irrational my ass, if my brain tells me there’s a reaper leviathan next to me whenever a piece of seaweed brushes my leg that’s my survival instinct working correctly.
@@Honeydumpster Slippery, slimy, cold thin hands caressing you, while possibly hiding nasties in the moving, flickering shadows... nope, can't see what would be terrifying there. *shudder*
@@Honeydumpsterin sea weed forests, your chances of encountering sharks are likely raised by a lot. Same for reefs. A lot of sharks aren’t hostile if you don’t provoke them, and sharks bite from curiosity usually.
Unassigned rule of the Internet: "If you don't have Thalassophobia when you start playing Subnautica, you will have Thalassophobia by the time you stop playing Subnautica."
I didn't have thalassaphobia when I started playing. I have beaten it and still don't. However, even though I have never been scared of the deep sea, it took me twenty minutes to gather the courage to leave the safe shallows. I went straight to the back of the aurora at that point😅.
I didn’t get the last phobia mainly because of the amount of Subnautica videos I watched, but I did get unbelievably scared. When out of nowhere I’d be attacked by the ghost Leviathan or the regular reaper Leviathan. I also had my fair share of glitches when one time my prawn suit just kind of phased through the ground and I slowly fell into the void and I hit about like 17,000 or whatever before I decide to leave the game
@@shannonwagstaff8380they’re talking about how your country is satan’s test area. Please understand this is as much a compliment of continued existence as it is an indictment of sanity
This guy is so insanely lucky he didn’t meet the dunes Also at the very end of the credits there’s a line where the PDA tells you that you will be fined 1 trillion credits for all of the gadgets, gizmos, antics and shenanigans you got up to on that planet
The way that reaper acted is actually very accurate, the pda says its actually blind which is why its eyes are completely black, it uses its roars as echolocation
@@eaglest0554 maybe that's why they so highly aggressive since they don't know what's around them so they automatically assume everything is out to get them
@eaglest0554 none of that is actually true or how the reaper works. The pda says things to creep the player out all the time. The reaper works like every other predator, if you're in its radius it will come for you
My favorite bit of meta lore from subnautica is that the devs said they weren't trying to make the game scary. They were just trying to capture the feeling of being underwater.
I had the worst thalassophobia moment possible in my first playthrough . I was swimming through the biome i've never visited before to get home from the second island. It was night time, and I could't see the bottom. But I got curious and desided to dive and check how deep is it... 200m below the surface, I was looking into an abyss and still didnt see the bottom. But the abyss looked back at me.. and said: "What... are... you?"
Ironically enough, the Dragon is the only leviathan that doesn’t scare me Sea Dragon is just cool as fuck Reaper alternatively is the scariest thing in the ocean Y’know besides the actual ocean
I can only imagine how fast you would have uninstalled if you saw the void. You are so lucky you didn't even see the scariest part of the game. You also missed the chance of seeing an adult ghost leviathan
My favorite part of this game was, during the first playthrough, hitting the point where instead of running from everything, you begin running TOWARD everything trying to scan it. That little gameplay mechanic is such great psychological motivation. and such a great component of the game.
@aydencarrisalez2349 I mean, there are difficulty mods that basically increase the detection range to the range you can hear thr roar. Those mods typically add other things as well because they are a full game difficulty mod.
I really love the fact that the game brings you to the island and gives you temporary hope, just to make you sit there and watch the game crush your hope in your face
Subnautica doesn't really scare me, but there was one moment playing where I was genuinely terrified. I went out to the crater's edge to scan the ghost leviathan, and the way the ground just drops off is absolutely terrifying and when I was returning to my base I kept looking back to see if it was following me.
If you were wondering why the reaper wasn’t attacking you, it’s because they are quite lazy and will not just attack because they feel like it and it had just eaten several other things first, so it probably saw that the seamoth is a more difficult prey than the stalkers and sand sharks and just didn’t bother with it.
More specifically, reapers only make their sounds as a deterrent at the start, so you will leave because they can see you. But if you don't, they'll come at you.
One thing people forget about the Reaper is that it's an animal, not a monster. Reapers will attack other creatures along with the player, so the only time one is going to zero in on you constantly is if there is no other prey around.
The Reaper is programmed to target most of the other fauna in the game first, and the player is considered a secondary target in comparison. The only exception is whenever they are piloting the cyclops sub. Which makes sense, because the player is ridiculously small compared to most of what the Reaper otherwise consumes.
Even though it’s from a completely different game, I feel this quote applies quite well to large parts of _Subnautica:_ “The sea does not forgive. And it will not forgive you.”
mad props to you because even without thalassophobia, this game TRULY terrorizes your subconscious. it makes for a better horror game than a lot of actual horror games i’ve played. i cannot imagine taking the metaphorical and literal plunge in if i also had thalassophobia cause the game already stressed me out beyond belief without it! as a side note, i played this game modded with my partner as a “co-op” to ease my own fear, but since its an unofficial multiplayer it tends to have a lot of bugs. for me, the biggest issue was that the reapers ALL TURNED INVISIBLE. so somehow even more terrifying than seeing the reaper face to face… is having your seamoth suddenly start shaking around without your control before breaking and having never seen the culprit. it haunted me, man
@@loung8640i wouldnt call it bad, it wouldnt look nearly as bad if the original wasnt this good. If you treat it like a dlc for people who enjoy lore, than its not that bad.
