Spinosaurus Taming?

[Ch33ms]

so uh how many slingshot hits does it need and also how many meat, narcotics and how long does it take

[1983janneman]

a lot.... even more then u need for a T-rex.. im taming one right now.... btw u can bether use a bow for it....

[Osiris]

Bow and narc arrows...I doubt anyone can carry enough stone without being encumbered to do that lol

[myfavoriteluke]

I sat on a ridge above a level 9 and pelted it with a slingshot last night. Twice he randomly ran off and came back. I assume/guess that the AI has been updated to disallow a Spino (or other high-ish dino) KO with punches and slingshots for game balance. I only had enough narcotic on me to keep him under, and so was trying to be frugal. I didn't see any other dinos he could have aggroed to, and I was basically sitting on his snout shooting rocks at him, so I would have been the closest enemy. For reference it was between 50 and 75 rocks to the face that he ran away and returned each time.

[Sperber]

Spinos lose their torpor at an alarming fast rate. Better prepare to come with 800-1000 narcotics if you want to keep them under.

[Ras]

Originally posted by myfavoriteluke:

I sat on a ridge above a level 9 and pelted it with a slingshot last night. Twice he randomly ran off and came back. I assume/guess that the AI has been updated to disallow a Spino (or other high-ish dino) KO with punches and slingshots for game balance. I only had enough narcotic on me to keep him under, and so was trying to be frugal. I didn't see any other dinos he could have aggroed to, and I was basically sitting on his snout shooting rocks at him, so I would have been the closest enemy. For reference it was between 50 and 75 rocks to the face that he ran away and returned each time.

I think they're programmed to 'run to safety' after taking a certain amount of damage. I once saw one fighting a Trike, then accidentally(?) attack a Bronto that wandered next to the fight. This aggro'd two other nearby Brontos, causing them all to start fighting the Spino. It fought them for a while, then started to run away from them. Brontos seem to have pretty big 'chase target' ranges, so the Spino didn't get far before they caught up to it. The Spino then got stuck between them and eventually died.

[spaznaz]

Originally posted by myfavoriteluke:

I sat on a ridge above a level 9 and pelted it with a slingshot last night. Twice he randomly ran off and came back. I assume/guess that the AI has been updated to disallow a Spino (or other high-ish dino) KO with punches and slingshots for game balance. I only had enough narcotic on me to keep him under, and so was trying to be frugal. I didn't see any other dinos he could have aggroed to, and I was basically sitting on his snout shooting rocks at him, so I would have been the closest enemy. For reference it was between 50 and 75 rocks to the face that he ran away and returned each time.

We noticed that when trying to put down 2 rexes, also put them at the bottom of a ridge so we could stand on top and conveniently pump them with narc arrows. however, they just did not want to budge. When then going primeval and doing a runny-shooty-runny (kiting), they quite quickly gave way and fell asleep.

Suppose this is some sort of side-effect of not damaging things through walls, just that here a ledge is counted as wall. Would´ve been too easy, would it....

[WishMeWell]

You can knock out a Spino quicker then a T-Rex, But the Spino makes up for that by waking up alot quickier. You need a lot of narcotics.

[myfavoriteluke]

So, in review of the new information, it sounds like solo-slingshot will not work to knock out any of the larger beasties. They will take too much damage too slowly. The tranq arrows work better because of their higher torpor values, mixed with their faster delivery speed.

However, if you had a group of 50 people, all pelting the thing with rocks at the same time? That would knock it out faster, and defeat the "runaway" AI? The key to this line of thinking is that it seems like slingshots are not only cheaper to shoot, but also allow you to keep your narcotics for use maintaining the torpor while feeding to tame.

Sadly, it seems like the only truly reliable strategy here is to team up, prepare piles of narcotics, and play conservatively. I keep catching myself trying to find "easier" methods of doing things that are not only harder, but get me killed in the process. That's the fun, I guess. Survive. Who knew?

[anarchyxf36]

Best to use an X-Bow and like about 100 or so tranq arrows...

[IonoI]

Get a berry gatherer pet first and a good carnivore so you can gather prime meats while taming. And crossbow with like 50 tranqs.

It took me 50+ tranq arrows for a lvl 60. Also looked like it took close to 2000 narcotics and 7-8hrs to get it. Do your best to get it stuck on a cliff or something or it will break your armor.

low lvl spino isn't hard solo with tranqs and a few stacks of narcotics.

[myfavoriteluke]

I don't know how typical I am gaming-wise, but does anyone else not have a solid 5 hour block of time to play, let alone 7 or 8 to tame any of these monsters? Prime meat can shorten the time to a semi-reasonable level for lower level tames, but wow. The taming process is cool, and I do enjoy the challenge. I don't know how to keep the difficulty while also making it take less time, but if such a thing were possible I'd sure like this game more.

[WishMeWell]

Ank and a carno

[spaznaz]

yup, using a slingshot is madness. did anybody confirm that a xbow actually delivers more torpor than a bow, and not just more damage? seems kind of... weird.

On topic of long tames and casual playtimes, you don´t necessarily need a spino or rex. The longest tame I did was probably a 60 rex and a 45 bronto at the same time, was quite the effort and it was only 2 of us. however if you have a tribe with a number of people, you can take shifts, you dont need to be there for the whole thing. Else as a casual, you´re not likely going to need a top level rex/spino, lower level rexes are actually quite quick to tame (quickest was 1 hour for us). Alternatively, stick to sabres if you want a high level one, tamed a 90 today, took 2.5 hours with about a third of that tame done with prime (was in a terrible spot to bring it in).

[Antelope]

Originally posted by spazfokel:

yup, using a slingshot is madness. did anybody confirm that a xbow actually delivers more torpor than a bow, and not just more damage? seems kind of... weird.

I have not tested this personally, but I believe the conclusion was that more damage = more torpor. The crossbow deals more damage.

[satanicmechanic77]

I cant confirm the xbow foes more tirpor, but i think it does. I tamed a level 3 bronto last week and went through 35ish tranq arrows to drop him, then yesterday using a xbow i knocked out a level 1 and a level 2 bronto and only used 32 arrows in total with 4 misses, so 28 to knock them both out