below-zero-chat

[quick terrace]

?

[carmine bobcat]

I've been getting real creative with naming things lol

[stoic surge]

The bathroom fixtures don't look very practical, do they

[carmine bobcat]

Not at all

[stoic surge]

I honstly never bother to install them, unless it's for "completeness"

[austere sparrow]

lol.......

[carmine bobcat]

Yea lol. The only thing in the "Pooping Room" so far is a Bioreactor XD

[stoic surge]

The bioreactor is the first power source I always build, but the thermal plants take over quickly, as they don't need tending

[regal fossil]

Just finished sub and jumped straight into subzero

[lost cove]

from lifepod head south into twisty bridges then to 125 depth, youll have to look but it will have a titanium tube and a box, next to the box is the data box for the high capacity tank, and inside the tube is the habitat builder

[regal fossil]

Why is everything bigger - like the pda stuff

And worse resolution…

Feels cheap compared to subnautica

And why does mc have such an active voice. They should’ve kept the anonymity that sub had… 😢

Anyway just first impressions…

[lost cove]

they replaced the original voice with Glados

[empty jewel]

well kit yeah youll notice lots is different at first but overall in my opinion the game is relatively pretty good

im actually currently playing it rn making a base at Margurietes greenhouse just because i want to be near the void its a pain trying to make the land part connect to water part of the base

[carmine bobcat]

oh

[willow plank]

is the snowfox worth having?

is it any useful or can I just use the prawn to get around the area after the bridge?

[plain igloo]

Good question, no clue

[bold monolith]

Use the prawn suit.

[blazing venture]

prawn suit is a it slower but has more "health" but if you want go in caves but dont want to let your vehicle at the entrance u should use the snowfox because you can pick it up

[willow plank]

what about the ice worm?

[bold monolith]

The snowfox is fun in theory, who doesn't want a hoverbike. But you have an unavoidable knockback interaction with the iceworm, and it doesn't have much health.

[west mountain]

Its part of the game, its fun and its fast, especially with the jump upgrade. I use it all the time except when go for a mining session, then prawn with drill arm is the right choice. There are lots of resources to drill but for the story I would go with the snowfox just beacuse you can.

But do how you feel best. Regarding ice worm, nothing makes any difference also not the ice worm defence module. The ice worm does what it does and nothing can stop it. So the best way is just to ignor it and repair either prawn or snowfox after every attack.

[blazing venture]

somehow i always dodge its jumps and hits

[west mountain]

Yes thats the fun part. Again do how you like best.

After a while you master it. Its like an wild horse.

But everybody has its preferences

I have four of them on each of my arctic bases and I use them everytime I "commute" from one place to the other.

I think just from the game trailers and pictures, everybody want to ride on. Its part of the game

And you can pack it up for ||underwater cave section||

[willow plank]

I just got the snowfox

[blazing venture]

nice

[west mountain]

Enjoy the wild ride

Think of it like an untrained horse

[willow plank]

I made the jump module also

[west mountain]

Excellent, thats the fun part.

Dont bother with the ice worm defense, its pretty useless.

Jump is better

[plain igloo]

How many modules can you put on it?

[west mountain]

Only one, thats the point

So keep the jump

[plain igloo]

Aha... Ok

What modules are there for it?

[west mountain]

Only those two

[plain igloo]

Yeah then jump is probably better yeah

[west mountain]

Definitely

[plain igloo]

I kinda need to know all the triggers for the Iceworm to come up

[willow plank]

what does the ice worm defence even do?

[plain igloo]

So i'll do some research on that soon

[bold monolith]

It's a reduction module, it just reduce the knockback.

[west mountain]

It is told to reduce the frequency of attacks, but honestly, makes no difference at all

[bold monolith]

It doesn't negate it.

[west mountain]

No, not at all

[plain igloo]

That's stupid

[west mountain]

If you get attached 10 times without, its probabely only 8 times with, but you will not be able to tell

[bold monolith]

Main reason why the community doesn't use this vehicle. It's just a frustrating mechanic.

[west mountain]

I think it does nothing

Again, you don't like what you cant handle

Many people give up too early

I find the prawn frustrating too, but many people love it. But then I am not telling to not use it. Use what you like best.

And what you feel comfortable with.

[willow plank]

The prawn suit was a good choice before the bridge because it was easy killing the snowstalkers with the drill

[west mountain]

You don't have to, they go away with flares

Nothing needs to be killed in the game

Something I never notices that flares burn out. I timed then to last about 2 Min.

[willow plank]

Do ice worms come out here?

[west mountain]

You are in the right spot

Just enjoy the show

These are the arctic spires.

[willow plank]

flares are consumable but the drill is permanent

[west mountain]

Again, play how you like it best.

[willow plank]

So I prefer the drill

too bad they removed the stasis rifle

[west mountain]

But in the prawn you don't need to kill them anyhow, you are save

I like it that it does not require weapons

But again, personal preference

Now watch the show

ice worm ballet

[willow plank]

They eat the snowstalkers hahah

[west mountain]

Yep, thats the best animation, and listen to the munching sound

[bold monolith]

What would they eat otherwise? :þ

[west mountain]

Oh, we don't know what lies behind the ice walls

[willow plank]

I'm here

[willow plank]

but we know what lies on top

the ice worm animation test

[west mountain]

I mean beyond the map

Btw, the snowfox keeps you warm, it has a built-in heater

and you can swap battery too

[willow plank]

the ice worm is so annoying

it knocks me off the bike

[west mountain]

Haha, tell me. Every single time.

And it will never stop

[willow plank]

How do you get the ground pounding thing?

[west mountain]

Useless

[willow plank]

and what does it do?

[west mountain]

dont bother with them

Build one and you will see. It has to placed on the ground and it gives you a safe radius of hardly any useful size and battery last for 5 min.

and you have to pick it up

[willow plank]

useless

[west mountain]

Again, build one for completeness

And to have tried it out. But dont bother with them too much

[bold monolith]

There is a bug that spawns it at the origin on reload.

So it doesn't help either.

Even if you place an ion battery.

[west mountain]

I have a thumber with ion battery the suddenly disappeared

Its at a location I cannot reach and burried in the ice. So yes, that must have been a bug.

[bold monolith]

It's the origin.

As I said.

[west mountain]

Origin of what?

[bold monolith]

Coordinates (0,0,0).

[west mountain]

Ah, thats most likely

Yep, its there now 🙂

I wished, Ice worm attack would get less frequent, once you completed the taks, that would make it a bit more fun to explore afterwards

[willow plank]

where does this teleporter lead to?

[west mountain]

Try it out

You have the propulsion cannon?

[willow plank]

the ice worms aren't that dangerous. Just annoying

[west mountain]

Exactly

once you understand the mechanics, you start to ignore them.

Btw, behind the teleporter is the only reason you would need a propulsion cannon in the game at all

[knotty kite]

I just made the scanner room but I am unable to select a scanning target. Items on the list of resources it can look for are highlighted as my cursor tracks over them, but when I use the 'use' button to select a resource nothing happens - is this a known issue? Is there anything to suggest?

[west mountain]

The room is powered, right?

[knotty kite]

Yep, all powered

[west mountain]

Can you post a screen shot

[knotty kite]

The map is visible in centre of room

[willow plank]

maybe you need the cameras?

[west mountain]

No

Not even the UHD

It works by itself

[willow plank]

pro tip: press win+shift+s to select a part of the screen and copy it to clipboard

[knotty kite]

I am on switch

[willow plank]

You are playing on a switch lite?

