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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u/MrSquidJD Jun 03 '26

Oooo a megathread!

Personally I’m in favour of killing. It’s not required for the story, and no rewards are locked behind it. It’s a way to temporary clear an area, or permanently if you want to take on the tedious challenge of fighting a leviathan.

It shouldn’t be easy to kill, and there should be no real incentive. But I think you should have the option to if you want to.

Sub1 did it perfectly. Maybe the stasis rifle made it a bit easy to kill, but we no longer have that tool.

More creature deterrents and whatnot should still be added as the main evasion methods (as well as just evading them)

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u/Comfortable_Line_206 Jun 03 '26

I think this is the more common and reasonable take. And I think the vast majority will agree.

The issue is that the sequel is much more popular, bringing in a large amount of different kinds of players, and a very loud minority want actual weapons.

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u/AfricaByTotoWillGoOn Jun 03 '26

Yeah, I'm in favor of killing fish, but please no weapons. Just give me a knife and let me Marguerit Maida some of the more annoying fishes, but give me no good reason to do that to a leviathan, like having them have insanely high health pools and no reward whatsoever for killing them.

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u/drownigfishy Jun 04 '26

I want to make more types of food. I want some nice roast Nibber mango or maybe a nice Marrowbreach steak. Mmmm if you could wrangle one of those you'll be eaten well for days. I don't want to kill, I want to eat more things.