New special creature: Stalker/Hunter

[neocirus]

New special creature: Stalker/Hunter

An idea I've had for a while now is for a new special creature like titanosaur or phoenix.

Name: Unknown  (Hunter/stalker)

Description: Large wolf shape, bat claws, stinger/bladed tail.  Wolf face with long top fangs.  No fur, smooth snake scales.  Cat eyes. Thin body (very simular to a ravager)

Abilities: Can climb along walls like a rock drake.  Night/heat vision.  Ability to lock onto the scent of a creature and fallow it.(glowing scent trail) Medium distance leaps from walls. Wild AI focuses on survivors and hunts them till it or the survivor dies.  Can pounce from walls like Thyla.  Special ability to turn mostly transparent / dark cloudy shimmer. The creature periodically gives the prey a vision from it's POV (like your looking through the creature's eyes) to confuse,terrify and stress out the target. (kinda like a horror movie) Only hostile to the target, strays away from other survivors.

Taming:  The creature must be tamed by sacrificing the target's body by hand to the creature. (like feeding a fish to an otter) putting it into bloodlust mode.  Then killing other creatures and luring the creature to fresh kill.

Stats:  Low hp (like a carno)  High stamina (bear)  medium melee (bronto) speed fast (saber/raptor) weight medium-low (trike or stego) Oxygen low

Should be a medium-low power mount.  Stronger than a ravanger, but weaker than a rock drake. 

Attacks: Bite (saber)Left Click,  Claw swipe (gacha)Right Click, shimmer (rock drake but dark and cloudy)C button, Rock Drake type climbing (shift), thyla like pounce (left click) while on a wall,  Last creature bite leaves a scent trail in the form of a cloud. Debuff when near others of it's kind.(reverse alpha buff)  It's a solo only creature.

Habitat: Underground caves, aberration, cliff walls.  Dark areas like ruins/caves.

Diet: Meat

Behavior: Hunter but will scavenge kills from other creatures, sometimes even stealing them to eat later.

 

I know it's a mishmash of other creatures abilities but would make it easier to implement.  Bonus if the devs could add notes from past survivors who where hunted detailing the terror they felt while being stalked.  Maybe even when killed could drop gear stolen from it's last kill?

[Qwertymine]

A wolf drake... Why? This isn't special like a Titano or Phoenix are, it's just a pushover that would get destroyed by just about anything that can scratch their own behind. Creatures like this could work in Genesis, maybe in a cave or something, but not on other maps. Inserting a minor creature into Ark lore isn't something we really need. 

The Drake was strong because it's Aberration's Apex Predator. Thylas are strong because they're a bulky, all-purpose mount with good mobility and utility. This creature has almost none of that.

 

The "lone wolf" concept is good, as is a lot of the creatures general ideas, but copying other abilities from other creatures really hinders its uniqueness. Perhaps they have a very precise and powerful jump that can anchor them to walls and such. When attached, they have about five/ten seconds to jump to another surface, or they will fall off. Also maybe they wouldn't be able to be detected by Parasaurs and Tek Helmets, as opposed to becoming visually obscured. The predator POV thing is a useless gimmick really. No good way of implementing that. 

 

You're definitely onto something, but push the boundaries a little.