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A great solo player tactic for the wolf spider is the gas arrows if u shoot them at the ground around the spider and dont hit it they wont engage you it takes around 15 gas arrows and they will drop this works wonders with the two wolf spiders under the oak tree they sleep close together so you can really stock up on the parts quickly.
You forgot to mention wolf spiders have a tracking ability. They can track you from their territory all the way back to your base. It's a frightening AI mechanic for sure. Love the vids, nice info
Great video!!! Here are some personal tips I have after switching to single player for now. 1) Even if you time a perfect block your armor will reduce in durability and hence when fighting something you are not confident or say wolf spiders. Just put a lean in on some high ground some distance away from the territory and go in naked to practice if you like. Shoot arrows from high up will usually make them run away only to stalk you from afar as the AI can hear/see you better than you. 2) wolf spider and orb weaver does poison dmg so even with lady bug armor you mostly get 2 shot from wolf spider. But u can make smoothie? ( a smoothie without any recipe or green machine. 3 random items). What it does is it heals you with around 1/4 or 1/5 hp instantly and you can even do that mid combat and there is no drinking animation. while you can use bandages to pre buff as it heals you with ard 2/3 hp but over a period of ticks on few secs. So i tend to see bandages as a pre buff thingy or after battles. 3) always try to keep your self full or 2/3 hunger meter as hunger is related to your cost of action that uses stamina. 4) Hugging strat is very good as mentioned in this video. trick is to walk forward n side ways into the cheek or arm of the beetle. 5) Bombardier beetles spit have a weird glitch now. they can shoot one way and still track you at times. But the best bet is to take a fast weapon like spear and dont block. 6) wolf spider attack patterns are usually 3 quick bite 1 leap. the leap tell is when he puts his front arm up n pause longer. the timing is mostly as he about to land on you. But he is definitely rough to fight. A good way to practice is time block + 1 swing = win (dont swing x2 even if u whiff your swing)
Little tip for blocking and kiting your target I recommend dropping everything you own into a chest next to a lean to spawn point and practice kiting a bug or blocking their attacking with nothing but a spear that you planned on trashing so you won't have to worry about recovering your stuff when you die
Coming late to this video, several updates in the future, and "ladybugs are super easy" "their attacks barely do damage" made me laugh (and cry a little) haha
The orb weaver has three attacks. One is the basic attack that you can just block or dodge. The second attack is a lunge that hits you three times in a row. The final attack is it’s web shoot and recently got updated to where it can web the surrounding area if it misses you making it even harder to avoid it
I love your videos, I have barely seen you for 1 week and I like the format you do, you are direct with the information. really very good guides. greetings from Mexico
I saw 2 stink bugs gas one into oblivion 😆...tried to get an orb weaver to take the stink bugs out...suffered the same fate...2 stinkbugs are no joke lol
Hey I think you forgot to mention the Hedge Broodmother found on the Frisbee. I haven't encountered it personally but I know it's always with a Orb Weaver and Spiderlings and is almost a equivalent to the Wolf Spider
I think they patched the spawn rate in the latest update. But they said the Larva tha are already spawned will still be there. But man they are in huge packs lol
Big tip for all of these insects, holding the attack button charges a heavy attack that does more damage, and I think more stun though I haven’t tested it. Great for an opening hit on a passive/sleeping enemy
My #1 advice is to use the environment to your advantage. Cheese the larger bugs as they will get stuck on grass or rocks. Sure it's kinda cheating but it was the initial way my friends and I were able to beat spiders, stink bugs, and bombarder beetles.
@@twzn7248 first time I went against a spider in first person I woke up the neighbors across from me. I swear this game should be marked in the “horror” genre
@@jacobmetcalf6192 ark is even worse. It’s scarier then a horror game. I was flying in my pteranodon and a freaking cat thing jumped from the tree and killed me. Also you can just be exploring the map, and next thing you know a T-Rex jump scares you
One of the advantages to spears is they have a larger attack range. It can very much be the difference between wailing your club around and missing and scoring hits.
The bombardier beetle actually has 3 attacks; the normal lunge, a long range acid shot and a short range acid blast that knocks down. That blast removes just about all your hp or close to half with decent armour and you start praying that it doesn't hit you as you slowly get back up. I just pelt it with poison arrows and kite it.
Yeah I think the bombardier is the hardest with it shoots that acid thing because u fall and while ur getting up it shoots again and makes hard to run that's what I hate about it
Set up a kill zone. There are certain spots (resources block) that you can lure the bugs from. They will stop moving and you can freely hit them with your bow. Works with all bugs in game.
Creatures at the level of worker ants or below, use a T1 hammer to land the first hit, then switch to the T1 axe and hit 4 times, it dies before it leaves stun. At higher levels, the mobs stun for less time I think. The soldier ant for example does not stun from that T1 hammer, meaning Stun damage is a gauge we have to 'reach' by X number of hits. If we have a insect blade that is highly damaging and fast, and a insect hammer that is highly stunning, you can start with the hammer, then combo with the blade, then switch back to hammer to re-stun the target. I also don't know if targets have a cooldown in between stuns, or if they can be infinitely stunned.
I came to the comments looking specifically for someone mentioning this strategies because it works great. Everything In the video was common sense if you've played a video game before
@@johnjacobs1356 I think a soldier ant has roughly double the stun gauge required than you see in the weapon spec. Worker ant is 50% of that gauge and Soldiers might be 100% or higher. Note that we don't have numbers associated with the weapons. We don't know exact damage, except that its low/med/high dmg.
