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.