Polar bears need serious nerfing.
Polar bears are way too overpowered, everyone who's played this game knows that. Not only do they have x10 the health of bears, but you also can't 70% of the time dodge their attacks, as you can do with bears. Not only can you not dodge them, but they're also the only bloody enemy in winter biomes, in multitude of quantities. Not only are they the only bloody enemy in winter biomes, but they can also spot you from 1000 clicks away and fucking rush you like they're an obese kid getting a keep-anything-you-can-touch ticket to Willy Wonka's factory. Not only that, but they LITERALLY climb nigh vertical walls to molest you. Fix. The. Fucking. Polar bears. Or. Remove. Them. Winter biomes are already trying to kill you in 100 different ways with the exposure and constant storms. https://streamable.com/cmpo55
Comments: 12
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10 Apr, '22
John W. MergedThe polar bears are too over-powered. Shouldn't have to get the really nice hunting rifle to do damage on them. Two shots with a normal bolt action should do. Two critical hits should really slow those guys down. Either that or you need to give us more rifle options. Like Magazine and belt fed weapons.
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11 Apr, '22
Roberts Mergedyes... make everything really easy...
NO!
Try worm arrows? fire arrows? dodge? use food?
No, they are not OP, not even close... not even on Hard+Hardcore difficulty
You are talking about the king of all mobs, except bosses... and you need to make it more easy? cmon man, get gut -
11 Apr, '22
Mesk3rykot1s MergedPolar bears are very easy to deal with. Even with bows it's easy.
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06 May, '22
bullsEYE13449mm MergedI'd make headshots do a liitle more as a sneak attack to the head followed by two more headshots with the bolt action rifle is a little nuts. body shots I feel are fine though. As someone not spec into bows much but guns yes, I can't for the life of me bring one down with a bow, maybe with some of the perks that stop/slow them and good luck you can but without them, no. In my experience if it reaches you, your dead. I haven't got to try the hunting rifle yet but I've gotten a good tactic down with the bolt action. If I see them first I can take them out easy enough. My problem is in the south eastern artic there are so many and that's all there is there. I see no reason why they are so spongy to headshots from a rifle and are the ONLY normal thing that tough, hell they are as bad as the normal level Wolf BOSS. I can't stay immersed when dealing with them as they don't fit the rest of the game's balance.
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06 May, '22
bullsEYE13449mm MergedI see making headshots do a little more damage as a QOL addition more than making anything more easy. I don't feel it's a good gameplay fighting them when all I have do is put round after round into them before the reach me. A bullet depository is not a fun enemy when I can't go 3 minuets without seeing another one or two of them. I haven't been to the other artic region yet to see if it's as bad but still. And no I don't think the bolt action should one shot them ether, or that body shots should do much, but a crit + 2 more shots all to the head should be overkill, not the minimum.
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07 Jul, '22
VladislavThat's really weird because i have millions of wolfs in winter biomes but no single Polar Bear. I think i have seen a polar bear about 2 or 3 times in winter biomes during my 140+ hours played. The last time it was a boss that was scripted to be there. But yeah, they are overpowered af, no chances to kill a polar bear with a knive or a bow unless you bug the bear AI while climbing a rock or something.
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26 Jul, '22
RichtiiiThx.....thx for writing down what my wife and I think about these god damn polar bears. in some missions where 2 or 3 polar bears rush at you at the same time, we died several times even with gunpower(so the single shot rifle) but they are def OP!
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14 Sep, '22
janekburnI can kill a bear with a spear just jabbing it in the face then dodging out the way but that technic don't work on polar bears they can turn on a dime unlike their lower cousins because the weight they are over run before they turn and attack. I managed to get on a large rock where i thought i would be safe not with polar bears they can jump really high onto the rocks unlike normal bears. I finally managed to kill one after shooting it in the face at near on point blank range with a shotgun but it took all eight bullets or what ever u call them before the damn thing dropped, im thinking if i shot a real one in the face a point blank with a shotgun there wouldn't be much left from the first shot so i can only think that when the reaserch team populated the planet with wildlife they added something to the soup of the polar bears to see how us prospectors would handle them, well guess what i have some rounds left and im on my way back to the station LOL (j/k)
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05 Jun, '23
Zac MergedI know this has been posted a million times but I am DONE with the polar bears they are WAY too strong, dodging does not work half the time, they have odd hitboxes, and way too much health. I normally avoid them but for the intro styx mission I have to kill one. This bear had six spears and several iron bolts put in it and it's still standing! Now two more bears have wandered there and are camping my gear. Not fun at all please for the love of god fix them.
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12 Jun, '23
Mosskit MergedI disagree, there must be someone dangerous on Icarus!
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23 Jun, '23
Sabre070 - Designer Admin"Polar Bears too OP" (suggested by John W. on 2022-04-10), including upvotes (5) and comments (4), was merged into this suggestion.
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23 Jun, '23
Sabre070 - Designer Admin"[Suggestion] Please fix polar bears" (suggested by Zac on 2023-06-05), including upvotes (3) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.