There’s a reason why games like Minecraft and no man’s sky have such a consistent player base and it’s not just crafting, building and exploring. We absolutely NEED weapons to at least stand somewhat of a chance against huge leviathans. Still they should be almost impossible to kill but there needs to be something to get us by. A sonic blast to scare off monsters isn’t going to cut it for me and my buddies.
Make plasma cannons, or even add some sort of speargun sniper or something, because this game has the potential to be good now, adding weapons will give it a certainty of the game being GREAT.
The first Subnautica was born by the aversion to another “killing” game. It is not only intended to not include weapons, its a core principle in the concept.
Instead of slaughtering your way through the fauna, I would prefer better/ more versatile methods to deal with agressive fauna.
Be it using light, flares, noise, silence, no movement, adaptions, …
In general, after studying fauna, you should have hints on how to behave to not get attacked.
I am pretty sure this is planned exactly this way and only needs some work and balancing to be done on that topic… its early access, so give it some time.