Things not to do. 1. Kill a bb and say gg like it was a fair fight 2. Accept a 1v1 and invite your friend or group to help you, and don’t ambush them while they’re waiting for you to get to area. 3.Don’t do all the things I just mention and call the person a puss. 4. Don’t be a puss meaning don’t do all the things I just listed for you. You be surprised on how many people are like this in this game.
Another piece of advice which may not be for everyone I learned combat way faster joining a deathmatch server where you lose nothing when dying and yes it and be toxic but there’s a lot of 1v1 opportunities and you can get fighting tips from players while 1v1 it’s good practice and really helped me gain some muscle memory on fighting with certain Dino’s without all the panic involved for example I learned para combat styles on death match and when I got on community server I was more confident and my small herd fought off apexes such as gigas rexes spinos and sarcos even killed a few of them before practicing the combat alot I was so nervous to actually jump in and fight so deathmatch servers for me helped with that 😊
I do these servers as well. Got a little more confidence and idea of how combat works, especially on console. Now when I`m attacked I`m thinking; "you may get me but you`re gonna work for it" Plus it helps you take some of the anger out from people killing your babies.
My first dino was a rex, I died maybe like 4 or 5 times my entire journey between baby and adult. Mostly just kept to myself, occasionally I would join a carno group but usually just stayed away from the hotspots and did just fine. Most of the dinos I ran into away from the hotspots were also my size so they usually kept their distance.
The part where he says don’t pick an apex as ur 1st Dino is so facts, when I got the game I chose sarco as my 1st one and man did I regret it it was so difficult it was giving me a bad 1st impression on the game so I decided to grow other things 1st like megalania and I got more of a feel then later on I went back and finished my sarco
I only spend my marks on skins if I’m worried I’m going to be killed/die for some reason. Since you lose a huge chunk of your marks, I’d rather risk spending my marks on a skin then die and lose hundreds too over a thousand marks. It’s best to only spend on abilities, but on official, I tend to spend on skins faster than community. 😅
@@anonymousrandall5011 You can do this even good enough with the standard skin. And some additional colorful skins will make your dino even easier to spot...
Love this video! The Beginner Tips I always have is: 1. Grow a Small Dino first Yes this is boring but the reason why the Game default starts players as Campto, Deinonychus/Laten is because they are fast, easily fed & hydrated, and very survivable. These dinos will teach you the game. A. How to Move B. How to Quest C. The layout of the Map D. The Flow of Life and Death 2. Chose Natural color skins When you create a dino, try to stick to browns, greens, and grays. As you grow in experience you can change it up, but while learning a dino and the game having nature colors wi allow you to blend in with the foliage making you very difficult to spot. This is a serious life saver. 3.Don't trust anyone Never Accept anything random. Do not accept random out of the blue group invites or Waystone invites. Group invites can/will show your position on the map. Many jerks use this to track you, and since they are a teammate they make you "think" they are friendly. Waystones (Simple covered this) Additionally, if someone in Global ever says: "[Area Name] is safe." Assume the opposite. Assume the worst of everyone you see. Do not let them get close, do not accept group invites, do not accept waystones. When in a Group: A. Do not rest with attack range of your teammates. B. Do not "Tell" your team you are hurt/resting. C. Do not turn your back on your teammates. 4. Stay Away from Hotspots & Heating Up Spots Pay attention to Global Chat and look up the abbreviations for areas. This way when you see players mention areas and the chaos going on in them you can avoid it or get out of the area before it gets too dangerous. 5. Abandon your Quests If you: A. Get a quest that is particularly hard/dangerous/will take too long for your dino to complete. B. The area you are questing is FULL of danger / you are outnumbered / you see/hear a major threat coming. Skip/Abort it (leave the area The death penalty outclasses what you've missed out of by skipping/aborting the Quest. Example (from Gondwa): Deliver 5 Flowers in Snake Alley If you are something that swigs slow then this quest means 10 swims across a river with a VERY high chance of having an adult Semi-Aquatic in it. If you cannot dive under the water to "scout" then it's not worth completing. Waystone Quest It is OK to sit on this quest. Depending on where you spawn, this quest will most likely be a death sentence. Either make this the very first quest you complete or save it for a time when no one is around. Waystones are often meeting spots, and you will get killed if you just roll on up and touch the Waystone. Quests are everywhere. No quest is worth your life. 6. Noise Simply covered most of this but as an addendum. NEVER tell other players what dino or stage of growth you are. While it is fun to roar and be a little baby shit, running around makes noise, talking makes noise. Make too much and you will get your group killed or injured. Rain cloaks footstep noise. Use rainstorms to evade / hide / sneak away from deadly encounters. Additionally, picking up quest items MAKES NOISE. So if you see a threat you are wary of or know you're being hunted do not pick up anything. Simply hide in silence. Crouching For dinos who can crouch this + slowly moving forward will reduce your sound to near nothing. 7. Eating & Drinking Never drink from a deep water edge. Look for rocks, logs, or very shallow stretches to drink from. The distance and shallows between you and the water may just save your life.
@@oxyboxy5064 🙄 If you don't want to die every 5 - 10 minutes and lose progress then you have to be overly cautious and not trust other players. Seeing as it's a Survival game that "kind of" wants player to act like animals. When was the last time you see a wild animal trust anything? They are skittish for a reason. I personally learned the group betrayals the hard way. The problem with official having no rules for abusing grouping and waystones is that it makes tips like mine a necessity for survival. Although, if they turned off friendly fire for groups that would kill alot of the grouping mechanic abuse. But until that day comes you cannot lower your guard, ever. I once went from almost sub-adult to 2 bars into Adolescence because I trusted people. And I see it happen all the time now. It isn't paranoia when the distrust is justified.
