below-zero-chat

[spark pike]

just play the game

[eternal garnet]

find the truck module, then go do her tower errand

[spark pike]

i have a question too

[limber token]

Well I don’t wanna leave and then have to come back bc I missed something

[spark pike]

u didn’t

[eternal garnet]

coming back much later gives you some bathroom blueprints

[limber token]

Ok, so I’ll be able to turn off the satellite now, cool

[limber token]

Yeah, I was just making sure

[spark pike]

what’s better high frame rate or high quality

[limber token]

Mixture of both. Enough frames to play, then about half and half probs

[carmine bobcat]

Quality

[grim veldt]

||ok so go to merked 2 and scan the fuses||

[eternal garnet]

50fps is enough for this game

[limber token]

Yeah what I mean is. If it’s 2 FPS turn down your graphics

[spark pike]

well i just got a series x and idk which to choose

[carmine bobcat]

Honestly I haven't gotten much frame drops outside of the overload glitch

[limber token]

No idea what that means but don’t explain

[grim veldt]

Ok

[eternal garnet]

there's a limit fps setting, which can make your GPU relax

[spark pike]

ima go ask the xbox specific one

[grim veldt]

It's in the area

[eternal garnet]

limit fps is important if you stream

[vivid gorge]

Ah yes
1 FPS, but the best graphics of all time

[carmine bobcat]

Frame drops are rare

Even on higher qualities

[limber token]

A beautiful slideshow

[patent pasture]

do fps

sub looks so good on fps mode

[hasty rune]

lmfao merked 2

[patent pasture]

swap it up sometimes actually bc fps mode is smooth asf but graphics mode makes the game look amazing

[grim veldt]

Yep

[hasty rune]

its mercury 2

[grim veldt]

Ik but merked 2 fits better I don't know why

[hasty rune]

you are just like my friend who is a good person but extremely annoying with his "fits better but idk y" excuses

[grim veldt]

Thanks?

[spark pike]

where do i get a lot of lithium

[hasty rune]

purple vents

[grim veldt]

The purple geyser area

[hasty rune]

he'd also reply like that

[grim veldt]

Was that its name

[hasty rune]

yes

[grim veldt]

Ngl I never looked up some of the biomes names

[hasty rune]

i have explored the whole wiki

[spark pike]

this high fps thing makes the game look way more realistic and i’m terrified

[grim veldt]

I haven't gotten to it

[grim veldt]

Just use it in the deep dark caves

[spark pike]

are these crab squids?

[grim veldt]

Idk

Go up to one I've never seen it JK

[carmine bobcat]

That is a eye jelly the top part is safe but the tentacles zap you

[grim veldt]

Yep

[carmine bobcat]

They have random sizes and they get biiiggg

[spark pike]

there’s so many of them

[grim veldt]

I saw a big one once

They always scared me at first

[carmine bobcat]

I saw someone had that happen to them as well why is everyone scared of them

They just are loud

[grim veldt]

Big fish make me have big fear

Also I went in blind

[spark pike]

the eye jelly things look like vent gardens

[grim veldt]

That was actually cool to find for the first time

Then someone said that you can go inside

[carmine bobcat]

Nah juvenile ventgardens look like ventgardens

Im not wrong

[grim veldt]

The first ventgarden I saw was the adult and then I saw the juveniles as I was being chased by🦐

[carmine bobcat]

Poor Samuel just wants hugs

Cmon give him a hug

[grim veldt]

Who is samuel

Samuel haden?

[carmine vale]

how get to this

[carmine bobcat]

I a- he is next to billy the bell

[grim veldt]

The ||mine site probably|| starth

[carmine bobcat]

Thats grass

[carmine vale]

i literally got killed by samuel, he is not good guy

[carmine bobcat]

Why am i not a good guy

[carmine vale]

the artifact sanctuary, doof

[carmine bobcat]

Wait uhhhhhhhhh

[carmine vale]

not you, the shrimp

[carmine bobcat]

I am definitely not Samuel

[grim veldt]

I made shrimp void base

[carmine bobcat]

send pic

[grim veldt]

Hey did you know the longer the icon of sin is on earth the stronger it becomes -samuel 2020

[carmine bobcat]

The icon is long dead now

I 100% the game first play through

[grim veldt]

https://youtu.be/gl5DPiT0GfA

That's the base

[carmine bobcat]

Why does the prawn look so short

[carmine bobcat]

No i didn't comment the same thing on the video

[grim veldt]

Idk

Probably because it's on the ground by my base surrounded by void shrimps

[carmine bobcat]

Makes sense

[grim veldt]

Also why does the void look so different then subnautica 1s void

[carmine bobcat]

Shrimp

[grim veldt]

Well yes but it also cuts out and has huge cubes of rock down there

[carmine bobcat]

Shrimp

[grim veldt]

Shrimp?

[carmine bobcat]

Hugs

[grim veldt]

Yeah... hugs

Definitely not death

[carmine bobcat]

Nah hugs

Look at this huggable behemoth

[burnt pasture]

So cute

[grim veldt]

That's alot of hug potential

[carmine bobcat]

Thank you

I pride myself in being a shrimp

[spark pike]

why does that one look different then the redish one

[grim veldt]

Brb

[carmine bobcat]

Should've made glass corridors on the base

[burnt pasture]

It's the void one

[carmine bobcat]

Imagine not being a shrimp amiright

[spark pike]

u mean the ghost leviathan

[burnt pasture]

Ghost leviathan isn't in below zero

[broken badge]

No ghosts in BZ

[grim veldt]

Only 🦐 🦐 🦐

[broken badge]

And shadows xD

[grim veldt]

I should

[spark pike]

hmm i didn’t know that

[grim veldt]

And odd geometry

[carmine bobcat]

Why we talking about me and my shrimp brethren rn

[carmine bobcat]

and 🧊

[grim veldt]

1000m:a large drop off leading to a stone pillar

2000:the pillar thins and is under lily pads

2397:from lilypads is a bottom

3000:end of map

Why does it look like this

[carmine bobcat]

Deeeep

[grim veldt]

Lots of room for🦐 🦐 🦐

[carmine bobcat]

Its also the ecological dead zone

Only bacteria and leviathans can survive there

And if thats true wtf does the emo shrimp eat

[grim veldt]

It looks like other leviathans just a guess

[carmine bobcat]

They are still smaller than ghost bois though

So the next game will have a really small leviathan in the void

[grim veldt]

Maby each other or the chelis in the vents

[carmine bobcat]

The singular

[spark pike]

found your friend

[carmine bobcat]

I can't breed i am a trans shrimp so idk how tf they get chelicerate food

Hopefully they avoid tree spires though

[hasty rune]

i think they eat the microorganisms and the only reason they attack you is due to them being extremely territorial, even more than ghosts, thats why they immediately retreat when you leave the void

[broken badge]

I think of the void creatures in the games as border guards xD

[carmine bobcat]

Hey your finally awake

[spark pike]

where’s the second piece of the the mercury?

