Biters Are Both Annoying and Scary

[Phaota]

After playing this game for so many months, there's nothing in it that is seriously scary (for now, that is). Sure, I get the occasional jumpscare from a Stalker or Bone Shark or even the Reaper every now and then, but now we have these little Biter bastards. I thought they'd be a welcome addition to the game, and they are (to a degree), but already they are becoming a nuisance. The new northern mountains biome has been plopped into the game in the Experimental mode, bringing with it a beautiful new island and inner cave system, as well as a resident Reaper. Problem is, there are Biters everywhere. You can't swim 50 yards without running into a least 6 or more. If they see you, the little cretins want stop chasing until you blast them with the Repulsion Cannon. It makes it difficult to enjoy exploring the new location since you're always having to blast them away. As I said in the beginning, jumpscares used to be rare in the game. Not anymore with the Biters. You can be leisurely swimming along, mindfully watching out for them, when out of nowhere, one escapes your watch and comes up for a bite, zooming by your view. It literally causes you to jump and that's rare for me in this game. I like that, but I don't enjoy the massive amount of them scattered everywhere in the zone. It's like the over abundance of Bone Sharks in the underwater islands area. There are way too many of them, and like the Biters, you have to continuously keep an eye on them and blast those that get close away with the Repulsion Cannon (or do spirals until they give up chasing). I really think both locations need to have the amount of Biters and Bone Sharks diminished by half.

[Everything Bagel]

If not, I will definitely be disapointed. They are just too damn uncreative ):

Of all the things people want to see, I think 'just a regular looking fish that bites you' is pretty far down the checklist. If more are added they would need big nerfs in some shape or form to be palatable.

[tran_fors]

Well, their damage is already nerfed...

[Dinkelsen]

Escrito originalmente por Phaota:

They are definitely not fine the way they are. There are too many of them in nearly all of the biomes, [...] Last I counted, there were 14 or so [...]

I have yet to encounter them in swarms of 14, but I did get jumped by a swarm of 5 or 6. That was managable and thankfully a unique experience. And I do look more careful now before I exit a sub...

I still think that the biter fish entity per se is fine, its size, damage, speed, that works. 14 of them is too much, I agree.

[Phaota]

And you won't, since they are not in swarms. The 14 I mentioned were all individuals, separately spaced in the water in front of the floating island beach.