r/Subnautica_Below_Zero

I've been playing the game again bc too broke for new games. So upon playing it again for the first time since it came out.

For me it's disappointing because you can tell there are environmental elements, base building and equipment items that they clearly abandoned fully integrating / making an actual "thing" when it should be scannable at the least for information.

Eg. The deep wrecked base in the lily caves with growbeds out the front - there's clearly some big machine here that would have been scanned.

The glass dome multipurpose room with the water filtration unit having that fucking bomb ass looking hydroponics tower in the middle - my god that was a really gorgeous base feature here that was clearly abandoned. ESPECIALLY WHEN there's the green walls and wall planters here from Subnautica - that you can't scan or build!!!!

Another huge gripe for me was the lack of growable flora in and out of water - like a bunch of underwater plants we can scan but not get seeds :'( makes me so sad bc I loved being creative with my bases and growing everything you possibly could in Subnautica 1 for the pure aesthetics.

Would you add anything to this list of complaints?

Odd topic for a survival horror underwater exploration game.

But regardless, I'm curious to know as i find myself saying "Emergency, Starvation imminent" and "Seek freshwater intake" more often than not.

I wonder if any of you had the same experience as me?

Not sure if anybody found this but as I was looking for the main quest character tree house in the glacier section (margarita or something forgot the name) had trouble finding it and using the sea glider map found a tunnel network truly towards the edge of the map.

It’s basically impossible to find without the sea glider map. When you get in the center of it, it look like a black sky with stars… it’s full of diamonds and rare metals.

Of course I forgot to take screenshots of it but if you guys want to go see it, I’ll return there and give better infos to reach it.

Was just curious to see if this spot was known or still very hidden to most!

Like i got 2 of the fragments but i was wondering if there are more to scan that i just havent seen.

Played the first game and loved it, but this one feels like a slog. I like that it has an actual story with voice actors and "cutscenes" but there's soooo much grinding and exploring to do and I feel like I've already had enough of the creatures and scenery.

Exploring feels boring, specially with the 10+ protein bars and infinite water suit. I look around for HOURS, find titanium mostly, then I get one line of dialogue which is either a joke or "hmm i think there's something here" then half an hour later I actually find the place they were talking about but all it has is another meaningless dialogue or a blueprint made entirely of rare items. And then more exploring and finding resources.

The mineral detector is kinda useless due to its short range, much easier to just use a scanner room or just to eyeball it. Most of the creatures feel like reskins of previous ones, most plants are just for show, and there are some resources that took forever to find, and some important ones which I still haven't found despite being 27 hours into the game. Idk man this one just isn't hitting like the first. Maybe it's my fault and my lack of attention span idk.

It's good, it's almost great. I still prefer OG Subnautica.

Just wondering, why did they remove the scanner thing that you could use in the seamoth and Cyclops in Subnautica 1 ? I genuinely missed it.

Also the prawn is more than optional, I built it and basically used it once.. while I carried it around for hours thinking it would end up being as necessary as it was in the first game

Still I had fun, hope they will make Subnautica 2 as great as the first one