Unpopular Subnautica Opinions 

I think the scariest part of Crabsquids is the sound design. It doesn't even remotely sound like an animal, they sound like something scratching metal or glass slowly cracking under the water pressure. This especially works well in the Degasi Seabase where it feels like the construction is falling apart or as if the Crabsquid is trying to trick you into thinking it's the seabase making these noises and not it

Another fact, Crabsquids can't attack you when you're above them. Stand on their bigass forehead and they cant do anything about it.

I literally completely forgot that the Pathfinder tool exists. And for crabsquids I only find the scary when they just jumpscare me when I'm exploring the 3rd degasi base

Crabsquids are like the cave crawlers. They are so annoying that anything that would be scary about them just turns into hatred for them.

I think with the copper the meme is that you never have enough of it and it’s annoying to farm. At least that was my experience. Copper gets used so much, but is only, and I mean only, found in limestone outcrops. other metals like titanium are also found in abundance through things like metal scrap and other metals get used so rarely a few mining trips will do the trick, but copper is in this middle ground where it‘s consistently used throughout the entire game, but also only available in outcrops. Yes there‘s the giant ore‘s for the drill arm, but I mean that‘s only really late game where you start to have enough of it. And also, limestone outcrops give only titanium and copper. Sure that means that you have a 50/50 chance for copper, but also for titanium, and when you constantly get that instead it‘s really demoralizing. At least with other metals you have outcrops where each drop is valuable, but getting titanium a bunch just sucks imo

When you are in the dark, below ur crush depth and suddenly a crabsquid just appears in ur face. While all of ur escape routes are guarded by leviathans. Theyre pretty fuckin scary.

Totally don't have PTSD from the crashfish charge sound :D Great video!

Bro murdered more Cuddlefish than the entire Subnautica community 💀

Brother I didn't even know the pathfinder tool EXISTED and having completed a hardcore run a while back this would've been PRETTY DAMN NICE.

I once saw a RU-vidr's seamoth get destroyed by a crab squid while he wasn't even in it, and he died because he was too deep to get to the surface on the oxygen he had left. Ever since seeing that video, I'm scared of them. Wasn't really scared of them before that, but losing a fully upgraded seamoth is not an experience I am keen to try out.

I cannot agree that thermal energy is useless. At some point, I even replaced a nuclear reactor with thermal energy. This was due to the fact that in a nuclear reactor the fuel rods have to be replaced and the another does not have this problem. Also, the feeling of creating my own energy transfer system was great and helped me get more into the atmosphere of the biome I live in.

A lot of these unpopular opinions just come down to knowledge, experience, and personal phobia. Crash fish aren't scary to anyone who knows anything about them, but for beginners who aren't expecting them, they don't know how fast they are, how much damage they'll do if they catch you, and even when they'll pop out. They just hear this scary sound and go fight-or-flight until they learn or wiki stuff. Thermal energy is insanely good when you're finishing the game. The inactive lava zone is where it really does its best work. Bringing a thermal module for your prawn suit will let you refill it on the fly, and dropping a simple base down there will make sure a prepared player never has to make the long journey back to their main base for resupplying, for recharging, and for upgrading the cyclops. Once you set off on your trip to the lost river, thermal generators can ensure you will never have to backtrack from there. I've also seen it save the butts of a ton of people who go down, leave their cyclops because they don't know about the lava leeches, and then get stranded without power. Crabsquids are kinda the same with the crashfish argument, but add the creepy factor of their eyes and how fking massive they are when you get close to scan them. Their design is just creepy for some people, and when they camp the exit/window to the degasi habitat and you see them just filling up the entire view it gets a bit unnerving.

I HATE the way crabsquids look at me. It's like they're possessed

I do not think the cyclops is actually that useful but the feeling of driving a massive submarine while maintaining power and hiding from leviathans is peak

I have a phobia of crabs and seeing the crabsquid legs will always be... not fun.

