survival-test

[wheat cargo]

Yeah, it'll show up how long you lived after you die. Or if you have this bug in my case.
Death location couldn't be more unspecific tho

[steep saddle]

void area maybe?

[icy bough]

Die more specifically next time

[torn violet]

😂😂😂😂

[wheat cargo]

sorry, skill issue on my part

[icy bough]

Do better

How did I just join a server closing in 3min that's cruel

[digital cradle]

And it's raining lol

[icy bough]

AND foggy

[patent shuttle]

Question. In replay, if the name tag boxes are a different color than black, that means they're in a group right?

[digital cradle]

Yeah

[patent shuttle]

Well, Funnily enough there's people in Solo Permadeath that are grouped then

[fickle drift]

Hooray I successfully made it to adult with my Deinonychus. Had a lot of cool funny and scary interactions with only one player actually trying to attack me. nice try blue achillo in gh, you ain't never going to keep up with these hops though. Got quite a few Clips to make a video out of

[patent shuttle]

Unless bugged, hard to say

[fervent cloud]

Yeah i just had a stego and a berta mixpack with a hatz my starving thal needed to kill for food. People stay teaming up with each other no matter what the game does

[digital cradle]

There's always gonna be explorers smh

[thorn mango]

I don't get why ppl do that

[fervent cloud]

I had chased that hatz through 3 pois lol and it was a fair fight til the herbis stepped in. Lost my thal due to it xC

[digital cradle]

Some people just can't stand fighting fair so they find exploits

[fervent cloud]

Yeah pretty much

[thorn mango]

I get wanting to play with groups/friends but like... just play official then? like why go on a solo permadeath and exploit it to group

[crude phoenix]

Yo I just started this. This is amazing for a solo meg player

[icy bough]

Thanks sty SC who saved me from critter mixpack

[split copper]

Got my Pachy to adolescence and almost sub adult 🙂 ran into a little Deinon and chilled quietly with it for a while until it was savagely mauled by a Meg 😅 poor dude

Can’t wait to get to adult

[thorn mango]

Ohh yeah megs are probably thriving

[wheat grail]

Mixpack about to invade this space.. called it..

[split copper]

Hatz too. They are literally terrifying as a Pachy on perma-death lmao as soon as I hear the wings flapping in the air I take to immediate cover.

[crude phoenix]

The thrill and intensity make it a lot more fun. Compared to mega group on officials

[thorn mango]

Gosh now I wanna try a meg or a hatz... oh well when my allo finally starves I suppose

[digital cradle]

They're both deff fun, im on a hatz rn but I'm terrified of those hatz mega groups going around rn lol

[random stump]

You can have two playables on perma deathmatch, you know. Unless you've already made 2.

[thorn mango]

Ohh I only have one.. Didn't know second one was allowed :o

[split copper]

Doesn’t the message at the start screen say only 1 Dino?

[buoyant cloak]

yeah but you can have 2

also did they enable apexes on the solo modes???

[crude phoenix]

Definitely try meg. Great survivalist.

[buoyant cloak]

conc too

[split copper]

I did not know that! Thats pretty cool, I’ll have to make a carnivore after I grow my Pachy 🙂 now to decide which carnivore I would want to play.. I feel like Hatz is an obvious choice and I don’t like doing the obvious choice lol

[digital cradle]

As a hatz rn, please no, 75% of every dino i see is another hatz

Lol

[thorn mango]

Play a ramphy and report every group you see lmao

[digital cradle]

Report as in report here like news? Lol, im pretty sure it's not against the rules, matt has said it's fine

[thorn mango]

Yeah pretty much

Ramphy fueled newspaper

[digital cradle]

I can just be hatz news then lol

[thorn mango]

✨ pterosaur news ✨

[icy bough]

Everything is ahole hatz

I'm now just hunting hatz

[digital cradle]

Azhdarchid Anchor here, there's a feral struthi on the loose in BQ

[icy bough]

HA that me

Hatz huntin

[digital cradle]

Loll ggs

[thick hemlock]

please im nice hatz promise

[icy bough]

But you didn't go aggro so I left

[thorn mango]

He needs a suit and a nice lil microphone

[digital cradle]

I may temp switch my server name to Azhdarchid Anchor just for this bit

[astral flax]

do it for the vine

[icy bough]

You missed the report on the sucho pair swimming upstream to GH

[wind igloo]

There really needs to be a like a speed debuff when two or more people are around each other for longer than like...2-3 minutes.

[digital cradle]

It is done lol

[icy bough]

Exponential hunger increase

Starve them

[thorn mango]

Yaaas azhdarchid anchor our boiii

[icy bough]

Fight fight fight

[patent shuttle]

Beautiful

[astral flax]

what if youre in a long fight

[icy bough]

Skill issue

[astral flax]

LOL

[wind igloo]

Then the debuff makes it end quicker, lol

[astral flax]

my alio is adult, children watch out

[icy bough]

You heard it here first folks kill the allo

[astral flax]

:)

catch me if you can!

knowing my luck ill die to struthis

[wind igloo]

I was about halfway past sub when I got ambushed by a pair of Deinocheirus. I made it to home cave and had barely a sliver of health left.

[icy bough]

Bold dare to a Struthi 😈

[steep saddle]

question do you keep your skins if die but remake a dino of the same species

[patent shuttle]

You should

[steep saddle]

I haven't died yet but I Worry

[astral flax]

this will probably happen

[wind igloo]

They should make it to where any abilities that you unlock when you play as a dino get saved so any future Dino that you make of the same kind will have those abilities already unlocked.

[icy bough]

It's me I'm the Struthi it's allo huntin time

[astral flax]

im very good about not dying on officals lets test it here

[patent shuttle]

It's the same as deleting a dino everywhere else I believe.

Only things preserved are the skin unlocks

[wind igloo]

It should be abilities also, imo

[steep saddle]

I've been told you keep them if you delete a dino too but I'm a bit too cautious to try lmao

[wind igloo]

Especially since it's permadeath

[patent shuttle]

I agree, it would be nice, since you know, they made the abilities growth locked now, so it should be possible to do that.

[astral flax]

this is intended?

[icy bough]

What part

[astral flax]

two char

[icy bough]

I think you can do 1 herb 1 carn

[astral flax]

oh thats nice

[digital cradle]

Azhdarchid Anchor here, there is a rabbid hatz on the loose in gv, stay safe!

[astral flax]

what herbi should I grow

[patent shuttle]

Actually it's 2 character slots total. Was able to make a rhamp when having a Rex

[icy bough]

Oh hey I literally just watched him fly by

[icy bough]

Amarg

[steep saddle]

stego but I'm biased

[astral flax]

this is hilarious

[icy bough]

Amarg and get obliterated by AI before you reach 2 bars

[astral flax]

wonderful choices, really

xD

[icy bough]

Pretty top notch imo

[patent shuttle]

Wish knockback affected critters too

[icy bough]

I thought it did then died

[astral flax]

no that is aoe

[patent shuttle]

Launch a tortoise unto unsuspecting dinos below a cliff or something

[astral flax]

youre thinking of aoe

[icy bough]

No just wishing for knockback

[astral flax]

Lambeo looks appealing option here

two health bars

Mira, annoy them until they leave me alone xD

[patent shuttle]

Triple tap tail slap

[icy bough]

What is the worst poi and why is it hoodoo

[astral flax]

trick question its ocean stacks

[patent shuttle]

'Cause Hoodoo makes you BooHoo

[digital cradle]

Deep-sea craigs

[icy bough]

The devs made hoodoo just out of pure evil

"what if we hid these rocks by bushes"

[astral flax]

they hid those rocks purely out of amusement

[icy bough]

They'll love the realism and enriching feel of tripping on rocks every 5s

[thick hemlock]

Hoodoo is my favorite for utah cause its so easy to escape onto one of the hoodoos

[icy bough]

Well also make it so that when you enter the poi you need to go straight to the beach to look for 5/6 turtleshells

[astral flax]

YOOO HATZ CAN HIT YOU WITH THE SPIN WHILE YOURE IN ITS BEAK?

thats so coolll why didnt I know this

anyways just died on mira

[icy bough]

I got hit with Peck barrage while hatz was flying which I was unaware they could do

[astral flax]

interesting

[fervent cloud]

i can report groups?

