Thalassodromeus

Thalassodromeus
"Thalassodromeus cuneumi"
Nickname	Thalasso, Thal, Thala, Bird
Species	T. sethi T. cuneumi T. robustus
Category	Carnivore
Class	Flying
Group Slot Size	3
Statistics
Damage	★★
Defense	★
Recovery	★★
Land Speed	★★★
Water Speed	★★
Survivability	★★★★

The Thalassodromeus is a medium-sized flying carnivore. Able to fly high and dive underwater, it can attack prey in practically any terrain, although its frailty greatly holds it back.

Description

The Thalassodromeus is a medium-sized pterosaur known for its distinct and impressive crest. Thalassodromeus has large, powerful wings to carry itself up into the air, with loud and unique calls for communicating and signalling to others. Thalassodromeus is one of the most maneuverable playables in Path of Titans, able to travel easily on land, sky and sea. However, its proficiency in movement is offset by its fragility in combat.

Check out dinosaur stats for more details.

Paleo Info

Thalassodromeus is a genus of pterosaur that lived in what is now Brazil during the Early Cretaceous period, about 100 million years ago. It had one of the largest known skulls among pterosaurs, around 1.42 m (4 ft 8 in) long, with one of the proportionally largest cranial crests of any vertebrate. Though only the skull is known. The crest was lightly built and ran from the tip of the upper jaw to beyond the back of the skull, ending in a unique V-shaped notch. The jaws were toothless and had sharp upper and lower edges. Its skull had a large nasoantorbital fenestrae (the opening that combined the antorbital fenestra in front of the eye with the bony nostril), and part of its palate was concave. The lower jaw was blade-like and may have turned slightly upwards. Thalassodromeus belongs to the clade Azhdarchoidea.

Abilities

These are the Abilities Thalassodromeus can use for combat.

Name	Icon	Description	Damage	Unlock Cost	Slot	Cooldown
Bite		Causes medium damage.	50	FREE	Head	1s
Lone Hunter		Gain 10% increased attack damage when not in a group.	+10%	700	Senses	N/A
Land Runner		Move 20% faster when on the ground.	N/A	900	Senses	N/A
Flock Migration		Decreases stamina use when flying by 10% for each Flyer nearby in your group. Stacks up to 4 times.	N/A	800	Senses	N/A
Gripping Claws		Turn 20% faster when on the ground.	N/A	900	Front Limb	N/A
Fisher		Can eat meat and fish, moderate food drain.	N/A	FREE	Metabolism	N/A
Hypercarnivore		Only able to eat meat, food drains much slower.	N/A	1,200	Metabolism	N/A
Streamlined		Increases swim speed and swim turning speed by 10%.	N/A	800	Hide	N/A
Webbed Feet		Increases swim speed by 10% and decreases swim stamina drain by 20%.	N/A	800	Legs	N/A
Skydiver		Take 40% reduced fall damage.	N/A	800	Legs	N/A
Long Distance Runner		Reduces running stamina drain by 15%.	N/A	1100	Legs	N/A

Flight

A new feature that is exclusive to this character, and all the other winged pterosaurs to follow, is full-fledged flight. In order to take to the air, you must double tap the respective jump button. To land, simply slow your flight speed and press the crouch button, or alternatively, just fly to the ground. Just be sure that you have slowed down beforehand, or you will take collision damage. While flying, Thala loses stamina at a steady rate. Moving forward or increasing altitude will drain stamina faster. By not moving the movement key/stick you will begin to soar. This allows some forward distance while reducing stamina drain. However, you will start to lose altitude and speed if you do not occasionally move the forward input. Sprinting in flight is possible and will allow you to move fly slightly faster when ascending or soaring but costs more stamina to maintain. If you run out of stamina mid-flight, you will slowly descend as if you were intending to do so but you will not be able to soar until touchdown.

Survivability

Thalassodromeus has, debatably, the best chances of survival due to it being a flyer. However, it is also extremely frail. A juvenile can be one-shotted by many of the larger characters even when they are not adults. The only offensive ability is a bite, which is not very powerful. This means that combat wise, Thala must either pick off juveniles or cannibalize. Alternatively, it can be a vulture and eat other players' leftovers. Thala also has Fish Eater, so it can also hunt for fish. Currently, Thala is also capable of swimming and is actually very maneuverable in water. So as a means of escaping land predators, Thala can run into the water and regenerate stamina that can be used to fly to a higher area that cannot be reached by any land predator. When flying, players must be careful to not crash into anything as this will do a large amount of damage. HP regen and stamina regen are pretty fast though.

Skins

In-Game Skins

These skins can be unlocked in game using Marks.

Default
Common
FREE

Razorbill
Common
1,500

Jungle
Common
1,500

Silvery
Common
2,000

Fringed
Common
2,500

Speckled
Uncommon
3,000

Rufous
Uncommon
3,500

Autumn
Rare
5,000

Wreathed
Rare
6,000

Albino
Legendary
10,000

Melanistic
Legendary
10,000

Store Skins

These skins can only be obtained by buying them through the in-game or Alderon Games store for a limited time.

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Gallery

This is a gallery of Thalassodromeus.

A Thalassodromeus that glitched out of the skybox.

Trivia

• It was a part of the twelfth stretch goal, worth $177K AUD ~ $120K USD.
• Thalassodromeus was the first flying playable released in Path of Titans, along with the first fully aquatic playable and island map, Gondwa.
• Thalassdromeus' diet is very obvious from the fossil record. While other tapejarids ate fruit, Thalassodromeus functioned more analogously to a modern day stork or raven, as a carnivore. A swift-footed and flying predator with a scissor-like beak, it could slice up any potential meal with ease.
• Thalassodromeus has only one ability used for combat.

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