How good is this game? I just got it and the dlc on sale.
>>736456637It's a fun little base building exploration game. They do a good job of making the deep depths of the ocean feel both terrifying and also enticing
>>736456637base game is pretty goodDLC has better creature design, but strips the base game of everything that made it good
its boring, you swim around and theres nothing to do
>>736456637The first Subnautica is pretty fun. After you get established a bit and start building bases, look into how to put custom art in the game so you can personalize your base that much more
>>736456637I liked it quite a bit, but it's nice to have a guide on hand to find some of the more hard to find wrecks.Also, Seamoth > Cyclops.
>>736456637It's good, but kinda loses its magic towards the end and completely loses it on subsequent playthroughs.
>>736456637I hope youre not thalassophobic
>>736458678I'm extremely. That's actually why I want to play it lol
>>736456637Is this playable in VR?
>>736460091It was a launch title for the Vive or Oculus, I forget which.
It's garbage.
>>736456637Its survival craft.Its main twist is just being underwater.Your mileage will vary by how much any of those appeal to you.DLC is trash.
I quite like it.You should probably look into some small mods, like more furniture for your base or something.Below Zero is hot garbage that makes no sense.
>>736462131This is far too reductive because there are a LOT of mediocre games that give little thought to how they implement each of the components of the genre. Even the handful of games that tried to copy what Subnautica did right suck. Underwater is what *obviously* differentiates it but what *really* differentiates it is being well designed.Anyone who isn't wholly opposed to the idea of survival craft (as opposed to just put off by all the trash) should try Subnautica.
>>736456637It's kino
>>736456637its really fucking boring
>>736462849Did I spy some De-Extinction creatures?
>>736462963Yeah, I'm using the collection featured in nexusmodsThough I shouldn't have installed the Prototype mod, I didn't end up using it and mostly just got in the way with the bugged terminals and structures
>>736463110I've got some QoL mods, the Cyclops Docking Tower mod, and the De-Extinction mod.
>>736460091Yes and its extremely kino but also horrifying
>>736462849The Prawn Suit really needs a flashlight.
>>736456637it's one of my favorites.
the second game was really bad
>>736464601Below Zero's story is so fucking bad, like holy hell.Also, the Seatruck is nowhere near as cool as the Seamoth.
>>736462843>but what *really* differentiates it is being well designed.LOL
>>736464739Anon, its not nice to laugh at the retarded.
>>736462849Blood kelp trench causes me great distress.
>>736456706yep
>>736462849Never understood the fear for the Blood Kelp Zone. It's almost relaxing, at least the trench is.Any zone that i know has reapers i won't even fucking go near though.
>>736456637Easily the most overrated survival crafting game. I hated it.>shit and tiny inventory and storage means you need a shitload of chests>crafting is trash and you have to craft items one by one, watching a long animation each time>base building is dogshit, takes tons of resources and hits performance>samey gameplay throughout the entire thingB-b-b-but le ebin underwater monster! (which gets copy pasted variants!)Meh
>>736464889Yeah, I'm not risking the Dunes to check for wrecks.As for the Blood Kelp Trench, it's only unsettling if I gotta move the Cyclops through there.
>>736464739Use you brain, Anon. Analyze. The power is in you.
>>736464903First three are easily solved with mods
>>736456637I generally dislike survival/crafting games, but I still really enjoyed Subnautica. The environments and tense exploration really carry it.>>736458678That's what makes it fun.>>736464889The trench is one of the places I felt most comfortable in when I first played the game, along with the caves. Having walls around instead of open water is comforting for me.
>>736464889I don't like the spooky plants and low visibility. Only reason I went there repeatedly was due to it being the easiest route to the river.
>>736460784Wish they would go back and unfuck the lods. The pop in is so bad. Heard the new publisher is a mega jew so doubt it will happen.
>>736464889My first playthrough it was terrifying.But on my second playthrough, I built my base at the point where the Blood Kelp Trench, Grassy Plains, and Dunes overlapped. I visited the trench so often that the fear of deep, dark places was gone by the end of my playthrough. Also stopped being afraid of Reaper Leviathans since one of them lived near my base and every time I entered or left, I'd give him a little love-tap (powerful electric shock) on the nose.Fuck warpers though. The jumpscare still gets me no matter how many times I play.
The first one is pretty good if you like an underwater minecraft-lite like experience.
