I take an air bladder for rapid surfacing and a Seaglide, with upgraded fins. Escape and Evade. By the time I charge a stasis rifle, turn around and miss my shot, I could be long gone.

A knife can discourage some stuff that gets in my face like a stalker so I can swim away.

You don't need any weapons. Just swim past anything that might want to harm you.

Multiple lockers full of gas pods, and a stasis rifle.

Due to the massacre on Obraxis Prime…

You dont need no weapons in this game my friend

Faule Ilse maybe, I think the blueprint is available somewhere, maybe barlady has it, sinks lvl 20 Ooosten ships in WT2 in 1 front, 1 side in a Garuda, sinks bosses under lvl 16 in under 30 seconds solo, sinks Vik and Li in about 2 mins solo, 1 shots normal NPC ships and I cant wait to try it on the new ship, math wise it should be better than the Garuda, excpet on front guns. This is using a Garuda with a defensive build.

Ascentions for sides, Damage, x2 Amp Pierce, on front, I use Damage, Roar, Amp Pierce, this will add taunt to bosses in less than 10 seconds (2-3 shots). I haven't found a more damaging build/weapon. Hope that helps mate.

The Faule Ilse=

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p73Sbwpc_X0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI8lQYqHN6Y

Same guns on a non DPS ship=

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGvmtjbdMto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgOaLondtgw

Well, I some how managed to pick up a mortar III that has 34k damage. Can’t ascend it or anything but I take LaPeste out in about 10 mortar shots as well as Li Ta Ning. Damage to the new fort if I hit the red mark I can get around 113k and if it’s just a wall, I will get anywhere from 20k up to 65k. Pretty sure this weapon is buffed and not sure where I picked it up at. It was a drop from one of the ships I took out. Definately fun to play with though.

Really depends on the ship you're using and use case as for what is actually best. Sloop-flooding bombard 3, Schooner- nagas call, Garuda-faule isle, Brigantine- Carronade/LP3/Flooding bombard 3, Bedar- the ship itself. Only mentioning dps ships because damage oriented ships are the only ones you're really going to see deleting ships. Sloop bombard and Garuda are seemingly the pvp meta if you want to build one do it all kind of ship. I'd personally recommend the sloop since it still functions decently doing damage to fort

La Piqúre III Dardanelles Fire/Flooding Bombard III Brickbreaker III

I know a lot of guys ran the standard Bombard because it could go up to Bombard V but I never did that really. But those are some really solid and easily accessible options.

Thanks everyone 👍

I love the Tranquilizer Rifle personally, because it is nice and simple. Puts things to sleep most of the time, does a good amount of damage, and keeps things far enough away

Tranq Gun, Steel Net Gun, Modified Hush Dart. All pretty good. Tranq is pretty good if you haven’t unlocked the workshop.

Best primaries:

Steel Net Gun: Traps everything up to smaller sharks as well as skates, crabs, and stargazer that are immune to all other weapons. Also required if you want any useful quantity of Tuna since the Farm only produces the lowest quality meat.

Modified Hush Dart II: Literally puts anything to sleep that isn't armored.

Death Sniper: 90 damage shots that cover the entire length of the screen. Best bossing weapon.

Tranq Grenade: A little inconsistent but can get perfect 3* catches on packs of small fish as well as anything large.

Melee:

The Pickaxe is the only melee I ever worry about picking up, for getting ore. Eventually with the fully upgraded Knife I don't bother with any melee other than Mjolnir for the achievement.

Harpoon:

Paralyze and Sleep tips are the best. Poison is okay. Lightning is actively bad, as the minigame sucks and the chaining damage is unhelpful.

The two guns I consider must haves are the tranquiliser rifle and steel net gun. Between them you can 3 star everything.

The tranq rifle can kill bosses but it’s slow, so if you’re having issues then build one of the damaging sniper rifles as boss arenas have respawning ammo and they give you the best range and accuracy so you can keep your distance.

Do you have the steel net gun?

Net guns before the last upgrade are entirely useless

The net I personally didn't find very useful until fully upgraded, at which point it'll capture anything that's not a boss or a "shark".

