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Shantungosaurus ferrugiet, the Great Army Protector!
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Foreword: I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone for reading this concept. Huge thanks to my little brother for the artwork (I suck at drawing). We worked super hard on it. Enjoy the read! (Sorry about the size of the images, I can't figure out how to make them smaller) Introduction: The Shantungosaurus in real life was as much a beast as it is in this concept. Ranging from 49 to 51 feet in length, and 13 to 16 metric tons in weight, the animal is the largest hadrosaur ever discovered. It lived in what is now modern-day China during the Late Cretaceous period. This species, Shantungosaurus giganteus, is a true force of nature, but now I'll show you what it can do when it's not so grounded in historical and biological restraints. (NOTE that from now on, I might shorten Shantungosaurus to Shant.) Dossier: If I had to write a dossier for the Shantungosaurus, this is it would look like. Common Name: Shantungosaurus Species: Shantungosaurus ferrugiet Time: Late Cretaceous Diet: Herbivore Temperament: Protective Wild: I've seen Element do some crazy things to some otherwise normal animals. It widens their palates, gives them the power of flight, and even allows them to become high caliber weaponry. But the strangest thing I've seen it do is mimic a device straight out of a sci-fi movie. Unlike other Element-augmented creatures, Shantungosaurus ferrugiet retains most of the traits from its base species. But unlike its abnormally large historic counterpart, the Shantungosaurus expels excess Element by activating special organs in its thick hide that project a holographic shield around itself and its allies. The shield seems to prevent all damage to its' owner until it is broken or wears off. It performs this bizarre act of protection usually when defending its overgrown, underground territory from any interlopers that make the mistake of drawing too nearby. This often includes unlucky survivors, who find themselves stomped to death without any way of dealing damage in return. Domesticated: Between its thick hide and shield, don't expect to be able to knock out a Shant if you don't know where to shoot. It doesn't seem to have as thick of skin on its head though, so keep that in mind if you decide to get a Shant for yourself. If you can somehow manage to subdue this utterly humongous beast, you will find yourself with the most loyal, overprotective, and exceptionally large pet you could ask for. By training the Shant to get along with your other tames, you can convince it to project its shield onto your forces, bolstering their survivability exponentially. Just don't expect it to stand by idly while you go hunting or are being attacked. It can't resist the urge to help out a friend! In the Wild: As described by the Dossier, the Shantungosaurus is a massive animal with a thick hide and enormous health pool that has adapted to Element by using it to project shields. It looks like a really big Iguanodon with thicker hind legs, a sail (not historically accurate) running down the front half of its back, spines running down the rear end of its back (also not historically accurate), and good Element corruption spread sporadically in patches, creating special organs that project the shield. It will wander around the Sunken Forest spread thinly in groups of two to three, slaughtering anything that gets too close. About half the size of a Giga or Carch, its presence at a should be feared and respected just as much. It won't do nearly as much damage as either of those massive carnivores but expect a long fight if you choose to engage them. If you catch one's aggro and don't feel like fighting it, luckily for you the Shantungosaurus moves slower compared to most other mounts, so you can outrun it 80% of the time. Don't try to hide from it in an insufficient shelter, though, because it can damage Stone structures and below. In the wild, it will use its shield much less frequently than it could if it was tame so it won't take forever to kill if you think its too close to your base or you're trying to clear out low levels. Taming: Unlike a lot of newer creatures, the method of taming a Shantungosaurus is relatively straightforward. It is a knockout tame, but to keep things interesting both boulders/cannons and tranquilizers will work. Be sure to aim for the head when using either, unless you want to be knocking it for a really long time. Once knocked, the torpor drain is around half that of a Mosasaurus, but with a much higher torpor pool, it will wake up slower. It will accept all the normal herbivore foods, and its preferred kibble is Extraordinary, but if you have it on hand, you can feed it Element for as high a taming effectiveness as Kibble. Base Stats: Wild Health Pool: 50,000 (give or take) Tamed Health Pool: 25,000. I want the level progression of the Shantungosaurus to be an opposite to the Carch or Giga, with melee leveling poorly and health boosting by a huge margin per level (it needs it to soak all the "shared" damage it