have the nerfed the Leedsichthys yet?

[Great Mighty Poo]

So I love living on boats, and I think its just awesome being able to tour the outside of the map with a little house-boat gathering what I need and taking to the sea. But since the Leedsichthys was added in, it seems nobody can use boats for fear of losing it in .5 seconds to a no clipping whale fish. I was away for a bit, so have they been nerfed yet, or are boats still useless?

[Garall]

They just added a gas powered metal raft

[Forger of Souls]

In short: No. In long: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

[Great Mighty Poo]

Originally posted by Garall:

They just added a gas powered metal raft

what? does that protect from the leed?

[Forger of Souls]

Originally posted by Count Long:

Originally posted by Garall:

They just added a gas powered metal raft

what? does that protect from the leed?

Well, its a speedboat. So, it moves faster than the Leed. No clue if the leed can damage it.

[🦊 Hermit]

Originally posted by Count Long:

Originally posted by Garall:

They just added a gas powered metal raft

what? does that protect from the leed?

It has more HP so can resist it for longer, and is faster so might stand more of a chance of outrunning it. But even that one can still be wrecked by the leedy eventually.

[FullMetal_Tater]

Its faster the the leed......been motering around all day....i cant say how long it would last standing still.

[lammaer]

I think the leed is still a problem - it is OK you can move faster than the leed now AND the motorboat can endure more hit from the leed (yes the lead can damage it, no actual test data yet on the damage). So when you are online, the motorboat is basically leed safe.

But when you are offline - the leed can still sink your precious floating base. Couple weeks ago a leed sunk my sunken metal foundation raft while I was offline. It was parked at the sea shore, was even surrounded with behemoth gates (so it was closed al around, approx 10+ foundations from the gates) and a leed still found a way in to sink it. I dont know how, was offline, it might bugged in, but it got sunk.
I regularly see leeds in the swallow water, so we cant even say that seashore is safe. So while Im eager to build a new motorboat base, Im sull reluctant to do it because the OFFLINE RAIDING LEEDS...

[Omaeka]

How useful is the motorboat with Leeds though? I've seen Leeds come out of render distance aggro'd onto boats, their aggro range is gigantic and with how common they are, I feel like you're going to always have one following you at any point.

[moTom]

The new raft has a higher structure limit so you can build enough turrets and plant X on it. Also, tame some Megas, Plesios or Mosas and set them on aggressive while following a passive mount on the raft.

[Gen Greavous]

depending on when you last played:

- leeds release, everywhere and Op
- patched, reduced amount on map, fixed beach spawns (mostly), lowered damage
- patched again now with the speedboat, faster mroe defense, also added new harpoon (old balista bolt) with better armor penetration so will kill leeds faster.

they arnt much if a problem now i went around the west coast and never saw a single one.

[Fanasman]

Originally posted by Mofo:

The new raft has a higher structure limit so you can build enough turrets and plant X on it. Also, tame some Megas, Plesios or Mosas and set them on aggressive while following a passive mount on the raft.

Why not just make them follow the raft?

[Forger of Souls]

Originally posted by Througher:

Originally posted by Mofo:

The new raft has a higher structure limit so you can build enough turrets and plant X on it. Also, tame some Megas, Plesios or Mosas and set them on aggressive while following a passive mount on the raft.

Why not just make them follow the raft?

I don't think you can have them follow a vehicle, but worth a shot.

[Tulkus]

motorboat have ether 128 or 134 item limit (have not tested my self but others say one or the other)

Leeds still damage it but it has 32k hps so takes a LOT of hits to kill the boat.

Im hoping we can block Leeds completely with foundations and stuff but Im thinking Wildcard thinks differently. So Auto Turrets and stuff are how you protect an off line boat.

[Forger of Souls]

Originally posted by 123:

motorboat have ether 128 or 134 item limit (have not tested my self but others say one or the other)

Leeds still damage it but it has 32k hps so takes a LOT of hits to kill the boat.

Im hoping we can block Leeds completely with foundations and stuff but Im thinking Wildcard thinks differently. So Auto Turrets and stuff are how you protect an off line boat.

Well, that won't work, for the Leed ignores foundations and walls placed under the rafts. This is perhaps the number one danager with Leeds.

[crimsondrac]

I nerfed the Leed on my unofficial server, nerfed it right out of the game. Personally have not really found a use for it in the game and the annoyance factor far outweighs being able to harvest some extra prime fish meat.