@Ben It's common sense. There's a battery level indicator and you can craft individual batteries, plus there's an easy battery swap tab when using a tool. I never experienced this apparent confusion. People simply lack awareness and barely read the information available to them.
I'm pretty sure that when the scanner icon shows up it means you haven't scanned what you're looking at yet. It appears on the right side of the screen at the bottom.
i did a quick check, and it shows up for anything that you CAN scan, not what you haven't, but hey, 2-3 titanium is nothing to scoff at [This applies to fragments BTW]
Yggdrasil42 is correct. For database purposes the scan icon will only show up if you haven't scanned it yet. Fragments continue to appear because scanning them gives 2 titanium.
*drastically, I hate the English language there are so many words that sound/look the same as others and auto correct hurts more than it helps sometimes by say... typing drastically and the computer thinking you were trying to put "dramatically"
Mapo none of us knew how to play Subnautica on our first runs either, that’s the fun of it! Swimming around and stumbling through progress is what makes the game so rewarding. The most common thing Subnautica fans say is “God I wish I could experience the game for the first time again”, because the learning/exploration is the best part of it. That’s also why so many of us love watching lets players! Do whatever you want at your own pace, make as much progress as you want per episode, just have fun and we’ll enjoy it!
Honestly play however you want and edit however you want :) we're just happy to be here for the journey! Don't feel pressure to 'progress' any particular amount each episode, but also if you want to that's fine too. Play how you want 😊
Totally agree! This game is literally hands you all this freedom to play however you want at whatever pace. Progress is not required to have fun - an entire episode of simply exploring or gathering while relaxing, reflecting / reacting can be so enjoyable too. Also the "mistakes" are part of playing. Everyone makes them, we just make different ones. They add to the experience.
1:38:00 the beacon signal never diappeared, you were hovering over it and never looked straight down... On the other hand, beacons disappear when you're closer than 20 meters approximately. I learned that the hard way (drowned in the dark of the depths, with my seamoth nearby, uncapable of seeing it, beacon off because of the distance)
Distress signal disappears when you come close to it and never shows again, because the game thinks you already explored this area. To turn on distress signal again you need to go to PDA.
@@Velleder Yep, it's true. Once you visit the distress signals they automatically stop showing, so you have to turn them off and then on again in the PDA for them to properly appear. I'm surprised Mapo didn't figure this out yet since he accidentally did it on his very first signal. Hopefully he learns about it in the next episode, it's so easy to miss things in this game.
One last tip that is kinda important… The radio messages basically advance the story. But none of them are time sensitive. You can let them sit if your busy collecting things or exploring. Or already have other destinations to check out already. I made the mistake of checking the radio messages as they came in and quickly got overwhelmed with 5 beacons to check. Lol
@1:15:32 And that's why you use the Rebreather, it removes the penalty. Your stressful exploration of the Degasi base would have been much easier with the Rebreather on.
Keep an eye out for the scanner icon in the bottom-right corner; it appears whenever you're facing something scannable. Reading all of the descriptions improved the experience.
Getting the Seamoth ist where the game really starts for me, your not required anymore to surface every 2 minutes and can just go much further with it.
I spent a while without it, but I agree it opens the game up a great deal. I specifically use it as a secondary staging point for refilling my O2. Diving deeper is much easier when you have a beacon to aim for when you're heading back for air.
You’ll do just fine if you keep your eyes open and check your radio often. The game is pretty good about delivering flags that nudge you in the right direction. And I’d say that the mere fact that you worry about making progress or missing things is proof that you will keep a fairly steady pace and miss very little once you’ve learned what to look for.
Yep, the radio is one of the most important aspects of the game as its designed to 'lead' you through the game and avoid wasting time. I do wonder based on this playthrough if anyone ever completed the game without using the radio? I'm not sure if its even possible the progress the story without it?
Damn you're really getting a hang of the game very quickly, really goes to show it's made for curious people! At first I got a little mad at the game for not showing that you can swap batteries, cause I thought they had removed the prompt. But I'm glad it popped up for you when you ran out! Edit: I know it's not easy but try not to stress about having to make progress, the exploring and figuring out is half the fun!
When you're fading out, there's like 3 second waiting time before you die. During that time, if you keep pressing W and reach the surface, you'll come back to life. So, when it's fading out, don't give up, keep going up
I think that Subnautica is deliberately designed to feel overwhelming in the beginning, because that is how the protagonist must feel. Crashing on an alien planet is probably not a typical day in the life. Figuring out ways to survive sure is beyond stressful, and the game does a good job putting pressure on the player.
Agreed, and it makes it so when you start figuring out the survival routine it feels great. It goes from entirely overwhelming to totally doable pretty fast once you learn the basics of living sustainably.
You might of figured this out by now but you can re highlight the gps points, also It's fine to skip or speed up some of the footage. But make sure you are always recording since this game is in the "I ran into something and I really wish I was recording" category.
I'm happy enough watching however you want to play. The joy of games like this is discovering and figuring things out for yourself at your own pace. There are a lot of well intentioned tip comments, but imho it absolutely kills the satisfaction of finding/figuring it out for yourself. Even if it frustrates some viewers. That's the whole point and fun of blind playthroughs.
I kept running out of oxygen while I was exploring this Degasi base - getting caught behind the stingers or having trouble going up/down stairs - so I made a second air tank to swap out. I think I used it in one other big wreck as well.
Answer on the beacons disappearing if you want it (ignore if not): Beacons given by the radio disappear when you visit them for the first time (annoying I know as it confuses everyone! but I think it was to prevent players being overwhelmed by beacons on the screen) - just turn it off and on again and it'll stay on indefinitely after the first visit. Edit: At least this is how it used to be. If it continues then unfortunately that is a bug indeed :(
At least some of the times when he's saying they've disappeared they're actually on screen. At 1:39:18 or so you can see the beacon icon at the very bottom of his screen because it's behind/below him as he's asking why it's gone again.
"This is an ADHD nightmare of a game" As your ADHD viewer, I really appreciate you finding all the tiny things on the sea floor. 😄I would do exactly the same.
This is a really interesting playthrough from a player useablity standpoint. Mapo comes in with minimal survival game experience and makes logical deductions on how to build a base etc. But he's misintepreting stuff that the devs just assumed you would probably know from other survival games, like building your own base from scratch. From the naming of the degassi base to the log that he finds it all sets him up to think about retrofitting that base. Also there's stuff like the radio message icon being onscreen but there's no explanation in-game as to what it means so he doesn't go check the radio, which funnily enough is the game's breadcrumb trail to help you find new tech like the seamoth etc. As a game designer myself I think we can learn lessons from a playthrough like this as to how new players react to a more freeform structured game like Subnautica, where maybe a little extra nudge might help from the devs to steer players. What is cool though is how open ended the structure of the game is, like there's no reason you can't 'skip' ahead to the degassi base if you build pipe chains or take multiple oxygen tanks etc.
