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Sorenzor wrote: »

Luckycat wrote: »

I don't really listen to the PDA's at all. I am too busy trying not to freeze or run out of supplies.

Well, the game starts telling you that your sister died, together with another coworker. I asume that Alterra mandated an investigation and the team was retired to some base while the investigation took course, and probably they would think in changing the team, to replace the loses and maybe punish the manager... Those people died under his nose.

That's what I thought anyway.

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I have kept playing to this game and I keep thinking that it feels much smaller. And the last biomes, the crystal caverns and the fabricator caverns are cool the first time but... every part of them feels the same, they are mazes that feel unnatural. The lost river felt like a real place, dark and whatever. The crystal cavers don't. They feel almost randomly generated, there's nothing down there, except some resources that we already have (I did except cianite, but it was so easy to get just arriving) by that point and a lot of wasted space. There are two or three scans, and that's all.

You go there to complete the main quest, there's not other reasons.

Someone told me in other forum regarding the critic of mine, about the dark leviathan, that in Subnautica 1 it was the same except for the ghost leviathan. It's not true. The sea dragon could eat you or launch fireballs at you, and better have a very well prepared cyclops or you could easily die down there, in the lava caves. The dark leviathan is just not a menace at any level, he is there just for show.

Subnautica is not a game about menaces, about powerful enemies, it's a very easy game. But the fact the there is the possibility to die and the need to protect yourself, adds to the immersion of the game. Below Zero only has that with the cold in the surface, and that's only before you get the thermal clothes (freaking easy to get).

By the way, the same critic I said about the crystal caverns I can apply to the surface lands in below zero. They look SLIGHTLY more natural but not by a lot. To look natural they should be more open, better connected with each other. The way they are, they feel like rooms.

None of those problems ruin the game. But it's sad to see the huge potential it had wasted. Maybe 2020 was a terrible year for Unknown worlds, because I didn't see a huge difference in the last update. Maybe the game would be much better if not for the pandemic. I doubt it. But who knows.

And I am afraid that it's too late for the developers to fix these problems, to be honest. They may add something more, some late enemy or some new movement to the dark leviathans, I don't know. But the cavern crystals seems to be empty forever, the surface lands seem to be an unnatural selection of rooms forever, etc...

I wish they can improve the story a little bit at least. Make it actually interesting or meaningful. At some level at least...