[knotty kite]

Yep

[bold monolith]

Did you change the keybinds?

[west mountain]

Sorry, no idea. Once you select an Item it should start to scan

[knotty kite]

Yes I did

[bold monolith]

That's probably why.

[willow plank]

I don't know if the versions are any different but maybe ask in https://discord.com/channels/85342800492634112/815253488342532146

[knotty kite]

I pressed everything I can tho

So it must be some button

[bold monolith]

Switch to the default one for "use".

[knotty kite]

Ok

I will give it a try

@Ignis, worked 💯 thanks

[bold monolith]

You'll encounter this issue on a terminal around Delta also.

I don't remember if it is fixed in the dev kit.

[willow plank]

I just got the snowfox upgrade

[west mountain]

Great

more fun

[willow plank]

the anti ice worm one

[knotty kite]

I will keep your solution in mind!

[west mountain]

oh, ok

Not much use though

but as always, for completeness

[willow plank]

wow the salad is too op

Do I need to go right or left?

I suppose left

[west mountain]

North is where you want to go

But maby ways go there

[willow plank]

anal said that there is a part of him near

[west mountain]

Alan, not the other way round 🙂

Thats in the west

[willow plank]

hah

[west mountain]

Ah, a part of him, sorry, north, and follow the cables

I thought a part of the ice worm. When you reach that place, dont go back immediately there are t||wo things you have to find while you are here||

[west mountain]

For examp,le

its like breadcrumbs

one after the other, and always north

[willow plank]

this?

[west mountain]

No

the tissue

[willow plank]

so that

[west mountain]

yep

[willow plank]

alright

I hope they will add a seatruck plantation module

[west mountain]

🙂

[willow plank]

the cyclops was better

[west mountain]

Different, not better

[willow plank]

you could place things inside

[west mountain]

I build 14 bases all over the map

so you just do it differently

[willow plank]

the map here is smaller

[west mountain]

Apperantly, but the bioms are more densely packed

I like it that way very much

But just personal preference

What they should have added is an arctic sleeping bag, so you could pass the night in a cave

sleeping

[willow plank]

is this alien place underground?

[west mountain]

Everything is underground 🙂

Just follow the cable

except the satellite

that one is on top

[willow plank]

do you go into a hole in the ground or into a hole in the wall?

[west mountain]

Follow the cable 🙂

in the ground

But hole in the wall are full of treasures

So don't miss any of them

[willow plank]

I got this

[west mountain]

Wow that was quick.

[willow plank]

what's the second thing to scan?

[west mountain]

Ok, when you get back out there is a cave to the west (follow the wall) and something to scan to the east (follow the wall).

In the same area

But opposite side

[willow plank]

what is it?

[west mountain]

Spoiler: ||trivalve creature eggs and ice worm carcass and bones to scan||

[willow plank]

I fell here by accident

[west mountain]

Go back up on foot

No idea where it is

Or reload last saved game

[willow plank]

nah I found the way out

[west mountain]

Excellent

[fast burrow]

Any pointers in the direction of the architect's tissue?
||With as few spoilers as possible||

[quaint junco]

i swear SBL and SN is a time waster in general
40% exploring
30% managing food and water
30% the rest

[fast burrow]

?

[zealous jasper]

Okay so

dumb question not tied to the game mechanics

||how would Al An react to Where's Waldo books?||

[fast burrow]

uh...

good question

[quaint junco]

hmmm...yes

[west mountain]

||Follow the broken cables north||

[halcyon kelp]

Was the part in the Al-An ending where Maida attacks the Alterra attack ship for you canon?

[fast burrow]

k

[bold monolith]

If it is, then Sam is dead and alive at the same time.

[halcyon kelp]

Dead and alive? Wdym

[bold monolith]

You're describing the early access / old story ending. And in the old story Sam is alive in the Vesper.

[halcyon kelp]

Oh ok

[fast burrow]

schrodinger's cat

[zealous jasper]

Let's hope that ||Architects have still working Nokias stored in labs and archives||

[knotty kite]

The lady said I have to sort out the radio tower before she will let me in her house. Where do I get those fuse looking things to build the device for the radio tower?

I have read all my notes I think but no clues

[lusty herald]

when does below zero take place

[knotty kite]

It is called parallel processing unit

[knotty kite]

I think it must be around 6 months or so after Subnautica 1?

This note talks about the ship crash that started the first game

[lusty herald]

bro what is that display real life walmart pda

[knotty kite]

Switch Lite

[desert pelican]

Is the ||ice worm|| supposed to kill/damage the player? mines just push me around and go about with their lifes

[willow plank]

it's meant to annoy the player by knocking them off the snowfox

what do you think about the grav trap?

[desert pelican]

weird

[west mountain]

Sometimes it does not hurt, sometimes it hurts a lot. Its random.

But it knocks you off every single time

[willow plank]

it hurts the snowfox

it's too annoying

[barren gate]

whooo! story complete. 🙂

[pearl zenith]

@chilly niche: that weird-sounding solution you found (back on 29-jan) for the problem of not being able to cut ANY table coral in the game actually worked. Haven't been on Discord in the last few days, but wanted to come back and say thank you. 💯

[west mountain]

Its always the same procedure: it comes - it knocks you off - it does its thing - you repair - you continue - repeat

[pearl zenith]

For others' reference: our Below Zero games on Xbox had started showing a bug wherein we couldn't cut ANY table coral, in ANY world, whether a new world or one with 60 hours of gameplay in it. @chilly niche found on Reddit someone who said you should hold a knife, then enter a habitat, then immediately save/pause/quit without moving or looking around at all. Restart the console. When you reenter the game, exit the habitat and go back in (always holding the knife), then immediately save/pause/quit without moving or looking anywhere again. Repeat this cycle 3-5 times. Sounded bizarre... but worked.

[harsh bloom]

Going on chill sea truck road trips with the jukebox playing is amazing

[outer mirage]

Yes it is

[willow plank]

especially with your own songs in the jukebox

[austere sparrow]

I think I found that, then my seatruck disappeared on me and couldn’t find the wreckage and decided to reload save, which was three hours back, oof.

[willow plank]

how do I kill the shadow leviathan?

[carmine bobcat]

sorry t oask but how do u get the fur of a snow stalker?

[west mountain]

||Ram it with the seatruck||

[carmine bobcat]

o ok itg

[west mountain]

||with the spy pengling||

[carmine bobcat]

ok

thanks

[chilly niche]

Well your welcome!

I cant wrap my mind around the fact that i actually helped somebody

[vital sleet]

Where i can find Gold in below zero

[stoic surge]

In Calaverite deposits

[vital sleet]

Ok but where is calaverite

I am searching for hour and I cant find

[stoic surge]

Have a look around Delta station

[vital sleet]

Ok

Thanks

[barren gate]

purple vents too

found mineable deposits deep in the crystal caves too.

[austere sparrow]

Delta Station is a good source for early on though.

[chilly niche]

@pearl zenith That solution should work every time so just use it whenever it happens again

[carmine bobcat]

where can u get the prawn suit?

[barren gate]

like the fragments?

[stoic surge]

Do you mean fragments to scan for blueprints?

[carmine bobcat]

yea the fragments

[austere sparrow]

I saw a number of them at the robotics base up north.

[carmine bobcat]

ok

[barren gate]

there and in the omega base.

[west mountain]

||In Koppa mine and Mercury II bow||

[barren gate]

I mean, the mining one.

[austere sparrow]

koppa/kappa base.

