#but my heart has two middle fingers out for the warpers and the lilypaddlers

[transingthoseformers]

Going to talk about subnautica and subnautica below zero for a minute. Now, i love the games, the speculative biology is very interesting, and of course I love a lot of the fauna...

But to every rule, there is an exception. Now, I do not hate any of these because of any actual criticisms, i love the work the teams have done, but because of the frustrating experience with these animals like-- i love the Chelicerate from a design and ecology point of view, but those things made me so very anxious. The shadow leviathans and I became enemies pretty quickly, as did most of the violent leviathans. But thesewere dissuaded pretty easily with a quick shock or maneuvers. The crabsquid's echolocation creeped me out so many times...

BUT. Two beings hold my hate unlike any other creatures. In the first game, I absolutely hated Warpers. I usually played creative mode in that game, and they were always the one thing that could grab me and freak the fuck out of me when i was near the structures. Then there's the roofie fish. At least, that's what I call them pretty consistently. They're actually the lilypaddlers, and they do a similar thing as the mesmer, but nooo all the mesmer wanted to do is eat me and it was pretty easy to avoid. The roofie fish on the otherhand would completely hijack my vision and send me swirling and spiralling. Damn, i hated those things. Design is one of my faves, love the concept and ecology, but goddamn that part of me that got invested in Robin's story hated them

#and that concludes my rant #i apologize #subnautica #subnautica below zero #i actually played in freedom mode for my actual playthrough of S:BZ and died so much and often #got super involved and super attached to so many aspects; great games for people who love alien biology and ecology #i spent so much time trying to squeeze the lore out of these games #but my heart has two middle fingers out for the warpers and the lilypaddlers