Legion Gaming: *lists out super cool tactics and tricks one can do* Me: *gets onto a clover or something one has to jump onto, then recreates the arrow scene from 300, with the bugs being the spartan* (no joke the ai of the game can't work out how to get you when you are on certain things like a clover. The bow is top tier powerful weapon in most situations)
@@LegacyGamingUS I have to admit, I've never disagreed so much with you as I did with that comment lol. Gnat's, weevil, and lawn mites..... those are the lowest tier of difficulty.... but ffs, ladybugs? they have even experienced players shitting down both pants legs typically... lowest tier deadliness for sure = shit you dont need armor/weapons for.... lol i couldnt help but shake my head at that comment... havent watched the rest as i had to pause with when my mouth dropped and came to the comments section lol.... Dont get me wrong though, love your work, very helpful and much love!
@@dekantrubility2748 ye same here... the first 20h i was totall overwhelmed by the deadlyness in this game. but its really not that hard. just keep a cool head. dont panicspam attacks, manage stamina and watch your enemy closely.th combat here plays out more like chess than melee.
I find that I die from the ladybugs more than the orb weavers, but I guess I've just practiced the perfect block on the orb weavers and not the ladybugs
No one talks about getting the “HIGHGROUND” when against SPIDERS they can’t attack you try to get close enough to hit them they will sometimes run away just jump down and he will run back to you works against wolf spider aswell really OP when in early game especially when you accidentally get Agro by one while exploring also remember that the AI is good in the way that if you are out of its vision it can’t agro on you you can get close and get around spiders play around with how close you have to be to gain Agro so helpful but no one talks about it ❤️
I just circle and run around them because when they start their attack they stay still so if you move in circles you can kill them without taking damage
Hani yeh literally adding climbing to the creatures as we speak hope everyone has made trampolines or some way of jumping up to their base without the need to build because soon those spiders will be able to climb right into your base if there not off the ground and inaccessible
Dont forget the bottom right of the map by the berry bushes theres a hole in the wall... when you go in there are all kinds of ant heads on sticks and in the back there is a free tier 2 ant club. And tons of ant parts/heads to pick up
If your playing with 2 people for the wolf spider (if you have mint mallet) just charge into it when it’s sleeping and just attack with to people I killed 3 of them in one grounded day. I recommend this strategy if you want to kill them faster and don’t mind taking some damage. Of course using the Arow strategy works well to by getting it stuck
Your ladybugs must have been soft. If mine hit me, they often stunned me and kept doing damage. And I ran out of stamina before I could do much. And if I tried to take cover, all their health came back. They were tougher for me than Orb Weavers, bombardier beetles and stink bugs. Then I got the mint mallet and now the pose no threat, but before that they were nearly as deadly as wolf spiders. On the regular survival difficulty with thirst and hunger.
Theres a rotten ant club in the bottom right of the map, between some stones in the stone wall underneath the second research center. A full ant killer cult like base is there
Marcus Satherley that is not useful enough for how much traveling u have to do it is probably about the same as a spikey sprig and those r super easy to get and regular ant club is no sweat either
I know this is an old video, but I think a more useful tip would be to use elemental/damage type weaknesses to your advantage. For example, you show yourself taking down several ladybugs with piercing damage when they are resistant to it. This increases the amount of time you spend fighting it, which is bad if you're not good at perfect blocking... better to use the slow and clunky hammer - it will do more damage per swing (by a LOT, test it yourself) and also more stun per hit... and a stunned enemy does zero damage. Most of the enemies in the game aren't that hard if you're properly prepared with the right weapons and mutations.
I know this is a combat guide, but if you go to the tree, there is a specific greenish holey leaf with a wolf spider underneath it, if you have the bow you can just fire away and from what ive done it cannot attack you at all
I'm an Ark player so I just built traps and murdered them all. A giant spider will basically get stuck rearing back when it's on the other side of a stem wall with windows, A stink bug can not go through a single doorway, etc. Keep a repair wrench handy (it doesn't need resources to fix things)
This is the only survival game that has genuine had me running in fear. There is something about being chased by a massive spider that can 1/2 shot you and also leap attack that is absolutely terrifying
One strategy I use against spider is to go inside one of the little white domes. The spiders can’t reach you in there and you can occasionally poke out and hit it
It took forever for me to kill a Wolf Spider, let alone one in melee. My first was filled with arrows and poked with a spear while it was pinned between an oak root with a small dirt mound under it. After the Ladybug Armor and Ant Club I thought that I could take one personally. Nope. So I figured I'd cheat and research available options to power up my arsenal, but the mint was bugged so I couldn't harvest it. So I crafted a quiver of Toxic Arrows to accompany my Insect Bow and maybe repeat my original victory. Nope. Toxic Arrows either don't apply the poison effect or the Wolf Spider is immune. Or perhaps it was because the eight legged freak would run from my safe spot and spontaneously regenerate all missing health. So I resigned myself to never be able to face the apex predator of the backyard. It was later that by staring at the numberless bar attached to my equipment, I would discover that the Insect Hammer almost had the same level of damage, an equal amount of stun, and while it wasn't as fast, it consumed far less stamina. So with a few Smoothies[?] while it was dazed, I was able to actually kill a wolf spider in melee combat. Then I found out why I couldn't harvest the mint for a Mint Mallet was because I was standing too close to it and boy did that piss me off.
