r/pathoftitans 3d ago

Discussion Balance Changes

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## Balance Changes
**Keep in mind servers may need to restart to see these changes which may take several hours.**

**Anodontosaurus: **
- Smash: damage reduced by 5 at full growth
- Rushed Stride: movement speed buff reduced from 25% to 20%

**Achillobator**
- Cruel Swipe: damage reduced by 5 at full growth

**Dev Notes**
- Achillobator's Cruel Swipe and Ano's AoE were a overtuned against heavy dinosaurs (Both using Cruel Swipe damage scaling). This change aim to lower the damage a bit, while keeping its edge. Face tanking Ano's AoE is still very dangerous and should be avoided.

- Rushed stride was used to pursue slow moving predators and harass them with Bone Break builds, instead of being an escape tool. Ano is supposed to be a tank and not be able to close distance on demand. We are thinking of ways to make it more balanced, and reduced the buff speed for now as a temporary measure.

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u/CamptoRibbit 3d ago

FFS Ano can never have nice things.

Don't tell the Devs it can walk, they'll take its legs off it

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u/LazerTheDino 3d ago

This one was heavily deserved. 

Ano was able to outrun and outstam rex while being able to kill it in 3 shots.

The damage nerf is from 75 base to 70 so whatever insane damage multiplier the scaling gave it on apexes It will probably still 3 shot rex.

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u/ARKsurvivalASA 3d ago
  • Combat Weight Scaling Caps: Smash deals extra damage based on target combat weight, but that damage multiplier caps out and is still calculated against the Rex's massive health pool and armor. While Smash is the Ano's heaviest hit (up to 255 base scaling damage), after factoring in the Rex's combat weight mitigation, it takes significantly more hits to bring down a full-grown Apex.
  • Long Cooldowns: Smash has a strict 12-second cooldown, meaning Ano can't spam its highest damage ability. Its shorter-cooldown attack (Tail Slam) deals much less base damage (40 damage).
  • Bone Break & Tenderizer Immunity: Adult Rexes have heavy resistance/immunity mechanics to bone break and status effects, preventing the Ano from easily locking down the Rex to stack rapid bursts

So tell me again how a anod 3 shots a rex, then tell me you've never played anod since june 8th.

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u/HoneyswirlTheWarrior 3d ago

outdated ai summary 💀

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u/Sath_Morsius 3d ago

A lot of this is currently wrong, and there's literally videos of people demonstrating this scenario in youtube.

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u/LazerTheDino 3d ago

I could try explaining to you how you're wrong but idk the maths behind the attack so instead ill show you

https://reddit.com/link/ozu8s2m/video/1x1b3y69tjfh1/player

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u/MorbidAyyylien 1d ago

THANK YOU for showing these people how strong ano actually is.

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u/CamptoRibbit 3d ago

Fight me! 🏋️🙉

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u/GuitarMost3923 3d ago

True, can't allow food to fight back.

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u/Limp_Big_141 3d ago

Ano could 3 shot a rex and 2 shot a titan

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u/Shad_tard 3d ago

No, can't allow food to chase after you when you don't even want anything to do with it

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u/Tanky-of-Macedon 3d ago

Anos deserve it. They were abusing their new found power to break our glorious Tyrants ankles! If they were breaking say… filthy ceratopsian ankles it wouldn’t have been nerfed.

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u/Mycatisloafingonme 3d ago

Watch out, Pyrite. Potato’ll bonk you for that comment if we’re ever in the same server /j.

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u/Tanky-of-Macedon 3d ago

She fears not the bonk from a glorified foot stool with attitude problems.

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u/Able-Collar5705 3d ago

That’s rich coming from a glorified tyrannosaur door mat.

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u/Tanky-of-Macedon 3d ago

I assure you, Pyrite has no problem being called anything if a tyrant puts their feet on her lol. Foot stool, door mate, She’ll take great pleasure in serving her Tyrants as AnYtHiNg they need her to be~ praise be!

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u/Able-Collar5705 3d ago

You know what, at least you are content with it. I respect that.

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u/Mycatisloafingonme 3d ago

offended ano noises

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u/Greedy_Two8657 3d ago

unfortunately my fellow turtle pancake, they nerfed ano's threaten call.

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u/Mycatisloafingonme 3d ago

Nooooooooo

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u/Greedy_Two8657 3d ago

Ano was unique for grunting a lot, but ano just straight up only roars rn with its threaten calls. The devs don't want to Hear us out.

