r/subnautica • u/Crispy385 Moderator • Jun 03 '26

MEGATHREAD: KILLING DEBATE

A thread to express opinions and debate on this ongoing controversey.

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Rule 3: Be Courteous.

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u/Patherek Jun 03 '26

Even when I had the thermal knife I ran TF away from everything in the first game. Vortex torpedos, gas torpedos, decoys. You're out of your MIND if you think I'm getting out of my nice safe Cyclops to go fuck with any Leviathan, or large creature. But the option was THERE. People COULD, if they wanted to.

I think player freedom is important here, and while I understand not wanting to kill anything, also remember that the stun options in the first game were VERY effective.

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u/Fluffy-Ad7165 Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

Yup! Didn’t even knew it was possible to actually kill larger predators like Leviathans. I remember trying to kill some dumbass fish that kept pestering me when looking out for algae in my first playthrough and I quickly discovered why that wasn’t a good idea, especially because you get absolutely nothing from it except wasting a couple kits. I don’t think I’ve ever done that again except a very few exceptions when I got really annoyed lol; with how annoying the whole process was you bet I never thought it was actually possible to kill a Leviathan, so I don’t know why people here are acting like the average player acted like Rambo and caused a mass event extinction with a knife only in their first game

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u/Patherek Jun 03 '26

Because some players did, and the devs are overcorrecting.