Just started playing 2days ago and really needed this video.. Thankfully I now have access to acorn armor..insect and bee armor .. Also have 2 types of bombs i use on big insects.. Takes like 2 or 3 hits to kill after I bomb them
if youre like me and not much of a melee fighter, first thing you do on day one is to get 50 thistle spikes = 100 arrows and a bow. then head to the lab, before you get in , pull the wolf spider which sleeps under the tree on daytime. retreat into the lab. now cat and mouse the wolf spider at the lab entrance door, and shoot him until his animation gets "stuck". shoot remaining arrows... loot. craft tier 2 bow. happy hunting. youre safe inside that entrance as long as the wolf doesnt look straight inside the door at a 90 degree angle.. he wont leap through.
I know this is an old video, but wanted to clear up a misconception - if the AI can't track you very well with their attacks it's because it's intentionally designed that way, it's not because the AI is "bad". And vise versa, the Wolf Spider can track you a lot better with its attacks is because it's designed to be much more accurate (and thus lethal), not because it (or its AI code) was developed for longer. There's no amount of movement that can save you from attacks that are coded to track well. In fact, coding AI to miss, based on (good) movement, is an important step to making the combat feel rewarding, which is the opposite of the AI "not working properly". Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of things in game development history that were unintentional, but ended up being good/fun. It's, however, very important to remember that almost everything you think is unintentional would literally not exist if it was not coded into existence very intentionally and tested thoroughly.
My tip: If you are the team melee make sure to level up a Mosquito Raiper so you can heal midcombat and early game keep a spare ladybug chestplate and black ant sheild so you can block nearly anything pre upper wall without taking damage.
@@frozenburst6463 if you stand on top of it and hit them they will try to buck you off, idk how many times it hits but each time i have tried and it killed me.
I’m glad someone else found the larva weird when I played after the update and before I didn’t know they existed but then one just sneaked up on me and scared the hell out of me
I believe is a glitch, but you can trap Wolf Spiders (so far the only enemy I know) on the strange device. I don't know how but Starsnipe had it chase after him, and he ran off the device. And for some strange reason the spider got caught on the center of the device. So he shot it to death since it couldn't run away for some strange reason.
For wolf spiders you just need to get down perfect blocking and you should be able to kill it by yourself in a breeze. Also unequip your armor because the wolf spider will eat right through it if you get hit. That's why you should be a lean to nearby where the spider is so you can get a respawn point and if you die you'll easily get back to where you were to get your stuff back.
I should mention that perfecting the perfect guard will also make all other insects and arachnids a breeze because perfect guarding has a chance to stun the enemy.
If you sprint for a second aim the bow and back up you still get a boost in speed, although you’ll still be using stamina, using this trick I can easily back up and bow ladybugs and they’ll never catch up to me. Just make sure your in an open area and you’ll be fine!
Could you please do a video on the mechanics of building in detail? For instance I was trying to build a line of foundations with floor on top, and for some reason when I destroyed one of them the others broke instantly too, even though I would have been able to build them separately in the first place.
Whenever you build something, you should see a number next to "supporting x" the number meaning how many other structures that are attached to it, rely on it to exist before the structure crumbles. The best option is to add a foundation if you can, so pieces don't support one another
My personal best way to kill a wolf spider is to have a tiger mosquito rapier so you gain health while attacking this can also help with the poison damage also have a black ant shield so you can block a weevil shield will work to
Easiest way to kill a wolf spider or any huge bug is to find a small opening that you can get thru but the bug can’t.It will either stop right at the middle or get stuck.
I spent some time in this game learning every bugs attack patterns so now every single bug in the game; except soldier ants and bombardier beetles: Are ez 2 me
A wolf spider followed me to my base during the night so I did what any other arachnaphobe would do. I shut the game off. My 6 year old was in tears beside me.
I rarely get to fight an aggressive insect one on one. I’m almost always running from multiple at once or fighting 5 different bugs at once. Smoke arrows have saved me numerous times.
Honestly I just got my bow, 60 arrows, a high ground and shoot away, I got the most important parts very early on doing this. Once you get the tier 2 bow you will be killing everything in your path supe r fast.
Personally, I’ve been using the mint mace, cause I made my base right next to the mint container. Once you have the insect hammer, u pretty much have the best weapon in the game.
Learn how to use the environment. I've trapped many wolf spiders in things like leaf tunnels that get them stuck and then just go for free hits while its stuck.
Imo, acorn armor is better for newer players, as they can tank more hits. Once they get better at the game and start perfect blocking more often, they should use grub armor, as the extra stamina is very useful.
Thanks man, I've played once and I nearly had a panic attack! Those spiders are freaky and look huge on the screen, my heart jumped in my mouth. I think I'm going to go back and work my way through your list, working on easier bugs. I kept getting swarmed by orb spiders down near the fence or bombed by mosquitoes by the river, I just going back to the lawn and farming a couple ladybugs, practicing my blocks a bit until the fundamentals are okay before moving on to other stuff seems like a plan. And yeah, the wolf spider chased me from the pond all the way to the laser box at night. It just would not eff off.
So i found that putting on a gas mask, crafting between 1 and 10 gas arrows, a simply shooting the GROUND and not the ladybug itself, and then keep picking up your arrows and repeatedly shooting next to the ladybug will kill it. No skill, no danger, no resources. Ez kill. This is (a bit late game) the easiest way to kill ladybugs. Also works great on gnats since they die instantly if you create a gas cloud 3 clouds thick.
