I swear its the youtubers that are so diligent in scanning anything, that carefully explore everywhere that have the most trouble in finding the entrance to the Aurora lol
@@qwertyuiop3656 How so? I started a new game recently and went to the rear of the ship for the engine parts, real unfriendly. Hell i have lost multiple moths while doing resource collection to all kinds of predators. I do wonder if some streamers install mods to chill them out...
@@aredub1847 the aggro range is decreased, muted roar sounds (only distance roar left) and they don't pursuit like they use too. They still go for the seamoth fairly well when close though. I wonder if people complained they were too diffcult or annoying unless it's just bugged now. It's very disappointing
39:40 Yeah the whole game is actually just an ad for Flex Tape. The aliens basically went like “To show you the power of Flex Tape, I sawed these spaceships in half!”
Ever since I've first played this game and the many reactions I've watched the Reapers and entire vibe of the Aurora before it's repaired still scares me and that's one part of the game I love it keeps you in constant fear of an area until you are capable enough to go through it completely safe
@@JenaPug but it is still WAYYY better than any fins you can ever wear. it gives u seamoth like mobility, and that IS needed. the seamoth is nice, but u cannot rely on it at ALL times. he also didnt really use the seamoth storage, which can easily solve the seaglide size problem in your inventory.
Mapo deciding to go explore Aurora at night, searching for the entrance in total darkness, to the tune of the Reaper screeching its little heart out in the background is just.. perfect. Haha love this series so much Mapo, thank you!
It's so funny watching you play and comparing it to how I was when I first started. I was deathly afraid of every single thing. I quit my first playthrough because I ran into a stalker and it followed me back to my pod. Went back to the game with moral support from my brother, and I almost quit again when I spotted the Reefback in the distant (I played completely blind so I didn't consider there would be fish so big.). My brother had to swim up to it for me to prove it wouldn't hurt me. I beat the game a long time, and no spoilers, but it's something close to my heart because it felt like my own personal adventure. I had to conquer a lot of my anxiety to get through every single stage. It's just funny now watching you and you're taking everything in stride and have explored more in less than 10 hours than I did in 20. Can't wait to watch you swim deeper.
Talking submechanophobia, for me the Aurora triggers it hard. To the point where i physically can't get close to it, one time i accidentally emerged from the water a few hundred meters off its stern and nearly had a heart attack. I can deal with reaper jump scares, the deep ocean, etc. but put me next to a big ship in the water and i might just pass out on the spot. Phobias are wild man 😅
Do the alien bases trigger this as well? Or the smaller chunks of the Aurora that can be found after the explosion? And the player-built submarines and bases? I'm interested in the effects of the phobia, since usually this game is mentioned in reference to thalassophobia instead for rather clear reasons.
@@ultmateragnarok8376 For me it tends to be either large ships or shipwrecks/planewrecks that trigger it. Can't tell if the Cyclops would trigger it as i've never gotten that far 😅 but i had that thought as well. As for the larger Aurora chunks, they are fine as well, it seems like it'd still have to look like a ship/plane etc. for it to trigger the phobia
i was so uncomfortable watching him try to get into the aurora at night with the reapers in the distance. something about the aurora give me the willies
I absolutely love the PDA in this game and the dry humor of its straightforward, computerized assessments. Thermoblade! Food on the go! I have no idea how you managed to circle the Aurora so brazenly without getting chomped even once. I was so tense that whole time watching you, waiting fo a reaper leviathan to snack on your Seamoth. SUNBEAM TIME! This was the event, for me, that really got me falling in love with this game. Before that point, I'd been too cautious to do much in the way of exploration, and then suddenly I needed to go way out over a kilometer away, and all that happened, and I was just like, whoa. I knew something had to happen for it to not be the end of the game, but I never could have predicted THAT. The Aurora definitely has some weird collision stuff going on in some sections. The only part that actually feels like the collision model (of whatever the proper term is) matches the graphics is the area where you enter.
Your playing style is entertaining to watch. You actually take your time to use the information the game provides and you explore stuff on your own, turning your PDA into a library of wisdom. Welcome to the story, enjoy the ride. :)
Mapo I found you through hollow knight and I just want to say you are one of the best let’s play TH-camrs I’ve seen. Your good commentary, attention to detail (for better and for worse), and personality make you an extremely entertaining TH-camr. Thanks for all you do!
Thanks. I've been confused as to why his channel did t have any new videos and I'm not on patron. I thought maybe TH-cam suspended him. Hope he's not too sick😢
@@billy9759 Most people overestimate its utility. Its a great tool, and the fastest way to travel outside of a vehicle, but with ultraglide fins and a seamoth with depth modules, it really isnt that useful.
36:58 there's a reason there's free stuff around the Aurora. The crash zone is a big no no zone. If you can hear the roar from those leviathans then they know exactly where you are. But you don't because of how murky the water is.
@@Redingold Maybe it wasn't, just figured it would have been since they added all the other building blueprints from BZ to the original. Ah well, trash can it is, then!
