Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora – Hunting Tips for the Na’vi Outdoorsman

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Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is here, and the Massive-Entertainment-developed game is surprisingly complex, offering a huge open world, survival mechanics, crafting system, combat, and more. It can all be a lot to take in at first, but we’re here to help.

One key to crafting the best gear and cooking the tastiest food is hunting, but taking down Pandora’s strange alien wildlife isn’t quite a simple as it is some other open-world games. You need to know what you’re doing to catch your quarry and get the best-quality materials from the, but don’t worry, we’ve got the tips you’ve been hunting for…

For starters, if you want to get seriously into hunting you’re going to want to spend some points advancing the Hunter skill tree. This tree includes skills that allow you to move silently, do more damage to weak points, identify high-quality prey, and more.

While it may be tempting to just blow creatures away with an automatic rifle or shotgun, this will degrade the quality of the materials you get from your kill. In some cases they’ll be rendered completely unusable. You’ll need to use Na’vi weapons (specifically the heavy bow and spear thrower) for best results.

Not sure where you find a specific type of prey? No worries, just pop into your menu and check out the Hunter’s Guide. From here, you can target a specific quarry then use your Na’vi Senses to get a scent trail leading you right to them.

Before you attempt to take out an animal, scan them with your Na’vi senses. This will show you the kind and quality of crafting/cooking materials they’ll drop and the critter’s weak spot. You want to get clean kills (by only hitting an animal’s weak spot) and merciful kills (by killing an animal with a minimum number of shots – ideally