Talk:Gas Torpedo/@comment-85.197.47.115-20170304210449

If I may, somewhat late, enter the discussion about lethal weaponry in Subnautica: I for one would favor the addition of simple lethal weapons to the game. A spear would be a usefull tool for fishing and for scaring of the odd stalker and sandshark, as well as harpoons. However, that, and the gas torpedo, should be the most dangerous weapons in the arsenal of the player, and leviathans should still be a threat to be run from (pr die of) rather than to fight.

My reasoning behind this is the fact, that in a survival scenario a human would in general try to create himself the ability to keep himself safe. Keeping in mind the tools available to the player allready in the game, extending the knive by a shaft to create a spear is one of the actions that can be reasonably expected from most humans.

Gameplaywise simple weapons would allow a player to even out the playing field in the first couple of areas against small or midsized opponents. Mind you, predators would still in most cases retain their advantage of superior mobility and speed as well as the capability to breath under water. Because of the first two points I further think that an exchange of blows would rarely lead to the predator actually killed - as far as I observed at least stalkers flee when slashed once with a knife. A spear would in that case just add the advantage of not having to tank a hit during this. If on the other hand the predator wouldn't retreat, he'd still be able to outmanouver the player in most cases, thus flight would still be the most viable option in combat.

Sorry, if my post came out a bit rambly, I was writing my train of thought on the matter as it went, and english is not my native language anyway :-)