I love the inevitable subnautica experience of being terrified of everything slowly evolving into wanting to run over every bit of fauna like keemstar on christmas
I love this playthrough of someone with actual thalassaphobia, but I can't lie. I laughed each and every time you did a Courage the Cowardly dog scream
It genuinely hurt me to see you charging the power cells with the charger IN the cyclops. It’s the equivalent of plugging an extension cable into its self 💀
this has got to be my favourite playthrough of subnautica, comedic genius editing + hilarious screaming + the relatability of it all seeing as I also have thalassophobia
Seeing people in the chat saying "it's not that scary" reminds me of people who tell me spiders aren't scary, when I have crippling arachnophobia. When you have an irrational fear, being told "it's not that scary" is so dismissive of your fear. It's literally an IRRATIONAL fear! It's in the name! Kudos to you for facing your fear and actually playing Subnautica to completion. My fear of spiders is so bad that when I play a game that has them, I need my friends to log on and take care of them for me. LOOKING AT YOU ENSHROUDED, WITH YOUR CAVE FULL OF SPIDERS WHERE AN UPGRADE ITEM IS KEPT!
You wanna have fun? Try the Reaper Rodeo. Use the prawn's grapple arm on a leviathan and hang on for dear life. Oh, and keep in mind it'll force the Reaper to change its territory, so don't do it near your base, or they'll never leave.
This is genuinely one of the most immersive, creative, and terrifying games over the last couple years. No such thing as being late to a party worth being at
I played this in early access and while swimming around exploring in 'creative mode', I got lost in an unfinished area that would turn out to be the Inactive Lava Zone, there was nothing there except huge empty red caverns with ominous ambience, I panicked so hard I straight up quit the game, so you are a legend for finishing this Beelz. . . . . P.s. DONT EVER GO TO THE EDGE OF THE MAP!!
Beelz isn't scared of subnautica and his agreeable fear of the ocean, he's just afraid of playing the limited time godzilla dlc to hit indie game "Dave the Diver" for free on steam, because gojira scawy
i have thalassophobia and it was so cool learning beelz does aswell. i tried subnautica myself and could barely get past the initial jump into the water off the lifepod, so congrats for making it through the game despite your fear!
try the game m8 the first biome is really safe and you can acclimatize to the feeling i have my problems with the vastness and dangers of the ocean too but once you get your seamoth its different you can finish the game without really interacting with the leviathans too
Fun fact: It is speculated that the Ghost Leviathan adapt (size-wise) to their environment, and thus the Ghost Leviathans adults can grow to massive lengths outside of the Crater (the playable area surrounded by the void/ecological deadzone). It is speculated that there are specimens of sizes up to 400 meters in length (If not more). 😀 (Love ur vid btw)
i find his reaction to reefbacks very amusing, because i find them just so chill and even though im always nervous in this game but i feel same with them
My cousin was watching me play and his first response (also kinda mine) was, “ITS MAKING DUBSTEP NOISES” 😂😂😂 Coolest sounding creature other than the reefies, and I actually loved it so much I made a carved pumpkin last year or the year before with a crab squid as the cut out. ❤
When theycwere introduced i quitted. I quitted the game for years. When i returned dlc was already announced, or released , dunno. Returned. Fmand the crabsquid was my actually gate to be a fearless predator on sight. Didnt bother to kill reapers behind the ship on vefore
As soon as I claw the intro, I knew for a FACT that the radar for the seamoth would help SO much. When I did my first playthrough the radar was my go to every SECOND that I had it
As someone who has played this game several times this amazing in a funny way just watching a man see the kind and generous emperor leviathan and just being completely terrified
As an individual who conquered my fear of hights via a VR rock climbing game, trust me when I say that I know at least vaguely how you feel. More power to you, for broadcasting such a thing to the world.
I’ve had Subnautica for about 2 years, but I was way too scared to play, even in Creation mode. Watching this video helped me get over a few of the fears that held me back from playing, and I’ve been playing for almost 3.5 hours now. Thank you for helping me overcome a little bit of my thalassophobia
I personally have severe thalassophobia and submechanophobia, which is one heck of a combo! I personally like swimming in the ocean, but once I saw a CHAIN going down attached to smthn and for some reason that freaked me out, then I panicked because I realised we were quite far from the beach and there was NOTHING below me, I legit almost cried
As someone who ghas a phobia of the dark and cannot go through "It takes Two" without getting a panic attack, I commend you. Doing shit like this is terrifying.
What you said about the ghostie was kinda relatable ngl. They are mostly annoying, while the seadragons are more majestic, but the reapers are fucking terrifying at first.
I have a thalassophobia, when Iwas a kid around 4 years old, I almost drowned in the sea. Since then I really struggle even swimming in the pool. I tried playing subnautica to overcome my fear, I almost completed the game, but my pc died. While exploring the floating island, my gamer instinct kicked in, and I decided to climb up the mountain and perform a leap of faith. Once reaching the water in the middle of the island, I gasped so hard and chocked on the air, almost died of coughing. I’m pretty sure, that I haven’t got scared like that for a pretty long time, I guess that was the definition of primal fear.
