Is Subnautica 2.0 the end of the line?

[Endev]

I'm playing that game for long time and after 2.0 update I started to see a lot of people calling it the last update after 9 long years of creating, fixing and updating. Is it truth and now our only hope for new content are mods? Let's talk about it.

[dreamrider]

I think that there will still be some glitch fix efforts, but after the release of Livin' Large, the maintenance team was much reduced in favor of other studio projects.

We may see some serendipitous fall-out from the SN 3 project, I suppose. Although, with that game using a different game engine, I don't know how much will port easily.

[Yapswell]

well, no, theres loads of update in the experimental version

[Ignis]

Keep in minds that there is nothing big going on in the experimental build. There are currently attempts to improve the controls, and that's the reason you must likely have to rebind them.

Besides that, every daily update is either an automatic build that adds nothing or minor language updates.

The stable build and the experimental build are pretty much the same.

There will be no content update, the team is working on "the next game in the Subnautica universe©".

It doesn't necessary mean there will be no more update at all, but even if there is, it won't be like 2.0.

[Endev]

Well, the game itself is quite big now. And first of all: it's finished. So it's quite understandable that they won't stop supporting Subnautica, but they won't add any new content anymore, and bugfixes doesn't count.

So that's where modders can shine, since any new useful content now depends on them. I think that we all wait for Return of the Ancients mod that will be as good as official dlc. But for now there is bunch of cool and fun mods on nexus and other websites, so I suppose that this game is far from being anyhow dead, even with BZ existing and new game being in production.

[Mardoin69]

Yes, I wouldn't 'expect' content updates. However, they do still have quite a bit of stuff listed in their to do lists in the way of 'bug fixes' on their official website for this game. So, yeah... I'm curious to know if they DO still intend to roll out some bug fix updates yet.

[dreamrider]

See the post 3 up from this.

For those who do not know,
Ignis
is a UWE moderator, the "voice of the developers" on this forum (and elsewhere), and UWE's primary customer contact person on-line.

His postings are the sign that the dev studio DOES care about the fan SN base, and the nearest to "gospel" that we get here on the status of efforts within UWE.

Thanks for the update, Ignis.