big boy dmg Yi qi, the Skilled Assassin (now with ability art!)

[hammerhead3636]

interesting idea

[TheRexTyrant]

I think the climbing is a must in aberration. It could be an alternative to rock drakes, but you should add the climbing in the dossier and give it longer claws so the climbing makes sense! Also they could be a tame to get before you get rock drakes that way players have more options during the lower levels.

Edited July 22, 2023 by TheRexTyrant

[arkplayerfan]

On 7/8/2023 at 3:25 AM, RRG said:

First of all, welcome to my submission, and let me explain a thing before we proceed. If you came to see the images, scroll down to the bottom, the gallery is there lol. Also another disclaimer, this is NOT a flyer. It's a glider, despite its appearance. The real yi qi couldn't hold sustained flight and neither can this one.

Yi qi is the name of this very real creature that existed during the late jurassic period in what today is China, it means "Strange wing" in chinese. However, Yi is the name of the genus and qi is the name of the species, like Tyrannosaurus and rex. So calling it "Yi qi something else" wouldn't make much sense lol. Hence why this arkified version is named Yi xue, meaning "Bloody wing" in chinese. That being said, let's proceed. Sorry if it's a bit messy, I've not had time to put it up too well before the vote, but here's all this bad boy's got running for. The quality of some images is a bit pixelated because of the submission's 400kb max size, which is pretty difficult to adjust to with several images lmao

Yi Xue:

A large bird-like dinosaur that has bat-like wings and can glide through the caverns with ease, similar to rock drake. A creature that rewards skill, patience and calculation over facetanking, albeit with a bunch of drawbacks to make it a true glass cannon. Its moveset and movement abilities are inspired by the Dark Souls saga and its immersive combat system.

 

It features razor feathers and quills that it shoots at its victims, causing a special kind of bleed. While the bleed does no damage, it’s a mark, signaling how many feathers have carved the flesh of the victim. Then, Yi Xue can trigger the mark, dealing devastating damage.

Here's how the Eviscerate attack works portrayed in an image. Don't worry, the Spino will live... probably. This is what happens when you let Yi xue stack too many feathers on you.

The creature can maneuver quite well through the caverns and has quite decent gliding, being able to flap its wings to gain momentum. Also, the more melee stat, the more quills it can shoot, and the more stamina, the faster it will create additional feathers, enticing towards levelling your Yi xue for a full-damage oneshot build. Alternatively it can use rock drake feathers if it runs out of feathers to shoot. Be wary when exploring the element chamber though, as Yi Xue is not immune to the effects of radiation.

 

When the bleed mark is triggered, if the target loses more than half its health with the attack, it is feared for 20 seconds and receives full damage from any source for a minute, no matter the armor or natural resistance a creature has. It is also slowed by 30% for that minute, making Yi an absolutely devastating assassination mount, good for small and large targets alike. Additionally, it can perform several mobility abilities, like backward dodges or sidesteps, giving it a brief time of invulnerability, at the cost of its momentum and a great amount of stamina.

If the Yi is hit by any sort of melee or creature damage while gliding or soaring, it will fall to the ground and be unable to glide for 10 seconds after it was hit. It can still sidestep and leap backwards, though, so keep in mind it still is very mobile. You can also cause an enemy Yi xue to fall to the ground by using bullets, but it will take quite a few shots to do so. Yi xue is quite fast when gliding, so repeatedly landing shots isn't an easy task. That way, if you're the one using a Yi xue, you're punished for getting too close to danger and not minding your spacing, but you aren't absolutely clowned on if your enemy has a sniper rifle, you still have a chance. Do keep in mind that you can only be knocked out of the air if you're gliding, so taking damage while on the ground doesn't punish you as hard. Think of what fighting position benefits you the most depending on the scenario!

