This is Why Subnautica Will Be Remembered 

It’s a great game and i have not encountered many bugs

cant get to kelp forest please help me

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@@LucidLetsPlay ok i found it and now i got the repair tool.

Nice, you're in for a treat!

Yeah there's a few alternate scenarios, it's cool that they took the time to add them in!

I remember that there was a time that the cannon shot the sunbeam even if you deactivatet it before

@@ghkevilhd44that can happen if you start the sunbeam transmission before you cure the plant and deactivate the gun and then cure the plant before it tries to land

Really? That's new! I did exactly that years ago but the game just shot the Sunbeam down without moving the disabled Enforcement Platform lol. Just sort of laughed and figured they hadn't thought of that.

​@@IamCoalfootIt's likely that you started the Sunbeam landing before you shut down the gun, and shut it down while the landing countdown happened.

Yeah agreed, it's rare these days :D

Yeah, unlike Planet Crafter. I stopped playing that game because there is literally no end, yet. It's a great game, still.

​@@jupiterthree52281.0 of Planet Crafter is coming this year

And it's an ending you have to initiate, I like that as well.

It's even cooler when you think it's your choice to stay or not.

With the way you phrased that, I'm imagining a Jessie Pinkman remix 😂

I mean, it is a really cool song.

Yeah you're right, I meant more from a gameplay perspective as in, I would expect the game to get harder as you progress but from a thematical perspective this makes a lot of sense.

@@LucidLetsPlayWell, the Lost River is an enclosed space where it is harder to dodge the Juvenile, than the more open spaces where the Adult version can be found. As you said yourself, you had to simply wait it out (20 minutes) to get past the juvenile, while the adult was no road block worth mentioning, because you can just circumnavigate it.

A very good point!

​​@@LucidLetsPlay besides, the fact that you meet the adult ghost first is not true for everyone, either. I know it's there, yes, but i literally never met it in my like 6 or 7 runs.

​@@amazinghorizon8270 the wait was highly unnecessary, too. He had the zapping upgrade, just give the thing a good'ol shock and get in

Also another good spot! From a lore perspective that makes sense, but I still hate them 😂

Everyone hates them, but that's why they gave us the sacred propulsion cannon. To yeet them :)

Good point, it's almost worse not to see what happened but only the aftermath!

Agreed, it's a well made world.

I do wish that, for replayability purposes, the world was kind of a fusion of hand-crafted biomes and procedurally generated regions, and that the biomes were at somewhat altered positions in each play-through, so you wouldn't already know where everything is right from the start. For people who don't like this feature, it could be made configurable via a simple on/off switch the start of the game.

@@antred11 yeah that would be cool but sounds like a lot of work so I see why devs didn't go with it

@@k0lpA Oh yes, it would definitely be more work, as the references in the radio messages, i.e. "1 km SW of the Aurora", would also have to be coded in a more flexible way, to account for whatever geography the game generated for the player.

My favorite thing is the time capsules.

Yeah, maybe not the best place after all 😂

Ah I jus make it a habit to get in my prawn suit and drill the juvenile ghosts to death- makes travelling there trivial

Simple, kill the ghost

You can litteraly just go right past it with silent running, same with the sea dragon

@@maxmachac9756 where’s the fun in that 😆 there’s like 3 ghosts and 3 sea dragons, might as well jus rodeo them and drill em to death

Yeah that's fair!

at the same time, its entirely possible just not override the previous autosaves, or at least keep a handful around. Say an autosave every 20min and just keep 3 that it then only overrides the oldest

@@LucidLetsPlay I’m almost certain there is an auto save feature

oxygen

They used text-to-speech software for the PDA.

@@Wyzarka Honestly, that does surprise me. But regardless, it sounds really nice. I don't much care for Below Zeros

@@BlueBoxRevanSame software, but they used the Indian voice in that one. I thought it lost most of the charm from the first game and was one of the major turn offs for me.

I agree, I love that voice.

