Explorable Sunbeam.

awesomeguy101 · September 2016

C'mon. The Degrasi was smaller and IT was able to be salvaged. I have seem the animation for the Sunbeams destruction and.... its pathetic. A TINY little explosion and debris that falls disappearing into nothing. No sighs of it burning up in the atmosphere. The Sunbeam is a cargo ship and it would hold valuable recourses for the endgame. So whadda ya thing? Also we wouldn't need more Aurora. Link to my MORE Explorable Aurora Poll: http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/145092/explorable-sunbeam#latest

gunmetal563 · September 2016

the sunbeam gets shot down? where did you see that and yes their should be more ships that was shot down too

dealwithitdog · September 2016

Don't think the devs have enough resources to fully implement another crashed ship, so my guess is it'll crash into the void.

awesomeguy101 · September 2016

gunmetal563 wrote: »

the sunbeam gets shot down? where did you see that and yes their should be more ships that was shot down too

Wiki on my iPod.

awesomeguy101 · September 2016

dealwithitdog wrote: »

Don't think the devs have enough resources to fully implement another crashed ship, so my guess is it'll crash into the void.

But.. but LOGIC! There are no signs the debris burns up it just DISSAPEARS!

DrownedOut · September 2016

Mind that it's an early animation. The end product might be a little more "okay, yeah, that's just ashes now".

Still, I would like another ship to explore. I got hype about the Deep Grand Reef message about an origin-ambiguous titanium mass before I realized it probs refers to the castle in the ALZ. As far as resources go, if the wiki's biome maps are still up-to-date-ish, we've got four unassigned surface areas left and I recall the devs were looking into doing something with the sandy biomes (ie, reaper territory), so another ship that can largely be created from existing models (maybe recolored?) doesn't strike me as an out-of-the-way effort.

Sigmalx · September 2016

we've got two viable options available to us currently: twisty bridges biome and the lillypad island biome. the last biome in development that hasnt been entirely implemented is the arctic biome, which with the raising of oceanic temperatures in subnautica, seems too far out of reach past the void to justify it in the current play area without warpers.

Nautical_Nick · September 2016

I didn't know that was the Sunbeam being shot down in that animation!

kay_ziomalek · September 2016

I would select "More Aurora and some sunbeam" AANNDD... "Shure! That would be coool"

Julian1337331nailuJ · November 2016

It Is A Cool Idea! And If A 3rd Ship Is Sent From A Different Team And Gets Shot Down (Its The Rich Clan Main Airship Also Its Not A Blimp) It Would Be Huge And A New Base Would Be Found. The "Artificial Island". Its A Base With A Different Interior And A Different Exterior. It Has Its Own Moon Pools. I'm Working On It On Subnautica!

0x6A7232 · November 2016

The Sunbeam is a 6-seater if I am to believe the transmissions correctly, so probably not too huge. Although if it's only hauling cargo from point A to point B, you wouldn't really need anything too big for the crew complement, so it could be actually quite big. Like maybe those Gallofree transports in Star Wars? Or it could be more like the Millenium Falcon, but I don't see what the point of trying to mount a rescue mission would be if it's that small.

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999Antonio3849 · November 2016

I like the idea of the sunbeam being explorable it would probably crash in the koosh zone beaCAUSE WHEN I HEARD THE ANIMATION WAS IMPLEMENTED IM JUST LIKE OH YEAH and why did I do caps IDK and I played the fx etc and then I explored the area below the explosion and it was in the void but maybe it could be closer to the gun and crash in the nearest biome the koosh zone

Seamothwizard44 · November 2016

awesomeguy101 wrote: »

C'mon. The Degrasi was smaller and IT was able to be salvaged. I have seem the animation for the Sunbeams destruction and.... its pathetic. A TINY little explosion and debris that falls disappearing into nothing. No sighs of it burning up in the atmosphere. The Sunbeam is a cargo ship and it would hold valuable recourses for the endgame. So whadda ya thing? Also we wouldn't need more Aurora. Link to my MORE Explorable Aurora Poll: http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/145092/explorable-sunbeam#latest

Great idea and I think we should see it burn up and bypass the island before crashing far west of the Aurora and island. (Which is relatively far away, so maybe some good shit in there idk

) Also I had the idea of a sunbeam based vehicle? It could be made by salvaging the stuff we find in there if this is implemented.

