spinosaur Historically Accurate Spino Update

[Manodiestra]

A recent fossil discovery revealed that the spino's tail is a different shape than scientists previously assumed. It was paddle-like similar to tadpoles. It is also evident that the spino could move much more quickly under water than was previously thought. A texture update, swim animation change, and a TLC to speed up spino swim speed would make the dino more historically accurate in ARK.

 

References:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/spinosaurus-dinosaur-fossil-tail-aquatic-swimmer

 

https://newatlas.com/science/spinosaurus-tail-fossil-swimming-superpredator/

 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/groundbreaking-fossil-suggests-spinosaurus-was-first-known-swimming-dinosaur-180974784/

[purplewargreymon]

On 6/4/2022 at 5:12 AM, Exovoid said:

It would be nice to see this change, but Ark isn’t completely accurate, e.g. Griffins and Unicorns? Complete fiction. So this tiny change would be nice (as an avid Spino lover) but I feel that would make Spinos even more op, leading to a nerf. Don’t get me wrong, I love your idea, but I don’t know if it would help the Spinos.

Inclined to agree here. I LOVE spinos myself but given the lore behind the game and the fact that it is in the end fictional, I don't think its a necessary change.
One thing I'd love to see though is a slightly faster swim speed, or even just a slight buff to its oxygen gain per level (As it does still raise swim speed faster than movement speed does, even if its 20% of what it used to be lol)

Actually wouldnt have too much balancing issues if its just a slight increase, especially since tusos are so overly broken in their utility (really should add a struggle to this for pvp ngl its awfully broken)
Spinos dont even keep their water buff when in deep water. They only get it for standing in water not swimming in it

[Exovoid]

It would be nice to see this change, but Ark isn’t completely accurate, e.g. Griffins and Unicorns? Complete fiction. So this tiny change would be nice (as an avid Spino lover) but I feel that would make Spinos even more op, leading to a nerf. Don’t get me wrong, I love your idea, but I don’t know if it would help the Spinos.

[Exovoid]

I didn’t know that Spinos loose their buff whilst swimming, they could fix that, along with other things in a next update.