I love the pace of subnautica, throwing sheer terror at you, the player overcoming that fear like with the first couple of sharks scary environments, making the terror WAY worse, pushing through that and beating the game just feels so good at the end it’s perfect
This should go on TV "Australian TH-camr Beelz overcame his thalassophobia and beat subnautica". This is a great accomplishment, and a huge encouragement to people with phobias. And man, watching this took me back to the old days when I binge-watched a subnautica playthrough for the first time. My god the nolstalgia! This game/series managed to create a vast ocean with every area designed in detail. The biomes and creatures are bizzare, some are also beautiful. Despite the bugs, this game/series is amazing. Edit: This game is ten years old. I can't believe what the devs accomplished at that time. For some reason, I have much more memory of this game then subnautica below zero, weird. And yes Beelz, this means it's not over yet. I look forward to your subnautica below zero playthrough
I have pretty severe agoraphobia so the surface messed me up more than most of the underwater sections did. Sparse Reef and the Void not included. Congrats on making it through your fear to finish the game!
As someone with thalassaphobia, I love subnautica so much BECAUSE it’s scary, and I find it cool. That’s the thrill. Time to strap in for a banger of a video
First off I wanna say I have a lot of respect for you playing this with thalassaphobia. Having said that, as someone coming from a family of scuba divers (I’m the disappointment black sheep of the family because I have a ear condition that stops me) it’s so entertaining to see someone scream at the first jump into the water in this game, opposing the expectation of “oh my god how beautiful” 😂
I discovered my fear of deep water watching a stream lay through of this game … I can’t even watch it on a large screen anything bigger than my phone freaks me out
Sammy the Safety Reaper doing an awesome job as always, keeping players from going into the void 😊 He had to scare you at the end to make sure you werent gonna go further off the crater edge!
Dude, this video was shared today in the Subnautica reddit and I vastly enjoyed watching. You get MAD respect for scanning the various aggressive leviathans (especially the Reaper and Seadragon) WITHOUT benefit of a stasis rifle. Willing to bet that most NON-thalassaphobes would not be willing to try that. Congratulations on facing your fears! You really accomplished a hell of a lot in your playthrough. You should be proud.
I love that even in the midst of all the terror, Subnautica explores the idea of "what if sapient life but underwater?" with the cuddle fish and sea emperor.
It was a truly unnerving and incredible game. First time through I actually had physical reactions to the deep water areas and the first time I ran into a Reaper after hearing its roar, I had to pause it and step away. It is now one of my absolute favorite games and I play it through every few weeks. Plus, building the Cyclops is easily in my top five greatest game moments of all time!
I still feel sick to my stomach when I see the depths, but somehow I managed to get used to the view when I'm not the one playing, I could never beat this game, but I admire you for making it 😂
This is actually so cool. Your willingness and perseverance to break past tour phobia is so awesome. And your recounting of how you felt in certain moments is, again, so cool. Amazing video
So nice to see a playthrough as a fellow Thalassophobia haver. I have tried to play it but fail miserably every time. Thanks for putting this content out there!!
I never comment so me commenting right now is in pure awe at your actions. Not even 3 minutes into the video and not only do I see how much “fun” you had in this play through but also the fact that you had the luck of spawning almost on top of the kelp zone saying you have thalassophobia. Also I am known in my family for not fearing anything horror related minus one scene from a movie, and this game terrifies me to my core every time I run up on anything dangerous. I didn’t even do 80% of the stuff you did my first run bc of how much stuff scared me
I want to say, i'm fairly sure i have thalassophobia, and it was much worse 5+ years ago, but after forcing myself to play subnautica it is much less severe. When i first started and went to anywhere you can look down and see just ocean and no floor i got a physical reaction in my toes and feet to curl them up, and it felt terrifying. but little by little it got better, and lo and behold subnautica is in my top 5 favorite games of all time. I'm glad you gave subnautica a chance and were able to see how great of a game it is.
Fellow person with thalassophobia and a person who is a Subnautica fan. I physically had to have a friend on call while I played the first one because of the deepness. Only had to had them on call a bit for below zero, but still an experience full of terror.
I remember finding subnautica when the reaper had like JUST been added. I watched it’s development from then to release. The fact that the game turned out how it did and is still popular to this day is really awesome
I was fully engaged the whole way through, I don't know if I have Thalassophobia, but boy do I *get* Thalassophobia. Kinda weird to hear from an internet stranger maybe but I'm proud as hell of you for doing this, you have my respect for pushing through the fear! O7
Subnautica Below Zero next? Also that massive skeleton in the lost river, there's a mod that adds that creature back into the game... and its terrifying
Fun Fact about the Gargantuan Leviathan skeleton in the Lost river, the body you see down there is only a 3rd of its original mass... even better is that a team is working on an amazing mod for bringing this creature to life! They've got custom sounds, story and cutscenes, and I'd love to see your reaction to it!
Been playing Subnautica for years and this video is how I find out that the warpers can warp other creatures at you, learn something new every day. Congrats on facing your fear, this game's scary even without thalassophobia, so I can only imagine how rough you had it! For me the scariest things in the game are looking down from the surface into a big, empty, blue abyss, wondering what creatures might be swimming directly below me way down there... and mesmers. Mesmers suck. If they all hecked off I would throw a big party to celebrate.
