Gallimimus

[Thorn-Exile]

Hello friends ,i am here with a question...I have played with Gallimimus twice now, each time starving, so my question is, what does Gallimimus eat and how and where can I find it? .... I love that chicken, especially its speed is an asset I think ,
would like some info please, many thanks.

[Khanivore]

Hold "Q" until you go through the whole sniffing animation (wont work in rain), look around for glowing green bushes, if you don't see one move to a new location, once found go to said bush (has red berries on it), hold "E" until full.. job done ;)

[Thorn-Exile]

Originally posted by KingBee:

Hold "Q" until you go through the whole sniffing animation (wont work in rain), look around for glowing green bushes, if you don't see one move to a new location, once found go to said bush (has red berries on it), hold "E" until full.. job done ;)

ok thx dude.....Appreciate it !

[Pablo Croft]

If you'd like to know more about survival as a gallimimus, I can help you there as well. :)

General Information

Juvenile Life

As a juvenile, you're not fast yet, and you won't win fights, neither. So, you'll want to keep your head down, and use crouch (hold L CTRL) to sneak by trouble. Tall grass, and trees are your friend! Always be cautious when going to drink water, though. Crouch, and sneak in. Take a look around, and make sure nothing is camping the area waiting for a meal! It's good advice at any growth, or for any dinosaur, really.

One other thing you will notice about the juvenile gallimimus is that they need to drink often! Additionally, they drink slow. So, it's important not to let your thirst get too low, as you'll be spending many minutes drinking, and easy to spot by carnivores! So, keep water sources near, but stay far enough away that you can sneak away if trouble shows up!

1 more thing you can do to make sure a water hole is safe, if use scent to find gore. Gore is the leftovers a carnivore leaves behind after making a kill. They will show up in red. This means recent carnivore activity in the area.

A special note here, as I should mention utah juveniles are also small, and are a threat to you! So, watch out for those little buggers!

Stay hidden, and stay safe! Your small enough not to be seen most times :) Don't make a bunch of noise, neither!

Adult Life

As an adult gallimimus, the strategy for staying alive changes a lot. You're much faster than most dinosaurs on the survival roster, and you have the ability to kill juvenile carnivores if they mess with you. Only when you're full grown, though.

Now that you're an adult, staying out in the open is key for survival -in the day, at least! You can see trouble coming your way, and those sneaky carnivores will have a much tougher time sneaking up on you, and killing you! In a dense forest, it's much easier to get caught by surprise.

Your water needs are still there, but not as demanding as when you were a juvenile. It's still important not to let that thirst get to low, though. For 2 important reasons:

1) You still drink slowly as an adult, and that's when carnivores will take the opportunity to surprise and kill you -when your idol. Especially, if you're drinking at a water source that has thick cover near it!

2) If you let your thirst get low, and you manage to get yourself bit, and the bleeding is too much to handle and you need to sit down (because bleed can't kill you if you're resting -press H to rest, and again to get up) things can get dire, fast. If you're health is baseline low from the bleeding, and getting up will certainly kill you, you'll be forced to wait out the bleed while resting! So, if you end up being dehydrated, your dinosaur takes damage there too, and that may be enough to kill you. It's sad, but true. This applies to any dinosaur, but is much worse for dinosaurs, like the gallimimus, who drain their needs a bit faster than others.

Only 2 other dinosaurs can match your speed on the survival roster. The utah raptor, and the carnataurus. In different ways, though. In order to understand this, you need to understand carnivores, and ambush.

Ambushing happens when a carnivore crouches for a time. The stamina bar changes into an ambush bar. At this point, you run as you always do by moving and holding shift, but you're granted extra speed!

The idea is surprising prey with the sneaky, and the extra speed. Picture a lion creeping through tall grass to catch a much faster prey. In your case, as an adult fully grown gallimimus, If they don't, you'll just outrun them. If you can, that is.

Now, to understand speed in general, you need to understand how to read it on your character sheet, and also the ESC menu. They'll say 2 different things, but together, they'll help you figure out what you can outrun, as anything.

The ESC menu gives you an exact read out of your current speed. For example:

As a gallimimus juvenile, you start out with 0.2 of 0.6 This is just the decimal version of %. So this means you are 20% of 60% of whatever the character sheet says. In your case, this is 60% of 48.6

Now, the 48.6 is how fast you run when you're full grown "only." The 60%, when you grow into it as a juvenile means your top speed is: .60 x 48.6, or 60% of 48.6 = 29.1 and that's not very fast compared to much of anything lol.

It will say 100% growth on your character sheet, or the ESC menu will say 0.6 / 0.6 when you're ready to grow into an fresh adult.

Press ESC, and hit the "growth" button!

Now, the numbers have changed in the ESC menu, but not on your character sheet lol. This is different for some dinosaurs, as with some other dinosaurs the character sheet speed will show the 100% juvenile growth speed, when you're a juvenile, and then change to 100% adult growth speed, after you hit that "growth" button lol. I know, stupid move on the part of the developers. But, that's how it goes.

