The official pictures above do not make it crystal clear that you must make three consecutive, completed, circles first, before the initial lasso is counted, subsequent consecutive circles count as one lasso per completed circle. After you have completed the three initial circles, the screen will prompt you to ‘release’, which means lift your circling finger off the screen. THIS IS NOT AN INSTRUCTION – this simply means that if you do release, from this point forward, Damage will be inflicted on the feral Dot and it will lose some Health – read more below:

As you complete consecutive lassos you will notice the Feral Dot Health Bar declining and a lasso Multiplier number (bonus) increasing. The Lasso Multiplier number increases by 0.25 (rounded on screen) for each successive completed lasso after the initial 3. When you release, the Damage done to the Feral Dot’s Health will be scaled by the Lasso Multiplier active when you released.

Be aware that the maximum lasso Multiplier is 4x, completing any further circles without releasing will not reduce the Feral Dot Health any further so keep one eye on that, and when/if it reached 4x, release straight away. You can then start circling again to reduce the Feral Do’s damage further. Lasso Multipliers can be seen here:

The Multipliers shown on screen in the game are rounded to 1DP.

Note: once you have released, you will need another 3 consecutive circles before the Lasso Multiplier starts to increment again.

When you have reduced the Feral Dot’s Health to zero, you have ‘rescued’ the Feral and it will be freed from the Blight. You have ‘Dazzled’ the Feral Dot and ‘rescued’ it.

(Quite why causing Damage and reducing an entity’s Health to zero results in a ‘rescue’ we have no idea but those are terms used in the game!).

After completing the recuse mission, you will be rewarded with BlightBux and Dot XP, the quantities of which depend on the Level of the feral Dot you have rescued. The following table shows the current Feral Levels and Rewards:

BlightBux are a new in-game currency that can be used to purchase items from the Store. Some items are fairly static, others rotate daily, and there are occasional special one-off offers. There is little point in hoarding BlightBux as you can only retain a maximum of 12,500 at any time. If you have reached 12,500 then any additional Ferals you rescue will only reward Dot XP.

Tips (not guaranteed but worth a try if you are having difficulties):

• If the feral Dot appears too close on your screen, take a couple of steps backwards – if you are lucky, the Feral Dot will take up less space onscreen and you will remain within range.
• Feral Dots tend to do most of their movements by jumping from side to side, try tipping your device on its side into landscape (or widescreen) mode to allow a little more flexibility in lassoing the feral Dot.
• You could also experiment with ‘tricking’ the AR by trying to get the Feral Dot to initially settle between two objects that contrast with the surrounding area. It may just be possible to prevent the Feral from jumping around if the AR thinks that there are solid obstacles in the way

So, you have successfully rescued a Feral – what next? Well, the rescued Feral will appear in your Visitor Dots tab and you have the option to Hatch with them should you wish. The Hatch cost of rescued Ferals is currently set to base cost (i.e. 1x). You can check out the cost by simply tapping the Feral Dot in the Visitor Dots tab.

Rescued Dots will remain in your Visitor Dot tab for 24 hours, after which they are gone forever!

Feral Trait Match Multipliers

So, we have covered the basic `Lasso Multipliers, but there’s another one to consider too! For every Trait that your Dot matches with the Feral, there is an additional factor – the Trait Match Multiplier. Once again, this scales with increasing Trait matches as listed in the Table below:

The Trait Match Multipliers appear to compound with the other Multipliers therefore making the Feral Dot easier to rescue!

Feral Dot Health and Keeper Dot Damage.

As with any battle system, there must be baseline values for Health (Feral only) and Damage done (Keeper Dot only) which determine the difficulty or ease with which the Feral Dot can be rescued. The current Damage base stats vary according to the Bond Level of your Dot and are summarised below:

Feral Dot Health similarly scales with the Feral Dot Level and the current base stats are given below:

Misc.

There are other parameters within the Feral Dot Dazzling and rescue mechanic however for now these appear to be as yet unused and are perhaps intended for further tweaks or special Dazzle events. When they become an obvious part of the game, we will add them to his page!