You know, I've been imagining myself having a conversation with the developers of this game, and it goes like this:

Devs: What's your favourite vehicle in Subnautica, if you had to pick?

Me: Oh easily the Seamoth, it was so fun getting around in that thing. You felt vulnerable but you were fast and agile. It's like an awesome underwater Millennium falcon. Huge part of what made the game fun or me. So many good memories. I'll never forget the first time I b-

Devs: No. Wrong. The Seamoth is trash. You don't like it, we got rid of the Seamoth.

Me: Oh...Well I guess the Cyclops was pretty g-

Devs: Wrong again. It's not in this game.

Me: Oh right...That's weird. They made so much sense. You had the big Cylops for long journeys, the seamoth for in-depth exploring and then the Seaglide for tight spaces and risky adventures. They made so much sense like that, like russian dolls. Urgh I don't know what's even left....oh, the new one? The Seatruck? I guess it's growing on me. But you set the crush depth so low it's barely even worth it. What kind of 'truck' has zero storage space? It's like a clunkier, crappier Seamoth. Like someone built an ikea version from scratch. Isn't this game set after the events of subnautica? How come it's so much worse? And I mean, it doesn't exactly have much romance to it, does it? It's basically like you're the UPS guy, but underwater. Doesn't exactly scream adventure on an alien world does it? More like, "oh gosh, I better get Karen's delivery of Pot Pourri to her underwater condo by midday or there will be hell to pay!". But I guess it sort of fills the roles left vacant by the Seamoth and the cyclops, although neither very well...

Devs: NO! WRONG AGAIN! YOUR FAVOURITE IS THE PRAWNSUIT YOU IDIOT!

Me: What? No, I never liked that thing. This is a game about exploring underwater, why would I want to walk everywhere? Painfully slowly I might add. On dry land where it could have made sense, it's ironically completely useless because the jump jets don't work. Total misstep really. I just used it for the mining drill and because you forced it on me at the end of the last game. The same role could have been filled by having an arm upgrade for the seamoth, or the cyclops. Or, you know what you could just have had like, an actual drill that you could just... hold? Jeeze, you cut the Seamoth AND the Cyclops but you left that in? Eeesh. I thought that was as dead as the fish swimming indoors bug, although I see they've made a comeback too...

Devs: You're wrong. And just to show you how wrong you are, we've made the Prawnsuit totally overpowered and totally essential to every aspect of this game right from the start. You can jump endlessly now, and kill creatures with its stock attachments in about 3 hits, so you're not even vulnerable anymore. In fact you will find it impossible to make any progress without it at all, because we made it so awesome. Despite it being the least intuitive way to explore underwater, it's actually the only thing you can use most of the time now. Every problem in this game is solved by the prawn suit. You love the prawn suit.

Me: But isn't this game about freedom and exploration, why would you railroad us like that? Why even put those other things in the game? One of the best parts of Subnautica was figuring out what craft to use for what purpose. If you like mech suits so much, why don't you just make a game about them instead? You wouldn't have to deal with all the endless comparison to the original game for a start. No one even really asked for a sequel, hell the last game wasn't even really finished and the same bugs you never got round to fixing have made their way into this one, with a few new ones added in for good measure. It feels like a cynical cash grab. Instead of building on what people loved about the original, you're just limiting us to playing the game the way you think is fun. Now I think about it, this game is full of that sort of thing. The prawnsuit is just a symbol of a much bigger problem. It feels like it wants to be a totally different, much more linear game that's not even really about exploration, or freedom or mystery anymore.

Devs: The games in early alpha you have to give us time to-

Me: That stuff was all there right from the early alpha in subnautica. The vehicles were added later. The prawn suit was the last thing you added, and I never understood why. About the only thing good about this new game is the expanded inventory, but I guess I don't need to worry about that anymore do I? I'll be using the prawnsuit's inventory the whole time apparently. Do you not think it's weird by the way, that I can store more junk in my pockets than I can in that monstrosity of a-

Devs: ...Just get in the f**cking prawn suit dude.

