Board Thread:Wiki Development/@comment-27582015-20160110023649/@comment-2A02:2149:871B:2D00:871:3B60:50CA:1737-20170901045836

Sorry to keep this thread alive, but lets list a few things to make it dead already.

1. You are not a soldier. You were not on a military ship. Yes there could have been weapons of all sorts on the Aurora, issued to guards or mercenaries. But not to the player. What the player can do is try to cheat the AI and create exploration tools and use them as weapons. Want a cool weapon? Imagine building a bunch of cyclops, filling them with explosives (supposedly used to clear debris or smth) and have them launched at leviathans :P .Well. Until the AI figures out how terrible of a person you are and gets your toys away from you.

2. Altera is a manufacturing company true. But as the game points out when you get a knife, after a massacre on a planet (and I am guessing it was a big one and killed either countless humans or plenty of fauna species) weapons were banned from the public.

3. To the people claiming that the civilazation in subnatica is doomed because of their "no weapons policy", think about points 1 and 2. Just because the general public can no longer upload weapon schematics on fabricators, does not really mean they don't have a military right? Think about it. If in our world 10,20 or even 50 years from now it becomes illegal to 3d print a glock, would it make all the nukes go away? Or the armies?

4. The self defence argument is also meaningless. It took an alien beam to damage the Aurora enough to cause it to crush. I don't think any leviathan class sea creature would cause a serious threat. Even if the Aurora was meant to come to THIS planet, they would be able to easily detect the GIANT CTHULHU SPAWNS roaming the darkness. And what would they do? Either they already have defence systems on Aurora already, or they call their boss for backup. Even a greedy and evil corporation would think twice before sending unarmed civilians, on a science oriented ship, fight a freaking dragon. A waste of a good starship would be far greater loss than spending a few millions to hire a small army.

5. And final argument is about gameplay. You want a tough guy with guns to face the predators, well tough luck. You are a civilian stranded on a water planet. When was the last time you saw a survival show where Bear Grills or whoever, carrying a machine gun and treating it like a realistic scenario. Could you still make spears, harpoons or whatever in game on your own? Sure. But what makes you think you play a strong character? He may be a fighter, but he is no warrior. The devs don't want guns, and all game lore and simple things support that possibility.

End of rant.