theory: the cuddlefish is attempt to clone the sea emperor at a size that would fit better into research facilities and cooperate with the precursor research.
It honestly wouldn't surprise me. If I came across the cuddlefish egg with no information about it and had never seen it before, my first thought would be " 'Cuddlefish'? This is Subnautica. This thing's either going to be genuinely harmless or the most dangerous goddamn thing in the entire game."
Why would the eggs be scattered in places where no precursor technology is nearby though? Wouldn't it be more convenient to place them somewhere they can fetch them quickly; given that their lives are on the line? Or maybe the attempt failed and instead of keeping the remaining eggs. they just threw them all around lol
The PDA LITERALLY TELLS YOU that they almost went extinct, and none of the eggs hatched cause they needed an artificial aquarium. They arent mashups or experiments, theyre just dying out
The leviathan family: Reef back: chill big brother Reaper: the teenage brother who hates other people Ghost: the sister with anger issues Sea dragon: the abusive father Sea Emperor: the kind mother who cares deeply about people Sea treader: the younger brother who enjoys playing in the sandpit
Updated Version ReefBack: Chill Big Bro Reaper: Teen Who hates other people Ghost: Sis With Anger Issues Juvenile Reefback: The Silly Girl Sea Treader: The Young Brother Who Likes the sandpit Glow Whale: The Child That hates reefback and juvenile reefback Chelicarate: The Young Brother Who Tries To Be like reaper Ice Worm: The Guy Who Likes to *V I B E* and got a thermohorn Ghost Juvenile: The girl Who is sneaky Ventgarden: The oldest child who looks upon all Juvenile Ventgarden: The Young child That is scared of bonesharks Frozen Leviathan: Guy who loves seeing people suffer (including his family) Shadow Leviathan: The Edgy teen Guy Who tried to run away Sea Emperor Baby: The Baby who loves enzyme 42 Sea Emperor Juvenile: The Girl with a soft heart *sniff* Sea Emperor: Kind mother who cares deeply about others who arent mean or evil Sea Dragon: The okay father Who wants to die because hes the last of his kind Gargantuan Leviathan/Titan Leviathan: Grandpa Who loves to open his jaw and take out his false teeth Ancient Leviathan/Guardian Leviathan: Granny Who cooks weird food Void Chelicerate: The dying brother
@@chuppuchuppa3103 in below zero in precursor data MINOR SPOILERS INCOMING The Emperors specimens figthed throug going onto containment That means that emperors where once apex predators , but do containment they became hervibores , also meaning that emperors are Omnivores !!!!
The "hole from the Aurora into the lava zone" was actually true, i remember when i bought the game like 2 years before it oficialy released, when you went a bit farther from the Auroras bow, you would find a really big hole and the PDA would say that it could detect volcanic activity.
theory: hoverfishes were intellegent, they made precursors and all the life on 4546b. they then went to another dimention and left their not evolved ancestors on the planet
I’m more tethered to the theory that the Precursors intentionally made the Warpers to look like the Sea Emperor, and that the Gassopods are a relative of the Cuddlefish or that the Cuddlefish is a juvenile Sea Dragon Leviathan. But these are extremely interesting.
Kian Langthorne, then why would a dog cause the events of Silent Hill? The exact same reason as the cuddlefish, they stumbled upon the control room and pushed random buttons
When you're talking about a hole from the surface to the lava zone there actually is one: The mountains corridor. So it opens up in the koosh zone travels through the lost river briefly, the drops straight into the lava zone. It is a big cavern one that is even home to a juvenile ghost leviathan.
If I'm not mistaken, in a really old version of Subnautica there actually was a hole like that. I believe it was just under the front of the Aurora, right below "Sammy the Safety Reaper"
I’ve already said this but, Theory: the 4th degasi sea base was crushed by the aurora when it crashed.. or it was swamped in sand when the aurora crashed
You mean 5th? There's the one on the mountain island, the one in the Lost River, the one in the Lava Lakes, and the one in the Inactive Lava Zone inside the mountain. That's four.
I have a few things that interest me about the Ghost Leviathans specifically. 1. They are incubated in a tree. Why? Also, what draws the ghost rays near the tree? 2. So far, from what I can tell, Ghost Leviathans incubate very well in low temperatures, which is strange, as it is normally the opposite 3. The Lost River has very high acidity, so high that the brine that collects in pools in the Lost River is so acidic and heavy that it sinks in water and dies not appear to dissolve and 4. How are the eggs there? For this to be possible, the Leviathans would have to come back and breed in Lost River, and we also know that they leave for the craters edge or one of the blood kelp forests at a young age. Why do they only seem to breed and incubate in such a specific environment? Is it the PH levels? Is it the temperature? There are plenty of nutrient and mineral rich environments in other areas, but they don't breed there. Even in the blood kelp forest in the North. Why just the Southern Trench? Why the Lost River?
For theory 2, that WAS correct earlier in the game. Basically, by the front of aurora there was a hole where a reaper lived. and it went all the way down to the lava zone.
I remember the hole to the lava zone, in early development it was the “hell hole” at the front of the aurora where sea dragons dragged down reapers. It was removed later on because of the fact that late story occurred there but it was placed there earlier before any story elements were in the lava zone.
"What happened to my great grandfather" he went off to war and never came back ( if you don't get it: the great grandfather was a kumatazi and also the cuddle fish was supposed to be the one that exploded instead of the crash fish)
My first thoughts were focused on the lava zones when he mentioned that theory of the floating crater and to be honest water could help create lava but the I’m fairly certain it would require the lava to begin about 3 fourths of depth of the total landmass so if I recall correctly the deepest point within the crater is about 1800 meters so I would say maybe 2 to 3 times the depth at least would be necessary to produce a lava zone.
