Since the winter sale is coming up, I just wanted to caution anybody who might be interested in Subnautica to wait a bit. I always liked the look of the game, and I had enough card money lying around on it to pull the trigger during the fall sale, and I kind of wish I had waited a bit. Sure, the game still looks nice, and there's plenty of content, but it's still rather buggy, so much so that there have been several points where I don't know if I'm legitimately stuck in the game or if it's a bug holding me back. For example, you can only take vehicles down to a certain depth before they start taking damage. The first thing you can build is this little one-person sub that can go to about 200m. Eventually, you build a really expensive, huge sub that can supposedly go down to something like 400m. However, once I take the big one down to 200m, the game starts giving me "imminent hull damage" warnings.
Now, I don't know if the in-game database is just out of date, or if it's a bug that the big submarine is starting to take damage too early.
And that's just one of the more game-breaking issues I've come across. There's constant crashes still (and no autosave either, for extra fun!), the game hitches and freezes while you're moving around (especially at a faster-than-swimming pace), and there's just lots of other little bugs and glitches that might not break the game but certainly start piling up the annoyance factor.
It's a shame, too, since the game really could be quite nice. There's a bit of a metroidvania aspect to the survival/crafting of it all (can't go into certain areas or below a certain depth without better equipment, etc), and the parts that aren't buggy are rather polished and pretty.
So as much as I was itching to play it right away, I'm going to have to shelve it until they say that they're done with it and hope for the best, since I'm well outside of the two-hour refund window.
Now, I don't know if the in-game database is just out of date, or if it's a bug that the big submarine is starting to take damage too early.
And that's just one of the more game-breaking issues I've come across. There's constant crashes still (and no autosave either, for extra fun!), the game hitches and freezes while you're moving around (especially at a faster-than-swimming pace), and there's just lots of other little bugs and glitches that might not break the game but certainly start piling up the annoyance factor.
It's a shame, too, since the game really could be quite nice. There's a bit of a metroidvania aspect to the survival/crafting of it all (can't go into certain areas or below a certain depth without better equipment, etc), and the parts that aren't buggy are rather polished and pretty.
So as much as I was itching to play it right away, I'm going to have to shelve it until they say that they're done with it and hope for the best, since I'm well outside of the two-hour refund window.
