Surviving The Abyss! Underwater Colony Survival With A Tentacle Monster!
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- Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn! and keep building more FOOD! oh and more oxygen oh and now you need more power oh and yeah you need more houses oh and that will need more resources oh oh oh! and those will require more FOOD POWER AND OXYGEN! screams
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As any sailor will tell you salt water is liquified hatred. So an underwater setting is going to be a tense and scary one.
Well there's a reason we call people salty
@@alexandercross9081_"Ayy, salter then the sea herself!"_
Talking like a pirate is also criminally underused as of late.
@@VioletDeathRei indeed
I love this comment
Salt is like a damn near acid. Anyone who has spent long enough on a boat will tell you that one of your biggest adversaries on the ocean is corrosion itself
This expedition was made possible by a generous grant from the Marsh family of Innsmouth.
perhaps the former mayor of chicago can run the place she already got that Innsmouth look going for her.
lmao
@@markvt22 With a name like Lori Lightfoot, I always took her to be a zombie hobbit.
If Arch is an underwater fan, does that mean he'll wrangle up a crew for a barotrauma stream some time? Watching Arch feed Kibs to underwater tentacle monsters would be pretty funny!
Already done on the bickering bunch channel. Though with it coming out of early access it would be fun to see them revisit it
Ah, the next level of "keed bribs!"
Subnautica would be fun too.
Oh, I recently started playing Barotrauma and it would be fun to see Arch play/cover it.
I didn't know they already did on the bickering Bunch channel, guess I can check that out as well.
Done a lot already. Alas kibs wimps out and is permanently welded to the driving seat.
Seems Father Dagon and Mother Hydra have decided to get a bit more scientific with their endeavors.
Yeah, I'm getting that vibe too.
Cold oceanic depths, check; human crossbreed genetic experiments, check; giant horrible, unknowable monster you can at best ward off, check... Now all we need are some impossibly ancient submerged ruins, and the unemployed scientists randomly going crazy, and we're all set!
Aquanox, Bioshock I+II and Subnautica are rare gems of the underwater setting genre.
Aquanox was very fun, I remember the Indian store owner looking at as if I was a ret0rd for buying, but turned out to be the best cinematic experience I had and good game play
If you liked Aquanox, I highly recommend looking into its ancient predecessor "Schleichfahrt"
@@whisped8145 Ein deutsches Spiel oder nur wieder WWII Kriegssimulation? I love scifi scenarios and alternate settings instead real world genres.
Reminds me a really old game, Deadly Tide, was a FPS set in the deep ocean with aliens invading earth.
There is alao this under water RTS called Submarine Titans.
No one has done this since Deep Sea Tycoon, which was a underwater colony sim in the mid 2000s. Glad someone Finally is using this concept. It's pretty interesting.
There is one ancient RTS game that is purely underwater called Submarine Titans. It's on steam right now for 99c
For those who remember it, you're one of the OG gamers out there people.
I wonder if the purple light is suppose to be UV. It is in the depths kilometers beneath the sea surface which means areas where the sun doesn't reach and somehow that is dangerous to deep sea monsters?
Most deep sea creatures have transparent skin so i guess UV can penetrate deep and damage their tissue.
Love underwater settings
Aquanox and subnautica come to mind as i enjoyed the hell out of them !
More kinds of giant aquatic creatures attacking your base, requiring different strategies to deter, would also be cool.
One 'urban legend' that I saw that was particularly inspiring was the "black carpet" a cryptid that was essentially a gigantic slime mold colony shambling across the bottom of the ocean, absorbing everything that had fallen down there. Unfortunately, the cryptid was basically just an elaborate shitpost, but the idea was kind of cool.
I don't remember much about it, but I remember seeing a video on another early access underwater colony builder called AQUATICO. Might be worth checking out if you like underwater so much Arch.
Have you dreamed of a place where the artist isn’t confined by petty censors? Where the scientist isn’t constrained by petty morality?
Have you considered building your city, under the sea?
Arch secretly a fan of aquaman?aquamarine?
