Solar panels are available as a crafting recipe off the bat as long as your base isn't too far down! Piping is awkward but it's worth it to have a few outlets around your bases imo, especially if you're in a resource heavy zone, so that you're not using up your power on a seaglide or the seamoth as often :D
oh if my un-filtered love for this game wasn't enough to convince anyone to buy it maybe the PDA AI being a smart-ass will be, some choice quotes: "Detecting multiple leviathan-class lifeforms in this region. Are you certain that whatever you're doing is worth it?" "Remember that materials you gather are the property of the Alterra corporation. Use of these resources for survival is sanctioned, but you will be liable to reimburse the full market price. Your current bill stands at 658,000 credits." "Great job not dying." There's also an easter egg at random of Holy Diver lyrics :D
So I've finally got a small base going on down near where the pod landed. Got four different lockers set up which are all labeled for different kinds of items. Got a battery charger and a item makey stationy boober. I have no damned idea how to get an aquarium set up but that is fine. I want to find out on my own. Grr. GRR. Station there currently has 100 power units which is fine for now it seems. Got some powercells for the seamoth made though I've yet to figure out how to recharge old ones. Also some batteries for traveling extras. I am probably going to pick up some of the beacons and shit that I've placed around that I don't really use anymore. I also need to be assed to make a dive reel because I've yet to for some fucking reason. Granted I haven't had too much trouble with getting lost yet but I'm sure that will be an issue and soon. I'm going to need to set up bases in the other areas at some point. Especially when I get the rest of the blue print for the power reactor. So then I can build down deeper. I also only just now realized I could scan lifeforms. I've gone and scanned damn near everything I have found. The only fish I haven't managed to scan that I've seen are the crashfish because they are assholes that blow up, the snoodly sharks in the kelp forests, and the clasper grabbers that grab onto my fucking seamoth like asshats. Also picked up some data pads in crash wreckage. So that was nice. Spent lots of time reading all the shit I found.
clasper grabbers oh my god i'm referring to the assholes as that from now on. so far in my 7 hour long save file: - met the warper. he's an asshole. may take health when he teleports you. don't want to test. he's fucking creepy. 10/10 avoid cause he just warps you out of your seamoth. dick. - that quote above about the leviathan class lifeforms? i got grabbed by one 5 seconds after it got done saying that. - WHERE THE FUCK IS THE MOONPOOL - oh there's the PRAWN suit - I GOT A KITTY POSTER HOLY SHIT
Clasper grabbers are assholes and make me fear for my life I don't want to be stranded out away from my base with no seamoth dammit. Also I just realized that the first day I had the game I had already played it long enough to invalidate my ability to get a refund. In seemingly no time at all for me. Like I wouldn't have refunded it in the first place but got damn I got out of the refund timeframe immediately and hadn't realized it. Argh I like how even after I stop playing I start coming up with new ideas on how I can expand my operations...I like how many different phases of the game there seem to be and how you just kind of can neatly progress into new gameplay loops.
Yeah! I have about 15 save files I've had to abandon due to updates breaking them, and every time I go for a new approach strategy, like how this time I copied Mark and made my initial base at the aurora for exploring it easily, whereas previously I built my first and only base in the dunes biome and went straight for things like the moonpool (WHERE IS THE KOOSH ZONE WRECK HOLY FUCK) oh also apparently sea treaders kick at you if you get too close?? they HURT
Argh though. I don't think I've had this much fun learning mechanics in a game like this since Don't Starve? Like Don't Starve is just very fun with how it teaches you and much of the fun is in learning just how the game even works. Subnautica manages it very well too, I feel. Again I'm playing it without a guide and that I think is part of why I am liking it so much. Because it's just discovering mechanic and bit of gameplay info after mechanics and gameplay info. It doesn't feel oppressive in what it demands of you either and I've yet to really hit a frustration point with difficulty finding something out on my own. Which is important with this sort of game because to me part of the fun of survival games is the discovering of the mechanics. It's hit a really nice balance with it, I feel. On the note of having to start new save files...I'm giddy for my going through it again, honestly? One of the fun thing about these sorts of games after the initial discovery phase is approaching it again with what you know. So then you can get set up much faster, but also you start figuring out new and better ways of doing things. Basically tweaking what you already know into newer, albeit smaller discoveries. That was one of the real fun things about Terraria for me. Yes I had already beaten it once before but playing it again me and my girlfriend were able to find new ways to economize and such.
*kicks down door and sets up seabase in thread* Hello naughty sea children, i've been playing the game since very early alpha - before the Aurora was explorable! I have more to say, but I just took my sleeping meds, so maybe tomorrow.
before the most recent exploration update or before being able to even patch up the drive room and radiation-be-gone? because holy shit Having a fresh start is both fun and frustrating, because on one hand you want to do it, and on the other you're forced to every month especially if you have a base in an updated area. Luckily the only areas left for them to finish work on are the Prison, the active and inactive lava zones, and the lost river, so you can actually get away with keeping the same save until ver. 1, if you so pleased. :P in other news: i spent 2 hours gathering resources for the PRAWN suit and i am having so much fun
in development news Spoiler: lost river spoilers good to know the reaper looks pissed even in death :P
I started a couple of updates before the aurora exploded I think. I remember being absolutely taken aback by that and then just saying 'so cooooooooool' I'm having a terrible day so I'mma start this beast back up again
I do not remember it being so difficult to get inside the aurora. I distinctly remember a sneaky hidden passage. It doesn't seem to be there anymore. Also there are many many many many more RL's than I remember in the area, I nearly died five times, I'm not coming back until I get the stasis rifle.