[broken badge]

thou shall not pass

[carmine bobcat]

Tried to cross the imperial border huh

[hasty rune]

im sorry but duh, thats obvious, we're going into lore here

[broken badge]

I’ve been awake👀

[carmine bobcat]

I just started a new Skyrim file i would continue but i

---

forgot past that

[hasty rune]

and i am going to sleep, gn

[grim veldt]

They don't look like they're filter feeders

[carmine bobcat]

I was doing the Skyrim intro because you get caught by border guards i that game

[spark pike]

they don’t take on the traits of basking sharks

[grim veldt]

YeH

[broken badge]

Ahh I see

Awful lot of teeth for a filter feeder

[carmine bobcat]

https://youtu.be/_WZCvQ5J3pk

There

[grim veldt]

Dive in to deeper parts of the map around the 🦐 in the geiser

[broken badge]

Oh yeah. I’ve played a lot of Skyrim lol

[carmine bobcat]

3000 hours i have no life

[broken badge]

Damn

[grim veldt]

The 🦐 was my marking to tell me I'm there

[carmine bobcat]

Its a fun game

[grim veldt]

I used to play some

[carmine bobcat]

Look screwing around with glitches will bring your playtime up four ton

[broken badge]

It is. Idk how many hrs I have. Probably not that much. But I have over 2k in Subnautica on Xbox alone. Over 5k in Astroneer lol

[spark pike]

found it

[grim veldt]

Ps4 needs a time played thing

[broken badge]

So yeah I play games quite a bit too😂

[carmine bobcat]

I see you have no life as well

[broken badge]

Well I don’t work, I have health issues so pretty much

[spark pike]

i didn’t know u could see what game i’m playing if u click on my profile

[carmine bobcat]

I put 40% of my time into games

[grim veldt]

My hours on minecraft have gone past quantifiable numbers and into just dates

2013

[spark pike]

i wouldn’t be surprised if i played minecraft longer then it’s been out

[carmine bobcat]

What

[carmine bobcat]

You played it for 15years then

[spark pike]

feels like it

[grim veldt]

I still remember when herobrine was the big spooky

[spark pike]

same

[stone galleon]

BZ is younger than minecraft

[spark pike]

i remember watching herobrine had all the videos about him like his origin and the role play stuff

i’d have nightmares about it sometimes as a kid

[spark pike]

it’s been out for a while tho

[broken badge]

If you want to talk about other games you should take it to #off-topic so not to get too off topic here

[spark pike]

didn’t the story for bz get changed like 3 times

[broken badge]

I know it changed. Don’t know how many times

I didn’t have it in early access

[spark pike]

i have original subnautica in early access but not bz

[broken badge]

Yeah me too, don’t remember much about Subnautica early access lol

The Ui mostly

[spark pike]

i remember that thingy that could destroy the ground and u could build with it

[broken badge]

Never used the terraformer

[carmine bobcat]

It destroyed frame rate

Thats why terraforming was cut

[broken badge]

I’ve heard. I just was saying I never used it

[spark pike]

how quickly do u think there will be a ||frozen leviathan|| mod thingy like the gargantuan leviathan in subanutica

[carmine bobcat]

Never that would be hell to work on

[silent elm]

i've got this weird problem, ever since i finished the main story, the entire ocean has had this constant, loud ambience that sounds like a muffled wind storm

[carmine bobcat]

Only place it would fit in would be Artic spires but I doubt that would be its natural habitat

[spark pike]

it kinda sounds like the ice storm but in the water

[carmine bobcat]

When you finish main story you get credits

[silent elm]

this is what the area sounds like normally

i know

i know you get the credits

i mean i finished all the quest lines

[carmine bobcat]

||you mean after building his body ||

[silent elm]

yes i ||followed him through the portal and finished the game||
the save i have here is from just before i did that

[spark pike]

can u not play on the world once u beat the game?

[silent elm]

you can only continue from your last save before the ending

[carmine bobcat]

If you never saved in that playthough

[spark pike]

so once you beat it world is like can’t play on it

but i should save my world right before i beat it so i can play on it later

[carmine bobcat]

||before you build the body actually ||

Thats not the end but sea monkes start stealing again

When you do that

[spark pike]

what ||body||

[carmine bobcat]

||Al-an's||

[tough nova]

al;n m

[spark pike]

forgot i had to do that

i hate him so much

[carmine bobcat]

al;n m

[carmine bobcat]

He gets better

[spark pike]

i wouldn’t of had to to go through all the crap i did in the first game if it wasn’t for him😐

[carmine bobcat]

What you don't play as Rylee in below zero

He didn't make the gun on gun island

He made the blueprints

[spark pike]

||he caused the virus to get out||which made the gun and made the quarantine and made the whole story happen

[carmine bobcat]

No the sea dragon did dummy

[spark pike]

saved it😅

[spice seal]

Yeah that's the SFX from somewhere in the ||portal place||, it keeps playing in water wherever you go. I had the same issue.

[spark pike]

||it was his fault tho||

[spice seal]

Waiting to do some more stuff in Below Zero until that's fixed

[carmine bobcat]

||They stole and egg to research a cure and a sea dragon destroyed the building||

[spark pike]

didn’t u finish the game it was his fault

[carmine bobcat]

No I'm building bases screw finishing the game I already know the ending

[spark pike]

but in the end he underestimated the strength of the sea dragon and because of his error the events in the first came occurred

[carmine bobcat]

Ahhh ok

[stone galleon]

if you knew the ending you would know that the sea dragon didn't have anything to do with the quarantine

[carmine bobcat]

It wasn't fully his fault though

He just kickstarted them

[thick prairie]

Is there a way to come from above the ||tree spires where the ventgarden and Chelicerate|| guard? I see no safe way to get to the spiral without dying

[carmine bobcat]

Imagine bei,ad because of lore though

[carmine bobcat]

Hey why are you talking about me and billy the bell

[spark pike]

sea dragon didn’t but alan did

[stone galleon]

yeah

[thick prairie]

Spoiler pls delet

[carmine bobcat]

Sowwy thwts a spowwer

[stone galleon]

its not a spoiler, just a name

[thick prairie]

It is

[spice seal]

Iirc all the ||chelicerates|| are in the northern part of the biome, so you can just enter it from the south, there's another ||vent garden|| down in the south too. Besides, you can get Spiral Plants in the Deep Purple Vents and there's nothing that'll attack you down there.

[thick prairie]

Given the context of what he replied to

[carmine bobcat]

BuT I Am goINg iN blINd

[thick prairie]

But how do get inside without death

[carmine bobcat]

I say that with 3 bases

[spice seal]

Go to the southern one

[carmine bobcat]

Wait

[spice seal]

Or the Deep Purple Vents

[stone galleon]

then don't look at chat if you want 0 spoilers at all

[carmine bobcat]

What is pased delta island is it just thermal spires

[carmine bobcat]

Bruh i have three bases

[spark barn]

Is this a good enough spot for a base?

[carmine bobcat]

What is on the southern part of the map

[spice seal]

Purple Vents and Tree Spires

[spark barn]

I’d plan to make it bigger but I’ve heard big bases can cause a lot of crashes on the Switch version

[carmine bobcat]

Ahh purple vents is long then

[spice seal]

The thermal vents are only on the west side

[carmine bobcat]

North

The life pod is at the most northern part of the map

[spice seal]

and that too

[carmine bobcat]

Ahh i looked at the map ok

I forget how big artic spires is outside of the arenas

[spice seal]

wdym arenas

[carmine bobcat]

The big areas in Artic spires are called arenas

You know the graveyard is in one

And ||cache||

Nah it will spoil where one of them is

[rancid cedar]

My friend Squidward says hi...

