Subnautica 2 Dev Gives Players Hope Amid the Game's First Hot Topic Following Launch

Fresh from its immense aboriginal entree launch, underwater endurance and crafting escapade crippled Subnautica 2 has sparked a important statement among fans: to termination oregon not to termination the fish.

Currently, you can’t termination immoderate food successful Subnautica 2, and determination is nary weaponry to bash so, and immoderate players don’t similar that astatine all. While you tin benignant of deter food to spell distant by utilizing a flare, you can’t actively termination food portion retired successful the heavy — contempt the information they tin not lone prosecute you, but harm you.

It’s worthy noting that you tin termination tiny food successful a roundabout way, but gathering them up arsenic a assets and turning them into each sorts of utile things backmost astatine your base. But there’s nary nonstop sidesplitting of immoderate food portion retired and about, making everything you brushwood connected the alien satellite efficaciously immortal. Because of this, you’ll conscionable bounce disconnected food if you clang into them. Indeed, this is not however it works successful Subnautica 1, which does fto players termination fish.

Unknown Worlds’ doctrine for the sequel is different. The developers person spoken successful the past astir not wanting players to conquer oregon predominate the environment, and that it wouldn’t diagnostic tools that would fto them slay thing that gets successful their way. Still, with Subnautica 2 present retired successful the wild, the sermon astir sidesplitting food has resurfaced, and truthful the developers are erstwhile again chiming in.

Environmental creator “uly” has had plentifulness to accidental connected the topic, insisting that “the speech astir the ways food dice isn’t over.” The developers are talking astir it a batch internally, uly said, and anticipation to supply an update soon.

“Trust maine it is simply a HOT topic,” uly said. “There are truthful galore opinions. Personally, I americium hoping we tin yet fto the small food die. I’m squad no-kill-shark-sized-stuff tho.”

“When you bump into a predator you shouldn't beryllium going ‘uuuuuugh what a pain,’ you should beryllium going, ‘Ah man... what tools bash I person up my sleeve to woody with this guy?’”

“You bash get a instrumentality that volition deter them, but it doesn’t deter them capable close now,” uly continued. “You prob wont beryllium capable to termination the shark sized worldly and larger, but you’ll get tools to deter them. Killing small fish? I’m not successful complaint of that stuff, but it’s an progressive treatment successful the team.”

As mentioned, flares are an enactment for deterring fish, but they’re acold from ideal. “I deliberation that they instrumentality up invaluable inventory space,” uly suggested, which “means astir players aren't lugging them around. Inventory abstraction is astatine excessively overmuch of a premium.”

Clearly, Unknown Worlds is moving retired however to grip this issue, but don’t expect meaningful alteration immoderate clip soon. Uly said immoderate alteration to let players to termination food would necessitate “a bully spot of investment” connected the improvement side, citing crippled balance, mechanics, animation, sound, and AI considerations.

“We've had this speech a TON internally,” uly said. “Regardless of wherever we land, we cognize that players don't person capable ways to woody with hostile wildlife.”

I’ve been keeping connected apical of the Subnautica 2 assemblage portion playing the game, and each present and past you spot players inquire for assistance connected however to termination fish, unaware it’s simply not possible. For example, 1 idiosyncratic posted connected the Subnautica reddit to kick astir getting spot by fish, pointing retired the Survival Multitool doesn’t wounded them backmost and asking if determination is simply a limb disposable further down the line.

“You can't termination fish, it's not successful their vision,” 1 idiosyncratic replied. “If you privation a monster sidesplitting game, spell play Sons of the Forest. “I deliberation it’s a bully thing,” different added. “It’ll unfastened up the devs to adhd much progression elements to deter oregon distract oregon pacify fish. Knifing them is astir apt the slightest absorbing solution from a gameplay perspective.”

A alteration for sidesplitting food is not connected the Subnautica 2 aboriginal entree roadmap, which was revealed past week. Unknown Worlds said it’s moving towards a “big drop” that volition grow the satellite with biomes, creatures, resources, tools, vehicles, and the adjacent section of the story. But successful the meantime, improvements volition beryllium added to the game. The archetypal update volition see quality-of-life fixes that Unknown Worlds said “should assistance set and code immoderate areas that request a small tweaking to marque your Subnautica 2 acquisition adjacent better.” The 2nd update, meanwhile, volition absorption connected improving the co-op experience.

Unknown Worlds stressed that the roadmap is taxable to change, but there’s plentifulness present that should excite fans — and determination are a batch of them. Subnautica 2 sold an unthinkable 2 cardinal copies successful conscionable 12 hours, and obliterated the archetypal game’s Steam concurrent subordinate peak. IGN’s Subnautica 2 aboriginal entree reappraisal returned a 7/10. We said: “It’s beauteous awesome that wading successful the shallow tides of Subnautica 2's aboriginal entree debut is arsenic amusive arsenic it is already, and that should beryllium a large motion of things to come, but I besides wouldn’t blasted anyone for waiting for these waters to emergence a spot earlier getting their feet wet.”

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