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Stay close to walls and the ground should help

Just dont get close or make alot of noise also eventually youll know where they spawn and you can avoid those locations easily other than that theyre quite slow so easily dodgeable

If you're using the cyclops then you can go for silent running when you come across them, but generally they can't do critical damage to your cyclops so I just normally wheeze past then at normal speed and they don't give me trouble much.

With a Seamoth or prawn it's much easier to navigate and evade them and generally it's not a problem at all with them. If you want to completely avoid them, just let them wander a bit away and just make a go for it. The ghosties on surface and the juveniles in LR never really give me a problem at all, they just like to wander and play <3 Not including the ones in the void though

My preferred entrance is the northern blood kelp because the opening is big enough to easily navigate the cyclops in and is somewhat near to my base than the mountains entrance. If you're using the seamoth or prawn, the blood kelp trench might be a easier entrance to go in instead.

I usually go in through the blood kelp trench so I only need to get past Casper, which is pretty easy cause he's not that bright. Het tends to get stuck in the skull down there

Cyclops - Stick by the edges of the cave and power off the engine the moment you get a creature attack warning. Be warned that it's a tough cave to navigate.

Seamoth - Just drive straight at the ghost leviathan, and as it charges toward you, pull up and either left or right. It will miss every attack.

Prawn Suit - Punch it in its stupid face.

They generally cant destroy your vehicles in one hit, assuming you drive past them and dont stick around where they patroll

Okay honestly? I killed the most annoying ghost leviathans in the lost River. It took me a fair bit because I only had a thermal knife and stasis rifle, but the relief of never having to worry about them again is chef's kiss

I would highly recommend that method, gets rid of them for the whole game and builds up your skills and speed! Then you can focus on what really matters, be it exploring or gathering resources or dodging some freaking warpers

EDIT: also adding I'm a super scared newbie player but I knew I didn't want that shot of adrenaline and fear going into the cave every time, which is why I just decided to kill them. Took a lot of courage but I felt waaaaaaay better after, and a lot less scared of them too.

Fight it with your thermal blade like a real survivor.

lead it back to its home pacifist%

smack it around with the cyclops

Did you scan it you gotta scan it

Charge him property taxes, he takes up a lot of your space I imagine. 10 bladderfish per day he must bring you!

I think that's a Juvenile, the adults are only in the dead zone. But probably the best way to deal with it would be to kill it. Best way is with a stasis rifle and a heat knife, at least that's how I did it

Whatever you do I wouldn’t suggest killing it. I went through a play through and killed every leviathan and found myself having no purpose. Id personally just live with it. Ghosts have an AI quirk where once they ram into you once they become de-aggro’d and give you ample time to escape

I'd kill it (I'd use mods for this since I'm bad at fights) or cross everything and dismantle it so you can relocate your scanner.

I'm like 80% sure that the one in the grand reef is an adult and ghost leviathans are just a general pain in the ass because (at least in my experience) even the perimeter defense system doesn't do much to deter them. If you don't have a stasis rifle my best advice would be to try and keep your seamoth's health as high as you can so it can take a hit or two, have first aid kits and a repair tool on hand and ZOOM fixing it whenever you can, and gradually the hell out of dodge. The great thing about most of the fauna is that once it lands a hit on you it'll leave you alone for a bit, and with how quickly the seamoth repairs, it should be more than enough time to keep its health up and make your escape. It's definitely tedious but at least it gets the job done 😅 The sonar is also great for being able to see where the hell they are.

My method, i like to call the rodeo method. Use a Prawn equipped with drill and grappling hook. Grapple on to the mofos face, and start drilling. You will take some damage, it was negligible for me. I rodeo'd a ghost from my base in the floating islands and left him in the shallows.

Punching works, but a better method is this:

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What you need:

1x stasis rifle.

Roughly 2/3s of your inventory full of the gas pod bombs that the gasopods release.

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First, collect the pods before they explode by following the gasopod around and picking up 2-3 at a time before they explode. You can usually get enough in a minute or two if you are quick.

