Talk:Cyclops/@comment-34959119-20180310182213/@comment-35299917-20180414004321

If you're charging at Leviathans at ramming speed until your engines explode you are not using the sub correctly. I think that much is obvious.

It's there as a massive, stealthy logistics vessel. You can deploy faster or more durable vehicles from the dry dock for exploration (Seamoth and Prawn respectively) and you can also store vast amounts of materials that can let you get a Seabase running very quickly. Also having a Fabricator on board is neat.

So far I've almost exclusively used Slow speed and sometimes silent running. There's no reason to be tearing around - if I wanted that, I would be in a Seamoth or using a Seaglide. As a result, I've not even been attacked yet. Creatures just ignore you if you go carefully.

The Cyclops means you won't need to do 5000 risky and tedious dives in a Seamoth to build a base. Instead you can just get tons of titanium, ore and components from safer or more plentiful areas and dive down 1200 m once. Then you get out and within 10 minutes you can have a working base with a fuelled bio-reactor and 5 farms of useful plants fully up and running, even in pitch-black Leviathan crammed mega-hostile waters where no local resources exist.