Is the Water Buffalo fleeing code broken? Animal frozen after leaving water

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Is the Water Buffalo fleeing code broken? Animal frozen after leaving water

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As above. Currently trying to complete the last of handgun missions downing a fleeing water buffalo. This has happened twice, both near the waters edge just after 7am. I shot above one female while it was swimming and waited for the fleeing mode to kick in then unloaded just as it was leaving the water. I thought it had been downed in an unusal pose but when I cross the bank it was frozen in place. It occasionally slowly rotated in place. After a while it continued running and I unloaded until it finally dropped. For whatever reason it didn't count.

Try 2 is resulting in the same. The SP game is currently paused in map mode. This one I shot above on side of the bank and hit it once while it was running. It got to the other bank and upon leaving I get this:

https://imgur.com/a/WyWg31y

Is this a known issue?
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Re: Is the Water Buffalo fleeing code broken? Animal frozen after leaving water

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Usually its Sambar or Rusa but animals freezing after shot is a known issue on Picabeen.
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Re: Is the Water Buffalo fleeing code broken? Animal frozen after leaving water

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Jimmy Rustle wrote:Is this a known issue?
At least known to some of us.

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Re: Is the Water Buffalo fleeing code broken? Animal frozen after leaving water

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Well at least I know it's not just me. My first one took eight hits before it died. Maybe the store picture for the 454 should be replaced with this ;)

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When the 2nd buffalo in the pics unfroze after about 5 minutes the track it left at that point said "Roaming" even though when it unfroze it fled and the following tracks said "Fleeing".

While it was frozen and I was watching it a Rusa approached it, then ran around orbiting it wildly twice in a panic then stopped and decided it was time quietly have a drink at the waters edge where it stayed for a while.

There does seem to be some sort of a problem with shot or fleeing buffalo exiting rivers although I'm not keen on wasting lots of ammo to test this hypothesis out.
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