Yup, sounds like I need to wait for quite a few patches and some real reviews before I buy ~~Kerbal Space Program 2~~ Subnautica 2

To be fair, they didn't gut the original creative team.

Max McGuire was CTO and a programmer on the original game, Ted Gill was President and a Producer on Below Zero.

Charlie Cleveland was current CEO, and the director and lead designer of the original game, so was the head of the origin creative team, and that does seem like a big loss, but no one else from the art, writing, or design teams seem to be leaving, so it's not really a 'gutting' of the original creative team.

My guess (especially given how buggy Subnautica was), is that they were missing their delivery milestones so the publisher wanted to replace the organization heads and move at least Charlie Cleveland back down to a creative role, but they refused and left together.

I can't think of a time it has gone well.

They had already hinted they wanted to make Subnautica 2 into a multiplayer co-op, and they specifically mentioned "games as a service".

After backlash, they specified the multiplayer would be optional, and "games as a service" means long term updates, not microtransactions, which sounds suspiciously like a rollback to me...

I was already kind of expecting that, seeing as below zero's map wasn't half as interesting as the first game, the storytelling was mid, and the mechanics were all over the place, like they just wanted to make another hit by shooting in every direction, with half the work put into it.

Underaquaia? Seaunderia? Drownica? Or, my personal favorite: "fuck ugly giant cthulu adjacent heart attack inducer 2"

I can only imagine the new PTB are already working feverishly to add mandatory for story progression, 30+ hour combined Seatruck and Snowfox segments, a minigun which mounts to the seaglide, and mats necessary for key endgame craftables which are conveniently available exclusively through loot boxes you can earn by sending individual dev team members your nudes or earn 15 a week absolutely free with your monthly Deep Dive Club subscription

Also, from orbit the planet looks completely covered by ocean, but once you land it's like calf high at its highest... but there are still leviathans, for some reason. Because fuck you, that's why.

Just hope it isn't The Neptune Protocol.

Stevesie: "Ok guys... see how they made Dead Space? I want that but take out 2/3 of the content and features... and I want it rushed to production with as many bugs as possible on release!"

Beep beep. Oxygen! O2 Packs Available: $1 - 15 seconds of oxygen $5 - 30 seconds of oxygen $10 - 2 minutes + small O2 tank. $40 - 5 minutes + large O2 tank.

TIL, I liked the OST, but holy cow this guy's twitter is nasty. He can get fucked.

If you're basing that on Subnautica Below Zero, it's worth noting that basically the whole creative team is different, not just the composer:

Subnautica credits:

Director(s)

Charlie Cleveland

Producer(s)

Hugh Jeremy

Designer(s)

Charlie Cleveland

Programmer(s)

Charlie Cleveland
Steven An
Max McGuire
Jonas Bötel

Artist(s)

Cory Strader
Brian Cummings
Scott MacDonald

Writer(s)

Tom Jubert

Composer(s)

Simon Chylinski

Subnautica Below Zero credits:

Director(s)

David Kalina

Producer(s)

Charlie Cleveland
Cory Strader
Max McGuire
Ted Gill

Designer(s)

Alex Ries

Artist(s)

Cory Strader

Writer(s)

Jill Murray
Brittney Morris
Zaire Lanier
Tom Jubert

Composer(s)

Ben Prunty

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