The dossier came out finally! Ok so I’m the wild they have nests and they protect their eggs to the death and will even except other creatures babies into their brood, (ASA will have baby Dino’s that spawn in the wild, so if the mother of the baby dies, the gigantoraptor will take care of it) you can’t tame adults, you have to (I don’t know if you gotta kill the mother, or just be careful, or distract her or what..) then you gotta earn the babies trust, and it will be yours (probably feed it…) once it’s an adult, it can use it’s call to attract orphan wild dinos and take care of them, (idk if this is going to be the only way to tame the wild babies or not.) also it and it’s young (the babies following it wild or her own) get an attack buff when near each other, I’m confused on how this is helpful because the babies are weak and will just die.. maybe she has to die first and they are invulnerable, 🤷🏻‍♂️ But that feature would probably be more helpful for base defense. Anyway that’s the gigantoraptor next creature vote is for aberration and the top ten are looking good so stay tuned.

-Wyvernian

Here is what u need to know about Gigantoraptor Feathers after expirementing/watching tons of other tutorials

-first of all, the feathers boost the stat which is the highest stat on the bird itself,ie: if the Gigantoraptor has more points in melee, it will give u a melee feather, if Oxygen, it will give u an Oxygen Feather, and so on

-if a Gigantoraptor has two stats with two equal point distribution, it's a 50/50 chance it will give u one of them indefinitely

,ie: the bird has 40 points in melee and also 40 points in health, it will give u one of those stats only, either a health feather or a melee feather

-here is a pro tip, if your Gigantoraptor has a mutation that makes one of the stats higher, it will not count the mutation points,ie: I had a bird with a health mutatation, 39|2|0, and the melee was 39|0|0, here is the catch, it still gave me a melee feather 😔, so again, mutation points doesn't count, only base points count

-another pro tip if u r ambitious, u can use the feathers to actually reduce unwanted stats, for example, reduce oxygen on a land dino in favor of breeding higher stamina or health stats, just give the feather to the parent with the lowest oxygen, get urself a baby with a low oxygen , and breed it again with a higher wanted stat

-and that's it, hope I helped everyone here understand Gigantoraptor feathers more clearly

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.

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.

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

im not sure if babies can be damaged normally while in the saddle, but i learned the hard way that they can be killed by lymantria/moth poison clouds!

i found a issue with terror birds :

if you incubate terror bird eggs in his saddle , you cant cryo them till they fully grown !

dont find other creatures with this issue atm but its really annoying if you try to breed them you have no way to raise them later ! really bs bug

Fun fact: while its name might lead you to think this is related to Velociraptor, it’s actually a close relative of oviraptor