Sparring with Dibbles is wacky fun

[@eugeneshev7907]

"You need help?" Metta, who tasted carno blood: "NOPE!"

[@dinometta]

Lmao I was on the adrenaline rush of the century 😂

[@Almiju]

Been a fan of sparring since I first heard of it, I would love to have it for all playables, the first thing I thought of for sparring was raptor hatchlings playfighting.

[@dinometta]

This please omg

[@LeBaked]

Great fighting and use of terrain, especially the last fight. Those were all key tips and good advice for diablo combat as well. You learned the hard way, first hand, nice job 👍🏻

[@dinometta]

Thanks! I knew my death was pretty well unavoidable, but every death is a lesson learned! Hopefully others can learn from my mistakes and not endure as many deaths as a result!

[@anicronyx2313]

God took a potato and put horns on it. The most genius thing to ever be created.

[@dinometta]

Isn't he beautiful?

[@dtbrex08]

Lol fr also w God reference

[@wiethen]

​@@dtbrex08bro said god reference 😭

[@keng1003]

Your movement is nice with the dibble.. I like.. best Ive seen so far!

[@dinometta]

Thank you, I really like the way dibble moves in sparring mode. Feels very dodge and weave in the best way!

[@PHIL-zg3jh]

Sparring is such a cool Method to enhance the gameplay imo. I also think the Isle doesnt need to be an hardcore realism dino sim but not just pvping but actually living the life of a dino seems so much cooler. At least thats what I think abt it. Great vid!

[@dinometta]

@@PHIL-zg3jh I agree. Though pvp is fun, I'd love to have more natural behaviors to perform

[@SirPigeon420]

another great video, that cera fight was interesting considering it's kav (who i have some hefty opinions on). that herrera like jump you did on his buddy was super funny probably gave them a scare haha. wish i had a friend to try out sparring with 😔 (yes i know this is a second comment but this is right after i finished watching the video)

[@dinometta]

Lmao I knew I wasn't getting out of there alive either way so might as well go out with a bang xD leeeeeroooooooyyyyyyy

[@BenDover-my6hv]

What did this kav person do?

[@Val-hz3fc]

I don't see a reason to complain bout kav. My main problem w his content is the amount of complaining he usually does about people complaining about him. As long as folk play no rules servers it's completely reasonable for there to be cannis & KOSers. Nature of the beast.

[@SirPigeon420]

@@Val-hz3fc it's not the KOS that bugs me, it's the fact that (at least in his older videos i don't watch him much anymore) he always complains about "roleplayers", and how anyone who doesn't like how he plays are "roleplayers". it bugs me because it's hypocritical for him to say that and then say "you can play this game anyway you want and i chose to fight!". maybe he isn't like that anymore but that's the main reason why i dislike him. also the fact he needs 20 friends to kill stuff is also kinda irritating but as seen in metta's video it was only him and 1 other person

[@1justd0ntcar3anym0r3]

hi, im new around your channel as i only started watching your vids a few days ago. i really liked your gameplay of the dibby, and the commentating aswell. this was great to learn how to spar so thanks :D

[@dinometta]

@@1justd0ntcar3anym0r3 you're welcome! Welcome to the channel!

[@DodoTacticsGaming]

Well I am glad you had a better experience getting this footage "hopefully". Though it is unfortunate that you ran into those deino and Kav the Dibble slayer lol. But thank you for the tips! Was aware that rmb and ctrl were two different things when I was testing sparring.

[@dinometta]

Yeah, much better experience xD still wish those danged deinos hadn't interfered in my stego battle! Oh well, next time!

[@DodoTacticsGaming]

@@dinometta from how they teased you, that might have been friendly with the stego imo. But that is up in the air.

[@dinometta]

@@DodoTacticsGaming I definitely thought that might be the case honestly. He had already been mixpacking with dilos, I wouldn't be surprised at all if he called in the deinos too

[@xHugoxN7]

Always look forward to your videos, keep up the good work Metta!

[@dinometta]

Thank you! I will do my best!

[@sukiitheartist]

I love the sparring mode, I think that is so fun and a great way to pass time rather than just killing everyone lol

[@dinometta]

@@sukiitheartist I enjoy it! I just wish people actually used it for something other than killing everyone these days haha

[@Cozylittlemenace]

2:50 one Dibble can kill a stego if it baits out enough tail swings. Your herd could have absolutely demolished that thing lol.