You know, I've been imagining myself having a conversation with the developers of this game, and it goes like this: Devs: What's your favourite vehicle in Subnautica, if you had to pick? Me: Oh easily the Seamoth, it was so fun getting around in that thing. You felt vulnerable but you were fast and agile. It's like an awesome underwater Millennium falcon. Huge part of what made the game fun or me. So many good memories. I'll never forget the first time I b- Devs: No. Wrong. The Seamoth is trash. You don't like it, we got rid of the Seamoth. Me: Oh...Well I guess the Cyclops was pretty g- Devs: Wrong again. It's not in this game. Me: Oh right...That's weird. They made so much sense. You had the big Cylops for long journeys, the seamoth for in-depth exploring and then the Seaglide for tight spaces and risky adventures. They made so much sense like that, like russian dolls. Urgh I don't know what's even left....oh, the new one? The Seatruck? I guess it's growing on me. But you set the crush depth so low it's barely even worth it. What kind of 'truck' has zero storage space? It's like a clunkier, crappier Seamoth. Like someone built an ikea version from scratch. Isn't this game set after the events of subnautica? How come it's so much worse? And I mean, it doesn't exactly have much romance to it, does it? It's basically like you're the UPS guy, but underwater. Doesn't exactly scream adventure on an alien world does it? More like, "oh gosh, I better get Karen's delivery of Pot Pourri to her underwater condo by midday or there will be hell to pay!". But I guess it sort of fills the roles left vacant by the Seamoth and the cyclops, although neither very well... Devs: NO! WRONG AGAIN! YOUR FAVOURITE IS THE PRAWNSUIT YOU IDIOT! Me: What? No, I never liked that thing. This is a game about exploring underwater, why would I want to walk everywhere? Painfully slowly I might add. On dry land where it could have made sense, it's ironically completely useless because the jump jets don't work. Total misstep really. I just used it for the mining drill and because you forced it on me at the end of the last game. The same role could have been filled by having an arm upgrade for the seamoth, or the cyclops. Or, you know what you could just have had like, an actual drill that you could just... hold? Jeeze, you cut the Seamoth AND the Cyclops but you left that in? Eeesh. I thought that was as dead as the fish swimming indoors bug, although I see they've made a comeback too... Devs: You're wrong. And just to show you how wrong you are, we've made the Prawnsuit totally overpowered and totally essential to every aspect of this game right from the start. You can jump endlessly now, and kill creatures with its stock attachments in about 3 hits, so you're not even vulnerable anymore. In fact you will find it impossible to make any progress without it at all, because we made it so awesome. Despite it being the least intuitive way to explore underwater, it's actually the only thing you can use most of the time now. Every problem in this game is solved by the prawn suit. You love the prawn suit. Me: But isn't this game about freedom and exploration, why would you railroad us like that? Why even put those other things in the game? One of the best parts of Subnautica was figuring out what craft to use for what purpose. If you like mech suits so much, why don't you just make a game about them instead? You wouldn't have to deal with all the endless comparison to the original game for a start. No one even really asked for a sequel, hell the last game wasn't even really finished and the same bugs you never got round to fixing have made their way into this one, with a few new ones added in for good measure. It feels like a cynical cash grab. Instead of building on what people loved about the original, you're just limiting us to playing the game the way you think is fun. Now I think about it, this game is full of that sort of thing. The prawnsuit is just a symbol of a much bigger problem. It feels like it wants to be a totally different, much more linear game that's not even really about exploration, or freedom or mystery anymore. Devs: The games in early alpha you have to give us time to- Me: That stuff was all there right from the early alpha in subnautica. The vehicles were added later. The prawn suit was the last thing you added, and I never understood why. About the only thing good about this new game is the expanded inventory, but I guess I don't need to worry about that anymore do I? I'll be using the prawnsuit's inventory the whole time apparently. Do you not think it's weird by the way, that I can store more junk in my pockets than I can in that monstrosity of a- Devs: ...Just get in the f**cking prawn suit dude.