#balance-feedback-discussion
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Dryo didn't even need to have its dodge buffed to be good. It was a perfectly viable animal prior to the speed buff. Atm it's kind of broken survival-wise and dies only when it wants to mess with something much, much bigger. Dryo's sheer agility was enough to keep it alive during update 2 days. I've played the animal at the time and I actively hunted not fully grown Utahs killing them at will. With the speed buff the animal has become outright too good but it doesn't really matter since barely anyone plays it anyways.
You could apply most of that stuff to Ptera too but the difference is that it's not quite as capable PvP-wise(although to be fair there are some Pteras that can force any animal to get off any open area just due to the fact that they can peck stuff without taking any risk).
I'd very much like to see Pteranodon nerfed in one way or another but I don't think it's quite as good as Dryo atm.
Then again - barely anyone uses Pteranodon properly so it's not like they are a massive issue.
Dryo's attack does do a bit too much considering his mouth looks like a fuckin fingernail lol
It does
Both of these animals are in this category where they are not really an issue in the hands of an average player but they become way too good when controlled by someone who knows how to play them.
I'd also argue that this isn't even a matter of skill because with Ptera it's largely reliant on knowing when you can attack stuff out of its range.
Personally id nerf his hp and attack (personally i'd also nerf utah hp to 750 because both are too tanky for their size), and wait on a good dodge before lowering his speed before adding galli who should probably hold the spot as the fastest herbi
I don't think I'd even really nerf Dryo's hp. Yea it might be a bit tanky but that's not an issue, it is too fast and deals too much damage though. It wouldn't become bad if it got moved down to its old speed of 50km/h but instead it would have to actually put some effort into surviving.
Not really worth it for a dryo in that case though, very low quality animal, which is why i would personally wait on it to have its special features fleshed out before lowering its speed to 50 or 51
Since it is basically just a more boring ground ptera if it has nothing going for it
Its like hypsi who is only worth picking sometimes because it spawns at full growth
It is a low quality animal even now. To be fair I think it was mainly introduced into the game because it was ready as an AI so the devs made it also playable while they decided to use it for testing AI.
I don't think Hypsi is worth picking at all due to Dryo just being much better.
Unless you just want to run around as Hypsi because it does look pretty good.
Hypsi is good for spitting at dinos who arent paying attention to you and then dying with 0 penalty of a time sink and thats it lol
Yea well, I don't think that that even achieves anything so I don't really consider it good at all. It just looks good and has an interesting special ability that's not really useful for survival at all. Overall not really worth picking unless you just want to troll around for a big.
A meme-animal
Same would go for Dryo if it wasn't for the fact that it's absurdly overtuned for its size.
And thats it, its a troll dino because its spit is useless for defense and only good for trolling. Dryo could be considered a troll dino because it's overtuned, they should clip its fingernail ass mouth to do less damage as a bandaid patch while fixing its dodge
The AI are about as dumb as a roach once you spot them in most cases so they arent a huge problem
I wouldn't really call a the current Dryo a troll pick because it's very much capable of killing a lot of things. I think the only three playables that are safe from an organised group of Dryos are Carno, Tenonto and Deino.
Stegos, Utahs and any younglings are all fair game for Dryo flocks.
And yea AI are really dumb on one hand and yet apparently they are really good at hiding.
I do have some doubts as to whether them not appearing very often is more so due to them being well hidden or if there just aren't very many AI on the map.
Juvies i'd argue should be fair game for anything in the proper size range, and stegos are dogshit against anything small and agile sadly
One of the reasons why I have my doubts is that I'd hear far more of their calls during the update 2. Nowadays those seem very rare.
Adult utahs realistically shouldnt be getting their ass beat by dryos unless they are grossly outnumbered
But a damage fix might help that
I'd agree but Dryos are still a bit too good at killing "small" animals. I put "small" in quotation marks because those animals are very often larger than Dryos in terms of absolute size but they still die to them.
Adult Utah dies for sure if there are 4 Dryos around.
3 can kill it as well rather easily, I've seen a video of a Utah getting soloed but I think that is down to Utah's incompetence more so than anything.
2v1 is idk, I've never seen that happen
I mean if it was an incompetent utah its just natural selection, but personally id think it should take 5 dryos to put a utah on the ropes since they can easily just run right now which is what they should do
They can run, so their attack should be much lower
yall complaining about dryos why? like there just there????
Would be cool if they gave us a surprise dryo dodge fix in update 4.5 but i doubt, i just think dryo would have 0 worth if they were reverted while their dodge is still bad
We're complaining about them because they are actually pretty overtuned
You are unlikely to notice that since barely anyone ever plays them
but yea they are definitely too strong atm
I mean i dont care that dryos are going on killing sprees i just understand the misbalance lol
I love that dryos are going around wrecking juvie utahs and carnos and lone utahs but it shouldnt be happening so much
I don't even care because I've had only like one Dryo try to kill my juv carnivore and it wasn't very good, expecting me to take the bait.
It shouldn't really be happening at all. Dryo is 4 times smaller than a Utah and yet for some reason deals more than half the damage of a Utah.
It also creates a lot of issues with the future small roster.
too strong would be unkillable or touchable which true at all
They are unkillable and untouchable if they wish to be that way but that being combined with the fact that they are surprisingly capable at PvP is the main issue.
I've seen what a Dryo flock could do to a sitting Stego in a matter of seconds.
It just doesn't seem right
Dryos bite is basically just a big pinch it shouldn’t really be killing anything bigger than it unless it is some big lynch mob surrounding one utah pinching it to death in a slow agonizing session
Is nerf really necessary? Not that much because aggressive PvP-oriented Dryos are rare so they are a negligible issue.
Overall though they definitely shouldn't be dealing that much damage nor running as fast as they do.
Stego dying to dryo is partly a stego problem too since their attack is garbage against anything with decent agility
Easy to juke
u sure your on official servers?
Yeah, although the instance with Stego didn't happen on official servers
i was about to say like really
I do play mainly officials and as I said those are really rare in my experience
official will get better with more dinos in my opinion
Ive heard a lot about dryos headshotting stegos to death and ive seen pteras finish off stegos who managed to beat off utah attackers, bad time for stegos lol
Dryo biting doesn’t even make sense to be honest, it should really be kicking with the legs
In which case the kick would be a much more telegraphed attack, and the damage it has now would make a bit more sense
An animal with such strong sprinting legs really should be using them as their offensive when their mouth is basically a tweezer tip, its bite shouldn’t be killing anything unless its facebiting an afk small tier because large dinos should be healing that shit off as fast as its applied
A dryo biting anything to death that’s not hypsi sized is a bit dumb yeah. If it used those legs though, that would have enough force to knock the wind out of a Utah for sure
@bitter copper
I smell a repost
I feel like you are posting the same message in every chat
I don't think stego needs a stun, would be a little busted, he definitely needs another swing attack though, maybe an aoe sweep with better coverage and less raw damage
O the stun idea was just for anky im a dummy
a stunning anky 
id rather just have anky dishing out shitloads of fracture and damage, doesnt need a stun when it can shatter your shins or break your jaw
exactly, do you think he should be a bit heavy too? or do you think theyll add like a scaly skin perk bc of his armor on his back?
maybe like a passive?
probably an armour mechanic, sort of like deino's passive bleed resistance
yeah i would hope so bc anky will be alot of fun if they do that
ran close to the word limit so I couldn't fit it, but something I wanted to add to my post in feedback is that part of the issue with stego's jab is that it's just kind of backwards in how it works? Easy to dodge attacks should generally drain less stam, because they're easy to miss. Attacks that are very hard to dodge should drain more stam, because if you miss that's probably your fault. This is what makes teno's tail slam good in terms of stam drain. It does use a fair bit of stam, but it's a very fast attack and it's difficult to dodge. If teno flails around spamming it they'll be punished, but if they pull it off properly they'll be fine. Stego's tail jab has a moment of windup though that makes it a predictable and easy attack to dodge, yet drains a fair bit of stam
this is also why I don't mind deino's alt bite not using much stam in theory, because it's a slow attack that's easy to avoid. I think the current situation is pretty overkill though. The lunge meanwhile does use a fair bit of stam, but is a quick attack that's a lot harder to dodge (partly because you usually don't see the deino coming)
Easy to dodge attacks should generally drain less stam, because they're easy to miss.
Depends, there's a 3rd factor, if it deals the most damage it makes sense. Hard to hit, takes alot, but rewarding.
Attacks that arent very hard to dodge should drain more stam, because if you miss that's probably your fault.
But this could be balanced by doing the opposite from the above, make it weaker, easy to hit, low stam.
This is what makes teno's tail slam good in terms of stam drain. It does use a fair bit of stam, but it's a very fast attack and it's difficult to dodge.
It stun locks you as a drawback. Heavy damage but there's a drawback.
If teno flails around spamming it they'll be punished, but if they pull it off properly they'll be fine. Stego's tail jab has a moment of windup though that makes it a predictable and easy attack to dodge, yet drains a fair bit of stam and deals far more damage than tenos tail.
there is that yeah, but it makes things a lot more murky :P
I think stego's tail jab is fine as is in terms of overall speed, stam drain and how much damage it deals, if stego gets a secondary attack that's faster, does less damage and drains less stam
not an effective attack against large animals, but good against small ones
stego doesn't need the power of the tail jab to get rid of a utah, but the bite is utterly pointless, so it doesn't have any other option than to jab and hope the utah doesn't dodge
I think stego's tail jab is fine as is in terms of overall speed, stam drain and how much damage it deals, if stego gets a secondary attack that's faster, does less damage and drains less stam
Agreed, the heavy attack (current attack) should be an Alt attack and be used against apexes.
