All else being equal the player sprints at timberwolf running speed so they can't catch up unless there is another factor like a head wind. This provides a short window of opportunity to sprint past them to safety (such as entering the Last Resort Cannery or Pensive Lookout). When the player is detected, the timberwolves take several seconds howling before they begin their assault.Rarely, even without these items a timberwolf may flee.

A worn wolfskin coat, bearskin coat, or carried bearskin bedroll may scare a timberwolf when it detects the player, preventing it from alerting the pack.

In chokepoints (such as The Cannery's entrance) members can be lured to investigate thrown stones, or the player can wait for them to move away.

Timberwolves must see the player to engage, so crouching and hiding behind terrain is effective, though scent and noise can attract them.Timberwolves avoid bear and moose territory. In general, moving along the edges of a region is safe. Timberwolves are territorial and simply avoiding their areas is effective.Timberwolves are competent in fights, making detecting, avoiding, and escaping them preferable. Shooting or throwing objects at the timberwolves will decreases the bar. When the player is detected by a timberwolf pack, a chord stab sounds and the morale bar will appear. If every timberwolf in the pack is injured then the player is safe from attack, though the morale bar will only disappear once enough of the timberwolves have bleed to death. Injured timberwolves do not participate in attacks (though it takes a few seconds to realize they are injured), and they flee from the player even if the pack has morale. Torches pulled from a lit campfire may be thrown at timberwolves to deplete their morale. Timberwolves will not attack through them, but will instead encircle the fire to attack or 'hold ground' opposite the player. A single lit Marine flare can be used to fully deplete a pack's morale by repeatedly throwing it at the ground between the player and a timberwolf, and then retrieving the flare.Дuring Aurora the flashlight's high beam is effective at scaring aurora timberwolves and depleting their morale: however even marine flares have no effect on aurora timberwolves.Д¬ampfires have limited deterrence value. Once a pack's morale is depleted, surviving members flee and will not attack again until their morale regenerates (~1 hour in-game). Both types of flare are effective at deterring timberwolves, just outside their lunge distance, and directly hitting a timberwolf with a thrown flare (either type), torch, or stone will damage morale. Marine flares are effective at stopping timberwolf lunges, although normal flares are not. Passing a time will cause packs to give up, but may take upwards of 12 hours. Killing a pack member can decrease morale up to twice as much as when a pack member is hit, though it might not automatically completely deplete the pack's morale. Striking a timberwolf with a shot (or thrown object) lowers morale more than a near miss. Morale can be lowered by shooting or throwing objects at the timberwolves. Timberwolves continue to attack until the pack's morale is depleted, if the player moves far enough from the pack, or if they enter the territory of a different pack. Like other wildlife, timberwolves flee from nearby gunshots and bullet/arrows impacts if they have not detected the player.Aiming weapon at attacking timberwolves will cause them to momentarily flee, unless already moving in for an attack.Lone timberwolves (the rest of it's pack having been killed) will always flee away from the player and return to their home location (e.g.Timberwolves ignore bait with decoys, but are drawn to scent of meat or bloody injuries.In Wintermute, timberwolves also attack rescued survivors laying on the ground. Timberwolves will attempt to encircle the player, taking turns diving in for attacks: either a lunge which begins a struggle, or a 'drive-by' attack wherein they charge past and bite the player, causing immediate bruising, bleeding or torn clothes without a struggle. Timberwolves have unique behaviour from common wolf, namely no 'stalking' behaviour, instead they howl upon detecting the player and rush them as a pack.

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