Taming the New Gigantoraptor is Frustrating! - ARK Survival Ascended [E45] 

Lots of new stuff to learn from this Gigantoraptor, I learnt that they can flutter right after finishing the video Apex PC's apexpartner.app/redirect/Syntac Series Playlist ➜ ru-vid.com/group/PLK9-Z4-5Xklgi0v7s4eGVQFuTLp7jzwNI

Fun fact, UpFromTheDepths (the owner for Paleo Ark) made the Spotlight Trailer for the Gigantoraptor, also Paleo ark is coming to ASA

Lmao the tame mechanic is basically the friendly option from Spore thats rad

So I've done a bunch of testing on Gigantoraptor already, don't read if you don't want to be spoiled. If the parent gets too far from the nest the baby can no longer be tamed/imprinted, but if you bring it back, for example with a Rhynio, you can continue the taming. They mostly spawn in the bottom right of the map. Creatures bonded to Gigantos have 10% damage resistance while within 100 meters. The alloparenting buff is a 2% increase in damage and a 1% increase in xp gains for the gigantoraptor per stack, up to 25 times. 5 stacks are obtained from bonding with a baby (killing the creatures with a red marker) and one stack is obtained each time a bonded creature gets a kill. This means if you take a Gigantoraptor into a boss fight, as long as all of the babies are bonded to it they will have 10% damage resist and, as long as minions are continuously killed, the Giganto maintains a 50% damage increase. At 15 stacks the buff also gives the Giganto 10% increased movement speed. The feather plucked from a Giganto is determined by its base stats. The highest base stat of the creature is the type that the feather will be (oxygen, melee, etc) and the percentage chance is calculated like so: 55 + (roughly .1342 * the base stat) up to a cap of 75. So if a Giganto's highest stat is melee at 50, the feather from it would be 55 + (.1342 * 50) = 55 + 6.71 = 61.71, so a 61.71% chance to take the higher melee stat of the parents. The feathers do not increase base stats. Placing a feather in the inventory of one of two breeding creatures will cause it to be consumed at the point of egg laying/beginning gestation for mammals and do exactly as the feather says; increase the chance for the higher stat being taken for that egg/baby. Hope this helped!

I used to watch your vids a lot when Ark was relatively new. I got back into ark recently and I'm amazed to see you're still around! I'm also amazed by how much your channel has grown! 1 and a half million subs is nuts. Most ark youtubers are struggling and here you are living the dream! I'm super impressed man well done and I love the content

They released it as a mod because mods bypass the horrid delays for patching certification on console, this way they can fix any bugs faster before adding it to the base game later, like they did with the holiday stuff

I love that the nests have feathers that match the parents feathers

The Titanoboa should get a DLC.

Trapping the parent is definitely the way to go.

Lil tip to help with fall damage, the Gigantoraptor has a Terror Bird glide where if you hold jump you just glide in the air to prevent fall damage

It's gonna be really interesting to see what people will start calling these things since giga, raptor, chicken, and turkey are already taken, maybe G-raptor?

8:10 missed opportunity to call it your Theri Theory

It can flap his little wings like a terrorbird does when jumping to avoid any fall damage.

Try doing it like this? - make a makeshift building/trap and lure the parent into box, and give it egg for distraction/start process - put a protective wall around the nest, not spikes so it doesn't hurt baby - sit in the nest and tame? My questions: (I don't own ASA and probably can't anytime soon) 1. Is it similar to the rhynio, where you can get multiple tames from one dino? 2. Does having the parent "trapped" make the Tame process stop? 3. Do u need to leave the nest for the baby to come back? 4. Does the parent need to be distracted for the baby to walk up?

seems like a great travel mount. I hate having to choose between large but slow creatures and fast creatures that are all small enough to get stuck in geometry or just get eaten

37:47 this 100% Raasclark got a weight feather from his. That’s really neat & will help with breeding more specifically in the future

You can imprint Dino’s off the back by holding the inventory button while it wants a imprint and you can hold jump to glide

Video TLDW: Baby: Hey mom come meet my new friend he dances! Mom: Wait what new friend?!?!?!? *Angry face* Snytac frantically pretending to be a baby

20:14 Syntac is now on the register for that comment 🤣

It can flap its wings and parachute like a terror bird, it won’t take fall damage while flapping This would be the perfect travel mount if you could shoot off its back or at least stand on its back when dismounting Also the color regions are gonna be so much fun to mutate

The baby phomia being dropped off at a random place😨😨

The mimicking aspect of the taming reminds me of the game Spore when you're trying to befriend other creatures.