I think the only other thing they could add is an audio cue, like "new message". Other than that its entely on Mapo no paying attention. Like the beacon wich was clearly at the bottom of the screen, in a different color that he set, yet refused to look at. I'm also pretty sure he has not realised, at least to this point, that you get a icon showing up when you have not yet scanned something. If you explain to much, people will complain you are explaining to much. Literally saw someone complaining that the game got too easy after early access because batterys could now be recharged and resources respawned.
Yeeeeeeeees. I'm one of many who recommended this probably a year ago, I'm really glad to see you getting into this., first episode was phenomenal, keep it up.
Love how no one can resist giving Subnautica blind let's players a million pieces of advice. 🙄 Mapo is pretty darn good at stuff; let him figure shit out. It's one of the things I enjoy most about his let's plays.
The whole entire comment section it’s just tips which is really disappointing, why watch a blind playthrough if you want the player to know everything from the start??
Only exception is when the comments point out bugs and fixes, like the orange beacon not being visible even though it had the eye symbol turned on in the beacon manager. But yeah when it's stuff like "don't use x piece of gear instead of y piece of gear unless you're doing z part of the story" it's annoying. It's more fun to figure it out on your own.
Here after watching your complete playthroughs of DS, Bloodborne, and Village - you have become one of my absolute favorite streamers and I'm SO HYPED that you're playing one of my favorite games.
They call it a bladder fish because it is basically a living air bladder, as in the organ that almost all fish have and allows them to stay buoyant.Speaking of which the air bladder tool you can make is very helpful when exploring. If your oxygen starts to run out just pull out the air bladder, make sure you have unobstructed access to the surface and activate it. it is the 4th item of my default 5 items i make at the start of the game.
The scanner icon appears on the bottom right of the screen when you approach fragments for vehicles or tools. It also shows it for flora and fauna but will stop once you scanned them once. It will always show for machine parts😊
Beacon signals are still there, you just need to toggle the eye icon on and off. It'll go away once you find the signal but you can turn it back on. Just toggle the eye icon :)
I find it rather disappointing; what's the point of having consequences if he just ignores them? Same for PDA Pause, they make the adventure more comfortable . . . at the expense of trivializing any suspense.
So many games force you to constantly rebuild your tools when they “run out”, it wasn’t a completely unreasonable assumption 😅 but it was a tiny bit painful to watch
The logic for losing your belongings when you die is tied to what was in your inventory when you last entered a base (in this case either your lifepod or a habitat you construct). When you die you will keep all the items you had when were last in your base along with 1 random item you picked up since then, losing everything else. I think for your first death that was the Copper you mined while exploring. For the beacon logic, it will automatically hide itself once you reach the location the first time, but you can reactivate it if you go back into your PDA. It will only do this once however, any time in the future it will not disappear even if you go close to it again. There were many times where the beacons were just beneath you or camouflaged in the background. One other thing, in your blueprint menu, the categories tell you where you can craft the item. So the Seamoth appears under the Mobile Vehicle Bay section, and the Ultra glide fins you found a blueprint for are under the Modification Station section.
I admit I'm not quite finished with the video but I posted a comment. There is an in world explanation for why some "beacons" disappear when you locate them. I put a big space in case someone doesn't want to read it but the beacon for the base in the cave is functioning as intended.
While there might be a bug, in the case of this video at 1:40:00 the beacon hasn't disappeared, he is simply directly above it, so its at the bottom of the screen. In fact it pretty much never disappears at all if you watch it, it just stays within the seamoth at the bottom of the screen - granted a bit hard to see, but it is there. This is why you want to use actual beacons to mark entrances/exits to cave systems as it makes them easier to find than some beacon deep within the cave system.
No the beacons disappearing is not a bug, the game is programmed for this. Beacons that target locations like a pod or a Degassi base will disappear once you come within 10m of them. All you have to do is go into your beacon manager on the PDA and toggle it off and back on. Then you have re-set it and it will again automatically turn off next time you are within 10m. However if you build a "Beacon" those stay on forever. Same with the tracking for your starting life pod and any vehicle you build. Those don't turn off unless you do so on the beacon manager.
@@elaine_of_shalott6587t still is a pain and bad design though. I honestly cant believe they still havent fixed it. When you go to an automatic beacon you recieved like at 48:00 , it's automatically removed from your visible beacons once you leave. But for some reason the visibility icon on your PDA stays on like its still visible even though it definitely isn't. This should have been fixed ages ago. Either simply keep the beacon visible and let people turn them off themselves, or set the little icon to invisible if it automatically deactivates. Can't be that hard now can it? Now it's just confusing for no reason. The beacon manager says it's visible even though it really isn't. How is that helping anyone? No matter the "in world explanation".
1:26:26 Possibly. You also just noticed the radio messages a minute or so ago. Earlier when you were talking about the game being overwhelming because it didn't have any structured path to it I was thinking to myself, man he really needs to check his radio because that'll be a godsend for him. This game actually does a great job of giving you direction in the early to mid game through the radio messages and the life pods etc. So I think now that youve noticed when you have radio messages and are more likely to check them it'll go a bit smoother for you perhaps and feel less overwhelming.
Absolutely loving this playthrough. It is so refreshing to see a truly blind version and the differences between my first time and this. Taking the seamoth full-tilt into a man-sized cave......😂 Great job Sir. Sincerely.
This is THE best, most thoughtful, most instinctive blind play through I’ve ever seen for Subnautica. You’re doing an outstanding job of figuring stuff out thus far.
We all went through hording and then dropping Titanium. Having enough stuff to get you always distracted is what I find so amazing about this game. Look at your available tools to craft ;)
Instead of making a new seaglide (which requires a battery anyway), can't you just make a battery and put it into your old seaglide? Edit: Nevermind, you found out 😅
Great to see the episodes coming in! A couple quality-of-life tips, some ppl already mentioned it and its likely that you got it already figured out in upcoming episodes but maybe it will be a handy, no-spoiler summary: - Most important- don't feel like you need to make progress, sometimes you will get stuck and thats fine. just chill out and go exploring. Much like Outer Wilds its an exploration expirience and the game will reward you for that - HUD tip - you already noticed the radio pop up, there is also a scanner icon in bottom right corner that shows up when you point your coursor at something that you haven't scanned yet - Rebreather - it won't give you any extra oxygen, but its extremly useful when going deep, like over 100-200 meters deep if you know what i mean. in most cases much more useful than radiation mask - Beacons - you can turn them on and off from the menu and when its not showing up than a quick off-on should do the trick Other than that just have fun. You are doing great, the begginning is a little overwhelming but you will figure it out soon and its just gonna get better and better.
Building a base on shallow water near your lifepod seems the next logical step, before heading deep below 100m- (Just started watching, so that might happen). Lots of stuff you can only make and use from a base.
It's probably a bit late to mention this, but you can put your rebreather back on while you're down in the Degasi base--there's no radioactivity at that depth. Loving this playthrough! Play however you like, at whatever pace you like. Subnautica fans know how it is when you're going in blind.