There should be a faster attack that replaces the current one that's alot weaker and meant for smaller more agile targets.
I have to agree with you, BUT! until we have so much desync problems overall this can't be implemented. I died like 500 times because the stego swing his tail 100 miles away from me and i got 1 shotted as a Utah. Or my favorite usually when i bite steg head then i manage to run away like 1-2 stegbody distance and still get a tailhit which is 75% or Utah hp.
I really hope that devs will focus on engine.
We dont need more dinos which dies in lagg.
We dont need fancy moving plants which will cause even more lagg.
We dont need nice water which cause laggy riversides.
We need a game where survival is not relaying on lagg.
Please Devs! Makes things happening 😄 I know its hard and i dont know how to help in this process. But maybe there should be a little more ONLY TEST servers, where you can constantly test things.
Who says utahs run down carnos to kill them in defense but tenos don't? Utahs have an easier time escaping carnos, maybe tenos are just taking opportunities to eliminate threats 
Carno has enough of a speed advantage that it can wallow
Yeah true. Also there is this neat little thing called crouching That Carno can do in order to not get detected
IF it has full stamina
and if it's in the right place
that's not a good argument
I'm sure every carno will be full stam and near mud when they're getting chased by 5 chinese kos-ing tenos lmfao
carno stam is so bad
and its regen is fast
so why even have low stam
it
would make more sense
to have high stam slow regen
teno intended gameplay is not to run down carnos lol
it was made to counter them in PVP
Crouching isn't going to do much
you'd have to be near bushes
and even then everything can smell you
what teno is going to stop chasing a carno because it ran into a bush lmao
carno is a plains hunter
in my opinion it doesn't make sense for a plains hunter to have low stamina, it has a lot of ground to cover
also about the ram
it's not worth it even if you have the jump on something
it takes too much stamina that you'd wanna have while fighting'
and it leaves you vulnerable to third-parties
I'd only ever do it if I am hunting something that's alone
If you're not always keeping your stamina and food/water up, minding your surroundings, being aware of the pros and cons of where you are, I'd say that's on your head for not thinking in survival terms. That's not something the game should be adjusted to account for.
You just sound like a salty carno 
"Stegos shouldnt be able to run me down"
"Why cant I get away from 5 tenontos, I shouldnt have to wallow I should be faster than galli"
Carno mains truly have some sort of god complex. Utahs can run you down, and tenontos can too, if you were gonna run you should've never tried to take on 5 tenontos (since you're out of stam) that's on you buddy.
"Fighting leaves you vulnerable to 3rd parties"
...you dont say?
This is the problem with the feedback server
if anyone makes feedback suggesting tweaking some stats
the people think
"lol i died so buff me"
"Utahs can chase down carno as defense"
But not tenontos?
why would a tenonto use the stam it needs for its tail and kicks lmao
?
that's the only defense it has
Well, you're asking for a change that can be handled by just playing a bit smarter, at least somewhat..
^
It isn't always possible to get away from multiple players doing what they aren't intended to
1st off why are you engaging 5 tenontos as carno long enough for your stam to be drained?
I didn't even play carno today
You're faster, can crouch to hide tracks completely..
I didn't engage 5 tenos lmfao
I'm saying if you run into them by coincidence
you can't really get away that easily
Then you can easily book it and avoid them^
Wallowing ;l
tenos can easily run down carnos lmao
yeah let me wallow in deino infested rivers
there are only 2 rivers in this dog shit map to be fair
There are risks to life, you wanna chance a deino or get hunted down? Which one is more likely.
Utahs and stegos wallow all the time, but you're too afraid to do so?
I can see why
Well too bad, any player can KOS on any dino.
Just crouch?
You don't leave tracks at all when crouching, unless that changed? So.. where's the issue really? :p
Fighting is an inherent part of survival
Also if you know the map well enough there are mud spots away from rivers or in shallows.
the only protection you have while crouching is bushes
not very easy for a huge therapod
enough protection ^
Yes? And yes, I know there's some cheating, but there's bushes enough, and don't just stop, use your stam, then crouch away
Bushes in evrima are ridiculously big
You run almost out of stam, crouch, then promptly head in a different direction, or even backtrack slightly "to the side" so you can trick them
So when tenontos are chasing you yorue gonna stay in the plains instead of going into the jungle and breaking line of sight.
Smarter plays can be made...
Jungles don't really have much cover
for carno anyway
especially if you're crouching
literally anything can see your tail
They have enough cover to break line of sight and force them to sniff you down if they are so hard pressed.
I don't think it's them being pressed
By then youd be out of the jungle and wallowed, and would've kept moving
Positioning as well, you know which way they might come from, so hide correctly
more of hunting for fun
the shallows thing is true
I feel like deino doesn't have anything to eat
other than fish AI or other deinos
Well they are cannibals 
yeah I mean that'd be fine if the juvis were able to escape
I've heard somewhere that they plan on making deinos under a certain percentage faster than adults on land.
I hope they go through with that
Indeed, also underwater vegetation will be a thing that helps.
Yea idk about Carno hiding in the jungles. It can most definitely lose a Tenonto there but I don't think it's all that doable by just crouching in the bushes. You also don't need to engage those 5 Tenontos for a very long time at all for them to track you down. I've had an instance some time ago where I fought 6 Tenontos, I got one of them using roughly 25% of my stamina. Still got ran down by the rest eventually(admittedly the fight did take place a bit far from any forest). Is it balanced? Kind of... but at the same time a bit nonsensical for Carno to be reliant on being in a close proximity to dense forests, considering it's meant to be a hunter of the plains. Then again not very many thing currently work as they are meant to so I wouldn't really consider it a problem. I'd argue that eventually it will need some tweaks.
Having said that Tenonto is a bit on the good side(if not too good). I would hold on with nerfing it until the next patch and see how it performs with diets already in but as it is the animal is definitely one of the better ones in the game, probably falling just behind Dryo and Deino.
In other words it offers a tonne of firepower while requiring little to no-effort.
Yes however as you said you hunted 6 vs 1 carno. If a 1 v 1 with tenonto is a balanced matchup why would you attempt doing so? If you had a pack of atleast 3 you would've been able to kill them all.
And yes you can get hunted down but you cannot get chased down if you know what I mean. As you said you couldnt break line of sight, that's already bad for an animal who can get stammed down. Might I ask if you were able to wallow? (Not that that would help if you were in the plains or open area)
Imo all dinos should strive to be tenonto level as to me it's the most balanced dino.
It does have alot of fire power with its tail but it's not like it has no drawbacks to it. It drains alot of stam and holds you in place. So it's one if the easier dinos to bait imo.
3 Carnos should not be killing 6 Tenontos unless the Tenontos are really bad tbh. Stun on any Carno there should pretty much mean that it dies on the spot.
Wallowing was not an option as the hunt took place in the southern plains. I've ran out of stamina right after reaching the forest.
And I kind of agree that Tenonto is balanced. I consider it to have the Allo-syndrome where it's one of the few well balanced animals which makes it seem overpowered. As for the drawbacks of the Tenonto - yea it does have some but I wouldn't really say that the stam drain is that big of an issue.
I don't remember running out of stamina as a Tenonto in any fight ever.
The main "issue" with Tenonto is that it has to remain stationary to put out most of its dps which coupled with the fact that its best attacks are directed at its behind means that it's not particularly good at offense.
This is also the reason why despite being really good it's not all that oppressive.
Well you appear to be a good player, so you probably dont spam tail.
As for your carno play, do you believe that if you managed your stam better or picked a better fight that you wouldn't have gotten stammed down?
I agree with your last comment. The kick can be utilized while moving and you can 360 no scope with it so it could be used "offensively" but yeah it's meant for defense 100%.
Yea I know about the kick but I personally have never gotten hit with it. It does have its use for sure but it's limited range makes it a subpar tool to the tailslam.
Yeah
I myself typically also resorted to just using the tail although I did land some kicks in some fights while I was trying to conserve stamina and see whether kick is worth anything.
If I were to change something about the Tenonto
I'd probably swap the damage and stam cost on the kick and tailslam.
At least in my experience tailslam is easier to land than the kick.
This would make it so that Tenonto can use its long range and easier to land attack to CC a target.
And then utilise the kick to dish out the dps.
Ah, ok. That would be interesting.
This is just my theorycrafting though I'm not sure whether it's the best solution.
As it is though I don't utilise the kick very much myself.
Yeah it wouldn't really change carnos being stammed down. But it would def be an interesting change.
The kick also deals bleed and has a little stun. (Like .5-1sec)
I would ignore Carno being stammed down for now, it is an issue but a minor one.
And it could be avoided with better awareness.
It could but it's just a bit weird that a dedicated plains-hunter has to stay close to the woods to avoid being ran-down by its herbivorous rival. It's just a weird design but not exactly the end of the world.
If it is still an issue after the next update it might be worth looking into but I think the diets might make it a bit better.
Yeah, tenontos I hope are still gonna be swamp dwellers
One of the issues with Tenonto in my mind is that it's one of the effortless animals, meaning that you can grow it by just being afk and paying no attention to the game and putting close to 0 effort.
Dryo is the worst offender here, Deino and Stego aren't much better than Tenonto either as they both can be grown in that manner.
