For about seven sessions with my partner... the mannequin refused to move even once after slightly adjusting his pose. I picked him up and re-placed him, gave him a buddy to help motivate him... no movement.
And now we log on, and he TELEPORTED INTO THE TOILET WHILE SHE WAS THERE. and then proceeded to change his pose every single time we went to the toilet.
I feel inclined to call this overcompensation.
I have a ZyberVR headband with battery and a long extension cord that came with it from coolblue. my headset has not charged during useage for quite a while, which was mostly fine, but ever since the new horrendous UI update, I get maybe 2 hours out of my battery, *while* charging.
any advice on what to do? I use my headset to spend time with my LDR, and this has seriously cut into our time together.
heya folks.
i just wanted to come out and ask about a couple ways ya'll like to make money in this game.
i've been buying out the clothing shop regularly with the money I make from feeding my Mii's. I tend to hand them steaks when they love them because they seem to have a decent investment return, but is there a kind of math behind ideal foods?
and is there a "best" vacation trip to send a mii on for an expensive souvenir? i have a bunch of wishes to throw around, but not much to do with them, so I figure I might as well make some cash with them.
I had an extremely expensive interior that I couldn't buy last week, 5k for it, and I don't really want to run into that again, so, that's why I'm wondering.
there's this little thing that's been bothering me senseless about the recent arguments about the dev's choice to make everything immortal:
Their goal to make a believable ecosystem.
something they achieved quite amazingly in SN1. but SN2 fails at.
because it still makes the fish feel fake.
SN1's ecosystem felt real because your actions have an impact. Everything feels alive.
SN2 is a fish-themed themepark. Like... Fish Disney. Fishneyland.
Peepers splattering against your submersibles and dying makes you feel guilt. You killed that creature through your own recklessness. You had a negative effect on your environment through your negligence.
It is an animal. It is born, given live. It dies, having that stripped away. THAT, is how an ecosystem feels alive.
Even the predator animals can't kill the small fish now! How am I supposed to believe that anything here is alive?
If everything is just immortal for no reason, they don't feel like living, breathing creatures. They feel like animatronics for setdressing. SN2's fish are about as "alive" as the Png fish in Mario 64.
The fact that we still pick up small fish, and boil them alive or toss them into the bioreactor blender for power, but we can't affect them normally, makes it just feel sloppy and inconsistent. Unfinished. Like a game held back from being what it should be.
There is no positive, in having every fish be immortal. It cheapens the entire experience. Makes the game flatout worse than the first, because it loses the vibe it had. The feeling of being tossed into a hostile, living, breathing ecosystem. One where every choice you make has an effect.
This isn't about "boo hoo, you just want fish genocide." or "wah wah, you just want guns and swords" like the bad faith arguments people tend to toss around. This is about the mission of the devs themselves, and how they are compromising it themselves for a kneejerk overreaction to a select few players that like to eviscerate everything.
Hell I'm even fine with unkillable leviathans. They don't feel like they add to the ecosystem's functionality to begin with due to their gargantuan size. Much like how reefbacks, due to their lack of feedback and interactivity, felt more like setdressing.
But everything else, should take damage. It should bleed. It should die. Not because I want fish murder. But because I want responsiveness. I want a fish getting hit by a full speed tadpole to make me feel the guilt of a life taken in vain. I want a dead predator fish to cause a power instability, where new predators will flock to their old territory to fight over it.
I want Subnautica 2's Ecosystem to feel alive. And there is no life, without death.
I just wanted this off my chest. I've been commenting this again and again. I even incorporated part of my best phrased comment in here, because I felt like that was the best way I had put my argument out there yet.
I want this game to be good. I want this game's vibes to be immaculate. But so long as the devs hold this... unnecessarily draconian "no death" stance, the game is just going to be "Worse Subnautica 1" no matter what they add, because simply put... A game about ecosystems, their destruction, the concerns that brings... cannot have a fake feeling ecosystem.
Quick Edit, because people keep replying the same thing... No. Being early access does not mean this is fine. The devs have blatantly stated that they have no intention of making any creature capable of dying as of now. This has nothing to do with the game being unfinished, but everything to do with design philosophy. So please, save yourself the time, and me the annoyance of having to read it, and don't comment "Oh but it's still early access, give them time" and similar comments.
And for everyone that keeps harping on about "yeah bro, the game IS unfinished, duh"... You lack reading comprehension. The point is that, so long as this stance remains in place. So long as you can pick up fish and fry them, but cannot deal damage, and fish remain immortal, the game will forever, eternally, feel unfinished and cheap, due to a glaring inconsistency. And this goes back to the former problem, where the devs have already addressed it, telling everyone to effectively get lost with wanting fish to have hp or the ability to die at all.