I wonder if they made the air balloon better it's amazing in the newer game for going to the surface fast. I can see they done a few updates on the systems
37:00 I got the feeling that everyone who played this game at some point tried to use the habitat builder to dismantle parts of the lifepods and retrieve the materials/blueprints. I guess (and I'm speculating here within the game lore) that you can only deconstruct things you build with your own habitat builder. Similar features are applied in other survival games, for example: "Empyrion Galactic Survival" or "Rust". If not, it would be very easy to raid a base in PvP mode. In Empyrion, you can only deconstruct parts once you've taken property of the building by destroying the enemy's Cpu and replacing it with one of your own.
Something about this game: people who have experienced it want to help you... but most likely they'll only do so if you're really struggling. Part of the experience is being lost and discovering all the crazy things in it. So I'll just tell you this: follow the radio messages, explore wrecks, don't hoard everything (get what you need at the moment, there's so many things to discover by searching resources and it helps with the pacing of discovery to just get what you need)... and be aware of your surroundings. Enjoy, please don't give in to the pressure of making progress for youtube. This game truly is a gem and you're already missing a lot with live commenting (the jellyshroom cave has a destroyed base in it for instance) so take it slow.
Don't stress about feeling like you're not making progress. You're doing amazing! The PDA is helpful but Subnautica LITERALLY shoots you out of orbit.. into the deep end... of an alien planet and just says "You have the tools, good luck 😜" The early game learning process is something we as viewers expect because we've been there. It's an alien world so there should be a leaning curve but I promise you will find your footing and it will all click.
Air bladder tool is extremely useful when you need to ascend Quickly to the surface for oxygen. The flares are very good for lighting up caves or small area (if you pick it up after throwing it, you can use it like a traveling light source.)
I really didn't expect I would want to watch this, but now here I am... burrito'ed in giant fuzzy comforter sipping on coffee with a jazzy vape at my side, enjoying the gloriously bearded funny man swim around.
subnautica one of those game that almost nobody complains with full uncut episodes..even you just swimming around looking for things is part of the game...i myself even prefer uncut or minimally cut episodes when it come to subnautica
games like this can be adhd hell but if you embrace the adhd and let your brain take you where it wants, it becomes a good time if you understand that anything you do at any one moment is progress (tho i get that there's the background worry of making a watchable video, but also, people watch Minecraft series so you're good)
loving the play through thus far this is one of my favourite games, good tip for food and bladder fish make a few gravity wells around you life pod, and it will release mini tractor beams and capture any small fish that swim in its range and hold them there till you gather them.
Loving the series. Also, don't worry about exploring and whatever, I at least don't mind watching you go through it. If you haven't already you may want to check out the radio.
Good episode. Nice gettin a seamoth already. Yeah it's super overwhelming at first at this stage until you get in that groove. Lookin forward to the rest.
Hypothesizing: I have to imagine showing everything is easier at least from an editing perspective which is probably the most time intensive aspect of being a Let’s Player (other than playing the game itself). If this is the case I would not mind at all if you didn’t edit out the “boring” exploration. PS: most people watching the whole playthrough know what this game is like and are going in with eyes wide open as to what this will look like with you playing. And we all really want to see that experience
The beacon disappearing is a common bug that you can fix by disabling and enabling it in the Beacon Manager. Or as the saying goes: Have you tried turning it off and on again?
I don't mind you showing everything you do, I think all of it is very relaxing to watch. The cut around the 14 minute mark actually totally took me out of it, lol. Don't worry about it
So my advice to you is to dive back down to that habitat and scan the multipurpose room, this is the main room you'll use when building your base. Also you should build a base ASAP, you won't have to constantly go back to the life pod for storage, also you can build the scanner room which is extremely useful for recources
Not a spoiler just an advice - don't drop Titanium like that, do it only if it's really necessary. Better get back to base\boat and convert it into slabs (x10) and keep them stashed. Later you can spend lot of time collecting Titanium because everything around would be already mined.
Don'y worry - you're doing fine. The exploration and discovery are part of the fun. You haven't been boring. The one thing I've seen you do that few other have is read through all he info. Thinking you had to repair the ship or the game was over and thinking you had to make another seaglide instead of changing the battery are unique - never saw any one take that approach. And don't worry about that extra seaglide - never hurts to have a spare. The journey is part of the experience - you still don''t know that no matter how many times you been through a biome you still miss useful things. And don't throw away the used batteries.
I just found your channel and am loving the playthrough. Something that almost everyone forgets to think about in the beginning is that your food and water is taking up inventory so you can eat or drink it if you're not full. It's generally best to stay topped up.
Tips with no spoilers : Food : to avoid spoiled food use salt deposits to salt the food like they used to do back when refrigeration hadn't been invented. Water : using coral and salt you can fabricate bleach, with it you can make a large bottle of desinfected water. Batteries & tools : all Tools have swappable batteries, when the battery runs out the game will show you the key to swap batterys. ( There's blueprints for battery and powercell chargers but these must be found and scanned to aquire. ) The Aurora's Wreck, to explore this place it is recommended that you first gather these tools : -Repair tool. -scanner. -fire extinguisher. -PRO-pulsion Cannon, not RE-pulsion Cannon. -Lazer cutter. Stalker teeth : Stalkers will drop thier teeth for you to pick up by simply giving them metal salvage. Medkits : they can be fabricated with fiber mesh at the fabricator in case of emergency. I probably missed something but i rather not say as much to ensure that you truly play blindly, the game rewards your curiosity, scan everything! Almost forgot.. You may stumble across time capsules which contain items from other players that have completed the game, these are subjected to a review process before they show up on other players world's, so it is highly unlikely you'll get spoiled from these, some prefer not to pick them up until the end others don't care, it is like always up to you!
Try not to feel overwhelmed, this game does a good job of guiding you through the story at your own pace, each person progresses through the game a little differently and prioritizes different things. That is what makes it interesting to watch multiple people's playthroughs of the same game. :)
You need to be more aware of the upper and lower right corner of your screen :) Everytime you can scan something (Animal, Plant or Fragments), the Scanner symbol appears in the bottom right corner, everytime you have a new message on your Radio, an Icon appears near your lifepod in top right corner and your Radio blinkt. These are some things new Players sometimes dont notice, but they are helpfull :)
Never forget that we all started that way. I remember my first time playing being a total mess, cluttering every available locker with Acid Mushrooms, good times. As i keep replaying the game, my item lists get leaner and leaner, requiring A LOT less locker space and speeding up progress SO MUCH. But i think it takes some time to understand how the game communicates what to do in what order. The early confusion, though, is absolutely intentional as a part of immersive storytelling. You're a nobody stranded on a foreign planet, not exactly a marine-biologist. If i was in that situation i would also get hold of all kinds of things and hoard them like there's no tomorrow, who knows if i'll come across more of that stuff. Time would tell what is essential and what isn't. Maybe it's a copout, because i know more than a few people who were quite frustrated with how little progress they made at times, but i think it's quite smart and part of the journey.
