I played yesterday and survived as an adult for a while. I even had full stam when i died, just died to a stupid mistake. It doesnt take THAT long to become an adult ptera. The stam really isnt that bad. Id say the hunger problem is the worst, but thats because AI spawns are so rare.
Its the only dino in the game that loses stam while "trotting"(gliding) and takes forever to regain stam, the things they're adding for pt will be awesome though
@@tenetiabrown6117 he does if your stam is above 60% like every other Dino (glide is not trot, it does have a trot when on the ground, glide uses no stam)
Its also the only dino that does not lose stamina sprinting. Or more like, it uses stamina while you sprint but you do not slow down after and can keep gliding forever* at high speeds. * : Ptera only loses speed if you either put on the breaks intentionally OR try to gain altitude.
I love playing ptera, it's easy to survive if youre careful and monitor your needs and stam. I wish it had a stronger attack and the turn radius was returned to what it was. That or- giving us some unique mutes
@@acronym6837 the possibity to hang at enemys and peck them would be nice. eating fish while flying, or drinking while skimming would be great to. a nice bonus would be to reg stam when above 60% while flying but not rly needed. But im rly looking forward for those new aerodynamic, like upwards air stroms which getting actually preogrammed
@@acronym6837 would love a mutation where it could eat decay so it could be the proper scavenger its clearly intended to be lol I hate that cerato is the only thing that gets that when its also currently the only thing that really doesn't need it
Honestly, I did have some trouble with the ptera before I learned the flapping technique, but I never really thought it was *that* bad. And after learning that technique, the only things left are learning how to navigate so I'm not flying into a hill, how to latch onto trees, and how to drop into flying.... Okay, I'm still not great at ptera, but it's still fun! Though the last time I played it, I'm pretty sure I left my group laughing when I died from airbraking too long trying to land in a tree... Just fell right to the ground with branches so close to me. lol I think the best mutations for it to ensure a chill life are the slower water drain or reniculate kidneys, the slower food drain, and anything else... Maybe the nutrient drain or the barometric sense (though still haven't noticed if that one's functioning) If you're good at skimming, that might solve the no schooling fish problem where you have to be touching water, too. And with the thermals and air currents coming in, not only am I impressed merely by the fact that they've made an entire system solely for one (well two, but y'know) playable, I think it's a much more interesting way to solve the problem of stamina loss than just giving ptera better stam regen. Though it does seem like the flapping technique is something they'll want to include in their tutorial when it's made, cuz while a slower assent is the more usual among birds, it definitely seems less intuitive for human gamers. And I guess you can't please everyone, cuz not everyone wants ptera to be a chill experience... I will note that the stamina does drain much faster when you ascend too quickly than it does when you're sprinting forward, and I can see why people would be surprised by it when they first start flying, cuz it does just vanish. If they don't figure out how to curb that quick ascension, then I can see it being frustrating. But it's good to see more videos about how to play efficiently going around so more people learn the technique.
@@nemaisare8505 we can always learn more about the playables we like:] I generally go a survival build with my mutations on ptera, though I may try a juvie hunter build some time. I hope more people learn how to more effectively play pt and start recognizing how nice it is to just chill and fly, it’s a genuinely nice playable
this is actually very helpful. Wingbeat method! also, fish and frogs only spawn when someone is *physically touching* the water. So they end up in places people drink from, cross, or when there's a semi aquatic around. there's actually a small cleft, in the rock wall at the west access pond, that you can sit in as ptera, to force fish to spawn in it, while also being fairly safe from most things.
Is this confirmed information about the spawn? Because I got fish spawns in isolated lakes where no one was around and I didn't drink from it. But I have to wait for it to spawn. I think it spawns at the sertain day time (at the morning) around players (even if they didn't touch the water)
@@eskelhaitoyea i dont think this is accurate. Ive personally seen frogs spawning in when no one was in the water. I think its more like you said, certain times of the day. Ive noticed more frogs during dawn and evening time.
I think that technically to make the most out of your stamina you should not gain altitude with every beat of the wings but more like every 1.5 but its obviously easier to just do it with every beat. Ptera stamina drain when gaining altitude seems to be tied to its current velocity and you lose velocity when gaining altitude which is why "flying like a rocket" drains the stamina so much, while the "flapping" method is better as the short altitude gains do not slow you down as much and the short wait between lets you regain SOME of the velocity before the next beat of the wings. From what I have seen Ptera flapping its wings = Ptera is working to regain its velocity. So gaining altitude with every beat of the wing means you again lose velocity before you have fully regained it, resulting in a slow velocity drain, resulting in slightly more stamina being used the further you go. In general its probably such a small difference that it basically does not matter but for long distance travel I think the difference will build up enough that its worth switching to ~1.5 beats per altitude gain, both for the extra speed and lower stamina use. Another very good trick for travelling as Ptera is that once you have gained some altitude you can sprint for just about 1 second, not using all that much stamina to gain a lot of speed and then glide with that extra speed for 0 stamina cost. Ptera only loses speed if you break or try to gain altitude so you can zoom around the map very fast with this(same applies for speed gained when diving, you keep it as long as you do not gain altitude/spacebar).
Sure it’s stam drain is slow, but the regen is way longer than it needs to be. Galli is the around the same in terms of drain and regen, but it’s much easier to move around and it’s not as easy to drain stam like ptera is. Ptera just requires so much for what is basically a defenseless bird
@@StelloTyrannus think about it like this, pt wouldn’t be played as intended if the stam regen was much shorter. People would play like the spiro days and you have scouts and other unintended ways to play it. The slow stam regen is a necessary evil to incentivize playing how it’s intended. And pt’s defense is flight itself, you can fly clear over everything, even Herrera trees if you choose your flight location correctly. With the right mutations you can heavily limit your time near the ground too, and you can also just go to uninhabited parts of the map if you’re that worried about being caught lacking
@ Scouting is just as possible now as before, that’s never gonna change unless Ptera is removed. It’s just a consequence of a flying creature existing in this game. Making a creature more frustrating to play is a bad excuse to make it play as “intended”. And for when i said defenseless bird, I mean that ptera doesn’t have much else going for it. This applies to all species smaller than Herra. In most cases, they’re nearly worthless for combat and instead are just there for vibes. This would be fine if they were at least easy to access for a short playthrough with little investment. But ptera is overly demanding for what it has to offer, just a bird that flies around, spectates, catches fish, only capable of fighting maybe 5% of the roster. I don’t wanna grow this long, put this much effort into maintaining stam just so I dont have to sit for 4min, just for something that can’t do anything but exist.
@@StelloTyrannus well with worse stam it’s much harder, I haven’t seen a single ptera scout since spiro. And you may not like it, I don’t like it either but that’s how it is. Players won’t play how you want them to if there’s a much more fun and easy way to play. Pt isn’t a PvP playable, I don’t know why people want it to be so bad, that’s not its thing. I really want a bird(or pterasaur) that’s capable of powered flight and has good stam, but then again the scouting issue. So there’d have to be things in place to punish unintentional behavior which is a whole other system of things. And quetz will be the thing that can kill stuff in the future
@@acronym6837 I’m not expecting Ptera to be a pvp playable, I don’t want it to be in fact. What I’m saying is non pvp playables shouldn’t be so hard to maintain and grow. Certainly not annoying to play
I don't think the issue is its stam, it's its maneuverability. Sure it can go long distances and hardly worry about stam, but at that point flying is just a loading screen to the next area that you have to constantly stare at while pressing space. And its only really a 'pretty view' if you have a computer good enough for it to even run above 30 fps or else you have to micromanage your graphics settings until it's barely playable. Flying in pretty much every other game is swooping up and down, gliding through the air and speeding past trees. They make flight fun. However in the isle, it feels like you're a horizontal plank that is punished for doing anything but gliding. It's probably more realistic, sure, but I just personally don't find it fun. Of course others do, and I'm not really taking a stance or saying it would be objectively better x way (I don't play the isle anymore), just giving my 2 cents.
