Creature Concept: Sperm Whale Bass Cannon
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I came here to laugh at you Join Date: 2015-08-01 Member: 206618Members
I came here to laugh at you Join Date: 2015-08-01 Member: 206618Members
If you don't think this is the tightest shit get out of my face.
So I was looking up random stuff about sperm whales when I happened across this.
I have a hunch that this might be the Crabsquid's main form of attack, due to it's equally giant head and the cloud like hitbox of its projectile.
But, if this turns out to not be the case, and it attacks with like, psychic mind pulses or something, I'd like for there to be a massive creature with a similar means of attack as the Sperm Whale.
Maybe a full grown Reefback could resonate its vocalization chamber and create a powerful stun blast around it to ward off predators. Or a giant transparent, ghost like whale could use it to stun its smaller, faster prey. (I.e. You)
Whaddyathink? Pretty cool huh?
Really I'm just stoked that the Sperm Whale has a Bass Cannon in its head.
So I was looking up random stuff about sperm whales when I happened across this.
The whale’s powerful radar may be able to do more than just locate its prey. Scientists have found smaller and faster prey in the whale’s stomach, and they don’t show bite marks. How does this lumbering giant catch them?
One possibility is that the sound pulses focused through the huge head stun the fish and make them easy prey: in other words the spermaceti organ is the focus for an acoustic stun gun. Scientists are proposing to attach cameras and data recorders to the heads of the whales to test this hypothesis.
I have a hunch that this might be the Crabsquid's main form of attack, due to it's equally giant head and the cloud like hitbox of its projectile.
But, if this turns out to not be the case, and it attacks with like, psychic mind pulses or something, I'd like for there to be a massive creature with a similar means of attack as the Sperm Whale.
Maybe a full grown Reefback could resonate its vocalization chamber and create a powerful stun blast around it to ward off predators. Or a giant transparent, ghost like whale could use it to stun its smaller, faster prey. (I.e. You)
Whaddyathink? Pretty cool huh?
Really I'm just stoked that the Sperm Whale has a Bass Cannon in its head.
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Bass Cannon Whale could definitely be peaceful, but just have a weapon to hunt its preferred prey, which would be smaller fish. Only way you'd get blasted was if you were in front of it, or near its head when it used the attack.
Sorta like the Gasopods, but it generally doesn't give two shits about you and only wants to eat.
Personally I'd like more creatures trying to eat or kill me, but since I understand not everyone's into that sort of survival I hope they put in a 'peaceful' gamemode. That way everyone gets to enjoy the game's creatures.
This.
I mean, I'm all for the idea of a bunch of stuff that wants to kill you... as long as the ratio is logical. What sense would an ecosystem make with 500 predators and 1 prey creature? None at all. So, I'm fine with as many aggressive creatures as they want... as long as there are at least that many passive ones.
What about a bright flash?
And with your suggestion combined, they are captain pla a flashbang!
to be honest there are a lot of herbivore species in the game but mostly small fish like the spadefish. the ratio so far makes a lot of sense
I beg to differ.
Passive side:
Aggressive side:
That's 10 aggressive versus 18 passive. Meaning, there are less than twice as many prey fish as there are predator. In a realistic ecosystem, that simply makes no sense. And seeing as all of the current "in-production" fauna, with the one exception of the Cute Fish, are aggressive, it would add up to more aggressive than passive creatures. And that simply doesn't make sense. Imagine a super-simplified ecosystem, say with 1 species of prey (deer) and two species of predator (wolves and bears, for instance). There simply wouldn't be enough food to support the entire ecosystem. It would collapse in on itself.
That said, I largely agree with you.
Because we're talking about a whale, or other giant creature.
Not a cyclops weapon.
Also @The_Shark Mesmers aren't passive. They'll dazzle you and try to bite your face.
They dazzle you, that I knew. But, what I didn't know is that they bite your face. In which case, I shall edit that.