[west mountain]

||Lots of them in sea monkey caves too, and Twisty bridges and Thermal Spires||

[outer mirage]

Casually eating breakfast and vibing to the jukebox in my seatruck

[sleek hinge]

How is this

[amber hemlock]

there's some supernatural activity happening over in that image (the Pengling)

[copper pagoda]

Yes

YES

The pocket squidsharks are killing the brute sharks!

[willow plank]

use the pengilngs for the bioreactor

bioreactor loves them

[stoic surge]

That's really all they're good for

[willow plank]

they give you 210 energy per pengling

[stoic surge]

The aquarium module scoops up lots of them, gotta make them useful somehow

[lost wigeon]

i accidentally opened the command console in my survival world but i didnt use any command, will i still get achievements??

[eternal garnet]

yes.

Enter to hide it, but make sure it's cleared

[hallow phoenix]

Marguerit is a fortnite player confirmed

[eternal garnet]

it IS a very old word meaning 2 weeks

[stoic surge]

If she did participate, she'd be the champ in no time

That's nice but not part of BZ?

[amber hemlock]

shoot sorry

wrong server lmao

[stoic surge]

Yep, short for fourteen nights

[carmine bobcat]

How tf do i het this ice door open

[amber hemlock]

now that was straight up embarrassing

[amber hemlock]

other side

[stoic surge]

with laser cutter

[carmine bobcat]

how do u get there?

[eternal garnet]

Possibly other side, or you just didn't try the laser cutter

[carmine bobcat]

i did try the laser cutter and that didnt work

[eternal garnet]

if it doesn't cut, this is an exit from the ice spires. A shortcut

[stoic surge]

Opinions, please -- Which is more efficient way to get the large water, the purification tablets, or the filter machine? I'm kinda undecided

[eternal garnet]

machine.

[quick terrace]

I'd say filtration machine 100%

once you get it the purification tablets are essentially useless because you need salt to make those which the filtration machine produces along with the large water you get from the tablets

although I guess you could both and get twice as much, on second thought

[stoic surge]

I'm thinking, the plant needed and snowballs can be found easily enough, but the salt is what's slowing this down, I think

Imagine, if Alterra bottles up and ships out lotsa water, the sea level here might start dropping

[quick terrace]

only disadvantage to the filtration machine is that it's slow and uses a lot of power

but if you're using only purification tablets salt eventually gets hard to find plus you have to go to a snowy area to get the snowballs

[stoic surge]

Yep ... I have an outpost next to delta station with a couple thermal plants running my filter machine, so no problems there, I think I might test out both methods tho

[west mountain]

If you have the water purification machine, you get two salt for every two water. Then you can make the tablet and create more water with snow. So 2 in 1. Go ahead!

[stoic surge]

It seems to make the salt a bit faster than the water ... maybe ... but yes, I shall try it

[carmine bobcat]

moonpool feels kinda useless in this game tbh

[west mountain]

I have so much salt, it always just trash it. Once you have the still suit, you do not require to much water anyhow

[west mountain]

Is a car park, autmatic charging station

[stoic surge]

Yeah, the still suit is almost as OP as the aquarium module

[carmine bobcat]

the charging is nice but i wish there was more to it

[west mountain]

Me to, autorepair

[half ermine]

What's ur guys favorite biome mine is the one with the eye jelly

[west mountain]

Hard to tell, depends on my mood

[carmine bobcat]

the vehicle upgrade console is just a waste of materials too

[west mountain]

But lilypad is top

[stoic surge]

Aren't the Devs working on some upgrades for the moonpool?

[carmine bobcat]

i hope so

[quick terrace]

Tree Spires

[amber hemlock]

there are three biomes with those, be more specific

[carmine bobcat]

it feels terrible unless the prawn suit

[half ermine]

I would agree but tbh I don't go there often at all

[carmine bobcat]

having only one section of the seatruck be put in there is just eugfdhughgh

[west mountain]

I have my bases in all of them

14 in total

[quick terrace]

some of my favourite biomes are the Tree Spires, Twisty Bridges, Lilypad Islands and Deep Lilypads Caves

[amber hemlock]

remember when the glacial connection was the only entrance to the glacial basin?

[stoic surge]

I quite like the caves south of Marg's base, heat for thermal plants, lotsa fish to eat, no dangerous critters

[west mountain]

Now you can go there with the snow fox

Once you know the way its all straight forward

From Phi dock to frost acacia in one go

[carmine bobcat]

my favourite biome is probably the glacial basin (or was it called the arctic spires?) the one with the ice worms anyway. The ice worms barely do anything which is a big negative but the atmosphere their roars create when they eat a snow stalker every now and then is chilling

[west mountain]

Glacial basin on the side where phi is

and bejond

[carmine bobcat]

yeah then the arctic spires i like too

I wish i could just mute robin in this game and keep al-an

[half ermine]

Crystal caves, lilypad Islands, deep twisty bridges, twisty bridges, shallow twisty bridges, glacial bay, glacial basin, tree spires, thermal spires, purple thermal spires and sea monkey caves

[west mountain]

Yes, thats the entire list

I agree

[carmine bobcat]

i wish al-an just replaced your PDA when you got him, and robin would zip it

[half ermine]

I love the eye jelly

[west mountain]

Yes, they are majestic

and the baby ones are cute

[quick terrace]

someone needs to make a mod with Al-An in the PDA in place of whatever lady there is regularly

[west mountain]

But glow whale are my favorit

[carmine bobcat]

i hate the new pda, her voice isnt too bad its just her lines really

it'd be funny if al-an said it cause regardless it sounds like an ai trying to sound funny

but for al-an it would actually fit

[quick terrace]

idk, I find the new PDA humorous myself

[half ermine]

Are their eggs for them

[quick terrace]

yes

[carmine bobcat]

i find the comedy extremely forced and just annoying

[west mountain]

sort of, they are baby eye jelly

[carmine bobcat]

i liked how monotone and serious the regular PDA was with very little straight jokes

[quick terrace]

I love the descriptions for things in this game, like how the toilet says "alternatively you could just go in the ocean" or the stove which says "useless" and the end of the description 😂 it doesn't lie

[carmine bobcat]

most of the humour was just actual stuff that you would think she'd say (exercise quota) as an AI

[eternal garnet]

I find the million complaints about the PDA amusing

[carmine bobcat]

I just wish they gave an option to mute her and robin

i wanna hear alan

[quick terrace]

what's wrong with Robin?

[carmine bobcat]

I just dont like playing games where your protagonist is actively rambling about stuff

[quick terrace]

I mean of course Al-An is the best but I don't see anything wrong with Robin or her voice lines, I like them just fine

[carmine bobcat]

obviously its not that bad but i just find it annoying

i prefer playing as a protagonist who doesnt speak

[quick terrace]

each to his own I guess

[west mountain]

I love every single line. I find it sad, that once you have completed the game, nobody is tgalking to you anymore

not even the PDA 😦

[quick terrace]

yeah

[carmine bobcat]

the only good things she says imo are her interactions with al-an, but thats just cause al-an is a god

[west mountain]

There should be some random stuff happening after

[quick terrace]

I love how sassy Robin gets when Al-An starts calling the human race "inefficient" and she then keeps trying to find comebacks to it

[west mountain]

But I know, game is finished

She threatens to commit suicide

Thats how you can scare him

[carmine bobcat]

when i finish bz im gonna replay it some time later with mods and i hope the experience is better

i just have many small-medium gripes with this game that, on their own wouldnt make the game too bad but together really make the game less fun for me

hopefully can fix atleast a few of those

[quick terrace]

one of my favourite interactions is when Al-An says a thig about an issue with their networking or something like that, then Robin just smugly says "how...inefficient" xD

