Winterblight
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And in most of these systems, the wolf will take a bullet that would put a man down and keep coming and then eviscerate you even if you also happen to be wearing chain mail.
I think part of the issue may be that the developers are always looking for encounter balance, they never look for the alpha predator that simply scares other animals away encounter. To look at it in reverse, in most of these systems a man will take a bullet that would put a man down and keep coming and then eviscerate you even if you also happen to be wearing chain mail.
I definitely agree that there is an overestimation of the abilities of animals. Most people don't really know a lot about animals and the amount of research required might be prohibitive if you have a book full of animals that you know the PC's are going to murder hobo their way through anyway.
Personally I would love to see more exciting encounters with mundane animals that are challenging, but maybe not in the way that you get eaten by a single wolf.
One of my pet peeves is that horses are never given their due, they are way tougher than almost any human and capable of causing horrendous injury and death.