They should never have nerfed hunting until they fix this despawning issue. I'm aware of that if trying to kill multiple animals, I should have them killed as close each other as I can, yet even though I do this they will despawn. I feel like rdr online is dying as hunting was one of the reasons why people were still showing up on rdr online. Overall its just disappointing that even though u see multiple animals there is not much you can do abt it when u know that despite killing each and everyone of them u may only harvest 1 or 2 of them. This reason alongside with lowered value of animals doesn't encourage to hunt like we did before imo. I have experienced less animals spawning and also sessions without this issue. It's still too early to tell. I did have abt 10 friends playing rdr online but now there is only 1 of them still returning to rdr. Its obvious that the game is dying, there are better options to spend time on.