Dilophosaurus Turret Mode does nothing for me.

[dragonbornzyra]

Put a Dilo on Turret Mode. Enabbled Aggressive stance. Put targeting range to highest.

Watched as 3 different times a Titanoboa approaches my shack on stilts. Each time it comes from the direction of north east, deeper in the Redwoods. They never approach me from the south west, to the south east, all directions leading to the swamp.

Each time this Dilo stands still and watches the boa, but does nothing to it. Attacking and shooting the Titanoboa with pickaxes or arrows does not provoke the Dilo to attack.

So why is it so hard to figure out this game and get it to do stuff? Why are there community tutorials and videos for it and no in game support? Why does building in this game require circumventing the in game atrocious building system and why don't the Devs just "fix" it to reflect what the player base wants anyway?

Why are my dinosaurs jank? I'd just like them to do what the game tells me they can do. I'e put up with an incredible amount of bugs, glitches, and poor game design, but this is starting to really break the camels back.

Not even getting "ARK'd" or the games ludicrous brutal savage difficulty and often times cruel unfair below the belt blows, no it's the fact the game is so poorly designed that when it works well it's often an over looked glitch the devs left in the game as a FeAtUrE.

I just wanna know how to make my Dilo's spit at things. Because I'm almost lvl100 and I haven't figured it out or found any other discussion or video showing it.

Also I love climbing a ladder and then getting launched 80 yards in the air and falling to my death. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that's top shelf game design. So fun. Should make it a feature.

[william_es]

A dilo isn't going to stop a boa. If it's up on your base it might be too high.

if you want base defense living turrets, you're going to need to get a chalicotherium, or better yet, a velonosaurus. Those things are like living mini-guns.

[☪︎ Leinad Zdc ˚ ☾]

If you need a cheap turret you can get a plant x from your local swamp.

[TheRockFromHell]

Originally posted by william_es:

If it's up on your base it might be too high.

This. Same applies to plants X. They need a free line of sight to a target, and it works best if the turret is at a *lower* vertical level than targets. Even if there is a perfect free sight to the target, the game seems to not be able to aim / register targets on lower vertical levels. Don't know if it's on purpose, I don't think so, it's just buggy.

I've tried to circumvent this by placing plant X turrets onto ramps or slopes, to change the angle of sight. This doesn't help as the game seems to still aim / target based on fixed horizontal line of sight. It's just not implemented well, that's it. It's ark man.

[dragonbornzyra]

Originally posted by william_es:

A dilo isn't going to stop a boa. If it's up on your base it might be too high.

if you want base defense living turrets, you're going to need to get a chalicotherium, or better yet, a velonosaurus. Those things are like living mini-guns.

I wasn't trying to stop the boa (or anything really) with the Dilo, I was curiously trying out it's Turret mode. The Boa was just the first customer (only one so far)

My base is raised up off the ground on pillars with a rope ladder to climb up to it. Both the Dilo and Boa were on the ground. The location was the southern Redwoods/Withering Swamps intersection with the waterfall.

Originally posted by TheRockFromHell:

Originally posted by william_es:

If it's up on your base it might be too high.

This. Same applies to plants X. They need a free line of sight to a target, and it works best if the turret is at a *lower* vertical level than targets. Even if there is a perfect free sight to the target, the game seems to not be able to aim / register targets on lower vertical levels. Don't know if it's on purpose, I don't think so, it's just buggy.

I've tried to circumvent this by placing plant X turrets onto ramps or slopes, to change the angle of sight. This doesn't help as the game seems to still aim / target based on fixed horizontal line of sight. It's just not implemented well, that's it. It's ark man.

I'll keep all of this info in mind.

Both the Dilo and Boa were on the ground, the Boa facing my base about 3-4 meters away from the rope ladder. The Dilo was about 3-4 meters from the Boa and they both surely seemed to be on the same vertical plane. The Dilo was facing the Boa but not spitting.

It was set to aggressive, targeting range was high. I shot at the Boa myself to see if I could encourage the Dilo to spit, it didn't. I hopped down and bop'd the Boa with a Hatchet.

I'll be using Plant Species X for turrets, I just wish I could understand the mechanisms to get this game to work.

The jank really hampers my ability to love this game.

One day we'll get game devs that fix bugs instead of crapping out more paid DLC.

[TheRockFromHell]

Originally posted by dragonbornzyra:

I'll be using Plant Species X for turrets, I just wish I could understand the mechanisms to get this game to work.

Alternatively, you may try the chalicoterium, they can "shoot" too. I have one, but I stil have to try it's turret mode yet if I find the time, if it's better on targeting threads on the ground as the plant X are. I've some plant Xs on roofs and catwalks, they're pretty good a taking down everything coming through the air, but as mentioned sadly, threads on the ground, the closer they are, the more likely they'll not targeted by the plant Xs. So I put some of them on the ground too, behind a fence. Its something to try out and experiment. I doubt the gun turrets will perform better as I think the logic behind is shared between any kind of turrets, guns and plants and animals. I personally dislike the gun turrets as they require power and the generator makes constantly noise. The plants and animals I said have a slowing effect too, thats pretty useful making any targets barly able to move, dont know if the gun turrets slow targets they hit too.

[Veeshan]

SOMEWHAT SPOILERY

Another method to enable base defense early on is to place a hard to kill dinosaur, for example a doedicurius, somewhere on passive, have every dinosaur follow him but set them all to aggressive. They'll attack anything that comes close but then run back to the doed, which can't really be killed.

[dragonbornzyra]

Originally posted by Veeshan:

SOMEWHAT SPOILERY

Another method to enable base defense early on is to place a hard to kill dinosaur, for example a doedicurius, somewhere on passive, have every dinosaur follow him but set them all to aggressive. They'll attack anything that comes close but then run back to the doed, which can't really be killed.

This is something I did with Carbonemy's and such early on as well. Unfortunately I've lost most interest with this game now, with the way things are going and what have you. I do appreciate the additional feedback none the less.