Devs are asking for any final polishing ideas for 1.0 in this thread in /r/subnautica

0x6A7232 · November 2016

I'm sure they check the feedback in this thread as well, but hey! (Also a chance to organize your ideas into a comprehensive list / upvote others who already submitted the same idea)

Especially if your idea was in response to someone else's thread, I'd re-post a list of all your ideas that would be considered a final touch of polish here: https://www.reddit.com/r/subnautica/comments/5b4yqh/subnautica_polish_we_want_your_feedback/

Hey Subnauts! We are quickly headed for Subnautica 1.0 and I wanted to get everyone's opinion on what they would like to see in the final game. We know we have a lot of bugs left to fix, and optimization left to do; and we plan to get as much done as we can. That said, we also want to make the game as sexy as possible and adding some spit shine to various elements of the game will really help that along.

We want to get your feedback. What things would you love to see in Subnautica 1.0 that's not in there now?
Check the roadmap to make sure we're not already planning to add the feature you would like! https://trello.com/b/KbugnSRJ/subnautica-roadmap

Here's an example of what polish IS:

The planets move too fast in the sky, you should slow them down.

FOV slider

Make the stupid lifepod stop drifting!

I would love it if the label on the storage create was easier to click.

You should add a way to turn on/off beacons and icons, they clutter the screen too much.

Here's what polish is NOT:
Multiplayer

More submarines

It would be so cool if the base could transform into a robot and fight the reaper.

Bugs should not necessarily be considered on this list, this is more or less for small, new features or enhancements/minor changes to current ones.
Upvote your favorite items and if they are reasonably easy to add in or worthwhile we may pick them for 1.0.
And for the love of Sammy The Safety Reaper: Multiplayer^{is^{not^{a^{polish^item!}}}}
Edit: Formatting
Edit 2: I'm reading every single thing here! There are some great ideas! Keep em' coming!

omegataur · November 2016

please do something to improve the construction tool, is very annoying to keep swimming around the place you want to put something accurately

DrownedOut · November 2016

Okay, so I think these would all qualify as polish:

FINAL VERSION: I categorized and numbered the list.

PDA:

I think the new "New Addition" icon system is a great move, but I don't really like the color contrast between the harsh red and soft blue. Alterra tech seems to focus mainly on blue, shades of grey, and yellow, so maybe yellow (or orange) could be the icon's color?
At the moment the only Advanced Theories entry on the PDA are stalker teeth. This is awkward. Either it should be removed entirely (not in favor) or a few more should be added. Crash powder, sea treader manure, and gaspods seem logical candidates at this point in time.
There is no indication at which location you retrieved PDA log entries. This isn't a problem, but I would like a reminder in case of lifepod logs which lifepod I got them from. It would help envision what happened to everyone post-crash.
Very minor, but I find the word "unlocked" when you scan anything native to the planet an odd choice of words. Fragments you unlock, sure, because those are part of Alterra's programming, but lifeforms and natural structures you "discover" or "document" or "describe".
I'm glad to see you are adding the ability to access the PDA in vehicles. Would it also be possible to access them while lying down on a bed or are beds set for auto-sleep?
It's been asked several times already, but could we get a day counter on the PDA? Right now, the only way to tell how many days you've been playing is if you're fortunate enough to get another log file late game.

Recipes

I recommend upping the maximum number of different ingredients per recipe from four to five, with only a few special recipes actually needing five different ingredients. The prompter for this are the freebie powercells from the Cyclops and PRAWN. Those should be part of the recipe, not be formed out of thin air what with the essentialism of energy management to the gameplay.
Same for the welder. As long as it requires a battery, it should cost a battery. Construction of the player's first battery could come with a PDA log emphasizing the ability to exchange batteries and operate multiple tools on one battery if necessary.
The rad suit should be created in three separate pieces, not all at once. Having separate icons in the fabricator menu (suits could be a separate category from equipment if need be) and perhaps noting on the product description the protection is only (X)% for each piece should be clear enough that only one part won't protect you. Plus, there's lifepod 6.
Any chance the knife can get a spear upgrade from the mod station to not make acid mushroom and deep shroom harvesting self-destructive? It'd be late enough in the game not to be interesting as a weapon and just timely for shroom farming.

