Lore Suggestion: Earth based Social media and the destruction of the Aurora = no weapons
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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
>New update
>"Boss, updates from the Aurora state that the armory was completely destroyed in the explosion!"
>"Well send them some blueprints for some machine guns then!"
>"That's the thing, boss, our mission has reached social media, and various groups are protesting!"
>Several pictures of fake tweets like "TELL @alterratech NOT TO HARM THOSE ALIENS #AlterraGate2145" "@alterratech should work on fixing our situation on earth before oppressing another planet! #AlterraGate2145"
>"Damn, if it gets out that we had a full compliment of military technology on the Aurora, it'll be hell for our stocks."
>"But we can't just leave the survivors defenseless."
>"Fine! Send them an update for some low tech fishing equipment and say it's purely for fishing and throwing them back or something!"
>Player gets a speargun, lures, and fishing nets or something
Or something along those lines.
>"Boss, updates from the Aurora state that the armory was completely destroyed in the explosion!"
>"Well send them some blueprints for some machine guns then!"
>"That's the thing, boss, our mission has reached social media, and various groups are protesting!"
>Several pictures of fake tweets like "TELL @alterratech NOT TO HARM THOSE ALIENS #AlterraGate2145" "@alterratech should work on fixing our situation on earth before oppressing another planet! #AlterraGate2145"
>"Damn, if it gets out that we had a full compliment of military technology on the Aurora, it'll be hell for our stocks."
>"But we can't just leave the survivors defenseless."
>"Fine! Send them an update for some low tech fishing equipment and say it's purely for fishing and throwing them back or something!"
>Player gets a speargun, lures, and fishing nets or something
Or something along those lines.
Comments
Plasma net gun would be awesome, speargun/harpoon would be definitely a plus. But you know what sucks about the dialog. Is that those in power would probably actually do that stuff.
ALIEN HUNTING!
"No too powerful and fantastic. There is a more useless version that can't impact on swimming fish and only stays for a few seconds with minimal radius."
"We could send a practical peaceful shock gun that could shock fish on impact for a long time."
"No really, we want to make sure the crew stays alert forever. Security reasons you know. If they feel safe, they might get careless."
"Is this the reason why there are no real survival devices like desalinators and oxygenators aboard? To keep the crew active?"
"No comment."
"What sort of torpedoes? I thought were weren't giving them weapons."
"They cause things they hit to spin."
"that sounds strange, impractical, and useless. Why do we even have those?"
"One of out technicians invented them for a practical joke."
"And you decided that that was what you would give they survivor to help him survive?"
"That was the joke"
"Wow, now the seamoth just can swim inside a swarm of peepers and then collect a lot of food!"
"No, we didn't mean that the shock can actually target swimming fish."
"Huh, WTF?"
"Yeah, we know."
"Hi, I heard from a team who uses the seamoth ramming the predators and actually killing them. They have cleaned an entire biome from bone sharks."
"Noooo! That's too effective. Our department must immediately replace hard ram damage with soft ram that only tickles them."
"... Why? Why? Why? ..."
Lmfao I can't even write that with a straight face.
lol I would love a spear and harpoon. Sayerulz, I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought of that.
Maybe "Survival" and "Peace" are incompatible?
But the marketing division and social media did their best to combine those?
...
cross breeding of survival and peace:
- stasis rifle
- vortex torpedos
- non lethal shocks
- repulsion gun
...
now Subnautica is striking back:
- I got stinged by some lifeform and now all is slo-mo
- There is this giant whale, when I came close he opened his mouth and a current almost pulled me inside
- this eel shocked me moveless for seconds
...
Seamoth Lightning Cannon can kill a bone shark in 2 full power blasts.
Yes, forgot the charging. But that's probably more than 50% power loss. Can't do that often.
EDIT: unless of course I have multiple shockers - which turns my seamoth to the doom of the shallow waters ... and probably those peepers too.
I always thought that it's main use will be when the seamoth gets ping ponged inside a horde of reapers.
A simple moonpool already covers standart travel recharges. Only warfare with the shocker would need the solar recharger.
EDIT: I haven't found any use of the energy efficiency module. It only eats up space and doesn't help much. Maybe they replace it with a speed enhancer module?