Raptors have become ridiculous

[Corey]

Not really much else to say other than its a guaranteed death, assuming you are playing vanilla and arent level 100

[Mringasa]

It is a survival game. You should be looking around you at all time. I haven't played on Aberration, and probably won't until the DLCs go on a steep price decrease, but from what I understand it's supposed to be difficult.

You should be using all the skills and general practices you learned on The Island and SE there. Things like paying attention at all times to your surroundings, setting up alternate stashes so you don't lose all your hard work, knowing when it's time to run and when you can actually win (without panicking and losing your head, literally), and the number 1 thing learned on these maps - Have a safety net of dinos to tank and/or fight for you because you are squishy and die easily at low to mid levels.

It sounds like your trying to do all the work yourself until you can setup for tougher tames instead of surrounding yourself with some junk and letting natural selection weed it out as you build your personal strength up. That's doable on a private/unofficial where the rates and other stats are adjusted, but if you're playing on official or official setting, there's no way. You can't play as you did on your last map when you were OP and laughed at 150 Gigas tromping down the mountain. Even a level 50 Dilo can be a challenge when you're low levels.

Just need to readjust your thinking and engage those skills you had when you were tiny and underpowered against even a Trike. I despise Raptors at low levels, they feel so damn OP, but once you get a couple Dinos to help and a stable outpost to work from, they become just another splatter in your path to power.

[Elgar]

Publicado originalmente por Captain_Pansy:

4. use a parasaur. it can detect and scare away dinos

This.

OP, since you talk about your first levels in Aberration (because at mid-game you'll obviously have powerful mounts, so no issue with raptors anymore), your very first tame should be a Parasaur.

Maybe you don't know, but when the Raptor got its new Pounce ability last March, the Parasaur got at the same time 2 new abilities : a scan ability for nearby threats (right click), even if these threats are hidden in a thicket. And a scare ability (press C) which scares away small/mid creatures like Raptors and makes them loose aggro.

The Parasaur is now a useful tame for first levels. Like you I started a fresh new character in Aberration, and I tamed a Parasaur as soon as possible. I didn't die even once to Raptors. You can craft the saddle at level 9. With vanilla settings, even a 150 Parasaur is tamed in only one hour with a few berries, and of course a lower one will be tamed much faster.

[Virus]

just came back after about a year break. all of a sudden raptors are alpha preditor. people have a reason to ♥♥♥♥♥ about raptors. like wtf ya bola them ok cant bola 3 at a time, and the fact they can pounce you off EVERY mount in the game come on like wtf...i dont even want to leave my ♥♥♥♥♥♥ little base anymore ffs. and if you dont belive me they can actually pounce you off every mount if they on a cliff higher than you and jump on your when your on your giga....bam your pinned to the ground...on your bronto....bam pinned to the ground lol its really quite a joke ♥♥♥♥ WC

[Elgar]

Publicado originalmente por Capt Rogers:

just came back after about a year break. all of a sudden raptors are alpha preditor. people have a reason to ♥♥♥♥♥ about raptors. like wtf ya bola them ok cant bola 3 at a time, and the fact they can pounce you off EVERY mount in the game come on like wtf...i dont even want to leave my ♥♥♥♥♥♥ little base anymore ffs. and if you dont belive me they can actually pounce you off every mount if they on a cliff higher than you and jump on your when your on your giga....bam your pinned to the ground...on your bronto....bam pinned to the ground lol its really quite a joke ♥♥♥♥ WC

Raptors never attack you if you ride a powerful dino.

If they attack you because they saw you before you ride your dino, have your mount on Neutral. Problem solved.

[Virus]

Publicado originalmente por Elgar:

Publicado originalmente por Capt Rogers:

just came back after about a year break. all of a sudden raptors are alpha preditor. people have a reason to ♥♥♥♥♥ about raptors. like wtf ya bola them ok cant bola 3 at a time, and the fact they can pounce you off EVERY mount in the game come on like wtf...i dont even want to leave my ♥♥♥♥♥♥ little base anymore ffs. and if you dont belive me they can actually pounce you off every mount if they on a cliff higher than you and jump on your when your on your giga....bam your pinned to the ground...on your bronto....bam pinned to the ground lol its really quite a joke ♥♥♥♥ WC

Raptors never attack you if you ride a powerful dino.

If they attack you because they saw you before you ride your dino, have your mount on Neutral. Problem solved.

your insane i ride my direwolf all the time and raptors attack me lol...i leave my base on my wolf "no raptors to be seen" then bame pinned to the ground 3km from base lol wolf will kill him unless hes a high lvl raptor woldf wont attack untill the raptor bites me...even on netural. wolf wont attack if you just get pinned

[Chaser the Tiny Hippo]

Publicado originalmente por Capt Rogers:

Publicado originalmente por Elgar:

Raptors never attack you if you ride a powerful dino.

