6 Subnautica MYTHS you still believe | Subnautica Myths Busted
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 มี.ค. 2024
- The Subnautica community believes some of the wildest theories about creatures, the lore or just old fan art, so let's clear up some of these myths!
Did you believe any of the things on this list? Let me know in the comments!
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Gotta love those multiple Call of the Void plugs 😂
The only plug i will listen to... because i am actually excited for the mod
@@vyrn7877yes
The mod is so good he's allowed to unnecessarily plug it.😊
Aci echolocation doesnt work off of the noise you make, it works by something emitting a noise which bounces off of objects and is then heard again by the creature. It recognizes the difference in sound direction and noise level and uses this to “see”
Echolocation is basically seeing/sensing thing by screaming
Like a combination of seeing and touching
I think (but don’t know for sure) that Aci was saying it like that to segue into the silence leviathan that he and the Call of the Void team implemented in their mod.
@@GGBlaster yeah i realized after i left the comment that he mightve just been wanting to tell us about the silence leviathan
Basically it’s like daredevil when he can hear sounds bounce off of things that’s why he can see until they roar and you definitely tell that it’s blind because it has no pupils
0:30 Guy was debating about the size of an alien fish in a video game and told you to go outside... lol
right? and he was talking about how things don't suddenly shrink when you pick them up as if it isn't happening in a video game and not reality
@@bigbaddragMinecraft Blocks always stay the same size when picking them up, right? xD
@@bigbaddragthe argument it's a video game doesn't work as well as you would think when the game was never intended to be viewed in 3rd person. Scale was designed to keep consistency between inventory items and in world items, or are you also saying the survival knife and flashlight and mobile vehicle bay also shrink when you pick them up because it's a game and not to maintain the illusion of scale.
it's always funny when insults toward degenerates get used by degenerates without any self-reflective capacities.
@@idontapproveofyourlifestyle I get that the game was never intended for 3rd person, but I find it odd that, given that, Unknown Worlds added the size reference model. Obviously, sans console commands, you’d never see it, but the devs likely used it to examine the scale of various in-world objects while they were making the game.
1:58 It's not a myth, it's a Lore-Gameplay Disconnect, from a Lore standpoint it echolocates but in gameplay it has to actually see the player, the game isn't lying perse it's more like for gameplay reasons it doesn't work like that in game.
Actually it kinda works, as a reaper ai has bias towards the player direction once you enter a specific area around him, even without actually seeing you
@@cote_st3752 No it doesn't, this is another myth perpetuated by the video "How Subnautica uses Terror", and he was just wrong in that video. There is no part of the Reaper's code that makes them slowly move towards you, they have set patrol paths that they will no deviate from unless actively chasing something.
@@devoutrelic1228 wait, they have set patrols? I had just assumed they wandered randomly within a “territory”(aka some radius around their spawn point)
@@GGBlaster They do wander aimlessly around their spawn, I just worded it weirdly. They have a set spawn point, and they have a set distance that they can normally "roam" from that point before turning around, but there is actually no limit to how far they can chase something away from that point. Which means if you carefully aggro one over and over again, you can drag it all the way across the map from where it normally spawns, and it will stay wherever you leave it at.
@@devoutrelic1228ok now i am scared
Great video! I feel like some of these are like Mandela effect at this point :D
i dont get how people feel the need to be insulting when trying to correct someone. then when they are proven wrong, end up being even more insulting...
5:22 the planet's fauna is indeed one sex, however if you get an aquarium with 2 of the same species, they will breed (I don't remember if they lay eggs or if just more appear though but it is a mechanic) which makes it sexual reproduction. apologies if someone else already brought this up, or if I'm wrong about something, anybody feel free to correct me!
I'm not sure if the sea emperors reproduce asexually though, checking the wiki (already not sure how refutable that source is) it says they do (in fauna, reproduction) but checking the data bank entry also via the wiki, what is written down for "the sea emperor's life cycle" states "Given their sparse population, mating and egg-laying were likely infrequent, perhaps a once in a lifetime event". however this could just be the PDA guessing and it may be ambiguous, with the PDA assuming mating is part of the process. or maybe the devs confirmed sea emperors do reproduce without a mate and I missed that somewhere!
The creatures on 4546B DO reproduce through sex though, it's explicitly stated in the Precursor Lab terminal that they CAN reproduce asexually in emergencies, but they usually need two partners to make an egg, it's just that either partner can lay the egg, and the other one needs to fertilize it, but it doesn't matter who does what.