You probably didnt play subnautica before the crashfish got nerfed to the hell so i get why you dont understand the hate. They are now easy to avoid, you can even kill them mid chase with a knife and avoid damage without running away so they can be annoying ant take you by surprise but they are not too bad. But back in the days of early access that thing was an icbm, it could swim at the same speed of the seaglider, it was very nimble so it could do abrupt turns to chase you (literally a 180 degree turn instantly) and it could follow you to other planets, back in those days all creatures didnt have movement restrictions and crashfish was programmed to explode only near the player. Nowadays the average damage it does is about 40 with a maximum of 60 and a minimum of 10 (depens on distance, the maximum roll is usually rare) but back in the day the average damage was 70 with a minimum of 40 and if you were unlucky it could instakill you. It is one of those flashbacks from an era where reapers follow you to your base also the 50/50 chance of the limestone is not true, limestone has a 30% chance of dropping copper and it has a guaranteed copper every 3 rocks you destroy And i dont know how can people say thermals are a bad power source, it is literally the most op power source in the game since it does not need any type of fuel and has the second fastest charging rate (its not like it is easy to notice the difference anyway) so its a power source you just build and forget about dealing with it, lavazone and thermal vents are not optimal places for the generators, you need to put them in active volcanos (i forgot their name) thats where they shine

Crabsquids are cute! I love that they can be bred, what funny guys. They’re pretty nasty guard dogs too, they will attack other hostile fauna, even leviathans!

Idk if this is a hot take, But the Chelicerate is my favorite leviathan, it was the first leviathan to actually kill me in a Subnautica game, it’s got an amazing design, has the best animations of any leviathan, and people clown on it because it’s trying to be Below Zero’s Reaper

Thank you for saying what you did about Below Zero, while it does have its flaws, it's disappointing to see that it is almost universally hated on.

In my most recent world I had a horrible experience with a Crabsquid. I took my Seamoth down to the Degasse base, parked it with the lights off, got all my goodies, and then I heard my Seamoth explode. I looked out the window and one of those jelly-headed mother fuckers had destroyed my Seamoth for NO REASON! I had to swim all the way back to the Surface with half a tank of O2, thankfully I had a Gravtrap in my inventory at the time, so when I inevitably drowned all of my stuff was sitting 75-100 below the floating Island.

the hover fish is the best boy i havent play subnautica without one in my hand at all times

I think one thing to add about the crab squid is that they roam freely and often end up in the main path it takes to go to the lost river. They aren't directly scary and more just annoying when they use an EMP and shut your seamoth off for 10 seconds. Other than that, I mostly agree with you as they don't do that much damage compared to creatures like the Warper which honestly irritates me so much in the lava zone.

I agree with Below Zero. I love that game for exploring and just chilling. Although I wished that they added more open spaces and the Ice Dragon. I also want more sparser, realistic areas. (Not saying BZ isn't realistic, I'm just saying that adding a sparse biome may make it more realistic.)

hardcore mode where im only allowed to build a single moon pool for upgrade crafting and cyclops has been a blast to use efficiently instead of chucking a crafting station in the control room and a battery charger next to it

0:07 that opening made me feel so old. I got into the game right before they added the Precursor stuff.

7:14 "i have seen a security hologram of him... using Cuddlefish as fuel"

Another thing about thermal power is since you usually need power transmitters to use them, you often have to replace them because prawn suits can actually destroy power transmitters by just walking over them.

Crashfish aren’t too bad but they do always sneak up which is why I hate them but other then that they’re pretty cool!

Seamoth is the best weapon in the game for non leviathan creatures. Just bring a repair tool and ram everything till the area is safe. No crabsquid or boneshark problems ever.

the first time I saw the pathfinder tool in use was this video

Personally crabsquids horrify me, i have no idea why but that design really terrifies me to my core

Tbh,i never feared crashfish,i always outran them,and no,i dont use volume so i cant even hear it until it explodes,just swim away.

afaik there's an algorithm in how the outcrops work: sandstone: first 50/50, second 50/50 and for the third time you're GUARANTEED to obtain the mineral you didn't get in the first 2 outcrops. but if you get copper first and then titan, it's a 50/50 again (again, afaik) limestone: basically the same, but you're guaranteed to get the mineral you got the least of from the previous outcrops. for example: 1st -- silver 2nd -- gold 3rd -- gold 4th will be lead now shale and obsidian work basically the same, so no need to mention them

“Just use you glider to outrun the crash fish” dawg you need the materials in the crash fish caves before you can built it

Statistically crabsquids aren’t scary at all, but new players will hear the creepy sound design and will get jumpscared when their sea moth suddenly looses power.

