I played a hardcore mod of the game and it was like playing the game for the first time again, give it a shot!

Try it with mods again. But you may have to downgrade the game to the previous major version as a lot of the best mods aren't updated anymore.

I remember watching the development. It’s sad seeing what happened to it. I was really excited for the sequel too because of the multiplayer

Krafton fired the creators to deny them a million-ish dollar bonus that was promised to them, then made a whole bunch of accusations against the creators to try to shift the blame.

capitalists came in and do what they do best, fired everyone to cut costs

I think Planet Crafter has been on my wishlist. I didn’t know it’s like subnautica’s bases though. I’ll have too check it out!

Great game! I do have to mess with the settings since I think it's way too grindy otherwise, but that's just another plus for the game. Haven't played the DLCs yet though...

I tried the VR mod a year or two ago and it was pretty good except for the way that the character moves does not compute to the way normal people move, so it was making me suuuper sick. The strafing in particular was bad.

I replayed Subnautica in VR with the mentioned mod not too long ago. It's an environment that's perfect for VR and really puts the scale of things in perspective. I found some of the leviathans were a little janky in their movement sometimes, but they were still quite terrifying.

I'll always remember the first minute or so. Just uncomparable to anything else

I ended up getting it through other means I’m not sure I’m allowed to mention (though I own an Xbox copy too), but a friend who checks these had a Steam Key from a while ago I guess that he just forgot to use it, so I guess I got a moral and legal copy. It’s a shame about Below Zero, I doubt I could pull luck like that again.

I hope the base building goes well! It’s definitely a therapeutic experience just sitting back and building

That’s how my girlfriend is too lol. I’m kind of the one handling all the mechanical stuff when we play while she handles everything non too mechanical. I think she could figure it out if she set her mind to it, but I’m more than happy to help her out.

For beating the game, I’m not sure I could beat it to begin with. I think I’d get sidetracked and lose track of the story, even though I have a feeling it’s not too long

I wish my wife could play subnautica with me

Well she's too busy taking care of young Molly to be able to make the time. Maybe have Worf babysit?

The point is to escape the planet. Its one of the scariest adventure games I've played before, super cool. Ive heard some people have gotten over underwater fears playing it too because of how strong the emotional reaction can be.

you had no objectives.

So you could just stay on your ship forever.

Are you sure you haven't inverted the cause/effect relationship here? ;)

Saw a speedrun of it during one of the gdqs. Game takes a sharp left turn halfway through and gets a narrative.

You can't, if you do so you starve