Vehicles:

Anything comprehensive with the lifepod probably is beyond polishing, but if something can be done that it can be reasonably moved with vehicles, even if little by little (right now, it drifts back to its old position pretty fast), that'd be great.
Please make the seats in the lifepod functional. It's only logical and has the potential to be majorly useful the first few days of a fresh game. Since you've said popular vote influences what you prioritize, I refer to the number of agrees here.
I would like for NPCs to stop targeting vehicles that are within the moonpool. That oughta be a safezone and logically make the vehicles not "recognizable" as prey anymore. Mind that this isn't just about a vehicle not getting destroyed but also about not drawing predators to your base.
Now that lights cost energy, it would be great if they don't automatically turn back on when you load a game or switch out the powercell. It would also be appreciated to have some indication if the lights are on or not because you can't tell when you aren't near an object to shine a light on.
For that matter, I would appreciate a reconsideration of the vehicle energy drain to be just slightly more forgiving. As it is, I consider the drain anti-exploration. Even as an experienced player I have to plan my journeys tightly to get by in early game. It does not have to be what it was before, just a little more forgiving.
When the Seamoth is docked but there's no energy in the base, the message when hovering over it is "CyclopsNoPower" - or something like that, the Cyclops bit being the error here.
There is still no save game icon for when you acquire the PRAWN. There is for the Seamoth and Cyclops, but not the PRAWN (while we're at it, I don't see why the seaglide couldn't have an icon either).
The PRAWN has many pieces of animation that don't take their cues. The jump jet pack remains on if you park it inside a moonpool while jumping, every time it's outside and I look back quickly its lid is open, the drill animation continues if you leave the suit while drilling, etc.
The Cyclops 2/3rd complete message that never disappears from your fragment list even if you've already built one is still a thing.
The ladder side of the Cyclops's storage area is a little bare compared to the five lockers on the other side. What I'd like is one larger built-in locker on the ladder side that's 6x6 so our resource gathering vessel can bring along the seaglide or vehicle bay.
I would like a key that auto-resets the Cyclops's cameras to their default position. Even with the direction icon, I still take too long to manually find the front-facing direction again after taking a peek to the side.
I would like a key to give the Seamoth a short boost or jump of sorts to unbeach it if it has beached. It can be a killer to explore one of the islands or Aurora and to return, only to find your vehicle won't take you anywhere anymore.
I would like an icon cue when using the PRAWN's grappling hook as to whether what I am aiming for is within the chain's reach. My idea for it would be a triangle on the outside of the circular cursor which location indicates the distance to the target. Doesn't overlap with the propulsion cannon cue, and an estimate of the distance is important to know what your odds of reaching the targeted area is if you are in midfall or such.
I don't see reason that the PRAWN cannot hover about water. It doesn't need to ascend as strongly as it would in the water, but the way it basically drops like a brick when past the waves is weird.
Walking around on the lower deck of the Cyclops is hampered by the threshold-slopes. Trying to get up them is met with resistance on occasion.
If you're going to finetune the Cyclops, can the walls' hitbox be a little closer to the walls? The floating wall attachments aren't a pretty sight and the distance I need to place a bed from the wall (in the middle room) means it just gets in front of the doors.
Oh, and if you use Camera 3 on the Cyclops, only the fin on your right is visible, as if the camera is not placed in the center. It's small, but it bugs me.

Farming:

When you build the alien containment for the first time, the message you get still refers to it as the aquarium, its old name. I would like this to be updated.
Speaking of the alien containment, harvesting the small stuff (mushrooms, for instance) from above almost always also opens the planter PUI. Which then I have to close before I can continue harvesting. Would be great if clicking just only let me harvest.
Plants, or at least seedless creepvines, that need a double-storey alien containment to reach their full growth, become indestructible when they hit the ceiling of a single-storey alien containment (at about 57% growth).
Some aquatic plants, those being spore sacks, blue palms, writhing weed, veined nettles, membrain trees, the base of seed-carrying creepvine, and koosh bushes, are invisible during growth unless you basically touch them with your nose.
Very young growing seed-carrying creepvine shows seeds when looked at from a distance. It is bare when close by, as it should be because seed doesn't start growing until the plant matures.
Spore sacks need to be destroyed upon being knifed. As it is, one can gather two seeds from it, pick it up, then replant it, then get another two seeds, and so on. It might also be worth letting spore sacks rot, as right now they are eternal food.
For that matter, are the seeds for small plants ever supposed to be less than four per plant? Spore sacks give me three seeds and pygmy fans only two.
The knife detection box for small plants growing in an alien containment is very specific. It usually takes me multiple attempts to find an angle from which a knife hit will land.
Tiger Plants have been made passive in case they are planted in the alien containment, but they are still aggressive in planters and can badly damage your base while aiming for you or a fish passing by. I don't know how I feel about that, but at least a warning would be a nice gesture.

Base functionality:

We need some rebalancing in regards to powercells and I have the following two proposals. The first is to slightly nerf the moon pool. I think it is fair that energy is required to dock a vessel; say, 10 energy points? Undocking should be free because otherwise your base can essentially keep your vessel hostage and I doubt that would be appreciated. This will elongate the powercell charger-to-moon pool transition and give it some strategical meaning. The moon pool's insta-recharge is also not needed and awkward compared to the time the charger takes. It does not need to take as long, but I think it will improve both the charger's use and energy management in general to have a slower moon pool recharge. The other thing I propose is to make the vehicle bay require energy. Despite it needing a powercell for construction and being pickup-able, it never needs changing of the cell like the other tools need their batteries to be changed. I would suggest a hefty price of 60% for each vehicle made, but with the perk that as long as the vehicle bay is deployed it can gather energy slowly from the waves. This system would have the benefit of somewhat bridging the period between needing power cells for the first time and acquiring the powercell charger.
Speaking of the vehicle bay having self-recharging capability, I feel the floating pump should at least contain a copper wire like the beacon. Relatedly, I recommend for both the floating pump and pipes to be moved to the deployable section. They're currently in the equipment section, where they don't belong.
There's a lot of work to be done on the scanner room, so it's largely pointless to say anything about it. However, I would prefer if the cameras would have to be made separately, actually cost a battery, and for that battery to be manually replaceable.
The ability to build MP rooms in the center of platforms has been requested many times by the fanbase. It is a worthy consideration.
I don't think there's ever been a clear answer as to why hull reinforcements placed on the angles of a MP room are supposed to have a value of +14 instead of +7. If it's a bug, it's time to be squashed. If it's intentional, give a reason.
Some way to always check on hull integrity. Building another piece only to discover through building that you end up in the negatives is not fun.
On the opposite end, it would be great if pieces that require energy list their drain in the item description the same way the effect on hull integrity is currently listed.
No more clipping issues with the medkit fabricator. (Does the medkit fabricator even drain energy?)
No more water inside the base when building at surface level.
The bioreactor is still a hazard to use because since two updates ago opening it at an angle or too far or too near will bring up a blank PDA screen that can't be closed anymore.
The bioreactor still does not accept blood oil or nutrition blocks. Even though both by all means are organic material.
This is incredibly feelsy, but I'd like for fishes when they are put into the bioreactor to be auto-listed as dead.
Opening a locker (not a wall locker; a locker) from a distance brings up an invisible PDA. This one can be closed but is all the same not pretty.
I have no problem with the fabrication time for titanium ingots and plasteel ingots, but I do dislike that the fabricator kicks me out once they're completed. If I stay to wait, I should not be kicked out.
Please fix whatever it is that solar cells do that makes them double in capacity when built near the surface. That on itself is no problem, but it also doubles the energy expenses of the fabricator. And that itself is barely a problem, but very often when I am not yet at a minimum of ten points, I can already use the fabricator (since it would normally be able to fabricate at five points), but it won't make anything because it needs ten points. Instead, my energy points just disappear with nothing in return for them. That is annoying.
Full rotation for all base pieces. The vehicle bay also could do with a rotation ability (something I recall it had once?)
I would like to be able to add reinforced walls to the ends of corridors and the scanner room. It's odd it only accepts windows and portals as of yet.
Windows on hatches and the scanner room are too clear when looked at from the pool in the moon pool. Both creepvines are also too clear from that angle but only above a certain distance. Reinforced walls on moon pools always shine bright even when its nighttime.
Would it be possible to up the amount of symbols on wall lockers from ten to twelve (or more)? Examples of words that currently can't be fully written down are "reactorrods", "electronics", and "crashpowder".
The modification station needs some finetuning. For starters, the modules for Seamoth and PRAWN are still listed as "Seamoth upgrades" and the Cyclops upgrades icon is colored too brightly when inactive (also a thing in the cyclops fabricator menu) compared to the other icons. In general, I don't see why each item that can be upgraded has to be listed separately in the main menu when they share a category on the fabricator. Propulsion cannon and knife are both tools, flippers and oxygen tank are both equipment, and Cyclops upgrades and Seamoth upgrades are both vehicle upgrades. The main menu can be shortened by half.
The small bed is still unusuable.
I would like a simple indoors station to place a beacon on/in so I don't have to let it float outside when I use it to mark a base. The alternative suggestions to let the radio serve as beacon won't do from my POV because I like to build multiple radios per base and an entire separate device when a beacon station could add a nice bit of interactivity/additional does not strike me as more worthwhile. And yes, the easier solution is to let the beacon be placed on a shelf or some such, but between that and a specialized station we have the "emotional" difference between a "walkie-talkie" lying around vs a properly installed "telephone".
The fact you can repair a vehicle within a moon pool is not immediately obvious due to the player always getting out at the side with the upgrade panel, which is an area the welder does not react too. This option could do with some emphasizing. One thing I recommend is that the vehicle modification displays the vehicle's health alongside the charge state already displayed.

