Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
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What is a diplodocus used for? diplodocus battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
This creature is very useful for getting reapers,basilisks, and perlovia out of the ground. The wild ones can do the same things as the tamed ones. These things are very useful for getting hidden loot. Just fly around maps with an argy with a tamed parasaur in its talons on turret mode so it can find the enemy dinos. Once you find one, lure a diplo or pull a tamed one out of a cryopod and push the dino out of the ground. If the enemy dino is on passive, proceed to kill it with your argy or any dino gates that has decent melee. BOOM! You have someone else's hidden loot.
Ok so my feelings on this animal: I absolutely love this creature. So fast that any creatures prone to going aggro on us never even see us because of how fast we are going. Also super helpful in carrying loads of heavy stuff and plenty of stamina my only issue is I have the same feelings about the fact that the diplo shall be able to defend his or herself with the tail when stuck cornered and being attacked multiple times if you’re stuck at the moment and need a hot minute to get unstuck and flee. So I agree with other players who feel the same way. Being attacked by a bunch of stupid mean insects or a dilo or compys leaves you with no choice but to flee on your diplo. That’s good because diplo is fast but then you got to come back through the area to complete what you’re were working on such as taming a creature in the area or collecting something and then you get attacked again and that’s not good. So yea super annoying and have to go through the work of destroying the meanies by shooting them off or hitting them with my pick or spear. Other than that diplo is awesome has lots of health and stamina and speed and ability to carry loads of heavy stuff. For now I’ll just be grateful that the best defense is to run away cos they are fast and at least can nudge the meanies away over and over till the meanies are destroyed. The end.
If you want to go and farm up mountains and are in a tribe of 10or more people it is very easy to get resources as you can up their weight a ton. Have at least 2000 stamina and quite high movement speed. It’s also worth having around 1600 health. Picture this. You are up a mountain with ten tribe members on the diplo. They all have... let’s say 2 metal picks. Flak armour, a metal sword and a assault rifle with a lot of bullets. 5 gets Of and starts mining. A Rex pops up and the still boarded 5 people shoot it. I when it gets too close diplodocus shoves it back and it dies of being shot. And you carry on getting metal and other resources.
Don't underestimate this dino's usefulness. It may not do damage but it's knock back is very useful for holding off raiders. If your base is near a cliff you can knock players and dinos off it. Another thing is that diplos actually do trample damage. This means that it can kill small creatures like bugs, dodos, and compies by walking in them. In addition there is no level requisite to tame it, so it colud be the first dino you tame.