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I really dislike how the people, not the government, always have to come together and have each others back. Prime Ministers are on holiday while people fight for their lives and in the end the money comes from people, not the government. I have the feeling they count on that to rebuild the infrastructure so they can keep bathing in their mountains of money. God bless and keep yourself save from the fires. I hope it's over soon.
A video called "How Subnautica uses Terror" has a really interesting point about why the game is so scary. The idea is basically that the game being easier makes it more terrifying, because you rarely die to the monsters, so they don't lose their mystery. If they would just kill you all the time, they'd lose their scariness and just become annoying.
@@mospusthespider1246 I don't know how it is in Below Zero (I bought the game day one, but I'm not following the news to not spoil myself, even though I'll probably not be able to play without shitting myself every 15 minutes anyways), but in the original the thesis is very much true.
PresidentBanana i have watched that video a long time ago to, and honestly. He’s very right. The mystery, music and more make it really scarry. Even though most of the time you’re pretty save if you’re not stupid
First time I went beyond the edge, I did it in Prawn suit. Simply jumped down. Took me a while to understand there's no bottom. Then I turned around and seen my first Ghost.
First time I encountered a Ghost Leviathan was traumatic. Nightfall, blackness in every direction, then a massive transparent neon worm comes at me and I just fucking screamed.
gordon thomas what’s nice is you can avoid them the entire game if you just don’t go near their territories. Did a play through and didn’t run into a single reaper or ghost leviathan the entire run.
@@casedistorted that's BS. Because the entrance to the lava zone is guarded by a ghost leviathan. But it's possible to avoid reapers entirely, but you miss out some zones.
Worst thing honestly was the Reefbacks. Hearing that noise from so far away with no visible source, then seeing them way off in the distance with no idea what it is. Add that they frequent the deeper areas where hovering at the surface makes it hard to see the seafloor. Serious thalassophobia. Now that I've put tons of time into it I'm just like "Hello my lovely floating mineral deposits!"
I think Skill Up sums it up best.... humans have an innate phobia of deep water. In the shallows, it’s beautiful. In the deep, it’s a terrifying beautiful experience. You literally have nothing to fear but are scared to death regardless.
When I finally got big nuts and started swimming farther away from my drop pod. "Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the region. Are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it?" Alright heading back for the day. Maybe tomorrow is the day I head out.
This game just wasn’t scary or much fun if you are really scared of water or fear drowning then you will never evolve in your lifetime id rather drown before I ever burn, bleed out or die from brain damage
38 hours in 6 days. man i havent played a game that much since skyrim back in 2011. ive never played a survival crafting game before and i fucking love this game.
Well, it is a horror game. It always tries to make you feel unsafe, and jump scare you with reapers, small fish hitting the glas of you ship. Its a mind terror game. Also, after a while, u discover, the creatures are not dangerous. Mostly down there, to fuck with your mind.
Terror is more accurate, since its what goes thru your mind at every movement and at every sound. The third run didnt terrorized anymore since everything was identify.
@@999jay999 40-60 fps for a 1080ti is fucking abysmal the game doesn't even look good lmao you should be easily getting like 400+ fps the game is horribly optimized period.
15:54 "MULTIPLE Leviathan-class life forms detected in this area - are you sure whatever you’re doing is worth it?" That single phrase instilled the most terror I've ever felt in this game. After hearing the roars and seeing a faint silhouette of ONE reaper leviathan, I'm sure what I was doing wasn't worth encountering MULTIPLE.
There are no reaper there but there is multiple ghosts that will hunt you down the first time I went the I fucking noped right out after I spotted the tip of a ghost tail.
I actually built a base on the edge of that biome, I thought it would be cool to look out my window and see the reapers swimming around in the distance, never got to see any though. As for me, that moment was when I turned around and realized a was so far away that the aroura was starting to fade out, and just as thought I should head back the subtitles popped up and I heard "Warning: entering ecological dead zone. adding report to data bank" that voice line immediately made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up
Player: Enters the 'Dunes' biome Alterra A.I.: "Detecting multiple L E V I A T H A N class lifeforms in the area. Are you sure that whatever you are doing is worth it?" Player: "Well I WAS, but now I feel like I should begin reversing as quickly as I can and hide in my life pod until I either die or get rescued."
Everytime I heard that message I did a 180 turn : ) I finished all silent hills, resident evil's, dead space's, and a lot of non series horror games, but somehow the leviathans are way more scary than all those games.
Cruising through the open ocean at night is such a surreal, terrifying experience. The lights are on but have no effect, you're floating in nothingness, with various noises all around you. Truly incredible.
Glad to see Subnautica getting the love it deserves. It's easily one of my all-time favorite games. Also, on the note of the Cyclops: I think it's important to think of the Cyclops as a movable base of operations, not as a vehicle that allows you to really zip about. I ended up building pots and growing fruit trees in my Cyclops for food+water. I had the thermal-generation upgrade on my Prawn, and would hop the Prawn out of the Cyclops near lava pools to recharge all my power cells; and so on. Playing it this way, in my opinion, really honed the experience because I'd end up spending days, if not weeks, unspeakably deep within the ocean with barely a memory of what the sky looked like. Being just one guy alone on a planet, trying to pilot a sub meant for at least three operators through lava tubes while not sure you'll ever find your way back to the surface was incredibly nail-biting and real to me, and it really was a profoundly unique experience.
I guess the mistake then was that there's no way to incentivize this kind of playstyle without making the endgame bigger. I imagine it would be progression-gating going deeper in the sub to use it like you described would mean having to pilot it to, say, the entrance of the lava-caves, but the only way to go deeper is to make some base-like parts of the sub reliant on time, and have a few scattered around some obscure parts of the map or maybe a new section you have to explore entirely. The prerequisite to all of this being that the submarine has it's own unique fabricator designed around making it a mobile base, and that the only way to make a base that allows you to progress is to have it be close to the surface so it has access to the sun. So you need to go deeper, but the mk3 module that lets you do so requires a component located in the deep grand reef, which the sub can't access. But in order to craft it, you need a specific kind of crafting table that ALSO has a piece reliant on going to, say, the crater's edge. That piece expires within a minute, so you need to harvest it, get to the sub, and use the unique fabricator to make the components that you then use to build a crafting table-thing. The table can make all the pieces unique to the sub (and you could design aspects of returning to the home base for certain upgrades around this as well), but most importantly, it is the only thing capable of utilizing components that expire for the sub's upgrades. So now that you have the table, you go to the grand reef for one component that expires that can only be harvested by the prawn suit, and then the blood kelp, then the bulb zone. You craft these components, but the only way to make the upgrade is with the table that can only be crafted within bases. So you go back to base, craft the first half of the mk3, then take a second trip out and get the components, many of them being gated behind tunnels that are only small enough for the seamoth or, like the underwater islands, only accessible via the seamoth or the player using extra canisters of oxygen. all across the map, then you go back to your base and craft it all there. The final components to the mk3 is located within, say, the dunes, then the lost river, then the entrance to the lava zone, and so the best way to make it is by taking the sub to those places as one big expedition, making the mk3, installing it, then going down deeper now that you have it. This gets the player into the mindset of using the cyclops for long expeditions, planning routes, and returning to the home base in order to progress further. You can also now design systems around building bases for storage and smaller expeditions, but the only way to truly progress through the game is to do EITHER longer expeditions with the cyclops as a mobile base, or build bases and slowly progress with those further down, which imo both eliminate the issues he talked about here in their own ways. These were already systems in the game, but they were ancillary and easily missed, leading to issues like what he described. I feel like this would help with feelings of progression and engagement, though.
@@fatuousinnovatorofsadness4640 I actually have an idea on reworking the Cyclops' power source: They're called called Lithium Rods, they take up a 2x2 slot in your inventory, give 500 power and are crafted with 2 power cells, 3 uraninite and a plasteel ingot in a new habitat compartment made specifically for the Cyclops. This compartment comes with a fabricator made specifically for crafting the lithium rods and Cyclops upgrades as well as a recharging station for rods. You can also dock your Cyclops to the habitat and enter it via a ladder located in the center of the room. The lithium rods will power the Cyclops' engine, the shield generator, sonar, floodlights, oxygen production and recharging docked vehicles but don't come with the Cyclops by default. Instead, 2 power cells will come with the Cyclops that handle all of the other upgrades, powering any interior modules placed inside, internal lighting and oxygen production in the case of the lithium rods running out of power. The Cyclops' engine room will be redisgned to have 2 rod slots and a power cell slot in between them on each side. The habitat blueprint is found in a databox, located in the wrecks of the Sea Treader's path or Dunes. Once you unlock the ion blueprints from the thermal plant, you can upgrade the lithium rods into ion rods with 3 ion cubes at a modification station. Ion Rods give 1,750 power each.
Exactly what I did, and it was perfection! Absolutely marvelous. I NEVER had such a feeling of adventure as I had with these little "expeditions". One of the best games I've played in my life. Shame they are moving away from all this in Below Zero.
@@behzadmirmozaffari2563 there is the sea truck for that but sadly it cannot be built inside of, meaning you're gonna have to pack some supplies beforehand. It's a decent mobile base but nowhere near as good as the Cyclops.
@@dystop_ if you want it turned up a notch play on hardcore survival :) one mistake meaning actual death changes how you approach the game quite a bit. Its not DIFFICULT, just forces you to not to take unnecesary risks and take precautions you wont make in normal mode.
Wanted to comment for anyone looking into Subnautica in the present: the devs very recently released a "2.0" update, which backports a _ton_ of performance and engine improvements from Subautica's sequel (Below Zero). The game now runs significantly better on pretty much any mid to high end rig. If the performance issues were holding you back, now's the time to dive in!
Dude's name is Simon Chylinski. Fun fact: he got fired over an attack helicopter joke he made on Twitter (in response to a survey with 10 or more 'genders' listed).
For me, I enjoyed the hell out of my Cyclops. Personally, I only used guides to figure out where some of the more obscure materials were (I'm looking at Nickel here). The Cyclops, for me, turned a lot of the game systems on their head because it became not only a mode of transportation, but a mobile base (I built a massive storage system on the lower level, and foodstuffs on the upper level, along with everything needed to craft).... It made exploring the more extreme areas much more accessible.
IKR? The cyclops was a dream come true. Also, knowing that you can't just escape everything that easy made using the stealth systems of the hulking sub so incredibly intense.
I feel like the both of you make valid points. For me, understanding that the Cyclops, being a large multi-person submarine, was by its very nature going to move and handle slowly made it more accepting than it seems to have been for the maker of this video.
I never took the cyclops deep. If I wanted to go somewhere deep, I would put my prawn suit in it and take it to the cave entrance. Then use the prawn suit and grappling arm the rest of the way down
@@23kcarlson I always docked my Prawn suit in my Cyclops...Poke around in TLR or Inactive Lava zone with the suit, then come back to the cyclops to drop of what I collect (Nickel, Kyanite, Crystalline Sulfur)... Also found a great sweet spot for a base, near the rear of the Aurora, bordering several biomes (including Jellyshroom, near the Degasi base), AND that location's fed by a heat vent.
I loved how much of a breeze the resource collecting was (most of the time). When I'd go out looking for resources there was still an element of exploration, and finding things rather than standing next to a wall mining coal all day. You still feel like you've earned your gear without grinding for hundreds of hours.
Leviathans are no real threat thou as soon as you understand how they work. Adult Ghost is somewhat dangerous due to how damn fast the thing turns, but there's like.. one or two of them on the map if you don't go off the edge, and in places that you don't even need to visit. Reapers are just cute king-size Stalkers that you can dance around without issue. Overgrown cave lizards like their fire breath and go fast, but that's about it - in Prawn they can't do much to you and hardest thing about them is scanning as they keep swimming away. Prawn in general is a god mode making lava zone a recreational walk. Even in Cyclops, thing that is made to suffer from creature attacks, you are incredibly safe as soon as you understand that as long as you don't move and do not make noise you are about as interesting to leviathans as a rock.
It's perfectly safe once you learn where the reapers operate. They just go around in the dunes, north and east of the enforcer platform and the Aurora. I never traveled too far to the south but there's literally no reason to but the only thing i encountered was a juvenile ghost which poses no significant threat since you can easily get away from them. Sea dragons are just there for fun if you walk around in prawn but as long as you get too close.