The Last Bacon there’s another problem that I thought of and that would be how nightmarish it would be for a colossal creature like a reefback to get enough food to sustain itself let alone fight off the disease for so long. If it were a floater ten it would likely have to be about 2 fifths of the craters area
2:29 no! It’s in a giant vent garden(the jellyfish with an environmental inside) leviathan, bigger than any other know species in the universe. That’s why you never see/hit it, and the land parts are just the vent gardens head sticking out of the water
*Spoilers* But how could have Sunbeam not have noticed it when it was coming to pick us up? In addition, how would the Quarantine Platform have fired to take down nearby ships?
I agree with Niki45nk. Also, we don’t see this in the rocket launch. Moreover, there would only be one specific place to enter and leave a Ventagarden Leviathan and this doesn’t coincide with the locations of the Aurora crash, the Sunbeam entry and the different locations available for the Neptune rocket launch.
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There is no evidence to back that up, but I do believe that a lot of species have developed dwarfism because of the constant change in land formation due to the lava zones. There is every chance that the stalker species rapidly evolved dwarfism to suit the now narrower channels and kelp forest.
@@OkiDokieeeee if only I'm only 15 so I'm not old enough for a job and I'm not very good with computers but I suppose I could end up drawing concept art for them !
Since the Cuddlefish can't get Kharaa (I'm pretty sure) in the game. I think that the reason for making them would've been to create a creature immune to Kharaa, and then they made them so friendly and social since they saw this as an opportunity to create a companion.
About the lava zone theory, I remember in early development the only access to the lava zone was a giant opening almost similar to the void right next to the aurora, maybe they were just too lazy to recreate the data lol
The Last Bacon well the crash zone corridor wasn’t the only way a Sea Dragon could get to Reaper territory, in the Lost River there is an area called the “Mountain Corridor” which is one of the two entrances to the Inactive Lava Zone, and it also connects to the Mountains, a biome that is home to Reaper Leviathans, so Sea Dragons hunting Reapers is not only canon but POSSIBLE, there are also Reaper skeletons in the Mountains Corridor and green brine, so here is my theory about that Reaper skeleton, it was from a Reaper that somehow managed to escape the Sea Dragon’s grasp, only for it to realize it’s deep in an underground cavern, and it probably couldn’t use it’s echolocation, as it would attract the Sea Dragon that’s hunting it, and without its echolocation it had a harder time navigating it was probably boiled by one of the nearby hydrothermal vents or melted by the acidic brine leaving only the skeleton behind. the Mountains Corridor would also definitely be the preferred hunting route as the entrance to the Mountains is one big pit, the entrance to the Inactive Lava Zone is also one big pit that skips the Inactive Lava Zone Corridor entirely and leads straight to the Inactive Lava Zone Chamber and then to the Lava Castle and each part of the route is clear enough for a Sea Dragon to fit in.
Ok here me out on this one, we know the precursors have been to earth at least once in the 13th century. What if they went back. What if in the early 50s they traveled to earth but never left. The whole Roswell New Mexico alien conspiracy was just a crashed precursor ship. Another theory is that altera already new of planet 4546bs defense system. They just never went there because they thought there was nothing of value. I think they intended on assassinating the Mongolian ambassador along with getting an insurance payout for the aurora. Since the smaller Mongolian space mining companies were starting to bleed altera. Killing off a key member of that influence would allow them to sweep up the competition again.
I have a theory about the Warpers. What if the fleshy parts are what the Precursors used to look like? Think about it, look at Al-Ans head shape and then the Warpers head shape. They look very similar. Plus, we don't see anything else that looks like a Warper anywhere else in the game.
Theory: I’m pretty positive that there is a reaper leviathan skeleton in the lost river so maybe Sea dragons send their young to the surface and kill reapers. If you’re theory 3:17 into the video is right (which I believe is) if my theory is wrong the sea dragons could be dying out soon. Maybe the sea dragons have an ability to lure reapers to the lava zone. Hope you all enjoyed my theory, Thank you for reading
pda while im construcing my prawn: It is normal when first piloting a prawn suit to feel the sense of limitles power. prawn operators recive weeks of training to counteract this phenomenon. you have to do it with self discipline Me 3 secondes later: Silver and led the reaper is dead
Besides lava the big issue with 1st theory is that i'm pretty sure scans that told you its a volcanic crater would be also able to tell its not just on any ground but on a creature. And the fact we can't even see a creature when the map ends. So what, the devs made the map float but didn't bother making what holds it up? Same goes why i doubt is floaters. You can go under it and see none. People may say thats because you are not supposed to go under it but well thats exactly why the map ends suddenly as well.
Alternate theory of the giant Reefback: The Atlas Leviathan. A colossal leviathan that has been forced to hold up the entire map, so it won’t crush it.
Just wainting Ark lore videos! Since the Ark live was so much Fun :) Also great video and keep up the good work! Oh about the theory of the cuddlefish, they probably try to use the emperor dna to create a New specimen that they can extract the Enzyme 42, to cure kharaa. Since the forced egg Hatch don't work.
I really love Subnautica. It's been a while since a game made me feel what this game did. However, I always wished there was more. I best the game, and then proceeded to beat it again. And after that... There wasn't really anything to do. And that just made me feel... Empty
last time i did that, i died almost at endgame. Gathered enormous amount of resources and was building my base, got to excited and didnt mantion that my oxygen has ended. 16 hours of progress:(
The cuddle fish were the ones studying the basteria. When the sea dragon attacked and free the bacteria they had to trap their babies in eggs that will only hatch in specific conditions in order to survive. They only had time to trap 5 babies. Or The precursors were sad and created the cuddle fish to not be sad anymore
yes i am late (i’m just getting back into subnautica because below zero has just released) and i think possibly the big hole in the sand dunes couldve possibly been the hole down to the lava zone? but idk because it’s blocked up
I have a theory The cuddle fish is the baby version of the ice monster in below zero.it was probably the only one to grow and evolve to get to that stage but froze to death in the Arctic zone.