@@zor53 Guess you don't know how to read it then. Its super nice when around caves. I remember in BZ a lot of people never used the map and had a hard time getting a resource early on. The map actually revealed hidden caves ;)
Ah, the blood kelp zones. My favorite region in the game, with only a select few close competitors. It has a very unique ecosystem to the stuff on the surface, though you'll find that the deeper you go the more things change. Some parts stay similar enough, though, which is nice. The Aurora landed on an area that appears to have been a combination of the Safe Shallows and Kelp Forests and a bit of the Dunes regions, all now destroyed and crushed beneath it with the remaining portions designated as the Crash Zone. The Dunes are the same region that played the 'are you sure whatever you are doing is worth it?' line. What's left is an area where the rock has been blasted to sand (and pushed above the water here and there) and most of the landscape has only a scant few of what creatures would usually be in an area its size. Textures on the ship are a little scuffed, but the game isn't known for having particularly high-quality textures to begin with. I certainly wouldn't want to deal with the ridiculous processing power requirements were the whole of the Aurora to be very high resolution. As cool and creative as your idea to roll the wreck over, I think you'd need a hell of a lot of floaters to do that. Those also aren't physics objects, unfortunately, and are incapable of moving in normal gameplay. I do wish you could do that, though. It doesn't honestly take long to travel from one end of the map to the other. The issue comes in the form of getting distracted along the way. Such as the Aurora - sure, you could speedrun it. But it's probably a multi-trip, multi-hour journey at the best of times to get everything of worth out of it. 'Submechanophobia' is the word for a discomfort when looking at underwater, man-made objects. Notably, alien objects have not been tested for the fear, as bias in simulations is too difficult to phase out. I imagine in Subnautica the very futuristic feel of it all doesn't evoke that fear too much, aside from the primarily wreck of the Aurora itself, though I have little experience in that. The stylization of the water definitely would have some effect on that, I imagine - it provides a subconscious level of detachment, although Subnautica is certainly good at immersing the player nonetheless (not just in the water, but in the game). Nice rescue attempt on behalf of the Sunbeam. Would've been nice, but it also would've just been too easy, now, wouldn't it? It's worth noting that this makes three _known_ ships 'crashed' here - the Degasi, reduced to little enough that its three surviving crew could salvage the entire remnant of the ship for resources; the Aurora, sent crashing down with quite a few surviving crew members, of which we've yet to reach any in time; and now the Sunbeam, entirely shattered into pieces with no survivors. The pattern is clear, and I look forward to seeing you investigate into the source of it - this massive, alien tower. Now your time constraint is gone again, of course. Next episode is going to start of with a bang.. or, well, the bang just happened, but next time will still be good to see! There's a lot of interest.
Really enjoying your play through so far and I love how your thinking outside the box and trying to make sensible considerations on how to approach things and even going as far as making calculations on distance and times ... Entertaining content, as always and glad your enjoying it ... Also was relieved you found the correct area of the Aurora to explore for a potential entry point ... Eventually lol ... An unfortunate choice to make an exploratory expedition during the night, coupled with the age old approach of finding an area to look around and then doing so with your face so close up to everything that you end up failing to see what your actually looking for ... I know it well as I'm guilty of it myself ... Always smearing my face along the walls looking everywhere except in the middle of the room where the point of interest is ... I know you felt the time pressure, but my best advice is: Try to explore the surface areas during daylight hours and if you find yourself lost, try taking a step back every now and then to get a broader view of the location as a whole, you might spot a better place to start looking. Looking forward to the next episode.
This game does such a good job of ramping up naturally, making you feel like you’re taking risks and doing some intense exploration, having you learn things that make that exploration less dangerous and more doable, then prompting you deeper and into new even crazier stuff!
Dude, the seaglide is crucial when you leave the seamoth. In those deeper depths you need the light and speed from it. Unless you are going close to the aurora you don't need the radiation mask.
19:44 Random fact: Infections refer to pathogenic stuff. So like... the growth of germs and the like. In this case it was said to be a bacterial infection when you scanned that jellyray.
There's a fan theory that the Aurora landed smack dab on top of a Reaper mating ground, which accounts for how peeved the ones that hang around the wreck roaring in frustration seem to be. ;-)
Oh boi those Reapers, too close for comfort. Also, RIP Sunbeam. It exists just to get shot by cool alien building. There is also lots of parts just near the Aurora where those predators are lurking, mostly Vechicle parts like the Cyclops and Prawn Suit parts.
That was possibly the nicest Sunbeam's I've ever seen. The alignment of the moon behind it was exactly where it needed to be. Every player has that disbelief that it would be over so quickly, yet probably wonders if they've stumbled upon a quick win situation or something similar. Nah, only just getting started, have to go much deeper.
I‘m so disappointed. Why the hell won‘t the Reapers roar for real? The first time I heard that, I didn‘t even see the bloody thing, and I was scared shitless! It‘s just not the same without the loud roar. Man.
So unfortunate to see this comment section for the whole series so far be 99% backseating, pointless criticism for a first timer and endless tips which Mapo never asked for. Y'all realise he's not even engaging in the comment sections anymore to maintain the integrity of the "Blind Playthrough" right? The man has been begging for years for people to respect his wishes for a blind experience without hand holding because he doesn't need it, and he's constantly disrespected. I'm glad he's doing early access on Patreon to record even further ahead of people that cannot help themselves with advice and backseating
So what's your point? That people on the internet are critical and lack awareness? I don't disagree, but that's obvious. Unfortunately this is the norm. It may suck, but it's generally predictable and common. He's avoiding the issue effectively, and you can't control what other people do or say, so it looks like it's being dealt with in the best way possible. If anyone truly wishes to retain the blind aspect of any playthrough, they do have that control. They can turn off comments or simply pre-record the whole playthrough before uploading it in pieces. I genuinely don't understand why it surprises anybody in this setting. A majority of people are thoughtless to begin with, and even those who think critically either think they're helping or are directly answering questions (whether or not they're rehtorical). You know that phrase "build it and they will come" ? Well in this case, upload it and people will comment and spoil.
@@ds90seph I have seen other blind playthroughs where people could control themselves, mainly because they were asked several times in the beginning of each video. So my point is, it's not even close to impossible, I didn't even think of leaving any backseating comment for example so why can't I be surprised the amount of these comments?
The empty slot in your equipment slots if i remember right is the scanner room chip its really helpful for finding outcrops ores and other useful crafting stuff highly recommend building the scanner room and the scanner room has a certain range so building bases in other biomes or scanner rooms in other biomes is helpful
Great video my friend. I love that you are not rushing into this game..you are now opening up the story even more wich makes the game even better. Great job!
On a completely unrelated note, I was hesitant to add any mods to my game but after seeing some of them I believe many will make even the first playthrough strictly better. Not huge ones like map but small and quality of life or graphical enhancements. Like fixes to so many little things like randomizing plants in the growbed or showing actual items visible through the transparent glass on lockers. It's just so neat!
