
While diving in these polar waters, one has the impression that the freezing stress from Subnautica has spread to the entire biotope, which is all the more immersive. If you haven’t had the chance to get your hands on the first game, don’t hesitate to give yourself a little dose of aquatic rapture by going to take a look at what the exploration of the latter has to offer. To deal with this eventuality, in the manner of subnautica brain plants, Below Zero brings its own oxygen plants which have more or less the appearance of onions at the end of a stem and which will be very practical. Moreover, an additional difficulty and not the least, the floating ice can block during the ascent towards the surface and we can see very well how this can become a problem in the long term, with large expanses of sea ice preventing oxygen uptake. Ice changes gameplay, mood, lighting, underwater life and even “terrestrial” on icebergs, hence the penguins. So resumes your Subnautica adventure and your aquatic journey. It was without counting on a magnificent ice avalanche / tsunami crashing into the base as soon as you first approach the alien sanctuary nearby and that you are therefore far enough from the base that it is reduced to mush and buried deep under the snow.įor those who would like a snowman… I promise I’ll stop.įortunately, this destruction constitutes a progression cleverly calculated by Unknown as a narrative introduction of size to the thriller atmosphere of Subnautica but also an unlocking of the gameplay since the enormous base antenna, located just above a frozen pond breaks under the force of the snow wave and comes to explode the frozen surface from the pond. There, don’t panic to start (unlike the first one, which started in a survival capsule in the throes of flames), you are in a large research base on the surface frozen 4546B with direct radio contact with your twin sister who is in a spacecraft orbiting the planet. This very nice company that employs you and keep you tapped 24/24. Here you embody Robin Goodall in a First Contact story where you are sent as zoologist and xeno-linguist (like the film’s translator) to make contact with the alien race on the surface of the same planet where the ship crashed, still working for Alterra. This standalone extension takes place one year later the events that we know: the crash on the 4546B of a vessel of the company Alterra on which we were, then left to ourselves in these radioactive waters and on a planet already inhabited by an intelligent race (without spoiling you). Subnautica Below Zero, announced at the end of the summer, in turn enters early access a model which has more than proved its worth on the first born of the license.Īs an appetizer, I offer you this trailer unveiled on the occasion of the Below Zero early access : The Subnautica Below Zero Screenplay : Subnautica Below Zero Breaks the Ice in Early AccessĪfter the wonderful Subnautica, it is a new pearl of the oceans that the Unknown Worlds studio offers us.
