The Sea Dragon – Analysing Subnautica’s Apex Predator

It used to also be able to swallow seamoths whole, but they realised the interaction was kinda pointless so they removed it

Did you know the Sea Dragon was actually supposed to be much bigger than it is today? A bug in the game made the Sea Dragon the size it is today, which was actually much smaller than originally intended. By the time they went back to fix it nobody could remember the original size, so it ended up staying the incorrect size forever!

Although it can no longer be found within the game, the lore says there is a tunnel from the inactive lava zone into the crash zone, which was buried by the aurora. So they had enough to eat, but where then sealed by the crash landing

Seems like the place they hunt the reapers are the mountains, as the lost river entrance from there has multiple reaper skeletons

I think this is the leviathan with the best build up. I remember going to the lavazone first time, and hearing godzilla type of scream. Then i got to my prawn suit. And saw a reaper skeleton. I tried to scan it, untill i saw fireballs bearly missing me. I swam to my prawn, and i saw him. crocodile kraken love baby, witch has learned to spit out fire, and i accually screamed like a youtuber.

Kind of sad that the entire mess was caused because the Architects didn’t realise the lengths a mother would go to protect her children.

Fun fact: I have witnessed a Ghost and Dragon fight each other. That was NOT a situation I appreciated being in the middle of. I'd done my normal impatient sprint to the thermal facility after leaving my vehicle by the big crater near the southern most entrance. 99% of the time this goes off with a hitch and I get everything I went down there for in one go..... however... this one day I hadn't actually heard the sea dragon chase me all the way to the vertical shaft out of the inactive lava zone. So, I kinda shat myself when the ghost came straight at me only for fireballs to go whizzing past me. Managed to plaster myself to a wall and get back to the safety of my vehicle, watched for 30 seconds and left them to duke it out. I was not even considered a target at that point lol

Just gonna say that your video formats are really clean. Thinking about making a Subnautica themed video essay and I've gotta thank you for being a creative inspiration

Video idea: on april fools 2024, make a video about killing every single subnautica below zero leviathan, but then realize ice worms are invincible and die a horrible death.

Armour, tentacles, fire breathing! Nightmare material.

The displacement is not because the amount of water it provokes, it's an effect that they forgot to remove because sea dragon used to have two animations, the throwing (this effect we're talking about) & seamoth swallowing death scene both were erased because later they planned on not letting the seamoth descend this far to the lava zone, i can remember a mod which was able to activate again one of these but i forgot the name sorry .

Next up he will cover: The Reefback - Sailing with Subnauticas' Peaceful Mobile Ecosystem, Then it'll be: The Sea Treader - Digging up Subnauticas' Walking Titan, The Glowwhale - Riding Subnauticas Breacher, The Chelicerate - Studying Subnauticas' Giant Shrimp, The Vent Garden - Exploring Subnauticas' Jelly Giants, and finally: The Shadow Leviathan - Shading in Subnauticas' Stealth Submarine.

3:49 the Reaper skeleton looks to be in a pretty good condition for something that was stripped of its flesh by a sea dragon

You can't really blame the sea dragons for trying to destroy the cyclops because if I was a 20 ton giant sea lizard and saw what looks to me like a big white fish coming down to the lava zone I would probably also try to eat it. When you think about it the sea dragon doesn't know it's made of pure metal and since trying to get to a reaper is quite hard having one come down to you is quite convenient. My point is it's not their fault for trying to get a nibble of you, they're just hungry.

The Sea Dragon is really cool! Love the design of it! Also set up a base in my playthrough exactly next to one and man, coolest survival base.

precise, clear, and straight to the point. smashed it

the first time i discovered the thermal plant, it was because one of these buggers bumped me (and my prawn suit) out of bounds into the volcano, where i used the jets to fly into the thermal plant's area. I clipped it on xbox (that's where i play) though i can't really prove it because i don't know how to share vids from there to here i sadly had to leave without saving because while looking for the exit my prawn suit ran out of power and i had no reinforced suit to keep me safe from the heat

Pretty happy to see your videos do well your base video got 1M views and thats crazy and your video about the bones is 600K+

Always thought the sea dragons looked goofy. Never really creeped me out lol

Welcome to this amazing and enthralling channel ( sorry im late i was on a residential)