takes.) Stamina: 1,250. From a full bar of Stam to empty while sprinting will take as long as a Rex of equal level. Food: 10,000. Drains at an average rate. Oxygen: 500. The Shantungosaurus IS NOT designed to swim! Weight: 1000. The Shantungosaurus' large, sturdy built allows it to carry all sorts of goods and resources before it gets weighed down! Melee Damage: 200%. The Shant's strongest attack will deal the same amount of base damage as a Rex, but attacks much slower. Movement Speed: 100%. In terms of speed, the Shant walks about as fast as a Stego sprint, and runs as fast as a Bronto sprint. Torpidity: 8500. With damage reduction on most parts of the body and such a monstrous torpor bar, the Shant is supposed to be a very high risk-reward tame. If you play with boosted stats or have the guts to tame and breed Shants, the payoff is well worth it. Coming prepared to a tame with a boatload of tranqs/cannonballs and a trap is recommended, but if you're high enough level to tame a Shant, then you'll probably have enough resources on hand anyway. Abilities: Left Click/Right Trigger: Bite/Kick. The Shantungosaurus will bite if the camera is facing forward, and to a kick backward with its hind legs if the camera is facing backwards. It won't do much damage, but can be used in quick succession. The kick will do much more knockback than the bite, but the bite can harvest berries whilst the kick can't harvest anything. Both can break up to Wood. Right Click/Left Trigger: Stomp/Tail Swipe. The Shantungosaurus will rear up on its hind legs and slam its feet down on whatever is in front of it if the camera is facing forward. The attack deals much greater damage than the bite, can harvest thatch and wood, and deals much more knockback, but is a lot slower than the bite. If the camera is facing backward, the Shant will swipe its tail side to side, dealing a moderate amount of damage and incredibly high knockback. It can also harvest thatch and wood and is rather slow. Both can break up to Stone. C/Left Stick: Shield Activation. The Shantungosaurus will rear on its hind feet, but instead of crashing down, it releases a loud roar which fires a pulse in a radius of the Shant. The pulse will activate an effect on whatever is within the radius of the Shantungosaurus (including the Shant itself.) The effect is quite complicated, so I will try to explain it as best I can. The effect lasts for 30 seconds, and the cooldown on effect use is 50 seconds, leaving 20 seconds where creatures have no extra defense. Creatures under the effect of the Shant's shield will take no damage until the shield expires. The shield will expire under two circumstances; the effect wears off, or the shield is broken manually. To break the shield, one must deal damage to it. The shield itself is based on the individual it protects and has half its owner's maximum health. Once this amount of damage has been done, the shield breaks. If the attack that broke it deals more damage than the shield has health left, then the excess is dealt directly to the creature at a 25% damage reduction. The Shant cannot activate the shield again until the effect wears off. Attempting to will drain the entire stamina bar with nothing in return. X/Right Stick: Cosmetic Roar. Does nothing. Looks cool. Because every dino should have one. Uses: Gatherer: Admittedly, the Shant is not designed for gathering resources, but if you have nothing else, it is still far more effective than harvesting by hand. War Mount: The true intended use case of the Shantungosaurus. Whether it be bosses in PvE or enemy tribes in PvP, the Shantungosaurus will make any encounter with an enemy easier thanks to it's shielding ability. Extra Bits: The Shantungosaurus Saddle is unlocked at level 98. Breeding Times: 9 days on official rates. Seems long, but the Giga takes 10! Despite a cosmetic Tek Forcefield-like dome around anything under the Shield effect, it does not change any hitboxes, nor does the dome have it's own hitbox. Groups of Shant will spawn quite infrequently, so they hopefully won't be a terrible nuisance. The shield effect will not work on tamed Titans, but it will work on the Titanosaur. It will work on Allied dinos, but not on Noglin Controlled ones. The Shant Egg has Extraordinary nutritional value! If, for some reason, you have a powered-off Tek Forcefield, a Shantungosaurus, and incoming enemy forces, using the Shant shield pulse can immediately activate the Forcefield with no startup time required (it will still consume Element in the Forcefield at a normal rate.) Afterword: Thank you so much for reading my idea for Extinction's Shantungosaurus! I hope you enjoyed, and consider upvoting. Obviously, I came up with the idea because of the use of Gigas/Carchas in the King Titan boss fight. It seems unfair that you could have hundreds of them and they would all surely die to all but maybe the Gamma King Titan. No one likes losing work, and the implementation of the Shant should help prevent that. Once again, huge thank you to my brother for the artwork. Good luck to all other submissions, and have a wonderful day!-
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