True, but getting good with tenonto definitely takes skill especially with all the moves it has.
Dryo needs a rework/rebalance imo.
It does but as I've mentioned before - the diets update might make Tenonto's life a little bit harder so I wouldn't touch it for the time being.
Its juvenile is still rather lackluster and while it's not an issue atm as Tenonto can just sit afk in a corner of the map until its fully grown, it might become a bigger problem when you have to travel around as this animal before it's fully capable.
This would likely nerf it in an indirect way.
Yeah
The main issue with herbivores atm is most carnivores congregate around a few hot spots, and it is too easy to avoid them and hide. Diets will hopefully alleviate that, and the Spire V2 map will hopefully alleviate it further
The only thing which really ever brings passive herbivores and carnivores into proximity is water, and there are still tons of spots (swamp, NE river) where you can safely drink for days
the main issue with herbivores isnt really that, it's the fact that they have nothing to play for and then get swamped by 20 carnis at once
carnis have something to do, herbis just eat plant and go on kfs sprees because their gameplay is empty, and diets will likely not alleviate that as much as people hype them up for
Legacy was more interesting for big herbivores, because there was so little cover you needed to herd to be safe... But then food stress forces you to migrate around
it will change from eat bush, to travel across the map to eat specific bush
nothing should have to group up to be viable, and herbivore herding will likely become harder with diets
Utahs are already forced to group, as long as there are options for both solo and group play I don't think that's an issue
no, utahs can escape their threats and hunt small game and scavenge easily
they are viable on their own, they are just much more effective in a group
Small game? Like what? AI dryo?
juvies, dryos
a lone utah can solo a stego too if the stego doesnt shove its face in a rock
Dryos are quicker, as are juvy carnos
the attack is quite easy to dodge
Yeah juvy stegs and tenos are an option, but you can't reliably survive on those
i bit a stego on the face so many times as a dryo and utah can do the same and kill it
adult stegos can be soloed if they dont stick their face in a rock
Same goes for scavenging, without the legacy carcass mechanics
Any Steg which lets you bit its face is a noob... And you can't balance on that
actually there are plenty of corpses just laying around on active servers
and not really, stego's attack is pretty sad and easy to smalls to juke, it is horrific against small agile dinos
That hasn't been my experience. Any corpses in the open are usually bait by carnos
eh different experiences then
utah can escape its threats while alone, the majority of herbis will be slower than their predators and will also usually be outnumbered
Ive only got about 15 hours Utah, most of that in packs, but I've had to rely on charity and luck a lot when solo
It's rare to find vulnerable juvys in my experience
And most are new carno players
ive ran into a lot of oblivious juvie carnos and deinos especially when playing around as dryo, guess its just happenstance
a lot of juvies that dont even seem to be paying attention to their surroundings
just waiting to get kosed
The meta atm for most species is to afk until late juvy, so anyone running around as a baby is usually new
Or with a parent
maybe im just lucky, but not really since i was playing herbi, but if i wasn't then it would have been easy pickings as a solo
What server? Admittedly I've played a lot on <50 pop
was probably official 2, honestly dont even remember
My solo carno had to grow on nothing but AI dryo
On AU
Never saw a soul
Happy to get told I'm playing wrong
I know you didn't, but I'm also aware that sometimes the answer to "game is imbalanced' is 'you aren't using all the tools you have'
utah can be viable on its own as it can easily escape its threats alone and has an array of things it can kill alone, luck or lack thereof isnt really factored in
especially since the roster is expanding
There's a lot of imbalance and things to tweak
Though one could argue herbi's have been the most balanced in the isle rn currently than ever
So my experience of solo Utah is hunger is the biggest killer, unless a carno catches you low Stam or in the open... Most of the things I meet are packs, 2-3 carnos or tenos, and I don't have the skill to take that on
tenonto is pretty balanced, the others not so much
Dryo's are gods, Tenos are in a sweet spot, with the exception of Stego/Hypsi
dryo's attack is weirdly high for the fact that its mouth is basically a little pincher, hypsi is an unfinished mess and stego is utah bait
Honestly if Stego got an aoe sweep, and the deino matchup was fixed
90% of my meals as solo Utah have been carrion or charity from a deino or something
Stego would be in an amazing spot rn
yeah stego's biggest problem is probably its shitty jab
Stego is hard to take on with high ping
Easy with low, unless they really know what they are doing
I think the jab should be reserved for mid tiers and higher
High power, but punishing to use like the teno tail slam
Steg is the only real FG Dino I can reliably hunt as Utah
it should definitely be easier to defend from a faster predator than to attack, the stego has to hope lag saves it or that the utah sucks shit at juking
Yeah, Teno can use claw and bite to deal with Utah's or Carno's playing bad
Stego is not in that position
It must use it's jab in order to fight, it's like if the Teno's only attack was just the slam
But with land mobility and easy food
tje jab really does feel like a secondary attack
Admittedly deino food isn't exactly hard to come by either
I don't think we need to really stress about Stego's balance, as a simple additional attack and a matchup with deino fix would solve all of Stego's issues
deino can sit on land and spin around like a beyblade for 0 stam cost and merk everything, and if it somehow gets itself in a pickle it can swim into water where no terrestrial can fight it. it has easy fish in the river unless that shit broke, moronic carnos are always looking to fight with it so it has no shortage of land prey, deino's only threat is other deinos or its own stupidity
stego has nowhere to run, bad attack coverage and lower health
Just let stegs jab and run at the same time, and balance stamina better
Ehh, I don't think that'd solve anything
the jab is general shite, it should have a sweep
I think the jab should stay, just give it alternatives to make it flexible in combat
There should be a sweep like teno slams, animation locked and high Stam cost
the jab should stay, but it need s a sweep so it isnt getting soloed by one dryo or utah or forced to shove its face into a boulder to survive
The fact that there are rabid dryos out for Steg blood amuses me greatly
dryo is a monster right now, its attack should be reduced
as hilarious as it is, it's wrong
I hope diets let herbivores occasionally snack on meat, just like IRL herbivores
its mouth looks like my thumbnail yet its using it to kill stegos and utahs
certai herbis like ava could probably benefit from that but i dont think tenos need more fuel to go on murder sprees aside from amusement which will always be a motive
If Stego gets it's additional attack(therefore becoming more viable against packs), while having it's collision fixed(therefore being a hard counter to bush gators)
This would solve the land Deino issue, and the Stego's questionable viability
Two birds with one stone
True. Maybe some herbis like Hypsi should have harder time finding food, and have meaty snacks to alleviate
With risk of illness
I wouldn't be against nocturnal dryo
Come to think of it
There is no nocturnal herbies huh
making food harder to find only makes the game more tedious, especially when its the same old eat bush boring
Isn't Dilo going to be nocturnal though
hypsi aint eating meat either lol that would be weird as fuck, he can eat bugs
Nvm, I got it
Hypsi looks like an omnivore to me with that beak
i lowkey want dryo and taco to be nocturnal, something about taco just really feels like a night kind of dino
hypsi eating bugs wouldnt look bad, a lot of herbis could eat bugs honestly
Nocturnal Taco and Dryo does feel right though
Insectivores would be a really cool mechanic if done well
hypsi stamping lizard ai and bugs as supplemential bits
since small ais like that were mentioned
Might get bodied in day, but at night, they can do whatever the hell they want, most carni playables won't touch them.
i hope taco keeps his burrowing as well, maybe has the most complex burrowing of them all
burrowing, porcupine quills and nocturnal sight, then he wont be the sad chicken nugget from legacy anymore
Having small herbi critters becoming active and making noise at night would breathe some life in the night sections as well
and hopefully juvy utahs can still get down the burrows, too
id assume anything small enough would be allowed to burrow raid
People had trouble with coming up with a niche for Mono
I think Mono should be a badger
Being able to dig and snuff out camping burrowers
While evicting and keeping them as well
I'd like to see tracking made easier in the daytime, good visible footprints and blood trails
Very hard to follow small dinos atm unless you have top notch sound
Or, y'know, no foliage exploits like some people have been caught with
I think the foliage and grass helps alot in keeping the smalls more viable
Since they might not outrun their pursuers sometimes, they can at least escape if the pursuer messes up their initial attack
i think a way to make smalls keep their hiding for viability while making it less of a bitch to track them would be for small animals generally to have better hearing, more highlighted noise, so there arent just big bored idiots going out of their way to kfs some hypsi theiy saw for 0.5% hunger
might be a dumb idea tho idk
Most rivers have a nice level of cover, it's all the big piles of ferns out on the plains
So easy for herbi herds to hide in
Well,herds get pack scent if grouped, but otherwise
hiding is all herbis often have right now, since they are usually outnumbered
there shouldnt be changes made specifically to stop it
The design supports ambush predators, in legacy it was a bitch to get a good sneak up on an opponent
While it also supports smalls and herbis, it gives them room to breathe and escape people attempting to run them down
I've lost Utah packs in a chase several times as Teno zigzagging through the jungles and breaking line of sight
Yeah, it can be really hard to follow when you have to slow to sniff every time you lose LoS
Not like a dog IRL which will happily lope and sniff at the same time
I think if it was barren as legacy, teno wouldn't be as fun, as well as raising juvies in evrima
juvies in evrima still suck, but are miles better than how agonizing legacy was
Legacy was definitely too barren, my personal (uneducated) opinion is it swing too far the other way
Legacy had night time to support transiting too
In some instances it might
Though with more biomes coming, it'll be likely not much of an issue
Maybe I just need to accept that the game is balanced around 80+ servers, and that it will get better as new people transition from deino
Diets will change all the map meta anyway
Good chance diets are overhyped
We'll see how the execution plays out
For now, we just gotta wait on the next update probably in the next month or so
I've been generally pleasantly surprised with the Dev team so far, I think they have the smarts and drive to succeed were other assymetrical survival games have failed
Stego is already deinos kryptonite. The matchup is already 50/50 but either side could win easily depending how it happens.