They aren't a threat. They're just scary. Even if a Reaper grabs you, unless you're already on death's door you can escape. If you see them coming, you can easily dodge them and get away, even if you're not in a sub. You can even scan a Reaper if you're brave enough. I'm not disputing that they're scary (I've jumped out of my skin more than once, even if I know exactly where they operate), but it's an illusion of threat. That's one of the strange things about the game - there's not really any reason to die. You get tonnes of warning about oxygen, and even if you're at zero, you've still got a good 10 seconds of swimming. Food is everywhere, even if you have to eat it raw. Water can be problematic if you haven't brought reserves, but even then you can find enough to stave off dehydration wherever you are. The most dangerous thing in the game are Crashfish - they can whittle down your health in no time, especially pre-Seaglide.
@@therussiannukekid1784 Complains about having to go back to the shallow for copper, has 0 lockers on his cyclops. What kind of psycho don't move their whole base to the cyclop the first chance they have?
@@NoOne-fe3gc I hardly ever used the cyclops. It was only used for deep sea travel, or other areas where I needed the prawn, and even then I sometimes just used the prawn to avoid leviathans attacking my cyclops.
I found the third half of the game most enjoyable. Once I acquired the prawn suit and the Cyclops, I basically lived in the cyclops. I made it completely self sufficient. Had two aquariums for bladder fish breeding for water, 4 pots with Chinese potatoes and various other edible fauna for food that would regrow, since I had upgraded to thermal power I never had to worry about power down there.
wait a third half, jk yeah i had the same setup and it was very enjoyable until for whatever reason a ghost leviathan continuously charged my cyclops till it broke
That's another thing I love about the game. It doesn't really force you to use the overwhelming majority of the tech in the game. There are a few things you can't beat the game without collecting or making, but you have a lot of options with what you want to use to take you to the end.
@@annafinch2315 mhhh I might have used a knife at some point but i can't remember. its been a long time ago. Wasn't there another gadget that allows you to collect those things though?
I liked the last 3rd a lot. I understand how it feels like more of the same but harder since you're cut off from the top, but this game gives you multiple power sources so you can live in places like the ultra deep and hot. The cyclops being slow and hard to move makes sense, its a huge oblong piece of metal with a fan in the back. And it really sells the clausterphobia of the sea much more than the rest of the game did.
16:00 I actually know what happens when you go off the map 1. All the music and background sound you are used to cuts out and the water changes to a slightly eerie dark blue 2. Slowly but surly 3 adult ghost leviathans spawn to push you back into the map 3. You are given a PDA entry talking about the dead zone Actually its kind of ingenious the developers tell you through game play alone that "Hey, you're not supposed to be here (through the lack of ambiance) , good on you for exploring (by giving you a PDA entry) but please get back into the map (through the very scary and loud ghosts) and don't come back (told by what is actually said in that PDA)
@@brodriguez11000 "Safest" way I've found to do it is to head to the Sparse Reef, then keep going West until you hit the Sea Treader Path. From there, West again. You'll know when you hit it. That's the route with the fewest hostile animals. Alternatively, you could go via the Dunes. That's always fun.
"Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the region. Are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it? " funny how that prompt doesn't even come up at the edge the map, you were entering the Sand Dunes area which has a bunch of Reapers patrolling it. You're in for a different surprise if you actually reach the edge of the map.
Hehe, I was in a party with my friend when he entered the void, it was silence, then THE loudest scream I've ever heard, I was laughing my ass off XD he was sooo fucking scared, he was legit whimpering afterwards XD
What's funny is that when I got that pda I was in the mushroom biome and saw a wreck just off the edge of it. I went closer and got that message while also hearing reaper roars, I got out of there so fast.
This game is one of the few that literally change my life. Im gonna need to explain this one do I? Ok so, since i was young i hated ocean and water( not the drink). I was scared to death to go below my neck in any pool or beach. When i was 13, my school had obligatory swim session... So i was humiliated, shouted at by the teacher, mock at and even beaten up in the changing room. I had this game one year ago. It was an horror game for me. The scariest game i've ever play. But then, i was calm in the safe zone. Then the green plant zone. And soon enough, i wasn't scared of peaceful fish. Stalker were the next nerf. Only the abyss and all form of hostile leviathan scare me now. I've even play on vr... one of the worst good idea ever. I felt peaceful after 20 hour in vr. So i tried to replicate that in school. Wouldn't you know, i became in the top 5 in my entire school. So... in short, this game is really important to me.
@@7PlayingWithFire7 i didn't really play world of warcraft so i don't really understand(since i never knew they were underwater section) but still, its great that it help you too
I’m so fucking happy you finally decided to review this. It’s one of my favourite games of all time, honest to god. And yes, it is probably the best horror experience ever.
Designed to be scary, not deadly. You can easily avoid their mouths and they swim so awkwardly and make so much noise that you should be able to keep track of them if you are paying attention. Once I got the beacons I went leviathan hunting and dropped one wherever they swam so I could keep track of them.
OKay OKay I get it You *could be intelligent* and just swim(step?) and avoid their charge entirely. (or leviathan surfing) but my point is ya every just go down deeper an be like "hOH boy! DEEPER WATER! I bet I can find some of that darn [insert material needed] so I can get another PHUCKIN depth upgrade." *then ya hear a roar and u just nope out* "yea owabbot no im gud, bye."
"Subnautica blows the last 1/3rd of the game..." WHAT?!!! I want MORE of that part of the game!!! Modifying and exploring the depths with the Prawn Suit and Cyclops (a mobile, vulnerable base) was AMAZING! I'm crushed that the next game will not have that.
Yeah, exploring the depths of the Lava Zone was appropriately intense and I loved how terrifying it was. That said, I hated hunting for the last resource needed, because as far as I knew, there was no way to figure out where to even look for it. :s Thank god for the wiki.
The next game has the Seatruck which is basically the cyclops that is a bit easier to drive, though I will say that the cyclops looked nicer inside and wasn't as cramped. Once you build several modules for the Seatruck it kinda-sorta feels somewhat like the cyclops? But not quite, and sometimes... maybe it's because it's still in early access or something, sometimes if you park your seatruck at too steep of an angle it's hard to really do much inside of its modules but you can usually fix that.
@@AegixDrakan Hunting for those 5 ingredients went well for me. When I got the blueprint, I assumed that the devs would not require me to scour the entire game world, most of which I've explored at a normal pace, for 5 ingredients I haven't seen before. So, I searched the primary containment facility's aquarium thinking that was a reasonable range to have to search. I found only the Sea Crown. Then I noticed: 4 portals in the primary containment facility, and 4 more ingredients... maybe the devs intended these as shortcuts to the ingredients? Yes, looks like they did. I even got lucky and did them in order of easiest to hardest. Getting the courage to pilot my Prawn past the Ghost Leviathan guarding the last portal exit was the hardest part.
This is literally one of my favorite games of all time. This is the game that I will forever measure survival games against. I cannot wait for Subzero.
@@EricMalette They are going to change the story, which means the story that it is in the game right now will be gone and you will never see it unless you watch lets play videos from before the change. But yet they are NOT changing the layout/areas much if at all, so... it's a double edged sword. If you go in for the story now like I did, when they change the story, you will already be familiar with the environment and the new equipment etc.
Fantastic review. Also, the game runs much better now, so if you decide to take another run back through it some day, it'll be MUCH more enjoyable on that front!
Good. It's hands down the best example of a survival game done right. An actual story and ending, incredible atmosphere, terrifying creatures and zones (in one deeper area light didn't reach so it was pitch black except for my flashlights, and the music stopped a well. Was really scary), and a lot of fun to play. Most survival games are just "here's an open world map and some creatures that can kill you, go build a house and just exist". Subnautica is a game with actual thought put into it. EDIT: I'm actually replaying it as we speak as well. Last time I played it was still in early access with only part of the story implemented. I've just gotten to the entrance of the inactive lava zone and am building a base at the tree to have an outpost there. God the first time entering and going through the lost river was terrifying. :p Tough I did kill the juvie ghost leviathan so it wouldn't bother me while paying through on the future.
@@midasra1132 Oh right. The soundtracks are indeed great too. Plus just the sound design in general is amazing. Hugely adds to the atmosphere of each zone.
I'd never felt such a powerful sense of dread than when I was sinking, slowly, into the darkness of Subnautica's uncharted depths, and the horror when those distant lights began moving, coiling rapidly, towards me.
The first time I had to leap-of-faith in my PRAWN out in to the darkness and watch the depth meter start rocketing up. I don't need monsters to scare the shit out of me, I just need to not see the bottom and wonder if it will ever arrive!
I had to give up on the game. It was simply too much with the dark depths and the feeling of claustrophobia. Just hearing the sea monsters in the distance would freak me out. But I had loads of fun in the shallows and the next areas, that are not too deep :)
Once I was trying to find the island and went past it and off the map to anyone that knows what happens, you know it's scary I will never go off the map again ;-;
@@AeonQuasar iirc, at the dunes it says theres not allot of life around and you might wanna think if you wanna go on. at the edge you get the message Jake mentioned.
One thing I would like to point out is that Subnautica's opening moments of gameplay are genius. After you climb out of the pod, there's nothing but the water and the Aurora in the distance. Most players will then just push forward and dive into the water. You get this beautiful underwater landscape rolling out from the player, with the area going deeper in the background. This I contend puts three ideas in the player's head: 1) This game isn't about finding land surrounded by water and building there. The water is where the game is going to happen. 2) Going down is how you're going to progress the game. 3) We're not in Kansas any more Toto. It uses these first few minutes to inform the player, get them hooked, and get them exploring. This gets further reinforced through the gameplay, keep swimming down, that's where the cool shit is.
Your taste in video games greatly differs from my own, but you're so articulate and well-informed that your videos are just fantastic to watch. Keep up the good work
This was not a horror game for me simply because i was constantly fascinated by everything. I purposely let leviathans hurt me to take screenshots. It is amazing.
"The various sea creatures that you encounter don't really pose much of a threat" Meanwhile I'm trying to fend of three reapers in the dunes in a cyclops having the butt clench of a lifetime trying to not lose my shit and go cry in a corner while my hands are sweating with Hull integrity at 37% and water leaking thru the holes in the hull
@@Hanfgurkenhasser well I remember needing to do something there, that or I went thru the area when I was lost, following a marker home hmmm, dune base seems like a good idea on the next playthru
The only reason I gave Nier Automata a go was because of Ralph's review, it's now in my top 10 games of all time, he has a knack for revealing the diamonds in the rough :)
Awesome game I recently replayed it for 2h, then loaded my 20h+ savegame. The sense of achievement when suddenly you have this gigantic base stuffed to the brim with materials, all perfectly organized in color-coded lockers, 2 of every vehicle with maxed out specs, auxiliary bases for battery and power cell charging at every major location, a ton of named and colored beacons all over the map ... just gotta love that game
instead of preparing for that one big descent, i liked to do a bit of an "expedition" style of gameplay. Build a fairly small base in a little save spot fairly deep, and went on to still visit my base near the shallows and back to push a bit further. on my first playthrough i didnt even get to build the cyclops before reaching the lava biome. when i got that kyanite i finally had more freedom... i saw the pressure as a timer until i had to head back to my base before being crushed. finally building the cyclops felt like a big archievement after that, it was so satisfying breezing through my "checkpoints". wish i could play this game for "the first time" again Edit: Because of this game i got Below zero as soon as it was awailable and was a bit disappointed of the story. they took one of the biggest elements away that made subnautica so good: That feeling of isolation, being on your own in this chrisis the character is going through. They announced a big change to the story, so i hope some of that will come back. Looking forward to that already
just letting you know, since you were disappointed with the story including many others, they almost completely redid it. (it's not close to finished, so I wouldn't recommend playing it now)
Eh, I kinda liked the nice contrast between the two games. The original Subnautica left you alone, stranded, relying purely on your survival instincts. Below zero gave a new start by making you stranded, but not alone in the planet, with your sister up above and an alien inside your head. Overhauling the story kinda makes it feel like it wants to ride the tailcoat of the first Subnautica. But then again, the game isn't complete, and just like the first one, I am certain it will be very good once finished.