CAPSHAW · November 2016

Okay, if we take the amount of volume missing from the Aurora BEFORE it explodes, there's no way it matches the amount of wrecks there are. It would be nice to have one or two wrecks appear AFTER the Sunbeam crashes. This can give us specific fragments like the nuclear reactor, and other things. IF the Aurora is not a research vessel, but has water-based search and rescue equipment, a nuclear reactor, a bioreactor, and a dark matter drive don't make a lot of sense to have on board. Maybe if the Sunbeam is planning a long-term search and rescue, now for TWO ships, it would make sense to have a nuclear reactor, and a moonpool, Etc,

Jamezorg · November 2016

The Sunbeam is a six seater trading vessel (with a crew of three, if I'm not mistaken). It was passing by and picked up the distress signal sent by one of the commanders aboard the Aurora after the incident. Upon entry to planet 4546B's atmosphere it was hit by the same beam that grounded the Aurora and, since the vessel was a lot smaller than the mining ship destroyed prior, it was blown to smithereens leaving no survivors (that we currently know of).

I'd like to see it, and I'd like to explore what little Sunbeam there is, but I doubt it would be big enough to actually be a point of great interest. Maybe we could find some materials on it, but it did look very far away when it got shot. I doubt that, without this "Warper Technology" and "Arctic Biome" we'll be able to really see the Sunbea, in its full(ish) glory.

Rezca · November 2016

Jamezorg wrote: »

The Sunbeam is a six seater trading vessel (with a crew of three, if I'm not mistaken). It was passing by and picked up the distress signal sent by one of the commanders aboard the Aurora after the incident. Upon entry to planet 4546B's atmosphere it was hit by the same beam that grounded the Aurora and, since the vessel was a lot smaller than the mining ship destroyed prior, it was blown to smithereens leaving no survivors (that we currently know of).

I'd like to see it, and I'd like to explore what little Sunbeam there is, but I doubt it would be big enough to actually be a point of great interest. Maybe we could find some materials on it, but it did look very far away when it got shot. I doubt that, without this "Warper Technology" and "Arctic Biome" we'll be able to really see the Sunbea, in its full(ish) glory.

CAPSHAW wrote: »

Okay, if we take the amount of volume missing from the Aurora BEFORE it explodes, there's no way it matches the amount of wrecks there are. It would be nice to have one or two wrecks appear AFTER the Sunbeam crashes. This can give us specific fragments like the nuclear reactor, and other things. IF the Aurora is not a research vessel, but has water-based search and rescue equipment, a nuclear reactor, a bioreactor, and a dark matter drive don't make a lot of sense to have on board. Maybe if the Sunbeam is planning a long-term search and rescue, now for TWO ships, it would make sense to have a nuclear reactor, and a moonpool, Etc,

Yeah, pretty sure given the Sunbeam's size it simply gets vaporized on impact rather than leaving wrecks. Might spawn some scrap metal for us to use, but exploring? Nah. I didn't realize it was so small though. Guess that's why it's obliterated unlike the other two ships.

Part of me thought that some of the wrecks were from past ships and not just the Aurora, the planet does have a history of missing ships after all and being Alterra in origin doesn't necessarily have to mean they came from our ship. But, they're too pristine to be old wrecks so....

999Antonio3849 · November 2016

It says the sunbeam is a trading vessel maybe its a medium size ship about a bit smaller then the degasi it might just have small crew and TONS UPON TONS OF CARGO SPACE so it could be large but low matinenece

SnowballSniper · December 2016

awesomeguy101 wrote: »

C'mon. The Degrasi was smaller and IT was able to be salvaged. I have seem the animation for the Sunbeams destruction and.... its pathetic. A TINY little explosion and debris that falls disappearing into nothing. No sighs of it burning up in the atmosphere. The Sunbeam is a cargo ship and it would hold valuable recourses for the endgame. So whadda ya thing? Also we wouldn't need more Aurora. Link to my MORE Explorable Aurora Poll: http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/145092/explorable-sunbeam#latest

The sunbeam needs to be much larger if it's going to survive the precursor gun.

