So... how will the story actually work?

honzikca

So,I know subnautica for some time,and when I first heard about the story,it sounded really good to me.But how will it actually work? Will there be any cutscenes? will the main protagonist talk? I can't think of any survival game with... well a story.I mean yeah,first thing that came to mind was minecraft,but there was basically no story until end of the game and that wasn't anything special...

Fathom

PDAs, voice work and a final cut scene AFAIK.

Rainstorm

Just guesses here, but id be highly surprised if there were any cutscenes in this game, beside the Crashing Lifepod intro we already have. theres nothing related to that on the Trello anyway that would let us believe otherwise (unless there is and i missed that)

As for the character speaking id be extremely surprised as well. The protagonist, in fact, is you (keep in mind that a Female Character is planned for the game). So in other word its not a fixed character, with his/her own name and backstory. You are the survivor that awakens in the Lifepod so any voiceover or name is out of the question, aside from the sounds he/she makes when you jump or run, get burned, stuff like that. So far, the only voice we ever hear is the PDA talking.

As for how the whole story arcs will be added to the game exactly, im not sure. The way i understood it (and i can be wrong here of course) is that there will be several game types, like now (creative, survival, hardcore) but we will soon have another game type in the form of the Story mode. Its either that, or the whole story plot will be integrated to the game types we already have, im having a hard time to understand that.

Im sure more of the specific technicalitites will be revealed to us soon. In the next big update called Dangerous Creatures/Tree Cove, theres a card titled Stand-In story fully playable. We will be fixed by then. we only got a few weeks more to wait for it.

Fathom wrote: »

PDAs, voice work and a final cut scene AFAIK.

We do have an intro scene, in the form of the lifepod crashing cutscene. Some kind of ending scene is very well possible, like when you start the rocket, game cuts and the ending scene starts with the rocket launching.