Holy crap, the Reaper spawning out of nowhere and just attacking him on the beachhead like that at 1:34:09? 😱 And then it looked like it was shooting a warp beam at him on shore to try to get him back in the water? That is crazy! Never seen anything like that before!
Would be cool if you can explore the sand dunes behind the Aurora you will find several fun/interesting things of the same type, to not give too much away. Great series, I watch as soon as I get home from school! Also, now that you've found 2 islands, if you from more than roughly 500 meters at the isands, you can see clouds around them. Another thing, be careful with your seamoth! If you launch it up on a beach it could get stuck and it might also get glitchy and become unretrievable if it's in the water but also resting on land. Good luck and have fun!
46:45 You know, that is another piece of wreckage that you could have entered to get more blueprints, right? Some doors you can open with the cutter, others with the repair tool..
Bro I swear you play all my favorite games. Thank you for mentioning SOMA around 1:32:30, that's one more series I'm looking forward to enjoying! I just started Disco Elysium as well but i'm too ADHD not to watch SOMA first. Anyway, cheers. I'm pretty sure you'll be famous in the future so just gotta say... I was there at 35k or so.
If you want a really good immersive single player survival game that's similar to this one, I'd recommend The Long Dark, it's an excellent game about surviving the elements, its one of my absolute favs!
Out of curiousity, since i meant to jump in at some point. Do you have any idea if they're still adding content ? I remember having heard that there was still stuff "missing", but that was over a year ago. I'm not even sure if there is something like a chapter system or any continous "campaign style" story at all (by which i mean something like Subnautica's structure), so forgive me if my question doesn't make sense. I guess, in short, i like to jump into games when they're complete, like "this is the complete bundle including all dlcs". So, is this a "check back in a few months to get the next part of the story" thing or is it more of a "hey, the community came up with the idea of a new hat design, so we added it" deal ?
@@spacemonkeyentertainment6413 they’ve continuously been adding content to that game, I think it’s finished? They have new campaign DLC, although I personally just really enjoy the sandbox survival mode the most, it’s such a chilling atmospheric experience
when he went past the aurora i was shaking in both the good and the bad way, i've managed to get used to the kelp forests's green but the murky area around the aurora is a nope to this day for me, but also i was waiting for him to find the dead zone
FYI, I use one of the Storage areas on the seamoth for temp base building. All you need is enough materials for a i-compartment, hatch, fabricator, solar panel. That's enough to help you survive cooking fish or whatever till you get back to home base. It's saved my life many times in the lower depths.
About the Floaters.... you can lift smaler objects with them, funny if you use them on a stalker or one of the yellow-ass fishes :-) Shipwrecks are just too big for them... that Island thats floating is carried by Floaters and you can see how big they are. I think with enough Floaters you can alter the course of a Reefback... but you will need a lot of them. But a very nice Lets Play here ^^
Yeeeah, the Aurora can be a problem. I love the game but a lot of that ship is poorly designed and easy to get lost in, stuck in, have no idea if you're anywhere near an entrance... I once had to go look up the noclip command because I got stuck in the underside of the ship and no matter how hard or at what angle I threw myself at the walls, I couldn't escape. There's an unstuck command now, I think? And thank goodness. But yeah. For newbies just getting into the Aurora can be way too confusing. Glad you figured it out. On my first playthrough I spent some time crawling all over the back of the ship thinking there had to be some way in around here, right? before I went to the front and found the real entrance.
i dunno.. would be weird if a crashed ship had like a ''lucky/conveniently'' shaped enter route right from a get go :D make sence it will be a mess and you have to find it :D and atleast myself.. was quite enjoying it^^
@@Teemo282 It would be weird in real life, but we make a lot of things more convenient for games than they would be in real life. At the very least you shouldn't be able to get completely lost in a mess where you can't even see where all the wall hitboxes are. "Is that an invisible wall?" isn't a question any player should have to ask. There are lots of ways to funnel players into a specific direction/location that could have been employed here. Or if they wanted to lean into the maze, that could have been done much better with actual intent. "Is realistic" isn't the same as "is good game design".
@@Cathowl well I guess that's a skill issue then.. cause I had no problem of finding it and I did it after sunbeam so I had all the time I needed sorry..
Congratulations! You've finished the tutorial section and found the main story! Yes, it's possible to not have the sunbeam shot down by doing what needs to be done before it arrives, which basically means not listening to the radio, which is virtually impossible on a first playthrough. In one of the PDAs you read from Degassi, Maida says there's no rescue coming because whatever shot them down will shoot down any rescurers.
Hi, I'm name is Brittney and I Play Subnautica and Subnautica Below Zero too. I love it so very much and I finished play Subnautica on my Grandma birthday of March 31 2022. I finished play Subnautica Below Zero on September 17 2022. They have a updates both of them. So I'm play Subnautica Again 👍👍😊😊 I love the music in them too ❤❤
1:12:08 It's a bit ambiguous whether the "24 hours" to prevent the damage to the ecosystem is a single day-night cycle on 4546B. It could be that the game is doing what many games do and has "game time" run faster than real time, but it could be that 4546B is just rotating quite fast and has many day-night cycles in one Earth day. 1:41:00 The Sunbeam timer starts when you answer the radio message from the Sunbeam, so this moment can happen at any time day or night in a given playthrough, but what amazing timing, for the giant red moon to silhouette the building!
Or the PDA is just plain *wrong* about the timeframe until irreparable radioactive contamination. It's not like its estimated time until the quantum detonation was correct until the final 10 seconds, after all.
Actually you misheard the audio log about the propulsion cannon. There is also a REpulsion cannon which the log was about as the robot dispensed the repulsion cannon instead to troll him. It's different than the propulsion cannon, focused entirely on pushing away stuff with greater force rather than being a tether weapon to move stuff and lightly toss stuff.
40:30 "I thought life form readings were sparse, you got one of those things hanging out." - Why do you think the readings are sparse? That thing is eating everything else!
Hi Mapo, I hope you're doing well. I noticed that you haven't posted any new videos in the past two days, and I just wanted to check in and make sure everything is okay. Can you please let us know that you're alright? I'm a bit concerned and would appreciate an update.