[carmine bobcat]

yeah that was actually funny

[west mountain]

Oh, I missed it,

have to go and look for it

[quick terrace]

that was a great comeback

[west mountain]

Yes, he remembered his planet very badly

was not a great help in the beginning

[quick terrace]

I like how no matter what your view on this game is everyone seems to be able to agree that Al-An is amazing

[carmine bobcat]

the only things i can say that BZ improved over subnautica in every way is
-Polishing (Graphics & bugs)
-Building

yeah al-an is the best part of the game lmao

[west mountain]

I like how two stories are intertwined and you can follow the one you like

[quick terrace]

ye

[carmine bobcat]

i wouldnt be able to stand just listening to robin talk to herself and the pda

[west mountain]

Nothing is rushing you through the story at all

[carmine bobcat]

i just kinda finished the kharaa one in a very short amount of time by accident

i was like ''thats it? an entire storyline complete?''

but i guess that is the less major of the two

kinda like a side quest~~ even though its the reason she came here~~

oh yeah, i also prefer the void in this game

3 giant bright leviathans is aa boo scary but the void chelicerate is the only ''stealthy'' leviathan in this game

you cant see it until its close to you and its difficult to tell by sound

and just seeing its tail disappear infront of you is terrifying

[quick terrace]

I've beaten BZ once and I'm 6 hours into a new save but I'm taking it more slowly this time and putting full effort into my bases unlike in the first save in which I got to the point where I just wanted to see the ending and kind of rushed ahead without properly finishing my base then I just felt unmotivated
there's still quite a few things I haven't done yet, I didn't do the thing where you have to ||cure the Frozen Leviathan|| and I also haven't found that dead Ice Worm that you can scan, plus other stuff

[carmine bobcat]

the base building is great but i hate how you have to do an entire bloody world tour for some components, and the sea truck being slow as molasses doesnt help

apparently theres upgrades that make it faster but i havent had any luck finding any in the areas you need to look

[west mountain]

Yes, happend to me too. I wanted to take it slowly but then I found myself rushing through the story again. Hard to control yourself.

[carmine bobcat]

1/2 on the afterburner and like 5 million/2 exosuit thermal fragments, its annoying

i kinda just wanna wrap this game up so i can have every achievement and then go back and do it with mods + console commands (not game breaking ones, just saving time)

base building is the most fun part of this game, id rather just spawn the titanium in instead of spend 10 minutes each time to get some titanium only to run out in like 5 builds

atleast, for decorative items

for stuff like reactors water filtration machines fabricators lockers etc ill get normally but like, partitions plants beds windows im not gonna bother farming for

[quick terrace]

I think I would've enjoyed the game more if I hadn't already found out so much about it by accident because of spoilers in YouTube thumbnails and such
not that I didn't enjoy it, it's a great game some things just didn't feel as good as the first one
the ending was frickin awesome though, probably the best ending of any game I've played

[carmine bobcat]

yeah it was impossible to avoid spoilers

[west mountain]

I know the game before I started. I like to follow a good story line and enjoy the excellent graphics and dialogs much more.

[carmine bobcat]

i found out about every leviathan except the void chelicerate from thumbnails on my recommended

[austere sparrow]

How the heck? Somehow I got stuck in some sort of hitbox here, I was jumping around and got stuck. Gonna have to wait til I die to get out of it :/

[west mountain]

Even now I know everything I love to play it again from the start and just enjoy the story

[carmine bobcat]

the recycling bin is a great feature though

[quick terrace]

YES

and the fact that titanium ingots only take 5 instead of 10

[carmine bobcat]

it looks amazing too, animations are clean

[west mountain]

Quit without saving and reload?

[carmine bobcat]

i wonder if the whole compressing materials thing was intended or did they not expect that

[half ermine]

I like the biomes more because they feel more alive and they colorful

[carmine bobcat]

they're more rich imo, but i always preferred the SN biomes

they just feel more... real and dangerous

ive never felt in any sort of danger since i started BZ aside from the void, not even once

[austere sparrow]

Well, I didn't save recently enough to do that.

[carmine bobcat]

and even then i was going in the void and dying over and over again to just gawk at the chelicerate

[quick terrace]

yeah one of the things I don't like about BZ is that building large bases is more annoying because the Cyclops doesn't exist so gathering large quantities of materials takes far longer because of the many trips back and forth you have to take with Seatruck storage modules

[west mountain]

Then its a paintfully slow death or use console commands

[austere sparrow]

I can interact with stuff, I'm just stuck in this animation.

[west mountain]

Not until you have the recyclotron

[quick terrace]

true

[west mountain]

then you can fully load the seatruck

[austere sparrow]

I did try save and reload.

[west mountain]

I went for hour long mining sessions

[carmine bobcat]

and why the hell do you need SO MUCH enamelled glass for the large room windows, i get it they're big but the enamelled glass blueprint is stupid

i wish it made like 2 per craft

[west mountain]

I had two storage modules and the fabricator and the prawn with two storage upgrades. That was a lot of stuff

Titanum ingot, plasteel ingot, compasses.

Compasses are great: 2 copper and two silver

[quick terrace]

the fact that enamelled glass takes lead and diamonds is painful

[carmine bobcat]

its stupid

couldve made it anything else

[west mountain]

And plasteel 5 titanium and two litium

[carmine bobcat]

Boneshark teeth?

[west mountain]

You can fully pack your seatruck to the brim

[carmine bobcat]

not bone shark
brute shark teeth

[quick terrace]

lead is the worst in this game, in my new save I'm gonna make a Sea Monke empire and just stock up on it before they stop giving me stuff

[half ermine]

I just prefer the bz safe shallows over the original

[quick terrace]

same

[west mountain]

I find nickel hard to find in the beginning, once you get to cristal you have plenty but before its painful too

[carmine bobcat]

the shallows are cooler yeah

[half ermine]

Yes

[carmine bobcat]

but the deeper biomes are lamer imo even though they have cooler graphics and more detail

[quick terrace]

I love BZ's music, better than the original

[half ermine]

Agreed

[quick terrace]

Lily Pads, Cathedral, Far Less Alone, Shadow Leviathan
I could list so many epic music tracks that I can hear over and over again without getting bored of

[west mountain]

I listen to it every day, without playing the game

[quick terrace]

I'm even writing my own piano version of Lily Pads cause I love that soundtrack so much

[west mountain]

And I am scuba diver myself

so I feel at home under water

[austere sparrow]

Anyways, reported that odd glitch.

[half ermine]

The bad thing about subnautica for me is the early game because I don't like the starting biomes

But below zero has amazing starting biomes

[west mountain]

I was once stuck on a bed that I could not get off from. But luckily I could deconstruct it

[quick terrace]

one of my favourite soundtracks has to be Far Less Alone (the deep, ominous sounding one that sometimes plays in either the Twisty Bridges or less commonly the Shallow Twisty Bridges), it's so dark sounding and I love it, gives me vibes of a deep dark biome that's dangerous

[carmine bobcat]

I'd agree if abandon ship and red alert werent in SN

also crash site

[austere sparrow]

I'm just stuck in this glitchy looking falling/swimming animation.

[eternal garnet]

got any rotten food, eat

[carmine bobcat]

but in overall terms the average below zero track is better than the average SN track imo

[quick terrace]

I had that happen to me in the Seatruck once

[eternal garnet]

after this, save every 15

[austere sparrow]

Saving more often is probably good....

