Ryley is honestly such a trooper... Massive headaches, fevers, coughing... Ever had the worst case of the flu and had to lay in bed all day because how how unpleasant and painful it was? Yeah, well, Ryley experiences that and worse, but shrugs it off likes it nothing, diving deeper and facing leviathans all the while. No wonder he was the only survivor, he's a BEAST.
I always pictured it acting similar to a bacteriophage, multiplying inside your body, moving into the pustules when there are sufficient numbers, and bursting them all simultaneously, leaving you to die from rapid blood loss.
That’s what I was thinking! Plus, I figured the infection could get in through pores, because that would explain how it’s able to get in, even if you don’t eat or drink anything infected.
I don't even think it was a factor for her in the long run, seeing that she was on the planet long after the Sea Emperors were released, and allowed to spread Enzyme 42 around the planet's ecosystem without restriction. Meaning that by then, any traces of the bacteria that remained would be almost completely harmless and/or eradicated almost immediately before it could cause her any significant problems.
@@anondabomb ????? the events of subnautica took place 2 years before below zero. riley had long since released the sea emperors and escaped the planet
Or it was more visible. Like you are randomly exploring, the edge od the screen goes slightly black and there is a red pulsing around the screen with apropriate sound effects.
I feel like having a Majora's Mask type of time limit (before Riley succumbs to the injection) would be annoying. Maybe someone could make a mod though
There could be some quantifiable effects from the infection on the game's mechanics as your body starts to succumb. E.g. more rapid buildup of the need for food and water; increased oxygen consumption; reduced swimming speed; and/or taking more damage from creature attacks. With your PDA warning you of the detrimental changes.
Funny enough you CAN just sit in the life pod or ontop of it and nothing happens. Bobthebuilder up a scanner and check yourself, not infected. BUT if you Ghost Warp over to say, the main Island (Not the floating one) and scan yourself, instantly infected. Touching water doesn't matter, its the moment you leave the life-pods vicinity. I doubt there is any lore implications as without cheating/glitching/mods you would HAVE to touch the water at some point, but its an interesting trigger effect.
from what ive seen, entering specific areas of the game actually makes you MORE infected. theres info abt it more on the wiki but basically its like a story failsafe. to make sure that by the time you reach the lost river where the lab is, you already know youre infected, and so that finding out isnt THAT surprising
I would love it is the game HAS to have a transmission moment to get infected. Have it be that the Kharaa can be transmitted every conventional way, but that still means you have to have a moment of infection. The dive suit and helmet would protect you from general contact and respiratory infections. Cooking your food would prevent ingested infections, so no eating creepvine, or gelsacks. Probably not lantern fruit, or bulbo tree either, but, if grown in a sterile environment, it would probably be fine. No stored, found water from boxes either. The water inside may be sealed, but the bottle itself where your lips touch is not sanitary. And, hardest of all, you must NEVER be injured. Even the slightest cut would be enough. I think it'd be a fun challenge run. The Clean run. The only food you can eat has to be cooked or grow in growbeds inside a base. Any injury means death (crashfish are gunna be hell early game). I think a fun thing to do if someone actually made a mod for this is the Warpers actually will leave you alone as long as you don't attack them. If you aren't infected, they leave you be. And the test you get in the gun base, obviously, isn't going to let you go just because you're clean. It will just task you with staying safe and continuing work on a cure.
I’m hoping to see biome videos sometime soon. And one that I definitely want to see is about the crash zone and what it was before the crash. I love the crash zone plateaus
the Enzyme 42 that's produced by the Emperor herself is very unstable and can only delay the infection, not cure it outright. and Kharaa is in the water in various concentrations, so the moment you touch the water with unprotected body parts (aka your hands) boom! you're infected!
We can't forget the fact that in Natural Selection 2 the technical sequel to subnautica. It can evolve to the point it becomes a hivemind type of organism.
