Think about the fact that we were the only ones that didn't send a distress signal. Since warpers communicate with the same radio frequencies as the pods, is possible that they located the other survivors because of this
@@Whity_the_Demon Because every other pod we find in the game sent out a distress signal that included their current coordinates. Our pod is only ever used for receiving signals because the radio is damaged and even after its repaired we have no way of replying to sunbeam which implies we were only able to repair the output for our radio and not the input
@@Whity_the_Demon oh my bad i read your question as "why did they do it to the other survivors". The answer to your question is simple tho. They opened the pods while they were submerged in water. The other survivors drowned and were eaten OR they were just eaten depending on which pod
In the code Warpers are LITERALLY programmed to stalk you from relatively early into the game, the reason you feel like you’re being watched is because you ARE. Similar to real life you don’t have a sixth sense, your eyes have seen something your brain has not recognized yet. As such you “feel” like you’re being watched. It’s one more of the borderline sick psychological warfare the game plays upon the player. Warpers are programmed to occasionally wander to the edge of the player’s vision range upon detecting them, and just kind of “loom” nearby otherwise, waiting to strike. Never forget they’re ALWAYS there…watching…
True but here is the thing. Many of those people NEVER left the pods and were waiting for rescue. So they would not be infected. So why would the Warpers kill them? Some of them where REALLY close to the shallows like the few sitting in the red grass area, those are not where Warpers or Reapers spawn so what happened there?
@@TheLastSane1 The pods throughout the game are constantly shown to be EXTREMELY unreliable. Only half managed to make it off the aurora in the first place and of the ones that did make it to the planet, only around a dozen actually managed to preserve the life of their inhabitants. Those dozen are littered with mechanical issues with most being said to have sank upon arrival to the planet despite their floatation devices. All in all they were terrible quality and in the ocean a small hole can become a big hole VERY FAST. The pods around the shallows and safer areas could have been damaged by debris or stalkers (who notably collect metal pieces making them likely suspects when it comes to damaging important equipment). Also even IF the warpers killed all of them its not that difficult to explain away. The warpers had 1 core directive. Stop the spread of the virus. That could be accomplished by eliminating anything that could be infected however it could also be done by quarantining them all and then killing anyone who tries to leave. The pods sending out distress signals are a MASSIVE risk for the warpers because its essentially a massive flag saying "Please come to this planet" which is exactly what they don't want. Thats why our character never gets their pod attacked. Our radio is broken and even after we repair it, it only RECEIVES messages even though we know it should also be able to send them because the other pods can. Therefore it never sends out a beacon and we never get found. Also the warpers can teleport and much larger teleporters exist in the game so that could explain how they found people in the shallows but dont regularly hang out there
@@connorsucks3847 Maybe but the pods are meant to reach out to a local system not interstellar. The signal that hit the Sunbeam was from the Aurora and it says only got it because it was on the outer edge of the system.
@@TheLastSane1 ANY unauthorised communication is a potential risk to the quarantine of the planet. The legal system isnt gonna go any easier on you if you only use your illegal phone to communicate within the prison and in this example the legal system happens to be a group of highly advanced, biomechanical killing machines
@@TheLastSane1 because the precursors put the planet on lockdown, that why the aurora and sunbeam got shot down by the gun station, the warpers where just finishing the job
Seems likely that they found the others BECAUSE they sent signals. The Architects use telecommunication similar to your radio to communicate. But it would be terrifying if they sent those SOS signals themself
If that would be true then it must’ve really sucked for them since I didn’t go to the calls until after I found and searched the green underwater river area. I’d like to think it is the truth now and they just sat there for days after using the mimicked call until they said “you know what, screw this I’m done sitting here.”
In the area from the video, I build a base closer to the surface from there as where i put it is right above an entrance to the lost river but once I was looking for lithium because sometimes those 3 legged ones that dig up ores walk around nearby, I swear I saw a ghost leviathan just close enough to be seen in the distance, I investigated later but he disappeared and never seen again, now I try to make my trips down there more brief
Well the the crew being missing is quite explainable as well as the creepy message. Ryley, the protag has been unconscious for over a while. The Lifepod's SOS' were sent before Robinson was awakened and only received at the time you do. The "Nine new targets" is actually an intercepted message from the WARPERS, their radio frequency was similar to ALTERRA's and you're able to pick it up. By the time you get the "9 biological targets remaining" there are currently 8 other survivors fighing for their life on 4546B. Until ofc... you get the last WARPER MSG: "SUBJECT 11783 DESTROYED, ONE REMAINGING." Your last crewmate was just hunted down... Now its only you on the planet... You, Ryley Robinson, the sole survivor.
The fact that you were still there when there were 8 other survivors but you didn’t/couldn’t help them and they all die around you until you’re truly alone is crazy to me. Like, you were *so close* to not being alone in your journey. But now you are
The fact that you were still there when there were 8 other survivors but you didn’t/couldn’t help them and they all die around you until you’re truly alone is crazy to me. Like, you were *so close* to not being alone in your journey. But now you are
@@BlueRecRoom oh if you go into the area with the crab squids and the Mongolian base you'll see this man sized purple praying mantis squid thing ,several in fact their main gimic is they can teleport like endermen also they can teleport you out of your seamoth in a attempt to kill you ,now the reason I think its them is in this ,in one deep facility you see what looks to be them assembling warpers implying they are robots under the precursors command and the messages imply their hunting for us so they can keep quarantine
There's also the Reapers around the ship that ate some of the crew that survived, and there's a couple that end up blown up, there's also ones that landed in the void, we can easily guess that leviathans ripped them into the depths
Its long been confirmed its the Warpers that are responsible for killing all the other survivors. I think you can hear one attacking one of the pods and later you intercept a message between two Warpers talking about you and the other survivors.