[austere sparrow]

At least you'd have an interactable exit within reach, the seatruck is just out of reach here.

[quick terrace]

one of the things that made me slightly disappointed in BZ was that I had slightly too high expectations for what it was going to look like
I was hoping that the whole game would have a darker, deeper feel to it than Subnautica and have more biomes like that
I also thought it would have a lava zone and I was sad to find out I knew about all the leviathans already and there wasn't at least one more to surprise me
some biomes I also find kind of bland and boring, mainly the Purple Vents and the Thermal Spires

[austere sparrow]

I need to go foraging ANYAY.

[quick terrace]

the Twisty Bridges is probably the biome that bets fits the way that I pictured the game being, which is why it's one of my favourites

deep, kinda dark and greyish black in colour with ominous music

only wish there were more like that

[half ermine]

For me it's the safe shallows and the glacial bay

[austere sparrow]

I put my base roughly in the middle of the twisty bridges area.

[quick terrace]

the Tree Spires was pretty much the only main biome I hadn't heard of before I played the game so I thought it was really cool when I discovered it, that combined with the Ventgardens, Chelicerates and the fact that it's the deepest surface biome is what makes it my favourite

it gives me major Underwater Islands vibes from the first game, it looks and feels very similar to me

[half ermine]

Below zero soundtrack is a ♾/10 100% my favorite ost ever and I could definitely listen to this forever

[quick terrace]

facts

the Subnautica title screen music kinda got boring after a while but not the BZ one, I'd wait a little bit to load my save on purpose so the music could last longer xD

[half ermine]

I could listen to this for years https://youtu.be/FvAc2H8rncs

[eternal garnet]

tingly

[quick terrace]

the dark ominous sounding tracks are usually my favourites (Lava Castle is my favourite OST from the first game and probably in both), but Lily Pads is so beautiful it overtakes even ones like Far Less Alone as my favourite BZ track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaT61qsHwUA

this track fits the Twisty Bridges perfectly

[half ermine]

Agreed

[quick terrace]

I'd heard it as background music in Subnautica videos (mostly by TheLastBacon) and had no idea it was actually a track in BZ until I played the game, you can imagine how happy I was to discover that

[half ermine]

Subnautica is my favorite game just because of how unique it is

[quick terrace]

same

[half ermine]

I've never seen anything like this

[quick terrace]

Koppa Mining Site is another one track I really like, some people might think that's strange because almost the whole thing is very non-descript and monotonous but that one part where you get the deep base sound a couple times really sets the mood for the mining site when you're in it, yet another reason I love the ominous ones

the biomes, especially the more dangerous ones, wouldn't feel the same without fitting music to accompany them

[half ermine]

This is my 4th playthrough of this game I love it way too much

What should I do first go to delta station dock or get seatruck

[quick terrace]

I've beaten it once (took ~50 hours) and am 6 hours into my second save

[half ermine]

Took 20 hours my first time

[quick terrace]

I have 420 hours in the first game, I've beaten it twice in survival and once in hardcore

[half ermine]

how long does it take u to beat it

Took me 25 hours

[quick terrace]

depends on the size of my bases and how many I decide to build before beating it

my first playthrough for SN1 was over 80 hours

[west mountain]

First seatruck an Alan

[half ermine]

Done alan

[quick terrace]

I could probably beat it in a fairly short time if I wanted to but generally I like taking my time

[west mountain]

If you go to delra without alan you miss dialogs

[quick terrace]

really?

[west mountain]

Yes

[quick terrace]

I don't remember whether I got him before going there in my new save

[west mountain]

All he says about maida and alterra is missed

[quick terrace]

oof

I'll need to do that sometime

[half ermine]

True there is no rush into beating the game

It's good to take it slow and make time to explore

[west mountain]

Exactly

[half ermine]

That's what I love about this game there is no rush

[west mountain]

And no violence

Its peaceful

Nobody dies

[quick terrace]

hmm I'd question that 😂

[west mountain]

Well except Robbin sometimes

[half ermine]

Until you come across snow stalkers

[west mountain]

I dont mean Robbin

Nobody else

And you dont have to kill

[willow plank]

I always kill the snow stalkers when they attack

I drill into them using the prawn

they are just an annoyance

[half ermine]

@drowsy turtle how u playing Microsoft edge

[quick terrace]

so I'm about to go do something else but I made a cool observation a while ago
each leviathan has a music track, sort of
the Ice Worm has the Arctic Spires track, the Shadow Leviathan has the track named after it that plays in the Fabricator Caverns, same for the Glow Whale in the Arctic areas
Frozen Leviathan has the one that plays when you enter its cave
and what about the Chelicerate and Ventgarden? well they each don't have a separate track, but I think Cathedral that plays in the Tree Spires is their shared track
if you think about it, the opening part of the track and a little part in the middle is quite creepy and unnerving (the Chelicerate's portion) then it transitions into the main part of the song which becomes quite amazing, that's the Ventgarden's portion and it mirrors its majestic appearance
also does a great job of setting the mood when you first enter the biome, as the first thing I saw was the silhouette of the Chelicerate in the distance as I heard that eerie first part of the track
just thought that was kinda interesting
don't mind my text wall xD

[half ermine]

I cant be bothered reading all that

[quick terrace]

oof

[half ermine]

Ok I read it

[willow plank]

I read it all

haha

[quick terrace]

that last part of my message is another reason I love the Tree Spires so much

[west mountain]

Its truly iconic

And the music breathtaking

Have a base there too

[quick terrace]

I feel like the Tree Spires is kind of the Dunes of BZ, you don't need to go there for anything technically and it has 2 hostile leviathans but it's super cool
not nearly as dangerous as the Dunes of course but still

it's also cooler than the Dunes imo lol

[half ermine]

Well there is an artifact there

[west mountain]

And it has two peaceful öeviathans

[quick terrace]

there is?

[west mountain]

Yes

[half ermine]

Yes its under a vent garden

[quick terrace]

I don't recall getting that one

[west mountain]

The second one

In the south

[quick terrace]

I probably did and just forgot

[half ermine]

It's not needed to beat the game

I didn't get it my first run

[west mountain]

First one brings you to maida

[half ermine]

And second

[quick terrace]

I must've found it because I unlocked the Teleportation Module by the end of the game

[half ermine]

Teleportation module?

[west mountain]

Yes but useless

[half ermine]

How do I get it and what does it do

[west mountain]

Once you scsn 10 artefacts

It teleports you back at the cost of an ion cube

[quick terrace]

I thought it was cool until I found out that it consumes ion cubes

[west mountain]

You will build it for completeness and use it once

[half ermine]

There should be more ps4 trophies for bz

You don't even need to 100% the game for all of them

[quick terrace]

I have one achievement I haven't gotten yet

[half ermine]

What is it

[quick terrace]

don't know since I haven't gotten it

[half ermine]

Dang

[quick terrace]

I'm guessing it's probably related to curing the Frozen Leviathan

[half ermine]

Yep

[west mountain]

How could you not cure it

[quick terrace]

I've heard the cure is very hard to find

[half ermine]

Nah not really

[quick terrace]

I want to try and do that in my new save so don't tell me where it is

[eternal garnet]

instructions in here many times

it's in the right PDA

[half ermine]

Got a seatruck should I go to delta station dock now

[west mountain]

Sure

[half ermine]

K

[west mountain]

Next will be the depth upgrade

But not for delta

[half ermine]

And that requires visiting squid shark unfortunately

[west mountain]

Well sooner or later

Unavoidable

[half ermine]

My confidence has come such a long way from when I started playing

[fast void]

I was near Delta Station (about 100m out) and was in the Purple Vents, and a Chelicerate attacked me. Was this a glitch? (Later on, the game stopped generating terrain and all the creatures freaked out)

[half ermine]

When I started I was so so so so afraid of the thermal vents

[fast void]

Same... I just ram the creatures really hard and they leave me alone.

