
Good stamina improves the rate of which the dog receives experience, not how well it performs or how likely it is to obey. Important: The dog's level in itself does not change any of the dog's likelihood of succeeding or how well it performs, it is only the skills themselves that improves the dog. Once your dog reaches level 50 it will be the perfect hunting companion: Quiet, focused and efficient. You can see your dog’s experience and level, as well as its stamina state, in the right corner of the screen when you bring up the commands menu. Leveling up is fairly quick in the beginning but will slowly become tougher and tougher. Your dog has 50 levels and each new level comes with a skill increase, a ribbon or gm$. Your dog will spook other animals but who wants to see a dog walking through a group of Whitetails who leisurely continue with their grazing?


"When we were looking around in the different dog threads over the forums and asked our trusted hunting experts, the first dog type that would come up in almost all cases was a bird retrieving dog. The dog has no real impact on missions or competitions either since the stalking and shooting is still done by the player.ĮW says why specific rather than generic dog types were chosen. The task may not be as tough in theHunter but the dog will at least let you focus on the more important things.ĭogs are more of an experience and a convenience, as opposed to a game-changing addition to theHunter. In real life it is an arduous task to go fetch a downed ducks through waist deep water, or to track wounded animals down. The second role the dog plays is obviously an aid to the hunter in the game. So not everything about the dog has to do about gameplay: It is more an enhancement of the hunting experience. If we could even slightly tap into that ancient human-canine bond the hunting immersion would increase significantly. What we want to give you is the experience of the hunter and the dog – a companionship going back in time to as long as some ten thousand years or more.

Having a dog with you who reacts to the surroundings and to yourself is something that intensifies the hunting experience. First, perhaps the most important one, is to add to the immersion of the game. With adding dogs to theHunter there are two different roles for them to fulfill. It has been brought up as a possible feature for the game countless times but circumstances where never quite right. Since the early days of theHunter there has been an important part missing in the hunting experience: Dogs.