Theory The true ending of subnautica the plants core blows up and then becomes a huge black hole and sucks everything up Wait is the planet a semi sphere or donut
Yes but that was a juvenile and not full grown, either way for them to go up it's likely they'd run into the juvenile ghost leviathans as the lost river is their home so why wouldnt they just eat them some or all of the time. It does make more sense for the place of the aroura crash was at least a faster and more direct way to the surface and right where the reapers are as they like low visibility areas
My theory is that the cuddlefish could a spy for the warpers. It makes the player feel safe & happy, which makes the player think that this creature could bring no harm, while it's actually gathering information about you and giving it to teh warpers.. I mean, it can follow you, right? That means it can give your location to the warpers at all times. How could never even think that that this chubby ball of cuteness is the mastermind behind the tricks and the bringer of death Anyway, it's just a theory.
Omg yay you acknowledged my theory that there is a giant floater under the map thanks so much! I think I may have an idea of how there is a volcano, the underwater islands have thermal vents but aren't connected to the sea floor, what if that is some sort of floater "puke" and the lava zone is floater "puke" as well but then this bring up the question, why doesn't the floating island have lava or vents. But it is weird that the underwater islands have thermal vents
I think this is reading to much into it because players weren't meant to get to that point and they couldn't very well make the map go down or out forever as that's a lot of resources. Do you but realize that there are restrictions to games that no other medium has
my theory: the aurora never crashed, Ryley is just making fake scenarios out of boredom my way of backing this up: pda, notes to self. the time it feels like it will take to get back
Very late but... THEORY : The Reaper Leviathans we see in the Crater are actually juveniles, hence why we can't find eggs nor smaller Reapers. The adults are actually further in the ecological Dead Zone, the juveniles are where the hatching grounds would logically be : close to the edge of the Crater.
Hell, that could explain why the Ghost Leviathans didn't approach the Reaper corpse Maida was in, like "Uh, that looks like our angry neighbors' kid... Nah, Let's just stay away and pretend we didn't see it." XD@@TheLastBacon
I always thought that Warpers were made from the Rock punchers, as they both have arms which go down and back up, with a tool of some kind at the end, they also both have like the face pinchers.
About the second theory in an MXRplays playthrough he literally comes up from the lava zone to the aurora through the hole. It used to exist in the game but Unknown Worlds filled it up apparently
4:49 I really like this theory because it would also explain why we only see reaper skeletons when you would think if the sea dragon was going through the lost river it would hunt ghost leviathans as well
Theory: the reason the ghosties stop chasing you once you reach a certain distance in the void is because they feed off of careless creatures wandering into the void,and don’t wanna chase something that small and low-calorie so far away from their main food source
I think the theory on how everything is on a giant Reefback is really cool. Just imagine, that you never knew you were on such a huge creature. And I also thing its a really cool theory. I hope you make another theory video like this one!
Regarding the second theory, there is a thermal vent in the safe shallows, that you can’t go into in creative mode. I think maybe that vent was originally supposed to lead into the Lava zone, and when the idea was scrapped, they simply added a bottom to the vent.
I have a theory of my own. You know the voice log of the randevouz. CTO yu is probably dead. But officer keen survived and he could not die of hunger or dehydration because the island had a lot of food. Is it possible that he still can be living on the island?
3:43 wasn’t this actually in the game? I thought there used to be a giant pit at the front of the Aurora that went all the way down to the lava zone. Maybe I’m wrong, idk
Idea: could the giant Reefback only call every few million years and when it does obliterates all life in the crater? Also what if the gargantuan leviathans are like those fish that suck onto sharks (I forgot their names) for it?
3:43 well actually there was. And it was completely broken becuase it allowed players to bacicly skip the entire game and go straight to the emperor so they removed it I'm talking early aces one of the earliest builds I actually found this out by trying to figure out how to get to the lava zone and a video of the hole came up
Seadragon: "could not squeeze trough the hole"
Also Seadragon: "swims trough walls"
Sea dragon: I am all powerful
You know that might just be how they feed.
fair point wise man
They opened console commands
@@kanzookiee
“warpforward 5”
theory: the cuddlefish is attempt to clone the sea emperor at a size that would fit better into research facilities and cooperate with the precursor research.
You might be onto something there :) they are quite similar in appearance!
It honestly wouldn't surprise me. If I came across the cuddlefish egg with no information about it and had never seen it before, my first thought would be " 'Cuddlefish'? This is Subnautica. This thing's either going to be genuinely harmless or the most dangerous goddamn thing in the entire game."
Why would the eggs be scattered in places where no precursor technology is nearby though? Wouldn't it be more convenient to place them somewhere they can fetch them quickly; given that their lives are on the line?
Or maybe the attempt failed and instead of keeping the remaining eggs. they just threw them all around lol
ppjysn maybe the cuddle fish somehow escaped from a precursor lab and started to reproduce
The PDA LITERALLY TELLS YOU that they almost went extinct, and none of the eggs hatched cause they needed an artificial aquarium. They arent mashups or experiments, theyre just dying out
The leviathan family:
Reef back: chill big brother
Reaper: the teenage brother who hates other people
Ghost: the sister with anger issues
Sea dragon: the abusive father
Sea Emperor: the kind mother who cares deeply about people
Sea treader: the younger brother who enjoys playing in the sandpit
Updated Version
ReefBack: Chill Big Bro
Reaper: Teen Who hates other people
Ghost: Sis With Anger Issues
Juvenile Reefback: The Silly Girl
Sea Treader: The Young Brother Who Likes the sandpit
Glow Whale: The Child That hates reefback and juvenile reefback
Chelicarate: The Young Brother Who Tries To Be like reaper
Ice Worm: The Guy Who Likes to *V I B E* and got a thermohorn
Ghost Juvenile: The girl Who is sneaky
Ventgarden: The oldest child who looks upon all
Juvenile Ventgarden: The Young child That is scared of bonesharks
Frozen Leviathan: Guy who loves seeing people suffer (including his family)
Shadow Leviathan: The Edgy teen Guy Who tried to run away
Sea Emperor Baby: The Baby who loves enzyme 42
Sea Emperor Juvenile: The Girl with a soft heart *sniff*
Sea Emperor: Kind mother who cares deeply about others who arent mean or evil
Sea Dragon: The okay father Who wants to die because hes the last of his kind
Gargantuan Leviathan/Titan Leviathan: Grandpa Who loves to open his jaw and take out his false teeth
Ancient Leviathan/Guardian Leviathan: Granny Who cooks weird food
Void Chelicerate: The dying brother
@@rajkrish19 ghost leviathan: What are you doing stepbro
I can't imagine the Emperor and the Sea Dragon going at it I just CAN'T
or can I?
