First one I've seen using bleach extensively to make water. Its just a weird playthrough in general, but I guess that's Subnautica, and Mapo seems to enjoy making life hard for himself ;)
the perfect comedic timing of mapo going "You know, I'm finally ready to go out exploring, I feel confident now" and then immediately running into his first reaper lmao
I am genuinely impressed that Mapo heard the line “detecting multiple leviathan class life forms in the region. Are you sure whatever you’re doing is worth it?” and said yes
Given the usual response to seeing that particular Leviathan is to panic and flee, I was impressed with your "Eat my Seamoth so I can try and scan you" approach 👍
Especially since in the two playthroughs I've seen, where the Reaper got its claw on the Seamoth, in both cases it was immediately destroyed. Beep Beep Beep Beep Beep BOOM. I think he got hella lucky there. Also, the Reaper was almost weirdly calm. Usually it comes back, and tries to chase you for a bit. And you have to actively leave its range. But again, I personally don't have that much experience, since I usually try to avoid it :D
@@glacialbae It's been bugged in my game for quite a while too. Takes away 90% of the fear, when it's just a big snake floatin' around and suddenly you're dead with no warning cause oops, I guess there was a reaper nearby :(
@@ImAmirus - The reaper has been bugged since the last update, unfortunately... Once you get close enough, that the distance-roars used to get louder, it instead becomes entirely muted and where-as before you would get the scare of your life, hearing the sudden loud-ass roar when the reaper sees you and is about to attack, it's now... silence... Also, it seems to have a smaller aggro-range. It's just depressing and pathetic now >:(
It only happened to me one time but that is all it took. I came back to the beach and found a small cylinder which kinda looked like those upgrade modules. Only it was stuck in the sand with no way for me to interact with it. No other sign of the Seamoth.
14:14 You cannot fuck up base building in Subnautica - if you don't like something you can simply deconstruct it and get 100 % of the ressources refunded. Not sure why your Lifepod gets damaged. It can get damaged by creatures; swimming in gas clouds from gasopods for example, but usually that doesn't happen. I strongly recommend to build multipurpose rooms - those are the real base rooms. Much of the essential base stuff (like reactors, water filtration machines and the like) cannot be built in the Moonpool.
@@geisterwolf397 Sure. Personally I still prefer the multipurpose room, I only use the large room for Alien Containment units - but that's just personal preference I guess.
"Detecting multiple Leviathan-class lifeforms in the region. Are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it?" This line never gets old! Lovely video, mapo 👌
So far this has been the most unique playthrough I've ever seen. He gets certain things way quicker than others and takes way too long to figure out other shit. most people get base building pretty quick, it took him a while to figure it out but he also started his base with a moonpool while others start with basic tubes. He's got enough balls to actively approach a reaper on his first encounter. Pretty cool stuff
I don't think I've ever seen ANYBODY go right in front of a reaper's, and then a warper's face for an extended amount of time and make it back home. I don't know if its luck or skill, but damn that is impressive. Lmao
It's one of the things I wish they'd change or add. A hardcore mode where the dangerous animals and warpers are actually dangerous and deadly. Now there's not one creature that can actually kill you in one go, and the so called "hunter seekers" are the most lethargic hunter creatures I've ever seen in a game. I've never actually felt threatened by them in the slightest after my very first encounter with them and noticing you can just outswim them. I wish there was a game mode where the warpers are actually fast and kill you in one swoop, then you'd actually have to fear them and avoid them.
The thermal plant doesn't necessarily have to be placed next to a thermal vent, it just operates based on water temperature. It provides 1.33 units of power per degree celsius above 25C, capping out at 100C, the main benefit being that it doesn't need any fuel and operates continuously. There's a thermometer in your vehicles. I'd recommend using bio reactors with a growth bed next to them for your regular energy needs though --in that regard, things have an "energy density". feeding it fish is most efficient (the grav trap is great for that) but for plants you're gonna wanna use Speckled Rattlers (you found those on the first island) or the Gel Sacks you already have. Cut a plant with the knife to get plantable seeds from it. Plants grow within one day (it varies depending on size) and a full bed of Speckled Rattlers should last you several weeks at a time. Solar panels won't be useful once you get a water filter/scanner room and nuclear is just overkill unless you're making a "creative" base lol
@@ZeallustImmortal I really just used them for the late game when I was sticking a solitary scanner room on the ground as a forward base with a power cell recharger
Love that you're enjoying yourself playing something out of your usual let's plays! Quick tip for the base: build foundation so your base gains in integrity and then build your multipurpose room on it close to your moonpool so it connects, you'll get more room for your lockers and such :)
::Sees large deposit of silver:: "Special equipment is necessary to collect this deposit. I wonder what that is?" ::IMMEDIATELY finds and scans the Prawn Suit Drill arm:: "Must be the lazer cutter. Can't imagine anything else it could be." This has to be among my top 5 all-time Subnautica playthrough moments. Cheers, and thanks for the content!
I like how streamlined your playing is. You might make some things harder than neccessary for yourself, but it's very enjoyable to watch because when a task starts spiraling out of control, you keep your calm and start decomposing the problems very systematically one by one.
Excellent to see someone appreciate the potential of the Seamoth Solar Charger Module! It’s a very powerful module and can eliminate the need for a Power Cell charger at all. I use my Seamoth to recharge both the Prawn and the Cyclops on the fly.
I was so happy when I saw that. It's one of the things I make as soon as I can. That and the Swim Charge Fins. You never need to get any kind of charger for your base, if you don't want to. You just grab your seaglide, put an empty battery in it and swim around charging it, and you just shove empty powercells into your seamoth and ride around fairly near the surface for a while. They're the most important upgrades in any playthrough, for me.
