The REAL Size of Creatures in Subnautica: Below Zero will BLOW YOUR MIND

[@Awesomecrunch]

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[@SlaveIdes]

Stop don't tip them off SMH

[@richerdmeranda7561]

i rememder waching you back when you had a high voice

[@dero4378]

can you do one about monster hunter? maybe monster hunter Tri for example?

[@oracle7552]

You should've compared them to Kaiju from Pacific Rim and Godzilla monsters. Or maybe "If you held a soda can in your hand, you'd be that size compared to this".

[@HH-hd7nd]

You forgot 2 important creatures: the squidshark and the void chelicerate.

[@krustylesponge647]

frozen leviathan: im massive gargantuan fossil: pathetic

[@EclipseGamingPS]

Im just glad its a fossil

[@derwolfgaming7775]

Just imagine seeing the Gargauntuan Leviathan in the ocean. Just put a camera under the water and just sees THAT thing swimming around. I doubt even a thermonuclear warhead would kill that thing. It was eat Mosasaurs for a snack.

[@krustylesponge647]

@@derwolfgaming7775 its half the map so yeah that would be terrifying

[@coriumfigs]

@@EclipseGamingPS ... or is is jkjk

[@godzillakaijuboy]

@@derwolfgaming7775 Depends. A thermonuclear warhead might be able to kill it, or it could just make it more powerful, like Godzilla or some shit.

[@metaphysicalmonsters3667]

I think the developers knew that the creatures would look smaller in first person, so they made the models bigger, which is why fish you can hold are so much smaller in your hand than when you're looking at them

[@razal518]

ya possibly, i mean how the hell can a reaper hold us with its mandibles if we are literally tiny 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@samuelhutchinson2463]

Pretty much, perspective in the game is terrible. So the actual models used aren't representative of how big they are supposed to be, how big they are is how big they look.

[@bigfergus2787]

@@samuelhutchinson2463 the fact that things in water look smaller than on land is actually a real thing due to how light bends underwater, it's called the capillary effect.

[@lemonZzzzs]

it's not just the light bending. it also screws up our depth perception. It's like looking at the car 2 blocks from you and saying "damn, can you imagine a human can fit in this? It looks like a toy!" Except you are several blocks away diagonally up and out from most of these models when you see them, with no horizon line to assess perspective properly. And you are looking through a visor the size of your torso :D

[@gacha_shaz2146]

That's what I was thinking

[@STEVEBILLYBOBold]

I wish you actually got the sense of scale of the creatures when playing the game

[@ernahuskofan3616]

in vr with max fov its pretty damn good

[@holom2076]

@@ernahuskofan3616 yeah but in PC they look small, the camera in game is big making them look more smaller

[@punkyboi7948]

Yeah I know

[@KaneyoriHK]

Yeah the POV and Cam placement is off

[@skelet8337]

Change the fov

[@hologram952]

One of the game design classes I took, long ago, we were taught when making a first person game was to make the objects 1.5 times bigger than they are to help maintain a correct sense of size for the player. That could be why these animals appear bigger than they should when manipulating the camera in third person.

[@Anmatgreen]

I am assuming this is to compensate for the inability to convey the human eye's depth perception through a flat screen?

[@kylewyle3976]

Being real, His intro when he says “My name is AwesomeCrunch.” All I can hear is “god dy everyby my name is ahticrrnch,”

[@Awesomecrunch]

hehehe

[@no.9920]

Same

[@AKKK1182]

I think the biggest factor for non-VR subnautica and misjudging scale is (in addition to the lack of depth perception) the fact that you are floating around. When you are on land in an FPS, your point of reference is the eye-height of your character. This allows you to roughly measure up different objects. When you are swimming you lack the known reference point of your height from the ground. This combined with the lack of depth perception is what makes it hard to realize how big things actually are.

[@13thMaiden]

Also it's possible that alot of the smaller models are double their actual size that they are supposed to be so that they can be seen better in a one person perspective. Cause let's face it, if the fish we can hold were left at the same size as they reduce to in our hand, we'd not see them until they were RIGHT in our face and making grabbing them nearly impossible in the game. Now the Leviathans and such are probably full scale, as well, we can definitely see them. Notice how you said at about medium sized creatures (rockpuncher, stalker, penwings, ect) they seemed right in size? I think they and all sizes up are at the proper proportions in game. But I think any of the models of fish that we can grab and hold we should measure based on the size in our hands for actually size rather than in water as those are probably doubled for visual reasons in game. But that's my 2¢, I could be wildly wrong about that 😂 I can't explain why the shrimpshark tries to clamp us though. Maybe just it's natural response to opening it's jaw? Baleen whales wouldn't have to open their mouths all the way to filter feed, but they do just because, so maybe it's just something it does while feeding?

