Should I kill the sea dragon leviathan?

[APairOfSocks]

I’ve already killed a reaper and a ghost. Planning on going to the lava lakes to complete the game, and I want to eventually kill a sea dragon. Should I do it when I go down there for the first time, or should I sneak passed it and wait for another time

[Steelfleece]

I usually got good results just ramming the bastards with the Cyclops. Make sure you have the shields first, and the thermal reactor helps a lot. Tap the shields just before impact and switch them off when he turns to run. Chase down, honking your horn, and continue. The sea dragons only have as much HP as the reapers, but they're less suicidally aggressive so there'll be more chasing. Last run, extinctionated the sea dragons, got all the juvenile ghosts, cleared the Dunes and was working on clearing the crash zone. That last part was annoying, no thermal vents to recharge so I was going to have to build a base just to charge the Cyclops' batteries.

[Meldiron]

I see that you already killed one so this post is pointless now lol but personally I killed several Reapers and every Ghost youth to make things easier when exploring (and for fun of course). But by the time I went into the ILZ and ALZ I had my Cyclops filled with ion power cells and the thermal reactor upgrade. So I easily stealthed around the Sea Dragons with ease. It was just faster and easier that way lol.

[Mohguy]

Originally posted by Ardcoconut:

Originally posted by Mohguy:

You can totally dodge it. All the creatures are pretty easy to avoid in this game, I don't see the point in killing them

for fun of it?

Subnautica is a game that deliberately puts combat very much in the background. 90% of other games focus on combat, confrontation against mobs, violence etc. Why bring that into a game that advocates the opposite mentality?
I find it pretty crazy how addicted many players are to having to hit things and fight to have fun, never understood.

1: Buildings a base in peace. Because base building is one of the core ideeas of this game.

2. Going down with the cyclops (RIP if you don't realise how annoying this is) and don't want to risk it to break...... Btw, if you create one that you don't care if it get destroyed: RAM it into any leviathans (freeze it before in place!!). Nothing does more damage, aka save you a lot of time.

As a 3rd: nothing bothering you as you drill the big minerals chunks.

4th? No rush, you can explore everything without worrying if something will soon bother you (btw, if someone didn't realise, you can track them via the scanner room's search)

5: no more roah noises

Why not just build in a safe place without Leviathan? There are many potential places, even in the Lost River, and you can't hear their roar everywhere.

The Leviathan are part of the game and the ecosystem, even with the Cyclops it's very easy to dodge them, and it's part of the challenge.

In hindsight it's really a shame that the devs allowed players to attack the Leviathan, but they probably thought that some would have complained if it hadn't been possible.
So they left this possibility by making it extremely tedious to discourage people from doing it, but it wasn't enough obviously, in my opinion they just had to remove this option.

To play without threat there is the creative mode otherwise.

Players are what they want obviously np but I find it really unfortunate to choose the option to kill them

[dreamrider]

There are always two Sea Dragons in the ILZ, generally one south and one north of the Lava
Castle, and one Sea Dragon in the Lava Lakes.

[admiral1018]

One word of caution for Reaper and Sea Dragon hunting -- do not do it if your life is low. If you put either in a stasis bubble, approaching their general head area with low enough life will still trigger the instant death animation. This is actually glitched, as it will repeat that animation for the Reaper 4 times before you finally die.

[dreamrider]

Remote "Rammer" camera drones for the win!

Could you pass me that slice of melon, please.