Y'all are playing on easy, but the real tip for combat for harder enemies like the orb weaver, bombardier beetle, and wolf spider is just to get them trapped in a spot where you can just shoot them with arrows
I'm the host and the DPS. My buddy joining me is the tank. He can't seem to keep aggro over me for whatever reason even though he's wearing the rolly polly, acorn, ladybug armor with the aggro boosts. When you played was the host the tank or the joining player and if it was the joining player were there any issues with keeping aggro? It's so bad that I can do nothing and take aggro from him just by being next to the bug. Bugs always target me first whether I've hit them or not. It's very frustrating as someone who isn't good at parry mechanics and doesn't want to tank.
thatnks for the vid and i found that at 10:09 with the leaf hut i go around back with a bow and start shooting and it is stuck it doesnt know how to go around it just goes for you so you kill it with out blocking or anything ive done it with a sprig bow before in les than 30 secs so it is an easy way of getting your hands on that venom and fangs
To everyone who sees this if u are just beginning I would reccomend not trashing alot of things try making storage stuff because u might need them for later on and u could have trashed a rare drop which is gonna be hard to get
Shields are never talked about in this video...did they come only recently? Ladybug armor with a shield is a HUGE tanking option and allows me to solo just about anything (stink bugs require the gas mask unfortunately, but still good DEF from the LB armor and shield). Until you can make the salt morningstar, you can kill mosquitos to get their beak and make the rapier which heals you over time while tanking.
What's the best way to break out of ladybug stunlocking if you get hit? Is it blocking in the tiny amount of time before they hit you again, or is running off at an angle better? Does difficulty affect how long you are stunned for? Is that why you think ladybugs are the easiest? I find that I die more to ladybugs than orbweavers, because I just run from the orbweavers if I start losing, but the ladybugs stun me to death if I make a mistake.
I hate larva as well, there was like 10 of them, they destroyed my base and a 2 storages and crap went everywhere, thanks for tips btw keep it up can't wait to see what else they add to the game
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Kodiak, I used to have a full ladybug armor in a dumy and it disapeared, what should I do???
@@vargotill6404 Sadly I think you're going to have to make a new set =(
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OK thanks
@@vargotill6404 Download unreal engine 4 unlocker and cheat it back in, I lost my bee chest to a bug too and got it back that way
Ahhh, so you're saying that screaming like a little girl and running around in total panic isn't the way to go?... got ya
Ah crap. I’ve been doing it all wrong haha haha!
I have pretty much been doing that the whole game and if I am not running I am throwing everything I have at them
I genuinely screamed like a 3 year old no joke
Shit, my life is a lie
I have severe arachnophobia so yeah anytime I see a spider I book it half across the map
A great solo player tactic for the wolf spider is the gas arrows if u shoot them at the ground around the spider and dont hit it they wont engage you it takes around 15 gas arrows and they will drop this works wonders with the two wolf spiders under the oak tree they sleep close together so you can really stock up on the parts quickly.
Fucking genius
Nice imma give this a try
I got severe arachnaphobia. Taking out orb is a mental fight I get scared from them. I use lure traps and the bow to kill them
@Split Dimension not if you dont aggro them they wont heal
@@daedricderp754 its literally a videogame how are you that scared
You forgot to mention wolf spiders have a tracking ability. They can track you from their territory all the way back to your base. It's a frightening AI mechanic for sure.
Love the vids, nice info
Luckily they just tuned this back a bit. The tracking was a bit TOO intense
Sweet beans, I was horrified when I caught on to it at 1st. You guys are awesome at the info 100% on new releases. Keep the vids coming
In addition, larger spiders attack faster.
@@LegacyGamingUS I used to have a base that was raided by spiders and a ton of ants in the beta
@Split Dimension weevils are attracted to mushrooms that grow naturally around you, and ants are attracted to weevils
Talking about wolf spiders: "This insect."
Wolf spider: Are arachnids a joke to you?
Years of parrying/perfect blocking has been a blessing for me.
Great video!!!
Here are some personal tips I have after switching to single player for now.
1) Even if you time a perfect block your armor will reduce in durability and hence when fighting something you are not confident or say wolf spiders. Just put a lean in on some high ground some distance away from the territory and go in naked to practice if you like. Shoot arrows from high up will usually make them run away only to stalk you from afar as the AI can hear/see you better than you.
2) wolf spider and orb weaver does poison dmg so even with lady bug armor you mostly get 2 shot from wolf spider. But u can make smoothie? ( a smoothie without any recipe or green machine. 3 random items). What it does is it heals you with around 1/4 or 1/5 hp instantly and you can even do that mid combat and there is no drinking animation. while you can use bandages to pre buff as it heals you with ard 2/3 hp but over a period of ticks on few secs. So i tend to see bandages as a pre buff thingy or after battles.
3) always try to keep your self full or 2/3 hunger meter as hunger is related to your cost of action that uses stamina.
4) Hugging strat is very good as mentioned in this video. trick is to walk forward n side ways into the cheek or arm of the beetle.
5) Bombardier beetles spit have a weird glitch now. they can shoot one way and still track you at times. But the best bet is to take a fast weapon like spear and dont block.
6) wolf spider attack patterns are usually 3 quick bite 1 leap. the leap tell is when he puts his front arm up n pause longer. the timing is mostly as he about to land on you. But he is definitely rough to fight. A good way to practice is time block + 1 swing = win (dont swing x2 even if u whiff your swing)
Little tip for blocking and kiting your target I recommend dropping everything you own into a chest next to a lean to spawn point and practice kiting a bug or blocking their attacking with nothing but a spear that you planned on trashing so you won't have to worry about recovering your stuff when you die
What i do is when I see a ladybug 🐞 you can be on top of him and let other insects attack you and if they hit the ladybug it will fight back
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I think it can kill every Insect besides a wolf spider and maybe some others,
Or just use two
two lady bugs
That is actually really smart
Coming late to this video, several updates in the future, and "ladybugs are super easy" "their attacks barely do damage" made me laugh (and cry a little) haha
The orb weaver has three attacks. One is the basic attack that you can just block or dodge. The second attack is a lunge that hits you three times in a row. The final attack is it’s web shoot and recently got updated to where it can web the surrounding area if it misses you making it even harder to avoid it
They also have a 2 hit combo attack. So four.
