Are the Spino or Rex any good?

[Peleg The Cynic]

Like sure, they aren't anything when compared to the Giga or Wyvern, but are they good at all?

[blueghost]

Great for being up well off the ground. Bit lumbering and terrible turn radius though. Personally, I level up Raptors and take a team out hunting. Fast and nimble. Great for hit and run tactics. And I do same with Argies. Level them up and take out several when I need to go out hunting well away from base. Note: I play single player. So don't know how this does on the servers.

[Vesuvius]

Id rather have rex then gigas

[JD]

Depends on things like map, pvp or pve etc. Spinos are great on aberration, only problem for them there are the reaper and megalo. However on every other map they become less useful, as gigas are far superior to them. Rex are typically a must have, they triumph over everything in pve but are less useful for pvp, where they are only used for boss fights or the tek saddle, since you never bring a rex to a giga fight.

[margalus]

It depends on what you mean. Are they good at berry gathering? No. Are they good at killing other dinos, like alphas? Yes.

[Peleg The Cynic]

Originally posted by margalus:

It depends on what you mean. Are they good at berry gathering? No. Are they good at killing other dinos, like alphas? Yes.

Every trait combined, so all of the mentioned at more

[Migromul]

Honestly, I like Spinos most. Gigas are damn difficult to tame... Rexes are damn slow in water... Spinos are as diffcult to tame as Rexes and get a buff in water, are faster with less stamina-drain on quadpedal and have a very good turn-radius on two-pedal. Only downside is, that Spinos have an oxygen-stat, so although, they get buffed in water, they CAN drain.

BTW: Rexes and Gigas don't exist at aberration.

Sadly, Spinos can't be brought to the overseer on Island, since they don't fit into the cave-entrance. (hm. CAN you free cryopttedt creatures in the cave, before you teleport? I don't believe so. I know, you can't at the overseer directly, at least, but afaik, you teleport to the oversser at the end of the lava-cave. You don't just go through another entrance.)

Rexes and/or spinos are a must-have against bosses. (at the side of a group of allos (at least 2) or a Yutyrannus.) Gigas can't be brought to the overseer, two, if you can't free potted creatures in the cave.

And I suppose, Gigas are damn dangerous against bosses, because of its rage.

Every creature on Island has a purpose. Even the Meganeura, although the only purpose of them is to go on the nervs of players... but it IS a purpose.

[Jyandalf]

Originally posted by Peleg The Mudkip&Bubbles:

Like sure, they aren't anything when compared to the Giga or Wyvern, but are they good at all?

Between the three, I have preferences based on certain situations:

Giga: is absolutely the best for raw damage, but there's a lot of places you can't got and numerous things you can't do with a Giga as it would kill any challenge or grind.

Rex: it's a plain old workhorse Dino. It can be used for boss fights and the tek cave, and is basically the staple dini

Spino: by far, my favourite of the three. Has 2 modes. Quadripedal mode and bipedal. When in bipedal, you attack faster, do more damage, and have a far superior turning radius. Both modes have hydration boost when wet which gives you an edge in a 1v1 versus a Rex, but won't help at all when it comes to a Giga. The spino is vulnerable to electrocution though, so it's no longer my go to for surface water ventures on The Island.

The spino has a drawback in that it doesn't actually fit in the tek cave, for some weird reason

[whitneyhill]

So, this is an interesting question.

Since the debut of cryopods, we have been able to unpod Gigas and other creatures inside the Tek Cave, before the final teleport. The standard procedure on Official is to take on Giga to clear the way, and then Rexes for the final fight.

Yes, I would agree, Gigas are the best for raw damage by far. However, Rexes actually tend to have much more health (due to the Giga health nerf), making groups of them better for a longer, slower fight. A good saddle can help with this, but those are rare, and often very expensive. I mostly use Gigas for meat hunting, Titano fights, Alpha Killing, and Giga fights, and that's about it. In addition, Gigas are typically much more difficult to replace than a Rex or Spino.

(please note I typically play on Official PvE, and this is all based upon the supermutant versions of everything we have, lol)

For Rexes, the damage is much lower than the Giga, but the health is higher. On Official, I have Rexes that reach over 2K damage, and 100K health once leveled. (1360 and 34K bases) In my mind, they're the perfect boss creature, as they have more health than the spino, and saddle blueprints are easier to find. (easier being very relative) The spino when ridden, at the same melee, technically puts out more damage, due to better DPS, but I find this to be almost unnoticeable. In addition, on the Spino, you sit very low to the ground, giving things like Purlovia and easy target. I have known them to somehow get me even on Rexes (Ice Cave on The Island), but Spinos are just a deathtrap.