[@dinometta]

@@Cozylittlemenace Indeed, we could have. This was early in Dibbles release though, so we were still figuring out what it was capable of

[@omfgitsfat]

Raptors being able to playfully bite tails without damage would be the best thing ever

[@dinometta]

@@omfgitsfat flashbacks to the og tap pounce that did no damage and was great for tackling pack mates playfully

[@dtbrex08]

12:20 hitbox? I love when that one player bites 1 time from far away with bad timing and the game says “yes, right on” like bruh 🤣

[@dinometta]

Right? Like bro absolutely didn't touch me but yes game, go off xD

[@ZombieJuice1]

i really enjoy your content keep up the good work! :D

[@dinometta]

Thank you!

[@Dinoman9877]

That charged attack on stego was a mistake for the devs to add, and the entire segment with the stego, up to and including the deinos killing for sport, is like a built-in advertisement for why this game relies on good semi-realism / full realism servers to be playable.

[@dinometta]

For reals. That stego had killed probably 5 other dibbles off-camera before attacking our herd that morning. And then the deinos were so clearly being mocking about grabbing me. It was so ridiculous I couldn't help but laugh

[@Dragonn6667]

It was a mistake but i doubt they see it as such. Dondi will never make his precious stego balanced and not godawful to go against.

[@Dinoman9877]

@@Dragonn6667 Meanwhile any herbivore that's not adorned in horns or spikes gets asthma and stupidly complex controls so that running isn't an option, but to fight requires stupid amounts of practice (and dying) just to survive against carnivores that can W+M1 and win.

[@0wonder]

To be fair a stego should be able to have a charged attack it just shouldn’t be doing that much damage (even I think a full power shot from a stego to the head would kill almost everything except big ceratopsians)

[@dinometta]

@@0wonder the power swing doesn't one shot an adult dibble if it's a head shot due to their increased defense against head hits. But will absolutely one shot most everything as it does 2k damage

[@smefour]

Really love the sparing, and as you said aspects of it are very useful in actual combat with enemies, as for the Omni pounce to pin mechanic it's a great idea, but be warned its over tuned for testing purposes and needs to be toned down a lot before it goes live

[@dinometta]

Yeah everything I've heard about grapple so far has me feeling very oof about it.

[@smefour]

@@dinometta Managing Stam now is even more important, if you are below 25% I think you can be pinned, the more that jump you the higher you need your Stam (don't quote me), has to be toned down, but let them test, but feedback from us is super important on this matter

[@sneakyraptor1469]

I think Sparring is nice, and I love it. Dibble as a whole looks really nice. However, when it comes to mutations and the grapple... its something. Some mutations are legit just built for less grouping up and more people killing of your own kind. While other mutations are great and I feel will greatly improve people nesting (as nested in babies get mutations from their parents, just not the special mutations you need to do things to have) However on the other hand theres grapple which is just, it needs work, alot of work. It makes Raptor more like a right click to win thing, and while it does greatly discourage cannibalism and encourages working together as a group I feel large groups will easily be able to clean up a ton of things pretty easily.

[@dinometta]

I.... Hate grapple. Honestly I have found it to increase instances of cannibalism among raptors because there's so many. Duo raptors tend to be murdered on sight because those packs use canni+heal while eating to be essentially immortal in fights. I haven't been able to get any grapple footage recorded because each time I reached adult, I was immediately killed. It's very frustrating

[@shareseharden4612]

As of rn I LOVE sparing it adds so much more to the game especially when ur bored and wanna fight ur friends. Without killing them 😭 not only that but it seems like ur movement in sparing is rly good I haven’t gotten that good at sparing movement yet so when fighting more agile creatures I just tend to use our drift tune to fight since we turn like shit it also very useful when fighting things like ceras utahs and other agile Dino’s I always ends up fucking them up bc they nevere exspected me to drift and tune instantly there way knocking them down😊

[@shareseharden4612]

I’ve also found out that the gore attack we do does WAYYYY more blows than normal so when I can after I knock and enemy over I try and use the downward plus lmb move to kill my targets and if it doesn’t finish them they end up bleeding out

[@shareseharden4612]

Also I luv ur content and keep up the good work :D

[@v8hyp]

4:14 ik that gator was feelin himself when he caught you T-T ( also that bite at 12:15 was insane thats some legacy shi right there )

[@dinometta]

For reals. I was so disappointed. I was doing so well and had rallied the rest of the dibbles to attack too. But I didn't get to stay and finish the job

[@phnkcell710]

I saw you in the Kev video, you really played well

[@dinometta]

Thank you

[@PUNISHER-m2l]

the combat can definately use some training, but ceras are really buffed now, so its more difficult great job!

