You die if you play the game. Sit in bush and afk till adult is only tactic

[Bowl of Soup]

The game is critically flawed till this is fixed

[Tregrenos]

Wait… You mean it’s unplayable until they fix the “you dying” problem? Well, I suppose you’re technically not wrong.

[Pablo Croft]

Describe your fully grown game play to me, OP. How do your tactics change, or do they? The version you play also has barring on this.

[MattWard]

The only dino I had to AFK grow was Stego.
Growing is nowhere near "unplayable".

[Bowl of Soup]

Its almost like I want to play a game but I cant play it because my character is useless untill I wait 2 hours at which anypoint you can die had have to wait those two hours again.

I want to PLAY the game. Stop wasting my time.

[Madkou]

It depends on the server you're on man. Some player servers (both versions), and when legacy officials were active, had rules against spawn camping, over-grouping, and the wrong kinda mix-grouping. All of which contribute badly to starting as a juvi. I get that.

Evrima officials don't have admins watching for any of this. Instead, we have mechanics that aren't rdy yet lol. Hopefully update 4 will fix that? When these things are under control, juvi life is far from impossible.

[Gloofin]

assuming this all happens on official;
this is an issue i faced with carno and stego, wanting to see other players instead of playing walking simulator for 2-5 hours looking at the same 5 models for the forests and plains, or afk growing. i lost countless stegos from even walking in barely inhabited areas, and many carnos to cannibals and utahs (not much else can hunt a carno)

while getting in packs/herds helps survival chances greatly, there is absolutely no way to know where which people that want to kill you or help you are. this leads to either going to hotspots (and dying) or roaming randomly (and dying to starvation if carno). the few times i have gotten into packs as carno damn near everyone dies trying to kill something for food or starves to death. and as stego nothing even wants to mess with you so you're walking around as these immortal slow moving tanks (untill a utah pack spots you, then you're dead.)

while this is a 'survival game" the whole thing that has caused so many people to play it is the player interaction, which is damn near impossible to have when growing as certain things without dying. and not to mention that 90% of the fun mechanics are only made and used for combat.

every other playable i have died as before getting to adult was human error, wanting to fight things i really shouldn't have or going to hell holes like south. but usually if you just stay on the sidelines as dinos with shorter growth times (or deino) and don't pick any fights you probably can't win, you will most likely get to adult with having some fun.

diets are coming soon™ which will hopefully make "afk growing" either useless or at the very least more fun. i like to call this "the isle paradox" where people have complaints but they can almost instantly be invalidated by things that were promised to come in the future.

[DoctorOjama]

Originally posted by Cookies With Dave:

The game is unplayable till this is fixed

bruh that tactic is used by beta humans who suck at the game lol thats all i have to say bc this troll post isnt worth the time.

[DoctorOjama]

Originally posted by Cookies With Dave:

Its almost like I want to play a game but I cant play it because my character is useless untill I wait 2 hours at which anypoint you can die had have to wait those two hours again.

I want to PLAY the game. Stop wasting my time.

theres other games have at it

[Bowl of Soup]

Originally posted by ThePixelatedFox:

Originally posted by Cookies With Dave:

The game is unplayable till this is fixed

bruh that tactic is used by beta humans who suck at the game lol thats all i have to say bc this troll post isnt worth the time.

There is no skill. You are at the mercy of everyone who has a bigger number then you. How do you get a bigger number? Sit in bush for 2+ hours.

[MattWard]

Originally posted by Cookies With Dave:

There is no skill. You are at the mercy of everyone who has a bigger number then you. How do you get a bigger number? Sit in bush for 2+ hours.

Yes there is. It's called avoiding detection. Plenty of people have done it before and there are plenty of videos on YT showcasing that.
It really seems like you need a guide, so have one:
https://youtu.be/RcpwoJ2ZVVM

[Bowl of Soup]

Originally posted by MattWard:

It's called avoiding detection.

A.K.A sit in a bush till you're an adult

[Turbulence]

You just need to git gud, the game is fine and you can grow any dino without playing bush simulator.

[MisterDad]

Originally posted by Cookies With Dave:

Originally posted by MattWard:

It's called avoiding detection.

A.K.A sit in a bush till you're an adult

so your chief complaint is that being smaller and younger than other animals is unfair in the greater scheme of the ecosystem? How is this different from reality? This is supposed to be an immersive game, not apex legends. If you want to play aggressively, get better tactics, hunt in packs, use diversions to take down larger animals, otherwise yes, hide in bushes til you get bigger.

[Bowl of Soup]

Originally posted by MisterDad:

so your chief complaint is that being smaller and younger than other animals is unfair in the greater scheme of the ecosystem? How is this different from reality? This is supposed to be an immersive game, not apex legends. If you want to play aggressively, get better tactics, hunt in packs, use diversions to take down larger animals, otherwise yes, hide in bushes til you get bigger.

No. My complaint is waiting 2+ hours for the game to start. I want to PLAY THE GAME and not have my time wasted.

You cant play aggressive till you're close to adult or you die, why? You're numbers are smaller. Even if you join a pack you will still sit in that bush for two hours till you're big enough to contribute to the pack, so what the ♥♥♥♥ are you doing to do untill you're 80+%? siting in a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bush till you're numbers are bigger. You have ♥♥♥♥ health and ♥♥♥♥ damage below 80+% and doing anything when under this growth is just asking to be reset back to 0 and having 2+ sent down the drain. Its not satisfying, its not enjoyable, its not fun.

I dont know why you're so content with this game wasting your time. Im not. I want my time to be respected. I play games to have fun and this game isnt fun. Its core mechanic of growing a dinosaur is garbage. The punishment for dying is wasted time and nothing else. Instead of playing this game, stare at your ceiling for 2+ hours. You will get the same effect as trying to grow a dinosaur to adult and dying.

[Bowl of Soup]

Originally posted by Turbulence:

You just need to git gud, the game is fine and you can grow any dino without playing bush simulator.

No its not. Its a bad game that wastes your time.