Acquisition & scanning:

It would be nice if the knife's life points would be indicated in the utility bar the same way the other tools' battery life points are.
Gaspods explode immediately when dropped by the player. They should have the same delay as when a gasopod releases them.
Let me directly scan table coral and coral tubes/slanted shell plates without first harvesting them and then dropping the loot.
You can scan all three sizes koosh bushes (as in, scanning one size won't make the other sizes count as scanned), but you only get one, non-updated PDA entry for it.
The PRAWN suit in the Aurora furthest from the stairs is still unscannable.
Posters (in wrecks, at least) can be very tricky to pick up. Small hitbox.
There are three PDAs, one outside the lowest Floater Island base and two outside the Jelly Shroom Caves base, that cannot be picked up. I do not know if this is intentional, but if they are decoration, it's highly confusing decoration that I recommend to be removed. If they are to contain messages, please add those messages (I kinda like the extra searching you need to do for them, so I hope on the latter scenario).
Would it be possible to add the same icon used for fixing broken machinery and cutting through doors to drillable items so you know how far you are in the process?
Large titanium deposits cannot be fully drilled with the PRAWN as it is. The final part is always too low for the PRAWN to reach.
The PRAWN currently can't break open purple pinecones, neither with claw nor with drill.
The repulsion cannon icon is still the propulsion cannon one with added glow. I've on occasion picked up the wrong one.

Environment:

There is a tunnel on the floater island that goes below the pathway between the two mountains that you can reach from climbing up on the lowest base. You can enter that tunnel, but you cannot leave it because the roof's too low. How you get in in the first place is beyond me, but it's essentially an (unrealistic) death trap.
There's this upwards stream pillar near the wreck in the Safe Shallows area at the tail end of the Aurora. I've never been able to figure out what it is but I suspect it's not supposed to be there.
A good portion of the "roof" miniwrecks (like there are many near the Aurora) and their contents either don't connect to the ground or go straight through it. The first scenario looks bad, the second makes the contents of containers unreachable.
The first time you go to the Aurora, it's teeming with cave crawlers. They basically all disappear by the time you leave (do they jump in the water?) and they don't come back. It takes a lot of action out of the Aurora and I'd like for their numbers to be consistent (or go down only a little; there's no corpses anymore so I don't mind a few of them disappearing).
Please make crash plants immune to crashfish explosions. I lose almost all crash plants in my games simply because the crashfishes explode to close by. If a player wants to remove them, it's okay for the knife to still work. Being able to withstand a spread-out force does not mean the plant has to be able to withstand cutting.
When batteries were first implemented, all floodlights had batteries to harvest. This was a fun little extra to reward thorough searching. After that update, you've removed most batteries from the floodlights. I don't mind not getting one every time, but there's, like, only three floodlights left that contain a battery to pick up. And all of them are on regardless if they have a battery or not, while I like the concept of not picking up the battery until you're done exploring the wreck so you have light. There's also a model floodlight that doesn't have an interactive battery holder at all. I would like more consistency and planning with floodlight-batteries.
Similarly, it is odd that the very first item you pick up is the fire extinguisher in your own lifepod, but that you can't get it from the other lifepods (but can from the Aurora). Those fire extinguishers should be loot-ified too and perhaps some lifepods don't have theirs anymore.
Crabsnakes still are immune to the stasis rifle while inside their mushrooms. Although it doesn't hurt you, they can still perform their jumpscare or leave the mushroom altogether.

