No, Subnautica: Below Zero’s answer to players wandering out of bounds is beautifully simple: It’s fear.Īs was the case in the original Subnautica, Below Zero’s lore explains why there’s an ecological dead zone around the map, why the ocean floor drops away into a massive abyss, deeper than anything you’ve explored before. There are no invisible walls, no mountain ranges, no screen-dominating message, nothing as immersion-shattering as that. The solution used in Subnautica: Below Zero, on the other hand, is nothing short of brilliant. Twenty seconds later, he was dead and I was yanked right out of the game. What actually happened was that my health bar started ticking down the moment I left the boundary, as if Max were suffering some horrifying arterial gusher. It was stupid, yes, but it promised to be entirely keeping with the barren hellworld of the Mad Max quadrilogy. I’d drive as far as I could before stumbling out, walking as far as my feet could carry me. So, when I drove off the map into the Big Empty, I knew it was a death sentence.īut I wanted to see how I could get into the wilderness. Run out of the latter and you’re walking. Take Mad Max, set in a post-apocalyptic landscape where water and gasoline are the two most precious commodities in the world. What is infuriating, however, is when designers have a solution right in front of them and they overlook it. I’m not advocating infinite, procedurally generated worlds there’s enough busywork in open-world games as it is. But there are still areas where, if you roam far enough, you slam into an invisible wall, as is often the case with similar titles. Some games do attempt to use geography to corral the player Fallout: New Vegas, for example, has mountains that bar your progress. There are few things more immersion-damaging than seeing a warning message flash across the screen, followed by a near-instant game over. So how do you handle it? In the case of Subnautica: Below Zero, Unknown Worlds has devised a way of penning the player in without making it seem like an insult, a slap in the face that you’ve dared to wonder what’s “out there.” It doesn’t matter how open your open-world game is - sooner or later your players are going to try breaking out of their sandbox. So the stand-alone expansion isn’t too far out and will get to see the game on Steam in a few months.This article contains mild spoilers for Subnautica and Subnautica: Below Zero. We will then begin releasing consistent content updates, carefully crafting the game based on your feedback – Just like the original Subnautica.” The Subnautica team stated, “In the coming months, we will release an unfinished, early version of Below Zero in Early Access. We are hoping to see similar results once the early access of Subnautica Below Zero releases to the public. The game supports both the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift. Currently you can buy a copy of the game on Steam for $24.99. Subnautica has been a terrific title for VR users and the hope is to see it released once again in virtual reality. According to a redditor named Dracrius, one of the Subnautica devs explained that the game currently does support VR but the team is not decided whether if the game will be released in VR. While there is a lot of hyper surrounding the new expansion, many fellow fans and gamers are wondering if Subnautic Below Zero will be released in VR. The water teems with life: Some of it helpful, much of it harmful.
Users will have to manage your oxygen supply as you explore kelp forests, plateaus, reefs, and winding cave systems. Subnautica’s oceans range from sun drenched shallow coral reefs to treacherous deep-sea trenches, lava fields, and bio-luminescent underwater rivers. In the original game, you crash-land in an alien ocean world where the only way to go is down. The region of the planet 4546B will offer a new chapter in the Subnautica universe where you will have to endure the harsh winter cold and venture through the dense ice. Subnautica has been one of the more successful games to be released in VR where you get to explore a vast alien world which is entirely made out of a body of water. Unknown Worlds Entertainment, creators of Subnautica are preparing to release their stand-alone expansion called Subnautica Below Zero where you get to an ice-bound world.
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