@@TheBlueKio that’s fair, and I do get bored with slowly gliding too. But you can always speed up on your pt and if you hold it for the right amount of time it’ll barely cost stam but will speed you up a decent amount
Pteranodon was an a coastal animal that glided a lot to get around like an albatross or vulture. It's not a goshawk or finch. It shouldn't be downright acrobatic.
Ptera was so much fun on Spiro. Back then it had pretty good maneuverability: Sharp turns, great stam, good speed and changing heights wasn't too much draining. And you were able to see something at night. It was even able to fight against omnis, dryos, hypsis and generally smaller dinos. I wish they'd bring back the old pt one day.
I appreciate you making this video. I roll my eyes every time someone complains about ptera stam- it just shows they don't know how to use it. They want to fly like an eagle, but pteras are built like an albatross. Getting up into the air has a high energy cost, but once up they expend almost no energy. There is no other dinosaur that can travel at such speeds, bypass all obstacles, clear the entire map from one end to another, and still have stam to spare. I appreciate that the devs listened to the community and gave stam on ptera hang. I can see this feature allowing cave-dwelling pteras to be a feasible concept, which frankly sounds awesome. Imagine being the herra that stumbles on that scene.
@@laurensimonelli5654 yeah honestly if you use ptera right it’s literally the most stam efficient dino(technically not since flying reptile but-🤓) in the game, and I really love how they let you get stam while latched. It’s a really nice QOL addition to
Played as adult ptera. This method works just as well! In fact I feel like my stamina almost drains slower ( or maybe I'm just permitted to take naps more frequently cause i'm not constantly starving lol ) thank you for this! Edit:: Was able to fly from 'east plains' ( now east swamp ) to west rail on 1 stamina bar and still had 30% stamina left. yeah ptera doesn't need a stamina boost Another advice i'd give to players :: Don't hold w. it does increase your speed a little but it melts your stamina like crazy. you already move way faster than you think you do just letting your dino go on its own, only use w if you want to make a shallow turn / a more targeted dive than ctrl does ect
its not that you cant glide far, it's that the regen is ridiculous. thats why youre admitting to watching youtube while you wait. Thats simply not fun gameplay to many people
@@Singularity_gg I wasn’t trying to get back stam tho, I didn’t know it got stam when latched. I was waiting for my food to go down so I could eat more fish for diet. I think the stam regen is fine for how far it can travel
Dude THANK FUCK you made this video. I’ve been tryna tell people for so long and nobody listens. There’s a proper way to fly without using stamina and there’s videos about it. That’s how I learned but hopefully people will realize and learn now since you’re a respected member of the community
There’s a better way to gain altitude than what u showed. Basically circling. You look to the side with ur camera as flat with ur bird as it gets(only slant slightly up and to the right/left) and hit W. When u hit W you flap. Don’t hold it. You’re gonna time the downstroke of ur flap with tapping W and that’s how u save stam. If you hold W you will drain stam. So we minimize W holding and we look to the side with the downstroke bc the way the math is in the altitude system, looking this way gives you the most lift
@@nathanrice8778 yeah it’s still kinda wild to me that people still think ptera is bad because if it’s stam. I’m definitely not as respected as some other RUclipsrs but hopefully at least a few people learn
@@nathanrice8778 interesting 👀 Tbh I probably won’t use that strat just because the space bar strategy is good enough for me and I’m just casually enjoying ptera and looking around and enjoying the map as I fly
@@acronym6837 that’s fair. I will be trying but strategy bc it worked a lot better than I thought it would. Granted you flew from an already high altitude to the low point of the map but it was still impressive regardless. Ty for sharing with the community
Getting to adult is the hardest part for ptera. Unless you luck out and find a corpse, you'll starve before fish spawn from only "you." Schools don't seem to spawn unless a ground dino is near the water. I've lost so many ptera on low-pop servers because of the lack of schooling fish spawns.
Schooling fish don’t spawn unless a player is touching the ground or water, so a flying pt can’t spawn fish. You have to get on the ground yourself and make them spawn if they aren’t already there. Though you can just go to hotspots and there’s usually fish and bodies and you’re golden
@@acronym6837 Thanks for the reply. I'll give that a shot next time I'm ptera. I will say that the fish give away that someone's been in an area recently, so it's a good reason to stay guarded.
I hate it when there is no fish for kilometers and you just starving. Also it was a big problem that u won't be able to fulfill the second hex with dots because of the amount of food fish gave you. And I even had to use mutation to decrease nutrition decay but it was still not enough room in pter's stomach. With new diets it's kinda worse because S is rare and one little frog will give you 0.000000001%
genuinely no idea how you are doing this but props to you and others that love the dinosaur. way too fragile for me. every time I spawn in as ptera, my stam goes to half with my first takeoff and then I can never recover it before I starve to death pff
going below 60% stam was your mistake, you regain that 40% stam much faster than your remaining 40 stam, the more stam you have the faster your stam regens so when you are at 0% that first 10% will take much longer then if you were at 90% getting that 10%
@@acronym6837 thought the same as well as the longer you rest the faster the stam regens, making the point of trying to have less stam to regen nearly the same time as having a lower % when resting
btw, I'm not sure if anyone said this yet, but the line of fish at 3:50 was likely left out by a deino, but it isn't a trap! If you catch a schooling wish and leave it out for at least 6 minutes, it actually gives your croc diet (the three dots) instead of being just food!
Ptera is the most fun dino in the game by far then maybe Herra. The pvp with ptera is the best part about it, so fun. Killed a full size herrera the other day after a massive 1v1 fight. He got me bleeding but he lost stamina from jumping and alt bighting. He tried to hide in the tree and got pecked. He tried to hide in a bush and got pecked. He tried to jump at me and knock me out of the sky and I would fly higher and peck in anticipation. He eventually lost stamina and went into a bush where I pecked him one last time and he died. Super satisfying. He probably could've hid in a part if the tree with a branch over his head but he was playing aggressively and got punished. Pecking other dinos, hunting juvies and pestering deinos is fun af. Getting to traverse the map and watch funny interactions and 3rd party other peoples fights super fun. Put your airbrake button on your extra mouse button where your thumb sits (if you have one) Z sucks
@@mcrobsaccount yo nice! I peck random things when the opportunity presents itself. I don’t have that kind of mouse unfortunately but Z works just fine for me
I do miss the days where ptera could swoop around small players and peck them to death. But i am also glad that was did away with since now ptera scouts are nonexistent again. I still remember the terror of seeing/hearing a ptera fly over your head right before a massive group of mixpacking players came trotting after you
I wasn't even having problems wit Ptera before learning how to manage it's stam. Now with the new nightvision it's easy by comparison. Most of my deaths are by starving or drowning (
Same experience here, i'm main ptera, and if you can manage the stamina well (no useless sprint, no useless climb) you can travel accross the Gateway Map in 1 or 2 flight. Juvi and Adult are pretty the same. ( in your video, at least in the first part you already waste a LOT of stamina, ptera don't need to spam climb that often, glide have a very high descent ratio, you could easily reached the delta with 15%-20% more stamina)
Nice video. Pretty typical ptera experience, imo it's best to chill on this creature and take what comes to you. The latching thing was added the update before last. It changes gameplay quite a lot for me since you don't need to use stam to take off. Coordinating in a ptera flock for hunts feels similar to coordinating an omni pack. Essential to look out for your teammates, but if you do, it can lead to great success. Maybe you'll play ptera with a group soon? Hope you get your video motivation back homie ❤ you're a skilled player and i love seeing you kill stuff. Take it easy
@@tarryncooper4742 yeah I’ve been really loving ptera recently, it’s kinda like a phase thing for me lol. Every few months I just randomly love pt for like 2 weeks. I’ve just been chilling fishing or scavenging, occasionally getting a few player kills for some extra spice. Thank you for your support, omni has just been really draining recently because of the lag and I need a break from the constant laggy hits. It’s been feeling more like a job than my favorite dinosaur
I actually don't have the game, but it's my favorite prehistoric animal, and favorite to watch gameplay of. I'm glad people are understanding it better and that it's getting more features added in. I used to get sad watching my favorite creators play it and curse the pteras because they hated them now. As a viewer of the game, rather than a player, only 1 thing really bugs my personal experience nowadays. WHY IS IT NAKED? Pterosaurs had pycnofibres (a special type of fur.) they had to stay warm to maintain a stable body temperature because they were warm-blooded like mammals and birds. Pteranodon specifically needed this fur because it swam a lot. I heard the game aims for realism, so why make them naked molerats on wings? Naked molerats are cool but naked pterosaurs just feels weird to look at, and it's so common in media. Idk why, but it just feels wrong. An entire clade of animals goes extinct with no survivors just for animals 65 million years later refuse to represent you accurately cuz they think you look lame otherwise. Btw your skin looks cool, I like the white. Reminds me of a swan.
