I'm having much more fun than I expected. 25 hours, gone.

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This thread will not die

Call me when it finally runs at more than 15fps if you dare to make a base larger than a few rooms.

>>383229031
you have a point. Mine runs okay until I explore certain areas, then it chugs and levels out until it chugs again.

I'm having fun still

>>383229175
Don't get me wrong. The game is solid as fuck conceptually, it just overly suffers from the devs lazily refusing to optimize anything until "it's done."

Too bad it will be so bloated with shit by that point that putting any meaningful optimizations in at all will be next to impossible.

Reminder that the reason you cannot shoot organisms with actual guns is because the dev/s are literal pacifists.

>>383228541
>aesthexic
Please, learn to read and/or write.

>>383230086
OR because any game trying to be spooky when you can go toe to toe with the monsters and kill them isn't actually that spooky

>>383230086
Reminder that you're even more pathetic for trying to keep this meme alive.

>>383230468
There's plenty of way to kill beasties in the game already.

It's just an old meme from some shit a dumbass said in a reddit post, so Subnautica haters latched onto it as some kind of reason to boycott the game.

Remember, neo-/v/ obsesses about everything being posted to reddit at all times while simultaneously demanding that people not use the site.

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>>383229789
>lazily refusing to optimize anything until "it's done."
that's not lazy, that's how it's done.
you do not optimize your software when you still in the progress of adding features. optimizing while still developing is like opening a new can of worms with each change you make. it's not efficient. they kinda did that with natural selection2 as well, which ran until the end of its developing cycle like ass, and when it was done it was buttery smooth

>>383228541
Stupid sexy chin

Call me when MP.

>>383234881
This. Do they actually plan to implement multiplayer at all?

>>383235031
It was planned then cut because it wouldn't work

>>383232463
You can totally fucking optimize your shit as you build it into the game. People only use your line of reasoning to justify getting bilked on an early access game that was never well built to begin with.

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>>383235473
was this not how it had always been done even before early access, or was this a recent trend? I'm no software dev, so I wouldn't know but that's how i heard it works from a family member who is.

>>383229031
>>383229175
>>383229789
fukin voxels

>>383228541
Part of me wants this game, but the other part of me knows that without some grand goal in my, sandbox games just bore me no matter how pretty.

>>383236817
Unlike most EA survival games this one has a goal, and a thin story too.

when the fuck will terrain damage come back?

>>383237210
it won't anon. voxels are going away for static mesh

>>383236817
It's not like you lose anything by playing it, you're already wasting time shitposting on 4chan
If you're interested then pirate the latest version and fuck around a bit to see if you have fun.

>>383236917
Yeah gradually shifted that way over development.

>>383228541
Subnautica thread? Fuck yeah! FUCK THOSE SCARY FUCKS!!
>>383229031
Get a better PC
>>383229175
At some points of the map, the game is trying to load 3 or 4 biomes at once. My 5820k and gtx960 run just fine, except around the middle (middle southwest-ish), when I'm around the grassy plateaus, kelp forest, safezone, and jelly shroom cave.

>>383230086
The game is an exploration type game. Not a CoD-like shooter. Giving the player highly destructive tools takes away from that experience.

>>383230723
>Remember, neo-/v/ obsesses about everything being posted to reddit at all times while simultaneously demanding that people not use the site.
I've only been to reddit once. Because, in 2007, /v/ started telling me to go back there. I don't see the big deal. Bunch of old, rehashed 4chan memes gone full retard. Same thing happened when I was told to go back to 9gag a few years later.
>>383234637
I never noticed. Probably because I was screaming like a little girl because early beta stages would have them randomly pop the fuck up out of nowhere and leave me frantically slapping at Esc.
FUCK
THOSE
THINGS
The Sea Dragon and Emperor are majestic as fuck, though. Also, fuck Crabsquids. Those noises are creepy as fuck.
>>383235031
>>383235219
Some 3rd party made a multiplayer mod for ETS 2. I think the fanbase is strong enough to come up with something similar.

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>>383235473
you don't, no one does that with such a small team because, in the end, you spend more time on optimizing, and waiting for that optimization to be implemented to see what next get broken by it, than finishing the game. you get one performance hog ironed out, the next addition to the engine and the game just adds just adds 10 other issues, including a similar problem you just fixed before again, while everyone's work was on halt waiting for that optimization to get in place to see if their addition still works as expected. you finish your software, run the debug modes while analyzing performance and bottlenecks on each element, and fix these issues, this takes time, but less than not doing it in one go. UWE basically lets you play their internal builds as part of their early access. they have no obligations to meet your expectations, stop being so entitled, they clearly state this is a game in development and unfinished, they let you participate in their developing process and progress, something other companies would not even let you see. heck, they did it back then with natural selection 2 when early access wasn't even a thing yet. that first alpha build ran at 10 -20 fps and had not even gameplay since it was just the bare proof of concept engine with a test map and nonfunctioning weapons. you downloaded their internal builds from their server after chipping in 15$, and with each build the game took shape, we did not see any real framerate gains until the game went gold, optimizing the engine code and assets took less than 2 months from that point on we had 50fps on toasters.