I FOUND YOUR TIME CAPSULE!!!!
Are you serious? That's... actually crazy
proof?
dang so the devs approved the capsule
wait really? i didnt think the devs still added new capsules
@@Beelz55 somehow, yes
irrational my ass, if my brain tells me there’s a reaper leviathan next to me whenever a piece of seaweed brushes my leg that’s my survival instinct working correctly.
I'm fucking dead at this comment.
Honestly though sea weed is more terrifying than actual creatures. Idk why, but seaweed gets me every time
@@Honeydumpster Slippery, slimy, cold thin hands caressing you, while possibly hiding nasties in the moving, flickering shadows... nope, can't see what would be terrifying there. *shudder*
even if i love the ocean, reaper leviathan still scare tf outta me, lost my seamoth to those critters
@@celefin6494 when you describe it like that, I now understand exactly why I fear it so much 😂😂
@@Honeydumpsterin sea weed forests, your chances of encountering sharks are likely raised by a lot. Same for reefs. A lot of sharks aren’t hostile if you don’t provoke them, and sharks bite from curiosity usually.
Unassigned rule of the Internet: "If you don't have Thalassophobia when you start playing Subnautica, you will have Thalassophobia by the time you stop playing Subnautica."
I am sorry to say I did not have Thalassophobia when I started playing, I’ve beaten it multiple times, and I still do not have Thalassophobia.
I didn't have thalassaphobia when I started playing. I have beaten it and still don't. However, even though I have never been scared of the deep sea, it took me twenty minutes to gather the courage to leave the safe shallows. I went straight to the back of the aurora at that point😅.
I didn’t get the last phobia mainly because of the amount of Subnautica videos I watched, but I did get unbelievably scared. When out of nowhere I’d be attacked by the ghost Leviathan or the regular reaper Leviathan. I also had my fair share of glitches when one time my prawn suit just kind of phased through the ground and I slowly fell into the void and I hit about like 17,000 or whatever before I decide to leave the game
@@Errorthismessagehadanerror the last phobia
The rule 4546B
an Aussie with Thalassofobia? Nah that's just survival instinct mate
im happy to give this one to America
I ain’t scared of water though and I’m an Aussie. So what are you talking about?
@@shannonwagstaff8380they’re talking about how your country is satan’s test area.
Please understand this is as much a compliment of continued existence as it is an indictment of sanity
@shannonwagstaff8380 thalassophobia isn't fear of water, that's aquaphobia. Thalassophobia is the fear of deep bodies of water.
@@shannonwagstaff8380he’s making a joke about some of our overly dangerous sea creatures like box jellyfish
This guy is so insanely lucky he didn’t meet the dunes
Also at the very end of the credits there’s a line where the PDA tells you that you will be fined 1 trillion credits for all of the gadgets, gizmos, antics and shenanigans you got up to on that planet
XD I know, I was a little disappointed he didn't include that in the end.
and all those valuable minerals you discovered and used for useless things like "survival" and "interfacing with alien technology"
Literally killing myself instead of escaping
It would be kinda funny if 1tril was like absolutely nothing in the subnautica economy
It literally gives “*sobs in cash money*”
The way that reaper acted is actually very accurate, the pda says its actually blind which is why its eyes are completely black, it uses its roars as echolocation
And according to chat iirc, it was too close to the aurora for its echolocation to be working properly or something too.
@@eaglest0554 maybe that's why they so highly aggressive since they don't know what's around them so they automatically assume everything is out to get them
@eaglest0554 none of that is actually true or how the reaper works. The pda says things to creep the player out all the time. The reaper works like every other predator, if you're in its radius it will come for you
@ im talking about the lore, the stuff the pda says in game is direct lore for the creatures and fauna of the game
My favorite bit of meta lore from subnautica is that the devs said they weren't trying to make the game scary. They were just trying to capture the feeling of being underwater.
Well they did a good fking job!
100% succeeded 😭
Then they added The Garg
@@grand_admiral_henrich4416all they did was add the skeleton these talented crazy modders added the garg back in the flesh
That's a mod, not official content. Yes there are skeletons bur if you are referring to the living creature that is a mod.
I had the worst thalassophobia moment possible in my first playthrough . I was swimming through the biome i've never visited before to get home from the second island. It was night time, and I could't see the bottom. But I got curious and desided to dive and check how deep is it...
200m below the surface, I was looking into an abyss and still didnt see the bottom. But the abyss looked back at me.. and said: "What... are... you?"
Holy shit, that was great. Glad I could read you shitting your pants :)
Sea Emperor jumpscare lol
That was possibly one of the worst moments to have that first message.
i was on my life pod reading my pda during the night cycle and then she popped up while i was focused on reading the lore. made me jump!
I would have a panic attack 100m down ngl 😂
I haven't gotten past the first area 😂😂😂😂
To the sea dragon: ya know what? I'm not scared of you
The sea dragon: bet
57:05
"You hear that? I'm not afraid anymore!"
*hears Reaper Leviathan roar nearby*
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!"
"I'm not that scared of this one"
The sea dragon: and I took that personally!