[icy bough]

In this discord

[astral flax]

it actually spawned me in the destination i wanted to be at

[fervent cloud]

Oh i got replay of the herbs that helped the hatz vs me earlier

[astral flax]

thanks hatz

[fervent cloud]

What do i do just send replay here or?

[astral flax]

No you cannot report groups

[icy bough]

You just simply say "annoying group here"

Then everyone can hate them audibly

[astral flax]

They meant that they were on rhamph and was reporting people and where they were, like a news anchor

Not actual report

[fervent cloud]

oh ffs

[astral flax]

lol

[digital cradle]

Weather report: its insufferable, drive safe and don't fly

[astral flax]

sakdjsaldja

[wraith jacinth]

what are these 2 new servers that aren't gondwa or the other one?

[icy bough]

Literally can't see

[icy bough]

Panjura?

[wraith jacinth]

what are the 2 new ones

[digital cradle]

Single player testing

[wraith jacinth]

like solo whatever whatever and permadeath whatever whatever

[icy bough]

Alright WHY DID YOU CURSE ME WITH OCEAN PILLARS LOCATION QUEST

[wraith jacinth]

what is it

[icy bough]

I mean you're in permadeath chat rn

[sullen lava]

just join the game mode and it'll tell you lol

[wraith jacinth]

it's 2am i csnt be bothered to turn my pa5 on

what's the difference between the single player testing and normal gondwa

[digital cradle]

No groups, no joining friends, passive growth, and if you play permadeath, you have to start fully over when you die, but the growth is so much quicker than regular officials, I've grown a hatz 4+ times today

[wraith jacinth]

damnnnn

[icy bough]

Also the AI has beef

[warped jetty]

Hatz is the fastest growing playable on these modes

Kai took me 2 hours

hatz will take me one maybe

[cursive lion]

Whoever was the dasp dein and rex group gg.

[wispy thunder]

AI wants the smoke

[icy bough]

Took me an hour for Struthi

The grind is getting marks for abilities. My adult Pycno has nothing unlocked lmao

[pure kayak]

can dinos walk together and be friendly, anyone know?

[icy bough]

Yeah nothing stopping you

You can mega mix pack if you want

[cursive lion]

I actually haven't fought a solo player yet lol

[icy bough]

The only thing you can't do is group and use chat

[stuck tree]

people keep saying mega mix pack but aren't the groups like threes?

[icy bough]

There was a group 6 yesterday

Today I haven't seen more than 2-3

[stuck tree]

tthat's still not enough to be a mega anything tbh

[icy bough]

Oh no definitely not mega

Just mix

[pallid forge]

Killing little Hatz with my Laten is quite amusing and payback for all the drama before

[pure kayak]

mega is like 8-9 to me

[pure kayak]

good

[icy bough]

Who's the conc I'm bothering at SF

[daring crypt]

dont think a perma death mode is good for path of titans may as well play the isle at that point the reason people play path is because there is no perma death a solo mode is good but not a perma death mode

[icy bough]

Idk we're all playing it rn

[digital cradle]

I love it honestly

[daring crypt]

we are playing it now because its new

[icy bough]

I'm having a blast

[steep saddle]

they didn't tale away normal solo mode and permadeath has honestly just given everything more weight

[oak cloak]

Nothing wrong with having more options

[steep saddle]

nothing has been taken away, just a new thing was added

[daring crypt]

ones u died 5 times on a fully grown spino and wasted hrs because someone choose to start teaming i dont think u will have fun at that point

[pulsar badger]

You can always choose to not play it

Nowhere has it been stated they will be replacing standard officials with it

[daring crypt]

true its just deviding the playerbase a lot

[icy bough]

I've already died hundreds of times on official and otherwise once you reach adult nothing to do but die

There's community servers etc

[pulsar badger]

I'm fine with it dividing the playerbase when there's players who don't want to play unsanctioned dino gang wars on regular officials

[icy bough]

If anything it gives the community more choice

[thick hemlock]

The 2 main reasons I play path over the isle is because its less buggy and the models are more realistic. Other than that I would rather play the isle. I've been loving permadeath

[daring crypt]

i see

[steep saddle]

growing isn't that hard anyways bc of the new location quests

[digital cradle]

I've been wanting to play the isle but I just don't have the computer power to do so, this gamemode gives people like me that ability to play that

[pulsar badger]

Plus growth is boosted on these solo playtest servers

[steep saddle]

discovery quests?

[icy bough]

Passive growth as well

[steep saddle]

and there's no reason to hoard those discovery quests because if you die they just get reset completely anyways

[daring crypt]

ill try it some more and see how i feel

[icy bough]

I just can't stand the fog and rain for longer than there's sun

OMG IT STOPPED THE MOMENT I SAID THAT

[steep saddle]

WITCHCRAFT

[pulsar badger]

It's more of just giving players more options other instead of it just being "Server swap on officials until you find one not ran by a discord group" or try to find a community server that isn't problematic

[thick hemlock]

Its not as bad as when you're on a community server with seasons and you have to go 2 weeks out of the month playing with 90% rain

[icy bough]

I used to play arazoa and just couldn't anymore

I've been playing since the day this game released on PC so I bounce around lol

[pulsar badger]

1. Don't ping devs if they aren't in the conversation with you, it's a server rule and the mods will get on you for it. 2. There is no 'stopping' the discord groups. Matt himself has said that these mode tests are to try and add more friction to make it a little more inconvenient for them

[warped jetty]

I don't much care about this server due to the limited action tbh. Was swimming down riverways for genuine hours with zero interaction

[daring crypt]

just make it bannible to group in solo servers

simple fix

[quasi garnet]

Hello
Please do not tag devs unless they are actively in chat with you,

For clarification, Official servers don't have any artificial rules that are not dictated by the game's mechanics or the Terms of Service (https://alderongames.com/legal/terms-of-service), and common community server rules such as "mixpacking" and KOSing" are not applicable to official servers. Community servers, however, are allowed to have their own rules and act upon them as they consider.

However if you encounter ongoing verbal harassment/cheating/exploiting or anything similar feel free to make a report using the in-game report feature or create a support ticket: https://alderon.games/support

Additionally If you are interested in providing feedback or suggestions to our Dev Team, we highly recommend posting a well written Feedback Board post here: https://feedback.pathoftitans.com/ All suggestions are read and manually reviewed

[icy bough]

Sounds simple but isnt

[pulsar badger]

They don't want to limit free will

Peopel will always have teh ability to play in proximity and help each other, the goal is to just make it a little less powerful by removing groups and to make people think about fights before taking them with permadeath in this particular test

[oak cloak]

Costs money to moderate servers, its really not sustainable

[pulsar badger]

Lol?

[icy bough]

Tis a game

Chillax

It absolutely sucks but just gotta roll with it

[daring crypt]

you cant group in solo ?

does matter for the rest of the playerbase tho

[pulsar badger]

I'm one of the ones who absolutely HATES how rampant discord groups are on officials. I can't stand 20 people sitting in a POI and mobbing anything that walks in. But the reality is, there's no erradicating them. Just making it inconvenient for them in different modes so people who don't want to deal with them have somewhere else to play besides community

[hollow tinsel]

I’d like permadeath way more if marks were tied to your account instead of individual dinosaurs. That change would make the entire game better tbh.

[daring crypt]

u get enough marks to get all abilitys by just exploring now tho

[digital cradle]

Breaking news: angry little family of semis yell at news anchor

[icy bough]

Where even is that

Ripple?

