First time "Subnautica" on XBO - my Experiences (if the dev-team is interessted)
eddi80
Join Date: 2016-10-07 Member: 222947Members
Join Date: 2016-10-07 Member: 222947Members
hi dev-team,
with this post, i just want to write you my experiences of my first subnautica time.
First of all - idea is great!
Fresh scenario. It makes really fun to discover the world.
Please dont get me wrong, i really like the game. the list of possible optimizations is long, because i want to give you some input for the future.
But i also found some glitches:
some graphices/tiles are just "boxes".
e.g. if you drop titanium in water (from inventory to water), it is just black boxes.
Sometimes the airbubbles are also dark squares.
ALso, i think with the last update "creatures" from yesterday the respawn-bug of fishes/ressources is still not fixed.
In the intro-sequence (entering the pod) the pod should be in the space, right? but on the floor you already see waves of water
When the pod is landed on the water, the waves are also still visible on the floor of the pod.
Swimming seems not to work on XBO. I saw in a youtube video, how a player could "swim" on the water-surface. I was not possible to do this on XBO.
It is extreme difficult to catch fishes by hand. ok - realistic, but a harpoon would be cool (for balancing rules, with very limited numbers or arrows).
Some ideas for the future:
really small story line: "User please find out what happened to your mothership".
There are some datapads with some informations/short stories, but it would be create to have much more, to get a closer relationship to the mothership and to other crew-members (maybe more dramatic stories).
Compass would be create.
or something like a "lost civilization/city/village" like Atlantis and discover the secretes and find e.g. some technologies.
I would also like to have a mechanism to create a more randomised map.
From my point of view, it shouldnt be very hard. (more or less, highmap creation and sume rules for positioning of objects).
With only one map, it doesnt make sense to start several games - not so many reasons for a replay in the future.
Randomised events:
e.g. a storm (lot of waves which could impact the pod and the inventory in the pod or your station). Not possible to go out to swim because player can not see anything.
or a "jellyfish-flood", because of some weather events the jellyfish population gets bigger and bigger (for 1 or 2 days) - maybe some "fire-jellyfish" which can hurt the player.
Or a whale is "checking out" your base something like this, to get more and more surprises (with some friendly big creatures)...
Regarding graphics:
On XBO it is stuttering seomtimes. I am wondering, because the graphics doesnt look very complex. Also some objects are shown suddenly (dont know the english word for it, that objects get visible from "nothing" to visible. So rendering of objects in the disctance should be optimized.)
By the way, the 3D models look really "simple" compared with the PC version. i know, I know, PC has much more performance, but, come on, you can make it better on XBO
So, a lot of stuff. And i think, much of my ideas and feedback is already adressed by other players - but mabye you see, there is a demand for some of this changes
So please take it positive, like i mean it - just ideas for you to make a more and more better game. Thats the reason for "Game preview/early access"
Thank you for your time to read this long post
Eddi
with this post, i just want to write you my experiences of my first subnautica time.
First of all - idea is great!
Fresh scenario. It makes really fun to discover the world.
Please dont get me wrong, i really like the game. the list of possible optimizations is long, because i want to give you some input for the future.
But i also found some glitches:
some graphices/tiles are just "boxes".
e.g. if you drop titanium in water (from inventory to water), it is just black boxes.
Sometimes the airbubbles are also dark squares.
ALso, i think with the last update "creatures" from yesterday the respawn-bug of fishes/ressources is still not fixed.
In the intro-sequence (entering the pod) the pod should be in the space, right? but on the floor you already see waves of water
When the pod is landed on the water, the waves are also still visible on the floor of the pod.
Swimming seems not to work on XBO. I saw in a youtube video, how a player could "swim" on the water-surface. I was not possible to do this on XBO.
It is extreme difficult to catch fishes by hand. ok - realistic, but a harpoon would be cool (for balancing rules, with very limited numbers or arrows).
Some ideas for the future:
really small story line: "User please find out what happened to your mothership".
There are some datapads with some informations/short stories, but it would be create to have much more, to get a closer relationship to the mothership and to other crew-members (maybe more dramatic stories).
Compass would be create.
or something like a "lost civilization/city/village" like Atlantis and discover the secretes and find e.g. some technologies.
I would also like to have a mechanism to create a more randomised map.
From my point of view, it shouldnt be very hard. (more or less, highmap creation and sume rules for positioning of objects).
With only one map, it doesnt make sense to start several games - not so many reasons for a replay in the future.
Randomised events:
e.g. a storm (lot of waves which could impact the pod and the inventory in the pod or your station). Not possible to go out to swim because player can not see anything.
or a "jellyfish-flood", because of some weather events the jellyfish population gets bigger and bigger (for 1 or 2 days) - maybe some "fire-jellyfish" which can hurt the player.
Or a whale is "checking out" your base
something like this, to get more and more surprises (with some friendly big creatures)...Regarding graphics:
On XBO it is stuttering seomtimes. I am wondering, because the graphics doesnt look very complex. Also some objects are shown suddenly (dont know the english word for it, that objects get visible from "nothing" to visible. So rendering of objects in the disctance should be optimized.)
By the way, the 3D models look really "simple" compared with the PC version. i know, I know, PC has much more performance, but, come on, you can make it better on XBO
So, a lot of stuff. And i think, much of my ideas and feedback is already adressed by other players - but mabye you see, there is a demand for some of this changes
So please take it positive, like i mean it - just ideas for you to make a more and more better game. Thats the reason for "Game preview/early access"
Thank you for your time to read this long post
Eddi
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http://subnautica.wikia.com/wiki/Compass