


This means that the Mesmer is less intelligent than we have been led to believe because it is not creating a special, tailor-made hallucination just for us it is more likely that it is the standard hallucination prey receive, but unwittingly the Mesmer affects the PDA as well.

What this means is that the PDA suggesting us to move towards the Mesmer is not a trick of the Mesmer, rather, it is the PDA malfunctioning due to exposure to its patterns. This is almost exactly the same as what we hear the PDA saying during a "Mesmer trip", suggesting that the PDA is being affected by Error 463 during the trip. Upon scanning a Mesmer, the PDA's description becomes cut off by Error 463, causing the PDA to malfunction and it assesses that the Mesmer is trying to "share it's beauty" and that the player should "draw closer". How do I know that it's untrue? Because of the PDA itself. Some speculate that it convinces the player to believe that they hear the PDA in an attempt convince them to move closer to it, however, this is not true. How they achieve this is via their "wings" which contain a pattern that changes in a manner that attracts attention to it. It is the only creature the player encounters that forces them into a "trap card" of sorts, rendering movement nigh-impossible and taking damage inevitable. The Mesmer is a unique fish in Subnautica. This hypnosis leaves the player in a confused state for some amount of time, during which the function of the Compass and HUD elements are impaired, and audio is distorted. The Lily Paddler is capable of a form of defensive hypnosis that it will use on the player if they approach, causing them to lose control of their movement and be reoriented against their will, similar to the Mesmer though nonaggressive. The body ends with a slender tail, terminating in a broad, pale-green tail fin. The underside of the body features two long arms ending with small claws, seemingly capable of grasping objects and bringing them to the mouthparts, but ill-suited for defense. The main section of the body has a large hump, of which the top is beige and has two large black stalks dotted with bright white spots and splitting into four long, striated fins each bearing a bright orange spot with a dark circle in the middle, similar in color to their eyestalks. Each having three pink leaf-shaped structures at the top and a smaller green leaf at the base, with three additional pairs appearing on the tail portion of the body. On the underside of the head three black mandibles are situated around a small circular mouth.Ī pair of long stalks are attached to the upper half of the head. Two pairs of green stalks protrude from either side of the head and are tipped with spherical orange eyes with darker orange sclerae. The head is flattened and almost octagonal in shape. A long, beige crest runs down the middle of the head, protruding slightly above the surface of the head and dividing the head into two clear halves. It is large in size and has a predominantly blue body accented with purple and beige. The Lily Paddler has a rather flamboyant appearance, decorated with several brightly coloured fins.
