Leviathans
The_Shark
USA Join Date: 2015-08-24 Member: 207433Members
USA Join Date: 2015-08-24 Member: 207433Members
Alright, so from what I can gather, the word "Leviathan" is being used in Subnautica to describe any particularly large creatures. Examples for what "particularly large" means:
So, I had a thought. If they're going to be making such massive creatures, why don't we the people brainstorm? I started this thread to post an idea I had for another Leviathan, and I'd love it if others did the same.
Basically, I call it the Primal Leviathan. It's an ultra-massive creature, so much so that there would need to be an option to turn it on and off so people with slower computers can play. It would be shaped a tiny bit like this weirdo (it's called a Frilled Shark), but with considerably slimmer proportions:
My ideas for the Primal are as follows:
I am fully aware that this is a rather controversial idea, but try to keep an open mind, and offer actual criticism instead of just saying "that's stupid." I am prepared to argue. Anyway, if anyone else has Leviathan ideas, I'd love to see them.
So, I had a thought. If they're going to be making such massive creatures, why don't we the people brainstorm? I started this thread to post an idea I had for another Leviathan, and I'd love it if others did the same.
Basically, I call it the Primal Leviathan. It's an ultra-massive creature, so much so that there would need to be an option to turn it on and off so people with slower computers can play. It would be shaped a tiny bit like this weirdo (it's called a Frilled Shark), but with considerably slimmer proportions:
My ideas for the Primal are as follows:
- Only spawns in biomes with a floor below 2500 meters
- Exceedingly slow, between the speeds of a reefback and the player
- There can only be one spawned at a time
- Large enough to bite a Reefback in half
- Maybe even something in the story about how all of the Leviathan creatures are related, and this is the "grandfather" of all the others (like how the Megalodon is the grandfather of the Great White Shark IRL). Thus, the name "Primal."
- The teeth are actually unusually small for the creatures size, about the size of the player's knife
I am fully aware that this is a rather controversial idea, but try to keep an open mind, and offer actual criticism instead of just saying "that's stupid." I am prepared to argue. Anyway, if anyone else has Leviathan ideas, I'd love to see them.
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In saying that, I know there's an area near the floater islands that connects to deep lava caverns where it's incredibly dark (around 1285m down). Maybe the designers could place all the scary monsters down there.
Nuclear Leviathan
A colossal reptilian monster that can be summoned in the inactive lava zone. Attacks by biting, or blasting its malcontents with a powerful radioactive breath blast to microwave and cook them alive. However, wearing the Radiation Suit makes its breath attack harmless.
Lightning Leviathan
A colossal, amphibious, reptilian monster that can be summoned in the Floating Islands. Generates powerful electric currents throughout its body and can launch bolts of lightning from its mouth, or create a field around it to electrocute enemies. Its lightning can actually charge vehicles and tools, but will kill the player.
Love it! Maybe it could be called the Roc Leviathan, after another bird with a similar wingspan.
I love Megalodons, but maybe just giant stalkers or something. If you like Megs too, read the "Meg" series by Steve Alten.
First part, my thoughts exactly. Second, maybe all the Leviathans EXCEPT a select few (Reapers, Emperors, and Dragons)
The nuclear leviathan makes me think of Godzilla, but that'd be cool. The Lightning Leviathan sounds really unique, I'd love to see that.
Since when? The Cyclops is 180 feet long, the Reaper is nearly twice that, making it over three and a half times the size of a Blue Whale. Maybe this planet has a different level of gravity, which is why such things are possible, and why you can swim so fast.
Ye canna change the laws of physics, Jim! >.<
"Max size."
You realize that the Reaper Leviathan is nearly 120 meters, and that the Emperor Leviathan is going to be bigger, and the Sea Dragon Leviathan bigger still?
I liked Conthrar's idea of a big flying creature tho.
I'm not saying we need more, I'm saying when they inevitably add more, we the people should help decide what properties they should have.
>Building structures in seconds with magic lasers
I have read the first two books in that series.