[@raionshishi8290]

I agree with the fact that the smaller fish are scaled up so we can visually see them easier in game as they are super tiny and almost impossible to catch without struggling a little, it would be a nightmare trying to catch them if they were actually THAT small, it be just like catching fish in real life with your hands. Everything from medium size up seems to be accurate overall, so i think what you said is completely correct and accurate as i thought the same, and about the Chelicerate using it's mandibles to catch Robin, well actually i think that's a pretty normal reaction, it's as if it's trapping it's prey to only go in 1 direction and that's towards it's mouth, fish don't have hands to defend or hold back but they do have maneuverability and speed. Which makes it easy for the fish to turn around and get out or dodge, the mandibles help trap the fish (like medium sized), tho since Robin can fight back and hold it open it tends to struggle keeping hold of her but still doing damage and exhausting her. Many fish in real life have a certain jaw to trap fish and even some plants are built to have a one way in and no way out type structure and or trap.

[@mango4723]

Yeah.

[@JCEditsYT]

I aint reading that

[@thomasdevlin5825]

First person perspective can definitely make it difficult to get the scale of things, when you're playing ark running around on the beach with dilos they look pretty small, but when you knock one out and go into third person you realize they're just as big as you are, and when you get into the water there are some gigantic creatures, they look big from a distance, but then you slap a saddle on one and see your tiny little character clinging onto it's back, then you realize just how freakishly huge they really are

[@daka3785]

D i l d o s

[@VinhPham-nv6yk]

Dilos

[@nagitokomaeda5404]

Yeah, just like how the argy looks like a bigger than normal bird, but when you go in third person it's gigantic

[@Thorsan08]

Holy sh** i never thought they where so big

[@swiveryswovery9458]

Ikr- scary af

[@DeadFringe]

that's what she said

[@happyboi6892]

That's what she said

[@grafmecx2641]

That's what she said

[@Lachugah]

Were*

[@lofvers8907]

9:30 Robin isn't holding the mandibles, she's *standing* in them, like in a split-postition, in the animation.

[@anidiot4992]

It's so weird to know that there's an animation for the Snow Stalker attacking you which does like 30 - 50 damage but in reality Robin would be crushed under the weight of the massive bear-like stalker.

[@knightlightskyofficial4338]

I'm pretty sure the models are just scaled up to fit the fov, making the fish you can hold in your hand look the same size when they're swimming around.

[@Aci_yt]

Should've put "And I regret everything" in the title

[@ColonizeMARS-hb7qy]

IGP doesn't want to see this video lol

[@Awesomecrunch]

Hahaha

[@gemininjitsu]

Play this game in virtual reality. The sense of scale is simply insane. The first time I made the cyclops submarine was just mind blowing. And encountering leviathan creatures with that same sense of scale is terrifying haha!

[@RealJimShady5]

"Where's the lamb sauce" - Gordon Ramsey

[@jakubduda4607]

A timeless classic

[@RealJimShady5]

@@jakubduda4607 You aren't wrong

[@Awesomecrunch]

@@jakubduda4607 welcome lads, nice to have you here

[@jakubduda4607]

How's life

[@RealJimShady5]

Ramsey one of my top 7 Gordons of all time

[@raionshishi8290]

8:39 ..................i'm gonna cry, this game man....

[@Dragonbleps]

I feel like this is why there was some slight push to make creatures bigger, because you don't see their true scale while in first person like you do in concept or freecam. Even the leviathans, while huge, and we *know* they're huge, lose their sense of scale. The Reaper Leviathan, for example, was honestly a bit disappointing to see once I got over the initial "Danger!!!" response. It doesn't look as big as it is. Maybe part of it is us subconsciously thinking "Ah, I can see the entire fish when up close, so it must only be the size of my head." But that's not necessarily true. There's a bit of depth-of-field missing which makes it difficult to determine accurate sizes because we're looking at a flat screen. 4:40 Snowstalkers are that big???? I thought they were like.. the size of a jaguar or lion, maybe bear or something, not the size of a direbear with a crocodile mouth!