@@chuppuchuppa3103 in below zero in precursor data
MINOR SPOILERS INCOMING
The Emperors specimens figthed throug going onto containment
That means that emperors where once apex predators , but do containment they became hervibores , also meaning that emperors are Omnivores !!!!
Oogleborf Boi lol didnt know reefback is a leviathan
Wait, we’re all on the back of a giant reefback?
Always have been
Haha perhaps we are :)
I see you're a man of culture as well...
That must be the reason why there is an art of the map on a reefback
ILL GO EXPLORING DEEP SEA TO FIND OUT
That subnautica is on giant reefback
Imagine if there was a subnatica map creator, where you could make a new subnatica game with an entirely new story
Hopefully Below Zero right? :)
That wouls be 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙘𝙤𝙤𝙡
@@tempest8882 what just *really cool* it'sl'd *REALLY COOL*
But that would NEVER happen. Not even In Below Zero.
Or at least a biome creator, so you could make select creatures spawn in it, and import it into your world somehow.
It would be so awesome if once the main storyline games are finished they make a new one with randomized worlds and multiplayer
Procedural generation could make it very interesting for sure :)
The Last Bacon would definitely add a lot more replayability
Hey Diego did u win the horse race?
sounds like a disappointment of a game fron 2016 made by a guy with the first name in sean
Isnt that just what no means sky tryed to do 😬
The "hole from the Aurora into the lava zone" was actually true, i remember when i bought the game like 2 years before it oficialy released, when you went a bit farther from the Auroras bow, you would find a really big hole and the PDA would say that it could detect volcanic activity.
Yep true :) It used to be there!
Theory: reapers have a genetic feature like a centipede that tricks you into thinking they have two heads
Hmmm interesting :) ...maybe that's what the devs were inspired by?
i have two heads
reaper leviathan wow
Daang thats a good one
@@Cactuardude 2 too many
theory: hoverfishes were intellegent, they made precursors and all the life on 4546b. they then went to another dimention and left their not evolved ancestors on the planet
What's with all this sudden obsession with hoverfish....was I just so blind all this time? :D
@@TheLastBacon I don't know, ask discord server
I have Hoverfish farm , every 10 days i drop 20 hoverfishes
You could probably replace hover fishes with any fish
I’m more tethered to the theory that the Precursors intentionally made the Warpers to look like the Sea Emperor, and that the Gassopods are a relative of the Cuddlefish or that the Cuddlefish is a juvenile Sea Dragon Leviathan.
But these are extremely interesting.
All of those are also very interesting ideas :)
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Yeah sense I’m a sea dragon I can confirm that the cuddle fish is a juvenile
Thank you jeff very cool
My theory: Everything is controlled by a cuddlefish, any objections?
Haha I like the idea :)
Broken vessel, not funny, didn’t laugh.
This is nothing to be laughed at dear theorists
No objection
Kian Langthorne, then why would a dog cause the events of Silent Hill? The exact same reason as the cuddlefish, they stumbled upon the control room and pushed random buttons
the Sea Dragon isn't fat they're "Thicc"
Ok that's the proper descriptor :D
And bigger in other area
Y E S
Wow that was really cool. Is it just me or the video is looking kinda THICC. Only legends understand
Lol
Theory: Riley Robinson most likely owns a pool at home
Does it have leviathan pool-noodles tho? :)
one day he will take a swim he will get 4546B flashbacks
Another theory: Riley Robinson is most likely an Olympic swimmer after this journey
@@TheLastBacon E
The Last Bacon Asking the real questions here
When you're talking about a hole from the surface to the lava zone there actually is one: The mountains corridor. So it opens up in the koosh zone travels through the lost river briefly, the drops straight into the lava zone. It is a big cavern one that is even home to a juvenile ghost leviathan.
Yeah true :) I was just talking about the original one from the crash zone.
If I'm not mistaken, in a really old version of Subnautica there actually was a hole like that. I believe it was just under the front of the Aurora, right below "Sammy the Safety Reaper"
I’ve already said this but, Theory: the 4th degasi sea base was crushed by the aurora when it crashed.. or it was swamped in sand when the aurora crashed
I think that one is very likely actually :)
You mean 5th? There's the one on the mountain island, the one in the Lost River, the one in the Lava Lakes, and the one in the Inactive Lava Zone inside the mountain. That's four.
ThatCringeCalledIggleboz oh sorry yeah
@ThatCringeCalledIggleboz tf, I’ve explored the hell out of the Lost River and I haven’t found a degasi base yet?
@@whoopnoop4043 The one where they make the warpers? It's pretty hard to miss if you've gotten to the inactive Lava Zone by that point.
Could it be possible that the warper would sometimes go rogue, so they created a cuddlefish to calm down the warper, and make it more obedient
Maybe! That's a really interesting theory actually :)
THIS MAN IS A GENIUS
I love this theory, but the warpers are robots, except for like, skin, bones, eyes, etc, but I’m pretty sure they’re programmed, not free thinking.