I agree! Although I put the Aurora off because I was too scared of the Reapers :D

​@@LucidLetsPlay I'm doing my first playthru of the game and that's me rn 😂 I got eaten once going around the far side of the ship and I'm scared to go back lmao

Yeah that's true, good spot!

Yeah, there are a total of four entrances! One in the Blood Kelp Zone, one in the Blood Kelp Trench, one in the Deep Grand Reef past the 500m Degasi base, and one in the deeper section of the Bulb Zone. I bounce between all of them except the Grand Reef entrance - too hard to navigate a Cyclops through and it's the longest path to the ghost tree (always my endgame base location)

Same here. I remember when the Lost River biome was a new thing and I basically went looking for it. I found a random hole down into the river and didn't think much of it except that it was weird how the entrance was some opening that's barely visible. LoL how little I knew then. :P

There blood kelp entrance was my main one.

I always use the one in the blood kelp zone. If you hug the left wall headed in the ghost leviathan there should leave you alone. You can get the Cyclops down that way, it’s just a pain to do so. My cyclops is since retired as a transport vehicle and acts as a guard, repair bay, and emergency base, it’s sitting over a couple thermal vents.

😂 Getting eaten gave me a few jump scares!

That would make sense! Either way, it didn't cause me too many problems other than an hour at the start I had to replay so I'm not too annoyed by it :D

In the main menu: is this what the "Unstuck" is for?

It's certainly a unique feeling that's for sure!

Couldn't agree more. I always tell people that I hate horror games but, the truth is, I just hate jump scares. But that's all you get in horror these days. Movies or otherwise. Subnautica may not, strictly speaking, be a horror game but it definitely has true horror in it. Like, the atmosphere in the game will scare you long before any dangerous creatures will. :)

@@tarrker it's the creepy effect, Subnautica is so damn good at it. I've played through the game multiple times, but I still get the creeps when I go in the blood kelp zone and the music shifts and the god damn sound effects... like the PDA says: "This ecological biome matches 7 of the 9 preconditions for stimulating terror in humans."

Haha, I haven't tried to ride a Leviathan!

From what I've heard it's less a gameplay design and more a politically charged design choice, apparently the devs were very much anti-gun and didn't want to make any in the game, the PDA even mentions some sort of in-game war that's supposed to be a reference to a real life shooting that happened at the time. I would have preferred it was simply a gameplay design choice, especially nowadays when that seems to be the last thing devs think about, but at least it worked out well.

Agreed, it's a wonderful bit of game design.

Yeah I encountered a lot less than I was expecting. Which isn't a bad thing. 😂

Yes it's dead easy to get to aurora without even coming close to a reaper. I never did. Just follow the shallows to the side of the aurora, follow the side to the front, and then slip in on the broken open side structure. No leviathan ever sees you or comes near you. I always found going to aurora just as chill as bobbing around in the shallows.

You can still hear that loud bastard in the distance, roaring it's head off

People's natural inclination is to follow the wall to the right, before they know where the entrance is, because the back is closer. So they run right into the back-of-the-aurora reapers, then panic and flee deeper into the crash zone to escape, and end up stranding themselves in the process. Maybe even beaching their seamoth while they're at it. :)

It's a great game to replay now and again, I agree!

I think my favorite spot to put a base so far is on top of the 1st or 2nd mesa. I just love them for being tiny pockets of safe shallows creatures in an otherwise dead and hostile area.

Well said!

Thanks man, we'll get there eventually!

Haha, yeah it gets intense.

Lol there are situations I feel way safer in my Seamoth and less in my Cyclops. Always worth getting creature decoys!

Yeah they were useful!

I love the way combat is presented in the water, but those crabs... I hate those crabs.

@@LucidLetsPlay haha, it shows the budget limitations (which almost killed the game without early access and youruber/ streamers) and zhst the game didn’t work as well on land. This is on wof the few things Below zero does better

I'll need to give Below Zero a go, it's on my list! @@Uraqt_1337

Escape and Evade keeps you from waste time and resources trying "to beat the Boss Alien" found in First Person Shooter games.

Thank you! And yeah I agree, it's very unsettling in a non-horror way and that's why it's such a great experience!

