Everyone likes Subnautica 2. We sure do: after all that drama, it turns out the early access survival sequel is quite good, actually. Players also dig it: it’s got smashing reviews on Steam and it sold a million copies in its first hour on its way to more than four million in its first week.
One little point of contention: Subnautica 2 is home to a collection of large, angry alien fish that love to bite you and endlessly headbutt your submarines—and unlike the first Subnautica, players didn’t have a knife to fight back with.
And so the controversy arose. Players (some of them, anyway) want to be able to kill these angry, annoying, dangerous fish, but the developers have remained steadfast in their no-killing policy. Modders came up with their own solution, a Subnautica 2 mod where you can kill all the fish you want, but today the game’s creative director Anthony Gallegos revealed a new solution: a stun system.
You can already discourage fish from biting by using the sonic resonator, but in tomorrow’s 1.1 update, you’ll really be able to knock them for a loop.