A stego can easily kite a deino and kill it. Deino would be biting the tail, stego would be getting head/body shots. Future caveman did a vid on how many shots each could take from the other.
Deino could win if the stego stood still as it would get in body/head shots with alt bite while the stego is forced to hit the tail.
i win only when stego isn't hittin my face, tbh deino can be better if the hit registration was more optimum in my opinion
It's not really kryptonite if it's 50/50
Stego's have an easier time with Carno's
But Raptor packs would be it's hard counter
A Stego could kite, but when it jabs it stays still
Deino lunges forward when it alt bites
Which is why we have cases where it can collision hit it to the head through Stego's body
True, kiting stego wins...tanking deinos wins.
Depending on how it plays out its kryptonite I just say 50/50 because In the event stego kites deino just loses (stego should always kite) but on the other hand...
Yep, that's why you cant let the deino reach your body, keep him at the tail.
It'd be more fair if the Deino properly positioned and hit the Stego's head
Yes^
But that's not the best way for the Deino to take on a Stego
It must alt bite it through the ass and break the collision to have the best chance at winning. It's the most viable tactic in the matchup
Which is why it's a bit ridiculous
Lol, yeah.
If Stego got proper collision
We'd see a lot less cocky gators contesting Stego's for the fun of it
Deino would have a tad tougher time.
Ofcourse
Especially if it gets the jump on it
But not when it's done in a really stupid fashion
It'd be like the tail spike would be the best place for a Utah to pounce and do bonus damage
Lmfao
I don’t think stego should destroy deinos. The reason being that the fight looks so dumb and takes a minimum effort from both parties. So this fight should be very discouraged.
I agree that Stego being Deino's kryptonite isn't a very good idea. The situation where a bunch of Stegos just sat at rivers waiting for Deinos to appear wasn't really any better than what we have now.
Ive suggested this before but there should be armor and armor piercing damage in the game. Like deino would be heavily armored while stego should do massive AP damage which would do massive amounts of damage to deino while its total damage output stays the same
That’s because of bad map design and stegos having no reason to go anywhere else. (Im assuming u mean the cancer going on in the shallows and pocket)
Something similar would happen to teno and cera once he gets added
That's mainly what I was talking about yea, but it's just weird when Stego does so well against Deino that the animal ends up being used to actively hunt it.
Herbivores going after predators to slow to get away
Ye i dont know if they can fix that by balance or if there just have to be rule servers to prevent behavior like that
I think that Stego should most definitely be threatened by Deinosuchus in one way or another and it shouldn't be a one-sided confrontation at all.
We need diets in to help spread this map out
Like honestly it’s one of the biggest issues with all the players in either one of two spots around center
the only difference is that evirma juvies are faster
@crystal stream My personal opinion on your carno Stam suggestions - I think carno Stam is in a good place, and if anything needs a nerf with bites using Stam... But I do think teno Stam or at least sprint time could use some tweaking
Typically IRL most big predators rely on ambush and short fast sprinrs, not better stamina to take down prey (wolves aside), and I see carnos occupying that same lion/tiger niche
Where I guess the Utah analogue would be said wolves, relying on high mobility and numbers
Break mechanics should help alleviate that - when there is higher risk in fights people should be less likely to fight when there is no advantage to be gained
When a stray bite can cripple a teno and prevent them running away, they won't be quite so cocky around carnos
How do you get run down by tenos as a carno
Literally just run half the map and crouch
I've seen them chase carnos, but never really catch unless the carno already bled all their Stam
It's usually tenos picking fights with willing carnos and the just straight winning
Same way a stego kills them haha
Isnt stego an apex herbivore and deino is a psuedo apex?
Lion/tiger niche would be more like allo. Carno is like a cheetah. Gets bullied off of its kill by the bigger mid tiers.
ive not had much of a problem dealing with a stego as a deino
deinos biggest threat is another deino/ pair of canni
Deino bas literally no bad 1v1 matchups at adult
except deino
Thats a 50/50
That's its worst matchup
Bad matchup would be uneven odds
So deino is a busted animal
Its worst matchup is a 50/50
What if deino had 60/40 matchup against another deino ?
What would that mean in terms of game balance ?
I mean i guess whoever gets the first hit usually wins if that counts
So whoever gets the first hit is at a 60/40 advantage lol
Well yeah
I guess I'm just going to spend the next hours finding a situation where there can be an uneven matchup against two full-grown dinos of the same species, unless they have specific buffs or debuffs
Deino isnt busted it's just released early.
No its busted because it can spin around spam biting on land with 0 stam cost and has no bad matchups despite there being another animal in its tier in game
It can escape any land threat and has an easy food source despite being a predator
While being able to effectively oneshot most of the roster with its special
Stego also has no bad matchups currently.
Sure you can give it alt bite stam drain.
Deino actually doesnt oneshot anything, utah can take 2 bites from body.
It's supposed to be able to escape land dinos.
It's not broken, it's just released before its time. It's like adding a watered down rex into the current roster. Ofcourse it has no "bad" matchups, just 50/50s
Stego has no bad matchups? Wrong, its attack functions poorly against small tiers and unlike deino it can't just flee to some safe space. Stego can be soloed by a dryo or utah if it doesnt stuff its face in a rock and hope it leaves, or unless server lag works in stego's favour or its attacker is a horrible juker.
Deino is well equipped for ambushing from the water with an ability that oneshots most of the roster, yet is also still good at brawling on land. Despite being a semiaquatic he bas better land coverage than most terrestrials.
If deino finds itself in an unfavourable position it can just slink back into deep water, a deino will only die to terrestrials if it wants to.
Despite being equipped to hunt and pvp animals its size it has an easy and steady food source in the rivers so maintaining it is crazy easy
So this isnt just an issue of incomplete roster, a predator equipped to kill a large array of animals shouldnt have a food source as easy as an herbi's, and a semiaquatic shouldnt be so good on land
"Stego is bad against small tiers"
Utahs beats anything. If you're skilled enough you can land your attack. Stego can flee to a tree side.
Yes the fact it can feed on fish as an adult and have that option be viable is abit ridiculous. You have that.
Crocodiles are "good on land" in a defensive manner. The best you can do to nerf deino on land should be to make its alt bite drain its stam.
Stego needs a faster and weaker attack for small tiers.
A utah shouldn’t beat “anything” solo, its quarry should scale with pack size, one or a couple utahs and especially dryo shouldnt be forcing a stego to hide its face or be killing it. This is a 6 ton defensive animal vs a 500kg pack hunter and whatever the hell dryo weighs, which is even less
The fact that one utah can put any 6hr grow dino on the ropes is absurd
2 utahs can solo anything. Skill and agility beats raw power and hp.
A deino could equally get wrecked by 2 utahs as a stego would (eception being deino wouldn't be getting headshotted and stego would.)
Dryo can put a carnotaurus on the run because of its mobility despite being far weaker.
Utahs can not solo or duo a deino unless the deino allows them to
2 500kg pack hunters shouldnt be taking down psuedo apexes with relative ease
It doesnt even require good skill to juke a stego
Utahs can not solo or duo a deino unless the deino allows them to
You mean if the deino runs away correct (since its about to die)? Meaning 2 utahs beat a deino.
Exactly like I said.
2 500kg pack hunters shouldnt be taking down psuedo apexes with relative ease
It isnt easy, it takes focus and skill.
It doesnt even require good skill to juke a stego
Youd be surprised that the average utah are the ones who die to stegos. It does take skill to know when to commit or exit back out.
The deino can run away into its preferred biome and be immune, stego is forced to hide in some tree or rock and be held hostage while deino is just being made to retreat from an area where it isnt designed to thrive in the first place. Deino has a safe space with easy food access where it also has the ability to oneshot utahs and carnos from out of sight.
Utah players in legacy also claimed assriding a rex took focus and skill, they like to make it sound more badass than it really is. An easy dodgable attack hitbox from an animal poorly equupped to defend itself against smalls, nothing more.
It also takes a lot more to put a deino on the ropes due to their top notch bleed resist
The average utah is a pounce spamming moron too, it doesnt take a lot of learning to realize you can just kill a stego with bite only
The deino can run away into its preferred biome and be immune
- That is where deinos dwell. And you admit that the deino retreating means the utahs would've beaten it.
stego is forced to hide in some tree or rock and be held hostage
- Well that is where stegos dwell.
So far all you're saying is "deino is a croc who can swim and stego isnt"
C'mon man.
while deino is just being made to retreat from an area where it isnt designed to thrive in the first place.
Exactly, so deino isnt broken on land as much as you're making it seem.
Deino has a safe space with easy food access where it also has the ability to oneshot utahs and carnos from out of sight.
- It cant oneshot them unless it from the head. And carno isnt oneshot period I dont believe. Stego however can oneshot utah and 2 shot carno.
