updates question?

wolfor

i really want to buy subnautica but i'm stuck on whether i should or not as i'm worried as the game progresses the system requirements may exceed what my computer is capable of so i wanted to find out if it is possible to remove updates from my game if it becomes to much for my pc to handle? so i could still play the game just not the updated version?

Piscator

This is a clearly relevant question !
Since some few updates (suspecting a recent upgrade of the Unity Engine, or something else with the improvements of shaders (!?) ), Subnautica is systematically crashing on my system, wathever the graphics settings I use. I tried to solve it with the "-force-d3d9" tip on Steam, but only gained a few minutes playing before the next crash.

I possess an "old" graphic card (Radeon HD 6800 series). Maybe this hardware is going to never again handle the present shaders used in the game, but it could be fantastic to get some older version of Subnautica, just to keep discovering this amazing world !

Thanks to UWE fod considering this possibility !

subnauticambrian

I agree very much with this statement, and am worried about its implications for the future.
So far, Subnautica has presented itself as a relatively high-graphics game, or at least the game's requirements make it seem so. It is also clearly stated that there are no current plans for subnautica's graphics requirements to diminish. This is what worries me.

I have been barely scraping by, graphics-wise, with subnautica for a while now. I do get a warning when I log into the game, but I manage to play it with minimal lag. However, with the newest graphics update, I have struggled to even open the game. I find this troubling, because it means that I (and most of my friends with laptops) will now not be able to play the game. I thought at first that we were a small group of gamers with this problem, and maybe we are, but since this forum exists there are obviously other people out there with this issue.

I think that UWE could potentially risk alienating some players with higher and higher graphics requirements. I happen to think that subnautica is an amazing game, and I think as many people as possible should be able to play it. If people are having trouble playing subnautica, then I think something should be done to fix that problem. I think that either offering ways to reverse updates, or adding some kind of "low graphics" option would be a great way to allow people to have fun subnautica without worrying about graphics.

P.S. I also get that some of the appeal of subnautica is the outstanding graphics, but I think that that isn't all there is to the game. For people who want to have play subnautica because of the other aspects of the game, not having to worry about graphics requirements would be a nice solution.

Thanks for reading this post by the way, it's pretty long. Sorry about that.