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There needs to be like 10x more aliens then there is now. And a larger map with more zones. And actual ways to defend yourself. Then it would be the perfect comfy game.

>>383235774
thats how programming works in general. you do not untangle your spaghetti while your mom still shovels more onto your dish

>>383237657
games not supposed to be comfy, its supposed to keep your asshole puckered

>>383229789
>it just overly suffers from the devs lazily refusing to optimize anything until "it's done."

I think you may be retarded. Optimization is always the very last thing to be done in game development. You bought an early access game idiot.

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>>383237657
>actual ways to defend yourself
lol git gud fag, if anything combat is too easy

>>383235473
If you optimised everything as you did it you'd be taking so much time getting it out of the door and would potentially undo any optimisation with future updates meaning you'd have to go back and re-optimise it.

>>383237946
There will be a point when you want a larger world.

>>383238084
How do you kill the reapers? Also do they still do that thing where the literally spawn right next to you.

Corporate shilling by convicted fraudster HUGH JEREMY

>>383237946
How does it keep your asshole puckered when there are literally only two legitimate threats in the entire game

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>>383229031
feels good not having a toaster

>>383238382
Everyone suffers from the pop in lag fag

>>383237657
>a larger map with more zones
Twisty Bridges and Arctic biomes are still possibly happening.
>10x more aliens
A small handful would be nice. 10 times the current amount seems like the planet would be a little over populated for creepfactor setting. Or the fact that there is a lethal disease slowly killing everything on the planet

>>383238224
I get what you're saying, but you don't necessarily need to optimize/ everything/ as you build it. You can try to keep things clean and iron out major performance hogs (and simple minor ones) as you go. Then, when it's time, you do a full pass.

>>383238350
then why would you need defenses then.
you only need defenses when you actually feel threatened.
subnautica makes you feel threatened, even though there is no imminent danger. you mostly pucker over nothing

>>383238440
only when moving at high speed, and then it's not that bad with an SSD

it's an issue that needs attention, and will get it soon, but it's far from gamebreaking

>>383237657
What is the stasis rifle?

>>383238607
indeed, defenses and guns would nullify that looming feeling

>Almost exactly one year later
>Subnautica is FotM again
Pretty good, guess this means they added a lot of content since then.
Are they going to add much more between now and the time of the full release? I've been trying to hold off until then, but I have a itch for it.

>>383238440
>he's not using an M.2 SSD

>>383238252
How DON'T you kill the reapers? Fling exploding fish or poisonous mushrooms at them with the gravity gun, shoot torpedos, use the fuck off electric field a couple times, drill them into fish meal, or just freeze and knife them.

With a grapple arm and a drill arm on the prawn, you can spiderman all around the map and drill right through any creature you encounter. It's fun but a little easy.

>>383238794
Not sure when you last played, but the updates have been pretty regular. Several major updates over the last 6 or so months.

>>383238607
Subnautica makes people feel threatened/tense without even trying to because it's just natural water-related fear. Open spaces, limited visibility, creatures that are more mobile and bigger than you.

>>383238794
It's mostly polish and finishing touches at this point.

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It's weird how there's no dolphin-like creatures in the game. It's highly likely that that kind of creature would evolve and be successful on most planets with life. Same with sharks. Mudshark doesn't really count.

>>383238972
>/v/ wants a scary underwater game
>there is finally a good one
>/v/ still finds ways of hating it

>>383237657
They've got to figure out a way to deal with floating point errors if they want to make the map bigger. Swim just a few km out into the void and your character/vehicle/etc starts glitching out due to the rounding errors.

They're either have to get access to Unity's source code, implement load-points somehow, or try some workaround like the floating-origin method that KSP uses.

>>383239115
Well that's what I'm saying, it's not even really a "scary" game, people just naturally get scared from stuff related to the sea.

Also a lot of the "hate" is clearly just people that have come to shitpost about "muh guns sjw agenda tumblr cartoony designs" from shit they heard on places like /pol/ and they clearly aren't even familiar with what's actually in the game to legitimately hate it.

Did they improve the VR Version?

>>383238809
reapers dont bother me. you can easily outmaneuver them and get everywhere you want to go. i cant even remember the last time a reaper grabbed me. heck, my aurora salvage base camp is right at the cliff where the auroras nose hangs above a void, with a reaper circling it. i regularly hopped out just with a seaglide to plant my weeds, and grab some titanium, or briefly swim over to the wreck to get the next door unlocked. reapers are just big noisy doofs. sometimes his facetacles pop out of my moonpool while its trying to get to my seamoth. i installed panorama windows in my moon pool to check what he is doing before i launch the moth

>>383239319
No idea but they regularly release updates for the alternative versions like xbox not long after the main pc updates.

