TSOTF 464.28

• Balance
  • Thylacoleo - TLDR: still in a very strong place and very versatile as a creature. This patch will focus more on it's tankiness, how long it can climb for, and the impact of it's bleed effect.
    • Reduced bleed debuff scale from 2x to 1.25x
    • Reduced bleed amount from 5% of victim's health to 3% of victim's health (over the full duration).
    • Reduced health from 600 to 450.
    • Increased stamina cost required to climb from 20 to 40, and usage from 10 to 20.
    • Increased stamina cost required to wall jump from 10 to 20.
    • Introduced a stamina cost when latched to a wall, currently set to 6 stamina per second.
  • Rhino
  • Increased time it takes for Rhino to charge up by 15%
    • Reduced damage bonus from max charge by 15%
  • Archaeopteryx
    • Can no longer be tamed (we've added Parachutes)
  • Triceratops
    • Rivalry Buff
      • No longer provides health benefit as this was overriding health benefits from the Tier Buffs, causing Tamed Tiered Triceratops to have much less health than intended
      • Increased resistance bonus from 3% to 15%
      • Increased damage bonus from 15% to 25%
  • Carcharadontosaurus
    • Bloodrage
      • Reduced healing effectiveness by 50%
  • C4 - it's too powerful right now with not much counterplay, so we're introducing some changes to make it more counterplay friendly.
    • Enabled friendly-fire.
    • Reduced damage by 15%
    • When C4 has been attached to a dino, the HUD will display for both enemies and allies.
  • Fire - TLDR: Too strong, needs to come down a bit.
    • Fire Bow
      • Reduced debuff health drained per second from 8% to 2.4% (before taking into account fire resistance on some creatures)
      • Increased max damage per second clamp from 100 to 135(so that fire arrows are still more effective versus high health targets (some wilds, bosses, insta-T3s) but less effective versus regular tamed dinos (regular T3/2/1/0/players)
      • Decreased duration of fire debuff from 6 seconds to 5 seconds.
      • Ammo crafting requirements adjusted
        • Propellant increased from 1 to 3
    • Dragon
      • Reduced fire attacks health drain from 10% to 7.5%
      • Increased fire attacks stamina cost by 50%
      • Reduced Dragon flame breath damage per hit by 30%
    • Flamethrower
      • Reduced cannister ammunition from 200 to 150
      • Reduced max cannister ammo capacity to 5
      • Only available in red crates
      • Ammo Crafting Requirements adjusted
        • Hide requirement increased from 10 to 12
        • Propellant increased from 30 to 40
  • Bosses - TLDR: Giving bosses more specific roles in teams 
    • Dragon
      • Now plays sleeping animation when unconscious
      • Reduced health by 20%
      • No longer gets winded at 30% Stamina (preventing run and other things)
      • Reduced stamina regen
      • Increased base stamina by 50 to 600.
      • Now vulnerable to the on-fire debuff from flame attacks
    • Megapithecus
      • Increased health by 12.5%
      • No longer gets winded at 30% Stamina (preventing run and other things)
      • Reduced stamina regen
      • Reduced impulse from melee attack by 20%
      • Increase melee attack damage by 10%
      • Now vulnerable to the on-fire debuff from flame attacks
    • Broodmother
      • Reduced maximum amount of Spiders spawnable to 18
      • Reduced maximum amount of Spiders spawnable at one time to 6
      • Increased stats of Spider spawns significantly
      • Now vulnerable to the on-fire debuff from flame attacks
  • Piranhas
    • Now provide 3 tokens on kill
  • Pike
    • Melee attacks destroy stones doesn't seem to be working, investigating a bug.
  • Spear
    • Melee attacks destroy stones
• Initial implementation of Parachute
  • Can only carry 2 at a time
  • Not craftable, only lootable from drops. Blue crates and above.
  • Start the game with 1
  • Currently slotted in the consumable slice with Bloodpack
  • Can be activated and deactivated by pressing Jump twice, when in the fall state.
  • Grapple Hook has been moved to the same slice as Crossbow and Slingshot
• Rocket Launcher
  • Now does friendly fire
• Improvised Explosive Device
  • Now does friendly fire
• Quality of Life Changes
  • Keybinds on new TSOTF keys.
  • Total match time remaining on HUD
