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Rupert Buttermilk posted:The thermal generator modules for both the Cyclops and PRAWN suit are phenomenally useful. Definitely fast track them. I was in the lethal lava land, I set up a base there and fully recharged the 2 sets of cells I have for the cyclops and within 30 seconds of putting the powercells in the power was dropped by 20%.
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Feb 2, 2023 08:22
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Don’t use silent running all the time!
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General Battuta posted:Don’t use silent running all the time! That's just it. The power drain isn't from silent running, I don't even run with silent running most of the time because it drains too much energy.
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SugarAddict posted:That's just it. The power drain isn't from silent running, I don't even run with silent running most of the time because it drains too much energy. Did you...never craft the efficiency module?
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SugarAddict posted:I was in the lethal lava land, I set up a base there and fully recharged the 2 sets of cells I have for the cyclops and within 30 seconds of putting the powercells in the power was dropped by 20%. If you're where I think you are, you might want to grab a knife or other questionably lethal device and have a good look around the outside of your submarine.
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Ardeem posted:If you're where I think you are, you might want to grab a knife or other questionably lethal device and have a good look around the outside of your submarine. I have to jump out with the knife every 60 seconds or so to kill the things, and that takes too long, just flicking the shield throws them off for about a minute though. Aoi posted:Did you...never craft the efficiency module? I had the efficiency module long before I made the cyclops. And yes it does have the efficiency module.
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SugarAddict posted:I had the efficiency module long before I made the cyclops. And yes it does have the efficiency module. I don’t think it ever says this anywhere, but they stack effects if you’ve got more than 1.
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Pretty sure they dont. e: even the wiki states they do not stack
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 in-game the numbers always changed for me by adding more. Might be a mod though, I’m running a ton and barely remember what vanilla looks like anymore.
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Feb 2, 2023 10:47
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Lavaland+no batteries says to me that he's got the power leeches on his ship
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A slightly more fiddly way of removing or bypassing leeches is to pull out all your batteries whenever you stop, making them detach. But yea, the knife is the long-term solution. I don't think they respawn, do they?
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Just turn the shield on for a moment, if you have it, and it'll clear them all instantly.
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But the shield doesn't kill them, they just detach and will happily swim back and clamp on if allowed to. If you're parking the cyclops to go mine blue crystals or whatever, you'd want a more permanent solution.
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I'm completely willing to admit this is because my brain is broken, But my biggest complaint about the original subnautica is always going to be that there wasn't a way to dock your Cyclops to your base.
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Eifert Posting posted:I'm completely willing to admit this is because my brain is broken, But my biggest complaint about the original subnautica is always going to be that there wasn't a way to dock your Cyclops to your base. I believe there's a nice mod for that.
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MikeJF posted:I believe there's a nice mod for that. Last I heard, since the last major update, the mods haven't updated to work with the latest version yet. I could be wrong.
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Its been recently updated. https://www.nexusmods.com/subnautica/mods/554?tab=description If you go here and sort by last updated, you'll find a good chunk that work now. Just make sure they mention installing BepInEx first like the Cyclops dock does and not the mod load manager. https://www.nexusmods.com/subnautica/mods/?BH=20 OgNar fucked around with this message at 08:32 on Feb 3, 2023 |
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Subnautica on sale on the Switch for under $10 BZ $12.59 https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/subnautica-switch/ https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/subnautica-below-zero-switch/
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Heh...switchnautica
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General Battuta posted:Heh...switchnautica I played both on Switch and they're perfectly serviceable if you don't have another way to play them. BZ used to crash a lot but they've updated it a bunch of times.
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I just can’t imagine playing without any mods. The price seems good though.
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Coming back to this game every couple of years, I still keep well-away from the rear of the Aurora. I’ll never forget the first time I heard that roar behind me while wearing headphones.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I played both on Switch and they're perfectly serviceable if you don't have another way to play them. BZ used to crash a lot but they've updated it a bunch of times. I'm not laughing at the platform just the pun
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Omnicarus posted:I think it was the composer, Simon Chylinski, that got fired for being a racist and turbo-transphobe. The lead writer, Tom Jubert, left to work for a smaller indie studio and is pretty cool and also worked on FTL. Which sucks, because I think the soundtrack is probably top 10 best soundtracks of all time. Below Zero has a pretty drat good soundtrack as well, but I don't think top 10.
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LionArcher posted:Which sucks, because I think the soundtrack is probably top 10 best soundtracks of all time. Below Zero has a pretty drat good soundtrack as well, but I don't think top 10. The Subnautica OST is amazing and beautiful and one of my favourites and I'll never buy it because gently caress that guy. I hate that I love his work so much, but  Meanwhile, I have Ben Prunty's FTL ost permanently burned into my brain but his BZ one hasn't really stuck with me yet.
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BZ’s soundtrack had some drat good music to it too. The music around the icebergs and in the crystal caves was turned those areas into an experience.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:The Subnautica OST is amazing and beautiful and one of my favourites and I'll never buy it because gently caress that guy. magically, the soundtrack just appeared in my iTunes library but I didn't pay for it since gently caress nazi's. I should listen to the Below zero soundtrack again though.
