“Welp, the map shows it’s in the lily pad biome, guess we’re gonna go over there.” The map is a gameplay ruiner because it’s just saying “hey, here’s the general area of all the facilities, go here.” I also knew exactly where to find the Omega Lab because of the map. I know this from personal experience, I did not DISCOVER Phi Robotics or Koppa Mining on my first playthrough, I was SHOWN where it is. “Oh what’s this? I should go to Phi Robotics? Ah, well it’s just straight west of the island according to the map, I know this even though I’ve never been there before and never mapped out the area.” You don’t get to have the experience of stumbling upon something new and wondrous because you already know it’s there due to the map. It shows the locations of Phi Robots, Koppa Mining, Outpost Zero and Omega Lab. Aesthetically, it does look very nice, but it’s just not that fun COMPARED to the original.ĭelta Station (the island in the middle of the map) is one of the first areas you explore and that’s where you get the map. This probably ties into the fact that the map is much smaller than the original game, so the devs need to slow you down by making it so you can’t travel long distances quickly (which I think is also why they replaced the fast seamoth with a slow sea truck)Īll in all, it’s a good game but they just took away some of the things that made the original fun and doubled down on things that made it not fun. I can no longer fling myself with the grappling arm and get to pretty high speeds by swinging around like Spiderman. In BZ it’s just like where am I? Oh, just look at the map, no big deal.ĥ) Prawn suit got nerfed. I used lots of beacons to help get my bearing, learning what is north, west, south and east and actually discovering the map. Part of the joy of the first game was being completely lost and disoriented, and having to explore, discover and map out areas yourself. You might think “what’s wrong with having a map, that helps you?” Well that’s exactly why. Even traversing the landscape in a warthog in Halo 2 from ages ago felt better and more fun than anything I was doing in the snowfox.Ĥ) They added an in-game map in BZ. There are tons of games out there that have land exploration and traversing on land vehicles, that’s not Subnautica’s claim to fame. BZ doubled down on this unnecessary feature and added the temperature gauge and that god damn ice worm. I felt like the land segments didn’t really do much for the gameplay besides a little bit of exploration. Nothing really special about being on land. There were very limited times where you weren’t underwater in the original game, and the times that you were on land… well, it was just running, jumping and scanning. I personally just don’t like the compartments that you add to the seatruck.ģ) Subnautica is all about being underwater. I feel like the sea truck is like if Walmart made their own mix of a Seamoth and a Cyclops. I loved zipping around on the seamoth and decorating the inside of my Cyclops. If I went into BZ without playing the first one, I would probably have no complaints but you know what they say “comparison is the thief of joy.” These are not numbered in any particular order:ġ) They changed the PDAs voice to a more annoying one.Ģ) They removed my two favorite vehicles, the seamoth and the cyclops. I just don’t think it’s as good as the original for a variety of reasons. And I humbly apologize to all of the people out there who actually got involved in a spacefaring trip to figure out what happened to your dead sister, only to find the game unrealistic compared to what actually happened in their real life.īelow Zero is a good game. In regards to it being immersion breaking, the same should be argued against the video game Valheim because none of us are actually dead vikings, or against Stray because none of us are cats, but no one makes that argument there. Across gaming in general, it might have been male dominated at one point in time but it's probably safe to say there are as many female gamers as males, women just hide it a bit more because of male trolling. For this game I don't actually know other than anecdotally 50% of the people I know that played it were male. Just want to chime in here that the vast majority of players might actually not be male.
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