Utah players in legacy also claimed assriding a rex took focus and skill
- it does, you are a fool to believe the average utah can just assride a rex. Also this is evrima, where a dino can turn on a damn dime. So false equivalence on your part.
they like to make it sound more badass than it really is. An easy dodgable attack hitbox from an animal poorly equupped to defend itself against smalls, nothing more.
- multiple attacks that oneshots you and has a ranges of damn near 360 degrees that has a wind up time of about .5 to 1 second (jab is more like 1-1.5). If you know the utah is committing you can absolutley hit him. That's apart of having skill, predicting your opponent.
Yes deino has bleed resistance as it should.
You can kill anything with bite only.
360 degree range of motion, a stego doesnt have the same weakness as a trike where it cant protect its weakspot (and most likely anky)
The deino gets to choose its fights, if it doesnt want to fight a utah or carno pack it can make the decision itself despite being the stronger animal. Deino has better attack coverage than stego so it takes more to actually make one retreat out of defeat and not annoyance.
Stego isnt supposed to sit in one spot with its face in a tree, that is a horrid argument, that would be like saying a deino is supposed to shove its ass in a waterfall and stay there. One case is forcing an animal to stay in spot, the other is driving an animal into its preferred biome where it is invulnerable, free to move and has food and water, not even comparable.
And you just defended assriding claiming its skillful lmao
Knowing an easily avoidable hitbox is there isnt skill
The deino gets to choose its fights
- it doesnt, anything can run away from it.
if it doesnt want to fight a utah or carno pack it can make the decision itself despite being the stronger animal.
Yep, a case of the stornger animal being beaten by skill/number of 2.
Deino has better attack coverage than stego
Only in the sense of speed (actually no, I'd say the speed that deino turns around to a 180 is just about the same as stegos jab if not slower)
Stego isnt supposed to sit in one spit with its face in a tree, that is a horrid argument, that would be like saying a deino is supposed to shove its ass in a waterfall and stay there.
- it's called using your environment to your advantage. What you're arguing is that tenonto, carno, stego shouldnt have to stand by a tree not to get pounced on by a utah. Not putting your head IN a tree, but standing by one is what I said.
One case is forcing an animal to stay in spot, the other is driving an animal into its preferred biome where it is invulnerable
- currently invulnerable. And again you're making nothing but a case of "but deino can swim and stego cant"
And you just defended assriding claiming its skillful lmao
Take some random dude (whos average)or you yourself and do it then since it's so easy ;)
Knowing an easily avoidable hitbox is there isnt skill
"Easily avoidable"
A hit box that covers the entire left side of an animal that extends all the way to the back of the tail "easily avoidable"
By your logic all animals hit boxes are easily avoidable since they are all smaller than rexes. Smh.
And you're acting as if the rex cant justhit the right side lmfao
That's why it's considered "hit box abuse"
You can't compare deino "biome" to using the terrain, there's using your terrain to your advantage, and there's having an entire "biome" where you're free, which means that deino is one of the few slow animals that can choose to fight or not, barring it's own kind. And deino is by far superior to stego survivability and fighting wise, stegos attacks, barring the fast jab are pretty shitty, whereas deino free alt bite is pretty amazing. Take the same amount of utahs/carnos vs a deino or a stego, the deino will be a far harder fight than the stego, especially if you give them both "terrain" advantage. Deino can go off into water to heal untouchable, stego is locked to a tree or rock and can be starved/dehydrated. Not to mention that deino from water has the lunge to start the fight with at that.
The deino can choose if it wants to fight, stego can not. Should have been obvious.
The deino isnt beat, it gets to live and thrive, choosing not to fight and then thriving is not a loss. It can not be held hostage unless it wants to.
Deino has better coverage BECAUSE of speed, it can spam its full coverage attack very quickly, and the fact that it drains no stam while doing it makes it worse.
You are really hardest on thinking a stego shoving its face in a rock to defend against a 500kg dino is as good as what deinos have, objectively wrong, the stego can be starved and dehydrated into moving or dying. My case isnt that deino can swim as much as the fact that it is invulnerable from all land predators in the water while having as good of odds on land as stego in most cases.
I assrode rexes with albertos and theris, which are much less agile tjan utahs, dont even bother defending such a shite and easy mechanic lmao. The fact that you think assriding a rex takes skill shows what you think skill is, it doesn't take skill to solo a stego as utah.
On top of that, you got all the extra stats the deino has, which means it's by far the stronger opponent, despite being on land, the "biome" it's not at all suited to be on in the first place. Unlike stego who is supposed to be a plains animal, not near rocks or trees all that much at that.
It takes knowing that the attack can be juked and that is it
You could give stego the deinos current stats, health and resist/regen wise, and stego would still have a worse matchup vs the others than deino would, if only because deino can still retreat freely, and has a very useful free attack it can just use, whereas stego will be out of stamina at some point.
You can't compare deino "biome" to using the terrain, there's using your terrain to your advantage, and there's having an entire "biome" where you're free, which means that deino is one of the few slow animals that can choose to fight or not, barring it's own kind.
He's the he's comparing them, not me.
And deino is by far superior to stego survivability
Sure, survivability goes to deino because it can run away, it cannot however "pick its fights"
and fighting wise, stegos attacks, barring the fast jab are pretty shitty, whereas deino free alt bite is pretty amazing. Take the same amount of utahs/carnos vs a deino or a stego, the deino will be a far harder fight than the stego
With utahs deino would be harder, but with carnos they definitely have a harder time woth stego.
, especially if you give them both "terrain" advantage.
Who the hell is gonna fight a deino in water unless they themselves are sucho?
Deino can go off into water to heal untouchable, stego is locked to a tree or rock and can be starved/dehydrated.
Stego isnt locked to one spot, there are trees near river if you're so thirsty. You just have to stay near trees (use of terrain) so they dont pounce you.
Not to mention that deino from water has the lunge to start the fight with at that.
And stego cant be brought into he water and it can outrun deino/kite deino.
"It takes knowing the attack can be juked"
Deino gets juked aswell, what's your point?
You can't compare deino "biome" to using the terrain, there's using your terrain to your advantage, and there's having an entire "biome" where you're free, which means that deino is one of the few slow animals that can choose to fight or not, barring it's own kind.
“He's the he's comparing them, not me.”
Literally wasnt but ok
Again so far yalls only argument is "deino can swim and stego cant"
That's like saying a crocodile can just go in the water while a lion cant do so.
Deino can choose it's fights, since it can just go away into water/not go out of it. Stego can not do something similar. Ptera can also choose, seeing as it can fly away, and carno/utah can run from most things (utahs can juke carnos and reach areas they can not).
It cant force a confrontation, and it has to stay near water.
The crocodile can choose that it doesn’t want to fight and then make itself invincible while also being a good brawler on land, that is the point, how hard is that to understand
You mean it can retreat from an attacker. NOT force a fight.
I don't think you understand what "choosing your fight" means here. It means that if I see you and I don't want to fight you, you can't force the engagement.
No other dino can do something similar to deino but ptera
No, deino can't "force" a utah or carno to fight, but it can't be forced either, unlike stego.
I don't think you understand what "choosing your fight" means here. It means that if I see you and I don't want to fight you, you can't force the engagement.
No, it means "if I see someone I want to kill, they could just avoid me and I'll never catch them"
"Cannot force a fight"
There is a difference between choosing confrontations and controlling confrontations
Really you gotta stop putting carno in there. Carno gets absolutley shit on by stego while carno has a chance against deino (exception being drowned in the water)
Utahs can beat anything in 2+
And deino can do just that, unlike stego. Stego can not avoid the hunters, deino can, barring another deino. And granted, stego can avoid a deino, very impressive, and even then deinos can do serious damage to a stego on land, especially if they ambush, as they can with the bushes, believe it or not. :p
Stego cant avoid the hunters, it's not meant to, just like deino cant chase down. It's not meant to.
Stego is slower but far stronger and tankier.
It isnt tankier 
Carnos can still handle stegos I'm pretty sure, harder, absolutely, but they can still mess about. But granted, utahs are better at it. Carnos can still headbite, just like utah, and unlike utah, they can take the hit and be just fine.
I've seen deinos hunt stegos on land, but /10/10 times the stegos just stood still and let the deino bite thier bodys/heads while they hit deinos tail.
Stego is tankier than utah and carno 
Stego is not tankier, stego is weaker on pretty much every aspect than deino, barring the damage, not counting lunge.
Not tankier than deino, the one being compared
Carnos absolutley cannot take stego less its 2 or more and they take turns baiting.
Deino is tankier AND has a safespace retreat
I think our point here is that deino is superior to stego survivability and fighting wise.
I want comparing stego to dieno, I said it was tankier than the other land animals
So if you have stego or deino vs the same amount of utahs/carnos, deino will do better 99% of the time
And it bleeds like a water balloon
Survivability yes because it can run into the water. Fighting wise no, stego only has a hard time against utah.
Deino wouldn't do better unless it's with utahs.
Fightingwise anyway, because deinos attacks are better in general and more effective.
And it can stay in the fighting much longer at that
Resist, regen, and no stam on it's very useful attack, unlike stego
Meaning stego can be worn out a lot easier, and goes down a lot easier, compared to the thing that shouldn't be on land in the first place..
Of course, but a baited swing from stego = less attacks. Baited from deino = nothing.
Deino has bleed resist, not stego.
Well then like I've said at the start of this thing, make deinos alt bite take stam. That's it.
