FINALLY someone makes a normal biodiversity mod that just adds realistic marine life instead of yet another "Husks revamped #69420" or "Ultra hardcore absurdo boss monster 5000" mod

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Peak name,sadly i dont need it

make a fish that can go boom for it was in a high presser envierment and when to a non-high presser envierment

was time put into each creature where the limbs aren't static items that do nothing but instead they can move and have a purpose in its evolution perchance? (god i wish i knew how to code)

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@valveworshipper there's already the Hugo, a large crustacean in the Europan Ridge and Aphotic Plateau
anything bigger and more abyssal might be just outright hostile to submarines

can we get a big-ass crustacean for the abyss?

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the transition from ai is lovely. you people are lovely. i love you

@Dorito i was using a modpack but in my experience doing modpacks idk why it lagged so much, i was using dynamic europa, barotraumatic and the typical QOL and realistc ones like enhanced armaments and neurotrauma + addons, idk, anyways thanks for the response i will check it out

@cursedsanti shouldn't affect performance much if not at all, no idea why you're having issues, might be another mod? (unless the only other mod you use is barotraumatic, in which case idk might be your pc)

wow, amazing mod dude, may i ask... how much this affect performance in game? i used barotraumatic and it was unplayable, idk why. Anyways thanks for your work

"go missing"

holy replaced all the AI, we love you

What can we expect to find when we go missing?

hmm the "Go missing" on the Road Scrolle seems suspesious

Adding some hungry europa patch would be aweome love the background sound

noice

@Krea it's surprisingly client-side (I played with it on random non-modded servers and was surprised at still seeing them swim around)
i'm pretty sure the performance impact is none at all if not at least negligible, each fish is like a few kilobytes in space so I don't think it takes away a lot of resources to render them in?

Is this mod client side, and how much does this mod impact peformance, especially on a long campaign

Interesting. I'll definitely be checking this mod out.

Personally, I'm not a huge fan of AI generated imagery, but I can't really complain when it's a free mod. A lot of people here taking issue with it are probably unaware that the Barotrauma devs themselves also used AI image generation, particularly for menu and loading screen backgrounds, and nobody really complained about it then. These were placeholders of course, and most of them have been replaced in the "Calm Before the Storm" update. You seem committed to replacing the current sprites in your mod eventually, so I think people should be willing to afford the same charitability.

Also nice to see some of the cut creatures restored. I never quite understood why they removed them in the first place. They don't conflict with the current art style, and some of these have been in the game for years.

@Tem黄 Lore-wise, some of them if not most should be edible, in fact some fish are rarer because of fishing
you can't eat them in-game though sadly

That's great. Can i cook and eat them?

Cool mod, thx for actually finding the artist to replace all of that AI slop

@Karkino there might be in the future but not really sure, since they'd probably be walking along the walls and the BackgroundCreatures.xml doesn't really support stuff like that
i'm thinking of a giant crustacean swimming slowly in the background

Ai shit

Yeah I like fishsticks, so what!?

are crustaceans out of the scope of the mod? some shrimp fellas could go nicely too

Do you like fish stick's? Do you like putting fish stick's in your mouth?!

add fishing need fish

i love fuck!

特别好的工作

Thank you for adding legacy fishes!!!!

@Stick nah i just love fish

is this the new method for farming steam points

is that dish or fuck?

Absolute Fishima

I must say the AI did a decent job generating everything

@bit* OH you mean the nautilus-like thingy, yeah I was thinking of adding the Legacy background creatures + the fish that were removed in the Calm Before the Storm update to this mod
so yeah expect an update real soon

Snailfish as in one of the background fish from legacy, it had a shell kinda like a snail. I got the name from BTE, my bad

@m12 still mad you didnt make front page?

@bit* is there a snailfish, no, but i read more about the snailfish and came across an article talking about it "breaking the record for living at the deepest ocean depths known to humanity", so I'm thinking of adding it in the future with it being a Great Sea fish, although ofc it's gonna be a lil bit different, maybe having more than 2 eyes or something to differentiate it a bit

You know what that means

I appreciate you wearing the AI slop on your sleeve and acknowledging its not real art. I'll follow this project until it either fizzles out or an actual artist can take their interpretation of Europa's non-intractable aquatic life. I hope if and when that time comes, you don't hold them too strictly to the shapes conjured by the math equation pretending to know what a fish is.

ai slop(

is there or will there be snailfish inclusion

@spivel Friedrich Nietzsche is literally me (I haven't read a single thing from him)

whats with the philosopher

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