Ending. Enter if you've seen it.
FearXI
Join Date: 2017-08-21 Member: 232529Members
Join Date: 2017-08-21 Member: 232529Members
I made this comment in another thread but I started thinking I'd like to make it into a topic.
I'd like to hear others ideas on the ending if you have any.
For me with the ending.
Even though the computer told us we owed money and everything it got me wondering.
Did we really survive?
Think about it we get the Sea Emperor talking about in a sense death.
She says "Now you go among the stars, and I fall among the sands. We are different. But we go... together."
If you read it in it's literal form we died on the trip home but our ship made it to earth.
Perhaps to share the bacteria with earth?
Remember we only saw a black screen. And the Sea Emperor appeared as if afterlife-ish.
I'd like to hear others ideas on the ending if you have any.
For me with the ending.
Even though the computer told us we owed money and everything it got me wondering.
Did we really survive?
Think about it we get the Sea Emperor talking about in a sense death.
She says "Now you go among the stars, and I fall among the sands. We are different. But we go... together."
If you read it in it's literal form we died on the trip home but our ship made it to earth.
Perhaps to share the bacteria with earth?
Remember we only saw a black screen. And the Sea Emperor appeared as if afterlife-ish.
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Perhaps. But I maybe reading to much into it but I like to explore hidden meanings that "may" be there doesn't mean they are but fun nonetheless.
Just at the hatching part she says that is her end and she (part of speech) "may come back as a creature so small that it sees the gaps between the grains of sand".
And that last line at the end "But we go... together." just rings that we died to me.
Think of it all from the hatching part to her last conversation with us.
I'm all for a happy ending with a big bill (sounds dirty but not what I mean).
But if you think about it if we died and Alterra finds our body it's a good jumping off point to make a new game / expansion.
They find our body and send a team to find out what happened (presume our recorded data was lost some how).
Heck you could even tie in the Arctic biome for the (heh) only survivor of the research team has to go there because of some signal picked up.
Side note.
When we flew over the planet and saw the Arctic land mass would have been funny so see blackened wreckage spelling out SOS.
Since seeing the cinematic trailer, I would love to find the Degasi crash site. The crew are supposed to have recycled the ship to build their seabases (although it's not clear to me whether they completely reclaimed it, or only enough to make it impossible to use it as a ship) but I would hope there is still stuff to be found.
More importantly though, we now know Subnautica is the prelude to Natural Selection, originally it was only hinted at but in the launch version they went ahead and renamed the bacteria causing the genetic mutations to "Kharaa" (Google it, it won't let me post links yet) so you probably got home; and then became patient zero in the outbreak
My headcanon is that on being told I couldn't land for the lack of funds, I'd ask them to put me through to Alterra and reveal the unlimited energy supply I found on that planet, in exchange for a small percentage and landing rights
You make a very good point and would have to agree. I would have to say with that point of view I could say we did live.
Even if we did die though we could have been patient zero they would have brought our body home.
But ah it was fun to explore that we may have died a bit.
I never heard of Natural Selection till I found Subnautica but because of it I'll definitely be checking it out.
You have...
a) become self sufficient.
b) built a - possibly - massive Seabase full of research/creatures/farms that you hatched
c) have a potential friend in the Empress - assuming you find a way to medically help/revive her
d) don't have to answer to anyone, no Alterra capitalist scum.
e) One or more cuddlefish!
Fuck, I'd stay there and just be the hermit scientist type!
Honestly, This explains what I'd do.
I guess that makes the most sense as both the emporer and the player escaped the prison (the player's prison was the planet) but each one of them escaped in a different way
"not a black screen screenshot."
I do wonder how I would feel about a DLC, if I would come back and play it if it was more a side-track to the story. I recall Pillars of Eternity did something with their add-on that you were supposed to do while doing the main quest and I have not touched it. If we'd get a Arctic biome, for me to play it, it would need to be a new story of my character that I can either after the launch of the rocket, or just before I leave. Or it could tell the story of a new protagonist. I do not know if I am alone with that feeling though.
And it's always a good game to dick around in - I've spent hours just doing stuff that really didn't have a point over the last few years. Not gonna stop now.
Also I really REALLY want to get Occulus Rift... tried it at a friend's house with Subnautica, and it's freaking amazing. Really feels like you're there on the planet, and everything seems bigger. Think the reaper is terrifying now? Try seeing that bad boy in VR.
Really? Lame. I was hoping you could actually get rescued by Sunbeam if you moved quick enough.
They used every last nut and bolt, every little atom of that ship is now in the bases, nothing left
judging by the trailer, looks like it was squashed by the aurora
That was my guess.
I was thinking about some marks on the seabed. As they could salvage stuff, I assume they did not crash in a very deep location. Also, there are plenty of bits we cannot salvage from the aurora (boxes, ...) so I was also assuming these could maybe not be reusable. Anyway, there is always the possible explanation that the aurora slammed over it, here too.
Keep in mind, its been a decade, any trace of the Degasi ship after salvaging will likely have ceased, also, about the cargo crates, guess what you can find at every single Degasi base,
If anything the ending left me pretty bummed out. Saying good bye to the cuddlefish and then: A cinematic flight into orbit, a lightshow and a speech from the Sea Emperor, followed by credits and a "PDA-joke".
After the perfect atmosphere in the game and the mostly well balanced survival aspects, the ending feels like an impressive fireworks display which ends with a small rocket that just makes a short "Pfrt..." and then just burns away.
still made me cry tears of joy tho
Seems like a kinda pointless event to happen if the player survives and the ending didn't strike me as you having died- why would the PDA remark about your outstanding balance when trying to dock if you hadn't made it there in the first place?
I believe it really is just a throwback to the panel in the lifepod, notice how the player holds his arm up to block the panel, when it started to fly right at him, he was through this before, and this time