You could, but deino would still be better off. Which I guess is what we're debating here. Deino has less bad matchups than stego, deino overall is more survivable than stego, and generally a better choice for fighting, barring some few circumstances.
Yeah I said stego doesnt have bleed resist
Deino would be better off period than other dinos, no other dino can retreat from a fight into the water.
Deino has less bad matchups against anything because it can run.
Then deino shouldn’t be able to brawl on land
Not only because of that, as stated, fighting-wise deino is perfectly fine too. You can fight carnos as deino, pretty well at that. And granted, stegos are better off these days, but still.
It shouldn't. Deino should have extreme defenses but very little in the way of offense on land really. And stego just needs to be brougth up to proper trike/anky-level of power and all.
Wonder how people would take it if it was trike being like stego. Or rex or giga for that matter.
Deino shouldnt have a food source as easy as an herbi's when it is designed to kill a large array of animals, and it shouldnt be good at fighting on land when it has a safespace retreat
If it was rex it giga then the carni mains might care lol
Then deino shouldn’t be able to brawl on land
It can, against the current roster. (Except stego)
Allo would clap deino, cerato could be better than carno at taking it on.
Deino is unviable on land because it wouldn't be able to kill anything as it cant chase anything down.
It shouldn't. Deino should have extreme defenses but very little in the way of offense on land really. And stego just needs to be brougth up to proper trike/anky-level of power and all.
It has very little offense on land, its restricted to 360 movement in a single spot.
It can against any animal in the near future, and retreat from anything it doesn’t like
No idea why cerato would be better vs deino, where does that come from?
And when bigger animals come stego will be 10x as screwed
Deino shouldnt have a food source as easy as an herbi's when it is designed to kill a large array of animals, and it shouldnt be good at fighting on land when it has a safespace retreat
Agreed with he first part. Second part it cant fight well on land, it can DEFEND itself against lower tiers on land. Stegos claps deino on land.
"restricted", like stego, except with more movement and still better capabilities of fighting in general.
So I don't know..
Maybe this should be put to the test by some people that are good with respective animals, see how it goes
No idea why cerato would be better vs deino, where does that come from?
@golden coral
The mobility. Carno can barely turn while cerato could, plus cerrato would have more hp and damage most likely.
A cerato is smaller than carno...
No idea why you think it'd have better stats in general
And when bigger animals come stego will be 10x as screwed
Wouldn't they buff stegos damage?
Deino actually uses its alt bite to somehow bite stego's head through its ass while also dodging headshots
But I will grant you that mobility would help, though carnos mobility isn't that terrible I don't think. But yes, cerato will probably be more mobile, but still.
In an actual fight it stonps stego
No idea why you think it'd have better stats in general
Because cersto would have a stronger bite force and it was bulkier than carno. Carno was weaker than cerato in bite force in legacy. It wouldn't make sense to make cerato weaker than carno, idk why people think that.
Cerato will probably be better geared to fight things in its class than carno, at least it should be since carno is a small game hunter
If stego kites it beats deino, if it let's alt bite hit the body it loses.
Think of cerato as the carno that could 
Idk if using the legacy stats is a good point of reference at all for how the animals are going to be in Evrima. Ceratosaurus is a smaller animal than Carnotaurus. It's not more bulky either, the devs might change things up for it but in reality this animal was not particularly robust at all whilst having about as much health as Carno in the legacy(and that was at the time when Ceratosaurus was oversized). I seriously and genuinely doubt Cerato will be any threat to a fully grown Deinosuchus(and honestly if it ends up being capable of taking a Deino on 1v1 then that would be good grounds for a nerf to it).
As for Allosaurus - it's still in the oneshot category where it can be drowned by Deino with a single click. It's just not that large, being roughly a tonne heavier than Carno(that is unless the devs go all crazy and give us a Saurophaganax-sized Allosaurus).
The stats will be revamped down the line anyways as larger creatures later become implemented to account for balance
And keep in mind the water will eventually no longer become a haven for Deino
Idk if using the legacy stats is a good point of reference at all for how the animals are going to be in Evrima.
It's not in a way, but it is in another.
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Carnos bite force was increased in evrima, this would mean ceratos should aswell. Thus being stronger than carno. (Unless carno gets his bite force decreased to legacy level)
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what point is there to play cerato if its weaker, more frail, and slower than carno if it's a mid tier? Carno would just be the better pick.
It should be stronger more hp, but slower. Otherwise carno could force a confrontation and cerato won't be able to do jack.
Ceratosaurus is a smaller animal than Carnotaurus.
Smaller doesnt mean weaker though.
It's not more bulky either, the devs might change things up for it but in reality this animal was not particularly robust at all whilst having about as much health as Carno in the legacy(and that was at the time when Ceratosaurus was oversized).
Well considering carno right now has more biteforce than it should it's fair to say cersto would have more.
I seriously and genuinely doubt Cerato will be any threat to a fully grown Deinosuchus(and honestly if it ends up being capable of taking a Deino on 1v1 then that would be good grounds for a nerf to it).
In a 1 v 1 no, but 2 should def be enough. And I hope you mean a person who's not super good at the game as a single carno could 1 v 1 a deino if its cracked. Thus a cersto theoretically would.
As for Allosaurus - it's still in the oneshot category where it can be drowned by Deino with a single click.
Cersto would be drowned then aswell.
It's just not that large, being roughly a tonne heavier than Carno(that is unless the devs go all crazy and give us a Saurophaganax-sized Allosaurus).
We dont need a saurophag 😂
The space will become contested with Spinos, Suchos, Barys, and Cherry
Also I agree, Cerato needs to hold it's own defensively better than a Carno
Otherwise what? You're gonna make it sprint faster than Carno?
"2) what point is there to play cerato if its weaker, more frail, and slower than carno if it's a mid tier? Carno would just be the better pick."
That's the main thing - we don't know if Cerato is supposed to be a midtier. On the old roadmap it was referred to as a "small carnivore", while Carno was categorised as a "medium carnivore".
As for why you would play it - it can have a number of other things going for itself. Agility, ability to jump, being a good swimmer and generally capable of traversing any terrain far better than most other animals, while also having a high stamina pool.
I genuinely don't see Cerato having much(if at all) a higher biteforce than Carno(I'd probably put them both at 350N and around 2k health). And yea being smaller means being weaker in the vast majority of cases, this one included.
Overall there's a tonne of things that can make an animal better or worse in Evrima aside from speed, damage and hp. You don't really have to be faster than Carno to survive it.
That's the main thing - we don't know if Cerato is supposed to be a midtier. On the old roadmap it was referred to as a "small carnivore", while Carno was categorised as a "medium carnivore".
Glad that was the old one 
As for why you would play it - it can have a number of other things going for itself. Agility, ability to jump, being a good swimmer and generally capable of traversing any terrain far better than most other animals, while also having a high stamina pool.
That wouldn't save it from carno unless it's by water and I dont see the "agility" thing happening for such an animal.
I genuinely don't see Cerato having much(if at all) a higher biteforce than Carno(I'd probably put them both at 350N and around 2k health). And yea being smaller means being weaker in the vast majority of cases, this one included.
Wrong, in legacy cerato has the stronger bite.
Just like hyenas +1100 have a stronger bite than a Bengal tiger +1150 and lions +650 but are smaller.
If you're not faster than carno then you have to be able to fight it in some way.
Well, if we're taking Legacy stats as example yes Cerato had better bitteforce there but still due to the bleed system and the speed Carno was beating Ceras on Legacy
On 1v1 scenario, anyways since we ain't gonna take those stats for Evrima, Cera should should keep that higher bitteforce and better brawling capabilities as it is the closest big theropod to come to the game and it wouldn't make sense to have a Carno 2.0
cera should generally be a brawler who punches up a small amount like tenonto does
if they make it lose to carno while also being slower it is unviable
size doesnt always win the fight, especially since the size different here isnt a lot
Not lose but both should be in good terms for each, Carno taking hits from a Cera should be worse for it but Carno is faster so maybe a 1v1 is not gonna likely be viable but 2v1 should, anyways people seem to forgot that Carno is the heaviest mid tier or "pseudo" in the list
Honestly brawler Cera sounds much less of an issue to balance
For it to rely on water and agility it'd essentially be a weaker Dilo
While it should hunt the small game, 1.8 ton animal is not a joke
if a carno gets the jump on cera with a successful charge it should probably turn in carno's favour, but it should get its ass beat in a straight up brawl
The Cera balance would depend if we gonna have 1.6 ton Cera or the smaller one (think it was 1.2 tons?)
tenonto and cerato should both be kicking a carno's ass in a straight up brawl
how much is carno rn, 1800 or 2000
That's what I thought
1.8
If Carno plays smart, then yes it should have the upperhand
Still has 2000 hp
But generally as Cera would be forced on the defense, Cera would have an easier time in the matchup
imo carno vs teno/cera should be 40/60 disadvantage for the carno without charge
if carno gets a well deserved bite nerf and charge buff the odds might shift even more
Carno's speed allows it to control confrontations
If they're 50/50 matchups, then it's overall still skewed to the favor of Carno
If the Carno wants to close the window on it's matchups, it should use it's charge in an ambush attack
I wouldn't touch Carno bite until we have a better roster of playables, is the only big theropod in the game currently, Cera is coming a bit late
yeah with an expanded roster carno should be changed but he is fine while he's the only sizeable land pred and there arent a lot of different smalls
There's priorities imo like nerfing Deino stupid alt-bite
That's a good idea
when both pachy and galli are out maybe it could be done then, or even waiting for another mid tier predator to be out as well
a true mid tier
Sucho and Cera could resolve a lot of balance changes if they were to be implemented
We need Allo 
Cleaning up a lot of raptor packs, carnos, and deinos safe space being invaded
Though for now, I think they should focus on making the smalls and the mechanics firstly
Then they can think about mid tiers and balance
sucho is gonna get fucked by deino so hard
if its added in the current state anyway
I don't think so
Sucho would also be a menace to packs as it'd move on land to steal kills from Carno/Utahs
Cause sucho is gonna be much faster on land, and probably too heavy to lunge. (Even if it's light enough it can probably hold its breath for a while.)
