UPDATEEEEEEEEE!
Still not playing it until release, which is soon I hope.
Sorry for the bump, but I found a perfect example for why the new Cyclops Is On Fire feature exists in the first place. Duncan from the Yogscast demonstrates, although I doubt that was his intention when he began recording. This clearly shows what not to do, and what to do, in an emergency situation, IMO. My take is, if you plan well and have plenty of decoys and fire extinguishers on hand, the fire management situation isn’t too bad.
Am I the only one who thinks the game veers off into some rather strange direction, the more time goes by? I mean, suddenly this wonderful freeform scubadiving game is a survival story about aliens, plague and ancient robots that I have to destroy?
The nice calmness of the game a year ago seems completely obliterated in the face of bigger and nastier enemies and confrontations.
I think the plague story was always there. It just was never fleshed out. Personally, I hope they keep the combat stuff to a minimum. If the end game ends up being about defeating some kind of super monster(s), then Ill be very disappointed.
I just want to explore in peace. I am sad that the Cyclops is no longer invulnerable.
This was never designed to be just a free-form scuba-diving game. If you want to play it that way, you will have the option to choose that kind of mode. But since the earliest design docs there has been a planned beginning, middle, and and end, all intertwined by story. The increasing monster load is not just random stuff being added. They’ve been on tap for years with the space and habitat ready to be filled. There are tons of survival games out there with no point. Subnautica, like the Forest, wanted there to be something of interest vs. just survive, grind, and build junk.
Have you played it recently? Because its become a quest driven, loot-driven, combat-heavy game, which I’m pretty sure wasn’t in the original designs.
How close is it to being complete? The game has been lying in my wishlist pile for a year now.
Their whole project is publically viewable on Trello. It’s meant to be feature-complete this month, with V1.0 scheduled for the end of October.
Here's the roadmap:
October 31, according to their roadmap. Edit: ah, Profanicus beat me.
It’s only combat heavy if you make a special effort to play it that way, IMO. The game is really more oriented toward stealth and avoidance, from start to finish.
I wanted to love Subnautica but, aside from its being a beast on my PC, I just found the inventory twiddling no fun.
Using inventory slots as a gating mechanism and also following Minecraft with the endless barrage of tiered crafting items… there’s gotta be a better way. Anyway, for me, it’s not really exploration if I’m just moving little icons around boxes half the time. Although I generally do enjoy a certain amount of inventory twiddling in hardcore CRPGs. So who knows.
I am hoping there is an inventory mod to make things like copper / silver / etc… stackable. I can see some things not stacking like the salvage you get titanium from, but the ores and whatnot I want stackable. At the very least then should allow you to make ingots of all metals and then turn those ingots back into the basic stuff to craft with.
I am just avoiding this game until its done. I already played it too much already.
Holy hell I loaded this game up on Thursday for the first time since looong into early access. It is AMAZING now.
I’ve played literally all weekend and just scratched the surface (with my seamoth) and can’t wait to play more. Not sure when this is actually released but it is a damn fine game so far.
Any mid game tips?
After you have played it for like a week, let me know if the kelp forest lag has been fixed yet. That is, after playing it for some amount of hours (I do not know how many) across many sessions, the kelp forests will start to tank your frame-rate and eventually crash your game.
They have pushed the release date back from end of October to January now, I believe in an attempt to tackle pop-in, and bugs.
P.S. I am really trying very hard to NOT dive into this again (for the 3rd time) until release, and you are not helping. That is all.
I think a year ago the release date was January 2017. This is depressing.
I notice lag about once every few hours or so, nothing strangely different in Kelp than anywhere else. And it’s not lag, just a stutter for 1-2 seconds. Pop-in does occur but in an underwater game at depth, it’s not a huge problem as I’m playing it. Above the waterline it is more noticeable, with being able to see part of the Aurora at distance, but not all of it, etc.
Friday evening I left my laptop going overnight but paused and continued most of Saturday without restarting and didn’t notice anything different or crazy. So if there is an issue, I’d expect it to be cache related, not memory related. And if it’s cache, @DeepT I’d expect someone has found a way to clear that. I did see one post elsewhere about the Aurora causing lag and there was indeed a cache file mentioned to remove if that happened.
Other than that the only bug I’ve encountered was not being able to use things out of inventory which happened once. Leaving my base and going back in cleared it. I also had a not-quite-bug, which is that a fish got stuck under my base and was causing ongoing damage until I found which part, disassembled it and let the thing swim away. Apparently the player can cause that (chasing fish), but normal fish behavior does not, usually.
Yeah, it is the clearing the cache thing. I was wondering it was fixed so you do not need to do that anymore. I have had some bad experiences with it.