One of my favorite games of all time! So sad to hear that it did not run smoothly for you, because I had none of these issues whatsoever... I can imagine it takes some of the immersiveness away from the game. Thank you for being a trooper and enduring it though and gave it a proper play trough! Kudos!
I had a great time in the last 3d of the game! Maybe because I used my cyclops as a mobile base and parked it by the acid river and continued with my prawn suit. I didn't feel any resource limitations because trecking that far felt like an epic voyage and I always prepared extensively.
SkillUp didn't want to dive in this game, i on the other hand didn't want to leave, i found the underwater realm so cozy... What do you call that - thalassophilia ?
I know! Right? I never actually completed Subnautica because I spoiled it all by watching lets plays of it, so there was no mystery left to it! For Below Zero I've become dead set on not touching it or watching people play it until it finally releases in full!
I jumped on it very early, same as subnautica, and its great to see the progress theyve made in terms of development as well as improvements and changes to the original title. its still subnautica, but different. you're smart not wanting to spoil the experience for yourself.
@@nephriumgaming4566 same I haven't picked the game up as I think the game will not entertain me to the extent of watching the Neebs Gaming Subnautica series.
Omg it's so hard to not just start playing. Below Zero has been waiting readily installed since early access started. And I haven't touched it, yet. The last time I felt like this was 28 years ago when I was little and waited for Xmas to finally get to play a new SNES game. :D
One of the biggest aspects I loved about this game was that instead of the usual "how do I kill this threat" combat-oriented approach, the game makes you think about to deal with the threats creatively. They do give you weapons and torpedoes to deal with the big scary stuff if you really want to, but if you pay attention and learn the way the ocean and its denizens work, there are so many other approaches. I remember the first time I snuck past one of the Ghost leviathans to get my nickel ore and being super-proud of myself...at least once the overwhelming terror of being that close subsided :p
Jam Flex I have a 2700x and GTX 1070 and I get 40-60 FPS mostly on high 1080p settings but in areas I’ve built a base the framerate tanks to 40fps consistently
Yeah, I have a prebuilt laptop I got at Walmart. One of their upper end ones that isn't like, multiple thousands of dollars, but still. Game runs perfectly fine. I can think of maybe once or twice in all my time playing that it's dropped a couple frames, and I use high graphics settings.
One of my all time favorite games, it's been at the very least a decade since the last time a game made me feel sad for it to be about to be over like Subnautica did. I'm 26 years old and usually don't get sentimental with games, but this game made me revisit every outpost I had built before I ended the game with such a bittersweet feeling of happiness.
If anyone has recommendations for games that made them feel like this please let me know. I felt exactly the same and just want to feel that way about a game again
I feel like he did the end game wrong, end game was some grind, yeah, but it was also a Leviathan killing mechsuit housed in a self sustaining mobile base
I get 60 fps (with drops tho) with 1060 6gb and Ryzen 5 1600 and with all high settings, so it's really weird. I have 16gb Ram, maybe that could mean something?
The VR experience is great! The headset actually adds to the immersion in a very physical way. I found myself holding my breath and almost hyperventilating at times.
I would highly recommend playing the sequel, Below Zero, when it releases (at some point later this year). As of now, the game is still in early access but very close to release, and just two days ago I started playing through it. The problem that you had with the Cyclops is eliminated with the Sea Truck; a happy medium between the Seamoth and the Cyclops. You can get it pretty early on, but there are several modules you can unlock for it to turn it into a mobile base of sorts. Adding more modules decreases your speed and maneuverability, but gives you more advantages on-the-go. It's completely customizable and very satisfying. The biomes are stunning and unique, but they still feel like you're on the same planet as Subnautica. From floating lilypad islands to kelp forest caves to the terrifying depths of the deep twisty bridges, each new biome I've encountered has left me thinking, "Woah, this is awesome." A good portion of the game takes place on the land, too. It isn't so much that it diminishes the significance of staying underwater, but it has a very unique feel and important objectives. On land, you have to avoid staying outside for too long or you'll freeze. You can build a hoverbike to traverse the icy landscapes quickly, and you'll keep finding new nooks and crannies to explore. Above the ice is also where, in my opinion, the most terrifying biome and creature awaits. In terms of wildlife, Below Zero has more than Subnautica-- with both friendly and dangerous creatures. Some fish from Subnautica reappear in Below Zero, but most of them are new. There are much more smaller fish you can eat, but also many more predators you want to avoid. And there are some BIG predators. The story of Below Zero is still in development, so it could change before release, but as it currently is, I think it's as good (if not better) than the story of Subnautica. The biggest difference is that there are interactions between your character and a few other characters. However, the mystery and piecing together the bits of the story are still there. You still search for PDAs containing logs from crews who came before you. You're still only given hints as to what the next objectives are (for instance, you could be told that the last known location of something is West of a specific landmark and probably approximately X meters below the surface.) Materials gathering doesn't feel as tedious as it did in Subnautica. There's a much better spread of resources throughout the world, especially as you get deeper down. tl;dr Subnautica: Below Zero is a phenomenal sequel to the original game, and in my opinion is even better. It takes everything good about Subnautica and expands on it. It improves on the aspects of Subnautica that were lacking. It's just as beautiful and awe-inspiring as Subnautica, and is even more terrifying. I don't know when the game will officially release, but I highly recommend you play it if you enjoyed Subnautica or just enjoy survival games in general.
The horror aspect also thrives in Below Zero too, and I would say it's just as good as it was in Subnautica. One of the biomes has a long system of trenches, and going down them is TERRIFYING because you can constantly see the shadow of a leviathan swimming above you, waiting for a chance to attack. Considering a good number of valuable fragments are found near there, experiencing that fear and then having to face it to get your fragments is both very scary and immensely satisfying.
I loved the first Subnautica, it has become one of my favourite game of all time. I have just bought Below Zero and I am so exited for its release. I want to play once it is finished so for now I can only wait.
Did they fix the bugs from Subnautica though? It's the only reason I haven't bought sub-zero yet. It bugs me that I lost both a Prawn and a Seamoth to sinkage into the ground & the Prawn getting stuck randomly in the alien bases was a nuisance, both of which have been problems for years based on Steam forums, and they never bothered fixing it (I don't mind as much about the excessive clipping & fauna entering bases because these problems don't generally set back gameplay). I absolutely adore Subnautica but not sure I trust the devs.
For anyone with performance problems on high core count processors: Download Process Lasso and limit subnautica's main process to only 3 cores permanently. This increased my fps from 40 - 30 to 60 - 45 all ultra (on Ryzen 7 1700 and GTX 1070) This game simply doesn't like having more than three cores. You can find thread on steam about this, just type "subnautica performance three cores" in Google.
I drove my Cyclops right up to the very last area of the game, without taking Hull Damage (and drove it back to my base, still without any hull damage). I made a video series on my channel about this, and it was my first time.
@@vellathewench Try watching the videos for a bit, might give you ideas on how it was meant to be driven. It is tricky and it took me a few minutes to get the hang of it. The biggest two things are 1). Don't try to go too fast, it's not an attack sub, and 2). Watch your proximity alarms and go slow, use your cameras, and just keep in mind nothing can actually hurt your sub that's not a leviathan. Eels and Brainsquids will attack the sub (with alarms!) but they can't harm it.
@@Dhalin I did watch a lot of vids on how to drive it, but I still manage to hit the sides. Maybe I'm just trying to take it places it isn't meant for, I dunno. Thankfully my real life car driving isn't anything like this lol. Thanks for the advice.
@@vellathewench *nods* np! I would argue that vids on how to drive it probably don't really show actual practical use, they just show little clips here-and-there, which is why I suggested mine where I go down to the Lost River and even the Lava Zone in real situations, unedited footage. I can tell you from experience that the Cyclops will never fit into the Mushroom Caves that I know of, both entrances are way too small for that thing. But you can indeed get it into the Lost River, though I know from experience, also, that one of its entrances is ridiculously small and difficult to squeeze into (not impossible though). And the transition from the Tree down into the Inactive Lava Zone? You have to turn the sub to the side to lower yourself into that little crevasse otherwise you're not going to fit. Getting into the lost river? I always use the West entrance; there's only 1 Leviathan between it and the Inactive Lava Zone and it's usually rather easy to sneak by him without him noticing you, and the entrance is a LOT more kind than the northern one where you found the lifepod. The best way to find that entrance is to take your Seamoth, go to where the lifepod is, go into the River (careful you don't exceed Crush depth!) and make your way over to that other entrance (you'll pass a ruin on the way, you might want to open for some more ion cubes!) and drop a beacon there so you can find it when you take the cyclops.
I spent hours getting my cyclops , took it to the edge of the map and let’s just say I don’t own a cyclops anymore .... 😢 This game is so great and bought it on a whim and so glad I did .
Once I took my Cyclops on an expedition to the edge of the map too. I also put my Prawn Suit inside of it and had a static bubble rifle with me just in case things went South.
For me personally the game had a 4th part. when you have gone so deep held your breath nd dove ever deeper into the mysterious and creepy depths. When you come back to the shallows again its like coming up for air after you have pushed your courage and desire to explore to its limit. you come back to the shallows and look around feeling like "My god... I remember when this was the most terrifying place i thought i could go XD" It almost feels like a reward to be able to come back and kiss the lifepod that kept you safe at the start of all this.
This game took me by surprise last year, loved every second of it and was sad when it was over. Really felt like I overcame the odds, getting the sub and going to the lowest depths. Amazing. I loved the Forest too (on coop) and I hate survival games.
My main reasons for buying a PC game, in order of most to least important: 1) Because Skillup said the game was cool. 2) Steam or GOG are having a sale, so wtf, I won't lose much money if I buy the game...
In Subnautica it really feels like the player is suppose to carefully look at which upgrades they might need. For example before going down into the caves it's a good idea to get sonar for the Cyclops and not just the depth module.
I've heard some people say that they didn't know about the Knife.... dude, that was like the first thought on my mind. "Can I make a weapon? I need food and I don't see any edible plant life which means I need to kill something and I will likely be attacked. What weapons do I have at my disposal?" and so I explore the build menu in the fabricator and oh. A knife. Okay. Better than nothing. That's one of the first things I need, right beyond an O2 tank. But the Knife takes rubber and I'm like "ok, how do I get rubber?" I think THAT part they could have done a better approach to. There's a floating white prompt when you swim close to seaweed but it's easily obscured by the seaweed itself so you might miss it, that points to the bulbs of the plant and this is before you have the scanner so you can't scan it to know that its bulbs can be made into rubber. Buuuuuut on the flipside, I _suppose_ the developer's logic was "those clusters look like edible plants and the player is likely looking for food so they might grab one thinking they can eat it and instead the PDA tells you it is a crafting resource".
@@Dhalin It's a great game. In general it does a pretty good job of pointing you in a general direction to progress the story. Still, I ended up looking at guides here and there. I disagree with Skill Up, though - late game is awesome in its own way. I filled up my large sub with lockers full of torpedoes, the mech, and as much resources as I could carry, then I went hunting for the reapers and ghosts. Good times.
@@Saith516 I kinda agree though I never bothered with the torpedos, to me, they just seemed to expensive and impractical to actually use, it was far easier to just outrun/avoid the monsters to get my objectives done, but to each their own! I did look up maps because seriously, not having a map in this world is rather crippling and disorienting. I would find something, and even WITH a map, be searching for hours with it and with the very limited inventory space you have, would end up not wanting to carry around a ton of beacons to mark every shipwreck I came across that I was not willing/able to search at the time and then when I could, be unable to find it later.
@@Dhalin I never bothered with torpedoes either. You can generally just go in a straight line until the nasties lose interest, then just go out and repair. I'd have liked more reason to have them though. I have mixed views about the map. Not having it does force you to pay attention to your surroundings in a way that you rarely have to do in other games, but it's really annoying coming across something cool that you can't explore right now, knowing you'll forget where it is. Beacons are good, but like you say, there's a limit to how many you can carry.
