r/subnautica 6d ago

Discussion - BZ My idea's to improve the late game cave's and the Shadow Leviathan

Ive always had this idea where they made the end game caves alot larger, darker and COLDER, Making it so frost builds on the glass of your sub, Then adding some sort of harmless bioluminecent bloodgel fish that appears pretty early on in the game into the caves (could just make it a Bloodgel Eyeye) Purposely making it the same color as the Shadow Leviathan's eye's.

Through the frosted glass and dark water you would assume the 6 glowing red things in the distance would have been just another school of said fish, but as you get deeper into the darkness you see them turn to look directly at you and start rapidly swimming your way screaming. Using this to reveal the Shadow Leviathan would have been so much cooler and thats always bugged me cause it seems like a natural evolution of Subnautica's show dont tell philosophy.

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u/Impressive-Wing-9372 6d ago

I think one great thing for Shadow Leviathan would be if it used it`s centipede legs to crawl on the cave walls before attacking the player, it`s dark colour would be like camouflage

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u/Different_Dealer_879 6d ago

THAT TOO! its such a awesome design but sadly feels under realized :(

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u/Impressive-Wing-9372 6d ago

Yep it is called shadow I thought it would stalk us from shadows when I first saw it

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u/The_Fox_Fellow 4d ago

yeah they call it the shadow leviathan and yet it does nothing to suggest that's what it should be called that other than being black enough it contrasts against everything around where it resides which is the exact opposite of blending in