@@diogenes3949 awwww :(, That would been cool tho. I mean maybe there would be a possibly that the program like, would malfunction
@@venombeetle7473 hey, the precursors could’ve just been terrible at building robots.
I have a few things that interest me about the Ghost Leviathans specifically. 1. They are incubated in a tree. Why? Also, what draws the ghost rays near the tree? 2. So far, from what I can tell, Ghost Leviathans incubate very well in low temperatures, which is strange, as it is normally the opposite 3. The Lost River has very high acidity, so high that the brine that collects in pools in the Lost River is so acidic and heavy that it sinks in water and dies not appear to dissolve and 4. How are the eggs there? For this to be possible, the Leviathans would have to come back and breed in Lost River, and we also know that they leave for the craters edge or one of the blood kelp forests at a young age. Why do they only seem to breed and incubate in such a specific environment? Is it the PH levels? Is it the temperature? There are plenty of nutrient and mineral rich environments in other areas, but they don't breed there. Even in the blood kelp forest in the North. Why just the Southern Trench? Why the Lost River?
Oh yeah their life-cycle is certainly from a large part a mystery :)
Sorry for the necropost but the rays are grazing on the Cove Tree’s leaves.
Theory: Riley’s in a coma after being hit with the panel at the beginning of the game
Yep :) covered that one in a vid too!
this explains why everything dissapears in your face, or goes through walls
I was thinking that too
@@islands12345 nah definitely not just lag
This makes sense because when Riley wakes up, everyone is dead
For theory 2, that WAS correct earlier in the game. Basically, by the front of aurora there was a hole where a reaper lived. and it went all the way down to the lava zone.
Yeah I wonder if it is canonically under the aurora now :)
I remember the hole to the lava zone, in early development it was the “hell hole” at the front of the aurora where sea dragons dragged down reapers. It was removed later on because of the fact that late story occurred there but it was placed there earlier before any story elements were in the lava zone.
Yeah I totally get why they'd remove it :)
@@TheLastBacon the seadragons come up through the mountains pass because there’s also reaper skeletons there
“Where did cuddle fish come from”
Well when a mommy cuddle fish and a daddy cuddle fish love each other very very much....
Oh no, don’t want to picture that :D
@@TheLastBacon rule 34 if it exists...
"What happened to my great grandfather" he went off to war and never came back ( if you don't get it: the great grandfather was a kumatazi and also the cuddle fish was supposed to be the one that exploded instead of the crash fish)
Honestly your a great youtuber, and i would not know much about subnautica had i not come across your channel, Keep up the great work!
Thank you very much :) really happy you like the channel!
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@@nigerundayo1996 we don't care.
@@nigerundayo1996 man u ruin everything
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The cutest fish in subnatica? I beg to differ, that to goes to Dave, the hoverfish.
One of them at least :)
@Kian Langthorne fools!it's my friend Jim the sea Dragon it loves eating prawns BTW
Reginald is the cutest fish in the sea! Long live Regi!
fools! ITS MUSTASCHE MESM- Wait hes on a ramapge. *run*
Amen to that. Before I took a break from playing, I'd started to drag a hoverfish around with me everywhere for emotional support.
My theory : It's all a simulation by the Precursors
Like the Matrix :)
@@TheLastBacon Precisely
this explains why everything goes through walls
@@islands12345 even advanced alien civilizations cant fix glitches
@@islands12345 yeah glitches? pshh nah
My first thoughts were focused on the lava zones when he mentioned that theory of the floating crater and to be honest water could help create lava but the I’m fairly certain it would require the lava to begin about 3 fourths of depth of the total landmass so if I recall correctly the deepest point within the crater is about 1800 meters so I would say maybe 2 to 3 times the depth at least would be necessary to produce a lava zone.
Yeah that is definitely one of the biggest issues with that theory :)
The Last Bacon there’s another problem that I thought of and that would be how nightmarish it would be for a colossal creature like a reefback to get enough food to sustain itself let alone fight off the disease for so long. If it were a floater ten it would likely have to be about 2 fifths of the craters area
2:29 no! It’s in a giant vent garden(the jellyfish with an environmental inside) leviathan, bigger than any other know species in the universe. That’s why you never see/hit it, and the land parts are just the vent gardens head sticking out of the water
Oh that might be another good idea actually! :D
*Spoilers* But how could have Sunbeam not have noticed it when it was coming to pick us up? In addition, how would the Quarantine Platform have fired to take down nearby ships?
Niki45nk it’s is magic. Idk ok
I agree with Niki45nk. Also, we don’t see this in the rocket launch. Moreover, there would only be one specific place to enter and leave a Ventagarden Leviathan and this doesn’t coincide with the locations of the Aurora crash, the Sunbeam entry and the different locations available for the Neptune rocket launch.
I dont like this
Hey what if the dwarves from Skyrim went into the future and became the precursors from subnautica
Now that would be an ambitious crossover :)
Elves making life? Blasphemy!
@Cole McGuire (STUDENT) yeah idk, they could have advanced heavily
Hmmm,I did get dwarven cave vibes in the precursor base
Nah they are probably ether in oblivion or they just zero summed (not sure how to spell it...)
[ding ding] That's the lore bell, it's lore time bois!
Eyyy it is indeed :)
So u watch jacksepticeye?
It’s lore time, it’s lore time!
The only cure for -sadness- boredom!
Theory: Riley Robinson is dreaming
Oh yeah, that is a very famous one too :)
Yes lol
To me that theory is pretty generic... I don't like it because I have heard it too much.
Dreaming about a lot of swimming? That's a nightmarish wet dream
WHILE IN THE AURORA
But hey, that’s just a theory! A SUBNAUTICA THEORY! THANKS FOR WATCHING!