Ironically enough, the Dragon is the only leviathan that doesn’t scare me
Sea Dragon is just cool as fuck
Reaper alternatively is the scariest thing in the ocean
Y’know besides the actual ocean
@@dokutah7374 Agreed. I can live with the Ghost Leviathan, I can deal with the Sea Dragon, but I will never not be afraid of the Reaper Leviathan.
I can only imagine how fast you would have uninstalled if you saw the void. You are so lucky you didn't even see the scariest part of the game. You also missed the chance of seeing an adult ghost leviathan
My favorite part of this game was, during the first playthrough, hitting the point where instead of running from everything, you begin running TOWARD everything trying to scan it. That little gameplay mechanic is such great psychological motivation. and such a great component of the game.
11:52
“UgH, ugh, eW, EWW!! Scan it!!”
⬆️ the quintessential subnautica experience
so fuckin real i remember panic scanning a reaper and failing on my first playthrough, good times.
Below Zero eye squid things
You have to scan every living creature you see. It is just the law.
@@escaped_cephalopod facts
Am I the only only one that didn’t scan anything but fragments?
"I hoarded resources like a horrific combination of a goblin and a mermaid" this is pure gold.
Don’t we all?
Me hearing the narrator: Seems to be too calm to be Australian.
Me hearing him play: Yep, there's the chaotic Aussie energy.
You starting to relax around the sea dragon only to start screaming the second it started breathing fire was a marvelous thing
26:34 color me impressed. Scanning the Reaper without cheesing is worth being proud of
To quote PDA about Reaper... "You can hear it, it can see you."
Unfortunately not an actual game mechanic.
@@tadferd4340wish they would make a mod for that.
@aydencarrisalez2349 I mean, there are difficulty mods that basically increase the detection range to the range you can hear thr roar. Those mods typically add other things as well because they are a full game difficulty mod.
I really love the fact that the game brings you to the island and gives you temporary hope, just to make you sit there and watch the game crush your hope in your face
Unless you never head to the island and just hear them die from afar away
The most passive, stalker hating reaper I've ever seen. They always see me from a mile away xD
They don’t see they scream
It's just Sammy
Right? The second I get within a half mile of the Aurora, that reaper decides it will do nothing else until my Seamoth is in pieces.
The death of the Sea Emperor stills makes me teary eyed. I'm aware it's part of the cycle, necessary for life, but still, I miss her bros :,(
Subnautica doesn't really scare me, but there was one moment playing where I was genuinely terrified. I went out to the crater's edge to scan the ghost leviathan, and the way the ground just drops off is absolutely terrifying and when I was returning to my base I kept looking back to see if it was following me.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather, the will to continue despite it. Good on you, Beelz.
Good quote
@@jeno-gc4pbIt’s not really a quote, it’s the literally the definition of courage.
@@edvinwester8064 ok
@@edvinwester8064it’s still a real cool thing to quote though.
If you were wondering why the reaper wasn’t attacking you, it’s because they are quite lazy and will not just attack because they feel like it and it had just eaten several other things first, so it probably saw that the seamoth is a more difficult prey than the stalkers and sand sharks and just didn’t bother with it.
Not really. Reapers loop around their target. That's what he was trying to do. Retreat, so that he could ambush you later
More specifically, reapers only make their sounds as a deterrent at the start, so you will leave because they can see you. But if you don't, they'll come at you.
One thing people forget about the Reaper is that it's an animal, not a monster. Reapers will attack other creatures along with the player, so the only time one is going to zero in on you constantly is if there is no other prey around.
The Reaper is programmed to target most of the other fauna in the game first, and the player is considered a secondary target in comparison. The only exception is whenever they are piloting the cyclops sub.
Which makes sense, because the player is ridiculously small compared to most of what the Reaper otherwise consumes.
@@Raghetiel I forgot they did that
"I am deathly terrified of the ocean chat"
*6 minutes in already in jellyfish caves*
yeah this is gonna be a fun video lmao
Even though it’s from a completely different game, I feel this quote applies quite well to large parts of _Subnautica:_
“The sea does not forgive. And it will not forgive you.”
OK THE FACT U GOT OUT AND SUCCESSFULLY SCANNED THE REAPER IS INSANE I CLENCHED EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING AHHHH
I love how sometimes the terror gets so bad, you just start tryna box the enemy. Like a rat facing a cat, it's great lol
mad props to you because even without thalassophobia, this game TRULY terrorizes your subconscious. it makes for a better horror game than a lot of actual horror games i’ve played. i cannot imagine taking the metaphorical and literal plunge in if i also had thalassophobia cause the game already stressed me out beyond belief without it!
as a side note, i played this game modded with my partner as a “co-op” to ease my own fear, but since its an unofficial multiplayer it tends to have a lot of bugs. for me, the biggest issue was that the reapers ALL TURNED INVISIBLE. so somehow even more terrifying than seeing the reaper face to face… is having your seamoth suddenly start shaking around without your control before breaking and having never seen the culprit. it haunted me, man
is that bug still happening now? cus i'm about to play this coop with my brother, and I have a very deep fear of the oceans
Who’s gonna tell him there’s a second game where you come back and explore the frozen tundra of the planet?
