I finally have a Prawn suit depth module two, I can now access the lava zone. But the sea dragon leviathan is a big threat. I need to get Kyanite... But I am too afraid of the Seadragon but I am Intimidated by the sea dragon leviathan. I need a few tips how I can avoid it so please help me.

I'm in my prawn suit and want to get into the alien thermal plant. There is a sea dragon in my way and I'm wondering if anyone has tips for that

... MORE LEGS!!!

I couldn't find a post on this so I am just starting here. I am also not an animator and can only imagine the expensive-ness. But damn that design is SO WORTH IT to me!!

Intro:
I have been thinking for a while about the design of the shadow leviathan, and the nature of Subnautica Zero, and why I was considering the Shadow Leviathan as a nuisance - after all, all I actually needed was a perimeter defense system to get rid of one biting my seatruck.

In many many previous YouTube videos BZ has been critcized, compared etc. I actually really liked the tightness of several places, as they gave so little space to hide - it played more to the idea of claustrophobic corners one couldn't escape.

Problem? I think that the Shadow Leviathan indeed doesn't fit that space - it gives the vibes of reapers and ghost leviathans, which are big beasts that rely on on their bodily sway to move forward.

https://preview.redd.it/0bp7otte4dle1.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&s=765f52a248f94c6e4b63465b58c6eb98f702e376

In my eyes, if you are in a cave, moving through legs is an evolutionarily logical step, and this can be seen by the shadow leviathan - but why did it undevelop in it's regions? What if it had legs like centipedes, and you can occasionally see it relaxing from its swimming motion, only to flexibly walk or crawl through the tight caves, bending it's snake-/centipede-like body???

https://preview.redd.it/417iscbh4dle1.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&s=28472b9c9cc6f54235529ea2286f9aa0ef7cdac5

It would still make sense to have the arrow-head or it's eel-like design. But to think of it so unnaturally crawling your way (with the clacking of these legs), then, with a powerful motion, LIFT itself off the corner to approach you like in the game?!

Damn. That's scary to me.

https://preview.redd.it/kky73euk4dle1.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&s=9150b5b93852610c79f23cc38be4cec5ef2f4c24

What do you think? Could this have fixed the Shadow Leviathan for you?

Although the Sn2 discord chat has made it clear that the dev team won’t be making leviathans killable, I still believe that it would be a great idea for leviathans to be killed by other leviathan species as well as leviathans within the same species. This would not only create tight situations where you’re caught in between two leviathans fighting for territory, but also a new way to deal with leviathans, being that you could lure a larger leviathan to the smaller leviathan you want to be delt with, and the smaller would be killed and never bother you in that area again. This strategy can be seen in Ark (which I know is much different than Subnautica in a myriad of ways), but would still be pretty applicable to Subnautica in my opinion if allowed.

Some people may say that this makes dealing with leviathans “too easy” and “not a realistic feature in a survival game” if you can just lure an apex leviathan to a smaller one, however I believe that the process of “luring” the leviathan would still be a high risk situation (as the larger leviathan could easily eat you or simply replace the leviathan in the area you want leviathan free), is still very applicable to a survival game. For instance, luring sea dragon to kill a reaper leviathan, the reaper leviathan would be delt with but you still have the risk of the sea dragon prowling around.

Imagine the situation on our world: There’s a shark that keeps on stopping you from exploring this sunken shipwreck that you need to go to. So, you lure a killer whale over (which could also kill you) to deal with the shark. The shark is killed by the killer whale, so you’re able to loot the wreck while the killer whale is feeding on the shark remains, and then stealthily leave the area.

Although the luring mechanic may be a bit too “off the deep end” for Sn2, i believe that the ability to encounter leviathan fights would be a quite cool feature.

Edit: before anything else, no, I'm not talking about it's design being scary. Half of the comment section didn't seem to read my text and only assume I'm talking about the design. When it comes to design, Reaper and Ghost obviously won. That's now why I said the Sea dragon is "scary". Pls read before you comment.

At least in my playthrough, I found Sea dragon to be the most intimidating than the others.

I mean, I was never once killed by any other leviathan. Reaper? He just glazed me and then I can easily heal and get back to doing the last thing I did. I never even got it to attack me when I was in my seamoth. Even though I went to the mountains and crash zone multiple times. Didn't even get to use my parameter defense.

Same goes with Ghost. Especially after I have the reinforce dice suit, his bite barely tickles. And he just starts screaming and bump me then leave. I'd build a base right next to one on the boneyard. And then after a few days, suddenly the ghost multiply, and now there's 2 of them next to my base. I'm not gonna question it, they're my neighbors now.

As for the Sea dragon? He is the first leviathan that actually killed me during my entire playthrough. And he did 3 times. One when I was picking up acid mushrooms in the lava zone, second when I was leaving my prawn suit momentarily because I tried to repair it, and third when I was trying to get rid of some lava larvae from my cyclop. He also won't stop attacking my cyclop once, forcing me to use all my power for the cyclop shield. Thankfully I have the thermo upgrade and I brought plenty of extra power cells to replace.

Because of this, Sea dragons are the only leviathan I'm genuinely afraid of. None of the other leviathans manage to kill me even once, best they did is eradicate half of my health, which I immediately replenish since I always carry a medkit everywhere. Sea dragons are jerks, everything else are cuddly pets.

I’m thinking about going to the inactive lava zone soon and I was wondering if anyone has any tips on how to not get manhandled by the sea dragons.

I've completed both games and I've had very few problems with hostile leviathans except for the one time I went into the void on purpose.

I knew how to get into the aurora without encountering the reapers from this sub, and while the juvenile ghosts at the lost river entrances are unavoidable, they don't do that much damage to the prawn/cyclops and lose interest in you pretty fast even within a small radius. Same goes for the sea dragon, and once it's gone, you can repair your vehicle.

In BZ, you have nothing to fear as soon as you get the perimeter defense upgrade, and even before then, you can repair your seatruck after each attack, since none of them can one shot it.

I was a bit scared to play SN because of them, but they turned out to be more of a nuisance than scary. Was your experience the same?

I'm just waaayyy to scared to explore those places when they are around

killing them is out of the question because i am actually afraid of these bozos, any tips on how to get around them? im primarily in my prawn suit down in the ILZ.

EDIT: i just beat the game
took me 6 years