It's not been confirmed that they killed all of them at all In fact at most the warpers only got a few The lifepod near the Aurora mentioned being stalked by reapers One got attacked by crabsnake One exploded because crazy bitch shot a flare inside of it The one in the kelp fields was flooding when the message was sent out And there was a malfunction in one that cause it to fail Most of the life pods have pda entry or their broadcast out right tells you what happened And it's almost never warpers Hell the degasi base in the reef was attacked by crabsquid according to the pda found there
@@notrelatedtobacon1282the degasi base in the reef was destroyed by a reaper that was brought back for study, unfortunately it woke up Also the two in the kelpzone made it to the surface and went to the floating island. They decided to go back to the waters and were never heard from again
So either the lore contradicts the gameplay, or most people here are wrong. The people wouldn’t have time to get infected, then get killed by warpers. If our character was unconscious for that long without medical attention they would have died
@@Moai_rocc you're infected as soon as you dive into the water, it just takes a little while to hit stage 2 (the survivor in the bulbzone actually got stage 2). Most survivors died before the warpers got to them
@@notrelatedtobacon1282 maybe one got eaten by crabsnakes, but lifepod 17 said that there was this “grim looking snake thing tryna eat through the hull” most people thought it was crabsnakes, but the lifepod didn’t land in the jellyshroom cave. I even built my base right next to lifepod 17 and i never got attacked by crabsnakes. But there also is a blood kelp location near lifepod 17. And I did get attacked by a warper when I went there. So I think it’s most likely that lifepod 17 got attacked by a warper.
Didn't think it was much of a secret; the Architects built the cannon to prevent people from landing or leaving, and designed the warpers to hunt any potential survivors and further insure no one made it out of the quarantine.
The guy who made this video clearly didn’t read a singular lifepod log. Pretty much all of the life pod crew died in random ways that are described. The ones I can remember notably are lifepod 6, where the PDA literally records the death of the two women because the panicking one hits a fuel line with a flare. Then Pod 17, the guy is freaking out about a “grim looking snake thing” given its location next to one of the entrances to the jellyshroom caves, it was a crab snake that got him. Lifepod 13, Jochi Khasar’s lifepod chutes didn’t deploy and he died on impact with the water, his capsule sank after. Lifepod 7, the captains fabricator was busted and he kept just making random shit hoping something would work, and it’s implied that eventually something he made blew up and killed him. Lifepod 3, they were trying to supercharge a sea glide to outrun a swarm of stalkers as they bail. you find a sea glide fragment in the sand in close proximity to the pod, so that answers how that went. Lifepod 2 was 500M deep in crab squid/juvenile ghost leviathan territory, without tanks… that one’s pretty clear. Lifepod 4, right by the aurora, the guy made creature decoys to try and distract a reaper leviathan to get away, and it didn’t work out, not that it matters because he was deep in the radiation zone.
@@puppycatsupremacy Insure has multiple definitions, including to "secure or protect someone against a possible contingency," which is precisely the function of a warper. You gotta try to find a better hobby than making bad corrections to nine month old youtube comments, pal.
It's the warpers. The warpers communicate to each other, and when the survivors give their coordinates to call for help, the warpers arrive there first. Another chilling detail that proves this: all the life pods are torn open.
The warpers definitely weren't responsible for all of them. At least one pod is implied to have been attacked by a Reaper, as the message references a snakelike creature. Many of the survivors also never left the pods, so they wouldn't have gotten infected with the bacteria: the warpers only target infected organisms.
It's official lore that warpers killed them all. They are using simlar frequencies as radios in game. So when radio in Riley's lifepod broke, it propably saved his life, as it didn't send any distress signal that warpers could recieve.
Its a warper message. By the time Riley (the player) wakes up in his lifepod, all of the other crew members have died already since it has been a few hours since the crash. There was never any chance for Riley to find them in the first place, and there are multiple videos detailing how each member died, which I recommend watching. However it mostly comes down to unfortunate circumstances, alien fauna attacks and leviathan attacks, as well as the Kahraa bacterium.
It would be very interesting if there was a mod/dlc that made Subnautica start playing like Iron lung after a certain depth, like so dark that you can only use night vision and for your duration down there something is stalking you, too long down there and it will get you
I feel like that would ultimately devalue Subnautica's accidental terror elements. Part of what preserves the "scariness" is that there's nothing that's actually super dangerous in the game. It's not hard to escape a Reaper in one piece, but the game still manages to make you feel like you barely escaped with your life even when you weren't really in any danger. Subnautica is all about Terror, not overt horror like that.
@@plantplayer303 it is partlly a horror game based on thalasaphobia (basiclly fear of the ocean) thats what all the leviathans and deep dark places are for
Honestly, its not very dark, the only scary things down there are the warpers and ghost leviathan, which can be completely avoided, and an abundance of valuable resources is down there as well as the best way down to the inactive lava zone behind the cove tree But the blood kelp zone is fucking HORRIFYING
@@thewebman1977 Same. Every time I leave my base between the bulb zone and mountains, I see a warp off in the distance in the same spot. I think the closest warper is like 200m away on the opposite side of that base too.
Everybody gangsta until you see the creature from the deadzone that followed you from the crater’s edge to your base staring at you from the distance watching.. observing.. waiting.. hungry..
I definitely know what you‘re talking about. The fear of the unknown, you are describing, kept me from completing my very first run of the game in legit ways. I used the console to teleport to the wrecks, like the coward I was. Though that‘s fortunately the only cheats I used. And I squeezed my cyclops through the blood kelp trench entrance to the lost river, only leaving it when absolutely necessary, terrified of every single little fish that hit my sub. In my defense, I was probably 12 back then. A couple years later I started a new run and explored all the biomes I missed out on back then, trying to get as close to 100% as I can. Totally worth it btw. Also, the mix of thalassophobia and fear of the unknown is what’s keeping me from completing Below Zero until this day. A truly horrific fear that is, but also part of what makes these two games so fascinating and special for me ❤
@@BorisRider yeah i usually hunt them in lost river, jus don’t recall seeing many in the blood kelp when I was lookin got crab squid eggs 😆 I only ran into the adults
In the radio message at the end of the video is from a warper if you here the sounds they make then the uncoded parts of the radio message and the data's that you get from the facilities they sound the same
I never realised that, the Warpers killed the survivors. It was always strange how in the messages many of them seemed well off enough to survive, but mysteriously died without logical cause.
actually, Keen is the only confirmed one to have died to a Warper the rest have other deaths, which puts into question who the 7-8 other survivors are, and where their lifepods are
Idk why people get scared the deeper you go. Grand reef has little danger outside of the warpers, ghost leviathans are too slow to be a threat in lost river, and I just don’t think the sea dragons are that scary because you always know where they are due to how well lit the area is and how loud they are. Dunes, aurora, and mountains is where the game is at its scariest.
