Arctic Spires ruined

[Jiroun]

Arctic Spires location was pretty... fitting with its description. Constant danger, feeling of being hunted by dangerous creature. It was fun.
But now... now its nothing but annoying for me. I dont know when developers changed ice worms behavior, but now its definitely different in a bad way. Starting even from ambient sounds and music, which changed from bit horrifying, and again, perfect fitting for location, to absolutely regular and faceless. Attacks seems to be more rare, yes, but now its literally impossible to dodge it, and its 100% chance to be knocked out from snowfox. Of course, "100%" might be just my bad luck, but in comparing to my experience of older versions, it pissed me off so hard, that i can no longer go in arctic spires without invisible cheat. I feel sad about this. Yet, I still hope developers will return old "fashion" of location.

[LadstonFelisGaming]

Use the PRAWN. You can navigate easier, tank the unavoidable hits, and sequence break in a few places. It makes the Snowfox pointless.

[Dex]

The Prawn Suit is so much better for navigating the biome than the Snowfox that it's kinda sad.

With the jump jet upgrade and a grappling arm you can fling yourself around the arctic spires at velocities high enough to dodge most of the attacks from the ice worms. If you do get hit the Prawn can tank the damage while not instantly kicking you out unlike the Snowfox.

[Halliwax]

I went through it on foot an never got hit.

[Ludivinia V.]

What's not to like about invincible teleporting enemies who only exist to swat you off your vehicle from any distance away? That's great game design right there.

Take the Prawn, finish the area, never return.

[Series_oc]

Get hit off snowfox, repair, jump back on, repeat.

[Andreas]

Originally posted by Jiroun:

and its 100% chance to be knocked out from snowfox. Of course, "100%" might be just my bad luck,

Nah, I think it's programmed that way.

[Dragonofoz]

PRAWN suit definately. My friend and i took our suits, for the storage and made the worms laughable. The only advantage the snowfox has is its headlights can see through the blizzards. I hated the controls for the snowfox from the first update that put it in the game

[Engioc]

I've just started getting in to the Arctic Spires area, and yeah I have to admit the ice worms make the snowfox pointless. I know its meant to be an ambush predator but its so over the top the only way to get around is with the prawn.

I had visions of racing around in my snowfox ala Star Wars style, but nope, its not that fast, its difficult to control and slow to turn. I've been using it to get around in the Glacial Basin area, and it wasn't even all that useful or necessary there.

I'm enjoying the game but the snowfox is starting to look like a pointless item. Tone down the ice worm a bit so the snowfox is usable.

[Big Bete]

This is where I stopped playing the game. With the half-ass entrance barrier (fetch quest in other words) that consisted of me having to take a 10 minute trip back to my base twice to get materials for a snow fox, and then get materials for hydrolic fluid, the ice worm knocking me off and me spamming to get back on the snow fox to avoid getting damaged resulted in either accidentally picking it up, or having an annoying but cheap exploitable way to just completely avoid danger. Its things like this, and the fact that the shadow Leviathan could instantly find me in the sea truck unless I dismounted and hid inside it till it went away, are small- ignored details- that competently un-immerse and ruin the game for me. I was playing in hardcore, lets just say this is where I died.
Its like the same deal in the first Subnuatica game where I could just grapple onto the tail of a Leviathan with the Sea Prawn and just punch/drill it do death, making any threat seem insignificant.