Honestly some things aren’t scary I just don’t want to die or lose health from things like the crashfish or the stalkers same with the crabsquids

I wonder what that base (the one powered by 4 thermal plants on lava) was using that power for. My personal main bases function well on 2 solar panels (water filtration not included)

Copper gets even easier to find when you get the prawnsuit...*me going into a cave to find copper with my prawn suit and get stuck and never gets it out again*

8:07 We see here a fundamental misunderstanding of how base generators work. A base ranks the generators in a specific order. That order used to be build order, but that was changed in updates and I never figured out the new pattern. In any case, the base draws power from the first generator on the list, until it is out of power. Only then does it tap the second. Let's say those four generators are all 70 degrees, 59.4 per minute. You have three full generators in that clip, so you're only drawing 59.4 per minute. When power drops below 750, then you'll get the second generator kicking in at 118.8 per minute total. You don't get the full force of the 237.6 per minute until you drop below 250. In other words, as you draw down more generators, your power will stabilize at 250, 500, 750, or 1000 depending on if the draw can be met by 4, 3, 2, or just 1 generator. It's not all-or-nothing the way a single nuclear generator is.

I’m a thalassaphobia person but I’ve also been fascinated by the ocean so occasionally I’ll decide to torture myself and open the game on my switch. Crash fish are My. Worst. Enemy. I didn’t know how to avoid them!! Thanks so much for that trick that I didn’t know! Time to load the game again! (Never left kelp forests, grassy plateaus and safe shallows)

one time i was mining in a safe shallows cave and got swarmed by crashfish, causing me to flee into the path of that one volcanic vent near the lifepod. i died in such a stupid way that i had to get up and take a walk

I don't think any leviathan is scary they just pop up that scares you

The Cyclops is just super hard to navigate through places with creatures that can hurt it, making it not worth it to go through the Lost River with all of its ghost juveniles. Every single thing you turn on/off (shield, sonar) uses so much energy I swear. Once you get the blueprint for ion power cells, you can just go through the teleporter with the prawn and it's 3000x faster. So while the Cyclops isn't totally useless, for most of the game I find it HARDER to use it than to not. ...and when you DO find the alien thermal plant, you should head straight for the containment facility to cure youself, so that you can explore without warpers attacking you. There are 4 teleporters there. Also I don't need 4 scanner rooms in my outpost in the lost river, all I have there is a moonpool with some stuff in it, and 2 thermal plants work just fine.

honest opinion i actually prefer below zero over subnautica one i did a playthrough streaming my first blind playthrough of both games recently and i found myself enjoying streaming below zero a lot more than subnautica although the story is a bit hit and miss at times having al-an and maregreite actually feels better because it doesnt take away from the isolated feeling yet still makes you feel like the world is more realistic with the company of the two tbh the below zero biomes far surpass the original subnautica. the biomes are incredible looking and the way they match the resources to each biome is great and really helps improve the authenticity of each biome one bone i have to pick with below zero tho is the lack of larger creatures often times the main three creatures you interact with are squidsharks, cyroptersuaras and the iceworm with the ocasional chelicerate (which btw the patrol on them is kinda stupid i had one swim into the safe shallows from over 500m away and kill me in my base) the plant life in the game is amazing tho its so diverse and the plant life really adds to the emergion, the levaithans are a bit hit and miss tho as the ventgarden is kinda meh in my opinion they are cool for what they are but kinda useless, the chelicerates are more so annoying than they are scary and doesnt really have a lasting effect on the player, the shadow levaithan on the other hand that mf can be burned to hell when i was exploring the caverns looking for kyanite i got my first encounter with one of them as i slowly saw a dark large snake like figure swimming along the edge of the cavern almost like it was stalking me i think thats what works best for the shadow leviathan though compared to chelicerates you only encounter them a small amount of times before the end of the game and having them in the tight dark caverns deep underground whilst trying to remember the path back up, compared to chelicerates who you encounter in just open easy to avoid spaces and just mainly serve as a way to keep you away from the map edge rather than having a good purpose and becomes more of an annoyance than a threat, same with the cryoesauras they are almost every where and they are more so just annoying than scary once you get the perimeter defence and their roar is just annoying to hear every 3 seconds squidsharks are different tho i actaually really enjoy their design they look innocent till you approach them and then you realise they are actaually kinda deadly, many peoples first introduction to the squidshark is through the deep twisty bridges which is a great introduction to them because before you first go down there all you can see and hear is roars coming from the deep dark pit of darkness with no way to see what lurks down there giving the player a sense of terror of the unknown. as for the story i actually really like sams story and robins relationship with her sister especially the mementos you find scattered around the bases, they did a great job of making the alterra crew feel like real individuals who could really exist and i think thats great! also the diversity with below zero in terms of character design is great you got all sorts of characters of shapes,size,gender,species,sexuality,race and background you have emmanuel for gay represntation, you have sam questioning her potential to be lesbian, you have margreit who comes from an indeginious background, you have an entire other species with al-an, you have fred being very intelligent but a very self imposed character and then you have the contrast with emmanuel a very strong hard headed leadership character and (i forget his name) the sunglasses guy who comes off as a mean brute type character but is actually really sweet and just misses his kids back home the base customisation is great as well with the little trinkets, collectibles and working bathroom tools such as a toilet and shower and sink is great plus the abiltiy to see everything with the control room and change the color pallet of the base is a nice addition that can really help your base feel homey, the seatruck depo is also a nice addition allowing you to store your modules and sea tuck saves you building a second moonpool and talking of which the seatruck modules are amazing as well being able to pick and choose which modules you need for which adventure is great, the snowfox though i feel is kinda useless the upgrades actaully dont affect the probability of being attacked and the jump upgrade is kinda useless and i honestly dont think the snowfox is worth the trouble crafting for the extra risk it brings thats my conclusion of subnautica below zero thx for reading this if you read all this im sorry how bad my spelling was hope you enjoyed reading it tho

