Board Thread:Wiki Development/@comment-27582015-20160110023649/@comment-73.225.58.254-20170115212611

98.122.20.152 wrote: 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.

1. Correct 2. The Aurora wasn't sent to the planet that the game takes place on. 3. We have no evidence of life on the target planet. 4. In the game, it states why the only weapon is a knife is because of a massacre on a different planet had caused the ban of sll other weapons by Alterra corp. 5. Yes, weapons would be amazing, but not overwhelming weapons like guns that will desolate target life forms. 6. The devs also put in the obvious feeling that you won't ever get access to anymore a weapon than that knife anyways. 7. Defensive tools haven't been accounted as weapons. (i.e. Propulsion/Repulsion cannon, stasis rifle) 8. The P.R.A.W.N. Suit is a beast at damage anyways with a drill arm, just settle for getting up close, nice and personal with those reaper leviathans or sea dragon leviathans. 9. (Reference to 2) The Aurora was shot down on this planet because of the precursor array, and the Aurora entering orbit.