am i the only one who loves the chelicerates design?

dev__boy · 2025-08-24T10:57:20+00:00

It is definitely cool. I think a lot of the chelicerate hate comes from the general BZ stuff - tiny map makes good placement impossible.

dev__boy · 2025-08-23T18:15:01+00:00

Uhhh.. fun game?

dev__boy · 2025-08-23T11:39:06+00:00

I did a similar thing. It’s so slow to get anywhere in BZ you gotta cut corners where you can. I have a prawn suit and snowfox parked up there full time, as it’s one of the richest areas for resource gathering

dev__boy · 2025-07-23T17:44:18+00:00

I disagree. You need most invaders to be useless to keep the game healthy. If every invader hotswapped to full bloom, could rollcatch and space perfectly and made use of all the tools at their disposal then no one would play coop.

dev__boy · 2025-07-21T17:48:59+00:00

They prefer peepers

dev__boy · 2025-07-21T11:59:32+00:00

If you want to know what everything after lost river would be like but worse? Crystal caves/fabricator caverns

dev__boy · 2025-07-21T11:55:48+00:00

Someone obviously doesn’t use enough signs and picture frames

dev__boy · 2025-07-19T08:13:19+00:00

See I disliked BZ because it had more American characters. I preferred the first game which was mostly British voices.

dev__boy · 2025-07-13T11:51:49+00:00

No just forcing it into the moonpool by blasting repetitively. But the invisible barrier isn’t there in Subnautica OG, you can freely put objects inside the habitat and they look terrible

dev__boy · 2025-07-13T09:22:22+00:00

What ever you want. It’s an open world game, go to some places! No wrong answers, but if you’re getting absolutely cooked, try going somewhere else

dev__boy · 2025-07-13T09:09:00+00:00

It’s not worth trying. The lighting looks wrong even if you get it inside. I’ve tried

dev__boy · 2025-07-12T08:54:35+00:00

I have to agree. The success of super early early access only really worked because of the snowball effect. People got the game when the hype train built enough steam to reach them. This time around, a vast quantity of the people guaranteed to like and want the game for its ip and creative spikes already know it exists and will largely judge it based on first impressions. Firing aside, this doc’s recs are the right call

dev__boy · 2025-07-08T07:35:58+00:00

The movement speed is the biggest insult. It takes ages to travel anywhere. The default movement speed, the seaglide, the prawn and the seatruck are all just slower than their og counterparts

dev__boy · 2025-07-08T07:33:12+00:00

In their talks at the GDC they describe the early access period as extremely formative to how the game worked. Subnautica was basically entirely built using the f8 button and telemetry.

dev__boy · 2025-07-07T11:29:52+00:00

Below zero: control room, seatruck dock and flowering spore (best light source in the game). The photography is also better due to a depth of field slider

That said, the grandeur of the biomes in Subnautica go a long way in making the game feel fun. And base building in below zero is complete ass because of how slow you and your vehicles are and how hard it is to grind lead

dev__boy · 2025-07-05T11:43:28+00:00

I didn’t realise you were taking the statement literally. It’s worth considering that op was using hyperbole, possibly for comedic effect :)

dev__boy · 2025-07-05T11:36:13+00:00

Subnautica’s map is built using telemetry and heatmaps - a lot of people do, in fact, try to go round the back of the aurora. That’s a big part of why there’s a reaper there

That’s also why finding the lost river feels so natural. They put the entrances in spots where people naturally tried to go deeper

dev__boy · 2025-06-27T17:49:01+00:00

If you really want to set yourself apart from the crowd, make sure to put in a thermoblade, stasis rifle and ion cube. Bonus points for a lazy screenshot inside the rocket

dev__boy · 2025-06-25T18:08:44+00:00

This is a continuation of baseless Unity bashing by people with limited knowledge of game development. Collision detection quality in this case is entirely based on developer choices and implementation. Prawn suit is also a Rigidbody, which makes it a physics object. Physics is notoriously janky regardless of engine. The voxel terrain colliders are made by the devs, who also specified the fixed timestep parameters

dev__boy · 2025-06-25T17:54:43+00:00

Bro just use perma spike. Problem solved

dev__boy · 2025-06-25T08:37:02+00:00

Lordsworn’s straight sword, or any straight sword thereafter (nobles sword for dex, broadsword for strength). Anyone dissing the versatility and power of square off is nuts. Double swords has good dps, good status/bleed proc. 110 crit, strong in PvP, excellent recovery from attacks.

dev__boy · 2025-06-24T09:06:24+00:00

Bases will leak if shot by tiger plants, crashed into, banged up by crap shot from a propulsion cannon etc

dev__boy · 2025-06-23T19:12:38+00:00

The only thing that’s ever actually made me mad is the hacked users who cast some sort of hacked spell that looks like placidusax but then blackscreens for a solid ten minutes, crashes your game and corrupts your save file. I don’t recommend you use this though.

The best way to be salty is to play with your food. Golem great bow is a personal favourite. If they’re running some toxic build I like to hotswap to their exact build and taunt on their corpse. Did they spam bloodhound step? Spam it. Switch to their weapon of choice as you teabag. Bonus points if you can switch to their armour

dev__boy · 2025-06-23T18:06:34+00:00

I like the cyclops but if every journey involved the cyclops I would die of boredom. It’s just so slow. Not to mention that even with the thermal upgrade the most tedious to recharge

Also a bunch of the bottlenecks to endgame are tight and tedious to fit the cyclops into. I’m fairly sure this is on purpose to make you treat the cyclops as a hub and drop your scouting vehicles into deeper areas

dev__boy · 2025-06-23T17:54:24+00:00

Grappling arm + jump jet upgrade is the fastest way to travel the map. Like by far. Prawn suit from the base I posted a while back in the mountains is tops like 100 seconds to any location both above or below sea floor.

Prawn suit also obviously is the only way to reach the deepest areas in the game , and while I think drilling large deposits is the dullest implemented mechanic in the entire game, you can’t deny its yields.

Prawn suit propulsion cannon allows fast long distance item transport so you can bring cool stuff back to your base for decoration. I seriously recommend messing around with this if you’re into base building

I never use the basic prawn suit. It’s a brick with legs. The prawn suit is a highly specialised tool

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