Subnautica - Undah Dah Sea (you die)

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So this game has been in early access for a few years and as of January finally made it to official release. A lot of people are saying it's what "No Man's Sky" should have been. I've been sinking some hours into it, it's pretty fun. It's hard to describe, it's got survival-crafty stuff in it but it's more of an action-adventure exploration game with a story line to pull you along into new areas and a scanning system that works like Metroid Prime where you scan stuff and it reveals lore and gives you background information on plants, creatures, and geography.

One thing though is there's no real weapons in this game outside of a knife and some defensive weapons you can get later on which can kill some creatures but stun the more determined predators at best. You're going to be doing a lot of stealth maneuvers in some areas while you explore around.

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Subnautica is an underwater adventure game set on an alien ocean planet. A massive, open world full of wonder and peril awaits you!
Dive Into a Vast Underwater World
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You have crash-landed on alien ocean world, and the only way to go is down. Subnautica's oceans range from sun drenched shallow coral reefs to treacherous deep-sea trenches, lava fields, and bio-luminescent underwater rivers. Manage your oxygen supply as you explore kelp forests, plateaus, reefs, and winding cave systems. The water teems with life: Some of it helpful, much of it harmful.
Scavenge, Craft, and Survive
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After crash landing in your Life Pod, the clock is ticking to find water, food, and to develop the equipment you need to explore. Collect resources from the ocean around you. Craft knives, lights, diving gear, and personal water craft. Venture deeper and further form to find rarer resources, allowing you to craft more advanced items.
Construct Underwater Habitats
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Build bases on the sea floor. Choose layouts and components, and manage hull-integrity as depth and pressure increase. Use your base to store resources, park vehicles, and replenish oxygen supplies as you explore the vast ocean.
Unravel the Mystery
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What happened to this planet? Signs abound that something is not right. What caused you to crash? What is infecting the sea life? Who built the mysterious structures scattered around the ocean? Can you find a way to make it off the planet alive?
Disrupt the Food Chain
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The ocean teems with life: Use the ecosystem to help you. Lure and distract a threatening creature with a fresh fish, or simply swim as fast as you can to avoid gnashing jaws of roaming predators.
Handle the Pressure
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Build a Pressure Re-Active Waterproof Nanosuit, or PRAWN Suit, and explore extreme depth and heat. Modify the suit with mining drills, torpedo launchers, propulsion cannons, grappling hooks and more.
Fear the Night
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As the sun goes down, the predators come out. The ocean is unforgiving of those caught unprepared in the darkness. Areas that are safe to explore during the day become treacherous at night, but also reveal a beauty that those who hide from the darkness will never see.
Dive Below the Ocean Floor
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Cave systems wind below the sea bed, from dark claustrophobic passages to caverns lit by bio-luminescent life and burning-hot lava flows. Explore the world below the ocean floor, but watch your oxygen levels, and take care to avoid the threats lurking in the darkness.
 
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we should be able to make harpoons in this game tbh. just tie the knife to a long stick
It's been requested in the past but devs are against it because they want the larger predators to be a constant lurking threat. Plus it feels badass knife dueling a reaper to death.

I'm hoping the future updates add more creature eggs though so I can have a reason to build so more alien containment rooms to exhibit them in.
 

Keine

The cooler ancient evil.
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All I know about this game is that nerds are mad that one of the developers said mean things about migrants. So I might give it a play based on that.

The sound designer in particular apparently said something people are angry about. I only know because my Twitter feed was flooded with retweets about it out of nowhere.

Here’s a couple snippets of outrage:
http://archive.md/OqhV0
http://archive.md/3Lt13

There’s more, possibly enough for a salt mine thread.
 
The sound designer in particular apparently said something people are angry about. I only know because my Twitter feed was flooded with retweets about it out of nowhere.

Here’s a couple snippets of outrage:
http://archive.md/OqhV0
http://archive.md/3Lt13

There’s more, possibly enough for a salt mine thread.

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From the first archive link. I.. I have no words.

Back on topic, I absolutely love this game. I have it on the Xbox One because I have a shit laptop that can't run it. Unfortunately, last I checked it runs like ass so if at all possible I recommend you get it from Steam.
 

Dr. Boe Jangles Esq.

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They should've said "Dive into a vast underwater world, and then be promptly and unceremoniously slaughtered by it".
Beautiful game. Absolutely fucking gorgeous. The story is awesome, the visuals are breathtaking, there's some actual legit humor in there (play until the end, it's funny), and it's just so fucking good.
It will also make you legit pee yourself. It's scary as fuck at certain points, and there's nothing more harrowing than being at low health with dwindling food and water 1000 meters down and listening to the roars of some giant fuckoff monster you can't see, but know is nearby.

10/10, more games should be like this.
 
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From the first archive link. I.. I have no words.

Back on topic, I absolutely love this game. I have it on the Xbox One because I have a shit laptop that can't run it. Unfortunately, last I checked it runs like ass so if at all possible I recommend you get it from Steam.

Some areas with a heavy amount of scenery and animations cause stuttering, apparently it's something they've been trying to fix for a while but have had trouble with. The worst stuttering I've ran into was on the Aurora and when entering the Lost River biome through the narrow Acid River tunnel.