Yeah otherwise we wouldn’t need to get at least 2 of each fish to reproduce them in the alien containment. I think it might just be some of the larger leviathan class organisms that can do asexual reproduction and my impression was they’re similar to some species of lizards where they default to sexual reproduction and only do asexual in the absence of other members of their species.
I never really grasped how HUGE the creatures of Sunautica are until I tried it in VR. That shit will traumatise you
Just a point of contention but echolocation works by a creature, in this case the reaper, screaming into the open ocean and discerning the location of other things based on what is reflected back. So in the case of the player character you could be making zero noise and still be found because the reaper made noise and the sound waves reached you and bounced off of you.
So exactly how the sonar system works, that's also in Subnautica.
I love people who argue over a topic they are sure they know everything about but really just go based off of nothing, it’s so funny watching them argue over a topic they know basically nothing about 😂
Basically every argument about garg size. One side is sitting on the wiki, the other has no idea where that skeleton even is.
Haven’t watched you in a while, aci. Good to see your still making videos about one of my favorite games!
apprently humans lose an ability to tell the size of an object if they don't have a ground to stand on and compare the sizes
What's weird is that, even without ground, it becomes much more obvious how big they are if you get a good view of them leaping out of the water.
@@hoovy5147maybe its more so we need a horzion to compare to?
Every time somebody calls the gargantuan leviathan skeleton a juvenile without realizing that there's a separate smaller skeleton causes a piece of my soul to die. Like come on guys, the size of Greg isn’t all that complicated to find out, literally just look at the wiki, my man's 1300 meters long max. (Not 5 km like return of the ancients says, it's equally aggravating when people act smart saying THAT'S the real size despite that info being blatantly wrong.
I am NOT defending any of this info spewing outta people without any evidence. But there is a SLIGHT possibility it COULD be a juvenile since like the lil one could be an early juvenile or even a baby and the chunky boi could be an older juvenile. It's unlikely though. And the PDA size is an estimate so it's full size is unknown
@@BadLuckShinies10 That's fair, but I feel like PDA would've mentioned something like that. Honestly I think that if the devs had just made two separate PDAs for the juvenile and the adult then none of this confusion would've even happened in the first place
@@cartersmith8904 valid point. Thank you for not screaming down my throat :)
@@BadLuckShinies10 No problem lol 👍
if i remember correctly the 5k length comes from the PDA entry saying that the shown skeleton in only 1/3rd of the entire thing, also the skeleton extends a bit farther then it looks at 1st glance
I remember so clearly your video on the sea emperor leviathan (which I am pretty sure was the very first video covering it) and your reaction to it popping up
Personally I call the Sea Emperor "She" because of just how motherly it is in its behavior. The way it behaves towards its eggs and then its offspring, there's no other word but "Maternal." There's a reason I've seen people call her "Fish Momma" before.
5:15 That's... simply wrong. I am a voice actor and a lot of jobs are often listed as requiring an "ambiguous" voice. Plenty of people have voices that you can't tell whether they're male or female, and many nonbinary people undergo voice training to gain a more ambiguous voice. Ofc the Empreror leviathan is not one such case, but it is certainly possible to do.
No hate towards you though, this was a great video, this one part just irked me personally lol.
for the Below Zero one, I think the part everyone forgets is that it was originally being developed as an *EXPANSION* DLC to Subnautica. Yeah that's right. Below Zero was going to be a *DLC* for the first game.
Great vid as always, im so hyped for both Subnautica 2 and your call of the void project
The Sea Emperor is called that because it is the name of the species. Same with how there are male and female KING crabs. Most known fauna in 4546B are simultaneous hermaphrodites which means they have both male and female reproductive organs, and produce both male and female gametes. They cannot be classified as male or female. Them laying eggs would be a good basis for it being a female but why would you reject the name of a species, and even assume its gender using the telepathic voice they don't even physically have as a basis? Who knows, they could be using p3n1s music as a way to telepathically communicate to other lifeforms.
All those that say they aren't that big and scaling is wrong, need to play the game in VR.
Creature idea for the void mod:
Subzero Kraken
Giant tentacled sea monster lurking in the depths, creating an eerie and ominous atmosphere.
"The Native" has always looked to me more like what the Precursors (Architects) may have adapted into the Warpers, a native species to minimize adaptations for 4546b's habitats, rather than the Precursors themselves.
4:46 imagine the story is just about collecting ore to pay back ur outstanding debt from the first game
Love your videos, but about sonar the pda says that reaper leviathans use sonar ( in the case of animals it's actually called echo-location), and sonar does not require you to make a sound in order for the sonar to see you, it requires the thing with the sonar to make the sound, and for that sound to hit you, then bounce back and return to it. Yes, they aren't doing it in the game, but that's because it's not necessary as it would still show as just 'seeing' you. they would just have to roar before seeing you each time.