It's funny, at 1:07:16 you can see the stalker go for the metal salvage, _just_ as you turn away to surface for oxygen, so you miss seeing it by a couple of seconds. And then, when you come down, you can even see that the salvage is gone, and, but it's so far away and tiny that you didn't notice. 1:46:21 - *“Why is it saying…? **__** Whuuhhhh!”* The reaper is the _friendliest_ of all the leviathans. It just wants to give you a big ol' _hug_ and show you its great, big smile, real close and personal… 1:53:08 - *“I need ‘special equipment’, though. And I don't have that. Prawn suit drill arm fragment.”* Talk about perfect timing. The _moment_ you talk about the required mining equipment for large deposits, you run across the first fragment you need for it. 1:58:51 - *“I love that I'm like, ‘Alright, we're gonna just pick a direction and just see what happens’ - Enters, like, fuggin' **_Fish Hell._** Okay. So that's Fish Hell over there."* Oh no; to reach Fish Hell (and, yes, that _is_ a place in this game) you have to go much, _much_ deeper…
The trick is to click on the lower half of the ladder to initiate the climp up animation, clicking on the top half triggers the climbing down animation. Most people jump up and try to click on the upper half and that conflicts with the movement resulting in not climbing up or attaching to the latter and climbing back down into the water.
@@ZeallustImmortal I also like how little resource grinding you have to do to craft or build things. Most things require 1-3 of a certain resource to build, except the ingots and some base pieces. It makes the game feel less like a survival crafting game, and more of an Immersive Sim type of game.
Also wonders how the stalker can eat metal, and surfaces and looks away the precise moment it does. And also failed multiple spot checks when stalkers had dropped teeth on the seafloor.
In case you haven't got to that piece of information yet, the music changing is your cue for time of the day. Also, aside from the night, there are sun eclipses that also make everything go dark. Quite a fascinating thing to view.
1:30:47 You actually can unload batteries! Same way you replace them, there's just an "unload" option that pops up right where any replacement batteries appear after hitting R
Mapocolops: Dislikes backseating and endless unwarranted advice and tips as he likes to figure things out on his own and have a genuine first time experience Comment Section: 99% backseating and endless unwarranted advice and tips You guys do realise that Mapo isn't even active in these comment sections because of you all, right? He wants a BLIND PLAYTHROUGH. Or are you all forgetting what that means. Mapo has been begging for people to respect his blind approach for years, only for everyone to just ignore his wishes, just sad.
I've actually never seen the lifepod get re-damaged like that, pretty interesting! Also, you actually can remove batteries without replacing them by pressing r and then navigating left Your reactions to the reaper and warper were great, super fun episode
Hey look at that. Someone that encounters the leviathan and doesn't immediately start screaming and crying while continuously glancing at chat. I like your nature science time with Mapo segments as you figure things out.
"Hmm, now I need to figure out how to power [my new moonpool hovering over an active heat geyser]." *opens PDA, which is already on the thermal plant blueprint* *dives into geyser to find materials for solar panels* I don't mean to tease -- we all did stuff like this when learning the ropes, and it's part of what makes these playthroughs so fun to watch. Keep at it, and I hope you're having fun, too!
Did you even listen to anything he was saying, or watch what he was doing? He was trying to use the thermal plant but he doesn’t know how to set it all up yet, and the PDA literally told him to use solar panels. Your comment is kinda condescending considering it seems like you weren’t paying attention.
My god you're lucky that it didn't grab the character itself! Awesome playthrough and you're becoming one of my favourite youtubers the more I see you!
Found your channel a couple of days ago thanks to this series! Subnautica is one of my favorites and I LOVE seeing people do blind playthroughs. I'm glad you're enjoying it so far! And your intro was a blast from the past too, haha. Ahh, nostalgia. Subscribed and can't wait to see more :)
When I played this game years ago. I was collecting stuff from the bottom. And suddenly I heard the reaper sound. I looked up, and watched the reaper drag my seamoth into the depths... never to be seene again.. and I was a long way from home.. I was just frozen for 10 seconds.. I didn't even know what to do LOL. Eventually I had enough courage to just swim all the way home to my base.. Then years later I see people swimming around the reaper, scanning it and having no problems riding it's back while taking selfies haha.
@El Mariscal I think it's a sort of mini-game to some people. Jumping out while going at high speed is another one. Personally once I got injured/killed by doing that I realized it was a bad idea lmao literally getting run over by my own sea-car lmfao
I prefer just two back legs with the Moonpool jutting out off a cliff edge, lots of clearance below. Then an X corridor going forwards (for expansion potential) and a MPR forward of that, so it looks like a two legged snoot animal.
i like how you can tell moments of panic by looking at how he moves the camera a little bit more erratically and sometimes he will open his eyes when the fear is real
Love watching this playthrough. You've definitely taken a different approach to the game in some ways than many other players I've seen. And while I find some of those things counterintuitive, it definitely seems to be working for you. Fantastic series so far!
Pretty sure the Degasi *didn't* blow up in a quantum detonation after it crashed, so Bart only ever observed the stalkers chewing on natural metal deposits. It wasn't until the Aurora scattered bits of itself all over the crater that the stalkers got to indulge in a huge all-you-can-eat scrap metal buffet. 🙂
Thumbnail has me very excited! Was not expecting base building too, stoked to see how it's gonna look later on! Edit: When it comes to the structure of these videos, maybe it would work to try and structure them like you did with Death Stranding, with segments of you retracing old steps and making a small highlight compilation with custom music added! Of course the way it is now works very fine, I'm just throwing out a random idea since you were talking about it in an earlier video.