@@TheMantisLord50 I'll explain better than the other guy. Subnautica is based on Thalassophobia which is the fear of what might be below or within the shadows of the blood kelp with a Ghost Leviathan or the dust of the Aurora with the Reaper Leviathan, or the void itself. Subnautica stimulates this fear when playing the game with its alien lifeforms making one's imagination go haywire wonder what else is there. Even though I don't have Thalassophobia I will admit there were times were it felt like I did until I reached the Lost River where everything felt like a breeze.
@@a_great_punnyguy4393 being at the surface only to look down at the blue abyss is scarier then going to the dunes or the mountains. I could easily traverse the dunes and when I get attacked It’s not much of an inconvenience. but seeing the endless blue below me makes me legit sweat,heart racing and I start overthinking.I know there’s nothing down there and at most a leviathan but there’s just something about looking down and seeing and endless abyss possible of containing anything.
For those who don’t know who/what say the subjects switching mode hunting/analyze is the warpers a creation of the architects/precursors as part of the quarantine system so they killed the other survivors we’ll probably not the ones near jellyshroom or aroarua
they all either got hunted by the warpers, killed by khara (i think that's the name) and then feasted on by decomposers, or caught by sharks/leviathans likely
Hmmm…. Am I the only one seeing two giant blue eyes on the top right corner of the the screen at around 16 seconds ?!?! That scared the shit out of me !!
I think a variety of factors caused the survivors to die, Distress signals caused Warpers to hone in on them (assuming they used the same frequency), The location and lifepod condition (Like the one that was under attack by presumably crabsnakes that sunk), and the radiation levels (Like the first distress call you get)
I wish more games actually added cool shit randomly. Imagine playing gta and rockstar decides to lean into their weird paranormal alien canon. Or you're mid cod match and you see a little goblin scamper across the floor.
“Detecting a nearby void chelilerite nearby you -static- nearby void chelilerite is gone a larger heat signature has been detected below you-static- it has been identified as a -static- it’s been an honor working with you”
No monster will ever be as terrifying as the endless darkness and FEAR of smth there. The unknown will always be more scary to humans, when we see the monster its immediately less scary.
Like the TV Trope says: Nothing is Scarier. Once you see what's been scaring you, it's less scary because *now* you've got a way to identify it. You can assign a face to it. Without a way to know what it is, your imagination wonders. Thoughts like "is it right around the next corner? Is it behind you, or above you, perhaps even beneath you?" start haunting your at the worst times.
I've reached that point of the Subnautica playthrough that I just yell at everything to screw off, the only thing I really fear is things that can one hit me, like warpers, I just say "How ya doin?" and drive/swim off. I really hate when they appear in groups of three.
That’s easy as to “why” they’re dead by the time you reach them… Either a Leviathan followed the pod as it submerged in certain areas or the Warpers intercepted the distress signal and got to them before you, after all the Warpers are the one in charge of Quarantine because of the infection going around on the planet and they were specifically made for that function since you learn about that detail when exploring certain precursor labs… It’s even more obvious since when you get the Enzyme on you after you free the Baby Emperors, the Warpers no longer try to attack you because you’re no longer exposed to the infection; since you were the only survivor that never sent out a distress signal but kept receiving them, that’s why eventually you also intercept the Warpers broadcasting information between each other and also why Warpers never roam around the starting point of the game but can be seen almost anywhere else where there any structure without a big Leviathan in direct proximity
Well, that's just the feeling of anxiety. It's true for every game (mostly). You can't match the feeling of being watched when playing horror games or things like Arma or DayZ. The constant fear of someone or something, waiting around the next corner or on the next hill, just waiting for someone to stumble upon them.
Im pretty sure that creators confirmed that there aren't any other leviathans, so its propably just you fearing, or trying to imply fear of the unknown.
Technically, you are being more than watched. You are being electrically and telepathically located. So, in a way, even when you're in your base, they can see you clearer than you can see them with your eyes and lights. Much like hammerhead sharks and their electrosensory, the warpers (quarantine enforcement units) and some of the life down here can sense either electrical impulses or thoughts. The warpers job on this planet is to hunt down infected creatures. The emperor literally talks to your mind from within her cage. There is no need to lay eyes on you. The enforcement platform is literally watching everything that tries to come and go and shoot it down. Even the architect from the second game might be watching you. Some people think the cyclopse watches because of some of its unique dialogue. I just think it's being robotically observant/comical in a dry-humor kinda way. It has sensors and can detect the other alterra tech after all. Mesmers can not only read your mind but subliminally control you into swimming towards them. They do more than watch you. They control you.
That’s the Warpers talking to each other. Warpers are man made or alien made fish that swim around warping you away from places they don’t want you to be
The realization on simon-3's fate lowkey hit dif he literally got left in the abyss celebration thinking he would make it out then catherine suddenly disappearing leaving him alone like he didnt have to go out like that
it seems quite possible that we are only alive because we didn't send a signal. the others had functioning radios, they sent an SOS, and warpers would've detected that, triangulated their position, went in, and disposed of them. the other past surviving groups (such as Disagi) must've survived from not having functioning radios either.
Idea. It wasn't a SOS, but some sort of safeguard against employees of *insert whatever company owned that shit* being kidnapped and tortured for classified data. Basically a 'cut the loose ties'
As a sybnal player I'm going to say I don't really ever feel like that I mean I did when I first start playing The Game but I've solved that Problem by turning off The Game music Is why music always makes you paranoid that's what TV and movies have been using for years to make you feel paranoid in every situation
The most terrifying part of subnautica is the fact when you're getting chased and you hide in your base THEY CAN JUST GRAB YOU Not actually in the game but the thought is terrifying
Basically just warpers detecting new infected and going into purge mode, very likely most were just breached and killed by them due to them landing deeper while you land on what's basically the shallow water.