This one is kinda bad, there is a mod for subnautica that is better, but idk if launched yet
How do you know the mod is better if it isn't out yet
If I'm guessing right.. it's the return of the ancients mod.. it adds something far far bigger into the void
@@loung8640i wouldnt call it bad, it wouldnt look nearly as bad if the original wasnt this good. If you treat it like a dlc for people who enjoy lore, than its not that bad.
@@boi2192 BUT ITS NOT SCARY ENOUGH!!
ME WANT WATER SPOOKYS!!
I love the inevitable subnautica experience of being terrified of everything slowly evolving into wanting to run over every bit of fauna like keemstar on christmas
I love this playthrough of someone with actual thalassaphobia, but I can't lie. I laughed each and every time you did a Courage the Cowardly dog scream
It genuinely hurt me to see you charging the power cells with the charger IN the cyclops. It’s the equivalent of plugging an extension cable into its self 💀
Hey it used to work back before they patched it!
@@Finn-wc8nq I remember when they patched that. I loaded into my save and my cyclops immediately ran out of power on the spot.
Literally everyone did that before it didn’t give you more power than it took
Idk about you but it works pretty well for me uh
I mean, if he put on the thermal charging thing foe cyclops it would've made sense 😂
*sees crab on island*
"ew EW!! ScAn iT"
detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in region are certain whatever you're doing is worth it -PDA
I (don't) love how people forget to add a word and just easily messes up an entire sentence
this has got to be my favourite playthrough of subnautica, comedic genius editing + hilarious screaming + the relatability of it all seeing as I also have thalassophobia
Seeing people in the chat saying "it's not that scary" reminds me of people who tell me spiders aren't scary, when I have crippling arachnophobia. When you have an irrational fear, being told "it's not that scary" is so dismissive of your fear. It's literally an IRRATIONAL fear! It's in the name!
Kudos to you for facing your fear and actually playing Subnautica to completion. My fear of spiders is so bad that when I play a game that has them, I need my friends to log on and take care of them for me. LOOKING AT YOU ENSHROUDED, WITH YOUR CAVE FULL OF SPIDERS WHERE AN UPGRADE ITEM IS KEPT!
You wanna have fun? Try the Reaper Rodeo. Use the prawn's grapple arm on a leviathan and hang on for dear life.
Oh, and keep in mind it'll force the Reaper to change its territory, so don't do it near your base, or they'll never leave.
I did that in Below Zero with a glow whale, and now somehow have an entire pod as my pets.
The fact that someone can actually find this time capsule is hilarious
This is genuinely one of the most immersive, creative, and terrifying games over the last couple years. No such thing as being late to a party worth being at
“Hey I’m not that scared of this one!” *Sea Dragon shoots fireballs* “I’m terrified!” 🤣
I played this in early access and while swimming around exploring in 'creative mode', I got lost in an unfinished area that would turn out to be the Inactive Lava Zone, there was nothing there except huge empty red caverns with ominous ambience, I panicked so hard I straight up quit the game, so you are a legend for finishing this Beelz.
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P.s. DONT EVER GO TO THE EDGE OF THE MAP!!
Warning: Entering Ecological dead zone.
@@ThatWhichObserves Detecting multiple Leviathan class life forms. Are you sure whatever you are doing is worth it?
This is ecological biome matches 7 of the 9 preconditions for stimulating terror in humans.
Beelz isn't scared of subnautica and his agreeable fear of the ocean, he's just afraid of playing the limited time godzilla dlc to hit indie game "Dave the Diver" for free on steam, because gojira scawy
"Scawy"
*playing mechanized dreams*
*memories, i mean mechanized memories*
@@victoroliveira3577 there are like, two people who will understand this and I love you for it
@@fellowmemeenjoyer3223 i guess you could say i *remember*
@@victoroliveira3577 it's quite rare to meet another fan in the wild, I guess this community will never quite *Fall*
i have thalassophobia and it was so cool learning beelz does aswell. i tried subnautica myself and could barely get past the initial jump into the water off the lifepod, so congrats for making it through the game despite your fear!
Same here
Reminds me of butchx3 playthrough
@@KodyThomas-ri7ieHis was a legendary playthrough.
try the game m8 the first biome is really safe and you can acclimatize to the feeling
i have my problems with the vastness and dangers of the ocean too but once you get your seamoth its different
you can finish the game without really interacting with the leviathans too
I Don’t have thalassophobia but i was too scared to jump in so i went through the bottom
Fun fact: It is speculated that the Ghost Leviathan adapt (size-wise) to their environment, and thus the Ghost Leviathans adults can grow to massive lengths outside of the Crater (the playable area surrounded by the void/ecological deadzone). It is speculated that there are specimens of sizes up to 400 meters in length (If not more). 😀
(Love ur vid btw)
i find his reaction to reefbacks very amusing, because i find them just so chill and even though im always nervous in this game but i feel same with them
Everyone’s first reaction to the Crabsquid is “wow that’s gross” or “wow that’s scary” while mine was “that would probably taste great”
Mine was “wow that’s FREAKING AWESOME”
My cousin was watching me play and his first response (also kinda mine) was, “ITS MAKING DUBSTEP NOISES” 😂😂😂
Coolest sounding creature other than the reefies, and I actually loved it so much I made a carved pumpkin last year or the year before with a crab squid as the cut out. ❤
When theycwere introduced i quitted. I quitted the game for years. When i returned dlc was already announced, or released , dunno. Returned. Fmand the crabsquid was my actually gate to be a fearless predator on sight. Didnt bother to kill reapers behind the ship on vefore
I always found them cute
As soon as I claw the intro, I knew for a FACT that the radar for the seamoth would help SO much. When I did my first playthrough the radar was my go to every SECOND that I had it
"chat, im not scared of this one"
*breathes sigh of relief for 0.00001 seconds*
"IM TERRIFIEEDDD!!!!"
