Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
The thing that makes these SO effective is that they can go in the air and in the sea. Meaning that if you are being chased through the air, you can flee to the water and vice versa. They also have a tek saddle that has one tek cannon (manned by human) on the bottom front, one (also manned by human) on the bottom back, and one (still manned by human) on the middle top. It also, being a tek saddle, can shoot from its head like all other tek saddles. Even better, it has a tek bomb feature taht teh driver can enable, and it drops a tek bomb that explodes, dealing massive damage to an area. Oh, and it can take creatures with it when warping through hyperspace. The only problem is that it’s so slow, and when I had one even with wandering off it would just go wherever. It was a bug probably fixed by now, but it doesn’t even fit through a behemoth gateway, and it’s also really slow. It does have its own attacks, but they aren’t that effective.
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Cool battle scenario
Setting: plains/hills, enemy base, raid mission
Creature 1: space whale (saddle, fully mounted with 4 people, several tek bombs ready, at least 2)
Creature 2: Yuty (mounted by human, able to scare away enemy dinos and buff allied ones, at least 1)
Creature 3: allo (mounted by humans, charging at base defenders, at least 4)
Creature 4: wyvern (mounted by human, escorting space whales, maybe carrying dodo bomb, at least 2)
Scenario: yuty roars, buffing the charging allos and scaring enemy dinos, allos charge and start taking out defenses. Space whales and wyverns arrive, and birds are sent to counter them and turrets start firing. The wyverns and tek turrets on space whales take out the enemy fliers. Other tek turrets take out enemies and turrets below. The space whales are now directly over the base, and drop their tek bombs. The allos have successfully taken out most ground defense and the base has been wiped out.
This thing is the ultimate warship. Its saddle has three gun turrets that consume element when shooting. It has a bomber mode that drops a cluster of bombs below it, consuming ambergris as the ammo. It can pretty much warp you and your nearby allies instantly. Plus it has a platform where you can build structures, similar to the platform saddles we’ve seen on Quetzals, Paracers, etc. The platform space is really small, but definitely workable.
Use a mek with canon to tame, 1 rocket to take down any lvl.
Very op in pvp as it can mesh across walls and annihilate TEK, however it is 100% useless in pve as of now, it is too slow and doesn’t have as much weight as a gasbag or a basilisk.
It could have use in pve if it was actually able to produce ambergris, as ambergris comes from whales in the lore, that would make magmasaurus breeding possible across your favorite ARKs.
Producing ambergris passively has to be implemented to give use to this creature in pve...
They also wonder around on their own, not sure it’s a BUG or if it’s intended, so leach or pod it.