It’s not worth to kill them unfortunately :/ Since they respawn and you don’t get any praise/achievement/reward

Yep, with a stasis rifle and a will of iron.

With enough first aid kits and a big ol' set of brass cajones you can but it's a cross between an epic underwater battle and a snorefest. I wouldn't bother myself. You'll likely only ever do it once.

yes, takes a while, couple of hundreds stabs, dunno the exact number (200-300?)

Yes, but you have to be willing to die to do so.

It's a fairly common pastime among the veteran users on the sub.

What happens if they die is that they start glitching out. So I'm pretty sure you're supposed to avoid them/run away from them/run past them. I have never personally noticed a leviathan of any kind respawn after killing it, but I wasnt really counting or paying enough attention. Also, prawn suit with grapple arm and drill/hand arm is a lot safer/faster way of killing them, if you know how to do it right.

Depends on where in the game you are. Once you have a prawn suit and a drill arm, kill them. It's not hard at all. You can do it with a thermoblade but it takes a long time and it's easier to just avoid them, but once you can hang on the side of a leviathan's head and drill through their skull, it's pretty simple.

I kill every one I see.

If you kill them it kinda ruins the experience, you feel overpowered and the game and every further play through suddenly becomes boring

The main reason they're there is to add an aspect of terror in the game. They really aren't meant to be killed but they are killable. the only leviathans that do respawn are the ones in crater's edge

I agree - I am of the opinion that the game is more fun when it's about evading/eluding dangerous fauna rather than fighting and killing it. It does seem like the intended way to play the game.

With that being said, the people here saying "you're not supposed to play the game like that" and downvoting anyone who says they kill leviathans, should stop. It's a game. Some people's favorite part of games is to break out of the intended way of playing. It's called emergent gameplay. I might not always understand it, but I'm not going to criticize someone for playing their single player game the way they want to. Let people have their fun.

Didn't even know you could kill them lol

No Leviathans being left on the map is literally the opposite of fun

Have you tried using the prawn and drilling them to death, could be a fun ride while grappling onto a leviathan

Ah nice dude, i killed the lower dragon using drill arm and grapling arm with prawn. Since that day I stopped using the stasis rifle entirely. (I got better way)

I fought the sea dragon for 30 mins and gave up. We were at an impasse so I just left

They can respawn

yeah, first playtrough I killed a few, second, zero

The lower dragon was actually the first leviathan I killed. It blew up one of my thermal plants any I took it personally. So I hopped in my Prawn and went spine-mining

Kill the other 21 Reapers.

Oi, you stole my idea, now imma have to beat you to it.

Ghost leviathan

A cuddlefish. Bet you can't do that they're too cute!

Sea dragon

Hydrogen bomb versus coughing baby kind of situation tbh

That reaper stands no chance

Absolutely nothing. A 55 m large creature is going to be showing zero interest in me. Chasing me is a waste of energy for him.

He will go for the oceanic sharks, rays, dolphins and other similar creatures he has a taste for.

Would be a crime to harm him anyways. A 55 m larhe carnivore is practically impossible. There is not enough for the creature to appropriately sustain itself, so I am just going to be enjoying the sight until it eventually goes extinct.

At some point, a creature is soo large it invokes no fear at all.

Not in this instance. The reaper only hunts you because you are the player. The reaper is 55 metres long and the player is approximately 1.7 m. Ignoring width, the reaper has a ratio of just over 32:1 compared to a human. Animals that have that ratio compared to humans are small birds and rodents. Now, say you are in a forest where you know you can kill anything in there, with no great effort or danger to yourself. Why would you settle to waste time by killing something like a mouse for food when you know you could get a boar or something better to sustain yourself?

You just have to be more angry than it. If you somehow manage that, it'll respect you and go get a Ghost leviathan to get you.

Would you swim and chase something the size of a hornet if you were trying to survive? You’d probably look for bigger prey, the reaper would literally expend more energy hunting you down than it would get from eating 3 of you.

It's true Reaper really is designed amazing, but I gotta disagree on the Sea Dragon part those guys are really really dangerous sometimes especially considering the hazardous environment where you encounter them. Still tho Reaper is by far the best, honorable mentions to best design (chelicerate, shadow and ice worm) thing I hate about the Ice Worm is that it's not an entity that has a predictable movement, location pattern so it's not fun encountering then just anoying which ia sad considering how cool they are on paper, not to mention the absolutely terrifying centipede like tail, ugh. You just walk, get attacked, get away, repeat. Reapers youcan hear, stealth pass, sonar reveal, remember their position and gtfo or wait for grab and zap so it's fun whem you deal with them. Ice worm is just a specific animation that triggers in specific place and there isn't much you can do about it

I don't think there are Reapers in BZ? I found nothing in that game very intimidating.

I don't disagree. The reaper is the only one that's designed from the ground up to be scary. Oh, sure, the other ones are dangerous, but being dangerous doesn't automatically equal scary.

The reaper gets up in your face, he grabs you with his mandibles, and he takes away control of your character. And that's the only reliable way to scare a video game player. Sure, there's jump scares, and the threat of losing progress and having to farm materials again, but those are very different types of fear. The only thing you have is control of your character, you probably don't even think about it most of the time, it's so natural and obvious that it's below the level of conscious thought. So when something can take away that control, even for a little bit, it's scary.

The Redeads from Legend of Zelda say "hi", by the way.

Dayum bro wrote an essay just for an r/subnautica post 😭😭

They're making the leviathans indestructible?

I dont like to actively get rid of them but damn that's kinda odd

I always wanted to see a Sea Dragon come up and take a Reaper. To see parts of the ecosystem in action.

Like a shark with a seal. As an introduction seeing that stuff would be neat to watch. We see the Reapers take the various smaller organisms out there but a scripted “reaper hunt” involving a sea Dragon would be neat to watch.

The idea of using a leviathan to distract a leviathan has a lot of cool potential

I would honestly love an area overrun with a jellyfish swarm like a cave entrance you have to lure a creature to to get access

i absolutely dont disagree. this kinda stuff gets the team really excited. hopefully we can impress in a future EA release. ty for your thoughts!

Never kill in subnautica!!!! There is a reason you get no reward or anything from killing one. The devs want you to respect the fauna, not kill them!

I once used stasis rifle and gas pods to quickly kill a reaper

I prefer stasis and knife for reliability and safety but it is extremely annoying

Used a prawn suit with a drill arm, that isn't the best option, but it did the job

Or just don’t

It ate you after you shot it with the stasis rifle? Try not swimming in front of it’s face.

They can’t move but they can still bite. So yes, strike from the sides.