Desmodus are awesome.

[Tachyon]

They have speed and weight roughly comparable to an Argie, decent stamina, plus you can dive and use weapons while riding on it, like a Griffin. It can go invisible at night, can use night vision and also hang onto walls - you can still use weapons while on a wall, too! Screech attack for a debuff to dinos, drains blood and makes blood bags in quantity. Can pick up small creatures and, of course, chew on them for meat, hide and blood bags.

With 200 blood bags the bat can make a Sanguine Elixir. The Sanguine Elixir is a buff that can be used only once on a particular dino. It will speed up the process of taming a nearby unconscious creature by 30% and you can also use it to boost imprinting on a baby by 30%.

What's not to love, eh! That said, I can't see all that remaining un-nerfed for long, which iirc has happened to other new creatures that have been released. 😀

[DarkthShadow]

only downside so far, all timers are the same as when in player inventory for the Sanguine Elixir, atleast on my server, and cant even put them in a fridge!

so no mater where I put them, they expire in 4 hours

[Watchdog]

It's horrible when flying near trees, cause it tries to land and also the latching is very annoying when you want to land on the ground.

[Tachyon]

Originally posted by Watchdog:

It's horrible when flying near trees, cause it tries to land and also the latching is very annoying when you want to land on the ground.

Use the Descend key. I've not had any problems flying through trees though.

[Tachyon]

I just used an expendable lvl 30 Desmodus in the Ragnarok Wyvern Trench, using invisibility at night, to snag a lvl 175 Fire Wyvern! egg. Invisibility breaks when you disembark and I wasn't quick enough to re-enable it but despite some scorch marks we managed to get away. Thank god the thing is as manoeuvrable as a Tapejara.

[[PAX] Scape]

For some reason I am unable to use that potion anyone have similar issues ?

[DarkthShadow]

Originally posted by Tachyon:

I just used an expendable lvl 30 Desmodus in the Ragnarok Wyvern Trench, using invisibility at night, to snag a lvl 175 Fire Wyvern! egg. Invisibility breaks when you disembark and I wasn't quick enough to re-enable it but despite some scorch marks we managed to get away. Thank god the thing is as manoeuvrable as a Tapejara.

oh, damn, so the invisibility actually works for that, nice, guess I just had bad timing when I tried it.

[Tachyon]

Originally posted by PAX Scape:

For some reason I am unable to use that potion anyone have similar issues ?

I have seen another post mentioning this on an Ark Reddit forum, plus another one that said that since they used one on a dino it couldn't be Cryopodded. To be fair though, that could be a mod issue at their end rather than being down to the potion itself. I'll not be using the potion yet just in case it's a bit screwy.

[Teratus]

I've been having a blast with mine, I named it ComBat :D

[moTom]

Also, Desmodus can fly in caves on servers that don´t got caveflyers active (so even on Official atm!). Dunno if that´s a mistake by Wildcard and it will be patched soon.

[[BOT] DepthDude]

Originally posted by moTom:

Also, Desmodus can fly in caves on servers that don´t got caveflyers active (so even on Official atm!). Dunno if that´s a mistake by Wildcard and it will be patched soon.

I like to think that's intended considering it's a cave bat
Also I feel like that's its only redeeming quality other than the blood potion

[Watchdog]

Originally posted by Tachyon:

Originally posted by Watchdog:

It's horrible when flying near trees, cause it tries to land and also the latching is very annoying when you want to land on the ground.

Use the Descend key. I've not had any problems flying through trees though.

Try doing it when getting chased by a Griffin and 2 other bats. It's so stupidly broken.

[Tachyon]

Originally posted by moTom:

Also, Desmodus can fly in caves on servers that don´t got caveflyers active (so even on Official atm!). Dunno if that´s a mistake by Wildcard and it will be patched soon.

Wouldn't be much of a Cave Bat if it couldn't fly in caves though.

EDIT: Someone above said much the same thing and beat me to it.

[Mandalorian Deathknight]

Originally posted by DarkthShadow:

only downside so far, all timers are the same as when in player inventory for the Sanguine Elixir, atleast on my server, and cant even put them in a fridge!

so no mater where I put them, they expire in 4 hours

same as a sp even the s+ versions and the tek

[william_es]

Originally posted by moTom:

Also, Desmodus can fly in caves on servers that don´t got caveflyers active (so even on Official atm!). Dunno if that´s a mistake by Wildcard and it will be patched soon.

I don't think it's a mistake. The three other realms in the Fjordur map (asgard, jotunheim, etc) are all technically "caves". So the desmodus being able to fly in a cave makes sense on that map.

[Rex]

they just got nerfed