I thought I'd make a thread because this is fucking great, and it's on Xbox One preview at the moment. As a rule of thumb these games do very little for me, but the setting of Subnautica and total lack of real combat really draws me in. Plus I had dreams of being on team Zissou Cousteau as a kid, so it's pretty much tailor made for me.

Also I know a lot of you like stories about these kinds of games, especially after the No Man's Sky thread. I'm about 18 hours in, and I've loved most of it so far. After you figure out how to get a decent supply of food and water, and learn where certain ores and so on are found, it gets quite streamlined.

So today I completed my Moonpool. A total bastard to fit onto my base, but I wanted to dock my micro submersible and customise/upgrade it. That imposing sub to the left is Leander (I am a sucker for names from Greek mythology) my Cyclops Submersible.



Here's the Seamoth Submersible in the Moonpool:



Also here's my main base room and the mini planters I've got some melons growing in. Yum! No more fish for me. Also I have a viewing window because I like to ogle the ship.





My base sits near this kelp forest, which is full of material that I can make lubricant and fibres with. It's also full of stalkers which are total bastard fish that chase me around - fuck off Stalkers! 



So with the Seamoth upgraded I took a ride out to the weird underwater mushroom forest I'd found to search for components. It was fruitless, but I found a cave opening nearby. The Seamoth is as deep as it will go here, at around 190m - just before it gets crushed.



I got out to explore further but my oxygen tanks are shit. Also fuck dealing with the worm bastard in that giant bio-luminescent mushroom. It had massive, evil teeth.



So I took a different approach, docking the Seamoth in the Leander, and heading over to a crevasse i'd scoped out much earlier. On the way I bumped into this Reefdrifter. Big herbivores.



The crevasse contains these strange glowing kelp plants, that look quite spooky. The Leander has a bunch of cameras all over it so I could get some quite nice shots without having to risk being outside. 



I also got a shot of this crazy segmented fish that tried to take a chunk out of the Leander. Luckily, Cyclops subs are very tough. So he just wobbled it about a bit. Still, I hurried on.



By this point I'd upgraded the Seamoth so it could go down to 300m without risking any kind of crushing sensation, so I used it to explore some of the more fussy outcroppings that the Leander couldn't fit in. I found this weird plant covered in huge, scarlet growths. Luckily, no hostiles, but I did find some upgrade schematics tucked away.



But it just keeps going down...



I took the Leander as far down as it would go, and hopped out using the Seaglider. This is around 500m down, and there's still more to go. 



Here's my last shot, peering back up at my Sub, wondering how much more is down here. I need to upgrade my o2 tanks, increase the pressure threshold of both the Seamoth and the Leander.