Hi. I have Thalassophobia.

[Aloraine]

Why did I buy this game?
What compelled me to think about buying this game.
Well, I have this game now.

Hello darkness my old friend.

[Cougarific]

Wait you're just going to leave us hanging? Why DID you buy this game? SOMETHING BIG AND SCALEY COULD EAT YOU.

[Cougarific]

AND PROBABLY WILL!!!

[sky.hi]

I have quite a fear of the sea as well, specifically any large body of water in which I cannot see the bottom of. It's precisely why I bought this game though. For most people it's an exploration game, but for me, it's a complete horror game that is truly difficult to play soemtimes.

My process is

step 1) Build base

step 2) Stay in base

step 3) fear the inevitable need to go out and get food

[ChamferTool]

the farm update will help you then......

[Ghosticus]

Hello fellow Thalassaphobist! Welcome to Subnautica!

In order to survive without debilitating traumatic stress, you'll want to never leave the safe shallows. Ever. Everywhere else hates you and wants to kill you. Especially everywhere outside of your life pod.

20 hours played. 1 hour in the Kelp Forest. 30 Mins in the Grand Reef (Shallowest Area) and Plateaus. And I once cried in fear of a Reefback.

[Aloraine]

Why can't I hold all these tears? Why must I always cringe and tense up whenever I leave the safety of my vessel? Why do I get such anxiety whenever I surface and can't see underneath.

I get horrible thoughts of just swimming along the seabed and seeing giant eyes above me. Why did I buy this game? Oh, Right. Because It looks gorgeous.
IF IT WASN'T FOR THE CRIPPLING ANXIETY OF THE DEEP DEPTHS.

BUT. I MUST BURN MY DREAD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63O7X2jeWFM

[Hakke]

you thalassophobians are masochists. i mean - how many threads are here about this ? seems to be an awesome phobia. people with arachnophobia normally want mods to mod out spiders of games- but thallassos never want water to be modded out... no they are eager to be virtually exposed to the subject of their phobia... weird

it´s probably a cool thing to have some kind of phobia and boast about it on the forums ... :D
just joking ! ;)

[Myrador]

Originally posted by Hakke:

. no they are eager to be virtually exposed to the subject of their phobia... weird

might help them deal with it who knows...

[Ghosticus]

Originally posted by Hakke:

you thalassophobians are masochists. i mean - how many threads are here about this ? seems to be an awesome phobia. people with arachnophobia normally want mods to mod out spiders of games- but thallassos never want water to be modded out... no they are eager to be virtually exposed to the subject of their phobia... weird

it´s probably a cool thing to have some kind of phobia and boast about it on the forums ... :D
just joking ! ;)

There are certain game I just can't do water in. GTA 5. Fallout 4. SOMA and Bioshock are no goes for me.

[Aloraine]

I could do Soma, if I took it slow and carefully without spooking myself too much, Bioshock was fun for me. I stayed the ♥♥♥♥ out of the water in GTA 5, and Fallout 4, I could, if I really had to.

It's odd, I don't have a problem if it's third person, I'm a bit calmer, First person experiences though get to me. I think with Soma it's because I had an NPC with me to give me a distraction so I could keep going.

Subnautica though . . .

[Kazaanh]

Take it like a men, don't be a sissy.

Its just the water and monsters are not scary once you met them for the first time. Especially later when you can recognize every ambient sound easily. Game is not scary at all sadly.

[ParaScuba]

did it help you break your Thalassophobia?

[Hazlee]

What you need to do is go on youtube, find a jazz music playlist (or whatever genre calms you down), and listen to it while you play.

Gather resources (titanium, quartz). Craft the essentials and a few tools (ESPECIALLY the scanner, knife, and seaglide), then make a habitat builder so that you can establish a home base (room module recommended; also try to add a small locker inside for convenience). After all that is done, get to the floating island asap. Check online for a map if you're having trouble finding it.

Once you're there, try to make your way to the abandoned bases. There are three in total, I believe. Scan all the stuff you can find (don't miss anything!), and grab some purple fruit plants/orange tree fruits while you do that. Bring them back to the base and DO NOT EAT THEM.

Once you're home, store the fruit inside a locker (you built one already, right?), get more resources to make an interior planter, and plant the fruits into the grow beds. Now you wait for them to mature... Once they've grown, replant the offspring fruit. Expand your base if you want more grow beds.

ESSENTIALLY, this will create an unlimited food supply of purple and orange fruit. They restore both your health and thirst, and I believe each fruit gives around +14 to both values *check online for specific values b/c I am not completely sure* The only inconvenience is that a single fruit takes up 4 slots in your inventory but you can manage that.

If you do this carefully, you will never have to go looking for fish in the dark ever again when you're hungry.


For trips far away from your base, this might be an issue though. Make a large aquarium and breed two identical fish inside if you want a more inventory-convenient solution. Breed airsacks for unlimited water. Breed reginalds (they are the most "filling" per fish) for food. Whenever you need to be brave and explore the world, take a few fish from the tank and cure them with salt.