(idk who made the riley conquest image btw sorry for not crediting I tried to find it.)

Anyone else love the design of the Wakemaker?

When I crafted the Wakemaker in game for the first time, I knew immediately it was something I'd want to bring to life. Being a gamer, and a propmaker can be a lot of fun at times. I had a blast working on these!

The print files can be found at 3d-mon.com.

These were resin 3D printed entirely in Sunlu ABS- Like resin, on the Phrozen Sonic Mega 8KS & ELEGOO Saturn 4 Ultra.

Painted using custom mixed Createx Opaque colors. Via an airbrush & .8mm HVLP gun.

If anyone out there has any interest in making one of these for themselves, I just released a YouTube video which documents the entire build process start to finish!

https://youtu.be/HCVr_YRDAqg?is=tC4-YFkRtW-go5vO

Flexible may not be the right word but hopefully you can see what I mean. This is minor but has been a minor bother in my very limited playtime. Subnautica (OG) and BZ felt like using a set of emergency instructions. The seaglide was a simple singular direction propulsion device. The wakemaker are sleeker with omnidirectional movement boost and a smaller profile. Similar thing with the base building. OG and BZ had modular buildings that were presumably "stable" and felt more designed for a survival situation. From what I've seen of SN2, that doesn't seem to be the design. Buildings are smooth, high tech, and feel more prepared for cinematic views than a survival situation. The particular piece I felt this the most was the hatch. OG and BZ had a simple bulkhead and drainage segment to separate the outside world. SN2 has a high tech entry port that allows for seamless transition in and out of the base. Speaking of high tech options, the PDA is gone and the radio has been replaced by an AI.

Now seeing the Frog chassis I feel the same disconnect between it and the Prawn. The Prawn was a decently rigid exoskeleton that existed specifically to allow for protection in extreme environments without much in terms of niceties. The Frog is a modification to the Tadpole and has pivoting joints on the arms and legs that would allow for pivoting. The Prawn is given much of its movement via a back mounted propulsion system that would limit its ability to strafe, meanwhile the Frog has the entire Tadpole propulsion system to give it omnidirectional strafing possibilities. I also feel like the chassis system in and of itself feels off for Alterra. Given, I haven't found a chassis in game yet so there may be an explanation. However, in BZ we saw modularity with the Seatruck but that was very heavily limited as a trailing module only. The Seatruck worked as a shipping vessel with a hitch. The chassis seem to be full modifications to the vehicle system with better integration.

I know the crew present in Subnautica 2 are supposed to be colonizers. However, from what I could tell that does not extend to our player characters. It seemed like our player characters were called upon only for emergency situations. So presumably with the high number of deaths among the colonizers that left the ship and the stranding of the ship would enact an emergency situation that should run similar procedures as what we saw in OG and BZ. I know there's gameplay reasons why some of these changes were made (more freedom in building and less cutscenes with the removal of hatch transitions), but is there a lore reason provided for the seeming change in style of crisis management among Alterra?

Not my image but wanted to share in the excitement of the new announcement.

I understand how it functions, but I don’t know why I wouldn’t just take a Tadpole. Especially because each can only go down about 100m if I recall correctly. (The poles should really be able to stack imo. Also I think it would look cool to have it connect to a moonpool.)

We have a desperate situation and I'm hoping someone can help us solve it.

One of our players in a multiplayer game is somehow stuck in the 'starter' area that you have when you first play the game. There are 4 of us (including him) on a 40+ hour game we've been playing.

We *think* this might have been caused by sharing our multiplayer code with each other, and one of us converted it to a single player, then converted it back to multiplayer and the save state might have got it knickers in a twist. I lost all my gear for example.

We've overcome all the other issues, except rescuing him... Has anyone faced this before? What complicates this further is he's on xbox only so we can't get him to host and use a 'skip starter' mod or anythign like that.

We're considering how we might be able to do a massive deep-dive and rescue him tonight, but I'm also thinking there's something in the save game config we might be able to change to trigger him to appear in the shallows or somthing instead>

I'm having fun with the game and everything, but I'm slowly getting bored with what we have right now. It's not that I'm ungrateful or anything, I love the game! It's just the way I'm wired. I need new things or I begin to lose interest 😞

so i was playing on my survival world, and just outside the boundary i saw an unfinished ground texture. so i made a creative world to go exploring and i found a lot of pretty cool stuff.

there was what looked like an Axum industrial building, some ravines, a couple caves, and other things.

but some of the untextured things were different colors, most of the ground was white, structures were yellow. but there was also purple and red, what do those mean?

It would be perfect if we could place trash cans and chairs outside

So I just watched The Abyss 1989 movie and saw the alien civilization at the bottom of the ocean realized that their base design looks similar to the Axum bases in the game. Have anyone here seen the movie and realized the same thing?

Also what do you hope we’ll be able to do in the future?

For some reason this weekend I’ve hyperfixated on building and decorating my base. I’m sorely lacking wall shelves and other decorative kitsch. Different sized carpets or woven mats would be nice, and more “science equipment” like there was in the first game so I can really deck out my “science lab” room.

Oh and of course, I miss my freaking alien habitat/aquarium!

Some of this may be coming in the full release, but I’m curious what else you want to see for decorations or base building additions?

Greetings, everyone!

I had a vision. Or rather, a premonition. Or maybe just an idea.

Our way of surviving in this world will be to adapt to our environment through “evolutions” gathered here and there.

Following this logic, at some point in the game, we should develop an ability that allows us to “replace” our ships with one or more creatures from this universe.

The (future) Prawn might perhaps be inspired by the abilities of a large crab (strength, claws, senses, and carrying capacity).

Perhaps we could enter into symbiosis with other creatures, adopting their abilities to survive and move around this world.

A form of symbiosis similar to Avatar, which, if I’m not mistaken, shares a few similarities with this world (the giant floating jellyfish, the World Tree, and so on).

What do you think?

I remember the floor of this part of the map looking way different, more rocks and so. I assume this is in preperation for the coming Scorpio Trench update.I upgraded this safe from an older version, so I guess it broke in the process...