[carmine bobcat]

Hi squidward

[thick prairie]

so uhhhhhhhh no protection here how do mission impossible

[rancid cedar]

Sadly, he no longer likes seatrucks due to Squidward Sr. got rammed by one and stopped moving for a little while

[rancid cedar]

Run

[thick prairie]

nono

I want to go in, mission impossible

i need da material but

[rancid cedar]

Go to the exca site for the resource

[spice seal]

Don't need it from there but ok go say hi to jumbo shrimp

[rancid cedar]

Use the recyclotron on the synthetic material there

[carmine bobcat]

I have a fren too

Meet billy the bell

[rancid cedar]

His neighbor says hi as well

[carmine bobcat]

Thats tim

[thick prairie]

THERES TWO

[rancid cedar]

Vents, yes

[carmine bobcat]

Lies

[thick prairie]

no;; funny guys

[spice seal]

He means in the biome hes in

[rancid cedar]

Jumbo peel and eats, there is 7

[thick prairie]

actually??

[spice seal]

This is why I said you should have gone to the Deel Purple Vents

[rancid cedar]

Yeah, 4 cooked and 3 are rotting

[thick prairie]

idk where dat is

[rancid cedar]

That is where Jim is nearby

[spice seal]

Below Purple Vents

[carmine bobcat]

I am thy person who names the creatures

[crystal oriole]

Why can't you?

[thick prairie]

below purple vents is crystal thing

where the other comedians are

[carmine bobcat]

go

[rancid cedar]

Sadly, I haven’t met Jim’s girlfriend Sadie yet, she is too far down

[spice seal]

Not in the Deep Purple Vents. The entrance is on the south edge of the biome, so you can just go there from the south and you'll never see it

[carmine bobcat]

Wait jim dates my sister

[rancid cedar]

No, he is right by there

[rancid cedar]

Wait a minute...

[carmine bobcat]

I just want to go talk to him ok

[spice seal]

I'm talking about the cave right under that small ship piece

[rancid cedar]

Is Sadie a lover of crystals and looking like a worm pirate

[thick prairie]

I wonder if my prawn can take the crush damage and just go below, maybe then I can punch Adam sandler till he die

[carmine bobcat]

Nah she vibes in tree spires with me

[rancid cedar]

I saw Jimmy boy there for the first time

[rancid cedar]

Ah, different Sadies then

[carmine bobcat]

Ah

Sorry for the misunderstanding jim

I mean bloody pulp

[spice seal]

I've literally never seen it there. If you get in fast, you can avoid it anyway, but I've explored that whole area and never seen a single sign of it

[rancid cedar]

Oh yay, I no longer have to fight him anymore

[rancid cedar]

I met him trying to get the aquarium module...still haven’t yet

[carmine bobcat]

Aquarium module is in lilypads

It can be in the seatruck wreck from fred

[rancid cedar]

Ah, I will have to head there sometime

Are there more jumbo boys there

[carmine bobcat]

I am next to the ventgarden in tree spires come visit me sometime

[carmine bobcat]

No only squidsharks

Why chat die

[thick prairie]

ok

Crush damage ain't even that bad and I tanked it and now I'm here but with prawn

maybe adam Sandler will be nice and let me get material and leave

[carmine bobcat]

Max depth module gang

And that is Gregory not haha funny man

[thick prairie]

jokes on you, I need this material to get depth modules

[carmine bobcat]

Adam Sandler is in fabricator caverns

[thick prairie]

So is there another ||ventgarden|| within the biome that isnt near the mr fuji

[spice seal]

Yes

I've said that thrice now

[thick prairie]

ok but idk where to go from here that's the thing

[spice seal]

It's in the south of the biome and has no shrimp

[thick prairie]

so go south

[spice seal]

Yeah

[fathom arch]

does this have VR

[thick prairie]

wait how do I even get swallowed by this thing

[spice seal]

You mean how do you get into the vent garden?

[thick prairie]

No sadly

yes

[fathom arch]

did they fix most of the launch bugs on pc?

[spice seal]

Swim up through the hole in the bottom

[thick prairie]

game is running pretty smoothly as far as I'm concerned

[carmine bobcat]

hey I found a weird glitch not sure if it's switch exclusive but my sea glide never runs out of battery power it's purely stuck at 100% and if I save and quit it still stays at 100%

[thick prairie]

Houston we have issue

[carmine bobcat]

could be useful to speedruners

[thick prairie]

bug report.

[carmine bobcat]

But what if I don't want it fixed?

what if I try to find how it works and let speedruners use it?

[thick prairie]

Ain't nobody speed running on switch doe

[carmine bobcat]

but the problem is no clue how it started and it could not be limited to switch

lol I lost the same from a random crash

[thick prairie]

learn 2 save, play pokemon

[spice seal]

RIP That really sucks :(

I lost like 15 minutes because the power flickered but nothing that bad

[carmine bobcat]

It happens

saving = bad

[carmine bobcat]

Imagine saving and not getting off immediately after

aye this person gets it

Imagine linking your Facebook to your discord so people can just read your name

[spice seal]

Imagine imagining

[carmine bobcat]

Imagine
**

**

[spice seal]

I can only imagine

[carmine bobcat]

Why did i drop an image who knows

[uncut belfry]

Why are the stupid shadow leviathans so annoying

[carmine bobcat]

Sorry they are being annoying tactically

So not stupid

[sage shoal]

leviathans are not a problem when you get either the perimeter defence or a PRAWN with a grapple arm

[carmine bobcat]

ye

shadow leviathan in the crystal caves was ez because I got the perimeter defense for my seatruck

[modern steeple]

seatruck is tankier than prawn, typically faster, and has perimeter defense

[carmine bobcat]

Yeah but it can't go as DEEP

by like 100 meters

[uncut belfry]

I want to kill them all with the prawn

[carmine bobcat]

Whoa

[uncut belfry]

Sweet revenge

[carmine bobcat]

also him getting stuck in here but we don't mention that

Scan him

He is in the perfect position

Why do people hate things that are easy to avoid

[grim veldt]

Can someone post coordinates for where the hover lizard location was supposed to be

I cant find water in the glacial basin

[carmine bobcat]

lol

Hover lizard

[grim veldt]

And there are no videos on it

[carmine bobcat]

You mean hover fish

Sorry that #subnautica-chat

[grim veldt]

Planned for bz in the glacial basin

[carmine bobcat]

I thought it was scrapped?

[grim veldt]

But I cant find any water it would have spawned in

[carmine bobcat]

It was cut

[grim veldt]

Ik

So was its area cut

I can't find water in there

[carmine bobcat]

It was cut from the game

wouldnt it make sense for the sparse artic?

[grim veldt]

I thought the same thing

[limber token]

So I set my base stripe 2 to cyan, but it shows as green when I go out to look. How do I fix this?

