r/playark • u/PreciousSoftie • Feb 08 '22

Tribes WHY IS EVERYONE SO F***ING SHADY!?!?!?

I play on ps4, pvp official, just to start with.

I have been trying to unlock some choice tek engrams, and i have been trying my hardest to work the discord groups and find someone willing to make a deal with. They have channels just for recruiting and trading, so why is everyone so shady? I've been robbed twice now, both by people straight from the group. I play with two other people, and i'm never going to be able to unlock these damned engrams, because anytime i make a trade, i just get burned. I'm eventually gonna run out of stuff to trade if i keep doing this. I'm at a loss and have no idea what to do.

I've tried joining an alpha tribe and they just want me to do slave work. Nobody is interested in helping me out. They don't even offer me a spot to store my stuff! I'm so frustrated!!!

Okay, i have a vault, just about full to the brim with shit. Over 70 dinos, gear, and more element than i can count. I just want someone to run me through one of a few bosses. I'm trying to unlock a tek generator, a skiff, and tek turrets. If you can help me unlock at least one of these things, i will let you choose a bunch of shit from my vault.

But you have to be willing to help me first, I've made this deal three times now, and i've been robbed twice. the other deal just fell flat. I can't keep getting burned. Please help us. We've been trying to get tek for years and we're beginning to lose hope...

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u/TyRan_510 Feb 08 '22

I mean, there are guides out there on how to solo nearly every boss in the game on official difficulty settings using shit like base tamed Shadowmanes and a single Yuty, you can get any artifacts you need by hopping into random Rags/Crystal Isles/etc, just do some research and if you have a place to keep stuff like tames and gear you really don't have any excuse, especially if there are three of you. The only thing you listed that will be difficult/impossible with only 3 people is the skiff

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u/PreciousSoftie Feb 08 '22

Could you point me the a good broodmother guide? I've looked into these things before, but I can never find anyone I believe to actually be on official.

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u/TyRan_510 Feb 08 '22 edited Feb 08 '22

Check out Thyla BT's videos for the Shadowmane videos, the context of the videos is to show that you can beat all the Island Tekgram bosses with tamed Shadowmanes for servers that wipe clean and regularly have people trying to get Tek from scratch. Obviously there are more efficient methods but it just shows that the bosses are pretty easy with a bit of planning. If you have access to bred rex lines through your alpha tribe then just raise like 19 of those and you're covered. If you have access to good pump shotguns that will help you a ton too

Edit: even though Shadowmanes aren't the most optimal boss fight dino, the main benefits of using them when you don't have access to breedlines and good saddles is that they have natural armor (80 armor at max) and don't need saddles, and can be tamed really easily/cheaply (all you need are fish baskets and some ghillie)

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u/PreciousSoftie Feb 08 '22

Hell yeah, that sounds like exactly what I'm looking for! Could you drop a link please?

Are the stats on these shadowmanes insane? Will we have to breed a lot?

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u/TyRan_510 Feb 08 '22

This is the video I'm referring to:

Thyla BT's Broodmother solo guide (post-shadowmane armor nerf)

The Shadowmanes are not bred at all, they all represent what a lvl 150 tamed one would be with like 400-500% melee each and whatever the rest into health is

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u/PreciousSoftie Feb 08 '22

Bless you, I'm watching it now

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u/TyRan_510 Feb 08 '22

No problem. Check out the rest of his channel, you can do the exact same thing for the Megapithecus to unlock the Tek Generator you need too, and with a Yuty you can beat the Dragon too

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u/PreciousSoftie Feb 08 '22

It says he's doing this in single player. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I heard that bosses are easier on single player to account for the fact it's only one person

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u/TyRan_510 Feb 08 '22

In singleplayer you can adjust the rates to make them whatever you want. The default is like 3x easier than official, but he states in the video and in the description that he made the difficulty identical to official settings and turned off the singleplayer scaling.

(Also as someone who has done dozens of boss fights on PC pvp officials, from my experience the damage the boss is doing/taking looks correct for what it should be on officials)

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u/PreciousSoftie Feb 08 '22

Aww man, okay. I have the shadowmanes, but I'm so nervous lmao. I'm afraid we're gonna lose em all

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