Towards a Big Explosion - Subnautica

System · April 2015

Towards a Big Explosion - Subnautica

Today, 400 megabytes of extra Subnautica went coursing through the pipes of Steam. Evidently, we changed something! Over the past month, we’ve been working on the Crash Site update. We...

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Hugh · April 2015

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ctoptrophobe · April 2015

Thanks for the update! Looking forward to the big Crash Site update, but I'll take memory fixes all day!

Fireclaw · April 2015

Woot woot!

electricjazz · April 2015

Awesome and thank you!

Lareks · April 2015

As per usual, really awesome work guys and really well done but just one thing. Before this update on the old UI for the fabricator everything was as per normal, now when I want to build a cyclops, I can't find the option to make enameled glass. Granted I am playing a free non threatening world I am still wondering what happened there. Otherwise please keep up the great work, this game is fast becoming a favourite of mine

PS: I am talking about the early development build 16296 APR-15

tarek · April 2015

ThX guys I just hope after this u will make the map infinite (well minecraft style infinite)

Also the recipes seem to only appear when one of the ingredients is in our pack... not all though

DeeCee · April 2015

Cool new features! Can't wait to test them out... I'll be posting new videos shortly with this awesome new stuff, in my Subnautica Series!

Phalaguim · April 2015

You didn't need to put two of the eels so close together.. they killed my moth in 2 hits, killed me in 1. They're abit buggy.. pushing you through terrain etc, but that's not really an issue.

You're supposed to invite the player to the exploded ship, not obliterate them.

The eel thing looks abit jerky in it's swim motion, but again that's something that can be worked on.

The endless radiation get's annoying after awhile, would be nice to be able to escape it and since people will want to escape it, maybe add a tow line to the game so they can tow their life pod into a clean area. Bases maybe should be immune to radiation, have scrubbers or something.. give us somewhere to hide from the ditditditditditditditditditdit noise.

Otherwise, it's great, love the explosion, the early warning, the need to collect items and research fabricator.

Oh and what's the name of the face hugging eel things?

Phalaguim · April 2015

Lareks wrote: »

I can't find the option to make enameled glass.

Seriously?

Pick up a tooth and hand it in and it'll tell you how to make it. It's kinda obvious.

Racer1 · April 2015

The explosion needs one or two very bright flashes interspersed with the sequence (like what you see at the beginning of a nuclear explosion). It could be seen from just about anywhere on the map, and "over exposes" the view for one or two seconds.

Phalaguim · April 2015

When you reload the save/game, the explosion damage is gone and the radiation as well for awhile, it comes back tho, eventually.

Mysterio · April 2015

very nice, thank you for optimising the bug issues,

Jekt · April 2015

Reaper leviathan? Wat?

This is the leviathan from the Mass Effect universe, a name given to a race that lives on an underwater planet that the reapers image is based on.

Interesting name choice.. : D Maybe change the reaper part?

Racer1 · April 2015

leviathan is a very common name used all over the place -- usually for a very large, dangerous, and often ancient monster

Fireclaw · April 2015

Leviathan is used in almost every monster game/movie there is about something that swallow your entire family whole, so not exactly seeing what the big deal is there.

tarek · April 2015

we rly need ways to kill those annoying acid poopers and the sharks

Randy.slik · April 2015

is subnautica going to be a console game to or just pc ?

Racer1 · April 2015

Right now it is targeted to Windows (and possibly Mac). UWE has not mentioned any plans for console support.

P.S. UWE posted a screenshot in Twitter on April 7 of Subnautica supposedly running on a GameCube. I didn't think Unity supported GameCube so this may be just a late April fools tease.

Hyp3rion · April 2015

Awesome little update for fixes, especially like the crash warning (which I saw for the first time the other night) and the ability to equip stuff to your character doll which frees up inventory space.

Keep up the great work guys! Looking forward to the Aurora update when it's ready

Han_Yolo · April 2015

Can the explosion and the resulting debris damage the player's underwater base? Kinda like the idea that it at least punches holes into it and lets the base flood.