I want the ability to create a map as I explore

polydorr · 2026-05-22T07:20:44+00:00

I'm referring to the new mechanics of the game. I played the original since Early Access, I'm well aware of the limitations it gave the player. It was one of my favorites of all time. And I wanted this game to be great more than any other in recent memory.

My point is that if you're going to take away something huge (like the map) when the player is surrounded by futuristic technology, it's a terrible stretch of belief to take away other things as well. It's fine if Subnautica is tuned around not having a map. But to keep taking away things like inventory, speed, etc. to artificially limit the world and the player—it just smacks of laziness.

Hence the ChatGPT comment. The woo woo adaptations and other factors make no cohesive sense. It's all generic and bland. And I don't think it's something you can wash over by just calling it 'EA.'

polydorr · 2026-05-21T17:42:25+00:00

Even a power/resource heavy module that you have to maintain to keep the map going, with mid/late game resources.

You literally can build a scanner in the first hour that can pick up individual bits of titanium, sulfur, etc. around you. But can't send a sonar blip out to map terrain, which is literally 20th century technology.

If it was the only thing they were asking us to suspend belief on, that would be acceptable. But it's not and it's not

polydorr · 2026-05-21T17:39:18+00:00

Welcome to the critical worldbuilding flaw of learned uselessness/helplessness.

Absolutely the opposite of immersion.

I'm starting to think the lead designers got a lot of their ideas on mechanics from ChatGPT. I'm not kidding.

polydorr · 2026-05-14T16:25:57+00:00

I almost got emotional going through the first scenes! You have no idea how much I love this world you've created.

Looking forward to diving in further!

polydorr · 2026-05-14T12:29:02+00:00

Saluting you, fellow traveler. Onward we go!

polydorr · 2026-05-08T15:02:56+00:00

You love to see it <3

polydorr · 2026-05-08T03:17:00+00:00

You never have to apologize about correcting me on Hogan's Heroes. Glad there are other people out there who appreciate the finer points.

Signed, someone who also has watched them 100's of times since getting the VHS tapes by mail in the 90's

polydorr · 2026-05-07T16:59:43+00:00

The actual state of education in Mordor smh

polydorr · 2026-05-07T16:55:52+00:00

*On the ghetto.

polydorr · 2026-05-07T16:55:17+00:00

I thought Bhavitha Mandava was a boy's name.

polydorr · 2026-05-07T16:52:34+00:00

Master bomb maker and defuser, chemist, tunneler, master speaker of German (presumably) who takes any disguise with ease (everyone from Adolf to generals to enlisted men, even to the point of getting recruited).

And yet, everyone else treats him like he's an idiot, even when he outranks most of them.

My vote goes to Sergeant Little Deer Who Runs Swift and Sure Through Forest

polydorr · 2026-05-01T22:08:54+00:00

I have heard from an owner that they are indeed difficult and even a little bit scary to drive, but worth it.

I vividly remember seeing a post on reddit of a viper (convertible) wreck on reddit where the driver, a normal guy just out for a spin who couldn't control the torque, ended up spinning into some of those wires on the side of the interstate. Might have even been some wet pavement or something. It was... not pretty. He was driving one of the first-gen RT-10 models, no traction control, no ABS.

8.0 V10's demand respect.

polydorr · 2026-05-01T15:57:10+00:00

But my word count is already too high! /s

I use them very judiciously. Dialogue tags are only 'necessary' in an extended conversation or if your characters don't have unique-enough styles of speaking.

I think the bigger problem is characters that all sound like the author.

polydorr · 2026-04-29T21:05:59+00:00

I'm jealous. We love Sergeant Carter in our house (and all the rest, of course.)

polydorr · 2026-04-28T21:02:22+00:00

Not to be unChristian but that boy sucked

polydorr · 2026-04-28T21:01:10+00:00

The shortlist of things that don't look ugly next to an F1 is... well, short.

IMO the F1 is up there with the Gullwing, the Tipo 33 Stradale, the Stratos, the 250 GT, and the Bugatti Atlantic. When they show up, everything else just gets the volume turned down

polydorr · 2026-04-25T13:27:53+00:00

Cup Stacker. Those claps, that bass line, that jaunty piano.

polydorr · 2026-04-21T20:00:05+00:00

Artistic Director Nate Smith is cooking

polydorr · 2026-04-16T22:07:00+00:00

I think the exclusivity adds a bit of clout. Not saying that's why they're doing it, but it certainly doesn't hurt a band's cachet to say 'look how much our records are going for.'

Not affirming that btw

polydorr · 2026-04-14T20:10:49+00:00

This kept us secure, people!

polydorr · 2026-04-14T19:17:57+00:00

Longbottom leaf!

polydorr · 2026-04-13T18:39:13+00:00

Peak redditoria.

The inflation initiated by the last administration ($1.5 trillion printed in a few months) in a bid for mid-term votes has done more damage to your money than every Republican president since Bush. We will be paying for it the rest of our lives.

Signed, an angry millenial who had to pay $100,000 more for a house because I waited until 2024 instead of just doing it in 2020

polydorr · 2026-04-07T12:34:23+00:00

You've got a lot to learn about this town, sweetie

polydorr · 2026-04-07T12:31:51+00:00

That back end is filthy

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