[daring crypt]

i dont think its bad that people can befriend people they meet ingame and work together its mainly discord groups that are the problem

and the herbs vs preds are fun

[pulsar badger]

Reports go to their site and their moderators review them there, it's not like the mods join the server and punish you. They'd have to hire more people who's job is to explicitly moderate servers live and that's not something they can do as a smaller studio

[icy bough]

Stys quest collection is so loud

[wispy thunder]

🧍‍♀️

[pulsar badger]

That's still not as easy as it sounds

[quasi garnet]

Just a friendly reminder please keep this channel to #survival-test topics only

Should you wish to discuss anything outside of the mentioned topics feel free to use one of the other channels if appropriate

If you have any feedback or suggestions feel free to post them here:https://feedback.pathoftitans.com/

[pulsar badger]

If they start banning/punishing discord groups, everyone will eventually catch a punishment or feel like they can't play. It's not the answer, this playtest is just to make it so they are less present than on standard officials

According to the other players, they don't run into them as much and people are more spread across the map, that sounds pretty good to me

[steep saddle]

oop

he gone

[daring crypt]

i made a hatz on perma death im now sub adult and i played for 1 hrs 37 min

[icy bough]

Back to our scheduled programming

[steep saddle]

the only group that I ran into was a trio of allos but I was also in a quartet of growing ceras

at one point

[digital cradle]

Azhdarchid Anchor here, lovely morning today

[icy bough]

It stopped raining ✌️

[steep saddle]

if it's all the same dino I'm more inclined to think they just found each other naturally

[pulsar badger]

From the sounds of it, there's less mixed groups and more of smaller groups of the same species. Which is awesome imo. Less likely to run into 15 carnis steamrolling the first thing they see and I love that

[icy bough]

The tortoises screaming randomly is scaring the bejeesus outta me

[steep saddle]

it's the hissing lizards for me

[icy bough]

Still more accurate than screaming tortoise

[digital cradle]

Azhdarchid Anchor here jumping into the fray to bring you only the freshest of news, feral raptor pack of at least 3 attacking locals in savannah and desolate! Stay safe out there folks

[low walrus]

cat we're famoussss

[oak cloak]

Caught in Hatz 4k HD

[warped jetty]

This will never happen. There is not a support system that has the foundation to handle that many reports

[icy bough]

Ok so Struthi kick barrage really struggles to hit platyhistrix

I just kicked it 12 times

[pure kayak]

love this

[digital cradle]

We've got some lovely looking locals around this afternoon

[main rampart]

I have a question. What's stops a discord groups from teaming up here? They still have communication thru discord and can walk around with each other even though they can't group up in-game

[digital cradle]

Nothing can stop them, devs can only do their best to deter them

[pulsar badger]

This and the other test mode are NOT DESIGNED TO STOP GROUPS. It is just meant to make it more inconvenient with no group system, lack of chat and waystones, etc. Matt himself said it's about adding friction, the friction won't completely stop them but it will deter some

[main rampart]

Can't report them?

[stuck tree]

omg is this like a news anchor post

[pulsar badger]

It will never be a bannable offense to group

[digital cradle]

You should scroll up to see my last few posts to see the latest Azhdarchid Anchor news

[stuck tree]

🫡

[main rampart]

So it just punishment for a solo player then? Cus how the hell am I supposed to survive say with an Eo trike who can't run away when discord group of 7 shows up. And then I permanently die so there's nothing I can do and I lose everything

[pulsar badger]

You are less likely to run into that discord group of 7. Most of what I've seen in this chat and the other is that there are far fewer of those groups and more naturally occuring ones which won't behave the same

[stuck tree]

that and the permadeath is for them too, if you kill them they are not coming back for a while

[pulsar badger]

They will still exist, that's just the nature of the game

[tawny shoal]

cant join off of friends on these servers, they'd have to consistently jump from server to server to find each other which is a hassel in of itself

why would a big discord group go through all this effort to play the same game but with less mechanics

[red pewter]

i love azhdarchid news

[main rampart]

Ok that answer my question Goosa

[stuck tree]

same

[tawny shoal]

no grouping and therefore no group buffs, some dinosaurs removed alongside no waystones etc etc etc

at that point they'd just play main game anyways

[red pewter]

finally a trustworthy information source

[main rampart]

The having a hard time joining the same server helps out

They should make it if you're friends with someone you are banned from joining that server or it forces you not to join that one

[icy bough]

Ggs Cera at GV

[pure kayak]

anyone else having turtles go mach 10?

[icy bough]

Them turtles op

Also people whining about these servers but imo especially this permadeath one it's been way more tame vs officials. The occasional group of whatever but since no one wants to permadie you don't really get KOS nearly as much also there's people all over the place

[digital cradle]

Azhdarchid Anchor here, happy bring your kid to work day

[random stump]

My dino is very much alive but says Status: Dead in the select screen. Foreshadowing?!?!

[vague prawn]

the critters here have had their stats boosted (unless they are literally blasting off into space for you, thats probably a bug)

[digital cradle]

Azhdarchid Anchor here, it seems children can perform mitosis, please be aware of this if you are pregnant or planning to have kids

[stuck tree]

Omg there's so many

[digital cradle]

So many nice locals out today

[gray escarp]

What is the goal of having a solo mode?

[digital cradle]

For solo players, sometimes the mega discord clans of normal officials just tear solos up

[full current]

Does this still have upped fall damage, or is fall damage normal atm?

[crude ibex]

so why is perma death better than not permadeath? asking because i dont like perma death but i want a reason to like it

*i havent played much of it either

[full current]

Permadeath is just different tbh

It's down to preference

Permadeath is better if you want more careful, slow gameplay

[crude ibex]

whats the pros tho

[full current]

People take fights and growing more seriously, there's more of a sense of commitment to your dino, and every battle has more stakes

[pallid forge]

The goal is that solo players can enjoy the game without big groups stomping them into the ground. The problem has become so big that the devs decided to try some things out

[full current]

basically the 'hardcore swea' mode if u like that kinda thing

[icy bough]

People are less inclined to start fights they're not sure they can win and dip out before they die

[digital cradle]

And there's less likely to have giant megapacks because they'll all be busy trying to regrow whenever they throw themselves into fights and die

[crude ibex]

did they make the passive growth sloer?

[floral kraken]

Good morning perma death squad how's it going

[candid flint]

Sorry if I missed something but does chat not work ?

[floral kraken]

No

[floral kraken]

Yes

[digital cradle]

Morning Matt

[candid flint]

Ahh ok

[random stump]

Permadeath is frightening but I like it. Feels way more survival-y.

[crude ibex]

my rhamph offed itself (i was testing the death mechanic)

[candid flint]

I'm so happy they added this

[crude ibex]

but im hyped to play alio it feels much more viable

[oak cloak]

Had a lot of fun with this mode, love the high stakes

[crude ibex]

is everyone kinda more chill?

[candid flint]

Will panjura be getting their own solo mode?

[random stump]

Everyone that's not a hatz.. No offense Az anchor.

[digital cradle]

None taken, my fellow hatz are absolutely feral

[oak cloak]

IC seemed to be a cuddle puddle when I peeked in

[candid flint]

I've only ever been killed on ano from mix packs or other anos, does that mean ano basically invincible?

[random stump]

I'd say so, but it's also a curse because nobody will want to duel with you.

[candid flint]

Yeah true lol

[full current]

@ matt if youre still in here, is it true that fall damage was increased?

[icy bough]

If it's my server it's because it's going down in 2min and I can't be bothered to start somethin

[haughty tusk]

Is the plan for this to be an optional gamemode? or is this planned for normal official

[oak cloak]

Wholly seperate gamemode

[haughty tusk]

Okay thank god

I die too much to gravity to even wanna touch that

[random stump]

Can't believe that still happens even on permadeath.

[oak cloak]

Standard Officials with quest-only growth is here to stay, no worries

[icy bough]

Also is shoreline Struthi skin supposed to be free

[haughty tusk]

[candid flint]

People don't wanna kos now that the stakes are high

[icy bough]

I'm too busy fighting critter mixpacks

[candid flint]

Real

[stuck tree]

i'd rather that than the hunter-killer death squads that are on normal official

[split copper]

I’m nearly to adult on my Pachy 🙂

[digital cradle]

I took up an achoring job instead

[icy bough]

I kicked him

[stuck tree]

like i can at least avoid/stay away from the cuddle piles so they're much less egregious an issue imo

[oak cloak]

I managed to kill an adult Mega as Laten, it was near death in a pond. I pretend to AFK, it comes out to bite me, I pounce it and barely kill it before running out of stam

[candid flint]

Does everyone still head to ic?

[random stump]

True. I'm not against it so to speak, I just think it's a little risky. Like, they could turn on you at any moment and you lose it all.

[restive ermine]

The critters in this mode are something else! I had one gray dog_looking ones (I don't know the name) bring my sub bars to half before I could kill it!

