Void creature idea.

[Iron Horse]

This game is my haven. I keep coming back to this wonderful, amazing thing every few development updates to play and relearn it all over again. This game is my addiction, and it's wonderful.



However, I don't feel as though there's currently much threat by any of the enemies in the game, except maybe the Sea Dragon. He can hit fast and hit hard. The new Ghost leviathan is "meh", and the Reapers are easy peasy to dodge, or use electronic countermeasures to get rid of.

I actually feel more threatened by Warpers and crabsquid, tbh.



But I was a bit disappointed by the idea that they just added more Ghost Leviathans in the void. "But bigger".

I would suggest the development of a new type of animal. Perhaps one that only spawns in the void when players get too deep.

It -could- be the largest creature implemented, even. Or even second largest. The Emperor is massive, and he has something all these others lack...

Tentacles.

Yes, hentai theories aside, nothing is more alien, or potentially terrifying than having numerous, massive suction cupped tentacles reach out from the inky blackness and pull its hapless victim in.

Why not add some sort of Kraken-like monstrosity in the void. It would be the apex predator of Subnautica, and why no lifeforms ever go far past the shelf.

This would be the guy who preys on the Leviathan classes. Perhaps the Emperor is the only creature that could possibly fight him back.


Just think about it. An impossibly large creature that will attack the player when he reaches a certain depth in the void. Much better than 3 of the same creatures we can find anywhere else now.

You have to make it massive. And threatening. And people will love it.

[Iron Horse]

Originalmente postado por RokuroCarisu:

Originalmente postado por ted222:

i always found that funny how sea treaders use the frikin nose to walk around

Now that is something very alien though. I'll take that over a squid, a fish or a dragon any day.

Most everything is based on something in this game, obviously.

I'm not saying add a squid. I'm saying add something with so many tentacles that you could never count them all.

Nothing frightens more than something we cannot reconcile. And having massive, suction cupped tentacles reach up to drag us down past crush depth?

Yeah. Far scarier than a Sea Dragon that I can just flick off my engine and be nice and safe.

[PotatoPounder]

is that a freaking snail?

[PotatoPounder]

oooooooooooh how about some crature so large the area that isnt the void is just some giant creature and the layable area is its shell or its so huge it moves slow enogh that the stuff doesnt fall off?

[PotatoPounder]

playable area lol

[RokuroCarisu]

Originalmente postado por ted222:

this video isnt available in America! crap!

Sorry for that. I linked a Japanese video, because it brings the alien-ness more to bear if you can't understand the description.
Here's an English version:
https://youtu.be/x7M348dVaio?t=5m7s

Originalmente postado por ted222:

is that a freaking snail?

More like a giant aquatic velvet worm. ;D

[PotatoPounder]

oh yeah these creatures were on a documentary i watched many years ago it killed another of itself

[Phaota]

This subject and very large void creatures have been discussed numerous times in the forum. Yes, it would be awesome, but it isn't a new idea.

[Iron Horse]

Originalmente postado por Phaota:

This subject and very large void creatures have been discussed numerous times in the forum. Yes, it would be awesome, but it isn't a new idea.

Cool beans. Just because it's been discussed before doesn't mean I can't throw in my 2 cents.

[Iron Horse]

Originalmente postado por RokuroCarisu:

So you basically want a GIANT squid?

Let me show you something that is more alien and terrifying than tentacles though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZCoqgWTSRU

This isn't terrifying. Nothing really screams "DANGER" from a creature with no higher brain functions.

Its bite is nasty, but nothing from this documentary says to me that this is an aggressive predator.

[RokuroCarisu]

Originalmente postado por The Lusty Stallion:

This isn't terrifying. Nothing really screams "DANGER" from a creature with no higher brain functions.

Its bite is nasty, but nothing from this documentary says to me that this is an aggressive predator.

Just imagin you being the size of a Trilobite - which were above-average-sized back then. Or, in the context of Subnautica, it being the size of a Reaper.
Anomalocaris targeted smaller creatures crawling or swimming beneath it. It would dive down on them like a bird of prey and grabbed them with its barbed arms, then chomped away or flexed them to break whatever hard parts they may have. Getting caught by this creature meant to be crushed to death by an arry of spikes.

[kwong20287]

I want a creature that can adapt to whatever the player does to fight/counter it. Only weakness is UV light and roams the world at night looking for you. Lives in the void, occasionally hunting ghost leviathans.

[ImHelping]

Sharks holding protest signs about the player ruining the realistic ecosystem of the void.

[Iron Horse]

Originalmente postado por RokuroCarisu:

Originalmente postado por The Lusty Stallion:

This isn't terrifying. Nothing really screams "DANGER" from a creature with no higher brain functions.

Its bite is nasty, but nothing from this documentary says to me that this is an aggressive predator.

Just imagin you being the size of a Trilobite - which were above-average-sized back then. Or, in the context of Subnautica, it being the size of a Reaper.
Anomalocaris targeted smaller creatures crawling or swimming beneath it. It would dive down on them like a bird of prey and grabbed them with its barbed arms, then chomped away or flexed them to break whatever hard parts they may have. Getting caught by this creature meant to be crushed to death by an arry of spikes.

I'm still not threatened by a creature that by nature went after smaller, weaker, slower creatures.

And assuming it did latch on to my Cyclops, all I'd have to truly be worried about is the mouth. The rest of it is non-threatening.



https://youtu.be/6mFw6fQ9QGQ?t=23


I think that description alone is more terrifying than something trying to hover over me to chomp me.

[Maschinengewehr]

+1

[Iron Horse]

To make matters worse, I finally went toe to toe with a Ghost leviathan in the Grand Reef. Said "eff it, let's see what they got".

I was vastly underwhelmed and horribly disappointed. These big guys are supposed to be apex predators? No thanks. They don't even grab you like the Reapers do, which is unique and actually feels threatening.

Just a couple passovers, maybe a bite, you took damage.

GG.


Give me something to truly fear, please.