Latest Subnautica 2 video shows off giant squid Leviathan that is infinitely preferable to the usual legal drama

Don't fto it devour you (disclaimer: not a notation to Krafton)

What with each the lawsuits and countersuits betwixt publishers Krafton and definite erstwhile Unknown Worlds executives, you could beryllium forgiven for reasoning that "Subnautica 2" is immoderate benignant of arcane courtroom word - a compact mode of saying "vicious haggling implicit withheld bonuses", perhaps. Here's a caller developer diary video to punctual america that Subnautica 2 is really an underwater sci-fi endurance game. It doesn't person immoderate lawyers successful it, but it does person a monolithic peckish tentacle monster. Set that 1 up for you, comments thread comedians!

Shared connected Krafton's property site, the video introduces the Collector Leviathan, which appears to beryllium a elephantine squid but it lone has 4 tentacles/arms, not the regularisation 10, unless you see each the tiny wiggly ones astir its mouth.

Given its embarrassing tentacle deficiency, it's nary daze to work that the Collector Leviathan is an "irritable" creature. If it sees you, it volition emit a noisy shockwave and pitchy towards you with assemblage laid horizontal. Then, it volition rear up vertical to springiness you a beauteous look astatine its volcanic divided cranium and painterly bioluminescent forehead patterns. Then it volition drawback you with a tentacle and devour you.

It's decidedly amended to beryllium wrong a submarine erstwhile this happens, but it's adjacent amended to not fto it hap astatine all. Hide from the Collector, and it volition yet suffer involvement and glide away. You tin besides lure it disconnected by throwing a flare.

I dread gathering thing this large successful a real-world aquatic context, but I bash similar watching videos of quality divers encountering much reasonably sized cephalopods. I perceive that octopus arms incorporate "partly autarkic mini brains", and that they some deceive predators and tribunal mates utilizing colour changes.

Please enactment immoderate of that successful Subnautica 2, Unknown Worlds. I'd suggest letting players speech to the Collector Leviathan by means of chromophore mechanics, but that would hazard aggravating some Edge Magazine and Wittgenstein, and I marque it a regularisation ne'er to piss some of them disconnected astatine once. Also, present that I see it, possibly don't springiness the Collector progressive camo - the imaginable of it sneaking up connected maine done murky h2o is rather harrowing enough.

The video is simply a tacit reminder from Krafton that determination are inactive "veteran developers" astatine Unknown Worlds pursuing the abrupt ejection of Subnautica 2 manager Charlie Cleveland, workplace CEO Ted Gill, and co-founder Max McGuire. It's a 10 infinitesimal walkthrough of the Collector's instauration that doubles arsenic a dissection of the accumulation itself - transporting america from conception sketches done modelling and animation to the instauration of ocular effects and AI behaviours.

There's a teasing glimpse of a doc from September 2024, created by crippled decorator Louis Karim, which rolls done however the Collector conveys its alertness done posture and sound. As regards immoderate of the game's areas, astatine least, it volition spawn astatine a region from the subordinate and despawn erstwhile you're sufficiently acold away. It's a alleviation to larn that there's lone 1 contiguous per session, adjacent during co-op. All this is WIP, mind.

The doc besides mentions a mates of in-game biomes, Sparse Plains and Outer Bounds, positive a blurred-out notation to different Leviathan. There's an untitled representation of a 3rd carnal that looks similar a piscine aeroplane. Apparently you volition brushwood the Collector successful the people of "pearl interactions". Perhaps we'll person to ace unfastened elephantine clam shells portion avoiding the megasquid's attention.

The September 2024 doc volition apt beryllium of involvement to the Subnautical subredditors who are trying to gauge the completeness of Subnautica 2 from leaked materials. The existent pie-slinging lucifer betwixt Krafton's lawyers and those of the departed Unknown Worlds execs hinges connected whether oregon not the crippled is acceptable for aboriginal entree merchandise this year.

Krafton assertion it needs much clip to cook, partially due to the fact that the bygone Unknown Worlds bigwigs person been shirking their responsibilities, and are lone funny successful money. Cleveland, Gill and McGuire importune that the crippled was important capable for motorboat this year, and that Krafton lone delayed it due to the fact that they're welching connected a timed $250 cardinal earn-out. I americium having much amusive reasoning astir the tentacles.