[grim veldt]

Idk

[carmine bobcat]

Thats just how the game is

[limber token]

It’s really annoying, p sure it was the same for my cyclops and my Neptune but I didn’t spend too much time on my Neptune and it wasn’t as noticeable on my cyclops

I don’t like it forcing me to change my colors

[carmine bobcat]

Just do a different color

[limber token]

Gonna have to do black for it then

I like the black base with cyan stripe color but often it doesn’t work as well as it could

Often the cyan strips are much darker or, in this case, green

[carmine bobcat]

lol

[carmine bobcat]

But then it looks like a wire frame

Just scuffed

[carmine bobcat]

I wanted my base red but it was just pink

bothered me

[static holly]

I made a void base in creative

I hate the collision in this game with a passion. Aggressive shrimps and Ice Worms work horribly with bases

[carmine bobcat]

Wait thermoblade leviathans work horribly with bases

I need to see this

[static holly]

setting up a base in the arctic spires is a fun challenge

but yeah lots of medkits required

[stoic cargo]

I did it before on a ledge and that was ok ... are you out in the open?

[grim veldt]

I just build unfinished platforms to climb above the worm

[carmine bobcat]

Medkits imagine just use prawn suit and get in when it attacks

[grim veldt]

Spoilers for bz void

In

3

2

1

[stoic cargo]

just grow creepvine or shrubnuts in your base

[stoic cargo]

wat

[grim veldt]

It's the below zero void

[carmine bobcat]

I should've connived sarcasm better

[grim veldt]

Its ok

[carmine bobcat]

Nah its on me

[grim veldt]

Brb

[carmine bobcat]

Ok

[uncut belfry]

Anime profile pic

I've come here to say that you have a nice pfp; I like persona 5 royal too

[carmine bobcat]

A man of culture i see

It is indeed the persona 5 royal artwork of futaba

[uncut belfry]

It's a great game

[carmine bobcat]

I am going for the true ending as we speak

[uncut belfry]

that's great

[carmine bobcat]

Currently can't really do anything to progress on it though im on madarame

[uncut belfry]

Where are you at in the story?

Oh

[carmine bobcat]

I have beaten the game before though

[stoic cargo]

true ending = || phase gate|| or you mean with the 2 side quests included?

[uncut belfry]

Well you've got a long ways to go

Also hopefully you didn't look up any spoilers because it gets wild

[carmine bobcat]

Ik at least i know how to beat yaladaboth first try

And OKUMURA

[stoic cargo]

You have not beaten the game till you do a playthrough with no build tool, no vehicles and no making batteries .... until then you have only completed the game 🙂

[carmine bobcat]

Screw the okumura fight

[uncut belfry]

Okumura is easier if you have satanael

But my god, the puzzle

[carmine bobcat]

Its easier on merciless difficulty

[uncut belfry]

Ik

That's how I beat him first time

[carmine bobcat]

Yeah i am lucky i was underleveled then

[uncut belfry]

We should probably either go to dms or #off-topic since this is a subnautica chat

[carmine bobcat]

Dms we shouldn't flood general

[uncut belfry]

You got it

[static holly]

yep. right in the center of the biggest area

[stoic cargo]

oh nice ... low level? getting hit through walls?

[static holly]

through the floor

[latent brook]

how do i get to ||pk8|| without dealing with ||that pink leviathan?||

[static holly]

if that's the one ||in the crater, I would suggest you run like hell and bring a repair tool||

[latent brook]

yes, and would it possibly work just to bring the seatruck near the crater an just go on a suicide mission with the seaglide?

[stoic cargo]

I just swam low and it was fine

[latent brook]

alright

[stoic cargo]

otherwise seatruck and perimeter defence ftw

[latent brook]

is there a stasis rifle in this one because i want to scan the ||leviathan||

[uncut belfry]

Stick to the sea floor

Simply, become a flounder

[stoic cargo]

no stasis rifle ... you can still scan it but swimming around and out manoeuvring it

[latent brook]

i tried that once... i died (why would they remove the stasis rifle though?????)

[static holly]

I guess because it’s not really necessary. The perimeter defense is so OP

[latent brook]

really? i tried it against that thing and it did nothing

[static holly]

Well you gotta time it right when it latches on

[latent brook]

i have to learn the ways of perimeter defense

[stoic cargo]

Make a booster tank or 2 and follow around behind it scanning it

[latent brook]

what is a booster tank

[stoic cargo]

WW2 would have lasted 2 days if allies had perimeter defence

[stoic cargo]

it is a tank which allows you to go faster ... you are using a seaglide right?

[latent brook]

yes

i accidentally found an unmarked artifact that is not pk8

[latent brook]

i do not have the blueprint for booster packs

[stoic cargo]

accidentally finding things is part of the game

[latent brook]

holy moly the perimeter defense is really good

[stoic cargo]

I could tell you where the booster tank BP is or you can keep searching .... or I could give you a rough clue

[latent brook]

could you just tell me pls

[stoic cargo]

on the || platform about 100 below the large vent garden ||

you can also get there from || Marg base taking the tunnel going west from her base to the thermal area which is below the vent garden ||

it is next to || some lava vents ||

[latent brook]

alright thanks

[stoic cargo]

your PDA will say you are approaching a thermal area as you get close

just remember that if you make a large tank into a booster tank then it can't later become an ultra tank. I prefer using booster tanks in dangerous areas though. A mix can be good

You can carry more than 1 tank

but you should be able to get the seatruck into that area anyway

[sacred ore]

i just completed the sam arc very underwhelming honestly

spent hours searching and being invested into this all for a kinda weak ending

[lean notch]

yuyp

[versed lichen]

bring prawn suit
get benzene and grappling arm
kill them
profit

moreover they don't respawn apparently if you kill them

bring repair tool and a prawn suit after that you're practically unkillable if you're dealing with just one

the ai always runs away after attacking so

[broken badge]

There’s no profit in killing lmao
The devs made sure there wasn’t
That’s why there’s no drops from dead things

You want to kill things in your game fine, but let others make up their own mind.
The devs didn’t intend for people to go around killing the leviathans. Takes a lot away from the game experience.

[lean notch]

how is there no profit they wont attack you if they dead

[broken badge]

Kinda ruins the experience

Silly if you ask me

[lean notch]

nah a big fish constantly attacking you breaking your vehicles while youre trying to get resources is more ruining

[broken badge]

How are they constantly ruining your vehicles? I’ve not lost one yet to leviathans

About to finish my 3rd playthru

[lean notch]

if devs didnt intend for people to kill them they couldve given them more health or just make them immortal

[broken badge]

I’m figuring they didn’t want to hear people complain about them being immortal, so they just made it tedious to do. Which it basically is

[lean notch]

it isnt its like 10 minutes

[broken badge]

That’s pretty damn tedious imo

I’ve got better things to do lol

[lean notch]

so? if you dont want them to bother you you can kill them

no one is saying you have to

[broken badge]

I’ve already said people can do what they want in their own game, but I’m very against persuading others to do the same. Let people make up their own mind.

[lean notch]

they can?

[stoic cargo]

running after stalkers with a flair is still fine though right

last spy pengling thing they got me twice while I was using the remote

[lean notch]

those are pretty strong

[broken badge]

They do take a pretty healthy bite🦷

[lean notch]

they do more damage than the worms i think

[pine nexus]

is there any way to get up there?

