Rock Drake Garbage

[MrKeiffer]

I can't believe how hyped up this creature was, seriously one of the more disappointing creatures and it takes so much work to get, no breeding.

Anyone know if they're getting a TLC?
Because between how ass it is to ride, and how ♥♥♥♥ it was to tame, it hardly seems worth it...I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate him, but I need him because this map decides that I don't need grappling hooks.

I swear, wildcard just likes screwing over their players.

[Dj DNA]

You ok there bud?

[🦊 Hermit]

What is it that you don't like about them? They're strong fighters, extremely manoeuvrable, and very fast travel mounts. Personally I'd say they're one of my top 5 pets in the game...

[Kazaanh]

Rock Drakes are literaly the best dinos out there.

Wild eggs go up to 190 level, they have 10 more dmg than rex, you can heal them with nameless venom, they can travel maps very quickly, great AoE dmg, invisibillity, easy climbing make many scenarios easier, good swimmers, good weight capacity, tanky and they have tek saddle.

[skyguard]

They are a great Dino, super easy to fly/glide once you know how to use them.

[klassakla]

You can use ranged weaponry while riding, which can make taming dinos very easy.

Something to dislike about them would be the fact that if you are holding something while riding like a torch, you won’t be able to glide or snap to surfaces.

Don’t make that mistake while exploring the grave of the lost lol

[Veeshan]

I was definitely extremely disappointed with the damage, but everything else seemed perfectly fine.

I mean yeah the movement is very finicky, but all movement in ark is very finicky.

[RequiemsRose]

Rock Drake certainly isn't my favorite out of all the potential options to choose from, but they also aren't on my crap list either. What is it that frustrates you about them? I can't deny they can be a little jank to ride, all the climbing critters have some jank to them. Even the climbing limited thyla goes a little stupid sometimes. One of my favorite screenshots was my thyla stuck in a superman pose after climbing up my base wall, breaking climbing somehow and continuing to climb the air and finally jumping off to try and fix it.
(this one, if you wanted to see it to)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1950997999

My personal annoyance with the drake is that, very rarely nowadays, their dash ability breaks and instead of lunging quickly between surfaces they will fling themselves across the gap in a wild cartwheel of nausea (especially if you happen to be in first person view when it happens). I don't easily get motion sick from games but that little incident certainly hits the threshold. Other than that, I wouldn't consider them amazing on any map other than Abberation, but they are also practically necessary on Abby unless you want to go through the effort of getting a doom crab, taming a reaper, or have the sense and courage to do everything with a pack of ravagers. (For clarification when I say "have the sense" I don't mean the ravagers are the best idea, I mean you need a bit of a sense of the game/map to keep that ravager pack alive and effectively together as you move with them). Oh, but as far as breeding drakes, if you have s+ you can make that happen with the s+ mutator. Not an available option on official servers though.

[MrKeiffer]

Originally posted by Dj DNA:

You ok there bud?

Nah man.
I wasted hours of my life on a tame that is ♥♥♥♥.

And you have to tame it because they decided to just ♥♥♥♥ any helpful engram youve wasted points on.

I own all the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ maps, I should have access to all my engrams.

[MrKeiffer]

Originally posted by Kazaanh:

Rock Drakes are literaly the best dinos out there.

Wild eggs go up to 190 level, they have 10 more dmg than rex, you can heal them with nameless venom, they can travel maps very quickly, great AoE dmg, invisibillity, easy climbing make many scenarios easier, good swimmers, good weight capacity, tanky and they have tek saddle.

All great things if it actually moved the way you wanted. It's not literally the best YOU think it's good. I find it un-Impressive and a waste of my time.

[MrKeiffer]

Originally posted by klassakla:

You can use ranged weaponry while riding, which can make taming dinos very easy.

Something to dislike about them would be the fact that if you are holding something while riding like a torch, you won’t be able to glide or snap to surfaces.

Don’t make that mistake while exploring the grave of the lost lol

They are the most frustrating Dino's to use. Not even worth it to me. And that torch thing is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dumb.

[MrKeiffer]

Originally posted by 🦊 Hermit:

What is it that you don't like about them? They're strong fighters, extremely manoeuvrable, and very fast travel mounts. Personally I'd say they're one of my top 5 pets in the game...

I don't like:
Their movement
Their requirements to tame.
Their inability to breed
Their ♥♥♥♥ movement
Their ♥♥♥♥ climbing
The map has so much foliege flying around green zone you just end up grabbing a tree mid glide, and now have a screen of green to guess where you're pointing.

And because they were put in the game, engrams and flyers were locked out. Aberration as a map was pretty frustrating...but to give this dumb ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ creature and tell me it's how I get around... No, go back to the computer...do some more coding and fix this stupid pos

[Vesuvius]

Originally posted by Umpa Lava:

Originally posted by 🦊 Hermit:

What is it that you don't like about them? They're strong fighters, extremely manoeuvrable, and very fast travel mounts. Personally I'd say they're one of my top 5 pets in the game...

I don't like:
Their movement
Their requirements to tame.
Their inability to breed
Their ♥♥♥♥ movement
Their ♥♥♥♥ climbing
The map has so much foliege flying around green zone you just end up grabbing a tree mid glide, and now have a screen of green to guess where you're pointing.

And because they were put in the game, engrams and flyers were locked out. Aberration as a map was pretty frustrating...but to give this dumb ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ creature and tell me it's how I get around... No, go back to the computer...do some more coding and fix this stupid pos

All of this is just an opinion. Clearly one that others don't share....

As you've stated tho.... you have the option to change it.

Chances of a tlc are pretty much nil.

[Zera_Fox]

I think Rock Drakes are neat.
Do I use them though? Nah.
Are they required to get around Aberration? Definitely not!
Are they required in any way shape or form to unlock anything? Again, nope.

No ones forced you to tame this creature. No one is forcing you to use this creature.
If you don't like it, don't use it. It's as simple as that.

[MrKeiffer]

Originally posted by Zera_Fox:

I think Rock Drakes are neat.
Do I use them though? Nah.
Are they required to get around Aberration? Definitely not!
Are they required in any way shape or form to unlock anything? Again, nope.

No ones forced you to tame this creature. No one is forcing you to use this creature.
If you don't like it, don't use it. It's as simple as that.

Wow thank you for your contributions. Information I truly needed, and hadn't considered myself.

I did though, and it is disappointing. So talk all you want man, your speaking about an after the fact. You say a lot of nothing

[Furyion]

mae wing.. moe wing more like it .. is a rock drake re skinned