Pack Boost
The Pack Boost is a unique status effects along with Mate Boost, this effects appear as an icon above the affected creatures instead of the player's UI.
Description
The Pack Boost activates whenever 2 or more allied pack creatures from the same species stay nearby.
With every pack member after the first one the entire pack will receive +[Pack members -1] pack boost. For example, a pack of three Compys will get +2 pack boost above them. This scales up to the pack limit of each species.
This effect increases their damage and damage resistance of the pack by specific amounts, this increase depends on the species and number of members in the pack.
Affected Creatures
The following creatures have the Pack Boost as ability with their respective data.
Species / Common Name | Diet | Temperament | Rideable | Breedable | Damage (Per Member) | Damage Resistance (Per Member) | Maximum Pack Members* |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Compy | Carnivore | Curious | No | Yes | 30% | 10% | 8 |
Direwolf | Carnivore | Aggressive | Yes | Yes | 5% | -3.5%** | 4 |
Electrophorus | Carnivore | Extremely Territorial | No | Yes | 3% | 1% | 6 |
Fenrir | Carnivore | None | Yes | No | 5% | 3.5% | 4 |
Hyaenodon | Carnivore | Opportunistic | No | Yes | 10% | 5.5% | 6 |
Kentrosaurus | Herbivore | Short-Tempered | No | Yes | 5% | 0%*** | 4 |
Megalodon | Carnivore | Aggressive | Yes | Yes | 28% | 8.5% | 8 |
Microraptor | Carnivore | Aggressive | No | Yes | 25% | 10% | 4 |
Ravager | Carnivore | Aggressive | Yes | Yes | 5% | -3.5%** | 4 |
Troodon**** | Carnivore | Nocturnally Aggressive | No | Yes | 33% | 11% | 4 |
* This represents the maximum pack members (+1) that can boost the Pack Boost of the group, any extra member after that maximum will also get the Pack Boost but it will not add more members to the boost.
** Both Direwolf and Ravager receives negative damage resistance, which means they receive more damage instead of less. However, in the Direwolf case their negative resistance turns into positive after the pack howls and they receive Pack Mate buff.
*** The Kentrosaurus is the only pack creature that does not reduce the received damage when it is on pack. Also it seems that the Pack Boost does not increase the reflected damage of the Kentro.
**** The Troodon only receives the Pack Boost during the night.
Notes
- This effect does not activate if for example the player has a tamed Compy and a wild one appears nearby, both Compys can only be boosted by allies of the same species.
- The Ravager seems to share the same effect variation of Pack Boost with the Direwolf. Curiously, this seems to have been the case since the release of Aberration, but then the Direwolf receive its TLC, which changes a little how its Pack Boost works, but the Ravager's variation was never separated from it, and this affects negatively to the creature because having no way to "howl" its resistance always remains negative.
- Commonly, the better base stats a species has with access to the Pack Boost, the less its stats scale with it.
- Even though the Megalodon is a decent stat-wise creature, for some reason it has one of the best Pack Boost variants, being comparable with that of the Compy. This extremely number advantage in combination with the Bleed debuff makes the Megalodon an incredible combatant in groups, being even unfair in most of the cases.
- On the other hand, the Electrophorus pack boost is very weak due to its low base health and damage, it can shock its target and reduce its damage in the process though, but it is not enough to make it viable to use.
- The reason why the Kentrosaurus will not have damage resistance bonus from its pack boost could be because of gameplay, because the damage reflection is stronger with as few damage resistance buffs as possible.
- Even though there are more creatures in the game whose nature is to hunt in packs like Terror Bird, Allosaurus or Raptor they will probably not received its own pack boost yet in order to have a balanced gameplay.