[lean notch]

where is that

[broken badge]

I don’t remember this guy being around here (Mercury bow)
That’s not where it’s supposed to be, right? Thinking maybe it followed me or smth

[pine nexus]

on top of the acrtic basin walls

[lean notch]

probably the one for the vents

[broken badge]

Yeah it was

[lean notch]

maybe try grappling arm idk

you’re probably not meant to go there

[broken badge]

I was swimming collecting salvage and something brushed against me, figured it was a squidshark they hang around there, so I turned around and snapped that pic👀

[lean notch]

sad there aren’t reapers in bz 😦

they’re way more scary

[broken badge]

The grappling arm doesn’t seem to do a lot to help climb land
Maybe I’m not doing it right, not much of a prawn user tbh.

Mostly it’s the jump jets

[lean notch]

those wont get you very high either on land

[broken badge]

Yeah I’ve noticed

[lean notch]

unless you’re jumping from the water

[broken badge]

Have to take it incrementally

[lean notch]

they do make you crazy fast on land tho

[broken badge]

You can climb over the mountain at the end over by where you’ll end up at the ice worm carcass (it’s a bit of a way around, but can be done)

I’m sure there are shorter ways to that tho😂

I mean obviously there are, just found a way to climb the mountain lol

[lean notch]

Stack a bunch of rooms and a hatch at the top or something

[uncut belfry]

I used the prawn to go through the icespires

It was much better than using the snow fox lol

[lean notch]

I haven't actually tried the snow fox yet

[broken badge]

I like doing a bit of both but the prawn is much more durable for sure

And you need it if you want to drill certain deposits

[uncut belfry]

There are ion cubes there to mine

[lean notch]

Are there magnetite deposits

[stoic cargo]

doing a start where I can only get minerals if given to me by a seamonkey .... I need a tank to get || Alan || maybe. Plan is to get a duplicate data blueprint so it gives me starting titanium

[stoic cargo]

there are places with multiple in a seam of them .... forgot what the game calls it

[lean notch]

Veins

Ik

[stoic cargo]

yes, I can think of a very easy spot to get them in veins

[lean notch]

At phi

[stoic cargo]

yes

[lean notch]

Yeah theres bunch of them in ||crystal caves|| too

Was just wondering if there were deposits

[modern steeple]

I lived near mercury bow in my playthrough, he ain't supposed to be there

[broken badge]

Yeah, I didn’t think so. I’ve been around there a number of times and never seen one there before. I’d just been to the inactive volcano spot, I think he followed me from there (which is weird, since I’ve never been followed before)

[lean notch]

One followed me all the way to delta

[broken badge]

I was in a ventgarden and it really REALLY wanted to get at me while I was inside lol

This was on a different day tho

[lean notch]

Poor guy just wants a hug

[topaz trench]

sorry for the ghost ping

bot apparently thought I did something bad

I'm sure it was a mistake

[broken badge]

No, it was for all caps, please don’t spam caps

[topaz trench]

oh

[carmine bobcat]

Let me hug you :c

[topaz trench]

sorry

[lean notch]

How many characters can you do

[carmine bobcat]

Billy the bell stopped talking to me I'm lonely

[broken badge]

Please don’t test the automod

[lean notch]

Why not lel

[broken badge]

Because I asked

[lean notch]

Fine

👁️ 👄 👁️

[carmine bobcat]

He wants to get banned he gets banned

[broken badge]

Testing it amounts to spam itself. We have logs of deleted messages

[lean notch]

A

So what counts as 'caps spam'

[carmine bobcat]

E

E

[broken badge]

It’s best just to not type a whole message in caps

[carmine bobcat]

Jk

[worldly urchin]

yeah i understand when people use caps for emphasis on words, but sending an entire message like that makes me feel like I'm being yelled at

[broken badge]

Most of the time a single word here and there won’t trigger the automod

[carmine bobcat]

OBVIOUSLY

[worldly urchin]

the sad part is when i get banned because i have caps lock on and don't realise until it's too late

[broken badge]

Unless you pick something like what’s it? Thalassophobia or smth lol

[lean notch]

What's that? Fear of being yelled at

[broken badge]

No one gets banned for it, unless they’re obviously doing it on purpose ig

It’s fear of the ocean and deep water actually, learned that here

Something like that anyway

[lean notch]

Ah

[worldly urchin]

i thought thalassophobia was fear of depths in general? or am I remembering a different one

[broken badge]

Maybe? I’m not sure what all it can entail

I wouldn’t say I exactly have it, at least I can say playing the Subnautica games don’t bother me

[worldly urchin]

i saw a Jacob Geller video about the topic a while ago but I don't remember the specific terminology he used

[lean notch]

It's fear of ocean

[carmine bobcat]

Fear or ocean

[worldly urchin]

fear, please

[carmine bobcat]

I'll take ocean

[broken badge]

I found out something cool today, you can interact with glow whales😳

[worldly urchin]

shaken, not stirred

[carmine bobcat]

Honestly buying from your own shop is pog

[carmine bobcat]

Interact with the right eye

[broken badge]

I did

And rode on the back as well

[carmine bobcat]

How about riding it

[broken badge]

Epic

[carmine bobcat]

As a resident of lilypad islands i approve of this message

[broken badge]

I also hatched one, and found some new eggs today

I made a base in the upper lilypads it’s really neat

[carmine bobcat]

I made a base over and under

[broken badge]

Nice

This is my base

Whale xD

[carmine bobcat]

Here is that base inside and outside

Yes i released a glow whale near my lilypad base and he vibes here now

[broken badge]

That’s very nice. Never thought about building on top a lilypad, neat idea👌

[carmine bobcat]

Around

I actually used three lilypads for that base

[broken badge]

If only they could make the big containment less reflective, it’s a bit shiny

[carmine bobcat]

One is the backyard and it has a very good trialve there

[broken badge]

I found squidshark and the cryptosucchus however you spell it, eggs today

[carmine bobcat]

I have hatched all the eggs and then released them destroying my proof

[broken badge]

Lol

[carmine bobcat]

This was one day fyi

[stoic cargo]

of freediving to || Alan || with no tank is fine

[ember ledge]

Hi. Can you tell me how to get to this place

[stoic cargo]

looks like Mercury 2 wreck

[ember ledge]

Yes

[flat gull]

Find an entry and then explore the wreck to find the way

[ember ledge]

I don't know how to get into this room

[stoic cargo]

access may be via an air vent from another room ... some places are like that

[ember ledge]

where should this entry be located?

[stoic cargo]

cut through any doors that can be cut and do all air vents

[broken badge]

Usually the entrances are down near the bottom sections, check near the ground maybe?

