Meet the German Pointer

[VonStratos]

My question about the dog is, does he spook the animal that is tracking if get close to it? i mean it have an skill that at lvl3 make him point at 40 mts, but a dog moving and closing at 40 meters still can spook a deer or a rabbit i think, and at lvl 1 he closes to 20 meters before point... so does he spook animals or worth the 999em for finding ptarmigans and rabbits?

They adjusted (lowered) spook distance. I haven't played with it with deer yet, but with a rabbit my dog can be pointing at 20m and not spook it. I'm not wearing any rabbit camo, either.

If so then the that dog is on my list of future purchases, i don't go after rabbits too much nowadays, but when i have to go again the pointer gonna be a really nice addition.

[Ringalor]

Thank you very much !!!

[CatchU]

AWESOME! Thx for this!!

[DanthemanBoone]

No true wing shooter would feed a dog that chased deer or anything but birds

A good multi skilled hunting dog is is good because its not stupid.
My dogs knew if I had a rifle we were hunting deer, and if I had a shotgun we were hunting birds or rabbits.
Buggered if I know how they learned the difference but they very rarely got it wrong.

[Ravenousfox]

To those that say this dog should only go after birds and not deer and onwards I say... why? that's boring.
I much prefer a dog that is more different than just buying another Retriever because that's what you pretty much would have if they only let it go after birds.

[Alicatt]

My GSP would not even lower it's self to acknowledge that rabbits even existed he was only interested in feathers and would point flush and retrieve them, he would mark just about every bird that came in to land.
Great dog, very intelligent, but would only listen to me and to a much lesser extent the family, anyone else he ignored completely. He did win the obedience championship at our local dog club and took 3rd at the county game fair.
Miss him loads, now to see if I can get my in game GSP to behave like Fritz.

[Ravenousfox]

Detection Range
This skill dictates how far out your dog can pick up signs of an animal. Here are the digits once again:

Detection Range Level 1 = 120m from the player
Detection Range Level 2 = 160m from the player
Detection Range Level 3 = 200m from the player

Yeah... I don't know about that.
I just had my German Pointer detect the closest Euro Rabbit burrow nest from 1143m away.
You could literally clear the whole map with it.

[fantamichele]

Now, onto the mechanics:

Your Pointer will always detect the closest animal of the type you commanded it to find. The radius of detection varies with skill. The animals you find with your dog are as follows:

Level 1: Pheasants, Ptarmigan, Ducks, Turkey, Rabbits of all types.
Level 2: Foxes, Geese, and Coyote
Level 3: Bobcat and Deer (this doesn't include Moose/Elk)

Is it possible to hunt the bobcats immediately?
Or do you have to go first from level 1 and level 2?

[nachthexe]

Now, onto the mechanics:

Your Pointer will always detect the closest animal of the type you commanded it to find. The radius of detection varies with skill. The animals you find with your dog are as follows:

Level 1: Pheasants, Ptarmigan, Ducks, Turkey, Rabbits of all types.
Level 2: Foxes, Geese, and Coyote
Level 3: Bobcat and Deer (this doesn't include Moose/Elk)

Is it possible to hunt the bobcats immediately?
Or do you have to go first from level 1 and level 2?

This is not the lvl of the dog, but the lvl of the skill. I assume the currently greyed out commands will then be useable.

[EndPin]

After dog level 4, the level 2 (fox, geese, coyote) command shows open on the wheel, but do not work for me. When I try to use it my hand lowers, but nothing happens. I even tried to use it while looking at some geese that had landed and nothing happened.