Yi can also coat its quills with different substances and poisons, giving it alternative uses. For example, it can coat them with narcotics or biotoxin to use its feathers as an alternative method to using tranquilizers with a crossbow or a rifle. Furthermore, the amount of torpor scales with melee damage, so it’s as effective as high tier crossbows and rifles, not a joke like scorpions or pachys. There’s more things Yi can coat its feathers with;

• Ascerbic mushroom spores will cause dizziness and hallucinations like the fertile mushroom spore nausea, drowning the target and confusing it.

• Aquatic mushrooms will slightly slow and decrease the target’s resistance to damage by a slight amount, as well as applying the freezing effect on players

• Plant species Z fruits will work as usual, blinding and stunning, but also healing allies by a slight amount.

• Propellant will cause the feathers to be on fire, but these feathers won’t count towards the total feather count of the mark

• Reaper pheromones will cocoon the target. And will also give them the reaper pheromone buff, because why wouldn’t it? It’s reaper pheromones.

 

Yi Xue also has a TEK saddle. However this one doesn’t go pew pew, it’s slightly different. Yi has enough of an arsenal already, it doesn’t need lasers. What the TEK saddle does is stabilize its dashes and make them even more maneuverable, as well as having an ability that blocks incoming attacks for half a second after activation. A parry ability, to put it bluntly. Let’s say you’re facing someone with a sniper rifle and you’re soaring around. If they hit you and you parry in time, your Yi won’t be stunned and will receive no damage, at the cost of a hefty amount of element. That’ll give you an edge to seek proper terrain to fight instead of glide shooting. Or if you were hit once by a rex or giga, instead of plummeting to the ground to certain death because you missed a dodge, you get to keep gliding and avoid that damage. This ability has a rather long cooldown, 15 seconds, it’s a not-so-indulgent, expensive get out of jail card that requires precise timing and incentives to keep spacing yourself instead of being greedy for damage.

Abilities

Passive:

- (Passive) Yi xue’s mark of blood: A debuff that is applied once you’re hit by a feather from a Yi xue. It doesn’t add or take stats, nor does it do any damage. The amount of stacks lowers over time, wearing off. If the Yi xue attacks you while you have an active mark, the mark is removed and you take damage based on the amount of feather stacks you had. The more feather stacks, the more damage, ramping up massively to extremely dangerous numbers, or being weak as a melee attack. The mark can also be applied from the air while gliding, it isn’t restricted to ground only.

- Feather making: Yi xue generates one Yi xue feather every so often, that it can use as a projectile. If your mount runs out of these, you can’t shoot. Increase stamina to make this process faster. The higher the stamina stat, the faster the production!

On ground:

- Bite: Left click, does 40 damage. It’s got pretty big teeth and a pointy beak. Activates the bleed mark on all targets hit.

- Feather shot: Right click, does 10 damage. Adds 1 feather stack to the enemy hit. The rate of fire is increased the higher the melee stat of the Yi xue is.

- Ammo type change: G, opens up a wheel displaying the different feather types. Normal, rock drake, tranq feathers (narcotic coated), propellant coated, etc.

- Roar/Taunt: Ctrl, aesthetic

- Jump: Jump to start gliding

- Double tap D or A: Side step. Use this to quickly reposition yourself and get out of harm’s way, gaining a brief moment of invulnerability. Useful for fighting large, bulky creatures like rock drakes or reapers, or to dodge projectiles.

- Double tap S: Backwards leap. Use this to quickly reposition yourself and get out of harm’s way, gaining a brief moment of invulnerability, like the sidestep.

 

Gliding works a bit like a mix between maewing and managarmr. Hold shift to glide, but you can’t glide up like a rock drake, and you lose height rather quickly unlike a maewing. Tap space while gliding to flap the yi’s wings and dash in the air towards the facing direction. This costs a huge amount of stamina, but you can gain altitude by doing this.

You can cling to walls like a tapejara, quickly regaining stamina. You won’t be stunned if you’re hit while clinging, unlike gliding. You can’t move while clinging to a wall, unlike deinonychus.