>>383239113
theres bonesharks.

>>383239113
What do you mean by dolphin-like?

Stalkers are similar in appearance and tend to gather in groups, and crabsquids appear to utilize echolocation.

>>383230086
but you have a knife

>>383230086
reminder that actual guns don't work for shit underwater

>>383239682
And a freeze ray.
And torpedos and other ship weapons.
And a gravity gun. And you can use the gravity gun to shoot poisonous plants and exploding fish that you can grow in a tank at your base.
And you can upgrade the knife to do heat damage and automatically cook any fish you kill with it.

>>383239825
I don't CARE I want my underwater CoD!!!

So I haven't played since they added in the Sunbeam. Am I missing anything or should I wait some more?

>>383232463
>that's not lazy, that's how it's done.

Wrong.
As a software (and former game developer), I believe you do not grasp the meaning of technical debt.

>>383239295
that's why i prefer to play hardcore survival. the stakes are so high, you realize after a while that the greatest threat to your life is your own human misjudgment of situations, every cave dive, every wreck exploration gets more threatening than any creature in the game. and now add said creatures, the game gets a million times more spoopy and unpredictable because you do not take your own actions into account at first. you sometimes prepare for half an hour, having this schedule in your head how to spend your oxygen, where and when the point of no return is, which tools you need. and then you spend longer on cutting open that bulkhead deep inside that wreck than expected, and your butthole begins to chew on your chair again, knowing that this time you won't make it if you do not abort RIGHT NOW.. NO NOT ANY SECOND LONGER, i better get some air piping down here. the entire game turns into some ptsd shit when you enable permadeath.

>>383239582
Stalkers are similar but they don't roam around in pods or anything, or actually stalk you like a shark would. Also they give up way too easily when agroed

>>383237657
>And actual ways to defend yourself.
RAMMING SPEED

>>383239825
It's the future I'm sure they've figured out a way to make a projectile move through water.

>>383239113
The complete lack of schools/pods is a pretty blatant oversight to anyone that knows their marine biology

>>383239825
muh harpoon gun

>>383239825
The soviets designed one

>>383230086
And because they're aiming for a PEGI/ESRB 10 rating.

>>383228541
Is that a hyve tyrant?

>>383239383
I'll have to make a point of building my zoo next to a reaper spawn. Sounds great.

>>383240586
yeah, that one flopped as well, unreliable, accuracy and range were shit, you were better off stabbing the enemy with a knife under water

>>383240238
>implying most predators would risk being injured severely enough to cause starvation
>implying most predators wouldnt fuck off after a proper stab unless they were in the process of killing you

>>383240339
>move through water
That's not the problem.

>>383240482
There are plenty of non-harvestable schools of fish and many hostile fauna tend to stay in groupings by virtue of spawning in a group, though proper patrolling groups would be nice.

>try this game today
>collect a bunch of shit and don't know what to do

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If she's sentient why couldn't the precursors just negotiate with her?

>>383242479
they could not hear her telepathy since they were no longer biological beings. they were so technologically advanced and evolved, their bodies were more like constructs holding their incorporeal being, thats why you only find their "soul storages" in the precursor caches when their final evolutionary step was being converted to pure data, powered by ion crystals

>>383239825
Underwater guns:

Germany:
Heckler & Koch P11

Russia:
ADS amphibious rifle
APS underwater rifle
ASM-DT amphibious rifle
SPP-1 underwater pistol

USA:
AAI underwater revolver
Mk 1 Underwater Defense Gun

>>383242479
precursors have ascended to multi-dimensional beings, their engineered bodies could not hear her voice. you can find logs of some of their lives in the precursor caches, where their consciousness got stored as data streams after or before their death, so their knowledge would not get lost or something.

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>>383242847
each time you took one of these crystals you erased eons worth of knowledge.. just because you wanted these ion cells for your cyclops....

>>383240172
>>>reddit

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I'm going to refund it if they don't add a cthulhu sized monster by the time it leaves EA
Also some proper aliens on the island

>>383239825
>>383243664
BTFO

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>>383243912
Like i care about some xeno-scum.

>>383245143
They just need to add an actually creepy looking creature and one that is fully alien, not just a glowing angel fish.

>>383245376
I imagine a huge angler fish in a pitch black area would do the spooks

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Is there any way to unstuck my prawn?

>built a small base like 50m from my pod
>got some windows and lockers and built a fabricator
>got a seaglide and zoomed around to the Aurora with a radiation suit and picked up some propulsion shit from the sea floor
>ran away from the big ass fish
>got a communication saying the Sunbeam is halfway to the planet and is looking for land
>having fun just building my shit up
>then i scan myself and it says im infected
waht, no i want to be comfy

>>383245438
Definitely but id even like to see things not recognisably marine, eerie figures that dont look like they belong and dont act like fish.

>>383237595
>"muh burden of work for small team" argument used unironically

So a better option is to add bloat and never optimize the game at all?

