Tek cave and ascension questions

[TheDragonAssassin]

 My tribe and my allies plan to run the tek cave and fight the overseer for the first time soon and before we actually start the fight I need these two questions answered before we start the fight, 1, what is the best and safest way to get rid of the first giga halfway into the tek cave without that giga destroying our tames and two, how many tame’s can be teleported at a time to the overseer’s observation deck so we don’t leave any of our backup/or main tames behind.

[Paroxyde]

I would say, use rexes to eat it. Even though it has insane level, its health is capped. So unless you are on unofficial that somehow messed up its stats, rexes chew through him quite fast. 

I believe it's 10 people + 20 tames each activation as one activation teleported all our 15 dinos. 

[ForzaProiettile]

When we did ours I am pretty sure we kited the Giga away. In any case as Paroxyde says high level Rexes with decent saddles should deal with it easily.

[ThzNutz]

we always use a ranged weapon to kite the gigas into lava.

as many tames as can be mushed onto the platform will be teleported, up to 50. in practice ive had rex that fell off the platform be teleported anyways, but wouldn't advise trying it.

we take 20-25 rex with decent saddles. 2 players drag the majority of the rex (aptly named RexLords - Gnome and Sega, thanks mates) behind the rest of the players as they take turns in lines of 3-4 clearing the cave with a yuty doing both buff and fear screams. cave cleaners wait at the blue room door and spam meat if needed while waiting for the rest of the rex. once regrouped its on to the platform - we group again before starting the fight -- shoot the Overseer with your weapon of choice while he has his force field down and use rex when he spawns into boss form.

enjoy the cut scene  

[Boubbin]

We have done easy and medium just now with 5 survivors and 8 theris (21k health, 800 dmg), 144-180 armor saddles and 10 cakes each, 1 rex and one yuti. Its super duper easy once you understand how the overseer fight works, it's very confusing in the beginning since its not like other bosses that you just spam "attack here" & yuti buff. The stun effect it makes with the lazers is so short that it does not make any danger. We all got unmounted several times during the fight. Bring shotgun with around 200 ammo.

Didn't have any problem with gigas/microraptors/purlovia either, but this was maybe luck?

Giga: 2 of these theris kill any wild gigas in around 30s but they lose 7k health due the bleeding effect from giga bite, cakes will recover that fast. Same goes to the giga in the cave. Other people answered already about the easiest way to get rid of it. 

The problem with rexes is that they are VERY big for the cave and go very easily to the lava if not taken care. Theris can do he whole cave on follow without problem, unless you bring all 50 . The problem with theris is the wild yuti that will make them fear, so you need to take care of it with rex/ranged. Also the cakes are kind of expensive and hassle to make.

All theris come out of the overseer battle with full health. Rex and Yuti can be bloody.

We were surprised how easy the cave part was and we arrived to the teleport 40mins left in the clock, but the overseer battle took us very long time in the first try, like 20-30min because you dont know when you can attack etc.

[RipRavage]

13 hours ago, TheDragonAssassin said:

 what is the best and safest way to get rid of the first giga halfway into the tek cave without that giga destroying our tames

Ive seen a lot of people have success with pheromone darts, you can either hit the Giga with it so everything attacks it or you can shoot a sacrificial tame with it and order them into a lava pool.