[austere sparrow]

I actually got two diamonds from the sea monkeys, heh.

[stoic surge]

The attack was not, but the terrain not loading definitely was

[fast void]

Okay, thank you! (Since then I have just been staying near the island.)

[west mountain]

You will get used to it

[stoic surge]

The good news is the Chelicerates don't have a very large territory, so if you avoid that area you won't have to deal with it

However having the perimeter defence module in your seatruck will be a good idea, just in case

[half ermine]

What's on the opposite side of the delta station dock island

[west mountain]

Perimeter defense makes it very easy indeed

[fast void]

Are the fragments for it in a certain area or spread across a biome?

[west mountain]

You found the map?

[stoic surge]

Fragments of ...?

[fast void]

The perimeter defense module

[half ermine]

No I just am curious

[eternal garnet]

it's an item, not a scan, in the pilots home

[stoic surge]

There's just one, it's in ||Maida's base||, just laying on the floor

[west mountain]

On land? You can drive around and visite thw caves and explore

[fast void]

Tysm!

[west mountain]

There are beaches with penglins and caves wirh stuff

[eternal garnet]

how many pikachu does a pikachu eat before the pikachu is full of pikachu?

[half ermine]

Pikatwo

[fast void]

As many as there are in the Kanto region.

[eternal garnet]

your avatar, cute and disturbing at the same time

[trail torrent]

is there any more parts to marguerit's storyline after you ||disable the radio tower and then go to her greenhouse?||

[half ermine]

Nope

[trail torrent]

oh i wish there was more to it because ||now i'm about to go into the portal and i'm just gonna leave her on the 4546b||

[half ermine]

Did u finish Sam's story

[trail torrent]

i think so cuz i ||cured the leviathan||

[half ermine]

yea u did it then

[trail torrent]

i feel like theres more to add to below zero

this does not satisfy my subnautica needs

[half ermine]

the game should be longer

[west mountain]

Dont rush

[half ermine]

I'm not rushing

[trail torrent]

me neither

[half ermine]

I feel like the game should be like 30 hours instead of like 15

[west mountain]

You can make it as long as you wish

[trail torrent]

it took me almost exactly 7 days to complete the game for the first time

[trail torrent]

you can i just wish the storylines were longer

[half ermine]

Yeah

[west mountain]

Now comes the hubt for completeness

[trail torrent]

maybe alterra could come back to do more research on the leviathan or something and then that can add so much content

[west mountain]

Ecery scan every artefact every cave

Build ecery moduke

[hallow phoenix]

bruh

[half ermine]

Every vehicle upgrade

[west mountain]

Yep

[half ermine]

Base in every biome

[west mountain]

I have

[half ermine]

Scan and kill every leviathan

[west mountain]

Done

[half ermine]

Nice

[west mountain]

I had to respawn one shadow lev in cristal

For my base to observe

[hallow phoenix]

I got to the ||fabricator facility, built Al-an's body and when I got out my prawn suit was not there, nowhere, the leviathans destroyed it, why would they have a leviathan swim so near the entrance and not let you get in it with your prawn suit? that makes no sense.||

[half ermine]

Subnautica but there are 10 reapers in every biome

[west mountain]

Yes happend to several people

Its unfortunate

[trail torrent]

just put it behind one of the red crystals at the back of the facility

like the very back

but above it

[hallow phoenix]

Ill have to go back to my save and watch the entire cutscene again

[west mountain]

Yes

Very unfortunate

Qustion who of you has scanned the spotted dockleave. Can you check your pda

Its an underwater plant

[quick terrace]

who else thinks it's stupid that Snowmen need rebreathers to craft

[trail torrent]

its not that bad

[west mountain]

Normal thing to do

When you are in such an isolated place

[quick terrace]

I made this for someone who had the same problem last night, here you go in case you need it
||https://youtu.be/lqrSqH7RWTY||

it's unlisted since I only made it for that one person

[hallow phoenix]

Don't need it, i put beacons on the entrances.

[quick terrace]

ah ok

I need a mod for this game that tells you how many fish you've smacked into with your Seatruck over the course of an entire save xD

[west mountain]

I think they swim in your way deliberately

[half ermine]

I subscribed

[west mountain]

And glide of the window

Very slowly

Hillariuos

[west mountain]

To my channel too

[quick terrace]

why is the Thermal Spires so flipping dark at night

I can't see crap unless I turn my headlights on

[west mountain]

Also at daytime

[trail torrent]

because thats how they are

i think it looks more realistic

[quick terrace]

I do like darkness but sometimes it's too dark lol

[trail torrent]

i just completed below zero

[west mountain]

Excellent

[half ermine]

K

[quick terrace]

I hate it when I hear the Chelicerate in the Purple Vents scream but I look around frantically and can't see it anywhere

[west mountain]

If you cant see him it cant see you

[quick terrace]

is it just me or does anyone else love the sound that is made when you enter the Seatruck (no modules attached)

[eternal garnet]

I love the faint chimp screech the prawn feet makes sometimes. That nobody else noticed

[zealous jasper]

||let's hope al an does not know that internet is a thing||

[quick terrace]

👀

[carmine bobcat]

below zeros menu theme could motivate me in the darkest of times

its perfect

[quick terrace]

why does the Quantum Locker make such an annoying sound when it's in your inventory

[half ermine]

ender chest*

[quick terrace]

lol

[carmine bobcat]

can you stack large rooms atop each other?

[west mountain]

Yes

[quick terrace]

bruh what the heck

this fricking quantum locker still makes the fizzing sound when it's inside a locker

[carmine bobcat]

this doesnt happen for me?

[quick terrace]

this is going to drive me nuts, why does it do this

[carmine bobcat]

oh THAT fizzing sound

it went away when i held it in my hands and put it away lol

[quick terrace]

I thought it would shut up if I put it in a locker but apparently not

[carmine bobcat]

ok god damn this place is beautiful

[quick terrace]

aha it does go away, thank you

[carmine bobcat]

the graphics on BZ are on a whole new level

[half ermine]

Tree spires i think

[carmine bobcat]

the lighting

[carmine bobcat]

yeah ive never actually been here so just exploring on my way to the purple vents so i can get some lithium for plasteel

[quick terrace]

this is the most annoying glitch ever

[eternal garnet]

I give up. I not see

[quick terrace]

the entire base is supposed to be black but for whatever reason it goes to the default again, even though it's still black in the control room and individual pieces turn black again if I start to deconstruct then reconstruct them

they may have fixed the thing with legs despawning but a new glitch related to buildings got introduced and it's just as bad

[carmine bobcat]

this lighting in this general area is so pretty i love it lol, wish they put this into SN

oh crap a shrimp

oh no

i think im dead

ok screw the tree spires

[half ermine]

Guys wtf my seatruck vanished

bruh how tf did this happen

[quick terrace]

might've gotten destroyed by a creature depending on where you are

[half ermine]

I'm in the twisty bridges

and I go down for like 2 seconds and it's gone

[carmine bobcat]

the chelicerates arent scary but they are difficult to avoid without a vehicle lol

im too used to the reapers that can be defeated by holding A or D

[half ermine]

@floral matrix @drowsy turtle @opaque harbor @median dune @short solar @quiet forge u guys owe me a new sea truck

mine vanished

[carmine bobcat]

bruh

[half ermine]

help me pls

how did this happen

[carmine bobcat]

this guy just pinged the entire subnautica team because his seatruck got destroyed by something

[half ermine]

no it vanished

that happened to someone's prawn earlier today

[carmine bobcat]

then report a bug with the feedback menu??? dont ping the entire team

[quick terrace]

boiii you did not just ping all those guys

[carmine bobcat]

that is plain weird

[half ermine]

No.

