below-zero-chat

[crimson quartz]

Are you serious

Tell me what the materials are

To remind me

[spice seal]

Materials for what?

[crimson quartz]

For high cap tank

I just know it took me a whole 2 hours

[eternal garnet]

the problem is finding the blueprint, not the parts

[graceful crag]

Well, that was EASY! For literally the entire fight, he got stuck in the pit surrounding a thermal vent and i could just pound his skull out! He didn't even able to land a hit on me!

Well, i forgot there are two... 😬

[eternal garnet]

two? lol.
You aren't meant to kill them

[trim forum]

But you can

[eternal garnet]

you can also eat ants

[frank pollen]

Just finished below zero campagin it was pretty good

[graceful crag]

And that should be the second one

[eternal garnet]

when do we tell him there's 2 more

[graceful crag]

Oh, i already know about those in the ||fabricator caverns||

[spice seal]

never would have been preferable

[trail socket]

ramming speed around 10-15 times should kill most of them 😛

[eternal garnet]

that's not how you kill ants

[trail socket]

maybe you need like 20+ on the big ones 🙂

tbh the ram damage you take is way to low

think its like 1-2 per ram or something silly

[prisma peak]

Entering the ||ice spires|| for the first time on a legit world lol

Knowing what lies beyond is not good for anxiety

[eternal garnet]

the snow bunnies?

[trail socket]

haha

[prisma peak]

Hmmm

[trail socket]

have anyone mined the files to find out how the total resource potential of the map?

[prisma peak]

Maybe I should make some thumpers for mining

[trail socket]

my storage area is getting kind of big and I've not even cleaned out the shallows and the twisty bridges area yet

[eternal garnet]

That's not how to BZ 😛

[trail socket]

well I've gone through the story twice so far

and my GPU really don't like bases that are to big

at least not in horizontal area

[prisma peak]

Yo the resources here are definitely worth the risk

Just from veins alone my prawn storage (upgraded x3) is almost full

Mostly silver tho. Need more copper and titanium

[trail socket]

damn monkeys are stealing my tools again 😦

[crimson quartz]

You'll come to the point where they start giving you stuff your full of.

[prisma peak]

Go find ||alan|| and it'll stop

[trail socket]

well I'm past that so they are stealing again 😛

[crimson quartz]

I dont think al an is a spoiler

[prisma peak]

Technically is

[crimson quartz]

Err umm kill half their species.

[prisma peak]

Anything pertaining to the story is considered a spoiler

[trail socket]

this is not a spoiler free channel anyway

the monkeys respawn after 10 minutes if you kill

[crimson quartz]

Ooooff

Go find al an

[crimson quartz]

This channel is for spoilers mate.

[trail socket]

as I said I've completed the story so AL-AN is not in my head

[crimson quartz]

Oof.

[prisma peak]

It can contain them, but you should read the channel description

[trail socket]

its not that big of a deal, just hide the tool if you hear them making that sound they do before trying to snag your tool

[prisma peak]

||Alan|| technically pertains to late game too

Since it's not automatically activated, only by proximity

[trail socket]

ehh

[crimson quartz]

If im doing something with the tool i cant just hide it

Frickin sea monkeys

[trail socket]

you'll have plenty of time to hide it

[crimson quartz]

My sea monkeys are stealth

They come from damn behind.

Which i think its a glitch

[trail socket]

and they make a very distinct sound before they try to steal

[crimson quartz]

I just turn around and see their smiley face.

[crimson quartz]

A dolphins i suppose

[spice seal]

You weren't talking about ||alan's body||, you were talking about finding alan as in getting them in your head, which is very early into the game

[crimson quartz]

Fun fact: || Rebreather databox is right next to first Al an S.O.S code ||

[trail socket]

you have to be super early in the game or blind to not find him

[crimson quartz]

I actually hated going deep so it took me days to come and find him

[trail socket]

oh wow

[crimson quartz]

Im not blind or super early,im just a wimp of the ocean

[trail socket]

think I found him in the first 30 minutes or so

[crimson quartz]

Leviathans dont scare me tho

Auto correct where are you when i need you

And auto correct just appears when i dont need him

[spice seal]

I found it right after I got the seatruck

I went in blind and did quite a bit of the early stuff out of order

[trail socket]

I noticed the clues as I was looking for other things like the truck fragments

and other tools/equipment

[spice seal]

Yeah I guess I didn't see any of that while I was getting the fragments

[trail socket]

think there are like 3 equipment platforms in TB and at least one if not two of them are close enough to notice the clues

[pastel wasp]

Just bought below zero

game is awesome for now!

[spice seal]

nice

[trail socket]

it was at one of those opening a data box I noticed

[wise bolt]

Honestly prefer subnautica over below zero

[spice seal]

same but bz is still good

[pastel wasp]

played subnautica a lot

[wise bolt]

I don't like bz

[pastel wasp]

why

[wise bolt]

Idk I don't like it personally

[trail socket]

story might not be as good as the first

visually it is much better IMO

[wise bolt]

Not really its teh same visually

[pastel wasp]

i think, generally speaking, gfx could be a lot better

like i could see how it could have crystal clear graphics for higher res and settings

[trail socket]

BZ have better textures and more detail

[carmine bobcat]

I got my base all set up

[spice seal]

The new base building stuff is good

[carmine bobcat]

Well most of it

[wise bolt]

Depends on what u play on if u play on a 4k screen with a good pc u will notice the difference otherwise you wont

[trail socket]

pretty sure the average poly count on things is higher in BZ

[pastel wasp]

yea thats what i have

i can see how the graphics could be better

for like 4k at least it all seems a bit blurry idk

[trail socket]

there is a distance blur in game btw

some don't like that

[pastel wasp]

idk

i still like it though, cant complain

[trail socket]

I think its fine. As I said, maybe not as good of story as before, but ok

some of the sounds scared me first time 🙂

its not nearly as time consuming to find new blueprints as in the first

[pastel wasp]

yea thats rly true

[trail socket]

98 hours in BZ and 122 hours in Subnautica it seems

so not much

[spice seal]

I've got 158 in SN and 107 in BZ

[trail socket]

none of the Steam games are my most played anyway 🙂

top 20 on Steam is around 150+ hours with Factorio at over 1200

no idea how many hours I've spent in WoW, but probably 4-5k or so

probably even more

[kindred crow]

.

[trail socket]

getting to old... can't play for hours anymore or I grow bored of the game

[fluid willow]

does anyone know if you can connect power transmitters to 2 bases?

[spice seal]

You can't

only to connect thermal plants and solar panels to a base

[fluid willow]

i meant having a thermal plant area and connecting it to 2 bases

[spice seal]

Yeah can't do that either

[fluid willow]

thats unfortunate

i have so much power too

[spice seal]

Why do you have 2 bases close together though

[glass gyro]

does anyone know when below zero will go on sale in steam?

[fluid willow]

they arent

ones in the lilypad area

and the other is near ||phi robotics||

[spice seal]

I don't think we know yet

[spice seal]

That'd be a long power transmitter line

[glass gyro]

oh, thanks

[fluid willow]

yeah it was

[spice seal]

You built it already?

[fluid willow]

after i finished the whole base i realized the other base wasnt getting power

yeah

[spice seal]

ooof

[fluid willow]

i found out i have to deconstruct a transmitter so it cuts one base off but leaves the other one powered

[spice seal]

You could put multiple thermal plants down and send the power from half of them to one base and the other half to the other base

[fluid willow]

yeah, im thinking of just putting a single solar panel down at the other base since it was only taking 0.01 power

[faint wind]

i was going to a architect artifact and i fell out of the map again

[sonic lark]

i love when that happens

[worn zephyr]

never give up

[faint wind]

my prawn suit ran out of power cell battery so i had to abandon it until i charge the power cells again

[worn zephyr]

ok bruh but who asked?