@@semanticsamuel936 And/or the fact you can't make beacons out in the open. That's why I mentioned having to manually map the areas yourself first, like, similar range as to the Seaglide, like 100m circle around you which forces you to explore these areas first, and maybe said map is only accessible at a base, maybe a Map Room or something. That way you don't have access to it 100% of the time, OR, you can access a low-res version of it on your PDA but if you want to really see what's what, you go to your Map Room. Still gotta pay attention to landmarks and such though. And besides, let's be real -- I'm willing to bet a large number of people simply looked a map up online and alt-tabbed. Said maps were full of spoilers and gave you ALL the information. I bet far fewer players would have done this if there was a reasonable solution in-game. It's a similar dilemma of Piracy vs DRM where the biggest DRM causes the most Piracy, but laxing up on the DRM/making your game more available/cheaper makes it less attractive to pirates and people are more likely to buy. At least then, the developers of Subnautica can control how much information the players receive through such maps. Of course some players would still look up all the stuff, but I'm willing to bet a fewer number of them would, if such an in-game solution were present.
I played this at the start of 2019 on RTX 2070 - on an Intel Gen 4 i5 - 16gb No issues full graphics at 1080p (loads were a bit slow) I played it again the other week same gfx but now on a Ryzen 3700X (and on m.2 pcie 3 storage) again full graphics no problem.
I couldn't keep myself playing because of them. Entities loading right in front of my giant submarine ending in me smashing into them was what tipped the scale
yeah, I 'm running this at 1440p on 1080ti and ryzen 1700. No issues, I wonder if it's his recording software or something conflicting with the game :/
I always keep going back to this review, just something about some of your reviews that really showcases your passion for the medium, (ori review, prey and mooncrash's, death's door's)
The scavenger hunt part of the game for the enzyme is really easy if you use the teleporters at the end, you just need to go to each teleporter and grab materials next to them and that’s it.
Man you should play this game in VR, it's a whole new level. Your reviews are so good it would have been a interesting watch for you to describe your experiance through vr. It's so scary I have no words to tell you the chills that have forced me to stop playing.
The only reason I haven't played Subnautica is because of my crippling fear of looking out into the abyss of the deep dark blue sea. Do you know how terrifying Florida is to me?!
There's actually few times in the game where you look into an actual abyss. Usually if you just get to the edge of the map which there's not much reason to ever do. In most cases, once you get the Seamoth, it tells you how deep you can dive safely and if you see a ledge, you just go slow and if it looks like you won't reach the bottom before you run out of safe depth, then just turn back and go back up and wait until you have the necessary upgrades to get down there further.
I used this game as therapy to combat my crippling thalassophobia, and it serves a little in real life. I could actually swim in a pool at night alone now.
@@radamanthium Huh. I wonder if that would work for me too. What exactly is thalassophobia? Is it just a fear of deep water? Because I panic when I get in water where I can't touch my feet to the bottom, and if I fall in and I can't find the bottom I start panicking because I don't know how to swim. But yet oddly enough, playing video games where I go underwater does not bother me whatsoever.
@@Dhalin Thalassophobia is fear to the sea. I actually have fear to dark water/deep water, either in the sea, lakes, rivers, ponds, pools, the sewer, or just a hole in the floor with water. I'm a pretty good swimmer, and I never had any incident to trigger this phobia, it just started one day. I can't even watch movies, play videogames, or even read novels that have dark/deep water situations in it. That's why I started to play Subnautica as therapy, and slowly I overcame the most serious part of this phobia. A couple of yera ago I actualy swam in the sea, in clear and shallow water fot the first time in a dacade, so it worked in some deegree.
"I'm sick and tired of games telling me what to do" This captures one of the fundamental shifts in game design that I absolutely despise over the last 2 decades. When I go back and play games from my childhood and adolescence like FF1-11, old school marios, etc. etc. (yes, I still play FFXI lol, though I also play XIV actively as well), it's staggering to see how far level design has dropped and guard rails have gone up. Games aren't created with the same implicit respect for the gamer's intelligence and patience anymore. Blame can be had on both sides (developer + gamer), but it just feels lazy in game design/creativity these days.... like, what's the fucking point of a puzzle that actively provides instructions to solve? Rant over.
A few months ago I started up Far Cry 4 for the first time. I hopped on a motorbike at my very first chance and fled the tutorial enemies. I was then told that I had failed my mission and it reset me to a few minutes previous. I uninstalled it and will never play it again.
i think there is ways to have usefull and fun tutorials (an example would be boneworks wich basically just has a museum to build story and teach basic mechanics, wich eaven has a puzzle + answer but the mechanics are so engageing that when you have fully grasped them its still fun to revisit the tutorial and finding different wacky ways of solving eaven that basic puzzle) but as you said modern games got verry hand holdy. For example i absoluzely hated it that new super mario bros (i think it was) threw an invincebility item at you fater you faild the level 5 times. it just feels like people think your dumb. i also like to play the original doom game more than the new one simply because the new one tells you what to do. sry for that rant but you got be rageing with agreement
@@darknessml6145 I stole the game when I was 14. I didn't really know anything about it except that it looked cool. I didn't end up playing it until last year, though.
About that scavenger hunt--one of the things you need is in the giant tank. The others are each at the end of one of those four portals in the last base. They literally put everything you need right there at your fingertips, if you happen to notice.
@Michael yeah on ps4 even without pathes it runs like a dream Also arkham knight is one of the best looking games ever despite being released nearly 5 years ago
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I really dislike how the people, not the government, always have to come together and have each others back. Prime Ministers are on holiday while people fight for their lives and in the end the money comes from people, not the government. I have the feeling they count on that to rebuild the infrastructure so they can keep bathing in their mountains of money.
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>sees him casually swimming above the water next to the aurora
>hearbeat raises by 40bpm
40 is just barely above resting heart rate I think
@@the3diamonds472 I think he meant raised
@@the3diamonds472 average resting bpm is 60-100
@@the3diamonds472 seriously ? really?
Next to it is fine. Its behind and in front of it that's the danger zone
A video called "How Subnautica uses Terror" has a really interesting point about why the game is so scary. The idea is basically that the game being easier makes it more terrifying, because you rarely die to the monsters, so they don't lose their mystery. If they would just kill you all the time, they'd lose their scariness and just become annoying.
Cough cough ice worm
I found subnautica relaxing. Being deep under the sea is actually really chill; you're away from the world and all of it's problems.
@@ZM-dm3jg you are the bravest person I know. Or did you just have the music turned off?😂
@@mospusthespider1246 I don't know how it is in Below Zero (I bought the game day one, but I'm not following the news to not spoil myself, even though I'll probably not be able to play without shitting myself every 15 minutes anyways), but in the original the thesis is very much true.
PresidentBanana i have watched that video a long time ago to, and honestly. He’s very right. The mystery, music and more make it really scarry. Even though most of the time you’re pretty save if you’re not stupid
Subnautica is absolutely amazing. I wish I could erase my gaming memory and experience it all over again.
Subnautica Below Zero will be out in a year or two so you have that.
Same here, I was thinking the same a minute before I read your comment 😀
Same here.
Everyone wishes that
same
“Multiple Leviathan class life forms detected in this area- are you sure whatever you’re doing is worth it?”
Anyone with a seamoth with PDS: Try me.
Me after killing my first leviathan with a knife and stasis rifle: I AM THE SEA SLAYER!
*rip and tear intensifies*
Death to all that oppose me!
Hell no. But I want to explore, and damn if I don't want to try and scan that Ghost Leviathan for the 5th time.
And belated comment here but that is not even the edge of the map that’s close but not the edge
First time I went beyond the edge, I did it in Prawn suit. Simply jumped down. Took me a while to understand there's no bottom. Then I turned around and seen my first Ghost.
Few things in a game have ever filled me with terror like a Leviathan scream
Leviathans are scary...right to the point you learn how easy they are to kill. But yeah, first time you meet one "i need a new set of pants".
First time I encountered a Ghost Leviathan was traumatic. Nightfall, blackness in every direction, then a massive transparent neon worm comes at me and I just fucking screamed.
gordon thomas what’s nice is you can avoid them the entire game if you just don’t go near their territories.
Did a play through and didn’t run into a single reaper or ghost leviathan the entire run.
@@casedistorted that's BS. Because the entrance to the lava zone is guarded by a ghost leviathan. But it's possible to avoid reapers entirely, but you miss out some zones.
Worst thing honestly was the Reefbacks. Hearing that noise from so far away with no visible source, then seeing them way off in the distance with no idea what it is. Add that they frequent the deeper areas where hovering at the surface makes it hard to see the seafloor. Serious thalassophobia. Now that I've put tons of time into it I'm just like "Hello my lovely floating mineral deposits!"
I used to lsiten to the Degassi crew logs as company just to keep me sane while exploring the deeper areas in subnautica.
"Everything can kill you here"
Subnautica is just underwater Australia.
Australian Shore*
And now add fire to that list
Underwater australia is underwater australia
We already have that
Australia in the future
This is singlehandedly the scariest and most relaxing survival game I’ve ever played
That's a good description of how I felt, great hanging out in the shallows and in the base... not so relaxing entering a new biome.
I think Skill Up sums it up best.... humans have an innate phobia of deep water. In the shallows, it’s beautiful. In the deep, it’s a terrifying beautiful experience. You literally have nothing to fear but are scared to death regardless.
I actually count this game in my top scary games with Amnesia, Soma, and Alien Isolation.
When I finally got big nuts and started swimming farther away from my drop pod.
"Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the region. Are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it?"
Alright heading back for the day. Maybe tomorrow is the day I head out.
This game just wasn’t scary or much fun if you are really scared of water or fear drowning then you will never evolve in your lifetime id rather drown before I ever burn, bleed out or die from brain damage
38 hours in 6 days. man i havent played a game that much since skyrim back in 2011. ive never played a survival crafting game before and i fucking love this game.
You should try stranded deep. I want to start off by saying it’s not as gripping as subnautica, but I enjoyed it VERY much. It’s worth it!
Hell yeah dude I've put over 50 hours into it and I still haven't completed the story
Rookie numbers
I love the fact that this game is categorized as "horror" on steam.
It's not wrong.
space and underwater. they look so cute with their style and yet they are the best at delivering those fears
BeThomsen yeah. We are generally scared of the unknown, and space and sea are brimming with that.
Well, it is a horror game. It always tries to make you feel unsafe, and jump scare you with reapers, small fish hitting the glas of you ship. Its a mind terror game. Also, after a while, u discover, the creatures are not dangerous. Mostly down there, to fuck with your mind.
Terror is more accurate, since its what goes thru your mind at every movement and at every sound. The third run didnt terrorized anymore since everything was identify.
Especially in VR.
mid range pc owner, subnautica runs like a gem with everyting on high
Same, weird tbh. i7 with a 1080ti and I go from 40 to 60 fps.... depending on what I am doing.
i would consider my 1070 I7 mid range and it still the worst optimized game iv'e evere played behind early acces Pubg.
@@999jay999 40-60 fps for a 1080ti is fucking abysmal the game doesn't even look good lmao you should be easily getting like 400+ fps the game is horribly optimized period.
Even the mushroom forests?
@@chuggynation8275 actually you're an idiot
"I've never gonna off the edge of the map"
the 3 ghost leviathans sitting in the void: sad noises
He didn't even actually reach it. He just reached dunes
15:54 "MULTIPLE Leviathan-class life forms detected in this area - are you sure whatever you’re doing is worth it?"
That single phrase instilled the most terror I've ever felt in this game. After hearing the roars and seeing a faint silhouette of ONE reaper leviathan, I'm sure what I was doing wasn't worth encountering MULTIPLE.
There are no reaper there but there is multiple ghosts that will hunt you down the first time I went the I fucking noped right out after I spotted the tip of a ghost tail.
That quote plays when you enter the dunes, not the void/dead zone.
@@cosmicmemer1611 I know. I heard the roars of a reaper in the dunes - a roar I never wanted to hear again.
I actually built a base on the edge of that biome, I thought it would be cool to look out my window and see the reapers swimming around in the distance, never got to see any though. As for me, that moment was when I turned around and realized a was so far away that the aroura was starting to fade out, and just as thought I should head back the subtitles popped up and I heard "Warning: entering ecological dead zone. adding report to data bank" that voice line immediately made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up
@@cosmicmemer1611 I know. That's why even though the wiki said that there were lots of useful wrecks in the dunes, I never did try to get them.
Player: Enters the 'Dunes' biome
Alterra A.I.: "Detecting multiple L E V I A T H A N class lifeforms in the area. Are you sure that whatever you are doing is worth it?"
