How do you tame a Quetzal? (2 person bird method)

[MyHeroPlusUltra]

So we read that one way to tame a quetzle is to have one person carry a tribe mate and shoot the quetzal a bunch of times. We tried this and it doesn't apparently work.

Private server (we own it) and it is PvE. No modifiers to dinos resistance or anything.

At first my partner used a longneck rifle and used 57 darts on a lvl 44 Quetzal. According to the Wiki it should take between 15-20. Nothing, it didn't even look bloody or damaged. Then we switched to a ramshackle crossbow (Attack is 119.1) which she had one her and used 60 arrows. Again, nothing. It visibly hit the bird and it would turn each time.

After she crashed from some weird fatal error (after the 60 arows) we tried a few more times but gave up. The bird literally looked like it didn't take any damage at all, yet the arrows and darts were visible.

I've seen multiple people say that this is one method they used. I know another apparent method is to use a scorpion but my question is I thought they disabled tranqing from the air a long time ago after they started allowing ardents to carry people because that wasn't how you were suppose to play the game or something. It seems after seeing this that its still the case.

Is their a server side admin option that I am missing? Like something for enabling/disabling damage caused by a someone being carried by an ardent or ptera?

Not angry or upset, just sincerely asking since it took a few hours to find one of these and we spent a good hour trying to down it on our Stream.

[5tr4nGe]

that's 15-20 if they're all perfect headshots, and all exactly 5 seconds apart.
i've also seen quetz take 100+ tranq darts to go down.

[MyHeroPlusUltra]

According to the wiki a lvl 50 only needs 25, we did well over that and was hitting in the neck and head and then did it with tranq arrows too. That's a lot of shots. I don't believe it should have taken that much and like it said it appeared the dino took no damage, yet i've shot ardents from the ground and they slowly get battle damage as i continue to tranq them. it's just weird.

[5tr4nGe]

Originally posted by LocknLoadnDie:

According to the wiki a lvl 50 only needs 25, we did well over that and was hitting in the neck and head and then did it with tranq arrows too. That's a lot of shots. I don't believe it should have taken that much and like it said it appeared the dino took no damage, yet i've shot ardents from the ground and they slowly get battle damage as i continue to tranq them. it's just weird.

the wiki can be wrong...
it said i'd need around 9 to take down a lvl 40 carno.
it went down after 13...

[MyHeroPlusUltra]

Originally posted by #Sw!zZ.Pii:

We tamed a lvl 116 yesterday with Mastercraft Longneck and Darts. Took us about 44 Darts to knock it out.

Where were you hitting it at? Like I said we used 57 darts on a lvl 44... =\

We will try again but man not looking forward to it if its going to be that buggy.

[Asgeirr]

I've done it with carrying another person, and I've done it solo standing on a quetzal and chasing after it when it ran off. What people above have said is what you need to consider, the amount of darts are for perfect headshots 5s apart.

Our first quetz took 2-3 times as many tranq arrows as the wiki said, because my shooter kept hitting the body, missing and missing the time window.

[MyHeroPlusUltra]

Yea.

So you guys want a good laugh?

We gave it another try except this time I was shooting. We found a lvl 34 quetzal and went to town on it. After maybe 35 minutes of chasing it around and 72 darts later it magically went down. It shocked us.

It landed on carno/trex/bad crap island and landed right on top of a carno and raptor.

We freaked out because they started to attack it and jumped off our birds and attacked the dinos with our pikes. They started attacking us and I'm all like "oh god. We are going to die and lose the tame and our birds". Somehow we managed to kill the carno and raptor and then I built a spike fortress around the damn thing while my roomie got prime meats.

Hours later it was tamed and we flew it back to base. We landed it and was getting ready to go to bed when my my roommate is like "why is it flying away?" I looked at her and said "what do u mean? It's right there". She got very quiet and I went over to her screen.

A bloody lvl 16 quetzal was flying above our damn base just chilling. I went through several stages of grief and rage and face palming since we spent a long time looking for the one we tamed.

Long story short. Damn it all.

[-Smirnoff-]

Originally posted by LocknLoadnDie:

Yea.

So you guys want a good laugh?

We gave it another try except this time I was shooting. We found a lvl 34 quetzal and went to town on it. After maybe 35 minutes of chasing it around and 72 darts later it magically went down. It shocked us.

It landed on carno/trex/bad crap island and landed right on top of a carno and raptor.

We freaked out because they started to attack it and jumped off our birds and attacked the dinos with our pikes. They started attacking us and I'm all like "oh god. We are going to die and lose the tame and our birds". Somehow we managed to kill the carno and raptor and then I built a spike fortress around the damn thing while my roomie got prime meats.

