It's horrible, you can't even jump or climb, imagine having to survive in the wild but if there's 20cm of height and you have to go around it. Also you have to eat like 2kg of meat every day to survive lol, IRL you can survive months without any food if you aren't extremely underweight so you have no stored fat. The dev is clueless about anything survival.
who told you this?
Told me? I'm into fasting and autophagy myself, never went a full month (1 week is my max, went slowly from 24h to 3 days then longer and longer) so far but i have a friend who did. There are examples on for example youtube of people who's went for 1 year without any food, though these are very obese people with extreme amounts of body fat + also they do medical checkups weekly to make sure everything is ok. What's important is the intake of minerals, so a good salt (not industrail salt) is good to have each day.
Translation = You swallow jizz.
In that game you have to find food only in order to sleep and quite a small amount for it. You can starve - hp will go down very slowly but that's fine. What you need there is to drink regularly but that's realistic. Also note that it's not just a game about survival but survival in extreme low temperatures - you need way more energy than in usual enviroment. What's not realistic is animals behaviour but that's obviously changed for gameplay purposes.From a gameplay perspective it's maybe more fun that you have to find food every day, but it's highly unrealistic. Hardly the only game where they've done this, it's usually how food works in games, eat each day - or starve to death instantly lol. If the food industry could decide over science it's how it would work "factually" too
i haven't played it since many many years ago, original backer so maybe it was before it was even 100% finished it sounded great but i hated the gameplay (and to be honest the graphics too), didnt like you couldnt jump or climb, didn't think it fit in this type of game. I remember having to eat tons of meat to not die.In that game you have to find food only in order to sleep and quite a small amount for it. You can starve - hp will go down very slowly but that's fine. What you need there is to drink regularly but that's realistically. Also note that it's not just a game about survival but survival in extreme low temperatures - you need way more energy than in usual enviroment. What's not realistically is animals behaviour but that's obviously changed for gameplay purposes.From a gameplay perspective it's maybe more fun that you have to find food every day, but it's highly unrealistic. Hardly the only game where they've done this, it's usually how food works in games, eat each day - or starve to death instantly lol. If the food industry could decide over science it's how it would work "factually" too
oh, your personal preference? Color me unsurprised. I use himalyan rock salt.
Pray tell, what mystical salts are these?
not the least mystical, just natural salts that has all the trace minerals that your body will need, taking just sodium chloride won't cut it.. Won't really matter if you fast for a day but if you go without trace minerals for days or weeks it's bad and can be dangerous. Water itself does contain some trace minerals as well but most people who's fasting adds some natural salt as well to make sure they get enough.
IMO it is not that much that the game releases very little base building, it is that the game has the "if you can find 2, you can probably find 10" philosophy, so it has a very low component count for its crafting. There is almost nothing requiring you to use 5 or 10 of the same component (exception : the basic metal, but you find them 4 by 4), which makes the crafting not grindy at all.
Windbound has hunting and ship-crafting (ships with sails, as the name implies), but the team clearly ran massively out of time and decided to cut all the storyline and replaced it by "you need to travel through 6 different but honestly very similar areas, finding the exit every time". Still, sailing with your home-made voodoo spiked catamaran in a storm is fun. That's pretty much the only thing fun in the game.
It's a pale shadow of the original but I guess still worth playing. Maybe.
One thing you must understand about Subnautica - the reason why it came out as good as it did, was by accident. The devs absolutely do not understand what core components made people love their game. Once you get around to the sequel you will understand.
Better yet, just don't play the sequel. It's not HORRIBLE but there's simply nothing of special value or interest. As a gamer there's nothing to see. (As a historian of game design or something, sure there are things to look at and talk about, mainly why it's not good.)
I will make a prediction and say you will probably play it at a later date when you feel a longing for some of that original Subnautica atmosphere. After which you will only ever replay Subnautica, like I do.