Crabsquids are only scary if they're in the dark (COUGH BLOOD KELP COUGH). Crabsquid sounds also make me change pants every time I venture below 400m.

The Crabsquid terrifies me the most. I hate creatures with a lot of legs with a burning passion *cough cough cave crawlers cough*... Those and the mushroom snakes 😅😅

You're wrong about thermal power. I make fairly big bases that are completely sustained by 4-5 thermal plants. The key to my success is realising I don't need 50 power cell chargers.

When your on low health and you turn around and see a crab squid it's terrifying

The Cyclops might my favorite for far base exploring. When I use nitrox with some of my friends and we make one megabase, using the Cyclops is the easiest way of travelling together!

Fun fact you can kill fish and reapers leviathan with cameras and sick an army of normally hostile + gaspod hatched fish on all hostile and nonhostile fish yes this includes reapers Not yet tested on warmers and ghost leviathan seadragon This is how reaper #2 died for me Reaper #1 was death by cameras

You can source much of your copper and silver from the barnacles on reefbacks. They usually come in herds so you can have a decent bit if you farm enough. Crashfish can also be dispatched easily with the heat blade so they aren't a threat. Same goes for much of the bigger fauna like crab squids, and bone sharks.

I hope breathtaker opens a discrod server soon

0:35 "i am correct and there is nothing you can do to change that assertion" is infinitely cooler and funnier than "oh this is just my opinion its all subjective!" like pop off take no survivors

1:54 It's kinda funny that lead got the correct percentage, but silver's got rounded up in the pie chart to not match what you're saying. I swear that kinda thing happens to me all the time. Also, crabsquids are kinda cute and moving entire mountains of materials is super handy for base building. Edit: 7:14 Never mind. You're a monster.

9:00 The last thing I expect from my Subnautica game is using a slow, clunky vehicle to go through a dull, barren expanse, and spending half my game walking around with no direction.

Me: Alright I'm going to go into this with an open mind and not judge any of his opinions. Breathtaker: Crash fish aren't that bad. Me: MOTHER F-

Crab squid in concept art & pre-release materials: Spoopy. Crab Squid in-game: Derpy bellend with creepy sound design, but ultimately a nuisance.

7:14 You are a monster (if you dont get it pause the video and look at the eggs)

my first encounter with a crabsquid was when i found that degasi base. i was excited to have found a new structure, and drove straight towards it in my seamoth without a care in the world. then i heard the screech, and saw giant tentacle-like legs emerging from the other side of the base, and i knew i had made a mistake. i was able to get out and stasis rifle it before it finished demolishing my seamoth, but that was still one hell of a first impression

I was never scared of the ghost leviathan until I discovered it's hostile. And then after discovering it's only territorial and screws off for like 5 minutes after one bite, it yet again became not scary. Also, the sea dragon was never scary either. I don't have any clue why people think it is.

