Boats

Cobbly

Have you ever wanted to go somewhere without being under water? Have you ever wished for a better option than a cyclops? Have you ever wished for a transportation option without having to worry about being torn apart by reapers? Boats. They could be like a mobile base above the surface. With an opening in the bottom for prawn suits or seamoths.

Boats, your best bet of moving horizontally over large distances.

Dracobomba

Boats would make it too easy to discover new locations while skipping others, most notably the 2 islands. Plus, what fun is there in ignoring the meat of the game: the ocean floor below?

DrownedOut

Dracobomba wrote: »

Boats would make it too easy to discover new locations while skipping others, most notably the 2 islands.

Depends when you get it.

Dracobomba

DrownedOut wrote: »

Dracobomba wrote: »

Boats would make it too easy to discover new locations while skipping others, most notably the 2 islands.

Depends when you get it.

Fair enough. I suppose at that point all you need is a way to distinguish where the void is.

DrownedOut

Dracobomba wrote: »

DrownedOut wrote: »

Dracobomba wrote: »

Boats would make it too easy to discover new locations while skipping others, most notably the 2 islands.

Depends when you get it.

Fair enough. I suppose at that point all you need is a way to distinguish where the void is.

That might actually be handy too for existing vehicles, considering the suddenness of the void has proven to confuse people and I know I was into void waters with my Seamoth well before realizing I missed the Floating Island once.

gunmetal563

as far as i know surface vessels can travel much faster then subs can wail submerged it can also depend on the speed and size and type as a jet ski is defiantly going to out run the seamoth if their was to be a boat it would have to be ment for short rang and light transport/ recon (for lack of a better word)

0x6A7232

The SeaGlide does work well on the surface, for now, though. (Not sure if it gets the surface speed boost or not, though.)

Kouji_San

Dracobomba wrote: »

Boats would make it too easy to discover new locations while skipping others, most notably the 2 islands. Plus, what fun is there in ignoring the meat of the game: the ocean floor below?

Make is so you'd need "special materials" from dangerous biomes to build a boat... Gameplay > realism? But right now, you can already go along the surface (kinda out of harms way) and basically ignore some biome specific dangers (maybe the Reaper stills wants a word/hug). The thing is, the interesting stuff is down below, so a boat ain't gonnah help in that department other than the islands...

I still want a fishing pole with my boat

gunmetal563

Kouji_San wrote: »

Dracobomba wrote: »

Boats would make it too easy to discover new locations while skipping others, most notably the 2 islands. Plus, what fun is there in ignoring the meat of the game: the ocean floor below?

Make is so you'd need "special materials" from dangerous biomes to build a boat... Gameplay > realism? But right now, you can already go along the surface (kinda out of harms way) and basically ignore some biome specific dangers (maybe the Reaper stills wants a word/hug). The thing is, the interesting stuff is down below, so a boat ain't gonnah help in that department other than the islands...

I still want a fishing pole with my boat

a boat doesn't have to be stupidly overpowered if they had any blueprints for one or brought any with them it would probably be ether a rigid-hulled inflatable to transport people from sub and back when its too shallow for the sub or a smallish transport boat the size of the cyclops or smaller for transporting people, equipment and materials to the aurora and back or to a landing point and back


for a mining ship that was on the way to building a phazegait all the current equipment seems too specialized sense they were so post to be in uncharted space and dident intend to land on this planet

gunmetal563

btw here is a concept that someone did

<div class="sketchfab-embed-wrapper"><iframe width="640" height="480" src="https://sketchfab.com/models/4474c8cc0cb2499e952a23016bab922e/embed&quot; frameborder="0" allowvr allowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true" onmousewheel=""></iframe>

<p style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px; color: #4A4A4A;">
<a href="https://sketchfab.com/models/4474c8cc0cb2499e952a23016bab922e?utm_medium=embed&utm_source=website&utm_campain=share-popup&quot; target="_blank" style="font-weight: bold; color: #1CAAD9;">Subnautica Boat</a>
by <a href="https://sketchfab.com/clickmatch?utm_medium=embed&utm_source=website&utm_campain=share-popup&quot; target="_blank" style="font-weight: bold; color: #1CAAD9;">clickmatch</a>
on <a href="https://sketchfab.com?utm_medium=embed&utm_source=website&utm_campain=share-popup&quot; target="_blank" style="font-weight: bold; color: #1CAAD9;">Sketchfab</a>
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Nautical_Nick

gunmetal563 wrote: »

btw here is a concept that someone did

<div class="sketchfab-embed-wrapper"><iframe width="640" height="480" src="https://sketchfab.com/models/4474c8cc0cb2499e952a23016bab922e/embed&quot; frameborder="0" allowvr allowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true" onmousewheel=""></iframe>

<p style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px; color: #4A4A4A;">
<a href="https://sketchfab.com/models/4474c8cc0cb2499e952a23016bab922e?utm_medium=embed&utm_source=website&utm_campain=share-popup&quot; target="_blank" style="font-weight: bold; color: #1CAAD9;">Subnautica Boat</a>
by <a href="https://sketchfab.com/clickmatch?utm_medium=embed&utm_source=website&utm_campain=share-popup&quot; target="_blank" style="font-weight: bold; color: #1CAAD9;">clickmatch</a>
on <a href="https://sketchfab.com?utm_medium=embed&utm_source=website&utm_campain=share-popup&quot; target="_blank" style="font-weight: bold; color: #1CAAD9;">Sketchfab</a>
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Not to shame clickmatch but it doesn't look futuristic enough.

gunmetal563

aye, also i dont think they would have had a speed boat

NVMGamer

I'm agreeing with the other people, I see their logic. The game is about being UNDER the water so unless there was more on the surface or more to the islands i don't think that its exactly the best idea to add boats, BUT I'd damn LOVE more subs