Do you play with Hunger/Thirst

[Thomas]

Do you play with hunger and thirst enabled? What are your reasons for choosing it or not?

[TheHuskyGT]

Yes. Makes it more "realistic" and I imagine it's the way the game is supposed to be played.

[Cetren]

The game is pretty easy even with hunger and thirst. So of course I do. What would this game be without it? Just material farming really.

[kwong20287]

No, don't want to deal with that in this kind of game.

[Alkpaz]

Yes, because I played Freedom once on my first playthrough a little over 2yrs ago.

[Demolition414]

i play with hunger and thirst, i collect a load of Bladderfish create some water, cook fish until i can cure them, once cured i keep them in a locker then have a quick eat and drink before going exploring

[TheHuskyGT]

Water is a bit harder to come by at first, but then you learn how to make liters and liters of it. It's more of an annoyance to have to eat and drink, but it's what survival games are about.

And I agree, this game is pretty forgiving. I've played a lot of survival games, but they become too much of a hassle since I don't have a lot of time to play videogames due to work. Subnautica seems to have the right balance.

[Ishan451]

Originally posted by Thomas:

Do you play with hunger and thirst enabled? What are your reasons for choosing it or not?

I play'd with hunger and thirst, because i thought it would be the more immersive experience. In retrospect i wouldn't do it again. Satisfying hunger and thirst becomes so trivial before you even reach the midgame, that in the end it was more a nuisance than a challenge.

[alekzanderlr]

I do. I mean, it's not a long game so the more to do the merrier.

[Stormtempter]

I play with them on, they are good 'come back to base or go out prepared' challenges. They are both trival, and yet important at the same time.

I'm now playing on Hardcore for much the same reasons.

[iGoldenGopher]

It is another aspect of the game, but really it is just an exercise in doing something to shutup the computer. Hard at first, but then you get a basic base with a melon patch and it's a none issue.

I have played 60+ hours and watch several Youtubers play this and I really don't even know what happens when you get to zero for water or food.

[Alkpaz]

Originally posted by iGoldenGopher:

It is another aspect of the game, but really it is just an exercise in doing something to shutup the computer. Hard at first, but then you get a basic base with a melon patch and it's a none issue.

I have played 60+ hours and watch several Youtubers play this and I really don't even know what happens when you get to zero for water or food.

You start taking damage until you reach 0 health.. then die.

[Amanoob105]

Yes. Because while it's trivial to keep on top of it just helps add that little extra 'thing' to keep things interesting.

Which in turn as a knock on effect to give me more to do in the game, i.e. power consumption for managing water filtration machines, planning for long trips and inventory management.

[old.school]

Originally posted by thehuskygt:

Water is a bit harder to come by at first, but then you learn how to make liters and liters of it. It's more of an annoyance to have to eat and drink, but it's what survival games are about.

And I agree, this game is pretty forgiving. I've played a lot of survival games, but they become too much of a hassle since I don't have a lot of time to play videogames due to work. Subnautica seems to have the right balance.

This...

I like food and water because it adds in one more thing for me to balance in. I'd be all for sleep too but it would have to be on a long cycle or something cause i dont want to have to find a place ot sleep every 5 irl minutes.

I think the thing with food and water in survival games is its such a hard thing to balance. Early game vs late game and when it should be hard vs easy. In the beginning it should be really hard to get food and water but it should eventually get to a point where it is easy. If its hard to get food and water all the time whether you are just starting the game or you are late game it becomes tedious. If its too easy all the time then its trivial and it becomes one of those things that like "why bother with it?".

Its like the Tom Hanks movie Castaway. Early on he was having a hard time trying to open a coconut, eating raw crab and trying to chase fish in shallow water. But then he is able to make fire and can cook crab, he uses leaves to funnel water into hollow coconuts and over the years he has gotten good at throwing a spear at a fish in the distance. A food and water system in a survival game should be like that. Super hard at first to the point (imo) where your character really can die if you arent doing anything about it. But easy later on to the point where you put in almost zero effort to get water and food. I think they should have made it so that the first fish you catch was poisonous but you recover with the first aid kit. Then your priority would have been to make a scanner which would have been made a little bit harder than it is now. Then you would have had to scan all the fish until you find one that is not poisonous and nutritional.

[Morethan2Letters]

Once you grow a garden or two of Marble Melons, water and hunger aren't a real issue anymore.

[Legas]

Yep, all the planning ahead, and situtions when you drink your last bottle far away from the base or survive due to finding a exploitable resource or hunting fish with a thermoblade to survive... it may be a hassle sometimes, but all these situations that add tension/stress wouldn't happen without it.

Subnautica is not an overly grindy experience, and can be finished easily in ~40 hours, which is pretty low when compared to most survival games... so hunger/thrist ain't so bad here.