@@TheDeerBird I’m glad I could bring you justice for your favorite animal then:] Yeah that always bugged me too, especially for things like omni and trodon. Which has pretty solid evidence of feathers(even though trodon technically doesn’t exist). These naked dinos, or flying reptiles in this case just look kinda funky. I wish it was a skin option or something, there’s nothing wrong with being inspired by JP but I’d like other options too
@acronym6837 I wish JP was also accurate, I just don't understand the trend of removing the feathers and hair of prehistoric animals. I hope that nowadays with the more vast and knowledgeable view of them, maybe a movie someday will portray those animals better. I hope omni and troodon also get their hair back someday. Honestly, I plan on making an animated cartoon film /or series someday by me, and I want to try representing the dinos and pterosaurs accurately. Not full on accurate, as it's a cartoon, but probably more than most media
@@acronym6837 The best one right now from my experience is just east of mudflats along the shore. The eastern beach at swamp ( just south of the long sand bridge seems best ) is also quite good, as well as parts of the southern beaches there, but I dont know the specific locations. And then there's the beaches north-west of water access. One of the best places is a straight shot east from the NWR pond, but its very popular for fresh spawn carnos, dilos and raptors. Its basically a non-stop deathmatch usually.
@@acronym6837 I'm not sure if its petits specifically, but in this patch, turtles are probably the only AI one could consider abundant, at least if you know where to look. :) There are some other spots that can spawn them as well but only if there are enough players nearby (sometimes that threshhold seems to be as high as 4-5 people).
peck at the center of fish pools to grab fish, the fishing method is far more unsafe. its an instant grab and youll know when its dont right as your pteras peck will be noticeably faster. i find left clicking (pecking) at fish pools far more reliable.
Just so you know, you dont have to actually skim for fish, you can actually snatch them as they jump out of the water. A LOT safer. I playes Ptera yesterday, and already knew about the space bar trick lol. But did notice stam wasnt so much the issue as hunger was. And...because no AI was spawning for a while. But i went with a strategy of just hanging out by west rail access? The beach with the turtles, and flying up the trail to the little pond for water and occassional fish. I lasted 3 days...and honestly died a noobs death lol, which im ashamed of but totally own lol. I was sitting on the big rock at the beach, deciding my 3rd mutation, while at rest lol, heard the steps of the herra climbing up behind me lol, like i couldnt be more aware of what was about to happen...and when it attacked, just sat there trying to fly...still in the mutation screen 😂😂😂. I was tired yall lol. Thats my excuse and im sticking to it! It was fun, though. Just wish the turtles were a bit easier to kill, and fish spawns were more often. Its not fun if you spawn in an area devoid of any life and have to make the long journey to possibly food, key word there being possibly, only to finally find a turtle...and die of starvation because it takes over 5 minutes to kill something with the speed of sonic the hedgehodge, as every time you try to get to the head, it does a quick turn. Like the devs want realism...selectively lol.
Yea.. that beach where you tried to kill the turtle is where they generally spawn. Thats where i died lol. Theres a road path that leads to a small pond next to a big rock, you mightve seen it, and fish will spawn there, too, sometimes. I dont think a lot of people know about it as everytime Im there, its empty. Others are around...sort of...but not there. Its weird, but great safe spot to drink and get fish, too.
I know, my beak was just really short and I didn’t wanna accidentally fall in. And you have to be on the ground for ai to spawn not airborn, I just recently learned that
Stam is never the issue for me. The issue is finding food for me. Starved about 6 times before i just started playing raptor and biep again. The stress was too much for me with ptera i guess.
if you're not actively searching for something, and instead have a set direction and location in mind, the most optimal method to gain altitude per stamina cost is 1000% going to be finding your horizon line (the point in which if you're a pixel to low with your camera you won't be "flying up"). If you can ascend at the lowest possible angle reliably, you'll be able to just hold W to go up whenever you need to, or want to, and it won't cost nearly as much stam to get the same altitude out of just tapping spacebar/jump. Also, hydrodynamic affects flight speed and makes this challenge kinda stupid. You could get away with lapping the island 1.5x as an adult. And yes, unfortunately AI does in fact spawn where the majority of players are. Doesn't make a lick of sense to me that the entire deer, goat and boar population of the island wants to hang out near the prehistoric super-predators and testosterone fueled murder-hobo herbivores that weigh almost as much as my mom, but they do. Really makes it hard to enjoy the scenery as a bird when you're constantly starving because the devs want to force you into tunnel visioning your migration and patrol zones as any other playable. I personally think AI should be more prevalent around players that *aren't* able to feed themselves via other players because they're too far out to get to their next migration or patrol zone, or just too small to contend with the bigger inhabitants of their chosen locale. It's the #1 reason I don't play the game currently, Dondi-balance aside.
@@just_connor I’m not really looking for super efficiency, I’m just flying around the map wandering and enjoying the view. Though ai spawns are pretty silly I agree, I don’t know why fish and frog spawns depend on denser player locations
@@acronym6837 entirely fair. Didn’t assume otherwise, just wanted to share what I know about the bird. My autism peaked when I saw a video of someone using the thing the way it’s meant to be used and had to add my two cents.
I dont think Stam is really pterras weakness the fact you flew around the whole map and basically found zero fish, it does no damage and can't really carry anything to fly to a safer spot to eat. If they fixed it so you gain Stam while gliding like every other Dino does while trotting had more consistent fish spawns and gave pterra more bleed or just more damage it would actually be a viable playable
@@TreeResort it doesn’t have to hunt fg dinos, just go to where you hear a bunch of juvies or near a sanctuary if you want player kills. Pt isn’t designed to be a combat playable, though the fish spawns are an issue
Try a start from the west spot, makes it much harder, and the hardest part of Ptrea is starting out and getting your first meal, once that is done you are pretty much set, the stam issue for me, is not how fast it drains, it is how fast it recovers, just the downtime of waiting for it recovers. Also you stoped the video just before being in real trouble, you were low on water, not near water and would have had a 10 min stam recovery, fairly sure you would be dead.
@@DavidBennell when you’re starving yeah it’s punishing, but just don’t let yourself be inefficient with stam and you won’t have to worry about it too much
The problem isnt necessarily that people play pt wrong. Its that they cant play pt how they want to. Whenever going to highlands or trying to get over any mountain in the game, you're forced pretty much to hold space bar in order to go straight around it. I think most of the community wants pts stamina regain and be able to fly high into the sky without loosing all their stam or at least being able to regain it while they glide. I mean wouldnt you like to zoom on top of the dome from the lowest point without having to wait ten minutes (exaggerating) before you get full stamina again. I think pt is kinda gimmick playable, like people play it fs, but its closer to dryo and hypsi than anything else. I just think faster regen of stam and less stam burn for gaining attitude quickly. Would just make it more fun overall. I mean you can say we're playing it wrong and not the way its intended to be played. Sure that might be right, but it should just be played by how the player wants to play it in my opinion, because it is a gimmick playable. At the end of the day I dont think the way you play pt is fun, and I would like to see changes to its stamina.
