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  1. As I understand it on asa you can now pick up structures, similiar to how adjusted unofficials allowed you too in ASE. So where does that leave the exo mek when Gen 2 drops eventually. I mean that was the main prize for being able to drive it. It was a good reward tbh after plodding through the missions and killing the final boss. But now it seems like its going to be a bit pointless. I know it can act as a knock off replicator but thats not really that special.
  2. Does this mean that the useless speed stat is going to be removed and I will no longer have to wrestle with wasted speed points when starting a breeding line? Please say yes.
  3. Pve official Spent most of my time recently jumping from dino raising to taming. I have my solo base but am also in a small loose tribe with a few people on another server, they bought and traded for most of their dinos but I enjoy taming and breeding. Don't get me wrong, I've traded for stats sometimes but broadly I prefer to get stuff myself. So I've been taking them out server hopping, taming all kinds of stuff. It has been a ton of fun, I taught them how to tame crystal wyverns, get reapers, magma eggs and lots of other stuff recently. The random deaths are always funny too. On my solo base I have more or less finished with my rex line, all points in hp and melee. Plus a bonus is that I managed to breed out the gaudy mutation colours (I'm not keen on day glo rexes), so if you just saw them you wouldn't realise they were super mutants. I finally went back and cleared alpha overseer after forgetting about it for ages. Also I finally set up a crafting character and ran the boss fughts with him. My little island outpost has really done its job now, but I am keeping it with a vague idea of running boss fights for others. Other than that I have been popping baby reapers, mostly r's but also some normal ones. I like the challenge of aberration, but seriously if I could wish away one dino it would the purlovias, so so many down there when I'm hunting queens.
  4. @Penguin73 congrats on ascension! I've done the conga line of tames in the past and I won't put myself through that again. I like using some deinos in my boss fighting army but they have a bad habit of leaping if they so much as touch a rock. Even that last little stretch from uncryo to terminal in the tek cave is stressful with them lol!
  5. Official PvE Been a few days since I was last here but I enjoy sharing my experiences. I have tribed up with two friends I've met on a different server. We still have our solo bases but a shared base on another gen 2 server. It works really well, I'm into breeding, taming, boss fights and generally making the most of the mechanics of the game. One of the others does selling and trading and the other is a good builder and decorater. Between us we have a really nice looking base on the server and its going well. We share stuff there and clone/breed dinos for each other and take some of what we want back to our solo bases. Still my solo base is my main focus. After a load of breeding whilst the evo event was on I managed to produce another hp mut on my yutys and produced some down bred rexs. These were then bred with my super rex and I got a female with only high hp and melee and very low everything else plus she has shows no mutations on the maternal side 👍. Perfect for breeding a boss rex army. Bred our 2 event coloured megachelon on the shared base, I have the baby back at my solo and boy do those things eat! Almost as bad as gacha babies at draining troughs. Speaking of which, after a few rounds of breeding I have obsidian, black pearl and dust gachas so I don't need to breed those anymore. Found 2 unicorns (one on island map and one on rag) recently which I tamed, sadly both were male but one of my tribemates had a female so a clone and a baby are already here. Went reaper hunting with a server friend the other day, but after killing 15 + queens we never found higher than a lvl 90. So agreed to come back during easter event.