@@RemnantSoul your group idea wont change anything what stops the leader from just kicking you? Also its very easy to tell when you can and can't trust someone all im getting from this is that you can't tell the obvious 😭
@@oxyboxy5064 Oh....you're some bored troll. Ok asshole...I'll feed you. You obviously must have a problem with me sharing tips on how not to get backstabbed by scumbags such as yourself. I'll spell it out. There is no "Telling the difference" when someone doing the friendly dance only to attack the moment they get close or you turn your back. Sinply even pointed that out in the fucking video you didn't bother to watch. 2. The whole point of this video is to help newbies not fall prey to your ilk and make other bad starting decisions. Common Sense in gaming is that acceptig random invites of ANY kind is a lesson is stupidity and you get what you deserve if you accept them. But, new players fall prey to it in this game. Sitting in a Home Cave and watching Global chat is all anyone needs to do to start seeing Instances of that. Sorry that I have (who the hell even knows how many will even see my comment) given away your easy kill crutch. Now piss the fuck off, we're done talking.
Yeah exactly why I avoid official abysmally slow growth and filled with the worst of the community. I've seen some power trippy community servers but I'll take that over all the issues with official. Plus those are few and far between while the problems with official have permeated nearly every game on them in my experience.
Another trick is to let your dino get hungry until you get the "find food" quest on which completion you get an additional amount of growth and 50 marks. If you have enough marks apply increased metabolism to your dino so it becomes hungry faster!
I do that too. Only problem was when my game glitched out and wouldn't tell me where any food was so I was frantically searching for bushes while my health started draining. Luckily I found food before my health ran out completely but boy was it a close call, very stressful OTL
I would say the scavenger ability isn’t worth it for me since your water drain is a btxch I do not want to be refilling water every 10-15 mins or not be near water and drink salt water and you can’t go 5 feet away from water.
I dont do this. I keep my hunger and thirst up and near full bc I can outlast bored trolls if they try to ambush me or try to wait me outside my homecave.
im a new player but i learned if you run in a zig zag, especially as a small dino while being chased, you have a higher chance at escaping your enemy because it might cause them to lag AND make them miss numerous times
When I just joined the game, I didn’t know how to play but when someone ran after me i hid beside the tree. Luckily they lost me and i felt so lucky hehe, it’s a nice feeling.
One thing I found very helpful is that when you’re a baby and you see a potential threat in the distance, then crouch and find a nearby bush to hide in. Crouching quiets your footsteps, and the bushes will completely conceal you if you’re a baby, or if you’re a small dino. If you’re bigger in size, then being in the bushes is still better than being out in the open. Hiding in the bushes is also good if you want to lay down and recover health and/or stamina without being seen.
If you're a baby dino, you can hide in critter burrows. Simply crouch and slowly walk in through the entrance where critters come out. To get out, simply go out the way you came in. If going forward doesn't work, turn around, use percise movement, and walk backwards. BEWARE: You won't be able to fit into critter burrows / may get stuck inside them once you reach a certain size. For small creatures, this'll be around late adolescent to sub. For mid tiers such as concavenator, this'll be around late juvenile. And for the bigger creatures such as sucho and rex, they can't fit in a burrow at all after reaching juvenile. The best part is that non-baby players can't fit in burrows, AND digging out the critter doesn't boot you out of the burrow
I ALWAYS trust too fast.. the other day.. there was a juvenile allo, I was juvi meg. He did lay down to symbolize being friendly. I did the same. Guess what, his allo friend attacked from behind. I ran.. got stuck at a rock and they killed me😂
Yeah that's a dangerous move. Because sleeping while chatting means you are at your most vulnerable and you'll be unaware of your surrounding, as your screen shows the chat screen.
Idk if I'm late to put this, but they had added a homecave debuff when you go near it so people can't camp, I'm not sure if it impacts attacks/dmg. But it's makes you- REALLY slow. They also added before you leave homecave a message will pop up saying: "No one is near homecave do you want to leave?" Just wanted to put this small update here :D
I just started playing this game 2 days ago. These videos have been so helpful in learning the game. Day one was stressful, but playing today after watching a few of these videos, the gaming experience has been much better, so thank you! I met one friendly person today, and it made the game so much better to be in a pack. So if anyone wants to hang and help me grow my juvenile Sarco, let me know!
If I do the crouch cease fire I’m not gonna kill other players. I’m not gonna play dirty and bait them like that. I hate it when people act friend then turn around and jump you.
And I have a couple rexes on official servers, and yeah, experienced a lot of ambush kosing from other people, especially with mix packs that have their own T. rex players too.
I love it when people jump me on my stego. For some reason I'm better at fights on my stego over my carnivores. My stego is still growing but so gar I've fought off a conc and a Meg. Both were trying to kill me, but they realized they made a mistake and ran off. It's a rewarding feeling when you realize that your opponent bit off more than they can chew and they flee.
For hotspots in gondwana is: young grove, green hills, big quilt lake, triad falls, sometimes crater impact and hunters thicket. Any home cave in those spot are camped by mix packing groups, sarcos, spinos, suchos and ducks by any near by water source too.
I normally protect small Dino’s with my metri so they can grow. I only fight/kill when I’m attacked or hungry. My first Dino was a sarco and I had fun growing him. I’m now a metri main on the gondwa map I stay in rockfall hill and my name is directccking if u see a black and gold metri say hi I won’t attack a juvi unless I’m dying from hunger.