Depends what part of the game you're at and how you play.

Early game Triple Axel shreds sharks and bosses and has a good magazine size unlike the sniper. When enhancing Flame Axel is easiest to obtain for sharks but doesn't do bonus damage to bosses where the quatro and finally Penta at late game is best DPS if you're willing/able to get close.

Net gun is generally the best, even prior to the final Steel upgrade as recipes are more profitable than Sharks making your targets smaller fish.

Tranq rifle is the best specifically between getting the endgame workshop upgrades and obtaining the drones for shark, large fish and tuna hunting (basically before Steel net and max Hush Dart). Generally a nice hybrid weapon as well for combat and ingredient hunting.

Sniper rifle mainline upgrade is better against some late game bosses and is in general the easiest combat weapon to use. Its small magazine makes it inconvenient for shark hunting and early bosses to a lesser extent. When heavily upgraded these aren't really a problem though because it does more than enough damage.

Steelnet is the best endgame letting you catch everything but large sharks. Hush Dart is out classed since by the time you get it maxed so it works on large sharks even the best sharks pale in comparison to decent recipes.

sword: the default all rounder. bow: a option for quick spam or a quick foot shot. hammer: a slow weapon, that if hit by instantly kills the receiver. spear: a glitchy but cool weapon, that gives the player more range, while still having good enough speed. other: broken g underworked

Best weapon is friendship

Flame breath is very nice to deal with armored enemies and enemies with shields

Normally sword and hammer,but it tepends very much like in raptor challenge or infinite challenge I like flame breath,but in multiplayer is sword and normal(like story mode insane)

hammer shreds anything that touches it, the only down side is that you cant spam it like sword or bow, so you have to get used to the slow wind up, but once you do...OHOHO!

scanner/repair tool/cutter/flashlight/hab builder. I've also found flares useful for dropping atop or inside wrecks, as they last indefinitely, will illuminate through bulkheads, and mark whether I've visited a wreck already.

My last playthrough I used the knife only briefly before getting another tool for breaking rocks, the propulsion/repulsion cannon just once entering the Aurora, and never used the stasis rifle, light stick, pathfinder tool, air bladder, seaglide, or started the engine on the Cyclops. It's nice having 42+ personal inventory slots for water/loot/building supplies, on top of the 48 on the 'Moth.

That's a great question, after some testing I've landed on....

Lightweight high capacity tank

Ultra glide fins

Seaglide

Repulsion Cannon

Repair tool

The last two slots are situational and vary under specific circumstances.

I value speed over everything else in Subnautica. With that setup you can dance around any creature in the game.

Useful for scanning, & if you enjoy speed too get a prawn suit with two grappling hooks. OMG congrats!

You can do anything you want now!! So you want to travel over 150 meters per second, or get to the top of the mountain in 10-15 actual seconds?

I'm becoming a wee bit obsessed... >.<

Lol rickybobbyfast:

https://youtu.be/yQHsFv2XlLc 7mins https://youtu.be/U1H-cxs-5nY 2mins https://youtu.be/SVjYbPHRdUo 5mins

Knife always goes in slot 1, everything else is situational. Always have a knife, always have it ready.

(knife emoji here)

I always have the same load out for the first three slots regardless of what playthrough I'm on 1- knife 2- scanner 3- flashlight 4-5 are miscellaneous depending on what I'm doing. Usually repair tool and laser cutter though.

Knife : Seaglide : Scanner

the last two rotate between the Flashlight, Repair Tool, Laser Cutter, and Hab Builder, depending on what I'm doing.

Pulse lasers are really good. All you need is blood from your enemies (monsters), and the batteries lithium.

soon you'll be able to snipe monsters 100 meters away from the ship, and with the engineers' perks, have a firerate probably half that of a coilgun while instantly killing spinelings, and nearly killing crawlers. Needless to say, Pulse lasers are really strong. Big swarms is something that Pulse lasers don't do well in, however.

