke launcher.
But then again we're talking about blasting monsters with rocket launchers so realism is not the strong point of this (which is good, realism is lame )

Well, now that I think about it, i am okay with all options, but voted for hunting weapons, cause that was my first notion.

 

I know this has already been mentioned a whole bunch, but I really think it would be cool if meat and leather was a rare drop from other weapons, but the Hunting bow was more of a guarantee.
This would also mean if leather also sometimes dropped from other weapon kills, it wouldn't have to drop quite so often using Hunting weapons, as I've seen in some playthrough people almost starving to death because all their hunting bow kills were dropping leather.

Other hunting weapons, such as melee weapons, and maybe even traps like a beartrap would also be very awesome. They obviously would not be as strong as the other weapons as may take more skill to use (like the bow) but the benefit is the hunting related drops.

 

I think it would make sense for meat to have a 90%-100% drop rate from any weapon. Yes, this means finding meat would be quite easy. But the current mechanic, where hitting a 200 pound creature two or three times with a sword destroys it to the point where there is not enough meat left to feed a single person is clearly ridiculous.

 

I think bows, sniper rifles and other specific hunting weapons should give you meat.

 

Since I apparently missed this thread before:

I wasn't aware that bows had a charge shot mechanic already, that's a good start.

Hunters don't use automatic weapons because they're not designed for the task and and are probably ten times more expensive, and in many areas they're banned anyway. It has nothing to do with whether they'd work, as most of them would. Likewise, melee weapons would probably damage the hide, but I doubt there would be any significant effect on the meat.

You're trying to apply realism in the wrong way. It's fine if a story has elements that couldn't happen in real life, as long as they make sense within the world presented. However, the current hunting system is arbitrary and pointlessly annoying. It's unrealistic even in the context of this fictional reality we're talking about. That's why people don't like it.

 

I cannot stand the bow, its annoys me with everything jumping around its impossible for me to hit the mobs most of the time. A hunting knife would be really great for meat gathering.

Also instead of giving us a broken sword as a starter weapon, give us a hunting knife... or give us a bow OR a knife as an option when we first make our character.

 

Knife is already added to the game.

 

You do realize that that exact item has been craftable for a few days, right? The Hunting Knife is at the top of the list of craftable weapons on (I believe) the anvil.

 

FTFY

 

I don't mind the idea of going on hunting trips to gather food, but yeah, the bow sorta sucks and it makes it hard. I think traps should be implemented, something that can pin an enemy down and let you finish it with the bow or hunting knife.

 

While the thread is older than 2 months your idea has made me less annoyed with all the new people posting in 2-3 month old threads thinking they are helping., If I were you I would post this in the suggestions forums. It may already be there but it is worth a shot.

 

Lol cheers, I just might.

 

No, lol why? except from explosives every gun should make meat drops possible.

 

Consider that quality of the kill matters. The only way I could see firearms (or even hunting implements) yielding meat not absolutely destroyed through injury is by killing the creature in as few shots as possible. Something like a 60%-30%-15% spread in chances of dropping meat for one, two, and three shots respectively might work.

 

even if you woudl hutn a pig with an ak 49 you would have the same emount of meat, its not like you need to turn that pig into a siwss cheese to kill it at all. and even if, the meat would not provide beautiful steak,, but still a lot meat.

 

Some allowances have to be made to keep the game from becoming a hunting simulator. Since monsters only do drop one steak (no matter how many steaks the beast would realistically drop), the focus now shifts to the probabilities involved in avoiding the maiming of that steak.

 

and thats why its fine, when I snipe shot an monster i will surely be able to find a single piece of meat, or when I use a shotgun and rip off its head. Its butt still provides nice ham

 

Normal weapons cause mobs to drop meat now. No point in bringing this thread back to life.

 

Sure there is, maybe people don't like it the way things are. It's too simple.