I love your videos, I have barely seen you for 1 week and I like the format you do, you are direct with the information. really very good guides. greetings from Mexico
I've been playing on "whoa" so seeing you not get wrecked by that Ladybug 🐞 confused me. Almost every insect one shots on Whoa 🤣 Even the soldier ant
Brow Ming ya for some reason they hit easier too unless I'm just rusty or its just the update
How to kill everything: Make them hit a ladybug and then watch the chaos.
That worked until an orb weaver and a wolf spider gang raped it.
Ladybug got dunked by a Wolf Spider.
Stink bugs can handle orb weavers pretty well too!
@@hpdekok525 Stink Bugs can kill a wolf spider because of that gas attack they do, they end up killing each other because they're both poisoned
I saw 2 stink bugs gas one into oblivion 😆...tried to get an orb weaver to take the stink bugs out...suffered the same fate...2 stinkbugs are no joke lol
Hey I think you forgot to mention the Hedge Broodmother found on the Frisbee. I haven't encountered it personally but I know it's always with a Orb Weaver and Spiderlings and is almost a equivalent to the Wolf Spider
Me n my friend found a pack of Larva, there was over 40+ Larva! Frame rate was spazzing out XD
Yeah it has something to do with their insane spawn rate, definitely a bug!
I think they patched the spawn rate in the latest update. But they said the Larva tha are already spawned will still be there. But man they are in huge packs lol
@@LegacyGamingUS Haha, a "bug"
Big tip for all of these insects, holding the attack button charges a heavy attack that does more damage, and I think more stun though I haven’t tested it. Great for an opening hit on a passive/sleeping enemy
My #1 advice is to use the environment to your advantage. Cheese the larger bugs as they will get stuck on grass or rocks. Sure it's kinda cheating but it was the initial way my friends and I were able to beat spiders, stink bugs, and bombarder beetles.
I love how this game makes its enemies get into your head to stop you with thinking.
My love of 1st person makes combat tough. I see most people play in 3rd but I'm obsessed with good 1st person cameras.
Yea fighting wolf spiders are difficult in first person is hard cause maneuvering is harder or at least seems that way.
I honestly can't play this game in 3rd person it just feels off, like trying to play skyrim in 3rd person
@@twzn7248 first time I went against a spider in first person I woke up the neighbors across from me. I swear this game should be marked in the “horror” genre
@@jacobmetcalf6192 on me. They nees a centipede tho that only comes at night
@@jacobmetcalf6192 ark is even worse. It’s scarier then a horror game. I was flying in my pteranodon and a freaking cat thing jumped from the tree and killed me. Also you can just be exploring the map, and next thing you know a T-Rex jump scares you
You deserve way more subs and likes every video is straight to the point and is always helpful
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Right
One of the advantages to spears is they have a larger attack range. It can very much be the difference between wailing your club around and missing and scoring hits.
The bombardier beetle actually has 3 attacks; the normal lunge, a long range acid shot and a short range acid blast that knocks down.
That blast removes just about all your hp or close to half with decent armour and you start praying that it doesn't hit you as you slowly get back up.
I just pelt it with poison arrows and kite it.
Yeah I think the bombardier is the hardest with it shoots that acid thing because u fall and while ur getting up it shoots again and makes hard to run that's what I hate about it
Set up a kill zone. There are certain spots (resources block) that you can lure the bugs from. They will stop moving and you can freely hit them with your bow. Works with all bugs in game.
One time a wolf spider fucked up and climbed super high on the tree and i could shoot it with my limited arrows and they would fall back to me
Creatures at the level of worker ants or below, use a T1 hammer to land the first hit, then switch to the T1 axe and hit 4 times, it dies before it leaves stun.
At higher levels, the mobs stun for less time I think. The soldier ant for example does not stun from that T1 hammer, meaning Stun damage is a gauge we have to 'reach' by X number of hits.
If we have a insect blade that is highly damaging and fast, and a insect hammer that is highly stunning, you can start with the hammer, then combo with the blade, then switch back to hammer to re-stun the target.
I also don't know if targets have a cooldown in between stuns, or if they can be infinitely stunned.
I came to the comments looking specifically for someone mentioning this strategies because it works great. Everything In the video was common sense if you've played a video game before
@@johnjacobs1356 I think a soldier ant has roughly double the stun gauge required than you see in the weapon spec.
Worker ant is 50% of that gauge and Soldiers might be 100% or higher.
Note that we don't have numbers associated with the weapons.
We don't know exact damage, except that its low/med/high dmg.
Legion Gaming: *lists out super cool tactics and tricks one can do*
Me: *gets onto a clover or something one has to jump onto, then recreates the arrow scene from 300, with the bugs being the spartan*
(no joke the ai of the game can't work out how to get you when you are on certain things like a clover. The bow is top tier powerful weapon in most situations)
I had the most trouble with bombardier beetles i had to save and i spent like a hour getting used to it i would place it above orb weaver
“ladybugs are the lowest tier of deadliness”
*me with an ant weapon and full acorn armour* 👁👄👁
That perfect! You’re ready to go 👍🏻
@@LegacyGamingUS I have to admit, I've never disagreed so much with you as I did with that comment lol. Gnat's, weevil, and lawn mites..... those are the lowest tier of difficulty.... but ffs, ladybugs? they have even experienced players shitting down both pants legs typically... lowest tier deadliness for sure = shit you dont need armor/weapons for.... lol i couldnt help but shake my head at that comment... havent watched the rest as i had to pause with when my mouth dropped and came to the comments section lol.... Dont get me wrong though, love your work, very helpful and much love!