Haha that's a collab waiting to happen :)
@@TheLastBacon agreed
The Last Bacon DO IT!!!!
@@TheLastBacon one day I hope that'll happen bruv just do what you are doing and we'll be by your side
Oh no... the 4th sector...
Theory: warpers were related to the sea dragon/emperor.
Perhaps some of their DNA is shared indeed :)
The thing I love most about your channel is that even though you may not get as many views as bigger youtubers, everyone here is engaged. No other RUclips channel would have half of its viewers commenting. Inspiring
I absolutely love that too :) would always take a small, interconnected community as opposed to a larger but distant one!
plot twist : riley is just playing a game called subnautica and you play as him playing the game
Haha so meta :D
subnautiception
Wait then who’s playing as us hmmmmmmmmmmm
Somebody is playing you. Wake up.
@@ombaaa wtf why was that so good
I have a crazy theroy: the planet is just a bunch of pixels in a small container that other worldly beings use and "play" it for fun
That would be a crazy theory indeed :)
Theory: Past Genarations of the Stalker use to be a Leviathan
I think that is very likely actually! :)
There is no evidence to back that up, but I do believe that a lot of species have developed dwarfism because of the constant change in land formation due to the lava zones. There is every chance that the stalker species rapidly evolved dwarfism to suit the now narrower channels and kelp forest.
I think that they are related to repreper lviens I might or might not be prothen right
Concept: pls no
@@bradencash8399 repreper levthins
*OMG IF ONLY WE COULD DESIGN OUR OWN LEVIATHANS. KRAKEN LEVIATHAN ? HAS A RING TO IT*
Haha that could certainly be fun :)
You can all you gotta do is become a dev
@@OkiDokieeeee if only I'm only 15 so I'm not old enough for a job and I'm not very good with computers but I suppose I could end up drawing concept art for them !
RELEASE THE KRAKEN
no it doesnt
Since the Cuddlefish can't get Kharaa (I'm pretty sure) in the game. I think that the reason for making them would've been to create a creature immune to Kharaa, and then they made them so friendly and social since they saw this as an opportunity to create a companion.
I like the idea! Yeah maybe they were a part of that research :)
About the lava zone theory, I remember in early development the only access to the lava zone was a giant opening almost similar to the void right next to the aurora, maybe they were just too lazy to recreate the data lol
True :) I wonder if we can still consider that hole canon even now.
The Last Bacon well the crash zone corridor wasn’t the only way a Sea Dragon could get to Reaper territory, in the Lost River there is an area called the “Mountain Corridor” which is one of the two entrances to the Inactive Lava Zone, and it also connects to the Mountains, a biome that is home to Reaper Leviathans, so Sea Dragons hunting Reapers is not only canon but POSSIBLE, there are also Reaper skeletons in the Mountains Corridor and green brine, so here is my theory about that Reaper skeleton, it was from a Reaper that somehow managed to escape the Sea Dragon’s grasp, only for it to realize it’s deep in an underground cavern, and it probably couldn’t use it’s echolocation, as it would attract the Sea Dragon that’s hunting it, and without its echolocation it had a harder time navigating it was probably boiled by one of the nearby hydrothermal vents or melted by the acidic brine leaving only the skeleton behind. the Mountains Corridor would also definitely be the preferred hunting route as the entrance to the Mountains is one big pit, the entrance to the Inactive Lava Zone is also one big pit that skips the Inactive Lava Zone Corridor entirely and leads straight to the Inactive Lava Zone Chamber and then to the Lava Castle and each part of the route is clear enough for a Sea Dragon to fit in.
The cuddle fish could have been experimented on to create the warpers this would explain why it was In the precersosers reserch station
precersosers
I want to know more about the void man it's the scariest part of the game for me.btw thanks for the video sir
I have a lore vid on it if you're interested :)
@@TheLastBacon oh I've already watched that one but thanks for the reply sir.big fan.
Ok here me out on this one, we know the precursors have been to earth at least once in the 13th century. What if they went back. What if in the early 50s they traveled to earth but never left. The whole Roswell New Mexico alien conspiracy was just a crashed precursor ship.
Another theory is that altera already new of planet 4546bs defense system. They just never went there because they thought there was nothing of value. I think they intended on assassinating the Mongolian ambassador along with getting an insurance payout for the aurora. Since the smaller Mongolian space mining companies were starting to bleed altera. Killing off a key member of that influence would allow them to sweep up the competition again.
I mean....the 2nd theory wouldn't even be that crazy in my book :)
I have a theory about the Warpers. What if the fleshy parts are what the Precursors used to look like? Think about it, look at Al-Ans head shape and then the Warpers head shape. They look very similar. Plus, we don't see anything else that looks like a Warper anywhere else in the game.
I suppose it is possible that to an extent, they would've created the warpers in their own image :)
You're channel has grown so much in the past year, keep up the good work!
Thank you very much :) couldn't do it without you guys!
Theory: I’m pretty positive that there is a reaper leviathan skeleton in the lost river so maybe Sea dragons send their young to the surface and kill reapers. If you’re theory 3:17 into the video is right (which I believe is) if my theory is wrong the sea dragons could be dying out soon. Maybe the sea dragons have an ability to lure reapers to the lava zone. Hope you all enjoyed my theory, Thank you for reading
Yeah I believe the dragons are indeed dying out :(
I went into the safe shallows hole. It was in a beta. I was playing creative mode spawned a prawn found a hole and jummped in. I found the lava zone.
