Pachy tips?

[Alkaline]

Now that bonebreak is removed from pachy and other herbivores (sadly), what are some tips for playing as one? I know it's a weak dinosaur but surely there's some way to make him somewhat viable?

[Darth Absentis]

Do not play it, and if you really want to play it:

-stay away from the swamp port

-stay away from any open area

-only play it when in a group

the main problem with pachy is that it kinda gets screwed over in a 1 vs1 fight vs any of the bleeder type of dinosaurs, thus including the dilo and especially utah, and considering utahs can go anywhere where the pachy can go and beyond and are often also found in group...yea...that really is an issue.

[Kami]

Don't play it.

You want to try and make a bad choice viable? Pick Cerato. Pick Sucho. For ♥♥♥♥♥ sake play Carno you'd have better luck playing the dinosaur that gets

ROUTINELY JUKED BY THE BROADSIDE OF A ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ BARN

then you would playing this absolute crime against the species name. You have ONE good ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ matchup and that's with Dilo because you're faster and stronger, but oh, have fun healing off your bleed for ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hours, leaving you vulnerable to ANY ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that decides they want to touch you once and absolutely obliterate your 3 or so hours of bushcamping to get something that can literally do NOTHING RIGHT!

The best tip I can give? Kill your Pachy and pick something less sucky, because there is absolutely no way you can play one in a viable manner. The only playable that's worse is Austro. That's it. That's the only one.

[Nekrum]

So far its a bad dino with few real redeaming factors.
Also doesent help that Maia can grow faster then it, and its better in every way.

[Madkou]

W/o it's weakness to bleed effects, the pachy is by all means the equal of a dilo, or utah. However, cuz of the bleeding effects, you can't get hit even once in a fight with a utah. A dilo? That's another story. I'll cover that later in. The upside is you only need to hit a utah or dilo 3 times to win. Anything larger and the risk becomes that of a utah taking on a rex.

You don't hear people saying utah is a scrub because it dies in one hit to an apex...

A pachy has crouch, but no ambush. Even w/o ambush, though, a pachy certainly can surprise a utah or dilo and kill them readily. A pachy has a great turn speed, and decent run speed. They only need watch out for carnos, and ambushing allos who both outspeed them.

Utah can outrun them, and it's cuz of this a utah hits you 2 times, then just needs to run away while you bleed. A dilo has better bleed, but isn't as fast as you, so you have a better chance of ending a dilo. Just have to make those hits count and fast!

Parting thoughs...

A pachy demands skillz in combat, that is for sure! No mistakes! Remember, though, fleeing is a better idea always, if you can. Or hide with your crouch. Also, if utah are being pesky and decide to sit up high somewhere, a pachy can get to them and force them down! If you have a maia in waiting, it's over for those utah!

[[OG] Brandoid]

to play a pachy you must first go back some patches ago when "raptor" (pachy) rock still existed and pachy had just been granted the ability to jump.

pachy gameplay consisted of getting onto and then logging out on that rock and when server got full you log in and murder everything that moves. example: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/384814417

[ammon]

when did they remove pachy's ambush? i was a pachy a month or so back and i could ambush...
but tip for playing pachy solo - LISTERN CAREFULLY and if you can stay near mountains/hills that have food and water. practicing running and identifying routes up mountain-sides is very handy skill as you can turn and whack chasers. but if on flatter land try to get a good open view of the area your in, you don't have to hide in the fringes of trees to get round a plain as there will be times you'll be out in the open and you'll be fine and it's the treeline that kills you. I found when playing pachy you want to be able to see all the space around you so preds cant ambush you without giving themselves away, and pick your skin colour to blend with the colours of forests as you might find being on a tree-covered hill/cliff side can give you a huge advantage [ as you'll blend and carnos get stuck on trees]

[[OG] Brandoid]

pachy never had ambush. it has had the ability to crouch for a long time but never ambush

[ammon]

Originally posted by Brandoid:

pachy never had ambush. it has had the ability to crouch for a long time but never ambush

that is really weird!?? i could crouch as a pachy and it'd get the ambush-speed icon after abit then i could run like hell for abit... but truth be told this wasn't on an official server, would that have anything to do with it?

