Turn ARK into a deep melee combat experience with brutal finishers, dodging, melee combos, heavy attacks, human NPC, routine system, contextual animations, voice lines and roleplay mechanics to bring your surviving experience to life.

Alternatively, dance with dinos, train your body and react dynamically to your environmental constraints.

CONTENT

50+ Finishers
50+ light melee attacks (FREE ACCESS)
50 +heavy attacks
6 Dodging Moves
+10 new attacks for specific dinos
20 tamable human NPC NEW FEATURE - WORK IN PROGRESS
NPC Routine System NEW FEATURE - WORK IN PROGRESS
Spear/bombing fishing minigames
11 walkstyles
Injury mechanics (FREE ACCESS)
Intoxication mechanics
Workout mechanics
Speaking Emotes for Roleplay
Auto contextual player animations (FREE ACCESS)
Emote variants (FREE ACCESS)
Up to 1,000 dubbed voice lines for player states/actions in 4 languages (FREE ACCESS)
22 dance WTF steps
Sync dance with Players or creatures (FREE ACCESS as passive dancer)

⚔️ADVANCED MELEE COMBAT SYSTEM

Your character now gains access to a fully dynamic melee combat styles with dozen of light, heavy and aerial attacks depending on the equipped weapon.

8 COMBAT STYLES:

Barehands
1-hand medium blade
1-hand heavy blade
Pole arm
Pistol
Dual Claws
Dual Wield, Light Range
Dual Wield, Medium Range

Light attack are automatically triggered when pressing the primary fire button
For heavy attacks: use the finisher shortcut.

SHORTCUT RECENTLY UPDATED

🎮 Xbox: Hold LT → then press L3
🎮 PS5: Hold L2 → then press L3
⌨️ PC: Hold left alt→ then press Left Shift

If a finishable target is nearby → a finisher plays.

If no finisher target is detected → a heavy attack triggers automatically instead.

Compatible with most melee weapons. Found one that doesn’t work properly? Report it and I’ll add support.

You can turn off this feature or force a specific combat stylefor compatibility with modded weapons (Check the user guide).

FINISHER/COUNTER FINISHERS

51 execution animations for 9 finishable character types (more to come):

human players
human thralls
Modded human NPCs (from this mod)
bigfoots
direbears
raptors (bionic raptor, bone megaraptor, megaraptor, aberrant raptor, diloBionic raptor)
dilos
oviraptors
terror birds

13 NEW ATTACKS FOR DINOS

The following dinos and their variants have a dozen of attacks with possibility for players to avoid them thanks to the dodging feature

raptors
megaraptors
dilos
direbears

20 TAMABLE HUMAN NPC [New - Work in Progress]

Fight or team up with 20 human NPCs – from savage Barbarians to hardened Apocalyptic survivors featuring the following

Experts in melee weapon combat
Breakable armors over time
Compatible with sync dance and finishers

Check the user guide for more info.

ROUTINE SYSTEM [New - Work in Progress]

Assign waypoints and emotes to dinos or human thralls to make your settlements more lively.
Check the user guide for more info

WALK STYLES

Pick your favorite walk styles with matching idle poses

Circumstance specific

Injured walk (when HP is < 70; apply splint for curing)_
Drunk walk (after drinking strong beverage)
Depressed walk (when thirsty OR hungry)_
Agonizing crawl (when thirsty AND hungry)

On demand

Catwalk male/female/high heels
Sneaking walk
Swagism Walk
Orc like Walk
Dance walking (moon walk & squat/breakdance if crouching or standing)

NEW EMOTES AND CONTEXTUAL ANIMATIONS

New interaction & animation variants featuring unique object interactions and characteristic sound effects.

Eating (various food in player's hand)
Drinking (from recipients and rivers)
Sync dance with your nearby companions (14 dancing emotes to be collected)
Workout to gain XP (7 fitness exercices)
Peeing (drink it to survive in arid areas) - available after 3 drink actions
Vomiting (after getting drunk)
Exhaustion (when running out of stamina)

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CRAFTABLE ITEMS

Apply splints on your wounded legs to walk as normal again!
Watch dancing dinos parties after drinking strong cocktails and smoking psychadelic substances!

MULTILINGUAL DUBBING

Contextual voice lines with dubbed voice for players triggered for various interactions and states in the following languages : English Spanish French German

Related events:

eating
bandage application
drunk state
drinking
thirsty
hungry
exhausted
wounded
pooping
provoking
peeing
searching items
saluting
surrendering
commanding troops (follow/stay/attack)

ARTIFACT HUNT

A collection of USB memory sticks are scattered around the different ARk planet.

Make sure to find them all through a minim hunt game with an audio radar device to unlock all dance teps and walkstyles.

Watch the video for more details. https://youtu.be/xolBJmwg2J4

SYNC DANCE

Perform sync dance with your player friends or fellow creatures for a 5 minute long choregraphy with random dance steps collected through your adventure

List of compatible NPCs:
Raptor
Bigfoot
Terror bird
Equus
Scorpion
Dodo
Giganotosaurus
Quetz
Bionic Stepgo

TIPS

One more thing, it is better to test the mod with the dubbed voice on for the player, to understand why you can or can't do specific things
All walkstyles and dance steps can be either unlocked by cheat or after discovering all the relevant artefacts
You can unlock them all by clicking on the padlock button from the settings menu accessible in the Immersive Hunters Emote menu (through the radial wheel of emotes)

OTHER REMARKS

Check carefully the tutorial video for any details or just ask.
This mod will be constantly updated and improved thanks to your suggestions. Please report any bugs or feedback here

CHEAT COMMANDS

cheat scriptcommand immersivehunters (load all the mod logics in case of failure)
cheat scriptcommand spawnflashdrive (spawn an USB memory stick not far from the player to unlock a dance step or a walkstyle)
cheat scriptcommand hideme (hide the naked character that may appear through the player if your are using other conflicting mods)

FREEMIUM MODEL

The mod includes several free features so you can test and enjoy the core gameplay. Additional advanced features are available through the premium version, helping support future updates and development.