Second, find the ghost leviathan. When it charges you, hit it in the face with a quick charge from the stasis rifle. Then, charge up the rifle and hit it with a full strength shot. While it is immobilized, get right next to its head, open your inventory, and drop all of the gas pods before backing off quickly. You do NOT want to get caught in the cloud. The pods will explode, and the leviathan will be trapped in a cloud of poison. Stasis as necessary to keep it in the cloud until it is dead.

The reason this is a better solution, long term, is that once you get practiced with it, it is the most efficient leviathan extermination technique available. Plus, you are using the environment against itself, so extra fun and ::smug::. I carry 4 lockers of gas pods with me in my cyclops at all times to deal with anything that proves troublesome, moderately annoying, or looks at me even slightly funny.

I actually just managed to kill one that I think was a juvenile. I used my PRAWN suit to grapple onto it and then used the drill arm to drill into its head for several minutes til it died

You can just knife it to death, just make sure you are back a bit from the head or it bites

EDIT: And use a stasis rifle ofc

How? Think I've punched one a hundred times with the prawn suit.

I think it's like this, the Reaper is perhaps the only Leviathan that is scary because it is the first Leviathan that the guys have contact with, and this contact is usually when the person is at the very beginning of the game, now Ghost and Sea Dragon are Leviathans that you only encounter in the End Game route, there you are already more advanced, enough to know how to deal with some creatures, by then you already have the Stasis Rifle, you already have the Seamoth Defense Module, you already have Prawn with upgrades and arms, so being scared is no longer possible, I already had a friend with thalassophobia who had more difficulties at the beginning of the game than at the end

I realize OP is talking about the others but can I just say that the Reaper scares me more than I think anything in any game, ever. I’ve never beaten Subnautica. I’ll play awhile then get sidetracked, come back and start all over. Every time I think, “Now I know how to play the game, I know about the Reaper leviathans, death isn’t even that punishing. I’ll be fine.”

But the second I see that huge form in the water and hear the roar I’m like, “Nope, nope, fucking NOPE!” and peace out lol. For context, I’m 38 and have played a LOT of games, but holy shit, Subnautica gets to me. It’s amazing.

I was just talking about the ghost and sea dragon, the reaper is still terrifying to me

yeh. It's more of an exploration game. the devs were shocked when people got spooked by the reefbacks in the prolonged) early access and just leaned into it. But SCUBA and mystery are really where the meat is.

100% agree. Other than the reapers, it’s totally possible to just keep punching things in the face with the prawn suit. They will swim away. 

Is that really so strange? People are scared of different things - there are a lot of us who don't see Subnautica as a horror game.

I think the reapers are scarier because they hang out in an open ocean, and there are multiple of them. It's like, can I escape safely this way? I dont know!

Ghosts there are very few, and they only appear in a few places.

I recently completed my first playthrough and I never encountered one near the aurora. My first encounter was near the main island, and seemed pretty easy to avoid on a seamoth

They're making the leviathans indestructible?

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

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 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.

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!

DONT KILL MY GHOSTIES!!! WHAT DID THEY EVER DO TO YOU!

Edit:I have the exact same problem that you have and all I do is say "Hi Ghostie. How are you? Insert random comment about how they might be doing Okay, bye Ghostie!" Then I get out repair and continue. I also went into the void by accident and almost died. Terrifying

Well, you can kill it by using the statis rifle to paralize it and then hit it with a knife, do this process intensively until it is dead. What i do not know is if it'll despawn or spawn another, because i didn't really tried it. Hope it helps��

They are pretty easy to kill with a prawn suit. They won't respawn.

I found killing them to be kind of a chore, if you feel like me(and dont have it yet) try to get the shield mod for the Cyclops, you just need to activate it when they are starting to chase you and sort of forget about them.

prawn with grapple arm or stasis rifle and thermoblade

I've moved into the edge of the mushroom forest near the dunes to get a great view of 2 reapers

Super annoying when that happens.

He moved out

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The Warper ITMT

Sounds like you were a bad neighbor and drove him away.