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[majikero]

Whats a good amount of health for my pets? My hunting group right now is a raptor as my mount with 600 HP and a dilo with 300 HP. I'm a bit worried that we won't be able to handle the bronto stomping around my camp. It's very annoying and I want to kill it.

[TheBronzePickle]

I had a really creepy experience in a cave once. Nothing spawned, so I had free reign. It was... eerie. I probably could have gone through and just mined everything, but it was so unnerving I chickened out before I got anything particularly good.

[Paul]

Few random tips from playing all this time, most of which I haven't heard anyone else mention:

Use a bedroll as a poor man's GPS. Plop it down, E on it to open quick travel map, see where you are, cancel, pick it back up. Bam, no longer lost.

Use the big obelisks as a directional compass. Green is on SW corner, red is on NW on the big mountain, and blue is about midway on the east side near the river crossing. Combining the usage of a bedroll to see where you are and looking to see where the obelisks are you can get anywhere without becoming lost.

Use the blood extraction syringe on yourself to get blood bags (or put in inv on sleeping people to take them from them, just note that it takes 25 health each use if you don't want to kill them). The blood bags can later be used to restore 20 health. So if you're sitting in a safe area and collecting wood or whatever you can be collecting blood bags from yourself, which for some reason don't ever spoil. And later you can use them while out hunting or pvping. I had 10 blood bags on me when some guy started shooting me with a rifle, thanks to the blood bags I was able to sprint back to him and stab him to death with my spear. Right now there isn't even a cooldown on them, so unless you drop dead in one hit you can survive indefinitely with enough of them.

If you're sick of gathering materials and making spears, the stone hatchet is actually good enough to kill most stuff (better than the pick). I always just use my stone axe to kill trikes and such (stay behind them and keep moving to avoid them turning and hitting you) and if I even make spears I save them for emergencies like a player or predator attack (or big swarm of dilos). Once you have metal, the metal hatchet is surprisingly good. Almost as good if not as good as a pike. Easy to take down argentavis and mammoths and such with one - and way lighter.

Tame a trike or stego when you can, they make gathering narco berries far easier.

Power level yourself enough to get wooden walls asap when starting on a new server, as anyone can and will break into thatch. A decently well hidden wood house will usually be left alone for weeks or more, while a thatch house on the beach will get wrecked over night usually.

[NullForceOmega]

Well, that was bullshit.  Just lost a whole hell of a lot of progress to lolspawns, first a pack of dilos appeared right on top of me, then a carno shows up from nowhere, and finally got tag-teamed by a mated pair of raptors.  Lost my armor, the trike I was taming, and my parasaur.  Fuck you too game.

[majikero]

Restarted my local game, reset map, new character.

My first tame this time is a level 22 trike. It's a terrible idea since it been about 3 days gathering berries and it's only halfway there.

[Fikes]

My new parts came in and I had a chance to load up the game last night briefly. Sweet sweet frame rate improvement. It still took 7 minutes to load (I don't have a ssd anymore) but at least it was playable. Now to get in and play!

[Folly]

Tried to tame an Anky today...3 Rex's spawned in the area before I was 30% done. One of them an albino. With help from my tribe we managed to take down two, but the third ate my poor unconscious Anky before we could kill it.

[Chiefwaffles]

The loading times are the worst part. I'm getting pretty tired of having to wait while the game takes forever to load the map.

[TheBronzePickle]

They're going to be decreasing server loadup times, though that may only affect starting the server up and not the map loadup. Even so, the loadup is long for a reason: it loads the entire map, underground and all, first time.

[Fikes]

They're going to be decreasing server loadup times, though that may only affect starting the server up and not the map loadup. Even so, the loadup is long for a reason: it loads the entire map, underground and all, first time.

I chalk it up to being early in the dev cycle but it is still a stupid system. There is no reason to do things that way. There is only so far the chapter can travel in a second so why would the game take a bunch of time loading assets from 5 or 6 times that range?

[TheBronzePickle]

Probably because in-game loading would either cause lag as you traveled around the world and loaded new things or you'd have to deal with the game stopping for a second a-la Half Life 2 to load things in, and either way would both be immersion breaking and possibly fatal to your character.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Apparently DX10 support has finally been added, I am so eternally grateful. Thank god! Since I don't have my normal gaming laptop the games I haven't been able to play because I can only support up to DX10 have been laughing at me, MOCKING ME! Now I'll show them, AHAHAH, I'll show them all! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[TheBronzePickle]

DX10 support has been there since about the third or fourth day. You could have gone into the game's properties and added -SM4 to the launch options. I've been playing like that for a while now, and I'm pretty sure I mentioned it on here before, or someone else did. Maybe even multiple people.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

DX10 support has been there since about the third or fourth day. You could have gone into the game's properties and added -SM4 to the launch options. I've been playing like that for a while now, and I'm pretty sure I mentioned it on here before, or someone else did. Maybe even multiple people.

So it seems, still runs like shit for me though. Alas, perhaps I will never be able to play this game.

[TheBronzePickle]

What's your hardware? If you're using an older nVidia card and have been updating regularly, you might have a driver that's not the best for your card. I had that problem and rolled back a few dozen versions to the one that was best compatible with my card and it massively improved my game.