Subnautica Review - Is it Worthabuy? 

Just want to mention the Torpedoes in this game, I know I said it has none but that is because I don't count decoys as torpedoes even though they are called torpedoes in this game, you can clearly see I have a lot of them when I check inside Rabbits locker :) A Torpedo for me is a high explosive warhead not something that beeps and whizzes off to the surface luring monsters.

Subnautica: The Story of How to do Early Access Right.

Nice Ship with the name "EA suck", i like it. 7:32

Remember, folks! Underwater, no one can hear you using a controller...

The lack of weapons adds so much more to the survival aspect and the feeling, you are alone, helpless and forced to go to danger spots ;)

2020 would like you remind everyone that this game was $20 on release, and is in my opinion still one of the most immersive experiences possible in a video game.

I don't typically like survival games but Subnautica has been the exception to the rule. So much so that it is making me want to revisit other genre entries.

"EA Sucks dock" 😂😂

This is in my top 5 favorite games of all time! It's so damn good. I'm so glad they didn't add weapons. The reason this game is so good is because you're always the prey and if they would have give u a one hit kill weapon it would be such a lame game and ruin the immersion in my opinion, thank you for not spoiling too much! And I agree 100% about this game not needing coop, it's just not one of those games

a true masterpiece ; incredible sound and graphic design. feels like playing a movie too. really one of my favorite games ever

"I won't spoil anything" Proceeds to talk about literally every major spoiler and shows you the reaper, which is honestly one of the coolest things to experience for the first time on your own.

7:32 "EA Suck" Never change, Mack

I strongly disagree about guns in the game, I think it is done by purpose It make you feel inferior to the world around you it is what makes this game different to so many other survival games. You are not the Apex predator nor will you be and I for one think it is great.

7:33 "EA Suck" XD

Even better then I expected! I love this game.

You get topless mermaids in Witcher 3 hahaha

The dev explained on twitter that the reason he didn't include guns in the game is because there was was 'too much gun violence already' in America after Sandy Hook or something like that. Yup...

Correction: You said there are no other weapons than a knife. In the game you also have vortex torpedoes and “Hitler torperoes” (gas torpedoes). You can attach them to your seamoth via the moon pool. But true, i would like more weapons like harpoon guns.

It's 25$ and better than alot of 60$ games, where's the question!? :D)

"Not going to share major spoilers", shows video of alien tech, locations etc.

I remember playing this the first time, I looked down from the top of the waters surface down like 100 meters and it made me feel very uneasy, like tunnel vision. I have never experienced that in a game before, absolutely amazing!

7:33 Nice touch.

Your review pushed me to buy this game. I can honestly say this was one of the most enjoyable gaming experiences I've had. I'm not much into the survival genre, but the way your tech developments are pushed along by your discoveries and story progress was a very cool take on things. My only complaint is that I'm finished and I need to find something else to scratch this itch..

Did anyone notice that mak’s sub was called EA sucks? That’s just amazing cause it’s true

I can't explain how important to me it was to go into this completely blind. I did NOT know what this game was, but how glad I am I experienced it. One of my favorite gaming experiences.

So....this is the watered down version of the game......Something fishy about it for sure.

EA Sucks. Also, Rabbits, Bells, More Bells, Tea.

Unless you have crippling thalassophobia, this game is one of the best games you'll ever play. A few rough spots but overall an amazing experience.

I'll probably just buy this because it's Flayra and Natural Selection was good fucking times.

I agree with you on the weapons. As it was I became a terror of the shallows, chasing after Tiger Sharks and Stalkers and hacking them to death with my knife for daring to try and eat me. I seriously wished I could teach some of the larger fish the error of their ways and the power of technology. But I understand that if that happened it would have no longer been about survival and more of a combat sim.

Nice review, but I'm not sure I agree with the idea of adding more weapons... The thing about the leviathans is that they are genuinely terrifying, just hearing the roar (which can be heard almost a biome away at times) always gets your attention and sets your pulse a little higher. Exploring the deep dark abyss in search of rarer resources just to find a crabsquid or a warper show up always turns on the flight or fight feeling. The fact that you have a stasis rifle and a knife should be enough, let alone the propulsion cannon (which can be upgraded into the repulsion cannon, which broadcasts a widely unstood message of "piss off." in many languages for the smaller to mid sized predators). If there is a bad guy, you can freeze them and get stabbing and hope there's enough time before the freeze runs out. Furthermore if you use a heated blade when stabbing them, it scares off most mid sized predators - so that only leaves the most vicious and enormous monsters that can resist your best efforts to fight them. If you've never run from a leviathan, then you've missed the point of the mystery of the abyss... It's not horror, it's terror.

I would say the replayability is strong because the feeling of progress doesn't fade when you make a new game. I love starting out with just the basic titanium to finally being able to go further away from the lifepod and collecting more and more rare resources. Of course the best would be if you could feel the game as if you were playing it for the first time over and over, but the feeling of progress doesn't go away so at least there's that.