Yeah back then it was still accessible :)
pda while im construcing my prawn: It is normal when first piloting a prawn suit to feel the sense of limitles power. prawn operators recive weeks of training to counteract this phenomenon. you have to do it with self discipline
Me 3 secondes later: Silver and led the reaper is dead
Haha yeah it does really make you feel powerful! :)
Sees thumbnail:
Me: wait that's illegal
The thumbnail is a bit cursed :)
@Sir Supermeme I bet your just a 8 year old kid that wants to make gacha but you can't sorry about I can't help with that problem
Besides lava the big issue with 1st theory is that i'm pretty sure scans that told you its a volcanic crater would be also able to tell its not just on any ground but on a creature. And the fact we can't even see a creature when the map ends. So what, the devs made the map float but didn't bother making what holds it up? Same goes why i doubt is floaters. You can go under it and see none. People may say thats because you are not supposed to go under it but well thats exactly why the map ends suddenly as well.
I agree
Yeah I definitely agree :) it's a cool idea but not very likely!
Awesome! Glad that you used one of the theories I had that that's how the sea dragons got the reapers.
Thank you for sharing it! :)
Alternate theory of the giant Reefback:
The Atlas Leviathan. A colossal leviathan that has been forced to hold up the entire map, so it won’t crush it.
I like the name :)
@@TheLastBacon Thank you, it was inspired by the Greek myth. I’m surprised you saw this. 🙂🙂🙂
Just wainting Ark lore videos! Since the Ark live was so much Fun :)
Also great video and keep up the good work!
Oh about the theory of the cuddlefish, they probably try to use the emperor dna to create a New specimen that they can extract the
Enzyme 42, to cure kharaa.
Since the forced egg Hatch don't work.
I'm trying to work on that playthrough now to learn more about it :)
I remember back in 2016 there actually was a big hole at the front of the ship that led to the lava zone
True :) in the early alpha days!
Ah yes the golden days
Best part?
It was only covered, not removed.
When the big scary monster eats you when you insult it:
" I dont wanna call the sea dragon is fat..."
Haha perhaps that was a bit too mean :D
I highly doubt the crater is a giant reefback... because reefbacks are LOUD. Surely we would be able to hear it loud and clear if it was.
Yep good point :)
I really love Subnautica. It's been a while since a game made me feel what this game did. However, I always wished there was more. I best the game, and then proceeded to beat it again. And after that... There wasn't really anything to do. And that just made me feel... Empty
I get that :) honestly always end up feeling that way after finishing a great game!
Subnautica: Below Zero is out now!
did you know you can watch the sea emperor juveniles grow up?
New Theory: Ryley Robinson is the purple guy.
Haha that's an ambitious crossover :D
the man behind the slaughter
@@sub2jackspedicey312 The swimmer behind the slaughter.
Im trying to finish the game on hardcore mode,I've made a seamoth and a cyclops until now
Nice :) that is no easy task!
last time i did that, i died almost at endgame. Gathered enormous amount of resources and was building my base, got to excited and didnt mantion that my oxygen has ended. 16 hours of progress:(
Me: looks at sea dragon.
Also me: looks at cuddle fish
Propably just a coincidence
Haha sus :D
casual player: don't you think this is a bit of a strech?
everyone else: no...ok maybe
Haha that's definitely the case with these :)
4:38 "I dont want to call the Sea Dragon fat...."
Sea Dragon: "You talking sh#t about my weight?!"
Haha I'm really sorry, it's just a bit chubby :)
@@TheLastBacon shoulda said "HE THICC AS *DJIX8* BOI"
The cuddle fish were the ones studying the basteria. When the sea dragon attacked and free the bacteria they had to trap their babies in eggs that will only hatch in specific conditions in order to survive. They only had time to trap 5 babies.
Or
The precursors were sad and created the cuddle fish to not be sad anymore
Haha maybe the precursors were actually cuddlefish :)
The Last Bacon LAVIATHAN cuddlefish
@@TheLastBacon cuddlefishes can't walk on land, dummy
yes i am late (i’m just getting back into subnautica because below zero has just released) and i think possibly the big hole in the sand dunes couldve possibly been the hole down to the lava zone? but idk because it’s blocked up
Yeah it could certainly be covered by the Aurora :)
Ive been away from youtube for a while. Ive missed you bacon xx keep up the great work
Thank you very much :) enjoy catching up!
0:59 *anxiety intensifies*
Haha yeah that's uncomfortable :)
My theory:Everything is a massive reaper leviathan skeleton,any objections
Ehhh would't be the craziest thing I've heard :)
Space is just a massive reaper leviathan change my mind
Maybe the cuddlefish was made to be the sea emperor's friend because the sea emperor talks about how lonely it is.
Maybe :) it sure looks like it shares some biology with it!
But hey those were just a theory, a game theory... I'm going to [REDACTED] myself now
Haha where is MatPat when you need him :)
Man i love your videos so much, it feels like i'm watching a documentary on one of my favourite games and the world it is based in. thanks! :D
Thank you for the kind words :) really glad you like the vids!
Theory: Subnautica is a simulation made by altera, to see what you would do if this happens in life. Just a theory...
Haha that is quite crazy :) I like it!
I have a theory
The cuddle fish is the baby version of the ice monster in below zero.it was probably the only one to grow and evolve to get to that stage but froze to death in the Arctic zone.
Would certainly be an interesting theory :)
No
Theory The true ending of subnautica the plants core blows up and then becomes a huge black hole and sucks everything up
Wait is the planet a semi sphere or donut
That would be quite unfortunate :D
Thank you for using in search of familiar harmonies as your background. It's my favourite piece of music in below zero
It is an awesome piece of soundtrack for sure :)
I just dont get how u have only 50k subs u should minimally 1mil
Thank you very much for the kind words :)
Sea Dragons can go thru the lost river-lava zone hole, one released kharaa
Yep :) though I'd imagine the rocks could've shifted since then!
Yes but that was a juvenile and not full grown, either way for them to go up it's likely they'd run into the juvenile ghost leviathans as the lost river is their home so why wouldnt they just eat them some or all of the time. It does make more sense for the place of the aroura crash was at least a faster and more direct way to the surface and right where the reapers are as they like low visibility areas
@@isdrakon9802 the one that released kharaa was fully grown, it wanted to save its egg
By reading this you have been rick rolled
Not again! :D
My theory is that the cuddlefish could a spy for the warpers.
