You can catch like 5+ of a fish and put it on your tool bar. When it charges and gets close, release a fish between you. It will hit and kill the fish, interrupt the charge, and do a little loop to restart another charge. It'll give you a couple seconds each sacrificial fish (sacrifishial) to progress the scan.

There’s a piece of equipment that makes it a piece of cake

Yo can dodge them with the sea glide, and if you don’t, you have infinite med packs if you are patient enough

1. status rifle

2. scan

3. snac on their corpse

Why is you screen like that, so Pixilated

Ghosties often get stuck on terrain making them free scans, and reapers struggle to hit you if you strafe sideways. You can also just tank hits from them and use med kits to fix your health and keep scanning. The sea dragon is much harder though as it’s very fast and can one shot

Whoops, sorry just realized this is about Below Zero. Just tank hits and use med kits, use reinforced dive suit to help

Save game, roll up on him, scan. 

Man you did it the cowardly way I just strafed in a circle while the Ghost Leviathan was trying to eat me

I find it easiest to just loop around them focusing on their tail, and if they turn around to attack either ascend or descend depending on which way they're going

I FOUND AN ANSWER Just find a place they are too big to get into and while they tryna squeeze in start scanning and pray. worked for shadow leviathan so yeah

Be lucky. I scanned the shrimp leviathan while I was in a cave that was to small for him.

An alternate strategy is to let it eat your prawn suit, then get out and scan it while it's busy chowing down.

The prawn suit will be fine, and you'll get plenty of progress on the scan. Just repair your prawn and repeat.

Barbosa strategy.

"People are easier to search when they're dead."

After one attacks you there’s a delay before it attacks you again, my strategy was to get attacked and then scan it during the delay

My man…. Some people kill them with the knife

Stasis rifle my dude....

I scanned a alive reaper without a statis rifle

Stasis rifle.

I got my first sea dragon without a stasis rifle. Just swam up to it (with seaglide) and scanned it. I had no idea what I was in for and it didn't aggro me at all. Sure set me up for a false sense of security in the future.

Posted on your steam workshop already but I'll post here as well. I have my own 245k sub that I just sent in blind and it beat it at 5000, 4000, and 3000 meters starting distance. 2000 seems to be a coin clip as to who wins. I started all fights at 10x and 10Y grid coords

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3290790298

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3290782376 5000 meter start

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3290782338 4000 meter start

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3290782277 3000 meter start

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3290782191 2000 meter start.

At around 3000 meters I added some more gantries to the decoys, but that about it

Edit: Had to reupload sub since my decoys somehow broke and I had to remove and replace the missile controller

Anti-Submarine warfare is something most of my crafts have at least some capacity for, but I've never made any kind of dedicated anti-sub platform.

I might well give it a poke!

It looks like it's a broadsiding craft but it has a singular main gun, is there any reason not to have some redundancy there rather than one primary weapon?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3228720178

This is my first craft I would consider Neter worthy or "godly" . Im sure there are many things that can be improved and I would love feedback and advice. this is the optimized version of the previously uploaded mk2

The Leopard seal family of craft were designed as a dedicated sub hunter, using a mix of active defenses and speed this craft is able to take out every Neter submarine, as well as causing serious trouble for surface vessels and larger aircraft.

Stats:

320k material

combat speed 34mps @ 100m depth

surface speed 60mps (sits at a strange angle on the surface to keep more propellers in the water)

armament:

172mm Railgun, 2m sabot at 1984mps, 202rpm

6 medium sonar torps low angle frag

4 medium remote guided fast torps shaped charge head

18 medium sort range Vls radar missiles frag/kinetic - one turns just above surface, uses short range thruster to beat lams and cwis, 1.5km effective range (these are useless in an anti sub role but they provide a decent amount of air defense and multi-role flexibility, the seal beats the mobula, the airotyrant and some grey tallon godlys depite being out costed and not being designed for the role)

defenses:

thin armor, 2m alloy 1m metal, up to 2Alloy 3Metal in thicker spots. alloy has the second lowest sonar signature after rubber.