Oh beelz, you're the best 😂😂😂
I love how quickly he went from "OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT" to "Come here, I'll knife you!"
Hearing a grown man scream in terror running from one of the WEAKEST predators has me very excited to see the rest of this video!
As someone who has played this game several times this amazing in a funny way just watching a man see the kind and generous emperor leviathan and just being completely terrified
As an individual who conquered my fear of hights via a VR rock climbing game, trust me when I say that I know at least vaguely how you feel. More power to you, for broadcasting such a thing to the world.
I have thalassophobia too and I love Subnautica. It's kinda therapeutic with how aesthetic it is, and gets it me out of my comfort zone
I’ve had Subnautica for about 2 years, but I was way too scared to play, even in Creation mode. Watching this video helped me get over a few of the fears that held me back from playing, and I’ve been playing for almost 3.5 hours now. Thank you for helping me overcome a little bit of my thalassophobia
Like how he went from being absolutely scared , to rushing head first into all the sea creatures, looking for a fight
I want a compilation of all of Beelz’s screams during this game
57:08 "I'm not that scared of this one"
*spits balls of fire*
"I'M TERRIFIED AAAAAAAAAH"
The scream the second you got into the water was a great example of what i *THINK* itd be like, if i ever tried this game
I personally have severe thalassophobia and submechanophobia, which is one heck of a combo! I personally like swimming in the ocean, but once I saw a CHAIN going down attached to smthn and for some reason that freaked me out, then I panicked because I realised we were quite far from the beach and there was NOTHING below me, I legit almost cried
I understand u i am scared of the aurora 😂
As someone who ghas a phobia of the dark and cannot go through "It takes Two" without getting a panic attack, I commend you. Doing shit like this is terrifying.
I mean "We Were Here", omg
3:42
"Cus Rubber is scary"
and that, my child, is how you were created
What you said about the ghostie was kinda relatable ngl. They are mostly annoying, while the seadragons are more majestic, but the reapers are fucking terrifying at first.
I have a thalassophobia, when Iwas a kid around 4 years old, I almost drowned in the sea. Since then I really struggle even swimming in the pool. I tried playing subnautica to overcome my fear, I almost completed the game, but my pc died. While exploring the floating island, my gamer instinct kicked in, and I decided to climb up the mountain and perform a leap of faith. Once reaching the water in the middle of the island, I gasped so hard and chocked on the air, almost died of coughing. I’m pretty sure, that I haven’t got scared like that for a pretty long time, I guess that was the definition of primal fear.
Fun fact, once a Reaper of any class is killed, it will never respawn
Nah they do it just takes a while
@@lucasharvey1598fr?
They do respawn but also do you mean leviathan and not reaper?
I meant to say they don’t respawn
@@lucasharvey1598Leviathans don't respawn.
I love the pace of subnautica, throwing sheer terror at you, the player overcoming that fear like with the first couple of sharks scary environments, making the terror WAY worse, pushing through that and beating the game just feels so good at the end it’s perfect
This should go on TV "Australian TH-camr Beelz overcame his thalassophobia and beat subnautica". This is a great accomplishment, and a huge encouragement to people with phobias. And man, watching this took me back to the old days when I binge-watched a subnautica playthrough for the first time. My god the nolstalgia! This game/series managed to create a vast ocean with every area designed in detail. The biomes and creatures are bizzare, some are also beautiful. Despite the bugs, this game/series is amazing.
Edit: This game is ten years old. I can't believe what the devs accomplished at that time. For some reason, I have much more memory of this game then subnautica below zero, weird. And yes Beelz, this means it's not over yet. I look forward to your subnautica below zero playthrough
I have pretty severe agoraphobia so the surface messed me up more than most of the underwater sections did. Sparse Reef and the Void not included. Congrats on making it through your fear to finish the game!
Well done, Beelz! Proud of ya, man. Took a lot of willpower and determination not to bow out of something that is legitimately terrifying.
As someone with thalassaphobia, I love subnautica so much BECAUSE it’s scary, and I find it cool. That’s the thrill. Time to strap in for a banger of a video
First off I wanna say I have a lot of respect for you playing this with thalassaphobia. Having said that, as someone coming from a family of scuba divers (I’m the disappointment black sheep of the family because I have a ear condition that stops me) it’s so entertaining to see someone scream at the first jump into the water in this game, opposing the expectation of “oh my god how beautiful” 😂
I discovered my fear of deep water watching a stream lay through of this game … I can’t even watch it on a large screen anything bigger than my phone freaks me out
Sammy the Safety Reaper doing an awesome job as always, keeping players from going into the void 😊 He had to scare you at the end to make sure you werent gonna go further off the crater edge!
Please tell me the community has actually named that reaper Sammy the safety reaper.