I noticed that (at least on console) you can also press the rest/chat key to cancel the noise you make from text chat, so you don't always have to have something in your mouth for silent chatting if you're quick enough. It works better for dinos with longer roars.
i was killed in official servers about 3-5 times before i quit them and went to community joined new beginnings and having fun learning the game with nice players
People who just straight up Kill on sight in mist are the fcking worst. All it took for my Goose to be killed after surviving onslaught after onslaught of Pachy's, Carnivores etc to take me down was a player exploiting stam regen and attacking me out of nowhere giving me no chance to retaliate and costing me and my friend quest progress, mix packing a**holes.
From my experience, PoT brings out more bad in people than good. Nowadays you're just as likely to encounter jerks in the chat/game as friendly folks. Hence why precautions like these must be taken. I try to be social and helpful but I've seen my fair share of cruel and cunning players.
Maybe it's just me, but the growth rate is fine. Maybe we've gotten too impatient with games lately, but it adds to the real feeling of growing a dinosaur tbh.
Welp I already did one thing wrong lol since I started with a Rex haha but barely made it to sub adult tho but I always died by them damn trikes but then again everyone in general 😢
Hi, I wish you would download an explanation to solve the problem of the community servers. Literally, I can only enter one server. The rest of the servers tell me that you cannot enter. The server used is old. Who has a solution to the problem. I play on the PlayStation.
Played as a Rex for First Dino, hated every second of It and i hate It even once i became an adult, you Just walk and try slaughter untill a group of midtiers/apexes bully you
One tip if u have a farm place on the map like the place that he is recording, have a small fast dino like a megalania (i dont grow it to be easier to hide) to scout to see if theres any danger around before logging on your main dino I avoided death so many times thanks to this
Hi new player and funny you mention not trusting anyone I was lucky and got one who saved me for no reason, I was walking around doing quest, and past by a river where a carnivore just attack me and right beside me just so happen to be a full on adult herbivore, who just came to my aid like a boss. Mind you I was a t rex who was still a child he had no reason to do what he did, and just went in and saved me scaring off the predator and just protecting this helpless baby t rex. Like literally getting between me and the predator, roaring and stomping, to get him to leave after that saved I just followed him around for a bit, he killed some of the small creatures in burros for me when I was hungry, and even help me do some of my quest, I felt like I was playing some kind of family dinosaur movie scene, cause as we go up a hill a smaller herbivore comes up and hang around with us for a bit
Playing as Deinonynchus here, but I tried T-Rex and found out about fall damage. As a Deinonynchus you can jump from rocks and be fine, but T-Rex dies, so it's harder for me to move around (Android player).
Also don't hide in bushes they won't help you because mobile players bushes don't work right and they will see you I've been killed so many times because of this
id say the better tip is to not pick the less of the dinosaur games... this game is like the offbrand of the offbrand of every other dinosaur game.. ive played em all.. this ones the worst in cringe factor
6. After buying every ability, buy a skin that could HELP you, not some colourful one so that everyone within 20km can see you, buy a green one (depending on where you are most of the time)
I played earlier. I was a juvy trex and WALKED right by giant adult predator. I even yelled at him, bro looked at me and kept walking. Cool experience!! Lol!!
Actully believe it or not be goint to impact or gp is SOOO FUCKING GOOD for begginers especcially babys. The quests are so easy flower musheroom tigernuts lakeweee rocks, like so easy and theres such big bushes to hide
i remember that one time i met a freindly pycno,they invited me,once i found them they just told me to do things cause they were the leader,obviously,then we didnt last long until some a****** had to cut it and kill us for no reason,welp,at least that pycno was trustworthy
Your videos have been helpful I just bought the game , I just did the things you said not to do , What I learned was not everyone we’ll attack you if you don’t act aggressive, I just give a small roar , I like to act like a real Dino , I am a trex , and the roars are scary thank you Ps about the trex thing I well keep that in mine
1 call till banned from community server. Check. Start in impact crater, check. Ignore all invites, even those from real friends, check. Grow 8 hour modded Argentinosaurus first, check. Log out in bushes, there is no home cave on my community server xD - check Serious note. I don't use calls, ever, even after I murder someone's face in. Even though a roar establishes dominance. I found some areas of the map that are pretty hit or miss at the moment. Sometimes I see no one all day, sometimes there are roaming gank duos looking for new / solo players. I have no friends on this game, so I just ignore invites right now. I don't see any real need to group up, unless I start playing herbivores. The server I play on is Semi Realism. So group restrictions for carnis is pretty tight. Funny enough first thing I grew was a spinosuarus. I love that dino. My favorite thing from ARK. Oddly enough I saw no other players while I grew it (server was always 100+ players). I am enjoying the mid tier dinos more though. Slow ones are so painful for maneuverability. If I had to give a tip as a new player. Find a good community server to play on. With rules. Then get to know the other people on that server, most of them you will see very often. You could make some cool friends along the way. The game is a lot more fun with just 1 other person in your team.
It's a beautiful game with potential. I personally have a very hard time enjoying this game, The developers are decent I think they lack a lot of experience when it comes to creating in game content.
This game is a dinosaur role playing experience at heart, they just gave it more typical game mechanics to attract a wider audience. The point of it is to just be a dinosaur - not to beat it or achieve anything necessarily. As they continue to add in-game content I expect more role playing options, not more objectives
I have just started playing, I chose to be a Laten. And I don’t know what this game used to be like, but the people in the comments sound paranoid as hell😂 I always accept random group invites and I always trust group mates like family😂 I once met these two large dinosaurs (not sure what? Maybe like a spino without the spine) and they invited me to their group, we’re extremely friendly and even added me as a friends because they were going to switch servers and asked me if I wanted to join them there!