[spice seal]

Joe did.

[faint wind]

joe

[worn zephyr]

Who? Joe mama?

[spice seal]

Yes.

[faint wind]

yes

[worn zephyr]

Tell joe mama that we dont do that kind of things here

[spice seal]

Who asked

[worn zephyr]

joe mama did

[faint wind]

d

[worn zephyr]

e

[spice seal]

No she didn't

[worn zephyr]

yes she did

[spice seal]

prove it

[faint wind]

deez nuts

[worn zephyr]

if i can prove that i never broke a law do you promise not to tell another soul what u saw?

[worn zephyr]

that doesn't match very well buddy

[worn zephyr]

here it is

[prisma peak]

nope

[faint wind]

spikey trap 2.0

[spice seal]

I was today years old when I learned you can interact with glow whales

[maiden pulsar]

If i dont like a song in the Jukebox is there a way to remove it

[prisma peak]

No. You can play a song on repeat, you can shuffle, but you can't disable songs

[maiden pulsar]

Unfortunate but that you anyways

Thank*

[prisma peak]

If you're on PC, you could probably tinker with the files, but that's something to do at your own risk

I wouldn't even know where to start lol

[maiden pulsar]

I just dont like one song

but i dont like running all the way back to skip it

i probably shouldnnt pick it up next time

[spice seal]

none of that information fixes the problem

[maiden pulsar]

ok i need to clarify

there is one song in the whole game i dont like

and out of the rest

i would rather it be gone and the others remain

no its the JT one

[spice seal]

Yeah and knowing that you can pause the jukebox and where different disc locations are doesn't have anything to do with that problem

[carmine bobcat]

for some reason the first subnatica game is my scary in my opinon but i still love this game

[zealous beacon]

Ok, I feel sort of sadistic right now.
I built an ACU, with the better ACU mod to feed excess creatures into bioreactors.
My bioreactors are in the large room directly above the room with the ACU, with two directly on the glass of it.
My tank is full of eye jellies, looking directly up at the bioreactors..

[grave orbit]

indeed

wait what eye jelly eggs look like

[zealous beacon]

like little jellyfish.

[grave orbit]

screenshot pls?

[lean notch]

With one big eye

[zealous beacon]

All of mine have hatched, so I don't have any to screenshot.

[grave orbit]

oh i looked it up i know now

[ripe atlas]

What I do after going to marioehdiwkdvie’s greenhouse

Also where is that alien person

[grave orbit]

|| um its 200m down below near the edge of thermal vents area ||

and idk || grow more preston plant maybe||

you at least need a setruck

[grave orbit]

?

ik

they ward off snow stalkers and about the fruit salad idk cos i play iin freedom

the prestons delight they ward off snow stalkers they dont attack

[spice seal]

in freedom you don't need food and water

[grave orbit]

freedom you dont have to eat or drink ever

ik but its hard

idk how to get mods

thermoblades easy to get u just get the mod station ad psi robotics

i thought you meant mod as in actual game mods

and ik mod station can be fouund in delta station i bet i have more progress than you

how many architect componennts do you have

just barge in with seatruck perimiter defense and LEL i have 3 body ccomponents i just need to get to the fabricator caverns

perimiter defense is in || mergurits base||

and how have you not found the || fabricator caverns ||

[spice seal]

||It's in a smaller cave, entrances look like a circular crystal formation surrounding a chandelier like crystal formation in the middle above the entrance||

[grave orbit]

|| fabricator base has red crystals||

how u said u didnt know how to get to crystal cav cache

use seaglide map its ez

[spice seal]

Crystal cave cache isn't the fabricator base

[grave orbit]

iik

ik

[grave orbit]

ik

[spice seal]

idk

a lot of stuff in the crystal caves really doesn't makes sense imo

[grave orbit]

what is morganite

[spice seal]

It's what they're made of

[grave orbit]

oh i did thatwith the purple crystals i just never read the databank apart from voice logs and alien data

[crimson quartz]

WhEre is ShAdoW LevIaTHan

[sturdy dragon]

Wasn't there a ghostly leviathan in the dead zone in the demo version ? It seems to me that I saw it, but I have doubts

?

[spice seal]

There aren't any ghost leviathans in the void in this game, there are a different variant of Chelicerate

[carmine bobcat]

wait how did ||marguerite survive the kharaa||

[sturdy dragon]

Yes, I know, I just remember that when I played the demo version, someone killed me, but it wasn't white сhelicirate, since white сhelicirate doesn't have an animation of the "absorption" of the Sea Truck.

[lean notch]

Absorption

???

[sturdy dragon]

I don't know how to describe it in another way )

[narrow mirage]

ok i went to the ||crystal caves|| and got ||al an organs|| and i met a friend called ||shadow leviathan|| and i scanned him

give me a gg pls

[elder bane]

just did 30 minutes of work, pressed save, and then prematurely pressed x

lost all of it

[narrow mirage]

happened to me a thing like this when i got to thw ||frozen leviathan|| for the first time

[lean notch]

A grab attack?

[crimson quartz]

is there another leviathan?

not shadow or big shrimp

[crimson quartz]

wait what white chelicerate

[lean notch]

The void Chelicerate is White and red i think

[lean notch]

Or white and black

[sturdy dragon]

red and white

[lean notch]

But those have grab attacks

There's nothing in the game that just swallows a seatruck whole

[crimson quartz]

what the-

[sturdy dragon]

You probably didn't understand me because of a bad translation, I'm sorry )

[crimson quartz]

the mouth does grab the seatruck and attempts to eat it but it aint happenin

[lean notch]

But there's nothing else than a grab animation

[crimson quartz]

it just damages your seatruck

frickin 15 or 20

[sturdy dragon]

and I remember that another leviathan destroyed mine seatruck in the demo version in survival(if I'm not mistaken in the dead zone ) for 3 bites and it was not white Chelicerate. Or maybe I have a rich imagination, but I remember that it was not a chelicerate

[median fulcrum]

Is there any way to build ladders/stairs on surface bases without having to build a hatch?

I'm trying to fix a base that bugged out and it absolutely refuses to do it, so I need to try and find a workaround. :/

[eternal garnet]

vertical tube, goes on horizontal tube

[delicate fossil]

Robin in Australia

[delicate fossil]

Ah no wait, she's in Russia

@sturdy dragon is that the early access build

With old Robin?

[delicate fossil]

I feel that the suits they wear wouldn't be enough to keep them warm in the Arctic waters aside from the coldsuit

[sturdy dragon]

but specifically, the images with the inverted Robin are the newest version, but there was a bug in the creative

))

[delicate fossil]

Ok

[sturdy dragon]

[swift sedge]

What am i supposed to do at night when my solar panels dont get light

Just made the first multipurpose room

[eternal garnet]

each has a battery of 75 in it. Have more, or get a bio reactor

grow plants to put in it

[woven cosmos]

Yeah bioreactor is a good energy source

[eternal garnet]

Also an idea, get a bed, skip nights

[woven cosmos]

True

[trail socket]

3-4 solar panels will be plenty early game anyway

think even with a moonpool I had around 5-10 panels and it was fine

[swift sedge]

you can skip nights with a bed? woah

could you also do that in regular subnautica

because i sure as hell dont remember it

[trail socket]

yep you can 😉

never bothered with it myself as nights are just fine

[swift sedge]

Also facing the everlasting problem of never enough copper

[trail socket]

think you wake up at sunrise or something

make sure to grab the rocks that give copper and titanium

[crimson quartz]

Can i build elevators in subnautica

[crimson quartz]

Limestone outcrop

[trail socket]

vertical tubes

they are instant travel from one corridor to the next

[crimson quartz]

I am in need of massuve lead

Wait how to use.