@@dominatorcomanddo8364 the think is pt is a glider for the most part, not much active flight. Another bird/pterasour would be needed for that play style, it just sucks that we don’t have it right now because I would absolutely love that over glider pt too
I think what actually makes ptera potentially painful to play, is how hard it can be to get your diets, thus you're playing without the stam regen buffs we're used to getting as other playables. It's good for traversing the map pretty quickly, and I do think the nutrients change and clinging to a surface and getting back stam as long as you're above 20% stam is very good and helpful for Ptera and makes it more enjoyable to play. Especially since you don't have to use stam to take off. I think where Ptera players assume it has bad stam from, is from them not encountering fish and having to scavenge or hunt ai, which makes a lot of landing and take offs necessary, thus taking huge chunks of stam. I think how fish spawn or the amount of stam taken from taking off changed would definitely improve the quality of life of pteras. Especially if someone doesn't know the space bar timed with wing beats trick, or if they think they need to hold w like a normal dino to go somewhere instead of just gliding.
@@leifioleif5946 diets haven’t really been a problem for me tbh, I just got really unlucky in this video. Normally I find fish or a frog right away and it’s perfect for growth
@@acronym6837 oh wild. That experience in the video is my typical luck when I play ptera. I think I can count on one hand how many times I've found frogs as any playable, and one of them was yesterday with a beipi. 😂 I just assumed it was pretty standard experience since whenever I've played ptera with friends we've all been struggling for diet and end up either lucking out and finding fish, or we go after fawns or goats until we can find fish so we don't starve. Or find a sea turtle if we're lucky and spend an age killing it. 😂
@@leifioleif5946 The few times I've seen sea turtles, I was a ptera. The one time I saw a sea turtle actually swimming, I was a ptera trying to kill it. Suffice to say it got away... The only time I've ever found a frog was foraging as a galli, and then it didn't give me diet... I have heard them though, just couldn't locate them.
@@sheepmedic4030 I just didn’t know how to spawn fish, you have to be on the ground near water for fish to spawn. Or other people have to be near water as well. I just got unlucky that nobody was in those areas before me
That's first time i see a ptera player is using skimming instead of just biting. Skimming feels kind of useless for ptera since biting is safer cause you can catch fish a little bit higher
oh man, i would never fishing in that skimming style, specially if deinos are around. Just peck in when you are above. You can be a way faster, you can be higher, those deinos cant rly hit you and you can train your aim.
@@michaelgamino4685 the bad stam regen is a necessary evil so ptera is played how it’s intended to be played, and if the damage is buffed then why hunt trodons when you could go after a cera or something. They’re slower, bigger, can’t jump, and can’t get into small spaces. May as well go for the bigger and probably easier meal if you have a higher bite force
BEST MUSIC CHOICE EVER! abt ptera he has nice stam ppl just dont know how to fly and then blame theyr skill issue to the game! wingflaps are terrible btw theres even a better tactic, try holding W and look slighty up just so that he flaps his wings. The shallower the angle the more stam efficient!
Terra samina isnt good at all you catch two fish and need to rest, It cant fight anyone. Its good for exploring the map but thats about all it offers, I hope the update works out im a solo player and this is one of the few options I have to play with relative survivability. One of my last play through was with the terra and I starved to death unable to regen my stamina fast enough to keep up with my hunger.
@ latch is when you can latch to a vertical surface and hold on, like herrera climb but you can’t move. You can regain stam and eat food that’s in your mouth when you’re latched, and taking off from the latched state takes no stam or is so little stam I’ve never noticed a difference. To latch you air brake towards a tree or something and hold right click until your pt latches to it
Id say the only problem with this dino is its just shit, to survive you gotta hunt, but ofc they made the dino useless to kill other players... If u like to play singleplayer and kill only bots then yes this dino is for you :)
@@Itsk0sy pt is a fisher/scavenger, not a PvP playable. You can scavenge dead player bodies or eat ai, and when the opportunity comes you can hunt juvie players. If you want PvP then go play cera or something, or go to PoT
@@acronym6837 i hate the stam on ths bird, i am fighting my own stam regen rather than other dinos, which suks, tey shouldve made it a lil more realistic, moreover its the only dino tht cant regen whn trotting.
@@Taitea_____ Well, they made it this way because people weren't playing pt "realisticly". This game isn't even all that realistic considering deino doesn't 1 shot bite everything on the head, or how big dibble is, or teno's tail slam attack. Also yes it can regain stam while trotting. Even while latched too.
PT Main and PT (Jagdflieger) 2800 hours of Gameplay since Nov. 2023. i hunt FG Omnis, Herreras till they die. I fly long range/distances without using much stam, catch fish with using Airbrake for more presicion. Also i can fly with just using Airbrake without get low alt. And and and. PT is imo the most hardest to handle Playeble in „The Isle“ and so much Ppl didnt know PT is absolute fun if u can Control him. They try, they fall and they leave PT. Other Playebles are easyer and didnt need that training PT want. And i hate it when ppl say „what can PT do ? Nothing“ one time they feel what PT is to use for when they hunted by a sadly rare PT pro. ☺️🫡
@@acronym6837 You interested in flying PT ! Thats 99% of what u need on your way 👌🫡maybe, randomly we fly together (and bring fear and pecks) lol would be nice.
Of course your stam is draining slowly, your a juvi...get fg and make another video
Same for adult btw, but I’ll do another video as adult
I played yesterday and survived as an adult for a while. I even had full stam when i died, just died to a stupid mistake. It doesnt take THAT long to become an adult ptera. The stam really isnt that bad. Id say the hunger problem is the worst, but thats because AI spawns are so rare.
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this is where they explain how they do it.
Its the only dino in the game that loses stam while "trotting"(gliding) and takes forever to regain stam, the things they're adding for pt will be awesome though
Sorry doesn't re gain stam while "trotting"
@@tenetiabrown6117 it doesn’t loose stam while gliding? Maybe I miss understood.
Yeah I can’t wait for the thermals
@@tenetiabrown6117 ahh okay, I mean that would be interesting if it would. Maybe it’ll regain stam in thermals
@@tenetiabrown6117 he does if your stam is above 60% like every other Dino (glide is not trot, it does have a trot when on the ground, glide uses no stam)
Its also the only dino that does not lose stamina sprinting.
Or more like, it uses stamina while you sprint but you do not slow down after and can keep gliding forever* at high speeds.
* : Ptera only loses speed if you either put on the breaks intentionally OR try to gain altitude.
Stegos are just so appealing to bite as ptera...all those plates! It's like they were designed for pecking
@@TheDinoNerd exactly! You can’t just *not* bite them, it’s almost an obligation
@@acronym6837 if only their tail hitbox was not so weird
I love playing ptera, it's easy to survive if youre careful and monitor your needs and stam. I wish it had a stronger attack and the turn radius was returned to what it was. That or- giving us some unique mutes
@@Lady-Moosh I don’t think it needs anything combat related, though some special mutations would be interesting
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the possibity to hang at enemys and peck them would be nice.
eating fish while flying, or drinking while skimming would be great to.
a nice bonus would be to reg stam when above 60% while flying but not rly needed.
But im rly looking forward for those new aerodynamic, like upwards air stroms which getting actually preogrammed
@@acronym6837 would love a mutation where it could eat decay so it could be the proper scavenger its clearly intended to be lol I hate that cerato is the only thing that gets that when its also currently the only thing that really doesn't need it
Learned that from a mombie video, but thanks for explaining and showing how it works since more people must learn the way of the kite.
You don't even have to skim for fish anymore, you can just peck at them and catch them. Its much safer doing that when crocs are in the water as well.
@@Kretoxy yeah I know, my beak wasn’t very long though so I didn’t want to risk falling in
never have, has been like this sense it was introduced in spyro
Honestly, I did have some trouble with the ptera before I learned the flapping technique, but I never really thought it was *that* bad. And after learning that technique, the only things left are learning how to navigate so I'm not flying into a hill, how to latch onto trees, and how to drop into flying.... Okay, I'm still not great at ptera, but it's still fun! Though the last time I played it, I'm pretty sure I left my group laughing when I died from airbraking too long trying to land in a tree... Just fell right to the ground with branches so close to me. lol
I think the best mutations for it to ensure a chill life are the slower water drain or reniculate kidneys, the slower food drain, and anything else... Maybe the nutrient drain or the barometric sense (though still haven't noticed if that one's functioning) If you're good at skimming, that might solve the no schooling fish problem where you have to be touching water, too. And with the thermals and air currents coming in, not only am I impressed merely by the fact that they've made an entire system solely for one (well two, but y'know) playable, I think it's a much more interesting way to solve the problem of stamina loss than just giving ptera better stam regen.