The game is cool but I wish we didn’t had to quest to grow, it’s ok for marks & skins but to grow too it gets annoying & old they should just let grow over time slowly but shortly
I must be very lucky, played for an hour and a half as a trex for first playthrough and never got attacked. I even ran into an adult. With all the videos ive seen im waiting for death, but it never comes.
Did I've been try to age up my Juvenile Spino because I see so many baby killers hoping after baby herbivores....and I've made a bad habit out of self sacrificing to give them a fighting chance to run and hide
I was an adult sarco... At talons point in water, a dino i think it was a rex idk he was with 2 meg... I wanted to attack but when i approached he teabagged and i felt pity of him and i disnt... When i went a lil far from water to collect branch he jumped me broke my leg so i was slow af and jumped me with the 2 meg... Aftee this i promised to never trust anyone
DON’T got to impact crater no matter what u will get killed if your small and a solo or just far from your party but I don’t care if your dying of thirst find somewhere else if u want to live kosing happens there most of the time
Yeah if you are in a group of random strangers and they say let’s stop by a cave run the opposite away even if they been questing with you for a hr there other friends came out with full adults and ambushed me lesson learned don’t trust anyone
I know you have covered this game a lot over the last year. For someone looking at the game and using your videos to "scout" or check the game out before buying, would you still recommend the game now after all your hours of playing?
Yes defiantly it’s one my favourite games tbh. I can get a bit burnt out growing dinos with the collecting etc but it’s one I never uninstall and always come back to well worth the money.
When I get a Way Stone invite from a random player,I always except it. The only difference is I just waste their time and continue questing, making them think I'm gonna teleport.
Bro grassland crater and g.lake ain’t just some left side of the map 😬. It is secretly a hotspot in official servers. Second best population after big lake.
Corpse lake is always decent in popularity, I even shared a kill with 2 sarcosuchus and 2 allosaurus. Scary trying to figure out if they're gonna jump me lol
I've been waiting to pull the trigger on buying this game. I've been watching videos and stuff about this game to know whether it's for me or not. It really seems cool.
Not sure what country you are form, but they have a refund policy in place for most. I just got it and I am having a blast, it took me awhile to find a community server I liked though.
Things not to do.
1. Kill a bb and say gg like it was a fair fight
2. Accept a 1v1 and invite your friend or group to help you, and don’t ambush them while they’re waiting for you to get to area.
3.Don’t do all the things I just mention and call the person a puss.
4. Don’t be a puss meaning don’t do all the things I just listed for you.
You be surprised on how many people are like this in this game.
I told a megalania GG
Get Game loser because it killed me as a juvenile. Then they bragged about it in a really mean spirited way in global.
Another piece of advice which may not be for everyone I learned combat way faster joining a deathmatch server where you lose nothing when dying and yes it and be toxic but there’s a lot of 1v1 opportunities and you can get fighting tips from players while 1v1 it’s good practice and really helped me gain some muscle memory on fighting with certain Dino’s without all the panic involved for example I learned para combat styles on death match and when I got on community server I was more confident and my small herd fought off apexes such as gigas rexes spinos and sarcos even killed a few of them before practicing the combat alot I was so nervous to actually jump in and fight so deathmatch servers for me helped with that 😊
I need to look into this ❤
I do these servers as well. Got a little more confidence and idea of how combat works, especially on console. Now when I`m attacked I`m thinking; "you may get me but you`re gonna work for it" Plus it helps you take some of the anger out from people killing your babies.
My first dino was a rex, I died maybe like 4 or 5 times my entire journey between baby and adult. Mostly just kept to myself, occasionally I would join a carno group but usually just stayed away from the hotspots and did just fine. Most of the dinos I ran into away from the hotspots were also my size so they usually kept their distance.
The part where he says don’t pick an apex as ur 1st Dino is so facts, when I got the game I chose sarco as my 1st one and man did I regret it it was so difficult it was giving me a bad 1st impression on the game so I decided to grow other things 1st like megalania and I got more of a feel then later on I went back and finished my sarco
love the fact that i have 2k+ hours on pot but i'm still here looking at the video 😂😂
My first dino was the Deinonychus, since I think they are hella cool
I never use the waystone for anything other than the quest for when you first get out of the tutorial.
Hey what to do if I broke my bones?
First dino I made was a rex and got it to adulthood in 6 days then lost it immediately to a mix pack
When u die as an adult does it restart from the very beginning as a baby Dino?
@@charlesbox5410 no just a little progress
I think this game is made for griefing..only the strong survive..i got jumped and killed my attacker and that was awesome
6. Don't spend your marks on fancy skins but for buffing abilities!
I only spend my marks on skins if I’m worried I’m going to be killed/die for some reason. Since you lose a huge chunk of your marks, I’d rather risk spending my marks on a skin then die and lose hundreds too over a thousand marks.
It’s best to only spend on abilities, but on official, I tend to spend on skins faster than community. 😅
Yes abilities first then skins
I use skins to blend in with bushes
@@anonymousrandall5011 You can do this even good enough with the standard skin. And some additional colorful skins will make your dino even easier to spot...
Wait you can buff ur abilities? I thought u could only by all of them then that’s it.
Love this video!
The Beginner Tips I always have is:
1. Grow a Small Dino first
Yes this is boring but the reason why the Game default starts players as Campto, Deinonychus/Laten is because they are fast, easily fed & hydrated, and very survivable.
These dinos will teach you the game.
