Please remove Legendary Beast permadeath from Survivor Mode
We all know it happens far too often. You scale some cliffs or cross some water, your beast's AI can't figure out an alternative route and whoppa - before you know it, your beast is suddenly dead.
If you happen to play in vanilla Far Cry Primal, there's a good chance you won't even notice it as your beast will immediately respawn/teleport right by your side.
No such luck in Survivor Mode. In Survivor Mode you'll find yourself without a companion all of a sudden. You'll just have to tame another one.
If it was a legendary beast though... welp, goodbye forever.
It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when this bug decides to randomly kill your beast and when that happens it's ridiculous and infuriating to realize you'll never get the unique beasts back.
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So please, for the love of god, do something about this.
The way I see it, there's 3 options here.
- Fix this bug. I don't even see why it's here. I can understand some shortcomings in pathfinding AI that force developers to create "failsafe mechanics" such as your wolf teleporting right next to you when it can't figure out a route towards you.
But I can not understand why this has been disabled in Survivor Mode. It's unfair. Why can't this teleport/respawn mechanic work for Survivor Mode too? If the beast dies in combat, he's gone for good if you don't revive him in time. If he dies to bad pathfinding, he should immediately respawn right next to the player, same as in vanilla. I really don't understand why this counts as a legitimate death in Survivor Mode.
- Give the Legendary Beasts a cooldown instead of a permadeath. If they die, they're not gone for good like the other beasts. Instead, they're gone for 30m-2hrs after which they can be revived with red leaves like in vanilla.
- Remove beast permadeath altogether and apply the same as above but for every beast. The cooldown duration can be determined by the strength of a beast, such as 30 minutes for a Dhole and 2 hours for a Cave Bear.
As it currently stands, the Legendary Beast Hunt missions don't come even remotely close to outweighing the risk with reward. These missions are among the hardest in the game and no player enjoys the concept of nearly losing his savefile during his attempt to tame these legendary beasts when 5 minutes afterwards that said beast will randomly fall off a cliff and disappear from the game forever.
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