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 Ah yes, 'Reapers.' The immortal fish of pure hate waiting in dark waters. We have debunked that claim.
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That was NOT how your typical first encounter with a reaper in subnatica. Your first encounter usually involves being completely blindsided by one of the loving things in a seamoth near the Aurora or gun island. If you want to experience that, well people have done compilation vids if people losing their poo poo during a reaper attack, so search that poo poo on youtube and go wild! Klaus88 fucked around with this message at 01:28 on May 26, 2020 |
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May 26, 2020 01:26
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Or having a reaper dunk your Prawn below ground where you can do nothing but fall forever, even when you climb out because you're not 'in water' there. Grappling doesn't work because the collision meshes work both ways, so you're stuck in the negaverse that the Reaper put you in. I've lost two prawns and 6 hours of IRL game time that way and thus I tend to leave Reaper's alone. They are not worth that at all.
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May 26, 2020 01:29
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Klaus88 posted:That was NOT how your typical first encounter with a reaper in subnatica. My first encounter was when I was checking out the fore of the Aurora. I heard something off in the distance but figured it was the ship settling or something. It was not. It was two of the loving things. That was a horrifying experience.
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May 26, 2020 01:32
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DoubleNegative posted:I think the cubes are meant to be there in more of a ceremonial fashion. Presumably there's some sort of supercomputer at each of the sites that're housing the actual data. One of the PDAs specifically mentions that the cubes aren't being drawn on for power, so your AI isn't sure why they're there. My hypothesis: backup batteries.
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May 26, 2020 01:35
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Night10194 posted:My first encounter was when I was checking out the fore of the Aurora. I heard something off in the distance but figured it was the ship settling or something. My first encounter with a Reaper was when I decided to swim towards the aft of the Aurora in search of materials, saw a fin breach the water in the distance, and decided to go and see who this new friend was. It wasn't a friend 
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May 26, 2020 02:04
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I think my first encounter of one was off in the distance at one point. The biome map mod I'm using has these red circles on the map that I was curious about what they meant, turns out I got the answer for that real fast as I approach one of those areas and just see a reaper off in the distance. I instantly went back the way I came, safe with the knowledge I'd avoid those areas as much as possible. I think I managed to get attacked by one once when I got careless. Pretty sure it made me jump slightly and I panicky lashed out with my knife against it in a vain attempt to make it leave. Then I admittedly cheated and added a mod that made them peaceful. Even if they can still roar, which was a fun moment to find a time capsule underneath a Reaper and look around in panic whenever I heard it and fully expect it to see it bear down on me. But the mod only affects the Reapers. Everything else, like the Ghost leviathans, are still out for my blood. Been sneak attacked by one of them before, which was fun. 
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May 26, 2020 02:24
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Being blindsided by a leviathan is a uniquely terrifying experience that starkly illustrates how poorly adapted and prepared humans are to survive in murder ocean world.
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May 26, 2020 03:39
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So what happens if you decide to fight a Ghost with your PRAWN? Is that viable, or suicide?
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May 26, 2020 03:53
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Baby ghost leviathans have an insane amount of health. I managed to pin one against the ceiling of the Lost River and killed it. It took several straight minutes of uninterrupted drilling. It's just not feasible to kill an adult. Possible, sure. But there are so many better uses of your time... like staring off into space for 20 minutes instead.
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May 26, 2020 03:59
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What about those Crab Squid?
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May 26, 2020 05:59
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EponymousMrYar posted:Or having a reaper dunk your Prawn below ground where you can do nothing but fall forever, even when you climb out because you're not 'in water' there. Grappling doesn't work because the collision meshes work both ways, so you're stuck in the negaverse that the Reaper put you in. I think my favorite encounter was when a reaper somehow spawned under the map in the Mountain biome and clipped through the wall of the cave I was exploring to grab me.
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May 26, 2020 06:13
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Dreadwroth2 posted:Im not a fan of Markiplier's content because of his shtick, but he does seem like a really nice guy from all accounts. To be fair, he's not the worst youtuber by a long shot though admittedly I mostly know him from Did You Know Gaming.
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May 26, 2020 06:16
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The line "If you can hear it, it can see you." is just so bone-chilling. And I don't care for Mark, because I loathe people overreacting while playing bideo jams.
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May 26, 2020 06:34
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Fair though he's hardly the only Youtuber's whose had an experience with Reaper to put it politely as Klaus mentioned earlier. Speaking of, the first thing that popped into my head while DN was fighting it was this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsZYQb53kKI
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May 26, 2020 07:32
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I can't wait for ya'll to experience the "wonders" of Below Zero.
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May 26, 2020 08:10
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No 'From Hell's heart I stab at thee!'? while taking on the big guy? For shame. You were even on a Nantucket Sleighride!
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May 26, 2020 08:25
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The drill is the only realistic way to kill stuff and it still takes so long as to be unsatisfying, you just learn to content yourself with scaring them away and calling them names.
