Prawn Suit Upgrade Ideas
Captain_Pyro
Germany Join Date: 2015-05-31 Member: 205116Members
Germany Join Date: 2015-05-31 Member: 205116Members
Hi,
i haven't been playing Subnautica for about a year and was not active in the forum as well. After trying out the Prawn Suit for the first time i had some ideas:
1. Climbing Claw - Arm Module
With the Jetpack thing and the Grapling hook you can pretty much climb up any wall already. So why this and how should it work?
It's basically used like the regular fist but cannot collect items. Instead it will grab onto walls and as long as the button is pressed down, the suit will stay in place. Up there you now can look around in something like a 120° angle and do things like aiming your Grapple or mining stuff properly, using the prop canon, punching the creature you're holding on to... and other stuff.
Two of these would enable you to climb up any wall or hanging from a ceiling. While being less quick than the Grapple it's more of a precision tool to make other tasks easier.
2. Multi Tool - Arm Module
Okay, i'll make this short:
- Habitat Builder
- Scanner
- Repair Tool
All in one.
The tools are switched thorugh by pressing either 1 or 2 (depending in which slot the arm is equipped to) and are then cycled through like batteries.
Other nice options would be:
- Terraformer
- Transfuser
- Adding the Propulsion Cannon to this Module entirely.
- Dive Reel
3. Stasis-but-not-stasis-rifle-Thing - Arm Module
Works like the Grapple.
Shoots a line that connects to a target.
If target is a creature, it's stunned.
Stays stunned as long as you hold the button.
Drains crazy amounts of energy while in action.
Edit:
4. Floodlight - Upgrade Module
Lets you have a big bright floodlight on top of the suit....
Do i really have to explain? I want to see more things than those less than two meters away and directly in front of me.
i haven't been playing Subnautica for about a year and was not active in the forum as well. After trying out the Prawn Suit for the first time i had some ideas:
1. Climbing Claw - Arm Module
With the Jetpack thing and the Grapling hook you can pretty much climb up any wall already. So why this and how should it work?
It's basically used like the regular fist but cannot collect items. Instead it will grab onto walls and as long as the button is pressed down, the suit will stay in place. Up there you now can look around in something like a 120° angle and do things like aiming your Grapple or mining stuff properly, using the prop canon, punching the creature you're holding on to... and other stuff.
Two of these would enable you to climb up any wall or hanging from a ceiling. While being less quick than the Grapple it's more of a precision tool to make other tasks easier.
2. Multi Tool - Arm Module
Okay, i'll make this short:
- Habitat Builder
- Scanner
- Repair Tool
All in one.
The tools are switched thorugh by pressing either 1 or 2 (depending in which slot the arm is equipped to) and are then cycled through like batteries.
Other nice options would be:
- Terraformer
- Transfuser
- Adding the Propulsion Cannon to this Module entirely.
- Dive Reel
3. Stasis-but-not-stasis-rifle-Thing - Arm Module
Works like the Grapple.
Shoots a line that connects to a target.
If target is a creature, it's stunned.
Stays stunned as long as you hold the button.
Drains crazy amounts of energy while in action.
Edit:
4. Floodlight - Upgrade Module
Lets you have a big bright floodlight on top of the suit....
Do i really have to explain? I want to see more things than those less than two meters away and directly in front of me.
Comments
#3 is pretty good as well, but it could work more like a laser cannon that shoots a "Stasis Beam" that instantaneously freezes a single target for a few seconds.
I'd like for a Chainsaw arm that can rapidly cut through coral and creatures without collecting coral bits.
The scanner on the other hand would make sense from a logical standpoint. Would you endanger your quest of survival by scanning a reaper close up by hand? As the spearhead of a research mission it'd only be obvious to equip those suits with a scanner ... or at least give the opton to do so.
The idea behind a stungun with a wire connection was to prevent it from becoming to much of a ranged weapon. To keep some of the action and danger intact.
I agree, but it doesn't need to be part of a Construction arm. Have it as a separate arm, or a built in system that passively scans nearby objects one at a time, while also instantly scanning anything you pick up.
The Action and Danger comes when dealing with more than one target at once due to its much lower rate of fire. i.e. Bone Sharks, River Prowlers, Lava Lizards
But if there were to be a "construction" arm, there had to be a "exploration and research" arm as well if you ask me.
something in the lines of: Scanner, Sample Collector (knife), Beacon Dispenser (recollectible)
Dude i'm really crazy for that scanner tool °-°
Or an arm module that accesses tools you stored in the suits inventory. That'd let everyone decide for themselves what to take on a journey.
What I was thinking was on another post (with some modification) you mite have seen it, but if not: A net arm, one you can press a curtain button and a net will fire, and when/if it hits something, it will close up and the fauna will be trapped, the modification part of this is, when you get on land or into your base, you can right click on the arm and take off the net, with the fauna, and either eat what you've cot, or put it into an alien containment unit.
Oh ya, the construction arm idea, with the habitat builder and the other stuff, brilliant, and i mean BRILLIANT, i can see it now, me and my PRAWN suit going around and moving rocks and changing around mountain positions, creating caves for homeless fauna, lol. Anyway, good idea, i would hope the devs add that.
Research/Exploration Arm: - Scanner, Flashlight, Pathfinder, Dive Reel, Light Stick
Xeno Arm: - Terraformer, Transfuser, Repulsion Cannon, Propulsion Cannon
Construction Arm: - Repair Tool, Habitat Constructor, Laser Cutter, Fire Extinguisher could be added if you want
Defense Arm: - Knife, Thermo Blade and Hardened Blade could be added on, Stasis Rifle
Stasis String Arm: - As you described
Climbing Claw: - As you described
Repair arm: - Fire Extinguisher, Repair Tool, Welder
edit: duh, it was suggested a few posts up. +1 for that idea.