It makes the player feel safe & happy, which makes the player think that this creature could bring no harm, while it's actually gathering information about you and giving it to teh warpers..
I mean, it can follow you, right? That means it can give your location to the warpers at all times.
How could never even think that that this chubby ball of cuteness is the mastermind behind the tricks and the bringer of death
Anyway, it's just a theory.
Oh dang that’s a creepy theory :O.... suddenly I don’t trust the cuddlefish anymore!
... a game theory
first
Welcome :)
that’s true i think am 3rd
I WAS DOMINANT
I live in Britain you guys get a head start :).
Also I spent the past millenia sending a pointless comment :)
Finally finished subnautica and i can watch your videos! :)
Yay nice :) enjoy!
Btw you videos are amazing
Omg yay you acknowledged my theory that there is a giant floater under the map thanks so much! I think I may have an idea of how there is a volcano, the underwater islands have thermal vents but aren't connected to the sea floor, what if that is some sort of floater "puke" and the lava zone is floater "puke" as well but then this bring up the question, why doesn't the floating island have lava or vents. But it is weird that the underwater islands have thermal vents
Thank you for submitting it! :) I actually think you might be onto something there....after all, we never see floaters expel anything!
I think this is reading to much into it because players weren't meant to get to that point and they couldn't very well make the map go down or out forever as that's a lot of resources. Do you but realize that there are restrictions to games that no other medium has
This makes no sense
Is a theory it's not gonna make 100% correct and it can't be that confusing if bacon put it in his video
my theory: the aurora never crashed, Ryley is just making fake scenarios out of boredom
my way of backing this up: pda, notes to self. the time it feels like it will take to get back
Lol that would be a twist :)
thats not at all likely but sure lol
Very late but... THEORY : The Reaper Leviathans we see in the Crater are actually juveniles, hence why we can't find eggs nor smaller Reapers. The adults are actually further in the ecological Dead Zone, the juveniles are where the hatching grounds would logically be : close to the edge of the Crater.
That would be freaking terrifying :)
Hell, that could explain why the Ghost Leviathans didn't approach the Reaper corpse Maida was in, like "Uh, that looks like our angry neighbors' kid... Nah, Let's just stay away and pretend we didn't see it." XD@@TheLastBacon
I always thought that Warpers were made from the Rock punchers, as they both have arms which go down and back up, with a tool of some kind at the end, they also both have like the face pinchers.
About the second theory in an MXRplays playthrough he literally comes up from the lava zone to the aurora through the hole. It used to exist in the game but Unknown Worlds filled it up apparently
Yeah true :) I kinda wish it was still a thing!
The hole was in the reactor room, right?
4:49 I really like this theory because it would also explain why we only see reaper skeletons when you would think if the sea dragon was going through the lost river it would hunt ghost leviathans as well
True! :)
Theory: the reason the ghosties stop chasing you once you reach a certain distance in the void is because they feed off of careless creatures wandering into the void,and don’t wanna chase something that small and low-calorie so far away from their main food source
Maybe yeah :)
What Subnautica creature is what makes your spine chill most? Bacon...
theroy: there is a giant cuddlefish in the void. could you look into that?
Lol I'm not sure there is any evidence supporting it :)
havent you heard strange sounds when you go into the void? its low pitched far off cuddlefish sounds
Haven't been playing subnaticua in a while but this video made me want to thanks for getting me back!!!
Yay nice :) glad I could do that!
0:15.... *_You..._*
*Genius!* I love that pun
Haha thank you :D
For the hole theory in the cinematic you see a sea dragon at the surface
Even an emperor :)
I think the theory on how everything is on a giant Reefback is really cool. Just imagine, that you never knew you were on such a huge creature. And I also thing its a really cool theory. I hope you make another theory video like this one!
Thank you :) I also agree that the idea is very cool!
Regarding the second theory, there is a thermal vent in the safe shallows, that you can’t go into in creative mode. I think maybe that vent was originally supposed to lead into the Lava zone, and when the idea was scrapped, they simply added a bottom to the vent.
I suppose that could be the case :) There used to be a hole like that next to the aurora in the early alpha.
Plot twist: The peeper is the biggest leviathan and this whole other world is his play ground
That would definitely be a plot twist :)
I have a theory of my own. You know the voice log of the randevouz. CTO yu is probably dead. But officer keen survived and he could not die of hunger or dehydration because the island had a lot of food. Is it possible that he still can be living on the island?
Hard to say :) you'd think you would be able to run into him then.
Maybe the kharaa desease killed him?
3:43 wasn’t this actually in the game? I thought there used to be a giant pit at the front of the Aurora that went all the way down to the lava zone. Maybe I’m wrong, idk
It used to yep :) perhaps under the Aurora now?
@@TheLastBacon It is.
Idea: could the giant Reefback only call every few million years and when it does obliterates all life in the crater? Also what if the gargantuan leviathans are like those fish that suck onto sharks (I forgot their names) for it?
Maybe :) I would imagine something that large would only move very slowly and very rarely.
There is no reef back
3:43 well actually there was. And it was completely broken becuase it allowed players to bacicly skip the entire game and go straight to the emperor so they removed it I'm talking early aces one of the earliest builds I actually found this out by trying to figure out how to get to the lava zone and a video of the hole came up
There was also a connection to the Lava Zone from The Deep Grand Reef.
@@tylerjester507 there still is
How to instantly destroy the reef back theory, how the fuck isn’t it moving?
I guess it could be moving just extremely slow :)
Bro i just love this channel
Yay thank you :)
People are Talking About how Cool and Mysterious the Game is, am i the Only one Wondering how the Heck There is Even Oxygen on the Planet?!
No clue :) probably from the ocean plant-life.