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May 26, 2020 08:37
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Even when warned in advance that a Reaper was going to appear, I still recoiled a bit when Screamy popped up in the cyclops's face. Screw it, I've just bought Below Zero. Installing now while I watch the rest of the update. ousire fucked around with this message at 13:02 on May 26, 2020 |
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May 26, 2020 10:34
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By popular demand posted:The drill is the only realistic way to kill stuff and it still takes so long as to be unsatisfying, you just learn to content yourself with scaring them away and calling them names. It's an explicit design decision, in fact. They very much did not want you killing predators, even while they still wanted to let you have the option. Not only is it tedious, they took care to make sure killing them has as little intrinsic reward as possible - they don't have fancy death animations or drop any sort of loot, so the only reason to actually kill one is if you just plain need it gone. I like it, personally. As for the ion cubes, I agree they're probably backup power for these cold-soul-storage terminals. Since we have seen first hand that the main power network is still very functional, there doesn't seem to be any harm in taking them. Might be a problem if the power network does go down, but who would be coming back to download these guys anyway?
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May 26, 2020 14:02
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Klaus88 posted:If you want to experience that, well people have done compilation vids if people losing their poo poo during a reaper attack, so search that poo poo on youtube and go wild! unfortunately the good compilations are buried in a sea of obnoxious pro streamers going OH MY JESUS GOD WHAT IN THE ACTUAL making GBS threads oval office gently caress I AM SO SCARED I AM SO SCARED RIGHT NOW YOU GUYS I AM SO SCARED
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May 26, 2020 14:05
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Tenebrais posted:As for the ion cubes, I agree they're probably backup power for these cold-soul-storage terminals. Since we have seen first hand that the main power network is still very functional, there doesn't seem to be any harm in taking them. Might be a problem if the power network does go down, but who would be coming back to download these guys anyway? This always works out well in horror movies
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May 26, 2020 15:28
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But just think how much money our company could make off them!
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May 26, 2020 21:48
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By popular demand posted:The drill is the only realistic way to kill stuff and it still takes so long as to be unsatisfying, you just learn to content yourself with scaring them away and calling them names. The drill is weaker than both the Prawn's punch and your basic knife. The Thermo Knife is roughly equivalent to the Prawn Punch if only because you can swing it way faster than you can punch. Both still take multiple minutes of punching/flailing to kill anything you want to kill though.
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May 27, 2020 00:19
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EponymousMrYar posted:Prawn Punch Pinch*
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May 27, 2020 00:30
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I'm tellin ya, repulsion cannon. Hitting leviathans with that thing feels like punching God. You won't kill em, but it's satisfying as hell.
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May 27, 2020 00:36
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Stasis rifle them and then slap ten floaters on them while they're stuck.
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May 27, 2020 00:46
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PurpleXVI posted:Stasis rifle them and then slap ten floaters on them while they're stuck. We are talking about disposing of hostile wildlife, not cruelty to undeserving animals.
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May 27, 2020 21:30
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PurpleXVI posted:Stasis rifle them and then slap ten floaters on them while they're stuck. I admit I went with the most boring solution and used decoys in my game.
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May 27, 2020 22:05
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Floaters never expire on their own, that's part of why they're such hellish things when they go wrong.
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May 27, 2020 22:16
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anilEhilated posted:Does that get rid of them or do floaters pop at some point? I actually never got the decoy blueprint in my most recent run, so I just made do with the Cyclops Shield and spare power cells.
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May 28, 2020 01:54
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This LP motivated me to play through the game. After several sleepless nights I've managed to finish it. I built a base almost directly beneath the lifepod I landed in. Wasn't the most ideal place, but uh...  I wasn't hurting for enameled glass.
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May 28, 2020 07:14
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PurpleXVI posted:Stasis rifle them and then slap ten floaters on them while they're stuck. that's funny, but less satisfying. Also they really glitched like mad when I tried that.
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May 28, 2020 08:28
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oldskool posted:This LP motivated me to play through the game. After several sleepless nights I've managed to finish it. I had to restart my playthrough a while ago, but I always end up building small base near the lifepod for storage, then I move it to the Red Grass areas to really stretch it out and make sure the Cyclops can visit
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May 28, 2020 12:48
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Req.Martyr posted:I had to restart my playthrough a while ago, but I always end up building small base near the lifepod for storage, then I move it to the Red Grass areas to really stretch it out and make sure the Cyclops can visit I didn't even power mine or supply air to it. It was literally just a tube on the ground under the lifepod that I stuffed with storage lockers. I just really hated the idea of making those little floating lockers that hold half as much as normal ones, but take twice the material to make.
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May 28, 2020 12:56
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Those things make me paranoid: I'm certain they drift slightly. Also, the Aurora explosion. I read that it kills you if you're in the Crash Site biome, but I'm pretty sure there's also a distance component, because I was sneaking into that little section of the Mushroom Forest next to the Aurora's bow when it popped and well... That was disappointing. It's beginning to seem like, as I explore the world and check .jpg maps (weird mod issues?), That the top half of the map is pretty awful and often not necessary to visit? Weird.
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May 28, 2020 13:16
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#22 - Disease Research We visit the story location that nobody visits because it makes the Warpers go berserk
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May 28, 2020 17:08
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The game has given us a pretty thorough look at the Kharaa now, and it's worth noting that nothing says it kills infected creatures. Those warpers are likely doing a very important job...
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May 28, 2020 17:51
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I love the Bulp zone entrance to the Lost River. I actually first found it by leaving the Lost River that way. When you leave, all the biolumenescent critters on the roof and sides of the cave there look like the stars. My favorite place in the whole game I think.
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What was it that the Cyclops said? I couldn't catch it.
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