Source: Alberta Infrastructure and Transportation The provincial data obtained from the Province of Alberta shows the following statistics:Įxhibit 5.4- Alberta - Animal - Vehicle Collisions* 1999-2003 Severity of Collision The same can be said of the two other categories: fatalities and injuries. The data for the province of Alberta seems inconsistent especially when looking at collisions with property damage, where only 353 collisions were reported in 2003 compared to 5,487 in 2001. The data shows nevertheless some signs of peculiarities as far as provincial figures are concerned. The number of fatal collisions in fact decreases significantly in 2003. As per previous analysis on this subject, this increase does not translate into more fatalities.

With the exception of 2003, the national statistics show a significant increase in the number of animal-vehicle collisions. Source: Transport Canada, Road Safety DirectorateĮxhibit 5.2 - Collisions Where a Vehicle Hits an Animal – Canada Collisions with Non-Fatal Injury ProvinceĮxhibit 5.3- Collisions Where a Vehicle Hits an Animal – Canada Collisions with Property Damage Only Province But end game you take whoever RNG-sus gives you as an extra attack during the final sieges/raids.The following tables show the national statistics as reported by Transport Canada.Įxhibit 5.1- Fatal Collisions Where a Vehicle Hits an Animal – Canada The food cost of having more than two characters up until maybe 5 days left is WAY too high, you wouldn't be able to stockpile food for the big purchases. (wish my dog could do that lol)Īs Dave stated above, they can be useful if you don't have decent weapons yet (like during an unlucky start) but I personally don't use them for this. And yes when the dog gets to the end he can drive your new vehicle away alone. You don't risk injuring your other group members to bad pathing nor risk losing weapons as the dog doesn't need one to attack and there are none that spawn in those raids. By making them the only character going into that raid you can use their great speed, natural melee, and kiting bark to make running through the destroyed cars siphoning gas a breeze. They do have particular uses, for instance in the first raid after each time you lose your vehicle. It makes sense no? Dogs have no hands what do you expect from them. Aside from supertrained dogs (like if the dog is the last living member of the group) dogs can only carry an item in their mouth meaning they can't bite without dropping it. Yeah dogs aren't meant to be as functional as humans. (Also, I'm still looking for those dog-human centuars. Dogs just being quicker humans with strong-ish melee attacks just isn't enough for me to ever consider using them. Maybe I'm missing the point that perhaps dogs are meant to be some kind of shock-trooper, which I guess I would understand, but the fact that they feel like they're taking a potential human's place in the group just always bugs me. Like if they only ate 1 unit of food per meal instead of 2, or if they had better or more varried physical attacks that would make them better late-game assets, or even if they could just carry more stuff to be more effective pack-mules. If there were more pros and cons to dog companions (that were mroe easily accessable, and not through some ultra-rare event that teaches them to use guns), that would really add a special dynamic to having dog-companions. They're more like just a gimmick that you can use to make the game harder. While I understand most of these complaints do make logical sense in terms of physical limitations for a dog, they don't really contribute to a fun alternative to human companions. They can never (as far as I can tell) learn any meangful or truly useful skills like medecine or mechanics, and can also never have other useful traits like being paranoid or charming.Īll of these coupled with the fact that they eat just as much as a human does, and, unless I'm in some seriously dire straights, usually just deicde to hold out my food for a human who will put it to better use. They generally cannot use items, espeically not guns that you NEED to be able to beat the game. They can only carry one item which they drop frequently, where a human can carry 3 (if they're not some special character. Other than the novelty of the fact that they're a dog, you basically never want a dog in your party. This is something I've noticed in my 20-ish hours of play on this game.

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