Overseer

The Overseer is the Final Boss in ARK: Survival Evolved and has two types of minions: the s and the s.

Behavior
It will change forms periodically to one of the three Guardians, the, the or  , so it is guaranteed to transform each time it loses 25% health.

Appearance
It is reminiscent of the specimen implant, having the characteristic shape of a diamond. When transformed into one of the 3 Guardians and summoning Defense Units it takes the form of a mass of hexagonal prisms, and will shine the corresponding color of the difficulty (red for Alpha, blue for Beta, and green for Gamma).

Lore
It is the AI that oversees the experiments of an ARK Station and ultimately decides who may continue to ascend higher in the evolutionary chain and who will be terminated. It tends to all the life on its ARK until a signal calls it down to terraform Earth back to normal.

Location
The Overseer can only be found in the Overseer Arena accessible by completing the Tek Cave and teleporting to the Observation Deck.

Tribute Requirements
The following items are needed to open the Tek Cave entrance. These items are not consumed in the process:

It is also worth noting that the greater difficulty trophies can be used to open the Tek Cave entrance at lower difficulties. (i.e. the Alpha Broodmother, Megapithecus and Dragon trophies can open the Tek Cave at gamma difficulty)

Tribute Spawn Commands
Uses these commands to give yourself all the items needed for tribute:

Drops
Does not drop anything

Unlocks
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Base Stats and Growth
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Combat
You fight in what can be described as rounds, you will need to try to attack the Overseer while defending yourself (and your dinosaurs) from the s and s, while you attack the Overseer it will change form into different Bosses while it loses health until it's destroyed.

General
The Overseer is one of the most formidable Bosses in ARK. The Player enters its Arena handicapped after being weakened by the journey through the Tek Cave. The Overseer has a total of four forms with separate health meters, and it constantly summons Defense Units and Attack Drones. The minions drop upon death which can be helpful to players using Tek during the Boss fight. Any Element collected during the fight will disintegrate afterwards when the player Ascends.

The Overseer's main form resembles a. When it morphs into this form, it brings up an energy shield that lasts for a few seconds and blocks all damage. It also has an area-of-effect laser attack that is deployed in a bottom-to-top "orbital" fashion, making it very difficult to avoid. Lastly and most notably, the Overseer likes to employ a shock/stun-lock and dismounting ability.

The Overseer's other three forms are Tek-energy clones of the Island's three Guardians:, , and. Each of these forms displays characteristics and attacks of the original. For instance, the Megapithecus throws energy boulders while the Dragon breathes fire. The Overseer does not have every attack, however; every boss form is unable to spawn its corresponding minions, and the Dragon form cannot fly upwards.

Strategy
Even a fully-imprinted, starting 150+ Rex will die quite quickly at second phase. One significant issue is trying to reach the platform to access the Overseer Arena within the Tek Caves due to the danger of the area, both navigation-wise and dinosaur-wise.

During the boss fight, make sure you have some players focus the droid-minions and have a plan for if someone gets knocked off. Communication will make the fight much more bearable.

If alone it's best to send almost all of your tames except 1 (preferably a Yutyrannus) to attack the Overseer while you mount the 1 you didn't send and proceed to use your mount to kill off incoming and  to prevent being overwhelmed, So long as you watch carefully for the Overseers stun attacks, use the pillars as cover against the stun attacks and periodically courage roar your tames you should be in good shape. If using the Therizino strategy any meat you gathered from the tek cave could be used to heal your Yutyrannus when it's getting low on health and any Daeodon you brought giving you a unlimited heal effect so long as the Daeodons are alive since they're the only tames using meat other than the Yutyrannus. If doing this at the very least have 2 Daeodons so that they can heal each other, at least 1 Yutyrannus that you can use to buff your dinos and the rest would be Therizinos.

Equipment wise tek is a must for the fight especially since the Overseers minions drop element when they die, also at least have ascendant level saddles for your tames. Bring plenty of recipes especially Medical Brews and Sweet Vegetable Cakes. Players can hover above the overseer and rain their attacks with minimal damage being done to them. Watch out for the Attack Drones as they will always be above you.

Recommended Tames

 * A should definitely be brought into the Overseer boss battle due to their courage roar ability.
 * could work just as well as Rex's if not possibly better due to the Overseers Dragon form, plus it'll save more room for the Daeodons if you decide to bring any.
 * The Common strategy of Rushing is almost always a good strategy for almost any boss due to their high health and damage, however, the Therizinos might be a better strategy in the long run for the Overseer fight because they would be better suited at taking on the Overseers Dragon form tanking the damage and take on the other forms almost just as well and also don't consume meat giving more to Daeodons or Yutyrannus if you bring any with you.
 * If players are willing to put the effort into micromanaging their food the can also be valuable due to their healing ability, just make sure they eat plenty of corpses from the Tek cave before heading into the arena to get full value out of them, using the Therizino strategy will lessen the need to micromanage.

Off map recommendations:

 * s, particularly at a high level are great for decimating minions with hit and run.
 * , once again the levelled members can latch onto enemies to shred them with bleed.

Dangers

 * If you don't deal with the attack and defense drones, they will overwhelm you - don't just focus on the boss.
 * Watch for the Overseers Stun attack especially if you're getting overwhelmed as suggested above since the stun will dismount you.
 * Be mindful of the boss forms the Overseer shifts into.
 * The biggest thing to worry about is the Overseers Dragon form due to it's instakill bite attack on players and the fire attack dealing more damage to carnivores.
 * Humans are next to helpless when dismounted, so make sure to be mounted unless confident you won't be struck upon.

Weakness
Because it transforms into different bosses, you can use the strategies you used on those bosses again for the boss that the Overseer becomes, albeit difficult.

The four large pillars you find in the arena can be used as a shield from the Overseer's dismounting stun lasers, since they cannot pass through terrain.