when you dont realize you entered the deadzone

hey :)

[alexandreebrahemian]

I love how the first 10 second you were just chilling

[elsgare]

"Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in this region. Are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it?"

[sewartlittle]

I actually made a base in the dead zone, went out far enough with glass corridors and a observatory. Really cool to watch them move about and such.

[cyro]

I love how the soundtrack ‘Leviathan’ started to play the moment you realised you needed to get the hell out

[Commando_]

It’s terrifying that when you go to the Dead Zone for the first time you immediately get a warning, but then the PDA assumes you will never go there again therefore won’t warn you when you enter it again.

[lone]

I found shutting off the engine will make whatever is attacking you lose interest. It may attack once more after powering down, but it could help get things sorted out

[TweekLudwig]

You only hear "Entering Ecological Dead Zone" once


*_Then you're on your own._*

[rusty]

Imagine being in that situation where your ship is sinking and there's nothing but a black void outside

[DontWowwy]

I like how he looked back at the burning cyclops one last time before abandoning ship

[logeyperogi]

I went hunting for Ghost Leviathans once and went to one of the entrances to the Lost River

Turns out the entrance I went to was on the edge of the deadzone because I found a Ghost Leviathan approaching me before I’d even entered the Lost River, so I left my Seamoth and used my Stasis Rifle

I spent maybe five minutes trying to kill it, I think my game was glitching (probably) but I froze and scanned it and as I read out loud to my family “nearing full size” a second Ghost Leviathan appeared and it dawned upon me “Oh shit, this is a deadzone leviathan”

I jumped in my Seamoth and dipped

TL;DR Went hunting for Juvie Ghost Leviathans and fought Adults without knowing it

I once stumbled into the dead zone in my cyclops and realized when a ghost leviathan emerged from the shadows in front of me.

I turned on shields, turned off the engine, turned off lights, and then turned off shields and then just... Sat there...

A second and third leviathan showed up, but since the engine was off they couldn't detect the cyclops so for a good minute all I could do was try to calm down and plan.

I had decoys on board (always made sure to have the tube fully loaded and a locker or two with extras) so eventually I returned to the wheel, launched the decoy, turned on engines and shields, and booked it.

Fortunately, I wasn't too far away from the crater, but all expedition plans were put on hold until I could recover my nerves, refuel the power cells, and replace the decoys...

Watching 3 ghost leviathan's swimming together from the onboard cameras and cockpit was beautiful though

[brianbommarito]

That’s rough, man, that’s really rough. I think they only tell you you’re entering the dead zone the first time. After that, you’re on your own. Here’s a tip: avoid traveling at night so you can see the terrain around you better. (You can build a small bed in your Cyclops, then go to sleep when the sunsets and before you know it you’ll be awake at sunrise and can proceed). If all the terrain cuts off at a sharp cliff, you are probably about to enter the dead zone.

[vampirictheshadowpriest]

Will never forget the first time I entered the deadzone. So there’s an escape pod you need to find that’s near the tail end of the aurora. I say near but I really mean like 200-500 meters away from it. Well, I forgot what direction I was supposed to go in, but I know I went the wrong way. For context, the pda described the area I was supposed to go to as a low-life density place, so when I heard “entering ecological dead zone” I didn’t think much about it, because at that time I didn’t know the deadzone was a thing that existed. I kept going in my seamoth, occasionally looking down, and got increasingly nervous as I couldn’t see the ground no matter how deep I went, and the water was a neon blue which was strangely unsettling. Then I heard it. A distant screech. I stopped and looked around rapidly in the seamoth, spinning every direction trying to find the source of the noise. I caught a glimpse of it. A bioluminescent blue snake-like shape flickered with orange, steadily increasing in size as it came nearer, the screeching getting louder. I turned around to head back to the escape pod, and a few seconds later I got launched out of the water, probably a good 50-60 meters back to the crater edge. I repaired my seamoth, and not getting the message that this was the out of bounds area, I did it *again.* This time two ghost leviathans showed up, destroyed my seamoth, and killed me. I did a quick google search and found out I was looking for my escape pod in the void, a good like 800ish meters away from where it actually was and had had an encounter with the infamous ghost leviathan.

[treebugg]

**vibin**
**10 seconds later**
"I have not seen anything for like few minutes what the hell"
"uh stop stop stop"
"where am I?"

[frosta]

That's why i only used my Cyclops to carry around my prawn suit to the lost river quickly

[DrEvil-bqxd]

This is literally an exact recreation of what happened to me when I was about to finish the game except I didn't get in my prawn suit and it sank to the bottom of the void lol. Thankfully the rocket was already built but I had to swim 2, 000 m

[Ckoz]

Nobody ever really knows when they’re in the dead zone until it’s too late. It’s the second largest beginners trap in the game next to the Reaper by the crash site.

Anyway, I’ve noticed that when you approach the dead zone, light just vanishes entirely and it gets eerily quiet. That and you notice the lack of wild life and the surrounding terrain just opens up into a void. If you notice any of these, turn around!

[brandonpetersen]

Thing about the dead zone in subnautica is that it Lso exists on our planet.

Literally most of our ocean is still unexplored and it goes down very very deep in some regions. We know more about space than we do about our oceans.

Frightening

[Commando_]

The fact that you never catch a glimpse of the creature makes it so much more terrifying. Not even a little bit of the bioluminescence.

We all know it was a Ghost Leviathan, but imagine that Ghosts weren’t a thing. Imagine that there was something much bigger lurking in the waters of the Void, that you didn’t even know what looked like.

[mapytrix]

Everyone here shitting on the cyclops, but no one talking about the person responsible for A: Not paying attention to the surroundings, and B: Operating a Cyclops on half health