A Cera would be an icing on the cake
As it'd likely pose serious competition for Carno's or cocky Utahs
Hyena doesn't have a stronger bite than a lion or tiger in terms of absolute numbers. Their biteforces are only higher relatively to their bodymasses, meaning that if you had a hyena that was as large as a tiger or a lion then it would be capable of having a stronger bite but since the animal is actually much smaller than either a lion or a tiger its bite is actually weaker. Jaguars are also a part of this common misconception. They do not actually bite harder than lions or tigers, in reality their bite is weaker than those of their bigger cousins.
Not that this matters all that much since Cerato itself had a rather pitiful bite compared to most other theropods(I'm not sure how it fared compared to Carnotaurus but to my knowledge its biteforce was likely less impressive than the bite of a Carno).
And regarding the legacy Cerato I really don't think that bringing it up does the animal any good considering what a pitiful playable it was all around. Matter of fact Carno was one of the animals that had an easy time oppressing it.
Cerato should be bulkier, a brawler like a Tenontosaurus. Both should beat up a carno 1 v 1
Depends on how large Cerato ends up being. A 1.3t theropod shouldn't be beating one that's heavier by half a tonne in a straight fight. If we get a 1.6t Cerato then that becomes more palatable.
Eh, a honey badger type cerato would be great tho lol
A damage nerf to carno is on order once these guys come out I think
Aken wdym? Hyena definitely has a stronger bite than lion, that's isnt body size.
It doesn't
It's not really the right place to discuss this, we can move this to offtopic if you want but yea a hyena doesn't actually bite harder than a lion
as for Carno - it shouldn't receive a biteforce nerf of more than about 10N unless you nerf Tenonto and Utah along with that.
I don't see that being necessary
Carno is currently one of the better balanced animals in the game, nerfing it would require a set of nerfs to most other animals
A lion is 1300 N and hyenas are 4500
Teno and carno have a very even matchup, which I think should be in tenos favor anyways. Cera v teno should be even
Cera being stronger than carno would beat tenonto
The only reason tenonto fights carno is because it cant run, it'll run faster than cerato.
Though Tenoto outrunning Cera would need to be a thing
Though the tail stun would effect cersto more than carno
No, it wouldn't
I say carno beats tenonto equal skill, but sure.
Cerato would get flattened by that - its weight is smaller than that of a Tenonto which means that it would end up on the ground instead of just staggered
Right
Well because teno is slower than carno it should be stronger for game balance
I dont see tenonto smashing magy tbh, but it could be a quadapedal to bipedal thing
Maybe
I can absolutely see Tenonto smashing a Magy
Lmfao
Poor magy.. :p
Fodder even to it's fellow pseudo mid herbi
Even tho carno is bigger than both cera and teno it needs to be weaker cause of the speed difference
I mean, magus out here pushing down creatures that wiegh more than it and tenonto just says nope 
Same goes for Cerato actually - if it ends up being much bigger than initially intended it just obliterates Magyarosaurus which is meant to be its... rival I suppose?
For game balance magy wouldn't be squashed.
Likely
Magy would have to game balance wise be either equal to cerato or a tad stronger as it has to be the one on defense
Evrima isn't like the legacy - you don't need to be faster than something that's stronger than you. Before update 3 hit Dryo was slower than a Utah and yet surviving a Utah was not an issue for a Dryo that was any good with the animal.
Same goes for Utah and Carno, or Dryo and Carno.
It's because dryo is so small and fast it can lose sight of utah. But now it's faster and has a dodge
If the game was like the legacy then yes you'd be right and any animal that's both weaker and slower would be unviable.
It had dodge from the get-go, it's always just been a really bad mechanic.
Magy isnt near tenonto speed I dont believe, tenonto out runs allo
Even if they crancked it
Yea magy isn't anywhere close to tenonto speed. From what I recall someone was estimating based on its animation that it moves at around 35km/h... which is slower than a Hypsi.
Don't quote me on that number though
it might be wrong
Magy will have to stand tall against tenonto XD
magy just looks like fun to play tbh
Well in the animation the background I heard isnt a tell of speed.
more sauropods the better imo
I see magy as a cc knock them down and run. With the bigger foes.
Amarga is the true king. Magy can be the prince.
@runic gale Why we need sucho imo
@spare badger Im not sure if i said Sucho in my comment but that was what I was thinking!
Sucho would be the perfect addition at this point lol
You didn't, but we need it
doesnt teno's alt already drain stam
o dam never noticed
And it sucks
Just a reminder, I think adding a playable sucho would bring much needed balance to the game.
rock paper scissors combat balance is poopy and stinky and unfun
^ skill based is better.
The claw doesn't use Stam so tenos use it when their out or fighting Utah's but not when fighting carnos
To me its just adding more difficulty for the Deino. Carnos take down Deinos in pairs, some Deinos dont even want to risk it (but most do lol) - Suchos would be stronger, more weight, more able to compete in water.. possibly not able to be grabbed since its size.
Suchos are not Bary's.. they are much bigger animals
There is barely any difficulty to deino rn
I understand it's not a perfect solution, and the dieting system will help with the balance.. and I know they want to implement mechanics before adding dinos that might use said mechanics.. so really I might just be dying for a new Sucho because, well, I'm a Sucho main and I love me some Suchos haha
(& I worried they might nerf it)
Would love to have our chill sucho back beating juvie-sub deino asses, he is probably too slow to damage the ecosystem much unless he is drastically changed from is place in legacy
Me, a deino, just camping fishing spots to dunk on random suchos (they cannot compete with a full adult)
In water? Maybe not
Or in-water gameplay will be different once more water dinos will be added. I mean, they cant just add a bunch of water dinos with how things are right now haha
deinos will still be the only things in the rivers 😄
make sucho able to cancel a deino lunge with a well timed slap easy fix imo
Considering deino is a pseudo apex it definitely shouldnt have much difficulty with the current roster.
And would sucho be slower than allo?
Yes, as a juvi its basically a target for anything because its so slow.. one hit wonder. But as adult I believe it walks slower and runs slower, but the ambush speed might be a tad faster than Allos sprint? might be wrong, but in my experience it seems to be
Actually, I think Sucho sprint might be similar to Allos. Like maybe the same
sucho shouldn't absolutly be slower than allo even though it was faster irl but we don't talk about that
Lmao yea sucho and cerato definitely gonna kill sub/juvi deinos I say cerato too bcuz well
Sucho will likely be quite a bit slower than Allo - as for irl: I haven't seen any estimates for Suchomimus proper, the one I did see was for Cristatusaurus which might be synonymous with Suchomimus however it's overall the smaller of the two. Baryonyx was even faster than that so I'd presume that the larger size of Suchomimus would likely make it run slower than Cristatusaurus. As for Allo's estimates - these guys seem to get faster the bigger they get.
yeah idk if sucho was actually faster, its just something @short estuary said and I trusted him like the idiot that I am because he has a purple name 🙂
He said that because he repeated what I said when I was quoting Larramendi. Here's the source:
It may have been faster or slower than Allo but I don't think we can say anything with any degree of certainty. Saurophaganax gets to a greater speed than Cristatusaurus according to the same source.
hmm, interesting.
well allo better be faster for the purpose of the game
It most likely will be faster, Sucho was stated to be a rather bulky and slow animal from what I recall.
Spinosaurids are so cool.. the Apex's of the sea ❤️ lmao
Me when deino is a true apex
deinos always kill their own
Doesn’t matter if they’re hungry or not
(C) Apply the same body-part system for damage to bleeds - tail bleeds should be far less significant that body bleeds.
I only disagree with this one. Bleeding out is bleeding out no matter where. The only thing I can see that would be locational in bleeding is perhaps the neck with the jugulars/carotid artery. Otherwise bleed should be the same anywhere else.
Not really, different parts of the body are much more prone to blood loss than others
Especially when it comes to things like tails
Y do u all hate utah so much, jesus I already as a main get 3-4 clapped by a carno / deino 2 shots us / steg 1 taps / teno wacks us down we insta dead / bucking 5 ticks at max and we have 0% stam and its been debuffed SO MANY TIMES. What the sheeet? worst of all its alt uses stam, but a deino doesnt or some crazy thing like that
reminder that their hitbox also yeets back to their tip of the tail so their tail hits are body hits
Utah should be high risk and high reward for smart pack coordination
It shouldnt be tanking shit
Why conplain that it gets killed in few hits
.
and their grossly debuffed
as well as tenonto
all the other carnis are grossly fattened
What lol
Just go away from tenonto its slower than you
Is that legacy carno weight
whats the point in having a pred who cannot even defend himself from a single herbi that isnt a hypsie
my bro
Wtf
What would be the point of playing tenonto if you get clapped by a single utah
dude.. go general 1 and let me show u smtg
u d o n t
Btw also utahs can solo tenos it happens
we never wanted a solo utah to clap a teno
IF its a dumb one that has 1h on the game, maybe
I like the idea of a good solo Utah being able to take out a dumb solo teno
I honestly dont care about tenontos too much, we just dont want other stuff so overweight
and utah underweight
The only thing wrong with utah is its voluntary disengage
yeah!
