Great Jaw Change

Tell me what you think before disliking pls
Great Jaws should randomly open their eyes and see if you’re inside rather than (or in addition to) touching tendons. Tell me what you think, both or old one? Or just my idea?

Also i think this would be a great change for the new area. wandering in to a giant clam just for it to close without you noticing you were ever in one.

That on paper that sounds like a cool idea that would add to atmosphere, but in practice I think it would be a little odd. Great jaws are balanced around knowing when they’re about to close because the only way they do is if you the player prompt them to by trying to take their lithium and then messing it up. This also adds a skill based relationship between the player and the great jaws that I think is healthy for gameplay.
But if you remove that skill and reduce it down to what is effectively luck then you remove any player interaction from the situation which in my opinion would be a shame.
Also, from a biological perspective it makes more sense for such a sedentary creature to only move or otherwise take action when absolutely necessary to conserve energy, and a player just floating around in its mouth isn’t really a huge issue for it, whereas a player attempting to take lithium from it can be (which I’m guessing is why it defends from that specifically, but I am making a few assumptions).

Understandable, NotAnonymous. I’ll make another post that adds this idea of player interaction. :)
I’ll paste the link here when it’s done: (https://subnautica2.nolt.io/15449)