1:30:50 yes you can. I dont know the keyboard controls but I think if you press R and then selec the X on the left you take out the current battery of the tool leaving it empty. I recommend you to build an scanner room, it will help you a lot to find those early materials without effort. Also try searching more in the giant purple Glowing mushroom zone. Good content as always 👌🏼
Huh, I've never seen the lifepod get damaged before. Ahh, the confusion of first starting base building. It's so fun watching that early total lack of understanding fade away as players progress through the game. One thing you will quickly come to realize: you will ALWAYS need more titanium. Watching you swim around manually everywhere, yet the poor air bladder remains completely unused even when you're surfacing for oxygen makes me sad =( Finally some sort of proper storage! Not only is it good for storage space, but I feel like the ability to organize your rsources is even more useful. Yeah, the game isn't super-clear on how to get stalker teeth. Bart's log is indeed giving a hint, but as you learned, it's easy to misunderstand/misinterpret what actually needs to be done. Well, I've got to say this is my first time seeing someone set up a moonpool as the main room of their base. It actually works out surprisingly nicely, with all the space along the walls. And now for the part everyone has been waiting for since the moment you started the game. Leviathan time! I almost wish you hadn't used that as the video thumbnail, so it would have come as more of a surprise. Air bladder to the rescue! Take that, everyone in the comments who said it's useless! Ooh, your first Warper encounter, too!
Hey Mapo, I loved this episode! Some of the comments seem a little mean but you're seriously doing great compared to most playthroughs! I especially like how much you read the scanned stuff, most people don't bother and 1. never learn important information, and 2. lose out on the really cool lore and explanations for creatures that come with the scans. I'm taking Environmental Science right now so I'm particularly having fun reading their descriptions of the food web. Also, your first encounter with those Leviathans is probably my favorite I've seen (yours was refreshingly calm but still very cool), the notification about your seamoth so you go up to check and see it swimming away, and then your attempts to scan it was all so cool, and encountering the Warpers so soon and seeing them kind of fighting the Leviathan was amazing too. Overall, love the series, you're doing great!
I love seeing you having fun exploring and discovering new places and creatures! Your journey to Fish Hell was amusing 😂 Subnautica is full of so much cool stuff; the developers really put a lot of love into the game and it shows!
I really recommend using your seaglide it really helps getting to your moth faster or to collect and scout out things faster, it has a flashlight too so getting it in your inventory at all times would make everything outside your base easier :) great lets play so far tho, keep it up!
@@neonwargaming5536 I rushed through the game because I didn’t want a device that helped me do things faster?? That doesn’t even make sense. I built the seamoth pretty early and I never strayed that far from it while out so I didn’t really see a need for the seaglide is all. It takes up so much inventory space anyway, otherwise I may have felt differently. But thanks for assuming I rushed through the game and didn’t enjoy its many details just because I didn’t want to use the seaglide 🙄
@@unlmtdsky12 what meant by that, is that you cant take things in especially in the early game from the view of the seamoth, i think the part of the game before you get a seamoth you try to go deeper and try to figure things out is so much fun... and by that you see that there is the seaglide that i didnt see anybody ever NOT make so it just felt a bit off seeing someone that just casually skips that 🤷🏼♂️ sorry if you actually didnt get spoiled for this game or didnt rush through it
@@neonwargaming5536 personally I didn't use the seaglide much in my first playthrough because I like to take things slow and immerse myself, I can't immerse myself as much zooming through the seafloor at what feels like 30mph
@@Freezorgium I certainly agree that the VR implementation left a whole lot to be desired, but yeah, even with those issues. I've rarely been so frequently awestruck. The VR implementation for the sequel is much better.
watching mapo look away every time a stalker picked up some metal to lose its teeth was good comedy! >< Also if you think you are in a stuck spot, check the radio and explore the area around the next beacon thoroughly, the radio will lead you to all the resources as you need them until you are full established enough to do the more free form story stuff that comes later
24:37 There are a couple places here in the shallows where you see boulders like this. I wonder if attaching a bunch of floaters to it would unblock that passage? If so, what lies beyond?
That warper creature made me think. It would be so awesome If you would play one of the X-COM games or Xenonauts or something like that. 10/10 would watch
Gotta say, I don't see a lot of people _start_ a base with a moonpool. Probably because its blueprint is not readily available. Much more common to start with one of the hallway modules, which are pretty cramped, but can still accommodate a handful of lockers and other stuff. That said, the moonpool is a pretty decent starting point, considering the space it gives you in spite of most of its footprint being dedicated to... well, the pool. To answer your question about how the thermal plant feeds its power to the base: It's common to think power sources have to be placed directly on the base, as you did with the solar panel. In fact, this is not the case. If a source is not attached to a base, it transmits its power wirelessly, using a laser. However, the range of power sources is very short (something like 20 meters). The geyser is, of course, a good place for a thermal plant, but if you get it as close as you'd want it to maximize its power, it may be too far from the base. There is a way to extend the range, but you don't have it yet. The nice thing about the thermal plant is, it's the one source you can pretty much "set and forget", being both consistent and maintenance-free. All the others are either inconsistent (solar panels only charge in sunlight, of course) or require some actions to keep operating (the bioreactor must be refueled, for instance). Oh wow. That strategy with the big sea monster (I know you've seen the name, but maybe you haven't actually looked at it yet??). I don't think that was very smart. It came close to destroying your Seamoth. It does let go on its own, but there's no guarantee the Seamoth will survive until then, if it's already damaged, nor that it won't somehow take more damage before you can get back in. 1:56:52 The scanning progress is per individual, which means you have to completely scan a single individual of a species. I think the problem with the Warpers was, you were scanning several of them.
