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Epic fail and a good finish... Sorry about the length. So today was the TEK cave. I had never done it before and thought I would start on Gamma. Playing solo. I new from watching videos that the hardest part would be keeping everything together and under control. Also, with all the different server settings it is hard to fully understand what it will take to run the cave and defeat the overseer. Some do it with super duper inflated rexes and I can't gage how my team will do by watching a mega rex slice through other rexes like a hot knife through butter. Anyway, the point I am getting at is I might have overprepared or at least planned on taking too much.... just in case. So I had the whole team lined up outside the door. I had a team of 4 allos, 1 Yuty, 14 rexes, 6 therizinos, and a bird on my shoulder. I had them in groups of 5 to 6 dinos each. Each group had a leader and the rest were set to follow one behind the other. I think I had it so I would have to make 5 trips through the door by grabbing a leader and walking them in carefully, then running out for the next leader. 5 minutes to take in 5 groups. I was confident. I was originally planning on using cryo pods for half the team, but when the game wouldn't let me unpod them just outside the door I figured I couldn't do it inside either, so everyone had their ticket and stood in line. I open the door and took in the yuty and allos first. I was going to use the allos and a single TEK rex as the wrecking crew in the cave and therefore (in theory) save the other rexes and therizinos for the overseer. First group went in nice. I took them in far enough to have enough space for all dinos behind them but not too far that I would aggro the cave creatures that were just on the edge of my view. I grabbed the second team, 6 rexes, and took them in along side the first. All good. I grabbed the next group of 6 rexes and put them along the wall behind the first group. Oh, Noooo! Only 3 of the 6 came through the door. I ran back out of the cave to see two of my rexes in the lava and 1 stuck on the rocks. I got the one off the rocks and shoved him inside the cave. I had to redirect the other two and bring them to an area where they could get out. That was my mistake. I should have never messed with them and just written them off. When the first one finally got out, I mounted the saddle through the flames and ran for the door... But it closed just before I got there. It is amazing how fast one can go through emotions of denial and disbelief. Then I sat the screen fill with red lines as all my dinos inside were pronounced dead. Shock! Agony! Anger! Embarrassment! I touched on them all. AND Frustration at all the lost time and effort for for breeding, training, and gathering resources for saddles. But I'm sure many of you know the pain. I was left standing with my two rexes (now at half health but no longer on fire) and 6 therizinos that were standing halfway down the stone walkway I built across the lava. I walked past them all and climbed on my argy that was at the far end of the crater. I flew around in circles for a bit, then decided that today is still my day to finish this dang map. So I grabbed all my cryo pods and flew down to collect the rest of my therizino dragon army. I also grabbed two rexes that were back at base. This time there was no allos, and no yuty... just 4 rexes and 19 therizinos. I lined them up and open the door. Luckily there was no drama getting in this time. I hopped on the healthiest rex and went to work. I would clear a section and go back to carefully train the others down behind me. It was working great until about half way through the cave something spooked one of the therizinos and it took off running. It went over a cliff and six others followed. Now I was down to 4 rexes and 12 therizinos. Well, at least now I don't have to decide which 20 get to advance to the overseer. (I laughed but it still hurt). The giga at the bottom did not jump into the lava as I hoped so the team fought it. More dinos to heal. Yeah! Teleported up to the observation deck and did the typical look around for awhile to give the team a chance to heal a bit. Went into the final fight, not 100 percent healthy but close. I directed the team to attack the overseer, and I ran around fighting the defense droids. A few times I looked up and just admired the fight they were giving the overseer. And it finished a little better than I expected. No other dinos died in that last fight. I was very proud. Watched the cut-scene. Smiled. Good night.

Okay, BIG update. So there I was, considering dinowiping to try to get good rexes/megatheirium to spawn. I wanted to get back to base first though. And I as I was heading home, I saw a pair of therizinos. An 85. Meh. I checked the second. IT WAS 150! I went home, praying it wouldn't despawn, and scraped together 8 exceptional kibble, with the help of my industrial cooker, plus I grabbed a pre-made piece of extraordinary I had cooked a while back. Note to self: start a yuty kibble farm soon. I checked Dododex, and since I have 4x taming, I saw that that wouldn be just barely less than enough, so I brought mejos to top it off. I upgraded an old raft taming pen of mine, and drove it over. I trapped both, but managed to kill the 85. Knocked the 150 out, spent a while taming it (I feel so bad for anyone on official, that must take forever), and brought it home. Here's the stat report: good melee, average/somewhat bad health. He's male, so I need a good health female. She won't need better melee, but I'm not complaining if she does. So now I have an all-around great female rex (pretty shade of green too), a good melee, bad health female sloth, and a good melee, and bad health male therizino. So one breeder for each boss island boss (not counting overseer). So glad I waited on the dinowipe (although I might do it tomorrow). If you read all this, thanks for taking the time to.