I cannot play that game for longer than 30 seconds or so. I can't do it. My body no joke is not ready and it stops working. That game terrifies the shit out of me.
I went from being terrified by crash fish, and not daring to go into the green kelps when I first played to enjoying the chill calm feeling of swimming through the ocean even in the darkest depths losing every ounce of fear I once had.
“Have you ever felt like you were being watched while playing Subnautica?” From the second I dipped my toes in that water I _KNEW_ I was being watched, and it didn’t stop until I got in the damn rocket to leave the planet.
Simple theory. Some of the life pods describe having deadly creatures near them (one notes a nearby crabsnake cave, one is dangerously close to Crabsquids, one notes a nearby leviathan lurking around, etc) The others however, are from the Warpers. The Architects proved to have advanced biology with a language that worked more like radiowaves (AL-AN Sends signals to your PDA before taking shelter in your brain). So they would have created the Warpers with this in mind. And whats the one thing each of these attacks have in common? They let out an SOS signal... Complete with coordiates to their location. Your radio is badly damaged and doesnt allow to emit an outward signal, which is why they dont target you. The others are also found in deeper waters, which is has more fish affected by the Khaara virus, meaning Warpers were already in the area. The only thing that disproves this theory is that Warpers seem passive towards the player in the beginning until you start showing symptoms of the virus.
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Thank you now i have everytime watcht when i play subnautica
well I'm not playing subnutica again
Holy Fucking Shit-
Thank u
What if it follows you and then when U go to a pod it makes the survivors die
Think about the fact that we were the only ones that didn't send a distress signal. Since warpers communicate with the same radio frequencies as the pods, is possible that they located the other survivors because of this
thats actually a brilliant theory!
the question is what did they do to the other survivers?
@@Whity_the_Demon Because every other pod we find in the game sent out a distress signal that included their current coordinates. Our pod is only ever used for receiving signals because the radio is damaged and even after its repaired we have no way of replying to sunbeam which implies we were only able to repair the output for our radio and not the input
@@connorsucks3847 but what did they do to the survivors?
@@Whity_the_Demon oh my bad i read your question as "why did they do it to the other survivors". The answer to your question is simple tho. They opened the pods while they were submerged in water. The other survivors drowned and were eaten OR they were just eaten depending on which pod
In the code Warpers are LITERALLY programmed to stalk you from relatively early into the game, the reason you feel like you’re being watched is because you ARE. Similar to real life you don’t have a sixth sense, your eyes have seen something your brain has not recognized yet. As such you “feel” like you’re being watched. It’s one more of the borderline sick psychological warfare the game plays upon the player. Warpers are programmed to occasionally wander to the edge of the player’s vision range upon detecting them, and just kind of “loom” nearby otherwise, waiting to strike.
Never forget they’re ALWAYS there…watching…
I wanted play subnautica again but when i see. This... 💀💀💀
Good thing my life pods above water! 😆
I have an addition: notice how every lifepod has a hole in it by seemingly the same thing
Warpers
Warpers
Some of the lifepods have a hole because of an explosion others have a hole because of leviathans
I always assumed they couldn't get the hatch open because of the water pressure so they had to lasercut there way out.
They all have holes that look like something went through from the inside.
Crazy fan theory: the warpers do their job according to the lore. Hunt infected creatures (including humans) down.
True but here is the thing. Many of those people NEVER left the pods and were waiting for rescue. So they would not be infected. So why would the Warpers kill them? Some of them where REALLY close to the shallows like the few sitting in the red grass area, those are not where Warpers or Reapers spawn so what happened there?
@@TheLastSane1 The pods throughout the game are constantly shown to be EXTREMELY unreliable. Only half managed to make it off the aurora in the first place and of the ones that did make it to the planet, only around a dozen actually managed to preserve the life of their inhabitants. Those dozen are littered with mechanical issues with most being said to have sank upon arrival to the planet despite their floatation devices. All in all they were terrible quality and in the ocean a small hole can become a big hole VERY FAST. The pods around the shallows and safer areas could have been damaged by debris or stalkers (who notably collect metal pieces making them likely suspects when it comes to damaging important equipment).
Also even IF the warpers killed all of them its not that difficult to explain away. The warpers had 1 core directive. Stop the spread of the virus. That could be accomplished by eliminating anything that could be infected however it could also be done by quarantining them all and then killing anyone who tries to leave. The pods sending out distress signals are a MASSIVE risk for the warpers because its essentially a massive flag saying "Please come to this planet" which is exactly what they don't want. Thats why our character never gets their pod attacked. Our radio is broken and even after we repair it, it only RECEIVES messages even though we know it should also be able to send them because the other pods can. Therefore it never sends out a beacon and we never get found. Also the warpers can teleport and much larger teleporters exist in the game so that could explain how they found people in the shallows but dont regularly hang out there
@@connorsucks3847 Maybe but the pods are meant to reach out to a local system not interstellar. The signal that hit the Sunbeam was from the Aurora and it says only got it because it was on the outer edge of the system.
@@TheLastSane1 ANY unauthorised communication is a potential risk to the quarantine of the planet. The legal system isnt gonna go any easier on you if you only use your illegal phone to communicate within the prison and in this example the legal system happens to be a group of highly advanced, biomechanical killing machines
@@TheLastSane1 because the precursors put the planet on lockdown, that why the aurora and sunbeam got shot down by the gun station, the warpers where just finishing the job
It’s OBVIOUSLY the peeper leviathan….peeping….always
only been seen a couple times
Yep
God damn peeper leviathan, it's watching when I'm changing suits
Lol I hate you…
@@fupse ayo
Warpers hunted/found the bodies, made a copy of their voice for the distress call, and are actively searching for you
Seems likely that they found the others BECAUSE they sent signals. The Architects use telecommunication similar to your radio to communicate. But it would be terrifying if they sent those SOS signals themself
@@dawsonwarren1121i mean it maybe not a bad idea for them to capitalize on this responce by just relaying what they remembered of a distress signal.
If that would be true then it must’ve really sucked for them since I didn’t go to the calls until after I found and searched the green underwater river area. I’d like to think it is the truth now and they just sat there for days after using the mimicked call until they said “you know what, screw this I’m done sitting here.”
