The new animals are weak.

[mantoe]

Logged in today after patching and holy spitballs our tribe area is overrun by rabid coons. Ok, they "fixed" the animals. I guess more were added and I am not worried about that. Too bad these rabid coons drop with a few smacks of my huju stick, but they wouldn't be really hearty, they are cuddly wuddly racoons.

I run up into the mountains to get some woodstuffs. Oh boy! I see a bear, my first since release. This should be a good fight, during beta (and early release from what I've read) it was a challenge to solo the bear. Not really much, but hell it was something to do.

Bear #1, I kill with less than 1/3rd health loss. Wow, did I just get lucky? Sweet snapdragons, another one a few minutes later (these things are taking over!). Bear #2 drops even faster with me taking even less damage. Bear #3 gets the jump on me and I still send him scampering only to be felled by my mighty huju stick.

Ok, so I ask in general for a consensus and I ask here.... Is it just me, or do the animals seem waaaaaaaaay weaker and easier to kill?

[Shaggy]

The only reason they're easy to kill now is because they're "young". As far as I know, as they get "older" they get bigger and stronger.

[Morgan]

big huge black bears will rape you in about 4 hits.

the regular bears go down easy and you loose a third of your life with no armor.

[mantoe]

Will they even last long enough to grow up? Is that confirmed or conjecture?

[Shaggy]

I'm pretty sure I heard it from an official source, but I could be wrong. Now that they're back in, they should be mating and respawning correctly, so I think we'll have a healthy supply of animals now.

[orious13]

Will they even last long enough to grow up? Is that confirmed or conjecture?

People near my zone were spawn killed during lag once and their bear leveled up quite a bit.

Also mobs attack each other so if the mobs aren't in the non-fog area they might be killin the crap out of other mobs in the fog area and leveling up that way too.

[Banok]

new creatures added, doesn't this game have patchnotes or something?!

[Dweetybyrd]

OP, If you want a greater challenge, dont use your preorder weapon. That should do just the trick...

[Dreamcrest]

@ Chibi

There is a difference about the fun of discovering things by yourself and wanting to see what is fixed or added in the patchnotes. I am fine at discovering myself where I get some new resource, they don't have to tell it me in notes, but I for sure want to know if there are fixed things or bugs.

[JCatano]

I kill bears faster with 5 Unarmed versus 25+ in Armed/<insert weapon>.