Dreadnaughtus: The sauropod you tame through fight club!

[RedneckGurst]

Overview:

Compared to other sauropods encountered on the ARKs, the Dreadnaughtus appears to be built in the reverse direction. Instead of having significant mass placed evenly or weighted towards the tail, this species has adapted abnormally large air sacs to support a larger-than-average neck. Because of this, Dreadnaughtus are surprisingly swift compared to their size, can deliver immense blows with their neck, and have unique methods of defense and offense. In my mind, this creature acts as a surprisingly fast (for its size), chaos-causing, hit-and-run style tank.

 

Attacks:

The primary attack (left click/right trigger) leads to the Dreadnaughtus pushing its front legs into the air quickly, and returning to the ground as fast. The secondary attack (right click/left trigger) is the aforementioned neck swing, which is much slower but knocks large creatures (perhaps up to the size of a Rex) to the side, along with stunning them. If this attack is done while the player is aiming behind the Dreadnaughtus, a tail slam will be performed, inflicting less damage but slightly faster. Finally, this towering sauropod can exploit its large air sacs to intimidate foes of any size. While it may not cause overwhelming fear like the Yutyrannus, the billowing sound produced by the inflating and deflating of the Dreadnaughtus’ appendages leads to a creature being shaken, its movement unstable and slowed, along with a feeling of difficulty to attack.

 

Alternative ideas for air sac attacks:

The sound of a Dreadnaughtus’ air sacs could lead them to attract dinos to them, while not aggroed, these creatures would follow the billowing sounds and be left momentarily confused when they stop.

Another possibility could be to create a zone that irritates an enemy creature’s ears so much that they may buck the rider off. This could be used as a form of anti-air defense. The riders may have a chance to try and stay on their creature but would have to perform some sort of action, or perhaps feed their dino a consumable that negates the properties of the Dreadnaughtus’ call.

 

Taming:

The concept of taming a Dreadnaughtus comes mainly from their portrayal in the apple tv plus docu-series “Prehistoric planet”, where they are theorized to engage in battles to become the pack leader. There are two approaches that may work for these beasts. The first is to witness one of these battles, and once the victor is decided, approach the loser and feed them to increase trust, once this has been done, the survivor is given the chance to ride the beast for round two. While the odds are not perfectly in your ally Dreadnaughtus’ favor, with your help it may stand a higher chance. You will be prompted with button challenges to complete, and depending on how fast these are completed, your Dreadnaughtus will stand a better chance of not getting hit. If you are hit, however, the Dreadnaughtus may ask for veggie cakes to help stay in the battle. With each hit you take, your taming effectiveness drops slightly but can be regained through the consumption of veggie cakes. This means it may be tactical to let the Dreadnaughtus take a hit in order to raise the effectiveness back to max. Once the battle is won, because of your help the Dreadnaughtus will gain a massive amount of taming affinity, if not completely. Higher levels will likely need to be fed more after the battle passively.

 

Apologies for not having any art of the concepts or creatures! I am not a gifted artist, but I might do something later depending on how much traction this gets. 

 

Sites used for research:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadnoughtus

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COuvZn2O1kU

 

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another sauropod would be cool we only have two

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ChaosX]

We need more sauropods. Only having a Bronto and titanosaur (which isn’t a permanent tame, even) is kinda lame. There’s so many variations of creatures. Yet only two sauropods in the game. Got my vote even if it is a long shot. 

[RaciallyMotivatedRadagast]

Perhaps they should add rhosgobel rabbits to Ark. Hmmmm..

[LagartijaSalada]

Dreadnoughtus is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur containing a single species, Dreadnoughtus schrani. D. schrani is known from two partial skeletons discovered in Upper Cretaceous. It is one of the largest terrestrial vertebrates known, with the immature type specimen reaching 26 metres (85 ft) in total body length and possessing the greatest mass of any land animal that can be calculated with reasonable certainty. D. schrani is known from more complete skeletons than any other gigantic titanosaurian.

The word: "Dreadnoughtus", comes from "dreadnought", product of putting together the words dread and nought. Dreadnought refers also to a kind of armored ship, refference to its massive size.

