What I've learned from battling these to find an R-Reaper:

1. As you've probably read, they project a spotlight passively, if you find yourself within this cone of light, prepare for a fight.

2. THEY HAVE A SHIELD. Save your ammo/element, their shield only comes down for approximately 1-3 shots of a tek rifle, or one shot of a shotgun. If working with another player time your shots & shoot together.

3. It's either summons or spikes! They will shoot a round of spikes at you OR they will shoot a slow moving purple ball down towards the ground, causing dinos to spawn. Unless the spawns are fliers just ignore them, stay in the air, and continue the fight.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The shield will stay up until it finishes the attack or finishes spawning in dinos, stay on the move until then!

Good luck and stay vigilant my friends

These things are like watch guards. They have a light that shines from them that when you go in it they summon R variant creatures that are super hard to kill. It also has “babies” that appear after acquiring mutagen or spawning naturally, these swarms are a MUCH worse version of the insect swarm. Good luck to anyone encountering this!

Figured out a really good way to avoid these things in the cave is to use a shadowmane since you can go invisible to un agro them. Works really well as Rockwell’s innards are pretty difficult with these things everywhere

Whenever you encounter one of these things, or plan on encountering, or just found it, you should most likely bring some flak armor and a pump action shotgun, also make sure to bring a few extra pairs of armor, because when this thing attacks it is completely invulnerable. Hope this helped!

-XYZ

Be careful when getting mutagen in Rockwell’s innards, one teleports to you when you pick up the mutagen thing and they spawn lots of high level dinos that attack you

-The_Spino

Aim for the little bulb in the center when they open their petals/shield

They have a shield that's open for 3 tek rifle shots or 1 shotgun shot. Then it closes again.

Just run thats probably all you can do

If you encounter one, be ready. It will shoot a projectile that spawns in Corrupted versions of different creatures like Rock Golems, Quetzals, Shadowmanes and even more from small to gigantic. But dont underestimate the corrupted creatures even if its a Raptor or a Saber, because these creatures are so much stronger, have way more health and everything with them and the Summoner is terror! So run!

Me and a tribemate list a couple dinos to this thing and only got out with 1 of our shadowmanes after bringing 2 and some rexes. Its inbulterability seems to be after each wave of dinos and gets harder after each.

We are gonna try to have one of us kill the dinos and tank damage and the other be in an imprinted velo and shoot it quickly. Id imagine any ranged dino, or strong weapon is effective so on this map a velo is a must aswell as a flier possibly to melee it. My shadowmane coult teleport to it but only ever did 200 damage max while my shotty did 88 per pellet

The summoner only summons few air creatures, and they all can be neeted, so, you can bring a harpoon launcher with net projectiels, a pump shotgun and a shield, ween the summoner summons air creatures net them, and ween it's shield run out shot it with the shotgun, they give a good amount of xp but it's better just to avoid them (sorry for bad english).

Do not stand in the light of it

Never ever look them in the eye or els

When you encounter them they can summon other corrupt dinosaurs on you so just don’t be on the ground.

The best course of action when encountering these without a tame is run. But if your going to take a take in to Rockwell’s innards, I suggest using a tame that allows you to equip gear while riding, as you can shoot it with a weapon. My recommended weapon is a shotgun, as you can get a lot of hits in before it uses its shield

Don't fly in the light. Stay outta the light. Tho last I was on the summoned dinos were giving experience so maybe a good use for leveling crafter and dinos

Best way to de agro them and get rid of summoned dinos is to die. Throw down a sleeping bag and die. Respawn and grab bag

Use the exo suit jetpack to fly up to them then tek rifle/pump shotgun/tek gauntlet it when it’s shield is down

The summoners shields periodically lowers allowing u to attack them

Beware of the summoner… Do not go under their light or touch them or else they will aggressively attack. They can even clone themselves and create a defense shield around them. Also whenever you grab mutagen they will spawn and attack you.

Beware of the summoner… Do not go under their light or touch them or else they will aggressively attack. They can even clone themselves and create a defense shield around them. Also whenever you grab mutagen they will spawn and attack you.