No problem with the length. I'll have to do that cave someday, and the more details, the better. Glad you won in the end.

I am experiencing the issue exactly as @Mean2u444 has described. I am also in OC region and basically cannot play on EU servers due to insane rubber banding. It started 1 week ago. It's never been this bad before. Even the worst lag during events was nothing compared to this. It is seriously unplayable. I think it's network related because the server appears to tick away normally, eg my babies die exactly as expected while it takes 2 minutes to open their inventory.

lmao "Nice job getting out of that genesis simulation but you cant win that easily. Have fun in this other sim. Don't worry, we've got thousands for you. Good luck, Survivor" But I'm pretty sure we'll just be in the colony ship in part 2. I don't think we'll be at the destination yet. There's no way Rockwell slammed us right back into a pod immediately after escaping, we use the cool new Feddy tek suit to rip and tear that tentacle apart (at the destruction of the FTS, of course) A colony ship alone could easily have enough space and variety to create a full playable map

Literally the same Crunch three weeks in a row. Thanks for the reminder though, I guess?

Today I backed up my CI singleplayer save and tried out the Crystal Isles dino additions mod. Having magmasaurs on the map is kinda cool, I can admit that, but pegasi are meh and ember yuties also aren't great (just imagining riding one makes my eyes ache). Unsubscribed from the mod, replaced the save with pre-mod version, I think I'll try ARK: Reclamation instead - that looks promising, at least not as eye-burning and without silly dinos like those witch hat ones or the gun penguins I saw in other mods. ... Reclamation is better indeed, I'm keeping it! Resource snails, or "Slags", as they're called in the mod, are nicely colored, fish-otters with long names that I can't quite remember are really well-made and cute, I'm definitely getting a few for the garden half of my lake. Shieldhorns are, well, shieldhorns, I assume they're just like in ATLAS (which I'm only familiar with from other mods that import its creatures to ARK, as well as a few articles from its wiki), and I've only seen other creatures on screenshots, but everything seems really nice and only moderately bright, fitting into the world.

If you have a team of megatheriums, even with primitive saddles, you should be able to slice and dice your way through the gamma broodmother very easily. Just be sure to level them up a bit first. Ride a yuty and keep them boosted. You will be good.

Hey all! I’m finally at the point where I can install electrical cables around the base and I have enough gasoline to power everything. I figured I’d better get a grid first, THEN go look for honey ‘cause it spoils so fast. I’m a few checklist items away , but I’m starting preparations for the broodmother. Can’t decide if I want to go with rex’s or not. I’m hoping to only need one core team to do all the bosses and eventually overseer, which is why I’m thinking rex’s. Lemme know what you guys think. other than that, I got myself my third otter (RIP, “Otter” and “Deadpool”) cause they keep dying in caves ? next up for me when I log in next is finishing my electrical grid so I can get my fridge working, then go tame a queen bee. Can’t wait for the adventure that’s gonna be.

Yeah looks like we are about at the same spot. I never did find two max level megatheriums, so I settled for a couple of 120's with okayish stats. I'm hoping if I imprint, level up the babies, and have decent saddles I will still be able to beat gamma. I will know soon because I got super lucky with twins this time around and now have twenty! I still lots to do, but I am getting way closer. I really want a better saddle pattern. I'm farming the swamp cave and the western underwater cave religiously but haven't had any luck so far. The only other exciting thing that happened today was all my dodos getting out of their pen. I have no idea how they escaped, but they were running all over the place and I had a heck of a time catching them all.

I'm in a similar position, except I don't use the same character on Ragnarok and the other non-canon ARKs, and since I'm doing the maps in order, I have to rely on The Island. I'm a bit behind you though, I have an amazing female rex for breeding, but only one megatheirium, who despite being 150, turned out with pretty awful health. I really want to beat those bosses. I've just been looking for a good male (120-150) who I can try to breed with her, and get two babies with better health, and then breed those two... And when I beat it on gamma my grand prizes for all that work will be some pretty useless tekgrams (not counting the replicator), ten element I can't use yet, a flag, and a trophy.