is there a 3rd person view in subnautica ?

[Abjuridictor Tyrant]

it would be cool :D

[Viator]

Originally posted by Obraxis:

We tried this way back in the early days, but the game felt 100x less immersive. As if you were controlling a character, rather than you yourself exploring and enjoying the experience.

So no, no option. Not the type of game we want to make sorry.

My sister get motion sickness when playing first person games. She actually NEED the third person mode, and she is not alone.

[piddlefoot]

Originally posted by Obraxis:

We tried this way back in the early days, but the game felt 100x less immersive. As if you were controlling a character, rather than you yourself exploring and enjoying the experience.

So no, no option. Not the type of game we want to make sorry.

Well played.
That was the right call.
One of the most immersive games in this entire genre, you guys really nailed it, with a great story to boot.

One problem seen in many other games that use Unity game engine, is 3rd person view lag.
Empyrion is terrible for it.
But Im sure a good modder could do this easy enough, but there would be no guarantee for performance.
Just like there are no guarantees for the MP mod the game has.

I think the devs made the right call, and I liked GTA, the whole series before it even had first person view and it was fun, but teh devs are spot on when they say it damages immersion, it absolutely does, and Subnautica is all about immersion, thats the beauty of the game.

I feel sorry for those that want it, but I see why the devs did it this way.

[Ancient]

Originally posted by Viator:

Originally posted by Obraxis:

We tried this way back in the early days, but the game felt 100x less immersive. As if you were controlling a character, rather than you yourself exploring and enjoying the experience.

So no, no option. Not the type of game we want to make sorry.

My sister get motion sickness when playing first person games. She actually NEED the third person mode, and she is not alone.

That may be a result of playing games with too narrow a FOV for her display setup. I've been playing FPS games since the 90s so I have my "FPS legs", but I use a rather large 30" 1600p monitor in a credenza desk where the monitor is only 18-20" from my face and takes up most of my real world field of view. The result of that is that most FPS games' FOV settings are far too low and narrow for me and cause me to get motion sickness too. FPS games causing nausea when TPS games do not is often just a symptom that the person requires a much wider FOV to comfortably play FPS games. TPS games, by virtue of the camera being behind the character and not zoomed into the character's head, have a much wider FOV naturally.

I have to adjust FPS games' FOV from the usual 55-65, that is more optimized for large TVs viewed at several feet or smaller monitors that are 36"+ away, to more like 90-110 before it feels natural and doesn't make me feel queasy. If a game doesn't have a FOV setting or at least some kind of 3rd party hack available where I can change it then I literally have to pull the recline pin on my gaming chair and lean way back to put some distance between my eyes and my display to even hope to play without feeling sick. That does ease it, but nothing fixes it like devs just putting in a FOV slider like they should so I can adjust it.

Another thing too is that FPS nausea often lessens over time as people are exposed to it. Just as people who bought HMDs have learned that they have to earn their VR legs to enjoy VR without nausea, some people can have a need to tough it out a bit to earn their FPS legs. i.e. if she corrects the FOV and then plays some FPS games a little at a time she will likely harden up to perceiving it without getting nausea anymore. Avoiding FPS games instead will just mean that she is closed off to many great FPS-only games like the Far Cry series, the reboots of Wolfenstein and Doom and unique games like Subnautica.

Luckily, Subnautica has a FOV console command so enabling the console and typing this was all I needed to do to fix it's wretched default 60 FOV and be able to play the game:

fov 90

[[GWJ] Sydhart]

It really would have been nice just for building. Because of the view it's REALLY annoying and frustrating sometimes to place items. For example, putting grow beds on a platform. I am really OCD and like to have things as straight and orderly as possible and in 1st person you can't do that very well without multiple tries. Just a thought for future games. Should have a building mode where you can go to 3rd person. See No Man's Sky for an example.

[Amanoob105]

Originally posted by GWJ Sydhart:

It really would have been nice just for building. Because of the view it's REALLY annoying and frustrating sometimes to place items. For example, putting grow beds on a platform. I am really OCD and like to have things as straight and orderly as possible and in 1st person you can't do that very well without multiple tries. Just a thought for future games. Should have a building mode where you can go to 3rd person. See No Man's Sky for an example.

I'm not sure how being in third person would make it easier to place thing as that would put you further away from what you were placing. Not closer to it which does makes it easier.

As to in a new game, their already making it. I wouldn't get your hopes up.

There is a mod I've heard of that adds snap placement. But as someone that is also OCD about these things I have no plans to get it as the places I want to put some things is unlikely to be where someone else would want to make them snap to.

[mer]

I was going to buy it but the fact that the game doesn't have 3rd person view is preventing me from doing so.

It's not that I'm not a fan of 1st person, but each time I play 1st person, I experience nausea and it gives me headache.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who experience this, when playing 1st person view games.

[piddlefoot]

Well the games been out for so long its not likely going to be added, so your best bet is to look at the games mods, if there is a 3d person view mod, thats going to likely be the only solution to your problem if your still interested.

[Léon Scarlet]

Your character dont have an head when you play in vr mode so i wonder if we had on in flat screen version

[NewYears1978]

Originally posted by ed:

I was going to buy it but the fact that the game doesn't have 3rd person view is preventing me from doing so.

It's not that I'm not a fan of 1st person, but each time I play 1st person, I experience nausea and it gives me headache.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who experience this, when playing 1st person view games.

I can tell you that I get motion sickness from FPS games, but it only happens in a very limited amount.

I have not once ever felt any kind of sickness from Subnautica though - it's quite relaxing (well aside from all the scary ocean crap and such lol). This game would feel weird in first person.

Although I do think that having it for the Cyclops would be helpful because sometimes it is hard to navigate with the cameras..but I make do.

[Zoomii]

Originally posted by ed:

I was going to buy it but the fact that the game doesn't have 3rd person view is preventing me from doing so.

It's not that I'm not a fan of 1st person, but each time I play 1st person, I experience nausea and it gives me headache.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who experience this, when playing 1st person view games.

Have you ever tried turning up the FOV?

[❤]

just found this super cool looking game, but disappointed it doesn't have 3rd person perspective. i cannot play 1st person games because of motion sickness. i get nauseous after about 30 seconds of looking at the screen, so 1st person games are absolutely not an option for me. T.T

[piddlefoot]

I never suffer from such issues, so I dont really know how that feels, and it may seem backwards, but have you tried VR ?
Or is that even worse ?
Because this game is also VR.

[❤]

i have not tried VR, but from what i've heard, it would probably be worse. my friend who doesn't normally have motion sickness even gets it a bit while playing VR. so i haven't been eager to try it.

[piddlefoot]

Well the only other thing I can think of is to check option for things like motion blur and turn them off.

[AgarthanTerrorist]

Originally posted by gemoroda:

The fact that it foesnt have 3rd person its the only reason im not buying this awesome game

your missing out. in my opinion it makes the game alot more immersive and it actually feels like your surviving bcs in most survival games you can zoom out and it makes it feel wierd. @gemoroda;1621726179581245670