Should you get teeth from killing stalkers?
SnowballSniper
Join Date: 2016-12-02 Member: 224443Members
Join Date: 2016-12-02 Member: 224443Members
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Of course there's nothing to decide, as killing to get teeth is probably against the devs weapon use guidelines.
The stalkers should have more health if this idea was put in the game.
I bred several stalkers in an alien containment tank, then let all the now-friendly stalkers loose next to my base. There happened to be one piece of scrap metal next to my base, and the next thing I knew there were stalker teeth raining everywhere. Friendly Stalkers = good
Don't they revert to their default (hostile) AI once you release them though?
>Its teeth fall out
>"Logical"
Hmm.
I'd rather collect them from the backs of Sea Turtles and make the sea turtles my friends.
you should be able to harvest the stalker when you killed it.
If you stab it in the mouth maybe
Noticing the 'Disagree' left on my comment I decided to go in and test this; maybe they changed that since I last played. The last time I played with eggs, if you hatched a monster and then released it, it'd revert to its normal size and default AI - and thus typically attacking you shortly afterwards. So I launch a new game and give this a go and find neither point is true anymore. They retain their small size AND retain their passive nature. I really was wrong then xD
That's awesome, since I'd been asking for that ever since hatching monsters was a thing. I wouldn't have known this otherwise, since I haven't been able to manage to play long enough to obtain the Alien Containment before crashes set in
Sorry to disagree with you, but it's only logical that when you kill an animal, you have all the time harvesting everything from it with some tools, like your knife. In real life this has been done quite successfully, leading to the near of full extinction of several animal races, like whales and others. So this is probably the reason why it's not used in a game that is proud to be a more peaceful game. Otherwise this game would give you all kinds of lethal weapons to kill all creatures and harvest them for valuable resources, like those teeth. Because other survival games allow you to kill animals and harvest their resources / loot their body. Some survival games even let you learn harvesting animals skills, like skinning or pulling teeth.
This game however has decided against this kind of natural human survival strategy. I don't like it, because I can distinguish between harvesting only what I need like an indian ... and going on a shooter-like mass killing or mass harvesting like a greedy company would do until all life is extinct. But I accept the laws of the game the devs have set up.
by the way, does anyone think the alien containment should be available sooner? I get that it is potentially very powerful in early game play (reginald farm, anyone?), but I feel like it's also an amazing option for base ambiance, studying creatures, and getting to know the environment of the world better. TBH I'll probably be lucky if it doesn't get moved deeper, considering how survival has been made more challenging in the past few updates.
I'm not sure if the Deep Grand Reef is the best place to stick it, but I guess it's better than the ILZ/LR or Dunes
Maybe sticking some of it in the shallower portions of the Blood Kelp so it could be gotten by deep-diving from the Seamoth's 200m limit, but would be risky to obtain prior to getting the depth upgrades though not impossible.
You can get the Interior Growbed and tons of Marble Melons, Lantern Fruit, and Chinese Potatoes as soon as you get to the Floating Island.
I don't think having the Alien Containment available sooner will make Survival too easy.
Except the planter-based food can't be cured and they give very little Food/Water now, compared to what one or two fish can give. That's the only thing I can really think of that might warrant it being put later in the game, because once you have it and a Water Filteration machine, food's no longer an issue.
personally, I don't want the teeth-drop thing to be added because I like the coexistence vibe the game has going on. I think learning to use and live with creatures in new ways is an interesting and different development on the part of UWE. I also think that the "harvest animals" trope is one exceptionally common to survival games. In fact, one of the first things I did when I got the knife was go out and kill a stalker to A) prove my manliness and B ) to see what drops I could get from it. Though bemused at first, I have come to accept and enjoy the playstyle of the game. Even though harvesting teeth does make logical sense, I think I'd like to see where the innovative "coexist" playstyle will lead us. It is a new development that makes this game fresh and fun to play.
MUST NOT RA- IH SCREW IT!
Doesn't make sense either way, I've harvested so many things, and weird limits on what they drop is probably just best accepted for best gameplay flow.
Maybe the meat could be used as a resource to make food bars or bait for bigger fish, the bones for spears to be fired from some kind of O2 cannon, and the teeth from stalkers for reinforced glass etc...
The coexistence vibe is all nice, but it puzzles me that its ok and part of the game to kill lots of edible fish, or squeeze the water out of bladderfish, but for some reason eating predators is not.
I dont really mind that, but I also think it just doesn't really make sense. Maybe as a compromise you should get teeth if you bump into them with a vehicle or attack them with a knife (without killing them). Do stalkers respawn btw.? If not there would also be a drawback if you continue murdering all of them.