You also cannot use mounted weaponry while riding a Yi xue, neither on the ground nor while gliding. Yi xue is already enough of a powerhouse, it doesn’t need a rider with an ascendant shotgun on it.

 

Abilities while gliding:

- Left click: Bite, same as on the ground, though it’s hard to land this attack while moving fast. Activates the bleed mark on all targets hit.

- Hold right click: You enter a shooting stance while strafing in the air, still gliding. Think of it like managarmr when you’re spitting ice, it strafes and slowly glides down, but you can aim. Hold to aim, and now press left click to shoot feathers while strafing. 10 damage like on the ground and adds a stack to the mark. The rate of fire is increased the higher the melee stat of the Yi xue is.

- Ammo type change: G, opens up a wheel displaying the different feather types. Normal, rock drake, tranq feathers (narcotic coated), propellant coated, etc.

- Double tap D or A: Side air dash. Use this to quickly reposition yourself and get out of harm’s way, gaining a brief moment of invulnerability. Useful for fighting large, bulky creatures like rock drakes or reapers, or to dodge projectiles. Cannot be used while aiming with right click.

- Double tap S: Backwards air dash. Use this to quickly reposition yourself and get out of harm’s way, gaining a brief moment of invulnerability, like the side air dash. Cannot be used while aiming with right click.

- X: Eviscerate. Yi xue becomes immune to stuns for the duration of this attack. The Yi lunges towards the desired direction, dealing 50 damage and activating the bleed mark on all targets it hits, if there is a bleed mark. While in this attack, even if they shoot you or bite you, you can’t be knocked out of the air! However you can be netted, so be careful, or be prepared for when an enemy Yi performs this attack to completely outplay it.

- Ctrl: Roar/Taunt.

Base Stats

HP: 210, same as Pteranodon

Stamina: 250

Oxygen: 150

Food: 1400

Weight: 150

Movement Speed: Faster than Raptor, slightly slower than Gallimimus

Melee damage is listed in the abilities section!

Taming

In order to tame a Yi xue you must first let it pelt you with feathers. If you're doing this on foot, it won't take it long to plunge towards you. Once it dives towards you to activate the mark and deal massive damage to you, shoot a net with a harpoon gun to trap it. Then, passively feed it meat while it's trapped, mutton or kibble. Rinse and repeat. It prefers regular kibble. Yi xues are naturally found in the fertile chamber, as well as the bioluminescent chamber. They can't venture into the element chamber as they aren't immune to radiation damage, like ravagers.

 

And now for the Dossier!

 

Common Name: Yi qi

Species: Yi xue

Time: Late Jurassic

Diet: Carnivore

Temperament: Aggressive

 

Wild

Commonly mistaken for its much smaller cousin, Yi xue is a ravenous beast fitting of its unique environment. Much like Draconis obscurum, Yi xue is able to glide through the caverns with its bat-like wings, although it is incapable of flight. Despite its fame as a murderer of unwary survivors, Yi is a rather fragile creature, barely able to stand against a raptor in a duel. However, its strength comes from its unique behavior and hunting tactics.

 

Instead of diving head on like most beasts do, Yi takes a much more tactical approach, gliding over its victims while raining down razor feathers made of a special keratin. The feathers themselves are mere annoyance, but they carve the victim’s flesh, covering it with light, barely noticeable wounds. When the Yi has covered its victims with enough feather-induced wounds, it strikes fast like a lightning, absolutely decimating its opponent as it’s turned into mincemeat from its now very much open wounds.

Domesticated

While many will choose a Rock drake over a Yi xue for combat, traveling and utility, those who have trained extensively along these wyvern-like dinosaurs claim they’re the ultimate tactician mount, able to outmaneuver most threats in the caverns while giving even reapers a run for their money in terms of damage. Though one must first master the drawbacks that come with the usage of Yi xue, for there’s a plethora of dangers that can easily turn a Yi and its rider into kibble, like a pack of Ravagers, a Megalosaurus or even radiation.

