So 14 hours into the game. Once you figure out a reliable source of food and water the game becomes quite easy, but still very enjoyable. I'm very impressed with this game.
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Subnautica may be a genre-defining game for the Survival genre
- Thread starter Dusk Golem
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I just keep hearing too many amazing things about this game, I'm gonna grab it on PS4. Dusk Golem also doesn't throw praise around lightly.
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I hope you enjoy it, I do honestly think this is the best survival game. I think at it's best, Subnautica is an absolutely engaging and engrossing experience with a very interesting world that has fantastic elements of beauty and nightmares, it's a game that can be very captivating from a world building perspective and mechanical as you figure out how to use all these doohickys to help you reach new areas and survive underwater, and learn about this ecosystem that is alien but interesting. It lags a bit at this one part when you start needing to craft these bigger vehicles to delve deeper, but it's a very good game with a surprisingly engaging background story and full of lots of surprises, mystery, and pretty well done survival elements. My tip I'll give you at the outset is near where you crash, look out for pink fish to cook since they also give you water back (water is actually harder to secure at the start than food since you need a system to purify water to drink without any potential negative effects, but pink fish swimming around the beginning area give you water back pretty well).
Ridiculous, petty concern here - but I find the goggles on the margin of the HUD to be kind of distracting and ugly, is there any way to disable it?
Also, just by way of an update, I think since this thread was created, the developer that people ITT were justifiably avoiding the game for has been fired. So if folks have lingering concerns, at least good to see that Unknown Worlds did the right thing.
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2018/02/subnautica-dev-fired-over-hateful-statements/
Also, just by way of an update, I think since this thread was created, the developer that people ITT were justifiably avoiding the game for has been fired. So if folks have lingering concerns, at least good to see that Unknown Worlds did the right thing.
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2018/02/subnautica-dev-fired-over-hateful-statements/
I was hoping a topic would pop up after the game was free on the Epic Store. I've been playing it a bunch and really loving what I've seen so far. I'm liking how the game keeps giving you better tools to explore the world easier. I feel like I've some a long way from just holding my breath.
My only complaint was it seemed like there was a time limit in the first hour or two of the game that really wasn't there. I ended up restarting thinking I did something wrong but it was all part of the story.
My only complaint was it seemed like there was a time limit in the first hour or two of the game that really wasn't there. I ended up restarting thinking I did something wrong but it was all part of the story.
The game really is amazing. i didnt know anything about it going in other than it was ocean survival so imagine my surprise when in the first minute i found out the ocean is alien. ive only put a handful of hours into it but its probably the best survival game ive played outside of 7 Days to Die. Its definitely the best for exploration.
why is it so scary? i played it a little bit and the cartoon style is putting me off. how can such a cartoony game be that scary? :O
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Oh i forgot to add i now know of the new game so while i got the orignial for free im going to be there day 1 for Below Zero.
The deeper you go, the game gets really, really creepy. The sounds the creatures make, and how they look. The darkness, and low visibility. The leviathan creatures as well made me almost put it down for good. Atmosphere is superb.
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Even old school Silent Hill games are a joke compared to this personally, the game is so fucking addictive and unsettling at the same time.
It's one of my favorite games this year yet it's a game that I have to muster up the courage to play because it scares the hell out of me.
My most played game of those days it went up free.
Looking all cute and snuggly, but seriously once you lower into depths or explore a wreck underwater, swimming in spaces where people would be walking. Disorienting and anxiety inducing.
Love it.
Looking all cute and snuggly, but seriously once you lower into depths or explore a wreck underwater, swimming in spaces where people would be walking. Disorienting and anxiety inducing.
Love it.
This is one of those games I played many times through with each update in EA and it was all a good experience (well maybe, some of the cyclops nerf hurts). One of the best games for deep sea immersion. Thumbs up, looking forward to the next expansion/dlc. This game is best played with headphones because the sounds combined with going deeper and not seeing much will mess with ya.
I want to play this but the ocean scares the shit out of me in real life. I'm not sure I could handle going deep in this game if the atmosphere is that thick.
Same, how big is the download?
I've started this month with a few huge games for myself, and loaded up a PC with games for a xmas gift. I should just say screw it and go all out since I only had one over cap month this year but I don't want to test my ISP and it's data
I own this on Steam but still haven't played it (of course now it's free on Epic, really need to stop buying stuff if I'm not going to play it right away).
How does Subnautica handle material/loot collection and crafting? The only other "survival" type game I've played much of is No Man's Sky and that part of the game I really wasn't a big fan of.
I know it a pretty manjor part of Survival games, I just don't enjoying crafting systems much at all (at least in No Man's Sky or any other games I've dabbled in). Like you collect a bunch of materials to craft some component, then you use other material to craft fuel, then you use other material to craft a spring, and only then are you able to craft the thing you wanted in the first place.
I think what I'd like is if you have the recipe or blueprint to make something and you have all the base materials required to make the components that make the thing you want, you should be able to cut out the step of individually crafting all the component parts and just go straight from the base material to the finished product.
Does Subnautica do anything like that, or something else to streamline the process?
How does Subnautica handle material/loot collection and crafting? The only other "survival" type game I've played much of is No Man's Sky and that part of the game I really wasn't a big fan of.