[stoic cargo]

hard to say ... I can navigate the wrecks but hard with one pic

[carmine bobcat]

||was anyone else really didappointed by the ending? I played through it and just felt let down, like great we got a cliffhanger.. yay? Now we have to wait years to answer BZ's burning question, I'm excited because it means 3rd game, but bitterly disappointed that this is how they ended BZ. Anyone else feel that way?||

^^^^About the ending

[stoic cargo]

what is the burning question? I was || disappointed how easily Robin accepted how Sam died and that not much else was answered ||

[carmine bobcat]

||that's a subplot, though I also was disappointed at that, she has this mission to discover her sister's death and then it's just like "lol k". But the burning question was the Architects, are they alive? Is Alan going to be executed for causing the outbreak? Answering those questions was a really big part of why we were finding a body and trying to sort him out, aside from Robin's initial panic. And then we get to the end and instead of answers we get a cutscene of some scenery and a title screen. :/||

[stoic cargo]

those questions are only raised at the end

[versed lichen]

||Yeah really i thought i was the only one thinking the ending was somewhat underwhelming, since i kinda rush the game and barely took any pdas in mercury II or maybe i missed something else in the labs too. But i did feel that the ending with alan is a little bit too quick. Really wished they told us even just a bit more about what happened after that. Also, Sam's death was the only reason Robin even came down there the first place, if any this was supposed to be the main plot but then put aside because of alan|| ending spoilers

[carmine bobcat]

||I disagree, considering how after the first game everyone assumed the Architects were all killed off (or at least I did) and then throughout BZ you find dead ones BUT ALAN IS ALIVE! For anyone who cared about precursors in Subnautica, those questions were raised from the moment we found a living Architect, we found one what about the others? Though you're right, those questions aren't spoonfed to you until Alan gets his body||

[stoic cargo]

I guess Robin || got completion on Sam from completing the antidote delivery but not everyone would have done that ||

[versed lichen]

also endings aside can i just say how wanky the snowfox controls are

[carmine bobcat]

I thought they were okay, I actually really enjoyed the land portion of BZ it's really clear that they put a lot of effort into it, and the ice worm is the most terrifying thing ever

[stoic cargo]

at first || Alan reconnecting with other Architects seems like a very local issue .... the whole is he the only one thing (still unlikely given that others could have also been far away on missions) does not come up till later ||

[versed lichen]

turning with snowfox is kinda weird

the mouse controls are camera at low speeds but at high speeds they lock straight

besides that nothing else really

[carmine bobcat]

||yes, the game doesn't out right hand you the question until later, but like I said, for anyone who was interested in precursors in Subnautica, (specifically after reading the pda articles that explain moments like the Disease Research Facility, and the death count) it would've been the first question they thought of when we found Alan, and then considering they talk a lot about how Alan feels being oart of the network, and how he misses it and feels so alone, it's a nearly constant theme, at least I think it is.||

[versed lichen]

don't get me wrong i like the land portions but other than really really big open spaces the snowfox is kinda eh

[carmine bobcat]

I agree with you, but I was busy screaming and crying because of the ice worm noises and paranoia to worry about the controls LOL

[versed lichen]

yeah ice worms are just wow

[carmine bobcat]

I like all of BZ except one biome to be fair, and I reckon everyone knows which biome and why

[versed lichen]

purple vents for surprise leviathan?

[tropic frigate]

besides the downside of a waterbase, what're the downsides of letting your base flood

[versed lichen]

i mean

[carmine bobcat]

||the precursor caverns with the red crystals. It's a maze, the shadow leviathans are so big and fast that you can't get away, the door to the facility is so small that your vehicle is trapped with the shadows, it's like it tried to be the active lava zone, but just couldn't do it.|| spoilers about endgame zones

[versed lichen]

all the downsides are in the "downside of a waterbase" category so

[tropic frigate]

i mean, besides the downside of no oxygen

[stoic cargo]

I can swim past them with a booster tank or use the after burner in a seatruck. Most of the time I just go around them with no incident

[lean notch]

Meh I just went there with a seaglide and found the entrance to the facility first try

[tropic frigate]

kinda like the water tbh

[lean notch]

The leviathans didn't even see me

[stoic cargo]

fancy indoor pool

[versed lichen]

||but to be fair i really like how they make the entrance to the endgame somewhat obvious with maida's base||

[carmine bobcat]

Agreed, I literally only dislike that one biome.

[stoic cargo]

my first 2 playthroughs were done using a different entrance ||(purple vents)|| ... I didn't even know there was an entrance below ||Marg's|| base

[versed lichen]

what

there's an entrance there too?

[stoic cargo]

yes .... and it seems to be a faster route

[lean notch]

Yeh I used vents too

[versed lichen]

it's not a tiny maze like the entrance from the delta dock to mining site or something like that right?

[stoic cargo]

no, just a crevice with a few openings

worth putting a beacon there

if you have found the ||Fossil Excavator artefact then head north through the cave and up to find an entrance which can go down to the crystal caves ||

the southern end of the ||Fossil Excavator artefact cave is way over in lillypads ||

[rigid sierra]

Same

[stoic cargo]

a little bit || GoT where they built up several story lines and ignored a bunch of them ||

[rigid sierra]

||But the old storylines didn't really continue||

[rigid sierra]

||BZ posed new questions, but did not answer old ones||

[carmine bobcat]

i wanna do a modded playthrough (i know there arent many mods but still) i tried adding below zero to vortex but the mods arent working?

[rigid sierra]

Yes, and the best way - pawn suit with grappling arm and drill arm

[lean notch]

Just seaglide 👁️ 👄 👁️

[ember ledge]

LOL

Mercury 2

[carmine bobcat]

Killed general chat and memes have to retreat

[bold monolith]

Don't bypass the swear filter please.

[carmine bobcat]

I say that all the time with other mods around they have never gotten onto me for it

Eh i will stop anyways though

[bold monolith]

Well, I am a mod.

[ember ledge]

I am from Russia and I would like to ask you what "I am a mod" means.

I just can't understand that expression.

[bold monolith]

I said I am a moderator.

[celest ferry]

Hey ignis!

[carmine bobcat]

a question I got for Below Zero's story, ||why would the architects be so mad at Alan for the Kharra? The game treats it like he caused the outbreak, but they went to 4546B to research a cure because it was killing billions of them didn't they? Like the disease was already out in the architect world, all his oversite really did was release it on 4546B, which they weren't didn't live on so idk why they would be despie him.||

Because he kickstarted the event that almost killed his entire species

That is why they hate him

[carmine bobcat]

||Alan caused the Disease Research Facility event. Which meant that instead of Kharaa being safely worked on on the planet, it spread, infested their species' network and could possibly make it to their homeworld. The bacterium was rife throughout space but NOT on their homeworld yet||

[carmine bobcat]

I thought the reason they went to ||4546B was because the disease was ravaging their homeworld||

[stoic cargo]

Agree or else how did it get back to their home world?

[carmine bobcat]

Someone forgot to get vaccinated

[stoic cargo]

or maybe like for me there are no vaccines available

[carmine bobcat]

Oh yeah

[lean notch]

Orrr he wanted it to happen ;o

[carmine bobcat]

Whoa thats kind of a power move

It looks lame that im literally replying to everything but that is just how i am

[lean notch]

yay.

I have to write my own myth for school 🤮

[carmine bobcat]

Copy paste a scp article

[stoic cargo]

like make up an original one?

[lean notch]

Yes

[carmine bobcat]

I mean

Scp 106 old man would be a good one

Except replace every time they say scp 106 with "the old man"

[stoic cargo]

what country are you in?