I like seeing the "boring" exploration and resource gathering. It's part of how this game sets the vibe and tone. It's lonely and intriguing and unknown, and the feeling of discovering the world and surviving is more powerful. I vote for not editing out much of the interim content, I enjoy it.
You can turn beacons back on for places you've already visited. Yes they turn off, but you can always put them back on. They're in your beacon manager in your PDA
Love this game, and really enjoying your playthrough. I quite like the long-form, relatively uncut vids, but feel free to edit them to your liking - it's your show, after all. One piece of (unsolicited) advice about water (after the anti-spoiler padding in case you'd prefer not to see it): Anti-spoiler line 10 Anti-spoiler line 9 Anti-spoiler line 8 Anti-spoiler line 7 Anti-spoiler line 6 Anti-spoiler line 5 Anti-spoiler line 4 Anti-spoiler line 3 Anti-spoiler line 2 Anti-spoiler line 1 Potential spoiler: Look at the other water icon (next to the bladder fish / filtered water in the fabricator); it's a vastly more efficient way of managing your thirst ;)
The idea of using multiple tanks for more bottom time is actually a very good one that a lot of players resist because they want to pick up EVERYTHING. But often, just knowing where to get stuff and being able to get to it is more important than having a lot of stuff. The longer you're down, the more you discover and scan and the more the game opens up. Just don't forget to switch to each one so they refill when you get back to the surface. And since they're not any bigger in the inventory, you should make your spare tank a high capacity as well. You also swim faster with your hands empty, so if you don't NEED what's in your hand, put it away till you do. I found it interesting that you commented a few times on getting thirsty fast. That happens in real life too. Compressed air in scuba tanks is dry so you tend to get dehydrated in a dive. You inhale cool dry air and exhale warm moist air. (you're also getting a lot of exercise which dehydrates you even more) It's normal to take some fruit juice or something for after your dive. (especially if you're going back in for a second dive later) When you get some free time, it's a good idea to look up ALL the recipes in the fabricator and figure out the fabrication chains for each. There's some important stuff that's easy to miss. The issue with the base beacon seems like a bug. They're supposed to always be visible. You could try turning it's visibility off, closing the PDA, then going back in and turning it back on. Might work, might not. You can also use the lifepod as a reference to find stuff. How far from the lifepod are you and in what direction? Also, that base should be out of the radiation zone. Get directly over top of it and switch to the rebreather to check. In fact, to find most stuff, you should start directly over top of it and go straight down if possible. Sometimes that's not possible, but it works well in the early game. When you're ready for an expedition to the Aurora, you can hopefully solve the radiation issue. You're doing really well for your first couple of episodes. You pay attention to most things and use logic to figure things out. There's a lot to learn in Subnautica, but it looks like you'll have an easier time than a lot of people do. One thing you might want to consider is lowering your mouse sensitivity. You're whipping your view around so fast you miss a lot of stuff that you could be scanning. There was more stuff to scan outside of the base at 250m, but it's the resources down there that will also be of interest to you. Go back with 1 or 2 spare tanks and comb the area with your flashlight out. Or, pick a spot further from the Aurora (outside the radiation zone) and explore as deep as you can. Good stuff is often found deep.
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Oh my god I feet some deep pain when I saw him make a *second* seaglide instead of just replacing the battery
Oh no, my car ran out of fuel! Welp, better go buy a new one!
Reminds me of that guy who has his GF play games. She built entire new Seamoths when they ran out of power.
Same with the air tank when he said he needs to craft another to make a bigger one
@@lyckokaka i read this before watching thr video
My physical, mental and spiritual beings hurts
@Ben It's common sense. There's a battery level indicator and you can craft individual batteries, plus there's an easy battery swap tab when using a tool. I never experienced this apparent confusion. People simply lack awareness and barely read the information available to them.
I'm pretty sure that when the scanner icon shows up it means you haven't scanned what you're looking at yet. It appears on the right side of the screen at the bottom.
i did a quick check, and it shows up for anything that you CAN scan, not what you haven't, but hey, 2-3 titanium is nothing to scoff at
[This applies to fragments BTW]
For most materials it only shows up until you scan it. Only fragments in containers allow you to scan multiple times and give you titanium.
@@Munnz06 no it's what you haven't at least in terms of creatures
Yggdrasil42 is correct. For database purposes the scan icon will only show up if you haven't scanned it yet. Fragments continue to appear because scanning them gives 2 titanium.
Anytime Mapo chuckles unprompted, I’m just gonna assume he remembered that Garyfish exist
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Don't forget to put your rebreather back on btw! It prevents you from dramatically losing oxygen below 100 meters
*drastically, I hate the English language there are so many words that sound/look the same as others and auto correct hurts more than it helps sometimes by say... typing drastically and the computer thinking you were trying to put "dramatically"
@@grimerime23 He might have intended to say dramatically. Both words work.
@@Assdafflabaff Yeah, dramatically definitely works here.
Dramatically doesn't work as well. This isn't a drama. Drastic has to do with something being severe. Drama is drama.
@@soup_doctor Wow thanks for the English lesson. My grasp of the language has improved dramatically.
Mapo none of us knew how to play Subnautica on our first runs either, that’s the fun of it!
Swimming around and stumbling through progress is what makes the game so rewarding. The most common thing Subnautica fans say is “God I wish I could experience the game for the first time again”, because the learning/exploration is the best part of it. That’s also why so many of us love watching lets players!
Do whatever you want at your own pace, make as much progress as you want per episode, just have fun and we’ll enjoy it!
i'm just amazed how many things he passed up when the scanner icon pops up. like the moonpool one.. that hurt lol
Honestly play however you want and edit however you want :) we're just happy to be here for the journey! Don't feel pressure to 'progress' any particular amount each episode, but also if you want to that's fine too. Play how you want 😊
Yes. this game is best played while you're not worried about "progressing" and are just doing whatever you think is best
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Totally agree! This game is literally hands you all this freedom to play however you want at whatever pace.
Progress is not required to have fun - an entire episode of simply exploring or gathering while relaxing, reflecting / reacting can be so enjoyable too.
Also the "mistakes" are part of playing. Everyone makes them, we just make different ones. They add to the experience.
This isn't his first rodeo when it comes to dealing with peoples expectations.
I couldn't agree more.
1:38:00 the beacon signal never diappeared, you were hovering over it and never looked straight down... On the other hand, beacons disappear when you're closer than 20 meters approximately. I learned that the hard way (drowned in the dark of the depths, with my seamoth nearby, uncapable of seeing it, beacon off because of the distance)
Distress signal disappears when you come close to it and never shows again, because the game thinks you already explored this area. To turn on distress signal again you need to go to PDA.
