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Leviathan 2015 年 11 月 18 日 上午 6:50
Velociraptors misrepresented
How come, the "velociraptor" in the game is more like the fantasy version from the Jurassic Park movies?
Even if they'd include the larger version, called the utahraptor (the velociraptor was turkey sized) , then it should be fully feathered?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Dromaeosaurid_parade_by_durbed.jpg/1920px-Dromaeosaurid_parade_by_durbed.jpg
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Vantus 2015 年 11 月 18 日 上午 7:46 
Alright, alright.
All points regarding trolling, thread searching and forum etiquette have been made - Back to the original post....

Leviathan, you need to address or acknowledge the answers you've received. The Raptor in the game currently is not a Velociraptor. As with many Dinos in Ark - Wildcard are taking creative freedom with a lot of their Dinos, even resorting to naming them differently.

Not speaking on their behalf here, but I'm fine with the Dinos not looking like "Real ones" because:
  • Nobody really knows what they looked like.
  • Science would have it that many Dinosaurs pretty much looked the same. Feathers, feathers, feathers, feathers. From a gaming perspective, that would be incredibly boring and hardly terrifying or inspiring.
  • Ark has clearly embraced and been influenced by popular Franchises like Jurassic Park, which for many of us, was a huge part of our Childhood. There is nothing wrong with paying homage to that.

I hope this was a more acceptable reply to your thread.
最後修改者:Vantus; 2015 年 11 月 18 日 上午 7:47
Bryson Bee 2015 年 11 月 18 日 上午 7:49 
My Raptor's Blue............that is all:steamhappy:
Stonewahl 2015 年 11 月 18 日 上午 7:51 
引用自 Leviathan
How come, the "velociraptor" in the game is more like the fantasy version from the Jurassic Park movies?
Even if they'd include the larger version, called the utahraptor (the velociraptor was turkey sized) , then it should be fully feathered?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Dromaeosaurid_parade_by_durbed.jpg/1920px-Dromaeosaurid_parade_by_durbed.jpg

No kidding man, I can't believe they made this dino so unrealistic. Heck, with that said, they also made the Dragon and DodoRex unrealistic!
Leviathan 2015 年 11 月 18 日 上午 7:52 
Well, the game may give the impression of animals, that there are animals in the game, which are based on the real counterparts. I would say the dodo duck, T-rex, Dilophosaur, Pteranodon, trilobite look quite realistic. There are others too, I'm just giving a short list off my head. But then there are, that are pure fantasy and I'm comfortable about fantasy animals too.
But there is just something about stuff like the velociraptor or the triceratops, which were also a controversy in the real world, regarding their appearance and what they really are. Those kinda bother me a bit.
It's like, putting in a dalmatian dog, and calling it on its proper scientific Latin name, just like in the books, but it's actually 100 feet long and and eats mesosaurus exclusively.
最後修改者:Leviathan; 2015 年 11 月 18 日 上午 7:53
Gazz 2015 年 11 月 18 日 上午 7:56 
Would it be tameable?
TerroRichard 2015 年 11 月 18 日 上午 7:56 
引用自 Leviathan
Well, the game may give the impression of animals, that there are animals in the game, which are based on the real counterparts. I would say the dodo duck, T-rex, Dilophosaur, Pteranodon, trilobite look quite realistic. There are others too, I'm just giving a short list off my head. But then there are, that are pure fantasy and I'm comfortable about fantasy animals too.
But there is just something about stuff like the velociraptor or the triceratops, which were also a controversy in the real world, regarding their appearance and what they really are. Those kinda bother me a bit.
It's like, putting in a dalmatian dog, and calling it on its proper scientific Latin name, just like in the books, but it's actually 100 feet long and and eats mesosaurus exclusively.

Read the latin names in the dossiers, they are different, which means different animal.

Tyranosaurus Dominum, is larger than T-Rex, for example.
DodoNation 2015 年 11 月 18 日 上午 7:57 
It's a fictional subspecies of utahraptor anyway...
margalus 2015 年 11 月 18 日 上午 7:58 
There is no Velociraptor in this game. There is an Utahraptor Prime, and extremely aggressive sub-species of Utahraptor. It has enlarged foreclaws.....
最後修改者:margalus; 2015 年 11 月 18 日 上午 7:59
well now we are getting into t discussion.

You've got you aesthetic tastes and that's not in dispute. But the current representation actually allows for more visual diversity (which is important in a game). the larger point is that again, these are fictional subspecies, even in the dossier's this is occasionally nodded at.

here are a couple not quite right IRL issues if you wanna pick it apart:

Brontosaurus - which was a thing then wasn't then (after it's introduction to the game) was a thing again.

Dilo's were up to 6 feet tall... no the tiny things in game (again JP's influence)

The "Rex" being sooo much bigger than it should be (subspecies)

I mean you could keep digging. But play-ability, recognizably, and aesthetics are going to be what the devs focus on for their vision of the game. By all means say what you do or don't like, but because they are all clearly labeled fictional subspecies there isn't much of a "scientific" argument to be made for what should look like what IMO.

Fanible 2015 年 11 月 18 日 上午 8:05 
引用自 margalus
http://dinopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Utahraptor

not feathered

Because none of the random, creatively choiced artist renditions on the page show it as such?

It says right in the middle:
"The arms, legs, and tails were covered in true feathers, whilst the rest of their body was probably covered in protofeathers."
Syntax Error 2015 年 11 月 18 日 上午 8:27 
引用自 margalus
http://dinopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Utahraptor

not feathered
As an aside, I can't take any wiki saying "Utahraptor was a 'master strategist'" seriously. Regardless of skull/brain size, we have no idea what its behavior was except to make guesses based on very circumstantial evidence and observation of modern species. Does anyone refer to modern emus as being "master strategists"?
Gazz 2015 年 11 月 18 日 上午 8:36 
Actually, dodos were.
Until their doomsday device backfired. That's why they are extinct now.
Nyan Rose 2015 年 11 月 18 日 上午 8:41 
like they said, it's meant to be a modified utahraptor. That being said, I REALLY want more feathers on the dinos and less jurassic park looking dinos. I want to see fluffy t-rex's and fully feathered raptors but it's unlikely to happen. New species of raptors hopefully will be feathered(it looks like at least the microraptor will) other then that all we can do is hope.
Pterrificus 2015 年 11 月 18 日 上午 8:42 
引用自 Leviathan
It's like, putting in a dalmatian dog, and calling it on its proper scientific Latin name, just like in the books, but it's actually 100 feet long and and eats mesosaurus exclusively.

It's like putting in a human and calling it a human, but it has a bag of holding built into its arm and it is recreated in a new body upon death.

That's why we call it a game, not a documentary. Scientific accuracy takes a back seat to game play.

This isn't even a simulation. The "science" in this game is to add flavor, not educate.



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