[floral kraken]

Ahh the good old. Pretend to be afk trick

[oak cloak]

Savanna is popping off, didn't see anyone anywhere else besides DP and IC

[icy bough]

I've spent the last idk 6hrs waltzing across the entire map and saw at least 1-3 people per poi

Even in the random middle of nowhere ones

[candid flint]

How do you travel as a solo slow baby without dieing to critters

[digital cradle]

Ahh, yes, My first news report

[torn gale]

just got killed by a teaming pynco and cera. quite annoying

[icy bough]

The classics

[restive ermine]

I do see more folks spread out, that part is so nice.

[icy bough]

Accept death become struthi

[candid flint]

Aw man

[oak cloak]

Anchor caught me harassing a Mira, that thing almost killed me then escaped

[random stump]

I think as long as you keep running, their aggro eventually times out and they'll leave you alone. I haven't tried with anything ridiculously slow, though.

[oak cloak]

Ended up giving it a trophy like 30 minutes later

[candid flint]

Sarco is pretty hard to do that with

[pure kayak]

how are these servers so dead with like 90 people?

[floral kraken]

People are hiding mate

[icy bough]

I encountered several babies at war with critters

[floral kraken]

They don't wanna die

[random stump]

I guess you gotta use the waterways.

[icy bough]

Just look for em

[floral kraken]

They are right next to you hiding in some bush or behind a rock

[pure kayak]

i have went to all the hot spots, and noting

[restive ermine]

I like that thos mode makes folks think twice before just running in. Changes up the gameplay

[torn gale]

what dinos yall reccomend for a mode like this?

[icy bough]

Ah because hotspots aren't hot here

[oak cloak]

Not to mention the map is built for 200 players plus AI

[icy bough]

Go fast or die

So amarga for sure

[candid flint]

I'm goin sarco, I don't recommend lol

[torn gale]

il just be somethin like meg then

[digital cradle]

You and or your friend kicked me as well lol

[restive ermine]

Bars... the pinnacle of dino performance

[icy bough]

It's kick a hatz day

[oak cloak]

Didn't want you stealing my herb quest!

[icy bough]

Is Matt still here

[candid flint]

Wait sarco can drink saltwater?

I did not know that

[icy bough]

Anything can drink saltwater

[candid flint]

Ohh

[stuck tree]

maybe the true matt was the friends we made along the way

[pure kayak]

Matt, are you making it rain?? it's been raining for 2 hours 😭

it just stopped raining?????

i can see!

[digital cradle]

Well i was about to make a forecast about the weather lol

[ebon monolith]

What is solo permadeath?

[fathom drift]

Fun

[pallid forge]

No groups, no friends can join, critters do a lot more damage and if your dino dies, it dies for good and will not be playable anymore

It's basically a Roguelike mode

[pure kayak]

techinally friends can join

[pallid forge]

Oh didn't know that they can join.

[gilded mica]

Rip my eo that charged off a cliff trying to kill a pyc 🤣

[plush topaz]

💀

[ebon monolith]

damn... Doesnt sound like its for me. Thanks for the info tho.

[icy bough]

F

[gilded mica]

Fr

[full current]

Ive seen 3 people in 1 poi

[random stump]

Circle of life unfolded before my eyes. A hatz killed a baby metri, then an eo immediately charged out of the bushes and deleted the hatz.

[hollow tinsel]

Marks should be tied to your account instead of individual dinos. If they did that I’d play solo permadeath constantly.

[full current]

Lol what absolutely not

[mild anchor]

GG dasp that was biting me from 20 metres away

[full current]

Skins sure marks no

[pure kayak]

where?

[mild anchor]

Triad falls

[pure kayak]

ahh

[mild anchor]

They were crazy laggy

[full current]

running for my little life from a hatz

god help me

im a baby laten

[random stump]

Use the treeeees

[latent anchor]

hehehe i finally got my skin... now lets hope i can continue to stay alive lol

[digital cradle]

And now, a moment from my coworker; beautiful sunset today in the desert

Careful my fellow gondwanians, im hearing reports of a spicy croc in our water systems stay safe out there < 3

Signing off here for now, goodnight folks

[icy bough]

Lmao ggs GP royale

[full current]

Forgot how awful the back end of stego is and how you cant get into stego from the beach like at all :')

had to run all the way to SF to eat

[digital cradle]

Were you the little stego that I saw by the water in bq? Lol

[hollow tinsel]

transrights microraptor marks should absolutely be tied to your account. There’s a reason people make fun of how grindy the game is. This change would single-handedly remove that criticism from the game.

[full current]

nah i was laten fighting for my life

marks being tied to account would mean people would just farm on rhamph/struthi/campto/deinon/thal/hatz for all their dinos

[hollow tinsel]

Ok?

And?

[full current]

better to boost quest mark rewards or make questing more fun than make the player population mostly certain dinosaurs purely to farm

[digital cradle]

We also have to remember they are completely rehauling the questing system soon

[mild anchor]

CHAOS TIME

[hollow tinsel]

I get that you guys like the game but there’s a fine line between liking it and dismissing criticism and changes that would OBJECTIVELY make the game better.

[icy bough]

Why is there the most random Amarg rex pack

[full current]

Your opinion is subjective, not objective.

[willow gazelle]

Matt that was just mean haha

[steady pawn]

does dying make you lose skins/abilities?

[full current]

Many people would consider designing the game to encourage playing on the fastest playables possible to farm, thus making a significant portion of the player population at any time just that limited selection of dinosaurs, to be a very bad idea.

[hollow tinsel]

Yes SlimedSerpent.

[mild anchor]

You can't log onto that dino when you die

[hollow tinsel]

You lose your dino entirely.

[steady pawn]

oh jeez

[torpid merlin]

this is absolutely hilarious

[digital cradle]

The questing system is being rehauled, so is the marks system i believe, I wouldn't start arguments about it now because we have no idea what they may be planning

[full current]

There's just other ways to make mark farming less grindy

[icy bough]

How did I just almost bleed out to nothing???

[hollow tinsel]

I’m going to laugh if they make marks tied to your account rather than individual dinos.

[full current]

They wouldn't.

[digital cradle]

They are actively doing this rehaul to give players new types of missions and such that are more interactive, the exact reason they're doing it is to make the game less grindy, you can find this information in the devposts, hope this helps clear up any messy thoughts you have about the gane

[full current]

If you see Matt, ask him if they would.

[digital cradle]

As well, it don't think they'd add the "explore the map" missions dino tied if they plan to account tie marks

[marble kindle]

Hahahaha this is so much fun. IC Eo

[torpid merlin]

the poi missions combined with the slight passive growth does feel really nice

[willow gazelle]

@floral kraken

[hollow tinsel]

You’re the first person I’ve talked to that doesn’t like the idea transrights microraptor. Anyway I gave my feedback, you’re not a dev so there’s no use in trying to convince you.

[full current]

Who else have you talked to that likes the idea? Also, why try to convince me in the first place if it doesn't matter...?

[dreamy pelican]

People would just use a really fast dino or a flyer to grind marks with little to no consequence.

[candid flint]

I just died to an ai 3x smaller than me

[dreamy pelican]

People would grind on ramph/struthi - uncatchable things and zoom all over the map grinding - then switch and funnel those marks into apex dinos

[digital cradle]

Plus, in a way it would make the game more grindy, you have hundreds of skins across all dinos, it would get boring doing all those quests to get skins on a single ramph

[icy bough]

Once again why is this chat here

[full current]

This wouldn't apply to permadeath solo (seeing as no WS) but it would also make it a lot easier for clans to WS

Skins being tied to account for permadeath idc I think thats fine

Upping mark gain rate sure

[mild anchor]

Why wouldn't it be here?

[icy bough]

Is Matt here spawning AI again

[full current]

Not that ive seen so far

[willow gazelle]

Absolutely

[summer sigil]

if marks were account wide that would mean any time im bored i could run aroud the map as something near unkillable (struthi, campto, deinon, rhamph) and get thousands of marks mindlessly then later when im actually on with friends Id have thousands of marks to spend to waystone people ((which is a bad thing btw))

[icy bough]

HE TOTALLY IS

[candid flint]

Is mark limit gonna be 20,000?

