Drones and hostile insects

[Meredith]

I was attempting to tame a Mammoth last night, and it was going fine. I was attacked by a T-Rex which I managed to single-handedly defeat. So, all going well, after 3 hours I finally managed to tame the Mammoth. I was leading it home and I got attacked by a swarm of soldiers and drones. I could land a single blow on them because of lag, and they killed the mammoth. (Also I was on 80 ping so it wasn't my side) So, 3 hours of time completely wasted and there was absolutely nothing I could do about it.

This has massively discouraged me from playing. If I'm going to be forced to spend 3 hours of my time in-game, I should not be immediately punished afterwards by something that I have no control over.

Drones and soldiers are almost impossible to deal with because of server latency. And even then, I have not spoken to a single person who likes them or thinks they add to the game in anyway other than passive player griefing.

I have no issue with being challenged, but when I'm getting attacked by something I cannot fight back against, whether that's caused by latency issues or not, I get a bit discouraged, and angry.

If it didn't take 3 HOURS, I'd be much less frustrated. So if taming was much less of a forced time grind, or drones just weren't a thing, that'd just be much much nicer.

Alright, rant over.

[【Ｎｉｃｅ Ｈｉｓｓ】]

Sorry, but if your mammoth was on neutral, it would have EASILY been able to one shot the entire group off insects.

Originally posted by Brodan:

Drones and soldiers are almost impossible to deal with because of server latency. And even then, I have not spoken to a single person who likes them or thinks they add to the game in anyway other than passive player griefing.

I have no issue with being challenged, but when I'm getting attacked by something I cannot fight back against, whether that's caused by latency issues or not, I get a bit discouraged, and angry.

It's your fault for not knowing how to kill ants. Any AOE dino can easily wipe them out in one hit.

If you are without an AOE dino, all you have to do is lead the ants by walking backwards and use a spear/pike to hit them as they are approaching you. The ants will always funnel into your kill box and will be unable to hit you.

Methinks your mammoth was either on passive or you accidentally stabbed it with your pike without realizing.

That, or your mammoth only had like, ten health. Which in that case, it would have been killed by anything attacking it.

[lPaladinl]

I've had no issues with them, but then again I play Singleplayer/Co-op on my private server.

The only thing that bothers me with them is the way that they spawn, that they seem to never aggro on anything except the player, and that they always spawn in the same 5 unit groups of 2 soldiers and 3 drones.

Kinda takes me out of it when they always spawn under the same exact conditions and their only action in the wild is to sit still until a player enters into Aggro Range, and instantly Aggro.

[【Ｎｉｃｅ Ｈｉｓｓ】]

Originally posted by lPaladinl:

I've had no issues with them, but then again I play Singleplayer/Co-op on my private server.

The only thing that bothers me with them is the way that they spawn, that they seem to never aggro on anything except the player, and that they always spawn in the same 5 unit groups of 2 soldiers and 3 drones.

Not true at all. I've seen them attack dilos, paras, aklyos, mammoths, etc. The only thing I haven't seen them attack is a rex and spino.

[LOLCAT]

they really should make taming less time consuming but thank god you can change taming speed on unofficial servers

[LouisLee]

well, with lots of egg produced. u could make kibble that speed up the process SO SO MUCH. With Kibbles, lv120 rex only took us like 2 hours and bit more

[Solo Leveling]

Originally posted by Wotsa:

Sorry, but if your mammoth was on neutral, it would have EASILY been able to one shot the entire group off insects.

I agree with you, it sounds like he had the Mammoth on passive for sure.

I need to also add that this is part of the game, not to insult you or anything but I lost many tames after only needing minutes to finish and you wont see me here saying that because
of that I wont play any more. Not the correct way to handle this.

Trying to tame 4 Argentavis, 1st tame going good, bout to get the tame and another Argen comes down and all went to crap and lost my tame.

2nd try needing minutes a T-Rex shows up and all again went to crap.

3rd attempt and not making this up as my wify was making jokes about my bad luck,
She said> Babe just give it up, Ark Dino's do not want you to own any birds. They already
killed 2 of your almost tamed birds, if this one dies just give it up. Well it died again lol.

4th again ended up dead half way of tame.
Did I give up> nope tried on my 5th attempt and got my Argentavis :-)

This is what makes the game fun.
Having to deal with momments like this is how you stay on your guard at all times, other
wise the game becomes easy mode, dont you think?

If the devs make Ark on where you do not risk lossing a dino , then were is the challenge?
And the fun?
All will be just > I log in,I go kill and tame and nothing will scare me or bother me.

Just take it easy, things will go bad and fast lol, just don't quit over
somethng so small.

[BellatorMonk]

Odd my Mammoths have no trouble killing drones. Perhaps the difference is your freshly tameed Mammoth had no saddle armor and/or was low level compared to the drones in the area?
Be better prepared and bring better guard pets, armor or don't tame in areas that have higher levels wild creatures that will attack you.
Welcome to the Survival portion of the game.