20:45 The progression is just very natural - at first you can't go places and cannot do all that much but the world opens up more and more just by exploring and gathering. 43:50 That's a mistake a lot of people make even though the photo can only be taken from the other side because of the angles. Not to mention that the text literally says that it is on the port side of the ship (the other side of the Aurora would be the starboard side, not the port side). PS: Leaving beacons all over the map is a great way for orientation in a first playthrough - in my first playthrough I had dozens of beacons all over the place in the end. PPS: The acceleration of the seaglide and the increased movement speed of the fins stack. If you want to go fast outside the seamoth always use the seaglide.
First video when I can safely say mapo you don't need many tips anymore you've found most of the resources and things you can scan not everything obviously but by now you have a perfect grasp of the game my only tip would be expand the base a bit for funsies
for the longest time i thought his movements was way to erratic and fast,. absolutely no chill..... then i realised the video ran at 1.5 speed >,.< thanks for the content though
FYI You can remove the batteries from equipment, you just go to the left section with the giant cross/"X" in battery swap menu and it will do remove it Edit: HE figured it out lol
you really should plant some edible plants in your base. build some growbeds and use them to grow stuff, including plants for food or for fabrication. creepvine seeds are nice, as well as blood oil as they grow their full size plants. gel sacks and mushrooms can also grow there easily. even bulb bush (u didnt even find them yet) can grow there and they give great water! still, land plants are the best for food so try to grow them in your habitat as much as possible. probably bulbo trees and marblemelons.
Love your playstyle. You're smart but don't over think, you don't do dramatic screeching, you are mostly prepared and it's a joy to watch. If I had one piece of advice it would be to explore everything fully before getting further out. The magnetite for example you could have found way earlier in a location you went but mostly ignored. But that's minor, I love your let play. Have you thought about playing Valheim?
Oh my goodness! Now I have anxiety. What is inside the Aurora? What is this alien building? Wow. It's torture to wait for the next episodes to find out what will happen next. 🥲
Its cool that there are still new people to subnautica! I have done about 3 playthroughs of it myself, but I am here for the reactions. I wont spoil anything, don't worry😅
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The moment people realize
“that’s not a building that’s a gun”
Is always some of the best reactions
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"Ah, I see you've played Buildingy-Gunny before"
ah the sunbeam, they died so you can watch a cool explosion.
a worthy sacrifice
They also died so you don't make the same mistake and try to take off only to be shot out of the sky.
Not gonna lie, seeing him try to go to the Aurora while the Sunbeam countdown timer was running gave me so...much...anxiety...
Using a moonpool as a base is so simple and minimalist, I love it lol
you're simple
@@callum8384 I'll take that as a compliment
@@callum8384 Sort your life out little fella.
Damn bro why the hate against Mr.Drums over here I also find it amusing mapo has everything in a moon pool
I was really excited to see Mapo have fun with the base building in this game so the fact that he's done that is low-key pissing me off in a funny way
By watching Mapo driving his SeaMoth, I can't stop imagining him driving in RL, hitting everything and everyone around him and going "opsieee". 🤣
For gods sake get out of the street! Mapo is coming! 🏃
I swear its the youtubers that are so diligent in scanning anything, that carefully explore everywhere that have the most trouble in finding the entrance to the Aurora lol
Omg seeing you go in a full circle around the aurora gave me so much anxiety lol. Reaper leviathans are a little spooky
They've been neutered in the recent update sadly
@@qwertyuiop3656 shame
@@qwertyuiop3656 How so? I started a new game recently and went to the rear of the ship for the engine parts, real unfriendly. Hell i have lost multiple moths while doing resource collection to all kinds of predators.
I do wonder if some streamers install mods to chill them out...
Why throw your seaside away? If your moth is destroyed how you get home.
@@aredub1847 the aggro range is decreased, muted roar sounds (only distance roar left) and they don't pursuit like they use too. They still go for the seamoth fairly well when close though.
I wonder if people complained they were too diffcult or annoying unless it's just bugged now. It's very disappointing
39:40
Yeah the whole game is actually just an ad for Flex Tape. The aliens basically went like “To show you the power of Flex Tape, I sawed these spaceships in half!”
“It even works underwater!”
The way my heart sunk when he went behind the Aurora 💀 so scary
Yeah man. I am waiting for the "lets see how far we can go" exploration. Gonna shit my pants just watching.
@@suuujuuus 💀 o nonono 💀
Ever since I've first played this game and the many reactions I've watched the Reapers and entire vibe of the Aurora before it's repaired still scares me and that's one part of the game I love it keeps you in constant fear of an area until you are capable enough to go through it completely safe
Bro casually walked into one of the most dangerous areas in the game like its nothin
He was SOOOOO close to breaching the dead zone, I was so bummed he didn't haha
Mapo: super excited to build ultra-glide fins for some extra speed
Also Mapo: refuses to use seaglide
🤦♀️ 😂
To be fair, it takes up so much inventory space 😂
@@JenaPug
but it is still WAYYY better than any fins you can ever wear.
it gives u seamoth like mobility, and that IS needed. the seamoth is nice, but u cannot rely on it at ALL times.
he also didnt really use the seamoth storage, which can easily solve the seaglide size problem in your inventory.
Ultra glide > seaglide
I dont like having half of my inventory dedicated to a tool thats very slightly faster than ultra glide fins
@@cobrazax it is 3u/s slower than the seaglide. This difference is negligible at best.
Edit: Correct speed difference
I love how Mapo fails to hear the reaper's loud roars lol
Note to self: Don’t loan any vehicles to Mapo, he will play bumper car with them. 🚗 😬
Mapo deciding to go explore Aurora at night, searching for the entrance in total darkness, to the tune of the Reaper screeching its little heart out in the background is just.. perfect. Haha love this series so much Mapo, thank you!
"What am I supposed to do, put some FlexTape on it?"
Repair Tool: "Ahem."
