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Tips & Strategies

What are tips for gigantoraptor? Tips and strategies for gigantoraptor in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
You can NOT imprint on orphaned gigantoraptor, I learned that the hard way😢😢😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Good tame. Can no longer gate trap parents. Use fert eggs (rex or above preferred) to lure parent, or have a buddy run interference using a tame to block.
It can carry eggs in its inv regardless of level and cooks them down to 0% like an incubator. Each bird gives a feather based on its highest base stat that when fed to a female tame increases the subsequent baby's chance of inheriting that stat.
It also imprints babies to it in addition to your own and when nearby gives the baby's a 10% damage reduction.
My guide for Gigantoraptors
Getting max taming effectiveness on wild babies. For example, claiming a wild 150 and it will come out at level 225.
1. The easiest way is to breed a gigantoraptor and level it up with all 88 levels. Both taming effectiveness and number of levels for the gigantoraptor go into affecting the taming effevtiveness of taming wild babies. Hatched babies have a 100% taming effectiveness so the first half is complete, second is that you have to get all 88 levels.
2. If you can’t breed one then tame one and get max taming effectiveness and then all 88 levels. This will ensure that the babies get max taming effevtivenss.
Also you can skew the likelihood of the claimed wild baby’s stats. When claiming a wild baby, the stats will skew towards the highest stats of the giagsntorsptor. For example, say your gigantoraptor has a much higher melee stat than any other stat, then the claimed baby has a higher chance of the taming points in melee being the highest.
The bonded buff:
When an adopted game is fully bonded, when the gigantorsptor is in range, they will start to acquire a buff based on the number of kills the adopted Dino has. From 1-14 kills, the buff is called Alloparental pride or adopted Love, and from 15-25 (the max) it is alloparental fury or adopted rage. They are each indicated by a golden ring around the gigantiraptors neck for adopted love, and a red ring for adopted rage. The buff drops by 1 per every 30 seconds. Alloparental is what the gigantoraptor gets as it’s buff, where as the adopted ones are what the adopted creatures gets as a buff.
For each alloparental stack, the hihantoraptor gains 2% extra damage so it can max out at 50%, so a 100 melee gigantoraptor can do 150 melee at max buff. The gigantoraptor also gains a 1% experience bonus, maxing out at 25% extra experience. At alloparnetla fury it gains a 10% movement speed as well.
For the adopted Dino’s with the adopted buffs, the creature has 10% reduced incoming damage, so instead of taking 100 hp of damage, they’d take 90. This is doesn’t change with the number of stacks. And at adopted rage they also gain 5% extra damage, also not stackable.
If you plan on raising a boss fighting army, I’d recommend raising and bonding them with the gigantoraptor and bringing it to the boss fight alongside an yurt.
-also, there are other ways to stack the buff. If a baby becomes bonded, gigantoraptor gains 5 stacks (equivalent to 5 kills by the adopted Dino), when a bonded matures it gains 5 stacks, a bonded creature leveling up is 2 stacks, and if the bonded creature dies it equa15 stacks. This is inky for allopatental, so only for gigantoraptor.
Taming:
Taming is pretty easy. You can get a gigantoraptor early game. The way I’d recommend is craft yourself a full pair of ghillie and tame the lowest level breeding pair of brontos you can find. You need to leave the eggs on the ground for the gigantoraptor adult to eat. It takes them a longer time to eat the egg depending on the quality of the egg, which directly correlates to the kibble tiers for eggs, meaning brontos are the best outside of yuty and egg tames like wyverns or rock drakes. They have to be fertilized. HOWEVER THIS IS NOT ALL. You can not actually tame the adult, only the baby, however they have the same stats, although the baby will have a different trait than the parent. You can not kill the adult and claim the baby, so make sure the adult isn’t killed or the baby is untameable. Once you find a nest get in all ghillie. Throw the eggs far from the nest while still being in range. From my tests, the farthest distance you can throw the eggs that the gigantoraptor adult will pick up is 80-90 meters from the nest. I’d recommend throwing them uphill of the nest with no obstacles in the way as this will allow you to see when the gigantoraptor has finished an egg. Before going to the eggs, the gigantoraptor will check the nest and make sure it’s okay, then go to eat. Then you must climb in the nest, and the baby will climb in. You must copy its move in the little timeframe above its head. I’ve noticed a bias towards the spin move. The baby will then leave the nest and return shortly to do again. After an egg is eaten the adult will walk back to the nest, at which point you must leave, hide a little distance away, until the adult leaves to eat. If it or the baby is agroed, the adult will leave the eggs and figh
