❝ To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. ❞

Just a thought on what Ryley might look like since 30 years passed between the events of the first and second subnautica

I don't think the time period is accurate, it's based only on the information that is currently in the game :/

and a sign in my living quarters

and of course a vocal stim reminder for when i enter my base

one of my favorite things that's happened during my playthrough of Subnautica 2 so far:

this fish, the Marrowbreach, is labelled to be (and upon basic observation, appears to be) very dangerous and aggressive and scary, so a lot of the time spent interacting them is specifically spent avoiding, or trying to escape them. they have a very specific, telegraphed attack where they launch towards the player in a super scary way.

however. i noticed that despite their scary appearance and loud growling noise, they don't actually do much damage when they attack you. and so i thought to myself "am i categorizing this unfamiliar social activity as aggression? am i being reductive towards how this creature actually operates? am i sure it's not just playing with me?"

A creature I designed for Subnautica 2: the Hycean!

so the nibbler mango's just kind of come up to you and stare at you, even call out to their pack mates are like "yep can't do anything about this". that is so awesome that they genuinely communicate to the pack. like i noticed it bc of being hunted but even in this circumstance. the bigger mango also recognises it can't attack you in the tadpole and just leaves you alone

the hammerhead is hilarious though. I wonder if each one has a different behaviour? because one of them had rammed my tadpole when i was out of it (maybe it depend on if youre inside of it or not?) but another one was OBSESSED with me it was following me like crazy. so i decided to finally stand still and stare at it. and it just stared back at me. and then it would swim up and rub against the tadpole. and then go back and stare at it again. and then rub up against it. rinse and repeat... i think it was trying to impress the tadpole thinking it was a potential mate ahhahaha that is hilarious and adorable im so in love with this game and constantly more and more impressed with the creature ai!!! wow!!!