@@markandreev2004 not true
@@Velleder Yep, it's true. Once you visit the distress signals they automatically stop showing, so you have to turn them off and then on again in the PDA for them to properly appear. I'm surprised Mapo didn't figure this out yet since he accidentally did it on his very first signal. Hopefully he learns about it in the next episode, it's so easy to miss things in this game.
I wouldn't mind seeing your full uncut playthrough. Quiet moments are a part of this chill game. We can always fast forward.
I don't have time to watch someone else do nothing. Lol
@@guitearist Subnautica playthroughs might not be your thing then......
@@guitearist what are you doing watching someone else playing Subnautica then
@@mario_gabriel Because it's fun watching a well-edited playthrough that cuts to the interesting parts.
@@unlmtdsky12 Because I prefer good editing?
One last tip that is kinda important… The radio messages basically advance the story. But none of them are time sensitive. You can let them sit if your busy collecting things or exploring. Or already have other destinations to check out already. I made the mistake of checking the radio messages as they came in and quickly got overwhelmed with 5 beacons to check. Lol
There's nothing time sensitive except one thing and you'll get a timer on screen. That's how you know.
@@neobscura that yes
@@neobscura And the timer for that one only starts counting once you listen to the radio message.
@1:15:32 And that's why you use the Rebreather, it removes the penalty.
Your stressful exploration of the Degasi base would have been much easier with the Rebreather on.
Keep an eye out for the scanner icon in the bottom-right corner; it appears whenever you're facing something scannable. Reading all of the descriptions improved the experience.
Getting the Seamoth ist where the game really starts for me, your not required anymore to surface every 2 minutes and can just go much further with it.
I use pipes and base building for exploring got pretty good at it with out the seamoth got ages haha
Yeah I built the seamoth before entering the cave. It helped so much, but I had to be very careful not going past the depth limit
I spent a while without it, but I agree it opens the game up a great deal.
I specifically use it as a secondary staging point for refilling my O2.
Diving deeper is much easier when you have a beacon to aim for when you're heading back for air.
You’ll do just fine if you keep your eyes open and check your radio often. The game is pretty good about delivering flags that nudge you in the right direction.
And I’d say that the mere fact that you worry about making progress or missing things is proof that you will keep a fairly steady pace and miss very little once you’ve learned what to look for.
It is the learning what to look for that is the issue.
Yep, the radio is one of the most important aspects of the game as its designed to 'lead' you through the game and avoid wasting time. I do wonder based on this playthrough if anyone ever completed the game without using the radio? I'm not sure if its even possible the progress the story without it?
@@noisecrime
Unless you know the code for a certain room. It might be impossible. Can't remember.
Something near and dear to my heart died inside me when Mapo made a second seaglide
It was when he dropped it and watched it sink 😰 that moment went in slow motion for me
@@brxathartic2504 got some "I don't want to play with you anymore" energy
This is me when I see people make underwater storage bins instead of interior lockers inside of a base.
33:17 Mapo if you create enough storage lockers you could spell out HELP to be seen from space!
Damn you're really getting a hang of the game very quickly, really goes to show it's made for curious people!
At first I got a little mad at the game for not showing that you can swap batteries, cause I thought they had removed the prompt. But I'm glad it popped up for you when you ran out!
Edit: I know it's not easy but try not to stress about having to make progress, the exploring and figuring out is half the fun!
When you're fading out, there's like 3 second waiting time before you die. During that time, if you keep pressing W and reach the surface, you'll come back to life. So, when it's fading out, don't give up, keep going up
I think that Subnautica is deliberately designed to feel overwhelming in the beginning, because that is how the protagonist must feel. Crashing on an alien planet is probably not a typical day in the life. Figuring out ways to survive sure is beyond stressful, and the game does a good job putting pressure on the player.
Agreed, and it makes it so when you start figuring out the survival routine it feels great. It goes from entirely overwhelming to totally doable pretty fast once you learn the basics of living sustainably.
You might of figured this out by now but you can re highlight the gps points, also It's fine to skip or speed up some of the footage. But make sure you are always recording since this game is in the "I ran into something and I really wish I was recording" category.
I'm happy enough watching however you want to play. The joy of games like this is discovering and figuring things out for yourself at your own pace. There are a lot of well intentioned tip comments, but imho it absolutely kills the satisfaction of finding/figuring it out for yourself. Even if it frustrates some viewers. That's the whole point and fun of blind playthroughs.
In all my time playing this game I never had the idea to have multiple O2 tanks and switch them out.
Same. It's especially crazy for me because I watch IRL divers and they do that as well.
To be fair, you'd be excused to never have tried it, as there is little application outside of the very early game imo.
I kept running out of oxygen while I was exploring this Degasi base - getting caught behind the stingers or having trouble going up/down stairs - so I made a second air tank to swap out. I think I used it in one other big wreck as well.
You swim more slowly if you have oxygen tanks in your inventory. The larger the tank, the slower the speed.
@@Adallace true.. but with the seaglider and a second oxygen tank it works pretty well when exploring caves
Answer on the beacons disappearing if you want it (ignore if not):
Beacons given by the radio disappear when you visit them for the first time (annoying I know as it confuses everyone! but I think it was to prevent players being overwhelmed by beacons on the screen) - just turn it off and on again and it'll stay on indefinitely after the first visit.
Edit: At least this is how it used to be. If it continues then unfortunately that is a bug indeed :(
At least some of the times when he's saying they've disappeared they're actually on screen. At 1:39:18 or so you can see the beacon icon at the very bottom of his screen because it's behind/below him as he's asking why it's gone again.
@@Ventripotent Which is also a good reason to change the color from the original blue which blends in with the background of the world.
"This is an ADHD nightmare of a game"
As your ADHD viewer, I really appreciate you finding all the tiny things on the sea floor. 😄I would do exactly the same.
There is no such thing as ADHD, its just a bad case of TikTok attention span
@@justusP9101 " tHEre is No sUCH thinG As INstItuTionALIzeD PoVerTY, iT'S JUSt A BAd casE oF laZYNESS " headass
I hope that was a joke honestly😭
@@justusP9101 are you pretending or are you actually just stupid?
@@justusP9101 please let this be a joke
This is a really interesting playthrough from a player useablity standpoint. Mapo comes in with minimal survival game experience and makes logical deductions on how to build a base etc. But he's misintepreting stuff that the devs just assumed you would probably know from other survival games, like building your own base from scratch. From the naming of the degassi base to the log that he finds it all sets him up to think about retrofitting that base. Also there's stuff like the radio message icon being onscreen but there's no explanation in-game as to what it means so he doesn't go check the radio, which funnily enough is the game's breadcrumb trail to help you find new tech like the seamoth etc. As a game designer myself I think we can learn lessons from a playthrough like this as to how new players react to a more freeform structured game like Subnautica, where maybe a little extra nudge might help from the devs to steer players. What is cool though is how open ended the structure of the game is, like there's no reason you can't 'skip' ahead to the degassi base if you build pipe chains or take multiple oxygen tanks etc.