Because that's what you're gonna get.

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>>383245581
>comfy
Dohohoho.

>>383245581
You're not on a time limit or anything.

>>383245705
what do i do am i gonna have to rush to do something

i wanna swim around, i dont even have my seamoth or the prawn blueprints yet. im too scared to go back to the Aurora to try and get inside. dont i need a laser cutter? i cant find any diamonds

>all these batteries i have to make just for my seaglide
what do

>>383245956
Find a battery charger.

This game inspires in me an unreal sense of perpetual terror.

>>383245642
Not him but it is the usual practice to build a game and then optimise in its final stages. It's very obvious.

Where do you get the fragments for the prawn suit? There are like 20.

>>383246592
You only need 4 of the full suits.

>>383246592
Inside the aurora

>>383240482
Gasopods move in small pods for the most part, and non interactable schools of fish are all over the place. It could use a few more, but while say Reefbacks already move in groups of three/four it likely wouldn't do performance much good if suddenly you get ten of the buggers.

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>>383243912
Dude, Ion Power Cells. That shit needs to be had, sucks to be them. My Scoooty Puff Sr needs to run for eternity and they can just stuff it. If they wanted to stop me from taking them maybe they should've stayed corporeal.

>>383230086
>because the dev/s are literal pacifists
Is that supposed to be a bad thing?

is the game still tedious? i havent played in a long while but i think i remember when you wanted to change a battery you would have to craft each component separately, then craft the battery, then insert it etc.

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This game needs guns.

>>383247119
for an american, it's like an insult

>>383245772
Take your time, nothing is timed
I always just fuck around, sometimes follow the signals I get and very late fix the Aurora, you don't even need laser cutter to fix it just a single repair tool
Also if you don't want the big spooky fish to attack you then head to the mini-islands connected to Aurora's back (near engine) and swim towards the front until you find a hole and a ramp inside

And as I said you can just fuck around and not even follow the story, being infected is part of the story though but doesn't really mean anything practical, you'll know what it means when the Sunbeam arrives and you are at the designated location

>>383247119
You shouldn't shove your political views into a video game.

>>383247119
It's also a load of bollocks. There's even a poster in the game of their previous game that you can hang in your base. It involved lots of shooty tooty rooty.

>>383240482
Gasopods, Reefbacks, Ghostrays, Shoals of fish, Stalkers have group behavior, Biter swarms, herds of Sea Treaders

>>383247231
So a game needs to have guns in the game or else you are shoving your political views into a game.
You are retarded

>>383247231
Yet you want to insert yours?

>>383247231
>its not okay to shove political views into a video game unless it matches mine
wew lad, could you be more of a hypocrite

>>383247343
The dev literally stated that's there's no guns in the game because of his political views.

>>383247439

A dev*

>>383247439
Wow guess my Stasis Rifle and Gravity Gun don't exist in my inventory :^)

>>383247570
A PR monkey*

>>383247223
So, is the world procedurally generated? I'm not seeing any small island near the Aurora. Will that thing follow me to the surface? If not, I can zoom around the Aurora to see what you're talking about.

>>383247812

No, it's always the same map.

>>383247812
>is the world procedurally generated
No.

>Will that thing follow me to the surface
What thing we talking about? A predator will break off pursuit if you get far enough.

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>>383247812
Its not procedurally generated and maybe I worded it wrong, not really islands but sandy parts where you can go above water (and I only said that for a reference point)

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>after 1 year the 3-legged moonpool still isn't fixed

I don't understand the prawn research progress. I stumbled upon some pieces in the ocean and scanned them, got a counter something like X/20, then I found my way into Aurora and there was a big room with partly damaged prawns, I started scanning them and counter changed to X/4. After scanning three of them I though I'm close to finishing it, but upon scanning fourth it suddenly changed to 1/4. Is it some sort of multi-layered research like Cyclops? But with Cyclops each part had its own separate counter. I have a suspicion I caught a really nasty bug.

>>383248143
Speaking of moonpools, where the fuck are the fragments now?

>>383230086
It's more because they're lazy and don't want to develop combat engine.

>>383228541
>tfw bought The Long Dark instead of this
did I make a huge mistake?

>>383248182
I found all of them in one wreck at the edge hetween the Grand Reef, Grassy Plateauis, and Kelp Forest

>>383248307
Long Dark is pretty comfy just don't play on the retarded hard settings.

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>reaper and emperor are kinda smudgy right now
>both getting and update
It's what I asked for and now I'm getting it.

>>383248143
Judging by your screenshot it's only supposed to have two, the two over the cliff ones have nowhere to go. But Moonpool legs are really screwy, I've got one that just floats with all four legs that have no intention of touching the ground despite being really close to it.

>>383248163
You sure you didn't scan arms instead? The main PRAWN has four bits, all can be found in the Aurora bay but there's also Torpedo/Drill/Grappling Arms which count as seperate.

