Weapon damage vs Animals

[komerlin]

Please for the love of whatever you believe in Devs stop nerfing weapons!!!!! I shot a lvl 3 wolf in the face 4 times today and it killed me. In fact I died 12 times on a beach from the constant wolves. You nerfed fire arrows, bows, guns, and then their are alphas everywhere that you don't even need to hit to get killed by such as horses. Do we need to get naked and fart on them to stay alive???? Who cares if the 14 year olds on PVP are mad they die from weapons. They should play "MY LIL PONY". Give us back the ability to protect ourselves please.

[Yaka]

Yes the firearms are a joke in this game. Unbelievable low damage, thats why I had to greatly nerf some of the wild animals including (but not limited to): Lions, Tigers, Wolfes, ...

[saber fan]

fire arrows kills me in one shot.....mabe nurf pvp damage and raise pve damage? lol

[Desaita]

I understand the frustration of nerfed gun damage but in a PvP game to balance tactical advantage ranged weapons usually need to be hindered by long reloads or low damage. I suggest wearing a suit of armor and using a sword or pike to fight animals.

[Lugs]

Cobras have the best hit boxes. Highly recommended to fight them with melee weapons.

[Darkdestroyer]

Originally posted by SirObesity:

Cobras have the best hit boxes. Highly recommended to fight them with melee weapons.

Agreed

[Nokim]

My suggestion...suck a little less. I play in pve and just yesterday i was forced to kill 7 alpha cobras, 1 alpha tiger and countless....I mean..COUNTLESS tigers, lions,spider and cobras so many i tamed 4 tigers just because.


The only difference is i set up 2 traps one of each side of where two of us where building and we dealt with em. the cobras are easy to kite and facekill. I would be upset at how much death i endured yesterday and being attacked every 3 minutes,but i did go from like lvl 30 to lvl 51 so i guess I should thank the dumb amounts of alphas we took out.


and by the way..we killed them all using nothing but regular arrows.

[Lugs]

Originally posted by Darkdestroyer:

Originally posted by SirObesity:

Cobras have the best hit boxes. Highly recommended to fight them with melee weapons.

Agreed

lol

[Jaguar (Ratz)]

+1 I agree guns are really weak atm against wildlife. Yeah... you can always kill strong stuff while having high grounds, traps or doing whatever strategy, but it isn't fun using a bow and arrow (which DPS is way higher than firearms on this game) on a pirate game. You can always have armors and melee weapons, that's a fact, but firearms are supposed to give you an advantage, like they did back in the days, 1 strong shot but slow reload, bayonet affixed to rifle was a thing to use after you take the shot. That may sound controversial, i know, i agree bows should have higher DPS than firearms, but the "strong one shot" part should COUNT FOR REAL. Guns are really weak right now.

[rjmann8]

It's pretty simple. Damage modifier based on target. If target = player, damage *X.XX*. Just to oversimplify the coding involved. Sadly, they seem set on ignoring the problem more or less.

I'd actually hoped to see the combat be more swashbuckler, but instead of fighting a good battle back and forth with parries and the occasional pistol shot we got... what we got.

And yes, animals are very overtuned. You basically find ways to use the terrain or buildings to kill them for the quick animals. The others you kite or do the same advantages stuff.

[Alex]

Originally posted by Nokim:

The only difference is i set up 2 traps one of each side of where two of us where building and we dealt with em. the cobras are easy to kite and facekill. I would be upset at how much death i endured yesterday and being attacked every 3 minutes,but i did go from like lvl 30 to lvl 51 so i guess I should thank the dumb amounts of alphas we took out.

Wouldn't you rather be able to actually some how defend yourself in the field instead of constantly kiting and trapping? I do the same thing. Its repetitive. Not exactly fun. Traps are built everywhere. Server performance deteriorates. People lose their tames, etc. The game is supposed to be about the experience.

I agree with K1oud7, sorry to say fire arrows first nerf was good, second nerf was overkill, for environment at least. They should cause some good damage, they should adjust the material cost or be super effective against certain armors or animals. Especially since the new stone structure recipe. Its pretty much just a waste of paste and makes the arrows completely obsolete.

In response I'd say you shouldn't need to use points on a skill to wear or use certain equipment. Its like taming and riding, why waste points to tame when all you want to do is ride? Why waste points to craft when all you want to do is equip something someone else crafted? Where's the sense in players having roles within a company?

The way it is set up now just punishes players by making them spend points that really shouldn't need to be. Devs need to really think about how they handle game progression and tweak it accordingly. Most people play ARK unofficial modded because the experience is better, and thats because of stuff like this.

They don't fix it, people leave. Game funding flops. It's as simple as that.

[Nokim]

I was already ok with the way they were. but now you guys have no room to complain. last patch nerfed the hell out of alphas..

Alpha Creature damage has been reduced by 50%
- Alpha Creature resistance has been reduced by 50%
- Alpha Creatures are now 25% less common


I spent a few hours in tundra last night and now i have an army of bears that can each solo smash alphas. so i guess all is good.

Shoulda seen the lower deck of my brig. i had 7bears all lvl 23-29 pre tame, and i gave away 3 to my company so i still have quite the army of bears.