  6. Thank you, I was helping them through it though, I already solo'd alpha dragon myself and yes the teleporter is a great help. Especially when people have them unlocked. I only have a little outpost on the island map so I let him have all 400 odd element, I suggested investing in a tek trough to help with the baby raising grind. I decided it was time to try killing rockwell prime, I've completed most of the gen 2 missions but only have the full set of gamma. I took 10 shadows and my best reaper. Bit nerve wracking zooming in there carrying those in your inventory, one lag spike or unlucky goo shot and you're reaper kibble. Anyway it was fine, put a sleeping bag near the terminal and popped the mission. I loved it, the setting was great and the fight felt climactic. The shadows just went to town and mowed down any and all tentacles, whilst I focused the main ones with my reaper. Finished it with no issues and sat back to watch the cutscenes. After spawning in again on my pre placed bag, I cryo'd everyone (the shadows hadn't even lost a quarter of their health, the reaper had been barely tickled). Then zoomed back to base and I couldn't resist. I checked what I needed for the exo mek and crafted it. It is great, movement is fluid and precise plus it has a lot of utility. After all that I looked at my little greenhouse and decided to craft some tek crop plots for everything in there. Expensive but worth it, 500% greenhouse effect, can hold double the amount of fert and also get way more crops out compared to standard ones. Luckily I tamed a high level beetle a while ago so he produces enough fert to fill all the plots. I also went out searching for the lowest level rexes I could find, I need to do a bit of down breeding. Got a 15 and two 20's. So that will be a little project. The only things I had out raising and imprinting were some fresh shadows and adolescent gigas.
  7. Official PvE I was mostly just raising and imprinting the last few days, but a friend came online who I'd promised to help through alpha dragon. So I grabbed some supplies, podded babies as necessary and transferred to the island. I had deinos for the fight but they were still a bit fresh from raising, so not many xp levels yet. So I put what level ups they had into hp and left them with a pig to heal. In the meantime I downloaded a stryder for my friend and cooked some consumables. Another friend of his had gotten in trouble in a water cave so I took a shadowmane to go help out, succesfully despite the insane numbers of jellies and eels. After that it was dragon time! I knew the deinos didn't really have enough health, but they are very cheap to breed so I hoped the newer ones would help dps him low enough that our better levelled ridden ones could finish the job, before they died. It worked, before they died they had dealt with the wave of adds and lowered his health to below 50%. After that we just kept biting his ankles until he died. I happened to be trapped under his body but my teammate managed to grab most of the saddles from the others. It was late and I was tired by this point so I said my goodbyes and returned to gen 2, where I topped off troughs and logged off.
  8. Damn, wish I'd seen this when I was playing last night lol! I appreciate the gesture though. I swear that the deino bp has been so hard to find. @Penguin73 As L4D2 has said, yes you can take a giga through the tek cave. On alpha make sure its a good one though, mine is full imprint, 93 saddle, 36k hp and by the time the cave was cleared it was nearly half health. I put this down to the athropleura damage reflect mainly as most of the other stuff in there doesnt get a chance to attack.
  9. Official PvE After many visits to valguero I finally found a deino saddle bp! I have a couple of premades from gen 2 drops but not enough. It was only an apprentice level with 40 something armour but I can work with it. Also tamed two baboons while there, thought it would be a bit tricky but it wasn't that bad. No trap needed, once the alpha was ready I just walked around with them giving them mutton. The hardest part was finding a high level alpha female. Back on gen 2 I unpodded some babies, my magmasaurs finally reached adult so I bred them and the mantis. I mindwiped to full crafting and made 20 deino saddles, some rex saddles and a new shotgun (275 damage with crazy high dura 👍). Pretty pleased with the results. As I was effectively useless for the next 24 hours, I just refilled troughs, did some imprints, restocked the fridge with soups etc and made kibble.