[icy bough]

so many silesaurus on this smol island

[fiery seal]

I see Matt is on 👀

[icy bough]

SOS

[fiery seal]

I just got attacked by crabs 🦀

Alot of them 😆

[marble kindle]

Hahahaha I had like 3 rounds of those red heads a round of snakes and 2 rounds of crabs on me 🙂

It was alot of fun 🙂 Had a anky friend take out alot of em hehe

[wet walrus]

Q.Q I safe logged my Iggy just now and the game is telling me it's now dead.

[pallid forge]

Never trust a Hatz even when they are great you friendly. From now on I just kill them regardless 😑

[marble kindle]

What did u do to these turtles @floral kraken They took a beating 😛

[icy bough]

The countdown timer when you get into a new server after the other closes sucks

[neon pollen]

no map would go hard

[velvet token]

How IS the permadeath?

[marble kindle]

I feel like the game needs flying critters ey 😛 even if its just admin spawnable flying critters

I love it its exciting

[wet walrus]

Very permanent

[velvet token]

Thanks so now i know nothing😆

[wet walrus]

I love to help :3

[icy bough]

Oof I landed a 30 player server

[silver schooner]

I wish permadeath was in panjura so i don’t see a hatz or thala coming of nowhere

[icy bough]

Panjura blows

The quests are all buggy

And half the areas don't even have quests

[silver schooner]

😔

[icy bough]

F for the alio that jumped off the cliff in IC

[split copper]

Why would a juvenile Dasp attack my adult Pachy? 😂

[floral kraken]

jiggy is getting this mode a cool icon

[icy bough]

I hope it's a corpse

[willow gazelle]

Come spawn more critter 😈

[willow gazelle]

Make this the icon 😈😈

[full current]

gg bars - laten at bql

[red sundial]

based name

[full current]

based pfp

So far- I enjoy permadeath. Everything feels a lot more tense and important, people are more spread out and cautious. Don't think it's something I'd play on end, like, I die and regrow again the same night, but I'd play it in bursts.

[red sundial]

my plan is to swap dinos every time I die :3

[floral kraken]

this is how i figured it would play, and you can have a different experience per life

[red sundial]

exactly! :D
it honestly feels like im losing less then on officials
is fun

[marble kindle]

Damn I saw u on this server matt and got excited 😛

[floral kraken]

the amount of people who decided to fight the crab army and didnt run away and lost

just run away

[tropic sage]

Im in a fresh server its noice

[full current]

Always funny to see people not hop on a rock or go in water when critters spawn

[marble kindle]

We fought the army and won tho 😛 It was so much fun

[red sundial]

hard to jump on rocks with my stubby legs :[

[fiery seal]

I played the rock on my cera

[scenic yoke]

Some mega pack did not want me to finish my flower delivery XD

[vague prawn]

time to chuck my amarg into the meat grinder

[floral kraken]

at least its not a mixpack

lets go new permadeath icon on matchmaker UI

[red sundial]

damn does this mean i gotta log

[fiery seal]

Lol how dare you make me look at this again and remind me, I love it. I decided to go down the list and play each dino until I die. I have made it to the cera 😆

[tropic sage]

Finally sub adult 👌✨️

[lethal nimbus]

I’m loving this mode! Please allow us to group with our own kind though! Example - Rex,Alio, Dasp (Tyrannosaurs) or Eo, Sty, Alb (Ceratopsians). Permadeath is a great experience! Allow trophy level xp upon killing adults.

[tropic sage]

Is this... a nest on perma death?

[red sundial]

tasty....

[lethal nimbus]

Anyone who disliked is just salty that I ate them in this mode XD

[red sundial]

only thing that ate me was the damn critters

[tropic sage]

Nevermond these are just normal here in this area i see another one, not used to seeing big nests

[radiant yarrow]

There’s nests scattered around the map for decoration

[willow gazelle]

I haven’t died ❤️

[tropic sage]

I know , im not used to seein then that large

[marble kindle]

Either have I 🙂

[radiant yarrow]

Yea that’s very big, I found one big one in hoodoo the other day

[zealous trellis]

Hope this helps :))

[wet walrus]

Could we really call it solo permadeath if they allowed grouping 🤨

[lethal nimbus]

It probably shouldn’t be solo permadeath

Just a permadeath mode in general

Give the realism experience

[radiant yarrow]

Pfft imagine only being able to play once and ya done

[wet walrus]

It wouldn't be a bad idea, but too many people would then just end up complaining about groups, in my opinion

[floral kraken]

dont confuse our our decision to not ban grouping as allowing grouping

[lethal nimbus]

Ok but some Dino’s are designed for group play such as raptors etc

[red sundial]

and u can still do that
just cant be in a group like, where u can see names and such

[wet walrus]

Yeah, but then just don't choose a Dino you think needs a group for a mode that exists for the point of not grouping

[red sundial]

not reccommended
the turtles will find you....

[lethal nimbus]

Haha yeah fair enough, all I’m saying is have a solo mode for those that want that and another mode that allows groups of the same species/kind for those who want a more realistic/hardcore experience

[wet walrus]

You aren't wrong, I get it, personally normally I like being in a group, but also too many modes and servers will never have enough people to be fun anymore

[red sundial]

it'll be too spread out :[

our poor oce servers are struggling as is

[lethal nimbus]

Make a better game and it won’t struggle

[red sundial]

woah-

[floral kraken]

more modes have the chance of actually bringing more players too

at least some of the time

if it fragments the playerbase too much we will limit them

[lethal nimbus]

Don’t get me wrong I love it but I do crave that realism experience. This game currently lacks that in official servers

[red sundial]

community servers! :D

[zenith notch]

is this what it sounds like? Normal game but if you die your character gets deleted?

[floral kraken]

yes

critters are buffed tho

so watch out for crab army

[zenith notch]

the what army

[tropic sage]

I found this out the hard way

[wet walrus]

I mean, I know community isn't for everyone but it is an option, some are pretty good

[red sundial]

very... very buffed...

[lethal nimbus]

They are all American based and have too many rules plus bad ping

[willow gazelle]

I’m waiting

[floral kraken]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1309445590362488862/1309760168732397608/IMG_3491.jpg?ex=6742c0b6&is=67416f36&hm=4c8108f65ea2e255838e76fc3d648dabff48beb4552174eaaea579a4b7ba9336&

[tropic sage]

The sili army is worse

[red sundial]

not all of em
and the ping is the sae as the current test servers :D

[tropic sage]

Youve made them my nemesis

[floral kraken]

sili can run faster then you

so you are doomed

[zealous trellis]

The sili know where you live -.-

[lethal nimbus]

Oh well just making my point 🤷‍♂️ take it or leave it

[tropic sage]

[lethal nimbus]

Matt it’s on you bro to give us what we want ✌️

[floral kraken]

i think the problem is too many rules and too many mods

and no one wants to try anything risky

[tropic sage]

^^^

[floral kraken]

like a mode like this

[wet walrus]

The whole solo lobby knows where we live?

[floral kraken]

critters have global chat

they use it to discuss current events and where you are

[tropic sage]

Critters say L when you die

[verbal loom]

I’d believe it

[zealous trellis]

The ai is learning…

[wet walrus]

Do the critters also report us for bad behaviour?

[floral kraken]

got a xbox patch ill put up in a sec

[wispy thunder]

Imagine peeping critter convos generated by chatgpt

[red sundial]

please id love that

[wet walrus]

Having a critter hit us with the GG ez

[tropic sage]

The only chat logs you can see is just critters flamebaiting you when you die, but you cant do anything about it

[verbal loom]

System announcements from the critters outing people they killed lol

[red sundial]

L [name] died to [critter] in [poi]

[wispy thunder]

Dynamo says: JUVIE DASP YG EZZZZZ

[floral kraken]

i can prob do the 'x critter killed y player'

[tropic sage]

Theres a roblox game like this ☠️ id love it if path had that

[floral kraken]

pretty ez

[tropic sage]

Yes please

[willow gazelle]

Do it

[mild anchor]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[verbal loom]

[wispy thunder]

Wait I read it wrong. Ignore

[wet walrus]

Q.Q the shame some of us will go through (it's me, I'll be ashamed)

[floral kraken]

there will be a leaderboard of people who are killed most by critters

[fiery seal]

This is what i get for typing ez critter in global too many times

[zealous trellis]

Omg I will cry laughing. And from shame 😂😂

[fiery seal]

They want revenge

[wet walrus]

Ayo something I might win?!