Player: "Well I WAS, but now I feel like I should begin reversing as quickly as I can and hide in my life pod until I either die or get rescued."
That was the dead zone, it also says “entering ecological dead zone” Its a nope For me, dunes is also scary cause it has loads of reapers
Everytime I heard that message I did a 180 turn : ) I finished all silent hills, resident evil's, dead space's, and a lot of non series horror games, but somehow the leviathans are way more scary than all those games.
Actually, its "detecting multiple leviathan class life forms in the region, are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it?"
@@San-kp3qu Ah thanks. I forget sometimes lol.
Me the entire game
Cruising through the open ocean at night is such a surreal, terrifying experience. The lights are on but have no effect, you're floating in nothingness, with various noises all around you. Truly incredible.
Glad to see Subnautica getting the love it deserves. It's easily one of my all-time favorite games.
Also, on the note of the Cyclops: I think it's important to think of the Cyclops as a movable base of operations, not as a vehicle that allows you to really zip about. I ended up building pots and growing fruit trees in my Cyclops for food+water. I had the thermal-generation upgrade on my Prawn, and would hop the Prawn out of the Cyclops near lava pools to recharge all my power cells; and so on. Playing it this way, in my opinion, really honed the experience because I'd end up spending days, if not weeks, unspeakably deep within the ocean with barely a memory of what the sky looked like. Being just one guy alone on a planet, trying to pilot a sub meant for at least three operators through lava tubes while not sure you'll ever find your way back to the surface was incredibly nail-biting and real to me, and it really was a profoundly unique experience.
I guess the mistake then was that there's no way to incentivize this kind of playstyle without making the endgame bigger. I imagine it would be progression-gating going deeper in the sub to use it like you described would mean having to pilot it to, say, the entrance of the lava-caves, but the only way to go deeper is to make some base-like parts of the sub reliant on time, and have a few scattered around some obscure parts of the map or maybe a new section you have to explore entirely. The prerequisite to all of this being that the submarine has it's own unique fabricator designed around making it a mobile base, and that the only way to make a base that allows you to progress is to have it be close to the surface so it has access to the sun.
So you need to go deeper, but the mk3 module that lets you do so requires a component located in the deep grand reef, which the sub can't access. But in order to craft it, you need a specific kind of crafting table that ALSO has a piece reliant on going to, say, the crater's edge. That piece expires within a minute, so you need to harvest it, get to the sub, and use the unique fabricator to make the components that you then use to build a crafting table-thing. The table can make all the pieces unique to the sub (and you could design aspects of returning to the home base for certain upgrades around this as well), but most importantly, it is the only thing capable of utilizing components that expire for the sub's upgrades.
So now that you have the table, you go to the grand reef for one component that expires that can only be harvested by the prawn suit, and then the blood kelp, then the bulb zone. You craft these components, but the only way to make the upgrade is with the table that can only be crafted within bases. So you go back to base, craft the first half of the mk3, then take a second trip out and get the components, many of them being gated behind tunnels that are only small enough for the seamoth or, like the underwater islands, only accessible via the seamoth or the player using extra canisters of oxygen. all across the map, then you go back to your base and craft it all there. The final components to the mk3 is located within, say, the dunes, then the lost river, then the entrance to the lava zone, and so the best way to make it is by taking the sub to those places as one big expedition, making the mk3, installing it, then going down deeper now that you have it.
This gets the player into the mindset of using the cyclops for long expeditions, planning routes, and returning to the home base in order to progress further. You can also now design systems around building bases for storage and smaller expeditions, but the only way to truly progress through the game is to do EITHER longer expeditions with the cyclops as a mobile base, or build bases and slowly progress with those further down, which imo both eliminate the issues he talked about here in their own ways. These were already systems in the game, but they were ancillary and easily missed, leading to issues like what he described. I feel like this would help with feelings of progression and engagement, though.
@@fatuousinnovatorofsadness4640 I actually have an idea on reworking the Cyclops' power source: They're called called Lithium Rods, they take up a 2x2 slot in your inventory, give 500 power and are crafted with 2 power cells, 3 uraninite and a plasteel ingot in a new habitat compartment made specifically for the Cyclops. This compartment comes with a fabricator made specifically for crafting the lithium rods and Cyclops upgrades as well as a recharging station for rods. You can also dock your Cyclops to the habitat and enter it via a ladder located in the center of the room.
The lithium rods will power the Cyclops' engine, the shield generator, sonar, floodlights, oxygen production and recharging docked vehicles but don't come with the Cyclops by default. Instead, 2 power cells will come with the Cyclops that handle all of the other upgrades, powering any interior modules placed inside, internal lighting and oxygen production in the case of the lithium rods running out of power. The Cyclops' engine room will be redisgned to have 2 rod slots and a power cell slot in between them on each side.
The habitat blueprint is found in a databox, located in the wrecks of the Sea Treader's path or Dunes. Once you unlock the ion blueprints from the thermal plant, you can upgrade the lithium rods into ion rods with 3 ion cubes at a modification station. Ion Rods give 1,750 power each.
Exactly what I did, and it was perfection! Absolutely marvelous. I NEVER had such a feeling of adventure as I had with these little "expeditions". One of the best games I've played in my life. Shame they are moving away from all this in Below Zero.
@@behzadmirmozaffari2563 there is the sea truck for that but sadly it cannot be built inside of, meaning you're gonna have to pack some supplies beforehand. It's a decent mobile base but nowhere near as good as the Cyclops.
@@behzadmirmozaffari2563 They couldn't do as much because it was once meant to be only dlc. Still sad though.
8:30. "None of the creatures are a real danger" Every single crashfish i encountered almost stopped my heart, tf you talking about?!
They can't turn that well, side-strafe them like a heat seeking missile and let them go past (take s bit of practice, or getting lucky).
@@JoshuaRichards2010 i know, i just get startled real easy...
They’re more annoying than scary, at least to me tbh
They don’t scare me much, but the ghost and reaper leviathans are still scary af. I’m still scared of oceans irl when it’s deeper than 5 meters.
@@dystop_ if you want it turned up a notch play on hardcore survival :) one mistake meaning actual death changes how you approach the game quite a bit. Its not DIFFICULT, just forces you to not to take unnecesary risks and take precautions you wont make in normal mode.
Wanted to comment for anyone looking into Subnautica in the present: the devs very recently released a "2.0" update, which backports a _ton_ of performance and engine improvements from Subautica's sequel (Below Zero). The game now runs significantly better on pretty much any mid to high end rig.
If the performance issues were holding you back, now's the time to dive in!
Not only does it run and look much better but they also added some nice QOL features and new base structures.
The game is better than ever!
The sound design and music is what makes this game so darn terrifying.
Dude's name is Simon Chylinski. Fun fact: he got fired over an attack helicopter joke he made on Twitter (in response to a survey with 10 or more 'genders' listed).
the fucking Lava Castle music always got me like
....
ohfuckohfuckohfuckohfuckohfuckohfuckohfuckohfuck WHAT DID I DO?
oh wait it's music
@@chaoswraith I've played Below Zero for 23 hours now, and I can say the game's audio design is definitely as good as the first one.
Joshua Richards yeah don’t know if my political views completely align with the subnautica staff lmao
@@JoshuaRichards2010 "10 or more".Try 65 or more,I heard it's up to 75 or more now.
For me, I enjoyed the hell out of my Cyclops. Personally, I only used guides to figure out where some of the more obscure materials were (I'm looking at Nickel here). The Cyclops, for me, turned a lot of the game systems on their head because it became not only a mode of transportation, but a mobile base (I built a massive storage system on the lower level, and foodstuffs on the upper level, along with everything needed to craft).... It made exploring the more extreme areas much more accessible.
„I‘m looking at nickel here“ I felt that lol
IKR? The cyclops was a dream come true. Also, knowing that you can't just escape everything that easy made using the stealth systems of the hulking sub so incredibly intense.
I feel like the both of you make valid points. For me, understanding that the Cyclops, being a large multi-person submarine, was by its very nature going to move and handle slowly made it more accepting than it seems to have been for the maker of this video.
I never took the cyclops deep. If I wanted to go somewhere deep, I would put my prawn suit in it and take it to the cave entrance. Then use the prawn suit and grappling arm the rest of the way down
@@23kcarlson I always docked my Prawn suit in my Cyclops...Poke around in TLR or Inactive Lava zone with the suit, then come back to the cyclops to drop of what I collect (Nickel, Kyanite, Crystalline Sulfur)... Also found a great sweet spot for a base, near the rear of the Aurora, bordering several biomes (including Jellyshroom, near the Degasi base), AND that location's fed by a heat vent.
I loved how much of a breeze the resource collecting was (most of the time). When I'd go out looking for resources there was still an element of exploration, and finding things rather than standing next to a wall mining coal all day. You still feel like you've earned your gear without grinding for hundreds of hours.
"no wild life poses a significant threat"
*laughs in leviathan*
I was consistently the most dangerous thing in the ocean, especially to myself. :)
Leviathans are no real threat thou as soon as you understand how they work. Adult Ghost is somewhat dangerous due to how damn fast the thing turns, but there's like.. one or two of them on the map if you don't go off the edge, and in places that you don't even need to visit. Reapers are just cute king-size Stalkers that you can dance around without issue. Overgrown cave lizards like their fire breath and go fast, but that's about it - in Prawn they can't do much to you and hardest thing about them is scanning as they keep swimming away. Prawn in general is a god mode making lava zone a recreational walk. Even in Cyclops, thing that is made to suffer from creature attacks, you are incredibly safe as soon as you understand that as long as you don't move and do not make noise you are about as interesting to leviathans as a rock.
Flex007 it’s funny how the game keeps you too afraid of leviathans to realise how easy they are to avoid or kill
It's perfectly safe once you learn where the reapers operate. They just go around in the dunes, north and east of the enforcer platform and the Aurora. I never traveled too far to the south but there's literally no reason to but the only thing i encountered was a juvenile ghost which poses no significant threat since you can easily get away from them. Sea dragons are just there for fun if you walk around in prawn but as long as you get too close.
They aren't a threat. They're just scary. Even if a Reaper grabs you, unless you're already on death's door you can escape. If you see them coming, you can easily dodge them and get away, even if you're not in a sub. You can even scan a Reaper if you're brave enough. I'm not disputing that they're scary (I've jumped out of my skin more than once, even if I know exactly where they operate), but it's an illusion of threat. That's one of the strange things about the game - there's not really any reason to die. You get tonnes of warning about oxygen, and even if you're at zero, you've still got a good 10 seconds of swimming. Food is everywhere, even if you have to eat it raw. Water can be problematic if you haven't brought reserves, but even then you can find enough to stave off dehydration wherever you are. The most dangerous thing in the game are Crashfish - they can whittle down your health in no time, especially pre-Seaglide.
*talking about how slow the cyclops is*
Me: notices he has it set to the slowest speed you can go ;-;
Yea, exact same reaction
Complains about the visibility, doesn’t use the cameras
More like doesn’t use sonar 🤦🏼♂️
@@therussiannukekid1784 Complains about having to go back to the shallow for copper, has 0 lockers on his cyclops. What kind of psycho don't move their whole base to the cyclop the first chance they have?
@@NoOne-fe3gc
I hardly ever used the cyclops. It was only used for deep sea travel, or other areas where I needed the prawn, and even then I sometimes just used the prawn to avoid leviathans attacking my cyclops.
I found the third half of the game most enjoyable. Once I acquired the prawn suit and the Cyclops, I basically lived in the cyclops. I made it completely self sufficient. Had two aquariums for bladder fish breeding for water, 4 pots with Chinese potatoes and various other edible fauna for food that would regrow, since I had upgraded to thermal power I never had to worry about power down there.
wait a third half, jk yeah i had the same setup and it was very enjoyable until for whatever reason a ghost leviathan continuously charged my cyclops till it broke
Took me like 6 hours to figure out there was a knife.. I feel personally attacked at 7:06 =(
how did u get coral for batteries without knocking it off the reef with a knife? same with creepvine,blood oil, etc etc?
@@annafinch2315 I think you meant coral for computer chips or for bleach.