I think the only other thing they could add is an audio cue, like "new message". Other than that its entely on Mapo no paying attention.
Like the beacon wich was clearly at the bottom of the screen, in a different color that he set, yet refused to look at.
I'm also pretty sure he has not realised, at least to this point, that you get a icon showing up when you have not yet scanned something.
If you explain to much, people will complain you are explaining to much.
Literally saw someone complaining that the game got too easy after early access because batterys could now be recharged and resources respawned.
oh my god lol "i hate that the beacons just disappear" meanwhile it's been on the screen the whole time lmao
Did you forget about the mask that helps with deep diving 🤭
Taking a bit of radiation damage would be more ideal than drowning 🤪
I felt like this was an ADHD dream, personally. Constant discovery and constant dopamine dings with each new scan and blueprint!
"Welcome aboard Captain!" I wish more TH-camrs put up full playtgroughs instead of just the story beats, thanks for these!
Yeeeeeeeees. I'm one of many who recommended this probably a year ago, I'm really glad to see you getting into this., first episode was phenomenal, keep it up.
It hurt to see you craft a second seaglide. You can just put in a new battery. But man i’m glad seeing a new blind playthrough. Have fun
Love how no one can resist giving Subnautica blind let's players a million pieces of advice. 🙄 Mapo is pretty darn good at stuff; let him figure shit out. It's one of the things I enjoy most about his let's plays.
The whole entire comment section it’s just tips which is really disappointing, why watch a blind playthrough if you want the player to know everything from the start??
Yep...and many border on spoilers for things that are much more fun to figure out on your own.
Only exception is when the comments point out bugs and fixes, like the orange beacon not being visible even though it had the eye symbol turned on in the beacon manager.
But yeah when it's stuff like "don't use x piece of gear instead of y piece of gear unless you're doing z part of the story" it's annoying. It's more fun to figure it out on your own.
Here after watching your complete playthroughs of DS, Bloodborne, and Village - you have become one of my absolute favorite streamers and I'm SO HYPED that you're playing one of my favorite games.
They call it a bladder fish because it is basically a living air bladder, as in the organ that almost all fish have and allows them to stay buoyant.Speaking of which the air bladder tool you can make is very helpful when exploring. If your oxygen starts to run out just pull out the air bladder, make sure you have unobstructed access to the surface and activate it. it is the 4th item of my default 5 items i make at the start of the game.
“This will get better.” This is already fantastic, I’m enjoying all of it!
Please don't cut out the swimming and chilling, it's why I'm here!
second other comments! def dont mind a more full view of episodes, resource gathering is a big part of this game
The scanner icon appears on the bottom right of the screen when you approach fragments for vehicles or tools. It also shows it for flora and fauna but will stop once you scanned them once. It will always show for machine parts😊
I don't mind 8 hours length episodes of this.
“We are the new predator of these seas.”
Oh… oh you sweet summer child…
Beacon signals are still there, you just need to toggle the eye icon on and off. It'll go away once you find the signal but you can turn it back on. Just toggle the eye icon :)
Lol i've never seen someone use the reload option so much.
I find it rather disappointing; what's the point of having consequences if he just ignores them? Same for PDA Pause, they make the adventure more comfortable . . . at the expense of trivializing any suspense.
When your car runs out of fuel, do you buy a new one? You building a second Seaglide made me crack up. 😂
yes but this is a game not real life. You need to go outside more
@@callum8384 Nope. You need to develop a sense of humour.
So many games force you to constantly rebuild your tools when they “run out”, it wasn’t a completely unreasonable assumption 😅 but it was a tiny bit painful to watch
@@callum8384 Petulant child
@@callum8384 Dweeb
The logic for losing your belongings when you die is tied to what was in your inventory when you last entered a base (in this case either your lifepod or a habitat you construct). When you die you will keep all the items you had when were last in your base along with 1 random item you picked up since then, losing everything else. I think for your first death that was the Copper you mined while exploring.
For the beacon logic, it will automatically hide itself once you reach the location the first time, but you can reactivate it if you go back into your PDA. It will only do this once however, any time in the future it will not disappear even if you go close to it again. There were many times where the beacons were just beneath you or camouflaged in the background.
One other thing, in your blueprint menu, the categories tell you where you can craft the item. So the Seamoth appears under the Mobile Vehicle Bay section, and the Ultra glide fins you found a blueprint for are under the Modification Station section.
Don't change a thing man!
"We are the new predator of these seas"
*looks at thumbnail*
I think the beacons disappearing is a bug, try turning them off and on again in the beacon menu
This. It happened to me too, and hiding/showing them fixed it every time.
I admit I'm not quite finished with the video but I posted a comment. There is an in world explanation for why some "beacons" disappear when you locate them. I put a big space in case someone doesn't want to read it but the beacon for the base in the cave is functioning as intended.
While there might be a bug, in the case of this video at 1:40:00 the beacon hasn't disappeared, he is simply directly above it, so its at the bottom of the screen. In fact it pretty much never disappears at all if you watch it, it just stays within the seamoth at the bottom of the screen - granted a bit hard to see, but it is there. This is why you want to use actual beacons to mark entrances/exits to cave systems as it makes them easier to find than some beacon deep within the cave system.
No the beacons disappearing is not a bug, the game is programmed for this. Beacons that target locations like a pod or a Degassi base will disappear once you come within 10m of them. All you have to do is go into your beacon manager on the PDA and toggle it off and back on. Then you have re-set it and it will again automatically turn off next time you are within 10m.
However if you build a "Beacon" those stay on forever. Same with the tracking for your starting life pod and any vehicle you build. Those don't turn off unless you do so on the beacon manager.
@@elaine_of_shalott6587t still is a pain and bad design though.
I honestly cant believe they still havent fixed it. When you go to an automatic beacon you recieved like at 48:00 , it's automatically removed from your visible beacons once you leave. But for some reason the visibility icon on your PDA stays on like its still visible even though it definitely isn't.
This should have been fixed ages ago.
Either simply keep the beacon visible and let people turn them off themselves, or set the little icon to invisible if it automatically deactivates. Can't be that hard now can it?
Now it's just confusing for no reason. The beacon manager says it's visible even though it really isn't. How is that helping anyone? No matter the "in world explanation".
1:26:26 Possibly. You also just noticed the radio messages a minute or so ago. Earlier when you were talking about the game being overwhelming because it didn't have any structured path to it I was thinking to myself, man he really needs to check his radio because that'll be a godsend for him. This game actually does a great job of giving you direction in the early to mid game through the radio messages and the life pods etc. So I think now that youve noticed when you have radio messages and are more likely to check them it'll go a bit smoother for you perhaps and feel less overwhelming.
Absolutely loving this playthrough. It is so refreshing to see a truly blind version and the differences between my first time and this. Taking the seamoth full-tilt into a man-sized cave......😂 Great job Sir. Sincerely.