In game data:

Name: Dreadnoughtus

Temperament: Territorial

Diet: Hervibore

Taming method: Semi-passive (explained with detail later)

Favorite food: Extraordinary Kibble

It would be a very uncommon creature, and also with a middle-tame difficulty. Dreadnoughtus will be used specially like a raid dino, specially to deffend fovs, due to its incredible stats, habilities, and saddle.

First ability: Smash

With the left click, dreadnoughtus will step on its hind legs, and after a second, will fall smashing everything with its front legs. This is the way of Dreadnoughtus to attack objectives that are in front of it, the attack will be predictable and a little slow, but the damage is worth it. This attack can damage stone structures.

Second ability: Lash

The right click would work exactly like the brontosaurus main attack, with the direction of the attack depending on where the player is looking at. This is the way Dreadnoughtus can defend frome enemies that are approaching behind him.

Third ability: Intimidation

With the "C" key, Dreadnoughtus will turn its neck with an orange tone, it would inflate the glands in its neck, forming a series of balls, and also make a strong noise. This would work similar to a yutyrannus or parasaur scream, just with the difference that it can dismount enemies if they are on a flying dinosaur. This attack needs around 2 or 3 seconds of casting to make effect, and it can be disrupted and canceled if Dreadnoughtus loses around 10% of its health during the cast. This ability has a cooldown around 2 minutes.

What really makes powerful dreadnoughtus is its saddle, wich has a high cost, but its very powerful. The saddle is like an almost full iron armor, making dreadnoughtus inmune to fire, freezing, bear traps, chain bolas and reducing the damage he receives from bullets around 60%. The pilot will be inside a reinforced cabin, like the magmasaur saddle, making harder to enemies to shoot at him, and it also has 3 more seatings, two that are protected for a cabin similar to the pilot cabin, where they can shoot, and one that has a machine gun, that works exactly like the actual minigun turret.

Taming Method:

The tame is passive, but because Dreadnoughtus is a very terrotorial, strong and massive creature, to feed him, you will have to reduce its health first to a 10%, you will notice he is below the 10% because lowers its head and enters into a more "weak" position, in this status, dreadnoughtus will stop being aggressive, and start acting dumb. If dreadnoughtus gets up to 10% of health again, he will use its intimidation ability, and you will have to take him below 10% again, but carefuly, because if you hit him while he is on the weak status, you will decrease the taming efectiveness.

Utilities:

Dreadnoughtus can farm wood, thatch, and berries with its attacks, but not as good as brontosaurus, it is more a raid dinosaur. Have it ever happened that you are riding and your enemies start to tank the turrets of your fov, or they use strong animals like rexes to kill your tanks? Well, you dont have to worry more about it after taming a dreadnoughtus. Dreadnoughtus cant tank a completely base, but he is enough resistant to step in front of the base and receive shoots from players, attacks from dinos and some turrets shoots. Dreadnoughtus` saddle damage reduction is low compared to other creatures like the rock elemental, but what really makes dreadnoughtus a huge tank is its brutal health amount, that is even more than brontosaurus.

The dreadnoughtus` saddle quality improves the damage of the minigun turret, but not the armor amount, since it is already very high.

Weakness

Dreadnoughtus is a very slow and stamina consuming dinosaur, so it can have a lot of problems with agile dinosaurs like shadowmanes,and managmars, but the real counter of dreadnoughtus are the giganotosaurus and carcharodontosaurus, specially the giga, because it can ignore the dreadnoughtus armor.

Habitat

Dreadnoughtus would be a very uncommon creature to see, and also very demanded because of its ability, in real life, it used to live on a templated forest on the south corner of south america, so, redwood would be a very comfortable place for this creature, because it can find an enormous amount of food there.

 

DREADNOUGHTUS SADDLE CONCEPT ART

I will be glad to read comments and suggestions and put them on the section below:

Community suggestions:

[KeNeL]

[RedneckGurst]

26 minutes ago, ChaosX said:

We need more sauropods. Only having a Bronto and titanosaur (which isn’t a permanent tame, even) is kinda lame. There’s so many variations of creatures. Yet only two sauropods in the game. Got my vote even if it is a long shot. 

Agreed, I also just really want a sauropod which stands a chance to be useful in raiding. The closest we have is maybe the amargasaurus for structure damage and the bronto for soaking, but even then there are so many more ways you could make an interesting sauropod.

