We don’t seem to have a thread on Subnautica, the next title from Unknown Worlds, the developers of Natural Selection.
They have a new video showing some of how the player’s sub may fill with water. It’s early in development, but it looks appropriately wet.
There’s a spot on Steam for it, but you can’t order just yet. I’m looking forward to this. I’ve wanted a good underwater exploration game for a long time. FarSky didn’t quite cut it. World of Diving looks good, but I don’t want an MP-only game.
I found the Rock Paper Shotgun article this morning, watched the video and went by the site. I’m very excited too. I think the fact that it’s an alien world was a genius decision. Granted exploring Earth’s oceans is still awesome and I’d totally play that but here they have even more latitude with the environment. Can’t wait to see more.
I am very excited for this game. The helplessness of being underwater with creatures that are much more agile and ferocious hasn’t really been explored too deeply in games, and - based on the screenshots and concept art of some of these fishies - I think they’re definitely going for that with this one. I see many frantic hours with my friends and lots of screaming to “open the hatch, OPEN THE HATCH!” before being eaten.
Yeah. Very excited.
edit - Oop, just read that this will be a SP game (at least initially). Excitement still there, but slightly waned. I guess I just immediately figured the Natural Selection guys would be making a multiplayer game.
Ooh, thank you kindly for the suggestion! I was hoping for a more explore-y PvE coop experience, but the asynchronous MP and small match size (4 divers vs 2 sharks) of Depth certainly looks interesting. Some of the mechanics (wiggle the mouse when you’ve got a diver in your mouth to thrash him about!) also seem fun and silly. That French (I think?) VO in the trailer is quite terrible, though.
hmmmmm. I’ve been playing World of Diving with my son. I didnt think he’d care at all but he’s having fun. I am one of the hate-underwater-missions in games but these new ones are looking cool…especially is they are totally just made for underwater…maybe that’s the ticket.
This is coming along nicely and looks incredible so far. The next big update to hit the game, will the rather large Cyclops, which is a submersible with rooms where you can store stuff and use to dive in. Man - this game will be incredible!
I actually don’t know what kind of, if any, end game they are planning. Right now, its one of the most gorgerous looking games I have, and the feel of swimming in the water is just…well, they hit it perfectly as far as I’m concerned.
I usually stay away from early access, but I should probably get this. I love underwater games, and there aren’t nearly enough of those, plus I’d like to support UW after the amazing Natural Selection 2. Thanks for reminding me!
Ooh, opportunity for a shameless plug for my most recent Subnautica video where I take some of the toys from UPDATE 8 out for a spin! Devs seem quite active as there’s a “test branch” you can opt into for daily updates. Really coming along nicely
I got home today from work and my 9 year old is jumping up and down as he got enough stuff to build the cyclops. He then showed me around the sub and showed me all the other cool things he’s built in the 6 hours he’s played it the last 2 days…while I have had a grand total of 1.5 hours to play and never even made the mini sub. Damn kid.