Seems very unlikely.
Yes. If it was likely, the player wouldve been hunted down and killed as soon as they got to the wreck@caldercockatoo2234
Im just happy the lost river is so bright. The deep reef is horrifying to me. Blood kelp has a beautiful ost to keep me calm
In the area from the video, I build a base closer to the surface from there as where i put it is right above an entrance to the lost river but once I was looking for lithium because sometimes those 3 legged ones that dig up ores walk around nearby, I swear I saw a ghost leviathan just close enough to be seen in the distance, I investigated later but he disappeared and never seen again, now I try to make my trips down there more brief
@@miragemain105 yeah its a ghost leviathan juvenile its hangs around the lost river entrance
@@urbexingTssyup, problem is, i only ever saw it once and it was just far away enough that i could barely see it
@@miragemain105wait.. your scared of Ghost Leviathans? How?
@Moe Lester thats an interesting way to phrase that
Well the the crew being missing is quite explainable as well as the creepy message. Ryley, the protag has been unconscious for over a while. The Lifepod's SOS' were sent before Robinson was awakened and only received at the time you do. The "Nine new targets" is actually an intercepted message from the WARPERS, their radio frequency was similar to ALTERRA's and you're able to pick it up. By the time you get the "9 biological targets remaining" there are currently 8 other survivors fighing for their life on 4546B. Until ofc... you get the last WARPER MSG: "SUBJECT 11783 DESTROYED, ONE REMAINGING."
Your last crewmate was just hunted down... Now its only you on the planet... You, Ryley Robinson, the sole survivor.
VERY terrifying.
That’s bone chilling. I haven’t gotten there yet.
The sole survivor? Like fall out? Like fallout 4? Omg fallout is subnatica confirmed?
The fact that you were still there when there were 8 other survivors but you didn’t/couldn’t help them and they all die around you until you’re truly alone is crazy to me. Like, you were *so close* to not being alone in your journey. But now you are
The fact that you were still there when there were 8 other survivors but you didn’t/couldn’t help them and they all die around you until you’re truly alone is crazy to me. Like, you were *so close* to not being alone in your journey. But now you are
Dang that's a easy one the warpers are sending that message to each other and we intercepted the message and yes they are hunting the survivers
srry what a warper?
@@BlueRecRoom the squid like monster that teleport you out of your vehicle
@@BlueRecRoom oh if you go into the area with the crab squids and the Mongolian base you'll see this man sized purple praying mantis squid thing ,several in fact their main gimic is they can teleport like endermen also they can teleport you out of your seamoth in a attempt to kill you ,now the reason I think its them is in this ,in one deep facility you see what looks to be them assembling warpers implying they are robots under the precursors command and the messages imply their hunting for us so they can keep quarantine
Teleporty bois
There's also the Reapers around the ship that ate some of the crew that survived, and there's a couple that end up blown up, there's also ones that landed in the void, we can easily guess that leviathans ripped them into the depths
Its long been confirmed its the Warpers that are responsible for killing all the other survivors. I think you can hear one attacking one of the pods and later you intercept a message between two Warpers talking about you and the other survivors.
It's not been confirmed that they killed all of them at all
In fact at most the warpers only got a few
The lifepod near the Aurora mentioned being stalked by reapers
One got attacked by crabsnake
One exploded because crazy bitch shot a flare inside of it
The one in the kelp fields was flooding when the message was sent out
And there was a malfunction in one that cause it to fail
Most of the life pods have pda entry or their broadcast out right tells you what happened
And it's almost never warpers
Hell the degasi base in the reef was attacked by crabsquid according to the pda found there
@@notrelatedtobacon1282the degasi base in the reef was destroyed by a reaper that was brought back for study, unfortunately it woke up
Also the two in the kelpzone made it to the surface and went to the floating island. They decided to go back to the waters and were never heard from again
So either the lore contradicts the gameplay, or most people here are wrong. The people wouldn’t have time to get infected, then get killed by warpers. If our character was unconscious for that long without medical attention they would have died
@@Moai_rocc you're infected as soon as you dive into the water, it just takes a little while to hit stage 2 (the survivor in the bulbzone actually got stage 2). Most survivors died before the warpers got to them
@@notrelatedtobacon1282 maybe one got eaten by crabsnakes, but lifepod 17 said that there was this “grim looking snake thing tryna eat through the hull” most people thought it was crabsnakes, but the lifepod didn’t land in the jellyshroom cave. I even built my base right next to lifepod 17 and i never got attacked by crabsnakes. But there also is a blood kelp location near lifepod 17. And I did get attacked by a warper when I went there. So I think it’s most likely that lifepod 17 got attacked by a warper.
Didn't think it was much of a secret; the Architects built the cannon to prevent people from landing or leaving, and designed the warpers to hunt any potential survivors and further insure no one made it out of the quarantine.
They are not there to hunt survivors only the infected
The guy who made this video clearly didn’t read a singular lifepod log. Pretty much all of the life pod crew died in random ways that are described. The ones I can remember notably are lifepod 6, where the PDA literally records the death of the two women because the panicking one hits a fuel line with a flare. Then Pod 17, the guy is freaking out about a “grim looking snake thing” given its location next to one of the entrances to the jellyshroom caves, it was a crab snake that got him. Lifepod 13, Jochi Khasar’s lifepod chutes didn’t deploy and he died on impact with the water, his capsule sank after. Lifepod 7, the captains fabricator was busted and he kept just making random shit hoping something would work, and it’s implied that eventually something he made blew up and killed him. Lifepod 3, they were trying to supercharge a sea glide to outrun a swarm of stalkers as they bail. you find a sea glide fragment in the sand in close proximity to the pod, so that answers how that went. Lifepod 2 was 500M deep in crab squid/juvenile ghost leviathan territory, without tanks… that one’s pretty clear. Lifepod 4, right by the aurora, the guy made creature decoys to try and distract a reaper leviathan to get away, and it didn’t work out, not that it matters because he was deep in the radiation zone.