Scrapped (?) models:
I would imagine this to be well beyond polishing if I didn't know the models to be ready from the Sketchfab gallery. At the moment, the wiki lists the species analyzer, the botanical analyzer, lithium ion batteries, and the accumulator as removed content. I do not know if this is true, but if so, these are my thoughts.

I would really appreciate for lithium ion batteries to remain a thing, even if it would be a recipe that needs to be unlocked in addition to the modification station (I believe this is already the case for the repulsion cannon?). It'd be a huge boost forward that does not affect early gameplay but would be a good late game reward.
I do not know if the accumulator was ever meant to be additional energy storage capacity or be necessary to store energy at all, but in either scenario, I would like to keep it. Having storage capacity that doesn't require me to build numerous energy sources would certainly tidy things up and be excellent late game material.
And speaking of energy; the analyzers. I imagine those have truly become superfluous, but I'd still like them in the game and I propose the following scenario. I will be the umpteenth person to say farming needs nerfing and I know you have some plans for the future that involve sea treader manure, a hard to come by resource. I would also like to suggest that growth time is at least doubled for all plants. They grow unrealistically fast at the moment. The same can be done with eggs (and reproduction of food fish). A repurpose for the analyzer models then could be growth accelerators (to current speed, not instantly) for whichever plant or egg is put inside at the cost of some energy. It would be up to the player to be patient or spend resources and time to get faster results. I imagine these would be midgame material.

Features:

Not sure if this is a polish thing, but if respawning resources could be considered? I really hate how I'm slowly ruining the environment in a game that is meant to offer a beautiful landscape to enjoy and gameplay that could keep going if you so choose. It can take 80+ days or so; I don't mind, as long as I can enjoy the quartz glittering at night through my Safe Shallows base's windows one day. NOTE: respawning resources includes the ability for plants to recover from damage the same way they'll eventually regrow fruit taken from them. I get itchy from not knowing if the plant I'm looking at is secretly damaged.
At least once a second skyray was planned. This "heavenray" is featured in the cinematic trailer. I don't know how far the critter ever came, but if possible, finish it before v1.0. It's always a tad ugly when trailer material isn't in the product and the skies are bare with only skyrays. Would also be cool if you have a base above water if the game could spawn a few birds to take a rest on it every once in a while. Could help hint at the directions of the islands too.
Speaking of surface events, would it be possible to have drifting items that could in theory show up everywhere? Maybe a floating fruit (like coconuts) that you have to get out of the water or ambergris as a fruit/veggie preserver? Or even a plant that takes its food from the water rather than soil? Come to think of it, the plant can be the origin of the floating fruit.

DrownedOut · November 2016

I updated my list and probably will continue to do so in the next few days as I recall issues.

Rezca · November 2016

DrownedOut wrote: »

I updated my list and probably will continue to do so in the next few days as I recall issues.

I'm a little surprised you didn't mention being able to manually rotate the Moonpool and placing base rooms in the center of platforms not just on the edges ^^

Agreed with most everything you typed up there; I'd also like to (once again) add the Floodlights being able to draw from base power and power transmitters. They're great for decoration as well as practical use (like building a base at night), but having to go around replacing those batteries...

