Please help me with the dogs in the workshop

[Shadowflare]

After losing my sanity 3 and a half times, I made the conclusion. The easiest way to deal with the dogs is to kill them.

1. You will need a heavy item to throw at them, propane cans and steel barrens do just fine.
2. Pick them up and just run towards the dog or let him charge at you.
3. When the beast is close enough, throw the thing at it and the dog will be out for few secs.
4. Go bash it with your axe, hit it when its down, yeah! You should get 2-3 hits before it gets up. You should just continue spamming attacks on it as long as it tries to get up.
5. If there are other dogs alive nearby, DO NOT let it run away, it will call for help and you will die against 3 of those things.

The spiders are what irritate the hell out of a hardcore gamer like myself. Whats the logic that spiders that (according to the game itself) have no venom whatsoever and are about the size of your foot pose ANY kind of problem to any human being? With their tiny jaws and the unrealistic ability to jump are about as dangerous as squirrels. Sure, one of these ferocius beasts can take down a full grown adult in 10 seconds and 2 or 3 of them are just unbeatable. And yet they have a some kind of supernatural exoskeleton that makes them endure 1-2 blows from a pick axe swung by the player. Moreover its funny that you are supposed to "block" these guys with a boulder that leaves huge gaps on the sides the spiders could easily crawl through.

This game was very scary until the part where the dogs kicked in. There was little mystery left when you end up seeing the same bastard shred you to pieces 20 times in a row because, just like in real life, hitting anything with a pick axe is next to impossible. You know theres something seriously wrong with the gameplay when the most effective way to use a propane can against a rabid dog is to pick it up and beat him up with it.

While theres nothing to "spoil" for the "ending", I'll just say don't expect too much, or rather don't expect anything.

IMO this game isn't even close to being ready for release and sales, and if they ever did beta test this, I can't imagine how things were BEFORE they got fixed. I'd rate this game 5/10, but it doesn't really matter because no matter how much I point out the faults, the developers can't be half as offended as I am after playing through their game.