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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for dire bear? Tips and strategies for dire bear in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Torpor is not verry fast on my 130 I am tamming
If you're unlucky enough to have one aggro on you get in a door frame cage or get on a flyer FAST because they gain speed over timeif your hunting them just use a door frame cage at least stone
If you wanna get mass berries and out run Gina's this is your animal. Also great in battle with aoe strike. Fiber getter for sure
For a dire bear when I tranq them normally they die so I put down lots of narco traps make it run through them , so it's torpor is high then I start to tranq it
Boss tests:
Tests against gamma megapithecus: Shredded, no bears died
Beta megapithecus: 3 bears died, still did pretty well
Alpha megapithecus: All bears died (RIP 😭😭😭)
The last little brave soldier lasted for 3 minutes before accepting his fate
Will do other bosses soon.
Btw bears were level 430-480
Test was done with only a yuty and spawned in 122 asc saddles.
Your unfortunate encounter with them is their fortunate dinner with you
You have to wait for a couple of seconds if ur using tranq arrows
I used an apprentice longneck rifle with darts on a level 130 bear. No problems at all. He still had 1800 health out of 2400 when he fell. Awesome mount :)
If you sprint in flat land such as redwoods they will slowly gain speed higher and higher which is also realistic because some modern bears will have bluff charges in which they will charge at you as soon as they see you to test your aggression towards them and then they will stop before you and if you’ve hurt them then or anyway before then or showed any other signs of aggression they may attack or run. Usually run. But in humans case usually attack.
Best way to tame a bear is using darts to knock it out and feed honey. Adds 7.0% taming with out useing balm
You can use the 4 gate trap to tame it.
Apparently giant bee honey doesn't work taming bears. Tried in abberation and wouldn't take as taming food once ready to tame.
My friend darted a low level because we are starting on aberrations. His longneck broke before he started running so I did the only thing I could think of... I jumped at it with a shield and a club. Let’s just say I was a distraction so he could go get a new rifle, would not recommend
The new kibble doesn't work when taming
Normal tranqs will work if you’re high enough level to withstand its attacks. I shot it until it was too low life to live through another arrow and simply waited for it to run. (I shot it every time it’s life was high enough to be hit again) tames with veggies (I used carrots)
While sprinting it goes faster running through a bunch of bushs spaming the gather button you will collect tons of fiber with this tank gathers all sorts of things a must have tame for multipurpose playing breeding them ang imprinting just makes them the better all around mount