>>736456637the first game is very good and well made, the sea is alive, rich and terrifying, it depicted the vast and emptiness of deep ocean very wellbelow zero doesn't exist, it's the worst thing that could happen, everything that made the first game good were removed, and don't get me start on stupid marvel-quip your PDA will do constantly, and the writing that's so goddamn cringe nintendo would writhe in painhow cringe? this is actual dialoguescientist A : we need to study this virulent virus frozen alongside this giant creaturescientist B : excuse me did you say virulentscientist A : yes this is deadly infectious and if released it would lead to disastrous consequence without cure or preventionscientist B : how could you say something so scary? never say that again I feel unsafe and uncomfortable by your wordsscientist A : okscientist B : we should thaw this thingas you may have guessed, the virus did infect everything on the planet
>>736467606The Kharaa did that thanks to Al-An and the Sea Dragon mother a thousand years ago. You destroy the last remaining bacteria inside the Frozen Leviathan.
>>736467974the writing remain cringefestI'm supposed to believe these are the best scientists sent to investigate a planetwho asked where shit went missing when the cargo module is jettisoned into a fucking open ocean
>>736468262Admittedly, Emmanuel is intentionally written as a terrible middle manager asshat.I don't think Altera were that determined to get Kharaa. It was more like an interesting side project that could benefit the company. If they cared that much, they wouldn't have bailed so easily.
>>736466472"lods" lmaoTheir development trello had an entry for converting their voxel terrain data, leftover from when they had terraforming, into a baked static mesh. They kept pushing it back update after update and then finally just shipped 1.0 having never done it. I remember giga filesizes and massive chunk-loading stutter from sandsharks and whatnot terraforming the map by digging.
Did you feel that replying it was worthwhile? I haven't touched it since it released. If I did I would try to "do something different." Like use the seaglide and breathing tubes or whatever as far as possible and maybe even manage to skip the seamoth and just use the prawn. Don't use the cyclops (I think the only requirement is an upgrade made in it to build the rocket), build a base at an entrance to the deep zones, etc.
>>736456637I love Subnautica. Scariest game I've ever played hands down.
>>736464889Just go in the Prawn Suit. You have to seriously fuck up to get killed by a reaper with it.
>>736470749I'd replay it just to see what I can kill with Vortex and Gas Torpedoes.
>>736456637It's pretty good, there's nothing else quite like it on the market. The DLC fucking sucks though.
>>736466772I always build my base in that same spot on the tiny ledge in the "shallows." Being in earshot of the reaper sadly reminds me of the lost potential in creature habits, after so many nights going by where the reaper just sits in the same spot, never going on any hunts like a real animal would. No migration like a real animal. No response to its environment. The only mod I tried in order to change that, made the reapers even more prone to getting stuck in the ground and didn't really make them feel more realistic.
if you've already paid for the game, why would you taint your own experience of it by asking here
>>736465130Not when I tried, back in 2024. Mods were broken at the time and I don't care to try again.
>>736456637>in early access for years>got tons of money from fans to improve the game>was still an unoptimised piece of shit years after full release>creatures clipping through terrain, leviathans popping out of sea floor, creatures clipping into your base, you falling through your cyclops, etc.once you get over your initial fear of leviathans, this game has absolutely nothing to offer but mindless busywork.
>>736456637I played on hardcore and died because one of those weird ass octopus aliens teleported me inside a rock. The file was like 8 hours and only found i single piece of the Cyclops hull, i don't feel like playing anymore after such a tremendous bullshit death, that said, scanning shit is fun, specially the monsters that are tryibg to eat yoy.
You know what's funny? The most difficult challenge I had in Subnautica had nothing to do with Warpers or Leviathans.It was navigating the Cyclops through the Lost River and finding Crystalline Sulfur. Scanner Room wouldn't find any for me.
>>736467606I wanted to bitch slap whoever made the PDA an annoying pajeet lady.>You have coh-lek-tad de teh-TAH-NI-am saarGod it was so fucking annoying the whole playthrough.
>>736467974Subnautica is a prequel to Natural Selection and the virus is very much alive. You "fix" the problem on 4546B but it's not the only contaminated planet.
I find it criminal that you can't put the nuclear reacton inside the Cyclops, but genuinely, whoever missed that deseeves to be shoved a pineapple up his ass, other than that, i like the game.
>>736456637Legit kino. The DLC fucking sucks in my opinion, I hate it so much, but god damn, I love the base game. I’m honestly very proud of this game. I bought the early access to support them way back in the day, and I kept waiting for updates. One of my favorite updates back then was the Aurora explosion update or whatever the name it was, really impressed me. i beat the game like three times, and the game is extra fun with loads of qol mods.