I’ve been refreshing my TH-cam all day waiting for part 2 to be posted! So excited to watch this!!! 🎉🎊
This is THE best, most thoughtful, most instinctive blind play through I’ve ever seen for Subnautica. You’re doing an outstanding job of figuring stuff out thus far.
We all went through hording and then dropping Titanium. Having enough stuff to get you always distracted is what I find so amazing about this game. Look at your available tools to craft ;)
Dropping? Never! If you're building bases you gotta hoard it the entire game lol
@@djbeema you are spoiling
You need titanium for basically everything though. I don't think you can ever have too much, as I ended up running out when making my bases.
Me screaming at my phone for an hour about using a rebreather instead of the rad mask while he’s not close to the Aurora
Instead of making a new seaglide (which requires a battery anyway), can't you just make a battery and put it into your old seaglide?
Edit: Nevermind, you found out 😅
Disappointed about the saving and reloading. Finding your way back to your abandoned vehicles is a fun part of the game!
Great to see the episodes coming in!
A couple quality-of-life tips, some ppl already mentioned it and its likely that you got it already figured out in upcoming episodes but maybe it will be a handy, no-spoiler summary:
- Most important- don't feel like you need to make progress, sometimes you will get stuck and thats fine. just chill out and go exploring. Much like Outer Wilds its an exploration expirience and the game will reward you for that
- HUD tip - you already noticed the radio pop up, there is also a scanner icon in bottom right corner that shows up when you point your coursor at something that you haven't scanned yet
- Rebreather - it won't give you any extra oxygen, but its extremly useful when going deep, like over 100-200 meters deep if you know what i mean. in most cases much more useful than radiation mask
- Beacons - you can turn them on and off from the menu and when its not showing up than a quick off-on should do the trick
Other than that just have fun. You are doing great, the begginning is a little overwhelming but you will figure it out soon and its just gonna get better and better.
You know I’d actually be pretty down to watch an ARK or The Forest gameplay if he ends up liking this
Building a base on shallow water near your lifepod seems the next logical step, before heading deep below 100m- (Just started watching, so that might happen). Lots of stuff you can only make and use from a base.
It's probably a bit late to mention this, but you can put your rebreather back on while you're down in the Degasi base--there's no radioactivity at that depth.
Loving this playthrough! Play however you like, at whatever pace you like. Subnautica fans know how it is when you're going in blind.
I wonder if they made the air balloon better it's amazing in the newer game for going to the surface fast. I can see they done a few updates on the systems
Yeah. I heard they added a lot of stuff from Below Zero, mostly QoL improvements.
Yeah the 2.0 update has massively improved the game, especially if you were on console, many QOL changes
@@petaisajoke 1.0 feels like a beta in comparison, fr
37:00 I got the feeling that everyone who played this game at some point tried to use the habitat builder to dismantle parts of the lifepods and retrieve the materials/blueprints. I guess (and I'm speculating here within the game lore) that you can only deconstruct things you build with your own habitat builder. Similar features are applied in other survival games, for example: "Empyrion Galactic Survival" or "Rust". If not, it would be very easy to raid a base in PvP mode. In Empyrion, you can only deconstruct parts once you've taken property of the building by destroying the enemy's Cpu and replacing it with one of your own.
Something about this game: people who have experienced it want to help you... but most likely they'll only do so if you're really struggling.
Part of the experience is being lost and discovering all the crazy things in it. So I'll just tell you this: follow the radio messages, explore wrecks, don't hoard everything (get what you need at the moment, there's so many things to discover by searching resources and it helps with the pacing of discovery to just get what you need)... and be aware of your surroundings.
Enjoy, please don't give in to the pressure of making progress for youtube.
This game truly is a gem and you're already missing a lot with live commenting (the jellyshroom cave has a destroyed base in it for instance) so take it slow.
Don't stress about feeling like you're not making progress. You're doing amazing!
The PDA is helpful but Subnautica LITERALLY shoots you out of orbit.. into the deep end... of an alien planet and just says "You have the tools, good luck 😜"
The early game learning process is something we as viewers expect because we've been there. It's an alien world so there should be a leaning curve but I promise you will find your footing and it will all click.
The swivel chair will be pivotal.
😂
Ah, the amazing subnautica logic where the water pressure can crush your steel submarine but you can swim around completely fine
Air bladder tool is extremely useful when you need to ascend Quickly to the surface for oxygen. The flares are very good for lighting up caves or small area (if you pick it up after throwing it, you can use it like a traveling light source.)
Good tip! I always felt the flares were useless and tossed them at some point.
Just wanted to let you know you’re my favorite YT letsplayer. I always look forward to your videos whenever they drop 😁
I really didn't expect I would want to watch this, but now here I am... burrito'ed in giant fuzzy comforter sipping on coffee with a jazzy vape at my side, enjoying the gloriously bearded funny man swim around.
oh boy I hope he learns to wear the rebreather he made to actually survive.
subnautica one of those game that almost nobody complains with full uncut episodes..even you just swimming around looking for things is part of the game...i myself even prefer uncut or minimally cut episodes when it come to subnautica
games like this can be adhd hell but if you embrace the adhd and let your brain take you where it wants, it becomes a good time if you understand that anything you do at any one moment is progress (tho i get that there's the background worry of making a watchable video, but also, people watch Minecraft series so you're good)
loving the play through thus far this is one of my favourite games, good tip for food and bladder fish make a few gravity wells around you life pod, and it will release mini tractor beams and capture any small fish that swim in its range and hold them there till you gather them.
Loving the series. Also, don't worry about exploring and whatever, I at least don't mind watching you go through it. If you haven't already you may want to check out the radio.
Good episode. Nice gettin a seamoth already. Yeah it's super overwhelming at first at this stage until you get in that groove. Lookin forward to the rest.
don't forget to enjoy the game. Making progress is not the most important part. None of us on first playthrough knew what to do
Hypothesizing: I have to imagine showing everything is easier at least from an editing perspective which is probably the most time intensive aspect of being a Let’s Player (other than playing the game itself). If this is the case I would not mind at all if you didn’t edit out the “boring” exploration.
PS: most people watching the whole playthrough know what this game is like and are going in with eyes wide open as to what this will look like with you playing. And we all really want to see that experience
The beacon disappearing is a common bug that you can fix by disabling and enabling it in the Beacon Manager. Or as the saying goes:
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
On and off and on again!
I don't mind you showing everything you do, I think all of it is very relaxing to watch. The cut around the 14 minute mark actually totally took me out of it, lol. Don't worry about it
"This game is an adhd nightm- IS THAT A FORKLIFT?!"
So my advice to you is to dive back down to that habitat and scan the multipurpose room, this is the main room you'll use when building your base. Also you should build a base ASAP, you won't have to constantly go back to the life pod for storage, also you can build the scanner room which is extremely useful for recources
Man… the logic of making a new glider instead of a new battery.
I really loved it mate. Lots of fun.
Keep it up, and hoist your colors high.
