Freebie Info - Subnautica [UPDATE 2]

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

I'm really enjoying Subnautica. The early game is terrible because the core gameplay loop is not explained well at all, and neither is where and how to get drinking water. Once you've worked that out it's a great survival-crafty-buildy-explory game. I've got a yellow submarine called Paul McCartney because John Lennon was eaten by a Reaper Leviathan and whenever I launch it I pretend I'm in Stingray and hum the theme tune.

Yeah, the "how to get water" part is really tricky at first.

It took me about 15 hours before I realized I didn't have to hunt down Bladderfish anymore. ;_;

 

[Dalisclock]

I'm really enjoying Subnautica. The early game is terrible because the core gameplay loop is not explained well at all, and neither is where and how to get drinking water. Once you've worked that out it's a great survival-crafty-buildy-explory game. I've got a yellow submarine called Paul McCartney because John Lennon was eaten by a Reaper Leviathan and whenever I launch it I pretend I'm in Stingray and hum the theme tune.

Yeah, the "how to get water" part is really tricky at first.

It took me about 15 hours before I realized I didn't have to hunt down Bladderfish anymore. ;_;

It took me a while to figure out how to make rubber and thus the survival knife because I didn't realize those glowing things on the seaweed stalks were exactly what I needed. And then took me even longer to realize the fiber mesh could easily be made by using the stalks themselves.

Once I learned where to find salt to make the good quality water I kicked myself that I spent so long chasing fucking bladderfish.

I did find it a bit of fridge logic that your escape pod doesn't come with any kind of water filter thus in the early game you're pretty much stuck with grabbing 1 type of fish to get fresh water. Then again, the escape plan the company sent to the captain is pretty much "Oh, we can't come help you because screw you. Here's a rocket that takes a ton of resources(some very rare) to build and holds ONE person"(everyone else can apparently suck it). I can only imagine that if more people had survived the crash to build the rocket together, they probably would have ended up murdering each other over who gets to be the one who gets to ride it home.

Which honestly could be a setup for an entirely different game where a handful of people survive a disaster, realize only a fraction of them can use the escape vessal with the rest being left to probably die, all hell breaks loose over who gets to be the lucky people who get to leave.

Of course, there's the stinger at the end of the credits which just kind of nails the whole "Asshole Corporation" bit.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

If anybody's interested, Gamespot is hosting a sweepstakes and 20 winners will get free codes for PS4 and/or Xbone.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Link to the abovementioned Subnautica for PS4/XB1 sweepstake giveaway [https://www.gamespot.com/articles/free-ps4-and-xbox-one-codes-for-subnautica-giveawa/1100-6464036/], for your convenience. Also updated OP.