Where are the land vehicles?
TheNuclearSoldier
Mississippi, USA Join Date: 2016-12-09 Member: 224748Members
I know subnautica is set on an ocean world with known land masses to be just a few hundred meters square, but one PDA ingame mentions that the Aurora had "All Terrain Vehicles" onboard (presumably for exploring more land based planets). While an ATV (truck or 4-wheeler) would next to USELESS in game, they are still mentioned by the PDA. It would be funny to find some, download their schematics, and see how many people waste important resources just to watch their newly fabricated truck plunge uselessly into the ocean. XD
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"All terrain" would probably make the vehicles anthibious. Or a giant spider walker
You mean the Prawn?
I was just going on the modern use of the term. As in pretty much any vehicle with off road ground capability. Tho having such a useless blueprint in the game would still be hilarious.
Got yer land vehicle right there.
That bugged me as well. Im like "Why cant I scan this?!" *continues to see if I can get a different angle for the scanner*
Raises the question: whats the point of forklifts if you have PRAWN suits? They look like they can be used as heavy lifters.
That, or I guess size maybe. PRAWN suits are rather bulky, looking at them.
Yeah. It doesn't really need to be a gameplay element. Just more evidence of background lore, abit of world building.
I can agree to that.
The only thing in that department that I could see being stored in some capacity on a ship that is off to build a ->space<- station would be cargo movers and we saw fork lifts.
A phase gate is a space station. An end point of a bigass teleporter for large scale ships.
think of it like the mass drivers from Mass Effect
It was not going to be built on the surface of the planet.
Maybe like a base camp, but nothing large scale enough to facilitate land vehicles.
Well the planet wasn't a fully known quantity (as apparently any ship that got close gets blasted by that damned artillery cannon). So they would have to bring a variety of vehicles due to not being sure if there was enough land or not. One would assume they brought at least 1 land based vehicle that would serve the same purpose on land as the Seamoth and Cyclops do in the sea, just in case.
Bro you can see from space if the planet has land on it. They knew it was mostly an Aquatic world. Which is why you find Cyclops and Seamoth fragments and not Peterbilt and Nissan Sentra fragments
Actually it's an uncharted planet, so they had no knowledge of it before the ship arrived. Therefore, while the Aurora would have been able to tell when in orbit that they needed their ocean planet gear, they would not have known on the journey there what to expect.
My first thought as well.
Not to mention that when the Aurora got close, it got shot down.
- The aquatic mining equipment
- The weird proportions of the player model
- The super human swimming speed
These all indicate that the player (and Alterra) are part of an aquatic space-faring civilisation... i.e. one which moves from water world to water world...
I mean - why not have different civilisations for different planetary niches right? Less competition.
Yeah, the Aurora was supposed to look for the Degassi while doing a gravity slingshot maneuver.