1) It's an alien planet.
2) It's a game
Taking the two above factors into consideration, anything is possible!
Exactly. Welcome to Kamino.
Indeed. So if your reason for not wanting them is physics, keep that in mind.
*nod* Nice. I've read... four, I believe.
Exactly. Those two, plus if your argument is 100 meters is max size, go look at the 120-meter Reaper, which is the smallest Leviathan.
Putting my quote after the Captain's starts my point.
I'm fully aware that we don't "need" more Leviathans. But then again, you could just as easily say that we don't "need" Reefbacks, or Seabases, or anything for that matter. True, we don't need them. Do we want them? Some people do. I've heard from/spoken to at least a dozen people, all of which agree that one thing they really want in Subnautica is to have a hidden, ridiculously massive creature. So, while it's true we don't need more Leviathans, having them well-designed, as well as having story, would make it so that there are a lot of people out there who would want them.
There are many oceanic sound evidences recorded by military hydrophones, that huge unknown creatures live in the depths of the pacific ocean.
"The Bloop"-Sound: (source: wikipedia)
The sound's source was roughly triangulated to 50°S 100°WCoordinates:
50°S 100°W (a remote point in the south Pacific Ocean west of the southern tip of South America), and the sound was detected several times by the Equatorial Pacific Ocean autonomous hydrophone array.
This system was developed as an autonomous array of hydrophones that could be deployed in any oceanographic region to monitor specific phenomena.
It is primarily used to monitor undersea seismicity, ice noise, and marine mammal population and migration.
This is a stand-alone system designed and built by NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) to augment NOAA's use of the U.S. Navy Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS), which was equipment originally designed to detect Soviet submarines.
According to the NOAA description, it "rose rapidly in frequency over about one minute and was of sufficient amplitude to be heard on multiple sensors, at a range of over 5,000 km (3106.86 miles)."
The NOAA's Dr. Christopher Fox did not believe its origin was man-made, such as a submarine or bomb, nor familiar geological events such as volcanoes or earthquakes.
While the audio profile of Bloop does resemble that of a living creature, the source was a mystery both because it was different from known sounds and because it was several times louder than the loudest recorded animal, the blue whale.
A number of other significant sounds have been named by NOAA: Julia, Train, Slow Down, Whistle and Upsweep.
Dr. Christopher Fox of the NOAA initially speculated that Bloop may be ice calving in Antarctica. A year later journalist David Wolman paraphrased Dr. Fox's updated opinion that it was probably animal in origin."
here are the 5 "mysterious" hydrophone sound records - listen for yourself:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ4g5NVWaVw
That is why I think, we should not say that huge oceanic giants are "physically impossible", too early!
So a bigger mouth, eyeless is good, and yes, a big big mass. And most important those awful echo sound it produces a minute before you can actually see him. His sonar makes the cyclops shake 10 seconds before he appears.
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The cyclops needs an emergency dive up system.
I think the Primal Leviathan should fulfill that niche. This thing is meant to bite adult Reefbacks in half (the ones in-game right now are juveniles), so it could be large enough to swallow the Cyclops.
Yes, yes it does. IRL submersibles are able to dive because of metal weight plates which pull them down. If these are all released at once, then the submersible will rocket to the surface at ridiculous speed (so much that the pressure changes can be fatal before you actually reach air). The Cyclops needs an "Oh shit" button that launches you upwards, but at a safer speed (just barely though).
It's like a handheld version of a 3D printer, from what I can gather.
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If they add more leviathans they better be well designed.
Well, i shoulve said "I don't think more leviathans are what we need RIGHT NOW". With the current size of the map i have no clue where to even put the SE and SD.
If my comment sounded like "that's stupid" to you, i'm very sorry, what i tried to get across was: I don't want every huge threat in this sea to be a hulking fish. How about a super organism of protozoons that have some kind of swarm intelligence or as someone posted before a winged creature that swoops down on you. I bet there is tons of good ideas that differ from "can take a reefback in one bite" ... THAT's what i meant with unispired.