When the game officially came out I really wished that I could be experiencing some of the events for the first time. The confusion of the Sea Emperor visions, the horror of seeing a Reaper or the sadness of the Sunbeam explosion. The absolute thrill that came every step of the way. I would give anything to experience the game for the first time again. The launch of the Neptune rocket was still awesome and the Warpers message over the radio. The trial and error of finding out what polyaniline or benzene is. The discovery messages for the Sand Dunes and the Blood Kelp Forest. I’ve never felt more emotions coming from a game!

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The first time you played and the countdown until >!The Sunbeam's arrival!< began, how did you spend that time?

For me it went like this:

>!1. Thought to myself, wait, the game can't be that short, can it? 2. Traveled by Seaglide directly to the landing zone. 3. Explored island, found tablets. 4. Explored strange alien building. 5. Got poked with an alien device. Heard warning about quarantine and destruction. 6. Dashed out of building and Seaglided back to my pod, hoping I could radio the Sunbeam. 7. Traveled back to the island. Heard a boom, but I wasn't standing in the right spot to see what happened.!<

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Hi, I’m a new player of subnautica and I am a little stuck. I thought that I could make it to the island a lot faster than it actually took, and I ended up not making it to the island on time. I saw the green laser shoot out from somewhere and I think it’s on the island, but the marker for the island disappears immediately after the sunbeam explodes. I soon had no idea which way the island was, and I turned around because deep water scares me (hence why this game scares the shit out of me) and I did not want to accidentally encounter a leviathan and shit my pants. How do I get to the island? I’m worried that I may have soft locked myself on accident so I’m wondering if anybody knows how I can fix my mistake?

Okay, so I just started yesterday, game's paused, here's where I'm at so far:

I got 2 minutes until the Sunbeam touches down.

I'm infront of some cool alien structure.

I have seen the Aurora blow up.

I haven't gotten any new vehicles yet.

Did I go too far in? Or am I meant to be here right now.

(I've already been inside and explored a little, I'll make a new save if Sunbeam is an ending)

I just beat the game for the first time and I don't know what to feel. I'm glad I did it but I also can't believe it's over, I found a lot of things in 4546B that I didn't expect to find including a friend:

>!I was happy that I helped the Sea Emperor free her children into the sea and that her species may be saved but I was sad that I could not save her and that she spent all her life trapped in her cage, but her ending message let me know that she was not sad and that our journeys were just starting. !<

I am glad there are people out there making awesome games like this one and that I was able to play it, I'm going to try Below Zero now and I hope I get to enjoy it just as much.

Also, here's a Reefback that I found where it does not belong, I think they were drunk.

Mine was when I survived my first encounter with the Reaper when I accidentally went into the dunes and didn’t turn back like an idiot

First time playing. Keep me spoiler-free, please!

I've crashed on 4546B for the first time, after eyeing Subnautica for years. Thought I'd write a little abridged log on how it's been going so far. (I have made the possibly-questionable decision of playing on the hardest difficulty, so hopefully I can avoid death, because I don't get do-overs.)

"Not a good start to arriving on this planet. A crash landing, a hit to the head, waking up to find everything on fire, and the lifepod is broken. At least the fabricator still works... And my PDA, though it's already being a bit snarky."

"Swam towards the Aurora, but had to turn back. I'm not equipped with radiation protection gear. I was able to fix up the pod, though. Have been staying near my pod, because the big seaweed forest nearby is dark and scary, and the volcanic vent near my pod is too hot to descend far into."

"...The Aurora exploded. That can't be good. I keep getting radio messages from other lifepods in the middle of scary places, but every time I work up the courage, there's nobody there. At least I'm steadily upgrading my gear, but I'm also getting chewed on by every predator in the sea."

"Help is on the way! Rendezvous with the Sunbeam on dry land. There's a strange tower of obviously-alien design nearby, but... Wait. Is it moving? It's taking a shape that looks like... Oh no."

"I wonder if there were any survivors?"