I know it a pretty manjor part of Survival games, I just don't enjoying crafting systems much at all (at least in No Man's Sky or any other games I've dabbled in). Like you collect a bunch of materials to craft some component, then you use other material to craft fuel, then you use other material to craft a spring, and only then are you able to craft the thing you wanted in the first place.
I think what I'd like is if you have the recipe or blueprint to make something and you have all the base materials required to make the components that make the thing you want, you should be able to cut out the step of individually crafting all the component parts and just go straight from the base material to the finished product.
Does Subnautica do anything like that, or something else to streamline the process?
My Subnautica folder is 13GB on Steam. Download should be less with compression, definitely can't be more than that.
How is performance on PS4? I'm not super picky, I just don't want to deal with any outright game breaking bugs or crashes.
Material gathering is definitely a thing, but you don't really need to gather most materials in massive quantities. The most common materials (Titanium and quartz specifically) you can end up using A LOT of if you get into base building so that can be kind of annoying having to constantly be fetching those, but generally it's not too bad and is aided by a base room you can build that can help you locate material deposits within range. Recipes are really simple, there are a few "sub-components" you have to construct but they're reused between recipes so you can always stock those components if you want. The crafting system makes it really fast and easy to make those on demand anyway. The depth of crafting is probably comparable to No Man's Sky but the crafting itself is much streamlined with less fumbling about in clunky menus.
If you absolutely hate crafting you probably will get annoyed by it but I'd say to at least give it a chance first. The game is great and one of the few survival games I've actually come to really like.
Maybe because you don't interact with outer space in real life compared to underwater?
I played about a year ago, and at the time it was very buggy. At one point I was deep in a cave system and drove the Sea Moth straight up, expecting to see the caver ceiling soon. I never did, I apparently passed through a ceiling that never loaded and was out of bounds surrounding a cave system full of secret hidden goodies I probably should not have yet. Then I drove into once of the locked rooms and was stuck in there, needing to reload. That was pretty neat, but the further I got the more frequently I was suffering glitches and stopped.
Still, I really loved the exploration and building. (I turned hunger off.) I'll give the game another shot now that it's out of early access.
Still, I really loved the exploration and building. (I turned hunger off.) I'll give the game another shot now that it's out of early access.
That does sound nicely streamlined coming from No Man's Sky. Never got more than a few planets in because just making fuel to go to the next system required so many crafted components. I'm sure it gets easier the further you get in the game (like most survival games), but I definitely never got to that point.
I pretty much never play traditional survival games, but I love Subnautica. Though, I turned off having to require food (and water? is that a thing? I don't remember), so it became more of a crafting game than a survival one, which I liked. There's also enough story there to keep you focused, and because it's not procedurally generated, I never felt like I was just getting a meaningless world..it felt hand crafted.
Playing with a controller felt clunky to me, but mouse and keyboard were fine (played on PC, obviously). Sometimes I felt annoyed with full storage space, but there are ways to mitigate that...floating lockers, persistent dropping of items and leaving them behind or in a safe spot, vehicles with built in storage.
I guess my favorite part is that you're slowly progressing and unlocking bigger and better things. Slow swim speed? eventually you craft swim flippers. Oxygen seem low? You learn how to craft bigger tank. You just keep building on the things you craft.
Playing with a controller felt clunky to me, but mouse and keyboard were fine (played on PC, obviously). Sometimes I felt annoyed with full storage space, but there are ways to mitigate that...floating lockers, persistent dropping of items and leaving them behind or in a safe spot, vehicles with built in storage.
I guess my favorite part is that you're slowly progressing and unlocking bigger and better things. Slow swim speed? eventually you craft swim flippers. Oxygen seem low? You learn how to craft bigger tank. You just keep building on the things you craft.
Yeah, been playing the free version from the Epic store since Saturday and thoroughly enjoying it so far. Even the times I've almost shit myself lol.
About 6 and a half gig.
About 6 and a half gig.
It'd been awhile since I fired up my Vive and wanted to play something seated and relaxing, I feel as far as PCVR is concerned this is absolutely one of the most peaceful experiences you can play as long as you're in creative mode, as in: no O2 or food requirements. Just floating below the surface of the water watching the waves undulate as the god rays pierce through and refract the light...it's bliss. Another thing I like to do besides just lazily swim any and everywhere and gawk at everything is to spawn a Cyclops submarine, get into the cockpit area and shut off the interior lights and just drink in the view outside the large view port, this is especially wonderful as dusk is setting (seriously this game has some of the prettiest time of day lighting) in deeper waters. Oh but yeah...survival something or other :p
On that note there isn't enough underwater exploration games in general, we need a new 3d Ecco like last gen...but ya know, with this gen's visuals :)
On that note there isn't enough underwater exploration games in general, we need a new 3d Ecco like last gen...but ya know, with this gen's visuals :)
guess ill try it out in VR. Hope the one on the epic store supports it.
Got this for free on the Epic store but the game stutters in places which is quite annoying and distracting. How optimized is the game on consoles...I can either play this on a 1X or a Pro.
I'd say it's more time consuming than anything trying to get all the resources to build your underwater home !
I trust Dusk Golem a little bit more than the average poster, so maybe i will give this a shot. I just don't know if the gameplay loop is enough to sustain me. I might give it a shot or a rent or something when I find some time over the Christmas break.