That's another thing I love about the game. It doesn't really force you to use the overwhelming majority of the tech in the game. There are a few things you can't beat the game without collecting or making, but you have a lot of options with what you want to use to take you to the end.
nice lie lol
@@annafinch2315 mhhh I might have used a knife at some point but i can't remember. its been a long time ago. Wasn't there another gadget that allows you to collect those things though?
I liked the last 3rd a lot. I understand how it feels like more of the same but harder since you're cut off from the top, but this game gives you multiple power sources so you can live in places like the ultra deep and hot. The cyclops being slow and hard to move makes sense, its a huge oblong piece of metal with a fan in the back. And it really sells the clausterphobia of the sea much more than the rest of the game did.
16:00 I actually know what happens when you go off the map
1. All the music and background sound you are used to cuts out and the water changes to a slightly eerie dark blue
2. Slowly but surly 3 adult ghost leviathans spawn to push you back into the map
3. You are given a PDA entry talking about the dead zone
Actually its kind of ingenious the developers tell you through game play alone that "Hey, you're not supposed to be here (through the lack of ambiance) , good on you for exploring (by giving you a PDA entry) but please get back into the map (through the very scary and loud ghosts) and don't come back (told by what is actually said in that PDA)
True. The hardest part is finding the boundaries in the lest detrimental way to one's self.
Now try this:
1) Save game
2) Get in fully upgraded Prawn and jump off the edge
Not gonna tell you what i found 23,000 meters down ;-)
@@stiimuli ...nothing?
@@brodriguez11000 "Safest" way I've found to do it is to head to the Sparse Reef, then keep going West until you hit the Sea Treader Path. From there, West again. You'll know when you hit it. That's the route with the fewest hostile animals.
Alternatively, you could go via the Dunes. That's always fun.
@@stiimuli nothing because the game has a depth limit of 8000 metres
"Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the region. Are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it?
"
funny how that prompt doesn't even come up at the edge the map, you were entering the Sand Dunes area which has a bunch of Reapers patrolling it. You're in for a different surprise if you actually reach the edge of the map.
Indeed. He would have shat himself if he left the crater.
Hehe, I was in a party with my friend when he entered the void, it was silence, then THE loudest scream I've ever heard, I was laughing my ass off XD he was sooo fucking scared, he was legit whimpering afterwards XD
What's funny is that when I got that pda I was in the mushroom biome and saw a wreck just off the edge of it. I went closer and got that message while also hearing reaper roars, I got out of there so fast.
*_Entering ecological dead zone._*
"lOOK, if you are too dumb to realize that you need a knife at this point, then you are not gonna make it, buddy"
This game is one of the few that literally change my life.
Im gonna need to explain this one do I?
Ok so, since i was young i hated ocean and water( not the drink). I was scared to death to go below my neck in any pool or beach. When i was 13, my school had obligatory swim session...
So i was humiliated, shouted at by the teacher, mock at and even beaten up in the changing room.
I had this game one year ago. It was an horror game for me. The scariest game i've ever play. But then, i was calm in the safe zone. Then the green plant zone. And soon enough, i wasn't scared of peaceful fish. Stalker were the next nerf.
Only the abyss and all form of hostile leviathan scare me now.
I've even play on vr... one of the worst good idea ever. I felt peaceful after 20 hour in vr. So i tried to replicate that in school. Wouldn't you know, i became in the top 5 in my entire school.
So... in short, this game is really important to me.
This is me with WoW right now. Terrified of the ocean. Scared shitless. Still am. But its helped alot
Damn.. that's nice to hear that a game could do that for you ❤
What teacher would shout at a student just for being scared of water?
@@7PlayingWithFire7 i didn't really play world of warcraft so i don't really understand(since i never knew they were underwater section) but still, its great that it help you too
@@Ztingjammer thank😃
I’m so fucking happy you finally decided to review this. It’s one of my favourite games of all time, honest to god.
And yes, it is probably the best horror experience ever.
I remember making large room full of flower beds and just a chair to sit down and read the logs in haha. I loved this game so much
That tan is out of control, even for an aussie.
It's the fires.
@@mix1ro One smoked SkillUp please
Thank you
He's also ridiculously good looking for a nerd. And I'm not even gay.
Have you met a roof tiler from Australia?
@@brandanmurray193 why?
“This video is about water, but I want to start it by talking about fire”
Is this another boat analogy?
“Australia is on fire”
Ooooh yeah. Carry on :(
“They don’t pose a threat”
*Shows Reaper Leviathan*
"Allow us to introduce ourselves."
" and none of the wildlife poses a threat so significantly that it would deter you. "
laughs in leviathan
Designed to be scary, not deadly. You can easily avoid their mouths and they swim so awkwardly and make so much noise that you should be able to keep track of them if you are paying attention. Once I got the beacons I went leviathan hunting and dropped one wherever they swam so I could keep track of them.
@@jouaienttoi wow
you're smart
@@RookieREX its true tho
Leviathans are easily avoidable, but Crashfish on the other hand.......
OKay OKay
I get it
You *could be intelligent* and just swim(step?) and avoid their charge entirely. (or leviathan surfing)
but my point is
ya every just go down deeper an be like
"hOH boy! DEEPER WATER! I bet I can find some of that darn [insert material needed] so I can get another PHUCKIN depth upgrade."
*then ya hear a roar and u just nope out*
"yea owabbot no im gud, bye."
never had so much fun
and felt even more dread of the deep
Yea the reaction of anyone who accidentally strays into the dead zone...
"30 seconds of air remaining."
(panic ensues.)
''OXYGEN!'' *blackout
"Subnautica blows the last 1/3rd of the game..." WHAT?!!! I want MORE of that part of the game!!! Modifying and exploring the depths with the Prawn Suit and Cyclops (a mobile, vulnerable base) was AMAZING!
I'm crushed that the next game will not have that.
Yeah, exploring the depths of the Lava Zone was appropriately intense and I loved how terrifying it was.
That said, I hated hunting for the last resource needed, because as far as I knew, there was no way to figure out where to even look for it. :s Thank god for the wiki.
The next game has the Seatruck which is basically the cyclops that is a bit easier to drive, though I will say that the cyclops looked nicer inside and wasn't as cramped. Once you build several modules for the Seatruck it kinda-sorta feels somewhat like the cyclops? But not quite, and sometimes... maybe it's because it's still in early access or something, sometimes if you park your seatruck at too steep of an angle it's hard to really do much inside of its modules but you can usually fix that.
@@AegixDrakan I spent for ever looking for magnetite xD
@@AegixDrakan Hunting for those 5 ingredients went well for me. When I got the blueprint, I assumed that the devs would not require me to scour the entire game world, most of which I've explored at a normal pace, for 5 ingredients I haven't seen before. So, I searched the primary containment facility's aquarium thinking that was a reasonable range to have to search. I found only the Sea Crown. Then I noticed: 4 portals in the primary containment facility, and 4 more ingredients... maybe the devs intended these as shortcuts to the ingredients? Yes, looks like they did. I even got lucky and did them in order of easiest to hardest. Getting the courage to pilot my Prawn past the Ghost Leviathan guarding the last portal exit was the hardest part.
This is literally one of my favorite games of all time. This is the game that I will forever measure survival games against.
I cannot wait for Subzero.
Below Zero?
As opposed to figuratively?
you better play it now because they will intorduce major changes to the story in the next big update supposedly. I am really enjoying Below Zero
@@Kristjan_K why play now? (I have it but I've wanted not to soil it so hard in early access like I did with the first one)
@@EricMalette They are going to change the story, which means the story that it is in the game right now will be gone and you will never see it unless you watch lets play videos from before the change. But yet they are NOT changing the layout/areas much if at all, so... it's a double edged sword. If you go in for the story now like I did, when they change the story, you will already be familiar with the environment and the new equipment etc.
Fantastic review. Also, the game runs much better now, so if you decide to take another run back through it some day, it'll be MUCH more enjoyable on that front!
It's literally been sitting in my library for years. Now I'm going to actually play it.
Good. It's hands down the best example of a survival game done right. An actual story and ending, incredible atmosphere, terrifying creatures and zones (in one deeper area light didn't reach so it was pitch black except for my flashlights, and the music stopped a well. Was really scary), and a lot of fun to play.
Most survival games are just "here's an open world map and some creatures that can kill you, go build a house and just exist". Subnautica is a game with actual thought put into it.
EDIT: I'm actually replaying it as we speak as well. Last time I played it was still in early access with only part of the story implemented. I've just gotten to the entrance of the inactive lava zone and am building a base at the tree to have an outpost there. God the first time entering and going through the lost river was terrifying. :p Tough I did kill the juvie ghost leviathan so it wouldn't bother me while paying through on the future.
@@Sanquinity You forgot about the beautiful 54 soundtracks
@@midasra1132 Oh right. The soundtracks are indeed great too. Plus just the sound design in general is amazing. Hugely adds to the atmosphere of each zone.
I've had it for a while too. Debating to play this or outer wilds first
@@mav2553 Definitely Subnautica
I'd never felt such a powerful sense of dread than when I was sinking, slowly, into the darkness of Subnautica's uncharted depths, and the horror when those distant lights began moving, coiling rapidly, towards me.
The first time I had to leap-of-faith in my PRAWN out in to the darkness and watch the depth meter start rocketing up. I don't need monsters to scare the shit out of me, I just need to not see the bottom and wonder if it will ever arrive!
I had to give up on the game. It was simply too much with the dark depths and the feeling of claustrophobia. Just hearing the sea monsters in the distance would freak me out.
But I had loads of fun in the shallows and the next areas, that are not too deep :)
Once I was trying to find the island and went past it and off the map
to anyone that knows what happens, you know it's scary
I will never go off the map again ;-;
I had the same thing happen to me it catches you off guard. IT SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME!!!!!
I've never actually went to the edge ( well I have but not actually INTO the void) but ik what happens and all i can say is
*I'm sorry for you*
@@mubashir6729 haha yesss
I wish he actually went out into the void. I was hoping he would show a reaction of him being so scared.
Once you've seen a Leviathan, hearing "Multiple Leviathan-class lifeforms detected ahead" becomes the scariest thing you'll ever see.
@@praisethepuck That moment when you realize all the Ghost leviathans you've encountered so far arent fully grown really blew my mind.
@@praisethepuck yeah. Hearing is the scariest thing you'll ever see.. WHAT
@@praisethepuck I think that is the message you recive when you first enter the dunes. I turned back faster than I could say nope.
@@AeonQuasar iirc, at the dunes it says theres not allot of life around and you might wanna think if you wanna go on. at the edge you get the message Jake mentioned.
One thing I would like to point out is that Subnautica's opening moments of gameplay are genius. After you climb out of the pod, there's nothing but the water and the Aurora in the distance. Most players will then just push forward and dive into the water. You get this beautiful underwater landscape rolling out from the player, with the area going deeper in the background. This I contend puts three ideas in the player's head:
1) This game isn't about finding land surrounded by water and building there. The water is where the game is going to happen.
2) Going down is how you're going to progress the game.
3) We're not in Kansas any more Toto.
It uses these first few minutes to inform the player, get them hooked, and get them exploring. This gets further reinforced through the gameplay, keep swimming down, that's where the cool shit is.
Your taste in video games greatly differs from my own, but you're so articulate and well-informed that your videos are just fantastic to watch. Keep up the good work
Your reviews are so well articulated and well thought out that even if I disagree with your opinion I respect it. Great Job as always!
“One creamy vegetable smoothie of pain” is one of the ickiest descriptions I have ever heard. Congrats. I think...
This was not a horror game for me simply because i was constantly fascinated by everything. I purposely let leviathans hurt me to take screenshots. It is amazing.
I have fear of the ocean and this game is amazing, but seeing huge things far from the distance made my heart sink
its exciting. not scary.
"The various sea creatures that you encounter don't really pose much of a threat"
Meanwhile I'm trying to fend of three reapers in the dunes in a cyclops having the butt clench of a lifetime trying to not lose my shit and go cry in a corner while my hands are sweating with Hull integrity at 37% and water leaking thru the holes in the hull
"Warning: Fire detected!"
@@mysteriousmemethief welp... time to build second Cyclops and find fire prevention addons...
Well here's your first mistake: One does not venture into the Dunes. Not if ones life is dear to oneself.