"With hopes of rescue temporarily dashed, I decided to go into the big alien building. I figure that if any other ships come to my rescue, I don't want them getting shot down too. I'm certain this is a bad idea and something in there will probably kill me."

"No life in the building, but a machine stabbed me. Ouch. Infected individuals cannot disable quarantine, apparently. That doesn't sound good. I did find a big alien portal inside the island, though. It led to... a second island! There were clear signs of other survivors here, but it sounds like they'd moved underwater. And only one came back alive."

"We shouldn't have gone so deep. They do NOT want us down there."

"Well that's horrifying. I'm not going down there."

"Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in this region. Are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it?"

"Not going there either."

"Built myself a Seamoth and went to explore the Aurora. It took a few trips, tiny crawling things chewed on me the whole time, I ran out of food, water, batteries, and fire extinguishers, at one point I succumbed to frustration and just dove through a fire rather than make ANOTHER trip back to pod 5, and I saw a big scary sea serpent in the distance, but the exploration of the Aurora has been a success! The radiation leakage has been stopped, and I now have a plan to build a rocket and escape 4546B, though I assume I still need to figure out how to turn off (or destroy) that big laser tower."

"Lack of resources was starting to be a problem, and my Seamoth ran out of power. The search was grueling, but eventually I found schematics for a moonpool and scanner room. Time to build a base! I searched for the perfect location and located a massive trench with floating rocks in it just west of the (first) island. There's scary depths below, and lots of aggressive sharks around, but I found one island slightly out of the way of where they congregate. It's at a perfect height for my Seamoth (I caved and built a new power cell) of just above 200m, too!"

"I feel like an idiot. I built half the base, and went back to pod 5 for materials, and I lost track of where I built it! Also, did you know there's a compartment in the lifepod that had some supplies in it? That would have helped earlier."

"What... Are you?"

"Shame has been replaced, once again, with the terror of the unknown. I encountered a mean looking mantis-fish thing that my PDA called a Warper. It looked nasty, but didn't attack me, so I got a scan, then got back into my Seamoth to leave, and suddenly there were flashing lights, I wasn't in my Seamoth, and I was being attacked! Booked it out of there, and then suddenly there was an ominous voice in my head, and now the radio indicates that something is hunting survivors."

"If all that was the bad news, then the good news is that I found where I put my base! I now have a moonpool, a scanner room, and apparently there are rubies nearby, which is great because I needed those. The new bad news is that I need magnetite, and there doesn't seem to be any nearby. It feels like I've been all over the shallow areas at this point, so it may be somewhere deeper."

"A stroke of luck! I poked my head into a cave and found glowing pink mushrooms, lots of gold and diamonds, and magnetite! There were also big bitey worms down there, but I 'cunningly' scanned one by letting it grab me, getting as much scan as possible, backing up and using a medkit, and then going back in to get bitten again. I guess at this point I'm used to getting chewed. It's pretty down here, so I decided to build a second base, so that the scanner room could help me find magnetite. I also built a third base right under pod 5 (a small one, basically just a scanner) to help find more ore."

"I need something called Deep Shrooms, so I guess I have to go deeper. Since there's a huge deep zone under the sunken islands where I built my first base, and I've only seen bonesharks (not too scary) around there) I decided to try descending there first."

"I may be dead. A dozen bonesharks tore my Seamoth to bits. I saw the pieces hit the ground, but lost track of them in the mad scramble for my flashlight and my knife. I searched quickly for the parts of my beloved little sub, but couldn't find them. I had to give up on it and ascend. The surface was so high up, and in my heart I knew I wouldn't make it, but I swam for my life nonetheless."

"...Alive! At the last moment I remembered my base, 200m below sea level and surely closer than the surface, and I changed course. It was close, but with less than 3 seconds of oxygen left, I tumbled through the hatch and gasped for breath."

"Taking stock of the situation: I'll have to build a new Seamoth, and rebuild all those upgrades for it if I want to get back down there... Next time, I'll be prepared."