[crimson quartz]

You mean vertical connector? I honestly dont know what that does

[trail socket]

make a corridor section and attach vertical tubes under or above

[crimson quartz]

A compartment

Like I compartment

[trail socket]

then add another corridor section and go inside and add the ladder at that spot

[crimson quartz]

Anyways any other new leviathan

Not shrimp and that shadow dude

[trail socket]

regardless of how many vertical sections you add, using the ladder will be instant

[crimson quartz]

I want MOAR

[crimson quartz]

Well yeah ik

Ladder is only for multi purpose rooms tho

[trail socket]

no

[crimson quartz]

Ehat

[trail socket]

right, the game calls it an I compartment

[crimson quartz]

Its a corridor for casual players

Nerds just call it whatever the game calls it

[trail socket]

hehe

never really bothered to learn the actual names 😛

you can use the vertical connector on all of the solid ones except the L model, and the bottom of the I glass compartment

[lean notch]

I just call it a tube

[prisma peak]

Btw, a warning to those entering the ||ice spires||: if you bring your prawn suit, do not brave the ||ice worms||. They will tear your suit into shreds

Learned that the hard way

[eternal garnet]

I don't agree. Prawn+||worm ||works pretty well

[prisma peak]

If you avoid them, yes

[eternal garnet]

you trying to kill it or something? you can't

[prisma peak]

But if you try to walk past one, it will do around 40 damage a hit

[sullen surge]

I learned that when|| ice worms|| attack i fall of my snowfox

[prisma peak]

I hate that.
It's a hoverbike, so the vibrations wouldn't be the cause. You can be 20 meters away and it still happens...

[sullen surge]

yes

[prisma peak]

It's completely unrealistic and a massive inconvenience

[sullen surge]

sometimes my snowfox gets stuck

and i have to stay close to the ||ice worm|| so i can pack it

[prisma peak]

The only reason I braved that area was to get 2 full seatruck modules + upgrade3 prawn suit + half an inventory's worth of bulk resources

Worth it

[sullen surge]

I don't know if it's normal but I only had to go to the ||ice spires|| once

the entire game

[prisma peak]

Once you get the piece for the story, there's no requirement to return

[sullen surge]

hmmm

[prisma peak]

I went in for resources and grabbed it while I was there

[sullen surge]

I went for story, but i remember when i got lost

[prisma peak]

Kinda wish the area was a lot bigger tbh. It feels too cramped

[sullen surge]

i was stuck between 2 ice worms

[prisma peak]

I was hoping for massive, open field of ice

[sullen surge]

and didn't know the way back

[sullen surge]

me too

[prisma peak]

Kinda renders the snowfox half useless since the icy areas are so cramped

[sullen surge]

yeah

i used the snowfox for temperature and dodging ice stalkers

[prisma peak]

Prawn suit is still better tho

Kill ice stalkers in seconds and dodge ||ice worms|| easily

[sullen surge]

prawn suit > all

[prisma peak]

Seatruck is better for long distance tho

[prisma peak]

I hate how if you stack large rooms, you cant put partions under any objects placed in the center of the room above

It's annoying

[potent socket]

The Seatruck was long and ugly. Everyone liked the Cyclops better the fact that it was spacy and sized.

[vocal valley]

^ True

I miss the Cyclops

People say it was annoying and clunky but I was good at piloting it

[sullen surge]

Never used tho

[next current]

I prefer the Seatruck over the Cyclops.

[vocal valley]

If the made the Sea truck’s modules non-stiff and flexible then I would maybe say otherwise

[potent socket]

Also, to add on. Subnautica is not supposed to be a completely horror genre, meaning if you discriminate those who rather find this game as a little violent, you are a woke person. It's like this game wanted everyone to be so "transistical"

[next current]

I never found SN to be violent.

[vocal valley]

Same

[prisma peak]

The cyclops was easy to pilot lol

The seatruck sucks compared to it, but it's still better than nothing

[vocal valley]

Exactly

I never found it difficult

[potent socket]

Me neither, but there are those who favor non-violent games because of their emo-hipster culture and I find this utterly disgusting. I hate those transists who think they can dictate video games and if we don't find a way to mitigate this threat, they'll spread like disease.

[prisma peak]

It was occasionally difficult to fit through certain spots, but that's what happens when you're the only one driving a 40 foot submarine

[sullen surge]

One doubt

Can you turn seatruck inner lights off?

[next current]

No?

Why would you want that?

[prisma peak]

Agreed. People these days need to mind their own business if they don't like the violent aspects of video games.
For some of us, those violent aspects keep us from being violent irl by instead putting it into a game (anger issues :/)

[sullen surge]

I didn't want to

But it happened

[vocal valley]

I was excited to try out the sea truck because I thought it would be sort of like a “train” where the modules sway and move behind it as it moves so the vehicle can be more maneuverable, but the thing is practically just a long metal rod that’s slightly bigger than the sea moth

[sullen surge]

Now my seatruck is dark

[next current]

0__o

[prisma peak]

YES.
I hated that it was a rigid stick of compartments

[prisma peak]

Probably because of the power being out?

[potent socket]

Here here! You should be consul admin of this server and game! Long live the republic!!! Down with the separatists! 👏

[vocal valley]

I was hoping that they would add that flexibility but they never did 😢

[sullen surge]

But it never went out

[prisma peak]

Idk then man. Glitch?

[sullen surge]

I think so

[next current]

"Long live the republic" I don't think I've heard of such a beautiful line.

[vocal valley]

And do you guys remember the truck’s reverse camera? they took that out for some reason and practically made it worse

[next current]

It was causing issues

[potent socket]

Arghh!!! Then how do we steer our seatrucks in reverse!? D:<

[prisma peak]

That's the neat part: You don't

[vocal valley]

When you get stuck you have to disconnect the modules and get it out bit by bit

It’s happened to me multiple times lol

[sullen surge]

This is so annoying

Lucky me i had only 1 module

[prisma peak]

looks wide eyed in 7 modules

[vocal valley]

I have about 5 or 6 on my average resource acquisition trip

with the prawn

[next current]

Glares at my 100 moduled Seatruck

[prisma peak]

You mean the immobile seatruck?

[potent socket]

Subnautica below zero I find was very challenging the fact that the seatruck depth was limited and you had to dive below 200 meters yourself to get the upgrades, modules and speaker logs.

[next current]

It ain't immobile. Just slow.

[vocal valley]

That thing be moving at the death star’s pace lol

[next current]

1 meter per 3 seconds slow.

[sullen surge]

0.5 mph

[prisma peak]

I like that it actually makes you put in the work to do things now

[potent socket]

ikr

[next current]

Pretty fast with the Afterburner Upgrade tho.

[vocal valley]

I actually hated and liked that at the same time

[potent socket]

But once you get the upgrades yourself, you realize that it was useless already. Lol.

[prisma peak]

I am currently trying to drain my 4 nuclear reactor rods as to not waste them when I go to move my base

This is tedious

[next current]

I dunno, my 86 Storage Modules seem pretty useful.

[vocal valley]

My current base in the caverns runs on 2 reactors in a separate building

[prisma peak]

Once I get a more adequately located base, I'll have it running on a nuclear reactor with a backup bioreactor and 4 solar panels, just to keep oxygen online if I accidentally drain all my power without noticing

[sullen surge]

If there are 86 storage modules, what are the other ones?

[potent socket]

I meant the seatruck vehicle upgrade. If you dive below 200 meters down to get an upgrade of a seatruck that boosts depth by 300, 400, 500, 600, but in the end, you had to do everything yourself. Unless you get the prawn suit.

[prisma peak]

Even with the prawn suit, that's only a 100 meter difference per upgrade

[vocal valley]

most importantly how is that many modules maneuverable in the slightest?

[next current]

The rest are Aquariums, Fabricators, Teleportation, Sleepers, and a Docking Module.

