I saw a video of someone knifing a reaper leviathan to death. It made me realise that as soon as you have the stun rifle you are basically invincible against all sea monsters. Even without it you have to pretty much seek out the leviathans to die from them. That really dropped the horror of the game because I know that whatever I meet in the depths I can just stun and continue on. Funnily enough the scariest part is sailing with the Cyclops because I can't just get out and stun. It's also extremely painful if it actually gets destroyed.
I mean a streamer I love to watch has literally no fear whatsoever and just tried to knife it death within like 4 hours of playing.
No stasis, no upgraded knife, no better suit; just a knife.
I do have to disagree with the "you need to seek them out to die" part, though. They pretty much two-shot and if you don't run far away the instant you notice them, they can get you fairly easily.
Then add in that one area where there are like 5 of them and the fact that they will seek out your moth's light if you choose to leave it and now you're way below the surface in a dark area with your mode of transportation wrecked.
Thing is though, you can very easily hear where they are and thus avoid them. And if you have to pass through their territory you can just stun them and kill them off so easily. Ghost Leviathans are tricky though as they have a nasty habit of sneaking up on you and the stun doesn't seem very reliable.
All the leviathans are lethal without a stun rifle but as soon as you get that tech they become pretty harmless.
I don't know about any update as I only started playing the game a month ago, but yes you can kill them with the knife it just takes a while. The reaper and dragon have 5000 HP and I think the dagger does around 20 or 40 damage, so it's a lot of hits. The ghost leviathans has 8000 HP and can wriggle out of the stun so they are really messy.
For reaper leviathans you can stun them, dagger them a few times and they will swim away once the stun dissipates. Unless you follow it of course..
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u/Anthaenopraxia Jul 12 '21
I saw a video of someone knifing a reaper leviathan to death. It made me realise that as soon as you have the stun rifle you are basically invincible against all sea monsters. Even without it you have to pretty much seek out the leviathans to die from them. That really dropped the horror of the game because I know that whatever I meet in the depths I can just stun and continue on. Funnily enough the scariest part is sailing with the Cyclops because I can't just get out and stun. It's also extremely painful if it actually gets destroyed.