@@dekantrubility2748 ye same here... the first 20h i was totall overwhelmed by the deadlyness in this game. but its really not that hard. just keep a cool head. dont panicspam attacks, manage stamina and watch your enemy closely.th combat here plays out more like chess than melee.
I find that I die from the ladybugs more than the orb weavers, but I guess I've just practiced the perfect block on the orb weavers and not the ladybugs
I don't think the orb weavers stun me like the ladybugs did.
No one talks about getting the “HIGHGROUND” when against SPIDERS they can’t attack you try to get close enough to hit them they will sometimes run away just jump down and he will run back to you works against wolf spider aswell really OP when in early game especially when you accidentally get Agro by one while exploring also remember that the AI is good in the way that if you are out of its vision it can’t agro on you you can get close and get around spiders play around with how close you have to be to gain Agro so helpful but no one talks about it ❤️
I just circle and run around them because when they start their attack they stay still so if you move in circles you can kill them without taking damage
Aphid slippers help a lot for circling
I feel like spiders not being able to climb anything will soon be a memory of early early access lol
Hani yeh literally adding climbing to the creatures as we speak hope everyone has made trampolines or some way of jumping up to their base without the need to build because soon those spiders will be able to climb right into your base if there not off the ground and inaccessible
bruh at the very start of the game i got hunted my a wolf spider so i just jumped on the baseball and started stabbing and throwing rocks
Dont forget the bottom right of the map by the berry bushes theres a hole in the wall... when you go in there are all kinds of ant heads on sticks and in the back there is a free tier 2 ant club. And tons of ant parts/heads to pick up
If your playing with 2 people for the wolf spider (if you have mint mallet) just charge into it when it’s sleeping and just attack with to people I killed 3 of them in one grounded day. I recommend this strategy if you want to kill them faster and don’t mind taking some damage. Of course using the Arow strategy works well to by getting it stuck
Your ladybugs must have been soft. If mine hit me, they often stunned me and kept doing damage. And I ran out of stamina before I could do much. And if I tried to take cover, all their health came back. They were tougher for me than Orb Weavers, bombardier beetles and stink bugs.
Then I got the mint mallet and now the pose no threat, but before that they were nearly as deadly as wolf spiders. On the regular survival difficulty with thirst and hunger.
Honestly to me bombardier beetles are just roided lady bugs no idea hoe u found them easier
Years of Dark souls has paid off
Ikr XD
bombadier has a 3rd attack where if you are meleeing it, it will spray itself 3 times with acid instead of the ranged one
I got the mint club and I basically walk through everything with it.
Same it’s insane basically me and my friend have killed every type of bug in the game and we’re not scared anymore 🙂
Wait just a question. How do you get the mint club?
@@p22endulger get a tier 2 hammer and go to the mint box and open the top
It’s name has changed so much, first it was mint mallet then mint club then now it’s mint mace. It’s weird
I kinda want catydids, jumping spiders and assassin bugs to be added someday.
The stalker type enemies that pounces suddenly
Yessss
Scoprions when.
As if the game isn’t scary enough already
Theres a rotten ant club in the bottom right of the map, between some stones in the stone wall underneath the second research center. A full ant killer cult like base is there
Marcus Satherley that is not useful enough for how much traveling u have to do it is probably about the same as a spikey sprig and those r super easy to get and regular ant club is no sweat either
I know this is an old video, but I think a more useful tip would be to use elemental/damage type weaknesses to your advantage. For example, you show yourself taking down several ladybugs with piercing damage when they are resistant to it. This increases the amount of time you spend fighting it, which is bad if you're not good at perfect blocking... better to use the slow and clunky hammer - it will do more damage per swing (by a LOT, test it yourself) and also more stun per hit... and a stunned enemy does zero damage.
Most of the enemies in the game aren't that hard if you're properly prepared with the right weapons and mutations.
I know this is a combat guide, but if you go to the tree, there is a specific greenish holey leaf with a wolf spider underneath it, if you have the bow you can just fire away and from what ive done it cannot attack you at all
I'm happy this video exists
I'm an Ark player so I just built traps and murdered them all. A giant spider will basically get stuck rearing back when it's on the other side of a stem wall with windows, A stink bug can not go through a single doorway, etc. Keep a repair wrench handy (it doesn't need resources to fix things)
This is the only survival game that has genuine had me running in fear. There is something about being chased by a massive spider that can 1/2 shot you and also leap attack that is absolutely terrifying
If you have the mint mallet and ladybug armor, it’s hard to die to anything besides a wolf spider.
One strategy I use against spider is to go inside one of the little white domes. The spiders can’t reach you in there and you can occasionally poke out and hit it
It took forever for me to kill a Wolf Spider, let alone one in melee. My first was filled with arrows and poked with a spear while it was pinned between an oak root with a small dirt mound under it. After the Ladybug Armor and Ant Club I thought that I could take one personally.
Nope. So I figured I'd cheat and research available options to power up my arsenal, but the mint was bugged so I couldn't harvest it. So I crafted a quiver of Toxic Arrows to accompany my Insect Bow and maybe repeat my original victory.
