where exactly does 'survival' connect to your point? I find survival games that require you to kill everything that threatens you very tiring.ģ. This scenario doesn't exist so far, so no lethal weapons needed.Ģ. There you created a scenario in which lethal weaponry would be needed. There are ways to make it difficult to kill things.ġ. Then once the weapon is mounted it slows the exosuit down, you need to load shells into the cannon by getting out of the suit and reloading it after every shot. making you harvest dark matter from the aroura's engines using the exosuit with a very expensive shielding module to contain it. a large caliber rail gun that uses a special high energy power cell that is very expensive to make? and needing gold and depleted uranium fuel rods for projectiles? (uranium as the armour peircing core and gold as a conductor)Ī reaper leviathan might only be killed by an exosuit mounted dark matter caster. Sand sharks might laugh at anything less then say. sure spears are god for peeper and stalker fishing, but killing anything bigger? good luck

but what if it was very very difficult and expensive to do so. It would make you balance safety with longevity of the ecosystem and the world, making the player think, because killing this stalker herd might make peeper over breed killing off the kelp forest making medkits impossible to get, ect.ħ. untill you feel the saliva of a hungry xeno dripping onto the back of you neck.īut as another user on this fourm posted, if a system was put in place to have predators and prey interact in an actual ecosystem, they could add negative impacts for over fishing/ removing predators/ extensive terraforming. My point is if i can do somthing any way, why not let me do it without pretending i can't do it.Ħ.once again i bring it back to alien isolation, sure you can kill the little bad guys. what is this, canadain firearms laws?!? five round magazines for a semi auto rifle, but if you have a ten round pistol mag you can put that into the rifle you can have ten? Then teching up to the stasis rifle, then mayb teching upto a bigger badder weapon for bone sharks and ect.ĥ. i am not fully opposed to this, however adding spears and harpoons for very early tech weapons instead of making me swim after a peeper swinging like Jason vourhes in a trailer park, let me stand on top of the life pod and spear fish, or use a harpoon gun like a Hawaiian sling ( for those looking at the image the black thing is an elastic band) using this could be somthing excluded from the negetive effect i said in number one, these tools could either do small dammage ( four or five hits into a stalker) and have cheap ammo, or be used to slow the animal so you can knife. and killing the fish that is nibbling on your leg is probobly one of those things.Ĥ. when shit hits the fan people do what is necessary to get by. what did gordon freeman do when life handed him a crowbar and told him headcrabs and vortigons were trying to kill him? did he say ' oh no i can't kill them, i need to study them!' NO! you know what he said? he said this '.' it's a survival game, sorry to burst your bubble.ģ. you collect resources to make it easier to keep those bars full. this game has food, air, drink, and health bars. So that killing things indiscriminately has big repercussions, bringing in the meta of ' im low on O2, i need to swim past this bone shark to get out, do i risk killing it and attracking the big guy or try and swim past it without it munching me'Ģ. so what if we made killing things with firearms or whatever weapon they add attract big, scary, damn near unkilleable (with out endgame gear) beasty come and swim into your area, maybe when you kill enough and trigger it you hear a loud roaring sound and your screen shakes or somthing. a xenomorph will drop down and rip you a new one when it hears the shots. alien isolation, in that game you have many forms of firearms, but if use them your fucked. the game doesn't have to be filled with KILLA TRON 900 SUPER MISSLE LAUNCHER EXPLOSIN MACHINE GUNS ^#%%^&*^%! i'll use one of my latest favorite games. it will take away from the experience of having to run and hide from the big bad guys.ġ. the game will just be easy if you can kill the bad guys.ħ. they are trying to give you tools you can use as weapons instead of outright weapons.Ħ. you can just use the stasis rifle and a knifeĥ. your a scientist who is supposed to be documenting life not killing itĤ. subnautica is about exploring and not survival, so you don't need to kill the enemysģ. this game isn't a first person shooter, we don't want guns.Ģ.

but i have rounded up the mmost popular arguments against weapons and im here to smack 'em around a bit.ġ.

Apex reaper leviathan subnautica