That's right, just what the title says.
There is no "beastmaster" in this game if you play on Survivor mode.
Every single animal I tame ends up poofing from existence when simply traversing towards a goal.
Call it pathing, terrain, drowning in shallow water, breaking some pottery, jumping down a 4 foot ledge,
having your back turned to the for a minute, attacking deer... You name it, they just poof.
Sometimes no explanation.
This takes away from the game more than it should. It makes it feel broken or as if your missing
out on something that should be there. You played Vanilla to the end, so now you want to
tackle a harder mode with actual tweeks that improve the gameplay 1000%?
Sure, you can do that, but not with the animals you learned to work with, rely on, and love.
And yes, you could just play on a harder mode, but all that does it increase damage values.
In my opinion, increasing difficulty in many games these days (ones you already played) is a boring,
and predictable means of replaying it.
BUT... then there is this patch, Survivor Mode. I has so much more to it when compared to what
you have already experienced. It changes a lot! It literally feels almost completely different.
But with it comes a HUGE bug that utterly destroys the gameplay you know and love.
This has got to be fixed!
From googling, it appears to have been around since it's release, April 12, 2016.
It's now April 2, 2020. How could this type of bug still be thriving to this day, Four years later??
I've tried to locate information on if this game has a console, and console commands so that
I might be able to shut this nonsense off. But I have found nothing. And that is fine honestly,
because I DO actually like the permadeath rule. So, I don't want that turned off because it
does provide a great deal of immersion into the game, and higher value towards the tamed
animals. I do not mind loosing them if I can't get to them in time - during the "down timer".
That's fair imo, because it's a user controllable environment: via reaction time, tactics, etc.
What isn't fair is loosing hard earned animals and the wasted prepare time:
Allow me to explain...
Time spent stocking up on meat, wasted food before/during/after combat-tame process, arrows,
spears, wasted mats on creating traps, skill points wasted because "obvious reasons", etc, etc..
This game is absolutely phenomenal, and it does NOT deserve this.
It makes a game so highly thought of, and hard not to love; a game that is truly a wonderful experience...
..and forces you to dislike it, due to this one bug. I don't want to hate this game, I really don't.
Please fix this, for all of us out there awaiting to experience the Survivor Mode as it should be.
Bugs aside though, the beautiful world, the gripping story, you have created such a wonderful game.
Much Respect. Thank you.
~L4