Back to it. As an adult, your stats now read: 0.6 / 1.0 and this of course means 60% of the 100% or 48.6 -the speed you do when you're a full grown adult. So, how fast is 60% of 48.6? It's your top speed as a fully grown juvenile you, which was 29.1

So, again, even though you've hit the growth button, and became an adult, your dinosaur is still gaining in states. This also includes how hard you hit when you attack another dinosaur. When you're a full grown adult, carnivore juveniles better avoid you lol. You can take them out, no problem. Some really brave (but stupid) gallimimus players can even ill a utah raptor player, if they're lucky enough not to get bit, that is. Being fast and stupid, usually means fast and dead. Just avoid trouble. ;)

Now that we understand speed, I can tell you who you can outrun and who will outrun you. The Utah raptor, and the carnataurus are the only carnivores who can catch you. In different ways, though. The carnataurus is the fastest dinosaur on the survival roster "running" (not ambushing, because an adult carnataurus doesn't get ambush but all other adult carnivores do) at a speed of 52.2 -compared to 48.6, your top speed.

Yup, they can out run you, but there's something you need to know here! You are much "much" more agile than a running carnataurus. So, they can close the gap on you fast, but you can still givem the zig-zag, and avoid being bitten quite easily, 1 v 1. If they have a group, it's a bit tougher, and you should seek dense woods as a means of getting rid of them.

"But, I shouldn't be in dense woods as an adult,m you said!? People can ambush and ill me easier in there!" This may be true, but a carnataurus turns slowly like a bus when running at that super speed, and thick trees are gonna slow them down. :) Just don't linger inside thick areas any longer than you have too.

Now, let's talk about the utah raptor. You can outrun them if they're simply running at you, but if they have that burst of speed that comes with ambush, they can certainly outrun you (and a carnoataurus!!!) but they don't lack the turn speed a carnotaurus has when running, so they have a much greater chance of biting you and getting a bleed going on you! That's not good, because they'll keep you moving and running away, and moving makes bleed worse...

So, you should just avoid utah raptors altogether on sight.

At night, your strategy should change. Yes, some open areas are well lit at night, and you can certainly use this to your advantage, just like it was day. If moonlight is enough for you to see carnivores approaching, that is. Some players use dark colours for night hunting, so be mindful of this, as it can make it a bit harder to see them at light, even with moonlight lighting the area somewhat.

Super dark areas mean you should be finding good cover, and hiding. Just like when you were a juvenile. A dilo can see very well and far at night, so don't make it easy for them to surprise you! Running around with your speed at night drastically increases the chance you'll blunder into a carnivore who's sneaking about. Even with good agility. imagine how stupid it is for carnotaurus to travel at night? Fast car, down a foggy road at night, and nothing good will happen, right? Just common sense, but players do it anyways lol.

Combat

At best, a lone gallimimus can troll dangerous and slower dinosaurs like rex. Take pot shots, that don't do much damage. Or, make noise near them to draw danger to them! The later is a better strategy, but just keep in mind that trouble is going to show up, and watch for it. As a full grown gallimimus, you can stomp a juvenile carnivore into paste pretty easily, but just make sure you aren't spawn camping!

Older juveniles may put up a better fight than you think, as well. So be watchful. Bleeders like dilo, or allo can make trouble for you, as you'll need to rest off their juvenile bleeds. It's not worth it. Risk management is also key to surviving for any dinosaur.

In groups, gallimimus can turn into a threat to any lone carnivore. Like a group of bee's killing a large w/e lol.

Stamina

This is a good piece of advice for any dinosaur, but for a gallimimus this is super important. With an empty tank, your trot speed (regular movement speed without pressing shift) won't be enough to escape even the slowest of carnivores. So don't waste it! I see players doing this all day long lol. They run run run everywhere, and wonder why they die, or can't outrun trouble when they blunder into it lol.

As I said above, trot when not in danger and save your tank for outrunning/dodging trouble. If you're in the open, you don't need to avoid danger by staying fast and mobile. It's important to note, that carnotaurus use treelines that border open areas, or just wonder about in open areas with the same mindset of being more safe, so be mindful of it. Just dodge'm. :)

Final Words

When you hit full grown adult, a gallimimus can live a very very long life! :) Don't take stupid risks, or ignore the advice above, and you're good. You're also a good asset to follow herbivores (depending on the rules of your server) as you can speed ahead, and scout danger! :) Your more vulnerable herd members will thank you.

if you're being tracked by a carnivore, don't run when you get ahead of them! Save stamina, unless they're faster than you. This will leave easy tracks for them to follow when you run. Crouch walk, or z-walk to reduce the tracks you leave, and find a hiding spot. They'll blow right past you in thick areas -again if they can out pace you. Just don't linger in those thick areas (as an adult) any longer than you need too.

When mix-herding, you can't talk to other species, so if you get separated, just listen for them, or take a moment to stop and sniff for their tracks. :) On a darker note, official servers won't let you mix-herd with trikes, so avoid them on those servers. Stupid rule, don't ask -that's a can of worms meant for another thread.

Lastly, when you hear AI, playing as anything really, it means there's a hungry carnivore player near, and it will give you a direction to avoid! :) You'll have loads of fun with the gallimimus!