It's so funny watching you play and comparing it to how I was when I first started. I was deathly afraid of every single thing. I quit my first playthrough because I ran into a stalker and it followed me back to my pod. Went back to the game with moral support from my brother, and I almost quit again when I spotted the Reefback in the distant (I played completely blind so I didn't consider there would be fish so big.). My brother had to swim up to it for me to prove it wouldn't hurt me.
I beat the game a long time, and no spoilers, but it's something close to my heart because it felt like my own personal adventure. I had to conquer a lot of my anxiety to get through every single stage. It's just funny now watching you and you're taking everything in stride and have explored more in less than 10 hours than I did in 20. Can't wait to watch you swim deeper.
Talking submechanophobia, for me the Aurora triggers it hard. To the point where i physically can't get close to it, one time i accidentally emerged from the water a few hundred meters off its stern and nearly had a heart attack. I can deal with reaper jump scares, the deep ocean, etc. but put me next to a big ship in the water and i might just pass out on the spot. Phobias are wild man 😅
Cyclops eliminates that
Do the alien bases trigger this as well? Or the smaller chunks of the Aurora that can be found after the explosion? And the player-built submarines and bases? I'm interested in the effects of the phobia, since usually this game is mentioned in reference to thalassophobia instead for rather clear reasons.
@@ultmateragnarok8376 For me it tends to be either large ships or shipwrecks/planewrecks that trigger it. Can't tell if the Cyclops would trigger it as i've never gotten that far 😅 but i had that thought as well.
As for the larger Aurora chunks, they are fine as well, it seems like it'd still have to look like a ship/plane etc. for it to trigger the phobia
Thats... Kinda cool lol
i was so uncomfortable watching him try to get into the aurora at night with the reapers in the distance. something about the aurora give me the willies
I absolutely love the PDA in this game and the dry humor of its straightforward, computerized assessments.
Thermoblade! Food on the go!
I have no idea how you managed to circle the Aurora so brazenly without getting chomped even once. I was so tense that whole time watching you, waiting fo a reaper leviathan to snack on your Seamoth.
SUNBEAM TIME! This was the event, for me, that really got me falling in love with this game. Before that point, I'd been too cautious to do much in the way of exploration, and then suddenly I needed to go way out over a kilometer away, and all that happened, and I was just like, whoa. I knew something had to happen for it to not be the end of the game, but I never could have predicted THAT.
The Aurora definitely has some weird collision stuff going on in some sections. The only part that actually feels like the collision model (of whatever the proper term is) matches the graphics is the area where you enter.
10/10 Video review, would read again!
Your playing style is entertaining to watch. You actually take your time to use the information the game provides and you explore stuff on your own, turning your PDA into a library of wisdom.
Welcome to the story, enjoy the ride. :)
Mapo I found you through hollow knight and I just want to say you are one of the best let’s play TH-camrs I’ve seen. Your good commentary, attention to detail (for better and for worse), and personality make you an extremely entertaining TH-camr. Thanks for all you do!
For anyone wondering: Mapo is sick rn, about a week of break before uploads continue
Thanks. I've been confused as to why his channel did t have any new videos and I'm not on patron. I thought maybe TH-cam suspended him. Hope he's not too sick😢
Im so glad you arent wasting inventory space on the seaglide. Its useful and all, but not worth the space. Especially once you get ultra glide fins.
It's interesting to see how offended people get about not using the seaglide.
@@billy9759 Most people overestimate its utility. Its a great tool, and the fastest way to travel outside of a vehicle, but with ultraglide fins and a seamoth with depth modules, it really isnt that useful.
36:58 there's a reason there's free stuff around the Aurora. The crash zone is a big no no zone. If you can hear the roar from those leviathans then they know exactly where you are. But you don't because of how murky the water is.
1:35:30 LMAOOOO the whole thought process to cut up the crab and cook it was glorious
Sunbeam down, congrats on completing the tutorial!
There's a trash can in your habitat builder for deleting unwanted items like that spare Seaglide.
nice one
Didn't the big update add the recycler from Below Zero into this game? Might as well leave it on the seafloor until he can build the recycler
@@xXSonOvPerditionXx Not that I recall?
@@Redingold Maybe it wasn't, just figured it would have been since they added all the other building blueprints from BZ to the original. Ah well, trash can it is, then!
What a lucky lap around the ship, crash zone is actually fish hell
I'm surprised to see you literally don't give a damn about the Sea Glide lol. That thing saved me countless times in my multiple playthroughs.
Only person I've seen not using the most useful tool in the game IMO. Fast travel, lights, and a 3D map.
@@Gazer75 Let's be honest the map is useless
Seriously! Swimming without it feels like you're in molasses.
@@zor53 I'm one of the few who found it quite useful tbh!
@@zor53 Guess you don't know how to read it then. Its super nice when around caves.
I remember in BZ a lot of people never used the map and had a hard time getting a resource early on. The map actually revealed hidden caves ;)
He's so brave without meaning to be!😂
Mapo-1 really is a little blessed seamoth... if only the Sunbeam had its hull painted in orange and blue, maybe it would have been luckier.
Ah, the blood kelp zones. My favorite region in the game, with only a select few close competitors. It has a very unique ecosystem to the stuff on the surface, though you'll find that the deeper you go the more things change. Some parts stay similar enough, though, which is nice.
The Aurora landed on an area that appears to have been a combination of the Safe Shallows and Kelp Forests and a bit of the Dunes regions, all now destroyed and crushed beneath it with the remaining portions designated as the Crash Zone. The Dunes are the same region that played the 'are you sure whatever you are doing is worth it?' line. What's left is an area where the rock has been blasted to sand (and pushed above the water here and there) and most of the landscape has only a scant few of what creatures would usually be in an area its size.
Textures on the ship are a little scuffed, but the game isn't known for having particularly high-quality textures to begin with. I certainly wouldn't want to deal with the ridiculous processing power requirements were the whole of the Aurora to be very high resolution.
As cool and creative as your idea to roll the wreck over, I think you'd need a hell of a lot of floaters to do that. Those also aren't physics objects, unfortunately, and are incapable of moving in normal gameplay. I do wish you could do that, though.