@@Hanfgurkenhasser well I remember needing to do something there, that or I went thru the area when I was lost, following a marker home hmmm, dune base seems like a good idea on the next playthru
here's your mistake: you should have brought a sea moth with PDS instead, it makes exploring in the dunes easy and safer.
I have to thank you for bringing my attention to Outer Wilds. I absolutely love the game.
The only reason I gave Nier Automata a go was because of Ralph's review, it's now in my top 10 games of all time, he has a knack for revealing the diamonds in the rough :)
Well now I have another game to add to the wish list
Awesome game
I recently replayed it for 2h, then loaded my 20h+ savegame. The sense of achievement when suddenly you have this gigantic base stuffed to the brim with materials, all perfectly organized in color-coded lockers, 2 of every vehicle with maxed out specs, auxiliary bases for battery and power cell charging at every major location, a ton of named and colored beacons all over the map ... just gotta love that game
instead of preparing for that one big descent, i liked to do a bit of an "expedition" style of gameplay.
Build a fairly small base in a little save spot fairly deep, and went on to still visit my base near the shallows and back to push a bit further.
on my first playthrough i didnt even get to build the cyclops before reaching the lava biome. when i got that kyanite i finally had more freedom...
i saw the pressure as a timer until i had to head back to my base before being crushed.
finally building the cyclops felt like a big archievement after that, it was so satisfying breezing through my "checkpoints".
wish i could play this game for "the first time" again
Edit: Because of this game i got Below zero as soon as it was awailable and was a bit disappointed of the story.
they took one of the biggest elements away that made subnautica so good: That feeling of isolation, being on your own in this chrisis the character is going through.
They announced a big change to the story, so i hope some of that will come back. Looking forward to that already
Apparently it'll happen later, a lockdown will ensue it seems
just letting you know, since you were disappointed with the story including many others, they almost completely redid it. (it's not close to finished, so I wouldn't recommend playing it now)
Its not even close to be finished yet, the story is very broken. When it fully comes out it Will be very Good I’m sure
Eh, I kinda liked the nice contrast between the two games. The original Subnautica left you alone, stranded, relying purely on your survival instincts. Below zero gave a new start by making you stranded, but not alone in the planet, with your sister up above and an alien inside your head. Overhauling the story kinda makes it feel like it wants to ride the tailcoat of the first Subnautica. But then again, the game isn't complete, and just like the first one, I am certain it will be very good once finished.
One of my favorite games of all time! So sad to hear that it did not run smoothly for you, because I had none of these issues whatsoever... I can imagine it takes some of the immersiveness away from the game. Thank you for being a trooper and enduring it though and gave it a proper play trough! Kudos!
I had a great time in the last 3d of the game! Maybe because I used my cyclops as a mobile base and parked it by the acid river and continued with my prawn suit. I didn't feel any resource limitations because trecking that far felt like an epic voyage and I always prepared extensively.
AKA:
Thalassophobia: The Game
I suffered from severe thalassophobia while serving on the crew of the Jahre Viking ...
SkillUp didn't want to dive in this game, i on the other hand didn't want to leave, i found the underwater realm so cozy... What do you call that - thalassophilia ?
I love horror games and have Thalassophobia so this game was the perfect blend of survival and horror for me
THIS.
Speaking of Thalassophobia, I'm watching The Abyss...
God damn LOVE this game! I've managed to leave Below Zero alone, can't wait till its finished.
I know! Right? I never actually completed Subnautica because I spoiled it all by watching lets plays of it, so there was no mystery left to it! For Below Zero I've become dead set on not touching it or watching people play it until it finally releases in full!
I jumped on it very early, same as subnautica, and its great to see the progress theyve made in terms of development as well as improvements and changes to the original title. its still subnautica, but different. you're smart not wanting to spoil the experience for yourself.
Me too. I am waiting patiently. Not seen any spoilers yet and I'm checking every day if a date is set.
@@nephriumgaming4566 same I haven't picked the game up as I think the game will not entertain me to the extent of watching the Neebs Gaming Subnautica series.
Omg it's so hard to not just start playing. Below Zero has been waiting readily installed since early access started. And I haven't touched it, yet. The last time I felt like this was 28 years ago when I was little and waited for Xmas to finally get to play a new SNES game. :D
One of the biggest aspects I loved about this game was that instead of the usual "how do I kill this threat" combat-oriented approach, the game makes you think about to deal with the threats creatively. They do give you weapons and torpedoes to deal with the big scary stuff if you really want to, but if you pay attention and learn the way the ocean and its denizens work, there are so many other approaches. I remember the first time I snuck past one of the Ghost leviathans to get my nickel ore and being super-proud of myself...at least once the overwhelming terror of being that close subsided :p
Damn seems fairly well optimized for my mid end build like you said.
Jam Flex I have a 2700x and GTX 1070 and I get 40-60 FPS mostly on high 1080p settings but in areas I’ve built a base the framerate tanks to 40fps consistently
@@casedistorted I run medium settings on my 1060 6GB and it runs basically always at 60fps, with rare drops with biome loading.
@@trashman9948 same with my rx580. Playing on high with an average of about 50fps.
I have a high end rig, the performance isn't on par with other similar graphics games, (even open world)
Yeah, I have a prebuilt laptop I got at Walmart. One of their upper end ones that isn't like, multiple thousands of dollars, but still.
Game runs perfectly fine. I can think of maybe once or twice in all my time playing that it's dropped a couple frames, and I use high graphics settings.
One of my all time favorite games, it's been at the very least a decade since the last time a game made me feel sad for it to be about to be over like Subnautica did. I'm 26 years old and usually don't get sentimental with games, but this game made me revisit every outpost I had built before I ended the game with such a bittersweet feeling of happiness.
I FORGOT HOW SAD I FELT WHEN I LEFT THE PLANET. I actually was full on sad that I was finally done with the game.
If anyone has recommendations for games that made them feel like this please let me know. I felt exactly the same and just want to feel that way about a game again
@@theoneandonlyjs19 the only 2 games that made me feel this way were Undertale and Nier:Automata
"None of the wildlife poses a threat so significant, that it would deter you.."
Reaper sounds intensify
I love the end game, grappling around with the prawn suit
I feel like he did the end game wrong, end game was some grind, yeah, but it was also a Leviathan killing mechsuit housed in a self sustaining mobile base
Prawn with grapple: amazeballs.
Prawn without grapple: pain.
And the grapple is sooo easy to miss; I bet many blind players never even knew about it.
Really makes you FEEL like spider-man :)
This is so weird I get like 60fps on a 1070 and i5
Eliot Han That’s strange I get around 60-100 FPS with my 1070 ti and i5
I get 60 fps (with drops tho) with 1060 6gb and Ryzen 5 1600 and with all high settings, so it's really weird. I have 16gb Ram, maybe that could mean something?
Heey Monster! That is strange, what the highest FPS you ever noticed?
@@Ziiphyr I have it locked in 60 fps so I haven't seen how highest it could went sorry :c
I was running at 144 on 1060 with i7
>I can't see out of my cyclops
>doesn't switch on flood lights
bruh
The VR experience is great! The headset actually adds to the immersion in a very physical way. I found myself holding my breath and almost hyperventilating at times.
One of my favorite games of all time. I wish I could erase my memory so I could experience it again for the first time.
I would highly recommend playing the sequel, Below Zero, when it releases (at some point later this year). As of now, the game is still in early access but very close to release, and just two days ago I started playing through it.
The problem that you had with the Cyclops is eliminated with the Sea Truck; a happy medium between the Seamoth and the Cyclops. You can get it pretty early on, but there are several modules you can unlock for it to turn it into a mobile base of sorts. Adding more modules decreases your speed and maneuverability, but gives you more advantages on-the-go. It's completely customizable and very satisfying.
The biomes are stunning and unique, but they still feel like you're on the same planet as Subnautica. From floating lilypad islands to kelp forest caves to the terrifying depths of the deep twisty bridges, each new biome I've encountered has left me thinking, "Woah, this is awesome."
A good portion of the game takes place on the land, too. It isn't so much that it diminishes the significance of staying underwater, but it has a very unique feel and important objectives. On land, you have to avoid staying outside for too long or you'll freeze. You can build a hoverbike to traverse the icy landscapes quickly, and you'll keep finding new nooks and crannies to explore. Above the ice is also where, in my opinion, the most terrifying biome and creature awaits.
In terms of wildlife, Below Zero has more than Subnautica-- with both friendly and dangerous creatures. Some fish from Subnautica reappear in Below Zero, but most of them are new. There are much more smaller fish you can eat, but also many more predators you want to avoid. And there are some BIG predators.
The story of Below Zero is still in development, so it could change before release, but as it currently is, I think it's as good (if not better) than the story of Subnautica. The biggest difference is that there are interactions between your character and a few other characters. However, the mystery and piecing together the bits of the story are still there. You still search for PDAs containing logs from crews who came before you. You're still only given hints as to what the next objectives are (for instance, you could be told that the last known location of something is West of a specific landmark and probably approximately X meters below the surface.)
Materials gathering doesn't feel as tedious as it did in Subnautica. There's a much better spread of resources throughout the world, especially as you get deeper down.
tl;dr Subnautica: Below Zero is a phenomenal sequel to the original game, and in my opinion is even better. It takes everything good about Subnautica and expands on it. It improves on the aspects of Subnautica that were lacking. It's just as beautiful and awe-inspiring as Subnautica, and is even more terrifying. I don't know when the game will officially release, but I highly recommend you play it if you enjoyed Subnautica or just enjoy survival games in general.
Subnautica Below Zero takes place on the same planet as the original subnautica
You get more answers on your questions, but that only raises more questions, wich is very good
The horror aspect also thrives in Below Zero too, and I would say it's just as good as it was in Subnautica. One of the biomes has a long system of trenches, and going down them is TERRIFYING because you can constantly see the shadow of a leviathan swimming above you, waiting for a chance to attack. Considering a good number of valuable fragments are found near there, experiencing that fear and then having to face it to get your fragments is both very scary and immensely satisfying.
I loved the first Subnautica, it has become one of my favourite game of all time. I have just bought Below Zero and I am so exited for its release. I want to play once it is finished so for now I can only wait.
Did they fix the bugs from Subnautica though? It's the only reason I haven't bought sub-zero yet. It bugs me that I lost both a Prawn and a Seamoth to sinkage into the ground & the Prawn getting stuck randomly in the alien bases was a nuisance, both of which have been problems for years based on Steam forums, and they never bothered fixing it (I don't mind as much about the excessive clipping & fauna entering bases because these problems don't generally set back gameplay). I absolutely adore Subnautica but not sure I trust the devs.
For anyone with performance problems on high core count processors:
Download Process Lasso and limit subnautica's main process to only 3 cores permanently. This increased my fps from 40 - 30 to 60 - 45 all ultra (on Ryzen 7 1700 and GTX 1070)
This game simply doesn't like having more than three cores.
You can find thread on steam about this, just type "subnautica performance three cores" in Google.
Bringing his cyclops down to the sea dragon leviathan, what an absolute mad lad!
I drove my Cyclops right up to the very last area of the game, without taking Hull Damage (and drove it back to my base, still without any hull damage). I made a video series on my channel about this, and it was my first time.
@@Dhalin Damn that's great! I cannot for the life of me drive the damn thing.
@@vellathewench Try watching the videos for a bit, might give you ideas on how it was meant to be driven. It is tricky and it took me a few minutes to get the hang of it. The biggest two things are 1). Don't try to go too fast, it's not an attack sub, and 2). Watch your proximity alarms and go slow, use your cameras, and just keep in mind nothing can actually hurt your sub that's not a leviathan. Eels and Brainsquids will attack the sub (with alarms!) but they can't harm it.
@@Dhalin I did watch a lot of vids on how to drive it, but I still manage to hit the sides. Maybe I'm just trying to take it places it isn't meant for, I dunno.
Thankfully my real life car driving isn't anything like this lol.
Thanks for the advice.