[lean notch]

It's a myth from like Greek mythology not some creepy story about some monster :p

The Netherlands

Ugh

[carmine bobcat]

Honestly they made a god for everything in greek mythology so gl with that

[stoic cargo]

so a supernatural thing not changing history etc

that is weird

[carmine bobcat]

What is

[stoic cargo]

the asignment

[carmine bobcat]

Oh then i agree

[stoic cargo]

The herd of giant golden reindeer that used to appear every 12 years granted a free wish to orphans. Eventually their massive weight lowered the pastures below sea level and they never returned. As lame as the assignment

[carmine bobcat]

Honestly it would work and give the teacher a kick

[stoic cargo]

Or they collected taxes until some civilisation leader got too greedy .... or something

Something about a giant deer being killed in a drug deal gone wrong

[lean notch]

Don't click on that

Lol

[carmine bobcat]

We know

[lean notch]

Not everyone does probably

[opaque wharf]

still worth it to say, someone could accidentally click on it

[lean notch]

Yeah but I can't delete it so im just saying it

[opaque wharf]

no im saying u should have said it

[worldly onyx]

How do I turn two rooms into one tall room?

Wanted to make bigger aquariums

[opaque wharf]

two large rooms or two multipurpose

[worldly onyx]

Large

[opaque wharf]

just stack them i think

like u do with multipurpose

[worldly onyx]

But they get separated by floor

[opaque wharf]

dont they auto connect

[lean notch]

Yeah you can do anything about that

You'll just have to put a ladder in between

[worldly onyx]

Ah wait, aquariums connect together

[lean notch]

Yh

[wheat berry]

You mean the alien containment?

[worldly onyx]

Floor remains, I just recalled how it looked in first game

[lean notch]

Floor doesn't go away in sn1 either

[stoic cargo]

alien containment connect together

in BZ

[carmine bobcat]

Guys am on ps4 whenever I try to craft the prawn my game crashes any help

[lean notch]

Yes but room floors don't

[worldly onyx]

Yea I just remembered that I saw few levels up - and just recalled that i saw few levels up through alien containment

[stoic cargo]

correct

[lean notch]

Ik 👀

[stoic cargo]

same

[lean notch]

Nice.

[carmine bobcat]

Bro the prawn suit has more speed now

[frosty pewter]

original better than below zero change my mind

[carmine bobcat]

The orginal had more depth range 900m if am correct

This one is doo doo 400m

[frosty pewter]

the original game was waaaay bigger

that’s probably why

[stoic cargo]

this one has 1050

or is that the seatruck

[frosty pewter]

seatruck has 1000

[carmine bobcat]

Prawn suit

[frosty pewter]

at mk3

[carmine bobcat]

The one in the orginal had like 1700

[stoic cargo]

there were 3 depth upgrades at one stage in the original .... yeah 1700

[lean notch]

Without upgrades prawn in sn1 could go deeper

[carmine bobcat]

You needed that to get to to lava zone

[lean notch]

Yeah there's no areas in Bz that are that deep

[carmine bobcat]

Yea

[lean notch]

Are there?

[stoic cargo]

I have done the lava zone without the last upgrade and just repairing the suit

[carmine bobcat]

I don't think there is smth that deep

[stoic cargo]

BZ bottoms out at about 960

[carmine bobcat]

Orginal one goes about 1400 I think or 1500

[lean notch]

Meh ||red crystal caves are deeper i think||

[carmine bobcat]

Anyways

Where you find spiral plant clipping

[stoic cargo]

vent garden

[deep kettle]

Or in the ||deep purple vents||.

[stoic cargo]

except you need to do your own clipping

[carmine bobcat]

What you mean

[stoic cargo]

you need a knife

[carmine bobcat]

Oh lol I have it

Which way the vent garden

And what is better to bring there seatruck or prawn boi

[frosty pewter]

or fabricator

but still the devs focused on the wrong thing

[stoic cargo]

vent garden ... ||just west of lillypads, south south east of delta ..... of swim west from Marg base and up from thermal vents ||

[carmine bobcat]

Right

[frosty pewter]

they made a washed out story rather than continuing the tension and adrenaline the original game had

[stoic cargo]

I thought the evil CEO guy up in the spaceship with Sam was a bit lame

no spoilers there as all removed

[frosty pewter]

ye

[stoic cargo]

also the tower repair then repair again was a mess

[bold monolith]

This was a bug, fixed later.

[stoic cargo]

they should have fixed the "Pilot Last Position" confusion by adding the word PRAWN to the beacon .... then people would not think that was a Mercury 2 thing

that is also common

[frosty pewter]

the fact that there are only 2.5 wrecks to explore is dead

the thruster wreck is two rooms i’m not considering it a full wreck

[stoic cargo]

I think the wrecks are ok .... a bit contrived in layout but ok

agree about thruster

[frosty pewter]

i think the game is too directed where it spoon feeds you the story

rather than letting you explore and find stuff by yourself

[stoic cargo]

really? it is very open and works in many sequences with just a few bugs in sequences

[frosty pewter]

but with the artifacts

rather than saying keep looking when you are near them or something

they give the exact location kinda lame

[stoic cargo]

the amount of people that ask on here what to do after going to the Greenhouse is high .... exploring is rewarded for sure .... just at some stage people get a little used to being led

[bold monolith]

There are people not finding the three parts, because two of them don't have signals. It's pretty difficult to satisfy everyone. Greenhouse also, yes.

[frosty pewter]

you go find the frozen leviathan after greenhouse right

i’m just building my base in purple vents atm not trying to proceed in the story yet

[stoic cargo]

you can do that in either order

[frosty pewter]

i think i’m one of very few people who found the satellite opposite the greenhouse

or did everyone else find it

[stoic cargo]

I found that before the Greenhouse

[frosty pewter]

i came at night and i was like wtf is that green light

[stoic cargo]

many things are easier to find at night

Thom was typing then ....

[deep kettle]

I personally never bother searching the artefacts, too many are in weird spots. If I have the chance sure, but I just don't find the mechanic any fun. I would have much preferred some small alien caches or something similar that has the tech it gives you.

[frosty pewter]

above ground bases are better than underwater bases in below zero in my opinion

due to the weather events and such

[stoic cargo]

but you do enough to get ion batteries?

[deep kettle]

No, but I also never finished the game in a legit way so never needed it lol.

[bold monolith]

There are people who complained for the removal of the 8 purple tablet fragments in the arctic spires.

It was, way more painful.

[frosty pewter]

that was terrible

i hate the arctic spires biome

[stoic cargo]

Yes very. An odd side effect of the arctic changes is that the arctic connection, the wharf there and the tech sites are all obsolete unless you want to pick up fur off the ground

[frosty pewter]

i always wonder around thinking i’ve missed something

[deep kettle]

But the tablets don't do anything in the game, why would it matter? I do understand it if they wanted tablets in the first place I guess 🤷‍♀️

[frosty pewter]

and ready to get glitched up by an ice worm

[stoic cargo]

so heaps of people have probably never found the arctic connection now

[frosty pewter]

what connection

[stoic cargo]

exactly

[frosty pewter]

the portal?

[bold monolith]

The thing under the glacier.

The tunnel.

[deep kettle]

I think they are referring to the tunnels yeah.

[stoic cargo]

no, the || tunnels to the west under the glacier ||

yes them

[frosty pewter]

i haven’t found that yet

[bold monolith]

You don't miss much.