Nope. Toxic Arrows either don't apply the poison effect or the Wolf Spider is immune. Or perhaps it was because the eight legged freak would run from my safe spot and spontaneously regenerate all missing health. So I resigned myself to never be able to face the apex predator of the backyard.
It was later that by staring at the numberless bar attached to my equipment, I would discover that the Insect Hammer almost had the same level of damage, an equal amount of stun, and while it wasn't as fast, it consumed far less stamina. So with a few Smoothies[?] while it was dazed, I was able to actually kill a wolf spider in melee combat.
Then I found out why I couldn't harvest the mint for a Mint Mallet was because I was standing too close to it and boy did that piss me off.
I usually end up rocking the Ladybug Armour, one of the spears (Often stinger), and a shield. Great for fighting bigger targets.
Just started playing 2days ago and really needed this video.. Thankfully I now have access to acorn armor..insect and bee armor .. Also have 2 types of bombs i use on big insects.. Takes like 2 or 3 hits to kill after I bomb them
if youre like me and not much of a melee fighter, first thing you do on day one is to get 50 thistle spikes = 100 arrows and a bow. then head to the lab, before you get in , pull the wolf spider which sleeps under the tree on daytime. retreat into the lab. now cat and mouse the wolf spider at the lab entrance door, and shoot him until his animation gets "stuck". shoot remaining arrows... loot. craft tier 2 bow. happy hunting. youre safe inside that entrance as long as the wolf doesnt look straight inside the door at a 90 degree angle.. he wont leap through.
Omg this actually made my fear of the beetle nonexistent
Your missing the Hedge Broodmother! the boss at the frisbee
That's the same as a wolf spider, well, it was
I know this is an old video, but wanted to clear up a misconception - if the AI can't track you very well with their attacks it's because it's intentionally designed that way, it's not because the AI is "bad". And vise versa, the Wolf Spider can track you a lot better with its attacks is because it's designed to be much more accurate (and thus lethal), not because it (or its AI code) was developed for longer.
There's no amount of movement that can save you from attacks that are coded to track well. In fact, coding AI to miss, based on (good) movement, is an important step to making the combat feel rewarding, which is the opposite of the AI "not working properly".
Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of things in game development history that were unintentional, but ended up being good/fun. It's, however, very important to remember that almost everything you think is unintentional would literally not exist if it was not coded into existence very intentionally and tested thoroughly.
My tip: If you are the team melee make sure to level up a Mosquito Raiper so you can heal midcombat and early game keep a spare ladybug chestplate and black ant sheild so you can block nearly anything pre upper wall without taking damage.
Strugle with some insects...
Me: said someone cheese tf out of this spiders? 🙈
the ladybug does have a special attack, its only used when you are standing on top of it.
What is the special attack then?
@@frozenburst6463 if you stand on top of it and hit them they will try to buck you off, idk how many times it hits but each time i have tried and it killed me.
Actually one of the more useful tuts
I’m glad someone else found the larva weird when I played after the update and before I didn’t know they existed but then one just sneaked up on me and scared the hell out of me
Gr8 vid thanks. Bombadier the only one who still messes me up bad..wolf spider a beast but like you said, mind over matter to focus on technique
You must be playing on easy because the bombadear beetle acid did like no dmg to you
his armor
Ikr
david betterton no I have ladybug armour and it did like 70 percent of my health and I’m on medium
Neil Shaw thats not true i also have ladybug armor on medium and it did almost no damage keep dreaming tho
Neil Shaw or u stood in it for the whole time like a dummy
I recommend everyone make the smoothie, Liquid Rage.
I believe is a glitch, but you can trap Wolf Spiders (so far the only enemy I know) on the strange device. I don't know how but Starsnipe had it chase after him, and he ran off the device. And for some strange reason the spider got caught on the center of the device. So he shot it to death since it couldn't run away for some strange reason.
For wolf spiders you just need to get down perfect blocking and you should be able to kill it by yourself in a breeze. Also unequip your armor because the wolf spider will eat right through it if you get hit. That's why you should be a lean to nearby where the spider is so you can get a respawn point and if you die you'll easily get back to where you were to get your stuff back.
I should mention that perfecting the perfect guard will also make all other insects and arachnids a breeze because perfect guarding has a chance to stun the enemy.
I always get a peblet hammer and axe. The axe is for attacking and the hammer is just incase they need a little bonk to keep them in check
If you sprint for a second aim the bow and back up you still get a boost in speed, although you’ll still be using stamina, using this trick I can easily back up and bow ladybugs and they’ll never catch up to me. Just make sure your in an open area and you’ll be fine!
Could you please do a video on the mechanics of building in detail? For instance I was trying to build a line of foundations with floor on top, and for some reason when I destroyed one of them the others broke instantly too, even though I would have been able to build them separately in the first place.
Whenever you build something, you should see a number next to "supporting x" the number meaning how many other structures that are attached to it, rely on it to exist before the structure crumbles.
The best option is to add a foundation if you can, so pieces don't support one another
My personal best way to kill a wolf spider is to have a tiger mosquito rapier so you gain health while attacking this can also help with the poison damage also have a black ant shield so you can block a weevil shield will work to
Easiest way to kill a wolf spider or any huge bug is to find a small opening that you can get thru but the bug can’t.It will either stop right at the middle or get stuck.
WOLF SPIDER:
HEDGE BROOD: AM I A JOKE TO YOU
I use the Ladybug amor and the Minthammer is the best Weapon! 5 hits kills a Ladybug, 13 hits kills a Wolfspider
The wolf spider is just annoying because it can somehow hurt you from like 10 cm away
Learning how to perfect block is key.
