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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
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What is a andrewsarchus used for? andrewsarchus battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
Absolutely broken. Incredibly easy to tame, saddle is broken. It makes your survivor immune to damage, dismounts, drowning, radiation, poison, everything. Your survivor is basically in god mode while riding it with its saddle. It’s incredibly tanky too. Even took it on boss fights.
Saddle acts like a mini submarine where rider requires no oxygen and added bonus the mini gun fires underwater! Hold right stick to force Dino to ocean floor where it walks and sprints like on land. Boost doesn’t work because same stick puts you back in swim mode. Andrew already has low oxygen consumption so add a few points and use it to explore the ocean floor.
Add: IS fast enough to swim/run away from alpha megaladon.
For some reason alpha dinos will not agro to you when you are in the water firing 750 rounds of advanced rifle bullets in their face per second for 5 minutes straight,
I managed to kill 3 alpha Raptors with a wild tame one of these guys and a prim saddle because they went in the water after me but then floated still and let me shoot them for 5 mins straight without even attempting to attack
Likely won't be very useful on official servers as there's not a chance the pearl production will rival phoenix and gacha setups.
Also the minigun is a widely useless weapon, I don't see why putting it on the back of a tame would make it any less useless sadly.
The charge is interesting especially underwater, however the lack of turning will likely render it useless for rocket running in many cases
The saddle is a literal top part of a tank although your Andrewsarchus could be a tank the turret does roughly 40 damage at 100% damage, would be cool if you could use different ammo like pistol rounds with reduced damage but faster Fire rate and sniper rounds to increase damage but slow down Fire rate, maybe even shotgun rounds... You would love to see it, but since ARK II is "releasing" next year (2023) and ARK recently receiving the final update, this dream will not come true. At least not in ARK one.