Aurora exploding?

[Giant Wasp Face]

Hello. So, just started playing Subnautica and really enjoying it so far, but I am a question about early game stuff.

I bumbled about for a bit, making gear, researching fish etc, until the AI warns me that the Aurora is going to blow. Fine, I'll go check it out. So I swim on over, only find a radiaton hazard. Ok... Swim back, get rad suit, swim back to spaceship, only to get stuck. I can't find a way in, and the textures look so bad I suspect I'm not supposed to be there at all. So I go about my business, and suddenly...

BOOM! Aurora explodes, kills me. I expect a game over but instead I just respawn like nothing happened. So, my question is this: Was there something I was supposed to do but didn't? Is it just some scripted event, or was there actually a way into the place that I missed?

If you get tell me with minimal spoilers, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

[MasterHowl]

Hello and welcome to Subnautica! This is a scripted event. You're technically not supposed to head over there before it blows and you can't get in until after it blows. You can't do anything at all with the ship before it explodes. There will be 2 entrances in the wreckage at the front of the ship after the explosion. You'll need the repair tool, knife, radiation suit, and cutter tool with the scanner of course to fully explore and get everything. Have fun!

[Demolition414]

if you start a new game in the future, its best to stay away from the Aurora and craft a Radiation suit as soon a possible. if the blast doesnt kill you the radiation will if your to close, stay in the Safe Shallows (the starting area) untill you have the Rad suit.

[ImHelping]

I would also suggest waiting until you have a propulsion cannon to move stubborn scenery around.

Sometimes in stages of the development you can sorta kinda get away with forcing yourself to bunnyhop brute force physics your way by. But most of the time it's just much more sensible to bring along the physics gun.

[Giant Wasp Face]

Thanks a lot for the help! Good to know I haven't screwed up just yet.

Although I'm seriously hoping theres a craftable rocket launcher in the game. On my last trip to the Aurora, I saw something lurking in the depths. Something big....

[Demolition414]

Originally posted by Giant Wasp Face:

Thanks a lot for the help! Good to know I haven't screwed up just yet.

Although I'm seriously hoping theres a craftable rocket launcher in the game. On my last trip to the Aurora, I saw something lurking in the depths. Something big....

yeah thats a ................... oh wait no spoilers, just one hint, if you hear a LOUD roar, swim way fast or kiss your butt goodbye.

[MasterHowl]

Originally posted by Giant Wasp Face:

Thanks a lot for the help! Good to know I haven't screwed up just yet.

Although I'm seriously hoping theres a craftable rocket launcher in the game. On my last trip to the Aurora, I saw something lurking in the depths. Something big....

The devs have taken a pretty hard stance against weapons in the game. They want you to figure out a way past most things that will kill/eat you without actually killing them back. There is a PDA download that will explain the in-game reason for it. You'll get a knife, but otherwise, you'll learn to improvise your own weapons if it's something you really want. *Hint poison mushrooms can explode when struck instead of plucked.

[ImHelping]

Originally posted by soloistpro:

Originally posted by Giant Wasp Face:

Thanks a lot for the help! Good to know I haven't screwed up just yet.

Although I'm seriously hoping theres a craftable rocket launcher in the game. On my last trip to the Aurora, I saw something lurking in the depths. Something big....

The devs have taken a pretty hard stance against weapons in the game. They want you to figure out a way past most things that will kill/eat you without actually killing them back. There is a PDA download that will explain the in-game reason for it. You'll get a knife, but otherwise, you'll learn to improvise your own weapons if it's something you really want. *Hint poison mushrooms can explode when struck instead of plucked.

Except there is a rocket launcher equivilant anyways!

...But it sucks, and wouldn't really work on what you heard anyways.

PDAs also tell you "Due to high power consumption and non-lethality, conventional weapons are recommended for personal defense." in the data entries for some of the non-lethal tools.

So the lore says you should have guns, the company appolgizing that your defalt lifepod only has knife as a freebie is still telling you to use guns. You just don't for developer stylistic reasons.

To be fair, most of the game that works out pretty well. It only gets old when stuff stops working as intended/advertsied, or spawns are spamming an area (which adds to the odds of your current options not working right)

[Lunitic]

(Very minor spoilers are covered up)

If you finish the Aurora exploration and manage to Repair the reactor room then the radiation will clear up and you will no longer need the Rad Suit, and welcome to Subnautica!

[Cougarific]

IMHO the only "mistake" you made was being too efficient in figuring out you needed to craft a Rad Suit, then actually crafting it, then getting over to the Aurora before the explosion.

Git gud bad.

[Teratus]

It's fun to watch it explode from the safety of the lifepod..
Not so fun to feel it explode when you're pretty close to it..

I survived the latter once.. did a major number on my health but damn.. swimming around collecting stuff and then the countdown starting made me panic lol

[Kanaro Min]

• Computer tells you a large object is going to explode
  
• Player heads over and checks out the large object
  
• ....

Sorry to be obtuse, but what did you think would happen if you stood next to the exploding space ship? You're paste - just what should have happened. :P

[Cougarific]

Let's be fair tho - depending on where you are/what you're doing/what's chasing you when that message comes across, it's not *that* difficult to either not really hear it or not absorb what's being said.

On my very first playthrough I admit to swimming toward the Aurora until the radiation made me back off - and this was *after* the warning about there being radiation near the Aurora.