Surface is to safe
Spleft
Join Date: 2017-07-22 Member: 231969Members
Join Date: 2017-07-22 Member: 231969Members
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Yeah
Giants pelican like birds
Predators that attack the player swimming near the surface could provide this this, although rather than giant birds, I would think that sharks would be fine. In real life, sharks are drawn to people swimming on the surface, so it wouldn't be immersion breaking at all for a shark to come up from below and attack outside of the safe shallows.
In this case, yes, the surface is safe - but there's nothing there. Sure, you can putter around on the surface all you like and only very rarely be in any danger, but you're not going to do anything. There are no resources to be had, no blueprints to find, nothing to help advance your game. To do that means getting down in the water, and that means danger. Thus we see two perfect trades: safe surface/no progress and risky depths/resources.
The surface is therefore only good for getting from Point A to Point B in relative speed and safety - which is what most players use the surface for, I'd bet. After all, if you're getting ambushed constantly with no safe path from your base to where you want to get to work, you're going to get frustrated, fast. The surface offers a safe "highway" to get you to parts of the game world at the expense of not being able to see, interact with, or harvest the areas over which you're passing.
So that the sky would not feel empty.
I mean the surface, as in like 0-10 meters
Once you get lead gear for the Aurora's radiation you can just swim on the surface right to it and repair it though.
Actually I like it too. It's almost peaceful when you are on surface, but if you want to progress, you have to face horrors of depths.
Maybe the animal on the surface could be like a Gastropod then, it doesn't attack until you get near. This way the surface is still safe, but not too safe.
Game lacks peaceful creatures in general, there are already plenty of predators (although avian fish and bigger avian predator would be nice to see...)
I like that I idea even if its only dangerous when you swim right into its tentacles it would make the surface seem way less empty.
Anyway, if you want danger above the water, go swim behind the Aurora. Go ahead-- stay on the surface. Let me know what happens.
Like a reaper that travels 50 metres below the surface looking for food anywhere on the map
Absolutely not. Unless there's a way to kill them added in. This would turn off newcomers fast. Several Dinosaurs where nerfed for this problem alone, in Ark.
Subnautica already has some of the scariest fish ever imagined and they make certain areas of the game very scary. Including the surface, eg. around the island. Sure, sometimes you can safely drive a seamoth or swim through. But sometimes you'll attract a reaper leviathan and then your pants are uncomfortably warm and stinky.
Even if you don't want to have the megafauna to do that, it would be really cool to see an enzyme peeper spawn out of one vent and swim to another on the map.
To me, it would make the world more varied, due to the potential different experiences that people could have. Unless it's too time consuming to develop or performance draining on devices, then I don't see why it would be a bad thing.
It's kind of off topic for this discussion, but I was wondering about ways to solve your problem with the reaper. If they were to add a feature to attach signals to objects and creatures, it would allow you see where they're going and name them by proxy. Heck, it could be fun too.
THe same thing they do in real life.
Except in the world of Subnautica it must be something other than birds, because birds could not have evolved on such world
Have to agree with you. Stalkers always chase me on the surface.
True, that honestly makes sense.
Agreed.
Now i'm going to address some who disagree with me.
If this happens, then we would be dead. Why? Reapers destroyed Lifepod 4. They would have destroyed ours in the three hours it took for us to wake.
Also, they would all probably go to the safe shallows, as the most food is there.
Try swimming through a kelp forest. Stalkers will bite you up.
Oh and try in front of the Aurora
Of course it would want them swimming along the surface everywhere. Not allowing that would cause the difficulty curve too high for new players. Its like saying "Oh, see this? You can't go anywhere until you have a seamoth!"
I get my point may be wrong, but meh it's my post and opinion :P.