Do megalodons spawn naturally?

[Bretzel]

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[ElfBossHogg]

Yes. You don't need to spawn them. They tend to appear if you spend a fair amount of time submerged. NOTE: they will show up on SONAR so if you see something shadowing you at about -11m it could be a Meg.

[Little Dave]

Had one go for a workshop heli I was testing.

[Ra-Ra-Rasputin]

Yes, very rarely. Some players haven't ever seen one.

Then, you have a certain Hunter who comes around this forum sometimes. I think every single of his ships has been attacked by one.

[Vikes7to14]

I havent actually seen one other than spawning them in myself.

[thewesternrider44]

I had an experience myself, I was testing my submarine, and was under water for a while trying to see how quick my ballast would fill, I then submerged and saw an ai ship I came up behind it and then Heard a massive bang and went into 3rd person and a megalodon had come up on my 6 and hit me, my back ballast filling up at this point I tried to ran and he hit me again as i started to sink, I went to abandon the sub and was struck again, my engine caught fire and i got out of the boat in time. then spawned back at creative island and tried to shoot missiles at it in a f18

[ShizNator]

If they are enabled yes they tend to be in deeper waters and they are attracted to lights.

When they were first introduce they were secretly put in and I got the bad luck of finding out they were in the game by being attacked as I was bringing passengers to my boat it lunged out of water tried to eat me but thankfully it couldnt reach me it stopped a foot from where i was standing turned slipped back down and ate my boat one bite lmao.

1 week after they were announced in patch notes lol.

Before they could spawn at islands and stalked them made for very hard gameplay when they werre enabled.
But it was changed to deeper waters and like I said they made them to be attracted to lights so the more underwater lights you have and travel to the deeper water areas you might get a surprise.

[Short People Consumer]

yes

[BubBubBub123]

Right as I finished turning on all my lights and I sent out a few flares one of them spawned. I shall now see what will happen next.

[Ruky]

When I test my subs a kraken usually spawn close to my base... but not a megalodon as far as I remember.

[Captain Oveur]

I've had two or three to spawn near each other while I was testing a boat. I thought for sure they would attack. A couple of times, I thought they were going to, but they never did and I managed to get my sinking boat to the docks nearby (I think I was was attacked by the Kracken too earlier and managed to escape into shallower waters).

[wilbur]

yes