How did you guys deal with the ghost leviathan in the lost river over the skeletal remains?

[MediocrePigeon]

I went in with my prawn suit first, it charged me, I punched it a bit, and didn't really have any troubles after.

[Swamp Fox]

Swam up to him and scanned him in the face

[MediocrePigeon]

Ah, a true way to fight a beast.

[Fenfen]

I just shoved the drill in its face and it ran off. Other options are the Stasis rifle and a hot knife.

[Frau Blücher]

I avoided him entirely and slipped by.

[tarquin]

If I'm in the Lost River farming materials, what I do is ignore it until it makes its attack noise. Then I just move behind something, mostly cove tree branches since they're everywhere. It can't really bend its neck and its head is too wide fit, so it rams face-first into my cover. The AI realizes it can't get me so it turns and leaves. It will still try to attack the next time it swims by but I have plenty of time to keep drilling nodes and I don't have to waste time leaving the area and coming back.

[Dala]

I just ignore them and slip by. If attacked, then defense maneuvers is the next step, in a prawn I fight until it disengage, in a cyclops deploy decoy, shield and run away.

[milesprower06]

I turned and ran when I saw it for the first time in my Seamoth. Wouldn't have made a difference, the Lava Zone entrance it was guarding was too deep for me anyway.

Didn't really have any trouble with it when I returned with the Prawn.

[1ostcat]

I really don't have much trouble with Ghost Leviathans. If I'm free swimming I use the Seaglide to skirt around them. If I'm in the Prawn Suit I drill them in the face when they attack and they usually call it quits until I'm out of there.

I try to avoid dealing with any aggressive Leviathans while in the Cyclops. I basically just use it to cart my Prawn Suit around.

[Sweets]

just turn on silent mode on my cyclops and drove by

[ImHelping]

Originally posted by June:

just turn on silent mode on my cyclops and drove by

And then turn on the shields when they attack anyways.

[JojoTheSlayer]

Avoidance... The main reason I only died a few times to BS reasons. Died two times to the "What, how was my backup tank not filled up!" and another last time to "WTF, I glitched outside my Cyclops while lookint at an inventory and I am land gravity falling into toxic water clouds below."

I would argue the best way to play games like this is two fold.
1. Going into the game knowing nothing.
2. Play like you only have one life even if its not on hardcore.

Once you feel you cant relay on the "just check and die" or reload stuff. The game becomes way more tension driven and you plan more like real life when doing stuff. Makes the game more enjoyable.

[Amanoob105]

Took seamoth. Drove past him.

Then took the other exit on the way out. And drove past the other one.

[Klumpatsch]

For some reason, the Reaper Leviathan makes me pee myself but the Ghost Reaper isn't scary to me. He just looks cool. So the first time I saw him I got out of my Prawn Suit, stunned him a few times and scanned him. On the Cyclops, I just swim by. If he notices me, full thrust and shields up. He doesn't follow me for too long.

[The fanciest feast]

if you just swim close to the ground he cant really get you

[TheSpaceman]

Originally posted by JojoTheSlayer:

Avoidance... The main reason I only died a few times to BS reasons. Died two times to the "What, how was my backup tank not filled up!" and another last time to "WTF, I glitched outside my Cyclops while lookint at an inventory and I am land gravity falling into toxic water clouds below."

I would argue the best way to play games like this is two fold.
1. Going into the game knowing nothing.
2. Play like you only have one life even if its not on hardcore.

Once you feel you cant relay on the "just check and die" or reload stuff. The game becomes way more tension driven and you plan more like real life when doing stuff. Makes the game more enjoyable.

I agree that it's best to play in either of the two ways for full immersion. I've had the game since January of 2016 and played Creative Mode only up until recently. I know the general layout of the map and what the creatures do, but now I have my first survival save and I play like I'm on hardcore. I have about 1 day and 7 hours in my save, and I haven't died yet. I'm still learning new tricks through trial and error though, as I never had much use for silent running in Creative Mode but relied on it like a red-light-green-light game with the reapers in the Dunes.