[sullen surge]

Why do you have so much modules

[next current]

Because why not?

Why not become the Seatruck King?

[next current]

It's uhh... pretty irritating when trying to rotate. Ya really gotta yank at the mouse, y'know.

[prisma peak]

Wait

[potent socket]

I feel like the cyclops made you feel safer from the leviathan as the submarine is huge in size, unlike the seatruck which makes you feel so small and weak. But if they're gonna it into a horror game, I'm not buying sub 3. I'm out. xD

[prisma peak]

Can 100 modules even fit anywhere on the map? That seems like it'd be physically impossible to move around

[prisma peak]

Laughs in controller

[next current]

Yeah... it can.

Ever heard of the open waters?

[prisma peak]

It's not everywhere. There's actual landscape littering this game's terrain

I imagine the back end collides with objects or even leviathans quite often

[vocal valley]

I mean as long as you don’t take it underground

because you probably can’t XD

[prisma peak]

Literally

[next current]

The map for BZ is bigger than everyone thinks.

[prisma peak]

You probably can't even angle it lower than -1° because the modules won't go above water

Maybe the lillypads you could eventually lower it farther

[vocal valley]

Now in the first game it would definitely have more space

[prisma peak]

Yeah

Other than the shallows, the entire map was pretty open

Felt more like a proper deep ocean that way

[vocal valley]

That’s what I liked about the first game, the environment when you were new to the game was huge and ominous

[next current]

You people do realize that the Eastern Iceberg Zone, Western Iceberg Zone, Tree Spires, and the Lilypad Islands are all deep, right?

[prisma peak]

Imagine if the planet was pure water-

No land, no bottom

Just void

[next current]

Oh yeah... and the Water Void.

[prisma peak]

The ghost leviathan would flourish

[vocal valley]

If there was room for a third subnautica game at some point I would finally have a reason to live lol

[next current]

🤔

[vocal valley]

But as I heard BZ ended the story

as far as I know of course

[prisma peak]

Nowhere NEAR

If anything, it only made the anticipation of a 3rd game larger

[next current]

If it makes you feel better, they are going to return to the Subnautica series.

[vocal valley]

(No spoilers) But seriously??

Sickkkkkk

[prisma peak]

Big time

[vocal valley]

I’m so pumped now

[next current]

Yes. It's just not gonna be for a little while.

[prisma peak]

The ending was insane

[vocal valley]

I want new vehicles

[prisma peak]

It answered a lot of questions, but opened more, as always

[vocal valley]

Yeah I can’t wait to see what happens

[next current]

A lot of endings tend to do that.

[prisma peak]

Currently compacting all my copper and silver into wire-

[next current]

Expect SN 2 to begin production in the year 2030.

[prisma peak]

Unfortunately, that's how mysteries work

[carmine bobcat]

The Director gave hints about a 3rd game

Idk some here said so anyway

[prisma peak]

I think they actually confirmed it, but not when

[vocal valley]

That’s good to know, I can’t wait to see what map it will be

[carmine bobcat]

Y'all Chill BZ is still Fresh

[vocal valley]

Playing these games is so fun when your new

[prisma peak]

"According to Below Zero's Director David Kalina, the answer is yes … eventually."

So yeah. Confirmed, but no other info than that

[carmine bobcat]

You gotta remember that there are ton of other games, you can't just plan on playing only Subnautica

[prisma peak]

Subnautica is so good tho

Lots of story, lots of enjoyable gameplay...

[carmine bobcat]

Yes but yk

[prisma peak]

The only problem is that it's not perfect

There's a LOT of room for improvement

But it's good enough to enjoy quite a lot

[vocal valley]

Never said I only play subnautica XD I have like 15 other games

[carmine bobcat]

Enjoy those other games then

Y'all PC players have it nice, there are alotta cool free to play games when on Ps4 you only get "don't hit me bro"

[vocal valley]

I have xbox and pc

so I suppose it’s pretty nice

[tiny osprey]

how much does bz cost on xbox

[vocal valley]

Same price I’d assume

[carmine bobcat]

Its 29.99$ on Ps4

[prisma peak]

I think it's probably the same as ps4, 25 bucks

[carmine bobcat]

Its 30

[tiny osprey]

ok that’s pretty good

[prisma peak]

Lol, I bought it for 25 on amazon

Stonks

[carmine bobcat]

Y'all lucky

I paid 30

[tiny osprey]

i’m fine with paying 5 extra bucks tbh

[carmine bobcat]

As long as it keeps the company going then yah I'm fine as well

[prisma peak]

I have 2 lockers worth of copper, compacted into copper wire, plus an extra 8

I think my expedition into the ||ice spires|| went way too well

And that's not even all of it. There's still some miscellaneous amounts lying around

16 batteries... too many?

Probably, considering I just packed my tools with ion

[narrow mirage]

ok so i noticed something on the loading screen

in the loading screen we can see the artic sector of 4546B

but near it there is another ''biome'' and i noticed it s a lava one

[prisma peak]

I haven't even depeleted so much as ONE rod

[prisma peak]

There goes one...

[next current]

😂

[fading star]

Looking for opinions here. What is your favorite above ground base location, purely from an aesthetic perspective?

[prisma peak]

||Ice spires||

Although dangerous, it's plentiful with resources, and you can observe those powerful beasts from the safety of an observatory

[fading star]

not a bad choice

[prisma peak]

Bruh my reactor is on overdrive tryina keep up with my water purifiers

Good

[fading star]

I ran 7 purifiers off one reactor once

[prisma peak]

I want it to drain every last drop of power

I'm running 6 rn lol

[fading star]

it technically can't keep up with the power draw, but the purifiers will finish before you ever hit zero. It doesn't even deplete one rod either

nuclear in BZ is easily the best resource in my opinion

only real downside is how loud it is, so you'll need to built it far away from your main place, less you want your ear drums blown out

[prisma peak]

Not in this case. I'm keeping them running nonstop

It's down to 750

And still dropping

Probably gonna have to deconstruct a purifier to keep it balanced out, that way it drains but not this mucj

[fading star]

If I recall, it stabilizes at 4

[prisma peak]

That was satisfying. A purifier finished a water and salt at the exact same time

[fading star]

salt for days

[prisma peak]

Pda: seek fluid intake immediately

Me: I'm in a room with 6 water purifiers. When is that NOT an option?

It's stable enough at 5 for now. Just gonna idle and let it drain

[lament wraith]

Where can i find the ||architect organs||? I already built the ||2 other components||

[spice seal]

||They're in the Crystal Caves, in a smaller cave called the Crystal Castle. The entrances are a ring of crystals hanging down and pointing up with gaps in the middle surrounding a chandelier like crystal formation||

[eternal garnet]

youll find it at 670m

[potent socket]

I was wondering why there'd be 2 architect artifacts location, but I can't tell which one is which in my navigation panel.

[eternal garnet]

yeah. it's a good idea to manually turn off artifact beacons

[stiff oar]

The most fun biome in the game

[fading star]

||I'd say one of the most disappointing, second to the one lower than it||

||nothing like a pretty and nearly entirely empty biome to captivate the mind...||

[stiff oar]

The leviathan is annoying

[fading star]

what is a drill?

[stiff oar]

Prawn drill?

[fading star]

I'm making a joke, saying to just drill it to death

[stiff oar]

Oh

Shotgun command

[fading star]

||I was really hoping for them to be these unique and fascinating biome, only to find that nearly all the life you find there, is also found at the surface||

[broken badge]

I find the ||purple crystal caverns to be quite beautiful|| actually. Just goes to show how everyone has different expectations and tastes. Overall I think the game is gorgeous and love the design aesthetic

[fading star]

||no disagreement there, it's definitely beautiful, and a great deal of the art design is absolutely fantastic. I'm exclusively referring to the ecology in those areas is all. They're just...well sort of empty.||

[next current]

Me when Thanos has all of the infinity stones and he snaps his fingers.