[@dinometta]

@@PUNISHER-m2l ceratos are crazy now!

[@flashgordon6510]

Oof, being caught by the deinos is really awful.

[@dinometta]

For reals, especially when they tease you like that. Like bro just drag me into the middle and bite me to death if you're not gonna drown me!

[@Sassafrass95]

12:15 Splish splash Metta was taking a bath!

[@dinometta]

Lmao xD I hoped maybe I could get to the sand bar and keep them in the water and away from me for a minute xD but uhhhh must have slipped my mind that cerato is an incredibly strong swimmer

[@_Dilov]

lightning fast!

[@dinometta]

We be zoomin

[@Wott786]

@@dinomettanneeeeoooooowww

[@kiernanscanlon8965]

I hope they take their time with this hordetest. As much as I want a lot of this stuff live already, there's so much to it that's still so funky. Like how dibble moves in sparring mode is ... a little odd. Def get what they were going for, but it almost seems like it can move around a bit too much? Like when you're fighting the first cera in the video you're kinda just sliding all over the ground. Love being able to maneuver, but the speed at which you cover ground in that stance seems nutty. Also once again can't believe they gave stego that new attack 😅

[@dinometta]

I like that dibble can actually move in sparring stance, as it is so incredibly slow normally. But I also had the daytime speed buff which gives a pretty noticeable boost compared to base speed

[@kiernanscanlon8965]

@@dinometta Ohh maybe that was it. I agree that it should be able to move really well in spar stance, it was just SO fast so maybe it was the mutation boost!

[@Avoithic]

bro those deinos trying to kill you was so painful to watch. i hate how deinos with so much skill issue syndrome can get full grown so easily

[@dinometta]

For reals. It was some level of annoying honestly

[@OscarHarvey-ym7ez]

If you decide to use omni in your next video, be very careful. A lot of the raptors canni just for and pin you literally just for the fun of the animation. Today I tried the isle, plenty of food, was playing with a guy I met, he asked me a question and as I started typing he pinned me. I couldn't escape and only could until he got off me, and then I bled out in seconds.

[@dinometta]

Yeah, I tried to record raptor but... Between the horrendous lag, the stupid mixpacking cannis, and everything, I got frustrated and decided to play carno instead. Wiping canni raptors off the face of the planet is my new goal

[@OscarHarvey-ym7ez]

@@dinometta Hordetesting updated again, and you need 2 people to grapple now(If you want to learn more about it, a guy called Kouga made a video called on it.)

[@OscarHarvey-ym7ez]

Ceratos no longer chuff at bodies if teammates are near, and if you are above sub adult you don't chuff at all. However, you still get the buff.

[@dinometta]

@@OscarHarvey-ym7ez I like the changes! Hopefully I'll get the opportunity to test them out if people will stop killing Acro and I on sight

[@OscarHarvey-ym7ez]

@@dinometta I'm looking forward to the video, goodluck :D

[@Nacho23672]

I’d sparr so much more if, this game didn’t give me chronic fatal errors.

[@dinometta]

I haven't gotten one in a while, but I have seen a few people still dealing with them

[@taramcfadden7076]

I love Kav lol Diablo is looking great too!

[@dinometta]

As far as I'm aware, this was the first time I've crossed him in-game. We don't usually keep the same hours

[@taramcfadden7076]

@dinometta I've crossed him a few times and on other games too. It's a rough time lol

[@knight9652]

i was really sad i got yeeted by that stego, found out it was cringe way late. hope to see you in the wild again!

[@dinometta]

I killed one of his dilos in revenge! Tried to take him out too, but those darn gators interfered!!

[@simaoduarte8450]

haven‘t tried diablo yet but ngl it looks really fun to play

[@dinometta]

It is, I really enjoy it

[@dtbrex08]

I think strafing mode itself actually IS the block, Im not sure if holding rmb while using spar mode actually does anything different since sparring mode is enabled? But idk, I only tried it like once and I did notice that “strafing” is 100% a block due to the lowered head in the animation, just not sure if you can do it while sparring lol.

