I was playing yesterday and realized there’s a relatively easy way to dodge them with the truck (works with the sea glide too). I always forget about the controls to bring you closer to the surface, or further down. I’m on Xbox, so for me it’s the bumpers.

When I get too close and I know I’ll be attacked, I strafe either right or left, and then use the bumper controls to either drop down or raise above the leviathans.

They suck at turning and also don’t strike at angles very well. So if you can maneuver your truck around them like this, you can confuse them and dart away. I can usually do it in one try, distract them, move far enough away they don’t notice me anymore, and then I wait for them to pass.

I’ve come face to face with a leviathan every time I’ve gone into their biome this play through, but I haven’t been grabbed yet. My seatruck doesn’t have any speed upgrades, but only two modules so far.

I just stop driving/release the controls and stand in my truck. If I'm not at the wheel they don't attack.

Are these the only leviathans you’ve seen?

Head right behind the auraura to find sammy the safety reaper

Probably the dunes for reapers. Or the void.

I'd say the Dunes, iirc there's 11 reapers there, permanent ambiant noises

I love the idea of a levitation observatory! Post pics!

The crash zone has 10 reapers. 6 of them are located on the south end of the Aurora.

Google should have at least 2 different interactive maps that show the leviathan locations

If you want a bunch of one type I’d say dunes or crash zone. Void for ghost. I don’t think there’s really anywhere that has reapers or ghosts close enough to see both from one spot.

There are 2 paths. One connecting to the Dunes and one on an elevated part of the Grand Reef. If you just follow the barren road they've pounded into the sand, you SHOULD find them in small family groups of 2-4.

Now, there IS a bug where if the terrain loads in too slowly, the sea treaders may fall through the world and be lost to the void forever. If you're noticing a distinct slowness in terrain loading, that may be your problem.

Another way to try finding them is to set up a small scanner outpost w/ 4x range mods and scanning for them, they SHOULD show up on the scan list if they're in range.

I've been there, they usually walk in groups and make migrations in places where you would put them as a last option (they rarely go to other biomes), if my PS4 hadn't died I would have set up an observation center to study them...

/spawnreaperleviathan /spawnghostleviathan /spawnseadragonleviathan Might be wrong on the sea dragon one

If you type "fog" into the console it'll extend your visual range a lot, helping you find Sammy.

Or just head North for a long time

/spawn seaemperorjuvenile /spawn ghostleviathan /spawn reaperleviathan /spawn seadragon

wait you can still use the console? How? (on pc btw)

how in the hell did you not find a reaper??? this is like magic i don't get it-

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

They're making the leviathans indestructible?

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

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!

Reapers only spawn in areas that are on the edge of the map (Mountains to the NE, Crash Zone to the East, Dunes to the West). You can play the main elements of the game without bumping into one as those aren't essential areas (outside of the Aurora in Crash).

Ghost leviathans are a spoiler so don't read the rest if you want to avoid all technical spoilers.

There is one Ghostie in Blood Kelp to the NW, and two in the Grand Reef to the SW. Again all three spawn in places you'd not go normally so you can avoid those too without realizing it. If you're just exploring randomly you'll probably run into a leviathan eventually.

If you go directly behind aurora there should be one there and too far in front. Going to either island you shouldn't see any

Go to the aurora with cyclops without silent power and full ahead. Then they'll pop up

This is definitely a spoiler post, both the question and by necessity almost all of the answers. So, anyone who wants to find out for themselves should stop reading here.

Non spoiler answer and last chance for people who don't want spoilers to stop reading: yes they're there, you just haven't been in quite the right places yet.

Seriously spoiler answer follows, you have been warned: From the lifepod to the floating island you will not ever see a hostile leviathan if you travel in a straight line. In my first play through I swam there just with my Seaglide. There are, at it sounds like you're already aware, a pair of ghost leviathan spawns in the Grand Reef but that biome is massive (seriously, try driving your Seamoth around the perimeter sometime, it's really huge); the spawn points are both hundreds of metres away from the island horizontally and, critically, vertically - they're each at something like 250-300m depth!

Only one Reaper lives really close to the mountain island; the spawn point is to the North of the island so although it's not that far away and you may hear it roaring, it's quite possible to visit the island multiple times without seeing it.

The reaper which lives close to the bow of the Aurora, where the entrances are, mostly stays at the front of or just on the corner of the bow of the ship. So, again, it's more than possible to come and go from the Aurora without seeing it, although I think the majority of players would probably hear it at some point.

Remember that all these animals move, and especially, can become aggressive in response to other Subnautica critters - I watched one from the ship's stern which had initially been yelling/posturing at me divert to spend ten minutes chasing Stalkers in the creepvine forest last playthrough. They can go a long way from their usual territory if they're either chasing something or fleeing damage. So even if you look up their precise spawn point, there's no promise that they'll be there - but it's very likely that they're somewhere.

Performing a reaper check: go to the Aurora. Travel from her bow, along the shallow, safe side, around to the deeper, murkier water at the stern (back, where the engines are). As soon as you're out of the safe shallows-ish area, you're in the Crash Zone proper. Sand, twisted metal, Cyclops engine parts, loads of supply crates (fill your boots!) and… six Reaper Leviathans within a perhaps 400x300 metre area. If you can potter around the deep Crash Zone, directly behind the ship's engines, and collect I dunno say 5 supply crates without seeing a reaper… then maybe they're actually missing.

Otherwise, you just got lucky. :)

Atleast 2

51 I believe. Not factoring in below zero to my count though.