DrownedOut · November 2016

Rezca wrote: »

DrownedOut wrote: »

I updated my list and probably will continue to do so in the next few days as I recall issues.

I'm a little surprised you didn't mention being able to manually rotate the Moonpool and placing base rooms in the center of platforms not just on the edges ^^

Agreed with most everything you typed up there; I'd also like to (once again) add the Floodlights being able to draw from base power and power transmitters. They're great for decoration as well as practical use (like building a base at night), but having to go around replacing those batteries...

I have "full rotation for all base pieces", which covers the moonpool. Platform placement I did not include because I am the lone individual who does not mind you can't build in the center. Although I did feel cheated too when the Grand Reef base had centered platforms. I could add it next time I update it if you want? Done.

With floodlights, I'm sorta still waiting for lithium batteries and the way those should improve their usage. The wiki currently has them listed as removed along with the accumulator, another thing I've been waiting for. Neither claim is sourced and I deeply hope its not true.

TIEbomber1967 · November 2016

Since I don't know what the devs are planning on polishing already, I'm not sure what I should include. And of course everything in this list is just one guy's opinion, nothing more.

-Being able to turn on/off beacons (mentioned in the dev post) is good.
-Being able to read your PDA while seated on a chair or bench is a must, or in bed.
-Balancing power equipment needs: The spotlight draws WAY too much power, the water filtration machine is debatable (I'd like it to use less power). Battery chargers use WAY to little power, this allows for the Cyclops charger exploit (which should go away). The scanner room should draw power when it's scanning, how much power? I don't know.
-Are lithium batteries still going to happen? If not then the Seaglide power consumption needs to be reduced. It's too power hungry.
-The storage lockers on the Cyclops, if they aren't going to be made bigger at least make them 3x4 instead of 2x6 so we can store the Seaglide. Making them 3X5 would be great (hint, hint).
-Change the creature A.I. so that some creatures follow you up to the surface. Right now you can swim on the water's surface without a care in the world. Or perhaps add a surface predator?
-Please add conical spotlights to the Seamoth (just like the one's on the Cyclops). This will make the Seamoth MUCH easier to find in the dark, and add some visual continuity.
-Speaking of visual continuity, why do some scanned items not disappear? When you scan the Seamoth fragments, they disappear, but when you scan the plant pots they don't. I do understand why the Multipurpose room shouldn't disappear when scanned.
-Please add beacons to the scanner room drones that activate when they detach from the scanner room. This serves two purposes; one, to find the damn thing after you drive it out of range (or the stalkers run off with it), and two, so you can park it next to some fragment or resource you found and then find your way there.

I'll add more when (and if) I think of more.
Thank you for your consideration.

ErnieW · November 2016

fix the bugs; this crash thing some of the things intruding on objects. more life. not near enough to make a biome operate properly. sorry the error is rather glaring at times.
over all the game is good. I however think that your gonna get a lot of complaints about the game as new players end up dead in game because they have no guidance in this game. this is not an easy game to learn.

EvilSmoo · November 2016

TIEbomber1967 wrote: »

-Are lithium batteries still going to happen? If not then the Seaglide power consumption needs to be reduced. It's too power hungry.

I think they were in experimental, last I checked.

DrownedOut · November 2016

I think I have "perfected" my list. Does anyone else have anything to add still?

TIEbomber1967 · November 2016

DrownedOut wrote: »

Does anyone else have anything to add still?

I am a little surprised that there aren't more suggestions in this thread. Maybe people are just posting straight to the original Reddit thread.

danny2334 · November 2016

maybe a machete or heatblade machete arm for prawn if the add reaps(drops from creatures) in?

subnauticambrian · November 2016

TIEbomber1967 wrote: »

DrownedOut wrote: »

Does anyone else have anything to add still?

I am a little surprised that there aren't more suggestions in this thread. Maybe people are just posting straight to the original Reddit thread.

I don't know, @DrownedOut has basically said everything I was thinking and then some...

