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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Subnatica. Exploration, farming, habitat building, and creepy at times. You will love it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm in the minority, I know, but I have mostly negative memories of playing Subnautica. I enjoyed exploring new areas, and the progression of the story, but the hours spent looking for one more resource so I could progress just made me mad. I don't like save-scumming, but after

spoilerlosing my seamoth to a leviathan for the 3rd time, I said fuck it, and save-scummed regularly.

I had just finished playing Outer Wilds and my friends said "oh, then you would love Subnautica!" No, not the same kind of game at all. I say all of this so that anyone thinking of playing it has the right expectations: if you can't find the one thing you're looking for, I recommend just looking up a guide on where to find it. I don't think the game funnels you to the correct areas well enough for you to find everything you need naturally.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

When I think of Subnautica, I just remember having to drink water like every 5 minutes or so. I would have loved to explore, but I was busy getting basic resources all the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You can play on a mode without survival mechanics, or find the water filtration system and grow plants from the islands on your cyclops to trivialize them. Before you get there though they're kind of a pain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The game does have a freedom mode where you don’t need to worry about food or water.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

But then there's no challenge, so it gets boring.

I wanted to like subnautica, but I just couldn't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That was another reason, yes. Apparently you're supposed to find the parts to the water filtration system relatively early in the game, and it will regularly spit out large bottles of water that help a lot. I didn't. So yeah, for 90% of the game I'm having to periodically chase Bladderfish for 5m so I can spend 2 minutes spam crafting a bunch of waters, so i can carry several around with me, taking up valuable space in my inventory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I really liked it but I wish the devs would've implemented one more skill mode at a slightly easier level. I was OK with losing whatever inventory I'd collected during the single trip if I died, but I really wanted the "sea moth doesn't explode you just have to start from base again" mode. Especially since I lost one of them because I couldn't figure out which key did the electric charge zap thing.

We've proven that we can find the blueprints and materials necessary to make the thing in the first place, so having to collect all that metal again (with limited inventory space) just felt like busy work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I think I can only tolerate busy work games when played in a group. Because then you can delegate the work, and at least you're still hanging out. Like the Forest.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

As even just the trailer instantly triggers moluscophobia for me, nope fuck that.