I see the reapers echolocation as still valid sense their not mindless killers. Subnauticas creatures are animals, so the reaper wouldn’t just seak you out, it’s only gonna go after you if your close enough to be a quick snack. I know it’s not technically programmed in, but that’s just my interpretation
Yes, I wouldn't imagine it would immediately make a B-Line to you if there's other fish much closer.
I think you misunderstood what the Reaper's PDA was saying. It says if YOU can hear IT, it can see you, not if IT can hear YOU. It's using echolocation, meaning it relies on the sound waves from its roar bouncing off of something to locate it.
Been a while Aci. Guess you've been working on the mod some more, huh? keep going, can't wait to see more
PERFECT TIMING! I was already craving another subnautica playthrough, because I recently got a vr headset. and this mod was exactly what i needed for a fresh experience. now I can be scared in 3d!
I would LOVe to see Subantuica 2 theroies from you! Love this video sm! Another score, Aci!
Those are some mythy myths my guy!
Yesyes :)
@@Aci_yt and some of them aren’t even myths just lore/game disconnects- or like the creatures not having genders seems like you spread misinformation
@@scythesoultheif8368 cry about it
Looks like someone didn't read all the databank entries :)
Creatures on the planet are all genderless.
Can't wait for things to get even crazier on these myths when you release Call of the Void, if only Unknown Worlds could market off these mods and make them official dlcs, considering subnautica is so old at this point it needs more expansive content.
I think Subnautica 2 should have Story mode and Multiplayer as separate modes. Story mode being about Riley, or whatever other character we get, and Multiplayer having Character customization, and mainly being a fun game to play with friends.
I mean, what's wrong with having the story mode have the option of playing with friends? The option of being to progress through a game together is great and if you don't want to do it with your mates, then just don't? lol
Multiplayer will be a separate mode, the devs have confirmed that.
@@Aci_yt AW HELL YEAH!
aci i have an idea for that purple leviathan mentioned in you’re last video the monstrosity leviathan it looks pretty large i think the name fits!
How do you want to bet that the same people are still gonna think this is false information
One of the reasons that make understanding the size of creatures is the lack of reference. The brain "guesses" the size o0f something based on whats around, the distance from the viewer and the area it ocupies in your field of vision. But because you are on the middle of an alien sea, you can't really use what you see acuratelly. Al things are new so you dont have a previous size notion to compare with the creatures; you are far from the ground, so you can't use that as a reference to know how far creatures really are. And because the creatures are so big, most of the time they look closer because of how much space they take on your FOV, but they are actually just so big even far away that they trick you into thinking they are closer.
Abzu has a scene that shows this well. In a part of the game you encounter some blue whales and they are huge. But few seconds after one sudenly passes right by your side and only then you realize that the whales are much bigger that you first thought. Later the whale gets further away from you, and now looks the size of the first whales.
Can’t wait for the next Call of the Void update
I have a feeling Subnautica 2 will also follow Ryley and his debt to Alterra will be paid off by retrieving something valuable on this other ocean planet, or something similiar. (He has already proven himself worthy to explore a very dangerous ocean planet so it would make sense.
the size one is becouse humans need a point of reference to see how big something is you can see how big leviathans trueiy arl if you stand up in the cyclop so you have the floor as a point of reference
Hopefully in Subnautica 2 we find out what happens to Riley from the first game and what what's happen with alan and robin
For the scale part, I just completed an entire playthrough in VR using the Submerged VR mod and I can attest everything is so much bigger than you think it is
I would love a video about conspirations and theories about subnautica 2 :)
Thank you so much for this video
Unexpected aci video from TH-cam
We all thankful for you doing this enormous mod literally free of charge
I'm willing to bet the echolocation thing is true just the Reaper doesn't recognise what you are so it doesn't approach or attack unless you do, so then it's a threat. (Canonically, not in game)
Does the Subnautica series feel like Doctor Who to anyone else? It practically has all of the elements you’d find in a casual episode of Doctor Who: alien planet, monsters, distant future, advanced technology, disease that we end up helping to cure with the Sea Emperor, etc.
Very good video👍
Honestly, while the Silence is neat, it... really doesn't work the same way as the Reaper is supposed to in lore. The Silence tracks all sound in its domain, and you know it's there because all the sound disappears. That's why, for example, using sonar is like sending up a signal flare to it... though not really, because the Silence wouldn't be able to see a signal flare. But I digress.