My favorite feature is that if you’re riding this creature and you are bonding/bonded with the creatures inside, if/when you get in a fight you can’t win, you’ll have two babies to distract when it dies, allowing you to get away.

Syntac: he’s different from his mama Me: HES ADOPTED

@Syntac The reason they added the Gigantoraptor as it is now is probably because this creature is still an exclusive to the Center and will be gettin his spawns there and then you could add it later as a wildcard "mod" to other maps if you like it.

What I’ve found that is most effective is to make two perimeters, one around the parent and one around the nest and the baby, and so far I’ve only used Rex, Spino, and Carchar eggs

I love how this game is something like Jurassic world camp createous, where your on a island full of dinosaurs and need to survive

I haven’t watched syntac in so long, forgot how awesome his content is 🙌

I will say you tamed a higher level then most creators. Nice job! From what I’m told the level reflects with the babies you can interact with, so 50 can only do this with 50 or below babies. Obviously max level is huge for this fact.

Always love a new Syntac video. I just received my Mystique and I'm in love! Got it just after my birthday too❤❤

at 2:58 i was telling myself "Don't laugh, Don't you dare laugh" XD

Great video thanks syntac you do all the hard work so others can learn how it is done 😊😊

It looks like a Chocobo!

now that's why i love ark so much,having different ways to tame a creature is amazing.

"i can't wait to tame it!" Mans wasn't joking XD

The way they made you unable to tame the baby when the parent is dead makes me sad bcs i just think the baby got so depressed about its parents that that it gave up on life

We have just been picking up the parent GR with a rhynio and holding it above the nest while a second person tames the baby. Super easy, has worked every time we tried it.

Amazing content as usual Syntac!

Y'know, this is actually peak content testing when you think about it. Before you release a creature officially, release it as a mod and ask the community what they think about it, before implementing it officially and possibly breaking things. When the community give their response, make necessary changes and release, it's genius.

I'm guessing they added it as a mod because they might move it to Ragnarok when the map is eventually ready.

If you do get name suggestions syntac, I think you you should do either Edger (because he likes eggs), Giga Chicken ( To fit with Terror Chicken and Tickle Chicken), Brok the Babysitter, or Kiwi Bird as a name for a giganatraptor Also syntac, the parent raptor has to be alive for the taming to work, so trapping the parent is your best bet you actually don’t need to feed it an egg if you trap the parent. Also syntac can actually think of this as a better galli

I don't think that the type of egg counts towards the percentage gained but it may take longer for it to eat. I was using fertilized carch eggs and it was eating one for a long time. 5x tame and a 150 gigantoraptor was 14.6% per dance, probably COULD have squeezed two dances in, but I messed up so many times I just booked it after each feed. I used a quetzal and parked it above, threw eggs as far as I could from the air and grappled down to the ground, danced, grappled back above on the quetzal. How many eggs you throw doesn't matter, as there is a cooldown on the feeding, so I did one at a time, but multiple should be fine too because it'll go back Although, your 120 tame only got 8% with an argy egg, I don't remember your taming rates but that actually could mean quality of the egg equates to higher tame percentage. Also it has a terror bird type glide if you press jump in the air.

it was really cool watching this process

Makes sense the nest is the same colour as the GR, birds often use their own feathers to line their nests. I hope that's an intended feature, thats pretty cool

This Ostrich peacock is pretty cool!

This reminds me of the spore friendship dance thing.

Adding content as official mods is an interesting idea, I'm assuming this is never actually being added to the island and this is just a placeholder, but I wonder how this is going to work once it gets officially added to the intended map? Would it be safe to uninstall it once the gigantoraptor is added to the base game? Will they be deleting it once the gigantoraptor starts spawning on ragnarok? That also adds another interesting benefit, if this is a straight up mod, it should be easier to do than adding something into the base game, mods could theoretically act as sort of an early access for new features, allowing them to add new content before it is actually done I do think this is a good move, if there are delays in the future hopefully they will add content like this so we don't have to wait for it

The Parent really should not be attacked by Raptors, Carnos, and Allos. I can see the argument for Allos, but there is no way that a Carno or Raptor, should attack the parents.

We missed you

Nice to see them bringing in ACTUAL dinosaurs

You can trap the parent instead of using eggs to distract it, higher the tier egg the longer it’s distracted

Lol "I wonder if I can capture some babies with my new dinosaur!"

I didnt think this would come out this quick lmao

Play on Amissa!!! we need more syntac contents bro!!

Best RU-vidr EVER RIGHT?!?!

