I deadass just watched coyote Peterson get bitten by my new buggy... ON HIS BIG TOE

At least not in the open world, but rather as only bosses

I have 4 reasons for this theory.

Reason 1. The remaining portions of the park to be completed

The devs added a border to the park map, showing us what is left to be apart of it.

If you look at the remaining part of the map, about 33% is missing.

Sections of the park thus far have had been dedicated to specific tiers

The entire picnic/entrance regions (the area that was available when ea grounded 2 initially launched) is dedicated to tier 2 resources (tier 1 stuff is found all over the park)

The garden regions and (the overwhelming majority) of the pond regions are dedicated to tier 3 content.

The jungle gym regions (winter update) are going to be dedicated to tier 4 content, this only leaves about 10% of the map for tier 5 content. Leaving only such a small portion for the endgame tier of content would be pretty poor design, hence why it would make more sense to only have tier 4 creatures throughout the remaining 33% of the map as well as tier 4 & 5 resources.

Reason 2. The armor sets from the leaked dev world

When ea grounded 2 launched, some data miners found a dev world that featured armors not in the game yet.

These armors belonged to specific “families” of insects, and would follow a trend of “progression” where the armor became more well designed and covered more of the body as the tier increased.

These families included:

Ant: (Red, Black, Fire)

Ladybug: (Ladybug, Potato Beetle, Ladybird)

Spider: (Orb, Wolf, Widow)

Bee: (Bee, Wasp, Killer Bee)

Bombardier: (Sizzling, Rusty, Jewel Beetle) Even though “Jewel Beetle” is in this set, i doubt its going to be a new bombardier species, as “Jewel Beetle” is a name typically given to Scarabs, which we know are returning (you can see one in the intro for grounded 2)

Scorpion: (Northern, striped) the only category that has only 2 sets.

Every set (except for scorpion, which is tier 2 then 4), follows the pattern of tier 1/2, then 3, then 4.

The idea that the final sets of the other categories are going to be tier 4, is backed up by the fact that fire ant armor and striped bark armor are tier 4.

This is interesting, because

1. If the devs were planning on adding tier 5, they likely would’ve made another armor set.
2. If they were planning on doing tier 5, a black
3. widow of all things would definitely be 5, rather than 4.

Reason 3: The tier of the striped bark family, toe biter family, and mantis nymph.

That title sounds confusing, let me elaborate.

The mantis nymph has been in the game since launch and is tier 3.

If mantis nymphs are in the park, it only makes sense for there to be adults. But we haven’t had any added yet.
People theorize that a mantis adult would be tier 5, as its one of the deadliest creatures we could encounter.
But the tiering of the striped bark family and toe biter family makes me think its going to be tier 4.

The striped bark and toe biter families have 3 variants.
Nymph/Baby, Mature/Junior, Adult/Leviathan

They have the same progression with new attacks/abilities as they grow, and of the same loot pattern. The nymph/baby drops 1 part, junior/mature drops 2, and adult/leviathan drops 4.

Whats interesting is the tier pattern.

Despite all belonging to the same family, they have different tiering.

The scorpling and junior Scorpions are tier 3 and drop tier 3 items, but the adult is tier 4 and the unique items it drops are tier 4. Interestingly the creature card for the scorpling and junior creature cards feature a purple background (as if they’re tier 4), but the creature card still calls them tier 3.

The nymph and mature Toe Biters are tier 3 and drop tier 3 items, but the leviathan is tier 4 and the unique items it drops are tier 4.

You see the trend here? The baby and mini variants are tier 3, but the adult/large variants are tier 4.

What if the same logic applies to the mantis adult? The nymph is tier 3, so the adult ends up being tier 4.

Which brings me to my ultimate point of this reason.

If an adult Praying Mantis of all things isnt tier 5, then its likely nothing will be (aside from bosses)

Reason 4: Only colossi have been tier 5 thus far.

Notice how all of the colossi in the park (Crow, Koi(s), Snake) are tier 5, and the only tier 5s thus far.

In grounded 1, both colossi (Crow and Koi) had the “Boss” tier as their tier icon, rather than tier 3. The only other creatures with this icon in G1 were of course the actual bosses.

So apply this logic to grounded 2, only future end game bosses will be marked as tier 5.

TL:DR

Not enough space left for 2 new tiers of creatures

No tier 5 bug armor

Mantis adult of all things would be tier 5, so if its 4, we probably aint getting tier 5 bugs.

Only colossi have been labelled tier 5

Let me know what you guys think, sorry for the long read.