3 sonar distractor sticks

9 basic small counter torps

12 small counter torps with HE for cluster damage

2 Radar boiys for surface and air targets

full strength planar shields

full smoke coverage for stealth, sets smokes to 10 if enemy has a very powerful engine

ECM jammer at max strength, minimum power priority, so all excess power is used for jamming but important systems are never deprived.

A quick list of neter craft the Leopard Seal will beat in a fight

. every submarine (it has struggled once against the disemboweler)

.the DWG

.the OW - it took 2 mk2's to defeat the sronghold but one mk3 can get the job done. It can struggle with the Eire

.the SS ships* mk 3 beats the tyr nearly 100% and is capable of posing a credible threat to the meg

.every SS & LH aircraft

.almost every WF craft (beats the perfirator but not the leviathan)

.every plane

This craft wins by chipping away slowly while not being hit. Its a glass peashooter and could be countered very easily with a dedicated craft. mk3 no longer suffers total turret destruction after switching to kinetic shells.

one of the most powerful changes I made form mk2 to mk3 is using acbs to switch behaviors/ ai's. the craft fights way better bellow 1500m however so do most battleships. by making the seal fight larger craft at 2200m it went from 0% wins against tyr (only a matter of time before it eats a barrage) to 90% (there is still a chance Tyr hits) and about a 30% win rate against a megladon 1v1 but it takes most of an hour of meg shooting in the dark.

I have an old tournament submission that you can face against. Here is the showcase for it:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1RRhWvSjMOo&t=10m30s

You can find the blueprint in the FTD arena tournament discord, on the channel “collection-combined-fleet-tournament”.

Here is the link for the server:

https://discord.gg/mvjgBWhD

The file name is “Adun_MK3”.

On the same channel, you might also want to try against the “Kaiju_Nudibranch” and the “Exalted_Sandblaster_the_Blaster_of_Sand”, but these are more dedicated tournament designs.

Try a few of these.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3205076823

The stasis rifle is a helpful tool for that.

VERY carefully.

Lead it into the void and scan it while it's duking with 3 ghost leviathans. Easy.

just swim around its head in cirkels and have lots of medkits that's how i did it but if you want to take no risks then use a stasis rifle

If you can, you could ride it to the shallows with a Prawn suit. Happens to me 7 times. Not Kidding.

S T A S I S R I F L E

Nothing matters once you have it. Freeze em, scan em and leave em. Easy peasy.

Get a stasis rifle. Attract the leviathan's attention by swimming closer to it, but be careful not to get too close. Once it lets out its warcry and rams towards you, charge up your as stasis rifle as much as possible (but don't wait too long if it is in your face) and unleash it at it's head. Scan it completely, then seaglide away in the opposite direction as fast as possible.

Once you actually get around to doing this practice you will not notice that carnivorous leviathans aren't nearly as perceptive or aggressive as your fears confirm, so it may take a while to provoke them, even if you are very close.

Stasis one of them and scan away

Scan a Grand Reef or Blood Kelp Zone one instead…

Just go to the blood kelp and find the one that hangs around there.

I would scan the one in the Blood Kelp Zone or the ones in the Grand Reef as they’d be way less aggressive.

If you really wanna scan a Dead Zone one though, I’d go with a shark cage. Build a line of Foundations from the top of the cliff stretching out into the open water, and then build a multipurpose room a bit of distance off the last one so it’s got the legs on all sides. You can hide inside the legs and scan them thru the bars. If they surround you though they’ll probably be able to bite you thru them.

You don’t?

#5, and also the upgrade to your suit that shows scanner room targets on your goggles. I haven't noticed that speed makes any difference at all, since most if not all of your targets will be stationary and it takes time to get to them.

5 is the best no competition. It’s worth waiting a few extra minutes for double the range

5 because I like looking at maps.

Honest question, I put 2 range in and it changed the difference to 1000m, I put in 3 or 4 and the range still says 1000m... Does more than 2 actually do anything?

5. I’m patient

This is the only right answer