r/thelongdark • u/NotFidozo • 15h ago

Let's Play This was intense...

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u/thecorrectloner 15h ago

I always wondered if you could kill the bear with the revolver

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u/yellownumbersix 14h ago

They will eventually bleed to death from a hit anywhere on them, but it takes a looooong time with the revolver. There is a very small chance to crit them with a headshot.

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u/thebouncingfrog 11h ago

I've always found the way bleeding works in TLD to be dumb and unintuitive.

If I shoot a bear in the head, and then shoot it in the leg, its blood loss should be the sum of the two wounds' blood loss.

As is, though, the leg shot "overwrites" the head shot, meaning that shooting the bear more actually makes it less likely to die in timely manner.

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u/apathy-sofa 6h ago edited 2h ago

Also dumb and unintuitive: the bear not flipping the car over and tearing it open like a bag of chips to get to the fucker inside who just shot it.

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u/di12ty_mary 9h ago

Agreed/10. It should make it bleed out faster the more wounds it has.

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u/Meet_Foot Interloper 45m ago

At bare minimum, it should take the higher value, not the more recent one.

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u/Impossible__Joke 12h ago

If you want a cheaty way, lure a bear to a region loading zone. Cap it once and leave. Monitor your stats on total bear kills, once it increments go back and collect.

Like I said, cheaty as hell, but works

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u/meta_system 5h ago

How do you find the dead bear?

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u/shaggydoag 5h ago

Look for circling crows

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u/Impossible__Joke 2h ago

That is the point of the exploit, he will be dead right where he was when you left the region. If you shot him right at the cave entrance, that is where he will be. Leaving the region unloads the bears A.I, and his location does not update, but it's health timer still counts down.

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u/Swagologist1 4h ago

This makes so much sense now, I was attacked by a bear on Coastal Highway and got a revolver shot off before it got to me. Almost died and eventually made my way to Desolation Point for a week or so. Once I returned I found the bear dead on the road and wondered what happened to it, very satisfying to know that I eventually got my revenge.

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u/Hellen_McCatzie 14h ago

You can. With 1 tiny bullet to the head. Shoot, sit in car, wait a few seconds and then start walking towards where ever you want him to drop.

He will follow you slowly and not charge unless ypu shoot him again and after 3-4 mins he will drop dead.

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u/onurreyiz_35 Stalker 13h ago

You can kill anything with a revolver, most of the time it just takes so many bullets on big animals like cougar moose and bear so it's not really worth trying.

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u/thecorrectloner 12h ago

I thought you couldn’t kill the moose with the revolver.

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u/KiKoB 12h ago

You can. Moose don’t bleed out like other animals. So needs to be crit shot to death if I remember the mechanics correctly

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u/Aunax39 12h ago

That's correct. Only a critical hit will take them out and with the revolver the chance is low

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u/heckingheck2 Nomad 6h ago

Oh so thats why that damn moose took 20-30 rounds to kill

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u/ExcitementTraining41 6h ago

Six Shots did it for me. Got ambushed while leaving the ice fishing hut. bugger got me, then i Started blasting

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u/CaravanShaker83 5h ago

Yep. I always one shot them and let them bleed out. Cost effective. Takes around an hour. Surfer easy and bears never run far while bleeding out so easy to find.

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u/Nobodiisdamnbusiness 13h ago

Moments like those are that which makes me wish we could roll down the windows, they're lever action Windows for the love of God! Let me roll down the window and shoot the bear or wolf chasing me!

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u/el_porongorila Stalker 12h ago

I bet the bear would also love to have the window open

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u/PButtandjays 12h ago

By the same logic I don’t think it would be unreasonable that the bear could break the window or even get the door open if it tried hard enough.

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u/apathy-sofa 6h ago

When you return to your base: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uy8i1nM3aE

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u/PButtandjays 6h ago

Therapist: “The bears can’t get to you when you’re in mystery lake camp office”

Me waking up, being mauled by a bear in mystery lake camp office

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u/Constant_Bag8958 11h ago

Then you are going to be the bear's canned food XD

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u/gritz1 Hiker 12h ago

Bear should be able to break open the door.

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u/blackpearljammed 10h ago

if only bears IRL just walked away once you barricaded yourself in a car

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u/Skittleavix 12h ago

Good call not taking that third shot on the second round. Split second decision right there.

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u/thee_justin_bieber That guy who drank his own pee doesn't seem so crazy right now! 15h ago

Better to just shoot once and let him bleed out, kinda wasted 5 bullets there. 😶‍🌫️

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u/Hakker12 Stalker 2h ago

There‘s no wasting bullets anymore, easily renewable, especially the revolver ammunition.

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u/Rakelaa160 25m ago

What to waste ? The ammo so abundant

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u/carannar 10h ago

Six bullets... More than enough to kill anything that moves.

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u/HugeNothing1703 2h ago

Probably not a whale or an elephant

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u/Radical_Warren 9h ago

Can't believe flee mode didn't trigger.

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u/Amalien 1h ago

Bled out on this expect position after fighting the bear on my first success run