I like Spinos as a very useful all-round utility mount. They're fast, they're powerful, if you get a couple of event colors, or Abberant ones, they look frickin' cool. For me, they don't substitute for the Rex in terms of hard damage, but they are vastly more mobile, and fun to use.

[Dj DNA]

Originally posted by whitneyhill:

So, this is an interesting question.

Since the debut of cryopods, we have been able to unpod Gigas and other creatures inside the Tek Cave, before the final teleport. The standard procedure on Official is to take on Giga to clear the way, and then Rexes for the final fight.

Yes, I would agree, Gigas are the best for raw damage by far. However, Rexes actually tend to have much more health (due to the Giga health nerf), making groups of them better for a longer, slower fight. A good saddle can help with this, but those are rare, and often very expensive. I mostly use Gigas for meat hunting, Titano fights, Alpha Killing, and Giga fights, and that's about it. In addition, Gigas are typically much more difficult to replace than a Rex or Spino.

(please note I typically play on Official PvE, and this is all based upon the supermutant versions of everything we have, lol)

For Rexes, the damage is much lower than the Giga, but the health is higher. On Official, I have Rexes that reach over 2K damage, and 100K health once leveled. (1360 and 34K bases) In my mind, they're the perfect boss creature, as they have more health than the spino, and saddle blueprints are easier to find. (easier being very relative) The spino when ridden, at the same melee, technically puts out more damage, due to better DPS, but I find this to be almost unnoticeable. In addition, on the Spino, you sit very low to the ground, giving things like Purlovia and easy target. I have known them to somehow get me even on Rexes (Ice Cave on The Island), but Spinos are just a deathtrap.

I like Spinos as a very useful all-round utility mount. They're fast, they're powerful, if you get a couple of event colors, or Abberant ones, they look frickin' cool. For me, they don't substitute for the Rex in terms of hard damage, but they are vastly more mobile, and fun to use.

you can't unpod in the tek cave anymore, so the giga strat is dead

[whitneyhill]

Since when?

I haven't played Official in about a month, as Crystal Isles has given me serious technical issues, but when I was last on, you could still unpod in the cave.

[Dj DNA]

Originally posted by whitneyhill:

Since when?

I haven't played Official in about a month, as Crystal Isles has given me serious technical issues, but when I was last on, you could still unpod in the cave.

Since the start of this year/end of 2019. You can see on the wiki under notes on the cryopod page. Altough the tek cave page still states you can, we have ascended tons of times this year I can confirm you can not deploy cryod dinos anymore. You can still pod them if stuck somewhere.

[wizard master結城晶子リ]

Originally posted by Peleg The Mudkip&Bubbles:

Like sure, they aren't anything when compared to the Giga or Wyvern, but are they good at all?

I have a 209 spino and the time i have spent useing her is great there good fish farmers pretty fast on land to now i have a rex to and i haev to say not really nejoying him much looses stam to fast verry slow witch makes no sense since a rex can reach up to 35 mph and run fro apretty good ammount idk why they made the stam go down so fast when u only ben running for like what 10 maybe 15 sec id say the giga and rex share the same stam drain the spino is faster at atking and can run far longer than both the giga and rex plus swiming for fish make it much better to hunt in the water it really makes no sense for the rex to be under the giga or spino speicaly the giga when the giga is below the spino and rex the gig could never over power a rex or even do the kinda damage a rex could idk why they made the giga so op in this game it should be the rex who at the top not the giga if i would one thing it would be that put rex more dangerus and make su think twice before atking then the spino would be 2nd then the giga so stupid how they made the giga scary thing to go up aganst

[whitneyhill]

Originally posted by Dj DNA:

Originally posted by whitneyhill:

Since when?

I haven't played Official in about a month, as Crystal Isles has given me serious technical issues, but when I was last on, you could still unpod in the cave.

Since the start of this year/end of 2019. You can see on the wiki under notes on the cryopod page. Altough the tek cave page still states you can, we have ascended tons of times this year I can confirm you can not deploy cryod dinos anymore. You can still pod them if stuck somewhere.

Cool, gotcha. :)

[DarkFaceGlow]

Thing I don’t like about either of them is how slow they are. I prefer an Allosaurus and a Sarco to replace them.

[Migromul]

Originally posted by DarkFaceGlow:

Thing I don’t like about either of them is how slow they are. I prefer an Allosaurus and a Sarco to replace them.

They have slow animations. But I doubt, they're THAT slow... I think, they just cover more ground per step... An Allo is faster, however.