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Grabbed this on a whim, very much enjoying it. This game has an amazingly strong sense of place--the lighting in particular does a great job of making the underwater environments feel alternately claustrophobic and terrifyingly infinite. The variety in atmosphere between different environments is also pretty striking, which is great because seeing new sights is still the primary reward and motivation for play. I dig the base fabrication, particularly how easy it is to sprawl out and run ridiculous habitrail labyrinths all over the map (whoever made the call that climbing ladders should be instantaneous deserves a raise). Also find it pretty amusing that in a total reversal from the typical survival-crafting norm gold and diamonds are utter trash and copper is the prized resource I never have enough of. The weakest part for me is currently the aggressive wildlife. The 3-dimensional nature of the environment and the constant visibility restrictions lead to attacks that feel totally out of nowhere way too often, and like other posters I still only have a puny little dive knife for protection despite having been rolling around in a Cyclops for hours and hours. The little red piranha guys and exploding suicide fish in particular feel entirely like video game enemies placed around the environment to hinder a player and not predators in an ecosystem. Only major bug I've run into so far was a random Seamoth despawn that drowned me.
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You can also just leave beacons at all the points of interest.
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I think if they added something like really big salvage chunks that need to be loaded and carried back to base in the Cyclops vehicle bay it'd add a lot--as-is, the Cyclops is pretty exclusively a quality-of-life upgrade and that makes it feel more hollow than a giant, kickass submarine should. A binary increase in capability, like the Prawn suit's drill arm letting you finally crack those big resource nodes, and a concrete reason to actually take the sub somewhere beyond easy access to lockers would really make it more interesting as a gameplay element, I think.
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