[prisma peak]

That's number 2-

This is agony

I wish we could remove reactor rods that haven't been used yet

[next current]

You mean like from a Nuclear Reactor?

I can think of like 2 reasons why you'd want to do that.

[prisma peak]

you have to find uranite to make them, which is time consuming.
so unless you like to go hunting for it, if you want to move the reactor at all, you'll have to either deplete or waste the rods

[crimson quartz]

uranite?

[next current]

The Mercury 2 Wrecks have a ton.

[crimson quartz]

what???

[next current]

Uraninite Crystals.

[crimson quartz]

what are they

[next current]

Crystal that are uranium.

Literally only used to make Reactor Rods.

[crimson quartz]

Reactor rods used to power nuclear reactor

I got that right there.

[next current]

Yup.

[crimson quartz]

Bio reactor tho is much more... "Flexible"on resources

Uranite i suppose you get from shadow

Or thats kyanite.

[fading star]

Best place to find Uraninite crystals: ||Deep lily pads, and the crystals caves.||

[crimson quartz]

WhEre is CrYStal CaVes

[lament wraith]

Below zero’s ending is so beautiful

I Just completed it

[crimson quartz]

Dont you dare spoil it.

Dont.

Just dont.

[lament wraith]

No. I will not spoil what happens.

[eternal garnet]

don't spoil what doesn't happen

[crimson quartz]

Is there only 2 leviathans in BZ?

[eternal garnet]

noooo.

[crimson quartz]

Tell me. Or i steel your cuukies.

[lament wraith]

More than that, i believe there are only 3 hostile species though.

[crimson quartz]

The grammar was intentional by the way.

[spice seal]

3 hostile, 3 peaceful, 1 extinct

[eternal garnet]

4 hostile, one probably dead, can't be sure

[fading star]

||There are 7 total||

[crimson quartz]

One is dead yes

[crimson quartz]

Wait what

[prisma peak]

It's flexible on fuel, yeah, but each rod gives you 20,000 energy

[eternal garnet]

poke it and see

[crimson quartz]

Tell me all of them.

[prisma peak]

I'm tryina drain a total of 80K energy rn lol

[eternal garnet]

negative

[fading star]

||Four red Chel's and three white||

[crimson quartz]

Are you kidding me-

[fading star]

no joke

[eternal garnet]

what? We mean different species

[crimson quartz]

7 Chels?

What???

[prisma peak]

3 of them are conditional

[crimson quartz]

What do you mean

[fading star]

^

[prisma peak]

They don't exist until you meet the requirements

[crimson quartz]

Oh...

[prisma peak]

That requirement being in a specific location

[spice seal]

||Juvenile Ventgarden, Adult Ventgarden, Glow Whale, Chelicerate, Shadow Leviathan, Ice Worm, Frozen Leviathan||

[eternal garnet]

also they are infinite in number

[prisma peak]

That too

[lament wraith]

Chels aren’t a big problem. ||Shock module for seatruck|| shows them who’s boss.

[crimson quartz]

Ventgardens are leviathans wow

[eternal garnet]

Logan: the other chel too

[crimson quartz]

I meant hostile

[spice seal]

they aren't hostile

[prisma peak]

Until you're fighting 3 of them that never give up

[lament wraith]

Is the ||squidshark|| a leviathan or no?

[fading star]

||Chel's stay dead when killed no?||

[lament wraith]

Okay that’s a problem

[prisma peak]

No

[next current]

No.

[crimson quartz]

ICe worms too??

[lament wraith]

Oh

[spice seal]

no

[crimson quartz]

Only two i call leviathans

[eternal garnet]

the red one yes. The white is inifinite

[next current]

Ice Worms are 95 meters long.

[crimson quartz]

Shrimp and shadow.

[crimson quartz]

Where to find it

[fading star]

||Interesting, I didn't know they kept respawning when killed. Makes sense though||

[eternal garnet]

the void.

[prisma peak]

Yep

[crimson quartz]

I'll kill it and send it to hell how many times it likes

The void?

[eternal garnet]

okay pats head

[prisma peak]

3 of them spawn, one every 30 seconds

[next current]

They are killable.

[crimson quartz]

You mean the empty place?

[prisma peak]

They're probably killable... but they'll keep coming back

[eternal garnet]

yes... but they are infinite in number

[crimson quartz]

Wait tell me whats the void

[prisma peak]

Just take your seatruck and keep heading west

[crimson quartz]

Im doing it in creative tho

[spice seal]

If you keep heading west you'll get to a wall of ice

[crimson quartz]

I cant just lose my progress

[prisma peak]

More precisely southwest

[spice seal]

Go south or east

[crimson quartz]

South east.

[fading star]

||Biggest problem I've had when killing one is that you can't really use the prawn, unless you like riding one into the nether and losing it to the depths each time you let go lol||

[prisma peak]

Oh wait, yeah, it was east

There's 2 artics so I got em mixed up

[crimson quartz]

Infinite depth? No altitude?

[prisma peak]

Up to around 8200 meters or so. Then you get teleported back to the world

[crimson quartz]

Holy son of a-

[prisma peak]

That's the void. The deadzone

The edge of the map

Now, there's one strange factor nobody seems to have ever mentioned

[crimson quartz]

Even leviathans kill you in creative?

[fading star]

Lots of people on so I'll ask again. In your opinion, what is the best above ground location to build, purely from an aesthetic perspective.

[prisma peak]

How far out can you go?

[crimson quartz]

Because i would just go forward

In creative death is disabled

[prisma peak]

That..
I do not know. The void ones might be capable, but I doubt it

[crimson quartz]

By doing this i can challenge the code.

And may get killed.

[fading star]

Nothing hurts you in creative.

[prisma peak]

Tell that to dying in an exploding cyclops in the first game

[crimson quartz]

Aurora.

Or...

I shall scan every creature and know all their weaknesses

[prisma peak]

Good luck

You're gonna need it

[crimson quartz]

That way in survival i will be god of all creatures.

Or just scan them all in survival.

Thats the fascinating one.

[prisma peak]

Yeah, that's my current goal

[fading star]

Secret weakness of everything in the game: ||Gurren Lagann||

[prisma peak]

Have observatories and whatnot littered around to observe leviathans, labs for aquariums and planters...

Science

Nah, scrap that

Ain't nobody got time fo dat

googles every creature

[crimson quartz]

What is gurren lagann

[lime swallow]

sad noises

[crimson quartz]

Umm im stretching my creative base to purple vents

So i can see cheli.

[prisma peak]

Why not just put a base in the void

[crimson quartz]

I havent seen him lately tho

[prisma peak]

You can see 3

[crimson quartz]

I even went to his spot

Guys i think...

[lime swallow]

Shrimp just wants to show you that love is via the stomach

[crimson quartz]

Carl is gone on my world.

Thats fine i can go to the void anyway

Next up is sean the shadow leviathan.

[fading star]

||Since you're in creative, the easiest way to find leviathans is to set up a scanner room where you think they might be, stick four expansion augments in it, and set it to find leviathans. It'll give you a target reticle showing you its position at all times, when in range.||

[crimson quartz]

Smart.

Im scanning sean

[prisma peak]

Your next challenge is to kill ||an ice worm|| in creative

spends 3 hours whacking one with a knife in a futile attempt to kill the immortal

[eternal garnet]

you are cruel

[prisma peak]

You should totally try to scan those ones in survival ;)
They're definitely not bigger than regular ones. Perfectly normal sized...

