How to get a tamed dino to stop attacking something

[-||cherohala||-]

I travel with 2 pet raptors, I have them both set to neutral. We ended up getting hit by a bronto's tail as we stood off to the side watching a group of brontos vs. carnos. That prompted my second raptor to attack, and no matter what I whistled I couldn't get him to stop attacking the bronto. Long story short, it ended up bad, really bad. 4 brontos vs. 2 raptors and a human, GG. Some of my tribe mates say they can stop their dinos mid-attack through whistles, but it doesn't seem to work for me. Ideas?

[θάνατος]

set it to passive, nuetral when off line

[WastingSanity]

Currently you have to get close and change it to passive. Then run away with them.

[Rezlack]

Neutral means they will fight back if attacked. Turn them to passive. if they are passive they will not attack even if somethings killing it. Lost a raptor to a scorpion because of this >.>

[Serverpirat]

Passive is the best way to got. Dinos are almost useless as dps dealers at the moment.

[William Bonney]

Originally posted by Jack:

Passive is the best way to got. Dinos are almost useless as dps dealers at the moment.

Roflmao, then you're not taming the right Dino's, or not training them properly.

[WastingSanity]

Originally posted by Jack:

Passive is the best way to got. Dinos are almost useless as dps dealers at the moment.

My trike hits pretty hard. He can down a turtle in less hits than it would take me to use a slingshot to knock it out.

[Ardus]

Passive: Will not attack, doesn't matter if you took damage or dino took damage.
Neutral: Will only attack if you are attacked, or dino is attacked. Will continue pursuit until enemy is too far.
Attack my target: Self-explanatory. Will pursuit until enemy is too far.
Aggressive: Self-explanatory. Will pursuit until enemy is too far.

They need to seriously add more commands:
Defend: Defend a selected target.
Hold ground: Defend a selected area.
Patrol: Patrol a certain area (using markers that you can place like blueprints on the ground, can be made to be continuous).
Gather: Gathers nearest bush.
Feed: Feed on nearest dead corpse.
Aggressive (only player): Only attack other players.
Aggressive (only wild dinos): Only attack wild dinos.
Aggressive (only tamed dinos): Only attack player tamed dinos.
Pursuit: Pursue an enemy until the end of the Earth, or nah.

There are so many commands that can be added to fine-tune your dinos.

[Rezlack]

Originally posted by Jack:

Passive is the best way to got. Dinos are almost useless as dps dealers at the moment.

Depends. do I want to use my pike? if so yeah i'm going to dunk everything and my dinosaurs don't compare. Problem is i'm too much of a pansy to go swimming to spear some megalodons so my sarco is doing the job just fine.

[Serverpirat]

At the moment the dinos stuck into each other and you can watch a slow motion pet movie, where they try to hit each other every 20 seconds but fail. This is true for turtles, trikes and scorpions.

Raptors/Dilos are even worser, running around each other like mad very seldom hitting anything.

On foot with a metal spear you can take out armies of them without beeing ever hit.

[WastingSanity]

Originally posted by Jack:

At the moment the dinos stuck into each other and you can watch a slow motion pet movie, where they try to hit each other every 20 seconds but fail. This is true for turtles, trikes and scorpions.

Raptors/Dilos are even worser, running around each other like mad very seldom hitting anything.

On foot with a metal spear you can take out armies of them without beeing ever hit.

I have been letting my trike get the killing blow to increase its level. A few of those kills were against runners who were stuck on a wall in a canyon. I was dismounted and on the other side making sure it didn't run past me.

[-||cherohala||-]

I tend to avoid keeping my dinos in passive since I want them to be able to defend themselves especially in mob enemy situations. When my tribe travels as a group I keep my second raptor in passive, which is fine because we defend him when necessary. But when it's just my raptors and I, and we get mobbed by 4 enemy raptors at once, etc, I don't want him to just stand there being attacked while I spam trying to take them all out fast enough.

I see now about the having to switch to passive mid battle in order to run, but it doesn't seem too feasible due to the fps lag and being knocked back by attacks, etc. Well, thank goodness for being able to reset the server 10 minutes back manually I guess :P

Originally posted by Ardus:

They need to seriously add more commands:
Defend: Defend a selected target.
Hold ground: Defend a selected area.
Patrol: Patrol a certain area (using markers that you can place like blueprints on the ground, can be made to be continuous).
Gather: Gathers nearest bush.
Feed: Feed on nearest dead corpse.
Aggressive (only player): Only attack other players.
Aggressive (only wild dinos): Only attack wild dinos.
Aggressive (only tamed dinos): Only attack player tamed dinos.
Pursuit: Pursue an enemy until the end of the Earth, or nah.

There are so many commands that can be added to fine-tune your dinos.

I agree about the commands and hope that the devs put more in soon. That list sounds good so far, I'd also add in something like "Give Up", which makes dinos stop attacking a target and return to the owner.

[WastingSanity]

The one command I would like added is to guard an area. If a dwelling falls into the area it would guard that as well.