@@beatzdyeryes we have. every Leviathan in the game has a unique nickname, but Sammy is by far the most well-known
Ah, yes. The traditional pink and green watermelon-looking Cyclops. A staple of any good Subnautica playthrough.
Dude, this video was shared today in the Subnautica reddit and I vastly enjoyed watching. You get MAD respect for scanning the various aggressive leviathans (especially the Reaper and Seadragon) WITHOUT benefit of a stasis rifle. Willing to bet that most NON-thalassaphobes would not be willing to try that.
Congratulations on facing your fears! You really accomplished a hell of a lot in your playthrough. You should be proud.
I love that even in the midst of all the terror, Subnautica explores the idea of "what if sapient life but underwater?" with the cuddle fish and sea emperor.
It was a truly unnerving and incredible game. First time through I actually had physical reactions to the deep water areas and the first time I ran into a Reaper after hearing its roar, I had to pause it and step away. It is now one of my absolute favorite games and I play it through every few weeks. Plus, building the Cyclops is easily in my top five greatest game moments of all time!
Rather brave actually to go out and scan leviathans, most players just see them and go “nope, I’ll be going the other way now”
my guy turned into a hogwarts professor at 11:27
I love how he slowly gets more confident the more he plays
I still feel sick to my stomach when I see the depths, but somehow I managed to get used to the view when I'm not the one playing, I could never beat this game, but I admire you for making it 😂
What you are truly scared of is "never ending abyss" or never seeing an end and not knowing what comes next.
This is actually so cool. Your willingness and perseverance to break past tour phobia is so awesome. And your recounting of how you felt in certain moments is, again, so cool.
Amazing video
The way you can tell veelz slowly gets more comfortable throughout the play through shows you really can overcome your fears. Good job beelz!
It was pretty cool getting to see it happening as I was editing. The playthrough was like 40 hours, so it felt VERY gradual to me at the time.
@@Beelz55 bummer that you didn't checked out "Ghost Leviathan Abyss". A vast, bottomless, pitch black pit with infinite supply of ghosties.
So nice to see a playthrough as a fellow Thalassophobia haver. I have tried to play it but fail miserably every time. Thanks for putting this content out there!!
I never comment so me commenting right now is in pure awe at your actions. Not even 3 minutes into the video and not only do I see how much “fun” you had in this play through but also the fact that you had the luck of spawning almost on top of the kelp zone saying you have thalassophobia. Also I am known in my family for not fearing anything horror related minus one scene from a movie, and this game terrifies me to my core every time I run up on anything dangerous. I didn’t even do 80% of the stuff you did my first run bc of how much stuff scared me
Glad you enjoyed!
Subnautica: Do you have thalassophobia?
Me: no.
Subnautica: Would you like to?
I want to say, i'm fairly sure i have thalassophobia, and it was much worse 5+ years ago, but after forcing myself to play subnautica it is much less severe. When i first started and went to anywhere you can look down and see just ocean and no floor i got a physical reaction in my toes and feet to curl them up, and it felt terrifying. but little by little it got better, and lo and behold subnautica is in my top 5 favorite games of all time. I'm glad you gave subnautica a chance and were able to see how great of a game it is.
I just found your channel and I’m having a blast. I’m sorry for all the suffering you endured during your playthrough of Subnautica tho lmao
Fellow person with thalassophobia and a person who is a Subnautica fan. I physically had to have a friend on call while I played the first one because of the deepness. Only had to had them on call a bit for below zero, but still an experience full of terror.
Subnautica has both given and helped my thalassaphobia
Beelz play Subnautica with Thalassophobia is something really special, I have waited for the Beelz's scream for soooooooo long
I remember finding subnautica when the reaper had like JUST been added. I watched it’s development from then to release. The fact that the game turned out how it did and is still popular to this day is really awesome
Whoever wrote the "Special needs reaper." You made laugh for an hour at that joke.
I appreciate you referring to us artists as “weird breeds”. Truly flattering!
I was fully engaged the whole way through, I don't know if I have Thalassophobia, but boy do I *get* Thalassophobia.
Kinda weird to hear from an internet stranger maybe but I'm proud as hell of you for doing this, you have my respect for pushing through the fear! O7
Subnautica Below Zero next? Also that massive skeleton in the lost river, there's a mod that adds that creature back into the game... and its terrifying
2:16 Only 3 minutes? I've seen one streamer who stood there for an hour, jumped in, and closed the game thereafter. 😂
Fun Fact about the Gargantuan Leviathan skeleton in the Lost river, the body you see down there is only a 3rd of its original mass... even better is that a team is working on an amazing mod for bringing this creature to life! They've got custom sounds, story and cutscenes, and I'd love to see your reaction to it!
I spent 10 minutes preparing myself to jump in. Now, I’m scared to fight the ops in the lava zone
Been playing Subnautica for years and this video is how I find out that the warpers can warp other creatures at you, learn something new every day. Congrats on facing your fear, this game's scary even without thalassophobia, so I can only imagine how rough you had it! For me the scariest things in the game are looking down from the surface into a big, empty, blue abyss, wondering what creatures might be swimming directly below me way down there... and mesmers. Mesmers suck. If they all hecked off I would throw a big party to celebrate.
Staring into a big dark abyss of water is pretty horrible. I'm glad the Mesmers didn't get in my way too much.