[fading star]

||Sadly they don't even have their own data entry.||

[swift sedge]

Below zero earlygame question - ||just got an alien in my brain - ALAN told me ill get blueprints for a vessel or something but i cant find any blueprint anywhere no matter where i look||

[eternal garnet]

soon he will remember things and you go there to scan

meanwhile, explore

[fluid willow]

||it’s at the bottom of your blueprint page thing but you need to find the ingredients by finding architect technology around the world||

[swift sedge]

Guess i gotta go back to that pilot signal in that scary biome

Didnt find anything there first time around

Man getting batteries is so much harder here

in regular subnautica acid mushrooms are everywhere

[fluid willow]

||sometimes it doesn’t work when you find an architect site||

[unique willow]

|| is the test override module something I should find close by the radio or is it something I'm going to find later? ||

[eternal garnet]

oh it's working

[swift sedge]

Tbh ||i dont think the pilot signal is an architect site because it appeared before i even got an architect in my head||

[eternal garnet]

there are hints by the tower, that it may be in ship wrecks

[unique willow]

Thanks. I guess I've missed those lol.

[swift sedge]

just made a detour to find rebreather blueprints and ||stumbled into an alien base by accident||

[eternal garnet]

good

[fading star]

These things are horrible to find for a new player that doesn't know what they're really looking for. Spoilers on exactly what you're looking for, don't read if you don't want to spoil what you're looking for: ||In the wreck of the Mercury II found broken into three pieces across the ocean floor, you'll find small sealed compartments that need to be cut open with a laser cutter. Inside of these electrical panel size fixtures, you'll find the parallel processing unit that can be scanned for 1/3 of the progress on the "component" needed to create the test module.||

[unique willow]

I'm having a much easier time with this one than the first game. I just didn't want to miss it if it was close to the place I need to put it.

Thanks

[fading star]

No worries. ||I had all but finished the game before I eventually figured out that I was supposed to find these where I stated. The way it is written in game with the clues given to you, it almost sounds like he was looking for silver or something, as he states he is, "missing an element".||

[winged geyser]

||So are all of the pieces of the parallel processing unit inside the ship? i cant manage to find all 3, only 2||

[eternal garnet]

there are 3 wrecks, with number of parts: 3, 2, and 1

[winged geyser]

ah

thank you

[eternal garnet]

Beautiful plumage.

[unique willow]

Oh yeah I did read that clue just a bit ago and thought the same thing.

[fading star]

Right? ||It's odd that the writers chose to call it an "element" and not a "component", nevermind why on Alterra would he require a blueprint from a decades old crashed ship, for a comms tower that they presumably built themselves? Like...what the hell is going on here? lol.||

[unique willow]

I guess they needed some reason to get you back in the water lol

[fading star]

||I feel that way about most of the story unfortunately.||

[unique willow]

I hope I'm not disappointed by it

[fading star]

Personal opinion, don't read unless you want to hear my thoughts in a non-spoiler way: ||The story is so bad that it reads like the writing of a primary school child that received a failing grade.||

[unique willow]

Ouch

Oh well. I more enjoy the exploring aspect anyways. I didn't pay much attention to the story in the first game until the end

[fluid willow]

||the last one didnt have a story at all but it is one of the best rated games on steam||

[amber adder]

It did. Did you not finish it the story was awesome

[fluid willow]

||oh yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh i forgot about the sea dragon thing||

[amber adder]

It has a more subtle story than bz so it makes sense the expectancy of a subtle story threw some off

[fading star]

88.5% of all players on the steam database also have never finished it. So take that as you will.

[eternal garnet]

I have several games that I will play later.
Obviously this skews your finish stats

Look at the stats for the locate pod achievement.

[fading star]

I'm not certain how many of those players will be returning to a game released over seven years ago lol.

[carmine bobcat]

Bro why don't sea monkeys give me resources anymore? They only steal

What happened ?

[spice seal]

They go back to how they were originally when you ||transfer alan out of your head||

[carmine bobcat]

So they were only nice when I had ||Alan in my head||??

[fluid willow]

|| ok i just finished it and the story was ok but at the end is where it became really good. I wish they did more stuff with robin but i guess the whole alan thing was supposed to get you into the story of the 3rd game||

[spice seal]

yeah

[carmine bobcat]

Not fair man I legit hatched alot of them around my base and now they only bother me instead of helping me

[spice seal]

that sucks

I wish I'd known that too so I could've saved before I did that and get a sea monkey army or something too

[fading star]

Story spoilers, nobody read unless you've finished the game: ||You serious? There are so many problems with this story that it's difficult to choose where to begin. So Sam synthesized a freaking CURE FOR THE KHARA, that in the first game required a unique enzyme to counteract its spread produced by a single species on 4546B, from a pepper and common water plant. What the hell? Then there's the comms tower fiasco, with the parallel processing unit. Then there's the wildly inconsistent conversations between AL-AN and Robin. It comes off as childish "No U!" for most of the time, not a conversation between two perportedly intelligent xeno-biologists. On the note of AL-AN he's apparently a singular and or collective individual depending on the whim of the writers, that is currently chilling within the cerebral cortex of Robin's brain....seemingly without any problems on Robins behalf. So much is wrong with that, that I'm not even going to get into it. Then at the end of it all, he goes back to his capital world to "make ammends" without bringing the pepper juice cure with him. There's just so much wrong with this story that I'd outright give it a 1/10.||

[spice seal]

||There used to be a Sea Emperor out in the Lilypads or Arctic biome one time, they should have at least kept that as a way to explain how Alterra reintroduced Enzyme 42 and maybe put a device in that cave where the antidote is that can be used near that Sea Emperor to collect and concentrate the enzyme so it can be injected into the frozen leviathan||

||Personally I had more of a problem with how it seems they took a step back from the attention to detail they put into the world and leviathans in Subnautica. The Crater Edge and Lava Zones had a reason to be there because the whole map was a dormant volcano, and the lifeforms that lived in both of those biomes had adaptations to survive there. In the Crystal Caves in Below Zero are just there to look cool and only have rock punchers and tiny fish which can both be found elsewhere and Shadow Leviathans. The void in BZ is still a sheer drop even though there isn't any reason it should be.||

||The Shadow Leviathans would require way more food than was available in their home biomes. They have no adaptations to living in those caves, they're just there to be scary and act as an obstacle. The Chelicerates are also just there to be scary and an obstacle for specific places, nothing interesting about them like a special attack method like the Reaper or some other interesting thing like having a fully explained lifecycle that fit into the world like the Ghost Leviathan, and have the same reaper grab attack as the Shadow Leviathans. The Void Chelicerates are just a longer variant of the normal ones that are reskinned just to look spooky. Other Chelicerates that live on the map attack other creatures like Cryptosuchuses, so we know that these void ones don't just feed off microbes like the void Ghosts in Subnautica did.||

You know I need to just write all this stuff out somewhere else and then link it whenever I want to mention it instead of doing this

fr tho I just took 15 minutes typing out paragraphs of stuff I've already said multiple times

[fading star]

||"The Shadow Leviathans would require way more food than was available in their home biomes." I think it would have worked far better if they were consuming the crystals as a food source, and that they attack anyone in the area as a territorial concern. There could have even been little ones around the place, and the reason for there only being a handful of bigs ones, is that they kill one another off when they reach a certain size. Having more smaller ones about would have made the place far more threatening too. Instead of: "Oh no, it bit my prawn....get out and repair, keep going as if nothing happened while it buggers off"||

[fading star]

||That aside, I also think that the crust should have frozen over due to the onset of winter, and that was the reason that Alterra left, while the fauna and flora in the region primarily survived off from chemosynthesis. But that's another matter entirely.||

[serene sparrow]

shadow leviathans are sus

[faint wind]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa my prawn suit blew up from a leviathan

[fluid willow]

Mine blew up once cause there’s a glitch where the game still thinks you’re in your prawn suit

And a leviathan kept attacking it

[faint wind]

oh

my prawn suit fell in to a hole that was deeper than 400m

and i tried to use the vertical thrusters to go up but it was stuck in the bottom

and a leviathan ate it

i had like 6 ion cubes in the storage

[astral thorn]