2:04:36 "Double the amount of water as well". ("Begins mansplaining"): Well, actually, 🤓 you get triple. You get two bottles of 30 ounces for (60 ounces total) each as opposed to one bottle of 20 ounces. 🙂
Some big tips for you mapo, when base building you have to take environment and flat surfaces into consideration, the different stone out crops can be found in different biomes and you'd want to build a multi purpose room attached to the moon pool for things to build on the wall
u can find tons of magnetite in the jellyshroom cave where the degasi 250m base was built. also some REALLY useful outcrops there. scan them and break as many as u can!
That bit about sniffing the farts for oxygen got me. Disgusting prospect that I've never thought of in my life, and hilariously silly in the context of sea-bound survival on an alien world. I'd rather drown lmfao
You should read more about "Indigenous Lifeforms> Coral > Giant Coral Tubes", when you read it, something else grabbed your attantion away from it before you were done reading.
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like how he keeps bumping into his own lifepod with the seamoth and then asking who is damaging my pod
"We're all looking for the one who did this."
But that still shouldn't happen
@@paperclip6377 I had no idea that it was even possible to damage the lifepod :D
@@rulssie I don't think its possible
@@paperclip6377 i mean you cant probably damage the pod but having to repair the panel inside made me wonder how that works
Mapo's the first person I've seen who straight up built a moonpool as his first building lol
First one i've seen to not use the seaglide
@@jdew84 Sure but not on your first playthrough is what I meant.
not only the first building but the only one xD, he lives like a caveman in a grotto.
@@jdew84 moonpool or a scanner room depending on which you get first imo
First one I've seen using bleach extensively to make water. Its just a weird playthrough in general, but I guess that's Subnautica, and Mapo seems to enjoy making life hard for himself ;)
Mapo is blowing my mind with this playthrough. I never imaged someone could spend eight solid minutes searching for two titanium.
He's a good guy.
probably the most chill first encounter with a reaper ive seen
the perfect comedic timing of mapo going "You know, I'm finally ready to go out exploring, I feel confident now" and then immediately running into his first reaper lmao
Hahahaha, instant karma? He handled it pretty well.
I am genuinely impressed that Mapo heard the line “detecting multiple leviathan class life forms in the region. Are you sure whatever you’re doing is worth it?” and said yes
This shows how heroism and stupidity are indistinguishable
@@beaconeersofthesevenmaps3467 def nit mutually exclusive
Given the usual response to seeing that particular Leviathan is to panic and flee, I was impressed with your "Eat my Seamoth so I can try and scan you" approach 👍
You forgot the Ian Malcom 'Distract it with a flare and get mamed in the process' technique
Especially since in the two playthroughs I've seen, where the Reaper got its claw on the Seamoth, in both cases it was immediately destroyed. Beep Beep Beep Beep Beep BOOM. I think he got hella lucky there.
Also, the Reaper was almost weirdly calm. Usually it comes back, and tries to chase you for a bit. And you have to actively leave its range. But again, I personally don't have that much experience, since I usually try to avoid it :D
I think that the sound was bugged. It's not nearly as scary without the roar.
@@glacialbae It's been bugged in my game for quite a while too. Takes away 90% of the fear, when it's just a big snake floatin' around and suddenly you're dead with no warning cause oops, I guess there was a reaper nearby :(
@@IroAppe
it almost never destroys a full hp seamoth, unless it also rams it into something...
Watching metal salvage go by the screen while he's hunting for titanium is priceless 😅
or waiting for the metal salvage to turn into a tooth😅
@@Nickie875 while not seeing all the teeth dropping. I sat here, screaming TOOHT TOOTH every time he missed one 🤣
I laughed so hard when he thought metal salvage turned "into" stalker teeth lol
It was about time he encountered the Reaper
@@ImAmirus Yeah that was a shame. It did roar but only in the distance and I don't think Mapo noticed.
the sounds in this game were buggy from the beginning, things can still become silent :p
@@ImAmirus - The reaper has been bugged since the last update, unfortunately... Once you get close enough, that the distance-roars used to get louder, it instead becomes entirely muted and where-as before you would get the scare of your life, hearing the sudden loud-ass roar when the reaper sees you and is about to attack, it's now... silence... Also, it seems to have a smaller aggro-range. It's just depressing and pathetic now >:(
Ngl the warpers and the reaper reacting to eachother was one of the coolest moments I've seen in a Subnautica playthrough.
I watched a sea treader flick a warper like a pest lol
Mapo never realizing how lucky he was that the Seamoth was still there at the beach and not clanged into infinity :D.
lol I learned that lesson the hard way
That only happened to me one time
It only happened to me one time but that is all it took. I came back to the beach and found a small cylinder which kinda looked like those upgrade modules. Only it was stuck in the sand with no way for me to interact with it. No other sign of the Seamoth.
Mapo not screaming in horror when he saw the Reaper Leviathan for the first time shows me how little this guy fear the ocean lmaao
Perks of being Australian: terrifying lifeforms dont startle him as much 🤣 Mapo says he terrified of the ocean but he's got his fears by the horns
14:14 You cannot fuck up base building in Subnautica - if you don't like something you can simply deconstruct it and get 100 % of the ressources refunded.
Not sure why your Lifepod gets damaged. It can get damaged by creatures; swimming in gas clouds from gasopods for example, but usually that doesn't happen.
I strongly recommend to build multipurpose rooms - those are the real base rooms. Much of the essential base stuff (like reactors, water filtration machines and the like) cannot be built in the Moonpool.
It's because he ran into it with his Seamoth. That can break the internal systems.
Since he is playing now he can build large rooms from Below Zero in the first game too. You get the blueprint by scanning a multi purpose room
@@geisterwolf397 Sure. Personally I still prefer the multipurpose room, I only use the large room for Alien Containment units - but that's just personal preference I guess.