And yes if the teno is braindead it deserves to die
@indigo vigil if the Utah has skill I dont see the problem...
yup
and?
dude
This reminds me of that guy who “trained to ride apexes” in feedback a while back lmao
You got those vibes too?
Oh no def they shouldnt clap apexes
You cant ride shit anymore
but like, a carno? 3 should win in a 3v1
So I dont know how it reminds you of that
The deino is inaccurate
Our deino is pretty small by deino standards yeah
New deino specimens are heavier than the isle deino
Or inaccurate
w h a t?
Isn’t deino like 10 tons now
I think so yeah
No?
Fucking Jesus
Aight I’ll see what I can do
Either way that though, from results that are official - ALL the bloody counters to utah is overly buffed and utah is debuffed
weak bite, 3% dmg on a carnos head with normal bite.. like cmon
6% with an alt, or something
I get it doesnt have the power to clap everything 1v1, but it should be able to protect itself in a pack
Pounce? SURE. lemmy have a dino with 5 ticks put me to 0 stam and clap my head open
Utah can solo stegos rn or force them to shove their face in a rock because their jab attack is easy to dodge, so no not “all the bloody utah counters” are overbuffed
h o w
Send me a vid
plEASE
Dodging the slow ass jab and biting the head
I want to clap 1v1 stegos
Stegos attack is actually so slow you can avoid attacks
While being able to bite the head
scopeOG dino science server rn
get on
Which does triple the damage
Ill 1v1 u as a steg and u utah
Dont use pounce, i almost killed a stego with dryo using headshots until its buddy showed up and made me retreat
really?? general 1 vc rn get into the server im on and we can test that
And im in bed i aint getting on lol
steg's jab is wayy too easy to dodge as utah and dryo, even carno. I wouldnt even be surprised if tenos managed to solo stegos
2v1 , me as a steg and u two as utah
..3v1.
im fine
I mean I’ve seen it happen before
where??
It’s stupid but it happens
I've had it almost happen to me
Videos, just chilling in game, when you play a flyer you see a load of bullshit
stego is on a timer with how much stam that jab drains, they simply can't afford to miss but against anything agile enough, they probably will
they use like 3% stam
I almost killed a stego as a solo Utah
to tail jab
2% difference
jump on scopeog science server cmon, if u say so
I want proof, Ill grow u and all
It’s still a pretty big difference
It’s 2 am and I’m busy tomorrow
But trust me
It happens
bro, if its afk sure
it happens man
Next time you see a solo adult steg as Utah just go for the head
And don’t be an idiot and get hit
You might not have seen it yourself, but it happens. Stego is slow and easy to avoid, the tail jab is super predictable
Just look up utah vs stego evrima on youtube theres probably vids of it
5 my ass, its 3
..scopeog science server #2, Ill grow u all and u can be utahs and try to kill my steg
once again, passing. I got stuff to do
And once again I'll stress: Just because you personally have not witnessed something, doesn't mean it doesn't happen
7 bites to kill a utah as a stego with a nibble too, on the back of the tail
I get that, some people are gods in utah, but its grossly underweight and nibbles are weak as hell, while all other things usually have a weight buff
I dont mind if its squishy, its SUPPOSED to be squishy
but its enemies shouldnt be able to take 2 claws and a bite to the head and take 3% dmg, or 6
I haven't played much utah so I can't say much, but from what I've heard it seems like it's mostly good, just needs a few adjustments here and there
It's not great solo, but is devastating in a pack
which is kinda how it's meant to work anyway
man, go try utah.. Im telling you
You need to try it personally first to say much :/
The pounce has it's flaws, what with the awful dismount. But it does a lot of bleed
all the utah mains atm are at legacy bc their dino is being beaten with a bat
I still see plenty of people playing utah. It's just not super good solo
we arent playing solo
im talking 6 people or so
and we arent 20 hours players either
Then you absolutely shouldn't be having issues with stuff like carno or teno
That many players can deal with both of those animals, easy
and BESIDES ALL THIS.
at the end of the day, stats wise it is s h i t
its like a hypo hyspie if it was turned carni
at the end of the day
deinos overweight
carnos overweight
utahs underweight
To an extent I can't say much because I've not played much utah. But the majority of the complaints I've seen people making about it here haven't been with the stats, but the dismount
Deino is underweight, idk how big carno is, and Utah is at a pretty normal size
how? If u get double bit my a bayblading carno 2 times u are most def dead and if u run somehow, ur hitbox is in ur tip tail
Use your agility, carno turns like a truck
Idk dude
utah is significantly more agile than carno
dismounts sure is bad, but weight is more important in my buck
man, general 1
Ill livestream for u
nah. the issues with utah currently stem from the dismount
If you somehow let the carno get right on your ass, yeah, then the “””beyblade””” is gonna kick your ass
Deino and stego have less hp than their weight
so do all the other things?
Wrong
People aren't using the pounce as much currently, because even if you pull it off properly you might get killed. But pounce is meant to be utah's main weapon
proof
5 ticks, ur stam 0%
of buck
The pin is still pretty helpful
yeah and shit it can pin is legit only babies / its own species / hypsies / dryos
and ptera
atm
Oh yeah you can pin pretty big stegos
U cannotttt
proof
proof
Idk man
ur proof - "idk man"
The stego was there
It was taller than me
I pounced it
It played the pinned anim
Idk what to tell you
Stego hp is like 4500 or something basing on how many headshots it takes deino to kill it with the multiplier
dude it can play a pin animation on an adult teno
and the growing stat changes need a rework too
Eh idc
ur using shit mechs to show utahs "playable"
If you dont care, why are u in an argument like this one
utahs main issue is just that the pounce is too dangerous to pull off. it's stats are pretty fine
show me a vid, link me one in yt if u want
buck 5 ticks and ur 0% stam
yes, hence why I said the pounce is too dangerous to pull off
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This stego is ass
But it still shows how Utah can kill a stego
1 on 1
yeah i know the guy, He has skill of a god
Which is dumb
Yes
But the same principles apply
Don’t get hit, use pounce for pressure, bite the head because the anim is so slow
1.doesnt know how to buck 2.isnt adult 3. doesnt know if he jumps off he can slap scope 4.It wastes its stam like a dumbass
Scope has killed ONLY dumbasses in the game
but you can still see how easy it is to dodge
BC its a bloody idiot
plz. hop into the server I constantly tell u to and we can test it for u to see
if u dont, dont act like u know shit u didnt test
not everyone is available at your convenience 24/7

people don't owe it to you to load up the game and join just so you can prove something
alt text me when u can if so. or test it later. u will find it is shitt hard
Im giving u facts and ur giving me insults, what logical argument is this
if you're taking that as an insult that's on you man
and refuse to listen when I backup my facts
breh?
The only facts you give is that I don’t record my play sessions if I’m being honest
since u dont care about this convo and yet still stick around, so surely u will have the time
Fucking alr
thats the argument - so its all of this
what Im saying is utah is underweight and it needs a balance
Because obviously we’re not on the same page here
yeah we arent, bc im testing every day this shit and ur trolling around and guessing mechs u havent tried
How is utah underweight. How much do you think it should weigh
alr next link
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that aint right either mate
what do u use to make this argument
whats right if soo??
show me a link where its right and show me that its way more popular than these I show
it's not about being popular, it's about being scholarly
yeah how is mine less "scholarly"
Here have this
Hey man
the one that shows the LOWEST of all the links
wikipedia links academic sources that you can follow
mk go on?
ok the hell this topic jumping on
if anything utah is technically overweight
alr so let me put utah away for a second if u dont like my facts
Only the largest estimates of utah reach 500kg
how u gonna tell me that carno isnt overweight
In reality the average was probably smaller
that 770kg one? Link me, I'm curious
right. A fanmade wiki
which I can promise you, is gonna be even less reliable than wikipedia is
yeah, that's the original paper that gives the 500kg weight estimate iirc
There are the original estimates for 500 kg
and it's been called into question since then, suggesting it should be even lower
alr - Ill shut up about utah now ig but NOW PLZ. change my mind in this
I've got no clue what weight in-game carno is, not that it matters much
since I can work with utah being the way it is if its enemies werent grossly overweight
weight currently only determines whether you can drag something
has 0 bearing on combat anymore
Yeah I have no idea where they got carno weight from
Ima go break my skull on a rock after this
yeah! so like alr.. utah can be weak and all, but its enemies are buffed af
keep in mind that currently carno is balanced to act as the land apex too
it shouldnt be that thoughhhh
it'll likely be made significantly weaker as more of the roster is introduced
But the health value is separate from weight so 
y add an apex so early onn
Its health is still mega
it's not an actual apex, just functioning as one
If they didn’t add carno Utah would technically be the land apex assuming nothing bigger got added
an apex animal irl is one with no natural predators. Until anything larger is added, that's now carno functions
and it ~shouldnt~
Yes
^i was about to add, back when evrima first launched utah was the apex
deino..
legacy is keeping utah mains in it due to yalls and shit like this
it fucking dont act like it
Also
it doesnt use its stam for alt, which I despise