Are metal walls really that usefull?

[Angel]

Say that our chest room is completely surrounded by metal walls and ceilings. Is f.e. a bronto still able to swipe his tail through the metal walls, damaging what is inside the room?
I know I logged in one day and an Argentavis was stuck inside our chest room and destroyed all of the chests and damaged the walls (back then made out of wood) by just attacking my tribe mates. If they are able to hit things inside of metal structures, I think they should fix this or implement metal chests. If they can't, please let me know!

[Jester5093]

PvP or PvE? In PvP yes, they are harder to break, not impossible, requires explosives.
In PvE, marginally useful, not something you rush as the only thing it does it stop dinos from breaking your ♥♥♥♥.

Do you have...a roof? How did a argent get into your enclosed base? I smell something not quite right here.

[Angel]

Originally posted by Jester5093:

PvP or PvE? In PvP yes, they are harder to break, not impossible, requires explosives.
In PvE, marginally useful, not something you rush as the only thing it does it stop dinos from breaking your ♥♥♥♥.

Do you have...a roof? How did a argent get into your enclosed base? I smell something not quite right here.

We're playing PvE.
The question was not if they could break the metal walls with explosions though. My question was if they are able to hit THROUGH the walls with lare, tail-swiping dinos like brontos, damaging the INSIDE of the room (chests, which are not made out of metal).

The argent glitched inside while we were offline. Some people were hunting it and for some reason it agro'ed on my tribe members, who were (offline) inside the room. Yes, the room was fully sealed, So it must've glitched inside. But that's not really my question, it was just an example.

[ChildoftheKoRn]

Originally posted by Carrot:

Originally posted by Jester5093:

PvP or PvE? In PvP yes, they are harder to break, not impossible, requires explosives.
In PvE, marginally useful, not something you rush as the only thing it does it stop dinos from breaking your ♥♥♥♥.

Do you have...a roof? How did a argent get into your enclosed base? I smell something not quite right here.

We're playing PvE.
The question was not if they could break the metal walls with explosions though. My question was if they are able to hit THROUGH the walls with lare, tail-swiping dinos like brontos, damaging the INSIDE of the room (chests, which are not made out of metal).

The argent glitched inside while we were offline. Some people were hunting it and for some reason it agro'ed on my tribe members, who were (offline) inside the room. Yes, the room was fully sealed, So it must've glitched inside. But that's not really my question, it was just an example.

Dinos can clip through the walls when riding at times, they can potentially hit through walls. However I did have a pretty good defense against a T-Rex whose head was coming way through the walls. I recommend testing it out for yourself by aggroing something and seeing if it can clip through.

[Thrash]

I'm not experienced with tails going through buildings, (which they do) and destroying objects other than metal.

However, explosions outside a metal, and near it, (say a C4 placed on the door, and inside the door is a large storage box) will absolutely destroy what's inside via splash damage.

The splash damage in the game right now is stupidly unrealistic, too powerful, and buggy to all hell when dealing with dbag cave builders and explosions bugging out and doing zero damage to structures.

Hope that helps a little.

P.S., grenade splash damage seems to be MUCH larger than C4 splash; again stupid.

[Dragnelus]

Originally posted by thraSh:

I'm not experienced with tails going through buildings, (which they do) and destroying objects other than metal.

However, explosions outside a metal, and near it, (say a C4 placed on the door, and inside the door is a large storage box) will absolutely destroy what's inside via splash damage.

The splash damage in the game right now is stupidly unrealistic, too powerful, and buggy to all hell when dealing with dbag cave builders and explosions bugging out and doing zero damage to structures.

Hope that helps a little.

P.S., grenade splash damage seems to be MUCH larger than C4 splash; again stupid.

He said P v E ^^

I had it a few times with trex or carno when I was inside it still hitted me thru walls ( I saw his big head thru the walls 0o

[GeekyGek]

yep the big arse brontos can tail swipe through buildings and damage what you have inside of it. so can the other tail attacking dino's. The bronto is the worst for it though.

solution - put storage containers on a second / third floor. build a fence around your base thats a good distance out, do a double wall for the fence area a foundations spacing between walls to help combat all the other dinos cliping through to attack (like the t-rex)

t-rex can walk over 1 high wall, spino can walk over a 2 high wall the bronto, I donno, haven't had one close enough to my building area to find out what its limit is. I'd say make sure all your walls are at least 3 tall minimal for the fencing area.

[Angel]

This is why I'm asking this:
We recently got raided (again). We have a few metal walls and ceilings in our base, but our chest room wasn't fully sealed in metal yet.
Most of our wood walls were either damaged or destroyed, but the metal walls took no damage at all.
So I'm guessing they raided us with dino's, not explosions.
If dino's are still able to clip through metal walls, there's not really a point in getting them. You just prevent the raiding tribe from getting your stuff (if they aren't using explosives).

[Dragnelus]

Originally posted by Carrot:

This is why I'm asking this:
We recently got raided (again). We have a few metal walls and ceilings in our base, but our chest room wasn't fully sealed in metal yet.
Most of our wood walls were either damaged or destroyed, but the metal walls took no damage at all.
So I'm guessing they raided us with dino's, not explosions.
If dino's are still able to clip through metal walls, there's not really a point in getting them. You just prevent the raiding tribe from getting your stuff (if they aren't using explosives).

Ok then your playing PvP ^^ You said PvE before

[Angel]

I play PvE? Never even touched an eplosive, are they not able to use them in PvE?

[Dragnelus]

Originally posted by Carrot:

I play PvE? Never even touched an eplosive, are they not able to use them in PvE?

In PvE other players cant hit your base or you with dinos, guns, bows etc etc.

Official PvE servers Dunno about unofficial

[Jester5093]

Those are clipping bugs and not features. You can also build a fence around your entire base to make sure that nothing gets that close to your house.

[Jester5093]

...How do you not know if you play PvP or PvE?

If you got raided, you need metal ASAP, plus walls, plus spikes, plus aggressive dinos, and you'll probably still get ♥♥♥♥ on.

[Surt]

Yup they should fix this bug asap.

[Angel]

Since I'm playing on The-EU-OfficialServer186, I had no idea this server was pvp since it wasn't stated in the server name. I thought PvE was player versus everything, players included.. My bad :P Thanks for your replies guys!

[Habraka]

PvE means Player versus Enviroment, which does not include players, just dino's and stuff.