Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29982882-20160916073920

My new save game after the Prawn update is running to 2 days 10+ hours. I noticed since the update fauna is way more aggressive than before. This far into the save game I've got sand sharks and stalkers all over the safe shallows. There are two reapers in the shallows at the front of the Aurora and one in the shallows at the back. Well, there was one there until I killed it.

I made the assumption they couldn't die because torpedo's seem not to affect them and the seamoth perimeter defence system just seems to annoy them. I had the exosuit (I named mine the 'shrimp') in the shallows near the back of the Aurora and the Reaper there got the jump on me. I managed to doge it with the jump jets and latch on to the back of its head with the grappling hook. Then I just started drilling with the drill arm.

It got ahold of me twice and knocked the suit down to 50% before diving under the sand and refusing to resurface so I got out and repaired the suit before he turned up and had another go. This time my grappling hook attached to his face and he got ahold of me pretty easy but I drilled the crap out of him the whole time. He knocked the suit health down to 16% this time so I let go and jumped away to do some repairs again.

I went back after him and this time and it actually seemed like he was trying to avoid me for a while. After several failed attempts I latched onto the back of his head again. This time I used the jump jets alot to avoid his attempts to grab me and kept at him with the drill. He barely damaged me at all and I was about to give up when he just stopped moving and, well... died! He just lay there floating on the surface so I got out and swam around a bit and yep, he was dead!

Kind of strange really, but after playing around in the Subnautica world for so long and having so much fun, I've kind of become quite fond of it. In the end it didn't seem like any great achievement or victory or anything to take down my worst enemy in the game so far, even though they've spent the whole time scaring the crap out of me just when I thought it was safe!

Anyway, here's a few pics. 