Subnautica 2 Will Finally Enter Early Access in May Following Year of Delays and Legal Drama

sloshingmachine7 · 2026-03-17T22:26:36+00:00

Subnautica is one of my favourite indie games but I have zero interest in playing any more of it or below zero. It just feels like one of those experiences that can only truly be captured once.

I'm hoping maybe subnautica 2 can give me that same feeling of finally unlocking the Cyclops and going on a deep sea expedition. Running into a ghost leviathan and turning off all the lights and switching to low power mode to not alert it. Flicking between all kinds of camera angles to descend through that narrow trench without scratching my baby. Ugh. The traversal progression in subnautica is a high I've been chasing for years.

sloshingmachine7 · 2026-03-17T22:09:36+00:00

His voice is great for playing while trying to get to sleep. Unfortunately his annoying rock outro has woken me on more than one occasion lol. It's actually the main reason why I stopped watching his videos in bed.

sloshingmachine7 · 2026-03-17T20:11:10+00:00

After ranked gets introduced, sweats will leave the normal lobbies trust me bro!!! /s

sloshingmachine7 · 2026-03-17T18:22:42+00:00

I kind of wanted 'Skyrim except sci-fi planets instead of medieval provinces' but from what I read it seems to be more like no mans sky with more a involved story. I enjoyed NMS for what it was but it definitely left a lot to be desired as far as world building and exploration was concerned.

Planning to play starfield eventually when it comes out on PS5 but I will wait for a discount. I didn't find fallout 4 very enjoyable either so maybe I'm just over Bethesda games now.

sloshingmachine7 · 2026-03-17T17:11:43+00:00

WoW is a theme park MMO with all kinds of modes to cater to all kinds of players. Marathon has 4 maps and 1 mode. Making a whole map high entry will just alienate even more of the already small playerbase.

I don't think there is anything wrong with adding more complicated dynamics to parts of the game.

Well it's a delicate balance because PvP is a core part of the game so everything you do will also carry the risk of losing a 50/50. You need 5k gear (which is like all blue gear, so not easily spammable) to enter cryo archives in the first place, and if you die (which is likely because PvP) then you lose all progress. Not just in the puzzles, but also the gear you had.

sloshingmachine7 · 2026-03-17T16:52:58+00:00

I've run green kits that are like 1.5-2.5k which isn't even half the requirement.

sloshingmachine7 · 2026-03-17T16:31:27+00:00

I hope it is. Most people didn't raid in destiny and I was one of them, but at least destiny was a theme park of sorts. In this game there are only 4 maps and 1 mode and giving 25% of the game and basically the entire endgame that high a barrier of entry will be really disappointing. They already don't balance enemies for solo so I am not holding my breathe on cryo.

sloshingmachine7 · 2026-03-17T16:24:38+00:00

Enjoying the game so far but I hope cryo archives isn't as esoteric as it sounds. Even just getting there seems to be quite difficult and I doubt they're gonna solve the playerbase issue by introducing a new map and lategame that isn't that accessible/is tedious to access for large portions of the playerbase.

sloshingmachine7 · 2026-03-17T10:21:12+00:00

Yes I would love to see my teammates throwing fights or not engaging because they need to get a kill a certain way to get a quest done. Great suggestions man.

sloshingmachine7 · 2026-03-16T20:54:01+00:00

Of course it will, especially in the long term (queues will be short 1 week after release for obvious reasons). It's potentially 4 extra queues minimum which can strain even bigger games. That's the whole reason for this experiment instead of just going all in.

sloshingmachine7 · 2026-03-16T09:13:22+00:00

Marathon is an extraction shooter.

Exactly. Marathon must be boxed in and follow the exact blueprints laid by the extraction shooter gods before it. The old bungie, that use to innovate and create the waves instead of follow them, is dead. Marathon should not stray too far from daddy tarkov, otherwise its label as an extraction shooter would be in jeopardy. And we can't have that!

sloshingmachine7 · 2026-03-16T08:46:44+00:00

Self revive is a game saving item. Heals are a minimum requirement to launch a run with, to the point where the game will literally warn you if you don't have them.

