Water Based Missions during expeditions

[Zahogamafugen]

"Blood in the Water"nuff said
Can we agree that these are the least fun kinds of missions to do?
Would it be too much to ask that these be optional?

[Happy Monkey]

We cannot agree. I'm a fan of water missions.

Personally, the type of mission that comes to mind as "least fun" is "Build a base with exactly this set of arbitrary parts that you don't know ahead of time". I don't like to leave those bases around, so it's a mission where you have to clean up after you're done.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

I thought it was very entertaining and easy. I would not be on board for making it optional. The expeditions are optional in any case. You do not have to do them, or even complete them.

At some point, the save game editors will be updated with the new cross save stuff and you can get it there if you don't enjoy an expedition or just don't have time to take part.

[Shadow Strider]

Originally posted by Happy Monkey:

We cannot agree. I'm a fan of water missions.

Personally, the type of mission that comes to mind as "least fun" is "Build a base with exactly this set of arbitrary parts that you don't know ahead of time". I don't like to leave those bases around, so it's a mission where you have to clean up after you're done.

Agreed. The clean up of an unwanted base is annoying.

Water missions themselves are fine, and now with the ability to land on water, it's very easy to get to deep enough water to find alluring specimens... they're rare, but not that rare...

[Aku]

I didn't have a problem with Blood in the Water. Maybe I just chanced upon a good ocean but I was able to swim around and scan with my visor to find alluring specimens. Didn't even need a nautilus.

[Shadow Strider]

Originally posted by Aku:

I didn't have a problem with Blood in the Water. Maybe I just chanced upon a good ocean but I was able to swim around and scan with my visor to find alluring specimens. Didn't even need a nautilus.

Same, though I did get to take advantage of the jellyfish kills in my run (though I've killed more than 3 anglerfish since then)
I only ever used the Nautilus to scan for submerged freighters (they have 7 drop pods vs the 6 from crashed freighters) or to get to deep water faster.
Now that the ship can land on deep water, I'll only ever use the Nautilus for the radar...

[Spocks Toupee]

My least favorite missions are the "APPROXIMATE LOCATION" missions on Planets with constant Storms that you can't even FLY or SEE in.

[Andreas]

Originally posted by Shadow Strider:

Now that the ship can land on deep water, I'll only ever use the Nautilus for the radar...

Wouldn't it be great if we had *deep* oceans where the sub was actually useful?

I'm gonna play Subnautica again one of these days. (The first one.) That does deep oceans right.

[DirtyMick]

As a new player, that part of the expedition was what made me finally enter water for the first time. Was great. Got it done pretty quick, and got to know how water was in the game. I like how you can propel yourself underwater with your jetpack. Well done.

[1P27]

Originally posted by Zahogamafugen:

"Blood in the Water"nuff said
Can we agree that these are the least fun kinds of missions to do?
Would it be too much to ask that these be optional?

the least fun was Apex Predator

[ArnMan]

Originally posted by Happy Monkey:

We cannot agree. I'm a fan of water missions.

Personally, the type of mission that comes to mind as "least fun" is "Build a base with exactly this set of arbitrary parts that you don't know ahead of time". I don't like to leave those bases around, so it's a mission where you have to clean up after you're done.

Agree. Building a base of three parts at 30U deep was stupid.