Though it does seem like the flapping technique is something they'll want to include in their tutorial when it's made, cuz while a slower assent is the more usual among birds, it definitely seems less intuitive for human gamers. And I guess you can't please everyone, cuz not everyone wants ptera to be a chill experience...
I will note that the stamina does drain much faster when you ascend too quickly than it does when you're sprinting forward, and I can see why people would be surprised by it when they first start flying, cuz it does just vanish. If they don't figure out how to curb that quick ascension, then I can see it being frustrating. But it's good to see more videos about how to play efficiently going around so more people learn the technique.
@@nemaisare8505 we can always learn more about the playables we like:]
I generally go a survival build with my mutations on ptera, though I may try a juvie hunter build some time.
I hope more people learn how to more effectively play pt and start recognizing how nice it is to just chill and fly, it’s a genuinely nice playable
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this is actually very helpful. Wingbeat method!
also, fish and frogs only spawn when someone is *physically touching* the water. So they end up in places people drink from, cross, or when there's a semi aquatic around.
there's actually a small cleft, in the rock wall at the west access pond, that you can sit in as ptera, to force fish to spawn in it, while also being fairly safe from most things.
@@peasantkyr that is great to know actually thank you!
@@acronym6837 good tips for good tips
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Is this confirmed information about the spawn? Because I got fish spawns in isolated lakes where no one was around and I didn't drink from it. But I have to wait for it to spawn. I think it spawns at the sertain day time (at the morning) around players (even if they didn't touch the water)
@@eskelhaitoyea i dont think this is accurate. Ive personally seen frogs spawning in when no one was in the water. I think its more like you said, certain times of the day. Ive noticed more frogs during dawn and evening time.
13:32 Time slightly later, but well said ;) I always play my games as if I'm traveling through them, no matter what 😇
I think that technically to make the most out of your stamina you should not gain altitude with every beat of the wings but more like every 1.5 but its obviously easier to just do it with every beat.
Ptera stamina drain when gaining altitude seems to be tied to its current velocity and you lose velocity when gaining altitude which is why "flying like a rocket" drains the stamina so much, while the "flapping" method is better as the short altitude gains do not slow you down as much and the short wait between lets you regain SOME of the velocity before the next beat of the wings.
From what I have seen Ptera flapping its wings = Ptera is working to regain its velocity.
So gaining altitude with every beat of the wing means you again lose velocity before you have fully regained it, resulting in a slow velocity drain, resulting in slightly more stamina being used the further you go. In general its probably such a small difference that it basically does not matter but for long distance travel I think the difference will build up enough that its worth switching to ~1.5 beats per altitude gain, both for the extra speed and lower stamina use.
Another very good trick for travelling as Ptera is that once you have gained some altitude you can sprint for just about 1 second, not using all that much stamina to gain a lot of speed and then glide with that extra speed for 0 stamina cost. Ptera only loses speed if you break or try to gain altitude so you can zoom around the map very fast with this(same applies for speed gained when diving, you keep it as long as you do not gain altitude/spacebar).
@@TheHuffur interesting, that’s good to know thank you
Sure it’s stam drain is slow, but the regen is way longer than it needs to be. Galli is the around the same in terms of drain and regen, but it’s much easier to move around and it’s not as easy to drain stam like ptera is. Ptera just requires so much for what is basically a defenseless bird
@@StelloTyrannus think about it like this, pt wouldn’t be played as intended if the stam regen was much shorter. People would play like the spiro days and you have scouts and other unintended ways to play it.
The slow stam regen is a necessary evil to incentivize playing how it’s intended.
And pt’s defense is flight itself, you can fly clear over everything, even Herrera trees if you choose your flight location correctly.
With the right mutations you can heavily limit your time near the ground too, and you can also just go to uninhabited parts of the map if you’re that worried about being caught lacking
@ Scouting is just as possible now as before, that’s never gonna change unless Ptera is removed. It’s just a consequence of a flying creature existing in this game. Making a creature more frustrating to play is a bad excuse to make it play as “intended”.
And for when i said defenseless bird, I mean that ptera doesn’t have much else going for it. This applies to all species smaller than Herra. In most cases, they’re nearly worthless for combat and instead are just there for vibes. This would be fine if they were at least easy to access for a short playthrough with little investment. But ptera is overly demanding for what it has to offer, just a bird that flies around, spectates, catches fish, only capable of fighting maybe 5% of the roster. I don’t wanna grow this long, put this much effort into maintaining stam just so I dont have to sit for 4min, just for something that can’t do anything but exist.
@@StelloTyrannus well with worse stam it’s much harder, I haven’t seen a single ptera scout since spiro.
And you may not like it, I don’t like it either but that’s how it is. Players won’t play how you want them to if there’s a much more fun and easy way to play.
Pt isn’t a PvP playable, I don’t know why people want it to be so bad, that’s not its thing.
I really want a bird(or pterasaur) that’s capable of powered flight and has good stam, but then again the scouting issue. So there’d have to be things in place to punish unintentional behavior which is a whole other system of things.
And quetz will be the thing that can kill stuff in the future
@@acronym6837 I’m not expecting Ptera to be a pvp playable, I don’t want it to be in fact. What I’m saying is non pvp playables shouldn’t be so hard to maintain and grow. Certainly not annoying to play
I have made this point to friends in the past. Its a fun dino to play too one of my favs.
Yo a new video nice and it’s terror oh interesting 🤔
I don't think the issue is its stam, it's its maneuverability. Sure it can go long distances and hardly worry about stam, but at that point flying is just a loading screen to the next area that you have to constantly stare at while pressing space. And its only really a 'pretty view' if you have a computer good enough for it to even run above 30 fps or else you have to micromanage your graphics settings until it's barely playable. Flying in pretty much every other game is swooping up and down, gliding through the air and speeding past trees. They make flight fun. However in the isle, it feels like you're a horizontal plank that is punished for doing anything but gliding. It's probably more realistic, sure, but I just personally don't find it fun. Of course others do, and I'm not really taking a stance or saying it would be objectively better x way (I don't play the isle anymore), just giving my 2 cents.
@@TheBlueKio that’s fair, and I do get bored with slowly gliding too. But you can always speed up on your pt and if you hold it for the right amount of time it’ll barely cost stam but will speed you up a decent amount
Pteranodon was an a coastal animal that glided a lot to get around like an albatross or vulture. It's not a goshawk or finch. It shouldn't be downright acrobatic.
@@HaughtyToast ''It's probably more realistic, sure, but I just personally don't find it fun'' 😄
Ptera was so much fun on Spiro. Back then it had pretty good maneuverability: Sharp turns, great stam, good speed and changing heights wasn't too much draining. And you were able to see something at night. It was even able to fight against omnis, dryos, hypsis and generally smaller dinos.
I wish they'd bring back the old pt one day.
@@July-nj5sn pt isn’t a pvp playable, and even still you can hunt after the nerfs. It’s so much better now than it used to be in my opinion
I appreciate you making this video. I roll my eyes every time someone complains about ptera stam- it just shows they don't know how to use it. They want to fly like an eagle, but pteras are built like an albatross. Getting up into the air has a high energy cost, but once up they expend almost no energy. There is no other dinosaur that can travel at such speeds, bypass all obstacles, clear the entire map from one end to another, and still have stam to spare. I appreciate that the devs listened to the community and gave stam on ptera hang. I can see this feature allowing cave-dwelling pteras to be a feasible concept, which frankly sounds awesome. Imagine being the herra that stumbles on that scene.
@@laurensimonelli5654 yeah honestly if you use ptera right it’s literally the most stam efficient dino(technically not since flying reptile but-🤓) in the game, and I really love how they let you get stam while latched. It’s a really nice QOL addition to
Played as adult ptera. This method works just as well! In fact I feel like my stamina almost drains slower ( or maybe I'm just permitted to take naps more frequently cause i'm not constantly starving lol ) thank you for this!
