Subnautica

NeverWinter said:
I just picked this up yesterday as part of the Humble Bundle, any tips for a beginner?
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Just go out and have fun exploring! When I first started, I got myself sorted with the basics and then I gathered enough materials and built myself a small base underneath the LifePod that you start at. I could then put lockers inside and store stuff that I picked up.

Stay away from the back of the Aurora. That's Reaper territory!

And if the game starts to get really laggy, you'll need to clear out your cache files. Keep in mind that doing so resets the resources that have spawned in the game. But it improves the performance drastically! There's a tool that can do that here.

Honestly, the game is just beautiful and it's so much fun just discovering stuff. But it can also be terrifying at the same time. Just enjoy!
 
have a play around on the explore mode (no survival elements like food and oxygen) Reason being is that when i first started i spent a lot of time just looking for stuff to keep me alive and the right ingredients to build stuff.
 
CHokKA said:
Just go out and have fun exploring! When I first started, I got myself sorted with the basics and then I gathered enough materials and built myself a small base underneath the LifePod that you start at. I could then put lockers inside and store stuff that I picked up.

Stay away from the back of the Aurora. That's Reaper territory!

And if the game starts to get really laggy, you'll need to clear out your cache files. Keep in mind that doing so resets the resources that have spawned in the game. But it improves the performance drastically! There's a tool that can do that here.

Honestly, the game is just beautiful and it's so much fun just discovering stuff. But it can also be terrifying at the same time. Just enjoy!
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Yeah, I found the reaper last night... Fun times.

I've been exploring, going slowly, should probably start making a base and getting the vehicles.
 
Definitely play for a while in explore or freedom for the first hour or so to let you get used to it, as there isn't really an introduction telling you how to do stuff.

I had a play on it again the other week and had some great fun, finally got my leetle subs :)

One tip, don't make your primary base in the safe shallows (starting area), it makes it quite hard and time consuming to get the Cyclops near enough for transfering stuff, as you can see there isn't much clearance under the sub (I need to move my base which is just behind my guy as it takes several minutes of careful driving to get the sub near it).

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Also, don't be afraid to make multiple small (one tube) bases scattered around the place, especially when you're starting out as having one in an area with a high number of resources can mean you save a lot of time surfacing for air, and later on you can enlarge a couple of them to give you places to recharge batteries for the seamoth.
 
That sounds like "fun" :)

Especially at depths where you might not have much time to run around with the repair tool, I managed to sink mine a couple of times last year as it is :)

Although one thing I did learn, was the importance of spare batteries as at the time you couldn't recharge them so I started carrying 2 or 3 spares.
 
CHokKA said:
And if the game starts to get really laggy, you'll need to clear out your cache files. Keep in mind that doing so resets the resources that have spawned in the game. But it improves the performance drastically! There's a tool that can do that here.
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It seems I have some bugged reefbacks and a reaper. If I reset the cache files will that reset their locations?
 
Bought this on a whim, and my god is it pretty and immersive. I flipping love it.

What I didnt love were the creatures I encounted on the ship
 
Well last night I went exploring in the PRAWN suit. I gathered what I thought was enough food and water, and then headed to my Cyclops, which is stationed right outside my main base that's on top of a pillar in the Grand Reef. I'll get some screenshots tonight, but it's still very much a work in progress! I deliberately headed away from all beacons that I've placed so that I knew I was going in a new direction. I managed to find what I'm guessing is the Deep Grand Reef, so I grabbed some fruit off the trees in my Cyclops, some bottles of water, and cured fish, and hopped into my PRAWN suit to explore. You know you're in the right place when you start to see loads of those Jellyrays. I quickly discovered that this area is absolutely littered with Warpers that wanted to own me in the face! Fortunately none of them warped me out of the PRAWN suit, and at least one felt the sting of my mining arm! I also dealt with a few Crabsquid by hooking onto them with the grapple attachment, and then mining them to death. That then allowed me to scan them in relative safety! They can be pretty annoying to be honest.

So I then ventured deeper down. I dropped a beacon at the edge of a ledge before I dropped down, so that I'll be able to find the entrance again. It split off into two separate areas, one that looked to be an active lava zone, but further in and across, and another that just went deeper and deeper down. This led me to the Lost River. It was so atmospheric down there. I explored right the way through and then discovered that it dropped off even further down, into another lava zone. I ended up venturing further in, found loads of sulphur and some kyanite, which I need to make something (I can't remember what though!) and raided my food reserves that I had stored in the PRAWN suit's storage compartment. I realised that I would probably run out if I continued in further, so I backtracked, and ended up finding enough Titanium in a node to allow me to build a little compartment for storage. Unfortunately, I didn't have any glass so I couldn't build a hatch to get inside! Doh! I'll know for next time to carry some glass with me. Although, now, my plan tonight is to see if I can get my Cyclops down there. In all, I think I was down to about 1200m and there was still more to go through, so there's a lot to explore. I couldn't figure out whether the noises I kept hearing were the large Ghost Ray's, or something larger, but they sounded loud and big so I think it's something else down there! Possibly the Sea Dragon, but I'm not sure I want to find out.

This experience alone highlights just what Subnautica is about. Exploring this game is a wonderful, vibrant, atmospheric, and at times, terrifying experience! It is by far one of the most enjoyable games that I've played in a long time.
 
Last night I went back to the Lost River, but this time I managed to get my Cyclops down a way into the caverns so I had a forward base to return to if I needed anything. I stopped the Cyclops outside the little base that I established the night before, and went down and built a hatch so I can go inside. I've also added a multipurpose room. I'll build another on top of this tonight and then the idea will be to put an Aquarium inside one room, and a bioreactor in another, stock up the aquarium with fish from the Lost River area and then I can use these as fuel to power this small base if I ever need to do any extended work down there. On this subject, does anyone know whether the power to your base will stay at the level it's at if you don't use it, or whether it eventually drains away? I have always had stuff going on in my bases so I don't know for sure.

Anyway, here are a few shots that I took whilst exploring:

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I went much deeper than this but forgot to take shots :( I'll get some more tonight, but I ended up stopping at around 1400m because I was worried that without the upgraded jets on the PRAWN, that I wouldn't be able to get back up again because the drops were getting steeper and steeper the further in I went. I ended up over 1000m away from the Cyclops in the end, and that was already about 1000m into the Lost River, so it stretches down far!

After that I headed back to my base to build a few things. Here are a few shots of my base in the Grand Reef. It's built across two different-level pillars, hence the series of tubes linking to the top part. The top part of the base houses a Bioreactor and a Nuclear Reactor, along with an Aquarium. I've also build a few plant beds outside but I am yet to plant things into that! I've been having too much fun exploring. I've gone for two Moonpools in this base, one for the PRAWN and the other for the Seamoth. I do hope that eventually they'll add in a Moonpool that will accommodate the Cyclops. That would be awesome.

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And inside:

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It really is an awesome game!
 
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