Insects

[Adrian Carton de Wiart]

The insects have ruined this game and made it unplayable. I am a level 27 with strong melee and I die every time I come across insects. Please fix this BS asap.

[Mana]

I never died to insects, they usually die instantly

[X-Ray Rob]

I love them. Free chitin en masse. Dont need to farm chitin bcs its running after you. :D

[Otterwald]

I have a tip. You can attack with the left mouse button!

[Jesus]

get rekt

[Tekamo]

Use spear or Pike, not the Bow...
maybe bring a Dilo...

[Leo Fern]

I haven't had problems with defending against insects yet.

However, I have noticed a bug where insects can get stuck on/inside floor foundations. Once they are stuck, you can't hit them. Probably the game thinks that they are on the opposite side of the floor, and thus the floor hitbox is between you and the insect.

Also, when I harvest an ant, I usually kneel down (pressing C) to be able to gather from them. If I stand up while harvesting, nothing happens when I hit the dead ant body.

A few bugs with the bugs, but hopefully fixed soon.

[Okim]

The problem is in their ability to summon reinforcements and extreme attack rates.

If you encounter a basic 2-warrior-3-drone pack - they are pathetic even with a primitive spear and basic cloth.

But if you stumble upon dilos killing worker ants - things immidiatelly turn violent as a swarm of 6-7 warriors (which are neutral even to dilos killing workers!) jumps on you out of no where tearing you out of stamina in seconds. Even worse - killing your mount by producing like 5-10 bites per second which you can`t be able to survive for too long to run or kill the bugs (raptors/paras/carnos/saber specific issue).

We need a flamer to deal with these pests :)

[AlexIce]

Originally posted by Otterwald:

I have a tip. You can attack with the left mouse button!

This ^ even lvl 4 with a spear can destroy them. Left button + moving back = you win the game

[Okim]

Originally posted by Aeonmoon:

I haven't had problems with defending against insects yet.
Also, when I harvest an ant, I usually kneel down (pressing C) to be able to gather from them. If I stand up while harvesting, nothing happens when I hit the dead ant body.

Pike harvests pretty effectively without delays and needless aiming. Though amounts of loot are much lower (like 1-3 chitin and some meat per worker).

[drager55891]

Never fight them in the charge. Run a bit and turn and take out faster one and then run again.

[Adrian Carton de Wiart]

They were dying really quickly a couple of days ago, now I've got some hit box issue, can't do any damage to them at all.

[satanicmechanic77]

The sound of a pick on stone seems to attract them as i always get jumped while harvesting metal :) and i usually just take them down with my pick, but rather than spamming left click, i walk backwards, get them in centre of screen, click mouse button and they die, stay calm, dont try and run around spamming, you will miss them, then to harvest the ants i stand right over them and look straight down on them, couple of swings and i geg my chitin, then i go back to smashing rocks.
no offense, but they are pretty easy to kill, they just require different tactics to other animals to kill, as more animals are released, im hoping they too will require different tricks to kill them, rather than just sprinting around spamming the mouse button

[Grimfeather]

I prefer to aggro them and as many as I can. If I need to dismount to work in an area, I dismount first and run around to aggro as much as I can, get back on the mount and walk backwards and have the mount chew up everything as it swarms together in front of me. Free chitin and a bug free environment.

[A Walrus]

Insects are definitely easy kills, they just take a little aiming with the spear, same as bees. Now when they swarm in numbers, or spawn through objects, like spitting raptors hiding in breakable rocks....thats an issue. One rule to follow is if there are more than 5 and are in a half moon formation flying toward you, RUN! And hopefully when you turn around they are in a line staggered formation.

[satanicmechanic77]

Yeah dinos maje it really easy, i was just pointing out that even players without dinos can beat them, they just need to adapt the way they fight to the animal they are fighting