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Tips & Strategies
What are tips for acrocanthosaurus? Tips and strategies for acrocanthosaurus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
When taming these dont try to trap them as it typically causes them to never go into shield stance. Fret not i have an easy guide, once you get it into shield stance count how many shots it takes to enrage it (normally 5 with a good pump) shoot your amount of counted shots then back up and it will roar, then run up and feed it your narcotic or more ideally biotoxin then immediately back up a good distance and as soon as it is done with its animation it SHOULD go right back into shield stance allowing you to rinse and repeat this method safely on foot. WORDS OF WARNING kill everything nearby as to not mess with the process, you know you are safe to start shooting when it stands straight then goes into its shield stance, ONLY approach it AFTER it does the correct roar since it has 2 roars, the one you are looking for and a fake/taunting roar which if approached when its doing this second roar will cause it to enrage and and start attacking everything for 30 seconds and will kill you very quickly. IF it does the fake roar simply stand back a good bit and wait for it to finish, after it does it'll do the correct roar and you then run up and feed it like normal. with this method and a little practice you can tame one without ever really getting hit whilst on foot. ALSO the second roar isnt nearly as loud as the first and looks a bit different and the acro will laugh at you (literally) after doing this fake roar if it doesnt get enraged by tricking you. Lastly these things are BEASTS, you and a tribemate can grab 2 bred acros with asc saddles and kill alpha monkey with just those 2 acros, they can also solo the hard ice cave on the island but youll want a good saddle, hope this helps and like so others may see
A bit confusing, but a good way to tell a wild acros damage stat without mods:
Use your own acro. Get into shield stance, and force wild acro into shield stance. Whatever the damage done by the acros BITE in shield stance to your own acro in shield stance is the damage stat. For example, if it does 33 damage per bite, it has 33 points into melee. Nothing game breaking but I thought I’d share
You don't need to target its mouth when feeding narcotics or biotoxin, any part of its body will give you the option to feed.
Tested taming extensively.
1. The acro does not seem to care about the damage output you are dealing while you shoot it, it cares how many times you shoot it and with what weapon. Use primitive to reduce the chances of killing it. Shotgun is best.
2. While it is doing the fake roar it will constantly regenerate health to full for the entire duration of the animation, this is a great opportunity to lay into it and force it back into shield mode.
3. If you do not shoot it during the false roar, it will become impervious to damage for about 5-6 seconds, do not waste your ammo during this time.
When you decide to go out and tame these pos, just understand that when ark wants to lag the game it completely screws the entire taming process up, the acro will not go back into shield mode and it won’t regenerate health. My best way to put it is, if you want to win the lottery then go the other way, but if you decide you want to give up ur luck on winning the lottery to tame one of these acros then go for it, there’s zero chance otherwise especially when there’s lag on ur server.
Biotoxin in your last slot. Goot shooter with good damage and ammo.
Find acro you want to tame. Clear the area of other wilds when its not aggroed shoot it untill it goes into stance/guard this means it walking towards you sideways slowly, a few more shots will make it roar. There are THREE roars only one you can feed on and its the roar where the acro throw it head up and back down qucikly and roars mouth wide open. Run and spawn interact, on playstaion its triangle PC 'E" if successful the acro will shake its head like it had a bad taste in its mouth. I run towards its tail ehich makes the acri turn to find ou giving you time to get some distance. Acro will still be in guard stance shoot it again untill you get a feed roar. Repeat untill it knocks out. BEWARE if you miss a feed it will rage and wont heal and trying ti shoot it back into guard will onky kill it. You need to lure it to a dead dino to eat and onky then can you continue the taming process. The low rumble roar with head low the acro will exit guard stance but you can shoot it back into guard stance after this roar.
Always spam interact when feeding narco/biotoxin as sometimes you can pick up stone or berries instead and miss a feed. Do not miss a feed. If you do give it time to kill somethine or you will kill it.