No copper is definitely a 0% drop chance when you need it most and the game reads your mind and only gives you titanium at that point. I would know

0:23 Fair enough

The thermal vents at the bottom of the underwater islands and the jellyshroom caves both reach above 100C, I have 4 thermal plants at 105 and they produce the same amount of energy as a nuclear reactor and a bioreactor combined. With just one foundation and one power transmitter as well. It's not that much in materials and I never have to refuel them.

You also forgot bout the reefback barnacles, which give you pretty much exclusively silver and copper

Only reason I’m killing all leviathans is because I’m making a massive base that goes through every biome in permadeath, I’m risking nothing

“if you do happen to disagree with something I say don't feel too bad I mean we can't all be perfect“ BreathTaker Saying That He Is Perfect

In my experience, the reason I always find myself running out of Copper is that unlike its limestone buddy, there are no alternatives to get it outside of the ore deposits. You can get a whole bunch of Titanium by finding Metal Salvage and scanning fragments of blueprints you already have, and this makes it so I'm not looking for limestone nearly as often and thus missing out on a lot of Copper.

My unpopular opinion the Giants Skellington Leviathan should remain a skeleton I'm sick of seeing it in mods I'm sick of people Fang over the thing should remain dead. The point of the giant skeleton is to give a sense of mystery and or it's an ocean planet so of course is going to be with it's the equivalent of dinosaurs so the giant Leviathan should remain f****** dead. Sorry this video seems like a good place to rent

IMO the Mesmer is the scariest fish in subnautica. The psychological aspect, especially if you read the lore, gives me the heebie jeebies

Crabsquids look, move and sound terrifying. Their EMP blast that can turn off your lights or movement options is the cherry on top, I'll never forget the moment when I was still new to the game and one turned off my Seamoth, leaving me in the dark and stationary.

Below Zero is a fantastic Subnautica game. Just like you said: Beautiful biomes. And the seatruck with the music is just so much fun to treck around in.

i don't find Crabsquids scary at all, i just find them annoying with the seemingly constant EMP blasts that disable the Cyclops just long enough for the damn thing to charge another blast so me and it can repeat this stupid cycle and make very little progress. and the fact that there's a bunch of them in the deep grand reef is even worse because that's the only area with a Lost River entrance that my dum dum brain can remember how to get to, so I gotta switch on silent running and say hi to the local Crabdouche population every time i want to need to get down there and see the River Prowlers and Ghost Leviathan, and it seems like even with silent running and moving at a sloth's pace, the Crabpricks still always end up getting closer. Crabsquids aren't scary, they just suck. oh yeah, and thermal power also sucks, i regret wasting all my time making a base in the lava lakes right outside the Primary Containment Facility just to be met with that shocker that thermal is trash.

For thermal power, I just don't think that there's any argument that it is worse than the bioreactor. The bioreactor is something I could only ever see being used very early on when you don't have access to many materials, and in that case you would probably be using solar panels. And in my experience the bioreactor is extremely annoying to constantly refill for a minimal power output. Thermal power has the advantage of being constant without any need to maintain, which gives it a purpose against the other power sources with the trade off being having to be near a heat source. Personally, I love the immersion of looking for heat sources and connecting your power source to part of the world, but I can see that that might be annoying if you just want to build wherever. In a functional base, moonpool and a couple chargers, I've only ever needed a couple thermal plants to reliably power. Realistically if you're going for a huge base for fun with tons of power consumption you'd obviously use nuclear, but in a normal playthrough that really isn't necessary. (this is way too much detail for something not important but I just enjoy talking about it) For below zero, I think the general sentiment around the game is that its disappointing when compared to subnautica, not that its a terrible game (arguable). I think that a lot of the hate comes from below zero actively making choices that not only don't improve on subnautica, but go back on subnautica's design choices leading to the gameplay/story/atmosphere suffering. In all the videos I've seen I think 'The Casual Gamer' explains it the best if you're interested in hearing more about that. In my personal experience I was disappointed with below zero because after playing subnautica countless times, I was hoping that a sequel would add a whole new level to one of my favorite games, and if not, at the very least be more of a thing I liked.

