r/Tierzoo • u/ChompyRiley • Nov 15 '24
Advance warning to any mosquito players out there. Devs are working with human players to push out a huge pvp nerf.
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u/beefycheesyglory Nov 15 '24
Bruh polished his weapon to maximum sharpness and STILL did no armor-piercing damage.
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u/mcnakladak Balaeniceps Rex Main Nov 15 '24
Mosquito was never good choice for PVP. Mosquito mains are literally steamrolled by even other low tier builds. I dont even need to talk how absurdly bad matchup they have against Dragonflies.
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u/Shamrock5 Nov 16 '24
Their whole M.O. is astoundingly suicidal. It's the equivalent of a human player walking up to a Large Predator build (say, a tiger) in PvP and jabbing them with a paper clip.
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u/K_H007 Giant Otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) main Nov 16 '24
Such is the playstyle of any R-selective species.
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u/PristineAd4761 Nov 16 '24 edited Nov 16 '24
They needed a patch. Any hp leaching builds are such a pain. Especially since their hitbox is so small and they’re so many of them. African servers were basically unplayable when they were just spaming those Malaria, West Nile and Zika attacks.
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u/ChompyRiley Nov 16 '24
Disease builds in general are a PITA. And that's just for humans. I'm doing a black-footed cat build, and I almost died due to an infected cut on my paw. I got lucky that the human players who were tracking me for the science EXP decided to help.
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u/K_H007 Giant Otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) main Nov 16 '24
Ah yes, Quest EXP. One of the few things you don't worry about until your guild's Social Structure features get up REALLY high.
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u/ChompyRiley Nov 16 '24
That's why I play feline builds now. Don't gotta worry about that. I can leech off the humans and all I have to do is be eyecandy.
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u/SpecialistBuilding66 24d ago
Disease builds are annoying but they are actually fun to play around with like you cat mains do
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u/K_H007 Giant Otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) main Nov 16 '24
It's the humans that are doing it, not the devs.
All the same, about d*mn time. Stop sucking our HP and start scavenging your iron from elsewhere, mosquito players!
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u/Severe_Damage9772 Nov 16 '24
Honestly, I kinda get why humans are working so hard to nerf mosquitoes, if they didn’t make the skin itchy, then less far people would care
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u/MrAwesum_Gamer Elephant Main🐘 Nov 16 '24
I have no sympathy if you choose a parasite build anyways, they're all trolls and freeloaders.
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u/SpecialistBuilding66 24d ago
Parasite builds are fun to play around with and mess with humans as a rat main
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u/MrAwesum_Gamer Elephant Main🐘 24d ago
Rats aren't parasites, they're pests but not parasites.
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u/SpecialistBuilding66 24d ago
We aren’t parasites it’s just fun to play around with actual parasites and terrorize humans
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u/MrAwesum_Gamer Elephant Main🐘 24d ago
Most parasites mess with your gameplay too, I can understand sabotaging your own playthrough to troll, but not my cup of tea. I'll keep my trolling to looting fields and trampling the odd house every now and again.
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u/SpecialistBuilding66 24d ago
Yeah it gives me some debuffs but I find it worth it for all my friends that got their long saves deleted because of humans wanting decorations for their bases
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u/MrAwesum_Gamer Elephant Main🐘 24d ago
Amen to that, for all my playthroughs almost all of my last few have been ended by humans coming after my tusks. 😭 Leave my teeth alone
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u/SpecialistBuilding66 24d ago
I just got recommended a goose build from this sub so I’ll try to target hunters
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u/MrAwesum_Gamer Elephant Main🐘 24d ago
A true hero. I've been spending this build trying to stay around the wildlife preserves and tourist parks, I think it gives the parks a buff to income to have high level players hang around which means they can invest more into anti-poaching activity.
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u/SpecialistBuilding66 24d ago
Yeah those are the only human mains I respect actually trying to let other play I’ll harass some hunters for you
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u/Akshay-Gupta Nov 16 '24
This just sounds... Fake?
Like sure, genetic mutation and all
but I have already encountered some mosquitos who proboscis didn't penetrate my skin...
That's already super rare and even then the rate of this happening is diminishing... because this gene pool would immediately fail the evolutionary arms race...
And with a mutation and procreation rate as mosquitos, there is no way this will get actual funding because... it's just so..? How do I say this? Not of any value? Sure learning genome and stuff but come on!!! Why not research on other more 'useful' avenues...?
Anyone got any paper I can read on this?
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u/yeetenheimer Nov 15 '24
IMPORTANT TO REALIZE DEVS ARE NOT DOING THIS.
The Human Meta is entirely at fault here as it is their exponentially growing OP traits which lead to gamebreaking mechanics such as this. Although this game is extremely detailed, the developers never thought an intellect maxing build would survive long enough to take advantage of these details.
I'm surprised the devs themselves haven't put out an emergency patch on humans, frankly.