ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

[DISCONTINUED] Pack Giganotosaurus
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Gabe  [developer] 9 Aug, 2017 @ 5:50pm
Description
Introduction

My intention with this mod is to bring a new utility for the Giganotosaurus.
After the developers decreasing and nerfing the giga a couple times,
I thought this specific dinosaur became not as useful considering the difficulty on taming it. Especially for PVE servers.

Some paleontologists stated that the Giganotosaurus actually was a pack dinosaur and would hunt big preys like sauropods in their region.

So instead of a giant predator, I split into three smaller carnivores, that when united, will still give you a hard time,
Since they hunt in packs, they will attack you from multiple directions and ambush you trying to get you stuck. So you might not survive the encounter if not being careful.
Just like you most likely wouldn't survive when facing the vanilla one.

So the Giganotosaurus still very balanced, with another realistic approach.
It does make it easier to tame them, if you can make them split from the pack. But you have tame three for the pack boost.
And since this pack Giga is allowed on boss fights, it gives another reason for an end game use.



Pack Leader Boost

In this mod, the Giganotosaurus that have the highest level of two Gigas will become the Pack Leader. It will receive a Pack Buff that:

  • Increase their damage in 50%.
  • Increase damage resistance in 25%.

Only the Pack Leader will receive the boosts. Since it was "chosen" to be responsible for the pack.

They also have the Pack Leader Boost while wild.



Status

The Gigas here will have their status close to a Rex, but with higher Torpor and Health Points. Rex base status for HP is 1100 while the Giga is 3500. That is basically what a level 1 Giga would have.

A Rex torpor is 1550, while the Giga is 4000 and will increase by 400 per level.

So for example: A level 100 Giga would have 99 x 400 + 4000 = 43600 Torpor wild.



Bleeding Damage

When wandering wild the Giga will be able to deal bleeding damage to their preys, which deals damage over time.



Rage mode

Rage mode will be activated when both Tamed or Wild Gigas loses 30% or more from it's HP in a short period. They will get furious and attack everything around them, they won't distinguish friend from foe.

The Rage mode lasts 15 seconds.

Be Careful! A Tamed Giga when enraged will set other Tamed Gigas in a 5000 radius! (That is roughly two foundations around it)

So plan your raiding or boss battles accordingly.



More information to come.
Last edited by Gabe; 15 Oct, 2017 @ 10:09pm
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vessel 16 Aug, 2017 @ 9:39am 
this mod is... AMAZING
Veredus 4 Sep, 2017 @ 4:43pm 
Any plans to add a setting to disable the rage mechanic?
Gabe  [developer] 5 Sep, 2017 @ 2:59pm 
Originally posted by Veredus:
Any plans to add a setting to disable the rage mechanic?
Yup, im working on it
Veredus 5 Sep, 2017 @ 3:57pm 
Awesome!
X-Allosaurus 27 Jan, 2018 @ 9:27am 
Even though default settings that Giga will rage if lose around 7% HP in a second
jpizzle04 24 Feb @ 11:39am 
does it replace the normal giga with these ones or are they separate
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