Will dinosaurs be affected by heat and cold soon?

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I think that be neat but I need to know this so I don't waste time building a new base nearby the artic where my dinos will freeze to death.

[Blackwolfe]

Hopefully never.

[wowegoo]

If this happens, devs need to tweak a lot of items. Probably never be afected at least, in the way the character's are now.

[Platypus]

I have no evidence as to whether or not it will be, but my guess would be a yes dinosaurs probably will be in a future update. The heat/cold system is already in place and ARK seems to be going for the "hardcore survival experience". Honestly though I'd prefer it if they did not make that change as I enjoy taking my dinosaurs everywhere with me.

[wowegoo]

Originally posted by 「HANE」:

I have no evidence as to whether or not it will be, but my guess would be a yes dinosaurs probably will be in a future update. The heat/cold system is already in place and ARK seems to be going for the "hardcore survival experience". Honestly though I'd prefer it if they did not make that change as I enjoy taking my dinosaurs everywhere with me.

Be in mind the biomes and the different types of dinos, to not mention the amount of dinos. And no, the heat-cold system is not implemented in dinos in any way to now. As i say, a lot of things to change for this.

[New]

Don't think so. If it wasn't so from the get go then I don't think they will put it in

[Chrmdfreak]

As long as there is a way to help you dinos protect themselves to the elements (just like we can dress for cold or heat) I wouldnt mind too much honestly.

Originally posted by New:

Don't think so. If it wasn't so from the get go then I don't think they will put it in

You clearly dont know the devs yet xD.

[Leviathan]

All I want is for wild dinos to be able to take fall damage.

[Eminence]

I think that they should put it in, but rather than have it operate how it does on a player have it affect their combat stat.

A dinosaur that is hot should have decreased stamina pool and/or increased stamina drain. Obviously scaling with how far out of range it is. Saddles should then provide insulation for hypothermic at the minimum, maybe a new saddle type that could provide hyperthermic. (It just wouldn't make sense for a traditional saddle to do that. If you've ever seen how much a saddle makes a horse sweat you'll know what I mean.)

The cold could reduce stamina regeneration, their attack damage, even max health or other stats.

Mainly I just don't want to see it causing damage. I don't want to have to worry about temperature control for my tames. It would really suck to log off and come back to a heatwave on SE having killed some or all of my Dinos. Or since I play on a no passive kill server, a raider breaking in and causing all my Dinos in my Arctic island base to freeze to death because he busted the door down and it got colder.

[Eminence]

Originally posted by Leviathan:

All I want is for wild dinos to be able to take fall damage.

I don't. It's bad enough people cheese the AI by shooting things from a cliff. If they took fall damage all you'd have to do to get some kills on stronger Dinos would be run off a cliff with it chasing you and pop a parachute... -.-

[DeathsEye]

If they do this, we'll need to make mittens and sweaters for our Raptors.
We'll need better cooling systems for our Wyverns.

Either that, or our Argents wings will freeze and plummet us all to our death.
Our Beaver will freeze to death in the water, leaving you to swim to shore.

No, i dont want dinos to feel temperature...

[Leviathan]

Originally posted by Eminence:

Originally posted by Leviathan:

All I want is for wild dinos to be able to take fall damage.

I don't. It's bad enough people cheese the AI by shooting things from a cliff. If they took fall damage all you'd have to do to get some kills on stronger Dinos would be run off a cliff with it chasing you and pop a parachute... -.-

"But it's not realistic".
Also, why don't they update the AI to not purposly jump off a cliff in the first place?

[Eminence]

Originally posted by DeathsEye:

If they do this, we'll need to make mittens and sweaters for our Raptors.
We'll need better cooling systems for our Wyverns.

Either that, or our Argents wings will freeze and plummet us all to our death.
Our Beaver will freeze to death in the water, leaving you to swim to shore.

No, i dont want dinos to feel temperature...

It would encourage people to use some of the biome specific dinosaurs more, which I think could add to the game. They should obviously release the option to turn it off AT THE SAME TIME. So people that don't want it don't have to use it. (So long as they are the server owner of course haha)

[Eminence]

Originally posted by Leviathan:

Originally posted by Eminence:

I don't. It's bad enough people cheese the AI by shooting things from a cliff. If they took fall damage all you'd have to do to get some kills on stronger Dinos would be run off a cliff with it chasing you and pop a parachute... -.-

"But it's not realistic".

I never said I wanted pure realism. If I did I'd also complain about building bases on Quetz. A large bird would never be capable of flight with that much weight on it's back. Or I'd complain about taming something by beating the **** out of it and then drugging it for a few hours later.


EDIT: Sorry for the crazy tangent haha

[Leviathan]

Originally posted by Eminence:

Originally posted by Leviathan:

"But it's not realistic".

I never said I wanted pure realism. If I did I'd also complain about building bases on Quetz. A large bird would never be capable of flight with that much weight on it's back. Or I'd complain about taming something by beating the **** out of it and then drugging it for a few hours lol

If my tames, and I, are going to take fall damage, then so should wild dinos.

[DeathsEye]

Originally posted by Eminence:

Originally posted by DeathsEye:

If they do this, we'll need to make mittens and sweaters for our Raptors.
We'll need better cooling systems for our Wyverns.

Either that, or our Argents wings will freeze and plummet us all to our death.
Our Beaver will freeze to death in the water, leaving you to swim to shore.

No, i dont want dinos to feel temperature...

It would encourage people to use some of the biome specific dinosaurs more, which I think could add to the game. They should obviously release the option to turn it off AT THE SAME TIME. So people that don't want it don't have to use it. (So long as they are the server owner of course haha)

Fair point, but
Counter Argument:
Mammoths are wood gatherers like Beavers.
Beavers get the weight boost + are a mobile smithy
Beaver is better
Mammoth can endure the cold though.

If we add in hot/cold for dinos, now our beavers suffer in snow forests. It wouldn't be balaced is what im saying.

From a taming point as well, the mammoths are widespread, slow, and huge... easy to hit with tranqs. Beavers are small, fast, violent and usually in a large group. Taming a Beaver is much more difficult then a Mammoth. So if we do heat for dinos, we can EARN our better Beaver, but we cant use it in a snowy area.

That would be like taming a quetz (another mild-hot area spawn) but suffering if we go through the snow area, but an argent would be fine. with all its feathers (also a more common snow-area spawn)... why should we make our lives harder and our quetz tame less useful after all those resources and hours, just to go to a 20-minute tamed argent that cant do 1/4 the things a quetz can?

I LIKE the idea of more biome-specific dinos, but if thats to happen, there has to be versions of each dino for each biome at the very LEAST. But that wont happen, so for that reason, i'm out...