sorry if there is anything wrong with the video I'm using a weaker editing setup as I'm on vacation and wanted to do what I could with what I could take with me, thanks for all the support and thanks for the 88 subs!!!!
I remember my first expedition as a captain. Humpback, just shuttling between stations. Suddenly there’s a ping on the radar, the cavern tunnels were narrow and it’s big. No way around it. I radio the crew to prepare for a fight. Shortly thereafter, I am sent flying across the bridge. Wondering what cruelty possessed the devs to put a moloch at the begging of the game. I was also wondering if my soul would still be part of my anatomy after I collide with the deck, maybe the medic could check on that? Whatever. We lost HARD.
I agree, I think it either hurts them or is a the same as a challenge between molochs. Since it appears they use echolocation like whales do, both are possible.
I feel I should've dded something here much sooner. I had an.... odd encounter with baby moloch. I had been apart of a crew for a certain time, mostly to check if a sub I had helped designed was working properly. The crew had been transporting something from between two colonies until we somehow ended up between a ruin and a wreck, probably what remained of a dive team that had been husked while exploring the ruin and then infecting the whole sub, causing it to become wrecked. Anyways as we sent our own dive team to explore the ruin, we heard strange noises from outside the hull. Turns out those noises were from baby moloch rubbing against the hull. Given that they weren't doing anything other then rubbing against the hull doing no damage, I advised the captain to leave them alone. We spent a really long time gathering resources from both the wreck and ruin and were relatively left alone. I am unsure whether it was the momma moloch hovering above us or the babies hiding us, but we had a really quiet trip going to the next station.
I remember the first time me and my crew encountered a group of baby molochs. Routine trip through the Great Sea, nothing too unusual until I got near what seemed like a dead end in the system. Then, the wailing. That told me to immediately reverse out and take the downwards route instead. I believe the adults were off doing something else, because as we were ascending to the next station, we got hit on the topside by not one, but three molochs, and one was the EMP variant. I feel bad for having to shell those three, but they were completely blocking the route.
That is a possibility Portuguese man o' War had a very similar type of behavior though due to the size of the moloch i would assume it would be more likely that they filterfeed through their water intake
Love these as they bring more life to Barotrauma I really hope this game only gets more popular it's pretty great, the customization and sense of danger really just makes for a great game.
i suspect the life of eruropa is as follows moloch: filter feeder mudraptor: carnivore crawler: carnivore spineling: potentially a filder feeder that hunts in swarms for better food aquisition and protection or could be a leech-type creature that causes bleeding hits and drinks up the blood watcher: unsure yet, possibly also a filter feeder the husk parasite: population control, kinda like the cordyceps with ants
Something interesting about the campaign. Several previous campaign I fought molochs in the first area I've started another campaign I don't know if they changed difficulty but I haven't seen a single moloch I'm in area 3now
At the time of me watching this video, I managed to kill 5 molochs (4 Regular and 1 Black) while a school of Moloch younglings were screaming for more to come in spite of me not firing upon the younglings. It feels almost coincidental that they showed up just as you were explaining them to me.
The gunner that didn't shoot the molochs was actually smart, why waste ammunition when they are not trying to be a threat, just keep an eye on the thing while moving away. I'd say the guy deserves a medal, but too much compassion towards these abominations takes that medal away.
Barotrauma is still direly under-covered on RU-vid, so I really appreciate this! Also, I think you meant "baleen whales and basking sharks", as sperm whales are the type with regular teeth!
That's my thought, like the realistic sonar mod, IRL submarine sonar is painful or deadly to be around - so I could see a large animal treating it as a threat.
there a time similar thing happened to me, molochs being in between their youngs and me. I shot them more but unlike other fight, molochs did not move toward my ship. I don't know how to response to this so I sail away.
There isn't a lot of real lore in barotrauma as theories and conjecture is in the title. The bits at the end are stories from my own experience in barotrauma. And the biology of the animals is guesswork based on how the animals behave and the models move a lot of it is pure theorizing and gleaning info from what few sources we have available.
