At least I was prepared.
I died. Or rather the game says I killed myself.
Right.
After like 175 in game days without dying I fuct up and saved the game while flying between camps.
Once I reloaded the game my character fell from the sky and splattered all over the forest floor (a few times just to make sure it was too high to survive the fall somehow). When I got to it there was a trex picking at my remains.
Having revived nearby was no conciliation because there's zero chance of recovering my personal effects because the body bag could have gone anywhere.
I think I was traveling light anyway so no big deal. However I might have lost a rifle and some ammo. No big deal. I think I might have lost an engram for a rocket propelled grenade. Huge big deal. I can't readily replace that and was so happy I almost pissed myself for getting it from a red drop. Nothing to shoot them with yet of course but having pulled the engram from a drop means not having to waste precious engram points on at least the ammo for it. That bastard Alpha Rex, and his pals would have been gonners.
Reloading the game and having comically fallen from the sky was also annoying because all 3 Argentavi are sitting there hovering in the sky.
I'm like blast my shitty luck!
My roommate/Landlord sends me a text going well fuck my luck I fell from the sky into the ocean and my flying mount is just hovering there in the sky like an asshole.
Sent him a photo reply back of the same fucking thing.
I'm like at least if we're lucky we can whistle them down to us.. Nope.. We were both flying too high and they are out of reach.
I told him to just tame something else and go after his mount.
I'm less lucky because with default settings on taming another flying mount is a no go. No at least for now since there's eleventybillion other things to do. Yes I'd surely love another Argentavis to be laying delicious eggs for Spino Kibble. Don't even have a Spino yet. And there's this delicious Giganotosaurus sitting next to a rock up Frozen Tooth. I'm gonna get that sucker.
So. Standing bellow my 3 birds of prey, named even.. Morgcules the 2th, Roc, and Dove.. Scratching my head as to how to dig myself out of this hole, I'm probably going to get pooped on. How the fuck to get them?
On the way up the slope of Frozen Tooth.. Which should have been a safer and more direct flight plan than going around to get to WhiteSky... No flaming wreckage or nothing. My otherwise useless Carno gets attacked by scorpions and trexes aplenty and get hisself knocked out. Stupid useless fuck. Being freshly revived I'm like essentially naked. No water flask, no food, no breath from rushing up the side of the god forsaken peak in a lost cause search for my body bag.
Solution. Just shoot one down.
I feel bad for shooting Dove out of the sky but I doubt she'll mind. Not so much as I do for having to shovel stim berries into these two giant lifeless sacks of meat due to my own stupidity.
Would have aimed for Roc.. But can imagine that would have somehow gone wrong.. Like my tranq arrows coming right back down and hitting me. Or being crushed to death from having him land on me.
Funny because I have experienced so many horrible deaths and just took comfort in rage quitting and reloading. Explaining this to my roommate as essential. Just make some beds and have dupe supplies. Not possible when those supplies are from drops. So it's the having to revive stripped naked and helpless that's the hassle. Had managed to avoid it for a really long time too. Not that bad if you're at least prepared.
Going to try to avoid looking for that rpg engram for now.. Sniff.
And not only did I find it.. I obtained an assault rifle engram right after.. So many assholes gonna get dead. mwahahahahahaha.
But honestly was only annoyed because I died on the way back to WhiteSky. While there I downed a pair of mammoths and needed to get back before the second one could wake up. Sans an adequate ride back I'd got mad. But managed to resolve the issue and got back with time to spare to dose the second somnolent mammoth before it could wake up and scamper away to freedom. Seeing as how there's so much time I might be able to try this alt fire to pick up stuff while riding an Argentavis. Like a Castoroides.. which could invalidate the need for Mammoths.. Why does it seem like no matter what I'm playing this game wrong...