Literally all you need is a good deinosuchus, 100+ biotoxin, and mutton. Just use the regular attack (NOT THE GIGA BITE EVER) and when it roars dismount and feed it the biotoxin and just repeat, easiest way to tame it in my opinion.
Just don't let up. After each feeding of narcotic or biotoxin. You can continue pumping damage into it. If the does the fake raor. Continue to shoot it while it does this. By the end of the fake roar it should do a real one. If you miss a feeding it will go into adrenaline stat. At which point it will NOT go to shield stance and you must wait for it to stop glowing red. I don't usually clear out wildlife as i use them to heal the Acro if I do mess up. Good luck and hope you get the best Acro's!
For me the most important thing taming these guys has been to have a large, open space. They seem to not enter the taming roar if they have to navigate around anything. Pick an open spot, but also clear trees and other blockers.
Anyone had any luck finding these in single player extinction? I've ran a dino wipe and using a dino finder mod and still unable to find one. Not sure how long it takes for one to spawn
This is how I did mine. Works relatively well and simple. If you have an ice wyvern with low dmg and pumped stamina this can work:
1- make sure the surrounding area is isolated around the acro you wish to tame.
2- Stop a short distance from the acro within ice breath’s distance.
3- ice breath the acro repeatedly
4- acro will switch to defensive, then do the loud roar if it takes enough dmg (watchout for the low roar, it’s a bait roar)
5- while it does the load roar, run up the top of your ice wyvern’s neck to force-feed the acro narcotics (I used bio toxin)
6- repeat until it knocks out
Continue to watch your back so you don’t end up backing up against anything or any other animals that could possibly interfere with the process.
P.S.- as of it’s new release, trapping the acro does not work at the moment. It’s taming mechanic will not trigger if trapped.
Hope this helps!
1000+ dura flak and capped shotty just run circles around it even with a wild 150, doesn’t inflict crazy damage.. Easy as
No traps it won't roar near buildings or other survivors' buildings so tame it in the open away from other survivors' bases and use a soft but strong creature or weapon to hit it until it's bloody and what Until it roars then feed it if you miss it let it attack a creature to regain health and repeat the process carry light for quick getaways and stay alive as long as possible
Ice wyvern method did NOT work, rip lvl 145 acro
Taming it I assume will be just like the mod, which is to damage it until it goes into a shield stance where you’ll need to damage it further till it roars, when it does force feed it narcotic/bio toxin and then rinse and repeat until it KO’s.
Do note that the Acro can fake the roar, it will perform a different animation with a different sound, so it is noticeable if you’re paying attention.
I have seen it on island! Down from 50/50 there was like 6 there around that little pond oasis.
Ok I saw a tip saying not too shoot it during its false roar. You absolutely SHOULD shoot it when it does the false roar because it will do the actual roar immediately after so you can feed it narcotic. Also don't use Primitive pump use mastercraft or Ascendant so you can put three to four shots in per roar. If you want a controlled space for taming download the Randi's animal trap mod and use the largest trap. Works wonders
Get a good stego and just fight it, when it roars just jump of toss drugs in its mouth and get back on the stego
This Dino is meant to bridge the gap between the rex and the carchar / giga, so it is going to be quite strong, I suggest the following items to make sure your taming process goes as smoothly as possible.
1.) Full ascendant flak (or anything stronger than flak) armor, the better armor rating the better (will protect you a decent amount if you get stunned off your mount by a microraptor)
2.) an agile creature with a decent health pool with the ability to shoot off the back of it while riding (I've heard trapping doesn't work with this creature)
3.) an ascendant 200+% damage pump shotgun (this creature is a knockout tame, but it requires damaging it heavily until it roars at you and glows red, then you can feed it a narcotics / biotoxin to knock it out)
4.) loads of biotoxin (try to bring atleast 300+ just to be safe)
5.) they spawn commonly in the redwoods, so be extremely weary of thylas and microraptors during the taming process. if you can, try to lead it away from the redwoods
anyways that's all for this tip, I hope it serves you well !^^