The Reaper's lore concept is distinct from that. The Reaper echolocates using its roars. If you hear a Reaper's roar, _it knows you're there._ Well, it might not if you're particularly far away, or something is between you and the Reaper, because the sound wouldn't reflect back to it.
But still, imagine if, the moment you heard that roar, the Reaper was _instantly_ alerted to your presence and came rushing right for you. Genuinely terrifying.
Honestly, I think it'd be neat if someone made a mod that implemented that functionality properly for the Reapers. I'd never play it because Reapers scare me shitless and I can never deal with them normally, let alone with such a mod, but it'd be neat to watch at least.
There's a mod called Persistent Reapers. It's a bit complicated how it works, but what it basically does is it allows Reapers to travel all over the crater in real time. They could now potentially show up anywhere. You can never know for sure where they are and where they aren't at any given time. It's more than random spawns, they actually constantly migrate locations. I once heard one in the distance five minutes after starting the game as soon as I went to a kelp forest for the first time. There are also three options for their behavior. Normal, Blood Thirsty, and Human Hunter. Bloodthirsty is like normal except more aggressive. Human Hunter means that everywhere you go, you will leave an invisible trail that Reapers can see. They will follow this trail until they catch up with you, or the trail turns cold. Once they've seen you, they become relentless and are very difficult to shake. In addition, with Human Hunter enabled, Reapers no longer go for anything else. They are now _only_ interested in the player. It's a scary mod but it's a TON of fun!
@@hoovy5147 That's cool, but it's not exactly what I want. What I want is a mod that makes it so that if you hear a Reaper's roar, and there's nothing between you and it, it aggros on you a second or two later because it just "saw" you with its echolocation.
I am really excited for the call of the void and I liked ❤
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Actually do check it out though, it's really cool
it would be perfect if you made a video talking about the future Subnautica 2, I personally have a theory that the story could be about, at the end of the first game it is said that the debt must be paid to allow the return and landing, that makes me think, what if Alterra, seeing the achievements of Ryley in 4546B, proposes him to lead a mission to conquer a similar planet that they have but that has been giving them problems, if he gets it, he will be free of his debt, it may sound a bit far-fetched but that's what I think :3
I also thought it possible that he could pay it off with not money up front, but something that would be valuable. I mean, ''If you let me back home, I'll sell you this PDA filled with all kinds of information about a previously unexplored planet.'' We know that Alterra establishes a presence on this planet in later years, so the information from his PDA could have been valuable.
0:30 lol alot of games shrink down items when picked up :P
3:38 below zero started out as DLC for subnautica, but things changed and it became its own, smaller, game.
To be completely fair the other gargantuan skull being smaller doesn’t mean the bigger one isn’t a juvenile. Until we get an official source their growth stages are completely up to the people
At 0:30 jonmurray3466 says 'I guess the knife is actually a longsword' and while I assume they're referring to the survival knife in game, I would like to introduce them to the Kriegsmesser. It's a sword that's about as long as shorter Longswords and it's, technically speaking, actually a knife; so yes, one could say a knife is a longsword and be correct.
For more context on the Kriegsmesser: The Kriegsmesser is, historically, a sword constructed using knife making techniques and was originally made by a knife making guild to sell swords, which they weren't allowed to do. They were allowed to make and sell the Kriegsmesser under the fact that it's technically a knife.
below zero can be referred as subnautica 1.5, like the lion king one and a half movie.
0:24 same thing with deep rock galactic. In 1st person the hugs aren’t that big but go to 3rd person they are a lot bigger, granted that the dwarfs are 4’2”.
can't wait for Aci and his whole team to remake the whole Call of the Void mod once the new subnautica releases on UE5 😅
You should give each of the new animals in the mod eggs so you can hatch them and make them allies to guard your base
I AM GOING TO KEEP REFERENCING TO THE GARG SKELETON IN THE LOST RIVER AS A JUVENILE AND I AM GOING TO LIKE IT
Yea, yea, contribute to the rot. To the spread of misinformation.
Shit seems much bigger in VR!
I don't think it is only more immersion.
How am I gonna survive the Silence in Call of the Void. He will track me by my heartbeat in real life somehow!
Ofc id believ some of these
Hey, just asking, as someone who does lots of terrain editing in subnautica will void editor eventually come out to the public (Id assume that it would come after CotV as it might spoil some assets)
It would be so cool if COTV had the Natives, maybe something to consider?
Next size video. I just made a peeper the size of a reaper with a player reference
What if the juveniles skull is a hatchling and the adult skeleton is a juvenile.
I'd be interested in a video on subnautica 2.
