Garuga's ARCHELON Spotlight | ARK: Ascended

Man seeing the saddle in action after staring at it as nothing more than an asset for so long is still just so wild and surreal <3

That algae growling on their skin is a nice little detail to real life turtles, I’ve even seen photos of alligator snapping turtles with a lovely coat of algae covering their shells!

Glad you were able to make a saddle for one of Garuga's dinos! Takes an already mastercraft level creature and makes it an ascended one if you get what I'm saying!

The speed up from 12.52 mins to 13.08 mins look like dinosaurs ate too much protein bars and started jamming hard to an unknown music

16:29 caught me off guard guard

I love the archelon. It’s one of my favorite ark additions creatures because it fulfills a unique ecological role and an interesting gameplay role. I know I’m normally saying things should be weaker, but this time I’m bummed that it’s getting a nerf. I don’t think it needed the nerf, and the archelon makes a great passive tank for a group of friends. Also, holy SHIT that saddle is fire! Lots of people are employing you to make these saddles for a very, VERY good reason. Seriously, I hope you are proud of yourself when you look in the mirror because you have some incredible skill. Hat tipped and off to you, Becca

OH MY GOD - I saw Arch had updated but wasn’t sure if it was just a patch or not. I remember seeing your name in the initial reveal of the new model - I’M SO EXCITED FOR YOU! I was so happy to see you had worked on this, and what a stellar design it turned out to be - I love how it’s almost like a roller coaster cart underwater, you did AMAZING!

If you have more aquatic passive tames to check out i highly recommend checking out no untameables first. The ammonite might just help out!

I absolutely love the saddle even before i knew you made it, right when i saw it i instantly was like oh wow that's a creative design, its really nice to see saddles are getting more flare to their designs then just a seat for the player. Thanks for the video! i love me some sea creatures and am very happy to hear this one is coming to the game!

the scalework on it is soo pretty, like with the saddle it really makes full use of the ASA graphics. it looks like something from a pre-rendered movie lol

"Ahh! Jesus! - Garuga123", truly inspiring quote as ever.

thats so cool that your work will end up in the official game! :0 and the turtle itself is awesome

I’m quite happy with TLC #247 for the Archelon In all seriousness Garuga kills it, and y’all nailed it with the saddle, very cool

They’re tamed with biotoxin or superior kibble

fantastic work on the saddle looks soo good cant wait to use and see it myself

Wanted to do a quick post of the features, as I think there was one that was missed (at least I hope it was missed and wasn't removed) Features of the new Archelon: - Stats have been nerfed slightly - Movement / Model changes - Passive tame (Biotoxin, or Superior Kibble / higher kibble equivalent) - Rage buff for Jellyfish - Extra bonus damage to Jellyfish / harvesting of biotoxin (This was in ASE and wasn't covered in this video, but I assume it is still the case as it still has the rage buff) - 5 player saddle (I think this is also new, the old saddle I think was either for 1 player or 3. Either way, the model is new (And looks GORGEOUS!) - Oxygen small aoe for saddle (and passengers). This is definitely new (and cool!) - Algae Growth (I think this is a new feature? I don't remember it in ASE) - Algae growth is visual and grows on the Archelon over time and I believe (as mentioned in the video) scales on Food stat - Algae functions as Mutton for herbivores, 2x more effective than veggies - Can be crafted into "Sushi" which will increase lowered taming efficiency (NOT PROGRESS). Also the sushi says it doesn't work on passive tames (I wonder if it'll be fixed in the future to work with them? Not sure how'd that work tbh but I wonder if it could be worked in someway like how the Desmodus works)

I think the hooked beak design looked fine, and I think the amarga looks fine too. The megachelon (assuming that’s what you said I could barely make out anything after “mega” 😅) I will say has quite a strange face and especially teeth and mouth that looks very human on a very, very nonhuman animal but everything else about it looks fine to me, and the first issue with it could be fixed by giving it lips so it doesn’t look like a complete mouth breathing idiot. Human bias of animal behavior and physiology is so strange, especially when you consider that we’re probably the weirdest animals on the planet to everything else

I have been watching a bunch these mod creature reviews lately. So informative and interesting, and I love the upbeat and positive tone. Very refreshing and helpful to someone quite new to ASA. A couple questions, can these creatures be added to all maps, or are they specific to The Island, Scorched Earth etc. Also do they "replace" other dinos when they spawn or are they added "on top" of regular spawns. And is there anywhere to see what "spawn groups" they are added to? Thank you for the great content!

DarkEdgeTV ! That saddle look very good WAUW !!!!!! Also sea turtles waaauuuuwwww !

Great video I can’t wait for this to come to the base game!