Scout

Scout

Dossier Scout.png

Field Manual

These values may differ with what you see in-game or written elsewhere. But that is what the manual says.

Group

Mechanical Creatures

Model Number

UAV RQ-7Y

Fuel

Element

Threat Level

Low

Primary Function

Reconnaissance

Release Versions

285.104
November 6, 2018

779.29
November 6, 2018

528.23
November 6, 2018

Not Yet Released

Not Yet Released

311.74
June 11, 2020

DLC

Extinction

Spawn Command

admincheat summon Scout_Character_BP_C
or
admincheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Extinction/Dinos/Scout/Scout_Character_BP.Scout_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35

Domestication

Tameable

Rideable

Breedable

No¹

No

No

¹ Must be crafted from a Blueprint at a City Terminal or Tek Replicator.

Torpor Immune

Yes

Humans Can Carry

No

Data

XP For Kill

12 XP

Special Loot Chance

100%

Feces Size

Small

Drag Weight

149

Radiation Immune

No

Immobilized By

• Bola
• Chain Bola
• Bear Trap
• Plant Species Y

Habitat

Colorvision Prota- / Deuteranopia Tritanopia

Common             Rare
  Untameable   Cave

The Scout is one of the Creatures in ARK: Survival Evolved. This creature has been added in the DLC Extinction.

The Scout is a flying drone which can be found throughout the map, predominantly in the derelict city area. It acts as part of the automated defense, alerting enforcers to hostile targets.

Basic Info

Manual

This dossier section is intended to be an exact copy of what the survivor Santiago, the author of the Manuals has written. There may be some discrepancies between this text and the in-game creatures.

	“	Field Manual 31-581 Field Observations By itself, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle RQ-7Y is hardly a concern. Though many of them can be found monitoring the empty streets the abandoned city, they're not aggressive, and their offensive capabilities are limited. If attacked, they rely on bursts from their thrusters to either take evasive maneuvers or ram the aggressor, and they have no real armaments to speak of. This makes obtaining intact processing cores and spare parts a trivial matter, and as a result we've constructed a number of our own. Personal Use Shifting some of our resources to focus on RQ-7Y construction has been more than worth the investment. I managed to turn our TEK binoculars into a remote control system for them, and as a result our scouting teams have been able to cover more ground with far less risk. They simply deploy the RQ-7Y with a specialized grenade, then use its enhanced vision to scout ahead, scan for allied IFFs and track targets. Just don't try to ride the damn thing. I didn't think I'd have to explain that considering how small it is, but three crashes later, here we are...	„
		~ Santiago

Behavior

The Scout and the Enforcer serve as an automated security force that patrols the futuristic city of Extinction.

Appearance

Scouts appear as small mechanical drones that fly around the skies of Sanctuary, leaving a trail in their wake.

Color Scheme and Regions

This section displays the Scout's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are colored red over an albino Scout. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Scout will randomly spawn with to provide an overall range of its natural color scheme. Hover your cursor over a color to display its name and ID.

This information can be used to alter the Scout's regions by entering cheat SetTargetDinoColor <ColorRegion> <ColorID> in the cheat console. For instance, cheat SetTargetDinoColor 0 6 would color the Scout's "thruster highlights" magenta.

Region 0: Thruster Highlights	Region 1: Body Highlights	Region 2: Thruster Highlights
Region 3: Outer Body Highlights	Region 4: Body	Region 5: Energy

Drops

• Oil

• Electronics

• Scrap Metal

• Element Dust

Base Stats and Growth

Note that creatures will have different stats in Survival of the Fittest

Attribute	Base Value	Level Increase		Taming Bonus
		Wild	Tamed	Additive	Multiplicative
Health	3	+0.225	?
Stamina	90	+180	?
Oxygen	0	?	?
Food	7	+3.5	?
Weight	0	?	?
Melee Damage	0	?	?
Movement Speed	0.5%	N/A	?
Torpidity	0	+0	N/A

• For a comparison of the stats of all creatures, see Base Creature Statistics.
• For an explanation of exactly how the levelup calculation works, see Creature Stats Calculation.

Movement	Base Speed		Sprinting Speed		Stamina
	Wild	Tamed	Wild	Tamed
Walking	245	?	N/A	N/A	N/A
Swimming	300	?	?	?	?
Flying	600	?	?	?	?

• These are the base speeds of the creature at 100% Movement Speed.
• For a comparison of the speeds of all creatures, see Base Creature Speeds.