[tropic sage]

Id actually love this

[mild anchor]

Finally something @wet walrus can win

[floral kraken]

the plan is to add growth to critters

so we can have critter families

[wispy thunder]

No way

BABY DIDELS 🥺

[tropic sage]

I can kill the silis while their young

Finally

[red sundial]

critter nests

[marble kindle]

herds of herbies defending areas would be pretty epic 😉

[verbal loom]

Now that’s a value meal

[floral kraken]

you will kill a baby critter and the whole family will come after ya

[fiery seal]

I need flying critters and water critters or it's not fair lol mosquitoes and piranha everywhere

[wet walrus]

So like, we might run into little critter herds? Or just single different age critters will spawn?

[red sundial]

watch them come over the horizon

[wet walrus]

Oop you explained before I asked my bad

[wispy thunder]

Imagining a critter swarm attacking a rex without fear

Wait. If I kill a critter baby and the family comes out to get me, but I’m a flyer, then I can drag them around the map

[floral kraken]

nah we will need flying critters

[wispy thunder]

IC about to get an angry didel swarm

[floral kraken]

to come after ya

[willow gazelle]

Ocean needs aggressive critters

[floral kraken]

so there is no escape

[fiery seal]

Do it

[wispy thunder]

Can you make the beehives aggressive

[zealous trellis]

Angry piranhas?

[floral kraken]

for sure

[fiery seal]

Make the bananas aggressive

They should bite back

[wispy thunder]

https://tenor.com/view/banana-cat-walking-gif-2237394417025851749

[verbal loom]

Angry bees would be terrifying imagine being a land Kai at delivery tree and you make the bees mad

[red sundial]

imagine being a land Kai....

[floral kraken]

bees could truly be the solution to megapacking

[red sundial]

-# /j

[mild anchor]

Dragonflies would be cool, such as Meganeura

[fiery seal]

Lol what is a land kai?

[mild anchor]

Prehistoric huge dragonflies

[red sundial]

big groups of dinosaurs together attract swarms

[verbal loom]

CRUNCHY SNACKS FOR RHAMMP TO FLY AFTRR

[neon pollen]

getting swarmed by critters if found grouping

[pulsar badger]

Bees that fly around hot spots and swarm big groups

[verbal loom]

It’s exactly what it sounds like, my Kai is mostly on land lmao

I explore the map

[vague prawn]

critters in sea and air, nowhere should be truly safe

[verbal loom]

Confusing people the whole way

[mild anchor]

Yes!

[floral kraken]

someone not getting an adult kai at IC?

[fiery seal]

I need to see this, for raisins....I mean reasons

[verbal loom]

I can record my next journey if you’d like lol

Shuffle from gv to like rainbow lol

[fiery seal]

Yes, my kai has only made it to gv one time 😆 and I had to log because I almost became a meal

[verbal loom]

I chased down and killed a baby rex on my land Kai one time lmaoooo

He full rested for stam in a bush and somehow didn’t see the albino Kai still chasing him and I got him while he was laying

[round beacon]

that sounds like the immortal snail meme

[verbal loom]

To be fair

That rex had the survival instincts of a wet slice of bread lmao

[tropic sage]

Make swarming dimorphodons

[silver schooner]

I give up on this server there so many hatz

[fiery seal]

I want to be a hesperornis. I wanna honk and bite

[silver schooner]

Yes they grouping too

[willow gazelle]

My ano hasn’t had an issue with them

[silver schooner]

Nobody well fight adult ano

[red sundial]

i will >:]

[floral kraken]

anos dont run away from 100 crabs, but 10 turtles they will

[verbal loom]

What’s the mark rate on this server?

[willow gazelle]

100%

[red sundial]

nuh uh

[marble kindle]

😉 My trike didnt run

[wispy thunder]

Btw are critter spawns static? I wanna see a snake, I saw one chasing a conc at BQL but it got mobbed. I wanna encounter snek

[red sundial]

they spawn at ripple sometimes

[tropic sage]

Silis dont attacks adult camptos, w

[wispy thunder]

Sillysaurus

[analog fossil]

I just had a dream that I was playing this mode and Matt spawned a swarm of bats that kept following me no matter how far I ran

[silver schooner]

Lil bro can’t jump lol

[red sundial]

L

[floral kraken]

let me fix this

[wet walrus]

Based on experience, this will soon be accurate the second they add bats

[tropic sage]

Evil 🫵

[lethal nimbus]

Hey guys, just some feedback. I nearly died as a sub-adult Rex to a turtle and one of those wombat-like critters. I feel like critter health and damage should scale with the combat weight of your dinosaur. Right now, it feels easier to facetank an Eotriceratops than to take down a turtle. The balance seems off, and it would be great if critters damage and health were more in line with the size different dinosaurs.

[willow gazelle]

Sounds like a skill issue

[red sundial]

thats the point though
they're supposed to be annoying as heck
especially for apexes

[mild anchor]

They've buffed critters for permadeath mode

[wispy thunder]

I’m sorry but the idea of a tortoise killing a rex is too funny

It should remain for funny purposes

[pulsar badger]

The reason for this is because they have a set number of hits before they die, regardless of dino age and size (that’s what it feels like so far) and them basically being hockey pucks with legs is why it’s so hard for a Rex to kill one lmao

[floral kraken]

they are buffed like 3-5x

from normal critters

and no longer scale with combat weight

[lethal nimbus]

Yeah I thought I would get these kind of replies from this community! Y’all wonder why there isn’t enough players in oce ☹️

[pulsar badger]

What

[red sundial]

ah yes, its our fault, i see

[wet walrus]

It would make sense for the critters to be stronger, assuming that permadeath is meant to be harder than normal gameplay in general

[lethal nimbus]

It should not take 20 hits to kill a turtle as a trex that is the bottom line here. If you don’t agree you are dumb af

[floral kraken]

the turtles not supposed to die

you will prob want to not fight it

[wet walrus]

No need to insult us man

[floral kraken]

and just run

[red sundial]

dude
its meant to be harder...
dont go insulting ppl because ur angry

[lethal nimbus]

Well it should not have the damage out put with its little mouth to hurt a trex

[floral kraken]

i dont know what its at now 100 hits?

[tropic sage]

Tbh a turtle does make sense to be impenetrable

[red sundial]

that is literally the entire point
its hard

[floral kraken]

the mode is designed about that, if you dont want this id reccomend playing on the non-perma death non-hardcore server

[wet walrus]

Look, the entire point of the mode is to not be the same as official, if you're playing it expecting to feel the same as official you're setting yourself up to be disappointed in the game

[floral kraken]

ill update the MOTD to have a warning in there about turtles so people know

[red sundial]

BEWARE!! BUFF TURTLES!!

[lethal nimbus]

Bro I am just suggesting something to make the game feel more realistic and balanced. Do not tell me which mode play on Matt simply because the balance of your game is whack atm. This is just feedback for your “test mode” do you want to listen to your community or not ?

[pulsar badger]

That is good to know, was gonna be in there trying it at some point this weekend

[floral kraken]

we intentionally made it unrealistic and unbalanced for fun

[wet walrus]

Can it just say "fear the critters, fear them"

[red sundial]

its not meant to be balanced right now XD

[red sundial]

beware ALL critters o-o

[pulsar badger]

It’s a separate mode than officials, my guy. If you don’t want the critters to be dangerous, play the other solo mode

[lethal nimbus]

Hence my suggestion

[floral kraken]

i just spent maybe the last 10 hours making them unrealistic as possible

and i got some ideas on how to make it more unrealistic

[lethal nimbus]

Ok then 🤷‍♂️

[tropic sage]

Its supposed to be silly on purpose 😭

[red sundial]

the intention is that its not supposed to be balanced
qwq

[willow gazelle]

Just for your sake @wet walrus it should say beware crabs

[silver schooner]

Make turtle fly

[wet walrus]

I can confidently say I didn't read solo permadeath and interpret it to mean realism and balance

[silver schooner]

Give them speed buff

[wet walrus]

Q.Q the trauma I felt in ic

[floral kraken]

critters are all double speed atm

[red sundial]

already done

[floral kraken]

2-3x more hits

will attack 5x higher combat weight

[tropic sage]

Like, i got killed by a horde of sillis today and all i did was laugh about it

Twice

[pulsar badger]

Well that just ruins the entire game, guys! One mode separate from the rest being whacky in comparison means the rest of the game is whack! /s

[silver schooner]

Make it 10x lol

[floral kraken]

and chase 3x further

[red sundial]

exactly!
the hoard of dynamos was too funny to be mad at

[lethal nimbus]

No I think they are unbalanced in the other mode also

[tropic sage]

I killed a good 20-30 before i died so it was great

[lethal nimbus]

Especially for apexes

[wet walrus]

I expect to play video games and feel like it's so similar to real life. I should be forgetting I'm not a dinosaur honestly, do better video game creators

[floral kraken]

most of them dont even attack apexes

[pulsar badger]

Critters are of no threat to any adult dino in regular officials

[floral kraken]

the turtle in the other mode for example you can walk faster then it lol

[mild anchor]

@tiny flare

[tropic sage]

Only like 2 critters attack apexes ?

