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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Tips & Strategies

Fiber Gatherer: Gigantopithecus is a great fiber collected, even being able to gather fiber while on wander
Warrior: With the knock back of a Bronto, and high melee damage, they can make quick work of small dinosaurs, and players
Berry Collector: They collect berries with incredible swiftness, and can defend you if you get into some trouble
More Gigantopithecus Utility Tips
Would be awesome if Gigantopithecus could ride two-seated mounts with you, even if just for us singleplayers to feel like we have company!
TLC patch to be added in March 2018 to add armor degrading attack, jump ability, and aiming system for throw. Like for people to see!
On mobile, you can actually harvest fiber with them. Just get off of your ape in a bush and they will squat down and gather a good amount of fiber.
Possibly the most useful creature to go caving with as his small size but large health and damage allows him to withstand onycs,spiders and scorpions haven't encountered a arthurplura yet so not sure how effective he is against it
To the people saying that these things should be able to wield swords:
Imagine being on a pvp server, and then someone with a fully imprinted and mutated big monke with 1.5K% melee shows up and pulls out an ascendent sword that does 400 base damage...
Sounds pretty balanced and fun
Situation described above will result in 6000 damage per hit btw, aka enough to kill tamed giga (without saddle) in 3 hits
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canβt carry dodos this is very important
Can climb on zip lines.
Absolute spider monkeys. Mission impossible planet of Apes
These guys SHOULD work similar to a companion in other games. It should be able to wield a sword along with the ability to wear more than just a helmet. Having a tame that acts as a warrior would be very cool for battle in ARK.
Get two of these, paint them black and use them as bodyguards.
I plan to have a gorilla army that can breed give them flack/riot helmets name them bodyguard also set to aggressive and make them guard my base