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>>383248182
I found them at pic related ONLY, spend like 6 irl hours searching
Maybe if you are lucky then you can find them here >>383248341

Do I need transport modification station to install mods on my Seamoth? I found one that increases crash depth and supposedly compatible with Seamoth but I can't find a way to install it.

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>>383248341
>>383248439
>The only way to upgrade your seamoth to go deeper is with the moonpool upgrade
>It's in a wreck at 400m
Guess I'll just make another air canister.

>>383248438
I'm not sure, in the aurora they were almost intact and all the counters just said "Prawn costume"

>>383248182
I always have good luck with Moonpools at either the large wreck 400m down in the Grand Reef that's stuck against a cliff or the one in the Blood Kelp Zone that is stuck in a similar way. Both are always a good source of Moonpool fragments for me.

>>383248556
If you've got the module, it's on the side of your Moth. You'll see a little panel with four small holes.

>>383248605
But getting a cyclops is easy

Can I change game's language? It installed in my local language, which makes it uncomfortable when discussing the game here and in game properties in steam library there's no language tab.

>>383248620
It could be a bug. In the Aurora bay there should be four to be scanned, three pretty intact and one really busted behind some fire. There's also PRAWN fragments to be scanned in wrecks though although they are mostly in more dangerous places like the Dunes.

>>383248605
Go to 200m with your Moth, Seaglide up and down for air.

>>383248830
Well then seems like I'm fucked out Prawn in my game. I was looking forward to using it, seemed like a good thing.

>>383248438
Why does it have hook things in front of its face?

>>383248815
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=416062374

>>383248937
Just use the console to learn the blueprint if you can't get it legit way

>>383248937
Since you technically got the prawn you can just use the console and spawn one

>>383248970
Mandibles. Try going up to a Reaper and see how it uses them.

>>383248937
Could use console commands although I have no idea which you'd have to use. Best bet is either the wrecks in the Mountains/Dunes/Crash Zone but I wouldn't advise going through them without a Cyclops to park next to.

>>383248556
Vehicle Modification station will let you craft stuff for the seamoth/prawn suit, most everything should be unlocked except for I believe different prawn arms. The Modification station is used for your gear AND upgrading the max depth mods for both seamoth and prawn.

Also they really need to do an optimization patch, the game is fine for a while but starts to really chug once I progress to around the research facility. Shouldn't have to stop to let the game level out every hundred meters.

>>383248605
Just train stalkers to fetch the fragments for you.

>>383249079
Well I do have Cyclops, although I hate using the thing.

Does fixing Aurora's reactor do anything? I though it'll get rid of the radiation and free me from using hazard suit, but it's still there.

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This light is insane

>>383249673
Radiation should disappear after 3 days.

>>383248605
You can get the 300m depth module in the aurora. You can build modules for the seamoth with the vehicle modification station (that requires the moonpool). But to upgrade the depth module you need the modification station, which doesn't require the pool.

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>>383249735
>able to actually have some light without having to build an entire kelp forest around your base soon

>>383238382
Where is that? I have been searching for a flat area to build my base on.

>>383229031
Base size isn't the problem or doesn't cause fps to lower, certain biomes especially the tree-mushroom forest do cause it.

>>383250290
I usually only have a problem when I hear an explosion and notice there are 100 manatees. Does this still happen?

>get my cyclops a safe distance in the dunes
>get the prawn and scavenge around trying to get the moonpool for a mod station
>thank god no reapers
>find the wreck in the dunes
>jackpot
>get out
>get back in the prawn
>jump
>get grabbed by a reaper
The sheer panic and tension is what makes this game. You never know when somethings gonna bite.
Throwing hooks in panic at the big motherfucker was satisfying as fuck

>>383250281
Looks like the edge of the dunes into the void
absolutely avoid that shit theres 5 reapers patrolling there

What's with all the subnautica threads?

It seems to be a pattern where we go a couple weeks with constant subnautica threads daily, followed by a few months of no subnautica threads at all, and it just keeps repeating.

>>383250440
Sales.

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>>383249892
what?

>>383238382
How the fuck does that stay intact? Are there just dedicated armament sections to raise the resistance value?

>>383245109
No, it's called Grammarly. This plugin automatically corrects your senseless ramblings into properly spelled und punctuated sentences.

get onto my level

>>383250353
Haven't had that happen to me.

Will clearing out the cache help? I heard you build up more lag the more you harvest resources.
I have a 1080, i7, and 16g ram and I go from running settings on max at 120fps to random dips of 12fps just when swimming around.
The game is so enjoyable but even if I lower the settings it still stutters like an autist. It didn't do this for the first 10 hours playing it

>>383247241
subnautica 2 will be a shooter again. the TSA marines from natural selection invade the ocean planet to claim lebensraum for the trans system authority, killing all the reapers. playtime will be around 3 hours 45 minutes. for the "duh.. so tedious, muh guns...muh freedums" target group

>>383250626
Spotlight are extremely busted. I can power one with two Thermal Generators. Two will drain them faster than it they can keep up. That said I've never used Floodlights, do they not have this problem?