Nowadays Large Rooms are better than Multipurpose rooms, it's like 3 multipurposes in one (at 4+ times the cost, but worth it)
@@OtakuJuanma2 the only thing that goofs with my mind is that last time tried them, their windows were bugged in one of my favourite biomes
"Detecting multiple Leviathan-class lifeforms in the region. Are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it?" This line never gets old! Lovely video, mapo 👌
So far this has been the most unique playthrough I've ever seen. He gets certain things way quicker than others and takes way too long to figure out other shit. most people get base building pretty quick, it took him a while to figure it out but he also started his base with a moonpool while others start with basic tubes. He's got enough balls to actively approach a reaper on his first encounter. Pretty cool stuff
It's kinda funny he's run into warpers so early in the story he isn't technically infected yet, so they don't attack him
using an upgraded seamoth as bait to scan the reaper is a bold move sir.
Mapo: scans a DRILL arm.
Mapo 0.001 seconds later: I'm sure it's the lazer cutter to access deposits.
I laughed out loud when he said that moments after scanning the drill arm lol😅
"My Seamoth is fine", he said... All of us answering "no it's not" to our screen, knowing all too well what lurks around.
Question: How much can you tunnel vision?
Mapo: Yes!
Chill out, why are you a rat?
“The metal salvage turns into stalker teeth!”
I don't think I've ever seen ANYBODY go right in front of a reaper's, and then a warper's face for an extended amount of time and make it back home. I don't know if its luck or skill, but damn that is impressive. Lmao
It's one of the things I wish they'd change or add. A hardcore mode where the dangerous animals and warpers are actually dangerous and deadly. Now there's not one creature that can actually kill you in one go, and the so called "hunter seekers" are the most lethargic hunter creatures I've ever seen in a game. I've never actually felt threatened by them in the slightest after my very first encounter with them and noticing you can just outswim them. I wish there was a game mode where the warpers are actually fast and kill you in one swoop, then you'd actually have to fear them and avoid them.
@@johanwittens7712 yeah I think they nerfed it all, bc in the early access, it was genuinely terrifying and you could actually die.
The thermal plant doesn't necessarily have to be placed next to a thermal vent, it just operates based on water temperature. It provides 1.33 units of power per degree celsius above 25C, capping out at 100C, the main benefit being that it doesn't need any fuel and operates continuously. There's a thermometer in your vehicles.
I'd recommend using bio reactors with a growth bed next to them for your regular energy needs though --in that regard, things have an "energy density". feeding it fish is most efficient (the grav trap is great for that) but for plants you're gonna wanna use Speckled Rattlers (you found those on the first island) or the Gel Sacks you already have. Cut a plant with the knife to get plantable seeds from it. Plants grow within one day (it varies depending on size) and a full bed of Speckled Rattlers should last you several weeks at a time. Solar panels won't be useful once you get a water filter/scanner room and nuclear is just overkill unless you're making a "creative" base lol
Definitely wayyyy better to put it next to the vent tho considering conduits are basically free
@@ZeallustImmortal I really just used them for the late game when I was sticking a solitary scanner room on the ground as a forward base with a power cell recharger
@@-TriP- Thats fair, def enough power at typical temperatures to work for an FOB, but for a full base itd be rough
Love that you're enjoying yourself playing something out of your usual let's plays!
Quick tip for the base: build foundation so your base gains in integrity and then build your multipurpose room on it close to your moonpool so it connects, you'll get more room for your lockers and such :)
NGL for a moment I thought he was going to build the Moonpool directly over the heat vent - that would have been funny.
Bothered by asymmetry, Unbothered by moonpool only having 3 legs. I am RETCHING
::Sees large deposit of silver::
"Special equipment is necessary to collect this deposit. I wonder what that is?"
::IMMEDIATELY finds and scans the Prawn Suit Drill arm::
"Must be the lazer cutter. Can't imagine anything else it could be."
This has to be among my top 5 all-time Subnautica playthrough moments. Cheers, and thanks for the content!
Describing the dunes as fish hell is incredibly accurate haha
Warpers shall forever now be known as "wizard fish".
I adore this name, I called them "Telethia" (I nicknamed anything I was too scared to scan on my first playthrough.)
I like how streamlined your playing is. You might make some things harder than neccessary for yourself, but it's very enjoyable to watch because when a task starts spiraling out of control, you keep your calm and start decomposing the problems very systematically one by one.
Excellent to see someone appreciate the potential of the Seamoth Solar Charger Module! It’s a very powerful module and can eliminate the need for a Power Cell charger at all.
I use my Seamoth to recharge both the Prawn and the Cyclops on the fly.
I was so happy when I saw that. It's one of the things I make as soon as I can. That and the Swim Charge Fins.
You never need to get any kind of charger for your base, if you don't want to. You just grab your seaglide, put an empty battery in it and swim around charging it, and you just shove empty powercells into your seamoth and ride around fairly near the surface for a while.
They're the most important upgrades in any playthrough, for me.
It's just so fun when he goes to scan the most dangerous animal in the whole game like it's a peeper. he's so oblivious to danger.
Honestly, the scanner room is your best friend when searching for stalker teeth, it literally marks any in the area on your HUD
Underrated comment. Extremely useful information
It's funny, at 1:07:16 you can see the stalker go for the metal salvage, _just_ as you turn away to surface for oxygen, so you miss seeing it by a couple of seconds. And then, when you come down, you can even see that the salvage is gone, and, but it's so far away and tiny that you didn't notice.