Come to think of it our character is really lucky
ensure* insure is like insurance
@@puppycatsupremacy Insure has multiple definitions, including to "secure or protect someone against a possible contingency," which is precisely the function of a warper. You gotta try to find a better hobby than making bad corrections to nine month old youtube comments, pal.
It's the warpers. The warpers communicate to each other, and when the survivors give their coordinates to call for help, the warpers arrive there first. Another chilling detail that proves this: all the life pods are torn open.
The warpers definitely weren't responsible for all of them. At least one pod is implied to have been attacked by a Reaper, as the message references a snakelike creature.
Many of the survivors also never left the pods, so they wouldn't have gotten infected with the bacteria: the warpers only target infected organisms.
@@Missingno_Miner true, but the warpers also target intruders from other planets. They specifically say: nine new biological subjects designated.
@@NerdyPenguin223 Yeah. Nine new organisms infected.
@@Missingno_Miner there's nine lifepods tho, including Ryley's
@@NerdyPenguin223 Not all the lifepods only held one person. That'd be more than nine "biological subjects".
Damn I never thought about the warpers message like that
It's official lore that warpers killed them all. They are using simlar frequencies as radios in game. So when radio in Riley's lifepod broke, it propably saved his life, as it didn't send any distress signal that warpers could recieve.
@@NietoKT this makes me hate and love subnautica lore even more
@@NietoKT THE SHEER LUCK RILEY has
I didn’t even know the dudes name was Riley… I just shit my pants every play through
@@NHNY-zb7rv relatable,] same for my first playthrough
Its a warper message. By the time Riley (the player) wakes up in his lifepod, all of the other crew members have died already since it has been a few hours since the crash. There was never any chance for Riley to find them in the first place, and there are multiple videos detailing how each member died, which I recommend watching. However it mostly comes down to unfortunate circumstances, alien fauna attacks and leviathan attacks, as well as the Kahraa bacterium.
It would be very interesting if there was a mod/dlc that made Subnautica start playing like Iron lung after a certain depth, like so dark that you can only use night vision and for your duration down there something is stalking you, too long down there and it will get you
From what i heard Subnautica never even was meant to be scary.
I feel like that would ultimately devalue Subnautica's accidental terror elements.
Part of what preserves the "scariness" is that there's nothing that's actually super dangerous in the game. It's not hard to escape a Reaper in one piece, but the game still manages to make you feel like you barely escaped with your life even when you weren't really in any danger.
Subnautica is all about Terror, not overt horror like that.
@@plantplayer303 it is partlly a horror game based on thalasaphobia (basiclly fear of the ocean) thats what all the leviathans and deep dark places are for
@@Blue_Dogethalasophobia is not fear of the ocean, it's fear of DEEP water
@@Glacieriscool19 like the ... OCEAN
Lost River had the scariest name and yet it's one of the most calming areas below 200-300m
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Honestly, its not very dark, the only scary things down there are the warpers and ghost leviathan, which can be completely avoided, and an abundance of valuable resources is down there as well as the best way down to the inactive lava zone behind the cove tree
But the blood kelp zone is fucking HORRIFYING
@hellhound74, I haven’t played the game but i know enough to never want to meet a sea dragon.
@@keithtorgersen9664sea dragon is so chill, reaper leviathan or ghost leviathan are much more aggressive
I kinda wish they made it so on rare occasions in the farther areas if you turn around quickly you can see a warper teleport effect quickly disappear.
I see that actually, like idk if its a visual bug, but when i move with ny seaglide in thecorners i see a bright flash that dissapates
@@thewebman1977 Same. Every time I leave my base between the bulb zone and mountains, I see a warp off in the distance in the same spot. I think the closest warper is like 200m away on the opposite side of that base too.
@@tannerc8938 but for me this happens anywhere
Everybody gangsta until you see the creature from the deadzone that followed you from the crater’s edge to your base staring at you from the distance watching.. observing.. waiting.. hungry..
I definitely know what you‘re talking about. The fear of the unknown, you are describing, kept me from completing my very first run of the game in legit ways. I used the console to teleport to the wrecks, like the coward I was. Though that‘s fortunately the only cheats I used. And I squeezed my cyclops through the blood kelp trench entrance to the lost river, only leaving it when absolutely necessary, terrified of every single little fish that hit my sub. In my defense, I was probably 12 back then.
A couple years later I started a new run and explored all the biomes I missed out on back then, trying to get as close to 100% as I can. Totally worth it btw.
Also, the mix of thalassophobia and fear of the unknown is what’s keeping me from completing Below Zero until this day.
A truly horrific fear that is, but also part of what makes these two games so fascinating and special for me ❤
I watch horror movies often, enjoy scary things. Yet I am still hesitant to play subnautica 😂
I will soon, but the wide open sea aspect is horrifying
The amount of balls bro must have to casually cruise through the bloodkelp zone bro💀💀💀
Edit: Holy 305 likes!?!
nah I love taking trips to the blood kelp to get to the lost river or look for crab snake eggs/to go see the ghost leviathans 😆
I built a base there and killed the juvenile ghost leviathan so im safe XD
@@BorisRider I never even see the juvenile ones tbh but I’ve ran into the adult ones there a few times
@@aidancallaghan juveniles by size are similiar to reapers and deal 8-15 dmg to my prawn
@@BorisRider yeah i usually hunt them in lost river, jus don’t recall seeing many in the blood kelp when I was lookin got crab squid eggs 😆 I only ran into the adults
Just the warpers
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@@f0x7 not sure if spelling error, or if you're asking a question
@@alexandercross9081 o f
@[UntitledFox.exe] okay, that doesn't answer my question, you trying to say "Of," "Off," or "Oof"
The ones who lurks behind the shadows, are the friends we made along the way. (Peepers)
It was the hoverfish all along, using those adorable little electrical pads to communicate with the great unknown. They're also so stinkin cute.
the ones who smash your seamoth glass
In the radio message at the end of the video is from a warper if you here the sounds they make then the uncoded parts of the radio message and the data's that you get from the facilities they sound the same
I never realised that, the Warpers killed the survivors. It was always strange how in the messages many of them seemed well off enough to survive, but mysteriously died without logical cause.
yup, just vanishing without a trace. I'm thinking the warpers would've just triangulated the radios signals, teleported in, and disposed of them.