Hours later it was tamed and we flew it back to base. We landed it and was getting ready to go to bed when my my roommate is like "why is it flying away?" I looked at her and said "what do u mean? It's right there". She got very quiet and I went over to her screen.

A bloody lvl 16 quetzal was flying above our damn base just chilling. I went through several stages of grief and rage and face palming since we spent a long time looking for the one we tamed.

Long story short. Damn it all.

Was it set on Enable woundering by any chance? Lol It might still be taimed!

[-AD-Deadric]

Originally posted by Smirnoff:

Originally posted by LocknLoadnDie:

Yea.

So you guys want a good laugh?

We gave it another try except this time I was shooting. We found a lvl 34 quetzal and went to town on it. After maybe 35 minutes of chasing it around and 72 darts later it magically went down. It shocked us.

It landed on carno/trex/bad crap island and landed right on top of a carno and raptor.

We freaked out because they started to attack it and jumped off our birds and attacked the dinos with our pikes. They started attacking us and I'm all like "oh god. We are going to die and lose the tame and our birds". Somehow we managed to kill the carno and raptor and then I built a spike fortress around the damn thing while my roomie got prime meats.

Hours later it was tamed and we flew it back to base. We landed it and was getting ready to go to bed when my my roommate is like "why is it flying away?" I looked at her and said "what do u mean? It's right there". She got very quiet and I went over to her screen.

A bloody lvl 16 quetzal was flying above our damn base just chilling. I went through several stages of grief and rage and face palming since we spent a long time looking for the one we tamed.

Long story short. Damn it all.

Was it set on Enable woundering by any chance? Lol It might still be taimed!

Also could be sitting on the ground somewhere not to far away. Need to make sure wandering is off and also make sure the things lands before you go do anything else because when they land themselves they seem to fly off a ways and do it.

[prome]

1. Never trust the Wiki. Its inaccurate on so many things.
2. Yes that method you described does work. Maybe you thought you hitted it but didnt? (Client to server registration could matter if your connection to server was bad atm)
3. There are no specific setting to make it harder, unless you have individually set Quetzes to have more HP/Torpor or something like that.
4. Its also pretty easy to tame one solo, just ride an Argent and dismount it in the air, shoot the Quetz, reload, and mount your Argent again, follow the Quetz a few seconds and redo the process.

2 and 4 do work, we've done it just this week on our server.

Hope you get better luck next time :)

[OmniLordAlpha]

I think there might have been some kind of error in hit detection then. I've personally used the tandem argy method, being co-pilot on another quetz method, and using a scorpion method. Now I killed the quetz with a scorprion, but I think it was more my tactics than the game there. The only suggestion I got for you is simply patience. And to make sure you're mostly above the quetz when firing or you might hit the argy carrying you by mistake.

Granted, it's been a little while since I tamed a quetz so maybe they did change some things.

[Sovvagn]

We prime tamed a lvl 8 took 11 tranq arrows. Maybe you weren't hitting it's hit box right. Aim either directly in the belly or center of it's back.

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[MyHeroPlusUltra]

Not sure. A possibility but now our server has a different issue >_>.

[Drakon]

Originally posted by LocknLoadnDie:

Yea.

So you guys want a good laugh?

We gave it another try except this time I was shooting. We found a lvl 34 quetzal and went to town on it. After maybe 35 minutes of chasing it around and 72 darts later it magically went down. It shocked us.

It landed on carno/trex/bad crap island and landed right on top of a carno and raptor.

We freaked out because they started to attack it and jumped off our birds and attacked the dinos with our pikes. They started attacking us and I'm all like "oh god. We are going to die and lose the tame and our birds". Somehow we managed to kill the carno and raptor and then I built a spike fortress around the damn thing while my roomie got prime meats.

Hours later it was tamed and we flew it back to base. We landed it and was getting ready to go to bed when my my roommate is like "why is it flying away?" I looked at her and said "what do u mean? It's right there". She got very quiet and I went over to her screen.

A bloody lvl 16 quetzal was flying above our damn base just chilling. I went through several stages of grief and rage and face palming since we spent a long time looking for the one we tamed.

Long story short. Damn it all.

You are not alone with this. On my server we spent about 3 hours trying to find a quetz only to run out of time (having to log for RL) and upon returning to our base we had one flying right above it

[Wiel Ek]

Originally posted by |SE|prome:

4. Its also pretty easy to tame one solo, just ride an Argent and dismount it in the air, shoot the Quetz, reload, and mount your Argent again, follow the Quetz a few seconds and redo the process.

Could you please elaborate on this method?
Because dismounting and remounting a bird mid-air sounds impossibly difficult.