A New Leviathan for Subnautica?
PhantomRider187
Join Date: 2017-08-28 Member: 232692Members
Join Date: 2017-08-28 Member: 232692Members
For a little while, I have had an idea for a new leviathan for Subnautica. It is called "Bone Stalker Leviathan". It is currently an actual project that I have been working on for a little while now. I'm not an artist but I created a little bit of art of what it could look like. Right now, it is just artwork on a piece of paper. There isn't any computer 3D art of it because I haven't figured out how to do that yet. I do not want to share any specific details about the bone stalker leviathan because I want to share that information directly with one of the Subnautica developers. I will share a little bit about what it is. I would like the Subnautica developers to consider my idea for this creature to be possibly implemented into the game or a future DLC for Subnautica.
I would like to post my artwork on the forum but I haven't figured out how to post a picture yet. I am still kind of new to the Subnautica forums. Can I get some help and maybe some feedback on how I can get in contact with a Subnautica developer?
I would like to post my artwork on the forum but I haven't figured out how to post a picture yet. I am still kind of new to the Subnautica forums. Can I get some help and maybe some feedback on how I can get in contact with a Subnautica developer?
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1. upload image to computer
2. view the following website as to how to add image to google's image index: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/175288?hl=en
3. press the image icon in the post options above the text-box in forums (looks like a mountain with a little sun icon to the left)
4. paste the URL to the website page on which you have your image
As for getting a developer's attention specifically... you can't. The devs view these discussions just as you or I might and there's no way to keep regular users from seeing it. But if your idea is popular enough, you're sure to get someone's attention.
I would love to know how long it will be until subnautica releases on ps4
(i dont know how to quote sentences shh)
Dude nobody will steal your idea and if someone does then you posting first renders them stealing it useless. Drop 'ideas' in the ideas forums so that people can critique your idea and provide input not "i have an idea but i wont tell"
Sorry if it came across rude, but this is a collective community that all want the game to evolve and have additions and ideas like these added
just upload it to imgur and put the link in your message
Seems you can more easily post a 2D image of your work in a SN General Discussion thread. Unlike this forum, when you click on the Image icon it allows you to browse your own hard-disc for the image, then add it. Your pic should display in your post's preview then.
Hope that helps.
For physical description, it'd be a lot like a cross between a Catfish, a Wobble-gong, a Goblin Shark, and a leach.
It'd have a downwards-facing catfish like mouth, maybe no eyes; (it'd stick little catfish-like motion-sensing organs/tendrils into the ice to sense approaching prey), and would be flat and leach-like; also pretty fat. Its jaw would look reminiscent of that weird Alaskan shark with the downwards-facing porpoise jaw which would pick lichen off of rocks; except that this creature's teeth are flatter and meant for crushing rockpunchers' thick exoskeleton. On its sides, its ribcage actually only exists on its back; where its spine is reinforced incredibly to withstand the shock of-say- punching through the ice with its goblin shark-like snout protrusion. On its belly, it's all fat. A terrifying characteristic, its ribs can be seen through its sides.
Mobility-wise, it would expend a lot of energy to try and move long distances and against other leviathans, it'd be completely defenseless; and so, it burrows into the ice and simply awaits prey to walk by. It would probably also have a hibernation-like state, but we wouldn't see that in-game.
http://imgur.com/QodwIJu
The bone stalker is a massive leviathan-class fauna species. Its only known habitat is in the Crag Fields and beyond the volcanic crater; the Dead Zone. It is a little bigger than the sea emperor leviathan (120m in length) and bears a resemblance to the skull of the gargantuan fossil that is located in the Lost River.
This lifeform is identified as a 'leviathan hunter' because it hunts other leviathan species and other large creatures as its primary food source. It once migrated alongside large schools of its own kind to forage for food and to lay eggs which may mean that the bone stalker leviathans have either originated elsewhere on the planet or are a species on the verge of extinction.
The bone stalker leviathan hunts by smell and by sensing the slight changes in the water temperature around it. When closing in on its prey, it uses the darkness below the prey to its advantage and comes to attack the prey from below. The bone stalker leviathan locks its massive jaws around the prey's neck and strangles it to death. The skin of the bone stalker leviathan is very dense and its intended use is to prevent internal damage to their vital organs from larger predators. The fin at the end of their tails provide them with the ability to swim at great speeds.
When a bone stalker begins its egg-laying stage of its lifecycle, a second bone stalker forages for food while the other stays behind. This repeats over and over again until the eggs have been laid which could be months to a full year. A single bone stalker leviathan may only be able to lay up to three eggs in its entire lifespan. Until the young are nurtured and fully matured, they are vulnerable to other predators.
Assessment: Approach with caution - - - Further Data Required
Assigned Biome(s): Crag Fields & beneath the floating island?
If you're trying to skin the gargantuan fossil, (I now call it Snaggletooth because of something scifiwriterguy said,) then you might want to go to my discussion on 'Lost River Skeleton - Science, Observations, and things which make no sense' and read all posts by Myself, scifiwriterguy, and Maalteromm. Even if you aren't trying to skin the gargantuan, the discussion explains how, scientifically, a creature of that size, shape, bone structure, and musculature might work. You can skip by scifiwriterguy's spoiler boxes, but I suggest that you read most of what is there.
I did read your discussion thread on the Lost River skeleton and, surprising, a little bit of that information kind of matches of what I'm thinking of for the bone stalker leviathan. I'm not saying that in a bad way as if I want to take your idea. That is not my intention at all.
Both the gargantuan skeleton and the bone stalker are dependent on a large food source such as other leviathans and both of them are restricted from living too deep in the vast ocean. The bone stalker leviathan that I came up with has to stay close to the surface because its body isn't meant to go any deeper than 600m to 700m under the surface of the ocean. I think everyone can agree that some leviathans in the world of Subnautica haven't evolved enough to go deeper and to live where the pressure is so much higher than at the surface of the ocean.
I hope this explanation was understandable to you and everyone else who might be reading this discussion.
This would be easier to decide if you could provide a more detailed description of your conceptual model. For instance, I imagine that this creature would have transparent-blue, highly-plastic flesh divided into segments by rib cages. It wouldn't have a true spine, but it would have a spinal cord following a single ventricle which continues throughout its entire body; which would have many bladders and visible digestive tracts wrapped around it in some places, (mainly its system of stomachs). this creature would make up for its small brain cavity by having a system of decentralized nervous systems linked to reflexive brains which are denoted in bulbous modules at different sections of the creatures body. There would be a rather large distance between this inner cord and the outer flesh; almost mimicking the ghost leviathan save for the fact that the creature has something akin to bone structure. However, this structure is only maintained by a system of musculature which continues along its entire length. How it moves without a backbone? Essentially, it has a system like a conveyer-belt in which a single segment of bone would be contracted into the creature, and then pushed towards its front until it met one of its other rib cage segments, and then would expand outwards and be pushed back to its previous position and hand it off to the next rib cage and so on. Boom! We just created a class of creature unclassified by modern science. (Its skull, however, would be very lightweight and wouldn't have any covering layer of flesh. It'd just have its six eyes).
Like I said before, I am working on a second piece of artwork for the bone stalker leviathan and, hopefully, it will look more like something that belongs in Subnautica.The original artwork does have a few flaws.
I'm having a hard time in coming up with making it different so that it belongs in an arctic environment. A lot of things have to change. I will update as soon as I can. Wish me luck!
The artwork for the new (arctic) version of the Bone Stalker Leviathan!