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  • Broodmother Boss Arena, and Spotlight: Direbear & Manta!

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    Exciting news, Survivors! As of patch 239, you will now be able to spot Direbears prowling the island and the deadly Manta swimming off shore. Two new structures are also now available, the Chemistry Table and Primitive Cannon.

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    The first of our boss arenas, the Broodmother Arena, has been added to the ARK! The Broodmother battle is much more epic and dangerous now that Tribes must face her in her very own cobwebbed lair deep within the ARK… but bring some trusty Dinosaurs to the fight and you might just survive!
     

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    The Direbear is both enormous in size and territorial by nature. It is found primarily among the Island's mountain and tundra regions. It’s an imposing creature, ignoring most non-hostile creatures while going about its daily routine of scavenging for meat and edible plant life. That is until intruders enter the territory it considers its own at which point it viciously attacks. Most often it is smartest to just run from an angry Direbear. Once tamed the Direbear is a strong and reliable mount.
     

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    The Manta is a saltwater ray that has developed the ability to also swim into the Island's rivers and shallows, as well as through the open ocean. Normally docile, it is a carnivore only in that it consumes plankton. While not the fastest swimmer around the island Manta Mobula is among the deadliest of small ocean mounts and can be ridden bare-back. Tribes who value striking power over speed often keep large schools of Manta to ride. Its capability to briefly leap out of water provides it a showy tactic for avoiding combat as well. 

    We hope you guys enjoy the latest update, good luck conquering the Broodmother, collecting the fishes with your bear and we definitely recommend taking part in some exciting Manta Races!

    All the best,

    Wildcard Jat & The ARK Survival Evolved Team

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    Is there anything relative to tek structure and gear?

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    1 hour ago, apcobe said:

    Devs, idk if ur reading this, but if u are, can u PLEASE fix the underwater controls and mechanics for spinos? It is an endless pain to try and put one in an underwater cave with their spacebar ascending and swimming forward at the same time, its annoying! I cant properly move it at all! And it's floating thing? CHange that too! Get rid of its 02 bar if u have to! Atm, it's just not a good mount to use for my undersea things with all these just debilitating flaws!

    Tame a SEA mount? O.o I have not come across any "debilitating flaws" when it comes to Spinos being used as intended. 

    I don't know what cave you are having problems getting into, you can also move the camera up and move forward just not as fast or well as spacebar I believe. 

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    It was the one in the very central bottom part of the map. I just want to have my 251 spino in there for ease of having all of my functionality in one place. Also, there are people I'm sure, who just like spinos and want them to be their mounts. That'd what I mean. 

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    2 hours ago, AdamB said:

    Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't the dossier mention manta is a bare back mount? Wonder if they changed their minds, or if the saddle is optional. 

     

    "While not the fastest swimmer around the island Manta Mobula is among the deadliest of small ocean mounts and can be ridden bare-back. Tribes who value striking power over speed often keep large schools of Manta to ride. Its capability to briefly leap out of water provides it a showy tactic for avoiding combat as well."

    ya, i saw that in the dossier too, i was slightly disappointed by the fact that I'd have to spend extra engram points... :(

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    and the dossier said that the manta wasnt the fastest sea mount. yet we're having "manta races." oh well...

    btw for those who are wondering, the pc update is NOT out yet.

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    3 minutes ago, rororoxor said:

    and the dossier said that the manta wasnt the fastest sea mount. yet we're having "manta races." oh well...

    btw for those who are wondering, the pc update is NOT out yet.

    The dolphins will still be the kings of speed! But hopefully the mantas will be able to kill something to at least feed itself.... 

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    3 hours ago, AdamB said:

    I would assume death. I've not seen the Devs teleport anything to keep dinos alive in the past ... Which is why beached dolphins can still happen. 

    nah. Knowing ark, they probably would put an invisible barrier at the shoreline, like they did with megalodon. Besides, too many people would complain.

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    2 hours ago, rororoxor said:

    nah. Knowing ark, they probably would put an invisible barrier at the shoreline, like they did with megalodon. Besides, too many people would complain.

    I'm hoping they have an H2O stat which would be the similar to the oxygen stat for land creatures only reversed.  This would be cool because you could potentially move them into lakes and rivers that don't have ocean access. (Every sea creature should have this stat imo). It would also give you a chance to wiggle your way back into water if you do get beached.

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    13 hours ago, FantasticGuy1 said:

    this

    Here is a picture of a bear dancing. Not a dire bear, those are extinct, silly.

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    MAJESTIC:D

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    5 hours ago, Benny403 said:

    I'm hoping they have an H2O stat which would be the similar to the oxygen stat for land creatures only reversed.  This would be cool because you could potentially move them into lakes and rivers that don't have ocean access. (Every sea creature should have this stat imo). It would also give you a chance to wiggle your way back into water if you do get beached.

    From what I've seen they actually tend to beach themselves a lot, both when attacking you (they appear to be aggressive despite being a passive tame and it doesn't seem like there is any way to not aggro them and still get close enough to feed them.) and attacking other things. They are extremely fast, especially once tamed and if they are set to follow you, they can kill themselves by flying out of the water and landing on the beach. I've lost two already to this, and more than a dozen I've tried to tame as well. It's quite irritating, so unless in the open ocean I wouldn't suggest leaping out of the water while riding it. As I'd assume the same thing would happen if you were riding the manta and you beached it by accident.  

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    Where do people pu8t their questions for ark digests, because apparently not here. I thought you just asked on whatever was the newest announcement, but apparently not? I don't think I said anything bad, did I?

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    Seriously? only Loot for beating Broodmother in that Arena, that ... Trophy? oO

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    does the alchemy table come with it? *watches pooping evolved server with @DraaxLP slip and Z* I want to see Drak park Mantas at his castle ^_^!

     

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    The Brood mother Arena looks like the stuff of nightmares! You ARK Deves are doing an amazing job! keeping up with the updates on PC and XBOX. im so excited for this one. :D

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    because i am to lazy and i can't try to find out where the broodmother arena is... can someone tell me where i could find it ?! :P

     

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    1 hour ago, KingOfBronzodia said:

    because i am to lazy and i can't try to find out where the broodmother arena is... can someone tell me where i could find it ?! :P

     

    Any Supplydrop... Put in all Mats that are required to summon and a "Portal" appears 

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    21 hours ago, viewsfromla6 said:

    what is the kibble for bear and manta?

    The Direbear takes Carno Kibble and Manta takes Angler Gel (you probably know that by now tho xD

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    18 hours ago, AdamB said:

    I would assume death. I've not seen the Devs teleport anything to keep dinos alive in the past ... Which is why beached dolphins can still happen. 

    I am assuming that they would die because I have been trolled on PvE where someone put a ton of boats in my water pen and it killed my dolphin because I couldn't get it out and it got trapped on a boat and insta died.

    p.s. I got pay back 

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    Interested to see the primitive cannon at work and pleased for the new brood mother arena.

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    7 hours ago, LordVargar said:

    does the alchemy table come with it? *watches pooping evolved server with @DraaxLP slip and Z* I want to see Drak park Mantas at his castle ^_^!

     

    It does. The alchemy table is a lvl 85 engram.

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    1 hour ago, Quadley said:

    Interested to see the primitive cannon at work and pleased for the new brood mother arena.

    Yeah Broodmother Arena is really awesome. Takes in the worst case days to collect the artifacts and Mats to craft needed ammo etc for 2min fight and a Trophy that everyone allready ownes. Also that ki is so extremly stupid. Piranhas are sometimes harder to kill

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