A. How to Move
B. How to Quest
C. The layout of the Map
D. The Flow of Life and Death
2. Chose Natural color skins
When you create a dino, try to stick to browns, greens, and grays.
As you grow in experience you can change it up, but while learning a dino and the game having nature colors wi allow you to blend in with the foliage making you very difficult to spot.
This is a serious life saver.
3.Don't trust anyone
Never Accept anything random.
Do not accept random out of the blue group invites or Waystone invites.
Group invites can/will show your position on the map. Many jerks use this to track you, and since they are a teammate they make you "think" they are friendly.
Waystones (Simple covered this)
Additionally, if someone in Global ever says: "[Area Name] is safe."
Assume the opposite.
Assume the worst of everyone you see. Do not let them get close, do not accept group invites, do not accept waystones.
When in a Group:
A. Do not rest with attack range of your teammates.
B. Do not "Tell" your team you are hurt/resting.
C. Do not turn your back on your teammates.
4. Stay Away from Hotspots & Heating Up Spots
Pay attention to Global Chat and look up the abbreviations for areas.
This way when you see players mention areas and the chaos going on in them you can avoid it or get out of the area before it gets too dangerous.
5. Abandon your Quests
If you:
A. Get a quest that is particularly hard/dangerous/will take too long for your dino to complete.
B. The area you are questing is FULL of danger / you are outnumbered / you see/hear a major threat coming.
Skip/Abort it (leave the area
The death penalty outclasses what you've missed out of by skipping/aborting the Quest.
Example (from Gondwa):
Deliver 5 Flowers in Snake Alley
If you are something that swigs slow then this quest means 10 swims across a river with a VERY high chance of having an adult Semi-Aquatic in it.
If you cannot dive under the water to "scout" then it's not worth completing.
Waystone Quest
It is OK to sit on this quest.
Depending on where you spawn, this quest will most likely be a death sentence.
Either make this the very first quest you complete or save it for a time when no one is around.
Waystones are often meeting spots, and you will get killed if you just roll on up and touch the Waystone.
Quests are everywhere. No quest is worth your life.
6. Noise
Simply covered most of this but as an addendum.
NEVER tell other players what dino or stage of growth you are.
While it is fun to roar and be a little baby shit, running around makes noise, talking makes noise. Make too much and you will get your group killed or injured.
Rain cloaks footstep noise. Use rainstorms to evade / hide / sneak away from deadly encounters.
Additionally, picking up quest items MAKES NOISE. So if you see a threat you are wary of or know you're being hunted do not pick up anything. Simply hide in silence.
Crouching
For dinos who can crouch this + slowly moving forward will reduce your sound to near nothing.
7. Eating & Drinking
Never drink from a deep water edge.
Look for rocks, logs, or very shallow stretches to drink from.
The distance and shallows between you and the water may just save your life.
How to tell someone you're paranoid without telling them you're paranoid:
@@oxyboxy5064
🙄 If you don't want to die every 5 - 10 minutes and lose progress then you have to be overly cautious and not trust other players.
Seeing as it's a Survival game that "kind of" wants player to act like animals. When was the last time you see a wild animal trust anything?
They are skittish for a reason.
I personally learned the group betrayals the hard way.
The problem with official having no rules for abusing grouping and waystones is that it makes tips like mine a necessity for survival.
Although, if they turned off friendly fire for groups that would kill alot of the grouping mechanic abuse.
But until that day comes you cannot lower your guard, ever.
I once went from almost sub-adult to 2 bars into Adolescence because I trusted people.
And I see it happen all the time now.
It isn't paranoia when the distrust is justified.
@@RemnantSoul your group idea wont change anything what stops the leader from just kicking you? Also its very easy to tell when you can and can't trust someone all im getting from this is that you can't tell the obvious 😭
@@oxyboxy5064
Oh....you're some bored troll.
Ok asshole...I'll feed you.
You obviously must have a problem with me sharing tips on how not to get backstabbed by scumbags such as yourself.
I'll spell it out.
There is no "Telling the difference" when someone doing the friendly dance only to attack the moment they get close or you turn your back.
Sinply even pointed that out in the fucking video you didn't bother to watch.
2. The whole point of this video is to help newbies not fall prey to your ilk and make other bad starting decisions.
Common Sense in gaming is that acceptig random invites of ANY kind is a lesson is stupidity and you get what you deserve if you accept them.
But, new players fall prey to it in this game.
Sitting in a Home Cave and watching Global chat is all anyone needs to do to start seeing Instances of that.
Sorry that I have (who the hell even knows how many will even see my comment) given away your easy kill crutch.
Now piss the fuck off, we're done talking.
Yeah exactly why I avoid official abysmally slow growth and filled with the worst of the community. I've seen some power trippy community servers but I'll take that over all the issues with official. Plus those are few and far between while the problems with official have permeated nearly every game on them in my experience.
Another trick is to let your dino get hungry until you get the "find food" quest on which completion you get an additional amount of growth and 50 marks. If you have enough marks apply increased metabolism to your dino so it becomes hungry faster!
I do that too. Only problem was when my game glitched out and wouldn't tell me where any food was so I was frantically searching for bushes while my health started draining. Luckily I found food before my health ran out completely but boy was it a close call, very stressful OTL
I would say the scavenger ability isn’t worth it for me since your water drain is a btxch I do not want to be refilling water every 10-15 mins or not be near water and drink salt water and you can’t go 5 feet away from water.
I dont do this. I keep my hunger and thirst up and near full bc I can outlast bored trolls if they try to ambush me or try to wait me outside my homecave.
im a new player but i learned if you run in a zig zag, especially as a small dino while being chased, you have a higher chance at escaping your enemy because it might cause them to lag AND make them miss numerous times
I’ve tried this I think it only works with small dinosaurs medium is hard but large is probably impossible
fun fact: this works in nature as well. A lot of things in this game (as it should) mimic real tactics you'd find in nature.
