The PRAWN in Subnautica: Ugh, I hate this thing. It's a clunky, battery-guzzling power suit poorly designed for rough terrain. It once used three percent of its power to step over a limestone node. Its painfully inadequate booster rockets seem designed to send you tumbling into the bowels of the sea, usually at a point where you're critically low on power or desperate for a bottle of water.

For most of the game, your adversary is the environment, but when you're wearing the PRAWN, your adversary is the PRAWN. Crummy steering, poor downward visibility, and as agile as a graveyard statue. Every moment is a struggle.

The PRAWN in Subnautica: Below Zero: My God, I LOVE this thing. This is a game-breaker, seriously; striding across the frozen wilderness completely protected from the worst cold and the most brutal monsters on offer. Do you know what you have to go through to put together a cold suit without it? It's a nightmare.

I spent days romping around the Arctic Spires and the Glacial Basin in this thing, poking all the little corners I didn't get a chance to look at when I just had a Snowfox. The batteries lasted practically forever, and the rockets were a go-anywhere cheat code. Not once was it completely halted by a small pebble. It's practically immune to Snow Stalkers and even Ice Worms don't do it too much damage.

Most of this is contextual - the PRAWN is simply more useful in the Arctic Basin than in, say, the Jellyshroom Cave. But I think there were some modifications to the suit, too. The Below Zero PRAWN seems more maneuverable and skips lightly through water environments. Whether that's environmental or practical, I don't know, but at least I can get around in it without wanting to strangle something.

this game is really fun i’ve been having a lot of fun collecting resources driving around in the seamamoth. and finding things on my own is super rewarding i know absolutely nothing about this game so it’s been really fun exploring the ocean and figuring out what i need to do next. i can’t wait to build a base and get the cyclops it feels like how i felt playing minecraft for the first time

Hi guys just got this game and enjoying it so far, but what's up with the sub physics? it's like the sub is on a rail which goes up and down sometimes. I was really looking forward to some deep depth blow ballast and the shooting up with the bow out the water and slamming back down or plowing thru the seas like das boot but it was well anti climax.. Any mods fix this?

And to be real this game was a blast highly recommend

Eu tinha comprado esse jogo faz uns 2 anos, mas nunca tinha jogado pra valer, nem sequer vi gameplays dele. Só vi as imagens da página da Steam e achei que fosse um jogo legal.

Joguei a primeira vez ano passado e achei uma merda... Achei que o jogo não tinha nenhum direcionamento, nada pra fazer de bom e, bom, alguns sustos. Só um vazio tremendo e uma nave gigantesca destruída. Dropei com 4 horas de jogo. Porém o que eu não sabia é que essa era uma das maiores qualidades do jogo: te larga lá e te deixa descobrir as coisas sozinho.

Aí cheguei num ponto onde fui achando recursos diferentes, depois fiz uma ferramenta que constrói base. Depois descobri que podia construir um veículo, depois uma armadura, depois um fucking submarino. Caralho! E nisso já se foram 30 horas de jogo só de domingo pra cá, todo dia descobrindo uma coisa nova e possibilidades quase infinitas.

Hoje pra mim é um dos melhores jogos de sobrevivência que tem por aí. Não estou muito preocupado com o Subnautica 2 que tá pra ser lançado, nem com o Below Zero que já tá aí faz um tempo. Quero ver o que ainda tenho que descobrir nesse jogo maravilhoso.

I was always interested in Subnautica, but as a dad I barely get screen time, so I nether played it so far. But I have some spare time on a phone, sitting in the train or other time windows here and there. The mobile port is a blessing!

I'm just a few hours in yet, but I'm totally into it. It's as good as I always assumed!

It's one of my favourite game so bought it yesterday on Android . Very well optimised. I tested it on a high end phone with an 8 gen 3 chip and also on a mid level chip dimensity 8300 ultra and it runs at 60fps on balanced settings . Loading times are negligible. Strangely it runs better on my phone as compared to the rog ally . On the ally I notice some frame drops although very rarely but till now no jitters or frames drops on the phone version. And it looks better on the phone because of the amoled display . Just wanted to share my experience incase someone is thinking about giving it a go.

I know I'm crazy late to the party and subnautica's been on my list to play for a long time. A couple weeks ago I finally got around to sitting down and playing it.

Wow... Dayum... Just... What a great friggin game. I finally finished it and did all the things. What an awesome, wild experience.

I haven't felt this way about a game in a long time. As a married father who is a working professional, I haven't had a game grab and keep my limited free time attention in this way. I couldn't wait to get off work and finish my household obligations so I could figure out what's in the next biome, or where to get the materials to make the next thing, or exactly where I should build that base...

The reason I'm sharing this is because coming to this Subreddit helped me a lot when I was stuck, or couldn't figure out what to do next, or was just looking for a little inspiration to dive deep in the dark, scary places of Planet 4546B.

I'm going to go play Sub-zero now. Even though it seems like some people don't like it? When Subnautica 2 comes out, I'm going to buy that and play it too. Regardless of whatever the drama is surrounding studio shenanigans and leadership blah blah, don't care.

I'm just gonna go enjoy whatever's next. I'd encourage everyone to try to do a little bit more of that than focus on the mundanity of modern game development.

Good luck and keep diving or something like that.