It doesn't honestly take long to travel from one end of the map to the other. The issue comes in the form of getting distracted along the way. Such as the Aurora - sure, you could speedrun it. But it's probably a multi-trip, multi-hour journey at the best of times to get everything of worth out of it.
'Submechanophobia' is the word for a discomfort when looking at underwater, man-made objects. Notably, alien objects have not been tested for the fear, as bias in simulations is too difficult to phase out. I imagine in Subnautica the very futuristic feel of it all doesn't evoke that fear too much, aside from the primarily wreck of the Aurora itself, though I have little experience in that. The stylization of the water definitely would have some effect on that, I imagine - it provides a subconscious level of detachment, although Subnautica is certainly good at immersing the player nonetheless (not just in the water, but in the game).
Nice rescue attempt on behalf of the Sunbeam. Would've been nice, but it also would've just been too easy, now, wouldn't it? It's worth noting that this makes three _known_ ships 'crashed' here - the Degasi, reduced to little enough that its three surviving crew could salvage the entire remnant of the ship for resources; the Aurora, sent crashing down with quite a few surviving crew members, of which we've yet to reach any in time; and now the Sunbeam, entirely shattered into pieces with no survivors. The pattern is clear, and I look forward to seeing you investigate into the source of it - this massive, alien tower. Now your time constraint is gone again, of course.
Next episode is going to start of with a bang.. or, well, the bang just happened, but next time will still be good to see! There's a lot of interest.
Many people go through the entire game without building or trying out the grav trap. It's a fun device, and you unlocked it so early!
Love that the grav trap blueprints are right in the safe shallows, saves my impatient ass from chasing peepers and bladderfish around haha
Really enjoying your play through so far and I love how your thinking outside the box and trying to make sensible considerations on how to approach things and even going as far as making calculations on distance and times ... Entertaining content, as always and glad your enjoying it ... Also was relieved you found the correct area of the Aurora to explore for a potential entry point ... Eventually lol ... An unfortunate choice to make an exploratory expedition during the night, coupled with the age old approach of finding an area to look around and then doing so with your face so close up to everything that you end up failing to see what your actually looking for ... I know it well as I'm guilty of it myself ... Always smearing my face along the walls looking everywhere except in the middle of the room where the point of interest is ... I know you felt the time pressure, but my best advice is: Try to explore the surface areas during daylight hours and if you find yourself lost, try taking a step back every now and then to get a broader view of the location as a whole, you might spot a better place to start looking. Looking forward to the next episode.
This game does such a good job of ramping up naturally, making you feel like you’re taking risks and doing some intense exploration, having you learn things that make that exploration less dangerous and more doable, then prompting you deeper and into new even crazier stuff!
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Thank u milord for the early gift of Subnut
Early Subnut affects 30 to 40% of all men. It's nothing to be ashamed of
Man that aluminum thing really rocked you for a second there haha
Dude, the seaglide is crucial when you leave the seamoth. In those deeper depths you need the light and speed from it. Unless you are going close to the aurora you don't need the radiation mask.
Wishing he'd leverage the seamoth storage for those bits of equipment he doesn't want to carry around. Seems to have completely forgotten it...
@@Nahinalau I'm not sure he's discovered it yet, honestly
@@peterpeladon No he opened it once! By accident.
It's really not though.
That had got to be the most cinematic Sunbeam explosion I've ever seen. At night AND with the planet just cruising in the background? *chef's kiss*
19:44
Random fact: Infections refer to pathogenic stuff. So like... the growth of germs and the like. In this case it was said to be a bacterial infection when you scanned that jellyray.
44:06 When that big, metallic thing fell to the water, they got an easy meal coming out of it, so they stick around to see if they get lucky again...
There's a fan theory that the Aurora landed smack dab on top of a Reaper mating ground, which accounts for how peeved the ones that hang around the wreck roaring in frustration seem to be. ;-)
Oh boi those Reapers, too close for comfort. Also, RIP Sunbeam. It exists just to get shot by cool alien building.
There is also lots of parts just near the Aurora where those predators are lurking, mostly Vechicle parts like the Cyclops and Prawn Suit parts.
That was possibly the nicest Sunbeam's I've ever seen. The alignment of the moon behind it was exactly where it needed to be.
Every player has that disbelief that it would be over so quickly, yet probably wonders if they've stumbled upon a quick win situation or something similar.
Nah, only just getting started, have to go much deeper.
Map really thought exploring aurora was a 10 min trip 😂
It's undoubtedly different your base. love how everyone does it differently, Mines Big with two Moon pools, and many modules
Does anyone know where Mapo's been?
Definitely glad I found this play through. ^^ You're a good content creator.
What's happening, why isn't he uploading anymore?🤨
I‘m so disappointed. Why the hell won‘t the Reapers roar for real? The first time I heard that, I didn‘t even see the bloody thing, and I was scared shitless! It‘s just not the same without the loud roar. Man.
Apparently they nerfed them in an update.
@@eneco3965 Wonder why they did that. That roar was the scariest part of the Reapers imo
Rumor has it, somewhere in New Zealand, this guy is still looking for the fire extinguisher in code Veronica
So unfortunate to see this comment section for the whole series so far be 99% backseating, pointless criticism for a first timer and endless tips which Mapo never asked for. Y'all realise he's not even engaging in the comment sections anymore to maintain the integrity of the "Blind Playthrough" right? The man has been begging for years for people to respect his wishes for a blind experience without hand holding because he doesn't need it, and he's constantly disrespected.
I'm glad he's doing early access on Patreon to record even further ahead of people that cannot help themselves with advice and backseating
Word! Never got it why people are givin unwanted tips in a BLIND Playthrough, dont you get what BLIND means???
The best part of this game is experiencing everything for the first time and figuring it out. Why people want to ruin that is beyond me...
I'm absolutely with you on this one
So what's your point? That people on the internet are critical and lack awareness? I don't disagree, but that's obvious.
Unfortunately this is the norm. It may suck, but it's generally predictable and common.
He's avoiding the issue effectively, and you can't control what other people do or say, so it looks like it's being dealt with in the best way possible.