[frosty pewter]

i don’t even know what glacier ur talking about

[stoic cargo]

but jelly eye topia

[frosty pewter]

wait

it’s where the jellyfish are

[stoic cargo]

@bold monolith my only getting rocks from monkeys idea was silly by the way .... I could swim to || Alan || with no tank and then it was the same game basically

[deep kettle]

It was cool to actually have to use those tunnels back in EA after getting a depth upgrade or just having enough oxygen, I really like the way that part of progression was done 🙂

[frosty pewter]

i’ve been through the connect many times then

[stoic cargo]

after the EA update I went through the Arctic Connection then walked to the bridge and thought .... what is this ocean .... then oh

[frosty pewter]

lol

[stoic cargo]

I really think it is quickest to do Sam's quest on foot from Phi because the rout is so quick

[frosty pewter]

i find the blueprints much easier to gain in below zero

[deep kettle]

I thought the tunnels were entirely removed at some point lol.

[versed lichen]

this

i swear getting blueprints on the first game was the bane of my existence

[frosty pewter]

but it was way more rewarding

[versed lichen]

wdym

[frosty pewter]

when you finally get the blueprint you set out to get

here you just do the story and randomly find bps

[vocal dew]

Before it was a lot more scavenging wrecks

[frosty pewter]

which is fun imo

[stoic cargo]

the hardest blueprints in BZ for people are probably the ones that only exist in one place and they don't look for them because they don't know they exist. Rebreather and stilsuit ..... maybe even large tank

[frosty pewter]

moonpool

[versed lichen]

idk tho personally i really hate the scavenging wreck parts on the first game

specifically blueprint scavenging

[vocal dew]

Did you also hate having to explore larger areas?

[stoic cargo]

moonpool is inferior to cell charger which is also in a much easier place to find

[vocal dew]

Moon pool has other uses

[frosty pewter]

i really loved exploring outpost zero

and listening to the story behind it

[vocal dew]

Too bad the story is unfinished

[frosty pewter]

tho it would have been more fun if they didn’t leave the weather just killed them

[stoic cargo]

actually chargers in general are not needed ... I have done playthroughs without them and go through less batteries than what you can find

[vocal dew]

They give you some things way too early in this game imo

[versed lichen]

exploring large areas are actually fun

[stoic cargo]

I think outpost zero is my favourite ... a shame the land around it still is not fixed

[vocal dew]

Implying they’ll ever fix it

[stoic cargo]

outpost zero still has an invisible wall when not accessed from the sea cave

yes maybe

[vocal dew]

I only found it once

[versed lichen]

but the experience of searching fragments of a specific item in multiple mazes is different compared to going to a decently sized area and just wander there not knowing what you'll find

[vocal dew]

This game doesn’t exactly do it better

[frosty pewter]

^

[versed lichen]

but they don't put it in wrecks at least

[stoic cargo]

seatruck?

[vocal dew]

It’s either just junk strewn about the ground or it’s in random sea monkey caves full of oxygen plants which gets rid of the only tense thing about exploring wrecks which was your oxygen level

[versed lichen]

i guess it makes sense for something like battery chargers going on way earlier since ribbon plants are somewhat rarer than acid shrooms

[stoic cargo]

well it kinda is a case of getting more and more comfortable with diving distances .... and the air bladder rocks

[vocal dew]

I suppose

Nah oxygen plants ruin any sort of tension with depth

[stoic cargo]

ribbon plants are right below the initial pod

they are everywhere

[versed lichen]

not as much as acid shrooms

you can't just use them for bioreactor fuel anymore

[vocal dew]

Regardless I think the progression is very off

Especially when it comes to vehicles

[versed lichen]

the endgame is also far smaller too

like the deeper biomes

[vocal dew]

Right

Reading the cut content page on the wiki hurts my soul

[versed lichen]

yeah

ice dragon

my god that was brilliant

[vocal dew]

Like, leviathan trench

Imagine that

[thick briar]

Any guides for living in the tree spires biome?

[vocal dew]

Which one is that

[versed lichen]

which one is tree spires again

[thick briar]

The one where the ventgardens live

[vocal dew]

Ah

Murder the shrimp leviathans

[thick briar]

My current base is in the Crystal caves

But I actually just found the tree spires biome and I think it's really cool and kinda wanna set up a little outpost over there

[versed lichen]

i mean building little outposts are just find big area and build a large room or something

[thick briar]

I like building lots of outposts across the map so I don't ever have to travel super far to recharge my stuff and get food

[versed lichen]

probably set a battery charger and maybe power cell charger too then power them using thermal since you won't be there a lot most likely

all in a multipurpose room with a bed and some pepper plants

toss some lockers and that's probably all you need

[thick briar]

Yeah I know how to do it

[vocal dew]

So what’s your issue

[thick briar]

I don't have an issue?

[vocal dew]

Any guides for living in the tree spires biome?

[thick briar]

I was just asking for tips from people that might have set up there already

I never said I have a problem

[carmine bobcat]

Vibe thats about it

[crude kite]

Your downfall would be if they pushed out an update and made shadows respawn

[thick briar]

Just out of curiosity can you even build a base in the ice worm biome?

[crude kite]

Yes you can

[thick briar]

Oh it wouldn't even be a problem for me

I have yet to kill either of the leviathans down here yet

[crude kite]

Ice worm dodges bases

So it’s basically a thumper, you can just build a base there and ice worms will avoid it

[thick briar]

The one closest to my base is a jerk too because Everytime I try and explore he chases me back to my base

[crude kite]

Just kill them if you have grapple arm

[crude kite]

and drill arm too

[thick briar]

2 reasons why I haven't done that

[crude kite]

You see glass roofs I see a waste of lead

[thick briar]

I see i live at the bottom of the ocean in a cave filled with crystals and want as many windows and glass modules as possible

Who cares if it's a waste of lead... Do you have any idea how many Galena outcrops are in this cave alone?

Hundreds

[vocal dew]

I remember seeing somewhere that they originally planned for ice worms to swim in water under the ice

That would’ve been sick

[thick briar]

Anyway I haven't done the grapple drill thing because it's just stupid, first of all the drill actually does like 80% less damage then the default punching arm and second it seems cheaty as hell to just grapple onto it and drill it to death and I refuse to deal with it in that manner

You would have to essentially sit there for 10 minutes drilling it...

I wanted to do something creative to deal with the leviathan in this cave

[crude kite]

Yeah you did see about it a bit in the early access trailer

[carmine bobcat]

I'm starting a new bz save

[thick briar]

I litterally have a locker filled with lead back at my main base so lead is nothing I need to use sparingly

[carmine bobcat]

early access trailer was the only time i saw something get threatened by the worm

[vocal dew]

Why is it so janky with the snow fox?

Wouldn’t that be like the intended vehicle to be used there?

[thick briar]

I just use the prawn suit

It's safer and you don't get knocked off it by ice worms

The snowfox is cool and all but very much unnecessary

[vocal dew]

I know but I don’t get why they made it so it kicks you off just because the ice worm emerges from the ground

Not even because it hits you

[thick briar]

shrugs

[vocal dew]

There’s not even an animation for it

[thick briar]

I use the prawn suit for basically all my exploration aside from the times I'm using the Seatruck to carry it to places