[@bsyo2665]

I don’t think they would expect you to be into free cam, I feel like it was just perspective and if they made them any smaller they would look too small from your actual perspective.

[@ImaPizzaK]

why would they do that

[@bsyo2665]

@@ImaPizzaK so when you’re in first person everything looks normal sized

[@ImaPizzaK]

@@bsyo2665 i don't think that's actually what happened here tho

[@drippyrose1k388]

@@ImaPizzaK its how they made the game, just stfu and play it.

[@ImaPizzaK]

@@drippyrose1k388 What the hell is wrong with you? We were having a friendly conversation, and you came in and acted as if you were the tough one here. Cry about it.

[@meltypapyrus]

I get the same effect irl with some things lol. I don't always realize how big some things are. Like street lights.

[@Pacmanghost]

For some reason the 3d underwater movement makes the creatures look smaller too. I remember in the first game an ampeel followed me into a portal cave, and it looked about 10 times bigger when I was standing on the ground.

[@arta1924]

Ahh Subnautica, a beautifully crafted game that I'll never be able to complete because of sheer terror at the size of these lads.

[@Awesomecrunch]

hehehe

[@Sandro_de_Vega]

I'm pretty sure the disproportion is due to FOV and perspective. That is, these creatures must be much larger than the player's model so that in the eyes of the player they look like the creators wanted. I don't remember which building it is, but it seems to me that the Greek parthenon has columns wider at the top than at the bottom. So that the person standing at the bottom think that the whole column is the same width.

[@mikahaugland7002]

intro: good day everybody, my name is osmkrch

[@Darco626]

well if you look closely at 3:31 look how big is that visor rendered, like twice the size you would expect maybe this is the source of size disproportions

[@kirbusthecommenter5027]

So glad the shadow leviathan is larger than we thought, doesn’t make the game terrifying at all :D

[@pumpkingamebox]

Everything is built on immersion. They had to make these small fish quite big for the player to notice them and have a big enough hit box to catch them. I imagine the first fish being a size of a bass. Aren’t there data entries on how big these fish are anyway?

[@FlyLeah]

My inner avgeek was happy when you got all the plane names right

[@finnalsop7111]

I think it would be cool to see the creatures in this game next to creatures from real life. For example the shark earlier in the video next to a great white would really be telling as to how big it is. Edit: i hadn’t finished the video, the leviathan comparisons really put things into perspective.

[@Awesomecrunch]

Glad the comparisons worked! :)

[@jacebaker3785]

@@Awesomecrunch the fact below zero still has nothing like the gargantuan Leviathan really shows how fucking large tht thing is

[@starlaarmstrong3311]

I am really happy that you did this. I would love to see the orginal Subnautica!

[@Awesomecrunch]

Thank you! :)

[@erupendragon7376]

That’s why this game needs VR. The first game is awesome! Totally different experience; looking down at the abyss or up at a reaper is a unique experience

[@RiptideGaming_GXT]

8:39 "Right, so now we are moving on to the Leviathan class" ....Leviathan roar.... Me: like hell we are.

[@hunteractually3637]

btw what leviathan was that?

[@xcels]

@@hunteractually3637 Cryptosuchus

[@Conceptcreator]

HEYYYYY hello again! seriously that first one already like tf!!!

[@Awesomecrunch]

Heyyyyy! Thanks for the continued support

[@Conceptcreator]

@@Awesomecrunch of course^^

[@Awesomecrunch]

@@Conceptcreator Just saw your comment on the live, KZbin wasn't letting me reply - i won't be live again tonight, i should've made it a private stream really, i just needed to test the audio out and stuff. But I will be back with games soon :)

[@Conceptcreator]

@@Awesomecrunch Damn! what a shame! and no worry. Will try to keep an eye out for it. Seems like a very interesting game

[@htfs493]

Interesting convo

[@lukeskywalker9016]

10:00 ayy i live there! greetings from brazil :)

[@fishiefish6179]

The image of the frozen leviathan eating humans like krill is hilarious to me for some reason 🤣

[@RunEscaqe3]

8:59 I thought you will show a picture of some shrimp from google images lol.

[@pilot8404]

I'm pretty sure this is realistic using distortion from goggles would probably make things look different

[@wickerbeastinlila]

I think it's pretty sad that they didn't nail the size. It would be even more terrifiyng with the correct sizes

[@samuelhutchinson2463]

They did nail the size. They deliberately made the models bigger so they look bigger when playing the game. There was no mistake, and the leviathans are plenty terrifying all on their own.

