Dinosaurs Combat overhaul

Your Feature Request / Idea
As it is right now, combat between dinosaurs is shockingly bad. Hunting consists of dinosaurs going some distance behind another, starting to run, locking onto its target if it's slightly off centre and then entering an animation. Combat is practically the same, except there's some more variation since dinosaurs can run away or kill the other depending on their stats, but it honestly looks pretty bad since it's just a slug fest with long pauses between hits.

The developers have improved several ways in which dinosaurs behave, they can now sleep, they can move in groups, they won't kill constantly even if they're not hungry, etc. The way hunting and combat works however is the single biggest barrier from them behaving more like actual creatures instead of lines of code. Jurassic Park Operation Genesis, whilst it had basic combat, was far more interesting than what is in this game since the combat was in real time and didn't just depend on one dinosaur being a herbivore or one having more attack/defence. Whilst I can't suggest exactly what you could replace the current combat with, something along the lines of what JPOG had would be much better than what is in the game currently since it's just clunky and boring as absolute hell right now.
 
I completely agree. I fully appreciate that they are tweaking the behaviors of the dinos for the better, but more involved combat should definitely be towards the top of their priorities for future updates IMO. The combat is extremely clunky and turn-based right now which simply does not fit the realistic behavior that the rest of the game is going for. Smaller dinos should be able to attack together as a pack with the new alphas leading the charge. I'd also like to see large dinos insta-killing smaller dinos if they ever get a hold of them regardless of stats. Realistically it wouldn't matter how fit you were if a T-Rex ever got its jaws around you. I believe stats should come into play more so for fights between dinos of a similar size. Just my 2 cents.
 
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