Game is way too easy

[Voodoojedizin]

There are enough resources to build 100 space ships and probably 100 habitats. The resources you need to build some of the items are just way too low it's ridiculously easy, I mean you can build an entire spaceship with just a few resources and a submarine and several of the other items. I mean there is no resource management when the resources are so easy to get and so plentiful.

Food is another thing that's too easy to get, fish are everywhere but it should be more selective about what is edible and what isn't. And if you don't wanna kill anything you can just live off the plants and be a vegetarian. Saying this is a survival game is stretching it considerably.

Also there is no risk, you cannot die in this game unless you do something really stupid, there is just not enough creatures that are wanting to eat you. And the creatures that may want to do you harm are too easy to get around they don't exactly chase you.

And being able to swim hundreds of Heat the lower the water without any Pressure problems his mind boggling, they should have at least made some kind of a decompression chamber in your dwelling and the submarine, that you would have to stay in for a certain amount of time depending on how deep you went.

Also being able to build a spaceship before the rescue ship arrives is a little lame. And the space shift itself is lame I mean it only requires two batteries, and how does it know when an ion battery is? And you can use an ion cube that's supposed to have incredible amount of power to build a battery for your flashlight that's just lame.

The best part of the game is the story but you don't really get a lot of it concerning the aliens. A few artifacts in glass cases don't really give you a clue about the aliens themselves.

I understand this game was made for young adults and I do mean very young, but even so, it's way too easy there's nothing difficult to do in this game.
It's almost like a walking simulator game except you swim.

I'm afraid I'm not holding any hope up for subnautica 2 considering how this game is put together and how disastrous the 2nd one was

[sgrey]

Thank you for your valuable feedback. Everyone will immediately go back and start working on rebalancing a 10 year old game just for you.

[Suzaku]

It was never trying to be difficult.

[penner3]

All true, and yet we have scores of players complaining that they need guns because "everything in the game is trying to eat my face."

[I D R K]

Well there’s a mod that adds pressure + makes the game much harder than normal, I forgot what it’s called but if you want a challenge then I’d recommend getting it.

[Artek [General]]

Well, the game never tried to be difficult, that's the problem really. I think the fact that difficulty settings are basically just "how many bars you want to keep track of?" tells you everything.

It is, first and foremost, aesthetics-focused exploration adventure game with some basic resource management bolted on top. And even once exploration and adventure is done - its just great for chilling around. There's also a small horror element to it, as many people are naturally horrified by deep water.

There are mods that make it difficult, though. I think one even poisons the air, so you can only breath inside your bases and vehicles, stuff like that. You might like that one, maybe.

Originally posted by penner3:

All true, and yet we have scores of players complaining that they need guns because "everything in the game is trying to eat my face."

That complaint is more about logistics than difficulty. Its not that its important to game's difficulty to be able to just kill that boneshark harassing you - its purely about the principle of: "If it wants to kill me - then i should be able to kill it in return".

Funnily enough: lack of weapons usually denotes either chilling games or horror games that don't want the player to be able to retaliate as to not ruin the horror.
Subnautica is stuck in an awkward middle ground where it kinda ended up being both at the same time, heh.

[sgrey]

Originally posted by Mutation:

Well there’s a mod that adds pressure + makes the game much harder than normal, I forgot what it’s called but if you want a challenge then I’d recommend getting it.

It's called DeathRun

[I D R K]

Originally posted by sgrey:

Originally posted by Mutation:

Well there’s a mod that adds pressure + makes the game much harder than normal, I forgot what it’s called but if you want a challenge then I’d recommend getting it.

It's called DeathRun

There you go. Thanks, if you want a harder challenge download this.

[sethiepotter]

How on gods name is this game easy you have to grind, build a base, play with the local reaper and ghost population with your seamoth, make friends with the warpers, build a literal rocket scour for materials that don't respawn . Unless your playing on freedom or something it shouldn't be super easy

[Voodoojedizin]

Originally posted by sethiepotter:

How on gods name is this game easy you have to grind, build a base, play with the local reaper and ghost population with your seamoth, make friends with the warpers, build a literal rocket scour for materials that don't respawn . Unless your playing on freedom or something it shouldn't be super easy

No I played the game on survival several times actually, you don't have to scour for materials because the sea floor is littered with resources. The reaper and ghost population are no trouble and no real threat they're quite easy to avoid I mean the worst that can happen is one of them trying to take a bite out of seamoth but then they let you go and it's easy to get away from them. The warpers are just annoying, a electric discharge from the seamoth sends them away, the same way it does the leviathans. I mean you don't even need to go near the Reapers there's nothing but a few resources where they live that you can find somewhere else. The ghost leviathan that swims above the lava lake isn't even a problem as soon as he swims to the other side you can literally walk down the hole he won't even notice you. Like I said the only way to die is if you do something really stupid.

And the idea that you can build a spaceship or a submarine out of a handful of materials is just lame. 11 ingredients to build a submarine? 9 Ingredients to build the prawn suit 4 To build the launch platform 4 To build the gantry 7 To build the boosters 5 For the fuel reserve and 4 To build the cockpit, not even Elon Musk is capable of doing that. Yes each of components do need the resources to build them but by this stage in the game you should be swimming in resources.

And I mean there are resources everywhere, you can pick them up one at a time or use the prawn suit drill and get a bunch all in one stop. Saying You have to scour for the resources is just a joke

Anyone that finds this game difficult is doing something very very wrong!

[Artek [General]]

Originally posted by Voodoojedizin:

And the idea that you can build a spaceship or a submarine out of a handful of materials is just lame. 11 ingredients to build a submarine? 9 Ingredients to build the prawn suit 4 To build the launch platform 4 To build the gantry 7 To build the boosters 5 For the fuel reserve and 4 To build the cockpit, not even Elon Musk is capable of doing that. Yes each of components do need the resources to build them but by this stage in the game you should be swimming in resources.

To be fair: many people would consider grinding resources to be boring. Hell, the late game is infamously considered lame because its just a resource fetch through and through.
There are mods for this as well: some increase ingredient requirements by a lot.
Devs just didn't want people to spend half the game searching for titanium to build a single seamoth.

80% of resources actually go into base building. People love building their bases.

[admiral1018]

There's nothing "difficult" about grinding for resources. Making recipes more expensive doesn't increase challenge, it increases boredom.

But moreover, this game isn't intended to be difficult. There are entire genres dedicated to people who want competitive play. This game is about exploration and the experience of being stranded on an aquatic planet. Some aspects of the survival, crafting, and especially inventory management could be better, but I don't really think this game would gain much by being more difficult.

[Justice]

The only thing I would have changed is make death more harsher as you barealy to nothing lose when you die, which make death meaningless.

And nerf stasis riffle. At least make creature still able to hurt you if you get close enough to their attack range

[Bleep]

your post AND your review on steam are almost identical. "things that make you go 'hmmm'"

[smuggor]

Originally posted by Voodoojedizin:

as someone else already pointed out, use "deathrun remade" from nexusmods.
try playing with no breathable atmo as its radiated above water - the mod is very configurable.

[MoneyMitch2448]

You finished the achievements in 2019 then decide in 2024 it's too "easy" for you... it sounds like you grew up in the 5 years it took you to post this, congrats!