Why are Mantas hostile?

[A Good Joe]

I don't understand why mantas are hostile.. I've swam with them and stingrays in real life, and they are not. Mantas are docile and eat plankton for ♥♥♥♥♥ sake.

Devs pls, at least try for scientific accuracy when possible?

[Tachyon]

These aren't modern day creatures. Also, it's a game. I couldn't care less about pixels on a screen.

Oh, and "scientific accuracy" in a game where people die and are cloned and placed back in the world? Where dinos and creatures from all kinds of eras wander around side by side? Where you can upload yourself and your creatures to a colossal Obelisk floating in the sky?

Stop nitpicking. It impresses no-one.

[Kotli]

Tachyon the problem is the dossier says this:
'Normally docile, the Manta Mobula is a carnivore only in that it consumes Plankton. Its tail is incredibly sharp, and can pierce through thick hide and armor with ease. Fortunately, Manta Mobula is usually not aggressive, unless encroached'
Its also classed as defensive in temperment.

As such it being agressive with out being proked is werid.

[ttv/thealangator]

Remember: they killed Steve

[leefnmajors]

Originally posted by thefwf:

Remember: they killed Steve

That was a Stingray, not a Manta. Different species.

Lots of creatures don't behave the way they said in the dossiers: Plesiosaurs attack everything you approach them with (said to only hunt fish and be indifferent to most creatures), Anglers are supposed to be skittish to anything larger than them (freely attack Mosas and Dunkles), Megalodons don't hunt or kill ANYTHING that is aquatic unless it's player-controlled (I really don't think I need to describe the problem with that), etc.. Hell, the ocean in general behaves NOTHING like the dossiers advertise it to be except for the Ichthys; even then, they have a funny quirk where they will attack wild land creatures that come into the ocean. It's not a question of scientific accuracy; it's an issue of things not working as expected/advertised.

[Tachyon]

Originally posted by Kotli:

...is usually not aggressive, UNLESS ENCROACHED'

(My caps) So, get within a certain range and it goes for you. Seems to be working fine then.

[ttv/thealangator]

Originally posted by MiT leefnmajors:

Originally posted by thefwf:

Remember: they killed Steve

That was a Stingray, not a Manta. Different species.

Sorry dad

[Tachyon]

Originally posted by MiT leefnmajors:

Originally posted by thefwf:

Remember: they killed Steve

That was a Stingray, not a Manta. Different species.

That joke went over your head, I think. :)

[Toaster]

Mantas are ♥♥♥♥♥. Hands down, they've killed me more than anything else.

[Tachyon]

I have to concede they're vicious killing machines, but if I encroach into their personal space that's what I expect.

[Keesah]

People also systematically seem to forget: The animals / dinosaurs we see in game are NOT the same species as the animals that once roamed our planet. They are an entirely new, made up species and so the devs can make them behave however the ♥♥♥♥ they want. Sure they look a lot alike and their names certainly sound familiar, but that doesn't change the fact that the ones used in the game are only depictions of the dev's fantasies.

Also... why nag about mantas being agressive and not true to life while there's a freaking dragon in the game...

[wind6213]

The problem is they are over spawn,the sea is full of mantas, if you stuck by them,you are as dead as ♥♥♥♥.

[Whiteshark01]

Originally posted by Keesah:

People also systematically seem to forget: The animals / dinosaurs we see in game are NOT the same species as the animals that once roamed our planet. They are an entirely new, made up species and so the devs can make them behave however the ♥♥♥♥ they want. Sure they look a lot alike and their names certainly sound familiar, but that doesn't change the fact that the ones used in the game are only depictions of the dev's fantasies.

Also... why nag about mantas being agressive and not true to life while there's a freaking dragon in the game...

but you see, they're not working as intended, if you get up in their "space" they are supposed to freak and attack, instead they actively hunt you down

[Charlice]

Ark isn't real life.

[440A]

Originally posted by Charlice:

Ark isn't real life.

WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kraken:1]

Originally posted by whiteshark01:

Originally posted by Keesah:

People also systematically seem to forget: The animals / dinosaurs we see in game are NOT the same species as the animals that once roamed our planet. They are an entirely new, made up species and so the devs can make them behave however the ♥♥♥♥ they want. Sure they look a lot alike and their names certainly sound familiar, but that doesn't change the fact that the ones used in the game are only depictions of the dev's fantasies.

Also... why nag about mantas being agressive and not true to life while there's a freaking dragon in the game...

but you see, they're not working as intended, if you get up in their "space" they are supposed to freak and attack, instead they actively hunt you down

Exactly, they have an enormous aggro range and come actively looking for you to repeatedly lighteningly quickly and viciously attack you and your mount. That ain't right. If I swam into or attacked one and it stabbed me and swam off then that would make sense. Killer manta attack packs that mob you more viciously than any shark ever has, doesn't.