WHAT ARE THESE GLITCHY CAT THINGS!?!?

[Mone]

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So, I went into this cave cause it looked interesting, and I found these WEIRD GLITCHY CATS!

[Vegas Doc]

They're spiders, you have arachnophobia turned on. Just kill them for their innards! great for biomass production, research.

[Mone]

Originally posted by Vegas Doc:

They're spiders, you have arachnophobia turned on.

Oh.

[Mone]

Originally posted by Mone:

Originally posted by Vegas Doc:

They're spiders, you have arachnophobia turned on.

Oh.

Makes sense.

[esculapio]

I recommend the spiders, creepy atmosphere.

[Cryten]

at least when they arnt falling through the floor or wall seems.

[Amanoob105]

Originally posted by esculapio:

I recommend the spiders, creepy atmosphere.

As someone with genuine arachnophobia I would also recommend keeping the spiders.
Partly because a bunch of disembodied floating cat heads aren't a whole lot better.

But mostly because beating them to death is pretty dam cathartic.

[Mone]

I prefer not. Despite not having true arachnophobia, I truly dislike spiders, even just as on-screen images or characters.

[Mone]

My question though, is why are there cat heads on an alien planet? And why are they Two Dimensional?

[Amanoob105]

Originally posted by Mone:

My question though, is why are there cat heads on an alien planet? And why are they Two Dimensional?

Short answer is, because the devs thought it would be funny to put that option into the game.

[_Matti_]

Originally posted by Mone:

My question though, is why are there cat heads on an alien planet? And why are they Two Dimensional?

In my headcanon I always thought of it as an illusion projected by your helmet on a real spider to make you less afraid. So it's like a visual coping mechanism. They're not "actual" cat heads, just an "AR" illusion. That's how I think of it haha.

[Mone]

Originally posted by Matti:

Originally posted by Mone:

My question though, is why are there cat heads on an alien planet? And why are they Two Dimensional?

In my headcanon I always thought of it as an illusion projected by your helmet on a real spider to make you less afraid. So it's like a visual coping mechanism. They're not "actual" cat heads, just an "AR" illusion. That's how I think of it haha.

If the helmet can do that, WHY DOESN'T IT JUST ALERT YOU TO NOT GO THERE!?

[Mone]

Originally posted by Mone:

Originally posted by Matti:

In my headcanon I always thought of it as an illusion projected by your helmet on a real spider to make you less afraid. So it's like a visual coping mechanism. They're not "actual" cat heads, just an "AR" illusion. That's how I think of it haha.

If the helmet can do that, WHY DOESN'T IT JUST ALERT YOU TO NOT GO THERE!?

The cave didn't even have something to research, what i got was WIP.

[_Matti_]

Originally posted by Mone:

Originally posted by Mone:

If the helmet can do that, WHY DOESN'T IT JUST ALERT YOU TO NOT GO THERE!?

The cave didn't even have something to research, what i got was WIP.

Like I said, that's just my own lore, not something canon :) Regarding your 2nd point though - I also like to theorize that FICSIT, the company you're working for likes to toy with their employees a little bit.

They literally task you with exploiting and destroying the planet in order to build factories. I imagine it's a survival test with a little bit of torture lol

[Vegas Doc]

The reason you would (obligated to) go there is for exploration purposes, exploit any available resources, i.e. alien innards and the resource nodes that they may be guarding. Happy Pioneering!

[Wolfgang]

And if you don't want the spiders then there is a true arachnophobia mod for Satisfactory.