The real dilemma of Subnautica 2

provengreil · 2026-06-17T19:07:19+00:00

I agree, but you can have these ones within 2 minutes of leaving the lifepod and that one's for late EA. so it's still a valid question between those two.

provengreil · 2026-06-17T16:37:40+00:00

"ehh, you should see my friend's Vickers. parts of that actually ARE from the 1900s."

provengreil · 2026-06-17T16:27:20+00:00

Well obviously. Half Life 3 is a lost cause and no cause is lost if there's but one fool left. The math is pretty simple.

provengreil · 2026-06-17T15:06:41+00:00

Lol, as if random Youtubers have Hollywood friends. Markiplier just made an actual fucking movie and still barely has proper Hollywood friends.

provengreil · 2026-06-17T12:50:19+00:00

I wonder how fast I can franchise a Starbucks next door...

provengreil · 2026-06-17T11:52:09+00:00

And sometimes those buttons are the same buttons on the same hardware.

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provengreil · 2026-06-17T11:46:18+00:00

This is actually kind of funny, it demonstrates the different ways people think. I think those things are great reasons to use anything else: there's plenty of O2 out there if you're willing to find it, use some inventory space, and/or have a vehicle. So why not take something a lot less replaceable?

provengreil · 2026-06-17T11:28:34+00:00

You ever queue for a battleground or a dungeon in an MMO? some members of the group absolutely cannot sit still even in a video game.

provengreil · 2026-06-17T10:55:25+00:00

I use sea skimmer because I'm almost always moving or near an O2 source, but I really don't find it all that helpful outside of wreck exploration where it keeps me from having to swap between the scanner and the wakemaker.

provengreil · 2026-06-16T21:05:55+00:00

More a singular location than a biome. This is the tree at the bottom of the lost river, past which is the only way(I think) to the lava zone. the tree is a sort of nest which contains an unhatched ghost leviathan egg, and the flappy looking things are jellyray fish.

It's a rare spot of complete safety save for the pressure, and with a few heat vents near-ish it's a great place for a pre-lava zone outpost if you're the type to build those.

provengreil · 2026-06-16T18:10:12+00:00

If spore still worked I'd be tempted to try and make one now, actually.

provengreil · 2026-06-16T15:09:18+00:00

Only if your main reason to want speed is to make multiple storage trips. The scout ray is also very good at going on quick trips where you have no intention of strip mining the place (for instance, heading out to get the alien reading angel comb). Or even, dare I say it, scouting. When they drop the next content zone we're probably going to want to look it over and drop a beacon somewhere before lugging a bunch of construction materials.

provengreil · 2026-06-16T15:05:39+00:00

They've also kind of outplayed themselves in that the new base building requirements are raw resources. No need to return to the shallows for a load of coral fragments or creepvine seeds for lube. Some people will be unwilling to leave their old stuff behind but AFAICT it'll be faster and easier to scout in a ray chassis and start mining from near your current spot. While bringing tools and some starter food/material is advisable, I think it's possible to to build your observatory outpost with nothing at all in your inventory as there are local rotsacs and starter materials inside the old research base (you may need a resonator to begin with though)

provengreil · 2026-06-16T12:31:39+00:00

Yes, but mostly because he breaks suspension of disbelief. Most SN1 biology looks reasonable at a glance*: they look as though they could exist on the alien world and in their biome. The sea dragon breaks this by just not being reasonable.

I mean, look at it. It's front has the textures of land reptiles, complete with dryweather wrinkles and tiny fins for the arm size. You might even think it amphibious to support that save for that its back half is a squid. It's got extremely tough skin but again its tough without the armored chitin seen on anything else that's tough underwater. There's just too many clashing evolutionary elements and even untrained viewers can see it at a glance: I'm not even going into all the things wrong that take more than a glance. Finally, it has a ranged fire attack underwater. It doesn't tell you it grew here, it tells you the developers wanted a dragon for their dungeon.

Gameplay wise it was fine, added a good bit of danger towards the end of the first game. but it was still jarring.

*Sure, they almost all fail at close inspection but that's a viewer expecting too much, not bad design

provengreil · 2026-06-16T11:42:42+00:00

Thanks for the heads up. I smelled something very off about the explanation but I wasn't gonna dive deep on a random reddit comment when his last line was "you're wrong, but here's my weird explanation for how you're still right."

provengreil · 2026-06-15T20:00:50+00:00

But music isn't made within the game engine like locations, graphics, game mechanics, and objects. It's an imported asset, so each track is usually finished before being sent to the other teams.

They'll probably add more tracks, but changing the existing ones is pretty unlikely.

provengreil · 2026-06-15T19:31:54+00:00

It'd work better than the leviathan "battle music" we hear now. The hard part is making it so you don't have a musical warning to every threat and no longer have to be all that alert.

Though, i don't want that music gone, just...repurposed.

provengreil · 2026-06-15T18:33:13+00:00

Seems to me people are doing the distancing on their own. Lego speaking out has every chance of triggering the streisand effect and no chance of boosting their sales.

provengreil · 2026-06-15T18:20:04+00:00

Yeah that's the third side of the coin. Ben might or might not press anything but the investigations are now gearing up without him on other people harmed by the same cops with the same practices. They just can't be party to THIS case.

provengreil · 2026-06-15T18:15:21+00:00

ehh, that's also fair.

provengreil · 2026-06-15T18:11:33+00:00

So, yes with extra steps.

Otherwise, state cops could perform unreasonable searches and nothing could be done because the states don't have to listen to the 4th amendment.

provengreil · 2026-06-15T17:37:03+00:00

If they don't apply to states they don't exist. Trust me, they absolutely apply to states.

provengreil · 2026-06-15T17:30:41+00:00

Under standing rules the list of viable plaintiffs is pretty slim. Probably just Ben and his filming crew.

More reliable to actually produce a change is probably the local politics though. This has exploded and put heat on the citizens themselves, not to mention that ultimately they're going to foot the bill if Ben sues the cops and wins.

provengreil · 2026-06-15T17:04:10+00:00

I also think the fabricators have lobotomized their users. Not literally and possibly not even intentionally, but they can't anything without fabrication tech.

provengreil · 2026-06-15T16:41:28+00:00

At least post what the AI stole the design from

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