  • Only display in-world POIs that are under 2000metres
  • Optimised mini map, compass, on-screen text, and in-world POI UI/HUDs.
  • Convert to tokens now has a confirmation prompt
• Bug & Exploit fixes
  • Fixed an exploit that allowed players to get tokens easily
  • Fixed an exploit that allowed players to have the lobby protection buff outside the lobby
  • Some possessed creatures were not getting their movement state related benefits when being possessed, this is now fixed.
    • Including but not limited to: Rhino, Direbear, and Terrorbird.
  • C4 kills now count towards the tribe/player kills
  • Painting is no longer off-set by 1. This will break all existing TSOTF paintings, but paintings from ARK: Survival Evolved will display the correct colours again.
  • Fixed a bug where if a creature took too much damage too quickly or from a multiplier, it would instantly die rather than going unconscious.
• TSOTF Billboards
  • Champions are now highlighted in green upon victory
  • Tribe flag now shows on billboards
  • Hair styles, beard styles, hair colour, and beard colour now display on the bill boards.
• Design Changes:
  • Experience
    • Increased the total amount of experience a dino can get from a single kill by 2x.
    • When your dinos are at max experience points and kill a creature, the experience points earned will be shared with nearby ally creatures.
    • Bosses do not share experience points with creatures.
    • Creatures that are defaulted to T3 will provide 4k experience upon death, remember that the maximum amount of experience any single creature can earn is based on their drag weight*2, so to get maximum effiency, killing a T3 with a T3 and having allies nearby for it to be shared.
  • Ring of Death
    • After 600 seconds, the Ring of the Death will close even further during the End Battle.
    • The final ring of death stage, End Battle, no longer provides stamina regeneration for being outside of it
    • Removed some not so great mountain based potential end points for the ROD
  • Taming
    • Eliminated additional cost for taming Tier 0 creatures
  • Tier Creature Gameplay Changes
    • Killing
      • Tiered creature now provides 30% of it's total experience points to the killer (or shared to nearby allies if that creature is T3)
      • You are also provided with addtional token
        • Tier 1 kills provide 50 tokens + default token reward
        • Tier 2 kills provide 75 tokens + default token reward
        • Tier 3 kills provide 100 tokens + default token reward
      • Similarly to Tier 0 creatures, killing your own tame does not provide any additional benefit.
      • Default Tier 3 creatures and Bosses will cost their default amount/are unchanged.
    • Taming
      • You can now re-tame Tiered dinos for a token cost. Experience points and tiers are retained.
        • Tier 1 tames cost (Default tame cost*2) + 50
        • Tier 2 tames cost (Default tame cost*3.5) + 75
        • Tier 3 tames cost (Default tame cost*5) + 100
• Configs:
  • GameUserSettings.ini

[ServerSettings]
RiderDinoCollision=false // Defaulted to false. We're still tinkering with how we want collision to work. This is a new config that has been added to the game mode to minimize some pain of creatures stacking together when having follow armies, therefore making them easier to kill -- however this also means that they won't follow as easily due to having collision with their allies -- hence why we're tinkering to find the best/optimal way. For now we are not planning on enabling this on our official servers. If enabled the following occurs:

• Ridden and Possessed creatures can go through corpses, unconscious creatures, and ally tames
• AI driven creatures (so commander mode, unridden, and unpossessed) cannot go through ally tames
• AI driven creatures (so commander mode, unridden, and unpossessed) can go through sleeping creatures and corpses.

bFilterTribeNames=True // Filters out tribe names based on the badwords/goodwords list.
bFilterCharacterNames=True // Filters out character names based on the bad words/good words list.
bFilterChat=true // Filters out character names based on the bad word/good words list
BadWordListURL="URL GOES HERE" // for hosting your own bad words list
BadWordWhiteListURL="URLGOESHERE" // for hosting your own good words list