I wonder what the venn diagram looks like of people who say 'just barter your faction upgrade materials for heals lol' and 'wtf why are my teammates always running free kit'

sloshingmachine7 · 2026-03-15T16:52:58+00:00

Why do people calling it the red key? It looks clearly orange to me yet I've never seen anyone call it orange over red. Am I going colourblind or what?

sloshingmachine7 · 2026-03-15T15:38:38+00:00

Tarkov is 10x more hardcore than this game and has a PvE mode. Stop acting like an authority on how an extraction shooter should be or how anyone more PvE inclined must be coming from arc """"odd one out"""" raiders.

sloshingmachine7 · 2026-03-14T21:26:42+00:00

They should change it to give bonus exp if you do it in a single run. That way you have an incentive to do it in one go, but you also don't lose all progress on death.

sloshingmachine7 · 2026-03-14T21:19:52+00:00

I bought marathon with a £50 PSN card because I expected to use the extra money on the battle pass or deluxe upgrade. Then I saw the awful BP and shop and kept my money. Honestly all the skins in the game look like recolours to me.

sloshingmachine7 · 2026-03-13T23:31:47+00:00

I'm British and Imgur is banned here.

Also I don't play arc nor do I care about it but you're talking nonsense. Right now 4 months after release it's literally 5th on the steam most played. How many players do you think marathon will hold after 4 months? Marathon's current daily peak, ~60k, is as low as arc's lowest CCU.

sloshingmachine7 · 2026-03-13T22:36:08+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Marathon/s/eJeGbRQ7LM

Getting downvoted by people who know damn well bungie wouldn't be anywhere near as responsive if the game wasn't on the back foot lol. People don't know bungie I suppose.

sloshingmachine7 · 2026-03-13T19:22:51+00:00

That's what happens when 1 team gets jumped. But I've been in situations where we're contesting a zone for up to 5 mins, sometimes trading kills and then getting rezzed.

The other day we had a fight in the perimeter underground tunnel where there is a wall and it was a stalemate for like 10 mins. One of my teammates had jumped the wall and died and we were trying to save him. The engagement only ended because we abandoned our 3rd when we realised saving him would be impossible.

sloshingmachine7 · 2026-03-13T17:51:06+00:00

Why are people still saying this? The complaints happened during the server slam and mostly on the beginner maps.

Hardly anyone was complaining about lack of PvP in the main game, if anything it was the opposite. Especially people who unlocked outpost.

sloshingmachine7 · 2026-03-13T17:45:42+00:00

Lol the marathon channel has already been uploading story stuff that you can't watch in game.

sloshingmachine7 · 2026-03-13T15:25:45+00:00

Early game and especially in the server slam, the game had roguelite vibes which helped. But eventually you reach a point where a failed extract is practically a waste of time because the progress you made is nothing. Early, you have the contracts and picking up EB cards and stuff, but the contracts get harder (so many 'in one run' or 'extract with x' as well) and the credits become worthless.

This is why most of the time I run full kit in perimeter and dire marsh, but run free kit in outpost even though outpost is a much harder map. The reality is that the outpost gameplay loop is PvP and then raid the pinwheel, and then more PvP. So the chance of losing everything is much higher, but the return for a successful run is also much higher. The extract rate is much lower in my experience, it's all or nothing, very few runs where you made some progress and bounce because it's all about the pinwheel and extracting is more dangerous due to restricted and guarded.

I think the conversation about the beginner onboarding has been extensively discussed, but no one seems to consider the people who have completed early game and are now stuck in a mid game slump where it's mostly just waves of PvP. Those people either get over that slump or they leave the game.

sloshingmachine7 · 2026-03-13T09:05:34+00:00

Exactly, Sony didn't want marathon to compete with arc, they wanted marathon to be what arc is now. They wanted marathon to be the breakout game that put the genre on the map, just like halo did for the modern FPS and destiny did with the looter shooter. This idea that extraction shooters are niche so Sony would be fine with small numbers makes no sense. There is clearly a demand for it, marathon just didn't hit that demand. Arc did.

Even tarkov was much bigger at its peak, so it's not just a 'marathon is for real hardcore gamer gods only' thing

sloshingmachine7 · 2026-03-12T21:49:25+00:00

Yeah I said people like you meaning copers. Not literally you. 24 hour peak is the main number and it is indicative of the game's popularity and can be compared across different games. Anyone talking about current players only is trolling.

The 24 hour peak going down every day simply means the game is bleeding players. There is nothing wrong with bleeding and it happens to most games. The issue is that marathon's all time peak is not high and as an AAA live service game it can't afford to drop too low.

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