Animals glitching/not dying?

[SaulGoodMan 16]

So I know animals have not been spawning good and sometimes not at all but has anyone noticed any issues with glitching and animals not dying?

I don't know if this is down to lag but recently, when I do some hunting trips several different animals (especially deer/buck) will take several head shots before they react as if they have been shot. In some cases, they don't react at all until I get close enough and they run away. I am able to shoot and kill them after that. 

It is very strange.

[Kean_1 2313]

I've seen this before.  Sometimes the animal will stop and still be standing and/or there is a delay like you described.  IIRC, I've had this issue in the past and recently as well.  Doesn't happen very often for me but often enough at times.  

[Coyote 24]

There really isn't a fix for this. It could be lag like you mentioned or it could just be a hiccup in the gaming mechanics. I know people who play PC as well as console have expressed issues with this before because it happened to me. I was looking up information on it before, found nothing useful. 

You could report it as a bug. Rockstar likely won't respond for something like this but if enough people report it, maybe they will get around to fixing it.

[Kean_1 2313]

I noticed R* Support has also extended their posted response time as <96 hours when it used to be <48 hours.  

[ragedhunter11 27]

23 hours ago, Kean_1 said:

I noticed R* Support has also extended their posted response time as <96 hours when it used to be <48 hours.  

If you are lucky you get a response in 96 hours. Most people I have talked to said they waited 7 days+. Some didn't get a response for nearly 2 weeks. I get that they are overwhelmed so I am not complaining but hire some more people to help out. I know plenty of people out there are hurting for a job.

[bluntTR4P 67]

On 1/12/2020 at 5:54 PM, ragedhunter11 said:

If you are lucky you get a response in 96 hours. Most people I have talked to said they waited 7 days+. Some didn't get a response for nearly 2 weeks. I get that they are overwhelmed so I am not complaining but hire some more people to help out. I know plenty of people out there are hurting for a job.

Try over a month. LOL

It is unfortunate but thankfully there are places like this where people come together and can help each other out. 

[MrPicard 50]

I've had this happen to me as well. with deer - they just stand there and I shoot but they don't react at all. I was rather annoyed - I hadn't seen any animals in the game in DAYS, and then I finally see a deer and this happens. Ugh...

[Faelwolf 33]

I had an interesting experience along these lines the other day.  I headshot a fox at fairly close range, he went down and I got the kill xp.  Then he got up, ran a short distance (and eagle eye gave me the red track).  I followed him across a small bridge to find him standing there.  Another head shot, kill xp again, and this time he stayed down.  I was then able to pick him up and place on my horse.  He did go from a 2 star to a 1 star.  I put it down to just another server glitch.

[dIV4r 39]

1 hour ago, Faelwolf said:

I had an interesting experience along these lines the other day.  I headshot a fox at fairly close range, he went down and I got the kill xp.  Then he got up, ran a short distance (and eagle eye gave me the red track).  I followed him across a small bridge to find him standing there.  Another head shot, kill xp again, and this time he stayed down.  I was then able to pick him up and place on my horse.  He did go from a 2 star to a 1 star.  I put it down to just another server glitch.

I think this is a case where you killed a fox, the game picked up on it, and the game was spawning in another fox right as that happened. I saw this myself a number of times with the smaller critters. They don't always just get up, they kind of "glitch up" into a standing position and run as if I just approached them. 

[Faelwolf 33]

Well I am not complaining about it too much, I did get XP twice for the "same" fox   Just thought it was odd, your explanation makes sense, I had assumed the loss of a star was due to shooting it twice and damaging the pelt by it. I really wish they'd fix the disconnects so I can play again.

[HIGHHorse 47]

Don't animals have spawn points in the game? Like regions for bears where they appear, I think they have dedicated areas for this and if you happened to kill an animal on one of these spots, could be why it was re-spawned. Either way, I wish they would spawn in more animals without the bugginess. 

[Pope_65 1]

For me I have to quit out of the game and join another server.

Here's a zombie deer I encountered 

https://youtu.be/mf7Ufcce37Y

 

[ragedhunter11 27]

On 1/14/2020 at 7:55 PM, bluntTR4P said:

Try over a month. LOL

It is unfortunate but thankfully there are places like this where people come together and can help each other out. 

I knew it was bad but damn, that is horrible service. I guess at least they eventually do answer... Though I heard they don't always respond so there is that. 

[shawn 52]

I figured I would ask here since it is a similar topic...

Anyone having issues with fish glitching? I will catch a fish and it will just vanish right because it should be added to my inventory. I have tried several times in several different areas so it isn't just one fish or one spot. It has been doing this for a few weeks for me. I haven't bothered with fishing for awhile, tried again last night and sure enough, it still does it. I want to specify that it isn't every time but like 50-70% of the time.