[@frankvandendool882]

It was great to see the frozen leviathan as a whole. I was wondering what it looked like. Thanks!

[@kvgiris]

The fish being big kinda makes sense because if they were the size they are when you hold them they would like TINY in game

[@1un4cy]

The "small" fish are probably just really big because the sense of scale might have made them too small for players to effectively click on them.

[@non-existent8837]

they probably make the creatures look bigger outside than in your hand because in the first person they would look smaller than they actually are.

[@TunaFish556]

puncher or penguins etc looks just about right because the ground gives us a perception point. since the far doesnt get blurry when looking near or vice versa through pc display, devs had to make the models bigger to give their actual intended feeling.

[@pixiethebernesemountaindog9881]

"Godereverbdymynmeisawomecunch" -the words of a legend Wait a minute has the sea emperor been been defeated in size by the frozen leviathan?

[@Awesomecrunch]

Not sure,I think the sea emperor is up to 200 meters long

[@dartole7611]

Wasnt the emperor already defeated by the big leviathan in the lost river ?

[@pixiethebernesemountaindog9881]

Arkananta Padmanegara no the emperor is bigger than the ghost leviathan

[@divinecrusader4258]

@@pixiethebernesemountaindog9881 he means the gargantuan titan leviathan, the skeleton

[@pixiethebernesemountaindog9881]

Divine Crusader OH I feel stupid now, yea I think it. Was longer than the emperor

[@nyx3027]

Playing Subnautica in vr fixes this perspective issue.

[@hollyjustice5249]

i would LOVE if you would make one of these on the original!!

[@acethepanther2153]

Here is the length of all lev’s. See treder 76.4ft. Glow wale 114.6ft. Shrimp boy 152.8 ft. Reeper 210.1ft. Shadow lev 229.2 ft. Reef back 267.4ft. Guardian and ice worm 362.9 ft. Vent garden and gost lev 382 ft. See dragon 389.64ft Frozen lev ? See emperor 764 ft. Titan lev.

[@brianbommarito3376]

So if by some miracle you were tossed in the air by an Ice Worm and it didn’t eat you, you could be like the spy in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Saboteur” and fall from the Statue of Liberty to your death. I was already terrified of the Ice Worm but that perspective makes me have a whole new appreciation for the respect it should be given. It’s a living thing that’s as big as our monuments are. We are like a cockroach to them.

[@raspberry3451]

You know why it looks small when first person because you have big head in subnautica but the game doesn't want you to see

[@localdingus6788]

I have a theory that because the model is it only supposed to be seen from a certain angle maybe it’s small and the creatures are normal.

[@unknownvariable6927]

I think I've just heard the words "absolutely" and "massive" more times in 15 minutes than I've heard in 15 years.

[@Falmmed]

The gargantuan leviathan is still waaaaayyy bigger than the frozen leviathan...

[@reahthorolund8373]

That was a really good video, it worked well imo! Incredibly spooky stuff.

[@Shimada.]

Fun fact: you can cure the kharaa on the creature now!

[@quarter_pounder5672]

I imagine like a 5 year old watches this and has nightmares from some of the sea creatures xD

[@deyo286]

I only just realised that snowstalkers at the land version on the stalkers in the base game they have similar mouths same stripe pattern same spine pattern and they are both called stalkers

[@acethepanther2153]

I have been waiting for this also hi oh and See treder 76.4ft. Glow wale 114.6ft. Shrimp boy 152.8 ft. Reeper 210.1ft. Shadow lev 229.2 ft. Reef back 267.4ft. Guardian and ice worm 362.9 ft. Vent garden and gost lev 382 ft. See dragon 389.64ft Frozen lev ? See emperor 764 ft. Titan lev. This is how long they are

[@jakubduda4607]

your spelling is appaling

[@dingo-gorditas]

@@jakubduda4607 your "MLG" "Pro" is appalling.

[@acethepanther2153]

@David Clements lol

[@josevst7274]

what ive learned from this video is that school-busses are smaller than I thought

[@brianbommarito3376]

Thank God the Frozen Leviathan is dead and can’t attack us, because we would be like a splinter or a speck of dust under his fingernail. I remember leaving my Snowfox on standby at the entrance to that part of the cave, because I was terrified the thing would reanimate at some point and I would have to make a run for it. Even after I found Parvan’s message, I still couldn’t believe they would put something so big in the game for it to do nothing. I was so grateful when that didn’t happen. If anything could make me have a heart attack, it would be that.

