Vanishing Deer

[mystifeid]

I'm starving. I chase a deer until it is standing right next to the door of Draft Dodgers Cabin. I close in. Just before I stand to let fly an arrow, a blizzard starts and the deer blinks out of existence.

Not the first time this has happened.

Never seen a wolf do that.

[nicko]

never seen any wildlife just disappear like that. but what is blinks out of existence mean?

maybe post more details about how to replicate etc.

[mystifeid]

One second they're there, the next they're not.

I don't know how to replicate and don't really want to know but I've seen it happen twice in the same general area at about the same time of day - late afternoon.

[aurora]

On 17.10.2016 at 3:55 PM, mystifeid said:

One second they're there, the next they're not.

I don't know how to replicate and don't really want to know but I've seen it happen twice in the same general area at about the same time of day - late afternoon.

I've seen this once happening with wolves at the Mystery Lake. For me it seemed as an end of the game-lifecycle of the wolves ... you know, before they get spawned at a different location. 

[romerabr]

Tha happened to me, with wolves, in TWM, behind the hut, to the left, where sometimes spawn a deer carcass and a few rose hips. A wolf slowly walks to me, and just vanish in the air. That happened om CH under the pier, close to quonset station.

[mystifeid]

Pretty disappointed that everyone else has wolves disappear while for me it is my dinner vanishing but I am guessing that @aurora is close to the truth of the matter.

[Doc Gonzo]

I've had deer "despawn" in Mystery Lake ... like a previous poster said I think it's just part of the lifecycle of the wildlife rotation.

[Hotzn]

I once watched a wolf chase a deer behind Jackrabbit (behind meaning where I would not normally go due to the weak ice). I was standing on top of Jackrabbit and the weather was clear, so I could see very far. I was watching with interest, as wolf and deer were running at the same speed, which I found quite unusual. Both ran away farther and farther from where I was standing, and at some point the wolf despawned . The deer immediately slowed down and turned around, walking gingerly back towards its original spawning area. It obviously was not bewildered by the wolf's disappearance. We must therefore conclude that indeed the visible despawning of animals is a natural phenomenon of the TLD universe, and that other TLD animals are used to it. We can further suppose that animals despawn once they are at a certain distance from the player, and that this distance is shorter for wolves than it is for deer.

[romerabr]

1 hour ago, Doc Gonzo said:

I've had deer "despawn" in Mystery Lake ... like a previous poster said I think it's just part of the lifecycle of the wildlife rotation.

I tend to believe in the animals "bermuda triangle" theory, since I saw 2 wolves vanish on the same spoy, in different ocasions.

[Doc Gonzo]

3 minutes ago, romerabr said:

I tend to believe in the animals "bermuda triangle" theory, since I saw 2 wolves vanish on the same spoy, in different ocasions.

HA you might be on to something there ;-)

[Kyopaxa]

if it's just part of the lifecycle of the wildlife rotation, then it should not happen if close to the player, otherwise this looks like a bug to me.

[palbi]

On 2016. 10. 17. at 10:42 AM, mystifeid said:

I'm starving. I chase a deer until it is standing right next to the door of Draft Dodgers Cabin. I close in. Just before I stand to let fly an arrow, a blizzard starts and the deer blinks out of existence.

Not the first time this has happened.

Never seen a wolf do that.

Well, something like this I experienced too. At CH, in clear weather, I saw a wolf catching a deer. (I was in safe distance far.) Hurray, I said, the wolf has its share, then leaves, and the remaining will be mine (in Interloper it's a jackpot!). I waited 1hour, 2 hours, 3hours, almost frozen to death, and the wolf's still eating. I went to my house at Jackrabbit Island, to sleep 1hour. Upon returning, I saw the wolf just walking away, and the deer carcass was gone! No fur, no guts, no bones (and no meat). Nothing. It was annoying. I intend to try it once again, intentionally scare a deer toward a wolf, what happens. But if Aurora was right, I was simply very unlucky.

[Pillock]

I've never actually had anything disappear before my eyes when I've been looking at at. But I've quite frequently experienced deer, wolves and bears appearing or disappearing when you look in another direction for a split second.

Especially at Coastal Highway: I've learned that if the Misanthrope bear is NOT there when you start to walk towards his cave, you should not take your eyes off that spot until you get there, or well past it. If you look away for a moment, the bastard will have appeared at the cave entrance when you look back.