Will the planet be a static map or will it be randomly generated?

[Itchy Flea]

Will the world be a static map like the original Subnautica, or will they have an option of having a randomly generated world?

[Amble]

We don't know, however the environments in the screenshots certainly look hand crafted, and given the track record and their past opinions on random generation I'd very highly doubt there's any chance of randomly generated worlds here.

It's too hard to tell a story and have the special moments of discovery and terror that the first game had if the world is randomly generated.

[Jebus]

given how each biome is so vital to progressing the games, i doubt theres gonna be much randomly generated.
What if you really need a certain biome for a specific resource to get the gear necessary to progress, but your particular game world makes what you need tiny and void of resources?

I think it'd be too risky.

[Buggy Boy]

I seriously hope not randomly generated, because that smacks of FPS Deathmatch which definitely needs to be a million miles away from this game - no competitive play or PvP at all, no player-killing, not even from indirect damage. Just... no.

[LordBlade]

Originally posted by Itchy Flea:

Will the world be a static map like the original Subnautica, or will they have an option of having a randomly generated world?

I'm guessing it will be another hand crafted world.
I would love some random map generation. Just to keep things interesting. But if they want to keep zones in more or less the same places for game flow, that would drastically limit what they could do. So it makes sense for a static map they can balance better.

[Pisaro]

Originally posted by Buggy Boy:

I seriously hope not randomly generated, because that smacks of FPS Deathmatch which definitely needs to be a million miles away from this game - no competitive play or PvP at all, no player-killing, not even from indirect damage. Just... no.

To be honest, PvP would be funny. Not in Subnautica, but a underwater game with vehicles, guns, base building with PvP would be funny.

[Buggy Boy]

Originally posted by トルステン:

Originally posted by Buggy Boy:

I seriously hope not randomly generated, because that smacks of FPS Deathmatch which definitely needs to be a million miles away from this game - no competitive play or PvP at all, no player-killing, not even from indirect damage. Just... no.

To be honest, PvP would be funny. Not in Subnautica, but a underwater game with vehicles, guns, base building with PvP would be funny.

Wouldn't that just be like RUST though? I tired of that game very quickly.