Surprised you didn't mention electrolysis in the game. That would be a interesting oxygen generator not viable to the space environment. While its not 100% energy-efficient the hydrogen can also be fuel. Current generator would be nice too. One would think agriculture would take over as primary carbon scrubbing. The lights remind me of some uv leds I saw. Those long tunnels seem to be a weakness, a shame I didn't see an attack. Underwater drones would probably be the best way to transport material.
When you're looking for me,
You better check under the sea.
'Cause that's where you'll find me! 🎵
73 crew, 72 have respiratory problems because Arch has turned the entire base into one giant hotbox session.
Aome suffering is required to keep citizens in line
So this is the true prequel to XCOM: Terror from the Deep.
if your looking for me
you better check under the sea
cus that is where you'll find me
underneath the Sealab!
underneath the water
Sealab
at the bottom of the sea
One of the weirder underwater games I remember is Aqua Nox, it wa kinda like waterworld, but with technology so everything was underwater, and earth and wood was an extremely precious resource.
Also, if there's a game concept I'd like to see tried again it would be Lego Rock Raiders. Deep Rock Galactic, but as rts/builder
Going back even further there's the rail-shooter Wetlands.
Aquanox (original dilogy) fans, ASSEMBLE!!!
Edit: Now that I think about it, Aquanox-verse could really lend itself to ALL the genres. HUGE potential. Flight sim which it already is - check. RTS - ohoho, absolutely!
I've seen a few TH-camr cover this it seem interesting but you right having just the tentacle monster as a enemy once you figure out the power, food, oxygen supply maybe metal eating fish that requires bait stations or for the tentacle monster torpedo launchers (that eat up metal supply) or compress air cannon (that tanks your air quality or supply)
Finally a Bioshock simulator without splicers and plasmids. Just a simple Rapture we can built.
Human squid hybrid? Oh my god, its Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet.
Saw this game and was instantly interested
Arch there is an anime where humanity mixed with the octopus. It's called Suisei no Gargantia
Oh yeah, I'd heard about this game!
Would love to see you play more in the future, Arch.
Tentacle graping intensifies.
Space is vast and lonely.
The deep ocean is dark and full of terrors(some psychological, some environmental others horribly mutated to match the environment). It’s also way more graphically intensive to ass a watery fog effect and operate in a 3D environment.
You know, one of the biggest annoyances to me is, that there are so many games with great themes or concepts, but they are all just half finished
If you’re looking for me, you better check under the sea, because that is where you find me underneath the sealab underneath the water seeeeeeealab
At the bottom of the sea……
There goes pod 6
🤣
Now I'm just imagining managing Pathos-II, the underwater base from SOMA.
Hate to break it to you Arch, but it's entirely possible to create a completely self sustaining base without using coal or oil power. Using just the biomass generator, you can take care of everything. There was another streamer that was able to do this in a video: th-cam.com/video/LgS7Sj5DgOw/w-d-xo.html
Still it was good to see you make a run at this. I've been waiting to see you review this game.
The use of coal and oil for power was the first dumb thing I noticed when I looked into this game, like "huh?" Submarine nuclear reactors existed already in the 1960's, if anything the game should give endless power per reactor but you need to find resources to build additional reactors to expand. Where the heck is the oxygen to burn the fuel coming from if we need to burn fuel to create oxygen and where is the exhaust going? This is even sillier than Ixion where we saw cooking fires and an open blast furnace operating in a space ship.
@@jeffumbach I never thought about the nuclear reactor thing, good point. That may just be the end tier power generation research goal.
As for where they get the oxygen, that actually not that hard, they are using electricity to split the water into oxygen and hydrogen.
@@elsisssurana2046 Nuclear subs can make all of the oxygen and fresh water that they could ever need. Their submerged endurance is only limited by how much food and spare parts that they can carry (as well as crew morale).
This reminded me a lot of Aven Colony. And not in the best ways.
Looks very, very barebones at the moment.
I do think that a strategy game set underwater would be very cool. Especially adding in elements like resource management through cloning and base building. It might be extremely hard.