I lowkey didn't even bother making a prawn suit in BZ. It didn't feel like it was necessary. I just got away with a seatruck and a bunch of depth modules

[spice seal]

You don't really need any of that

[spice seal]

[mystic hemlock]

I was making a map edge base, because I wanted to see whats out there but I dont trust the seatruck nearly as much as the cyclops

it was taking longer then expected to actually reach the area, but then bam finally got my frist look at the thing

I was not expecting it clip right into the base, and that was my first look so it scared the crap out of me

[graceful crag]

Red shrimp pog

[graceful crag]

Thats pretty cool

[sturdy dragon]

It was in the early access versions but it was cut out (

[graceful crag]

I smell a person using summon commands

[sturdy dragon]

Nope. I just went to an earlier version

[tawdry mantle]

Hello Subnauticans, is it safer to travel within the ||Arctic Spires in Snowfox or PRAWN suit?|| 🧐

[spice seal]

prawn

You'll get knocked off the snowfox every time the ||Ice Worm|| attacks and it gets damaged more easily than the PRAWN

||There are also several large ion cube deposits you need to drill with the PRAWN ||

[green merlin]

hi im new here
subnautica / below zero looks insane i want to play
but i dont have mony ;-;
(ill just watch from ppl)

[prisma peak]

Technically you could beat the game with JUST a seatruck cabin, a perimiter defense system, and a lvl 3 depth module. You only need the resources for 6 items really.

But what's the fun in that?

Ok, obviously a habitat builder would be handy for on land tho

Otherwise you'd need a coldsuit or coffee.. and that's all just a hassle

The game is really simple and straightforward once you get the hang of it

[spice seal]

Technically you could beat the game with a seaglide, air bladder, and extra oxygen tanks

[prisma peak]

Nope. You wouldn't survive the depths

Even with as many oxygen tanks you can carry

[spice seal]

Have you ever heard of speeduns

[prisma peak]

A lot of them rely on exploits these days

So I don't count them

[spice seal]

glitchless speedruns

[prisma peak]

Still not exactly possible unless you know the EXACT route though the ||crystal caverns|| like the back of your hand ten times over

Even then, if the leviathans bother ya, you won't make it

Considering there's 4 of them...

And considering how easy it is to get a seatruck, I think you could get a faster time with that

[spice seal]

evidently not

[prisma peak]

It's faster than swimming too

[spice seal]

depth modules and building a base to use a modification station would be time consuming though

[prisma peak]

Literally one module and one solar panel

And you can get the MS at delta station

Which is easy and quick to reach

Think about it. Would needing a dozen batteries to swim all over the map with a seaglide be efficient?

[spice seal]

idk just watch a speedrun they use the seaglide

[rain thorn]

is below zero ever gonna go on sale

[spice seal]

probably

[grave orbit]

i dont want to feel like scammer who goes to random servers and advertises but i have a website reccomendation

/to download bz for free dont judge me

[lusty venture]

Who needs air bladder?!?

[lean notch]

Have you tried air bladder in below zero?

[lusty venture]

No I just don’t need one

[lean notch]

Well they're op so ya

Dk why you wouldn't use one

[crimson quartz]

air bladder is op im telling you

[lusty venture]

How fast?

(Express in meters/sec)

[lean notch]

It was like 27 i think

[lusty venture]

?

[lean notch]

27m/s

[lusty venture]

Holy

Well I didn’t know that

[lean notch]

20m/s*

Still faster than seaglide+fins

[lusty venture]

Wait what is the subnautica air bladder speed?

[lean notch]

It can get you up like 150-200m

[lean notch]

Like 4m/s probably lol

[lusty venture]

Wow

[lean notch]

6.25

[lusty venture]

But still that’s damn fast

[lean notch]

Yup

[lusty venture]

Ok then I am using it in a emergency

Or other purposes

[lime swallow]

air bladder is great for dodging teeth & just getting up fast

also nice way to jump onto bigger ice floats & land

you can get some decent air time w it

[carmine bobcat]

Hello everyone

I'm getting ready to start my second playthrough

was there a bz early acces ending? cause i know the story was completely different

[fleet lance]

The game isn’t giving me the location of the Artifact LF0. Is it because I scanned it already so it doesn't give me a signal anymore?

[carmine bobcat]

Probably

[carmine bobcat]

No, there was no ending for the original story

[unique willow]

Any tips on finding table coral? I've gone through two batteries trying to find one?

[lime swallow]

between twisty bridges & deep twisty bridges I tend to find a lot

[unique willow]

Yay! I found some.

[unique willow]

Thanks

[lime swallow]

[unique willow]

Also... Which outcrop has gold?

[carmine bobcat]

uhm

[lime swallow]

Calaverite

[carmine bobcat]

where do you find silver?

[lime swallow]

argentum outcrops & silver ore veins

the silver ore veins I know of are by phi robotics & the argentum outcrops can be found in different places underwater - I think I found most of mine near the koppa/delta area

[carmine bobcat]

kk ty

[swift sedge]

Got a message a while ago about ||mercury 2 ship or something|| but nothing appeared on the map

Idk where to find it i've been around

[broken badge]

It’s in several pieces. You get messages about the various sections when you are in proximity to one of them, pda will make an announcement about it

You have to look for it visually & place a beacon yourself. You don’t get an automatic beacon

[swift sedge]

Hm so exploration time

[carmine bobcat]

So the intro area has supplies

[lime swallow]

ye

[tawdry mantle]

It’s currently 7AM, cold outside, and I’m going to play some BZ right now. 👍

[next current]

Nice.

[restive star]

Where do I get below zero cheap?

[carmine bobcat]

$30 isn't bad for standard price

[spiral heath]

Any recent updates? I gave up on the game because it started crashing my entire computer every ten minutes.

[bold monolith]

If a game crashes your computer, the problem is not the game.

[spiral heath]

Good to know! Is Below Zero way, way more demanding than any other game and somehow fries my GPU then?

To me, Below Zero looks pretty similar to the original game?

[eternal garnet]

no, not usually

[spiral heath]

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

[restive star]

im broke xD

[spiral heath]

The weird part is that I could play like 4 hours before this started, and can start a new save file without it happening.

That tells me something's building up.

[eternal garnet]

Does it crash immediately? You can reduce GPU load a lot, by using the option "Limit FPS"

[spiral heath]

After pretty much exactly ten minutes on that save file.

[eternal garnet]

Limit it to below your actual FPS, or it has no effect. 30 is fine to play with

[spiral heath]

Sounds like something to try!

[eternal garnet]

yes. This reduces my GPU fans from annoying to fine

[spiral heath]

I've noticed my CPU's pretty warm.

But warmer in other games without anything breaking.

I play mostly VR.

My CPU probably shouldn't be bouncing around between 50-100 degrees..

60 degrees in the main menu..

[bold monolith]

I often see "Below Zero is crashing or freezing my computer, or Below Zero doesn't work on my computer whereas I can play whateverGameHere in ultra, fix your broken game!". These people don't understand that sure the graphics in this game aren't hyper-realistics it is not like it's more demanding, but it uses different shaders / is solliciting your hardware in a different way, which produces different results and might reveal some underlying failures.

[eternal garnet]

the menu is high load in this game

[spiral heath]

I'm not telling anyone else to fix my issue, I'm just searching for ways to be able to play 🙂

[bold monolith]

I know, I wasn't blaming you.

Just telling what I read on forums.

Finding the cause of those issues isn't easy.

[spiral heath]

I'm about ten minutes in without a crash, who knows, perhaps limiting fps to 60 did the trick!