[zealous trellis]

Matt You’re my hero

[silver schooner]

Even ano is faster then turtle

[pulsar badger]

Like if you’re dying to a critter without already being hurt by something else on an adult in standard officials, try plugging your keyboard back in

[red sundial]

critters > Apexes confirmed

[lethal nimbus]

They aren’t a threat but trex should be able to one shot most of them

[floral kraken]

not saying your feedback is invalid though

we want them to be able to kill trexs

maybe in like a few hits

[wet walrus]

I mean if the apex is me? Accurate

[lethal nimbus]

Right 🤷‍♂️

[red sundial]

the most apex :3

[floral kraken]

they are really good for killing people and stopping grouping

and making people run

[wet walrus]

The biggest threat to me is myself

[floral kraken]

the critters are the apex

[fiery seal]

When can we play as a critter?

[tropic sage]

Im tellin ya matt, make dimorphodons, they can swarm people and do bleed

True group killer

[floral kraken]

we dont have dino ai yet so this is the best we got

[wet walrus]

I immediately imagined the critters being the size of trexs

[tropic sage]

Flying would be tricky to code though i imagine

[floral kraken]

im going to see if i can double the limit on the server

[mild anchor]

Petition to give critters bone break

[red sundial]

so u can have more people to torment lol

[red sundial]

full bb or fracture...?

[floral kraken]

the other solo mode doesnt have perma death so ICs a mess

[pulsar badger]

I just don’t get why you’d be upset about how this mode is balanced when there’s another similar mode up with critters that aren’t as bad, something for everybody right now and I for one won’t be complaining about Alderon listening to us and giving us an alternate official experience

[willow gazelle]

Just drop some critters on them

[tropic sage]

Unfortunate, nuke the area

[floral kraken]

yeah the design of the critters is setup so as a juvie you feel scared AF but by the time you get to adult they are running away from you so you can feel powerful

for this mode we are going to axe that one

[red sundial]

all must fear the critters

[pulsar badger]

It’s not a bad idea, gives you a sort of dry run test on how AI dinos would behave and influence players

[tropic sage]

Will it be like that till the ai dinos drop?

[floral kraken]

the way to help against PvP threats is a PvE theat

and consequences

one of the devs recently added hit animations

so you will see them when they get hit at least

[red sundial]

oooo now thats exciting! :0

[silver schooner]

Imagine ai dino as zombie

[red sundial]

do you guys have any plans for what ai dinos youd liek to add?

[red sundial]

halloween event >:]]]

[floral kraken]

it would be cool to see the dinos we disabled in normal solo mode

as AI

[red sundial]

ooo yes :00

[mild anchor]

That would be rad

[tropic sage]

I still think world bosses would help make this game feel like a true MMO, on regular officials

[wispy thunder]

I have been waiting to look at ai dinos again for so long

[red sundial]

ive been loving the ai dinos
another little threat even without players around >:3

[hollow tinsel]

@floral kraken What’s your opinion on having marks tied to player accounts instead of their individual dinos?

[floral kraken]

someone mentioned it in chat before its a good idea

until you realise its so exploitable to play as the fastest mark earning dino first

and using it on the slowest mark earning dino

[proven matrix]

I would do all mark farming with a flier

[floral kraken]

if all dinos earned marks around trhe same speed it would be fine

[pulsar badger]

Free will really ruined nice things for us, huh

[hollow tinsel]

Maaaaan… What about for solo and solo permadeath mode only?

[dry pulsar]

Could have little critters that can pounce on you? I know Hesperonychus is kinda similar to deinon so the model shouldnt take too long to create other than a few alterations, they could also spawn in packs or something, though i think thats getting a bit close to the ai dinosaurs rather than critters

[floral kraken]

tbh i could see the game swapping out unlocking abilities for some type of perk point instead of marks where you have to do a unique quest to unlock that ability in different places on the map

[floral kraken]

right now you could grow from baby to adult never leaving the same map area

[wet walrus]

Can't you only have like one dinosaur on these though? So it wouldn't really do anything

[red sundial]

compy.... :]

[pulsar badger]

Oooo more incentive to explore the map, I like that

[graceful sequoia]

Similar to WoWs unique class quests 👀

[dry pulsar]

yeah im just trying not to sugegst dinos that have mods made of them otherwise compy would def be best for that lol

[pulsar badger]

Herbis having to go to different nesting grounds for some of their sub/adult abilities

[red sundial]

fair XD
i tend to avoid it but...
yuty <3
10/10 suggestion imo

[dry pulsar]

maybe having the location quests be something like that? then there would be more incentive to follow them and it being randomised would stop people camping the quest areas

[graceful sequoia]

Id rather have npcs give u them as rewards, by using them mayhaps

Itd be a way to ecplain them via npcs for new folks aswell

[sinful rampart]

throwing it out there i think that spino should have another headslot for clamp or flesh tear and give spino back its bleed on claw attack and mabye more

[proven matrix]

Wings

[wispy thunder]

Not npcs

Spino explaining what carebearing is

[graceful sequoia]

Theyre planned :)

[fiery seal]

Another dino settlement needs your help

[graceful sequoia]

Embrace the mmo

[pulsar badger]

Maaan not sure how I’ll feel about dino NPCs lmao

[graceful sequoia]

Its just a basic mmo aspect lmao

[sinful rampart]

ik i thought since matt was in here thought he could look at this and say " Hmm, that's a. Good idea!"

[pulsar badger]

Some iggys just standing there doing the grunt when they talk over and over while text pops up telling you that they need shellfish and turtle shells for their nest

[wispy thunder]

Are they just gonna stand in the world and give quests

[graceful sequoia]

[pulsar badger]

Gonna be a little jarring tbh, if they’re modeled after playables. I expect them to get attacked a lot lmao

[graceful sequoia]

But they memtiomed npcs are planned, how or when is unknown

[wispy thunder]

The only npc we need is Gary the squirrel

[graceful sequoia]

Tru....

[floral kraken]

im ready to do another test of IC being removed soon

it doesnt sound like permadeath servers even need it tho

maybe only normal solo mode

[sinful rampart]

hm

[red sundial]

p l e a s e

[buoyant cloak]

disable it anyway!

[dry pulsar]

Dromaeosaurus could also be a smaller raptor type critter, its smaller than deinon and in the natural history museum's page is shown as beinga ble to pounce, so it could be used as a pack-based critter that could pounce if its not too hard to code.
I can also see it being modelled similar to deinon so it shouldnt be too difficult in that area

[dry pulsar]

could make a freshly-cratered crater? like with lava and stuff lol

[floral kraken]

let me see if i can hotpatch in a new type of critters which is a modified turtle lol

[graceful sequoia]

Almost as if the maps layout needs some fixing...i wonder

[wispy thunder]

“Modified turtle” aka killer turtle

[dry pulsar]

snapping turtles

could make em swim too

[red sundial]

thatd be cool :0

[floral kraken]

i should be able to patch the data assets to make them all aggressive tho

[mild anchor]

BONE BREAK TURTLE BONE BREAK TURTLE

[floral kraken]

10 people at IC vs one immortal turtle

[wet walrus]

It's hard enough to outrun them without them snapping my ankles -.-

[red sundial]

even the little weasel things???