[@dinometta]

You can't, not while in spar mode

[@dtbrex08]

@@dinometta ok somehow I never saw this reply and forgot about my comment but a month ago or so I tried diablo again and from my experience strafing is block and sparring is offensive, and from what I experienced you can strafe or block while in spar mode as long as you hold rmb, otherwise you’ll release your block and go back into sparring mode.

[@yellowdog5478]

10:20 I saw this fight from Kav’s perspective first and made a comment to myself about how the dibble was playing smart, just to find out it was you!

[@dinometta]

At least I didn't look like a complete dingus until I herrerra leaped down the hill leeeerooooyyyy style in a hail Mary attempt to kill one of the two xD

[@yellowdog5478]

@@dinomettathat’s just called style ✨

[@dinometta]

@@yellowdog5478 lmao 🤣

[@Citizen00798]

seeing someone getting over 100 fps while my entire raptor pack struggles to get above 50 fps makes me cry lmao.

[@dinometta]

I feel you xD I used to run at 15 max fps before I had this PC built xD

[@svartkonst666]

The settings are a bit broken, if you hit apply on your settings before or after joining a server, it helps boost your FPS. I recommend doing it before joining a server as that's what personally works for me, and hitting apply on your settings when you're already in a server can cause the textures to disappear (which indeed gives a massive FPS boost xD)

[@dinometta]

Yeah, I made the mistake of hitting apply after joining a server xD never again

[@svartkonst666]

​@@dinomettaWait I meant to post this comment on Depleon's stream, what the frick did I manage to do xD

[@dinometta]

Lmao good question 😂

[@playboi_name5667]

So basically dibble is the main character in the isle

[@dinometta]

Yes xD

[@randomblackguy9664]

Until Rex shows up💀

[@overlordttvi2064]

At first pvp dibble vs cera you hitted him so much yet you end up third screen? Did cera outgrow you or what happend?

[@dinometta]

I was only upper yellow, the blood screens are wonky. But nah, I was like 30% and he was a sub adult. For our size difference I was surprised it went as well as it did

[@overlordttvi2064]

@@dinometta Ya thats what i thought. It takes 2 good cera to kill adult potato.

[@acronym6837]

Comment for the algorithm

[@dinometta]

[@tunaozturk2639]

sparing looks nice but from the video I feel like dibble is bit too weak

[@dinometta]

As with most things, dibble is best in a duo or herd. Solo play is rough

[@misterionorman9764]

they also added "diablo impaling", what is that supposed to be?

[@dinometta]

Like stego tail swing, except if something small enough dies to being hit by dibble's face, they hang there from the horns xD

[@misterionorman9764]

@@dinometta ooooh that’s what it is, I thought it was a new ability lol, thanks

[@rylerenoblas8057]

Diablo's existance kinda irks me, but not because of Diablo itself. The movement looks awesome, but now it makes all other playables look less like animals and more like vehicles. It just seems silly to me that dibble can move so well when other quadrupedes cant. Are they planning on adding sparring to other ceratopsians? Cause it'd look similarly silly if, say, only one rapter playable had the pounce mechanic. Also what are the rewards for interspecies sparring besides bullying other dibbles and passing the time?

[@dinometta]

Yes, I believe all ceratopsians will be able to utilize sparring. As for rewards for sparring, as far as I know, currently none. But with mutations in the game, it's possible there's a hidden lifestyle mutation or two connected with the mechanic

[@Squid_link]

wish i could play dibble my game keeps crashing any time I try to play 😭

[@dinometta]

Have you deleted your config file and verified your game files? I know there's been a lot of fatal errors, I've had a few. As well as screen freezes that appear like crashes but resolve themselves within about 20 seconds

[@Squid_link]

@@dinometta yeah ive had all fatal errors I have not done any of those-

[@Squid_link]

not like I can ask for help in the isle discord It wont accept my phone number 😭

[@dinometta]

@@Squid_link super unfortunate, makes it difficult for sure :/

[@Eye-Am-exclipse]

U mind telling me ur pc specs?