If anyone truly wishes to retain the blind aspect of any playthrough, they do have that control. They can turn off comments or simply pre-record the whole playthrough before uploading it in pieces.
I genuinely don't understand why it surprises anybody in this setting. A majority of people are thoughtless to begin with, and even those who think critically either think they're helping or are directly answering questions (whether or not they're rehtorical). You know that phrase "build it and they will come" ? Well in this case, upload it and people will comment and spoil.
@@ds90seph I have seen other blind playthroughs where people could control themselves, mainly because they were asked several times in the beginning of each video.
So my point is, it's not even close to impossible, I didn't even think of leaving any backseating comment for example so why can't I be surprised the amount of these comments?
The empty slot in your equipment slots if i remember right is the scanner room chip its really helpful for finding outcrops ores and other useful crafting stuff highly recommend building the scanner room and the scanner room has a certain range so building bases in other biomes or scanner rooms in other biomes is helpful
Sunbeam moment
I have way too much fun bopping to the (albeit short) Mapocolops intro tune
It's a head bobber for sure
on god
Great video my friend. I love that you are not rushing into this game..you are now opening up the story even more wich makes the game even better. Great job!
Oh, that hovering warper was an effective jump scare. Pretty sure they’re not supposed to be able to get out of the water…
Thx for playing this game
On a completely unrelated note, I was hesitant to add any mods to my game but after seeing some of them I believe many will make even the first playthrough strictly better. Not huge ones like map but small and quality of life or graphical enhancements. Like fixes to so many little things like randomizing plants in the growbed or showing actual items visible through the transparent glass on lockers. It's just so neat!
33:06 I'm really enjoying this video and this whole playthrough.
im curious if he finds the uncomfortable submersible feeling later in the game :DD cause i sure did :D
What an excellent series! Mapo is a total baller, not afraid of the Reapers, going 100% all the time. Very fun. Time to subscribe I guess!
Not thrilled by the base building part of the game I see. Hope you really get to it soon.
Also are you damaging your seamoth on purpose?
More progress, good stuff! Glad we got to see that first big "wtf?" moment 😉 Aliens, tablets, wizardfish, what next?!@
Can't wait for more.
Holy crap, the Reaper spawning out of nowhere and just attacking him on the beachhead like that at 1:34:09? 😱 And then it looked like it was shooting a warp beam at him on shore to try to get him back in the water? That is crazy! Never seen anything like that before!
Haven't seen you in about a week hope you're doing well
videos should resume tomorrow I think, he hasbeen ill for a bit
Is this a no sea glide challenge run?
Would be cool if you can explore the sand dunes behind the Aurora you will find several fun/interesting things of the same type, to not give too much away. Great series, I watch as soon as I get home from school!
Also, now that you've found 2 islands, if you from more than roughly 500 meters at the isands, you can see clouds around them. Another thing, be careful with your seamoth! If you launch it up on a beach it could get stuck and it might also get glitchy and become unretrievable if it's in the water but also resting on land. Good luck and have fun!
Well, he did find at least two out of ten of those "things" you are referring to.
@@ranekeisenkralle8265 He found none bc he wasn’t scavenging the seabed behind the Aurora, which is understandable due to the poor visibility.
@@PityMeofDurham there are more in front, too. And even one on the far side which we heard in the video, but didn't see.
46:45 You know, that is another piece of wreckage that you could have entered to get more blueprints, right? Some doors you can open with the cutter, others with the repair tool..
Bro I swear you play all my favorite games. Thank you for mentioning SOMA around 1:32:30, that's one more series I'm looking forward to enjoying!
I just started Disco Elysium as well but i'm too ADHD not to watch SOMA first.
Anyway, cheers. I'm pretty sure you'll be famous in the future so just gotta say... I was there at 35k or so.
I just cant get over how much of a BOP the music is in this game 🤘😣
Wait until *Spoilers * lmfao for those who know
@@MsAriesQueen hmmm🤔
what are you talking about?
If you want a really good immersive single player survival game that's similar to this one, I'd recommend The Long Dark, it's an excellent game about surviving the elements, its one of my absolute favs!
Out of curiousity, since i meant to jump in at some point. Do you have any idea if they're still adding content ? I remember having heard that there was still stuff "missing", but that was over a year ago. I'm not even sure if there is something like a chapter system or any continous "campaign style" story at all (by which i mean something like Subnautica's structure), so forgive me if my question doesn't make sense. I guess, in short, i like to jump into games when they're complete, like "this is the complete bundle including all dlcs". So, is this a "check back in a few months to get the next part of the story" thing or is it more of a "hey, the community came up with the idea of a new hat design, so we added it" deal ?
@@spacemonkeyentertainment6413 they’ve continuously been adding content to that game, I think it’s finished? They have new campaign DLC, although I personally just really enjoy the sandbox survival mode the most, it’s such a chilling atmospheric experience
when he went past the aurora i was shaking in both the good and the bad way, i've managed to get used to the kelp forests's green but the murky area around the aurora is a nope to this day for me, but also i was waiting for him to find the dead zone
FYI, I use one of the Storage areas on the seamoth for temp base building. All you need is enough materials for a i-compartment, hatch, fabricator, solar panel. That's enough to help you survive cooking fish or whatever till you get back to home base. It's saved my life many times in the lower depths.
Sleep is also important for mental and physical health when surviving on a alien world 🙃
Mmmm spicy finish there. Loving this playthrough.
Nice playthrough reminds me of when I started now I've got platinum trophy on subnautica and below zero time flies man😢
I think this may be the first time I've seen the Sunbeam shot down at nighttime. Neat.
About the Floaters.... you can lift smaler objects with them, funny if you use them on a stalker or one of the yellow-ass fishes :-) Shipwrecks are just too big for them... that Island thats floating is carried by Floaters and you can see how big they are. I think with enough Floaters you can alter the course of a Reefback... but you will need a lot of them. But a very nice Lets Play here ^^
No video for yesterday or today... I hope everything is okay, Mapo.
