What is the safest vehicle?

[Lee23]

I feel like the PRAWN Suit has more health than the cyclops, but then the cyclops can have silent running.

Which one is more safe?

[Ragnaman]

Each vehicle has its use.
Seamoth is fast and there is no better vehicle early game for getting you all the required techs so you can get a cyclops and prawn combo.

Prawn is required to go to places where you cant go in your suit, and it can mine things you cant mine in your suit.

Cyclops is a great mobile base, you can build stuff inside the cyclops and also transport a prawn or seamoth. Most obvious thing to do is to transport a prawn as prawn horizontal speed is slow. Parked cyclops with shut down engines does not attract local fauna.

[Amanoob105]

If I can only pick one of those two (no seamoth then)?

Cyclops, even when powered down and not moving will be outright ignored by anything that could want you dead, even if that thing crashes headfirst into you (like a reaper did once to me when it was chasing a fish. On that day my bridge became my poopdeck).

Warpers can't do jack to you while in a cyclops (even as you ram them in the face, try it, it's fun), but if they want you out of that prawn....

And if you do need to leg it for what ever reason, as slow as the cyclops can be at times it's still faster, over all, than the prawn.

And with its three cameras and sonar you can normally find anything that would be a threat to you long an advance of it finding you.

Though needless to say, the best option it to put the two together and make use of both.

[Lee23]

Originally posted by Ragnaman:

Each vehicle has its use.
Seamoth is fast and there is no better vehicle early game for getting you all the required techs so you can get a cyclops and prawn combo.

Prawn is required to go to places where you cant go naked (acid pools/lava pools).

Cyclops is a great mobile base, you can build stuff inside the cyclops and also transport a prawn or seamoth. Most obvious thing to do is to transport prawn as prawn horizontal speed is slow.

That was helpful, but which one breaks easier, and which one is the strongest?

[Bennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn]

Cyclops personally
But the prawn can fight.

[Chibi Life]

Pfft! Who needs a vehicle. True survivors survive with only their flippers!

Also the prawn suit can move rather quickly if you move it diagonally by holding down w and either a or d at the same time. Jump into the air while moving diagonally then grapple onto the ground (a bit ahead of where you are) or an object in front of you or the ceiling while holding rocket and throttle the rocket to speed through the sea faster than even a seamoth. (Make sure you let go of the grapple once you achieve momentum)

It's crazy fun when you get used to it

[Amanoob105]

Originally posted by LeeTwentyThree™:

Originally posted by Ragnaman:

Each vehicle has its use.
Seamoth is fast and there is no better vehicle early game for getting you all the required techs so you can get a cyclops and prawn combo.

Prawn is required to go to places where you cant go naked (acid pools/lava pools).

Cyclops is a great mobile base, you can build stuff inside the cyclops and also transport a prawn or seamoth. Most obvious thing to do is to transport prawn as prawn horizontal speed is slow.

That was helpful, but which one breaks easier, and which one is the strongest?

If you really want to know for sure, just breed crashfish, build a prawn and cyclops, rename them "Sitting duck" and "Target practice" grab a propulsion cannon and...I'm sure you can guess where I'm going with this.

I suspect the prawn might be tougher, but the cyclops is better at not getting hit in the first place.

[Alkpaz]

Seaglide.

[Lee23]

Originally posted by Amanoob105:

Originally posted by LeeTwentyThree™:

That was helpful, but which one breaks easier, and which one is the strongest?

If you really want to know for sure, just breed crashfish, build a prawn and cyclops, rename them "Sitting duck" and "Target practice" grab a propulsion cannon and...I'm sure you can guess where I'm going with this.

I suspect the prawn might be tougher, but the cyclops is better at not getting hit in the first place.

I actually tried that. Crashfish can't even damage the cyclops. It would be more fair to try it with a leviathan.

[DonJuanDoja]

Originally posted by Alkpaz:

Seaglide.

Trying to think of how this could be wrong... I don't think it is. Seaglide = Safest.

It's saved me more times than any other vehicle now that I think of it.

[Alkpaz]

Originally posted by DonJuanDoja:

Originally posted by Alkpaz:

Seaglide.

Trying to think of how this could be wrong... I don't think it is. Seaglide = Safest.

It's saved me more times than any other vehicle now that I think of it.

It is, if you just use the seamoth to get to the LR/ILZ area then use the seaglide the rest of the way to the Thermal/Containment no warper will be able to lock onto you. You could get there without a seamoth.. but then you would have to juggle O2 tanks.. and that gets kinda annoying. :P

[Dottoman]

Originally posted by Alkpaz:

Seaglide.

Seriously. Who needs to worry about leviathans when you can easily outmaneuver them? The only partial exception is the sea dragon because they can swat at you with their arms if you're beside them, but they can't coil around toward you like ghosts or reapers if you're on their back.