1:46:21 - *“Why is it saying…? **__** Whuuhhhh!”*
The reaper is the _friendliest_ of all the leviathans. It just wants to give you a big ol' _hug_ and show you its great, big smile, real close and personal…
1:53:08 - *“I need ‘special equipment’, though. And I don't have that. Prawn suit drill arm fragment.”*
Talk about perfect timing. The _moment_ you talk about the required mining equipment for large deposits, you run across the first fragment you need for it.
1:58:51 - *“I love that I'm like, ‘Alright, we're gonna just pick a direction and just see what happens’ - Enters, like, fuggin' **_Fish Hell._** Okay. So that's Fish Hell over there."*
Oh no; to reach Fish Hell (and, yes, that _is_ a place in this game) you have to go much, _much_ deeper…
Finds the Prawn suit drill arm. "I bet it's gonna be the laser cutter that gets things from the deposit."
If the ladder is irritating, You can jump into your moon pool using the seaside to save having to climb the ladder everytime.
The trick is to click on the lower half of the ladder to initiate the climp up animation, clicking on the top half triggers the climbing down animation.
Most people jump up and try to click on the upper half and that conflicts with the movement resulting in not climbing up or attaching to the latter and climbing back down into the water.
@@sadi5713 THIS lol. The amount of times I said aloud "Mapo, click the BOTTOM of the ladder!"
When you dismantle objects I'm pretty sure you get 100% items back.
Indeed you do. One of my favorite things about building in this game.
@@ZeallustImmortal I also like how little resource grinding you have to do to craft or build things. Most things require 1-3 of a certain resource to build, except the ingots and some base pieces. It makes the game feel less like a survival crafting game, and more of an Immersive Sim type of game.
Yes, anything you build with the habitat builder. Anything with the fabricator (or any other tool like modification station) no.
Warpers are so fucking cool probably my favorite creature in the game your reaction to them did not disappoint
I wonder if he comprehended the PDA details of it.
Mapo opens the data bank searching for power and first thing he does is click off from the power tab
Also wonders how the stalker can eat metal, and surfaces and looks away the precise moment it does. And also failed multiple spot checks when stalkers had dropped teeth on the seafloor.
@@Trehek you're being a little too hard on him
@@Freezorgium You're right.
He is the first streamer I've seen actually READ to figure out game mechanics. Have to give him credit for that.
@@FreezorgiumHow?
1:55:44 unironically is now my favorite reaction to that leviathan and a warper
Nothing can beat Vinny's calm yet extremely stressed "what the fuck are you" reaction to the Reaper for me
In case you haven't got to that piece of information yet, the music changing is your cue for time of the day. Also, aside from the night, there are sun eclipses that also make everything go dark. Quite a fascinating thing to view.
I had no idea about the sun eclipses being the cause of the game going dark, how interesting. And the music too.
The stasis rifle is a game changer. Makes even the scariest creatures feel like muppets.
1:30:47 You actually can unload batteries! Same way you replace them, there's just an "unload" option that pops up right where any replacement batteries appear after hitting R
Mapocolops: Dislikes backseating and endless unwarranted advice and tips as he likes to figure things out on his own and have a genuine first time experience
Comment Section: 99% backseating and endless unwarranted advice and tips
You guys do realise that Mapo isn't even active in these comment sections because of you all, right? He wants a BLIND PLAYTHROUGH. Or are you all forgetting what that means.
Mapo has been begging for people to respect his blind approach for years, only for everyone to just ignore his wishes, just sad.
I honestly haven't seen a lot of what you're complaining about.
I've been playing Subnautica for years and never knew there was a sound cue when a stalker tooth drops!
I've actually never seen the lifepod get re-damaged like that, pretty interesting!
Also, you actually can remove batteries without replacing them by pressing r and then navigating left
Your reactions to the reaper and warper were great, super fun episode
The lifepod being damaged again is probably a bug.
@@IamtheLexxNo I’m pretty sure it’s just cause he kept ramming into it with his Seamoth.
Hey look at that. Someone that encounters the leviathan and doesn't immediately start screaming and crying while continuously glancing at chat. I like your nature science time with Mapo segments as you figure things out.
My first encounter was being turned 180 degrees in my seamoth to face the beauty. I just paused the game and went for a little walk outside
He got very lucky it didn't destroy the seamoth especially that 2nd time
never seen the escape pod be re-damaged before, I think it is a bug....
I think he either hit it with the seamoth or something happened while browsing the island.
@@Vhailor_Mithras or all the dumped tarsh around the pod xD
pretty sure floaters eating at it can also damage it
@@captainslender12 never thought about that
Its a bug. Unfortunately, the lifepod cant take damage from any source.
"Hmm, now I need to figure out how to power [my new moonpool hovering over an active heat geyser]."
*opens PDA, which is already on the thermal plant blueprint*
*dives into geyser to find materials for solar panels*
I don't mean to tease -- we all did stuff like this when learning the ropes, and it's part of what makes these playthroughs so fun to watch. Keep at it, and I hope you're having fun, too!
Did you even listen to anything he was saying, or watch what he was doing? He was trying to use the thermal plant but he doesn’t know how to set it all up yet, and the PDA literally told him to use solar panels. Your comment is kinda condescending considering it seems like you weren’t paying attention.
My god you're lucky that it didn't grab the character itself! Awesome playthrough and you're becoming one of my favourite youtubers the more I see you!
Found your channel a couple of days ago thanks to this series! Subnautica is one of my favorites and I LOVE seeing people do blind playthroughs. I'm glad you're enjoying it so far! And your intro was a blast from the past too, haha. Ahh, nostalgia.
Subscribed and can't wait to see more :)
A fish wizard fighting a sea dragon! The ultimate underwater showdown!
Damn, I'm used to watching your playthroughs you already finished and I'm used to watching as much as I want. Waiting 3 days for an episode is pain.