They didn’t?
actually, Keen is the only confirmed one to have died to a Warper
the rest have other deaths, which puts into question who the 7-8 other survivors are, and where their lifepods are
One remember the messages are on repeat two the hunting analyzing are the warpers
Notice how pretty much every lifepod that sent a distress call has a hole on it which seems to be breached... from inside OUT?
😮
Prolly just a model error, lifepod 4 almost difinatly got killed by reapers
the real reason for the is a out of game reason so do not look into it that much.
Idk why people get scared the deeper you go. Grand reef has little danger outside of the warpers, ghost leviathans are too slow to be a threat in lost river, and I just don’t think the sea dragons are that scary because you always know where they are due to how well lit the area is and how loud they are. Dunes, aurora, and mountains is where the game is at its scariest.
Agreed, the only leviathan I legit get scared of is the reaper
Clearly you just don't understand
@@crazynachos4230 don’t understand what?
@@TheMantisLord50 I'll explain better than the other guy. Subnautica is based on Thalassophobia which is the fear of what might be below or within the shadows of the blood kelp with a Ghost Leviathan or the dust of the Aurora with the Reaper Leviathan, or the void itself. Subnautica stimulates this fear when playing the game with its alien lifeforms making one's imagination go haywire wonder what else is there. Even though I don't have Thalassophobia I will admit there were times were it felt like I did until I reached the Lost River where everything felt like a breeze.
@@a_great_punnyguy4393 being at the surface only to look down at the blue abyss is scarier then going to the dunes or the mountains. I could easily traverse the dunes and when I get attacked It’s not much of an inconvenience. but seeing the endless blue below me makes me legit sweat,heart racing and I start overthinking.I know there’s nothing down there and at most a leviathan but there’s just something about looking down and seeing and endless abyss possible of containing anything.
For those who don’t know who/what say the subjects switching mode hunting/analyze is the warpers a creation of the architects/precursors as part of the quarantine system so they killed the other survivors we’ll probably not the ones near jellyshroom or aroarua
Brudda really just forgot the whole lore relevance of warpers
"ever had that feeling of being watched"
the school of fish: ... im a threat?
they all either got hunted by the warpers, killed by khara (i think that's the name) and then feasted on by decomposers, or caught by sharks/leviathans likely
Don’t forget explosions and just regular drowning
It's ok, it's just the peepers staring into your sou!l ^^
Damn blue eyes scared me
I was gonna comment that
Yes, if you didn’t know the Warpers use the same frequencies as radios
Bro has his mind blown about the warpers doing what they are built to do.
Hmmm…. Am I the only one seeing two giant blue eyes on the top right corner of the the screen at around 16 seconds ?!?! That scared the shit out of me !!
I think its bigger than full grown gargantuan
its the jelly thing that lifts the floating island
its kinda weird he can see it from the kelp zone
Him: Something more terrifying than a leviathan could ever be…
Me: *scrolls*
I play subnatica on an old switch. The lag keeps me sane 😅
Lol same
POV you are poor
The first time I heard that radio message I thought megatron was going to make an appearance
Imagine if it was just Godzilla trolling the player.
Me in the lava zone
YES
The sea dragon: 😏
You do know your being watched by yourself right now through memories
I think a variety of factors caused the survivors to die, Distress signals caused Warpers to hone in on them (assuming they used the same frequency), The location and lifepod condition (Like the one that was under attack by presumably crabsnakes that sunk), and the radiation levels (Like the first distress call you get)
It's the Hybrid Police (Warpers) they're trying to get you into a kill trap.
I wish more games actually added cool shit randomly.
Imagine playing gta and rockstar decides to lean into their weird paranormal alien canon.
Or you're mid cod match and you see a little goblin scamper across the floor.
that sounds terrifying... but i like it!
@@L.O.T.T it would be great
“Detecting a nearby void chelilerite nearby you -static- nearby void chelilerite is gone a larger heat signature has been detected below you-static- it has been identified as a -static- it’s been an honor working with you”
No monster will ever be as terrifying as the endless darkness and FEAR of smth there. The unknown will always be more scary to humans, when we see the monster its immediately less scary.
Like the TV Trope says: Nothing is Scarier.
Once you see what's been scaring you, it's less scary because *now* you've got a way to identify it. You can assign a face to it.
Without a way to know what it is, your imagination wonders. Thoughts like "is it right around the next corner? Is it behind you, or above you, perhaps even beneath you?" start haunting your at the worst times.
Me turning on my sensitivity to max so I know where everything is at all times:
Sometimes I have dreams about both games, but also nightmares
I've reached that point of the Subnautica playthrough that I just yell at everything to screw off, the only thing I really fear is things that can one hit me, like warpers, I just say "How ya doin?" and drive/swim off. I really hate when they appear in groups of three.
"just gonna pretend warpers don't exist for a bit"
That’s easy as to “why” they’re dead by the time you reach them…
Either a Leviathan followed the pod as it submerged in certain areas or the Warpers intercepted the distress signal and got to them before you, after all the Warpers are the one in charge of Quarantine because of the infection going around on the planet and they were specifically made for that function since you learn about that detail when exploring certain precursor labs…
It’s even more obvious since when you get the Enzyme on you after you free the Baby Emperors, the Warpers no longer try to attack you because you’re no longer exposed to the infection; since you were the only survivor that never sent out a distress signal but kept receiving them, that’s why eventually you also intercept the Warpers broadcasting information between each other and also why Warpers never roam around the starting point of the game but can be seen almost anywhere else where there any structure without a big Leviathan in direct proximity
Subnautica is what gave me the fear of the ocean-💀💀💀
Casual warper voice line: EY BOYS LETS JUMP THIS INFECTED NI-
TH-cam really waitin until night to recomend this
“MoAr TeRrAfYiNg ThAn A lEvIaThAn”
*Garg*
Honestly, the scariest thing in the game for me is the constant droning sound that plays when there’s no music.
bro this dude underrated
"I dont care what they're doing, long as they're doing it way over there."