Aci be savage about humanity 🤣
In the call of the voice mod
You should add some optional features such as
Proper scaling and reapers working how they should even if not all the way
Also I still like to think the garg is a juvenile
Lol "stop calling her a she" well if THE SHOE FITS
4:33 could be something similar to the far cry series, there the games tend to alternate between numbered and subtitled where subtitled ones are closely linked to the last numbered one
GTA famously has a bit of weird way that it defines sequels. It goes from GTA to GTA: London 1969 to GTA: London 1961 to GTA 2 to GTA 3 to GTA: Vice City to GTA: San Andreas to GTA: Liberty City Stories to GTA: Vice City Stories and then FINALLY to GTA 4 and then GTA 5. There's also a Gameboy game and Chinatown Wars somewhere in there. I recognize why several of these would be considered side games but everyone would consider Vice City and San Andreas to be mainline and yet they get ''skipped'' for lack of a better word.
I miss the old Subnautica Early Access intro. I’m sad that it’s not in the finished game.
So apparently some bloke you may have heard of is working with a team on a mod called 'Call of the Void'. Don't suppose you know anything about when that might be done? ;)
Wouldn't itbesuper hilarious if Riley didn't have the money to pay to land so he had to go to a new planet!
you should release a behavior patch to reapers that gives them the same sonar tracking the silence has
I mean the sea emperor could have a gender but just be intersex if their species has a concept of gender, which wouldn’t surprise me given their ability to communicate with and understand other social species like the precursors and humans. It’s fair that we don’t know what their gender is though, so we probably shouldn’t be gendering the sea emperor at all
I knew about the Gargantuan Leviathan skeleton differences, but I really didn't know that all the creatures on 4546B are genderless! That was probably the most shocking thing I've seen. Oh, btw, I'm really happy that you said that Subnautica 2 is NOT Below Zero and that will not even be on 4546B this time. I think I heard that fact once somewhere, and then never heard it again, and for awhile now I've just been like "Wait until ALL these people realize that we're not on 4546B anymore..."
Finally a new vid (ik it takes ages*
2:08 I'm going to have nightmares of this
Shut up Sea Empress is our fish momy
i saw that "im only human" part coming from a mile away lol
Right off the bat, Below Zero teaser in the background.
2:15 the ice worm before it surfaces
i was curious if there was only one creature in call of the void that uses sound, like what if multiple creatures used sound to get their surroundings?
Call of the void is going to be aviable in consoles?
Imagine if the gargantuan leviathan shows up in the sequel
The gargantuan leviathan confusion likely comes from the fact that scanning either fossil will unlock the exact same PDA entry.
That's quite a big leap.
@@user-oq7xc5qp3y leap? I mean, correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure that scanning either fossil unlocks the same entry. Unless I’m just tripping hard on Mandela Effect or something.
@@GGBlaster well, yes, it gives the same entry. But making an assumption that both are juvenile, without PDA even remotely hinting at it - is a really big leap.
@@user-oq7xc5qp3yohh, my b I totally misread that. Yeah, it’s a stretch, but idk people be funny sometimes.
You should add the native to call of the void
the only one of these that i didn't know was that the empress thing but that one i kinda just forgor 💀💀💀(also god has it been a bit sense i heard the old PDA voice actor)
My theory is that the creator thought it was cool to if the reaper in lore was blind but couldn't really get the code right for it so made it like all other hostile creathers because that one worked and the other not
Made me realise how short I am
i just found your time capsule from prerelease
Aci will CoV have a genetics lab so we can get dna from a leviathan so we can create our own leviathan waifu?
The way i always saw it is comparing in game models to sizeref is never as the devs intended, youd need to scale the peeper down to match the size when its in your hand and then use that to judge the scale.
Maybe thats why people dont think your size ref is accurate? Due to game making visual trickery to get the desired results from the devs
they should make a mod that scales up the creatures
3:20
Now, hear me out on this. None of Alterra have ever been that deep, let alone to the planet, so these scans are 100% based off of the PDA’s calculations by the proportions of the skeleton.
Now, what if the PDA refers to the smaller skull as a juvenile just because it’s smaller, as there isn’t much to go based off of for calculations of age. The Juvenile could’ve died moments after hatching for example…however what if the actual Garg is an adolescent Garg, one that hasn’t finished growing yet? After all, Theres only 2 Garg Skeletons that we know of. None the less, it’s blatantly obvious that there is a young skeleton, and an older skeleton.
Of course, it’s unlikely, but it’s still intriguing to think about nonetheless.
Maybe will we have the natives in call of void ?
I did think the reaper was blind 😅
Too have a good perspective of size in game you should play it in VR
Will subnautic two have Rylie Robinson?