[buoyant cloak]

yes

[floral kraken]

yes

[pulsar badger]

HAHAHAHHA

[mild anchor]

Snapping turtle with crushing bite please

[buoyant cloak]

make the moths agressive

[mild anchor]

and lazer cannons

[pulsar badger]

Imagine running for your life from a ferret 😭

[fiery seal]

No not the little weasels!

[floral kraken]

moth swarm where your screen darkens and you cant see anything

[dry pulsar]

just have like 50 of the little horseshoe crabs stabbing everyone XD

THATD BE COOL

[fiery seal]

I murder those to feel better about my ferret biting my toes

[tropic sage]

Matts going all out im thriving off of it

[wispy thunder]

Omg aggro turtle and crab swarm

[wet walrus]

Matt clearly feeds on chaos

[dry pulsar]

Carbonemys where if you bite it, it hurts

[pulsar badger]

I wanna see the weasels just mob people

[floral kraken]

hehe

[buoyant cloak]

disable the minimap too while ur at it fr

[red sundial]

hes got a silly face

[buoyant cloak]

dear god

[wispy thunder]

Spawn them all atop the IC cliff and have them become territorial toward the poi. Just a bunch of critters stampeding down into the group like a biblical plague

[floral kraken]

who decided on the team that turtles always attack, no wonder why HC campers had a rough time

[mild anchor]

https://tenor.com/view/chaos-gif-22919457

[pulsar badger]

Lmaooo the big turtles attack everything and it’s so funny to me

[floral kraken]

i can prob give the dangerous one a diff skin

so you can tell

[buoyant cloak]

make the critters type random letters in chat at random intervals

[buoyant cloak]

100%

[willow gazelle]

Nah keep it a surprise 😈

[floral kraken]

you saw person in chat earlier whos pride got destroyed by a turtle

we dont want to make it too bad

[pulsar badger]

LMFAO

[buoyant cloak]

true true

[red sundial]

XDD

[wet walrus]

https://tenor.com/view/doja-cat-star-wars-gif-25078126

[buoyant cloak]

omg wait make them type random letters until one of them types the entirety of hamlet then shut down the game when that happens

[dry pulsar]

hey matt, porcupines

Deinogalerix

[swift nacelle]

Bee movie script if anyone remembers what happened

Good times..

[graceful sequoia]

[red sundial]

critter kills someone and they put the whole bee movie script in global

[buoyant cloak]

make the critters in charge of typing the PoT movie script 🔥

[swift nacelle]

The script of 87...never forget what it did to those servers

[graceful sequoia]

Jack Black for path movie

[pulsar badger]

Imagine you get killed by a critter then you just see in global “Didelphodon: L Rex GV ez”

[wet walrus]

If I'm online you lot would be seeing that far too often

[buoyant cloak]

gamemode where you play as a critter and have to survive against ai dinos

[pulsar badger]

I can imagine some discord groups falling apart when dino AI shows up. “Bro wdym you guys died to an AI trike? Nah, you’re out”

[chilly prairie]

bug swarm that blacks out your screen, and when it fades back in you see that your dino has been replaced by a pile of bones

[wispy thunder]

This is assuming any of them would be able to be haughty about pvp skill (big groups don’t have any)

“wtf you died to an ai”
“So did you…”

[pulsar badger]

(We know, don’t say it too loud or they get mad)

[wispy thunder]

I want them to 😈

[pulsar badger]

I 1v1d someone from one of the bigger groups on their stego as pre-TLC Iggy… I meatballed them

[hollow tinsel]

What if abilities were unlocked permanently after you buy them? Like even if you deleted a dino and made a totally new one (same species obviously) the abilities you unlocked on the deleted one would still be unlocked on the new one? Idk.. Don’t mean to keep bringing this up it’s just that solo permadeath is nearly perfect imo but the constant grinding for marks ruins it for me. If I didn’t have to grind for abilities after every single death I’d truly be in love.

[frozen girder]

Hey ! Is the dino deleted at death or "just" brought back at juvi / hatchling ?

[floral kraken]

new dino

diff one every time

[floral kraken]

we can prob buff mark gain for this one

[red sundial]

thatd make it nicer
i do enjoy the grinding but for permadeath
100% a mark buff would be amazing

[frozen girder]

Tell me if I'm correct :

• Your Dasp is adult, has 1000 marks and all wanted abilities.
• Death
• Juvi Dasp with no abilities unlock (except the default ones) and no marks
  That's how it works ?

[pulsar badger]

No, the dino is gone

[frozen girder]

Ok, deleted then. Thanks !

[red sundial]

youve just gotta start a whole new dino ^^

[frozen girder]

Other question now : is there as much KoS players that everywhere else ? 😭

[red sundial]

not that ive seen!

everyone is a lot more cautious

[frozen girder]

Good

[red sundial]

that or ive been lucky-

the critters though.....

[pulsar badger]

This mode and the other one seem to have less large groups. KoS will always be present but they will be more careful on this one

[wet walrus]

Honestly the most dangerous thing in this mode is Matt and the critter apocalypses

[frozen girder]

Who's Matt ?

[pulsar badger]

That would be the project lead for Path

[frozen girder]

https://tenor.com/view/ah-oh-got-it-nid-nodding-gif-16686970

[red sundial]

Path god

[buoyant cloak]

o wh?

[pulsar badger]

Campto god

[tropic sage]

Nuh uh dat me

/jk

[mild anchor]

The guy that controls your life

[frozen girder]

Let's not go that far xD

[wispy thunder]

Matt “IC water remover” Alderongames

[buoyant cloak]

wow im caring a LOT more about stealth

[mild anchor]

Matt "King of the Critters" Alderongames

[buoyant cloak]

a hatz just walked over me

[red sundial]

thats not very nice of it

[frozen girder]

With baby ano, this is a must to do

[pulsar badger]

Considering the alternative, very nice of it

[buoyant cloak]

im bb pachy and im in like the most open Poi possibke

[frozen girder]

To see danger coming ?

[buoyant cloak]

no im passing through id rather be in a forest, more rocks to jump on and more places to hide

rn im running between bushes

[frozen girder]

The replays must be so fun and stressful to watch

[wispy fulcrum]

Can't get enough of recordings and replays with these servers 🙃

[frozen girder]

So many people outside of hotspots

I even found a duck in the middle of the sea. Scared me to death

[pulsar badger]

Catch me growing a sucho and living a peaceful life in sharptooth

[red sundial]

omw to sharptooth

[pulsar badger]

Good thing I’m not in game, nerd

[red sundial]

darn XD

[pulsar badger]

Cancel that ping in your discord, buddy /j

[red sundial]

my ano needs food :[

[thorn mango]

Do u guys think if I log in now and swim away from my lil island in quill lake to shore, I will make it safely or nah...

[red sundial]

i reckon u try it

[frozen girder]

Don't worry, my croc only eats fish

[fathom oar]

I like my clownfish looking croc that only eats feesh

[nocturne vine]

Hey guys im new here so what is this solo-permadeath all about, what does this mean?

[red sundial]

you cant group with anyone, you can only have 1 dinosaur [until it dies and then u make a new one]
no chats, global or local
and when a dinosaur dies you cant play it anymore

[fathom oar]

Yep its loads of fun

[nocturne vine]

Hmmm, Interesting

[red sundial]

oh and all the critters are buff and mad

[fathom oar]

Pff yeah

Critters are menaces

Pain in the fart hole

[floral kraken]

got a new surprise turtle coming later today

we will see if it works

modded version of current turtle

[red sundial]

oh no....

[fathom oar]

Ooo

[nocturne vine]

This server looks kinda fun imma try it.

[fathom oar]

Its fun

[floral kraken]

if it works ill add it to spawn around all the homecaves and waystones

[fathom oar]

You should

[red sundial]

on permadeath or....?

[floral kraken]

now that we have it we might not need to remove the IC water

[halcyon moat]

What turtle

[thorn mango]

Hahahahaha matt you're so funny. whats with the turtle matt 🙂

[red sundial]

all the more reason to avoid ic

[floral kraken]

it might be slightly tinted red

and have apex after its name

and some modified behavior

[fathom oar]

Yay evil turtles