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Maybe the ice isn't actually ice but just cold bacteria that looks and feels like ice and even heating it up won't kill it and if you drink it it's very toxic...
Makes sense tho, from a "realistic" and gameplay perspective. Use knife on ice to get Ice Chunks, bring them back to base and combine with.......*something* in the Fab to create a bottle of drinkable water.
The Bladderfish is technically a living filter but it wouldn't make sense to use a water-producing creature in another water recipe.
If it is actually ice and it is actually contaminated the water would be too but you can filter that with a bladderfish
Sound like an episode of The X-Files that I watched a few days back. Polar ice thaws, team gets taken over by insanity-causing microbes, chaos ensues, Mulder glowers, Scully yells a lot, people die, the dog lives (of course), the Americans come in and rescue the remainders and "sanitize" the site for the good of all (of course).
You may be on to something. If Gillian Anderson shows up, run.
We already know the ocean contains water, because they choose to use the same planet as the first game... which means the ocean is water and salt (which is why the filtration unit works).
Which thus means that you are surrounded by Ice and snow in the cold climates, because that is how physics work. The sun heats up the ocean, it changes states into Gas, it raises into the cold air, cools down, forms water in the air again, and then falls to the ground as slow, as it further gets exposed to the cold air.
So no, its not cold bacteria. And its silly not to just let people melt snow. Fresh Water is not a concern in an arctic survival situation where you have loads of snow... heat is.
In the first game heat wasn't really much of an issue due to it being presented like a tropical environment, but i would expect heat to be a serious concern in below zero... hunting for bladder fish is hopefully just a legacy thing and will be replaced rather quickly.
Still makes sense to have filtration stations and such for deep sea bases.
I think this equipment, that is shown in the wardrobe will be used in the final game.. and get damaged so you must stay under water and only minimal time you can go to the surface and breath.. go outside the water, without a suit or a prawn will kill you in moments. Thats why the heating plants and heating pools are everywhere.
So do the protagonist has time to cut ice? i don't think so.. but yeah it would be cool that there are other mechanics. Like a rain collector or a ice melder where you can collect with propper equipment.
Also I am not sure how it works exactly, but if you have a suit that insulates you against 0° water, wouldn't that also insulate against -50° air? Since water has far higher heat transfer capabilities.
Swimm over to ice, break ice covering ocean from below, reach out, push all snow in the immediate vicinity into a bag. close tightly by twisting bag, swim back with your bag of fresh water.
Besides... isn't one of the features of this game gonna be a snowmobile type?
This is the promotional shot:
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/5312/89d259c4428de2d38025378146d2de1dc8c3287b.jpg
That looks to me like we are gonna spend equal parts outside as well as inside. And it would be strange if they didn't plan some mechanic for leviathans to hunt you through the ice, if they open with a promotion like that.
Thats a good question!
In reallife you have different dive suits. But let us show the full suites only.
There are wet and dry suits. In the wetsuite you get wet... so its not fully enclosed. The drysuite you are fully enclosed. The drysuites are for tempretures at 12 to 0 °C. They can hold the temprature some time in the arctic are. But thats are bare moments. The material is build to insulate to a 0° C Enviroment. Not less temprature.
The material must be thicker and thicker as lower the tempratures get. So you must build a full enclosed suit, with a heating device in it. So... yeah.. but let us view at the original. Enviromental hassards are bare minimum at subnautica. Only heat... and for that you have a robust suit. Not even a full enclosed one. Only the radiation suit was full enclosed.
I hope that below zero get more surivial mechanics... heat and weater is now a thing in the newest exp build. So cold/heat mechanics will come, i hope that pressure will also get a role... no human can dive without a protection suite near 1,5 kilometers or a mile below... thats 150 bar of pressure...
They will plan some overwater mechanics and gear, thats true. I don't say a thing agains it. But the first phase of the game is... get eqiup, get a base, prepare for higher tier enviroments. Subnautica the first game, you must collect equipment to get deeper and deeper. Why the forget the diver.. i don't know.
But why have only the first phase of the game... we are even befor the part "build a base and get to the aurora", so the higher tier survival aspects, like water and food and cold and deep mechanics are not really there.
So yeah, ice collection would be cool, but not in the first phase of the survival progression. I hope so there will be more methods to collect food and water. Cutting ice and melt them would be really cool. Maybe the "moveable drill" is for this kind of mechanics?