Reefback's back reef?

BIPPITY

just a quick question, will we ever be seeing the Reefback's plant-life covered back as shown in this concept art?
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/subnautica/images/f/fa/Concept-art-the-reefback-by-pat-presley-the-art-of-subnautica.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/640?cb=20150517234510

Britemac

Supposedly Reef Backs will eventually be mobile plantations, from what I've heard

solar71

I would love that!

BIPPITY

yeah at the moment Reefback's look somewhat plain, I hope they get the plant-life on their back, it would be even better if smaller fish lived on the Reefback's back.

sayerulz

I think that for them to really seem like mobile ecosystems, they need to be bigger.

BIPPITY

i think if they doubled their size they would be fine.

Racer1

These are mostly babies. Unfortunately, adult reefbacks were spawning all in one place when the ship crashed, and it killed most of them.

Darwin-Evolution

I've already heard that the developers are working on a sort of plantation that can be grown on reefbacks. That is an EXCELLENT idea, but remember that reefbacks move, so it'd be difficult to find the plantation again. The only way to easily find an area is to place a beacon close by, but beacons don't move; they just float in mid-water. So here's my idea : beacons can be upgraded using the workbench so that they actually stick to the belly of a reefback or other large animal. That way the player would never loose his/her plantations.

Racer1

Another problem with this is that the game only "runs" for an area a few hundred meters around the player. So, if the reefback, is out of range, stuff on it just stops moving/growing.

Based on this design decision (by UWE) I have always wondered how the game would work once it gets more complex. I'm still holding out for a change to at least do a macro-simulation of the entire game area behind the scenes - e.g. with a WorldSimulationManager - but have yet to see this in action.

Eitelkeit

One of the most strong impressions from the game is when you anxiously looting in grassy platos for that silver and fragments and then hear that mighty horn-like sound shattering you to the depth of your mind. You raise your head frightened and there he is, the floating island above you, obscuring the sun. Love the reefbacks.

BIPPITY

Eitelkeit wrote: »

One of the most strong impressions from the game is when you anxiously looting in grassy platos for that silver and fragments and then hear that mighty horn-like sound shattering you to the depth of your mind. You raise your head frightened and there he is, the floating island above you, obscuring the sun. Love the reefbacks.

Reefbacks are the best, I don't know why i like them so much really they're kind of boring...