  10. Official PvE Been focused on breeding, raising and imprinting last few days. Inbetween I finally managed to get the tranq missions on gen 2 done now that I can use a tek bow. So today decided to have a run at alpha overseer. Put out a message in the server if anyone wanted to join and someone said they did. He wasn't a bob but had never done tek cave before. I checked what he could bring, a really good rex and I'd provide some other kit, soups etc. Got him some appropriate armour and a better saddle from my gen 2 base plus a couple more tames. Explained the strat, follow my giga through the cave and then use your rex to munch adds in boss arena, tames will focus boss and I'm on my yuty. It went great, cleared cave in good time and it was alot fun to take someone through the whole thing when they were going in blind. Overseer fight went well, constant dismounts and a few close calls but eventually he was down to next to no health. Then he morphed to dragon and focused me, my yuty was out of stamina and almost dead. I abandoned it and tried to fly up with tek suit but I got flamed and died! My teammate was still there though and my tames were still fighting, he was telling me the whole thing through coms. I got back to entrance and tried to advise as best I could. It worked, alpha overseer down and my teammate got the ascension. He even picked up my bag. I wasn't even upset at dying, I was just thrilled for him. We only lost the yuty and one of my spare shadows I'd gifted him. It felt like a great success and it'd been a blast to do it with someone else. Got to do it again for my alpha ascension but I don't mind, hadn't really lost anything. Just need to bring a better yuty! Or watch the stamina better😄
  11. Official PvE So I got ark'd. Wanted to tame some mantis so transferred to rag where I have a little outpost. Decided to run the iceworm cave for the horns. I took a couple of high stat shadowmanes, giga and a good lightning wyvern. Ran through cave real quick, wasn't really bothered by loot although checked a couple of red crates only thing I kept was an asc scuba piece. Podded up the shadow and went to iceworm queen arena. But she didn't spawn for some reason, so just left and ran the cave again, this time she spawned and beat her with the giga. Nothing I wanted in the crates but I was really there for the horns so fine. Went to leave and killed by antimesh on leaving the waterfall 😑. Lost the lot, decent fur armour, all the tames (rip asc giga saddle) so I was pretty peeved. Got my backup flyer from the outpost and went to outside of waterfall just in case I might see a bag, but antimesh just straight up destroys everything iirc. Luckily I don't take anything that isn't replaceable mostly, so I went and got some fresh tames and did the cave again. This time it was fine, got an asc fur chestpiece from one crate too. Onwards to the desert, I just cruised around until I found some decent mantis (that weren't being eaten by vultures, seriously small bug bite flyers are too strong, they just peck stronger things to death). Eventually found a 145 male and two 150 females, taming went well. Before leaving the server I visited the wyvern trench for some milk also got a 185 fire egg. Transferred it all back to gen 2 base, fed the baby ice wyverns and unpodded the mantis (2 days until they can breed). The fire wyv egg had decent health but 49 points in food! Debated cracking it but decided that could be bred out so kept it. Bred theris and hatched some giga eggs, no mutations in the theris so cracked them all. Restocked maewings and troughs before logging off.
  12. Pve official Bred a few things, gigas just to have some back ups, ice wyverns, r-owls, theri's and rex's. Finally got a 2nd hp mutation on my theri's and it's taken a few rounds but got the good hp from my male rex combined with the good melee from a female. So those two were keepers, my owls are very good now so I only bred one to imprint. One of my ice wyverns is black with deep blue highlights and I love it. Pairing it has led to an almost solid black baby, will have to see how that turns out as adult. During the event I went reaper hunting and the two I got from that just finished growing, a purple and a purple/tangerine event one, super happy with those. Refreshed my little island fob and I realised my dinos there had a load of levels to put into them. So I decided it was time to have a run at beta tek cave. I had most of what needed already, just popped back to collect a new yuty and some soups/curries etc. Went very well, beta overseer was beaten in about 1 hour after opening tek cave. No losses and most of the team weren't that badly injured, alpha soon. Back to gen 2 I went note hunting to start making use of those extra levels, saw a purple and a blue astrocetus on way back and got an urge to tame one. So back at base I checked my vaults for a cannon (gotten from mission rewards) and made a few cannonballs, put this on a platform quetz platform saddle. It was not a fast chase! But eventually I got the purple in range, turned the quetz around and fired the cannon, I expected the whale to aggro, instead it fled. I couldn't line up another shot and it despawned when the asteroids changed ☹. But the blue was still there, this time it worked, 3 shots later and one ko'd whale. Felt pretty good to solo tame one.