If they attack you because they saw you before you ride your dino, have your mount on Neutral. Problem solved.

your insane i ride my direwolf all the time and raptors attack me lol...i leave my base on my wolf "no raptors to be seen" then bame pinned to the ground 3km from base lol wolf will kill him unless hes a high lvl raptor woldf wont attack untill the raptor bites me...even on netural. wolf wont attack if you just get pinned

A wolf is not a 'powerful dino.' If you have your dino on 'attack your target,' I know that it will save you when you get pinned.

[Boomer Voncannon]

Publicado originalmente por Capt Rogers:

Publicado originalmente por Elgar:

Raptors never attack you if you ride a powerful dino.

If they attack you because they saw you before you ride your dino, have your mount on Neutral. Problem solved.

your insane i ride my direwolf all the time and raptors attack me lol...i leave my base on my wolf "no raptors to be seen" then bame pinned to the ground 3km from base lol wolf will kill him unless hes a high lvl raptor woldf wont attack untill the raptor bites me...even on netural. wolf wont attack if you just get pinned

If you have had this experience more than once yet continue to leave your base with insufficient armor and health to allow you to survive a 5 second raptor pounce til you can fight back and your wolf can help, then you are failing to adapt to the game environment. This is a core challenge of survival games like Ark.

[Seftak]

Impressive how much people prefer to come here crying for a nerf instead of adapting to a small new challenge. No one here who expressed their troubles with the new raptors behaviour want to try and adapt, all they is do complaint about it...

Many people gave great solutions to this "problem". Please try them.

[A Terrible Modder]

the best solution is to level movment sped

[Yotokan]

hide armor a club and at least 300 health is all you need to deal with and tame a single raptor. If you can manage to lure them one at a time you can tame them.

Also using a crossbow+ trang arrows is effective against them as they do not have much torpor. It takes a couple of tranq to send them running away.

[RobbEJay]

Publicado originalmente por Capt Rogers:

Publicado originalmente por Elgar:

Raptors never attack you if you ride a powerful dino.

If they attack you because they saw you before you ride your dino, have your mount on Neutral. Problem solved.

your insane i ride my direwolf all the time and raptors attack me lol...i leave my base on my wolf "no raptors to be seen" then bame pinned to the ground 3km from base lol wolf will kill him unless hes a high lvl raptor woldf wont attack untill the raptor bites me...even on netural. wolf wont attack if you just get pinned

I think they meant big. Raptors attack anything 'medium size' or smaller. So anything roughly allosaurus-size or bigger is safe, which just so happen to also be some of the best tames.

Ark is weird with this stuff though. The smaller creatures like pegos will still attack everything, can't tell if they're brave or just stupid.

As for your wolf not attacking, it's target range might be too high, or it didn't actually get hit when you were pulled off.

[Booped_The_Snoot]

Publicado originalmente por Nellers:

If you're having issues with Raptors. You're not using your brain well enough. Adding pounce to them was the greatest thing Wildcard has done to this game in a while.

since when has anything wc had done been good in terms of balance.... what if a player breeds super raptors faster than you to knock you off your mount bola you off the first easy flyer, argents are easier to tame than a raptor, i can backpeddle them you cant backpeddle no raptor you have to turn and run and if you aint got third person it can be disoriantiong, add to that their pounce gives them exta distance and the face most times you see them their in that pounce distance, you cant even check their level to see if its worth taming, no you have to kill it as it breaks the 2nd/4 armour in the basic teirs idc about the higher quality armour as no new player surrounded on the beach by raptors is ever gonna be able to hit those, theyd be forced to look up a guide and that is in itself a bad design, 1 raptor is enough to cause havoc on 1 player a group can decimate a team even with primitive metal gear, i should not have to repair my full metal primative gear after ONE raptor pounce (cuz we aint getting airdrops without not flying tames or decent movement speed or protection), and there needs to be more options for singleplayer players, not every ♥♥♥♥ wants to play multiplayer, maybe i want to be able to whistle my pet to help save me cuz i know my armour wont last but NOPE bad coding designed most likely to cause frustration and force you to play with other players and force more people to pay.

idiots like this:
Originally posted by Seftak:
Yup. Dude just run around naked and expect to live trough. Just get a following of dino to kill them... *fecepalm*

probally paid for the microsoft version for crossplay*

[Booped_The_Snoot]

another way to summarize raptors, you bola they die you miss you die

[Vesuvius]

Publicado originalmente por Richard:

another way to summarize raptors, you bola they die you miss you die

... that is pretty much balance in a nutshell.

Was it really worth the YEAR old necro?

[Vesuvius]

As for your rant about ‘bad coding’ forcing you to multiplayer.... what are you on about. Learn to use whistles.. learn whistle groups.

Ark was designed for not only multiplayer.. but group playing... 1st

Everything else.. a distant 2nd