Now What?
Marlz
Join Date: 2016-05-01 Member: 216219Members
Join Date: 2016-05-01 Member: 216219Members
So I have loved every hour I have played this game (about 20) but I'm now at a place where I have a small base, I have the seamoth and cyclops, I explored the Aurora. What is there to do now?
I just feel like before I built the cyclops there was a reason to go explore and look for blueprint fragments. Now, I guess I can just collect resources for more stuff (I have made everything I think I will use) but I just don't have the drive to do so. I feel like I have no real goal in the game. Am I missing something?
I just feel like before I built the cyclops there was a reason to go explore and look for blueprint fragments. Now, I guess I can just collect resources for more stuff (I have made everything I think I will use) but I just don't have the drive to do so. I feel like I have no real goal in the game. Am I missing something?
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If you're still loving it, you'll have to set your own goals, like;
- find all the the abandoned bases and wrecks and get their scannables
- build aquariums for pet <insert fish here>
- construct the most elaborate base you can, which will keep you busy gathering resources
- take it to the reapers
Also its the same effect for many other survival games. At a certain level the game is no longer so exciting like before because you've an equipment which facilitates the survival.
The biggest problem for me compared with other games of this kind is the world size of Subnautica. After you've build the seamoth shrinks the world by a multiple.
You can reach all areas of the world in minutes where you need in other games hours or days.
Like always just my2cents...
Only wait for mid next week and you probably can expect all new tech (resource changes, reactors, scanner room, basic exosuit) that allows you playing with deep ore mining. It's called machine update.
Next month (somewhere in June) is scheduled to have the most of the hot lava and lost river areas ready, probably with dangers of all kind around (heat, acid, lava, creatures, plants), preventing you to just go look there. So it's exploration time with lots of deep biomes alive that were formerly empty. Maybe you might also try to discover hidden caves and precursor bases by then.
July-August will probably bring the story into the game you can play with. Together with additional creature attacks and getting the major elements to work properly. So this would be the time to experience the Subnautica story you could ignore so far.
The rest after August will probably be major polishing and finishing what's left. No more features, just testing and balancing.
You should wait for next week's update and then do a fresh restart. If you're finished too early you might find the secret places in the game until the next update then brings the deep biomes to life. A third restart would be necessary for the story update.
- Deck your Cyclops to make it a fully functional mobile base (add planters, lockers, small aquarium, fabricators, etc)
- Setup thermal power for a deep sea base (from a thermal vent)
- Build a base at the floater island
- Collect all creature eggs and hatch them in large aquariums at your base (that will force you to explore all biomes)
- Collect one live specimen of all the fish in the game
- Create indoor & undersea gardens from all flora in the game
Also, there's plenty of resources to build huge bases. All the quartz in the blood kelp abyss. All the copper around the sparse reef biome (on the pillars).
If anyone has more suggestions for the late game, please post.
Not sure if the reefback and mesmer eggs are obtainable without console commands.
Haven't seen a Spadefish egg in the wild either but apparently you can get them by keeping two Spadefish in a large aquarium, since we can now catch Spadefish (kind makes the eggs pointless).
Have you actually found a Shuttlebug egg?
Do fishes in the aquarium reproduce if you have 2 of each kind ?
Large aquarium, yes. I'm pretty sure that stalkers breed in captivity (started with 2, ended with 6...) but jelly rays and rabbit rays have yet to do the same thing.
Yeah, without weather, seasons or attacks perpetual survival gameplay is kindof lackluster.
I did exactly as the others - I eventually built a giant system of underground aquariums in order to breed every species in the game (gotta catch 'em all). I also gradually built additional bases in other biomes.
I just started playing it with a lower frequency.
I'm currently thinking of using the console to spawn a reaper in grass-plateaus... you know, to keep things interesting.
Oh great had no idea, thanks for the info
I've never seen a shuttlebug egg, no. Maybe you're right about the reefback and mesmer eggs.
Turns out the youtuber everynightxRIOT found a reefback egg legit (in experimental version).