  13. Pve Gen 2 Spent the weekend raising and imprinting, all sorts of creatures. Got consistent stats on theris and rexs, now to hopefully get some mutations. So today went to rag for a milk run, I always have quick look at the eggs too. Recently on the server I use, I feel like someone has been doing egg runs but only taking good ones and leaving the others, as I've found multiple 20 - 30's. I cleared the low levels and found an alpha, killed her so that was milk sorted, then rechecked the nests and got two 180's a lightning and a poison. On the way back to an obelisk I swung past some ice wyvern nest sites, one has a base on it and 3 were empty. I did find a level 15, pity but thats the way it goes sometimes. Also spotted a decayed base and raided some dedis of poly, ingots and over 10k of achatina paste. Left some at my little milk run base and hauled the rest of my spoils back to ob to transfer home. Pretty good field trip all in all. Filled troughs, claimed and podded some newborn shadows and fed wyverns before logging off.
  14. TheIsland/Gen2 PvE After my tek cave failure I took some time to raise some more boss fighting dinos annnnnd got distracted by taming some other stuff. So in between then now I'd tamed some different colour shadowmanes and have incorporated those into the breeding. So today I finally finished raising and imprinting the first batch that weren't just white or reddy white, which was nice. Took these future beasts to the island with a decent yuty, 5 deinos and a giga for another crack at the tek cave. Went smoothly, giga cleared cave and was podded at the bottom then the 12 shadows, deinos and yuty were on the platform, we teleport and quick headcount, everyone is there except the yuty. I look round and see she is stuck on the outside of the observation window to the megapithecus arena. WTH?! How did she teleport there? Anyway plan A of riding her is out the window, couldnt whistle her in or pod through the window. Plan B of riding my best shadow is up. We press on and kill the overseer, only gamma but ascension done, gimme my 5 levels! The only loss was the yuty sadly but I already have more growing up. Retrieve the army, some are pretty bloody but alive, they were not really levelled so not too surprised. Left them to eat and heal at my little island base. Transferred back to gen 2 base and filled troughs, bred theris and finished a water pen to breed my basi's in. Took a quick screenshot of all my noglins before logging off.
  15. Official pve I left the game for a while due to irl stuff however around christmas I restarted. I'd left my character on gen 2 and so he was there available to redownload. But otherwise everything I had decayed, so it was almost starting from scratch. I've made a smallish base on gen 2, tamed up a storm of things I wanted and traded a few more tricky tames (I enjoy taming) for good eggs etc. Whilst I've "beaten" the game in single player, I've never done the bosses on official. So the past 2 weeks I have been focussing on that. Made a small outpost on an island server and went through each boss, first gamma to refresh the memory and get an idea of how my tames perform then alpha for each. Shadowmanes and deino's for each one, except dragon where I used just a couple of deinos. I had to rerun alpha dragon as it glitched and credited me for the kill but no trophy. So today I did that first and then prepped for gamma tek cave. Two mate boosted rexs, (wild tames but levelled up well), a yuty, 12 shadows and a few deinos. Conga line organised, we got in the cave with 10 seconds to spare ( I hate having that lava outside the cave, wish that area was just a flat surface to prep on). I took the rexs forward to start clearing out and on the second group of cave dwellers it started to lag a bit, got control just in time to see myself being purlovia'd off my rex and into the lava, rip that run and all my stuff. Have I mentioned I hate lava in this game? Feeling abit bummed out I limped back to retrieve my wyvern with the stuff I hadn't taken in with me. Pretty much everything was replaceable except the deino saddles, I haven't found a bp yet, gotten some alright ones from drops etc though. I also have spare dinos back at base. I took my spares and did each of the gamma fights back to back just to get the trophies quickly. Then heading back to my outpost I noticed a shadowmane I thought had been ark'd. He'd just disappeared a couple of days ago and there he was on the beach near the red ob. He was my rider so that and getting the gamma fights done quick cheered me up. Busy day on the ark for me, I'm focussing on breeding and imprinting for the next couple days before another run at that awful tek cave.
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