When I just joined the game, I didn’t know how to play but when someone ran after me i hid beside the tree. Luckily they lost me and i felt so lucky hehe, it’s a nice feeling.
@@crayonzii yes! I know the feeling 😄
@@ALBINO1DYo, they'll lag irl too??? 😂
Let's cool down on the KOSing term. Very hard in game to know exactly what's a KOS, who's hungry, or who has a quest to hunt herbs for example.
I only ever used kos on herbivores who killed me as a herbivore.
They need to rework the XP system. It's just too much grind imo
I thought about this! But in the Isle game, you dinosaur dies permanently. So losing some growth seems better by comparison lol
One thing I found very helpful is that when you’re a baby and you see a potential threat in the distance, then crouch and find a nearby bush to hide in.
Crouching quiets your footsteps, and the bushes will completely conceal you if you’re a baby, or if you’re a small dino. If you’re bigger in size, then being in the bushes is still better than being out in the open.
Hiding in the bushes is also good if you want to lay down and recover health and/or stamina without being seen.
If you're a baby dino, you can hide in critter burrows.
Simply crouch and slowly walk in through the entrance where critters come out. To get out, simply go out the way you came in. If going forward doesn't work, turn around, use percise movement, and walk backwards.
BEWARE: You won't be able to fit into critter burrows / may get stuck inside them once you reach a certain size. For small creatures, this'll be around late adolescent to sub. For mid tiers such as concavenator, this'll be around late juvenile. And for the bigger creatures such as sucho and rex, they can't fit in a burrow at all after reaching juvenile.
The best part is that non-baby players can't fit in burrows, AND digging out the critter doesn't boot you out of the burrow
I ALWAYS trust too fast.. the other day.. there was a juvenile allo, I was juvi meg. He did lay down to symbolize being friendly. I did the same. Guess what, his allo friend attacked from behind. I ran.. got stuck at a rock and they killed me😂
JUST happened to me....
always check the water for sarcos and listen to hear them charge bite.
Something to add on to making noise when you use chat. If you lay down and sleep, you won’t make noise. It’s a good time to rebuild stamina/chat.
Yeah that's a dangerous move. Because sleeping while chatting means you are at your most vulnerable and you'll be unaware of your surrounding, as your screen shows the chat screen.
Idk if I'm late to put this, but they had added a homecave debuff when you go near it so people can't camp, I'm not sure if it impacts attacks/dmg. But it's makes you- REALLY slow.
They also added before you leave homecave a message will pop up saying:
"No one is near homecave do you want to leave?"
Just wanted to put this small update here :D
I just started playing this game 2 days ago. These videos have been so helpful in learning the game. Day one was stressful, but playing today after watching a few of these videos, the gaming experience has been much better, so thank you!
I met one friendly person today, and it made the game so much better to be in a pack. So if anyone wants to hang and help me grow my juvenile Sarco, let me know!
I'm always on if interested, usually solo but am willing to try groups lol bet it makes the game tons more enjoyable
Hey let me know your player info, I'll be glad to help you grow your sarco, it's not an easy journey
I'm gonna get this game tomorrow. If the offer still stands Id like to join a pack lmao
If I do the crouch cease fire I’m not gonna kill other players. I’m not gonna play dirty and bait them like that. I hate it when people act friend then turn around and jump you.
And I have a couple rexes on official servers, and yeah, experienced a lot of ambush kosing from other people, especially with mix packs that have their own T. rex players too.
I love it when people jump me on my stego. For some reason I'm better at fights on my stego over my carnivores. My stego is still growing but so gar I've fought off a conc and a Meg. Both were trying to kill me, but they realized they made a mistake and ran off. It's a rewarding feeling when you realize that your opponent bit off more than they can chew and they flee.
Yeah a lot of it comes down to the skill of the player a lot of players will try it until they get bitten or whacked good
For hotspots in gondwana is: young grove, green hills, big quilt lake, triad falls, sometimes crater impact and hunters thicket. Any home cave in those spot are camped by mix packing groups, sarcos, spinos, suchos and ducks by any near by water source too.
Gamingbeaver got me interested in the game but you are teaching me the game. Your videos are very helpful.
Wish I found this video sooner didn't realise how toxic people are so horrible
I normally protect small Dino’s with my metri so they can grow. I only fight/kill when I’m attacked or hungry. My first Dino was a sarco and I had fun growing him. I’m now a metri main on the gondwa map I stay in rockfall hill and my name is directccking if u see a black and gold metri say hi I won’t attack a juvi unless I’m dying from hunger.
"i wont attack a juvi unless, im dying from hungry" XD
Well, I hope I don’t find you when you’re hungry 😂
I noticed that (at least on console) you can also press the rest/chat key to cancel the noise you make from text chat, so you don't always have to have something in your mouth for silent chatting if you're quick enough.
It works better for dinos with longer roars.
i was killed in official servers about 3-5 times before i quit them and went to community joined new beginnings and having fun learning the game with nice players
Nice what server I need to now I’ve been fucker over so many times on official server
@@charlesbox5410 new beginings
Do not ever trust the water.
People who just straight up Kill on sight in mist are the fcking worst. All it took for my Goose to be killed after surviving onslaught after onslaught of Pachy's, Carnivores etc to take me down was a player exploiting stam regen and attacking me out of nowhere giving me no chance to retaliate and costing me and my friend quest progress, mix packing a**holes.