[tirex147]

Like giga and carcha, dreadnoughtus will share spawn cycle with titanosaur, and have similar stats except it has lower health and melee damage, but better movement speed.         

 

Species

Dreadnoughtus acorazados

 

Time

Late Cretaceous

 

Diet

Herbivore

 

Temperament

Passive unless provoked

 

Wild

Dreadnoughtus acorazados is a largest land creature alongside the titanosaur. Because of its massive size, even the deadliest predator don’t dare to take a bite of it. However, if dreadnoughtus thinks that something is challaneges to it, it will punish intruder to show who’s the boss. Its body filled with thick bones, dense muscle fibers and fats, making it easy to pull out devastating power. If you got hit by sturdy neck or tail form with those, its hard to guarantee that consciousness will remains if you are still alive. The best way to avoid it is not provoking the dreadnoughtus. But suprisngly, there is some brave people who tried to tame these beast. They said that dreadnoughtus has high resistance at narcotic effects but its limbs are relatively weak at impact, so you can immobilize its limbs for a moment by any sort of weapon that has huge impact.

 

Domesticated

Riding dreadnoughtus could mean most threat from land will completely ignored. Not just dreadnoughtus is the power itself as its stomps and tail smash is strong enough to earth-shaking, but its thundering roar can intimidate the unwelcomed guest. Interestingly, some military manias were inspired from its name, considered to make this beast as an living land battleship! With its strength strong enough to hold the heavy armored saddle with lots of ammos, missiles and turrets, dreadnoughtus with this ‘battleship’ saddle is nearly unstoppable during the battle. It seems like there’s even a resting room for the gunners! Just make sure to feed it enough. Since dreadnoughtus will eat a lot to contain its body and strength.

 

 

Dreadnoughtus is passive tame, and perfers extraordinary kibble as taming food.

 

Taming

1.  Shoot the boulder/cannon ball/rockets to dreadnoughtus's limbs

2. Once it reached to certain amount, dreadnoughtus will drop down and lower its head for a moment

3. Approach to dreadnoughtus's head and feed it

4. repeat untill tame

 

Controls

Left click: Stomp attack. Can be done while moving

Right click: Neck swing attack.  Slow but has huge knockback

Space bar: Directional tail smash. Hits the ground with its tail and gives stun. 

C : Roar. Gives debuffs that decrease target's melee damage and resistance 25%. Does not have fear effect. 

Ctrl: Turret control.(like andrewsarcus) While in this state, left click is turret and right is missile launch.  Like astrocetus, extra guuners can aboard to dreadnoughtus and control the other turrets that riders can't.

 

 

[ThynSchnr]

The Dreadnoughtus is the biggest sauropod yet in the Arks. This giant sores over all others, even the mighty Titanosaurs. Different to that of the Titanosaur, this beast will be tamed by defeating it In combat. After passively feeding the Dreadnoughtus a rare flower, the beast will brighten its neck red and go on a rampage and agro onto your survivor. While in battle the Dreadnoughtus not run away after its torpor raises, instead it will relentlessly attack the player. While attacking you, you will have to lower its health by fighting it to the point of the behemoth cooling it’s neck back down to the regular color. After this, you’ll have to ride it and try and feed it it’s food, that being kibble,crops,berries as it try’s to buck you off its back. It may buck you off once-four times depending on the level.

Once tamed, the saddle of the tame is consistent with the animal, that being the Gustav gun. This is the largest firearm to ever exist and after mounting it to the back of the Dreadnoughtus, you can load large shells into chamber and fire. This will take some time and will be difficult to aim at smaller object or animals, but the destruction and carnage it can cause is worth it.

The Dreadnoughtus itself cannot massively damage tek, but the giant gun on its back can. 
also on the back, you can put a small base (3 x 2 platform) behind the chamber of the gun.

