End Goal?
Niklasdiver
Join Date: 2012-02-18 Member: 146675Members, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Shadow
Join Date: 2012-02-18 Member: 146675Members, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Shadow
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I think subnautica could fall flat on its face if that is the case, especially when the world is not randomly generated.
A backstory yes, but there will not be any ongoing plot, games in this genre do not have those.
As is the case with most games like this, there almost certainly will not be and end, in this day of DayZ, Minecraft, Rust, and so on, that is to be expected.
I think it is fair to say that if the devs make a good game, they will have made it by focusing on the exploration. I do not think that Subnautica will have the replayability of a game with infinite amounts of randomly generated maps, but that does not mean it will run out quickly.
Yes, a good game can not only be about exploration, even less so if the environment is very limited in size.
Are you basing this off the statement that the pre-alpha build of the game is not a very large area? Or is there something here I do not know? Of course a game can be all about exploring, you saying it cannot simply implies that you are not willing to accept a game that is not incredibly long. As far as games go, 10 hours is a decent length, and anything above 20 is long.
A game can easily be all about exploring.
You seem to be assuming a lot about a game that we have very little information to. Im the first person to say I want exploration to be the main meat of this game, but I also would like some sort of actual game within that, goals and small tasks, whether set by myself or the game. I think if we stay away from "fight this, kill that, collect x number of y" we should have something very unique and interesting.
The current plan is to have Normal and Freedom modes, where Freedom has no timed goals and Normal is all about making the planet habitable before the colonists arrive.
It's still in the early stages so you won't see Normal mode in the first build on Friday, and probably not for at least a few weeks after that. I think it could be really interesting though.
I think of it a bit like the scoring chart in Agricola (attached) - there would be many ways to earn points, but the way you do that, and the order, and what you choose to specialize in, would be up to you.
The time limit is then probably also easier to comprehend.
Then they can try to include the new part in the map of Subnautica.
So the map gets bigger and bigger and you can explore more and more.
I think the majority of people (not just in this community) would have a hard time creating sections of map that not only mesh with other parts, but meet the visual quality standards of UWE (they put a lot of detail into everything).
-Establish a Sattelitenetwork back to Spacestation ForwardearthbaseOne and tell them that this planet isn´t safe vor MassKolonisation yet.
You probably won´t sent Millions of Settlers right into the mouth of this giant Spacesquid that destroyed the first big ship.
A timelimit could also be interpreted with the Mainbattery on your lifeboat running dry.
It's just an assumption, but given UWE's past of incorporating content from the community, it's not a far stretch to imagine that if you made something beautiful, fun, and in line with the theme of the game - that they may be tempted to implement it.
currently there are no plans for mod support.
Thanks for the info anyways