>>383251069
Between Bulkheads, Reinforcements on Multipurpose Rooms being able to give +14 when placed on the right spot it's pretty easy to have a glass focused base. Can't see Reinforcements in his screenshot so I guess there's a lot of Bulkheads.

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I seem to have triggered some odd event. No one has been able to give feedback on this.

The koosh mushrooms seem to have spread into the bloodkelp and shallows. They brought with them a bunch of baby ampeels and also dozens of little volcanic vents. Additionally there's a much higher number of infected swimming around.

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>>383251831

>>383251831
>>383251874
Assuming you're not just at the edges and think it's happening, I think you've run into a bug.

>>383251974
I would believe it was a bug but there terrain changed as well. A bunch of volcanic vents opened up. I think the planet wants to self destruct because of the infection.

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>finally stop being a bitch and work up the courage to leave the starting area
>swim out to mountain island, feel like I'm finally confident enough to really explore the world
>poking around the bottom of that alien facility
>see what I assume is a warper fucking around in the distance
>immediately back to being traumatized

>>383237474
Who let this child in here?

>>383250440
it always happens when people play the new major updates

Is this game worth getting at the moment, and how spacey a computer would I need to run it at any kind of passable level?

>>383252928
Its definetly worth a good 30 hours
Then it loses steam
The first few hours are going to piss you off since it plays different from any other game really.
But you just lost the steam sale so id say if you can find it for 10 euro, bite the bullet

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>>383245143
>buying EA

>>383251492
what happens when you do that is that all resources and scannable get reset, every door you cut open is sealed again, in the worst case, doors you haven't cut yet ned to be cut twice, since one door spawns inside the other one, also, it might corrupt your savegame later on

>>383252928
Highly recommend it, like the other guy said you'll get a good 30-40 hours out of it and it's a pretty unique experience. The requirements aren't too bad, anything built in the last couple years should be able to max it.

>>383245143
Can you refund when they come out of early access even if you've played a ton of hours?

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>>383253295

>>383242479

cute!

>>383238382
Saw your base in the thread last night. Really nice base. Gotta continue on mine. Just need to build my thermal reactor.

>>383253295
af far as I know yes

>>383253295
Yes

>>383253603
>>383253653

Nice
no wonder games never come out if ea
cant wait to refund sqaud that pos game got memed hard

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>>383247152
Wrong, it needs Katanas

So what kind of infection do you carry that even aliens won't let you leave the planet?
I didn't do any research regarding the story but the whole planet seems just a regular one with simple sea creatures

>>383230086
And dropped.

>>383253916
You can find infected creatures now. Apparently, it's super lethal and related to shit from another one of their games.

>>383253974
This
I'm not going to accept that people have differing views, how dare they? Everyone should think the same as I do since I'm the perfect

Fuck why did I buy this game? I have no problems playing horror games but this fucking game literally makes me shake.

The problem with no dedicated weapons in Subnautica isn't that the fabricator doesn't have any blueprints for them, but that it specifically takes advantage of the fact that it is a game and doesn't provide you with any other way of manufacturing items other than with the fabricator. It prevents the usual human ingenuity from coming into the picture.

If I were left alone to my own devices I would try using the laser cutter and any one of the random ship parts floating around to create crude bladed weapons as soon as I had the ability to do so. Even intentionally dismantling newly fabricated base components or vehicles would also work if the wreckage metal had become too soft for actual hard use. Then one day I would craft a big enough scrap blade and weld it to a PRAWN arm and go Reaper hunting with it. But I can't do any of these because the game doesn't include these kinds of natural human things.

>>383254090
Yeah, Natural selection. No idea how they reconciled not adding guns to survival kits after their first encounter with the Kharaa.

>>383237681
>food analogy

>>383253916
The planet itself is an ocean planet with it's own ecology and the Pecursors weren't native. Their bases set up there were originally just study of the planet and it's life and turned into research into the disease killing them once they found the Sea Emperor was immune to it. One of the facilities got buggered by a Sea Dragon wanting to retrieve it's stolen eggs and the disease spread across the planet and placed under quarantine.

>>383254828
Okay but what does the infection do? Still not clear

Should I go to the Aurora with my seaglide or work towards a seamoth first?