[LucasACE3]

Nome: dreadnoughtus schrani
Período: Cretáceo Superior
Temperamento: Agressivo

Dreadnoughtus é um grande saurópode que se encaixaria bem no modo pvp e pve , ele geraria em planícies abertas e seria um dinossauro que enfrentaria o giganotossauro e o carcharodontossauro

selvagem: Anda sempre em rebanhos com filhotes, adolescentes e adultos, sendo muito agressivo com a presença de outra criatura carnívora, não permitindo que nenhuma outra criatura se aproxime de seus filhotes

Habilidades e Ataques:

1-ataque com as duas patas dianteiras: o dread ficaria em pé com suas duas patas traseiras ao acertar o alvo causaria um dano muito alto e daria um efeito de atordoamento na criatura inimiga que duraria ela por 60 segundos (afetará todas as criaturas)

2-ataque com o cauda: Ele daria um caudada nos oponentes daria dano alto (mas não seria mais forte que o ataque com as patas frontais)

3-rugido: Ele daria um rugido que custaria 10% de sua estamina mas aumentaria 30% de sua defesa e deixaria imune a sangramento e envenenamento e também 35% seu dano essa habilidade duraria 45 segundos esse rugido também aumentaria a defesa em outros herbívoros da mesma tribo

4-Chute com as patas dianteiras e traseiras: Dependendo da direção que você olhasse daria um chute que não custaria resistência (diferente do ataque com as patas dianteiras)

5-fica mais forte em grupo

Domesticação: tem 2 formas de domesticação, uma passiva e outra agressiva, dependeria se é um adulto ou um filhote

Domesticação agressiva: Você teria que separar um adulto de seu rebanho e derrubá-lo com uma flecha ou dardo sedativo

Doma passiva: Você teria que separar o filhote do seu rebanho após separação você teria que correr atrás dele para alimentá-lo (ele correria de você até ganhar confiança em você) depois de conseguir 20% de doma ele vai ganhar confiança em você e pararia de correr quando te visse e começaria a te seguir e pedir comida mais rapidamente

Selas: Ele teria três selas diferentes

Primeiro sendo focado em defesa deixando ele imune a sangramento de todos os dinossauros sendo lançado no nível 76

Segunda uma sela de plataforma sendo lançada no nível 86

Terceira que seria uma mistura da primeira e segunda sela sendo o diferencial que terá 2 torretas e sendo lançada no nível 96

Curiosidades: Irá gerar 2 rebanhos no mapa enquanto 1 rebanho não for completamente morto não irá gerar outro madana .Também será possível encontrar dreadnoughtus alplha no mapa .Ele ira colher bastante palha de madeira e seiva de arvore .Pela sua dieta e a stimberry sendo a sua fruta favorita as suas fezes são muitos semelhantes aos polímeros orgânicos sendo um substituto ideal 

[aR0y2810]

Maybe give it some stronger ability? It honestly seems like a lot of work to tame something which then doesn’t do much at all. Maybe the sacs can be produce congealed gas? Or maybe they can be used to blow air and cause knockback

[RedneckGurst]

7 minutes ago, aR0y2810 said:

Maybe give it some stronger ability? It honestly seems like a lot of work to tame something which then doesn’t do much at all. Maybe the sacs can be produce congealed gas? Or maybe they can be used to blow air and cause knockback

Thanks for the suggestions! Maybe implementing something like the Megachelon bubble breath combined with the Gasbags gas meter could be a nice balance, I just think I was focusing a lot on the idea of the sound the sacs produce.

[LucasACE3]

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[CivilMinecrafter]

Dreadnoughtus Schrani (or Dreadnoughtus for short) , Its immense size rivals the well known Brontosaurus. They lived in the Late Cretaceous period approximately 77 million years ago. Dreadnoughtus was 26m/ 85ft long from nose to tail and their shoulder height was 6m/ 20ft (this is the size of an immature Dreadnoughtus so likely they were much larger).

 http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/images/species/d/dreadnoughtus-size.jpg

First Ability: Pack Related Ability

If near at least 2 other Dreadnoughtus then it will gain a pack buff, this would give it +10% damage and +5% resistance to incoming attacks. It would also allow it to use a roar making it's pack members also do the roar scaring nearby smaller carnivores away and debuffing larger carnivores by -15% damage.

Second Ability: Earthquake

At the press of a button the Dreadnoughtus may make the ground rumble damaging all nerby dinosaurs and players (Including tames and players of the same tribe).  This would be a deadly attack doing 5% of large sized dinosaurs health, 10% of medium sized dinosaurs, 25% of small sized dinosaurs and instantly killing compy sized dinosaurs.

[Animelord69]

Sounds interesting, good work