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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Encountering Tips

How do I kill a defense unit? defense unit encountering and battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
I hate these things, I hate these things, I hate these things, they are the definition of annoying and seem to spawn at the most inopportune times however I learned if you get behind them with a pike or a sword they’re relatively easy to kill because they cannot turn very quickly they seemed like they were glitching at the time but that was my experience however I must congratulate wild card for creating anmincredibly annoying enemy. To all new players on extinction they spawn everywhere in the sanctuary , are too fast for a human to out run & do decent damage and have more health than a trike I have found the best strategy to stay away from them preferably near stegosauruses (i’ve seen a single stegosaurus fight five of them and come out on top)
Thay also spawn in the sanctuary on extinction, their turn radius is horrible so you can easily melee one without getting hit
These killed my iguanodon and my deer. I hate these things
They are not really bosses I mean they spawn every wear, so how could you call them bosses
People this thing is counted as boss but has garbage dps the enforcer is much stronger. And yes the defense unit has a lot of health but really there front is where they have no armor. Easy to grind
Just find a place we’re they can’t touch you. Then shoot them with a bow.
I killed the defense units with the two grenades.
Stand behind it and wiggle left and right and it cant hit you
I like to follow these guys around until they get themselves killed so I can collect their bodies.
The only thing in the “boss” category which is not in the “endgame” category
these guys give me droideka vibes lol
On extinction they will agro on any Dino or tame so if taming stay with it and don't leave it will be dead when you come back.
I can control them with a tech controller can’t y’all?
These guys self destruct after death by player but if your tame or wild dinos kill it you can harvest its Tech Dino resources. Scrap is better than metal, scrap is 1 to 1 bar where as metal is 2 ore for 1 bar.
Edit I posted in the wrong category
They are neutral to players
But attack you when on a tame
These things are quickly getting up there with archi and troodons for me. Haven't tamed anything with them attacking my tame. Bring spike walls and be ready.
Easy to kill but casts good damage
There not actually that dangerous all u need are some tri’s
Battling
They are easy to kill just stay behind them they are slow when you hit them and they won’t kill you that way.
Encounter
The are friendly to you unless you hit them.
But they are argessive to your tames.
They spawn in the tek cave whilst you are fighting the overseer, so they are bosses, as well as Attack Drones. Both on the island, too, so please stop spamming and please spread word about this.