I'm more than a little ashamed at how hard I'm finding it to not feel resentful of fans of the other games Mapo is playing through at the moment.
@@fadedjem I feel that
Pod broke because you kept ramming the seamoth into it lol
The Metal salvage turning into teeth 🤣😂
"Prawn suit drill arm..." "It's got to be the laser cutter that I need to get into that shit..." REALLY?
When I played this game years ago. I was collecting stuff from the bottom. And suddenly I heard the reaper sound. I looked up, and watched the reaper drag my seamoth into the depths... never to be seene again.. and I was a long way from home.. I was just frozen for 10 seconds.. I didn't even know what to do LOL. Eventually I had enough courage to just swim all the way home to my base..
Then years later I see people swimming around the reaper, scanning it and having no problems riding it's back while taking selfies haha.
The three legged moonpool is an OCD nightmare. It's not too late Mapo! We can still fix this!
Makes it easier to dock vehicles though, worth it.
@@joeskittlesman I guess... He sure likes to bump into things with his seamoth.
@El Mariscal I think it's a sort of mini-game to some people. Jumping out while going at high speed is another one.
Personally once I got injured/killed by doing that I realized it was a bad idea lmao literally getting run over by my own sea-car lmfao
I prefer mine being on a single leg
I prefer just two back legs with the Moonpool jutting out off a cliff edge, lots of clearance below. Then an X corridor going forwards (for expansion potential) and a MPR forward of that, so it looks like a two legged snoot animal.
i like how you can tell moments of panic by looking at how he moves the camera a little bit more erratically and sometimes he will open his eyes when the fear is real
Surprisingly calm first Reaper encounter. The first time I found one I swam halfway across the map! Great fun to watch.
Love watching this playthrough. You've definitely taken a different approach to the game in some ways than many other players I've seen. And while I find some of those things counterintuitive, it definitely seems to be working for you. Fantastic series so far!
This man really laughed at the reaper leviathan when it grabbed his seamoth 💀
Pretty sure the Degasi *didn't* blow up in a quantum detonation after it crashed, so Bart only ever observed the stalkers chewing on natural metal deposits. It wasn't until the Aurora scattered bits of itself all over the crater that the stalkers got to indulge in a huge all-you-can-eat scrap metal buffet. 🙂
i am enjoying this playthrough a lot, thank you for the content Mapo
19:10 When all fails read the instructions.. no wait.. when all else fails, pull the instructions OUT of the trash, then read them!
Thumbnail has me very excited!
Was not expecting base building too, stoked to see how it's gonna look later on!
Edit: When it comes to the structure of these videos, maybe it would work to try and structure them like you did with Death Stranding, with segments of you retracing old steps and making a small highlight compilation with custom music added! Of course the way it is now works very fine, I'm just throwing out a random idea since you were talking about it in an earlier video.
I love when someone finally comes across a Reaper for the first time.
I'm shocked it took this long!!! 😂 I'm wondering if he still feels safe now lol
Currently watching you customize your seamoth, while thinking of the title of this video. Cant wait to get to that part.
Love the thumbnail already, I was waiting for you to find one of those... or for one of them to find you.
remember: if you can hear them, they can SEE you.
Love the optimism: Maybe we can tame that thing and make friends with it!
1:30:50 yes you can. I dont know the keyboard controls but I think if you press R and then selec the X on the left you take out the current battery of the tool leaving it empty.
I recommend you to build an scanner room, it will help you a lot to find those early materials without effort.
Also try searching more in the giant purple Glowing mushroom zone.
Good content as always 👌🏼
Huh, I've never seen the lifepod get damaged before.
Ahh, the confusion of first starting base building. It's so fun watching that early total lack of understanding fade away as players progress through the game.
One thing you will quickly come to realize: you will ALWAYS need more titanium.
Watching you swim around manually everywhere, yet the poor air bladder remains completely unused even when you're surfacing for oxygen makes me sad =(
Finally some sort of proper storage! Not only is it good for storage space, but I feel like the ability to organize your rsources is even more useful.
Yeah, the game isn't super-clear on how to get stalker teeth. Bart's log is indeed giving a hint, but as you learned, it's easy to misunderstand/misinterpret what actually needs to be done.
Well, I've got to say this is my first time seeing someone set up a moonpool as the main room of their base. It actually works out surprisingly nicely, with all the space along the walls.
And now for the part everyone has been waiting for since the moment you started the game. Leviathan time! I almost wish you hadn't used that as the video thumbnail, so it would have come as more of a surprise.
Air bladder to the rescue! Take that, everyone in the comments who said it's useless!
Ooh, your first Warper encounter, too!
"That's fish hell over there" @ ~300m, can't wait to see what he thinks of 800+m of fish hell...
@1:30:50 Yes, you can remove batteries with the X option in the replacement menu.
Thank you for specifying this
yeah in nindendo, but i think it's r to chance batteries in keyboard
@@Pave-w2x Yes, R to reload then move left to the X and it will unload the battery.
Maida would be proud of you, rough playing with those stalkers without even a heat blade!
That was some good progress for this episode. Building is very important in this game.
Hey Mapo, I loved this episode! Some of the comments seem a little mean but you're seriously doing great compared to most playthroughs! I especially like how much you read the scanned stuff, most people don't bother and 1. never learn important information, and 2. lose out on the really cool lore and explanations for creatures that come with the scans. I'm taking Environmental Science right now so I'm particularly having fun reading their descriptions of the food web. Also, your first encounter with those Leviathans is probably my favorite I've seen (yours was refreshingly calm but still very cool), the notification about your seamoth so you go up to check and see it swimming away, and then your attempts to scan it was all so cool, and encountering the Warpers so soon and seeing them kind of fighting the Leviathan was amazing too. Overall, love the series, you're doing great!