There is one from the 90s called Submarine Titans I think
@@ninochaosdrache3189 I know. That one was closer to a more traditional rts of that era with 3 factions and very simple resource management and base building. It was pretty cool still, but if you had elements of the lore and mechanics with the visuals of surviving the abyss added to it, along with some other improvements, you could have a game where not only do you have subs for combat, but your genetically modified clone soldiers, cultured and made for fulfilling combat rolls(maybe in special combat diving suits alongside the subs), while in the inky darkness eldrich horrors and nightmares lurk, either waiting to pounce or roused to violence by the presence of your subs and their lights, dangerous, but potentially lucrative as the horrors hold within their dna special augmentations that could grant exotic units that might turn the tide. Faction variety could also vary, from industrialist corperate powers, intellectual but overstepping scientists forced to militarise, a military dictatorship with a focus on preserving humanity without reliance on genetic alterations, and then we have the commune, a eco-terrorist group turned cult dedicated toward the horrors of the abyss.
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Its a reskinned version of Surviving mars.
I thought it looked familiar. Tho not gonna lie, this theme looks alot more interesting.
If you want a good colony/city builder I would suggest Endzone a world apart. It's a post apocalyptic city builder.
Water is one third oxygen. I don't see the problem. Just drink more to not drown.
Been playing Subnautica myself i must put this on the wishlist.
Underwater Frostpunk
Sounds interesting, I will wait to see if they add more to it before buying thou
*pokes tentacle through the void* I'm interested!
So it’s a more elaborate Bioshock?
It's becoming Andrew Ryan and making Rapture.
If you would like to play any RTS that is underwater there is Submarine Titans available from GOG.
[libationes deis algorithmi Abyssīque}
Sounds like keeping you shoud keep them short lived.
Any advantage of keeping them alive?
Subseige is another underwater game and Barotrauma (though that is inside a ship).
Every suggestion arch made will be available in quarterly releasing dlc if paradox is to paradox
Many deep sea critters are attracted to light like moths. Do you need to clean the water-moths off your equipment?
Arches underwater -slave- willing volunteer has an Irish name, oof :p
Please bring back deep sea RTS games. I played the shit out of Submarine Titans back in the day.
I am under the water. Please help me.
Tentacle monsters no liking purple is bullshit.
Slaanesh is offended.
This quiet also offends Slaanesh.
Greetings and salutations Arch- oh my deep sea phobia kicking, JK. Interesting game
All it needs is some trypophobia and I'm dead.
Underwater Frost punk
So we are building Rapture.
i love aqua nox..now a rts? nice
Building the setting of sea lab 2021 😆
Sounds like a more intense Subnautica.
Real Isopod Hours
Arch, are you going to do a video on Phantom Brigade?
Soooooo the Bat Stewflu, isn't from Bat's?
How would you say it compares to Oxygen not included?
So Norwegian and Rosa a good combination?
Does anyone remember or has even herad of Submarine Titans?
Creating human fish hybrids, I have seen leviathan it does not end well
I would love a better way to explore rather then making tunnels and light poles everywhere. Its a fun game otherwise! great potential!
I take offense to "FPS under water".. because you know, guns tend to not work so good under water and it could be jarring pretty easily.
Overall i feel underwater settings are underused because its basically the less cool, less alien and less unknown (as far as what the possibilities are) version of games set in space.
Que "ocean man".
Haven't played yet, but is there any reason not to keep the Anti-Hentai monster lighting on at all times?
I am guessing it's a massive power drain.
@Samuel Eddy that seems like the obvious answer, and it could make sense if the purple lighting is meant to be ultraviolet light.
Try X4. Space flight simulator plus empire builder sim
I miss aquanox...
You could look at Aquatico as well for underwater city builder but it's extremelly basic, pretty boring, and worse, it's sold as a full game but it's clearly early access.
"power needs people"... yes but more over fuel.. umm or is this game using people as the fuel? O.o
Have you tried crossbreeding kibs?
✏✏✏ NNNNNNNYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTH ✏✏✏
hullo ah um unda de wata?
Play SUBMARINE TITANS
First view? Somehow.
Expanding for the sake of expanding further is whats put me off the more recent Anno and that crap new settlers game, everything you do just feels like its just for the sake of expansion.
Øl
There's no story it's boring , and the game isn't interesting enough just to play for Mechanics, it's no anno
boring game
Hard pass
Underwater frostpunk