Fun fact: the kharaa made bonesharks and stalkers hostile to the player The ones in the sea emperors tank behave how their ancestors most likely behaved in the past Also this game is a prequel
@@thedartermaybe the state that the bonesharks and staalkers are in at the sea emperor's tank meant to resemble what they behaved like before the precursor science fuckup
What's interesting is that as far as I remember the architects may have set a system up to ensure the safety of the planet through its smallest species, the peeper, I think there's a whole water ventilation system where peepers are sucked up, end up in the room that the emperess and her spawn are in and then sent back out into the world. once the babies hatched the immunizing fluid they created would latch onto the peepers who would then spread all throughout the planet, immunizing anything that ate them, literally curing the planet from the bottom of the food chain to the very top
Architects just caged the Empress for the eggs and the Enzime her species prouced...tyring to exume her and how to make the enzime to fight the Khaara off...though they failed since they were tooforceful and prolly dyedoff...and before they did they made the security system...to prevent others coming to the planet and spreading the virus across the universe...they failed byt Riley did what they couldn't and ended the virus... Edit: meanwhile the Empress thelepatically called the peepers and shared tge little Enzime she could produce to try fighting off the virus herself and to also feed gerself after the architects were gone...
That is just a plan the sea emperor made. The vents are actually only used to get oxygenated and fresh water along with cells the sea emperor needs to eat from the surface.
My theory of how you get infected is through an open wound of sorts. Even in deathless runs, i’ve never completed subnautica without getting injured at some point
Best subnautica tuber by far from those amazing thumbnails all the way to the way you bring the information love the pasting keep it up !!( also you could make way more content with the biomes )
The editing was really good, and at 0:23 I was laughing at the amount of lantern fruit in your clutches. Also, 2:24 was great as well😂 As always, the epilogue featuring another video was a banger as well! :D
Fun fact: in the game natural selection 2 which takes place in the same universe as subnautica warpers ended up getting infected by the Kharaa and later became known as “fades”
I’m actually currently studying cellular biology for a book I’m writing so this is was nice to listen to while doing a bit of writing and definitely have some inspiration
It is rather telling that the on a planet full of legendarily giant leviathans with upsetting amounts of sharp teeth, the thing we should be most terrified of is a microorganism too small to see
In fact there is medicine for the Kharaa devolved by the architects. Have you ever seen those golden trailed peepers, that is a cured fish which puts an unfinished version of the enzyme in the environment.
WTF 45k? I swear like a month ago you were just starting out! Awesome to see your channel grow so fast, and I must say… I’m incredibly impressed by how much your editing and videos have improved overall :)
Makes me wonder. With the power of hindsight, if you exited the escape pod through the top hatch, paddled to the QEP without touching the water, would you remain uninfected, and thus able to turn it off. Then it's just a matter of eating Bulbo Trees until the Sunbeam shows up.
4:10 okay this is a little bit off....our innate immune system which we inherited from our ancestors is not happened like this...otherwise we would not have any problem with any bacteria ever. A FEW's genetic material got somehow(do not ask me, ask those who are nerding out for immunology) incorporated into our sex celline so it could've been passed down but most of it probably happened way earlier then our mammalian ancestry(and with bacteria we had to real with on an evolutionary yime scale not just happening to run into once or twice). BUT what you could've told that if YOU personally woild've encountered this bacteria before, then now our immune system would've been able to remember it and fight it easier(given you survived)
There was just one flaw in Ryley's dive suit at the beginning. The standard dive suit doesn't come with gloves. So unless you get bitten by or eat an infected fish you get infected through your hands.
Fun fact:the most painfull sympton of kaarah is actually that its eating you slowely but surely *ALIVE* and you feel every bit of pain (only in the late stages of kaarah)10.7 times stronger than it actually is So imagine getting slowly but surely eaten alive and having all these flues told in the video and your organs failing in the late stages and all that 10.7 damn times
To add to this info. It’s unknown about specific details but several hundred years in the future this virus evolves to the point of puppeting bodies (or corpses). This info comes from the game that the subnautica developers made before subnautica. same name, same virus. If I got any info wrong I do apologize.
Imagine if someone was immune somehow? Imagine how different the game would be, imagine how some creatures would react to you? Especially the warpers (they would probably try to protect you considering your immunity?)
You laugh until the Khara turns the pile of throbbing flesh that used to be your coworkers into an Onos to bash down the door into the last sealed section of your space station.
the most common cause is probably the filtered water. the bleach water specifies micro-organism free, so that one definitely isnt sterile. It would be possible to never dink filtered water but then anything from a biter to eating infected food could also cause it
The adaptive imune sistem has an aswer for anything, but it needs to boot up first. Did the devs consulted some medics before coming with this thing? I seen worse, the microfage is the deadliest being on the planet. But it only kills bacterial.