From my experience, PoT brings out more bad in people than good. Nowadays you're just as likely to encounter jerks in the chat/game as friendly folks. Hence why precautions like these must be taken. I try to be social and helpful but I've seen my fair share of cruel and cunning players.
#1 thing NOT to do: DON'T PLAY OFFICIAL, THE GROWTH RATES ARE INFURIATING.
Primordial Tyrants is an excellent no rules server.
Maybe it's just me, but the growth rate is fine. Maybe we've gotten too impatient with games lately, but it adds to the real feeling of growing a dinosaur tbh.
I will NEVER even consider tyrannosaurus, I despise everything about that dino
its so uglyyyyy😭😭
As a dino or in the game?
@@ryanlagana1462 dinosaur media in general
Jeez what did rex do to you?
@@maxallen5510 exist
Made the hot spot quest mistake, some a**hole spinos killed me mid quest. I also trusted one person as a baby dino, damn poopy face tried to kill me.
I need a guide to tell you how to understand different calls because I can’t recognize what someone is trying to tell me ;-;
Welp I already did one thing wrong lol since I started with a Rex haha but barely made it to sub adult tho but I always died by them damn trikes but then again everyone in general 😢
Same here I am making the same mistakes as you lol
Spino is great as beginner. Its so easy to avoid many dinos. By staying near The water
Also 1 for beginners, always safe log (wait 1 min and then log)
tbh its very rare for me to find anyone to kill,befreind or add to the pack
There actually is a pop up now that will tell you if there are players near the home cave and the area around it is fairly decent sized
I've grow a t rex my first time 😂i was brave but it took one month when i was a beginner
Bro I JUST FINISHED THE TUTORIAL AS A TREX AND GOT SPAWNED BUY 2 TRIKES AND A SARCO AND INSTANTLY THEY All CAME AFTER ME
I think Ano has quickly become my most hated dinosaur. Rex are easy to avoid but anos just keep chasing to the end of time. 😂 So frustrating.
I have an adult anodontosaurus
@@rickycoverrubias6176 good for you?
@@Mr.Skits94 you stated something as do I. Don't be a bich about it
Hi, I wish you would download an explanation to solve the problem of the community servers. Literally, I can only enter one server. The rest of the servers tell me that you cannot enter. The server used is old. Who has a solution to the problem. I play on the PlayStation.
Played as a Rex for First Dino, hated every second of It and i hate It even once i became an adult, you Just walk and try slaughter untill a group of midtiers/apexes bully you
Go inside the home cave instead of using the stone outside it. Saved my life countless times.
2:49 the international minecraft sign of peace
One tip if u have a farm place on the map like the place that he is recording, have a small fast dino like a megalania (i dont grow it to be easier to hide) to scout to see if theres any danger around before logging on your main dino
I avoided death so many times thanks to this
I love my Meg but for scouting I prefer the bird (on gondwa)
Hi new player and funny you mention not trusting anyone I was lucky and got one who saved me for no reason, I was walking around doing quest, and past by a river where a carnivore just attack me and right beside me just so happen to be a full on adult herbivore, who just came to my aid like a boss. Mind you I was a t rex who was still a child he had no reason to do what he did, and just went in and saved me scaring off the predator and just protecting this helpless baby t rex.
Like literally getting between me and the predator, roaring and stomping, to get him to leave after that saved I just followed him around for a bit, he killed some of the small creatures in burros for me when I was hungry, and even help me do some of my quest, I felt like I was playing some kind of family dinosaur movie scene, cause as we go up a hill a smaller herbivore comes up and hang around with us for a bit
The most important lesson is: know how to hide and see other players before they see you.
Welp it’s too late for me. I bought a T-Rex and everyone stays killing me :(
Playing as Deinonynchus here, but I tried T-Rex and found out about fall damage. As a Deinonynchus you can jump from rocks and be fine, but T-Rex dies, so it's harder for me to move around (Android player).
First Dino I grew was the flyer, really good for questing and traveling, but not pvp.
I recommend this one for beginners tho
Also don't hide in bushes they won't help you because mobile players bushes don't work right and they will see you I've been killed so many times because of this
Also depends on the skin tones, if you're using tons of greens and browns then you might be good, but tons of white or yellow and yeah you stick out.
Honestly that’s an extremely unfair advantage for mobile players, kinda dumb tbh
id say the better tip is to not pick the less of the dinosaur games...
this game is like the offbrand of the offbrand of every other dinosaur game..
ive played em all.. this ones the worst in cringe factor
6. After buying every ability, buy a skin that could HELP you, not some colourful one so that everyone within 20km can see you, buy a green one (depending on where you are most of the time)
I played earlier. I was a juvy trex and WALKED right by giant adult predator. I even yelled at him, bro looked at me and kept walking. Cool experience!! Lol!!
Actully believe it or not be goint to impact or gp is SOOO FUCKING GOOD for begginers especcially babys. The quests are so easy flower musheroom tigernuts lakeweee rocks, like so easy and theres such big bushes to hide
i remember that one time i met a freindly pycno,they invited me,once i found them they just told me to do things cause they were the leader,obviously,then we didnt last long until some a****** had to cut it and kill us for no reason,welp,at least that pycno was trustworthy
Your videos have been helpful I just bought the game , I just did the things you said not to do , What I learned was not everyone we’ll attack you if you don’t act aggressive, I just give a small roar , I like to act like a real Dino , I am a trex , and the roars are scary thank you
Ps about the trex thing I well keep that in mine
1 call till banned from community server. Check.
Start in impact crater, check.
Ignore all invites, even those from real friends, check.