However I usually stick with Coilguns, simply because of how common the ammo is, and versatile they are. The modpack I'm using gives me a ton options for them, including hybrid flak ammo and a laser conversion. Double coilguns are just the regular coilguns but with nearly double the fire power.

Chainguns seem to be useful for large crowds, but single targets not so much. the charge time and spread makes it on par with coilguns imo. But they can also use coilgun ammo, I think. only if it has a coilgun loader i believe.

Flak cannon is basically a mix between a double coilgun and a railgun. Really good against small targets, especially in swarms, and are decent against large targets like hammerheads. Huge targets, not so much.

I'm definitely a minority, but I'm a huge fan of having a pulse laser

Pulse Lasers are multi-role, and can fill the coilguns point defense role better than it can, and can also melt swarms and deal high burst damage like the chaingun, depending on the ammo you use.

I'm also in favour of swapping out at least one coilgun for a pulse laser. I find alien blood tends to be fairly plentiful, though the lithium is a slightyl different issue, but having the burn damage and stun is very nice, specially against hammerheads.

LASERS ALL THE WAY

I ended up upgrading to full on turrets. Just wipes out enemies with 360 coverage. Didnt realize it would be that simple, but it is. Never have to worry about losing a battle ever.

Auto just means high fire rate while turrets auto shoots.

I think PBO weapons (can't remember full names) are the best, long range, high fire rate, and damage both hull and shields.

About the same. Though I never bring a stasis rifle. I'm not even sure if I made one my last play through. I don't typically go to areas with bigger creatures without my prawn suit, and if I'm in that I just kill them anyway lol.

I usually just have a thermoblade, scanner, repair tool, laser cutter and a flashlight. Having the ultraglide fins makes a sea glide useless to me, and I usually have a lightweight high capacity tank and a rebreather, depth suit and maybe a compass

Seaglide, thermoblade, stasis rifle, flashlight, repair tool, laser cutter, habitat builder, and scanner.

Depending on what I want to be doing on an outing (like if I don’t need/want my cyclops), I have the items to build a scanner room with either a thermal plant/power transmitter or two solar panels in my vehicle (seamoth or prawn). I also keep the propulsion cannon, three first aids, two nutrient blocks, and 5 large filtered waters when I plan to be away from my food growbeds on a long exploration trip. Obviously, if I have my cyclops I have food growing and medkits being made with my storage stocked up with various needs for all situations.

If I know what I’m specifically collecting and it will be a quick trip, I’ll adjust all of the items to give me more collection space.

Pretty much the same for me. But I favour the repulsion (yellow) cannon. Better for defense, it'll blast most things away, and nudge the larger creatures enough to retreat. In my last playthrough, exploring wrecks mid-late game, I used to carry a crabsquid incase of warpers

I’m early on so I carry knife, seaglide, scanner, fire extinguisher (emergency boost), flashlight, spare batteries and food and water

For sure, HCT is definitely a must have.

Can’t overstress how wonderful an upgraded Seamoth is though. Resource collection from deeper biomes becomes trivial once you no longer have to worry about surfacing for air.

It's stupidly underrated. I've crafted it for the first time, and in 12 hrs it saved me already some times. You may confuse it with seaglider, saying glide is better, but this thing costs only one slot and is like ×1,5 faster than it

Ultra high tank is amazing, seamoth is basically required, cyclops is great if you hate >!warpers!<, prawn suit is required, reinforced dive suit is nice, and swim charge fins are a nice QOL

If you're already 10 hours in, I'd say the seamoth is kind of overdue at this point. Tbh, i'm surprised you made it this far without it.

Also, out of all the other items listed, the ultra high capacity tank makes the biggest difference. it almost doubles your dive time compared to the high capacity tank.

The Swim Charge Fins charge the Seaglide battery faster than you use it, essentially letting you use it indefinitely. Makes getting around outside of your Seamoth a breeze.

Speaking of, your Seamoth is basically your best friend anywhere outside of the Lost River. The Sonar upgrade lets you spot trouble before it spots you, and the perimeter defense will fend off most things that can hurt it.

Propulsion cannon too

How do you get by without it? In my last (5th) playthrough, I built the seamoth after 25 minutes.