Playtesting Subnautica: Below Zero! - Analysing the dev stream (spoilers!) | Subnautica News #129

In this episode of Subnautica News, we take a look at a developer stream that showed new footage of Subnautica: Below Zero of a playtesting session and a ton of new story and creatures!

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About Subnautica:

Subnautica is an open world survival game in development by Unknown Worlds Entertainment.
Subnautica allows the player to explore an aquatic alien planet by scuba diving and traveling in ,
while collecting resources and food to survive. It was released on Steam Early Access on December 16, 2014.
The Xbox release was in August 2016.

The player controls in first-person view the lone survivor of a crashed ship on an aquatic planet.
The main objective of the player is to explore the open world environment and survive the dangers of the planet, while also continuing the story.
Subnautica allows the player to collect resources, construct tools, bases, and submersibles, and interact with the planet's wildlife.
Players must keep themselves adequately hydrated and fed, and must also maintain their oxygen supply while traversing underwater.
The game also includes a day and night cycle.

Subnautica was first announced by Unknown Worlds Entertainment on December 17, 2013, with Charlie Cleveland as the game director and lead gameplay programmer,
and Hugh Jeremy as the producer.

The development team also opted against the inclusion of lethal weapons in the game. Charlie Cleveland, the game's director,
described Subnautica as "one vote towards a world with less guns," and had felt inspired by real life gun violence,
including the Sandy Hook shooting, to encourage players to think about "non-violent and more creative solutions to solve our problems."

Subnautica was released on Steam Early Access on December 16, 2014.
Subnautica was originally planned to be released on Xbox One on April 1, 2016, but was ultimately delayed by another month.

Full V1.0 release was on January 23, 2018.
An expansion (the Arctic DLC) is being worked on and it is planned to be released in early 2019. it will include new vehicles, biomes and creatures, more leviathans and the surface will play a much more important role than in the base game.

It is called Subnautica: Below Zero and will also include new gameplay mechanics and features, such as supplydrops, weather and new biomes (e.g. the Twisty Bridges, etc.)
In Below Zero, we are an Alterra employee, sent back to Planet4546b to collect data on Precursors and their facilities & technology.

Some possible new creatures are: The Snowstalker, the Glow Whale, the Crested Reaper, Ice Worms, Alien Penguins, Rockpunchers, the Shadow Leviathan and more.

We will also most likely talk to a PRECURSOR called Al-An, who uploaded their mind into one of the Precursor caches before the Kharaa wiped out most of the planet. We might have to help them get a new body by building one for them as well.

[RadiantExemplar]

Missed the perfect opportunity to say "Hey there, I'm Aci and welcome baci!

[uhoh]

Huh. Rock Punchers are *WAY* smaller than I thought they would be

[latroxy]

Our lord Titan Holefish






*Shall Rise*

[MrFS-bwbm]

Am I the only one interested in seeing the Shadow Leviathan?

[AmaryInkawult]

Remember we get 2 Titanium from scanning fragments we already have blueprints for. Given that the base building aspect is expanded upon, looking for fragments will be more for resources than recovering blueprints.

[georged]

Lmao Penglings. Like how Benedict Cumberbatch says penguins. Love it.

[rolfgrell]

When zalking about the ribbon plants, you meant they replace acid mushrooms!

Also, do you think the Pengwing is an homage to Benedict Cumberbatch, not being able to say Penguin?

[jtehtj]

I am so glad that they added Rock Punchers.

[EncephalonBubble]

Hi i'm french and at 13:55 it's written: "laissez-faire" in french, wich meens in english: "let it do"

[yeenie]

Just me or is the voice acting seems to lack abit in emotion

Edit : thx for the likes :D

[DiablosCurse]

Too bad this next girl is gonna owe Alterra 3 million credits.

[karofl]

I think it would make sense if after the vesper sends you down the minipod they would send down a big crate with a seaglide and all but the crate gets hit by a lightning and that's how the fragments appear everywhere

[xander]

It’s really cool how many recommendations from the fans they put in the game

[thermz]

Dont wanna watch cause i dont wanna spoil but ill still leave a like

[thegrandpiper]

7:05 there are islands in the first game, and in the final cutscene as you blast off you can see the giant arctic area on the planet below, with its own islands

[LU-C]

You know what I want from the Rock Puncher (if they finally DO choose to include it)? That, if it sees you with a Prawn Suit, it gets into a defense/intimidation pose. Because, for all it knows, you might be just another giant-a** crab creature trying to steal its territory, so it would see as a rival or something. That would be pretty cool, if you had to strategically avoid them. It would be like: You can use the awesome mech suit. But due to its design, you shouldn't take it everywhere. I'd *LOVE* some feature like that, 'cause it would make the wildlife feel much more organic, thus making the 'alien planet' theme more... better? I can't find the word right now, but you get what I mean.

[asimplepie]

I think there are a bunch of rocks and actual landmasses in the arctic biome is because it may be just a huge continent, like our antarctic, there is huge amounts of land there. also i think the devs just wanted to add variety to the environment besides just ice.

[josephl]

The multiple appendages on the pinnacarid remind me strongly of anomolacaris. Looks cool

[homiegecko]

Missed opportunity to turn the intro from "subnautica below zero" to "acituanbus woleb orez"

[dpsilver]

crashfish are the best thing in subnautica, god my first crash fish when u saw that little red orb and went to touch it then u hear that sound and one of those things all up in your face, u never went back near one of those eggs