[@tannerkern3797]

This was an amazing video, keep up the amazing work

[@Awesomecrunch]

Thank you Tanner :D

[@zionseng8881]

What I hear: gooday everybody my name is grasfm

[@ylobi1513]

the fact we need 5-7 peep just to do the frozen lev nails scares the shit out of me

[@CornSw]

Lovely video! Love these comparisons!

[@brianbommarito3376]

Now I understand why a Nootfish needs an Alien Containment Facility and won’t fit into an Aquarium.

[@GrayMajik]

I wish you had shown the squid shark because in game it feels like it is really tiny and you can barely fit in it’s mouth.

[@KarmanicMizery]

I literally subbed 1minute ago.

[@Awesomecrunch]

Thank you :D

[@KarmanicMizery]

Awesomecrunch I was watching your video on creature counterparts.

[@Awesomecrunch]

@@KarmanicMizery Ah great, hope you enjoyed it :D

[@tanki4life905]

So glad to see you still uploading Subnautica videos!

[@Awesomecrunch]

:D

[@ตะวันพม่า]

✌

[@kachiri]

13:45 I found a way to have a better view of the _Frozen Leviathan._ Somebody mad a mod to add the old _Terraformer_ into both games. I spent alot of time digging out all that dirt/snow around 'em so I could have a proper look from a ledge. Unfortunately not ALL of the cave wall/roof could be removed with the _Terraformer,_ but it's still a great view with what I could remove. Better than that _x-ray_ view with 'em i the rock, while in freecam. Thank you for the _Terraformer_ _Repkins_ on nexusmods.com *It's called Terraforming Ability*.

[@justinrazon7200]

2:02 "But if you go into freecam it is actually quite scary" Me: Holy fucking shit that IS scary! We have NO HEAD!

[@MrDJRadeEEYo]

I think some of what they're doing with the size has to do with the fact that size is distorted underwater

[@jijansguidetotheuniverse1852]

11:27 if im not mistaken, the ice worm is around double the length of a reaper

[@danieltaylor8075]

The frozen leviathan:How many yous am I big,Daniel? Me:About 100 mes.

[@g-go2321]

I think the models are just bigger than the body to make it look right to the players perspective

[@LouiseEirwen]

This was interesting but I think the size of the creatures were also done by the creatures on purpose to make forced perspective. Like with the fish that is supposed to be tinny but when you look at it is bigger than her head. That is for details and perspective. The devs know that the player is playing in first person so they work with the scaling of the creatures until it LOOKS abut where they want it to look size wise in first person. Sometimes that means making them enormous. In some cases they really are supposed to be that big, like the one in ice, it really is supposed to be so large you're glad its iced, it is essentially like the skeletal remains in the Lost River in the first Subnautica game.

[@memejesus4294]

I think the reason the player model seems so small is so it gives the impression of perspective while not take up much of your view. The actual scale of these things relative to Robin is what you see in game - it’s her “model” that isn’t to scale.

[@Awesomecrunch]

Makes sense!

[@thefartingtorpedo5207]

So I think its like that because first person just dwarfs it size and obviously you're not meant to see it like that, so its probably made like that to make it the right size for Robin's view

[@bigfergus2787]

The fact that things in water look smaller than on land is actually a real thing due to how light bends underwater, it's called the capillary effect.

[@deepsea_isopod]

I just noticed that the snow stalker is just a normal stalker on land, it looks just like the stalker!

[@frenchfry214]

Thank you awesomecrunch, very cool. You have done well and satisfied my night/morning of staying up the entire night. I shall rest now

[@jUppers]

the outside models of the fish might be big on purpose exactly because of the shrinking effect. like things in your hand are obviously as small as they should be

[@keiranleeoates]

Even the models in 3rd person don't do justice of the sizes from the sound of what the laviathan creatures are the size equivalent to.

[@d4n737]

Since on another PLANET you don't quite have a point of reference... Yeah, even those gigantic dinosaurs the size of a bus look like... Well, kinda a big alligator.