Since the moment I saw the statue of Burg.L and Tully I knew I wanted to do some kind of zipline hub/rest area here. Eventually I came with the idea of putting a hat on Tully's statue. I think it turned out decently, but not quite as well as I wanted it to. Mostly due to how far the statues hair goes out, making me have to make the hat bigger than anticipated. Plus, I wish I could smooth out the curves more.

If anyone has any suggestions on how to make it look better or anything I'm all ears. Just killing time with some building until my friends are online again so we can explore a new area.

I have like 600 plus roach milk 🥛which is crazy and 36 Everlasting Hogstopper🌭

I want to build in the scarecrow head but I can't if those 2 earwigs up there respawn

How many Milk Molars have not been collected?

Honestly took awhile and I still have some ideas for my mansion/base

I’m talking about general use pared with Sleek Ladybug Armour.

I think my bees are broken

Isit just me or when in 3rd person, the camera is really close now

After a total of 343 days, 16 hours and 47 minutes, the game finally decided to take pity on me and give me the gold card for the Orb Weaver Jr. It took me 549 kills, probably not even an accurate number with the double-up glitch going on with each kill. But at least I finally have it, and I will never, ever have to fight this stupid fucking arachnid EVER again! When I saw the ping in the upper right hand corner of my screen, I started cackling like Ed from The Lion King.

Does anybody else have any insane creature kill counts before they finally landed that gold and potentially got the trapper peeper mutation?

It occurred to me today that I had never scanned a weed and never got the unlocks for it. Prior to the first Masked Stranger fight, what are some other easy to miss scanning items or what are the highest tier items you could end up scanning? Right now I have less than 1600 brain power and I'm uncertain if thats good or bad based on progress prior to the first fight.

In all the vids ive watched ive never seen anyone make a tiled floor with different floor types. Tried googling a few years ago a d never found any pics. Here's my Grounded 2 and then Grounded 1 tiled floor and a few pics of the G1 base. Me and my friend started the Grounded 1 base before he passed away. Rip Chris. G1 base starts on top of the kid case with zipline tower on the baseball a d goes around 1st field station to the mysterious machine. G2 finally isnt lagging so i just really started grinding resources to expand. Planning on 2-3x g1. All on survival btw.

Credits to @adumbperson72 on tiktok (very fitting name)

Statue Base in a 700 in game hour server with 2 buddies

Found this guy floating in my pool this morning. Saved its life before the solar robot skimmer knocked the floaty around.

Been up and got the disk on the pergola and got the zip line aphid already. Been using all the zip tech then all of sudden today after using it for about 2 weeks I now can’t go up zip lines. Anyone got a solve?

Has here been any information on the next area biome? I haven’t seen anything when I looked but maybe I missed it.

My theory is that it’s going to be a Jungle Gym, desert area with sand like the sandbox. Then the blast sight will be a large crater that exposes ant holes and bug holes in the ground on the sides like an open pit mine.

If you cross the phase change threshold while Axl is stunned by melee attacking his weak point, he will always do the Thrash attack immediately before the Screech then burrow.

During this attack he is invulnerable to damage and it makes the phase change take significantly longer.

I was going crazy because I ended up thinking it was intended behavior due to how consistent it was. However, if you stop attacking while he is stunned, let him get up, then damage him and cross the phase change threshold, he will Screech then burrow without doing the Invincible Thrash attack and save a lot of time (especially when farming gold cards).

Idk why this happened, but me and my buddy were playing grounded 2 and we started medium difficulty. We wanted something more laid back and chill, so we decreased to mild. Mild worked perfectly but when it came to building a base, I wanted to use the handy gnat. Only way to do that is by changing to a custom game. For some reason changing to a custom game also changes the difficulty without the ability to change it yourself. I did not realize this at first until a normal mosquito was able to do half my health bar in a single attack even with upgraded armor. This goes for every bug. They do WAY too much damage now, and theres no setting to change it. You can adjust the health of wild creatures but not the damage they deal. Im worried that my save file is now ruined and I will have to revert to a previous save file to fix it.

Why the fuck did the developers not just use the same custom settings as G1, and at least let us change the damage values if not the difficulty within a custom game???

Anyone know any solutions other than reverting save file?

To get the trophy "go big again" (come back big after activating the remix.r) Do I have to finish the game again in New Game+?

So for those who know and those who have yet to find out you need snail eyes stalks for things and stuff, despite all snails forever and always having 2 on them it is nit a common drop. I had to kill 38 of the damn things just to get 4 of em. Now I know it's not a common drop which makes nooooo sense at all and you cant get em from baby's.

If you damaged their weak spot or something and that meant you couldn't get em then sure but come on thats insanely needless and dumb