Edit:: Was able to fly from 'east plains' ( now east swamp ) to west rail on 1 stamina bar and still had 30% stamina left. yeah ptera doesn't need a stamina boost
Another advice i'd give to players :: Don't hold w. it does increase your speed a little but it melts your stamina like crazy. you already move way faster than you think you do just letting your dino go on its own, only use w if you want to make a shallow turn / a more targeted dive than ctrl does ect
its not that you cant glide far, it's that the regen is ridiculous. thats why youre admitting to watching youtube while you wait. Thats simply not fun gameplay to many people
@@Singularity_gg I wasn’t trying to get back stam tho, I didn’t know it got stam when latched. I was waiting for my food to go down so I could eat more fish for diet.
I think the stam regen is fine for how far it can travel
Dude THANK FUCK you made this video. I’ve been tryna tell people for so long and nobody listens. There’s a proper way to fly without using stamina and there’s videos about it. That’s how I learned but hopefully people will realize and learn now since you’re a respected member of the community
There’s a better way to gain altitude than what u showed. Basically circling. You look to the side with ur camera as flat with ur bird as it gets(only slant slightly up and to the right/left) and hit W. When u hit W you flap. Don’t hold it. You’re gonna time the downstroke of ur flap with tapping W and that’s how u save stam. If you hold W you will drain stam. So we minimize W holding and we look to the side with the downstroke bc the way the math is in the altitude system, looking this way gives you the most lift
@@nathanrice8778 yeah it’s still kinda wild to me that people still think ptera is bad because if it’s stam. I’m definitely not as respected as some other RUclipsrs but hopefully at least a few people learn
@@nathanrice8778 interesting 👀
Tbh I probably won’t use that strat just because the space bar strategy is good enough for me and I’m just casually enjoying ptera and looking around and enjoying the map as I fly
@@acronym6837 that’s fair. I will be trying but strategy bc it worked a lot better than I thought it would. Granted you flew from an already high altitude to the low point of the map but it was still impressive regardless. Ty for sharing with the community
@@nathanrice8778from what i noticed, it works the same as tapping space bar the same way. Both are legit and seem equal. From what Ive seen at least.
Another fun one! Never disappointed in an Acro video!
Getting to adult is the hardest part for ptera. Unless you luck out and find a corpse, you'll starve before fish spawn from only "you." Schools don't seem to spawn unless a ground dino is near the water. I've lost so many ptera on low-pop servers because of the lack of schooling fish spawns.
Schooling fish don’t spawn unless a player is touching the ground or water, so a flying pt can’t spawn fish. You have to get on the ground yourself and make them spawn if they aren’t already there.
Though you can just go to hotspots and there’s usually fish and bodies and you’re golden
@@acronym6837 Thanks for the reply. I'll give that a shot next time I'm ptera. I will say that the fish give away that someone's been in an area recently, so it's a good reason to stay guarded.
I hate it when there is no fish for kilometers and you just starving.
Also it was a big problem that u won't be able to fulfill the second hex with dots because of the amount of food fish gave you. And I even had to use mutation to decrease nutrition decay but it was still not enough room in pter's stomach. With new diets it's kinda worse because S is rare and one little frog will give you 0.000000001%
@@eg-draw not anymore, diets have been reworked and frogs give you a surprisingly high amount of food
ngl ptera is the best playable, was fun when gateway was out and they added ptera back formed massive flock of ptera at the west lake
genuinely no idea how you are doing this but props to you and others that love the dinosaur. way too fragile for me. every time I spawn in as ptera, my stam goes to half with my first takeoff and then I can never recover it before I starve to death pff
It's just about tapping the space bar every wing flap, it's a slow way to gain altitude but it's great for long distance horizontal travel
going below 60% stam was your mistake, you regain that 40% stam much faster than your remaining 40 stam, the more stam you have the faster your stam regens so when you are at 0% that first 10% will take much longer then if you were at 90% getting that 10%
I thought it was for how long you were sitting not how high your stam was, that’s really interesting actually thank you for letting me know
@@acronym6837 thought the same as well as the longer you rest the faster the stam regens, making the point of trying to have less stam to regen nearly the same time as having a lower % when resting
I want them to put in that after a certain growth, gliding regains stam
@@BOLDgames I think that would be nice, but it doesn’t feel required tbh
btw, I'm not sure if anyone said this yet, but the line of fish at 3:50 was likely left out by a deino, but it isn't a trap! If you catch a schooling wish and leave it out for at least 6 minutes, it actually gives your croc diet (the three dots) instead of being just food!
@@mustarduwu yeah that was my thought process as well, kinda strange how it works lol
I discovered that I do not know how to play this dinosaur, in the first 5 seconds the stamina ends 🙃💔
Ptera is the most fun dino in the game by far then maybe Herra. The pvp with ptera is the best part about it, so fun. Killed a full size herrera the other day after a massive 1v1 fight. He got me bleeding but he lost stamina from jumping and alt bighting. He tried to hide in the tree and got pecked. He tried to hide in a bush and got pecked. He tried to jump at me and knock me out of the sky and I would fly higher and peck in anticipation. He eventually lost stamina and went into a bush where I pecked him one last time and he died. Super satisfying.
He probably could've hid in a part if the tree with a branch over his head but he was playing aggressively and got punished.
Pecking other dinos, hunting juvies and pestering deinos is fun af. Getting to traverse the map and watch funny interactions and 3rd party other peoples fights super fun.
Put your airbrake button on your extra mouse button where your thumb sits (if you have one) Z sucks
@@mcrobsaccount yo nice! I peck random things when the opportunity presents itself.
I don’t have that kind of mouse unfortunately but Z works just fine for me
I do miss the days where ptera could swoop around small players and peck them to death. But i am also glad that was did away with since now ptera scouts are nonexistent again. I still remember the terror of seeing/hearing a ptera fly over your head right before a massive group of mixpacking players came trotting after you
@@fire3532 you still can kill juvies, heck I’ve even killed some subs with pt already.
But yeah I’m so glad pt scouts are gone now
I wasn't even having problems wit Ptera before learning how to manage it's stam. Now with the new nightvision it's easy by comparison. Most of my deaths are by starving or drowning (
@@HaughtyToast glad you know how to use pt, and yeah the rivers can be pretty unforgiving at times
Same experience here, i'm main ptera, and if you can manage the stamina well (no useless sprint, no useless climb) you can travel accross the Gateway Map in 1 or 2 flight. Juvi and Adult are pretty the same. ( in your video, at least in the first part you already waste a LOT of stamina, ptera don't need to spam climb that often, glide have a very high descent ratio, you could easily reached the delta with 15%-20% more stamina)
@@albylopi991 I wasn’t trying to be crazy efficient with my stam, I was just casually playing and enjoying life
More than year since the gateway release and players still do not get it.. Maybe you all are the real Dondi of The Isle :P
@@Bleghspread 😂
Nice video. Pretty typical ptera experience, imo it's best to chill on this creature and take what comes to you. The latching thing was added the update before last. It changes gameplay quite a lot for me since you don't need to use stam to take off. Coordinating in a ptera flock for hunts feels similar to coordinating an omni pack. Essential to look out for your teammates, but if you do, it can lead to great success. Maybe you'll play ptera with a group soon? Hope you get your video motivation back homie ❤ you're a skilled player and i love seeing you kill stuff. Take it easy
@@tarryncooper4742 yeah I’ve been really loving ptera recently, it’s kinda like a phase thing for me lol. Every few months I just randomly love pt for like 2 weeks.
I’ve just been chilling fishing or scavenging, occasionally getting a few player kills for some extra spice.
Thank you for your support, omni has just been really draining recently because of the lag and I need a break from the constant laggy hits. It’s been feeling more like a job than my favorite dinosaur
I actually don't have the game, but it's my favorite prehistoric animal, and favorite to watch gameplay of. I'm glad people are understanding it better and that it's getting more features added in. I used to get sad watching my favorite creators play it and curse the pteras because they hated them now.
