Let Megalania Climb

211 votes

It seems only fair, as modern day equivalent species are known to have at least some minor climbing abilities. My suggestion would be to let them climb, but at a constant draining decline if they're on a wall/ledge/tree/etc. This would keep them from being able to camp for long periods of time, but still make them a more viable competitor for laten and deinon.

Under consideration Creature Abilities Suggested by: ParanorMel (21 Dec, '21) • Upvoted: 07 Apr • Comments: 15

Comments: 15

20 Jan, '22
Lycaenops
I agree with giving the megalania an ability to climb. I suggest making it a passive ability you can unlock (similar to dive ability). Allow people to spec into arboreal, semiaquatic, or unlock both at a higher cost
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08 Feb, '22
Megatronus
Agreed! Tree climbing should be a thing for Megalanias as a survival trait. This should be a passive trait that you get during the tutorial as younger megalanias would be more apt to climb trees to get away from larger predators, similar to Komodo dragon young.
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02 Jun, '22
Purple Poet
Totally agree, monitor lizards are able to scale boulders and cliff/high ledges. Dont see why mega would be any different.
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15 Jun, '22
Luk
I’m all in for giving Juvenile and Teen Megalanias the ability to climb, however i think that Sub-Adult and Adult Megas should not be able to climb. Juvie Megas would need the ability to climb to escape potential threats, but adult ones are far too heavy to climb, and they can also violently defend themselves. In my opinion, juveniles and teens would spend most of their time in the trees (like modern Young Komodo Dragons) switching to a terrestrial or semi-aquatic lifestyle once sub-adults. The ability to climb would be automatically unlocked once exiting the Tutorial Cave.
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13 Sep, '22
random anodonto
I definitley agree to this. young komodo dragons climb up in trees to escape from predators and sometimes hang out on trees while roaming. This ability should be good for juvie and adol megs And it adds more realism to PoT.
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11 Feb, '23
Bobby Shaffer
I was about to suggest this but really any dinos who can climb should have the ability to climb things. Such as cliffs, rocks, trees, and so on.
19 Feb, '23
Envirobridge98
I think making the ability only available to Adols and juvies would be very interesting
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10 Apr, '23
Sleepyhead
I think only young megs should be able to climb for survival like today's komodo dragons and they can't anymore when adult
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17 Jun, '23
Hulksmash 8032
Megalania should be able to climb at a fast pace on trees and rocks as a baby and once sub it cannot climb trees but it can climb rocks while it requires stamina.
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31 Aug, '23
ShinyBlueDragon
No climbing for the meg, they can already swim, they are already powerful as it is!
14 Oct, '23
James
Maybe lock climbing to hatchling/juvie, make it unusable at adolescent and then give subs and adults the option for a semi-aquatic lifestyle, that way you have a grace period where you can neither climb nor dive, so that juvie can funnel out most of the meg players?
06 Dec, '23
Blueberry
I think this is a great idea for megalania it I think it could make the game much more fun
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24 Jan
ADinoNerd_713
This is cool but if you could only climb as a hatchling to maybe adolescent like real life komodo dragons it would provide a way to escape large predators when in the younger stages. The only reason I know this is wild kratts haha.
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25 Jan
CookieVonCrumb
I believe since the Thal starts off able to fly then eventually able to dive the Meg should be the same. Have it a natural draining Stam. Making the Meg the only land Dino able to dive and climb like the Thal is the only Dino that can fly and dive. Making the Meg and flyers Natural predators together.
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08 Apr
The youngin
I feel like this would help the player have more opportunity to find escape plans and have more flexibility but then people might start to annoy players but when micro raptor gets out that could be an optional predator to add in path of titans but if raptors also get that ability they still might have the upper hand because meg is larger and the raptors have more flexibility but the megs main prey would then be changed but would still be viable on ground but still may have stats changed
Prey: Micro raptor, baby megs, raptors like laten and deino, thal and rhamph