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Is there anything else like Subnautica? I'm considering doing another run since the update that integrated some of the BZ stuff, but also feel I've mostly extracted the fun from both titles at this point. The problem is I don't even know what to search for because I can't pinpoint exactly why I love them or what makes these games so much better then the million other open-world-survival-craft titles out there. The underwater "atmosphere" plays a huge role, but you could probably replicate that without the underwater part? The animations are really good obviously. Performance is decent now but I still played and enjoyed when it was dog poo poo in EA so that's not really it. The world building with the audio logs is pretty good, but I don't feel the overall story is anything special? Is it the map/exploration? It feels like that might be the "killer" ingredient? I wouldn't normally care about trying to "chop up the bits" to extract some sort of formula for a game I enjoyed but I sort of need to in order to attempt to find something else that scratches that same itch....
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Chamale posted:Does Hardspace: Shipbreaker appeal to you? You're a space blue-collar worker with a dangerous job, it could be set in the same universe as Subnautica, but it all happens in the vacuum of space rather than underwater. I tried this one, but I can’t get past the country drawl. It just grates on me. I’ve seen it praised elsewhere on these forums and Discord, but I just cannot do it. The premise sounds cool, at least. Like you’re one of the poor bastards in the first StarCraft’s intro trying to salvage a ship, except minus the whole “Protoss appear and annihilate your ship/glass the planet below” 
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Xik posted:Is there anything else like Subnautica? I'm considering doing another run since the update that integrated some of the BZ stuff, but also feel I've mostly extracted the fun from both titles at this point. Short answer, no. Long answer gets complicated and mostly depends on what you liked about Subnautica. I think the thing people bring up most is Outer Wilds, since it's also about exploration and no real combat. Except it's much more specifically about solving a mystery and has both lower detail graphics and a wackier feel. No basebuilding, very little in the way of survival elements. On the flipside, most survival/crafting/basebuilding games out there can sometimes feel a bit moot on exploration because they're often randomly generated and that takes the wind out of your sails a bit. Astroneer is pretty, Don't Starve has a lot more of the "harsh world" going for it, No Man Sky is...what it is. If you like the pretty ocean, there's Abzu and I guess Endless Ocean if you're into emulation. They're very, very chill though. There's a lot of mostly chill and cute games out there focused on wandering around and exploring without combat, my favorite is A Short Hike, the biggest recent one is Spiritfarer, there's a bunch like Journey and AER, but if that's not the attitude you're looking for, you're gonna be left wanting, and the lack of crunch may make things seem shallow. I guess on the more foreboding end of things there's FAR: Lone Sails or Inside. On the more outright ugly indie horror end there's Scavenger SV-4 and Iron Lung. Going much broader than that, you'd maybe want to just give up on the noncombat aspect and just figure out what kind of combat you'd like to have when either exploring or taking in wonders. Maybe Bugsnax, that's a whole interesting thing.
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Raft is the closest thing I have found that feels like Subnautica.
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As someone who easily will play both games every 45 days or so, there isnt much like it. Along with some of the other games mentioned, Beyond Blue is kind of like the swimming and scanning part, but little else. If you want to try it wait for a big discount, because its not much more than just swimming and scanning. Looks nice though. I should play it more. https://store.steampowered.com/app/883360/Beyond_Blue/ https://isthereanydeal.com/game/beyondblue/info/ On a side note, concerning the cyclops. I swear the game always knows when I have scanned all of the cyclops. My recent game the other day I had it all scanned before going into the Aurora and found 2 engine parts in the bay that you take that angle down. Every single time OgNar fucked around with this message at 06:07 on Mar 2, 2023 |
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Oasx posted:Raft is the closest thing I have found that feels like Subnautica. I really like Raft. And it's much better with a friend.
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Thanks for all the suggestions, none seem like they have the same vibe though. Hardspace: Shipbreaker was on my wishlist for a while but dropped off after Breathedge soured me on the whole "spacesuit around in zero g" thing. Astroneer already has dozens of hours of playtime and No Mans Sky has hundreds. I have Raft but haven't played since EA and enjoyed it enough but the survival clocks were too aggressive, maybe that's been balanced since? Thinking about it, base building is a non-optional component. Base building feels like the primary creative outlet and a core element of the progression system. So much so that I'm actually not convinced I would even like Subnautica without it.
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Xik posted:Thanks for all the suggestions, none seem like they have the same vibe though. Hardspace: Shipbreaker was on my wishlist for a while but dropped off after Breathedge soured me on the whole "spacesuit around in zero g" thing. Astroneer already has dozens of hours of playtime and No Mans Sky has hundreds. I have Raft but haven't played since EA and enjoyed it enough but the survival clocks were too aggressive, maybe that's been balanced since? Base building is very optional though. It was one of my favourite parts but as any speedrun will show you, 95% of it is not needed to complete the game. It’s just very satisfying and a tangible way to progress so a lot of players focus on that regardless. I would say out of all the games mentioned above, Outer Wilds is the one that orbits closest to the feeling of playing subnautica. The isolation, facing hostile environments in your ship and spacesuit, solving mysteries… It lacks the building aspect, upgrade paths and ressource gathering but that’s because it has more of a focus on its story. (For the better in my opinion) Also it might just the best game ever.
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