Quick answer: Hell Yes! Best game of 2018. The "No Guns" aspect was a specific design decision by the developers. I does change the gameplay which is great. We didn't need another FPS, just under water.

Bobbing along, singing a song, on the bottom of the beautiful briny, shimmering shinny sea

When I finally bought and played the game I regretted that I have watched my brother play the game during early Access. Hell even he was disappointed that he didn't wait till the game was released. Which is why both of us are avoiding every Information about Below Zero. We want to experience it first hand.

It's ABSOLUTELY WOB!!!!! Love this game so much.

'WORTHADIVE III' gave me a good laugh. Nice review mack!

"I really don't wanna give out any spoilers" Proceeds to give out spoilers.

"So much to SEA underwater!" see what i did there? Im sorry :(

7:29 "EA Suck" is the Sub name lol

The lack of weapons is deliberate. It's not a stabby kill murder game, you have to outsmart predators instead. I completely disagree with the notion that more weapons are required.

Believe it or not, Peepers can save your life with Reapers like they do Stalkers.

I love one thing about WAB. It's honesty and the exact wording that correctly describe the game. THIS IS AN EXPLORATION GAME, NOT SURVIVIAL!!! Yes, this is Subnautica. For these who says this is survival, it's just bullsh*t. You don't even die.

Subnautica is an interesting survival game that has a pretty linear storyline but highly encourages exploration and discovery. There's atmosphere to the game and lots of hidden data logs and such to help with the deeper parts of the lore, even if you just go into the game, explore a bit and complete the story the wiki for the game details the entire lore in-depth. The gameplay mechanics are really crisp and the UI is very easy to understand.

"Im not going to spoiler anything but you need to build some sort of rocket and theres an alien race" smh

'WORTHADIVE III' haha that's awesome

Will you review black mesa again when its completely finished?

This is easily one of the best VR experiences I have had along with Elite Dangerous. It is just so immersive. The game does not support Vive wands or Oculus Touch controllers so you have to use KB/M or a gamepad.... but it is still amazing. A shining example of how a game should go from Early Access to release.

IT HAS TORPEDOES that you can craft in the modification station in the moon pool, there are gas torpedoes and normal torpedoes and normal torpedoes explode on impact creating a huge underwater vortex, how did you not notice that???

Got it from the Epic Launcher for free and had it on my wishlist for long. Fired up my Rift, hopped in, was lost because it throws you in the story and infuriated by the bad bad performance. A week later I tinkered around, googled and found out that you can massively increase the performance by lowering your mirrored display while being in VR. Set it to 1280x720 in a window and reduced the quality drastically. Pumped the quality in VR mode up a ton and it made a SIGNIFICANT difference. Still awful interface in VR - googled around, found a Mod for it to fix ALL the bad VR issues - PDA too close, no animations and blackout-screens when entering or exiting your subs etc. Started a new game and voilá - I got fire in the escape pod. The Fire extinguisher makes sense! The red warnings in the pod make sense! Now I see how I enter and exit the ships, climb ladders and stuff. Only gripe that remains is the shite called quick slots. You need to switch to KB & Mouse to bind it. Renaming lockers and beacons is still a massive PITA - shame on the devs that they won't fix it and that Modders need to step in to fix their VR-issues. Otherwise: Awesome game

i actually like the fact that you only have a knife. as the creatures were never intended to be fought and they seem like so much more of a threat when the only weapon you have is a knife

And now we wait for a review on the DLC they plan to make.....which is probably in the arctic biome

>constantly looking for food and water. One word my friend, marblemelons.

@worthabuy have you had a random scripted event happen to you like that recent streamer had happen to him?

Glad they've been able to finally put it out. Rimworld finishes here very soon as well. We expect you to get rimmin when the time comes Macky-Boy!

At first glance this reminded me of Sub Culture, a terrific game from way back in 1997 that I remember so fondly. For year I have been waiting for someone to develop something similar. I really wish they would have taken a queue from sub culture and had different civilizations you could interact with, buy and sell stuff and take sides in sub wars

Great review Mack. Unknown Worlds are some of my favorite devs, and if you've never got the chance to experience their previous game, Natural Selection 2, it's one of the greatest sci-fi FPS's ever made. Based on an original mod for Half-Life called Natural Selection, it's an asymmetrical shooter that incorporates some light RTS elements like a commander and base building, research, giving units commands and things like health and armor, etc..It's my all-time favorite game and also involves a fair amount of old school shooter movement. I highly recommend you check it out at some point, even for a retro review or just to play it for yourself. It's largely dead but has a small, dedicated community that is always playing.

The one game with VR mode in which the scubamask effect actually helps the immersion :D

Playing Subnautica on console, is like watching a 4k movie on a 720p television. The game is incredibly beautifully, innervation done right.

Diving down deeper after upgrading your gear is always exciting.