It's a gem for sure.

Oh that's interesting. I remember pogs but it was slightly before my time 😂

​@etsPlay On a side note, the PRAWN suit gets a LOT more fun when you build 2x grappling arms to start rock climbing with it and Spider-man your way along the top of the caverns rather than stomping along the bottom. Even in the open areas you can build up momentum and cover ground pretty fast by alternating arms so you never come to a stop. If nothing else 2x grapple makes it way easier to get into the cyclops hanger, lol. Grab the mod that doubles the grapple distance (after scanning additional fragments and upgrading in the Modification Station) and you will never need the Seamoth again. Except maybe to get to the floating island. Edit: I checked, it is possible to reach the floating island with a PRAWN suit. (no mods)

Oh man, two grapple arms. Why didn't I think of this!!

​Have fun =) Due to the way momentum works with the PRAWN (I'm sure you've noticed it sometimes skids when it lands) I have to believe that it is intentional and it was designed so that you could swing to build up speed. It works too well not to be.

Interesting! Yeah I didn't play with the prawn as much because I love the seamoth but I'll have to use that next time!

Well said! Yeah, it's one of the most popular survival games of it's time for sure.

Ah thank you man, you have no idea how much this comment means to me either. Thanks for watching.

Yeah, that would have been very useful!

That's some good information! I love how much lore the game has.

@@LucidLetsPlay Yeah, they did an incredibly good job with the lore! The Info about the Seadragon can be found by scanning it's remains. You can even find it's egg still intact in the facility. I figured out the thing with Sunbeam by accident. I at some point had completely forgotten about the radio as I usually never set one up at my base. After a few days of playing I noticed how Sunbeam never happened despite having played the game for quite a while. I then realised that the timer doesn't activate unless you get their last message from the radio. If you don't interact with the radio after their second to last message, you can save them even if you take all the time in the world.

Very interesting!

Thanks man! Yeah it's a great game and it is more scary than it should be 😂

Ive played it a lot of times and I can say you should try the death run mod. It makes the game far harder and adds more restrictions. It makes it feels fun and you have to come up with solutions to issues that didnt exist before.

As someone who's played Death Run, I'd simultaneously recommend and not recommend it. The game is definitely a lot harder but the gameplay can be very tedious and annoying if you don't have the patience for it. It definitely does a few things right, though! You better get used to free diving because you won't have the safety of your vehicles for most of the game :)

@@KaiTheMemeKing you can use the cyclops with no power drain and use the prawn to break and pick up items. I found once you get to lost river the difficulty really drops off.

@Britishblue. Agreed. I have all three vehicles and a lost river base. Sure the sea dragons make a beeline for you but that's what your modules are for. The trouble (and annoyance) is getting to that point

Oh yes, I agree!

that's why I keep them in their tank although I do feel a bit bad keeping them in a limbo state

Aw, goodbye little cuddlefish!

If you release a cuddlefish into the wild it's still possible to pick them back up. Usually you can only interact with them but sometimes the option to pick them up appears too.

I think Subnautica 3 will be worth keeping an eye on for sure. I actually quite liked the soundtrack to Subnautica personally. Thanks for watching!

They're going with Ben Prunty for Subnautica 2 as well. I believe he did a great job with BZ, it's just that the tracks looped too oftenly.

Ben Prunty has some amazing music, the FTL soundtrack in particular is one of my favourites.

Below zero launching on last gen consoles was a crime

We have no idea how Subnautica 3 will turn out. All we can is wait and see. But there's hope. At least there's a world, we have seen some awesome screenshots and some creatures. But it's all still in the dark. We have to see, what their focus is, and what they want to do. Somehow my feeling while watching those infos about the third title is that they want to get back more to Subnautica 1 with this one. But perhaps that's just my hope overlapping the few information I have. All in all, let's wait and I hope it will turn out to be another great title. It's even curious that they decided to do the next Subnautica now. We all have seen the "new game in the Subnautica universe", which I thought for a long time would be a different game, like a Shooter or something else inside the same connected lore. But they really decided to specifically make "Subnautica 3". So I'm excited for what they plan for. I really love the story being embedded inside the physical world, so that you have a drive to explore and piece the information together in your head. It's a unique concept that enhances the exploration aspect of the game so much more. If they can do it again, the wonder and feel while playing will be once again glorious.