EDIT
just checked it now, you're right it doesn't have ambush but does go straight into sprint from crouched.
must have been a glitch that time then as i played a carno before so something might have glitched over when switching dinos? O.o [not unusual really as i've had strange things happen when switching dinos... must be the servers that handle it]

[Darth Absentis]

jeez, the amount of bleed this dino gets from 2 bites of a utah...i mean, it is kinda logic if you consider the amount of bleed a utah has, how much mass a utah has and how much mass this dino has in comparisation, but you would kinda expect this dino to knock out a utah almost to death after one hit and said utah then getting away asap, not to mention actually having insane bleed resistance to compensate for the fact it is surounded by dinosaurs having much more bleed then they should have, all so they can be populair because "jurassic park"

i mean, actually, to be fair this one should weigh about the same as a utah, but phew...a single utah should then at least not be able to outrun it this easely

really, i consider trowing this one in the death pit, what a fail.

[[OG] Brandoid]

it used to two shot utahs but the utah players complained and its weight was increased so now it takes three hits but it also does more damage and bleed per bite back on the pachy making it two bites to put the pachy on fatal bleed long as you keep it standing

[Bill_Clinton_Supreme]

Don't, its awful, maia grows faster and is a FAR better dinosaur.

[Darth Absentis]

Originally posted by Brandoid:

it used to two shot utahs but the utah players complained and its weight was increased so now it takes three hits but it also does more damage and bleed per bite back on the pachy making it two bites to put the pachy on fatal bleed long as you keep it standing

so i was gonna die if i kept standing....how does the developers logic even work on this one ?
considering it has no bleed it should at least be hit by a utah 3 times for such a fatality while the pachy in return then should be capable to kill a utah well within 2 hits, unless you would make the pachy the fastest of the 2.

this is just bad basic logic !

[Kami]

under absolutely no circumstances should Pachy be both stronger and faster then Utah.

this, however, also applies to Utah; under no circumstances should the matchup between it and Pachy be kept as it is, because currently a Pachy has absolutely 0 chance of coming out on top in a 1V1. its impossible, and currently, there is no way to play Pachy in a viable way.

people complaining isn't necessarily a bad thing. with this game, people are going to complain no matter what you do, so you mind as well put it in a place where enough players complain but not too many. people shouldn't be complaining constantly and filling the forums about Austro being really hard to grow and keep, but they certainly should be complaining constantly about growing and keeping a Tyranno, as that should be really hard. if the bulk of the community isn't constantly complaining about playables not being literal gods and impossible to kill, either they are all actual gods and are impossible to kill now, or theres something seriously wrong with the community.

[Jurassic Bird]

Just pick Maia and imagine it has swollen head... That’s the only way you can enjoy Pachy.

Come to think of it, this dinosaur has always gotten the short end of the stick. Looong time ago when it was first introduced in sandbox during first era of the game, it’s freaking slow, even a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ T. rex which at the time moved like a slug can outrun it.

It never got any major update or overhaul, still be that sad, sad thing always up to someone’s mercy to survive. Heck, even Taco and Oro are easier to survive with due to them at least are master of stealth, mind you again that Pachy during that age also HAD NO CROUCH!!!

It then got it sweet little crouch during the late of progression age but didn’t really make its life any better. Nobody still play it other than just bush camp somewhere to get it to Theri or Anky.

And then, surprise surprise! It got promoted to survival with new awesome model and animations! Also great stat, among the best of juvie at the time... Then it’s like 2 minutes later the devs were like MUH UTHURAPTOOOO!!! Then buff the crap out of that fake raptor thing that is supposed to be a close tie against Pachy and now it totally decimates the poor thing with 2 bite bleeding the Pachy out...

Heaven god, it’s like The Isle Pachy got punished for their cousin’s sin in Saurian for being a big donkeyhole...

[Fettpatrone]

the best tip for it is not playing as one