>>383253916
the precursors have chosen this planet to research a virus that was in the process of killing their world. they found out that one species on that planet, the sea emperor was entirely immune to it, and captured the sole specimen and it eggs. but they had a major containment breach when a sea dragon Leviathan rammed the disease research facility, where they held its a seadragon egg they experimented with, releasing the virus.
now, 1000 years later that planet is entirely dead, only that little patch of quarantine zone is left, kept alive by the sea emperors virus healing enzymes, spread by those peppers going in and out of the primary containment via the tube systems. only those few biomes the emperor had as territory survived since the peppers kept returning to these places, spreading the enzymes they picked up from the containment facility. when you scan the pipe system it tells you that sick peepers with plant seeds in their bellies enter the containment through pipes, and leave the containment through the other pipes again with empty bellies, and dosed with the enzyme. your goal is to adapt this enzyme to work on your physiology

>>383254967
On the player? Nothing, it's there to drive you forward as a vehicle for the story. From a in-game story standpoint I don't think they went into details beyond "kills shit". Could extrapolate based on what little we see in that it causes bulging yellow boils on infected people/creatures and seems to kill pretty damned fast but I don't know if that much thought went into the disease itself by the devs.

>>383255202
If you know a good route to take you can go either way and avoid any Reaper shenanigans but it's just as easy to take a Seaglide/swim and not lose your little putput to a Reaper.

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>>383254967
Make you green

>>383255202
First you need a radiation suit.
Then it is up to you. You can do it either way.
Just beware the Reaper.

>>383255380
The Prawn blueprints are in there, right? Should I look for a diamond before I hit the Aurora to get a cutter? Will I need a cutter?

The scariest moments in this gsme is when you realize that you have overstayed your welcome in a wreck and you will never make it back on time on the surface/ your seamoth. Happened to me a couple times, i cant imagine the feeling of those who actually died like this.

>>383254768
spaghetti code, its a thing

>>383255517
Yes, you will need a cutter.

wtf why cant you shoot the sea monsters with guns and shit?
waste of 20 bucks

>>383255517
Cutter, Flashlight, Repair Tool, Fire Extinguisher (can be found laying around too) and Repulsion Cannon.

>>383255646
yes, refund it and get counter strike ffs

>>383255550
This happened to me too in HC mode, was like 8 hours in, went to check a signal and after diving to the pod I found some blueprints, after scanning them I didn't have enough time to make the last 50m to my Seamoth
I'm still playing in hardcore but super carefully, 20 hours in, once they destroyed my Cyclops near the Aurora, that was some spooky shit

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FUCKING CUTEFISH WHEN

>>383255814
HC is so much better

>>383255550
>>383255814
I've got a base in the Mountains that snakes all the way into a cave to get to the black smokers there for my Thermal Generators. While looking for certain deposits inside the cave I suddenly noticed my air was nearly gone and had no idea how far away I was from the nearest entrance to my base. I spent the next 30 seconds frantically squirming around in the dark of this cave trying to find my way home but it was to no avail. No doubt I died less than 100m away from safety.

>>383256176
The best thing is when your screen turns completely black but you just were able to get into the seamoth surviving.

>>383255814
>>383255919
>>383256176
If you are playing HC you can press alt+f4 before you die and continue from last save (which might throw you back quite a lot)

>>383255878
That thing looks really scary.
Also, next update.

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bump

>>383257525
Is that how you make little reefbacks?

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>>383257525
>reefback sex

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>>383257525
>>383257672
Anon, this is a blue board

>>383256313
Why would you play on hardcore if you aren't gonna accept death?

>>383254728
HAVE they encountered it?
When the disease is encountered in-game it's and unknown disease so it may actually be the first encounter, also I think it's not the exact same thing but related, it just kills stuff instead of turning them into monsters or whatever the other one does.

Nice added subtlety to the "muh guns" shitposting though.

>>383248605
>Go to Aurora
>Scan Prawns and build one
>Can basically go almost anywhere if you have a Cyclops

>>383257875
Because you can die due to pop-ins and whatnot that aren't in your control or fault
I literally got stuck in a wreck because it only loaded when I was inside, I didn't even know it was there so I ran out of oxygen

>>383255878
>tfw they were the original crash fish

>>383258158
>a little bigger than the player
Imagine how big of a boom they would've actually made.

>>383258158
Crash fish are so fucking stupid. How does a species evolve to Allahu Akbar when threatened?

>>383228541
Jesus christ fix that water and turn up the texture quality.

>>383258236
I think their size was changed.
The were crashfish with the pods and everything but were too cute so they got replaced.

>>383258323
Would make more sense if you found their eggs in the plants, you could even just have them craftable into explosive powder.
Even if it doesn't make sense I'd rather have more interesting stuff that offers unique gameplay like that.

>>383258323
>tfw you sput Allahu Akbar every time a crashfish come after you
In another thread an anon suggested that the crashfish might actually be part of a bigger "animal". Immagine a big coral hidden in the rock, what you see is just the tip and the crashfish is created by the coral to defend itself.

>>383258323
Symbiosis isn't that alien a concept. Sacrifice yourself for the protection of the greater whole, in this case the plant where your eggs are. Also, videogames.

>>383258606
>I think their size was changed.
Yeah they were but still. Big boom.

>>383258150
Fair enough. How bad is the pop-in in the current build though? When I played a bit before christmas the only thing that popped in was a reaper and some mushroom trees

>>383258486
It actually has a really wide range of water quality options especially since pre-optimization and voxel terrain removal the game can run like shit for some people.