Lews · December 2016

I agree it should not be Aurora level, but a fairly large new wreck with some useful, mid-game fragments to set us off towards the next phase of the game would be cool.

SnowballSniper · December 2016

Lews wrote: »

I agree

You forgot to click on the agree button.

04Leonhardt · December 2016

In reality it'd probably be smaller than the Underwater Islands Wreck

SnowballSniper · December 2016

SnowballSniper wrote: »

Lews wrote: »

I agree

You forgot to click on the agree button.

and now you disagree about me reminding you that you forgot to click agree. .__.

Number35 · December 2016

gunmetal563 wrote: »

the sunbeam gets shot down? where did you see that and yes their should be more ships that was shot down too

even if it was shot down maybe we could explore its remains?

0x6A7232 · December 2016

The current thought is that the Sunbeam is so small it basically got vaporized into tiny pieces. I'd like to see a Sunbeam black box that you could download, though. That'd be a kind of cool sort-of Easter egg.

04Leonhardt · December 2016

0x6A7232 wrote: »

The current thought is that the Sunbeam is so small it basically got vaporized into tiny pieces. I'd like to see a Sunbeam black box that you could download, though. That'd be a kind of cool sort-of Easter egg.

>Sunbeam black box
>Probably nothing but screaming
>"Cool"

S'wrong with you m8

0x6A7232 · December 2016

It would also contain trip info (source / route / intended destination / detour to Aurora accident), possibly info about the crew, and cargo manifest. So, useless trivia information.

Underwater_Sponge · December 2016

There really isn't any evidence saying the Degrassi was smaller, but think about this: It's a cargo ship, and maybe some cargo was HIGHLY explosive. It would explain why the Degrassi could be salvaged, while the Sunbeam just gets obliterated into tiny specs. I do agree that the explosion should be a bit more spectacular, maybe a second WAPOW after the first KABOOM, but I don't think that salvaging it, and finding it's wreck should be a thing. The Sunbeam arriving should give you hope of winning the game, only for it to be shot down, and your hope getting crushed 'till nothing's left. Making it explorable would give it a different feeling, a feeling that their deaths had use, as their ship can be looted, allowing you to survive. It should feel like their deaths were pointless, and that YOU were the reason they died. Not the PreCursors, YOU, they tried to save you, and you couldn't warn them. To make it truly feel the way I imagine it has to feel, the Sunbeam's destruction can't have any pros, only cons (your hope getting crushed).

0x6A7232 · December 2016

Underwater_Sponge wrote: »

There really isn't any evidence saying the Degrassi was smaller, but think about this: It's a cargo ship, and maybe some cargo was HIGHLY explosive. It would explain why the Degrassi could be salvaged, while the Sunbeam just gets obliterated into tiny specs. I do agree that the explosion should be a bit more spectacular, maybe a second WAPOW after the first KABOOM, but I don't think that salvaging it, and finding it's wreck should be a thing. The Sunbeam arriving should give you hope of winning the game, only for it to be shot down, and your hope getting crushed 'till nothing's left. Making it explorable would give it a different feeling, a feeling that their deaths had use, as their ship can be looted, allowing you to survive. It should feel like their deaths were pointless, and that YOU were the reason they died. Not the PreCursors, YOU, they tried to save you, and you couldn't warn them. To make it truly feel the way I imagine it has to feel, the Sunbeam's destruction can't have any pros, only cons (your hope getting crushed).

Survivor's guilt.

A black box only containing mundane info, plus some detail about the crew (conversations they had on the way to pick up any survivors) would actually accentuate that.

Explorable Sunbeam.

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