Not a spoiler just an advice - don't drop Titanium like that, do it only if it's really necessary.
Better get back to base\boat and convert it into slabs (x10) and keep them stashed.
Later you can spend lot of time collecting Titanium because everything around would be already mined.
Batteries can be exchanged in the sea glide, flash light and the like. You do not need to make another sea glide just change the batteries.
Don'y worry - you're doing fine. The exploration and discovery are part of the fun. You haven't been boring. The one thing I've seen you do that few other have is read through all he info. Thinking you had to repair the ship or the game was over and thinking you had to make another seaglide instead of changing the battery are unique - never saw any one take that approach. And don't worry about that extra seaglide - never hurts to have a spare. The journey is part of the experience - you still don''t know that no matter how many times you been through a biome you still miss useful things. And don't throw away the used batteries.
Everyone who I watch play this game always manages to miss the scanner icon that pops in the bottom-right for the first few hours...
Really enjoyed the Jelly Ray Vaughan reference
That fish was trying to get all up in that and make a mapo home 😅
I just found your channel and am loving the playthrough. Something that almost everyone forgets to think about in the beginning is that your food and water is taking up inventory so you can eat or drink it if you're not full. It's generally best to stay topped up.
54:29 Too bad there isn't any giant wreckage nearby🤣
Tips with no spoilers :
Food : to avoid spoiled food use salt deposits to salt the food like they used to do back when refrigeration hadn't been invented.
Water : using coral and salt you can fabricate bleach, with it you can make a large bottle of desinfected water.
Batteries & tools : all Tools have swappable batteries, when the battery runs out the game will show you the key to swap batterys.
( There's blueprints for battery and powercell chargers but these must be found and scanned to aquire. )
The Aurora's Wreck, to explore this place it is recommended that you first gather these tools :
-Repair tool.
-scanner.
-fire extinguisher.
-PRO-pulsion Cannon, not RE-pulsion Cannon.
-Lazer cutter.
Stalker teeth : Stalkers will drop thier teeth for you to pick up by simply giving them metal salvage.
Medkits : they can be fabricated with fiber mesh at the fabricator in case of emergency.
I probably missed something but i rather not say as much to ensure that you truly play blindly, the game rewards your curiosity, scan everything! Almost forgot.. You may stumble across time capsules which contain items from other players that have completed the game, these are subjected to a review process before they show up on other players world's, so it is highly unlikely you'll get spoiled from these, some prefer not to pick them up until the end others don't care, it is like always up to you!
Already said to much(to me). Part of the fun of a blind playthrough is the satisfaction of watching someone learn(at least to me).
Try not to feel overwhelmed, this game does a good job of guiding you through the story at your own pace, each person progresses through the game a little differently and prioritizes different things. That is what makes it interesting to watch multiple people's playthroughs of the same game. :)
You need to be more aware of the upper and lower right corner of your screen :) Everytime you can scan something (Animal, Plant or Fragments), the Scanner symbol appears in the bottom right corner, everytime you have a new message on your Radio, an Icon appears near your lifepod in top right corner and your Radio blinkt. These are some things new Players sometimes dont notice, but they are helpfull :)
So a good tip is if something is able to be scanned, the scanner symbol will appear in the lower right corner.
Never forget that we all started that way. I remember my first time playing being a total mess, cluttering every available locker with Acid Mushrooms, good times. As i keep replaying the game, my item lists get leaner and leaner, requiring A LOT less locker space and speeding up progress SO MUCH. But i think it takes some time to understand how the game communicates what to do in what order.
The early confusion, though, is absolutely intentional as a part of immersive storytelling. You're a nobody stranded on a foreign planet, not exactly a marine-biologist. If i was in that situation i would also get hold of all kinds of things and hoard them like there's no tomorrow, who knows if i'll come across more of that stuff. Time would tell what is essential and what isn't. Maybe it's a copout, because i know more than a few people who were quite frustrated with how little progress they made at times, but i think it's quite smart and part of the journey.
I like seeing the "boring" exploration and resource gathering. It's part of how this game sets the vibe and tone. It's lonely and intriguing and unknown, and the feeling of discovering the world and surviving is more powerful. I vote for not editing out much of the interim content, I enjoy it.
Beacons don't disappear. You're above it and don't see it.
You can turn beacons back on for places you've already visited. Yes they turn off, but you can always put them back on. They're in your beacon manager in your PDA
42:00 those non-functional lab-equipment items are essentially decorative items for your base once you start building it.
Love this game, and really enjoying your playthrough. I quite like the long-form, relatively uncut vids, but feel free to edit them to your liking - it's your show, after all.
One piece of (unsolicited) advice about water (after the anti-spoiler padding in case you'd prefer not to see it):
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Potential spoiler: Look at the other water icon (next to the bladder fish / filtered water in the fabricator); it's a vastly more efficient way of managing your thirst ;)
The idea of using multiple tanks for more bottom time is actually a very good one that a lot of players resist because they want to pick up EVERYTHING. But often, just knowing where to get stuff and being able to get to it is more important than having a lot of stuff. The longer you're down, the more you discover and scan and the more the game opens up.
Just don't forget to switch to each one so they refill when you get back to the surface. And since they're not any bigger in the inventory, you should make your spare tank a high capacity as well.
You also swim faster with your hands empty, so if you don't NEED what's in your hand, put it away till you do.
I found it interesting that you commented a few times on getting thirsty fast. That happens in real life too. Compressed air in scuba tanks is dry so you tend to get dehydrated in a dive. You inhale cool dry air and exhale warm moist air. (you're also getting a lot of exercise which dehydrates you even more) It's normal to take some fruit juice or something for after your dive. (especially if you're going back in for a second dive later)
When you get some free time, it's a good idea to look up ALL the recipes in the fabricator and figure out the fabrication chains for each. There's some important stuff that's easy to miss.
The issue with the base beacon seems like a bug. They're supposed to always be visible. You could try turning it's visibility off, closing the PDA, then going back in and turning it back on. Might work, might not.
You can also use the lifepod as a reference to find stuff. How far from the lifepod are you and in what direction?
Also, that base should be out of the radiation zone. Get directly over top of it and switch to the rebreather to check. In fact, to find most stuff, you should start directly over top of it and go straight down if possible. Sometimes that's not possible, but it works well in the early game.
When you're ready for an expedition to the Aurora, you can hopefully solve the radiation issue.
You're doing really well for your first couple of episodes. You pay attention to most things and use logic to figure things out. There's a lot to learn in Subnautica, but it looks like you'll have an easier time than a lot of people do.
One thing you might want to consider is lowering your mouse sensitivity. You're whipping your view around so fast you miss a lot of stuff that you could be scanning. There was more stuff to scan outside of the base at 250m, but it's the resources down there that will also be of interest to you. Go back with 1 or 2 spare tanks and comb the area with your flashlight out.
Or, pick a spot further from the Aurora (outside the radiation zone) and explore as deep as you can. Good stuff is often found deep.