[swift sedge]

Are all three parts of the ||parallel interference thingy|| in the ||mercury 2 near purple volcanoes||

I found two and ive been looking for the third for 20 min now

[next current]

If the game is on sale anywhere official (Which I very highly doubt seeing as how new it is.), you can get it there. Otherwise, pay the full $30 and enjoy your adventures on this Arctic hellhole.

[bold monolith]

Wait for the sales if it's expensive for you. If you're waiting for another answer I will guide you towards the #rules. 6. Solicitation, buying, trading, selling of goods and services, asking/begging for game keys and free stuff is not allowed. & 8. No sharing or discussions of content that was illegally obtained or pirated.

[swift sedge]

Any ideas or should i head home

[spice seal]

There are only 2 fragments in the big Mercury II wreck in the Purple Vents

[swift sedge]

Soo i gotta find another wreck

[restive star]

oh sorry no thats the answer i searched for xD

[next current]

Just East of the Stern is a wreck for the Thruster. There you can get another PPU fragment.

[swift sedge]

Don't know if im missing something but went straight east from the stern following the ground and i passed the lilypad forest and went into some 300m deep empty blue biome so i went back

[next current]

That's a little too far, the Thruster wreck is in a section of the Purple Vents.

[stoic tundra]

hi guys i have 2 questions
-1 Is the stasis gun is on BZ ?
-2 i remember long time ago there was a rear camera on the seatruck when we use to go back is it stilll in the game ?

[trail socket]

there isn't a take all items option right?

kind of annoying to have to click for every item in a locker

[eternal garnet]

No, and no

[plush trench]

hey ignis do you think there should have been a farming module for the seatruck

[plush trench]

pretty sure thats void

[eternal garnet]

there was a plant pot module. Literally one plant pot in it. It was removed

[plush trench]

oh

well

why was it removed?

[next current]

Just above a huge crevasse that leads into the Deep Purple Vents

[trail socket]

Moar storage!

[lean notch]

Damn

[carmine bobcat]

bro ive been trying to cut open a door for 5 mins and i just noticed i was using the repair tool

[lean notch]

Lmao

[foggy galleon]

Anyone having texture trouble? All of a sudden my solar panel are ALL white?

[icy rain]

I have that sometimes

[fading star]

the colors of buildings will change randomly at times

[eternal garnet]

your device may be out of memory, or video RAM. If the texture is there, but really pale, it's just a lighting bug

[foggy galleon]

Hmm okay. Mine seems very vague. Almost like the finer details are missing. I will try with an update of the GFX driver tomorrow. Have a nice evening.

[trail socket]

How much VRAM? Highest texture setting will use more than 4GB for sure

kind of weird how you change that as you have to use the preset and reduce it from high to normal and then adjust the rest after that

[spice seal]

After reading a lot of the comments on a Below Zero YouTube video I'm kinda disappointed that the number of people who think Subnautica and Below Zero take place on different planets is more than 0

[unique willow]

Where can I find gold early game? I've found a few but I'm starting to get frustrated

[eternal garnet]

kelp caves, tunnels under the creepvines

Also in the north ice wall, there's a little cove 1m deep, with silver and gold in the wall. About where you first jumped in

[unique willow]

Thanks friend.

Is it just me or does Robin sound like a man when she gets hurt?

[slate coral]

Why did they remove so many upgrades from the game

[eternal garnet]

totally to annoy you personally

[slate coral]

U done failing at being funny?

[slate coral]

Honestly ever since they changed both the story and voice actors, robin felt off

[flat gull]

What kind of answer were you expecting for that kind of question?

[slate coral]

Balancing/game design perspective ?

Like, i think someone mentioned some modules not being used as much b4 release when the sea truck thermal charge got dumped

But it feels like an excuse to make us constantly swap power cells from the prawn to the sea truck

[flat gull]

I have no clue. But that question would have been a lot better and have some room for a decent reply. Your initial question is crazy vague.

Honestly i don't have any issues with that specifically.

[slate coral]

Wich someone migth have thougth would make it more challenging but its just annoying

[flat gull]

I might have too many hours in, but i have rarely ran out of power in any of my recent plays

[slate coral]

True after ion power it just becomes trivial, tbh i just liked the choice that og sn had

[flat gull]

I hardly ever build ion power cells or batteries

specifically for the Seatruck i don't really compare it to the Cyclops. It's way faster and way easier to take anywhere and there are also fewer hot areas so i am not sure it would help a lot

[slate coral]

If you liked to use flank on cyclops fire supression was your friend, but otherwise you would go for shield

[flat gull]

(and the map is smaller and it is less deep)

[slate coral]

True, that is one aspect i dont like on bz, they did say og sn was empty but that could be fixed if they just made stuff require more fragments

[flat gull]

Not sure i would have liked that. Was not a big fan of farming through loads of wrecks heh.

The games are very different to me. I enjoy both, but for very different reasons heh

[slate coral]

I wouldnt mind because the environmental design was so damn good

Id have more excuses to swim arround and enjoy the scenic view

[flat gull]

i recently went back to another playthrough of the original and sadly gave up. I still LOVE the atmosphere. But i am not scared anymore, i don't feel alone anymore and without that it's just a lot of pointless travelling involved

[slate coral]

Had they not scrapped so much concept art i feel sn wouldnt have those issues

[flat gull]

My biggest gripe with BZ is that i don't feel scared anymore and that leviathan's are not scary enough

[slate coral]

Hell, the put a frickin hat on the shadow leviathan

[flat gull]

That said, i realised in my going back to SN that it's likely just me knowing how to handle each of them heh

[slate coral]

They tried taking the stasis rifle away to make you defenseless wich just: ugh

[flat gull]

Never been a fan of the rifle. Feeling helpless against huge creatures is a big part of what drew me into SN

[slate coral]

If sn was a horror game sure

But its not

Not anymore at least

[flat gull]

Its whole design is geared towards NOT fighting. So i don't care about the genre. It's about the mechanics. And feeling afraid of even Stalkers in the beginning was a big part of the sensation for me personally

[slate coral]

It being geared towards not figthing is another gripe for me, you are supposed to stand there and be thrown arround by the wildlife trying to kill u? If you are trying to make a statement at least give the animals more personality than big n hungry

[flat gull]

But why? I found it well balanced and well explained. I find that a "massacre" being the reason for no more weapons in fabricators way more realistic than i wish heh

Anyways, that's just how i felt in the game. It was a big part for me and i seriously doubt Subnautica would have become such a great game/franchise/experience if i could have just shot a Reaper

[unique willow]

I didn't play it until a few days ago. When did they change it?

[slate coral]

When the previews writer left

[eternal garnet]

*previous

[unique willow]

Thanks. I was kinda confused.

[slate coral]

Its not that the balance is off, (that is a whole other can of worms that i can get into later) is that the statement is flawed, a single massacre is used as justification to jeopardize the survival chances of anyone stranded in an alien planet with possibly dangerous fauna/flora "your ship crashed into a planet filled with giant superpredators? Heres a butter knife, hope your kids are fine losing a parent"

[eternal garnet]

previews is a word too, about seeing things early

[slate coral]

Yea, thanks for the correction

[eternal garnet]

she was refused to go there, so she sneaked in on her own money

[slate coral]

Tbh, she uses xenoworks equipment, idk why the hell she is still under alterran fabricator rules

[unique willow]

So was the protagonist voiced before they overhauled the story?

[slate coral]

Yes

[eternal garnet]

she had two previous voice actors. If not more

[slate coral]

They changed the voice actress (gosh i miss her accent) for robin and a couple of other characters too i think

[unique willow]

Was the story totally different?

[eternal garnet]

it's 80% different

[slate coral]

Robin was way more snarky

[unique willow]

I want to look it up but not if it's going to spoil the game

[eternal garnet]

You can still play the old story, on steam with a code. Ending is missing

[slate coral]

Its not gonna

[unique willow]

I'm on playstation