Who said anything about one-shotting? I think the best way to have it set up would be to have a damage over time effect as long as you're exposed to the attack, with similar damage to the radiation at the Aurora.
radiation wouldnt work in the ocean because water absorbs radiation very well! the beam couldnt be longer than 1 meter!
I think Godzilla is a bit too unrealistic!
A huge reptilian giant in subnautica - hell yes!
A Godzilla-like creature with laser/radiation beam - please NOT!
How about a snakelike leviathan with hundreds of crablegs and giant antlike claws with millions of small mouths on it, that digs throu the ground and just doesn't care if your seabase is in the way or not.
Or an Maelstrom-Monster that produces huge water vortexes like the ancient "Charybdis"
Maybe for the Charybdis idea... And I have to say I like the Cthulhu idea too. That first picture kinda reminds me of the Faceless Ones from World of Warcraft.
radiation wouldnt work in the ocean because water absorbs radiation very well! the beam couldnt be longer than 1 meter!
Except that this is factually wrong.
And also goes entirely against the only major plot point in the game, which is fixing the Aurora to remove the radiation from the water.
Also
>"Muh realism!"
>Builders construct bases in seconds using lasers
All right, so the file for the Primal Leviathan is too big to view. Instead, I just took a couple of screenshots. I uploaded them to in the file for the Leviathan itself on Tinkercad, here. Keep in mind, this is minus the teeth.
Another idea. We stick to the classic old roots with the Kraken (I understand that the emperor and dragon have tentacles but still)
In the original myths, the Kraken was about as aggressive as a fin whale, and the only danger it posed came from the whirlpool caused by its massive bulk when it sank into the ocean. Also, in the original myths, it didn't have tentacles. It was as big as a fjord, and would sit in one place for centuries, feeding whenever it got hungry. This was done by opening its mouth, and excreting a substance which made fish in the area think there was food. After enough fish were in its mouth, it simply closed its mouth and swallowed.
So, if you truly mean "classic old roots," then the Kraken would act a lot like Reefbacks: not agressive, just kinda floating around and minding its own business.
Another idea. We stick to the classic old roots with the Kraken (I understand that the emperor and dragon have tentacles but still)
In the original myths, the Kraken was about as aggressive as a fin whale, and the only danger it posed came from the whirlpool caused by its massive bulk when it sank into the ocean. Also, in the original myths, it didn't have tentacles. It was as big as a fjord, and would sit in one place for centuries, feeding whenever it got hungry. This was done by opening its mouth, and excreting a substance which made fish in the area think there was food. After enough fish were in its mouth, it simply closed its mouth and swallowed.
So, if you truly mean "classic old roots," then the Kraken would act a lot like Reefbacks: not agressive, just kinda floating around and minding its own business.
Ah.
Western media really has warped my perceptions of history.
What I truly meant was how we view most Sea Monsters.
Western media really has warped my perceptions of history.
What I truly meant was how we view most Sea Monsters.
Western media has really warped everything, if you think about it. But, I know what you're saying. I agree, there should be some kind of freaky, super-massive, tentacle thing of death.
We should have an animal which lays in caves for protection and comes out to ambush their prey. Sort of like an eel but I don't want it to look like an eel but more of like a spider in its lair
We should have an animal which lays in caves for protection and comes out to ambush their prey. Sort of like an eel but I don't want it to look like an eel but more of like a spider in its lair
So, trapdoor-spider monster underwater? I like the idea.
The Blue Whale is probably NOT the biggest animal on earth - just the biggest known!
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:
In my opinion, protozoans with swarm intelligence sounds terrifying. Birds swooping down at you sounds great aswell. Sea monsters doesnt really sound like it would fit in Subnautica though..
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looks like a laser to me
Who said anything about one-shotting? I think the best way to have it set up would be to have a damage over time effect as long as you're exposed to the attack, with similar damage to the radiation at the Aurora.
You hear the distinct charging up noise you have a few seconds to take cover before you get microwaved.
Well, it seems this model is too complex to be imaged by the built-in software... I guess you'd need to sign up to Tinkercad to see it. Sorry.
I know he didn't, that's why I asked for clarification.
I think Godzilla is a bit too unrealistic!
A huge reptilian giant in subnautica - hell yes!
A Godzilla-like creature with laser/radiation beam - please NOT!
A little realism should stay conserved!
Or an Maelstrom-Monster that produces huge water vortexes like the ancient "Charybdis"
Maybe for the Charybdis idea... And I have to say I like the Cthulhu idea too. That first picture kinda reminds me of the Faceless Ones from World of Warcraft.
Except that this is factually wrong.
And also goes entirely against the only major plot point in the game, which is fixing the Aurora to remove the radiation from the water.
Also
>"Muh realism!"
>Builders construct bases in seconds using lasers
I'm aware... but this is an idea for the model, not concept art. It's not bent in any way, like it would be if you actually encountered it.
Dunno why it took me this long to realize...
But in that picture...
What the heck is that blue fireball thing between the ship and the bird-thing?
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Yes.
One word. Plasma.
Another idea. We stick to the classic old roots with the Kraken (I understand that the emperor and dragon have tentacles but still)
In the original myths, the Kraken was about as aggressive as a fin whale, and the only danger it posed came from the whirlpool caused by its massive bulk when it sank into the ocean. Also, in the original myths, it didn't have tentacles. It was as big as a fjord, and would sit in one place for centuries, feeding whenever it got hungry. This was done by opening its mouth, and excreting a substance which made fish in the area think there was food. After enough fish were in its mouth, it simply closed its mouth and swallowed.
So, if you truly mean "classic old roots," then the Kraken would act a lot like Reefbacks: not agressive, just kinda floating around and minding its own business.
Ah.
Western media really has warped my perceptions of history.
What I truly meant was how we view most Sea Monsters.
Western media has really warped everything, if you think about it. But, I know what you're saying. I agree, there should be some kind of freaky, super-massive, tentacle thing of death.
So, trapdoor-spider monster underwater? I like the idea.
The bloop was an icequake.