User blog:IzumiP/A few words on weapons in Subnautica.

Honestly, you should not have to kill these monsters, it would lend nothing, you never have to kill any large animals, just catch small ones, The stalker's DROP Teeth by biting metal, The crabsnakes drop nothing, you just have to avoid them, Reaper's, Reefbacks, Gasopod's, Sand Sharks, Bone sharks, still nothing, Why would they drop something? Subnautica does NOT condone violence, so what there are large monsters? Sometimes you need a challenge in games, and that Tech tree was not for Subnautica, most likely for their other games, but why do we need weapons of mass destruction? We have already ruined a lot of the planet with Radiation and a massive star ship touching down, that had no weapons, since it didn't need weapons, it was sent to colonize, not destroy everything in the immediate area, Knives are for cutting food and removing stuff like twigs and leaves, not for using 20 to kill a submarine eating fish, Propulsion and Repulsion cannons are for gathering supplies, although I think the repulsion cannon was their weapon, to push animals back, the Stasis Rifle is useful for pausing large monsters, or stopping trees from falling onto someone, or if there was ever a riot in a civilization they could use that to apprehend them. And yes, we may have an exosuit, and swirly torpedos, still have their uses since Oceans can contain VERY large animals, and the Exosuit was meant to handle heat, like on a newly forming planet, since they are volcanic almost all the time, the perimeter defense is basically taking what a shocker does and applying it to a vehicle, elcecricity is used as a deterrent, like with our modern stun guns, to stop someone in their tracks. Stop saying we need this massive weaponry, the devs will NEVER add in something like that "Oh but we need a nuke so we can deter these creatures, oh we need railguns that would elecroctue ourselves to death, oh we need proximity mines that we will probably run into ourselves" Stop. Just stop. The devs won't listen, they won't add in massive weapons, the Knives are for collecting stuff, like coral plates, creepvine, mushrooms, the heat blade is for cooking food, and the diamond blade is so diamonds have a use. Yes, the Devs may add in something like a stun torpedo, but they won't add an explosive ones, you see, the Devs Don't condone animal abuse, you will never use shockers as batteries, you won't use Gasopods as weapons, you can't make a stalker tooth sword, you can't tame these animals, you may take thier eggs, but they will end up attacking you, "But I want an army of biters to violently slaughter anything I see" Peeper Army or Occulus army sure, because those guys are awesome, but no weapons, we don't need them, we won't use them, end of story.