Anyways I'm hoping that the future expansion(s) for the game let us explore more of the planet, I like the arctic and lily pad biome ideas they've been throwing around.
there has to be more to the planet anyways other than a single sub-volcanic caldera jotting up in the middle of 4000m deep waters swarming with ghost leviathans.
 
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RadicalCentrist

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Played it a bit, got pretty far, then crash. Oh, and you can only save/quit, which takes forever and breaks the flow, and it doesn't autosave for some reason despite crashes being somewhat frequent. Guess that's why it's "hardcore" mode
 

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The sound designer in particular apparently said something people are angry about. I only know because my Twitter feed was flooded with retweets about it out of nowhere.

Here’s a couple snippets of outrage:
http://archive.md/OqhV0
http://archive.md/3Lt13

There’s more, possibly enough for a salt mine thread.
Apparently enough the outrage worked.
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Keine

The cooler ancient evil.
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Apparently enough the outrage worked.
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Sadly, the team probably isn't big enough to be able to shrug off a few dozen angry twats tweeting about them being literal nazis for days straight so they did the only thing they could.
 

RadicalCentrist

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Sadly, the team probably isn't big enough to be able to shrug off a few dozen angry twats tweeting about them being literal nazis for days straight so they did the only thing they could.
lol wat
bigger companies are far more likely to roll over these cunts because god forbid you offend a single segment of the (theoretical) market demographic
generally smaller ones can have more integrity since they are led by actual people rather than marketing drones
 

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Man, I need more of this game. I just beat my first survival run, it's 7 in the morning, and I'm about to start up another one. This time, with mods, and with daynightspeed set permanently to 0.4 (for days and nights that are over twice as long as default). I almost feel like I cheated myself by not downloading mods the first time through - there's a good half-dozen mods on Nexus that sound like they'll be totally transformative to the experience (through quality of life improvements, mainly).
 

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I got around to replaying this sucker after my daughter became interested in "the swimming game". Seeing her excitement at it, brought back memories of my last playthrough and I decided I would endeavor to recapture those feels by playing it again. Only this time on "Hardcore mode". I died in the first 5 minutes of asphyxiation. Remembering just how unforgiving it could be, I endeavored to be very careful, and the knowledge that one mistake would mean the end of all my work made me approach everything, including minor wrecks of the Aurora, very methodically. I had quite a few near misses and scares along the way, like want time a warper caught me inside a wreck and knocked my health down to 10%. I didn't get quite the sense of mystery and exploration as I did the first go around as I knew the story and the crafting recipes this time, but I was still able to get in to the scenery. The first time I got attacked by a Reaper Leviathan I shit my pants because again, on Hardcore you play for keeps. It took me a day after that to mentally psyche myself up to go behind the Aurora and get the Cyclops engine components.

Still found time to do the base building and so on. Scratched my autism itch, and listening to the story beats was as fun and engaging as rereading an old book you really liked. The end game itself was not as big a chore as I remembered it being, mainly because I was smart and packed plenty of water, an onboard farm and a modification station on my Cyclops when I made the dive into the abyss. No need to back track to the surface again. Made sure I had everything stockpiled for my Neptune Rocket ahead of time and boom. Blast off and an achievement (Escape the Planet on Hardcore mode) with a 1.5% success rate on the Xbox.

The physics engine is also on point. A minor point, but one I appreciated. At one point my cyclops got stuck in a cave. And I mean, REALLY stuck. Sucker was not gonna move. But then I had an idea. What if I took my seamoth and rammed the stuck part at full speed? Worth a shot. I did NOT want to have to rebuild it again. And wouldn't you know, it worked. There was a very satisfying "crash" as I impacted and my wedged cyclops was knocked free. Beyond pure mechanics though, Going over it a second time, I truly gained an appreciation for what the devs of this game accomplished. The introduction of a story line to the standard crafting/survival game and eschewing procedural generation in favor of hand designed environments gives this game a far more immersive feel. A feel that is at times awe inspiring, horrific, and sad. Its an achievement unto itself that a game that says so little makes you feel so much. And unlike so many games, they manage to stick the landing with the launch sequence of the Neptune Rocket. They make the whole thing a procedure. The use of a gantry that forces you too look out over the ocean. The pre launch check list of starting up the systems forces you to reflect that "this is it, I am about to leave this place", and then the launching itself to the backdrop of an epic music score. The final escape after the game had dashed your hopes so many times before, like with the Sunbeam.

If you haven't played this game, you should.
 
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UntimelyDhelmise

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Subnautica has always been one of those games I've wanted to play but I don't think my PC is strong enough to run it (and before anyone asks I have no idea what the guts in this thing are, I had it custom built by someone else for non-gaming purposes and am not familiar with PC lingo).
 

mindlessobserver

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Subnautica has always been one of those games I've wanted to play but I don't think my PC is strong enough to run it (and before anyone asks I have no idea what the guts in this thing are, I had it custom built by someone else for non-gaming purposes and am not familiar with PC lingo).

It worked okay on XBOX when I did my second playthrough. Though I do prefer the PC gamer master race experience.
 
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