As a viewer of the game, rather than a player, only 1 thing really bugs my personal experience nowadays. WHY IS IT NAKED? Pterosaurs had pycnofibres (a special type of fur.) they had to stay warm to maintain a stable body temperature because they were warm-blooded like mammals and birds. Pteranodon specifically needed this fur because it swam a lot.
I heard the game aims for realism, so why make them naked molerats on wings? Naked molerats are cool but naked pterosaurs just feels weird to look at, and it's so common in media.
Idk why, but it just feels wrong. An entire clade of animals goes extinct with no survivors just for animals 65 million years later refuse to represent you accurately cuz they think you look lame otherwise.
Btw your skin looks cool, I like the white. Reminds me of a swan.
@@TheDeerBird I’m glad I could bring you justice for your favorite animal then:]
Yeah that always bugged me too, especially for things like omni and trodon. Which has pretty solid evidence of feathers(even though trodon technically doesn’t exist). These naked dinos, or flying reptiles in this case just look kinda funky.
I wish it was a skin option or something, there’s nothing wrong with being inspired by JP but I’d like other options too
@acronym6837 I wish JP was also accurate, I just don't understand the trend of removing the feathers and hair of prehistoric animals. I hope that nowadays with the more vast and knowledgeable view of them, maybe a movie someday will portray those animals better. I hope omni and troodon also get their hair back someday.
Honestly, I plan on making an animated cartoon film /or series someday by me, and I want to try representing the dinos and pterosaurs accurately. Not full on accurate, as it's a cartoon, but probably more than most media
There are some 100% reliable turtle spots dotted around the map. They're a way better bet than fish atm.
@@pineapplepizzasandwich1974 where are they? 👀
@@acronym6837 The best one right now from my experience is just east of mudflats along the shore.
The eastern beach at swamp ( just south of the long sand bridge seems best ) is also quite good, as well as parts of the southern beaches there, but I dont know the specific locations.
And then there's the beaches north-west of water access. One of the best places is a straight shot east from the NWR pond, but its very popular for fresh spawn carnos, dilos and raptors. Its basically a non-stop deathmatch usually.
@@pineapplepizzasandwich1974 thanks! I’ll be sure to take a look when I can, turtles are one of the things I struggle finding more often than not
@@acronym6837 I'm not sure if its petits specifically, but in this patch, turtles are probably the only AI one could consider abundant, at least if you know where to look. :)
There are some other spots that can spawn them as well but only if there are enough players nearby (sometimes that threshhold seems to be as high as 4-5 people).
peck at the center of fish pools to grab fish, the fishing method is far more unsafe. its an instant grab and youll know when its dont right as your pteras peck will be noticeably faster. i find left clicking (pecking) at fish pools far more reliable.
I know, but I was small and my beak was too so I didn’t wanna accidentally fall in
@@acronym6837 This. plus the hitbox for little PT is extra smol and you are almost literaly in the water
Just so you know, you dont have to actually skim for fish, you can actually snatch them as they jump out of the water. A LOT safer.
I playes Ptera yesterday, and already knew about the space bar trick lol. But did notice stam wasnt so much the issue as hunger was. And...because no AI was spawning for a while.
But i went with a strategy of just hanging out by west rail access? The beach with the turtles, and flying up the trail to the little pond for water and occassional fish. I lasted 3 days...and honestly died a noobs death lol, which im ashamed of but totally own lol. I was sitting on the big rock at the beach, deciding my 3rd mutation, while at rest lol, heard the steps of the herra climbing up behind me lol, like i couldnt be more aware of what was about to happen...and when it attacked, just sat there trying to fly...still in the mutation screen 😂😂😂. I was tired yall lol. Thats my excuse and im sticking to it! It was fun, though. Just wish the turtles were a bit easier to kill, and fish spawns were more often. Its not fun if you spawn in an area devoid of any life and have to make the long journey to possibly food, key word there being possibly, only to finally find a turtle...and die of starvation because it takes over 5 minutes to kill something with the speed of sonic the hedgehodge, as every time you try to get to the head, it does a quick turn. Like the devs want realism...selectively lol.
Yea.. that beach where you tried to kill the turtle is where they generally spawn. Thats where i died lol. Theres a road path that leads to a small pond next to a big rock, you mightve seen it, and fish will spawn there, too, sometimes. I dont think a lot of people know about it as everytime Im there, its empty. Others are around...sort of...but not there. Its weird, but great safe spot to drink and get fish, too.
I know, my beak was just really short and I didn’t wanna accidentally fall in.
And you have to be on the ground for ai to spawn not airborn, I just recently learned that
Stam is never the issue for me. The issue is finding food for me. Starved about 6 times before i just started playing raptor and biep again. The stress was too much for me with ptera i guess.
@@grifinorange food can sometimes be an issue, I was just unlucky this video
if you're not actively searching for something, and instead have a set direction and location in mind, the most optimal method to gain altitude per stamina cost is 1000% going to be finding your horizon line (the point in which if you're a pixel to low with your camera you won't be "flying up"). If you can ascend at the lowest possible angle reliably, you'll be able to just hold W to go up whenever you need to, or want to, and it won't cost nearly as much stam to get the same altitude out of just tapping spacebar/jump. Also, hydrodynamic affects flight speed and makes this challenge kinda stupid. You could get away with lapping the island 1.5x as an adult. And yes, unfortunately AI does in fact spawn where the majority of players are. Doesn't make a lick of sense to me that the entire deer, goat and boar population of the island wants to hang out near the prehistoric super-predators and testosterone fueled murder-hobo herbivores that weigh almost as much as my mom, but they do. Really makes it hard to enjoy the scenery as a bird when you're constantly starving because the devs want to force you into tunnel visioning your migration and patrol zones as any other playable. I personally think AI should be more prevalent around players that *aren't* able to feed themselves via other players because they're too far out to get to their next migration or patrol zone, or just too small to contend with the bigger inhabitants of their chosen locale. It's the #1 reason I don't play the game currently, Dondi-balance aside.
8:16 you can always peck the fish to get food rather than actually dunking your vulnerable 2x dmg receiving beak into the water :)
Latching stam regen was added alongside the initial carno downsize.
@@just_connor I’m not really looking for super efficiency, I’m just flying around the map wandering and enjoying the view.
Though ai spawns are pretty silly I agree, I don’t know why fish and frog spawns depend on denser player locations
@@acronym6837 entirely fair. Didn’t assume otherwise, just wanted to share what I know about the bird. My autism peaked when I saw a video of someone using the thing the way it’s meant to be used and had to add my two cents.
Skibidi skibidi hawk tuah hawk👺
@@Gamartt 💀
Lmfao
So, if you can just catch fish with a peck while flying, does that mean all the work done on the "skimming" mechanic was a waste of time?
@@GameWithTonyYT maybe, I just didn’t want to accidentally fall in because my beak was short since I’d have to get super close to the water anyways
I dont think Stam is really pterras weakness the fact you flew around the whole map and basically found zero fish, it does no damage and can't really carry anything to fly to a safer spot to eat. If they fixed it so you gain Stam while gliding like every other Dino does while trotting had more consistent fish spawns and gave pterra more bleed or just more damage it would actually be a viable playable
@@TreeResort it doesn’t have to hunt fg dinos, just go to where you hear a bunch of juvies or near a sanctuary if you want player kills. Pt isn’t designed to be a combat playable, though the fish spawns are an issue
Try a start from the west spot, makes it much harder, and the hardest part of Ptrea is starting out and getting your first meal, once that is done you are pretty much set, the stam issue for me, is not how fast it drains, it is how fast it recovers, just the downtime of waiting for it recovers. Also you stoped the video just before being in real trouble, you were low on water, not near water and would have had a 10 min stam recovery, fairly sure you would be dead.