[@BJWFenix]

I was pointing out before ampeels and squidsharks are literally biger than most whales on earth

[@lepperkin]

The environment also seems small thanks to the players swim speed (somebody else's comment reminded me of the swim speed, I'll edit in their name when I finish this comment. EDIT: WildRosomak ). The player, aka Robin could cross many medium sized backyard pools in less than 5 seconds, and most people could probably swim around 1-2 meters a second if they are really pushing hard. Also, like I mentioned on the other person's comment, if you used a seaglide and drove it into a wall, many bones would probably break (pretty much your entire arm would break). Seriously, imagine ramming into a wall at 9 meters a second. For the Americans who for some reason still haven't learned what a meter is, that's about 9 yards and a few inches a second. I'm not sure about the damage the seaglide would sustain, since it's futuristic technology. And lastly, I hope below zero eventually supports vr because I really wanna be able to experience the true size for myself

[@Myrical32007]

That's the one thing I dislike about Subnautica is the sense of scale. The only thing you can infer about size is the speed of the character and creature in relation to surroundings. It works alright but I wish you could clearly see how monstrously huge some of these creatures really are in game. I have my fov higher to make things look as large as they are and it works better. I am in no manner a game designer but I'm sure some other people have thought the same.

[@Awesomecrunch]

Yeah completely, but it's easy to see why the FOV is so low, they want it to run as well as it possibly can

[@i_am_elizbian]

Take a shot every time he says “absolutely tiny/massive”

[@snowflakebelle9323]

I once actually had a dream where I put fish inside a Vent Garden.

[@tungstwn1241]

Ah, that's the ice worm debug area. I ended up there by exploring in the PRAWN. You can reach it without console commands, but I would guess that's not something the devs intended to be possible..

[@RR-im9iu]

I think below zero did a much better job than the original in giving you a feel for how big these creatures are

[@OnlyLinkCanDefeatGanon]

AC:Yea,the size of the Rock Puncher is about what you'd imagine Me:I thought it was smaller tho-

[@bobsponge8539]

I want to see the frozen Leviathan come to life

[@wildrosomak3395]

Everything is messed up, just because how fast player is really swimming

[@Awesomecrunch]

Good point!

[@lepperkin]

Yeah, I've always noticed how she swims so fast, she would cross a decent sized pool in less than 5 seconds. And while I'm not an expert swimmer, I'm probably faster than a good portion of people (Well, a good portion of people can't swim but that's besides the point) and i, even with fins, probably am not even half her speed. Also, the seaglide is probably so fast that you can break you hand if you drive into a wall straight on.

[@zandercage3959]

Most First person games mount the camera on top of the players head or just under it, as opposed to eye level. That's why perspective gets all kinds of funny.

[@blacksheep42188]

As if the game wasn't scary enough, now we know the creatures are the size of buildings

[@terracat2255]

I think the weird size discrepancy may be deliberate or at least the devs took qdvantage of it since you can hold them but I always found the difference interesting

[@psych2460]

1:35 video starts

[@redpandarampage2191]

This was the biggest failure of the devs in both Subnautica and below zero. The creatures just do not look anywhere near as big as they actually are and its quite a detriment to the final impact they have on the game experience. It's not just a small difference- the size difference is DRAMATIC between how big creatures look in first person/ 3rd person. I don't even fully understand what causes this issue.

[@Awesomecrunch]

The issue is completely down to the first person view and the low field of view. It's not the developer's fault, there's not a lot they could do about it without ruining the performance.

[@raionshishi8290]

It's not a fault of the devs or a failure, it's literally how it's suppose to be, the only difference in this video in terms of size from 1st to 3rd person view is all based on the small fish, the medium sized to Leviathan class are all accurate to what we see in game, you are exaggerating acting like it's all bad. The smaller fish look bigger when free swimming to help with the player being able to visually see them, as they are super tiny, if they were as tiny as they are when you hold them how small do you think they would actually look ? It would be ridiculous to try and find them and catch them with your hands, like actual real life fish. That's the only difference. Also just FOV if you wanna improce the scale.

[@jamesgordley5000]

There should be a mod that changes the camera FOV.

[@Fearless13468]

I think part of the reason they are scaled so weird is because the game is meant to be played in 1st person and not have obvious size references. They are scaled so that they look normal in 1st person.

[@xxbaka-no-sunnyxx510]

While playing below zero I once saw a chelicerate from an iceberg. I saw just its finns peaking out the top of the Water like a snake and I swear it looked way bigger than in the water

[@redsun9261]

Same, i was palying yesterday and(from an iceberg) saw what is looked like a spine fins of a large shark. Even thought that was a new helicerate or something. It turns out there was a polar ray swimming the surface on its side.

[@tombradbury2924]

i really wish Subnautica would just add a MASSIVE monster just somewhere random that would be the size of the fossil or something like that it would be so awesome