Lol there is like 7 sea monkeys stuck in my grav trap

[west mountain]

Mine was draged on land by a pinnacarid.

Could not get it back in water

[half ermine]

uh I need to make a new one now

[west mountain]

I went on an ice berg and when i returned my seatruck was on solid ground

[half ermine]

mine went Spanish or vanish

[west mountain]

I reloaded my last save

[half ermine]

ugh a sea truck is so expensive

[lost cove]

dont go there with your seatruck, the brute sharks will destroy it within seconds

[half ermine]

My seatruck disappeared too

[carmine bobcat]

free diving down here wasnt the safest idea

[west mountain]

Did you ever notice that there is only one aquarium swim pattern for the fish inside. All fish in an aquarium follow a given pattern at the same time. Perfecly synchronous.

I hane 14 aquariums in one room and everything swimms the same pattern

Looks like a ballet dance

[delicate fossil]

I never died to a leviathan before in this game

[copper pagoda]

Spider Prawn wins again! I'm almost out of the artic spires!

[icy coyote]

Why is my pda French

[eternal garnet]

accent? She is indian
If it's literally french, go in options

[icy coyote]

Huh

Still very different

Also why is it orange

[austere sparrow]

Why is what orange? It's a different PDA.

[half ermine]

I've never died in this game

I died once in the original

[icy coyote]

I drowned at the pilots last location

[icy coyote]

How

[half ermine]

L
ol

[icy coyote]

I died at least five times

[delicate fossil]

I died at the underwater ice wall near phi robotics because I didn't have a cutting laser

[half ermine]

L

[icy coyote]

I just beat sn 1 yesterday

[half ermine]

nice

[icy coyote]

So now I’m a few hours in to bz

[half ermine]

what progress have u made so far

[icy coyote]

I just saw the pilot

[half ermine]

This is my 3rd world and I'm going to the pilot last known position

[icy coyote]

And am close to getting seatruck

[half ermine]

U should get seatruck wayy before going to the pilot

[icy coyote]

Ohhhh

So that’s why I drowned

[half ermine]

Yes

[icy coyote]

I’m an idiot

[half ermine]

ok

@icy coyote ur a mad hacker

[icy coyote]

No I’m not

[half ermine]

■□>♡□>{%657=5=6r565r656r5r6

[icy coyote]

?

[copper pagoda]

In and out of the artic spires ||architect cache|| without taking a single point of damage.

Another victory for Spider-Prawn!

[drowsy turtle]

Sorry to hear you may have encountered a bug but Ping me again like that and you’ll end up like your sea truck. POOF

[hallow phoenix]

I have finally done it, i finished the game, got all the achievements n stuff, i hope there is a next game following this, this game might become like ARK or something with infinite ammounts of DLCs, which i like.

[delicate fossil]

Mod makes pings go poof

[north drum]

How come none of the QOL changes in this game were never added to the original, Like highlight interactable objects and pause in pda menu?

[eternal garnet]

I think it's still planned. Those are accessibilities, so they have higher priority

[north drum]

Would pinned recipes also be a possibility?

[eternal garnet]

certainly possible

I havent checked SN experimental in years. maybe I will

[quick terrace]

@half ermine

[half ermine]

Oh no

[quick terrace]

this is why you don't just ping devs for no good reason 😂

[eternal garnet]

you pinged 6 staff? Are you insane?

[quick terrace]

well I submitted a bug report on the base colour thing, hopefully that gets looked into

YO
I just realized that you can change the texture quality from options now so I don't have to change it to 4 every time I play let's goooo

if this was in OG Subnautica this whole time I am going to be so cheesed but I don't think it is

[regal fossil]

So is the sea truck basically the sea moth?

Don’t tell me about mods cos I only got mk1 depth blueprint so far, but other than mods it feels just like the moth …

[quick terrace]

at first yes, but it will get better later on

well...I just had my first death in my new save

8 hours in isn't bad for not dying at all I guess

I hate Spikey Traps

I thought they were just a little thing that launched out of the ground and grabbed your arm like a Bleeder cause I never saw the whole thing, I didn't know that they could fricking eat you

[carmine bobcat]

I wish I had Alan in my head irl

Would be so cool

[quick terrace]

I will scan you

haha get scanned boi

[carmine bobcat]

Thats alot of tracked blueprints

[quick terrace]

yep, got a lot of stuff to build lol

[carmine bobcat]

I hate lead so much

They really made the most useless of the SN outcrop ores the new copper/silver of BZ

[quick terrace]

boiii

[carmine bobcat]

He grasping

[quick terrace]

and then a Squidshark attacked me...for like the 5th time in the past few minutes

the Deep Twisty Bridges does not like me xD

[carmine bobcat]

I need to make a base in that biome it's beautiful

[quick terrace]

I'm going to make a base down here, a little bunker that's a single large room

[carmine bobcat]

I just wanna observe the squid game shark

[spark star]

Are there ultra glide fins in the game? Or should I just make the swim charge ones?

[quick terrace]

this place is fricking dangerous though, man
the amount of times I've gotten attacked by Squidsharks is ridiculous, they are so aggressive
and these dang Spikey Traps
every time I've gone down here in this save I've come back with almost no health and all my medkits used up 😂 it's a literal death trap down here

[copper pagoda]

I almost went out of bounds at the ||architect artic spires|| .

There are these endless snow plains behind the ||cache.||

I'd explore, but this is a no commands run.

[quick terrace]

although on the positive side, I now have more diamonds than I'll probably need for a long time

[eternal garnet]

there are not. The charge fins are a little slower, btw

[spark star]

Ok I’ll probably make them then

[copper pagoda]

But they let you use your seaglide forever. It's a good tradeoff.

[spark star]

I never used them in the first game but they seem good

[quick terrace]

I definitely use up diamonds a lot faster in this game though, in Subnautica I had basically no use for them after making the few things that required them but here they're used in enamelled glass so I have a feeling I'll need to get a lot more

[spark star]

Yea I had to take a million trips to koppa just for enameled glass and prawn arms

But imo lead is the most hard to find

[carmine bobcat]

Enamelled glass and lead are 2 of the leading reasons for this game being less fun than sn for me

[spark star]

I have 0 all the time

[spark star]

Yessir

[quick terrace]

I am now once again back at my base with 5 health...xD

[spark star]

But the mineral detector is really good

[quick terrace]

I disagree, that thing is useless

[carmine bobcat]

Also table coral are annoying but not too bad. Just wish they spawned in more biomes

Instead of mineral detector I just throw down a scanner room with a solar panel

[spark star]

Oh ok imo I’ve used it a lot but your opinion

[eternal garnet]

it's not useless, but not amazing

[spark star]

I use mineral detectors in deep biome cause I don’t want to make a thermal reactor or bioreactor just for a scanner room

[carmine bobcat]

Fair

I generally have a base in those biomes already though

[spark star]

Yea I’m not a base builder, I just make one and use it my whole play through

[carmine bobcat]