@@DavidBennell when you’re starving yeah it’s punishing, but just don’t let yourself be inefficient with stam and you won’t have to worry about it too much
The problem isnt necessarily that people play pt wrong. Its that they cant play pt how they want to. Whenever going to highlands or trying to get over any mountain in the game, you're forced pretty much to hold space bar in order to go straight around it. I think most of the community wants pts stamina regain and be able to fly high into the sky without loosing all their stam or at least being able to regain it while they glide. I mean wouldnt you like to zoom on top of the dome from the lowest point without having to wait ten minutes (exaggerating) before you get full stamina again.
I think pt is kinda gimmick playable, like people play it fs, but its closer to dryo and hypsi than anything else. I just think faster regen of stam and less stam burn for gaining attitude quickly. Would just make it more fun overall. I mean you can say we're playing it wrong and not the way its intended to be played. Sure that might be right, but it should just be played by how the player wants to play it in my opinion, because it is a gimmick playable. At the end of the day I dont think the way you play pt is fun, and I would like to see changes to its stamina.
@@dominatorcomanddo8364 the think is pt is a glider for the most part, not much active flight. Another bird/pterasour would be needed for that play style, it just sucks that we don’t have it right now because I would absolutely love that over glider pt too
I think what actually makes ptera potentially painful to play, is how hard it can be to get your diets, thus you're playing without the stam regen buffs we're used to getting as other playables.
It's good for traversing the map pretty quickly, and I do think the nutrients change and clinging to a surface and getting back stam as long as you're above 20% stam is very good and helpful for Ptera and makes it more enjoyable to play. Especially since you don't have to use stam to take off.
I think where Ptera players assume it has bad stam from, is from them not encountering fish and having to scavenge or hunt ai, which makes a lot of landing and take offs necessary, thus taking huge chunks of stam.
I think how fish spawn or the amount of stam taken from taking off changed would definitely improve the quality of life of pteras.
Especially if someone doesn't know the space bar timed with wing beats trick, or if they think they need to hold w like a normal dino to go somewhere instead of just gliding.
@@leifioleif5946 diets haven’t really been a problem for me tbh, I just got really unlucky in this video.
Normally I find fish or a frog right away and it’s perfect for growth
@@acronym6837 oh wild. That experience in the video is my typical luck when I play ptera. I think I can count on one hand how many times I've found frogs as any playable, and one of them was yesterday with a beipi. 😂
I just assumed it was pretty standard experience since whenever I've played ptera with friends we've all been struggling for diet and end up either lucking out and finding fish, or we go after fawns or goats until we can find fish so we don't starve. Or find a sea turtle if we're lucky and spend an age killing it. 😂
@@leifioleif5946 The few times I've seen sea turtles, I was a ptera. The one time I saw a sea turtle actually swimming, I was a ptera trying to kill it. Suffice to say it got away... The only time I've ever found a frog was foraging as a galli, and then it didn't give me diet... I have heard them though, just couldn't locate them.
Its such a fast grower that Diets aren't anywhere near as important for Ptera
have never trouble finding my diets. and with the enhanced digestion mut im always above 250 grow rate
this is so skibidi rizz hawk tuah thick of it
Was that water access to swamp before finding any food? I’m so cooked 😭
@@sheepmedic4030 I just didn’t know how to spawn fish, you have to be on the ground near water for fish to spawn. Or other people have to be near water as well.
I just got unlucky that nobody was in those areas before me
So for pteras cling, do you hold RMB or do you tap it?
@@Misto_deVito6009 I hold it, it’s easier for me to
That's first time i see a ptera player is using skimming instead of just biting. Skimming feels kind of useless for ptera since biting is safer cause you can catch fish a little bit higher
@@eskelhaito my beak was short still and I didn’t wanna accidentally fall in
yeah it can be manage dpretty good but very easy to lose it
@@lumyre1706 this game has always been high risk high reward, just shows the difference between a skilled player and an unskilled player
@@acronym6837 true
oh man, i would never fishing in that skimming style, specially if deinos are around.
Just peck in when you are above. You can be a way faster, you can be higher, those deinos cant rly hit you and you can train your aim.
@@SeltsamerName1337 yeah but my beak was kinda short and I didn’t wanna accidentally fall in. Plus I wanted to flex on those deinos lol
How do you latch onto trees?
@@ashtondillard6906 hold right click while you’re slowing down towards a tree
Make Pteras stam regen better and buff the damage so i can at least 2 tap a troodon and it would be perfect
@@michaelgamino4685 the bad stam regen is a necessary evil so ptera is played how it’s intended to be played, and if the damage is buffed then why hunt trodons when you could go after a cera or something. They’re slower, bigger, can’t jump, and can’t get into small spaces. May as well go for the bigger and probably easier meal if you have a higher bite force
Are you have lag problem for the isle?
@@Bluejay-tw7uj1rc7v yeah I always have a bad lag problem with this game sadly
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abt ptera he has nice stam ppl just dont know how to fly and then blame theyr skill issue to the game!
wingflaps are terrible btw theres even a better tactic, try holding W and look slighty up just so that he flaps his wings. The shallower the angle the more stam efficient!
@@dariobee5358 thanks!
Yeah it’s kinda funny when people think pt has bad stam lol
Your Ptera skin is SO PRETTY
Also is it ust me, or do I hear discord notifs in the background of the vid?
@@ChaoticAirlines8 thanks!
@@ChaoticAirlines8 yeah those were mine, sorry
I request more birb please.
Snoozefest of a playable honestly, waiting for its rework it might make it semi interesting
@@FatPigeon-6 to each their own, not everyone will find every playable fun
Ptera needs a stam buff honestly.
@@redberry-RB it really doesn’t, people just don’t know how to play ptera
@@acronym6837 I guess.
Terra samina isnt good at all you catch two fish and need to rest, It cant fight anyone. Its good for exploring the map but thats about all it offers, I hope the update works out im a solo player and this is one of the few options I have to play with relative survivability. One of my last play through was with the terra and I starved to death unable to regen my stamina fast enough to keep up with my hunger.
Just latch instead of getting onto the ground?
It’s much more stam efficient and honestly easier
@acronym6837 latch whats that how?
@ latch is when you can latch to a vertical surface and hold on, like herrera climb but you can’t move. You can regain stam and eat food that’s in your mouth when you’re latched, and taking off from the latched state takes no stam or is so little stam I’ve never noticed a difference.
To latch you air brake towards a tree or something and hold right click until your pt latches to it
Id say the only problem with this dino is its just shit, to survive you gotta hunt, but ofc they made the dino useless to kill other players...
If u like to play singleplayer and kill only bots then yes this dino is for you :)
@@Itsk0sy pt is a fisher/scavenger, not a PvP playable. You can scavenge dead player bodies or eat ai, and when the opportunity comes you can hunt juvie players.
If you want PvP then go play cera or something, or go to PoT
u jokin right
@@Taitea_____ not even a little.
@@acronym6837 i hate the stam on ths bird, i am fighting my own stam regen rather than other dinos, which suks, tey shouldve made it a lil more realistic, moreover its the only dino tht cant regen whn trotting.
@@Taitea_____ Well, they made it this way because people weren't playing pt "realisticly". This game isn't even all that realistic considering deino doesn't 1 shot bite everything on the head, or how big dibble is, or teno's tail slam attack.
Also yes it can regain stam while trotting. Even while latched too.
PT Main and PT (Jagdflieger) 2800 hours of Gameplay since Nov. 2023. i hunt FG Omnis, Herreras till they die. I fly long range/distances without using much stam, catch fish with using Airbrake for more presicion. Also i can fly with just using Airbrake without get low alt. And and and. PT is imo the most hardest to handle Playeble in „The Isle“ and so much Ppl didnt know PT is absolute fun if u can Control him. They try, they fall and they leave PT. Other Playebles are easyer and didnt need that training PT want. And i hate it when ppl say „what can PT do ? Nothing“ one time they feel what PT is to use for when they hunted by a sadly rare PT pro. ☺️🫡
@@DZWK86 that’s awesome! I’m trying to get better at pecking people and fish but as you can tell I’m still skimming the water haha
@@acronym6837 You interested in flying PT ! Thats 99% of what u need on your way 👌🫡maybe, randomly we fly together (and bring fear and pecks) lol would be nice.