\nBut, enough about them. This is just a placement to say I’ve now been
\nplaying Subnautica: Below Zero. And my goodness is it different than what I’ve been used to of playing the current Early Access build (November 2019). I can feel a brand new ‘risk VS reward scenario’ all over this game.
\nFor example, trying to get Lithium in the Purple Vents and hearing these
\nnightmarish, dark fuckers<\/a> roaring their heads off like dragons<\/a> above me. They take away nearly half health in one bite, and are FAST! I have to use my Seaglide in order to out-swim them.
\nI would classify them as mini-leviathans, from the way they roar (and how much damage they do).
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\nAnd then there’s (what I personally call) the “red terror of the deep<\/a>” that’s even faster (as fast as the player is with a Seaglide and takes 3\/4 of your health away in one bite), that makes me feel so small.
\nI even got informally ‘introduced’ to its insides (twice) while trying to scan it…
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![\"Chelicerate](\"https:\/\/vignette.wikia.nocookie.net\/subnautica-arctic\/images\/2\/24\/Chelicerate_Player_Death.gif\/revision\/latest\/scale-to-width-down\/200?cb=20190509003829\" "\\"Chelicerate")
\n“You died and shat your pants.”
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\nFucking hell… NOTHING<\/strong> should need that many teeth!!
\nOkay, I can understand the devs definitely listened to the players of really wanting to be even more scared of the ocean, but what I<\/em> want is for these to have a purpose for more than just scaring the shit out of the player (quite literally). For example, why.. oh fucking why, does the red terror the ‘Chelicerate’, but I prefer ‘Red Terror’) need to have so many fucking teeth?! WHY in the fuck is this thing alive?! Surely the player isn’t its only ‘meal’!<\/p>\n
This build is obviously without its bugs (which I pray the one I<\/em> found, gets fixed quite quickly). And that is with Solar Panels on a habitat<\/a>. Feel like I’m the only one having this issue (which is never a good thing). Yes, it’s in Early Access. Completely understandable (and I already knew this). \ud83d\ude42 But, I see a troubling thing in their ‘Favro<\/a>‘; according to their roadmap, it looks like they’re almost done (and we might see a release sometime this year). Yet the game doesn’t look<\/span> ‘almost done’ when cutscenes aren’t happening and dialog can accidentally be skipped when sleeping. . Other witty titles against the hatred Sea Monkeys; -“Allow me to turn the Vasper into an Ion Cannon to nuke the Sea Monkeys from orbit!” -“Hey Sea Monkey! You want the pointy side of this knife?! TRY ME!!” -“When you … Continue reading
\nThere is also other bugs I’ve encountered. For example, the supply rocket not being
\nthere, and a certain part of the story (for some very odd reason) not being triggered, like it was removed or disabled to work on it. Though IMO it was perfect (from what I saw when IGP was doing it), and I don’t understand why it didn’t trigger.
\nBecause of this (and the fact this ‘Base Omega’ doesn’t show a waypoint like it does finding the entrance to the Arctic Spires.. still don’t know how in the hell Sam knew you had a Seatruck and freely was all “here, have a depth module for the Seatruck I seem to know you made!”)… the game feels too unfinished (IMO) to continue playing it.
\n==<\/p>\n
\nBut maybe these aren’t really game-breaking and will be fixed with time. To me, they kind of are at the time, especially with an opening of the crashed ship that I can easily swim through, but is blocked by an invisible wall.<\/p>\n
\nAnyway, hopefully there will be an update sometime this month to grab my interest for this game again. It’s definitely different than the original Subnautica; more dialog than just with your PDA (and the player character speaks\/has emotion).
\nThis also feels like a downgrade from the original.. the map feels like a quarter the size of the original. And the zones (other than the Twisty Bridges) look.. bland and boring. Never really a fan of snow. It feels cold, and looks cold.
\nI hate<\/strong> cold. \ud83d\ude1b However, I really like the new weather effects (especially the white-out conditions when you can barely see anything infront of you).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"