It's the leg attack that for some reason also inflicts poison.
I spent some time in this game learning every bugs attack patterns so now every single bug in the game; except soldier ants and bombardier beetles:
Are ez 2 me
I would recommend just using spider gear for endgame because the speed just lets you dodge everything
I'd like to see you do an updated video at some point to include bees and mosquitos!! (Maybe on Hedge Mother as well?)
A wolf spider followed me to my base during the night so I did what any other arachnaphobe would do. I shut the game off. My 6 year old was in tears beside me.
I rarely get to fight an aggressive insect one on one. I’m almost always running from multiple at once or fighting 5 different bugs at once. Smoke arrows have saved me numerous times.
Incredibly helpful video: clear, concise and extremely informative... well done :)
thanks a lot. Big help for my wife to get into fighting and not fleeing :D
Honestly I just got my bow, 60 arrows, a high ground and shoot away, I got the most important parts very early on doing this. Once you get the tier 2 bow you will be killing everything in your path supe r fast.
Pro tip: switch to 3rd person camera. I am fully confident going against wolf spiders now.
How do I do this?
how do you kill the lawn mites, those are the hardest ones
Lol
Yeah that's true there tiny and jump what weapons do u have??
Jaydan Schulz ant club and acorn armour
@@AppleJackss. oh u just have to get the timing right then they get easier once u perfect the timing
Hahaha 😂
I don’t know about you guys but ladybug armor plus mint mallet makes you a absolute MONSTER
And here I am. Getting killed by Larva
Hey we’ve all been there!
0:14 that obito mask is sick
For the bombardier beetle you can get high enough to avoid the range attack with a thistle plant
Personally, I’ve been using the mint mace, cause I made my base right next to the mint container. Once you have the insect hammer, u pretty much have the best weapon in the game.
Learn how to use the environment. I've trapped many wolf spiders in things like leaf tunnels that get them stuck and then just go for free hits while its stuck.
Imo, acorn armor is better for newer players, as they can tank more hits. Once they get better at the game and start perfect blocking more often, they should use grub armor, as the extra stamina is very useful.
Respeckt for your intro and the Tips
Thanks man, I've played once and I nearly had a panic attack! Those spiders are freaky and look huge on the screen, my heart jumped in my mouth.
I think I'm going to go back and work my way through your list, working on easier bugs. I kept getting swarmed by orb spiders down near the fence or bombed by mosquitoes by the river, I just going back to the lawn and farming a couple ladybugs, practicing my blocks a bit until the fundamentals are okay before moving on to other stuff seems like a plan.
And yeah, the wolf spider chased me from the pond all the way to the laser box at night. It just would not eff off.
This....just got into this game and I'm still trying to get over those things lol
So i found that putting on a gas mask, crafting between 1 and 10 gas arrows, a simply shooting the GROUND and not the ladybug itself, and then keep picking up your arrows and repeatedly shooting next to the ladybug will kill it. No skill, no danger, no resources. Ez kill. This is (a bit late game) the easiest way to kill ladybugs. Also works great on gnats since they die instantly if you create a gas cloud 3 clouds thick.
Y'all are playing on easy, but the real tip for combat for harder enemies like the orb weaver, bombardier beetle, and wolf spider is just to get them trapped in a spot where you can just shoot them with arrows
Yeah, I killed a wolf spider before I knew half of the other bugs existed, just by getting it stuck where it couldn't hit me.
Wait until that's fixed.
The insect hammer does pretty good against lady bugs as well
I'm the host and the DPS. My buddy joining me is the tank. He can't seem to keep aggro over me for whatever reason even though he's wearing the rolly polly, acorn, ladybug armor with the aggro boosts. When you played was the host the tank or the joining player and if it was the joining player were there any issues with keeping aggro?
It's so bad that I can do nothing and take aggro from him just by being next to the bug. Bugs always target me first whether I've hit them or not. It's very frustrating as someone who isn't good at parry mechanics and doesn't want to tank.
Thanks for making this video I can take out bombardier beetles most of the time
The most dangerus insect is actually the Hedge broodmother, but it's also a boss
thatnks for the vid and i found that at 10:09 with the leaf hut i go around back with a bow and start shooting and it is stuck it doesnt know how to go around it just goes for you so you kill it with out blocking or anything ive done it with a sprig bow before in les than 30 secs so it is an easy way of getting your hands on that venom and fangs
Really solid tip Joshua thanks!
Man this thing really helped out
To everyone who sees this if u are just beginning I would reccomend not trashing alot of things try making storage stuff because u might need them for later on and u could have trashed a rare drop which is gonna be hard to get
can you update the insects which got new combos like ladybugs stinky and spiders
Shields are never talked about in this video...did they come only recently? Ladybug armor with a shield is a HUGE tanking option and allows me to solo just about anything (stink bugs require the gas mask unfortunately, but still good DEF from the LB armor and shield).
Until you can make the salt morningstar, you can kill mosquitos to get their beak and make the rapier which heals you over time while tanking.
What's the best way to break out of ladybug stunlocking if you get hit?
Is it blocking in the tiny amount of time before they hit you again, or is running off at an angle better?
Does difficulty affect how long you are stunned for? Is that why you think ladybugs are the easiest?
I find that I die more to ladybugs than orbweavers, because I just run from the orbweavers if I start losing, but the ladybugs stun me to death if I make a mistake.
I hate larva as well, there was like 10 of them, they destroyed my base and a 2 storages and crap went everywhere, thanks for tips btw keep it up can't wait to see what else they add to the game