Board Thread:Wiki Development/@comment-27582015-20160110023649/@comment-98.122.20.152-20161117062530

ThunderStar321 wrote: Remember, the Aurora was sent to go Terraform a planet, not destroy it. So I doubt they would bring lethal weapons. But they would have a means of defensive weapons. e.g Stasis Rife, Propulsion Cannon, Knife All the more reason to have weapons. Realistically, anyone terraforming a planet that can support life that already has life on it would be equipped with various tools for containment, neuturalization and even extermination. The reasons for this would be self defense, collecting samples for scientific study, and even food.

Now, I get that the humans in Subnautica probably realized "Hey, plant protein is easier to digest than meat protein so let's just make food blocks from plants" and that rids them of the need to eat animals (except in the case of their ship explodi- OH WAIT HEY THAT HAPPENED), but they still would have come prepared for hostile creatures that want to eat them. It has nothing to do with "evolving" past violence. Another user commented the game was meant to be unviolent - then why the hell can we die to predators? That's violent. That's violent as heck.

And the detail in the death animations? Nah, I think the devs have a fetish for animals eating people.