Tiger Sharks

[dannyboy]

So does every wreck come with it's very own tiger shark?? Only been playing for a couple of days and every time I dive......tiger shark. How do you avoid them or deal with them best??

[frillen]

There are 2-4 Tiger sharks around each island and each can respawn within 72 hours after a kill.
There are many different ways to deal with them...
You can kill them on sight to get peace.
You can dive during storms which seems to scare them away.
You can try to dodge their attacks while diving.

[dannyboy]

Originally posted by frillen:

There are 2-4 Tiger sharks around each island and each can respawn within 72 hours after a kill.
There are many different ways to deal with them...
You can kill them on sight to get peace.
You can dive during storms which seems to scare them away.
You can try to dodge their attacks while diving.

So storms dont seem to bother the tiger sharks any more. Today I went diving a couple of wrecks during a storm and guess what........tiger shark attack!!

[Charles]

Really a full on storm and you got attacked by a shark....that's new.

[dannyboy]

He missed me but scared the crap out of me. Storm was starting to subside so maybe that was why. Lightning had stopped and I was heading to shore

[dannyboy]

ok so checked it out again. Went for a swim/dive during full blown storm and I can confirm that the tiger sharks were still around and did have a go at me. Not a full on attack but certainly gave a couple of playfull nibbles. Didnt kill me but did damage my health.

Edit to confirm I was attacked and killed by a tiger shark while diving during a storm :(

[Charles]

Well that's definately a new thing.

[NexusMcViperen]

i find it weord that killing one shark make all the other sharks more agressive

[SurvivorSean]

No expert but I know dolphins communicate well with others. Perhaps they are related.

So since this was the topic I recall from the other day, I just started to hunt these to explore some more elusive wrecks. I killed my 1st then lost it's dead body before I could drag it. I was in a battle with at least 2 of them.

To be clear these were near sunken wrecks, fairly deep (not visible above water) about a mile or so off my home island (no visible above water wrecks there). So I killed a tiger, my son thought he seen a reef shark (I'm not sure what it was). But he had joined the battle about 10 minutes before my kill.

So I'm curious about the 72 hour respawn thing. Since I felt I wasn't at a level or skill yet to waste a bunch of bows and spears I gave up on it and went back to resource gathering.

1) Does the sharks with the spears in them stay at the bottom, or are they gone with my spears?

2) Do the injured sharks still have bows in them? In other words can I go hunt the other 2 or 3. I noticed the next day a stingray I accidentally hit (thinking it was a shark) still had a bow in it.

3) Any other strategy advice is appreciated. Otherwise I'll just experiment a little when I feel safe. The feeling I get of danger is very cool for this game.

[cherrygui]

Throwing in another question because it's realted to tiger sharks: I got knocked off the life raft by a tiger shark, and while the shark left, I ended up floating in the water for a long time unable to get back into the raft. The raft was overturned, but I managed to drag it the right way around after much effort, but I can't climb back onto it while in deep water. Is this normal/expected? In the end, I had to drag the raft back to land while swimming, which almost killed me.

[SurvivorSean]

I believe it can be done even with smaller rafts. Explaining how I've done it is difficult other than the same right mouse button used for dragging. I've heard bigger rafts are harder to flip over both by a human or a shark. So far my latest raft of a cross 3 by 3 with motor can survive storms as well as shark attacks from underneath. The issue I've had in the past is trying to get into a wreck when a storm comes up. This is where I've seen my older rafts flip over the most.

[crowownsford]

Was playing today first time in a little bit i killed 4 tiger sharks in a 9 hour period in game time. i do not know what the spawn rate is but with having to kill them you get no time to search wrecks it is getting annoying.

[DanteBrane]

The constant sharks can get annoying but they are a good source of leather and meat.

[Guyver 0]

Originally posted by dannyboy:

So does every wreck come with it's very own tiger shark?? Only been playing for a couple of days and every time I dive......tiger shark. How do you avoid them or deal with them best??

Get a Harpoon Gun (Air Tank + 2 Sticks + Ductape + Leather) then make Harpoon Arrows ( 1 Lashing + 1 Stick) I keep 20 on me. Wade in the water about hip deep and pick off the tiger shark. Good for 3 leather and 3 meat. I am swimming in leather at the moment, I wish they made more recipes for leather.

[septimontium]

The seed I'm in right now has 16 Sharks per Island and they spawn 500 real time seconds from the kill, they vary per seed, per game.
You can see your amount of Shark number and respawn time if you open your json file and search for the word "PATROL_TIGERSHARK"

This is an example
{"name":"PATROL_TIGERSHARK(Clone)","reference":"fff69b93-72e3-4123-a056-c53c9f8babae","prefab":"9fd88c0a-f6ba-4c74-b387-8394151b9ab3","Transform":{"localPosition":{"x":"100","y":"-1","z":"100"},"localRotation":{"x":"0","y":"0","z":"0","w":"1"},"localScale":{"x":"1","y":"1","z":"1"}},"respawnCounter":"500","spawnDistance":"110"},"

[blindside8970]

Originally posted by SurvivorSean:

No expert but I know dolphins communicate well with others. Perhaps they are related.

So since this was the topic I recall from the other day, I just started to hunt these to explore some more elusive wrecks. I killed my 1st then lost it's dead body before I could drag it. I was in a battle with at least 2 of them.

To be clear these were near sunken wrecks, fairly deep (not visible above water) about a mile or so off my home island (no visible above water wrecks there). So I killed a tiger, my son thought he seen a reef shark (I'm not sure what it was). But he had joined the battle about 10 minutes before my kill.

So I'm curious about the 72 hour respawn thing. Since I felt I wasn't at a level or skill yet to waste a bunch of bows and spears I gave up on it and went back to resource gathering.

1) Does the sharks with the spears in them stay at the bottom, or are they gone with my spears?

2) Do the injured sharks still have bows in them? In other words can I go hunt the other 2 or 3. I noticed the next day a stingray I accidentally hit (thinking it was a shark) still had a bow in it.

3) Any other strategy advice is appreciated. Otherwise I'll just experiment a little when I feel safe. The feeling I get of danger is very cool for this game.

Hey SurvivorSam, I've seem to notice that so long as you stay in the vicinity of the island where you initialize the attack, your weapons will stay intact. However, if you travel off to another island, then return, your equipment will be missing.

My tactic in hunting the sharks, is to approach my dive site, then kill the shark with my spear gun. Takes 9 hits to kill a tiger shark, though I've dug up to 10 speargun arrows from them occassionally. I'll harvest arrows first, then skin, then dive the wreck, resurfacing as much as possible to save the illusive airtanks. In fact, I don't even hit a burst from my tank until AFTER I run out of air completely. I haven't encountered any Great Whites as of yet, though I've seen a fin or two at night and wondering if it may be them.

I travel to another island and return, the sharks have almost always reloaded under this circumstance. I've not noticed an actual reload time.

Alive 144 days and definitely stable. I could easliy stay alive for 20 days from current point and not gather any more food.