They did a pretty good job with the Gigantoraptor by the looks of things. The model and textures are good, the animations are great, and it has a definitive use. Still bummed out that we didn't get the OSD-style tame method that was suggested with the original contest entry, but... the tame method is kind of cute.

You could probably see the imprint requirements and baby information if you went into first person on the gigantotaptor’s back and looked at the Dinos on the saddle.

Im glad this game is still alive

I heard that trapping the parent makes it easier to tame the babies without getting attack by the parents. I also think that maybe the bigger the egg the better chances that you can apply more imprint on the baby.

I just tame one and then I got a notification that u post this video

That Dimorph turned into a Bye-morph real quick

found mine on the river banks by the green ob. figured out taming last night. Put on some good armor, and have momma chase you, trap her with metal billboards, and it makes taming baby wayyyyyyy easier :) I think you have to leave parent alive to tame, haven't tested that part myself. I have a level 15 and a 125 both female, was just looking for first one i could find to tame.

Fitting he gets syntac colors for his first tame ❤

CONTENT! FINALLY!

I never realized how critical Dino Storage was until I switched to ASA. It sucks knowing that they don’t currently plan on adding to ASA.

The new gigantoraptor looks like a roadrunner

I was hope I g the gigantoraptor would not wind but wow, this looks incredible!

btw Syntac you can hold space while jumping with the Gigantoraptor and he starts gliding

Kinda reminds me of the mandalorian meme where Mando is shooting stuff while baby watches

Let's go new ark vid!!

yes i have been waiting whole day

you literally won the lottery on the colors XD

You can bear trap it and keep it in a dino wall trap and just chill in the nest works the same with out the need for eggs

Didnt it technically win the ragnarok creature vote? Shastasaurus was SUPPOSED to be the center creature

By adding the dino as a mod they can make changes to the mod without having to resubmit any updates to sony and microsoft for verification. Wildcard did say on the discord that soon it will be converted into the base game and you will no longer need a mod.

Reminds me of a chocobo definitely will be getting one

Don't forget these guys have a glide as well, makes them a really good travel mount, save the fact that the saddle is at 69...theres better travel mounts by then.

Love your vids just wondering where did you build your base

the mutated wild babies really explains the occasional sight of a baby with an odd number/higher than its parents. man i wish i knew this before.

What is ur settings ingame? video and all that, its soo smooth, and have you been getting crashs? when you play in high graphics?

I’m so excited to be able to play ASA bc of the sale!!!!🥳🥳🥳🥳

So to bond with it, its basically the baby yoda meme "take the shot" " mmm yes murder"

Day 84 of telling Syntac that he's making everyone's day better

You should name him Bolga after Obi-Wan's lizard bird mount from RotS. They have the same color feathers.

Well done getting the gigantachicken in your colors gg :-)

I think the "C" skill refreshes the imprint timer, not the imprint itself. In any case, that is an a very interesting creature.

That's almost exactly where i found mine earlier

Yo love your content

Love you syntac

The nest seems to be the same color as the parents because it's filled with feathers

omg im going insane i saw the [E45] and I thought it said 145 and I was like OMG A GOOD SPAWN but then i realized I was on youtube and this shows ark is going through my mental health!

What would be good to know is if a binded dino fighting along side the giganta raptor gets more of an attack boost than if a Yuti attack roars a dino, that could change how we fight bosses

Raise your hand if you were saying, “ Make a path of eggs leading away from the nest. “ 🤦🏿‍♂️😂 Syntac, we love ya bud. 😂

I think this is going to be a great dino to breed up alongside your army. Having a bunch of Gigantoraptors to pull feathers from and having your boss army bonded to them for the damage reduction buff seems huge. I'm curious whether the damage reduction buff or feathers get any better with mutations somehow?

Reminds of the start to the Croods

i like to call the a Graptor. not sure why just flows. Awesome Video thanks!

This is gonna be my main mount

I wonder if the feather would work during a rhynio taming

Take 6 metal billboards, large bear trap. Set up a trap using them and the bear trap. You have to set it up somewhat close to the nest. Within probably 8 found lengths. Lure the parent into the trap, onto the bear trap. When it gets caught in the bear trap, place the last metal billboard down to lock it in. THEN you hide in the nest, and perform the button prompt. The baby will hop once, right before the animation you must copy. Don't leave the nest after each time. Stay in there. The baby will usually walk back towards the parent after each time you succeed or fail the button prompt. If the parent is too far away, it will not give you the option. Using eggs doesn't really work like you want it to. Trap the parent nearby, instead.

I was about to comment that it can flutter like the terror bird but u figured it out