Grow 8 hour modded Argentinosaurus first, check.
Log out in bushes, there is no home cave on my community server xD - check
Serious note.
I don't use calls, ever, even after I murder someone's face in. Even though a roar establishes dominance.
I found some areas of the map that are pretty hit or miss at the moment. Sometimes I see no one all day, sometimes there are roaming gank duos looking for new / solo players. I have no friends on this game, so I just ignore invites right now. I don't see any real need to group up, unless I start playing herbivores. The server I play on is Semi Realism. So group restrictions for carnis is pretty tight. Funny enough first thing I grew was a spinosuarus. I love that dino. My favorite thing from ARK. Oddly enough I saw no other players while I grew it (server was always 100+ players). I am enjoying the mid tier dinos more though. Slow ones are so painful for maneuverability.
If I had to give a tip as a new player. Find a good community server to play on. With rules. Then get to know the other people on that server, most of them you will see very often. You could make some cool friends along the way. The game is a lot more fun with just 1 other person in your team.
It's a beautiful game with potential. I personally have a very hard time enjoying this game, The developers are decent I think they lack a lot of experience when it comes to creating in game content.
This game is a dinosaur role playing experience at heart, they just gave it more typical game mechanics to attract a wider audience. The point of it is to just be a dinosaur - not to beat it or achieve anything necessarily.
As they continue to add in-game content I expect more role playing options, not more objectives
@@aegerman6317I second this sentiment. 100 %
noob question do you only see skins on adults?
I have just started playing, I chose to be a Laten. And I don’t know what this game used to be like, but the people in the comments sound paranoid as hell😂 I always accept random group invites and I always trust group mates like family😂 I once met these two large dinosaurs (not sure what? Maybe like a spino without the spine) and they invited me to their group, we’re extremely friendly and even added me as a friends because they were going to switch servers and asked me if I wanted to join them there!
The game is cool but I wish we didn’t had to quest to grow, it’s ok for marks & skins but to grow too it gets annoying & old they should just let grow over time slowly but shortly
I must be very lucky, played for an hour and a half as a trex for first playthrough and never got attacked. I even ran into an adult. With all the videos ive seen im waiting for death, but it never comes.
Did I've been try to age up my Juvenile Spino because I see so many baby killers hoping after baby herbivores....and I've made a bad habit out of self sacrificing to give them a fighting chance to run and hide
I play on PC, but the precise controls suck on PC. How can I remap the game controller keys for a USB controller? The don't seem to remap.
I can’t play community or multiplayer because its saying that I need a upgrade. But How do I install this upgrade?
Me who just started playing and picking the T. rex I’m already too deep can’t quit now
I was an adult sarco... At talons point in water, a dino i think it was a rex idk he was with 2 meg... I wanted to attack but when i approached he teabagged and i felt pity of him and i disnt... When i went a lil far from water to collect branch he jumped me broke my leg so i was slow af and jumped me with the 2 meg... Aftee this i promised to never trust anyone
DON’T got to impact crater no matter what u will get killed if your small and a solo or just far from your party but I don’t care if your dying of thirst find somewhere else if u want to live kosing happens there most of the time
Yeah if you are in a group of random strangers and they say let’s stop by a cave run the opposite away even if they been questing with you for a hr there other friends came out with full adults and ambushed me lesson learned don’t trust anyone
Man I got betrayed 4 times
What sucks is when you try to change subspecies and have to do half of the growth all over again 💀💀
100% accurate on all of these points! Especially the "friendly" invites.
If there's nothing around to grab in your mouth if you wanna talk, you can just sleep too :)
My first dino was a thal and I quickly discovered ppl assumed I was annoying.
The only reason i dont like this game is because to play it you have to pay 25 dollars for a beta on xbox.
What does "tick rate" mean. It's an attribute of servers on the multiplayer "server list".
i would just like a list where the deinonychus is near the top (not speed)
subbed
I know you have covered this game a lot over the last year. For someone looking at the game and using your videos to "scout" or check the game out before buying, would you still recommend the game now after all your hours of playing?
Yes defiantly it’s one my favourite games tbh. I can get a bit burnt out growing dinos with the collecting etc but it’s one I never uninstall and always come back to well worth the money.
If you want to grow a dino in this game without problems grow a sea creature no one plays sea creatures
When I get a Way Stone invite from a random player,I always except it. The only difference is I just waste their time and continue questing, making them think I'm gonna teleport.
Pure gold 🤣🤣🤣
Bro grassland crater and g.lake ain’t just some left side of the map 😬. It is secretly a hotspot in official servers. Second best population after big lake.
Depends on the server. Most of the times it’s dead for me lol
Corpse lake is always decent in popularity, I even shared a kill with 2 sarcosuchus and 2 allosaurus. Scary trying to figure out if they're gonna jump me lol
T-Rex really useless when it small. Can't agent with any dino.
Play an aquatic like Eurhino or Kai if you wanna grow in relative peace.
You just listed a bunch of things I learned the hard way.......
i can’t find any dino’s when i play online lol very boring g
Also to chat without noise, go to sleep. Of course stay hidden.
I'm a noob. However my first dino wasn't an apex predator!
I've been waiting to pull the trigger on buying this game. I've been watching videos and stuff about this game to know whether it's for me or not. It really seems cool.
Not sure what country you are form, but they have a refund policy in place for most. I just got it and I am having a blast, it took me awhile to find a community server I liked though.
a good dino to start is a bird thalo especialy to learn the map
7: Get Skins That Match Your Surroundings
save your time and just don't play this game.
I grew a spiono and I'm just 7 years old