My scorpions drown in a puddle

[WaightZer]

After the new patch last night, I was crossing a narrow section in a river with my scorpion, it was like 4 feet deep. My scorpion got stuck and started to drowned. I was like omg omg omg, because it was my favorite, with 3000+ HP and 350% dmg. I tried anything I can, I mount, I whistle. It was dead. Ok I thought they implement quick sand or make scorpions can't swim well in new patch. After that with another scorpion, I crossed another section. The water is like a puddle only, OMG it drowned again. I was really pisssed off and sad seeing my scorp slowly dying in the puddle of water, suffocating. IF it is a bug, hope it get fixed ASAP. Currently Im avoiding to cross any water body. By the way, it is nice to have genders on scorps now.

[Bonks]

Have you seen how low the scorpions head is? If the head is underwater, it drowns

[WaightZer]

Originally posted by Felwyk:

Have you seen how low the scorpions head is? If the head is underwater, it drowns

The problem is I am unable to move my scorpions by any means. The second scorp was in a puddle like water in a almost flat sand.

[Bonks]

So, the issue is that regardless of where you cross the water, the scorions ALWAYS get stuck?

[Legion]

I'd imagine this was a bug and will probably get hotfixed soon I'm actually very much in favour of having less dinos be water friendly (obviously according to logic and reality as well as for gameplay reasons)

I would imagine a trex would easily down in deep water as it has no way to stabilize itself (it's tiny front arms would never do the job)

This would be a great gameplay element as it would mean more incentive for player made bridges (strategic choke points)
I would also like to see a weight restriction/max weight for thatch so that it breaks if a heavy dino walks on it (big dinos should need big solid bridges)

Gonna make a separate thread for this suggestion though and see what people think.

[WaightZer]

Originally posted by Felwyk:

So, the issue is that regardless of where you cross the water, the scorions ALWAYS get stuck?

Not always, I'd say by chances. The first one was full body submerged but I couldn't moved. It was like something pulling from under. The second one? I avoided even shallow water. Just cross first time, OK. then come back, BANG, it stuck. Like a rubberband effect. So I say its a glitch.

[wizard64]

I actually lost 2 lvl 90+ scorpions yesterday to this...crossing river and got stuck in shallow water. Nothing visible blocking its movement just keeps rubberbanding back to the same spot. Nothing worked to move it tried making it follow, riding it, hitting it hoping it'd run out. Didn't have any problems with this prior to yesterday.

[MarcusFisher]

Yep same here, lost my high level scorpion because i couldn't get him out of shallow water. Kept rubberbanding back into the water no matter what I did. Tribemate lost his the same way today.

[Altered33]

We lost two scorpions the exact same way the last 2 nights in a row.

[Sylvaire]

I feel your pain, water in this game is evil. I drowned in water I could stand up in. This caused the 2 dinos following me to stop moving and drown in the slightly deeper water behind me ><

[Altered33]

Those who got stuck were you attacking something at the time? Both times we got stuck was because we attacked something in shallow water

[TrueTerror]

i got same problems with my ankylo. after attack under water i can't go out of river, it just roll back every step

[BigDally]

The problem appears to be with the changes to swimming/oxygen. Now even pets too don't get oxygen even at the surface. Cross at your peril unit this gets patched in 187.

[Cerberus]

I losr 4.5 skorps that way, looks like if you leave them in the shore where the water touches the land, they start moving by themselves (like if the ground was slippery) and then stop moving in a place where they CANT MOVE AT ALL i tried 4 things (after loosing the first 2 i did some tests):

1. If you try movig by WASD, they just rubbeband back (you cant move them)
2. If you try swimming up with space they wont do anything
5. Also i called him to follow me and i went a little bit far from it, it just stayed looking at me not moving.
4. Here si where i lost the .5 one, it was drawning, so i used an argentavis to take it out of the water but now it is stucked wherever i place it, i cant move by WASD on land anymore, the only way is to pick it up again with the argent and place it somwhere else (i am using him as storage now u.u)

[Serula]

We have lost 5 dino's to this bug. All rubberbanding under water. It happened after we killed something and seemingly the hitbox of the dead dino doesnt go away and you get stuk on it's invisible corpse. Did you guys kill anything prior to drowning? PS my scorpion was lvl 133 and 107. That last one didnt last for 30min while carefully avoiding the water. It drowned the first moment it touched the water and started rubberbanding in a puddle not even 1 foot deep.

[Jmh1000]

Im sorry but the name of this post is so sad its hilarious. Im laughing out loud