Those first few days

Crimedogg

I just returned to Subnautica after a 6 month hiatus. Started a new game.

In my first game from 6 months ago, I struggled a LOT. I took me forever to find the different blueprints. I really enjoyed the game, but there definitely was frustration too.

Did the locations and availability of blueprints get changed quite a bit? I am finding things so much easier right now. The time logged on my first game was around 24 hours. I was right in the middle of building my first big base. I am at 6 hours in my new game right now, and I could be building my base (although not at depth - no upgrades yet).

I am a little torn on which way I like better. I got more satisfaction out of really struggling for everything. On the other hand, my new run has been relaxing and a lot of fun. Which do y'all prefer?

scifiwriterguy

Early game was eased up a fair bit, mainly with fragments being redistributed for key tools and parts. But you'll probably still encounter difficulty obtaining more obscure blueprints, and some resources are an outright pain to gather in any kind of quantity.

Not going to tell you how to feel about that, of course, but personally I find it less frustrating. Nothing sucks more than knowing what you need and yet because of a detail like not finding one more fragment you're stalled, so the developers making some things easier to locate earlier in the game was a nice move. Now, there's still plenty of griefing to go around, mind, but at least some of it got a little softer.