Arctic ocean

stateofpsychosis

If you're thinking about making new areas where the terrain is different, I think an Arctic Ocean either North or South of the crash site would be really beautiful and fun to explore.

Fathom

Extreme climate differences within a few kilometers are a bit harsh. So unless you have some alien tech creating that arctic area and have a reason to explore exactly that tech for story reasons, it makes little sense to add such a biome just for looks.

stateofpsychosis

hmm, well maybe only if the game ends up being a lot bigger I guess.

stateofpsychosis

The ocean actually goes on for quite some time though just going in one direction. Maybe if you had to spend a good 10-15 minutes going North or South in order to get there to make it more realistic. I don't know man, but I've have always found ice areas in underwater games extremely intriguing and beautiful. A varied environment also keeps people from getting bored and keeps them interested in continuing to play.

Nautical_Nick

Once again, ARTIC ZONE! We need it! Oh and there's already a whole thread about this topic.

stateofpsychosis

Missed that sorry

Sigmalx

what we really need, is biomes around the arctic to make the area fleshed out.

stateofpsychosis

Yea that makes sense

Claire_Cosmique

I agree. Working on icy spots would be fabulous.

EvilSmoo

Or, just alternate maps.

A large barge with a couple moonpool-type docks and a Cyclops dock. Resources, a few MFRs to build stuff in. Then you select a new area to go visit, and the game loads a new map and puts the barge and your docked stuff in the center.

Captagear

The Devs have already been considering this from memory and they were weighing up the cons and pros. We don't know their current stance though.