Freakishly Large Monsters (of the end game deep)

ResolutionBlaze

I'm not talking Leviathans. They're big, but they're identifiably big. You can see where it starts and where it ends. I'm talkin' something so big it makes the Reaper seem pea sized. I'm talking whatever left this skeleton in this pic:

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I'm talkin' things that stick their tentacles out from the deep dark to grab weary prey. A Kraken-like creature that inhabits only the end map of "the endless drop off".

There is nothing scarier to me than having something so big I can't even see how big it is, coming up with a single tentacle to grab and drag me down into the dark abyss.

I think something of this nature should be in the "end game drop off"; an area populated with leviathans and such, which act as prey to this massive creature, which if you wander too far out, will reach up and grab you, destroying the vessel you're in and then grabbing you, dragging you down until you drown or it crushes you with it's tentacles.

Nightmare fuel for the curious.

HYBRID1313

This sounds like an awesome idea, but imagine the programming... The Sea Emperor is already going to be a technical challenge, so something as big as the remains of the bones and what not, would be really, really time consuming and hard for the Developers. Despite this, I also wonder how they will handle the world boundaries, so a insta-kill creature or one as per you were describing it may be a method of handling this. Anyway, time will tell

ResolutionBlaze

HYBRID1313 wrote: »

This sounds like an awesome idea, but imagine the programming... The Sea Emperor is already going to be a technical challenge, so something as big as the remains of the bones and what not, would be really, really time consuming and hard for the Developers. Despite this, I also wonder how they will handle the world boundaries, so a insta-kill creature or one as per you were describing it may be a method of handling this. Anyway, time will tell

It could even just be large tentacles, it doesn't have to be the whole creature (if it's as deep as it is) I'm sure that would get past the huge technicality aspect of that.

starkaos

Personally, I rather have those bones be the remains of some ancient ancestor of the Sea Emperor Leviathan. Adding a living creature of that size into the game would cause far too many computers drop the frame rate to 1 FPS or crash. I rather have that translucent creature in the game since I am a fan of that style of creature.

zetachron

You have never seen Alien haven't you?

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Because this tiny little Phantom Leviathan of Lost River is the chestburster that killed your majestic giant.

Lost River tells you: "Here lies the realm of ancient alien evil. Sea Emperor kin and mighty beasts beware and meet your acid doom in our caves."

This is the waste bin area of the great Warper civilization who created beasts like this acid spraying Phantom Leviathan as one of their bioweapons. One jet of breath from him will melt your smaller subs like butter in hell. The special material of the exosuit lets you survive, because this thing is made of transparent plasteel and duranium, but a cyclops without chellonian reinforcement will sink in no time.

Dinkelsen

The problem I have with the Lost River Skeleton is that the creature would simply be too large. It would have lived in those caverns, but they get quite tight for such a giant. Even if ot could roam the whole game world, it would seem to me like a cat locked up in a room.

And then, what would it eat? Where are the tons of fish it would need to eat every day? Where are the creratues that are of the size that would justify thse teeth? (Presumably dead, yes) This skeleton seems like the Subnautica counterpart of a dinosaur.

DefectiveDelfin

Yes,i feel that a creature at the drop off would be cool.Maybe make it a large squid like monster that drifts aimlessly until it sees you and then it charges.

Maybe the drop off could have the giant reefbacks with actual reefs on their backs.Its large enougg and the Dropoff leviathan could hunt them.

Perhaps the reefback there could be adults and the reefbacks in the red grass biome are just children in a nesting "ground" of sorts.

Avimimus

Dinkelsen wrote: »

The problem I have with the Lost River Skeleton is that the creature would simply be too large. It would have lived in those caverns, but they get quite tight for such a giant. Even if ot could roam the whole game world, it would seem to me like a cat locked up in a room.

And then, what would it eat? Where are the tons of fish it would need to eat every day? Where are the creratues that are of the size that would justify thse teeth? (Presumably dead, yes) This skeleton seems like the Subnautica counterpart of a dinosaur.

Yeah, I noticed this too.

If it had a different skull (e.g. a decayed invertebrate) one could imagine it as a giant homeostatic octopus (with some ribs??) that crawled into a hole to spawn and die. If the bones were a bit translucent or even suggested a degree of flexibility like cartilage. That said, won't the final game have creatures that can survive in molten rock and teleport? ...so, maybe we are overthinking this.

Lightdevil

If the creature died very long ago, the place where its skeleton now resigns could have looked very different back when it was alive, so i wouldnt worry too much about if it had enough space or food to eat. Maybe back then, everything was different and that size was totally possible.