Other useful tips
1. The gigantoraptor has to be at a higher level than the baby to carry it in its saddle and claim it.
2. When doing bonding, I recommend doing it in an early game area like the beach or shores as the hunts can be on almost anything, including alpha rexes and brontos. If your gigantoraptor is strong, I’d recommend the swamp due to its large number of easy to kill creatures, meaning that finding a target should be easy and likely so will killing it. Just be wary of going into too deep water as Baryonyx can stun you, and watch out for deinosuchus.
If you think that this fellow will be small you couldn’t be more wrong. This dino is the size of a t-Rex
I was little skeptical about this creature but once I saw the concept art I was all in! Reminds of like an ostrich mixed with a peacock. Totally cool!
Taming a Gigantoraptor with another Gigantoraptor DOES give bonus taming levels IF you manually leveled it up. The bonus taming levels gained are based on the x/88 levels you put in. So to get 75 bonus levels on a lvl150, you need to level it 88 times. Oh, and you need to own a Gigantoraptor that is higher lvl than the baby you want to tame for it to work. Same goes for other baby dinos.
Just use wyvern eggs. Each egg gets about 3-4(rarely) interactions. Better than giga eggs
If you can time it right I get a yuty egg and wait for animation of him walking to egg to start nest then get two animations in with baby go and snatch egg and it gives you another chance with egg keep repeating and recycling with one egg til it decays health wise
These are one of the best utility dinosaurs. They are faster than a galliminus, they have the glide ability of the terror bird and they have the ability to imprint on baby creatures. They can also help you boost the stats of offspring with their feathers. They are also pretty easy to tame when you understand how to do it.
They also spawn on aberrant on ascended
BIG TERROR BIRD.
What I mean by that is that they can just barely fly and also you can’t kill the parent and claim the baby.
1hr 40min egg
5hr baby
20hr juvi
23hr adol
Full growth time on these.
Two days and two hour raise. On trough in 5 hours.
There's like a tons of these in bottom middle of the map where the lagoon is. I saw like 10 in the same river
Been taming these on official smalls, Archeleon eggs are the best for low budget, they last as long as giga eggs
I had 1 rex egg with me cause i thought it was enough , it wasnt but i had full ghille armor on and was able to tame it with the mother next to me not seeing i was in the nest.
Mama must be distracted by fert eggs. Rex, giga, carchar eggs are better. If you kill mama, baby won't imprint. Imprint on baby must be done while mama is distracted pecking at eggs. Once she eats the egg, she will attack you. Retreat, wait for her to calm, throw another egg, rinse and repeat.
I see most nests around redwood on the island.
The Gigantoraptor is going to be one of the first creatures to be exclusively added to Ark Ascended. If you don’t know already, Ark Ascended is a refurbished version of Ark Survival evolved that will be released some time this year for the latest consoles and systems. Ascended will boast improved graphics, something Evolved has been lacking, and revised mechanics. The devs claim that Ascended is intended to be a space filler for fans before Ark 2 is released in a year or so. Some critics have claimed this is a money grab, as the release of Ascended coincides with the suspension of public servers on Evolved. What ever your opinion, this feathered theropod marks the beginning of something
**If you already have a Gigantoraptor!!**
1. Have Gigantoraptor
2. Kill the wild parent
3. Find baby - easier to wait until it stops running away
4. Roar your Gigantoraptor (should be crouch button while riding)
5. While still riding Gigantoraptor, look at baby and press the claim button (Xbox = Y, Playstation = Triangle)
— If you dismount tame, get back on and try again, claim message should appear when in the right range —
IMPORTANT!!!
- If the wild baby is a HIGHER level then your own Gigantoraptor at tame ( Wild = 150, Yours =130) you are not allowed to hold it in your basket — You might still be able to claim it, but I am still unsure:(