[Meredith]

I'm saying not I disagree with anyone saying it wasn't on passive or anything like that but my main whine is the fact that I couldn't attack anything because they would rubber band for days. Hard to hit something that isn't actually where it shows that it is. The Lag-City makes it almost impossible.

Taming times are absolutely ridiculous for anything other than raptors, dilo's or Dodo's. I know there's kibble to work around, but either way, that means taming a fair amount of dino's previously which still takes time. The amount of time spent waiting for a bar ti fill up in this game is a bit extreme.

[Demran]

Originally posted by Brodan:

Taming times are absolutely ridiculous for anything other than raptors, dilo's or Dodo's. I know there's kibble to work around, but either way, that means taming a fair amount of dino's previously which still takes time. The amount of time spent waiting for a bar ti fill up in this game is a bit extreme.

There is nothing wrong with taming times. What do you want further, insta tames as you knock them out?
120 T-rex in 2 - 2,5 Hours with kibble, what else they can do to make people happy? 100x taming speed on official servers?
But I agree on how annoying Rubber banding actually is.

[Meredith]

Originally posted by Demran:

There is nothing wrong with taming times. What do you want further, insta tames as you knock them out?
120 T-rex in 2 - 2,5 Hours with kibble, what else they can do to make people happy? 100x taming speed on official servers?

Reactions like this are why people can't actually have debates on the level. If you actually read the post, I'm talking about taming WITHOUT kibble, as you don't just instantly have access to it and in order to get it you have to tame a few in the first place. I'm not even talking about drastic times. I remember there was someone on a server I was playing on who actually spent about 8 hours taming a rex. Granted, he either didn't have access to kibble, or was just bad.

I'm not talking about hyperbolic changes. I'm just saying that the base tame time should be at least 20% less. Because as it stands, if you're trying to play solo or just with one or two others, it's almost just a game about waiting.

[Red River]

try SP. no lag. promise!

[Demran]

Originally posted by Brodan:

Originally posted by Demran:

There is nothing wrong with taming times. What do you want further, insta tames as you knock them out?
120 T-rex in 2 - 2,5 Hours with kibble, what else they can do to make people happy? 100x taming speed on official servers?

Reactions like this are why people can't actually have debates on the level. If you actually read the post, I'm talking about taming WITHOUT kibble, as you don't just instantly have access to it and in order to get it you have to tame a few in the first place. I'm not even talking about drastic times. I remember there was someone on a server I was playing on who actually spent about 8 hours taming a rex. Granted, he either didn't have access to kibble, or was just bad.

I'm not talking about hyperbolic changes. I'm just saying that the base tame time should be at least 20% less. Because as it stands, if you're trying to play solo or just with one or two others, it's almost just a game about waiting.

If you are doing a very high level taming without kibble, prime meat or appropriate berry, we don't even have to discuss anything, and you should just uninstall your game right this moment actually.
And if you are doing a low level taming, without kibble and such the taming doesnt take "that" long to whine about it.

I am playing alone, rarely a friend joins me, and just 4-5 days ago solo knocked out and tamed a 92 Albino Rex without any difficulty whatsoever in 4,5 hours with pure prime meat. And it is TOTALLY worth it considering it is Level 156 right now (out of max 160) with over 20k health 2k stamina and 1k+ melee damage.
And now that I have enough kibble for the next and higher level rex it will take even shorter.

It seems to me that this is a L2P issue (considering you set your Mammoth on Passive it is even more obvious as well) and just whining. Even though I hate to say these, what you are doing is clearly not a proper feedback.

[Meredith]

Originally posted by Demran:

It seems to me that this is a L2P issue (considering you set your Mammoth on Passive it is even more obvious as well) and just whining. Even though I hate to say these, what you are doing is clearly not a proper feedback.

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[Meredith]

Oh wow sorry I didn't see your comment about the rubber banding.

I mean realistically I am just super super mad that I couldn't spear some drones because of dat rubber band, which has also caused me to lose some decent raptors and lose a lot of equipment from rubber banding into Carno jaws.

Just. Ugh.

[Demran]

Originally posted by Brodan:

Oh wow sorry I didn't see your comment about the rubber banding.

I mean realistically I am just super super mad that I couldn't spear some drones because of dat rubber band, which has also caused me to lose some decent raptors and lose a lot of equipment from rubber banding into Carno jaws.

Just. Ugh.

It's ok, I lost level 80'ish Ankylo 3 minutes after taming it, in not even knee deep water cuz of that. Water basicly pulled it in, and it started rubber banding like crazy.. It turned out to be a general bug I didn't know about at that moment and it seems I should have punched my own Ankylo to stop it from being pulled in and getting drawned..