Yeeeah, the Aurora can be a problem. I love the game but a lot of that ship is poorly designed and easy to get lost in, stuck in, have no idea if you're anywhere near an entrance... I once had to go look up the noclip command because I got stuck in the underside of the ship and no matter how hard or at what angle I threw myself at the walls, I couldn't escape. There's an unstuck command now, I think? And thank goodness. But yeah. For newbies just getting into the Aurora can be way too confusing.
Glad you figured it out. On my first playthrough I spent some time crawling all over the back of the ship thinking there had to be some way in around here, right? before I went to the front and found the real entrance.
i dunno.. would be weird if a crashed ship had like a ''lucky/conveniently'' shaped enter route right from a get go :D make sence it will be a mess and you have to find it :D and atleast myself.. was quite enjoying it^^
@@Teemo282 It would be weird in real life, but we make a lot of things more convenient for games than they would be in real life. At the very least you shouldn't be able to get completely lost in a mess where you can't even see where all the wall hitboxes are. "Is that an invisible wall?" isn't a question any player should have to ask.
There are lots of ways to funnel players into a specific direction/location that could have been employed here. Or if they wanted to lean into the maze, that could have been done much better with actual intent.
"Is realistic" isn't the same as "is good game design".
@@Cathowl well I guess that's a skill issue then.. cause I had no problem of finding it and I did it after sunbeam so I had all the time I needed sorry..
@@Teemo282 Oh you're going to "skill issue" this? Wow. Okay I guess we're done talking then if you're going to be pulling that nonsense out.
@@Cathowl yep.. exactly lol
49:51 I've been wondering why you don't turn on the Seamoth lights...
1:10:54 solar eclipse!
AAAAGH you’re so mean, leaving us with such a cool cliffhanger
1:18:22 "could we get sunlight please I would like to see" BROTHER IF YOU EXPANDED YOUR BASE YOU COULD BUILD A BED 😭
Congratulations! You've finished the tutorial section and found the main story! Yes, it's possible to not have the sunbeam shot down by doing what needs to be done before it arrives, which basically means not listening to the radio, which is virtually impossible on a first playthrough.
In one of the PDAs you read from Degassi, Maida says there's no rescue coming because whatever shot them down will shoot down any rescurers.
I mean, there's no way you're gonna shut down the QEP on your 1st playthrough, especially when it's blind. That's some speedrunner shit.
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1:12:08 It's a bit ambiguous whether the "24 hours" to prevent the damage to the ecosystem is a single day-night cycle on 4546B. It could be that the game is doing what many games do and has "game time" run faster than real time, but it could be that 4546B is just rotating quite fast and has many day-night cycles in one Earth day.
1:41:00 The Sunbeam timer starts when you answer the radio message from the Sunbeam, so this moment can happen at any time day or night in a given playthrough, but what amazing timing, for the giant red moon to silhouette the building!
Or the PDA is just plain *wrong* about the timeframe until irreparable radioactive contamination. It's not like its estimated time until the quantum detonation was correct until the final 10 seconds, after all.
Actually you misheard the audio log about the propulsion cannon. There is also a REpulsion cannon which the log was about as the robot dispensed the repulsion cannon instead to troll him. It's different than the propulsion cannon, focused entirely on pushing away stuff with greater force rather than being a tether weapon to move stuff and lightly toss stuff.
40:30 "I thought life form readings were sparse, you got one of those things hanging out." - Why do you think the readings are sparse? That thing is eating everything else!
Hi Mapo, I hope you're doing well. I noticed that you haven't posted any new videos in the past two days, and I just wanted to check in and make sure everything is okay. Can you please let us know that you're alright? I'm a bit concerned and would appreciate an update.
20:45 The progression is just very natural - at first you can't go places and cannot do all that much but the world opens up more and more just by exploring and gathering.
43:50 That's a mistake a lot of people make even though the photo can only be taken from the other side because of the angles. Not to mention that the text literally says that it is on the port side of the ship (the other side of the Aurora would be the starboard side, not the port side).
PS: Leaving beacons all over the map is a great way for orientation in a first playthrough - in my first playthrough I had dozens of beacons all over the place in the end.
PPS: The acceleration of the seaglide and the increased movement speed of the fins stack. If you want to go fast outside the seamoth always use the seaglide.
I can't wait for the story to pick up
First video when I can safely say mapo you don't need many tips anymore you've found most of the resources and things you can scan not everything obviously but by now you have a perfect grasp of the game my only tip would be expand the base a bit for funsies
Well, sith!!!! Had me thinking Australians said al-oo-min-um too for a second..
for the longest time i thought his movements was way to erratic and fast,. absolutely no chill..... then i realised the video ran at 1.5 speed >,.< thanks for the content though
FYI You can remove the batteries from equipment, you just go to the left section with the giant cross/"X" in battery swap menu and it will do remove it
Edit: HE figured it out lol
you really should plant some edible plants in your base. build some growbeds and use them to grow stuff, including plants for food or for fabrication.
creepvine seeds are nice, as well as blood oil as they grow their full size plants. gel sacks and mushrooms can also grow there easily.
even bulb bush (u didnt even find them yet) can grow there and they give great water!
still, land plants are the best for food so try to grow them in your habitat as much as possible. probably bulbo trees and marblemelons.
1:17:30 Blackened, twisted metal against a pitch black background...
1:49 u know how many times I’ve done that thanks to TV, games and movies hahahaha.
Love your playstyle. You're smart but don't over think, you don't do dramatic screeching, you are mostly prepared and it's a joy to watch. If I had one piece of advice it would be to explore everything fully before getting further out. The magnetite for example you could have found way earlier in a location you went but mostly ignored. But that's minor, I love your let play. Have you thought about playing Valheim?
Oh my goodness! Now I have anxiety. What is inside the Aurora? What is this alien building? Wow. It's torture to wait for the next episodes to find out what will happen next. 🥲
Its cool that there are still new people to subnautica! I have done about 3 playthroughs of it myself, but I am here for the reactions.
I wont spoil anything, don't worry😅