@@vellathewench *nods* np! I would argue that vids on how to drive it probably don't really show actual practical use, they just show little clips here-and-there, which is why I suggested mine where I go down to the Lost River and even the Lava Zone in real situations, unedited footage. I can tell you from experience that the Cyclops will never fit into the Mushroom Caves that I know of, both entrances are way too small for that thing. But you can indeed get it into the Lost River, though I know from experience, also, that one of its entrances is ridiculously small and difficult to squeeze into (not impossible though). And the transition from the Tree down into the Inactive Lava Zone? You have to turn the sub to the side to lower yourself into that little crevasse otherwise you're not going to fit. Getting into the lost river? I always use the West entrance; there's only 1 Leviathan between it and the Inactive Lava Zone and it's usually rather easy to sneak by him without him noticing you, and the entrance is a LOT more kind than the northern one where you found the lifepod. The best way to find that entrance is to take your Seamoth, go to where the lifepod is, go into the River (careful you don't exceed Crush depth!) and make your way over to that other entrance (you'll pass a ruin on the way, you might want to open for some more ion cubes!) and drop a beacon there so you can find it when you take the cyclops.
Diving Deep in Subnautica is one of the most interesting things for me. Honestly the whole game feels a bit like Metroid Prime underwater
This. Subnautica is a metroidvania, where paths are locked by items and the whole world loops around and connects back in on itself
"You're off the edge of the map, here there be monsters."
-Captain Barbossa
I spent hours getting my cyclops , took it to the edge of the map and let’s just say I don’t own a cyclops anymore .... 😢
This game is so great and bought it on a whim and so glad I did .
Once I took my Cyclops on an expedition to the edge of the map too. I also put my Prawn Suit inside of it and had a static bubble rifle with me just in case things went South.
For me personally the game had a 4th part. when you have gone so deep held your breath nd dove ever deeper into the mysterious and creepy depths. When you come back to the shallows again its like coming up for air after you have pushed your courage and desire to explore to its limit. you come back to the shallows and look around feeling like "My god... I remember when this was the most terrifying place i thought i could go XD" It almost feels like a reward to be able to come back and kiss the lifepod that kept you safe at the start of all this.
My editing debut.
Great work!
@@TShank227 Thank you!
you need to be pinned and be higher!
@@BloodyDIMISIS55 Appreciate that, but I think the pinned comment is super important and definitely should stay pinned :) Thanks though, man. *nods*
@@WizFish oh shit yah donation stuff haha
Stay strong Australia, hope you people there to be safe.
I just love how beautiful it is, and the music too.
This game took me by surprise last year, loved every second of it and was sad when it was over. Really felt like I overcame the odds, getting the sub and going to the lowest depths. Amazing.
I loved the Forest too (on coop) and I hate survival games.
My main reasons for buying a PC game, in order of most to least important:
1) Because Skillup said the game was cool.
2) Steam or GOG are having a sale, so wtf, I won't lose much money if I buy the game...
In Subnautica it really feels like the player is suppose to carefully look at which upgrades they might need. For example before going down into the caves it's a good idea to get sonar for the Cyclops and not just the depth module.
Yeah let’s go into the Void!
“Multiple Leviathan class Lifeforms detected.”
Ok just a Reaper... 0_0 NOT A REAPER! *NOTAREAPER!!*
"BUILD THE KNIFE, SKILL UP. BUILD IT."
- 90% of games these days.
Subnautica is one of the best games I've ever played. PLAY IT!!!
I've heard some people say that they didn't know about the Knife.... dude, that was like the first thought on my mind. "Can I make a weapon? I need food and I don't see any edible plant life which means I need to kill something and I will likely be attacked. What weapons do I have at my disposal?" and so I explore the build menu in the fabricator and oh. A knife. Okay. Better than nothing. That's one of the first things I need, right beyond an O2 tank. But the Knife takes rubber and I'm like "ok, how do I get rubber?" I think THAT part they could have done a better approach to. There's a floating white prompt when you swim close to seaweed but it's easily obscured by the seaweed itself so you might miss it, that points to the bulbs of the plant and this is before you have the scanner so you can't scan it to know that its bulbs can be made into rubber. Buuuuuut on the flipside, I _suppose_ the developer's logic was "those clusters look like edible plants and the player is likely looking for food so they might grab one thinking they can eat it and instead the PDA tells you it is a crafting resource".
@@Dhalin It's a great game. In general it does a pretty good job of pointing you in a general direction to progress the story. Still, I ended up looking at guides here and there. I disagree with Skill Up, though - late game is awesome in its own way. I filled up my large sub with lockers full of torpedoes, the mech, and as much resources as I could carry, then I went hunting for the reapers and ghosts. Good times.
@@Saith516 I kinda agree though I never bothered with the torpedos, to me, they just seemed to expensive and impractical to actually use, it was far easier to just outrun/avoid the monsters to get my objectives done, but to each their own! I did look up maps because seriously, not having a map in this world is rather crippling and disorienting. I would find something, and even WITH a map, be searching for hours with it and with the very limited inventory space you have, would end up not wanting to carry around a ton of beacons to mark every shipwreck I came across that I was not willing/able to search at the time and then when I could, be unable to find it later.
@@Dhalin I never bothered with torpedoes either. You can generally just go in a straight line until the nasties lose interest, then just go out and repair. I'd have liked more reason to have them though. I have mixed views about the map. Not having it does force you to pay attention to your surroundings in a way that you rarely have to do in other games, but it's really annoying coming across something cool that you can't explore right now, knowing you'll forget where it is. Beacons are good, but like you say, there's a limit to how many you can carry.
@@semanticsamuel936 And/or the fact you can't make beacons out in the open. That's why I mentioned having to manually map the areas yourself first, like, similar range as to the Seaglide, like 100m circle around you which forces you to explore these areas first, and maybe said map is only accessible at a base, maybe a Map Room or something. That way you don't have access to it 100% of the time, OR, you can access a low-res version of it on your PDA but if you want to really see what's what, you go to your Map Room. Still gotta pay attention to landmarks and such though.
And besides, let's be real -- I'm willing to bet a large number of people simply looked a map up online and alt-tabbed. Said maps were full of spoilers and gave you ALL the information. I bet far fewer players would have done this if there was a reasonable solution in-game. It's a similar dilemma of Piracy vs DRM where the biggest DRM causes the most Piracy, but laxing up on the DRM/making your game more available/cheaper makes it less attractive to pirates and people are more likely to buy.
At least then, the developers of Subnautica can control how much information the players receive through such maps. Of course some players would still look up all the stuff, but I'm willing to bet a fewer number of them would, if such an in-game solution were present.
Skillup: Pilots the Cyclops on slowest speed
Skillup: iT's So SLoW!
The optimization issues for this game sounds very weird never heard them mentioned before o.O
I played this at the start of 2019 on
RTX 2070 - on an Intel Gen 4 i5 - 16gb
No issues full graphics at 1080p (loads were a bit slow)
I played it again the other week same gfx but now on a Ryzen 3700X (and on m.2 pcie 3 storage)
again full graphics no problem.
I've heard of them, but I never had any serious issues.
I couldn't keep myself playing because of them. Entities loading right in front of my giant submarine ending in me smashing into them was what tipped the scale
I don't have a great PC but I ran it on 1440p with no issues whatsoever. It's definitely weird to see his game run so poorly
yeah, I 'm running this at 1440p on 1080ti and ryzen 1700. No issues, I wonder if it's his recording software or something conflicting with the game :/
This game really pulls me into absolute immersion
I always keep going back to this review, just something about some of your reviews that really showcases your passion for the medium, (ori review, prey and mooncrash's, death's door's)
I get goosebumps hearing that Outer Wilds music... Best adventure puzzle scifi game of all time
The scavenger hunt part of the game for the enzyme is really easy if you use the teleporters at the end, you just need to go to each teleporter and grab materials next to them and that’s it.
Man you should play this game in VR, it's a whole new level. Your reviews are so good it would have been a interesting watch for you to describe your experiance through vr. It's so scary I have no words to tell you the chills that have forced me to stop playing.
Donated 1200 U.S dollars to the cause👍
Amazing. Thank you mate.
The only reason I haven't played Subnautica is because of my crippling fear of looking out into the abyss of the deep dark blue sea.
Do you know how terrifying Florida is to me?!
There's actually few times in the game where you look into an actual abyss. Usually if you just get to the edge of the map which there's not much reason to ever do. In most cases, once you get the Seamoth, it tells you how deep you can dive safely and if you see a ledge, you just go slow and if it looks like you won't reach the bottom before you run out of safe depth, then just turn back and go back up and wait until you have the necessary upgrades to get down there further.
I used this game as therapy to combat my crippling thalassophobia, and it serves a little in real life. I could actually swim in a pool at night alone now.
@@radamanthium Huh. I wonder if that would work for me too. What exactly is thalassophobia? Is it just a fear of deep water? Because I panic when I get in water where I can't touch my feet to the bottom, and if I fall in and I can't find the bottom I start panicking because I don't know how to swim. But yet oddly enough, playing video games where I go underwater does not bother me whatsoever.
@@Dhalin Thalassophobia is fear to the sea. I actually have fear to dark water/deep water, either in the sea, lakes, rivers, ponds, pools, the sewer, or just a hole in the floor with water. I'm a pretty good swimmer, and I never had any incident to trigger this phobia, it just started one day. I can't even watch movies, play videogames, or even read novels that have dark/deep water situations in it. That's why I started to play Subnautica as therapy, and slowly I overcame the most serious part of this phobia. A couple of yera ago I actualy swam in the sea, in clear and shallow water fot the first time in a dacade, so it worked in some deegree.
@@radamanthium Ahh, okay. I was misunderstanding what exactly it was.
One of the best games ever made. When I beat it I felt really proud of myself. I love that planet. Can't wait for the ice one to release on Xbox!!
Just a few more weeks!
I never like ark, connan those survival game, those games always required a large amount of time on grinding materials for crafting
"I'm sick and tired of games telling me what to do"
This captures one of the fundamental shifts in game design that I absolutely despise over the last 2 decades. When I go back and play games from my childhood and adolescence like FF1-11, old school marios, etc. etc. (yes, I still play FFXI lol, though I also play XIV actively as well), it's staggering to see how far level design has dropped and guard rails have gone up. Games aren't created with the same implicit respect for the gamer's intelligence and patience anymore. Blame can be had on both sides (developer + gamer), but it just feels lazy in game design/creativity these days.... like, what's the fucking point of a puzzle that actively provides instructions to solve? Rant over.
A few months ago I started up Far Cry 4 for the first time. I hopped on a motorbike at my very first chance and fled the tutorial enemies. I was then told that I had failed my mission and it reset me to a few minutes previous. I uninstalled it and will never play it again.
i think there is ways to have usefull and fun tutorials (an example would be boneworks wich basically just has a museum to build story and teach basic mechanics, wich eaven has a puzzle + answer but the mechanics are so engageing that when you have fully grasped them its still fun to revisit the tutorial and finding different wacky ways of solving eaven that basic puzzle) but as you said modern games got verry hand holdy.
For example i absoluzely hated it that new super mario bros (i think it was) threw an invincebility item at you fater you faild the level 5 times. it just feels like people think your dumb. i also like to play the original doom game more than the new one simply because the new one tells you what to do.
sry for that rant but you got be rageing with agreement
@@JeanDeaux666 I'm legitimately just curious if you wasted your money on a game to do that
Did you?
@@darknessml6145 I stole the game when I was 14. I didn't really know anything about it except that it looked cool. I didn't end up playing it until last year, though.
@@JeanDeaux666 Lmao bro I "borrowed" it from a friend for 4 years. Just gave it back like 2 months ago.
About that scavenger hunt--one of the things you need is in the giant tank. The others are each at the end of one of those four portals in the last base. They literally put everything you need right there at your fingertips, if you happen to notice.
Waw, i am actually amazed how bat it runs for you. And i have a much older pc at this point and it ran great by default. :O
"It is the worst game I have ever played in terms of optimization."
Skill up clearly didn't play Arkham Knight on release.
@Michael yeah on ps4 even without pathes it runs like a dream
Also arkham knight is one of the best looking games ever despite being released nearly 5 years ago
@WD Fourty the optimization of subnautica is really weird on my PS4 it runs really smooth 🤷♂️
For some reason my arkham knight played really well at launch but I heard the horror stories. Mk 10 ran terrible for me though
Awesome. I’ve played this game to completion and agree with every comment you made. Loved this game and wish I could play it again with a fresh mind.
Best explanation I've heard. Now you need to get ready for Subnautica: Below Zero