That's an interesting bit of lore!

Haha, I like the horror aspect but it's admittedly not for everyone.

Haha, thanks man. I'm trying! Onward and upward!

I didn't know that, that's cool.

​@@LucidLetsPlayreboot the game and stay for some minutes. I don't know the timings exactly. Look on the sky, you will see a big moon slowly obscuring the sun light, until is pitch black. It happened to me on my second playthrow. Because I was so terrified of everything in the game, I simply didn't noticed it.

Yeah I'll give a look out for that!

Agreed! Thanks for watching!

Thank you! Yeah, I just wandered around the map and hoped for the best half the time :D

I feel like I should remember them, but I cannot for the life of me!

i vaguely remember them, i m romanian so maybe it was more of an america thing, also i was born in 95 so almost gen z rather than milenialm but I defo saw them in stores

Thanks dude!

Very true, I should have done it in bits while progressing!

Yeah there's some really interesting lore hidden around the world.

Well said!

Yeah, that's true!

Agreed! It's a wonderful story moment.

Thanks man, can't wait to make more!

I agree, it's wonderful!

Thanks man, it's much appreciated! We'll get there eventually :)

About as cuddly as a great white shark in my opinion!

@@LucidLetsPlay If only there was a mod that let me tame a Sea Dragon

I bet there is somewhere!

Cheers man, appreciated

😂 you can't win.

Thanks for the support dude, it's appreciated!

Agreed. Did you not get scared at all? It wasn't fear but a sense of constant unnerve and it was great!

Honestly I get what you mean for the most part- I love going out of my way to kill the leviathans and exploring the darkest parts of the map, but I can’t lie I do get a littleeeee bit on edge when I head through the crash zone 😆 even after I’ve already scanned reapers like 5+ times

Similar experience to me on my first few playthroughs haha although I liked moving my base stuff down to the lost river with it. Thinkings of buying it on steam to mod

I've heard there are some wonderful mods so you're in for a treat. @@Theo-nx7o1

@@LucidLetsPlay Surprisingly yeah, the most unnerving part was running low on oxygen with lots of new resources

I agree, it's great.

the thing is the forest's story falls apart instantly if you start noticing the plot holes that game has (which is plenty) whereas for subnautica the problematic story beats are few and far between. Moreover subnautica does have a coop mod and let's say whilst it's fun it does take away A LOT of the game's atmosphere since there's others to help you out. This didn't affect the forest as badly as it did subnautica though. Mostly cause the forest had a gameplay loop similar to other typical survival games thus it allowed for coop without that much hassle.

Haha! If anything, it'll make your fear worse!

I recall a Red Dead Redemption player (a Bounty Hunter!) not only got rattled by "Subnautica," but started to GET Thalassophobia. On the other hand, I've seen more Thalssophobes "get Alterra's bill" and find that the game is an extended therapy session.;)

You're a legend!

Thank you! Onwards and upwards! :)

Interesting! That game is on my list for the future for sure.

​@LucidLetsPlay don't bother looking for an explanation for how she survived Kharaa. I think the writers forgot that would be an issue.

@@Caffin8tor the explanetion was vague, but there was one. When the cure was re entroduced some pepers expreded the cure to even the depest places, and she eate one of them

@soldit_Dumes No good. She was infected YEARS before the cure was released from the events in Subnautica. Kharaa kills in days or weeks with a 100% death rate (unless a small amount of enzyme 42 is present, such as from the peeper distribution from the Sea Emperor).

@@Caffin8tor i cant remember the entire explanation so i cant argue i might find it again one day then i will put it here

Agreed! Thanks for watching!

I like to try and keep my videos neutral and try not to shit on a game or give it endless praise, it's subjective after all. Thank you for the kind words :)

Well said.

Well said!