Been watching you for over a year now, Mapo. Thanks for keeping it up! I love Subnautica and it is cool to experience it through your eyes.
I love seeing you having fun exploring and discovering new places and creatures! Your journey to Fish Hell was amusing 😂 Subnautica is full of so much cool stuff; the developers really put a lot of love into the game and it shows!
I really recommend using your seaglide it really helps getting to your moth faster or to collect and scout out things faster, it has a flashlight too so getting it in your inventory at all times would make everything outside your base easier :) great lets play so far tho, keep it up!
I mean, it’s not really necessary. I never even built a seaglide in my playthrough.
@@unlmtdsky12 well seems like you pretty much rushed through the game and didnt look at the beauty of all the details that were in it ;)
@@neonwargaming5536 I rushed through the game because I didn’t want a device that helped me do things faster?? That doesn’t even make sense. I built the seamoth pretty early and I never strayed that far from it while out so I didn’t really see a need for the seaglide is all. It takes up so much inventory space anyway, otherwise I may have felt differently. But thanks for assuming I rushed through the game and didn’t enjoy its many details just because I didn’t want to use the seaglide 🙄
@@unlmtdsky12 what meant by that, is that you cant take things in especially in the early game from the view of the seamoth, i think the part of the game before you get a seamoth you try to go deeper and try to figure things out is so much fun... and by that you see that there is the seaglide that i didnt see anybody ever NOT make so it just felt a bit off seeing someone that just casually skips that 🤷🏼♂️ sorry if you actually didnt get spoiled for this game or didnt rush through it
@@neonwargaming5536 personally I didn't use the seaglide much in my first playthrough because I like to take things slow and immerse myself, I can't immerse myself as much zooming through the seafloor at what feels like 30mph
I loved the David Attenborough mimicking :D
"Fish Hell" is honestly a pretty fitting name for that area. Theres an official name, but I wont say it until youve finished the game.
Playing Subnautica in VR was one of the greatest gaming experiences of my life.
Really? With that subpar VR implementation?
@@Freezorgium I certainly agree that the VR implementation left a whole lot to be desired, but yeah, even with those issues. I've rarely been so frequently awestruck. The VR implementation for the sequel is much better.
This playthrough has been really good so far
1:47:15 dude you Seamoth was getting PUNTED by that thing😂
watching mapo look away every time a stalker picked up some metal to lose its teeth was good comedy! >< Also if you think you are in a stuck spot, check the radio and explore the area around the next beacon thoroughly, the radio will lead you to all the resources as you need them until you are full established enough to do the more free form story stuff that comes later
24:37 There are a couple places here in the shallows where you see boulders like this. I wonder if attaching a bunch of floaters to it would unblock that passage? If so, what lies beyond?
“This area is fish Hell” ohh Mapo, sweet shallows child.
That warper creature made me think. It would be so awesome If you would play one of the X-COM games or Xenonauts or something like that. 10/10 would watch
You should make multipurpose room its so useful and big feels like a home
You can add more solar panels, they not only collect energy during the day but each one adds to your power capacity.
Gotta say, I don't see a lot of people _start_ a base with a moonpool. Probably because its blueprint is not readily available. Much more common to start with one of the hallway modules, which are pretty cramped, but can still accommodate a handful of lockers and other stuff. That said, the moonpool is a pretty decent starting point, considering the space it gives you in spite of most of its footprint being dedicated to... well, the pool.
To answer your question about how the thermal plant feeds its power to the base: It's common to think power sources have to be placed directly on the base, as you did with the solar panel. In fact, this is not the case. If a source is not attached to a base, it transmits its power wirelessly, using a laser. However, the range of power sources is very short (something like 20 meters). The geyser is, of course, a good place for a thermal plant, but if you get it as close as you'd want it to maximize its power, it may be too far from the base. There is a way to extend the range, but you don't have it yet.
The nice thing about the thermal plant is, it's the one source you can pretty much "set and forget", being both consistent and maintenance-free. All the others are either inconsistent (solar panels only charge in sunlight, of course) or require some actions to keep operating (the bioreactor must be refueled, for instance).
Oh wow. That strategy with the big sea monster (I know you've seen the name, but maybe you haven't actually looked at it yet??). I don't think that was very smart. It came close to destroying your Seamoth. It does let go on its own, but there's no guarantee the Seamoth will survive until then, if it's already damaged, nor that it won't somehow take more damage before you can get back in.
1:56:52 The scanning progress is per individual, which means you have to completely scan a single individual of a species. I think the problem with the Warpers was, you were scanning several of them.
I'm absolutely loving this series. I can't wait to see how the rest of it goes!
2:04:36 "Double the amount of water as well". ("Begins mansplaining"): Well, actually, 🤓 you get triple. You get two bottles of 30 ounces for (60 ounces total) each as opposed to one bottle of 20 ounces. 🙂
1:44:15 who's behind me 0.0 gives me downpour flashbacks
Some big tips for you mapo, when base building you have to take environment and flat surfaces into consideration, the different stone out crops can be found in different biomes and you'd want to build a multi purpose room attached to the moon pool for things to build on the wall
1:56:05 The battle of the wizard fish vs leviathan! That was epic.
u can find tons of magnetite in the jellyshroom cave where the degasi 250m base was built.
also some REALLY useful outcrops there. scan them and break as many as u can!
That bit about sniffing the farts for oxygen got me.
Disgusting prospect that I've never thought of in my life, and hilariously silly in the context of sea-bound survival on an alien world.
I'd rather drown lmfao
You should read more about "Indigenous Lifeforms> Coral > Giant Coral Tubes", when you read it, something else grabbed your attantion away from it before you were done reading.