Solo Titan taming woes

[Wandows]

Singleplayer settings and nothing else, dedicated private server.



This is how my forest titan attempt went:

First attempt, griffin from ragnarok and tons of ammo and multiple 180% fabricated snipers. Landed about 500 out of 650 shots against the corrupted node in about 15 minutes or so. Forest Titan got aggro'd on a mob that was under the ground so he despawned. Tried to bring a mek for the second run. Youtube made it look easy. For some reason their siege cannons do 6250, mine does 1250. Had to most dishonorably cheat and spawn in extra rounds to finish him off and get a gamma tame.



Now I'm about to face the Ice Titan. I don't feel like I can shoot the node enough to take it down before he either despawns or gets called back to the center of the ring. People say it only takes a few good cannon rounds to take the node down but I don't see video proof of that without the siege cannon doing 5x damage, which I'm assuming is a spawned in ascendant siege cannon module. Also I have Snow Owls and could work on getting one with a ton of melee damage and strafe the node. I have a very high level argent that does about 750 damage a hit so I could possibly get an owl close to that level. I don't think the argent is fast enough to survive the strafing runs.

Does anyone have a clue how much HP these nodes have? Shooting it with guns seems to be a go-to strategy in groups but solo it doesnt seem plausible with how often they get called back to the center. I did not have the Forest Titan get called back and I still shot that node for a long time without any success.

Just to throw some numbers out there. When I would miss with sniper I'd do about 63 damage. The M.C.S.M was doing 1250 on the misses. If 2 blasts from it really do kill a corrupted node, then 2500/63= 40 bullets, roughly. 10 times that was not enough. Maybe there's a bug in the game settings. Max dino level is 150. Also the wiki said those shots do 150 damage base. So that should be around 275 damage. They're registering 22% damage, which is on par with how much less my cannon shots are registering as. Is there an... armor buff mod in my game settings i'm not aware of?

[jacob99]

i tamed them easily on singleplayer, just hovered just out of reach above them and sniped the nodes. for the final one on ice titan, i would get close enough to where he would try to hit me but far enough away that he couldnt and when ever he lifted his arms to do a slam i just shot the chest node with a fab i got from a gacha. HAd an alpha ice titan and forest titan tame up pretty easily (had because they where alpha but a glitch caused them to turn itno regular non gamma/beta/alpha titans with 350k and 400k hp respectively upon logging off and back on, kinda peeved because whats the point of a perfect titan tame if they just reset to a defult titan) forest titan was a but trouble because i died and lost my armor after the seccond node but he got stuck on the small ledge near the oblisk in his arena and since he couldnt move i got in a mek and just shot his final node with the blaster (he couldnt move at all) and got him.
desert titan on the other hand.... no, havent got him yet, i could but when he kills me my loois stuck in the air and i am unable to get it and so i would probably go through multiple sets of tek, stacks of element, and rifles to tame it, and considering i already have 2 titans and jsut got a brand new sparkling golden painted set of ascendent tek that took a month of grinding to get, i decided it was probably not worth it,may install a mod (never have before on my vanilla save final) that retrieve corpses because that armor took way to long to make to lose. if i do then that would also fix the massive losses that i would get trying to tame the desert titan so i might try to some day.

[Wandows]

The wiki says it takes around 400 shots from a 550% fab to down a corrupted node on the forest titan. I'm assuming thats similar on the ice titan. So it sounds weird when you say "i did it easily" you mean you waited for him to swing and unloaded into the node 40-50 times without anything going wrong and considered it easy?

[jacob99]

Originally posted by Wandows:

The wiki says it takes around 400 shots from a 550% fab to down a corrupted node on the forest titan. I'm assuming thats similar on the ice titan. So it sounds weird when you say "i did it easily" you mean you waited for him to swing and unloaded into the node 40-50 times without anything going wrong and considered it easy?

yes, i said it was easy, not that it didnt take 20-30 mintutes. he swings at you even if you are a good bit from his hit range so as long as you dont get to close, you wont get hit, tamed him 3 times (transfered the first one to the island, the second to scorched earth) without error so ya, it was pretty easy. i hovered about 20 feet above the crystal on his head, he will try to attack you there but his attack range seems to only go up to around his heck, thus givig you about 40 feet of safe area, although dont get to close to him even if he cant hit you because his icy arua will start to freeze you.

he swings pretty frequently

[Wandows]

Sounds good. I know the Ice Titan doesn't have the same despawn issues as the forest titan does. I was willing and equipped to fly around shooting him for an hour but the despawns and return to centers dont allow that.