4 range upgrades and you can access everything everything need in that biome

I recently removed my entire delta base and just left 1 mp room, a solar panel and a fabricator

[spark star]

Nice

[carmine bobcat]

I later plan to turn it into a compact, smaller area with a bit more things

[quick terrace]

the scanner room is 100x better than the mineral detector, I hardly used it because I couldn't find anything that was on it

[spark star]

Yea the mineral detector sorta just tells which direction to go while the scanner just plain out tells you where is is

[carmine bobcat]

It's nice to have but I ended up just recycling it when I got the scanner room

I've decided to not go with big massive Central bases

Maybe 1 big massive base

I need an ideal location though

[spark star]

My base is a large room and a moonpool lol

[carmine bobcat]

Large rooms are the single best thing in bz

I pray for them to add it to sn

[spark star]

Yes 100%

[carmine bobcat]

There'd so many possibilities with it

[spark star]

I love the walls and stuff

[carmine bobcat]

The partitions and the long acu and everything and the big glass window its amazing

[spark star]

I just hate the alien containment glare

Ik it’s a reference to the cyclops

But I can’t even see what’s inside

[eternal garnet]

whether bug or not, it was fixed, waiting for push to regular branch

you could call it an easter egg

[quick terrace]

went to use the scanner room and forgot that I need a HUD chip for it to actually be of any use...oof

not the first time I've done that lol

[carmine bobcat]

If its a really rare material you can use it well without the hud chip

Nickel in the first game comes to mind

[spark star]

When I disconnect my storage module the lights are still on is that normal?

[carmine bobcat]

Not the deposits the tiny pieces

[carmine bobcat]

Not intended I think but normal

[spark star]

Ok

[carmine bobcat]

Also man I hate the sea truck

[spark star]

That’s… controversial

[carmine bobcat]

I like the idea of it

[eternal garnet]

I honestly love it

[carmine bobcat]

I just don't like how it's done

[eternal garnet]

Did you expand it?

[carmine bobcat]

yes

It's just so slow even with only 2

[spark star]

I love it since the cyclops was clunky to drive but I fully understand why some people might like the cyclops more

[spark star]

The horsepower upgrade makes it better

[carmine bobcat]

It doesn't feel rewarding enough to be banfinf into everything and moving at that pace

Cyclops was slower but had cool gimmicks that kept it interesting and useful

[spark star]

I still wish they’d add that moonpool for the seatruck

They even said it could work for the cyclops

[quick terrace]

wow I just died again

[spark star]

F

[quick terrace]

I went out of my base with 5 health (I had no medkits) cause I wanted a bit of titanium to make lockers and of course there was a flipping Crashfish right in the first spot I went to

I couldn't get away from it fast enough

[spark star]

Sad

[carmine bobcat]

Cyclops: when attacked by a leviathan, your engine will catch on fire needing you to extinguish the fire and fix the breaches. You could use fire suppression, energy shield, flanking speed and silent running, a decoy, get out in the prawn suit and scare it away

Seatruck: either zap it or just get out and repair it afterwards since they just screw right off after attacking you once

[spark star]

I’m about to build my prawn along with the docking module

[spark star]

True

I loved the fire suppression system in the cyclops tho

[carmine bobcat]

The gimmick of docking something in the cyclops is epic too

[spark star]

Yea

[carmine bobcat]

The seatruck docking is kinda meh

[spark star]

Yes

[carmine bobcat]

And it hardly functions as a remote base unless you want to be moving even slower than the cyclops

In the cyclops you can put any interior module you want, your own growbeds aquariums chairs tables lockers medkit generators battery chargers

[quick terrace]

the thing I dislike the most about the Seatruck is how little the storage modules fit in them

[carmine bobcat]

Yeah

[quick terrace]

building is more annoying when you have to make a ton of trips back and forth until you get the recyclotron

[spark star]

You have to make at least like 2 to have a good amount

[carmine bobcat]

On my modded playthrough i will definitely be increasing the seatruck speed by atleast 50%

[spark star]

That’s a good idea

[carmine bobcat]

I wish u could out the recyclotron in it tho

And I wish the sleeper module wasn't useless outside of the jukebox but u can literally just pull up yt or Spotify

Also the teleporting module.. is that an april fools prank or something lol

[spark star]

I don’t think I’m gonna use the teleported

[quick terrace]

the sleeper module is useful, wdym

it's nice to be able to sleep in your Seatruck away from your base

[half ermine]

Yes.

[carmine bobcat]

Not worth the weight reduction

The weight increase

And sleeping doesn't have much benefit

All it really does is pass time which isn't all too helpful since bz mostly isn't dark at night anyways

[quick terrace]

I think it does, you can hardly see in some areas at night

especially the Thermal Spires

[carmine bobcat]

I mean to me most areas past 100m look the same at night and day lol

Not the same but very similar, and I don't mind night too much anyway

[quick terrace]

uhh is this normal?
I died and respawned in my Seatruck, despite it being docked in my moonpool

I had to enter it then dock it again to get out

[delicate fossil]

Hmm, at least you got out

I like when you respawn in the seatruck when it had no modules

You can walk around a small amount

[quick terrace]

yeah it's kinda weird

maybe it's because I had been in my Seatruck last instead of my base?

[carmine bobcat]

How exactly do you do that

[quick terrace]

idk but I kinda feel like they should just respawn you in the moonpool instead of the Seatruck if it's docked there when you die

[carmine bobcat]

Did you like exit it as it was moving I the moonpool or push it in

[quick terrace]

wait I was in my base last

ok this is confusing

unless for some reason it only counts you as being "in a base" for respawning purposes if you enter it with a hatch although I doubt it

probably just a bug

[fast void]

I have depth module mk2 for my seatruck and no depth module for my prawn suit, will my prawn suit get damaged while attached to my seatruck?

[carmine bobcat]

Regardless you should probably detach it

Won't be any good down there

[quick terrace]

when attached to the docking module it can't take damage which doesn't exactly make sense but whatever lol

[carmine bobcat]

This is why I want a third subnautica game to have all the vehicles from both games

[quick terrace]

actually that's the strategy I used down in the ||Crystal Caves|| when I forgot to make the depth module for my Prawn, I drove it around on the back of my Seatruck then at deposits I'd hop off, drill the deposit then dock it again and repair it xD

not the best strategy ever but it worked 😂

wow I like how the one time I actually want titanium instead of lead I get lead twice in a row from breaking galena outcroppings

this game is cruel

[trail torrent]

is there any way to get rid of all the ore?

[barren gate]

titanium is annoyingly difficult to find in these games sometimes. 🙃

[trail torrent]

the two work well together

[quick terrace]

haha nope you're not fooling me this time

little stinker

not about to die a third time

I swear they put these things in the sneakiest places

[barren gate]

hmm?

[quick terrace]

Crashfish nest

[barren gate]

ah yea, I go in to anger them then swim away with my seaglide.

[quick terrace]

lovely

[barren gate]

your boxes aren't aligned...

[delicate fossil]

Storage

[quick terrace]

I aligned them as best I could

only 4 would fit on the left side

oh wait those ones on the left aren't aligned vertically, I'll fix that

[amber saffron]

there isnt a animation for going thru a ladder

thats so disappointing

[eternal garnet]

I kinda like that because it's so fast.
Suggested fix: Animate the first one every day

[delicate fossil]

Imagine having to climb up 500m watching it

[amber saffron]

?

wdym animation one each day

[eternal garnet]

The first time each day. Next one is instant. Youll be happy

[amber saffron]

oh