>>383258718
Reaper isn't actually pop-in. Their issue is that they're classed as a short range spawn like small shit such as Peepers. Other predators are all long range spawns which is why you see them from much farther away, it's intended to be changed though.

Do you think reapers are good parents? Do they protect their young and stay with them? Or are they more like sharks and just plant some eggs and move on with their lives?

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>>383255316
>that guy who spoils entire games and stories for everyone who isn't him because "but I already know it!"

>>383258656
Interesting idea but contradicted by the canon.
The pod thing is literally a plant that the fish has a symbiotic relationship with.

>>383258716
Makes me wished they'd kept/add in as an expansion some of the gene splicing stuff. Imagine making custom super-crashes.

>>383255878
Doesn't look very cute.

>>383258716
That's not what symbiosis means.

>>383259104
The general tactic for all organisms on the planet seems to be shitting them out wherever without a care.
Guess that's something they didn't get around to.

I wish they'd focused on more of that stuff but I understand the focus on a main plot arc and finished game.

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>>383259157
>the guy who reads a whole fucking wall of text that's obviously a plot-dump in answer to a plot question then gets all booty bothered about it

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>>383259414
And yet you knew exactly what I meant in my oversimplified explanation to anon's question of "why does this fish explode?". You really think the devs put as much effort in this stuff as we collective happy fishautists?

Why did my scanner room suddenly change its selection of possible scans? I came back to base after some rummaging through the reefs, and now need gold and silver, but for some reason Scanner room doesn't have sandstone in its list anymore.

>>383259946
Just pointing out that someone so uneducated probably shouldn't be voicing many opinions.

>>383260263
Do you need a hug.

>>383260332
Not answering that. Who knows what you think "hug" means.

>>383260247
You sure it locates the outcrops and not just the deposits?

>>383260687
It's not about what it detects, it's about the choice of detection. You know when you go into the room and on its panel there are several choices of what to scan for? Well this list changed for me and I can't search for sandstone chunks anymore. I think it was replaced by alien eggs, because I don't remember it being in the list.

Searched every wreck for drill arm for the prawn suit, but only found one piece, but found easily found over dozen torpedo arms. Fucking infuriating.

>>383261340
hahaha, and i found a wreck with like 10 drill arms and sensor room fragments

>>383228541
I really want to want to try this game but too many games to play and not enough time.

>>383261340
Don't you find that in the same place you get the suit itself? Even if you don't, that felt like it was a pretty common part. There's a really huge wreck that's fairly close to the lifepod that has a bunch in it too.

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Post yfw this happens.

;_;

>>383261954
>enter me, anon
>what are you waiting for

>>383261954
Is this guy friendly? How do I trigger this part of the story?

>>383228541
Why is your sub floating above the water?
Why is the specular map for the water using checkers?

>>383262086
It is. After you've gone to the Mountains Islands and entered the Precursor gun facility you'll find information on the next place to go to. Keep following the hints and you eventually find your way down in the deepest parts and the Sea Emperor and it's story content.

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I have like 70 hours in this game but it still finds new ways to spook the pants off me

Been playing this for three nights straight since I got a newborn.

The game is amazing. Transferred my base to my cyclops I build yesterday. Going to make my prawn suit today. Feels very comfy exploring everything.

And I am killing things with the stasis gun.

>>383262098
>He doesnt build speed to pop up out of the water
>He doesnt skip across the surface on his way to the islands

>>383263043
>Coral pops in while skipping

>>383262540
That's more kekworthy than spooky. I once had once spin continuously for no apparent reason in the Shallows. It flung my escape pod some ways away.

>>383263905
That was my very first experience with Reefbacks when I bought the game, it was just spinning slightly above water
I was so terrified I almost dropped the game

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>bonesharks in grand reef

>>383251148
But none of your sentences were properly capitalized, and all of them were nothing but run-on bullshit.

It's time to go back to Freshman English, anon.

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>>383264146
>Reaper in "safe" shallows

>>383264071
Yeah they do sound and look terrifying at first, to the point where you don't want to go anywhere near them. Then you learn that they're actually retarded. Big retarded floating reefs.

>>383228541
I just started playing. Is there any way to kill this thing or trap it permanently? I cant explore with that thing down there. Too scary.

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>>383264580
>Is there any way to kill this thing
Drill it.

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>>383264580

>Implying its the only one

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>>383265002
You cant be serious.

>>383254618
>Then one day I would craft a big enough scrap blade and weld it to a PRAWN arm and go Reaper hunting with it
That's the kind of shit they don't want you doing. Hence no weapons

>>383265170
There's several areas that have multiple. It's only the fifth largest creature in the game.

>>383264862
>Drill
Kamiya would be disappointed in that shitty drill.

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>>383265170
There are a lot of them, and there are things bigger and more aggressive than them too.

>>383265331
>>383264862
Fuck, meant to type Kamina.