Attack Values

RangedAttack		Stamina Cost	Attack Range			Description
			Base	Minimum	Activation
		5	6000	0	0
Attack Type		Damage	Projectile Values			Torpor Values		Status Effect: Stamina			Status Effect: Torpidity
			Life	Impulse	Radius	Base	Mult	Duration	Damage Mult	Amount	Duration	Damage Mult	Amount
Projectile
Explosion		2.85	50	70

Dash		Stamina Cost	Attack Range			Description
			Base	Minimum	Activation
		9	0	0	0

Combat

This section describes how to fight against the Scout.

General

Scouts are difficult to fight on foot, as they have erratic movement and the tendency to dodge as one takes aim with ranged weaponry.

Strategy

It is recommended to use a ranged weapon or large tame as scouts often move out of melee range. Several hits will eventually down the scout, causing it to explode and drop a blueprint .

Weaponry

A bow, crossbow or longneck rifle work best if attempting to destroy a scout on foot, otherwise any large or ranged tame can easily destroy a scout.

Dangers

While not posing itself as a threat, it can mark anyone and anything that is not part of the machine workforce within the city, causing both nearby Enforcer and Defense Unit to engage the marked target.

Weakness

Scouts are completely unable to directly harm creatures when wild, relying on enforcers to eliminate those enemies that the scout marks.

Taming

Scout cannot be tamed by default. To be able to own one of such creature, one must craft them from the following:

• City Terminal
• Tek Replicator

To be able to craft anything better than a level 1, roaming Scouts have to be destroyed. On death, it leaves behind a blueprint as a dropped package at where it died. All Blueprints above Journeyman can only be made in the replicator with various level (scaled to the wild that was killed), stat and grade.

Upon deployment with at least 20 Element Dust, the survivor who deployed it will take control of the mechanical drone and fly around. The Scout will consume element dust from the player's inventory, with the energy gained from doing so varying depending on the quality of the blueprint.

Utility

A built scout can be deployed by throwing a pod resembling a grenade. Upon deployment, the player will look through a pair of Tek binoculars ( Scout Remote), seeing from the perspective of the scout. The scout can be used to perform short-medium range reconaissance and mark friendly and hostile targets. The environment will appear black and white, while creatures are highlighted in blue, green, yellow, red and teal. Blue represents creatures that are not currently hostile, green represents friendly tames, yellow represents creatures that are currently fleeing, red represents creatures that are currently hostile, and teal represents creatures that have died.

You can mark targets with a laser beam. To remove the mark hold the action button down and drag the laser beam indicator off of the target you had marked.

Roles

Danger Seeker - The Scout can scan for nearby hidden allies and enemies and mark them.

Mek Healer - When hovering near a Mek, the Scout will rapidly heal it.

Aggro Master - Scouts are notably cheap, capable of flight - even inside caves - and able to be controlled with atomic precision, all while still being able to get the attention of nearby aggressive creatures without making any kind of "mention" to the player that deployed them. Together, those attributes make them perfect for moving wild creatures to were you want them, be it just away from you, a trap, or a smoldering pit of lava. A practical example of this function is using them to take the Wild Giganotosaurus found in the Tek Cave out of the way.

Scouting -

Collectibles

Resource	Efficiency
Raw Meat	?

Notes/Trivia

• Scouts are one of the only 3 creatures that aren't capable of inflicting damage with their attack with the others being Diplodocus and Lymantria.
• You will not be able to mount when the scout is deployed since it acts like a mount mechanism itself.
• You can whistle to bring it back by right clicking when it is deployed.
• The marked tags seems to only be visible when equipping the scout(un-deployed or not). unclear if intended or not
• "TEK Binoculars" was referenced by Santiago in Scout's Manual, which was one of the planned standalone update for Tek.

Changelog

Patch	Changes
285.104 Extinction Expansion Release	Scout is added to the game
286.103	Scouts no longer drop Eggs Enabled Scouts to be crafted at City Terminals
287.100	Fixed terminal crafted Scouts being overpowered Can no longer be placed inside a Cryopod Attempts to fix issue with tracker appearing on players when it shouldn't be
287.110	When controlling a Scout, any voice chat comes through the Scout rather than the player controlling it Gashed attacks no longer affect robots
288.113	Improved tagging accuracy Improvements to player inspection mechanic Scout will now show floating damage text when damaged
289.100	Fix for Scout being destroyed by its owner's Turrets on spawn Mesh Memory Optimizations for Scout Remote
311.209	Scout can now longer push tamed creatures

Gallery

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  Torn dossier of the Scout.

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  Concept of the Scout.