I never had a problem with finding limestone or silver, there’s lots by the biomes near the shallows

During my recent play through a crab squid found it’s way to my seamoth and combod it to death with a bunch of upgrades in it… safe to say the crab blood(?) juice(?) rained thick that day

5:04 real

5:30 Instructions unclear all 3 ghosts are dead in Lost River edit: also most of reapers

Tbh the scary part for me about the crab squid is just my arachnophobia. They’re fine normally but one was floating down at me from above and I just so happened to look up at that moment. Seeing its disgusting spindly legs stick out like a spider freaked me out and I got the hell out of there Other than that, they’re just silly guys. I have a alien containment specifically dedicated to them and then release my army around my base in the grassy plateaus so they can move around as they please

I agree about the crab squids big time. Of all hostile creatures in the game, they’ve given me the least trouble, not scary at all. However, the crab squids have my favorite audio and visual designs, so they’re probably my number 1 favorite animal in the games

The main hazzard of the crashfish is that the terror it inspires is likely to disorient you, and you get lost in those caves and die.

The only crabsquid that scares me is the one on the final Degassi wreck. I need light to see what I'm doing, I can't swim quickly, and I only have one way out. Als, "this little guy" Sir when you are in a multipurpose room, look up, and see that thing's four eyes completely filling a window, your sense of scale COMPLETELY recalibrates. I don't care that it's smaller than a leviathan, I care that its eyes are bigger than my torso.

Honestly IMO the bioreactor is the best almost not only because it is stupid easy to grow/harvest things to feed it, but also when that piece of lantern fruit you totally didn't forget about finally goes bad in your inventory you can then just stuff it in the bioreactor and feel like it wasn't a complete waste. "Oh no! I didn't forget about this food item and legit go bad by accident! I was just, uh, getting it pre-ready for the bioreactor!'

Crabsquids are more creepy than scary IMO. Sure, once you know what you’re doing they become much less threatening, but I still don’t wanna turn a corner to look at the flying four-eyed techno-spider Megamind lookin’ sumbitch.

2:07 you can get both copper and silver from Reefback barnacles

I’ve never found Crabsquids scary. I’ve more found them annoying.

Unpopular opinion: seatruck is very nice, versatile abd fun and I wish to drive it on subnautica Original I indeed suffered a lot with thermal power, but I think on Below Zero it is more caotic: the water is not hot on top of geisers or vents, but elsewhere. I scaned tree spires and found 50C on plateaus far from the thermal vent. And inside the volcano 🌋 bellow iceber zone the waters gets only 25C!!!!

I was today years old when i found out that there is an animation for crabsquids walking on the sea floor.

Thank you for mentioning below zero! I love everything about both subnautica games, but I can only play below zero. I have a panic disorder, and no matter how hard I try I cannot beat subnautica because I end up having severe panic attacks. But below zero has a custom world where you can change certain rules, including creature aggression. I can only play below zero because it has the option to completely turn it off. Unfortunately, subnautica doesn’t have this option so I’m never going to be able to play it because it affects my mental health too much. I love both games, but below zero is my favorite because it has accessibility functions that make me able to play it while subnautica doesn’t

I view thermal power as more of a backup source. It won't ever be the main one you use, but it's good for if your other stuff stops producing power for whatever reason. Also I completely agree with BZ being great as well! :3

I much prefer using the bioreactor to the nuclear reactor. Not only do i find the crafting req’s for the nuclear reactor difficult to obtain, having to constantly dispose of them is annoying to me. I grow blood kelp and creep vines at my bases and use those for my bioreactor, as they’re constantly regrowing. Or if I’m feeling fancy, i stockpile Sea Treader Leviathan poop. I find that stuff lasts FOREVER. I have one survival playthrough that’s going on 20 hours, with the last 6-7 hours having 2 bioreactors filled with Sea Treader Leviathan poop that i haven’t had to replace AT ALL. And that’s with using the base to charge my seamoth, batteries, and crafting items as well!

Yeah once u get to the lost river and biomes close to BK trench, the nuclear reactor just becomes the go to thing to make. I wish they brought furniture stuff from below zero to the original game, man I’d kill for that ghost leviathan bed in the original subnautica

Whatever it’s, stasis rifle and knife can deal with. Also, something not mention about limestone. Yes, it’s true that the odds are 50/50 but if you break the limestone and Titanium come out, then the next time you break limestone copper will come out and vice versa. Basically you won’t get titanium in a row, when breaking limestones.

