• suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml
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    19 days ago

    To answer the obvious question - I don’t know whether this means it’s not coming to Steam, Epic Games Store or other PC storefronts, but it sounds like it’s a Microsoft-only joint for the minute.

    Apparently the dude couldn’t be bothered to check the steam store page:

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      19 days ago

      Lmao nice. Hopefully it doesn’t require Microsoft. Would love to play this on Steam Deck with my friends

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        19 days ago

        Looks like your good. It doesn’t say a Microsoft account is required like it does on other store pages like forza horizon’s

        (This may just be because the store page is incomplete)

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          18 days ago

          i played through the whole of below zero on a deck and it ran swimmingly! i think it was before final release too, so probably not even fully optimized at that point.

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          18 days ago

          Hard to say for sure yet, but there is no reason to include any absurd anti-cheat and as long as they don’t lose their fucking minds and decide to use some kind of insane drm, I reckon the answer is yes.

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    19 days ago

    Below Zero scratched a bit of the Subnautica itch, but it didn’t reach the same highs. Hopefully Subnautica 2 can somehow recapture some of the magic of the first one.

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      19 days ago

      My favorite thing about Subnautica was the awesome Cyclops sub you could literally build a base inside of. It made me crave more survival games where you have a mobile base like that and Below Zero really fell flat with their main sub you couldn’t build in.

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        19 days ago

        Totally, I was a bit disappointed that this wasn’t straight needed. I think if they make a MUCH bigger map (and I think they could do that with just open ocean, the ocean is big) and have that mobile base take a much larger role. That would be dope as hell.

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      19 days ago

      The first one had one advantage the others will never have, it was brand new, everything was new. Any other that comes out you’ll have expectations. It needs to be better to even match how good it felt to play for the first time.

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        19 days ago

        This. I hope people remember this.

        It was a novel idea superbly executed. It will be difficult, if not impossible, to recreate the mystery.

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      19 days ago

      Eh, i think they don’t really get why the first one was as good as it was. The loneliness was a key part of it imo.

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        19 days ago

        Totally agree. But the inclusion of multiplayer shows they are listening to feedback, as a large portion of the playerbase wanted to have that.

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          19 days ago

          A large portion of the player base wanted it because they advertised it as being a big feature of the first game and then walked back on it.

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            19 days ago

            No, I never even heard of that, I just built a cool base and then wanted to be able to show it to my friends

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              19 days ago

              Really? The key art even had two divers on it during early access. I just remember being kinda bummed when they said it wasn’t happening. I don’t think they knew how their game would turn out at that point and it did turn out great in the end.

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    19 days ago

    I thought they said they were done with their Subnautica series for now? Either way, hell ya this sounds awesome. Just hope they have respawning materials if it has more focus on multiplayer.

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      19 days ago

      Their latest game Moonbreakers was not the financial succes the studio needed. Which is sad I love e the game for everything it is. Hopefully it didn’t cost employers their jobs

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    17 days ago

    unless they scrap all the below zero garbage I’m passing on it. I loved subnautica 1 but like they absolutely killed zero’s story and if they do the same with sub 2 then I am not interested. Below zero just didn’t have the subnautica feel to it.

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      19 days ago

      That’s such a nonsensical statement, I don’t even think you know what it means.