[@dinometta]

I'm running an rtx3080, i-5 15600k CPU, and 32GB RAM

[@Eye-Am-exclipse]

@@dinometta thanks❤️

[@tryful5380]

@@dinomettaDAMN 😭😭😭😭

[@dtbrex08]

And this is why I generally dislike videos like “how to get this” because saltwater deinos WOULD be rare if of course there didn’t have to be videos going over the “secret mutations” and they were suprisingly simple to get. Once a deino gets a saltwater mutation, unless it starves its able to 100% survive in saltwater which is really weird and annoying. I do hope some mutations that need drawbacks get drawbacks at some point, being able to drink saltwater with no drawbacks is insane.

[@dinometta]

I agree. I like that secret mutations exist, the Internet just also means nothing remains a secret for long

[@derpyou8679]

The dibble slides to much on its animation lol looks funny but fun to play

[@dinometta]

There's some glitchy animations here and there, but overall it feels really fun

[@derpyou8679]

@@dinometta Was a decent fight you had with the 2v1 ceratos, honestly I thought you had it till you took all that fall DMG, and a lot more than that drop looked like it would cause lol. Good video to, 👍🏻👍🏻

[@dinometta]

@@derpyou8679 Yeah, I thought I did as well, but when I watched the cerato's side, they were probably at most on yellow, and that was after I leaped down the hill xD it was still a fun fight though, good learning experience!

[@derpyou8679]

@@dinometta wow.. really they where only yellow? Hmm I guess dibble does less DMG than I thought.

[@dinometta]

@@derpyou8679 I think they likely had the defense mutations active, makes sense when they were planning out their ceratos to fight dibbles

[@president5301]

Wait salt water deinos?!?!?!!?

[@dinometta]

Yup, mutations are wild

[@TheVinnie431]

I killed a aggro fg stego as a dibble on Na-4 lol it can be done

[@dinometta]

Yup, I've killed one as well since the dibble weight increase!

[@TheVinnie431]

@@dinometta nice!!!

[@mweeer]

u can 1v1 stego on dible. 1. u are way faster 2. u can stun them 3. u can stun em with weird tail hitboxes 4. stego will either bleed out if u are solo or die of dmg if u aint solo 5. just dont play stupid...

[@dinometta]

Ye, check my cow tipping video >:] I wasn't solo, but it was still great fun

[@vaineislive4798]

u mean broken mechanic that make them faster than most and stronger than most?!... theres just no balance at all at the isle, never had to be honest... its not an easy thing and the team just suc ks at it and then they allowed dondi to be on top of it, the only guy that dont listen to people and do what he wants whatever the result is. i wish there were a better team behind the game cuz the idea is awesome just always terrible executed (the graphics on evrima are something else but u have to have a something else computer too, something that most beautiful games dont like i can run rdr2 60 fps on medium but the isle i cant get more than 30fps on evertything on low... just a broken game!!)

[@jarettrains5829]

Or you have a fucking toaster instead of a computer homie got a 3060 and stay at about 100

[@SirPigeon420]

FIRST!!!!!1111!!1 TEHEE

[@dinometta]

:gigachad:

[@KokomoYT]

3rd!

[@dinometta]

XD

[@conorscriv9386]

buddy make it clear this IS NOT the isle evirma but the isle evirma horde testing mode hate when people don't specify

[@dinometta]

Believe it or not, the horde test and evrima are the same thing. Live branch and the horde test though, yup, different. But considering Diablo pretty clearly isn't in live branch yet... I think we can use our deductive reasoning to guess which branch this video took place on x]

[@bigchungbus5756]

I just can't support the isle anymore tbh. I lost interest after evrima was announced so long ago now. The progress they've made just feels... Dumb? Segmented? Why do we have stego and Deinosuchus, and not magyaro, or maia and allo or Sucho? Despite me having uninstalled bob do to similar tocmmunity problems... I still think Path of titans has the most potential, they just need to make questing more interesting and being adult more interesting.

[@Rouu_Garou]

I think even PoT is not worth it anymore tbh, boring as hell. I don't even play dinosaur survival games ATM, never thought I'd see the day 😭

[@dinometta]

Your opinions are fair and valid, honestly my biggest issue with PoT is that the official side of the game is just not fun. Between encouraging mixpacking, questing taking 3 days to grow a single small playable, and clans annihilating solo players, their dev team's ideas for the game are not much better. Without mods and community servers, the game is unplayable for solo players like myself

[@vashbain3136]

sparring looking absolutely awful as expected