Mack would you mind giving me the name of the background music you used at the beginning of your review. I’ve been searching for it for a Long time.

and as for grinding for food and water, you can get a machine which makes water, you can also plant food ... once you become self sufficient in your base and you have your cyclops (the big sub) going around it's fine. there feels like theres a grind sometimes but really it's not that bad and it's fun and tbh if you know how to play you won't find it difficult

Cool name for the submarine "The Worthadive III"

Subnautica is what No Man Sky SHOULD have been but underwater. I REALLY hope Unknown Worlds make another survival game. This gives the finger to many AAA games in a major way

Subnautica is by far the best $20 I ever spent. I've gotten more fun out of it than any $60+ game.

As a console game I am flattered very much, Mack. Boy if this isn't the beginning of a friendship. lol "I want console gamers to have this game"

dayum look at that pop-in at the beginning.

I've got over 150 hours into Subnautica over the last 2 years, definitely recommend the game. Love it! Agree, they need more optimization. No reason why my new monster PC with a 1800x, 32gb ram and a 1080 gets any amount of popping.

5:55 all I could hear in my head was Mack's voice saying "Is she worth a diiive" LOL XD

This review makes me wish I were Australian.

The reason why there are no lethal weaponry in this game was explained by the developers in a video you can find here on RU-vid. Basically, there are plenty of shooters and action packed games where your objective is to shoot or kill enemies. They wanted Subnautica to be different. Your job is to survive, and you're not welcome on 4546B. You can kill the monsters with your knife, but like the developers said, you get no prize. No satisfaction. It just dies and sinks. Staying there until it eventually disappears. There's no real point to killing the leviathans. The game is about survival on an alien planet, and all you get are tools. You're not trying to murder your way through the game, you're building tools to survive, to hopefully unravel the mystery of why you're there and how to get off the planet. It's not as easy as you'd think. Your ship crashed for a purpose, a dangerous and important purpose.

I think I rather die in space dying in water is worse after playing this game but still good game over 9000/10

The game world isn't big enough to cover for a wholesome co-op experience.

You made me want to buy this game, good review cant wait to play :)

Food and water is easy to get once you get some tech. the water thing gives water and salt, get a biom for fish and they will breed. just put peepers in though and you can suppliment a area for harvesting potatoes and fruits.

If there's one game I'd love for you to play through its this! Please Mack!

The search for food and water stops when you have 2 water filtration machines and an alien containment unit full of Reginalds :D Cured food and drink for days!

this is one of those rare gems that only comes around a couple times a year if you're lucky. if you even though a bit about getting this game, I say "do it" just "do it"

one of the best games ever made and there is an expansion coming soon next year!!

Excellent review Mack, I picked this up yesterday for free but wanted to see what you had to say before downloading it. Just an update, they made a new mode called "Freedom", which is survival but without having to deal with hunger or thirst.

Hey...I'm a police officer.

Aight i need to buy this game now. On a side note; STOP demanding co-op in games in which it would downgrade the atmosphere. Cant you just enjoy a tense game on your own?!

"There are a few islands around" a pretty big spoiler imo. Edit: Going into the game I thought it was all sea, finding the first island was a very exciting surprise for me.

"worth a dive III" love it. :D

To note you can build into your sub your chargers trash cans beds and so much more you can build into your cyclops

I do wish they'd give us atleast a 2 player mode, i could see limiting it to that many sense that's how many seats are in the life pod that doesn't immediately die but there's room for more, Life pods, 1, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, and 18 (plus 20 and up) are unaccounted for on a s hip of 159 people. So there's room for atleast a mode that oculd go up to maybe 4 players having life pod 8 survive or up to 8 plays using 5, 8, 11, and 16 make it a varied survivor rate that landed in the safe shallows. Admittedly it might be because people are naturally going to want to dismantle life pods or be able to lock life pods to bases so there are reasons to not. but it's still something they could do and i feel maybe should.

Thanks for the review sir Davos. Seriously considering buying

That leviathan part was humble Hahah

Quick question. Is this as good as Outer Wilds?

"Unless you're Australian of course", ahaha love it

I can confirm it’s amazing on console

No lethal weapins (aside from prawn fist) is the point of the game. Its not a shooter :)

Oh Mack, but you do have torpedoes! Your Prawn Suit can have them, and I believe cyclops has them, too :D Pity you didn't say anything about the music - it fits the setting so well!

"Unless you're Australian" Bloody classic mate! As an Australian myself I lost my shit hahaha

What kind of bells are in the "more bells" container mack? Are there some Early Access bells in there that we haven't heard you use yet?

I disagree about the game needing more weapons. I think it would make the experience less scary/too easy.

Game has already confirmed "Multiplayer mod", check it out on youtube, cant fucking wait!

“I’m not gonna get into spoilers guys” There are so many spoilers in this video...

The reason why there are no lethal weapons in the game is because the developers are anti-gun.

Also there's a multiplayer mod which currently works and is still being developed.