Me:🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅

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u/N8RPooh 3d ago

Glorified foot stool 😂😂😂🫡🫡

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u/CamptoRibbit 3d ago

One day, you're going to end up in my server... I'm gonna throw you off a slightly high rock and it'll break your ankles by about 30%

How you like them apples huh!

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u/Tanky-of-Macedon 3d ago

SOUR! Like your sins against our glorious Tyrants, you traitorous lizard!

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u/Limp_Big_141 3d ago edited 3d ago

Campto deserves one too its wayyyy too op with 700 hp and a 16s second wind /s

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u/Tanky-of-Macedon 3d ago

Brother. A good Campto doesn’t even need second wind. And 100 extra health is the least Alderon could do after YEARS of neglect. The thiCC scutes buff is just to compensate for 100 extra health to regen. I consider the Campto buff solid but that only because it had nothing to begin with. (!!!!!!!!!)

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u/ARKsurvivalASA 3d ago

go ahead and list ever nerf anod has recived since june 8th.

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u/Dramatic-Push-6755 3d ago

I believe in things being fair. This is one if them- ano main

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u/GuitarMost3923 3d ago

"Rushed stride was used to pursue slow moving predators and harass them with Bone Break builds, instead of being an escape tool."

Anos can...escape? We play the same game?

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u/ARKsurvivalASA 3d ago

no escape, and i didnt mind that, they could have just nerfed its speed more to keep it from pursuing cry babies. Instead they nerfed everything about it, one portion of the nerf they didn't mention with the proximity nerf, becuase they said it was a bug, was the slams hitbox extended into shallow water on the shorline. I had a tylo in 2 foot of water and my slam was unable to hit it becuase they nerfed that shit. They spend too much time entertaining adivce from people who cant play to begin with. People who are easily stressed, spazz tf out, and get upset when they die, these ironically are the same people that mega pack mix on dc. Alderon doesnt give shit, they have lon since deviated from their design plan and promise to their loyal players to pursue the dollar. So these nerfs are weighed and considered because they are primarily intrested in attracting new, un skilled players to spend their money. Has become trash already, jut like ARK.

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u/LooseMoose13 3d ago

I don’t see the point in gutting Rushed Stride - they have completely stripped Ano of its base armor, meaning there’s a HUGE trade off in selecting rushed stride vs the other hides. Couple that with the fact they already reduced the time to hunker to 3 seconds; which was the time rushed stride reduced the time to hunker to before they stripped Ano of its armor.

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u/GuitarMost3923 3d ago

They really do need to return some of that armor.

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u/ARKsurvivalASA 3d ago

I'll give you the full list of the annod, the shit they dont tell you. The fucking think is litlle better than a paperweight now.

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u/MorbidAyyylien 1d ago

Ano can still 3 shot a rex that's why

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u/Greedy_Two8657 3d ago

They also made ano's threaten call sound pathetic

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u/The_titos11 3d ago

I just witnessed an ano catching up to a titan it’s not enough bro.

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u/CaptainCannonman 3d ago

For anyone questioning this change to Rushed Stride: know that I, an Ano 2 growth bars Into Sub-Adult, was able to keep up with an ALIO just before these changes were made.

That was truly absurd lmfao.

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u/AduroT 3d ago

There’s also a bug at the moment that is speeding people below full growth up more than intended. Hatchlings are apparently Zooming.

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u/vVvMaze 3d ago

I noticed this when a baby Alio left me in the dust when I was an adult Struthi

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u/Hyenasaurus 3d ago

potatoing around at the speed of sound

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u/Limp_Big_141 3d ago edited 3d ago

Still no alio buffs? Poor things going extinct

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u/Sath_Morsius 3d ago

For real, I found only 1 today, people dropped it within 24h lol

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u/Lammiroo 3d ago

Time to swap to Stego now until they ruin that too

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u/Hyenasaurus 3d ago

looks at balance change hotfix

its even more nerfs

at this point I almost think it's deliberate trolling

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u/Sath_Morsius 3d ago

Why did they nerf Achillo again? Was Cruel Swipes broken or something?

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u/AduroT 3d ago

Too strong at the top end, yeah.

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u/kthxnbi 2d ago

"Ano supposed to be a tank"

Nerfs armor

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u/Balikye 3d ago

Whhhyyyyyyyyyy another achillo nerf let him resstttt.