CAPSHAW · November 2016

-Slight increase in power efficiency for seaglide
-Glass Roof
-When I'm in the Cyclops, I shouldn't see through the walls of my base
-Give a better sense of direction for at least one of the lost river enternaces.
-Give a better sense of direction for the second and third seabase.
-Give a better sense of direction of the Lava Castle. After days of playing, have still never seen it. Maybe I suck...
-XBOX FRAMERATE FIX
-Cyclops Dock
-Food Storage

Silveressa · November 2016

-Add in a day/night length slider option to the menu at the start of a new game. (I.e how long each day and night is in real world minutes, from a day/night lasting 10 mins up to 60ish?)

-A world map (that is revealed/created as we explore) that we can add our own markers and notations to. (since dumping beacons everywhere just cluttered up the world view with marker pings.)

-Give the cyclops the sonar mapping function the Sea Glide (and Seamoth addon) have.

-Give us the ability to repair the diving knife when it's nearly ruined. (Having to continually make new ones feels rather wasteful)

-Give us an in game "note pad" To write on. (Helpful when you wish to note down future plans or reminders for your next play session.)

Patterson · November 2016

Silveressa wrote: »

....
-A world map (that is revealed/created as we explore) that we can add our own markers and notations to. (since dumping beacons everywhere just cluttered up the world view with marker pings.)
....

MAP !

Everyone has the same experience - while returning from anywhere to the habitat-base you found it: a cave, a wreck, anything of interest, and you have no buoy anymore - or forgotten to built one or already used all of them
--- and you miss the spot and search in large circles after coming back...again and again. Its a pain, not exploring.

We build high-tech habitats and subs and Exosuits ... and have no MAP - function in our Alterra PDA ( Alterra, remember ? The company that takes care about us with an all-envirement-personal suit just in case of an emergency ..... )

The found and downloaded coordinate signals have a distance - to - receiver information ( meters ) , the signal-buoy must get that function as well.

remove the crash-bugs , and then
give us this map. Please.

Hectorrose · November 2016

Things that I would like to see polished are:

An improvement in the creature ai, because basically its just: are you close- go agro. are you not- kill other fish

I would also like to see less blank space in the precursor gun, because you have to think, what was all that empty space used for, they should add like old precursor ab equipment to it to make it less bland or something like that.

0x6A7232 · November 2016

Here's one: people are asking for maps, or coordinates, etc...

..devs want us to explore, not just steam straight to what we want and go back to our fortress.

...so what if we compromised? Have a very broad set of coordinates able to be bookmarked by the PDA. Have it so broad that upon returning, you still have to go actually find it, but you know the general sector, so you won't wander off to other areas. Sort of like how large the batches are right now, maybe?

It would be like if you made a bookmark for the Aurora drive core, it would make a mark for the whole Aurora -- you would know about where it was, and you wouldn't wander off into another zone while looking, but you'd still have to find it.

Julian1337331nailuJ · November 2016

Or A Map That's Created The More You Travel Having You Know Where You Have Gone And Where You Have Not Gone.
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Warzouz · November 2016

- Directions. Even we don't have GPS (we should have sats which would be shot by the gun. But there are some inertial positioning which is very precise. As the game terrain si 2km*2km, inertial positioning is as precise as GPS.

- The compass is not well readable. Sometime no cardinal appears on the wheel. You have to turn to see where you're going.

- We should have a artificial horizon, especially on the Seamoth and the Cyclops.

- Beacons should be togglable and or color coded from distance in the PDA.

- Signals shouldn't be items but togglable from the PDA as Beacons.

- Glass should only cost ONE QUARTZ

- Base doors should be always open by default and open sequence camera move should be reduce (it gives me motion sickness). Cyclops doors are OK : simple and efficient.

- Please make ladder rotate ! As well as moonpool.

HiSaZuL · November 2016

Going to be a broken record and also mention that PDA is what most likely gets beacon signals, it should have capability to toggle them on and off and probably rename them remotely as well. Lifepod signals, base signals and any other should be done the same way, currently some obscure human inserted object just makes no sense at all, I get it that it was a placeholder but before story comes they should really do away with them.

Thermometer should be default and part of PDA, it does say it has a full suit of monitoring capabilities for vitals and ability to get visual and audio input.