Well, that's just the feeling of anxiety. It's true for every game (mostly). You can't match the feeling of being watched when playing horror games or things like Arma or DayZ. The constant fear of someone or something, waiting around the next corner or on the next hill, just waiting for someone to stumble upon them.
It’s crazy how there might even be more leviathans in the game that nobody has ever discovered yet
Im pretty sure that creators confirmed that there aren't any other leviathans, so its propably just you fearing, or trying to imply fear of the unknown.
@@plantplayer303 yeah I’m trying to imply the fear of the unknown and I’m also trying to make the game scarier than it already is
Well... It's the warpers
Don’t even get me started on the warpers
Dear god they are terrifying
@@fruitebat Are they? I always found them... random, kinda annoying too when teleporting me.
@@doommageddon I don’t mind the huge creatures but it’s just startling when your in deep areas and they show up and start screaming
I actually never thought of this before but now that I heard this theory it just makes subnautica even scarier
Kinda sad we don’t get so encounter or try to fight the warpers, ngl
wtf are talking... you do meet them and you can fight them
@@fruitsalad5036he never made it past safe shallows
You get to them somewhere in the middle of the game.
I want that gel sack...
as every one has said already "WARPERS"
Technically, you are being more than watched. You are being electrically and telepathically located. So, in a way, even when you're in your base, they can see you clearer than you can see them with your eyes and lights.
Much like hammerhead sharks and their electrosensory, the warpers (quarantine enforcement units) and some of the life down here can sense either electrical impulses or thoughts. The warpers job on this planet is to hunt down infected creatures.
The emperor literally talks to your mind from within her cage. There is no need to lay eyes on you.
The enforcement platform is literally watching everything that tries to come and go and shoot it down.
Even the architect from the second game might be watching you.
Some people think the cyclopse watches because of some of its unique dialogue. I just think it's being robotically observant/comical in a dry-humor kinda way. It has sensors and can detect the other alterra tech after all.
Mesmers can not only read your mind but subliminally control you into swimming towards them. They do more than watch you. They control you.
Warpers
This has honestly got me terrified. I’m constantly checking my radar now lol
That’s the Warpers talking to each other. Warpers are man made or alien made fish that swim around warping you away from places they don’t want you to be
Peepers, they're in every biome 2 big eyes, they're stalking us, even a myth of a leviathan peepers, I'm not joking they fr stalk us
The realization on simon-3's fate lowkey hit dif he literally got left in the abyss celebration thinking he would make it out then catherine suddenly disappearing leaving him alone like he didnt have to go out like that
it seems quite possible that we are only alive because we didn't send a signal. the others had functioning radios, they sent an SOS, and warpers would've detected that, triangulated their position, went in, and disposed of them. the other past surviving groups (such as Disagi) must've survived from not having functioning radios either.
My biggest fear is being in the middle of the ocean so I tried playing subnautica and could get anywhere past the shallow waters.
I don't really feel that. I play FPS, I'm accustomed to the feeling of being watched by a camper who still haven't got a clear line of fire on me
"Where am I"
"Warning dead zone entered"
Of course there are things watching me, there are literally fish called Peepers everywhere
I never understood people being afraid of subnautica. If you want a trully scary experience, then step into a cave in sons of the forest
The creature doing nothing, watching you from arpund a corner: Me? Hehe... Just hangin' around...👀"
Having something that actively hunts you would be a fantastic addition to Subnautica 3.
Idea. It wasn't a SOS, but some sort of safeguard against employees of *insert whatever company owned that shit* being kidnapped and tortured for classified data.
Basically a 'cut the loose ties'
I almost had a panic attack 10 minutes into the game. I have severe fear of the water, and once nighttime came around I had to quit the game. 😢
Though I never felt like I was being watched, I always just simply felt I was alone.
It's almost like the warpers are doing their job
One last short before bed,
The short:
''We stop searching monsters under our when we realize they were inside us''~ JOKER
As a sybnal player I'm going to say I don't really ever feel like that I mean I did when I first start playing The Game but I've solved that Problem by turning off The Game music Is why music always makes you paranoid that's what TV and movies have been using for years to make you feel paranoid in every situation
The most terrifying part of subnautica is the fact when you're getting chased and you hide in your base THEY CAN JUST GRAB YOU
Not actually in the game but the thought is terrifying
The distorted message in hunting / anylizing sounds like warpers talking to eachother. at least that's what i thought my first time.
At first I thought you were talking about mama, then I realized you meant those damn warpers
One more short before bed:
The short:
The giant floaters appearing looked like a pair of eyeballs opening
Dark forest hypothesis, every other pod made noise but we managed to stay quiet long enough.
I'm not scared of the dark, I'm scared of what's in the dark
Basically just warpers detecting new infected and going into purge mode, very likely most were just breached and killed by them due to them landing deeper while you land on what's basically the shallow water.
I cannot play that game for longer than 30 seconds or so. I can't do it. My body no joke is not ready and it stops working. That game terrifies the shit out of me.
I went from being terrified by crash fish, and not daring to go into the green kelps when I first played to enjoying the chill calm feeling of swimming through the ocean even in the darkest depths losing every ounce of fear I once had.
“Have you ever felt like you were being watched while playing Subnautica?”
From the second I dipped my toes in that water I _KNEW_ I was being watched, and it didn’t stop until I got in the damn rocket to leave the planet.
Simple theory.
Some of the life pods describe having deadly creatures near them (one notes a nearby crabsnake cave, one is dangerously close to Crabsquids, one notes a nearby leviathan lurking around, etc)
The others however, are from the Warpers. The Architects proved to have advanced biology with a language that worked more like radiowaves (AL-AN Sends signals to your PDA before taking shelter in your brain). So they would have created the Warpers with this in mind. And whats the one thing each of these attacks have in common? They let out an SOS signal... Complete with coordiates to their location. Your radio is badly damaged and doesnt allow to emit an outward signal, which is why they dont target you. The others are also found in deeper waters, which is has more fish affected by the Khaara virus, meaning Warpers were already in the area.
The only thing that disproves this theory is that Warpers seem passive towards the player in the beginning until you start showing symptoms of the virus.