I remember finishing my first playroute by going to the lost river with the cyclops and stuffing it with every mineral and resource i could find there. When i got the plan for the rocket I already had everything i needed for building two of them. I thought that was a common thing to do 😅

If I might provide my opinions about your opinions: My only issue with copper is that I never have any on hand when I need it. That means it's obviously an issue with the game and not my own laziness or lack of preparedness in any way. (/s) I've never felt the need to use the pathfinder tool as, in any game, I've always had good environmental awareness. As long as I know where I came from and can see any little bit around me, then I can find my way around. The only time I ever got lost in Subnautica was when I took a new route going up from the Lost River and happened upon the Sea Treader path, which was new to me at the time. Shoutouts to all Reefbacks out there, since it was the dead of night when I escaped the Sea Treader path and I was completely lost and without any batteries (I was leaving the lost river 'cuz I was out of copper and didn't have the drill arm yet). It was all thanks to the comforting grumbles of a reefback that I was able to feel safe and eventually figure out where I was and find my way back to my base. (I played without beacons and signals for the added challenge, and also didn't realize there was a compass item until after I had already made it to the active lava zone) The only thing I felt afraid of about the Crabsquid is wasting my time on the rare chance that I get hit with an emp when making my way to the lost river. I avoided the cyclops initially on my first playthrough of the game solely because I didn't wanna get the resources for it and would rather focus on building my lost river base. I eventually got it so that I wouldn't feel so small in my prawn suit while in the inactive lava zone, and the only thing I dislike about it is how much power in takes up with it's upgrades, even with engine efficiency. By the time I was able to get Ion power cells, I no longer felt the need to use it outside of the markiplier doll I kept on a table inside it. I never felt the leviathans were ever any threat enough to kill. I stayed relatively near the surface on the way to the Aurora, and maybe I just never got into the aggro range of one on all the back and forths I did. The ghost leviathan never charged at me at all. It did jumpscare me in my prawn suit when I turned around and it was in my face, but it simply killed a prowler that was chasing me and turned back. In fact, all the ghost leviathans were chill, and I never felt I was in any danger and would pass right by them. The Sea Dragon at the lava castle was a bit scary, but none of the sea dragons at all felt particularly dangerous as I outmaneuvered them all in my seaglide. I guess that does mean they were at least a bit of a danger since I couldn't pass by them, but they weren't that much of a threat. I did get kicked by the Sea Treader once, so I guess that makes it the most dangerous one. The thermal power plant was pretty useful to me. After wasting my resources on 2, my bioreactor was able to store so much more power for the base. Of course, I never built any thermal plant after than and never tried raising the maximum stored power with anything else, but y'know... technically it did something :p I definitely didn't enjoy Below Zero that much. However, when I think of it more like a dlc than a Subnautica 2, it's pretty okay I guess. The only 2 things that truly annoy me is how slow you move and how claustrophobic everything felt. Mods can solve the first issue, though I don't know if there are any that solve the second one. I remember following on the development of Below Zero, though I unfortunately don't remember much of it. I think they were trying to push it for release, so maybe it's just a victim of deadlines. However, I don't remember well enough to say that for sure, not to mention I did really enjoy seeing the new creatures.

Crabsquids might look fearsome but next to bonesharks, bleeders, they're the most likely thing that I'll actually kill just because they're hanging around being annoting, lol. They're super easy to take down too.

Can we all agree that cuddlefsh in the bioreactor is the prime way to make power

I 100% agree with the Below Zero part. The story is worse, but the fauna and flora designs are amazing and so are the base building improvements and more care for land-dwelling life. I prefer the original, but Below Zero is a worthy game on its own. The Seatruck was a big shot in the foot though, who thought it was a good idea to replace such iconic vehicles as the Seamoth and Cyclops with a stupid truck with a modular gimmick? It would be cool as a separate workhorse vehicle, but it's awkward in both Seamoth and Cyclops roles. Also it's ugly.

The problem with Below Zero is that it diverged so much from the original in feeling and tone that it became a spin-off, and not the Subnautica 2 fans were wanting. Fortunately we will be getting Subnautica 2 soon.

for the thermal power i use it when i put my base in the red plateau near the opening to the mushroom caves which means easy access to magnetite, big ores in the cave, and the plateau has pillars with outcrops all over also easy quartz but its too deep for solar panels to be that good so i use the geyser in the mushroom cave for thermal power

The first time I saw a crab squid I was terrified but when it attacked my ship I just started beating him with my knife and they also do barely any damage and are more annoying than anything and are honestly a very cool creature in subnautica.