 

That's it, thank you for sticking around and it'd mean the world to me if you upvoted Yi xue! Thank you for reading it all up to this point, and have fun with the contest!

Funny size comparison here. It can be ridden as stated before.

Ok I love this creature plz add thisss or the hypnotic nightmare

[LeDonkaConka]

Grats for winning

[IHendo]

Congrats on winning I like the idea and it fits abberation, looking forward to seeing this ingame 👀 

[wintermess]

sick of pve players who never played pvp and trying to make a creature which would do everything and one shot anything. love it.

[miu1103]

Don't tell me Net Projectile is absolutely necessary for Tame? It's the ASA that gets added, not the ASE, right? If Net Projectile engrams are not added to the aberration from Genesis 2, it will not be possible to use or obtain them until Genesis 2 is added, even if the aberration is officially added... Please clarify with the developers how to coordinate the taming process. Or will you talk to the developers to allow the free release of engrams like Net Projectile's cryo-pods? I thought this creature was cool, but it is not a real life form. However, it is a creature that will be added, so it would be too much of a quandary to implement it and not be able to play an active role in the game. I think the current ARK management has a talent for turning small mistakes into big mistakes....................................

[ElPINGUcubano94]

Yoooo lesgooo the big fat W!! I’m so pumped I hope my suggestions ended up helping some how!

Congrats on bringing the Yi Qi to ark man!

[Akarulez]

9 hours ago, wintermess said:

sick of pve players who never played pvp and trying to make a creature which would do everything and one shot anything. love it.

If a creature looks cool, then it's normal to oneshot everything. I want to see old meta like only dino was Managarmr in the game and everyone was using it as battle dino. It was such an enjoyable era of pvp.

 

Also this creature is inspired by Dark Souls games which is amazing already.

Edited July 29, 2023 by Akarulez

[wintermess]

It wasnt that only mana was used by everyone. but mana was definitely one of the best choices. 

But in general, no, dino shouldnt one shot anything. should be in game balance, becuase its not like TD game.

[RRG]

4 hours ago, ElPINGUcubano94 said:

Yoooo lesgooo the big fat W!! I’m so pumped I hope my suggestions ended up helping some how!

Congrats on bringing the Yi Qi to ark man!

THANK YOU MAN!! Rest assured I am 100% sure listening to your feedback was the best thing I could've done to adjust yi to be more balanced. Thank you so much and next vote, even if I'm not participating in it myself, do let me know if you're going to submit an entry! I'll be sure to check it out

[RRG]

6 hours ago, miu1103 said:

Don't tell me Net Projectile is absolutely necessary for Tame? It's the ASA that gets added, not the ASE, right? If Net Projectile engrams are not added to the aberration from Genesis 2, it will not be possible to use or obtain them until Genesis 2 is added, even if the aberration is officially added... Please clarify with the developers how to coordinate the taming process. Or will you talk to the developers to allow the free release of engrams like Net Projectile's cryo-pods? I thought this creature was cool, but it is not a real life form. However, it is a creature that will be added, so it would be too much of a quandary to implement it and not be able to play an active role in the game. I think the current ARK management has a talent for turning small mistakes into big mistakes....................................

Don't worry, I'm sure wildcard will fine tune its taming to better fit their vision of ARK. I know in base ARK you can craft net projectiles outside genesis 2, even in aberration, that's why I kept it that way. However my dumb ass didn't realize they wouldn't release nets for the remaster right from day 1, so I'm sure they will change it either to be tamed with bolas or through another different method

As for helping wildcard's design team with providing details, I would absolutely love to and would be down for it every day, but it is ultimately up to them to do so.

[RyberClaw]

I love duck

[Voidtoker]

I don’t pay attention to these much tbh.

 

This is hands down the worst creature to win the vote. It’s a dollar store Rock Drake…..

[Jarheadcrash]

Congrats 

[Dragonslayer22]

I love the art