Compass should be an >upgrade< to PDA, like hardened knife or thermal blade etc. I strongly believe it shouldn't be default piece of gear since it changes your ability to navigate drastically. Maybe tied to another object... like a special beacon or require scanner room or something else as point of reference but... that would mess up internal coordinates and your navigation would be arbitrary to how you want it so it's a bit wonky.

Dive reel needs to be finished before 1.0. It's awesome for early game but rope clipping through walls makes it only a quarter as good as it can be.

Seaglide and power consumption need to get sorted out before release. Either reduce the energy use or let us put more then one battery in or what ever but it needs to be functional before 1.0 it's a piece of starting gear and it needs to be desirable.

Cyclops storange and upgrades also need to get sorted out before 1.0, animation for steering... a ship that big with bunch of scanning stuff spinning like crazy on top should have some navigational perks.

PDA pictures. For everyone!!! Ahem... but seriously everyone needs wants to be loved.

Think about the story progression and spread fragments accordingly. There shouldn't be weird loopholes that require player to either know where to find something really hard to find... or know where one can find a diamond without crazy gear and so forth.

Cyclops initial build cost. The thing is a massive game changer it shouldn't cost an arm and a leg or some crazy rare resources since those are for >upgrades< not basic hull composition but Cyclops should take a bit more resources then it currently does... double? tripple?

Vehicles and tools that use an energy source but don't have an energy source as building requirement should be built without one. A minor thing yes... but it would be consistent with the rest of the world and make for a nice little detail.

None of seeds/spores should take more then 1 unit of storage. Spore from a mushroom should not take as much space as an oxygen tank. Some other items need their size re-evaluated.

Nautical_Nick · November 2016

I have two request both for Oculus:
Have an option for the animations to be turned on/off
Stop the terrain from glitching out

DrownedOut · November 2016

As an aside, if the devs could give us a few Craig McGill logs, that'd be sweet. It's sort of part of people asking for more snarky PDA messages; I love the obnoxious and utterly irrelevant stories about a guy whose plight has been solved ages ago.

Jones108 · November 2016

Pretty nice feedback. Here is my small list:

- I would love it if the label on the storage create was easier to click.

- Thermometer should be default and part of PDA.
- Add a day and night length slider.
- Let us repair the knife.
- Ladders rotate.
- Glass roof.

peeper_reaper · November 2016

Mod support

Julian1337331nailuJ · November 2016

Idea 1. Elevators. Reason? So That We Could See The Place And Get To Destinations Faster.
Idea 2. Base Part Upgrades. Reason? I Don't Know. Maybe So That You Could Get It Stronger?
Idea 3. Batteries For The Base. Reason? For Power Storage. The Name Might Sound Stupid. But Its A Separate Room For Power To Be Stored. This Is Where The Upgrades Come In.
Idea 4. Prawn Starting At MK 1 Then Going To MK 3. Reason? I Don't Know. So That You Can Start Out With Something Cheap But Not As Good As The Final Upgraded Version?
Idea 5. Turrets. Reason? For Defense. And A Usage For The Upgrades.
Idea 6. Research And Engineering. Description. A Separate Room For Gaining The Upgrades, Tools, And Other Base Parts. Plus Fauna And Flora Knowledge. Reason? More Reasons To Explore.
Idea 7. Animal Research. Reason? To Learn About The Creature By Experence And Not By Scanning And Instant Knowledge.

That's About It.

Frustrated · November 2016

Put the current F3 graphics options into the main menu graphics options, after launch.
Put in an option to remove your own shadow

Flix · November 2016

The floating lockers need a bit of hit box adjustment. Many time while trying to open them I either wind up picking them up or I activate the rename function. An upgraded version with a built in short range beacon would be very handy as well.

Medbot · January 2017

If you use the repair tool on the sea moth and then enter without unclicking the sound continues to loop forever.

CARARbonara · January 2017

Hey devs, Could you fix the thing on xbox one where you can't use picture frames, I think they're a really cool mechanic and I'd love to use them, thanks!

TheRelmLord · January 2017

Maybe First You Send A Satilite To Space Then Go To Space Instead Of Just Going To Space Without Thinking About Possible Meteors Or Impact With The Planet?

Devs are asking for any final polishing ideas for 1.0 in this thread in /r/subnautica

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