My bad 😂

Ha yeah, I realised I didn't show many in the footage lol

Agreed, it's one of those games you'll remember forever! Subnautica 2, I definately have my eye on that.

Agreed, it's a wonderful game. I want to get to Below Zero at some point!

Yeah, I hate those crabs.

Hah, to be fair, I only used it once. Didn't find much use for it.

Haha. I should have tried that, hate the crabs 😂

I suppose so, but it's a technology that doesn't really impact players. I don't want to be forced to "save" when autosave exists these days.

I played Sierra Online games such as "Space Quest," where "save after you achieve/do something important" became second nature. "Roger Wilco" had so many funny/strange/stupid ways to die in game.;)

@LucidLetsPlay I respectfully disagree. I think it does impact the players in specifically the way other commenters have mentioned. Don't get me wrong, I get your point. I've also been in the exact same position as you and lost anywhere from 4 hours of gameplay to 12 hours (all due to a save mistake or not saving before a specific event). It was incredibly frustrating, I was so mad! But it also added to my experience. Yes, regrinding was tedious, but I didn't repeat those mistakes, nor did it interfere with the rest of my experience. Auto save can also inherently ruin a game. Think about any RPG where you need to grab an item, give that item to a specific NPC, but you die along the way and lose the item forever. Having auto save enabled in this example would effectively ruin your chances at completing this quest objective. Having manual saves would allow the player more agency over their choices and mistakes. So, for games like RPGs and survival games, I think it is a necessary frustration.

Interesting! Not sure how you missed it but I've done dumber things before.

That's interesting, I didn't know the Seamoth could outrun the Ghost leviathans!

Thank you! We'll get there!

Interesting! I would love to have seen that reaper in the shallows lol

Thanks for watching! :)

Interesting, I thought that was the full cutscene, maybe it bugged out?

Yeah I never really found I needed more oxygen to be honest, I should have upgraded though.

Thanks dude! Yeah I really liked the Subnautica soundtrack

@@LucidLetsPlay any plans on making a review of Subnautica Below Zero?

It's on the list to get to eventually! :)@@Riley_Canvessa

@LucidLetsPlay be nice to it lol, it's not as good but it has some good parts

Haha, yeah I don't think it'll wow me but i'm still looking forward to it! @@Riley_Canvessa

Oh man, I tried it in VR years ago and noped out after getting attacked by a reaper!

Honestly, the Prawn wasn't my favourite vehicle so I didn't really upgrade it too much!

@@LucidLetsPlayI noticed. It’s pretty lame at the start. But with upgrades it’s extremely fun. I can recommend trying it out in creative once with a grapple arm, propulsion arm, and the jet upgrade

Yeah someone else also suggested double grapple arms, which I'll have to try!

I love the Cyclops, it's my favourite vehicle, makes the game feel completely different in my opinion. Yeah, I didn't play with the prawn as much but I've heard it can do crazy things!

Ah that's some interesting info! Thanks!

Interesting! I think I just missed this fad.

😂 thats very true.

Yeah, good shout!

Some good reaper strats here! :)

Thanks man, good to have you around! :)

Some other people told me to try double arm Prawn Suit grapples and yeah, it's a lot better! I still love the Cyclops though.

@@LucidLetsPlay I've personally never done double grapples, Usually I take it because I might want to mine or pick things up and grapples interrupt that. But even a single is great for making the suits truly mobile. They can also often get you unstuck should you get stuck...

Yeah agreed, I meant from a gameplay perspective it didn't make sense but it does from a lore point of view.

Some tense moments!

Well said!

I suppose, but it's a short-ish single player game. Maybe one day you'll be able to revisit and have another awesome playthrough!

He also did some Overwatch 2 voices too!

Ha! I didn't know the Aurora landed on it, that's unfortunate :D

I wish I did that :D

Yeah, you're right. I think I sort of went to places by depth rather than what was most logical but that probably took me longer!

That's really interesting, it's awesome to hear how other people experienced the game! I think for me, the lower areas of the map were less "unknown" and more actual fear rather than that overbearing fear of what might be out there and it's a feeling that the game captured really well.