![]() ![]() Then you swim, explore and hunt, gathering resources to build contraptions that let you extend the reach of your survival efforts, charting ever greater depths of a strange and abyssal world, full of exotic - and sometimes hungry - creatures. Emerging from your escape pod, you find yourself bobbing over a vast reef, extending from horizon to horizon, the open sea only punctuated by the flaming husk of the crashed colonial mothership. Especially if you play something as beguiling as Subnautica, a game set on a beautiful oceanic alien world. Of course, it all seems so innocent now, here in 2015. Only then does it regret marooning Jon Blow and Stephen Lavelle on a spit of sand in the Pacific with only a snooker cue and a single sausage-roll between them. It’s only the devastating invasion of the Sokobeasts, a hyperintelligent alien race fixated on abstruse block-pushing puzzles, that forces the regime to see its terrible error. “To play is to die! To play is to die!” the regime’s fanatical adherents shriek from loudhailers as the speedrunners, twin-stick shootists and visual-novelists are forced into the re-education pens. In sick mimicry of the cabal’s evil creed, games can now only conclude with the player’s own expiration from starvation or hypothermia. Early Access devs planning coherent end-games are forced to fight each other to the death in a bleak, under-resourced wilderness with guns improvised from baked-bean tins. Within minutes of the first shot, indie game genres fall, devoured by the unstoppable tide of survival mechanics. 2016 is the year that the secret cabal of indie survival game developers finally steps from the shadows to unleash its terrible global coup. 2015 looks very much like it might be the year of the indie survival game as well. Snork snork!Ģ014 was the year of the indie survival game. This week he slaps on a snorkel and dives into alien aquatic survival game Subnautica. New HUDs for Seamoth, Prawn and remotely operated cameras for the Cyclops and Scanner Room.Each week Marsh Davies dips a toe into the unknown waters of Early Access and returns with any stories he can find and/or decompression sickness.Bart Torgal, Paul Torgal, Marguerit Maida, Second Officer Keen, Ozzy, CTO Yu, Berkeley, Captain Hollister, Danby, Jochi Khasar and various Alterra crew now have voice actors and playable voice logs.When drilling a Large Resource Deposit, drilled resources are automatically put in the inventory of the Prawn Suit.Over 250 bugs fixed, including the Lifepod drift.The Quarantine Enforcement Platform can now be disabled.Subnautica is officially completed and out of Early Access.Can no longer despawn Aroura by building base pieces next to it.Changing quality settings in game reminds player to restart the game.Can not despawn Aurora by building a base next to it anymore.Lost river creatures now immune to brine.Physics bugs with ion cubes and precursor keys fixed.Non-localized text removed from color customization terminal.Disallow poster placement where wall lockers are disallowed.Builder menu usable with swapped mouse buttons.Controller navigation and selection boxes fixed.Cyclops flooding leak indicators now clearly outside of the hull.Main menu button texts update correctly when switching languages.Fixed build drones bug with mobile vehicle bay.Fixed enzyme cure ball being pickupable.Fixed exiting vehicles while in ESC menu.Fixed physics bug with luggage bags in Cyclops.Fixed Cyclops upgrade station depth module icons.Fixed Cyclops upgrade station text display.Fixed ingredient tooltip sometimes only showing the first three ingredients.Disabled managed code stripping for mod support.Fixed PRAWN suit stuck in air if built far away.Fixed Lifepod ping not staying disabled on game load.Rocket platform physics issues addressed.Hardcore mode: Low oxygen will no longer warn you.Improved world streaming: You should no longer be able to outrun terrain or fall through the world in a PRAWN suit.Performance and lots of under-the-hood improvements.Added Serbian (Cyrillic) language support.Console Commands are now activated by pressing Shift and Enter (Or `).Added Intro and Loading screen improvements.Obstructions are now highlighted when trying to build a base in an invalid location.Tools are no longer holstered while running.Table Coral now only drops a singular chunk instead of multiple pieces.Updated Shuttlebug and Tiger Plant behavior.Bioreactors, Nuclear Reactors, and Alien Containments now switch to their topless designs when built in a room with a glass dome.Large Room Glass Dome and Multipurpose Room Glass Dome added.Large Room Partition and Large Room Partition Door added.2.1.2 Xbox Castles & Coffee + Precursor Update.1.6.9 (Xbox One release): Crash Sequence. ![]()
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